On September 12, 1898, the third day of the Second Far Eastern Front's second attack on Fuyuan City, after the Russian 39th Army's sixth attack on the forward positions of the Dingbei Army was repulsed again, the commander of the Second Far Eastern Front, Reseklov, told the commander of the 39th Army, Paustovsky, that he had made up his mind to retreat tomorrow and return to the city of Boli.

At this moment, suddenly the rumbling of artillery outside rang out, and Leseklov and Paustovsky immediately walked to the observation port of the headquarters and looked out with binoculars.

I saw that the Second Front Army of the Far East was opposite the position of the Dingbei Army, and an infantry position established in order to launch an attack from here and prevent the Dingbei Army from a sneak attack was bombarded very fiercely.

Leseklov took the telescope and looked at it for a while, immediately put down the telescope, and said to Paustovsky beside him with a big change in his face: "Not good! The Dingbei Army may want to launch a counterattack against us! ”

A few days ago, the artillery of the Dingbei Army also often bombarded the positions of the Russian army, but mainly bombarded the artillery positions of the Russian army, and only carried out the positions established by the Russian infantry with a bombardment, and did not carry out the current almost covering bombardment.

Now that the Dingbei Army is suddenly and violently bombarding its infantry positions, there is only one explanation, the Dingbei Army is about to launch a counterattack.

Paustovsky shouted in a panic: "Commander, I will immediately organize troops to resist the counterattack of the Dingbei Army!" ”

After saying that, Paustovsky hurried out of the headquarters, but fortunately the headquarters of the 2nd Far Eastern Front was set up in a relatively backward position and was not shelled.

And Paustovsky is in such a hurry. It is because now the forefront of the Russian army is the troops of his 39th Army, and in order to facilitate the attack on the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, the forefront positions of the Russian army have been taken over by his 39th Army.

Commander Leseklov after Paustovsky left. Immediately ordered several Russian staff officers at the command: "Quick! Go and inform the 37th Army and the 38th Army to support our forward positions, the positions must not be lost! Order the 40th Army and our 5th Army to immediately set up a blocking position on the spot to prevent the Dingbei Army from breaking through our forward positions! In addition, our artillery was ordered to be ready to fire at any time! ”

In order to prevent the sneak attack of the Dingbei Army, the Russian army only established a defensive position, so Reseklov urgently ordered the troops of the two armies to support the forward position, and ordered the two armies to establish a position as much as possible in the rear.

After Leseklov gave the order, he quickly continued to pick up the binoculars and observe the positions at the front of his Russian army. In the face of the sudden counterattack of the Dingbei Army, he had a very bad feeling,

The artillery of the Dingbei Army shelled the forward positions of the Russian army for at least 20 minutes. After that, the loud Dingbei Army charge horn sounded, and the officers and soldiers of the 111th Brigade of the 12th Division and the 131st Brigade and 132nd Brigade of the 13th Division, which had been waiting for a long time, rushed out of the trenches and launched a charge against the Russian army.

The remnants of the Russian artillery began to fire at the charging Dingbei Army. But soon these Russian artillery positions were covered by the artillery of the Dingbei Army. The artillery of the Russian army quickly fell silent.

Without the interference of the Russian artillery, the Dingbei Army quickly approached the forward positions of the Russian army, and some of the heavy firepower Makqin heavy machine guns on the forward positions of the Russian army, because they were relatively bulky and heavy, were not easy to move, and most of them had already been destroyed by the intensive artillery fire of the Dingbei Army, making the firepower of the Russian forward positions very weak.

The Type 96 light machine gun equipped by the Dingbei Army weighs only 9.6 kilograms, and the Type 96 heavy machine gun is only 14.2 kilograms. Therefore, the officers and men of Dingbei who charged used light and heavy machine guns to suppress the firepower of the Russian position, and soon charged more than 30 meters away from the Russian position.

Then the officers and soldiers of Dingbei who charged in front of them were grenades at the Russian position. Then the tide-like Dingbei officers and soldiers attacked the forward positions of the Russian army, and there was a hand-to-hand encounter with the remaining Russian soldiers in the Russian position.

The remaining Russian soldiers of the Russian 39th Army in the forward positions of the Russian army did not be timid when they saw the Dingbei Army rushing into the position, but roared and picked up the rifles with bayonets, rushed up and started a white-knuckle battle with the officers and soldiers of Dingbei.

The 39th Army, which was originally tasked with today's attack, lost nearly 6,000 people when attacking the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, and the covering artillery fire just now caused the 39th Army to suffer heavy casualties, and at least nearly 6,000 people were killed by artillery fire.

Even the nearly 16,000 Russian soldiers who are alive are at least one-third injured and have lost their combat effectiveness, so at this time, there are only more than 10,000 people in an army who can fight bayonets with the officers and soldiers of Dingbei.

Although the officers and men of the Dingbei Army were not afraid of white-knuckle combat, they were more willing to use the powerful firepower in their hands to destroy the enemy, so when the officers and soldiers of the Dingbei Army fought together with the Russian soldiers who rushed up, they fought with the Russian soldiers with bayonets and used rifles, pistols, machine guns and submachine guns in their hands to eliminate the recalcitrant Russian troops.

Although the Russian 37th Army and the 38th Army received an order from the commander Reseklov to let their two armies support the forward positions, the entire forward positions were covered by the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army, and the two armies could only wait in the back until the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army stopped and the three brigades of the Dingbei Army launched an attack, and then they hurried to the forward positions of the Russian army.

By the time the vanguard of the two armies of the Russian army arrived at their forward positions, the Dingbei Army had almost wiped out the remnants of the Russian army on the position, and it could be said that the forward positions of the Russian army had been controlled by the Dingbei Army.

The Russian 37th and 38th armies immediately launched an attack on their lost positions, trying to recapture them.

The officers and soldiers of Dingbei, who basically seized the position of the Russian army, did not panic when they saw the Russian soldiers rushing over the mountains, but put their machine guns densely on the trenches facing the Russian charge, and countless bullets were fired at the Russian soldiers who rushed over. The Russian soldiers who charged at the front were like hitting an invisible wall, and fell layer by layer in front of the trenches they had dug.

The Dingbei Army, which occupied the position of the Russian army, reported the shelling coordinates to its own artillery behind it and asked for artillery support, and soon after, the fierce artillery fire fell on the heads of the soldiers of the Russian 37th Army and the 38th Army.

"Boom-boom-boom-" A burst of 10-minute artillery fire caused heavy losses to the Russian 37th and 38th armies. Having been unable to capture the lost positions, they began to retreat to the rear.

At this moment, the three brigades of the Dingbei Army, which had just seized the position of the Russian army, sounded a loud charge again. Rush out of the Russian positions and kill the rout of the Russian 37th and 38th armies.

The current Russian 37th Army and 38th Army can only be described as defeated, the soldiers of the two armies have lost the courage to fight by the fierce artillery bombardment, and they only know to flee back quickly, that is, there are soldiers who want to turn back and fight with the Dingbei Army, and other Russian soldiers are also forced to flee to the back.

Russian soldiers who are lagging behind. was constantly shot and killed by the pursuing Dingbei Army, so that the rout of the Russian army was even less courageous to stop and turn around to fight the Dingbei Army. I just want to run away quickly, faster than others, and don't get shot behind behind.

As soon as the Russian 40th Army and the 5th Army established a simple defensive position, they found that tens of thousands of their friendly troops rushed to the position they had just established. This made the Russian officers and soldiers of the 40th Army and the 5th Army somewhat unsure of what to do. If the defeated troops are allowed to storm the position, it is likely to bring unpredictable consequences, and perhaps the Dingbei Army behind will rush to their own positions.

The commander of the Second Front, Reseklov, saw this situation, a cold look flashed in his eyes, and then ordered to shoot at the retreating 37th and 38th armies, so that the routed troops could not be allowed to mess up the position.

"Da Da Da-" Dozens of Makqin heavy machine guns on the positions that the Russian army had just established rang out, and the Russian troops close to the position fell one by one under the guns of their own people.

At the same time, many Russian soldiers on the Russian positions shouted: "Charge back!" Charge back! ”

The rout of the 37th and 38th armies at a glance. Turning backward is death, and turning around and turning back is not necessarily alive. But there is still a glimmer of life in turning around and fighting, it is better than dying at the guns of your own people!

So the rout of the 37th Army and the 38th Army, under the leadership of the officers in the two armies, began to turn around and prepare for a desperate battle with the Dingbei Army, but at this time, the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army fell on their heads again, and even the positions built by the 40th Army and the 5th Army, the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army did not let go.

This artillery fire of the Dingbei Army not only knocked out the courage of the 37th Army and the 38th Army to gather up and turn around to fight, but also caused heavy casualties among the Russian soldiers of the 40th Army and the 5th Army.

After another 20 minutes of artillery fire, the remnants of the 37th Army and the 38th Army fled into the positions that the Russian army had just established, and then the Dingbei Army followed and rushed to the positions of the Russian army.

After the remnants of the 37th Army and the 38th Army broke into the position, they did not stay and prepare to resist the Dingbei Army with the Russian troops of the 40th Army and the 5th Army, but continued to flee to the back, and as a result, together with a lot of Russian soldiers of the 40th Army and the 5th Army, they also fled in a daze, plus the Dingbei Army rushed to the position, the entire front of the Russian army collapsed, and there were very few Russian soldiers who resisted the Dingbei Army, most of them left the position, and fled backwards in desperation, which eventually turned into a big rout.

The commander of the 2nd Far Eastern Front, Reseklov, was helpless in the face of the already collapsed army, and fled to Russia with the personnel of his own command.

At this time, the number of Russian troops combined reached nearly 90,000, and the 3 brigades of the Dingbei Army were less than 30,000, chasing all the way to the border line of the two countries.

But just when the Russian army fled to the border line of the two countries, it found that the front had been blocked by the Dingbei Army, and a simple position appeared on the border line of the two countries, blocking the way for the Russian army to return home. However, the dense machine guns placed on this simple position let the Russian army know that this position is not so easy to break through.

In order to achieve the goal of completely annihilating the Russian army, the two division commanders concentrated the tractors and transport vehicles loaded with artillery shells of the two divisions, and let more than 9,000 people from the 112th Brigade of the 12th Division bypass the Second Front Army in the Russian Far East in these vehicles, come to the back of the Russian army, and come to the border line of the two countries.

Sure enough, the Second Far Eastern Front, which suffered heavy artillery losses, did not resist the attack of the Dingbei Army, and a major rout occurred, and the 112th Brigade, which was on standby, just blocked the retreat of the Russian army.

The Russian officers and soldiers who fled at the forefront were killed by the dense bullets fired by the 112th Brigade in front of the improvised positions, clearly telling the Russian troops who had fled that this road was impassable.

Just when the fleeing Russian army was blocked by the 112 brigade, the Dingbei Army of the 3 brigades chasing behind also caught up, although the number of Russian troops here reached nearly 90,000, but many Russian soldiers threw their rifles when they fled, and stood empty-handed in the crowd at a loss.

Even the Russian soldiers who were still holding rifles began to throw their rifles on the ground, raising their hands high, not ready to fight anymore, the battle was fought at this time, they couldn't escape, they couldn't fight, for their own lives, the Russian soldiers wisely chose to surrender.

At this time, the establishment of the Second Front Army in the Far East was already completely chaotic, and the officers of the Russian army in the crowd of routs could not control this chaotic situation, and they could not organize the soldiers to resist the pursuit of the Dingbei Army behind, or organize the soldiers to break through the positions blocked by the Dingbei Army in front, so the officers also followed the example of the soldiers, threw away the weapons in their hands, and raised their hands high.

Reseklov, the commander of the 2nd Far Eastern Front, who was in the middle of the rout, couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw the situation around him, and the staff officer who followed him next to him asked in a panic: "Commander, what should I do?" ”

Reseklov sighed and said, "It's all like this, what else can I do!" After saying that, he threw the pistol he had been holding on the ground, and he knew that there was only one way to live.

Nearly 90,000 officers and soldiers of the Second Russian Far East Front, after being surrounded by four infantry brigades of the Dingbei Army on the border line of the two countries, did not choose to fight to the end, but all obediently laid down their weapons and chose to surrender to the Dingbei Army.

The officers and men of the four infantry brigades of the Dingbei Army were busy for several hours before they collected all the weapons of nearly 90,000 Russian troops, which was more than the time spent in the war.

So far, the Second Far Eastern Front Army formed by Russia was completely annihilated by the 12th and 13th Divisions of the Dingbei Army at a small cost, the Second Front Army of the Russian Far East lost more than 50,000 people and nearly 90,000 were captured, the commander of the Second Far Eastern Front was captured, and the other 4 commanders of the 39th Army of the Russian ** Commander Paustovsky were killed, and the remaining 3 army commanders and their commanders entered the prisoner of war camp of the Dingbei Army. (To be continued......) R527