On the battlefield of fierce fighting, temporary adjustment of deployment is a taboo for soldiers, not to mention that the original deployment is disrupted, and it is easy to cause chaos among one's own troops and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

What he was most worried about was that the Soviet troops of the army who were unscathed, turned around and bit themselves, and in the future retreat process, they fought and walked, but they didn't have time to play like this with tens of thousands of Soviet troops, and behind, like wolves, followed by more than one million Soviet troops, Tang Qiuli's move was a last resort!

However, Tang Qiuli knew his own troops, and the corps directly under him was an old foundation unit that started as an independent division, and he had experienced many winds and waves after falling through the battle formation, not to mention, it was still in the case of a counterattack with momentum.

The order was quickly issued to the troops, and the brigades were not in the slightest confusion, gathered up the troops that were fighting vigorously, and pursued them fiercely in the direction of the retreat of the Soviet First Army, while the two brigades of the frontal assault force that remained to encircle and annihilate the Soviet Third Army began to eat the Soviet troops in the encirclement piece by piece when they were almost equal to the strength of the Soviet army, and fought in an orderly manner.

On the contrary, there were only two brigades of troops left on the left and right flanks, and the pressure increased sharply, and Chu Ziye, commander of the Fourth Brigade on the left flank, and Qian Jiaxing, commander of the Sixth Brigade on the right flank, immediately changed their fighting methods and ordered the troops to change from offensive to defensive, and the soldiers dug fortifications on the spot on the battlefield where bullets were flying, and in a short time, a simple trench lay in front of the Soviet army.

This ability to quickly switch between attack and defense fully reflects the command ability of the officers of the directly subordinate corps and the tactical quality of the soldiers, and the second army of the Soviet army, which had just formed a trench and felt so hungry that the pressure had dropped sharply, seized the opportunity as if it had been beaten with chicken blood. took out a desperate posture and broke through to the two flanks, and the positions of the 4th and 6th brigades were squeezed and shaky, but it was such a defensive line, repeatedly like a spring full of elasticity, bouncing back the Soviet attack again and again.

And in the gap between the Soviet units that were desperately attacking on both flanks, the 1st and 2nd brigades of the direct corps, as well as the 3rd tank brigade. Like a whirlwind, it passed through the battlefield and pursued the retreating Soviet First Army and the headquarters of the 43rd Army.

The entire outer battlefield of Minusinsk was divided into three parts. I am among the enemy, and I am the enemy. The 7th and 8th brigades counterattacked head-on. and the 6th Tank Brigade, which divided and encircled the remnants of the Soviet Third Army.

The 4th and 6th Brigades on the left and right flanks desperately blocked the 2nd Army, 1st Brigade and 2nd Brigade of the Soviet Army who wanted to break through, the 3rd Brigade and the 5th Brigade drawn from the left and right flanks, and the 3rd Tank Brigade. Closely following the retreating Soviet First Army, the 4th and 5th Tank Brigades, broke away from the battlefield and reinforced the troops on the left and right flanks.

If on the combat map. If the movement routes of the Soviet Army and the various units directly under the corps are marked in red and blue, the combat staff officers will definitely be dazzled and have no way to start.

Because, on the operational map, the red and blue lines are entangled, like a mess, overlapping in many places, but in the mind of the division commander Tang Qiuli, the entire battlefield is as clear as a three-dimensional picture, the key to the battle lies in Chu Ziye's Fourth Brigade, Qian Jiaxing's Sixth Brigade, whether they can hold back the Second Army of the Soviet Army, as long as the Seventh Brigade and the Eighth Brigade are free, the rest of the matter will be solved.

Tang Qiuli stood silently in front of the map for a while, and said to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, order Wang Zhanqun, the commander of the Seventh Brigade, and the commander of the Eighth Brigade, Qiao Manshan, to eliminate the part of the Soviet army that was divided and surrounded by four o'clock in the morning, and then immediately reinforce the Fourth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade!" ”

Zhao Yuhe reminded: "Division commander, it's 11 a.m., and it's less than three hours away from 4 a.m., isn't it too tight, after all, the 7th Brigade and the 8th Brigade are facing tens of thousands of Soviet troops, and it will take time to solve them!" ”

Tang Qiuli said coldly: "The pressure on the Fourth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade is even greater, and it takes more time!" ”

On the position of the Fourth Brigade on the left flank, the brigade commander Chu Ziye was lying in the trenches, staring at the piles of Soviet soldiers rushing up, holding the phone in his hand, and swearing in his mouth, "Damn it!" If it weren't for Lao Tzu's heavy artillery regiment and staying in Minusinsk, Lao Maozi would have dared to attack wave after wave, and he would have been fucking blown up by us a long time ago! ”

The Fourth Brigade concentrated hundreds of mortars in the whole brigade on the forward positions, Chu Ziye gave an order, the shells flew everywhere, and on the charging route of the Soviet soldiers, a three-dimensional wall of fire was blown up, and then, with light and heavy machine guns and more than 10,000 submachine guns, the Soviet soldiers who were lucky enough to rush through the artillery fire were beaten into bloody sieve eyes!

With improvised fortifications, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, and submachine gun firepower, they repelled the attacks of the Soviet army again and again, and in front of the position, the corpses of Soviet soldiers fell layer by layer on the cold snow, but the fourth brigade also paid the price of thousands of casualties.

Repelled the crazy attack of the Soviet army again, Chu Ziye leaned in the trench, put a submachine gun at his feet, and picked up the walkie-talkie, "I'm Chu Ziye, old money?" What's going on there? It can withstand it! Well, I'm relieved! ”

"On my side, I fought very tightly, no, Lao Xu and their Fifth Brigade just left, I repelled five attacks of the Soviet army in a row, and it's fucking weird, as if my old Chu is a bully, Lao Maozi is like crazy, and heaps are rushing up, I said Lao Qian, is it an old Maozi of the army, all came to my side?" Chu Ziye could raise his voice and talk to Qian Jiaxing, the commander of the Sixth Brigade.

Qian Jiaxing, the commander of the Sixth Brigade, laughed and said: "I said Brigade Commander Chu, shouldn't it be the smell of your old Chu's flesh, which attracted the Soviet army to you!" ”

was really guessed correctly by Qian Jiaxing, the Second Army of the Soviet Army, put the two main divisions into the attack on the fourth brigade on the left flank, there was only one division, and the pressure was not the same at all when attacking the sixth brigade on the right flank, so the sixth brigade fought relatively easily, and Chu Ziye fought much more difficult.

Putting down the walkie-talkie, Chu Ziye poked his head out to observe the movements of the Soviet army, and at this moment, a sudden warning suddenly rose in his heart, which was the instinct exercised on the battlefield of countless life-and-death battles, and he retracted his head like lightning.

"Da Da Da! Da-da-da-da! ――！ A burst of heavy machine gun bullets hit the trench mud in front of Chu Ziye, splashing in all directions, and the splashed clods and gravel scraped his cheeks painfully, and his head and face were covered with dirt.

Chu Ziye was furious, overtook the telephone, and shouted: "Mortar troops, immediately clean up the old Maozi fire points within the firing range, especially the light and heavy machine gun fire points, damn it, I almost killed Lao Tzu!" ”

Putting down the phone, Chu Ziye heard, "Knock knock!" The sound of the mortar firing, he said hatefully: "Damn, Lao Maozi soldiers beat Lao Tzu with a shuttle of bullets, Lao Tzu will return you ten mortar shells, see who is ruthless enough!" ”

Chu Ziye didn't take the danger just now to heart, but he scared several guards into a cold sweat, hurriedly rushed to him, and shouted, "Brigade commander, you're not injured, are you?" ”

Chu Ziye grinned and said indifferently: "What are you doing?" What's the fuss, rest assured, the bullet that hit Lao Tzu hasn't been made yet! ”

At this time, the brigade chief of staff, Colonel Wu Chengguang, with two guards, ran along the trench with a cat on his waist, and said breathlessly: "Brigade commander, I received a report from the mortar unit, we don't have many shells, there is only one base, and we should replenish it as much as possible, otherwise, it will be very difficult to repel the attack of the Soviet army, in addition, light and heavy machine gun bullets are not abundant, the battle is too fierce, and the consumption of ammunition is very large!" ”

Chu Ziye almost jumped up, but the guards hurriedly held him down, "What? The shells are almost gone, it's impossible, when I set off, didn't I order, we didn't bring heavy artillery, we counted on mortars to make efforts, we had to bring more shells, it must be that the guys in the logistics department didn't carry out my orders, Chengguang, call me the head of the logistics department, and ask him face to face, what is going on? ”

"If the logistics department is lazy, Lao Tzu will kill their minister on the spot!" Chu Ziye roared, looking at this posture, the other troops, for a while and a half, they couldn't spare their hands to reinforce themselves and repel the attack of the Soviet army, mortars are the main force, and there are no shells, isn't that fatal?

Wu Chengguang hurriedly said: "Brigade commander, don't lose your temper first, at the beginning of the battle, the mortars of the whole brigade were personally commanded by you, you know in your heart that how many shells are fired is not that the logistics department does not carry enough ammunition, but the main thing is that the consumption is too large, which is not to blame the logistics department!" ”

Chu Ziye stopped squeaking, too, he commanded the mortar troops, his voice was almost hoarse, as if he was scolding, blaming the density of the mortar shelling was not enough, and he was patronizing and beating happily!

Chu Ziye thought for a moment and said: "Chengguang, it will take an hour and a half to reinforce our Fourth Tank Brigade at the earliest, and the other troops will not be able to free up their hands for a while, and the next battle will have to rely on ourselves, and it will definitely not work without shells!" ”

"You immediately send a telegram to the baggage department in the name of the brigade headquarters, and give them to the fourth brigade within one hour, deliver ten mortar shells and light and heavy machine gun bullets, and tell the people of the baggage department, if this cannot be done, I will lead the troops to kill Song Wenhai, the head of the baggage department!" Even when it came to the teacher, it was the same thing! ”

After receiving the telegram from Major General Chu Ziye, the commander of the Fourth Brigade, which was full of threatening tone, Colonel Song Wenhai, director of the baggage department, had a numb scalp at that time.

With a phone call, Song Wenhai handed over the task of transporting shells and bullets to the Third Regiment of the Fourth Brigade, and the Third Regiment immediately became busy.

(To be continued)(To be continued......