Xiao Jinshan's laughter echoed in the twilight of the Tangnu Mountains, and then he said to Wu Jialiang, the chief of staff: "Jialiang, convey my order, the 36th and 37th regiments, on the left side of the Chagannaoer road, and the 38th and 39th regiments on the right, with companies as units, are deployed in turn, and I want to put a big pocket for the old Maozi soldiers, at least 40,000 or 50,000 Soviet troops must be loaded in." ”

"The reconnaissance battalion and guard battalion directly under the brigade, as a campaign reserve, are ready to reinforce at any time, and the brigade belongs to the heavy artillery regiment, and the artillery battalions of each regiment are preparing for forty minutes of artillery bombardment, and they must fight hard, by the way, Jialiang, there is no news from the reconnaissance battalion?" He asked, looking at the fiery clouds in the western sky.

Wu Jialiang replied: "A company of the reconnaissance battalion has already advanced more than 30 kilometers from our ambush position, and so far, no signs of Soviet troops have been found. ”

Before Xiao Jinshan could answer, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion ran over excitedly, "Report to the brigade commander, I received a report from a company that the Soviet army was found more than 40 kilometers away from us, with a strength of about 40,000 or 50,000 people, and according to the current marching speed of the Soviet army, we will be able to enter our ambush circle in more than three hours!" ”

Xiao Jinshan laughed, "Hahaha! I really want to come here, I sent it to the door, Jialiang, I look at it, it's not too late to rest after this battle, forty or fifty thousand people, well, it's a bit much, but it can still eat, who let Lao Tzu have a good tooth! ”

Xiao Jinshan turned his head and asked the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, "How far is the main force of the Soviet army from the vanguard on this road?" ”

The commander of the reconnaissance battalion replied: "A platoon of the first company, more than ninety kilometers forward, according to the information they sent back, the main force of the Soviet army. It is more than 80 kilometers away from the vanguard troops, and there are quite a few troops, with strings of trucks and tanks, as well as infantry queues, and you can't see the head and tail! ”

Xiao Jinshan didn't speak, he was thinking, and there were words in his mouth, "It's more than 80 kilometers, and after receiving the report of being ambushed, it will take two and a half hours to reach it at the earliest." It's a car ride, and there's plenty of time! ”

"Jialiang, I'm sure of this Soviet army, and it will take two and a half hours for their main force to catch up at the earliest. Let's settle the battle in an hour and a half, and then. Continue to set up ambushes in the same place. Then take a bite, this time, our Ninth Brigade has eaten a lot of fat! Order the engineer battalion to plant sufficient explosives in the valleys on both sides of the northern end of the ambush circle, after the battle has begun. Immediately detonate, catch turtles in an urn, and carry reinforcements from the main forces blocking the Soviet army! Xiao Jinshan's eyes lit up with excitement, and he commanded urgently.

Wu Jialiang said in embarrassment: "Brigade commander." But the order of the teacher, we can't disobey it! ”

Xiao Jinshan was not happy, and just as he was about to speak, the director of the brigade communications department hurriedly ran over, "Brigade commander, I received an urgent call from the division commander!" ”

Xiao Jinshan took it, and after reading it, he turned his face to look at Wu Jialiang like a deflated ball, and said angrily: "Look! You see! I don't know what the division commander thinks? Such a great opportunity, I gave up in vain, so I let me fight for an hour, but it's not fun, no, I sent a telegram to the division commander, and resolutely asked to fight in Chagannaoer for two or three days, otherwise, the old Mao soldiers can't remember us! ”

Xiao Jinshan handed the telegram to Wu Jialiang while complaining, and after reading it, Wu Jialiang was "fluttering" and said, "Brigade commander, do you dare to send a telegram to the division commander?" ”

Xiao Jinshan thought for a while, and said very simply: "Don't dare, that guy Liu Hongzhang, he has suffered such a loss, I don't dare to disobey the order, alas, just fight for an hour, it's much better than not fighting!" ”

"Jialiang, change the deployment, ambush positions on both sides, shrink, build fortifications in battalion units, order troops, prepare for battle, order artillery, at the fastest speed, hit the most shells! It is impossible to swallow forty or fifty thousand Soviet troops in one bite, so bite him hard! ”

The night completely enveloped the Tangnu Mountains, the howling north wind, passing through the mountains, blowing the branches of the trees to make a sharp whistle, at nine o'clock in the night, a long series of bright car lights, appeared in Xiao Jinshan's telescopic lens.

More than 30 minutes later, the head of this long dragon of lights had entered the road below the valley, and the tail had extended more than 20 kilometers away, and the ambush circle after the contraction of the Ninth Brigade was obviously unable to hold all the Soviet troops.

Xiao Jinshan is unwilling, in the current state of the Soviet army's march, there is no defense at all, it will be ambushed, the Soviet convoy in front has entered the road below the valley, the speed has not decreased, and even routine reconnaissance is exempted.

However, with the strict order of the division commander, pressed on his head, Xiao Jinshan only drooled.

"Brigade commander, the thirty-sixth regiment reports that the Soviets have reached the ambush site of their regiment!" Brigade Chief of Staff Colonel Wu Jialiang reported.

Xiao Jinshan squeezed out a word viciously from between his teeth - "Fight!" ”

The calm mountains and fields suddenly boiled, and countless shells, dragging dark red tail flames, pierced through the air and roared, falling into the unsuspecting Soviet marching columns.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ――！ A huge roar echoed through the valley, shaking the rocks on the cliffs, and falling down "bang, bang".

The shells exploded into clusters of orange fire, and the broken metal shrapnel whistled and swirled sharply, wedged into the bodies of Soviet soldiers, bringing up a puff of blood, "Boom! A cloud of fire mixed with black smoke rose into the air, and the cars, tanks and armored vehicles in which the Soviet soldiers were riding were detonated and overturned by artillery shells, and the Soviet soldiers in the car flew in the air and fell to the ground fiercely, becoming a bloody corpse.

The choking smell of gunpowder smoke shrouded the battlefield over the battlefield, rain-like shells, flying in groups, blowing up the Soviet soldiers in all directions, and when a shell fell, it was a residual broken arm flying around, and any Soviet commander did not expect that it would be here, suddenly attacked by the troops of the independent division, and the intelligence department of the front army, didn't it report that the troops of the independent division were concentrated in the Minusinsk direction.

But what's going on with the shelling happening right now?

At this time, on the hills on both sides, the whistling of light and heavy machine guns suddenly sounded, and a dense rain of bullets poured over, causing the Soviet soldiers who were dizzy by the shells to fill many blood holes, and fell to the ground screaming.

The rumbling of artillery, the light of the fire mixed with the panicked shouts of Soviet soldiers, the figures running around like headless flies, the bloody corpses, the wounded soldiers with missing arms and legs, the wounded soldiers wailing and rolling, the large and small craters, the burning trucks and tanks, and the ammunition that exploded from time to time, made an improvised highway as hellish as terrifying.

Xiao Jinshan's ambush circle failed to pack the Soviet army's vanguard into it, but at least two divisions of Soviet troops were dealt a heavy blow, and an hour later, Xiao Jinshan looked at his watch, gritted his teeth, and said unwillingly: "Jialiang, order the troops to withdraw from the battle immediately and move to the direction of Ulan Guben!" Damn, it's all stewed meat, I can't eat it all in my mouth, this battle is not enjoyable, it's still a bag! ”

According to the current situation on the ambush battlefield, Xiao Jinshan was right, the Soviet troops under the heavy artillery bombardment suffered heavy casualties, and at this time, if the Ninth Brigade attacked on all fronts, the Soviet troops of these two divisions would be completely annihilated.

However, Xiao Jinshan ignored an important issue, the rear guard of a division of the Soviet army is still intact, but because the ambush of the Ninth Brigade was too sudden, coupled with the fierce artillery fire, the terrain below the valley could not deploy too many troops, and it was impossible to rescue for a while, but the Soviet artillery units following behind had begun to build firing positions, and the Soviet artillery observers began to capture the specific location of the artillery of the Ninth Brigade.

In another ten minutes, the Soviet army will have more than a few hundred heavy artillery pieces, and the shells will be poured into the target position, and once the artillery fire of the Ninth Brigade is suppressed, the remaining division of Soviet troops will collide head-on with the troops charging by the Ninth Brigade, and within two hours, Xiao Jinshan will not be able to end the battle at all, but will be dragged by the Soviet army and fall into a melee, and I am afraid it will be difficult to get out.

Farther away, the two Soviet mechanized divisions and the troops of a tank brigade that received the news that the avant-garde troops were ambushed were approaching rapidly, nearly an hour faster than Xiao Jinshan's estimate, if the Ninth Brigade attacked on all fronts and completely annihilated the two divisions of the Soviet avant-garde, they would also be entangled by the Soviet troops who arrived, and with it, there were more than 200,000 Soviet troops along the way, and the consequences would be unimaginable!

The commander of the Outer Mongolian Front, who commanded the main forces of the Outer Mongolian Front, divided the troops into four routes, and crossed the Tangnu Mountain Range, General Vasilevsky, in a bumpy car, when he was drowsy, received a telegram with almost the same content, telling Comrade Commander to immediately become angry and eager to kill!

"The headquarters of the front army, our unit is at the eastern foot of the Tangnu Mountain Range, in the four places of Chagannaoer, Bayanleg, Hujiertu, and Buzhidu Wusu, and was ambushed by the main force of the independent division, and the vanguard suffered heavy losses, and the artillery fire of the independent division covered the battlefield, because of the restrictions of terrain conditions, our follow-up troops could not be deployed, and now artillery preparations are underway."

General Vasilevsky, his eyes were a little straight, his hands were shaking, he couldn't speak for a long time, Comrade Stalin's words were still echoing in his ears, "That Chinese Tang Qiuli is very cunning, cunning with troops, good at using ambushes, encirclement and reinforcements, and other tactics, you must pay attention to this in the process of advancing, the distance between the various units should not be too far, so as to facilitate mutual support!" ”

Comrade Stalin's words of warning were still in my ears, and his army of more than one million people was hit head-on by Tang Qiuli.

Ambush! General Vasilevsky suddenly roared: "Who can tell me, what is the unit of the separate division in Minusinsk?" ”

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