364 Missing regimental flags
The pursuing troops suddenly found that there were many more round things on the road ahead, shining on the ground, and when they got closer, they found that they were actually gold coins from one place.
It turned out that the Russian Iron and Blood Regiment had used this trick in the Northern War, and they would also be retreated at that time, so the regiment commander ordered to throw gold and silver coins on the side of the road.
The Iron Blood Regiment took the opportunity to return to the army to counterattack, the Swedish army was caught off guard, and fled in the wilderness, that battle, the Russian army used this method to turn defeat into victory, today, Serto thought of this method, so he used it, but Serto underestimated the army in front of him too much, if the original Qing army, he would have lowered his head and picked it up crazily.
But today, the Russian army was facing Lin Yuan's carefully trained troops, Zhang Yao saw the gold coins all over the ground, and was not moved at all, but ordered the troops to speed up the march, and strive to catch up with the defeated and fleeing Russian army earlier.
The company commander under Zhang Yao said: "Our pursuit speed is so fast, it must exceed the jungle special operations team, if the Russian army sets up an ambush on the road, will it be dangerous?" ”
Zhang Yao looked at the things thrown on the road and said with a smile: "It's okay, the Russian army is only concerned about fleeing for its life, and it will definitely not care about setting up an ambush." ”
The company commander asked, "How do you know the Dao?" ”
Zhang Yao pointed to the bags thrown on the side of the road and said: "Look at those bags, they are either filled with rice or potatoes, these are all food for the Russian army, the Russian army doesn't even want food, do you still have the energy to ambush us?" ”
Zhang Yao then led the troops to speed up the pursuit, chasing out about ten kilometers, the terrain suddenly changed, the originally cramped mountain road opened up, and there was a small village in front of him, Zhang Yao saw the small village in front of him, waved his hand, and ordered: "Stop advancing, there is a problem with this village!" ”
The fighters stopped, and the company commander asked: "What's wrong with this village?" ”
Zhang Yao stretched out his watch and said: "Look at the time, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, at this time, if there are three meals a day, lunch will have already passed, if there are two meals a day, dinner is still early, but in this village, every household is smoking, which shows that the Russian army is resting here, and those cooking smoke is the Russian army cooking." ”
The company commander said, "It would be great if that was the case, let's attack it directly." Zhang Yao stretched out his finger to measure the distance, and said: "This village is about three kilometers away from us, the whole village is flat, there is no cover to provide cover, we rush up in one go, annihilate the Russian army here, and then have dinner on the spot!" ”
The soldiers had been fighting for thirteen hours since two o'clock in the morning, and their physical strength was approaching the limit.
Zhang Yao simply deployed, the first company made a detour from the east, the second company copied from the west, and the third company made a feint attack on the front to attract the attention of the Russian army, and gave an order, and each company immediately launched an operation.
Zhang Yao's analysis is good, this village is the exhausted Russian army, although they left a few hours earlier than the first battalion, but they are all operational staff officers and senior generals of the command here, these people are all old, and the running speed is naturally not comparable to the stick guy of the first battalion, not to mention that Zhang Yao's battalion is a force that has experienced a forced march of 300 kilometers.
The Russian army walked out of the ravine, it was really impossible to walk, and the food was almost thrown away, their only hope was to escape the Ussuri River as soon as possible, and it would be better if they could meet the reinforcements of Lesozavodsk, and in desperation, they settled down in this small village, and then went to the villagers' houses to find food, and the smoke was emitted when they were cooking. When the first shot of the third company fired the feint, Serto's stewed chicken had just been served on the table, and the sentries outside the village were picking the blisters on their feet with the needles of the villagers' houses, and some of the soldiers were already snoring like thunder, and when they heard the familiar and terrifying gunfire of the Chinese troops, everyone had a sense of despair in their hearts.
The feint attack is different from the main attack, when the feint attack, the attacking troops will only shoot from a long distance, not too close to the other side, but as soon as the third company fired this time, I saw the Russian sentry throwing the gun aside from a distance, raising his hand high above his head, and some soldiers waved the white cloth in their hands.
Seeing this, the company commander waved his hand, and the soldiers rushed forward, turning the feint into the main attack, and soon rushed into the village, Serto could already hear the Chinese shouting and killing, he calmly drank a sip of chicken soup, and then took out his pistol, and the staff officer rushed in and said: "The Chinese are catching up, let's go quickly." ”
Serto got off the kang, loaded the bullet with a "click", and said, "We can't run away, let's be a warrior at the end." ”
With that, Serto picked up his gun and walked out the door, and ran into the soldiers of the third company who rushed in, and he was about to raise his gun to shoot, when a bullet pierced his chest.
The First Company and the Second Company saw that the Third Company, which was originally responsible for the feint, rushed in, and thought: "How did this Third Company change to the main attack, do they want to attack?" So they accelerated and rushed into the village, where the will of the Russian troops had collapsed, so they did not resist and quickly surrendered.
At this point, the battle of Wandashan Fortress ended, it was a service, Lin Yuan invested two divisions, an independent brigade, an independent artillery battalion, more than 11,000 troops, and the Russian army invested a regiment, with more than 6,000 troops, the battle lasted ten days, Lin Yuan's troops completely annihilated the elite of the Russian army-the Iron Blood Regiment, killed more than 4,000 people under the regiment commander Sergei Serto, captured more than 1,000 people, captured a large number of ammunition supplies, and Lin Yuan's troops only paid the price of more than 400 casualties.
The battle ended successfully, Lin Yuanzhi said that the real challenge had just begun, and there was a Russian ambassador and a large number of Western reporters waiting to deal with it in Shenyang, the Russian army had 150,000 soldiers on the border line, attacking at any time, and the net he had cast for the British who were looking for aluminum ore should be collected when he went back.
Lin Yuan was thinking about it, when Chen Fei suddenly came to him and said, "After such a big victory, the whole army is celebrating, don't be bored in the house, let's go have a drink." ”
Lin Yuan remembered that when he was in Beijing, he was dragged by Liu Kunyi's group to drink, and Chen Fei was drunk and unconscious after just two drinks, so he smiled and said, "With your amount of alcohol, don't drink it." ”
Chen Fei smiled and said: "If I don't drink two glasses, my subordinates won't dare to drink it, besides, we are drinking seized wine, which is not intoxicating." ”
Lin Yuan was pulled by Chen Fei into the single room of the canteen, only to see a large table in the middle of the room, Chen Fei said: "We captured the Russian army's military cook, I heard that he is a master of Western food, we will eat an authentic Western meal today, just as we sit in the Kremlin and taste the delicious food that can only be possessed under His Majesty the Tsar." Lin Yuan smiled: "One day we will sit in the Kremlin." ”
Suddenly, Lin Yuan sighed softly and said, "There is something to regret." ”
Chen Fei asked, "What regrets?" ”
Lin Yuan said: "Although we completely annihilated the Iron Blood Regiment, it is a pity that we did not capture their regimental flags. Chen Fei thought for a while and said: "I really haven't seen the regimental flag when I was cleaning the battlefield, maybe the Russian army burned the regimental flag, such an important thing can't be left to us." ”
After a while, a plate of carefully cooked steak was served, Lin Yuan looked down and exclaimed, "Why is it here!" ”