In addition to weapons and ammunition, the horses and other equipment of the three German cavalry divisions were all converted into money is not a small amount, of course, Wu Peifu can not give these equipment to the residents of the town, but converted into money to pay every household in the town, he does not need money, he needs military merits, with the cooperation of the residents of the town, he got the military merits, and the residents of the town need money, both sides take what they take, this cooperation is very good.

The commanders of the three German cavalry divisions, Hermann, Marcus and Ferrand, hung their hands and drooped their heads to walk towards the prisoners' concentration under the care of the soldiers. ”

The prisoners stopped, and the soldiers in custody also stopped, Wu Peifu walked up to Herman and the other three division commanders and asked, "Three generals, what did Marshal Mackensen send you to do?" ”

Herman looked up at the sky and muttered in German: "Although we are your prisoners, we will not tell you anything about our army, general, you are still dead!" ”

After listening to the translation in Chinese, Wu Peifu smiled and said: "Things have come to this point, does it matter if you don't say it?" Since I am here to lead an army to surround and ambush you, it means that we have insight into Marshal Mackensen's plan, and I ask you now just to verify it! Since you don't want to say it, then forget it, I won't force it, come and take it away."

After collecting all the prisoners and holding them in custody, they sent people to clean up the war, and then converted the captured materials into money and paid them to the villagers of the town. Wu Peifu immediately sent a telegram to Zhang Xiaozhun and Yang Jie in Kiev, giving a detailed report on the situation here.

Then he sent someone to investigate. To see if any German troops escaped from the encirclement from the confusion just now, the results of the investigation showed that the German soldiers who were killed were counted. All the soldiers and officers of the three German cavalry divisions were here, and none of them escaped, which means that Mackensen, who was in Zhytomyr, did not know that his three cavalry divisions had been captured.

Wu Peifu soon had a new idea, he thought that since the news had not been leaked yet, why not come and give the Germans a plan? So on the one hand, he telegraphed this idea to Zhang Xiaozhun and Yang Jie, and on the other hand, isolated the adjutants and communications personnel of the three German division commanders separately, and tried to bribe the other party's dispatchers to send a telegram to Mackensen with the main theme of one qiēshun lì.

Zhang Xiaozhun quickly replied to the telegram, and he and Yang Jie agreed to Wu Peifu's plan. And promised to contact the Tsarist Russian side, so that the Tsarist Russian side will cooperate closely.

Soon, the Tsarist side sent people to take over the German prisoners, and Wu Peifu immediately led his troops to return the same way along the direction of the three German cavalry divisions at the Guò Kanifu Bridge, and at the same time the Tsarist side received a note from Zhang Xiaozhun to allow and cooperate with Wu Peifu's troops.

Zhytomyr, headquarters of the German 11th Army.

The adjutant walked into Mackensen's office and shouted, "Report to the marshal, the commander of the 158th Cavalry Division, Ferrander, has sent a telegram that they have now passed through the Canifu Bridge. Please, marshal, give the order for the next step! ”

Mackensen was a very cautious man, and even though he had a plan in mind, he did not fully express it to anyone else, so the commanders of the three cavalry divisions did not know the final target of the attack. It's just that he follows Mackensen's instructions step by step, and every time he achieves a goal, Mackensen will give the next task. Wu Peifu also used the adjutant who bribed Ferrand and the other three to learn about this situation.

In the end, Ferrand was ordered to go north and directly cooperate with the frontal attacking force to attack the back of the defenders of the Chinese Second Army in Kiev? Or were they ordered to go along the southwest to attack the 300,000 troops that Hua had recently transported to Poltava? Mackenson hesitated a little

After weighing it for a moment, Mackenson had an idea. He believed that it would be more feasible to attack Poltava, after all, the 300,000 Chinese people who had just been transported were not well established. Who would have thought that his three cavalry divisions had quietly crossed the Dnieper? The other party was definitely defenseless, and he immediately said to his adjutant: "Give him an order to quickly descend to the southwest to attack the Chinese troops in Poltava, and strive to defeat the 300,000 new arrivals there in a battle!" ”

"Yes, General!" The adjutant agreed, saluted, and stepped back.

"Wait!" Mackensen stopped the adjutant and asked, "Is there any progress on today's offensive?" ”

The adjutant shook his head and said: "Marshal, there is still no progress, so far, our army has lost more than 12,000 people and 34,000 wounded, almost three-quarters of the troops of an army have lost their combat effectiveness, and the morale of the troops is a little low, but the casualties of the Chinese army are even heavier, according to the casualty report they have released, they have lost 13,000 people and 32,000 wounded, I believe that this casualty report they have released must have been watery, and their casualties definitely exceeded 20,000, The number of injured is definitely more than 32,000! ”

Indeed, as the German adjutant had guessed, up to today, the Japanese corps stationed in Visnieve had been almost crippled, with more than 22,000 killed and almost all of the remaining 40,000 wounded. However, at this time, the defenders of Visneve had completed the change of defense, and more than 40,000 wounded and sick Japanese corps that were disabled were withdrawn to Kiev to rest and recuperate, and the two armies responsible for the defense were the newly reorganized two armies of Tsarist Russia, the 67th Army and the 88th Army, a total of 100,000 people.

However, the Germans did not know that Visnieve had changed their defenses, and of course Mackensen did not know, and there was no progress in the continuous attack for more than half a month, which made him a little worried, and he sighed: "The opposite side is only the Japanese surrendered troops, a total of less than 70,000 people, but under the command of the Chinese, they have blocked our 300,000 attacks in turn for half a month, what if the opposite side is the Wehrmacht of China?" What will happen? ”

The adjutant did not dare to answer, he knew very well that if the opposite side was the Chinese National Defense Army, I am afraid that the attack and defense would be exchanged, in terms of equipment, the Chinese National Defense Army is better than the German army, and the soldiers' combat quality will not be lower than that of the German army.

After taking a few puffs of his cigarette, Mackensen pinched his pipe and gave the order: "Pause the frontal offensive and order the troops to attack from the direction of Irpin and Bucha, can the natives of Nepal and Bhutan be stronger than the Japanese?" This time we will attack with the greatest attack intensity, and the artillery and tanks will cooperate in all directions, and we must take Irpin and Bucha as quickly as possible, I don't believe that we will not be able to break through the opponent's defense! ”

The adjutant immediately stood up: "Yes, Marshal!" ”

There were only 25,000 Nepalese and Bhutanese soldiers, and although the number of troops was small, the location of their defense was a natural barrier, and after careful deployment in advance, Wang Zhanyuan believed that it was impossible to break through any of these two places without tens of thousands of deaths.

On August 10, the Germans launched a powerful offensive from Bucha and Irpin, almost a total offensive, with two infantry regiments, one infantry regiment attacking Bucha and the other infantry regiment attacking Irpin.

The squares drawn in front of all the positions were still preserved, and although there had been a rain or two, the white lines drawn by the paint had not been washed away.

The offensive began, and in the first wave of the offensive a regiment of infantry was sent, which was distributed over an offensive line of more than a kilometer, and in Irpin, too, the same infantry regiment launched the attack.

The German legions and soldiers were puzzled by the squares they had drawn in front of the position, but now that they were attacking, no one thought about the purpose of these squares.

When the Germans were 400 meters from the base of the hill, the defending Nepalese soldiers opened fire, and under the command of the Chinese officers, they took aim according to the target requirements and then opened fire, although these Nepalese soldiers had received little training before, but at least now they have learned to shoot.

When the German soldiers attacked, the German army's powerful artillery began to fire on the positions defended by the Nepalese soldiers, and the fronts of each hill were heavily shelled by the German artillery, but the casualties caused by these artillery fire to the Nepalese soldiers were extremely limited, which was mainly due to the terrain, the Nepalese soldiers dug the trenches into the mountain, and the whole body hid in the mountain, according to the command of the Chinese officer, only the German soldiers who appeared in the square of their company responsibility could fire, This type of defense undoubtedly increases the effectiveness of the fire strike, and the firepower is not wasted.

Although the marksmanship of the Nepalese soldiers is not very good, in such a narrow square, being shot by a company of people will always be shot, and as long as this tactic continues, I believe that it will not be long before the marksmanship of these Nepalese soldiers will be greatly improved.

When the Germans attacked to a hundred meters in front of the position at the foot of the mountain, they could no longer advance, at this time the defenders' heavy machine guns fired, and the terrible side-fire machine gun fire brought extremely heavy casualties to the Germans, and there were artillery on the mountain to attack the attacking Germans, and the corpses of the Germans were lying everywhere within 400 meters in front of the entire position at the foot of the mountain.

When the German generals learned that their attack had suffered so many casualties, they immediately ordered artillery units to carry out indiscriminate shelling of the defenders' positions and hillsides, and at the same time, dozens of bombers and fighters also took off from the German airfield in Zhytomyr to bombard the defenders of Bucha and Irpin indiscriminately, but because the Nepalese and Bhutanese soldiers were hiding in the tunnels, the German artillery bombardment and bombardment had little effect. (To be continued......)