Episode 12 Main Annihilation Battle

A red signal bomb soared into the sky, and then "bang bang" sounded from the front and back, left and right. The vast black grassland lit up piece by piece. Inside the aperture, the scene of people shouting and neighing was also revealed piece by piece.

The horsemen were in a mess in panic with their reins tugging at their reins, waving their sabers, and screaming in their mouths. At the same time, more flares were constantly hitting the sky, and the long cavalry ranks behind were also exposed to the strong light by thousands, thousands. Immediately, shouts of coordinates, resounded on the radio. Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that these people wanted cups, so he immediately lay down in front of the observation window of the bunker and looked at it with great interest with a telescope.

After a few seconds, there was a muffled noise behind his head, then the air above his head hissed, followed by a powerful flash of light in front of him, and a loud bang began to shake his eardrums violently. As more and more shells landed and exploded, the orange light kept flashing into the observation window of the bunker, and the bunker kept vibrating, and Xiang Xiaoqiang's ears couldn't hear anything except the uninterrupted loud noise.

The lights from the sky are still falling, and the illuminated area below is literally boiling. Countless howitzers, mortars, and infantry shells exploded in dense numbers, almost like a crater, in short, a red patch, in which flashes of yellow explosions and black gunpowder smoke were constantly flashed, and the rest was all red. I can't tell which is blood and which is fire.

By the flash of the explosion, you can see something black flying in the air, but you can't see what it is. It could be a clod of soil, it could be a grass-roots shrub, but more likely a limb of a person or horse.

A few minutes later, the shelling area began to extend eastward, shelling enemy troops who had fled to the east of the road. At the same time, within a few hundred meters of the western side of the road, countless tongues of fire erupted, and the sound of explosions was added to the piercing screams of machine guns.

"Ah——!!!h

Xiang Xiaoqiang hid in the bunker, and his eardrums were already so shocked that he couldn't stand it. But it was enjoyable to watch, he put his hands on his ears and shouted loudly. But in the flash of light, I only saw him open his big mouth, and I couldn't hear a shout at all.

……

It wasn't until even the small bunkers were filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and began to choke people that the shelling stopped.

As soon as Xiang Xiaoqiang's ears regained a little hearing, he heard Gao Dayi yelling fiercely beside him:

"All - forward!"

Immediately afterward, the sound of cars starting was everywhere in the mountains, and cars drove past on the left and right. Gao Dayi also said:

"Your Excellency, you stay here, and your subordinates are going to command outside!"

"Don't pay the price," Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't stay in the bunker anymore, and immediately said, "I'll go out together!" ”

Gao Dayi was stunned for a moment, and immediately waved his hand and said:

"No, no, it's too dangerous outside...... My lord, you are the commander of the three armies, and you are the commander of His Majesty, you can't do anything......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang became angry and scolded:

"What do you mean, this commander is just a tourist, right? That's soy sauce, isn't it? ”

"Your Excellency...... Hit what? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang pointed out and said:

"What do you see outside, how many of the enemy are still alive? I just shrank in the hole, and now it's time to clean up the mess and let me shrink in the hole? ”

"But my lord......" Gao Dayi said nervously, "no one can say for sure what happens on the battlefield...... If you have three long and two short, turn back to Princess Liaoyang......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was angry and funny, and scolded:

"What's wrong, I'm afraid she'll swallow you alive?"

Gao Dayi glared, hesitated, and nodded vigorously.

Xiang Xiaoqiang just wanted to reassure him, but he felt that if something happened to him, Fourteen Gege would really swallow him alive.

He couldn't say anything for a while, and he really didn't want to stay in this little bunker any longer, so he simply glared at him and shouted:

"If you're worried about this commander, then protect this commander! Okay, I don't rush to the front, I don't wave the flag, and if the situation is not good, I will turn around and withdraw first, right? Alright, let's get out! ”

Gao Dayi swallowed his saliva, so he had to follow behind and chase him out.

……

Outside, it's a spectacular sight.

The flares in the sky fell one after another like a meteor shower, and then rose into the sky one after another. On the vast prairie, countless pairs of car lights swayed, pillars of light were densely packed, and tongues of fire appeared from time to time and disappeared...... With the sound of the overwhelming engine, all this light added up to the inexorable flooding of the past like freshly poured steel slag from a steelmaking furnace.

Xiang Xiaoqiang sat in the cab of a military vehicle, and on top of the steel plate above his head was a woodpecker machine gun. A machine gunner in the back mounted a machine gun, but never fired, just staring around vigilantly in case an enemy approached the vehicle. The military vehicles were jolting and running wildly across the grassland, and together with the surrounding vehicles, they dodged the craters on the ground with the help of their headlights, flares, and firelight. Machine guns from the surrounding military vehicles were fired from time to time, tracer bullets stretched straight out, and at the end there was always an enemy soldier lying on the ground. Some of the horses that weren't killed were covered in blood and ran like crazy. Some of the horses had broken their legs, staggered miserably, and soon fell to the ground.

Pools of remnant fires burned on the grass, but more of them were charred and black, emitting white smoke, this is spring, the grass on the grassland is full of water, and the sea of fire is not easy to form. If it had been autumn, such a bombardment would have become a prairie fire long ago.

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked out of the glass window and saw that there were many craters on the charred black "grass", and dead people and dead horses were scattered. Burnt tires, parts of small cannons, water barrels for machine guns, baffles, and so on, were also scattered everywhere. There were also some people who did not die, some holding their intestines, some holding half of their thighs, lying on the ground and rolling and wailing.

Come on. He leaned back, leaned back against the backrest, and thought, "This battle is almost won."

……

Groups of military vehicles were scattered across the prairie, firing flares and pounced from southwest to northeast. The sound of machine guns from the front, back, left and right was incessant. The more you open the ground, the fewer corpses there are, and the more enemies are running ahead. The machine guns on the Ming army's vehicles also fired more and more frequently, and the enemy troops in front of them fled in confusion and fell one by one like cutting wheat.

Xiang Xiaoqiang noticed that there were many enemy troops who escaped alive, but almost none escaped on horseback. He estimated that because the horses had large targets and did not lie down like humans, few of them survived intact. This shows that the shelling just now was successful. At least half of the enemy forces were annihilated in the first round of shelling. And after the shelling, the remaining enemy forces no longer had organized resistance. Even if they are battle-hardened bandits, they have only one thought at this time: to escape. Especially the more this kind of veteran oil, the more you know how to do it wisely at this time:

- Nothing more than a way to escape and surrender.

At first, no one wanted to be a prisoner, they all wanted to escape with their lives, stay in Qingshan without fear of no firewood, and in the future, they could work alone on their own, crisscrossing the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and live happily.

They had been bandits before, had fought against the Soviet Red Army, and had fought against the private armed forces of the local national princes, but they had never experienced such a fierce shelling. In their traditional concept of "cavalry combat", they all fight if they can fight, and run if they can't, making full use of the mobility of cavalry. And now this kind of situation has never been encountered in which people are bombarded, and there is not a single horse left, and they can only run away on two legs.

Many cavalrymen ran with the car on two legs for a while, and when they saw their companions lying in a pool of blood, they all understood that they couldn't run away today no matter what. Don't say you can't run bullets, even if people only hit them with cars, you can't run away!

More and more enemy cavalry collapsed to the ground, panting and foaming, supporting themselves with one hand, but still raising the other with difficulty, meaning surrender and spare their lives.

At this time, the Ming army divided into two routes, half of the military vehicles turned to the north to block the direction of the remnants of the enemy army fleeing back to Altay City, and the other team remained near the battlefield to continue to clear the resistance and capture the prisoners.

The strength of the Ming army, more than 4,000 people and about two regiments, in the blink of an eye, ate the 20,000 cavalry of Erdun Mutu, even with belts and bones.

And that's just the car troops, not yet tanks and planes.

……

Xiang Xiaoqiang and Gao Dayi's division headquarters stayed where they were, clearing the battlefield and searching for prisoners. By this time, most of the cars had slowed down, and the soldiers had jumped out of the back compartments, armed with submachine guns and light machine guns, and followed around the cars, capturing the prisoners and searching for the remnants hiding in the bushes.

Flares flew all over the sky, and each soldier was also armed with a bright flashlight, searching through the grass like a rabbit. The loudspeakers on the car shouted and ordered in the local Chinese, Kazakh, Uyghur-Uyghur, Mongolian and other languages, telling the remnants of the soldiers who were hiding to lay down their weapons and come out with their hands raised to ensure their lives. At the same time, the soldiers of the Ming army held light machine guns, and when they saw the tall grass and suspicious places, they "da-da-da" strafed the half-shuttle. There were also soldiers with flamethrowers on their backs, and they "swished" twice into the tall grass that had shouted but no one had come out.

Most of the time, there was no one, only the whole meadow burning. But sometimes a burning man would jump out of his body, burning with fire, howling miserably, waving his arms and staggering. At this time, the surrounding Ming troops would raise their guns and shoot them one after another, killing them.

Looking at all this cruel situation, Xiang Xiaoqiang was still very calm. How many times has he been on the battlefield, and he has seen a lot of cruel scenes. Although I didn't come to the front line in person later, I often walked through the places where I had just fought fiercely, and it was not uncommon to see all kinds of stumps and broken arms, brains and intestines, and charred corpses. Now it's basically "no code in my heart".

At this moment, he wanted to jump out of the car, also grab a submachine gun, and personally participate in the "wading rabbit" in the grass. But he knew it was unrealistic. If you die tall and righteous, you won't let yourself go. Xiang Xiaoqiang himself knows that although the battle is over, now is the most dangerous time. I don't know which piece of grass may be hiding a remnant of the enemy army, shooting cold shots at his general. That would have died too unjustly. On the contrary, as long as you sit honestly in the cab, no one can see yourself. It is possible to see the end of the battle in its entirety without being a little dangerous.

Xiang Xiaoqiang is not worried, he has experienced a hundred times more dangerous than this before, whether in the Beiqing Dynasty or in the Nanyang, and that kind of danger has not even experienced Gao Dayi. But there was no way around it back then, and the risk was worth taking. Now it's risking up, but it's purely to satisfy your own thrilling desires. It's not easy to be tall and righteous, so don't be embarrassed for him.

Xiang Xiaoqiang has been sitting in the cab very honestly, happily from the beginning to the end, until dawn.

……

At six o'clock, the sky had just turned white, and the grassland was no longer pitch black, but covered with a layer of light blue.

The roar of engines sounded in the sky, and groups of three-plane bombing formations swept by. The Ming soldiers on the ground waved their steel helmets and cheered with their feet.

Now everyone breathed a sigh of relief - if the enemy really had a remnant of the army running out, he would not be able to escape at all now. With this kind of grass, you can hide it at night, but during the day, you can't hide people at all. Even if you look at it from the sky, it will be clear.

"My lord," Gao Dayi looked at his watch and asked Xiao Qiang for instructions, "Shall we continue to search thoroughly, or will we hurry north and enter Altay City later?" ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang pinched his chin and hesitated.

This war of annihilation fought so smoothly, it was indeed a bit unexpected. Originally, they thought that they could only break up the enemy, and then they would have to "hunt" in circles on the grassland, and then cooperate with the planes to carry out a wider war of annihilation at dawn. It's good now, the enemy army is shattered in place at once, and it seems that few of them have escaped.

From a purely military point of view, it is now necessary to hurry north into the city of Altay, while the news of the enemy's ambush has not yet been transmitted.

However, it is not known whether the 20,000 enemy troops were personally led by Erdun Mutu. A number of captives were initially interrogated, and they all said that they did not know that "His Majesty the Emperor" had accompanied the army in person. But if there really is Erdun Mutu in the enemy army, then it will be worth spending a whole day, nay, a week searching here.

Xiang Xiaoqiang thought twice, looked at his watch, and said:

"That's it! After another half an hour of searching, half an hour later, we waved our army north, went to Altay City, and directly ended the Erdun Mutu nest! Even if an enemy army escapes the net, no matter how fast his horse is, it is impossible to rush back to Altay City within an hour! …… What, I'm hungry, do I have food? Let's have a leg of lamb first! ”

……

There is no leg of mutton, but there is mutton shabu.

At this time, the sky was getting brighter and brighter, and the surrounding hundreds of meters had been swept repeatedly. Gao Dayi relieved Xiang Xiaoqiang to jump out of the car.

The cook ran over and quickly propped up a small folding table with a copper hot pot on it. Fill it with a shovel of charcoal that has burned red at some point, and then pour the spring water brought from the bottom of the Tianshan Mountain.

After a while, the hot pot gurgled and opened.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and beckoned several subordinates of the division headquarters to sit down, watching the officers and soldiers on all sides "treading rabbits" while dipping the seasoning mutton.

These officers are all southerners, and they haven't eaten much mutton shabu. Besides, in their opinion, this thing is something that Tartars eat, and they always have some contempt.

"You know, right?" Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said, "This thing is said to have been invented by Genghis Khan's cook. Genghis Khan led his troops to fight in the war, and he was the same as me during the march, and suddenly wanted to eat a leg of mutton, but how long would it take to stew a leg of mutton, it was too late. So his chef had an idea, cut the lamb into very thin slices, soaked it in boiling water, and dipped it in the condiments. As a result, the famous food of shabu mutton has been handed down. ”

When Xiang Xiaoqiang said this, he compared himself to Mengyuan's "Genghis Khan", and several Ming officers looked at each other, and they couldn't say uncomfortable.

Xiang Xiaoqiang saw everyone's reaction, and laughed:

"Oops...... So delicious, Tartar eats, why can't we eat it? If you are still under the tyranny of Mengyuan now, and you don't eat your chopsticks, then I can only say 'admiration' to everyone's backbone. But now, we are already the victors, whether it is the Tartars of the Mengyuan Dynasty or the Tartars of the Manchu Dynasty, we have already destroyed our grandmothers and grandmothers, and we are the victors to enjoy their good things, haha, it can only be so appropriate! Hey, tell you, if little Japan comes to mess with us in the future, we will go to Japan to taste the 'women's body', hahaha! ”

Everyone looked at each other, crying and laughing, but no matter what, they were all immersed in the delicious taste of mutton.