Episode 11 Prairie Ambush

At around two o'clock in the morning on the 13th, when Xiang Xiaoqiang was wrapped in a blanket and leaning in the carriage in a daze, Wu Yanbin next to him gently pushed him and whispered:

"My lord! My lord! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was originally untruthful, and his mind was full of the "decapitation operation" in the early morning. Now I woke up all at once:

"Hmm, hmm! How? Is it a fight? ”

He immediately noticed that the car was not moving, but parked here. Moreover, it is quiet in the front and rear, and there is no engine sound.

"What's going on? He asked, "Why did you stop here?" Where is this? What about other cars? ”

Wu Yanbin whispered:

"My lord, the rest of the cars are here. We've set up an ambush ring now......"

"Ambush circle?"

"My lord, just after one o'clock, the forward reconnaissance battalion encountered the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry, the enemy is a squad, and we are also a squad. The enemy was on horseback, we were machine gun sidecar motorcycles, and we knocked out half of them at once, and captured the rest......"

moved to Xiaoqiang's ears and keenly captured the key two words:

"Scouts? …… Does that mean there's a big army behind you? How can you be sure it's a scout? Didn't you come out to hunt wild food? ”

武言彬 says:

"My lord, I have already interrogated, it is the scout cavalry, there are three brigades behind, nearly 20,000 people! There are still more than 20 kilometers left! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was taken aback:

"Twenty thousand? Really? Make no mistake! ”

"My lord, this was personally arranged by Lord Gao, and those people were beaten to the point that their noses and faces were swollen, and they were interrogated separately, and they all said the same! Seeing that you were sleeping soundly, Lord Gao was afraid that it would affect your command during the day, so he had already set up an ambush circle on the spot. Now we are waiting for the main force of the enemy! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang sat for a moment and understood.

"I'm ...... day," he murmured, "that old boy from Erdun Mutu dares to be with me." I played with him, and he played with me...... My tank army swaggered along the west road as a cover, and he probably also swaggered on the west road to send troops as a cover, I came from the east road to his nest, and he also came from the east road to my nest! He probably knew that I had emptied the combat power of the base, and wanted to take advantage of it! ”

Wu Yanbin nodded and said:

"Your Excellency is wise, and your Excellency also analyzes it like this!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"It's a pity, this old boy plays with me to avoid reality, but he doesn't dare to fight me. Now people are not as good as heaven, and the main forces of our two families have come together. Haha, okay, then let's have a hard fight on this prairie! He with a rifle, I with a machine gun! He uses horses, I use cars! Let's bump it! It's a pity that the tank didn't come along, otherwise it would have been more enjoyable. …… Hey, it seems that the Battle of Jutland was the same, right? Both sides set up an ambush for each other to drill, and the two main forces drilled together. Ha ha. ”

Wu Yanbin was born in a military academy, although he was not in the navy, the Battle of Jutland was a classic example, and naturally he had to learn from it. He nodded, grinning:

"Yes, my lord, it's the same as the Battle of Jutland! And this is a prairie, a flat river, and it is almost the same as the sea! But my lord, now we are the equivalent of an armored ship against a wooden sailing ship! ”

"Good!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was very satisfied and excited, lifted the truck canvas, and jumped out of the car. Wu Yanbin also jumped down.

……

The four fields were pitch black, except for a bright moon in the sky, which sprinkled a little white light. After a while, Xiang Xiaoqiang's eyesight adapted to the darkness, and he saw that the surrounding area was no longer the Gobi Desert, but a prairie. The grass under my feet is not too high, not yet knee-high. As far as the eye can see, there are no mountains.

The night was cold, cold to the bone. Xiang Xiaoqiang stomped his feet on the spot, wrapped his coat tightly, and put on a blanket, still shivering.

There were military vehicles on all sides, but they were all very far apart. Each military vehicle had a woodpecker machine gun on its roof. The cab is covered with canvas to prevent glass reflection. A number of foxholes had been dug ahead, and officers and men were quietly ambushing with submachine guns and machine guns.

"Where are we now?" Xiang Xiaoqiang asked.

武言彬 says:

"My lord, now we are already in the territory of Brentohi County, about ten kilometers to the west is Ulungu Lake, and almost a hundred kilometers to the north is Altay City."

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded, and said with a smile:

"Erdun Mutu is also like me, I want to play a six-hundred-mile run. I'm four-wheeled, he's four-legged, I'm almost at his doorstep, he's just walked a hundred kilometers. Hehe, this old ...... Spoon. ”

He used the first curse he learned here, and it felt pretty good, quite appropriate.

……

Xiang Xiaoqiang picked up the telescope and saw a gray thing a few hundred meters away. He could see that it was the highway.

Of course, the enemies are all cavalry, and they don't necessarily have to go by road. But the ambush site chosen by Gao Dayi is very good, and behind the ambush is Ulungu Lake, which is several hundred square kilometers long. The enemy army is now rushing to the southeast, and it is impossible to go west around the large lake of several hundred square kilometers, so they can only pass either on the east side of the east road or between the road and the lake. The Ming army was ambushed between the road and the lake, and only on one side of the road, and the other side was vacant.

In this way, no matter whether the enemy army passes by on the road, from the east side of the road, or between the road and the lake, they will enter the ambush circle of the Ming army. Even if they passed far east of the road, they were within the range of the Ming artillery. And the Ming army's car mobility advantage can quickly adjust its position and pounce on it.

And the enemy army was afraid of losing their way on the steppe in the dark night, and did not dare to deviate too far from the road.

Xiang Xiaoqiang asked Wu Yanbin to take him to Gao Dayi's side. Gao Dayi was afraid that it would affect Xiang Xiaoqiang's sleep, so he moved the command radio to another car. In a military vehicle dozens of meters away, Gao Dayi was assigning tasks to several commanders below. Seeing Xiang Xiaoqiang crawling in, several people hurriedly got up to salute.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and nodded, let everyone continue, and sat next to him to listen.

Gao Dayi continued:

“…… If the enemy's confession is not too bad, if the enemy really dispatched three brigades and 20,000 men this time, it will be more than half of the total known strength of Erdun Mutu. Therefore, we are trying to annihilate the enemy in this battle. In the unlikely event that the enemy is scattered, we will give full play to the mobility advantage of the car and chase the enemy on the prairie and destroy them one by one. We are cars that can gallop quickly for a long time, but not the enemy's horses. Make the most of that. Blocking the enemy's escape back to the north is key. As long as the enemy doesn't run north, it doesn't matter if they run in the other three directions. To the west is Lake Ulungu, and to the east and south is a few hundred miles of no-man's land. By daybreak, our planes will be ready for battle, and they won't be able to run away alone. Is this clear? ”

"Clear!"

"What else do you have to say?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"The righteousness is in place. Militarily, I don't have much to say. Dayi is right, if we can completely annihilate these 20,000 enemy troops, then Erdunmutu's power in northern Xinjiang will come to an end. He traveled 600 miles to attack us this time, and the people who dispatched must have been elite soldiers. Eat this bite hard, and we will win this judgment war. All that's left is to sweep the tail. Now both the USSR and Japan are watching us. Whether we can fight this battle well is related to whether they can put away that little bit of caution. We want to show them that although we have just finished the war of reunification, our combat effectiveness is still so strong! ”

In the red light of the lantern, several commanders nodded solemnly and said at the same time:

"Don't worry, my subordinates understand!"

……

On the black prairie, hundreds of military vehicles and thousands of officers and soldiers lurked in place under the cover of darkness, motionless. All the engines of the vehicles were turned off, and the radios were all silent, and there was no sound at all. Only the howl of wolves in the distance, faintly heard from time to time.

Minutes and seconds passed. At about half past three in the morning, there were soldiers lying on the ground and listening to the ground with their ears sideways. Subsequently, more and more officers and soldiers fell to the ground to listen. Everyone was excited.

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately lay on the ground and listened carefully.

The sound of "rumbling" came from the earth, and it was already relatively clear. Several local guides, who came with the group, came to their own judgments, ranging from five to three kilometers. Anyway, whether it's five kilometers or three kilometers, it's all close at hand.

Some of these guides are local old herdsmen in northern Xinjiang, and a few are Qing cavalrymen who have returned to Shun, and they are also very experienced. They agreed that the other was in a state that was neither a rush nor a stride, but a trot in between. It can be seen that the other party is in a hurry. It was only because of the long distance that there was no rush.

Gao Dayi put on a headset, broke the radio silence, and said:

"All ready."

Suddenly, whistles sounded one after another in the darkness. This is a special whistle that does not sound and does not travel very far. At the same time, a large area of bolts rang out with a "whoosh".

"My lord," said Gao Dayi, "please, the shelter has been dug up, let's go to the shelter." ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang still wanted to go to the front line in person, but when he thought about it, this time there was no tank, and he didn't necessarily have a bullet to scoop himself, so he didn't charge a hero, nodded, and together with Gao Dayi, the entire division headquarters moved into a newly dug semi-underground fortification.

Bathed in the damp smell of fresh earth, he looked out the observation window to Xiaoqiang. By this time, the sound of horses' hooves could already be heard in the air.

Outside the bunker, a staff officer with a flare gun is pointed at the sky. Gao Dayi held the wireless telephone and looked outside.

Suddenly, the radio sounded:

"Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit! ”

That is to say, the enemy has already entered the ambush range, and when you see a rabbit, you can scatter eagles.

Gao Dayi roared:

"Scatter the eagle!"

"Bump!"

Outside, a signal flew into the sky.