Chapter 587: Legend
After receiving the order of His Excellency the army commander, the Russian army of a whole division immediately got off the train, and began to drive those striking workers from house to house with a water rifle with a bayonet.
The Russians in this part of Yekaterinburg are not good citizens, they are all criminals who have accumulated for hundreds of years, the descendants of robbers, and there are also shotguns and birds at home, etc., it is inevitable that there will be some resistance or something, and the guns continue to sound in this chaotic city, and soon it has begun to change to Bao Chaos.
The rebels had been waiting for such an opportunity for a long time, and the workers had not been cornered before, but today the lackeys of the Tsar were pushing them to a dead end, and this was the good news they had always dreamed of.
With their instigation behind the scenes, how can those workers who are not very smart still be able to endure it, as the war progresses, food is becoming more and more scarce, the ruble in their hands is becoming less and less valuable, but the wages have not risen, how many workers' wives and children are waiting to be fed in hunger and cold, and now they are counting on the strike to get a way to live, you landlord and capitalist dogs actually use bayonets against us, is it unbearable, since you don't want to give us a way to live, then just fight with you, More and more workers began to take up arms and join the fighting.
While General Petrov was entangled with the striking railway workers in Yekaterinburg, his enemies were rushing towards Omsk on the West Siberian plain on the east bank of the Irtysh River at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour. Along the way were arid and flat wastelands, with only a few settlements on the banks of the Irtysh, no decent cities, and no Russian garrisons, and even if there were no large rivers along the way, at most some small ditches without pontoon bridges, and in the first day alone, the purely mechanized army advanced nearly three hundred kilometers.
"The bright moon rises from the Tianshan Mountains. In the vast sea of clouds, the long wind is tens of thousands of miles, blowing across the Yumen Pass! After resting for only five hours after refueling, and then taking advantage of the moonlight to race wildly overnight, Li Tingyu, the commander of the 106th Division, looked at a bright moon in the sky and suddenly became poetic.
"Lao Li, what I can't stand the most is your problem, what are we doing, it's murderous work, what poems do you have nothing to do! Surprised, this doesn't match. Han Yuanhe, the commander of the 6th Armored Division, who was riding in an off-road military vehicle with him, said disapprehensively after being awakened.
"I didn't write it. This was written by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. The good-natured Li Tingyu said with a smile.
"Also a poet, isn't it just drunk and bragging, I can blow when I'm drunk, and besides, your poem is not right, where is Tianshan? The Tianshan Mountains are more than a thousand miles behind us, and if you want to go out, you have to go out of the Golden Mountain, isn't the Altai Mountains called the Golden Mountain? Han Wonhe said.
"Then change it?" Li Tingyu said with a smile.
"Yes, change and change, the bright moon is out of Jinshan. In the vast sea of clouds, the long wind is tens of thousands of miles, blowing across the Yumen Pass! Han Yuanhe was howling, and suddenly there was a sound of 12.7mm machine gun fire in front of him. The teacher who was disturbed by Yaxing dragged the radio microphone and shouted, "Which bastard shot it?" ”
"Report to the division commander, a group of Russian patrols was found in front, and we killed a dozen of them, and the rest ran away. The third company has already chased after it. "The commander of the 16th Tank Regiment, which opened the road in front, reported from the radio.
"Madamn, isn't there no Russian army in Pavlodar? What does the intelligence service eat. Han Yuanhe said dissatisfiedly, and at this time, a military vehicle suddenly overtook from behind. After approaching, a staff officer shouted in the car: "Division commander, the latest information obtained, the Russian army has transferred the remnants of the Twentieth Army that fled to Akmolinsk to Pavlodar, which just arrived yesterday." ”
Han Yuanhe and Li Tingyu glanced at each other, and instantly understood what this information meant to them, there was suddenly an embankment on the road of the raid that was originally going straight downstream, and it had to be broken in the shortest possible time in the most violent way, Han Yuanhe then grabbed the microphone and shouted: "Speed up, go full speed, and get ready to fight!" ”
By the time he gave this order, the 3rd Company of Chariots, which had been in charge of pursuing the fleeing Russian scouts, had already seen their overnight destination, Pavlodar, the only real city on the banks of the Irtysh River, before reaching Omsk. And the target of their pursuit was desperately galloping towards this ancient river port fortress in the moonlight, but unfortunately, at this time, the fifteen latest dragon chariots under the third company of the chariot had stopped, and fifteen seven- or six-millimeter guns were steadily pointing at the backs of the dozen cavalrymen.
With the command of the third company lying on the turret to open fire with the radio, sixteen seventy-six guns spewed flames at the same time, and sixteen high-explosive shells exploded in the middle of the cavalry in an instant.
In the city of Pavlodar, Lieutenant General Solanov, commander of the Twentieth Army of the Russian Army, is eating, he is the original deputy commander of the group army, and he became a regular after the commander was captured, since he experienced that hellish retreat, the general has one more problem, he spends almost one-third of his time eating every day, even if he really can't eat, he has to sit at the table and enjoy the feeling of fullness in front of the full food, for a person who is said to have lost more than seventy pounds in half a month, The poor man, who has eaten rats and lizards raw, should be considerate of his little hobby.
"Shelling! No, it's the Chinese's seven- or six-mm tank guns, fast, quickly ready to retreat! The general, who had been fighting with the Chinese on the shores of Lake Balkhash for more than a month, instantly heard what was outside the city, and then the bloated body that had just recovered jumped up like a spring, and subconsciously shouted under the psychological shadow.
At the same time, the entire Pavlodar was awakened by the sudden sound of artillery, and the small city was in chaos in an instant, and those Russian soldiers who had just arrived in Akmorinsk half a month ago after experiencing nine deaths and lives, and whose bodies had not fully recovered from hunger, reacted similar to their commanders after hearing this nightmarish sound, and did not even bother to look out, and many soldiers had already begun to run out and climb on horseback.
And just outside the city, the commander of the third company of the chariot who had solved all the Russian scouts, was touching his chin and looking at Pavlodar in the moonlight three kilometers away with a thoughtful expression, just now he had checked the corpses of the Russian scouts, and it could be seen from the number that it was the remnants of the Twentieth Army that had escaped from the defense line of Lake Balkhash, this was a frightened bird, and the Russian soldiers who were so hungry that they staggered back to surrender were seen as jokes by him and his soldiers.
"What do you think would happen if we fired a few shots into the city, and then all the machine guns were fired, and the momentum was scary?" He asked a platoon commander beside him.
"It doesn't matter what he does, just try it!" The platoon commander said with a smile.
"Try it, try it, order, target Pavlodar, every thirty seconds, shoot all high-explosive shells, target? The target is Pavlodar, you can hit anywhere in the city, and all the machine guns, including anti-aircraft machine guns, are aimed at the city, and if you can't hit it, you can fire. The commander of the third company then shouted into the microphone in his hand.
The muzzles of the fifteen chariots were immediately raised, and then they began to fire at their preferred positions in the city of Pavlodar, one by one the shells flew out with a whistling, and then exploded one after another in the city, and in the explosion one building after another was reduced to ruins, at the same time those machine gunners also began to shoot aimlessly like a carnival, especially the anti-aircraft machine gun on the roof of the car, the maximum range of this thing is actually no less than the seventy-six tank gun, of course, it is not an effective range, but it is enough to scare people into the city of Pavlodar.
The Russian army, which was already in chaos, had no ability to distinguish after being suddenly attacked by such intensive firepower, just hearing the shells exploding nearby one after another, the large-caliber machine gun bullets whistling overhead, and the fire of the explosion reflected the sky red, which evoked the nightmarish memory in the hearts of many of them. The overwhelming artillery fire of the Chinese on the battlefield of Lake Balkhash and the torn apart bodies of their companions, as well as the process of fleeing hundreds of kilometers after the defeat, starvation and cold, and life and death, immediately resurfaced in their minds, and then fear overwhelmed a qiē. It didn't take long for people to start riding horses and running out of the city, as long as there was one leader in this kind of thing, it would be the same as the collapse of the prefabricated slab buildings of the tofu scum project, and no force could stop it, nearly 20,000 Russian troops rode horses, rode in cars, had to walk with nothing, and simply ran to the dock and jumped on flat-bottomed boats down the river, and even the shelling of the third company of the chariot stopped not giving them courage.
In fact, in a sense, these Russians made a very correct choice, because if they stayed to resist, then they would definitely be destroyed, and the armies of the 6th Panzer Division and the 106th Division arrived in half an hour, even if these Russian troops could block them, it would take less than two days for more than 100,000 troops to arrive one after another, and at that time they would be crushed to death like ants. Of course, this is for themselves, if it is for Russia, their rout has deprived the Siberian war of the last chance to save, and let the Chinese army get a legendary example of defeating a group army in a row, it is indeed a group army, although there are only 20,000 people, but this Russian army does have the number of the twentieth army.
In the end, the vast majority of this defeated Russian army did not escape to Omsk, because they were immediately caught up by the mechanized corps behind and relieved by surrender. (To be continued......)