Chapter 36: The Lifeblood of Logistics (1)

The cable telegraph line along the railway line had long been destroyed, but what the guerrillas did not expect was that there was a wireless telegraph machine and a company of infantry stationed at the transit station, which was about an hour away.

As soon as Liu Zheng saw the Red Army retreating, he didn't care about the White Russian cavalry who were fleeing for their lives, and immediately ordered: "The whole army retreats to the transit station." ”

Major General of the Red Army Balakov sat upright on his horse and did not move, and the telescope in his hand kept looking ahead. The shameless Chinese imperialism has completely torn off the mask of hypocrisy and dispatched regular troops to interfere in Russia's internal affairs, and its ambition to keep Kolchak, the head of the reaction, and then invade the Soviet Union has been clearly exposed. The above are the words that the commissar often says, but this time Barakov did not have to listen to the chatter of the commissar, because on the way here, the commissar fell ill and turned back to be treated.

Balakov commanded a qualitative death squad, numbering 800 cavalry, which made a detour from the Novosibirsk wasteland to Novosibirsk, and the task was to turn the local partisans, completely disrupt the transportation of the Trans-Siberian Railway, break the conspiracy of large-scale armed intervention of Chinese imperialism in the internal affairs of Russia, and effectively cooperate with the Red Army in frontal combat.

This was Frunze's personal order, and regardless of Balakov's success or failure, the Red Army would launch a general offensive against Novosibirsk on April 15.

Barakov's detour was a difficult one. Transportation in Siberia is terrible, and the only major artery is the railway. After a long struggle to infiltrate behind enemy lines and connect with the partisans, Balakov realized the magnitude of the task. Whether it is the Chinese or the White Russians, the importance attached to this railway is beyond his expectations. Every twenty kilometers there was a temporary rest stop, a hundred kilometers a large transit station, and troops deployed along the railway. Approximately an infantry division. Between the transit stations, there were also White Russian cavalry swimming.

In contrast, the situation of the guerrillas was much worse. This partisan detachment, initially numbering tens of thousands, operated in the Far East. Later, the Chinese and Japanese armies swept the nets, but the roots could not stay until winter came, and after losing more than half of the men, they could only cross the Irkutsk line and continue to flee to the west. Passed Irkutsk. The situation is much better, on the whole it is still the White Russia that is dominant, but it is not being purged and running around. Not long after the good days, the Chinese advanced westward again, and the ensuing purge began again. Anyway, it is within 30 kilometers of the railway line, and it is difficult to stay.

Because of this, the White Russian cavalry swaggered when patrolling, and did not expect to eat an ambush.

In this environment, if Barakov wants to persevere, the best thing to do is to try not to fight a vicious battle. But he couldn't, after coming here with cavalry. The supplies are almost exhausted, how can the problem of supplies be solved without a war. There are also more than a thousand guerrillas, who also need food and clothing. So there's no way to do it.

"The comrades of the partisans stayed behind to blow up the railway, and the cavalry caught up. Eliminate the white bandits of Chinese imperialism. Balakov gave the order, and the cavalry began to pursue, leaving no one behind this group of imperialist white bandits, and the strength of the entire team was to be exposed.

Liu Zheng is not blindly fleeing for his life. Before retreating, behind a half-man-high snow wall, a small gift was left for the Soviet Russian partisans. Left behind a cavalry squad. After receiving a dozen or so White Russian cavalrymen who escaped, they hung strings on the mines, and as soon as the snow was covered, no one paid much attention to this small detail.

The Assassin 1 anti-infantry mine is small and lightweight, easy to install, and can be plugged and pulled in a random place.

Running out less than a kilometer, he heard a unique explosion behind him, Liu Zheng sneered on the corner of his mouth, and motioned for the brigade to continue to escape, and he stayed and waited for the squad in charge of the break. The first to escape were more than a dozen White Russian cavalrymen, and the Don hippo was now unbearable, and when he saw Liu Zheng who was still waiting on the side of the road, he hurriedly saluted and fled forward.

After the break, the squad ran very quickly, and encountered Liu Zheng in less than five minutes. "Everyone's worked hard, hurry up." Another squad stayed, and the mines that had been laid in advance were wound and continued to retreat. This method of retreat is only used by cavalry and reconnaissance troops, mainly because Siberia is too fucking big, and you may not be able to encounter a living person if you walk ten kilometers, so you are worried about being ambushed, and this kind of mine is a normal configuration when you go out and take it.

Blocked by mines, the pursuing Red Army cavalry stopped, not daring to continue advancing. Balakov called the political commissar of the partisans, Krolev, and asked: "Comrade Krolev, how many of these Chinese white bandits are nearby?" ”

"Thirty kilometers ahead, on the far right, there is a larger transit station, where an infantry company is stationed, and these white bandits must have fled there. The total number of troops is not very large, and the point is that we do not have heavy weapons, so it is difficult to defeat them. ”

"Comrade commissar, don't we have an infantry cannon that captured the White Army? It's just that there are fewer shells, only ten rounds. The captain of the guerrilla interjected, in this team, the commissar has the most power, and the captain has to listen to the commissar.

"Comrade Balakov, the Chinese white bandits are well-armed, you can see them, they have at least four 60-mm mortars in an infantry company, and there are not many Makqin machine guns, but there are a large number of light machine guns. The cavalry of the Chinese white bandits was not equipped with light machine guns, and Makqin had two more sleds, and the burden was not very heavy. We fought several times with the Chinese white bandits, and all of them suffered big losses. "When Comrade Political Commissar talks about Chinese imperialism, he can't help but feel apprehensive. Not to mention it in the Far East, after escaping, half of the people died in one winter, all of them were non-combat attrition, freezing to death, sickness and starvation. If spring hadn't come, more than 1,000 people would not have been able to keep it, and it is estimated that there would be no more than a few people left in another month. Fortunately, the radio station is not broken, otherwise I don't know how to contact the organization.

"Comrade Krolev, it's not that I want to take risks, but I can't do it without fighting, so many comrades, how to solve the problem of provisions? Besides, unplugging a few transit stations can defeat the arrogance of the white bandits. ”

"I'm not against fighting, but to fight selectively, we can fight the White Russian army, they are demoralized, poorly equipped, and have little will to fight." Krolev proposed to build yì, and Barakov hesitated, but nevertheless gave the order to retreat.

"Let's withdraw first, we will definitely not be able to catch up if we continue like this, send someone to reconnoiter the transit station in front, we must knock it down."

After killing more than 100 White Russian troops, the harvest is still not small, guns, ammunition, food, and clothing, and there are a lot of gains. The White Russian soldiers who were killed and wounded were all turned into dead first, and their bloodstained clothes were pulled clean, and their stinking socks were not spared.

After blowing up more than a hundred meters of railway, the partisans and cavalry disappeared into the vast jungle. Liu Zheng, who has been paying close attention to the movement, actually didn't go too far, just on a certain piece of high ground about three kilometers away, secretly observing with a telescope.

The roar of the plane sounded, an airplane flew in the sky, and the cavalry company cheered, speeding up the march and rushing to the transit station, which was actually the battalion headquarters. Long Yun, the commander of the third battalion, graduated from Yunnan Lushi in 1914, and was sent to Baoding Army University with excellent results, and after graduation, he was assigned to a certain department of the Northeast Military Region as a staff officer, and the new reorganization was transferred to the 53rd Infantry Division, which is now the 106th Brigade sequence.

The plane landed at the airstrip next to the transfer station, and the pilot who got off the plane strode forward and said with a smile: "Battalion Commander Long, what's wrong with you here?" The division commander asked me to take a look. "Wei Yue, the commander of the 53rd Division, is a second-term student of the Wuhu Teaching Team.

The Air Force came with two brigades, and their main task was reconnaissance. This pilot lieutenant Chen Bing, who often runs this line, is very familiar with Long Yun, and when he inquires, he is still a native of Yunnan. When the fellow sees the fellow, there will naturally be a lot of talk.

"I don't know the specifics yet, the news from the cavalry company is not clear, it is said that there are five or six hundred cavalry. , how did you get here? The White Russian army is really rotten, and the defense line is full of holes. Fortunately, in another eight months, the entire volunteer army will be in place. As Long Yun spoke, an officer rushed out of the wooden house behind him and said, "Battalion commander, the division headquarters is in an emergency, and the commander-in-chief's special train will arrive soon." ”

"Holy, so lucky!" Long Yun was frightened into a cold sweat, muttered foul words and came out, he didn't expect Qi Zhenghong's special train to pass today. If this special train had arrived half an hour earlier, something would have happened to him, the commander of the garrison battalion, would have been enough to shoot him. In fact, there are more people who have a headache than Long Yun, and they are all a group of generals. Qi Zhenghong, the commander-in-chief, has always acted in a low-key manner, and does not hesitate to engage in pomp. The so-called special train is a loading and receiving train, with at most one guard squad and his staff officers. As the boss of the Jiaodong department, the higher Qi Zhenghong climbs, the higher the people in this department will rise. The Jiaodong Department refers to the original Jiaodong Self-Defense Army. The leading Yishui teaching team is a first-term student, and it is a relatively powerful faction. In the National Defense Force, the teaching team is a big faction, and there are many small factions in it, Qi Zhenghong is counted as one, and the bandit system formed by Leng Yu, Gao Sheng, and Huyan Aobo is the most powerful. There are also Li Qianyu and Tian Jiyang, who are from the Anqing Gang, who are also a faction.

That is, in about ten minutes, an armored train came from afar, and the long one pulled the whistle to slow down.

Qi Zhenghong had already received a telegram from Li Daxiong, but he was not worried at all, and felt that those guys were making a fuss. What can a mere guerrilla do? The four 75 mountain guns on the armored train were not vegetarians, nor were the garrisons of a company at a transit station every fifty kilometers.

However, after the beginning of spring, the frequent activities of the guerrillas must also be taken seriously. Kolchak didn't know how to bring the soldiers, so the guerrillas have not been wiped out until now, compared to the Far East, the guerrillas can't be seen, like two worlds. Qi Zhenghong's idea is a bit of a bully, can Kolchak compare with the Far East? China and Japan combined with 200,000 troops, and they were sweeping and dragnet-style purges, and the winter in the Far East was too difficult for the guerrillas to stay too normal.