Yu Lichen, who was in the inner city of Svobod, learned from the mountain fortification group that there were still more than 100,000 Russian troops blocked south of the mountain fortification group, and was thinking about how long the siege would take before persuading the 100,000 Russian troops who were destined to run out of ammunition and food to surrender or encircle and annihilate them, but soon after receiving the news of the surrender of more than 100,000 Russian troops, he was immediately pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly prepared to lead the troops in the city to rush to the mountain fortification group to help receive Russian prisoners of war.

Although more than 100,000 Russian troops surrendered, the three divisions guarding the mountain fortification group really couldn't send many people to receive the surrender of the Russian army, so Yu Lichen personally took the 38th Division, the 39th Division and his own 14th Division, which had just arrived in the inner city of Svobod, and rushed to the mountain fortification group to receive Russian prisoners of war.

Oleglev, commander of the Russian Second Siberian Front, returned to the camp 10 kilometers north of the mountain fortifications with nearly 170,000 Russian officers and soldiers whose establishment had been completely chaotic, and quickly ordered the seven army commanders who had escaped to reorganize the 170,000 people, at least restore the basic structure, and reintegrate some of the troops that were strictly lacking, otherwise some of the 1 division might have 1,000 people left, and some of the officers of the troops were gone, and they were not killed in the breakout. It is still in the south of the mountain fortification group.

It was busy until the evening of the same day, and the 170,000 chaotic Russian troops finally reluctantly regained some of the formations, but the combat effectiveness of these Russian troops was already extremely weak, not only because of the problems of the formation, but also because most of the Russian officers and soldiers who escaped the middle road of the mountain fortification group were about to collapse, no matter who stepped on the dense corpses, ran for several kilometers under the dense artillery fire and sideways bullets, it was a very nerve-testing thing.

To the great dismay of Commander Oleglev, he found that there was not much food and ammunition in the camp.

At this time, on the order of Commander Oleglev, at the northern entrance of the mountain fortification group, the Russian 33rd Army and the 34th Army, which led the forces of the Northern Army, also retreated to the Russian camp.

When Oleg saw that only 2 corps had returned, he immediately frowned, and sent someone to bring the 2 army commanders who had just returned to the command and asked, "How are the troops in the south?" How many people broke through? ”

The two army commanders glanced at each other, and couldn't help but shake their heads, and the commander of the 33rd Army said: "Your Excellency, commander, we have been waiting until now at the northern intersection of the mountain fortification group, except for a burst of gunfire in the south, and then there was no movement, maybe ......"

The commander of the 33rd Army did not continue, but Oleg also understood what he meant, the situation left in the south was almost exhausted, and it is very likely that these hundreds of thousands of Russian troops have made the choice to cherish their lives, which is understandable.

But Oleg was cold in his heart, if the more than 100,000 people in the south of the mountain fortifications could not come back, in addition to the two armies guarding the rear road, the 720,000 troops of the entire Siberian Second Front Army came to the outside of the inner city of Svobod, and now there were only about 250,000 people left, and there were more than 30,000 wounded soldiers among them. But he had no reason to complain that the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops south of the mountain fortification group chose to surrender, after all, in such a situation, surrender was the wisest choice.

He led the Siberian Second Front with a mighty army of 780,000 troops, and it was only a long time before there were so many people left, so how did Oleg Lev explain to His Majesty Tsar Nicholas II and the commander of the theater of operations, Kuropatkin, Oleg didn't sleep all night last night, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, so that his whole person looked much older, and his feelings became very lost.

After the commander of the 33rd Army finished speaking, Oleg Lev hid his lost feelings, and said to the two commanders in front of him with a calm face: "Since the troops in the south have not moved, let's ignore them for now, and now the key question is what we should do next!" By the way, why is there so little food and ammunition in the camp? ”

The words of the two army commanders made Oleglev's heart even colder, during this time, the supplies of Tegeda City have not been delivered, but the commander Oleg Lev led the army to attack the inner city of Svobod, so some of the food and ammunition hoarded in the camp have been delivered to the main force of the front army that originally attacked the inner city of Svobod. Yesterday, a cavalryman sent from the city of Tegeda reported that the materials hoarded in the railway station of the city of Tegda had been blown up by the enemy, and that the Siberian theater had no way to continue to deliver supplies to the Far East in a short period of time, and that several sections of the railway line from Chita to the city of Tegeda had been blown up, and the railway transportation line had been interrupted.

Before the commander of the 33rd Army and the commander of the 34th Army had time to report this terrible news to Commander Oleglev, the Dingbei Army recaptured 13 mountain fortifications on both sides of the middle road of the mountain fortification group, blocking the connection between the north and south directions of the mountain fortification group.

And the worse news for this cavalry was that 20 kilometers north of the current camp of the Russian army, a large force of the Dingbei Army suddenly appeared, and the fortifications had been built there, blocking the back road of the remnants of the Second Siberian Front, and the cavalry had made a great detour to the camp north of the mountain fortifications.

Oleg was shocked when he heard this, and immediately asked the guards to take the map, and when he opened the map to look at it, he shouted in a nervous voice: "Quick! Gather all the commanders! ”

The Dingbei Army was too ruthless, and it did not give its Siberian Second Front Army a chance to rest and recuperate, and almost forced itself into a desperate situation one ring after another.

The remnants of the Russian army hurriedly put down the troops that were being reorganized, and after coming to the headquarters, before they could sit down, the frightened shouts of the Russian officers and soldiers came from outside: "Hide quickly!" The giant airship of the Qing Dynasty is coming! ”

It turned out that Yu Lichen took the troops of the inner city of Svobod to the south of the mountain fortification group to receive more than 100,000 Russian prisoners of war, and found that on the artillery positions of the Russian army, rows of artillery were left here intact, and a rough count of at least more than 2,000 pieces, and even nearly 200 anti-aircraft guns.

Most of these Russian artillery are old-fashioned artillery, not only heavy, but also the range is much worse than the artillery of the Dingbei Army, the artillery of the Dingbei Army is not uncommon for the old-fashioned artillery, but the militia units in the northeast do not even have artillery, and these captured artillery can be distributed to the militia units in various places in the future. The 152-mm howitzer in these guns can be regarded as a new type of artillery, which the Russians themselves cannot manufacture, they are all purchased from France, and the power is quite good, even given the artillery use of the regular troops of the Northern Army.

What makes Yu Lichen's eyes shine is that most of the Russian army's air defense artillery is here, so can't the airships of the Northeast Air Force continue to bomb the Russian army! So Yu Lichen immediately contacted Zhang Guoxin, the commander of the airship unit who was continuing to deliver ammunition supplies to the 18th Division, and asked the four airships led by Zhang Guoxin to immediately bomb the Russian troops who had fled to the north of the mountain fortifications.

After reading the telegram, Zhang Guoxin immediately ordered to stop loading ammunition and food on the airship, and to unload the ammunition and food that had been loaded on the airship and replace it with 100 kg of bombs.

After the four airships were loaded with bombs, they immediately took off, and on the evening of March 10, they flew over the head of the target to be bombed.

"Boom-boom-boom-boom-" Then the four airships of the Northeast Air Force opened the bomb ports at the bottom of the gondola compartment and continuously dropped the 100-kilogram bombs on the airships into the Russian battalion north of the mountain fortification group.

Most of the Russian anti-aircraft artillery has been dropped in the south of the mountain fortification group, so that the total number of anti-aircraft guns is less than 20, most of them are from the 33rd Army and the 34th Army, and even the artillery shells are not very many, although they can also break the airbag of the airship, but until the 4 airships have dropped all the bombs, the anti-aircraft guns have not seriously damaged any of the airships, so that after the airships have dropped the bombs, they swaggered around and left.

Zhang Guoxin opened the observation window at the bottom of the airship, saw the tragic situation of the Russian camp being bombed below, and said to the officers and soldiers of the Hercules in the airship with a satisfied smile: "Not bad, it's still fun to throw bombs like this, since the Russian army doesn't have many air defense guns, we can continue this kind of bombing tomorrow, this kind of opportunity to beat the water dogs is not easy to encounter!" ”

Compared with Zhang Guoxin's happy smile, Oleg Lev, commander of the Russian Second Siberian Front, was like a mourner, and the troops that had already suffered heavy losses and were demoralized were bombed indiscriminately by airships, almost completely collapsed, and the newly reorganized organization was completely chaotic, and the corpses of Russian officers and soldiers killed by airships could be seen everywhere in the camp.

Fortunately, Commander Oleg and 9 army commanders were at the headquarters in the camp, and when they heard the Russian officers and soldiers outside shouting that the Qing Dynasty's giant airship was coming, they, the only remaining senior officers of the Russian Second Siberian Front, quickly left the headquarters and luckily escaped the bomb of the airship, but the command headquarters of Commander Oleg in the camp was hit by a 100-kilogram bomb and turned into a pile of burnt wood.

Oleg Lev said in a low voice: "You go and pacify your troops first!" I need to be still! ”

Without waiting for the other nine commanders to speak, Oleg Lev turned and walked to a wooden house that had not been blown up.

Chekriev, the commander of the 19th Army, looked at the commander's lonely back and asked the other eight commanders suspiciously: "Didn't Your Excellency the commander ask us for something?" Why don't you say it? ”

At this time, the two commanders of the 33rd Army and the 34th Army smiled bitterly and told the other 7 army commanders that the materials of Tegeda City were blown up by the Dingbei Army, and the railway line from Chita City to Tegeda City was also blown up by the Dingbei Army for several sections, and the railway transportation line from the Siberian Theater to the Far East had been interrupted, and 20 kilometers north of the camp, a large force of the Dingbei Army also appeared. R1152