Liu Hongzhang's tone was full of discussion, but also with an unquestionable order, the commander of the guard battalion who had not followed him for a long time did not understand his temper, he did not blame too much, the former commander of the guard battalion was transferred to the fourth regiment as the regimental chief of staff, if that kid was still there, when he heard this, his eyes would not light up, and he would be eager to catch up with a battle or something.

The commander of the guard battalion hesitated for a while, it was not to block, it was not possible to block it, but the chief of staff personally gave the death order to the guard battalion, just right, the chief of staff Liu Chenglin came back after conveying the order, and the guard battalion commander hurriedly went over and repeated the words of the brigade commander just now in a low voice, and at the end, he looked at Liu Chenglin in embarrassment.

Liu Chenglin was happy and said: "Then follow the brigade commander's orders, by the way, send more soldiers, and the armored command vehicle will keep up with a few, if you feel the danger, you can forcibly send the brigade commander to the armored command vehicle, if the brigade commander is to blame, you look for me!" ”

After getting the instruction of the chief of staff, the guard battalion commander looked relaxed and happily went to prepare, Liu Chenglin knew the brigade commander's temper too well, the battle had begun, let him stay in the armored command vehicle honestly, it was better to kill him, it was impossible to block it, if he forcibly blocked it, he would curse!

Under the protection of the soldiers of two companies and several armored command vehicles, Liu Hongzhang climbed a high ground about seven or eight kilometers away from the temporary headquarters of the brigade.

On the vast grassland in the twilight, the explosion point of the cannonballs exploded, bursting into clusters of firelight, and the bullets dragged the dark red trajectory, flying chaotically in the night sky, with a huge roar. Rushing to the face, no matter how you look at it, it is a chaotic night battle scene, but in Liu Hongzhang's mind, it is clearly like a three-dimensional picture, the first regiment and the fourth regiment, side by side, launched a fierce attack on the positions of the two Soviet divisions that were half crippled.

And the 2nd and 3rd regiments, after breaking through the positions of the two flanks of the weakly defended Soviet troops. Like two sharp knives, they fiercely plunged into the marching queue of the main force of the Soviet army, and within a radius of dozens of kilometers, fierce battles were fought everywhere, and the gunfire was as dense as a summer rainstorm hitting the leaves. In one of the areas, red smoke flashed from time to time. That's its own regiment of large-caliber howitzers. During heavy shelling of the positions of Soviet troops.

Liu Hongzhang looked at the far side of the right wing, and on the desert field, a string of car lights formed a strip of light, winding and twisting. Running in the direction of the Ural Mountains, that is where the main forces of the Soviet army, which are retreating at full speed, are only more than 20 kilometers away from the battlefield where the fierce battle is taking place. However, the light belt did not mean to fold to the battlefield, and kept moving forward, and the situation on the battlefield was as Tang Qiuli and Liu Hongzhang judged, and the main force of the Soviet army never wanted to be entangled with the pursuing independent division troops.

The corners of Liu Hongzhang's mouth had a mocking smile, "That Vasilevsky, in the face of this situation, should be anxious, the pursuit troops of the five brigades tear off a few pieces of meat from the body of the Soviet army every day, but what can he do?" The division commander only pursued the retreating Soviet army of more than 100,000 troops with only five brigades directly under the corps. While observing the situation on the battlefield, he secretly admired in his heart.

At this moment, General Vasilevsky, commander of the Soviet Outer Mongolian Front, who was directing the troops to retreat in the direction of the Ural Mountains at the fastest speed, was simply tired of being home, and to use a figurative analogy, it was like having a mouthful of phlegm in his throat and eyes, even if he coughed violently, he could not spit it out, and he could not swallow it.

According to the reports of the various attacked troops, General Vasilevsky and Lieutenant General Pozhnev, Chief of Staff of the Front, came to the unanimous conclusion that the troops pursuing their own independent division, at best, five divisions of less than 90,000 troops, were divided into five routes, and they followed the troops in a ghostly manner, with a stubborn fighting posture, like a mad dog, chasing and biting all the way, and it was not only General Vasilevsky who was very upset.

The commanders of the Soviet Outer Mongolian Front at all levels were very annoyed, especially the independent division troops in the left flank direction, and they were even more excessive, and they did not know whether they were alive or dead, and they actually cut into the depth of the retreating troops, biting the two divisions and beating them hard.

According to common sense, for the Outer Mongolian Front, which has more than one million troops, the strength of the independent division is not a threat at all, and sending a group army at random can throw the Chinese everywhere, and if it is placed before the launch of the offensive against the Seyinshanda campaign, General Vasilevsky will not hesitate to order the troops, swallow tens of thousands of Chinese troops in one bite, and moreover, do not even burp.

But at this time, the situation is different, and the only task of the Outer Mongolian Front at present is not how to destroy the troops of the independent division, but to rush to the European battlefield as quickly as possible, and just this afternoon, General Vasilevsky received an urgent telegram from Comrade Stalin, starting from the evacuation of the battlefield in Seyinshanda, and now, six or seven days have passed in the mountains, and he himself cannot remember clearly, and this is the first telegram that the leader himself has sent in person.

The content of the telegram made General Vasilevsky both anxious and helpless, Stalin emphasized in the telegram, "I am disappointed by the speed of the withdrawal of the troops of the Outer Mongolian Front, for more than a week, I am still wandering in the Outer Mongolian region, at this speed, I feel that the European battlefield, I am afraid that it will take several months, but the form of the European battlefield does not allow the retreat of the Outer Mongolian Front to be so slow!" ”

General Vasilevsky was very aggrieved and aggrieved in his heart, and he had done his best to make the Outer Mongolian Front get out of the battlefield as soon as possible.

In the northern battlefield of Seyinshanda, to that hateful and cunning Chinese Tang Qiuli, the 37th Group Army was left behind, and around Kulen, the 35th Group Army was left behind, and the big bait of nearly 300,000 people in the entire two group armies was to let the troops of the independent division be busy fighting with the two group armies, and did not care about pursuing and entanglement the main forces of the retreating front army, saying that the 37th Group Army covered the retreat of the main forces, and the 35th Group Army stayed in Kulen to wait for a comeback, but he knew it in his heart, There was no chance that the two armies would survive.

The Outer Mongolian Front Army's more than 1.5 million troops, which have been rampage in the Outer Mongolia region for nearly a month, have not hurt a single hair of Tang Qiuli, whether a strong man breaks his wrist, or a pawn to protect the car, this cruel decision must be made, Huasilevsky knows very well in his heart, do not give that Chinese Tang Qiuli some sweetness, do not want to go out of the land of Outer Mongolia.

In addition to the previous group army that had been put in on the periphery of Minusinsk, the Outer Mongolian Front had already taken out the troops of three group armies, and despite the huge sacrifices made, the development of the battlefield situation was not satisfactory.

All the bridges on the main rivers, without exception, were bombed so that there were no piers left, and the key areas of all roads were destroyed to the core, and the Outer Mongolian Front adopted a mechanized marching method, leaving the roads and bridges, and letting the soldiers walk back to the European battlefield on their feet?

I'm afraid that we will have to go for more than half a year, but can Comrade Stalin afford to wait? There is no good news in the war briefing transmitted by the General Staff, the situation in the Soviet Union is not optimistic, the German army is in the territory of the Soviet Union, the momentum is like a bamboo, the speed of advance is amazing, as if entering a no-man's land, the Soviet Red Army's troops in the European direction have been beaten to a pulp, and the war has only been carried out for more than 20 days, and the troops of the various military districts in the west have almost collapsed in the face of the German attack.

Following the loss of Kiev, the Soviet Red Army has lost more than 1.7 million troops in the western theater, of which more than 800,000 were captured by the German army.

Of course, in a similar situation, the General Staff made a war situation, according to the order of Comrade Stalin, and only conveyed it to the level of the commander of the Front, and even the chief of staff of the Front did not let it know, that is, in the East, only four people knew about the current bad war situation, and in addition to themselves, there were General Zhukov, commander and member of the Far Eastern Front, commander and member of the Outer Khinganling Front, and General Gregaraiv, commander and member of the Baikal Front.

What shocked Vasilevsky even more was that in the bulletin of the General Staff on the state of the war, there was a special mention of one situation: Comrade Stalin was very annoyed by the unfavorable situation in the operations of several western military districts, and in order to stop the situation of the rout, he took stern measures and opened a large-scale killing.

On 23 April, an order was issued to form a Supreme Military Tribunal, which sentenced the commander of the North-Western Military District, General Pavlov, the chief of staff of the North-Western Military District, Major General Klimovsky, the chief of communications of the North-Western Military District, Major General Grigoriyav, and the commander of the Fourth Army, Lieutenant General Korobkov, to death and carry them out immediately.

As for the crime, of course, it is related to the disadvantage of the operation, the collapse of the Soviet Red Army units, "greed for life and fear of death, mistakes in commanding operations, panic in the face of the German offensive, improper handling, resulting in heavy losses to the troops of the Northwest Military District!" "These charges, no matter which one they are, are sufficient to be shot.

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