Major General Liu Hongzhang, commander of the First Brigade of the Corps directly under the Independent Division, took over the post of commander-in-chief of the Serge River Front Command, and held the first military meeting very briefly, deploying counterattack tasks and arranging for the troops of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army not to participate in the counterattack, to withdraw from the forward positions, and to rest on the front line of the Troubled Stone Mountain.

Liu Hongzhang believes that this is a matter of course, and it is not complicated, because the troops of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army have been fighting for two days in a row, and the consumption of the troops is very large, and he has done this out of practical considerations, and of course, there is a meaning of taking care of the troops of the Outer Mongolian Border Guards.

However, the reaction of the brigade commanders and regiment commanders of the Outer Mongolia Frontier Army greatly exceeded his expectations, and the commander of the First Infantry Brigade, Major General Wang Qingshan, was the first to stand up, tried his best to suppress his excited tone, and said: "Commander-in-Chief Liu, the first time you commanded the troops of the Outer Mongolia Frontier Army, I should unconditionally obey the order, but on this position, my brigade suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and they fell in front of my eyes. ”

"I once swore to the officers and soldiers of the whole brigade that unless the battle was needed, without receiving the order of the division commander, even if the first brigade was fought to the last man, it would die on the south bank position, and now, you arranged for us to evacuate the position and hide in the rocky mountain, I can't figure it out, it is our Outer Mongolia border guard troops, there is no strength to fight again, or other reasons, just like this in a daze, I can't explain to the soldiers, and I'm even more sorry for the soldiers and officers who died!"

Wang Qingshan's echo fell, and the other brigade commanders and regiment commanders also spoke one after another, "Commander-in-Chief Liu, what Brigade Commander Wang said makes sense, our troops survived after two days of fierce fighting. They are all experienced soldiers and officers, if they cannot participate in this counterattack, it will chill their hearts and weaken the morale of the troops, please reconsider the combat deployment, our troops, resolutely ask to participate in the counterattack! ”

Liu Hongzhang did not expect that his seemingly reasonable and realistic combat deployment would trigger such a fierce reaction among the generals of the Outer Mongolian border guards. As if asking for help, he looked at Major General Ouyang Yishan, the commander of the Second Brigade.

Ouyang Yishan stood up and said with a smile: "Everyone, everyone misunderstood the meaning of Commander-in-Chief Liu, he did not fight the Outer Mongolian border guards for two days. excluded from the battle, just considered on the basis of the real situation. Your troops do need to be withdrawn to the rear to recuperate. In the telegram of the division commander, it was also clearly pointed out that we would still be on the front line of the Sesagoge River to block the Soviet army for four days, and the battle would be fought, and the rest and recuperation would be for the sake of fighting again! ”

Wang Qingshan stood up again. said: "Deputy Commander-in-Chief Ouyang, I understand Commander-in-Chief Liu's kindness, and I don't have the idea of disobeying orders, but. On behalf of all the troops of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army on the front line of the Sesagoge River, I ask the two commanders-in-chief for permission to participate in the early morning counterattack! If we don't fight this battle, we won't have the face to see Commander Sun again! ”

Liu Hongzhang and Ouyang Yishan glanced at each other, and both of them understood that in terms of combat experience, soldiers' training level, and weapons and equipment, the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army was indeed inferior to any brigade directly under the Corps, but from the morale of their expression, the two-day record already had the shadow of the main field force, or rather, it was bloody, and the two exchanged opinions in a low voice.

Liu Hongzhang stood up and said loudly: "Okay, it is worthy of Commander Sun's subordinates, there is such a ruthlessness, I Liu Hongzhang admires it, I discussed it with Deputy Commander-in-Chief Ouyang, and decided that the four infantry brigades of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army, each of which will draw out a reinforced regiment, will be assigned to our two brigades to participate in the counterattack in the early hours of tomorrow morning, and the rest of the troops will hold their positions in place and withdraw in response to the counterattack troops!" ”

The brigade commanders and regiment commanders of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army were immediately happy, and Wang Qingshan said with some embarrassment: "Commander-in-Chief Liu, I'm sorry, I fired the first shot, and I disrupted your combat deployment, but you can rest assured, after the battle started, I, Wang Qingshan, promise to obey the order and listen to the command!" ”

Liu Hongzhang nodded at Wang Qingshan a little helplessly, and said: "You Wang madman, you know that you are a restless master, okay, arrange each brigade and send that regiment to participate in the battle?" ”

The venue immediately became lively, each regiment commander put on the advantages of his regiment, and fought for the red face, Liu Hongzhang and Ouyang Yishan could only smile bitterly, the two of them couldn't intervene at all, and they were not familiar with the situation, but they still liked this atmosphere very much, and put it in their own troops, every time they fought for the main attack task, several regiment commanders, didn't they almost do it, at the combat meeting of the directly subordinate corps, Liu Hongzhang himself was the master of the matter, and his voice was louder than anyone else, and there was only the commander of the Fourth Brigade, Major General Chu Ziye, You can compete with yourself!

After arguing for more than ten minutes, the four regiments participating in the battle were arranged, but the regiment commanders who finally got the task were immediately depressed, and the brigade commander became the regiment commander without concession, and his own regiment commander could only be his deputy aggrieved!

At the end of the meeting, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening of September 21, and the troops of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army, however, were preparing in an orderly manner, and the troops of the 1st and 2nd Brigades directly under the Corps quietly moved along the communication trenches to the forward position.

Liu Hongzhang's brigade headquarters and Ouyang Yishan's brigade headquarters were combined into one to form the front-line command of the campaign, and then Liu Hongzhang reported to the division commander Tang Qiuli on the front line of the Sejingge River, today's battle situation, the losses of the Outer Mongolian border guards, and the battle plan for counterattacking the Soviet army in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

At about 9 o'clock in the evening of 21 September, Tang Qiuli, commander of the Independent Division, had just returned to the temporary headquarters from the field hospital of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army.

In the hospital just now, he stayed at the door of Liu Cuigang's operating room for several hours, until the end of the operation, and only returned to the headquarters after listening to the attending doctor's injury introduction.

It was an old and experienced surgeon with the rank of major general doctor, and he told Tang Qiuli, "Division commander, from the doctor's point of view, Commander Liu's injury is not optimistic, the large-caliber airborne machine gun bullet is very lethal, after penetrating the right shoulder, it destroyed the nervous system and shattered the bones, and the wounded lost too much blood and was already in a dying state, although the blood transfusion was carried out in time, but when he woke up, it depends on his own vitality!" ”

Tang Qiu's eyes darkened, shook his head, tried to calm his mind, and asked in a calm tone as much as possible: "Doctor, I need to know, can Liu Cuigang's life be saved?" ”

The gray-haired major general doctor groaned for a while and replied: "Division commander, we have done our best, from the current vital signs of the wounded, it is relatively stable, and the possibility of awakening is very high, however, the sequelae will be unavoidable, division commander, please rest assured, our hospital will do its best to ensure Commander Liu's life!" ”

Tang Qiuli's heart was lowered slightly, and he asked, "Doctor, what are the sequelae of the strictest zhòng?" ”

The major general replied: "If there is a concurrent wound infection, it must be amputated, otherwise, it will endanger the life safety of the wounded, even if it is not concurrent infection, the wounded's right arm, normal activities, will be greatly affected, in other words, after the wounded fully recovered, the normal function of the right arm will not be guaranteed, which is equivalent to semi-crippled!" ”

Tang Qiuli's ears, like thousands of bees coming in, "buzzed" non-stop, and he basically couldn't hear the words behind the military doctor, and there were only the words "half-crippled" in his mind.

Tang Qiuli knows that for Liu Cuigang, who loves to fly and regards the blue sky as an indispensable and important part of his life, once he loses the qualification and ability to fly into the sky, fly fighter planes, and soar into the blue sky, how big will the blow will be to him, to put it bluntly, two-thirds of his life has been lost, and Liu Cuigang, who survived, is almost like a walking corpse, when he wakes up, how can he accept this cruel reality?

With his own understanding of Liu Cuigang, who has a strong personality, and even, Liu Cuigang will choose to commit suicide, Tang Qiuli suddenly shivered, sobered up, and hurriedly said to the doctor: "As the division commander, I ordered the field hospital to monitor the wounded twenty-four hours a day, in the ward, the doctors and nurses must be uninterrupted, and all weapons are not allowed to appear in the ward, in addition, I will leave eight special guards to stay here, once the wounded wake up, notify me as soon as possible!" ”

Tang Qiuli left the field hospital with a heavy heart, and the eight special guards arranged by the mountain tiger stayed in the ward in shifts.

When he was on the airport runway, anxiously looking forward to it, staring at the sky in the north, he made all kinds of speculations about Liu Cuigang's injury, when Liu Cuigang's fighter plane, with thick smoke, appeared on the sunny sky, Tang Qiuli's heart, the old high, the fighter plane landed on the runway, although the action has been deformed, but it still touched the ground safely, and after taxiing for a distance, it stopped crookedly on the lawn of the runway.

The stopped fighter jet was still smoking, ambulances, fire trucks, blaring mournful sirens, speeding over, Tang Qiuli also jumped into the jeep and rushed to the fighter jet together.

When several ground crews and doctors laboriously opened the cockpit canopy of the fighter jet, which was almost broken, and lifted Liu Cuigang, who was soaked in blood, out of the cabin and put him on a stretcher, Tang Qiuli's jeep also rushed to the front, and he saw at a glance that Liu Cuigang's right arm was blurred with flesh and blood, and even Bai Sensen's stubble.

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