Chapter 709: The Aftermath
Riding a horse to the battlefield not long ago, looking at the qiΔ in front of him, the 11th Cavalry Division, which had finally caught up, was stunned. Because what appeared in front of them at this moment was a scene of corpses all over the field, and those 'corpses' were nothing else, it was the Seventh Cavalry Division that they were still trying to catch up with not long ago...
"What the hell is going on..."Coming to the edge of the battlefield, he witnessed with his own eyes, and the lips of the commander of the 11th Cavalry Division trembled. In any case, he didn't want to believe the fact that he had seen it with his own eyes.
That's right, he is indeed very annoyed by the group of people in the Seventh Division, who rely on their own ability to fight, and always look down on other 'friendly neighbor' troops. Whether it is in the infantry or in front of the troops that are also cavalryββββββ from a certain point of view, the 11th Cavalry Division is still good in front of the 7th Cavalry Division, after all, the cavalry will always have a sense of superiority in front of the infantry...
Of course, in general, men always prefer infantry to cavalry...
Ahem...
However, even if he was very annoyed by the people of the Seventh Cavalry Division, he couldn't help but admit that those guys were indeed very capable of fighting, at least the combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of his Eleventh Cavalry Division.
However, the scene in front of him shocked him...
On the plain, there are deep pits everywhere, and at the edge of the deep pits, there are lying corpses of officers and soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry Division wearing Soviet-style military uniforms, some of the bodies are still intact, while some are already fragmented, as for those in the center of the pits...
He didn't want to think about it anymore...
"Quick, find me a survivor!" After sobering up from the shock. The commander of the 11th Cavalry Division yelled at his men. After speaking, he gritted his teeth and whispered. "I don't believe it, there is not even a single person alive in the whole division..."
The roar of the division commander was heard. The officers and men of the 11th Division, who were still in a state of shock, suddenly came to their senses, and soon several officers replied loudly.
"Yes!"
With that, he took a few of his subordinates around him and began to look for survivors on the battlefield. Immediately afterwards, more and more officers and men of the 11th Cavalry Division also spontaneously looked for them.
As for the commander of the 11th Division, it was for the signal corps to pass the news back to Moscow.
It's just that at the time of giving this order, he went not to know, after receiving the news. What the hell would those people in Moscow look like?
"Perhaps, the one who looks like XiΓ n is even more unbearable than me..."
Thinking so, he looked at the battlefield strewn with corpses. It was really hard for the division commander to imagine what kind of enemy he was able to inflict such a devastating blow on the Seventh Cavalry Division. Judging from the scene alone, it is not an exaggeration to say that the 7th Cavalry Division has been completely wiped out, but this makes him a little unbelievable.
Like I said before. Even if I hate those who ride the Seventh Division. He could not fail to recognize the combat effectiveness of the 7th Cavalry Division. Such a strong force, even if it can't be defeated, can't it escape?
And there are those deep pits...
He also once guessed whether it could be that the 7th Cavalry Division was ambushed by the enemy in the process of breaking through. In a way, this is probably the most plausible explanation. And judging from the traces of the scene, it also looks like someone ploughed it with a heavy cannon. After all, the traces of those deep pits are very obvious.
But if you look closely, you can imagine that this is not possible.
The reason is simple. Because the accuracy of artillery in this era was very poor, even when shelling stationary targets. It was usually necessary to test fire several times, and it may not be impossible to carry out such an ambush on a cavalry unitββββββ but at least as far as he knew, there were absolutely no artillery units of this level in Eastern Europe, even within Soviet Russia.
And he had just carefully observed, those craters were relatively concentrated, almost all of them were blown towards the position of the cavalry, and only a few deviated from the position.
As mentioned earlier, he may not know much about the whole world, but at least there is absolutely no artillery of this level in Eastern Europe.
In addition, if you want to create such a scene as you are in front of you, you need at least hundreds of heavy artillery, and the problem is in Eastern Europe......... It's not that you can't take out so many artillery, the problem is that there are only a few forces that can take it out, and except for Soviet Russia, I believe that none of them can concentrate all the heavy artillery in one position, and it is also used to deal with a cavalry division...
The most important and most important point...
"Smack..."
Turning over from his horse and jumping onto the plain, the commander of the 11th Division stepped on the blood-stained earth to the side of a deep pit, his face solemn.
"Even a 150mm caliber heavy gun can't blast out such a large pit, even a 210mm heavy gun......... What kind of secret weapon do those white bandits have?"
Thinking that those white bandits were able to wipe out a cavalry division in a silent way, and it seemed that not even a single person escaped...
As long as he thought of this, he felt a little chill in his heart...
But...
Just as he thought of this, he heard someone shouting in the distance. "Here, quick, medics, here are the survivors..."
Immediately afterward, in other directions, voices similar to the discovery of survivors were constantly heard.
Then, in the following period, some people from the Seventh Division were driven out of the nearby forest one after another. These are survivors who escaped to the nearby forest during the bombing.
It is not surprising that if you want to wipe out an entire cavalry division by means of bombing alone, it is impossible even if the people of this era have not experienced such large-scale bombingββββββ even if there is a 'mending knife' of the escort fighter formation behind ...
Just as there will be some people who will survive on the battlefield, there will always be people who will be able to escape...
It's just that because the previous blow was too big, these survivors were really a little frightened, so they ran far away, and it wasn't until a while that there were a few brave people who dared to come back and see...
And the commander of the 11th Cavalry Division also got the truth of the matter from them and those survivors on the battlefield.
After learning that they had been hit by a group of planes coming from the sky, the commander of the 11th Cavalry Division was suddenly a little surprised. Before the February Revolution. He was once an officer in Tsarist Russia and was no stranger to aircraft, especially such air strikes. After all, Russia was the first country in the world to start equipping itself with heavy bombers. And it's still a country that uses it on a large scaleββββββ although it doesn't seem to be working very well.
By the way, there are four theories about aerial bombs, that is, four countries claim to be the first country to use aerial bombs.
The first was Austria, where in the mid-19th century the Austrians began to drop explosive weapons from balloons on the Italian city of Venice, which was probably the earliest practical application of aerial bombs.
This is followed by Italy. On November 1, 1911, Italian planes carrying grenade-modified bombs bombed Turkish troops in the Libyan region, which is considered the world's first bombing operation.
And then the Russians. After the start of the First World War in 1914, the Russian designer B.B. Oranovsky specially designed a series of aerial bombs from 1909 to 1914, including anti-personnel, blasting and other models, weighing from a few thousand grams to several hundred kilograms. In 1916, A. Yakovlev developed the first aviation incendiary bomb.
The last ones were the Germans. The Germans claimed that in 1912 they developed the world's first aerial bomb. Code name M.APR. When the First World War broke out in 1914, the newly established air forces of European countries often dropped bombs on enemy troops from airplanes while mainly carrying out reconnaissance missions. But until this time, countries still used ordinary artillery shells to add tails or hand grenades to transform zuΓ² into aerial bombs.
However, no matter which country developed the aerial bomb first, this means that Russia has gone far in bombing, but this kind of large-scale carpet bombing method, I am afraid that the Russians have not yet tried it. But even so. He also had a clear understanding that this was probably a means taken by some enemy bomber group...
Come to think of it. His face began to grow solemn...
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In order to avoid being bombed again, the commander of the 11th Cavalry Division did not stay in the distance for too long, nor did he continue to advance according to the original plan, but reported the situation to Moscow while staying in a nearby forestββββββ which at least had a certain concealment effect and could also give himself some psychological comfort.
At the same time, he also sent a large number of cavalry to search everywhere for the remnants of the cavalry of the 7th Cavalry Division.
In almost a day, he finally found more than 300 survivors.
It's just that...
The cavalry division, which originally numbered almost 6,000 people, now has only 300 people left...
And this is still counting the wounded found from the corpse mountain, looking at the officers and soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry Division who were originally full of arrogance, and now they have a hasty appearance, the commander of the Eleventh Cavalry Division couldn't help frowning.
After a long while, he sighed. "Riding the Seventh Division, it's over..."
At the same time, the chief of staff, who heard his words, couldn't help but sigh deeply at this moment.
Originally, because of the arrogance of the Seventh Cavalry Division, the 11th Cavalry Division has always had no good impression of them, as if it was not long ago, just because they did not want to fall behind the 11th Cavalry Division, the Seventh Cavalry Division was more than an hour faster than the 11th Cavalry Division.
As the chief of staff of the 11th Cavalry Division, he naturally did the same.
But now looking at the appearance of the Seventh Division, he can't say anything...
And when he remembered the scene he had just seen, his heart was also full of shock...
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It wasn't just him who was shocked, but also those in Moscow...
After receiving the report from the 11th Cavalry Division, Lenin and others reacted in disbelief at first, but when they figured out that the 11th Cavalry Division was not joking with them, they became a little incredulous.
The cavalry units of Soviet Russia are not small, as once introduced, there are a total of 29 cavalry divisions in Soviet Russia in history, and the 7th Cavalry Division is only one of them. And after receiving the support of the Nationalist government, there are even more Soviet Russian cavalry units today than in history, always even more than thirty.
But even so, the 7th Cavalry Division is also the most elite of these cavalry units.
Because of its outstanding exploits in the civil war in Soviet Russia, even Lenin and others knew the name of this unit with a glorious past.
But now. This unit was wiped out in an instant, according to the report of the 11th Cavalry Division, after a long search. Only more than 300 survivors were found, and even if there were others who ran farther, the total number of them might be less than 500...
A cavalry division with more than 6,000 people, in the end, there were only more than 300 survivors, and counting some dying and seriously wounded, how could Lenin and others believe it...
And how can they not be shocked?
But the most important thing at the moment is to figure it out. Where did these bombers come from, and where did they belong ...
At the high-level meeting urgently convened by the top level of Soviet Russia, although no one spoke. But Lenin and Trotsky have subconsciously decided who owns these bombers...
"The Chinese, and only the Chinese, have such a strong force and can dispatch so many bombers to carry out bombing missions..."
After a moment of silence. Bukharin looked up sharply.
This can be said to be the consensus of everyone present. After all, it was too difficult for them to believe that Kolchak could have such a strong force. What's more, if Kolchak really had such a strong force, I'm afraid that Soviet Russia would not be able to force him away from Ufa at all...
"I also agree with Comrade Bukharin's opinion...", glancing sideways at Lenin, Trotsky also spoke. Those white bandit armies could not have such a strong force, and those who had such a strong force in Eastern Europe were only the Chinese located on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains..."
Speaking of this, Trotsky said with a solemn face. "Now the key is how do we find the evidence. Also, even if it is confirmed that the Chinese did it. How should we react..."
Hearing Trotsky say this, everyone's faces, including Bukharin and others, became heavy.
As Trotsky said, evidence is crucial.
Only with evidence can it be proved that all this was done by the Chinese, if there is no evidence ...
Even if they come to the door, as long as the Chinese do not admit that they did it, they have nothing to do with the Chinese...
After all, their ties to China are still underground, and they can only be regarded as secretly establishing diplomatic relations. And from an ideological point of view, it is really too normal for the Chinese to attack Soviet Russia.
If this kind of thing is taken out, I am afraid that the Western powers will even applaud.
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After thinking about this, it is no wonder that Lenin and the others looked solemn one by one.
Not to mention that they just signed an agreement, and...
You know, now they are dependent on China, which is greater than China's needs for them, whether they want to turn their faces for a cavalry division, they haven't considered this yet...
After all, no matter how outstanding the combat exploits of the Seventh Cavalry Division are, it is only a cavalry division, and there are more than thirty such troops in Soviet Russia in addition to him, no matter how good his combat exploits are, it is easy to find a replacement.
Moreover, it is also about the overall interests of Soviet Russia, and sometimes it is quite normal to sacrifice an army for the sake of the overall interests ...
What's more, even if they really want to retaliate against China, how can they retaliate?
You must know that there are hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops behind the Urals, and millions can be drawn from China at any time. Coupled with the natural danger of the Ural Mountains, and it is said that Yekaterinburg has also been Chinese built into a fortress cityββββββ by the way, now the strange style of this city is already world-famous, and even many scientists or enthusiasts plan to visit, but because the shape of the Urals is more complicated after all, so for the time being, this plan is not likely to succeed.
"Anyway, let's find the evidence first...", Lenin said loudly after slapping the table, and at the same time spoke to Molotov on the side. In addition, send someone to keep an eye on Luo Wenying and the others, don't let them run away..."
"Understood, I'll do it...", Molotov grabbed his hat from the table and walked outside.
Immediately after that, Lenin and the others discussed a number of countermeasures, almost all of which were aimed at China.
It was only when the meeting was over, the meeting was over, and everyone left, looking at the scenery of Moscow outside the window, Lenin's heart became a little worried.
Because he does not know whether this incident was done by the Chinese, if it was done by the Chinese, is it just a single incident, or has the attitude of the Chinese towards Soviet Russia changed?
After all, the ideologies of the two governments are very different.
And...
Don't look at the shape of Soviet Russia at the moment, it seems to be very good, but it can change big at any time. If the remnants of China come...
Thinking of this, Lenin's face became a little heavy.
At the same time, Luo Wenying, who is located in the community, is also keenly aware of the sneaky Russians on the periphery of the residence...
"It seems that they haven't been able to make up their minds for the time being..."With such a smile, Luo Wenying breathed a sigh of relief.
For him, as long as Soviet Russia did not immediately order the arrest, then there would be a chance for a turnaround.
Let alone...
He's not really prepared...
"If you really turn your face, the chance of escaping should be greater than sixty percent......... Sixty percent of the odds is good for us in this industry, especially in such an environment..."
As he spoke, Luo Wenying glanced behind him, behind him, his subordinates were preparing...
A qiΔ to prepare for the escape... (To be continued......)