Captain Paslov had a gloomy face and ordered the communications soldiers beside him: "Call the commander of the 1st Mechanized Division, Major General Galosov, immediately!" He pondered for a moment, and then said: "Paslov's reconnaissance team, more than 20 kilometers south of Ulagenoer, found a small Chinese force, and the movement of this unit is intended to plant explosives on the main road of our main mechanized corps advancing south. ”

"Its fundamental purpose is to delay the advance of our army, but the strength of the small Chinese troops, about a reinforced company, has strong firepower, and the fierce exchange of fire has lasted for more than an hour, and our reconnaissance team has suffered heavy casualties, so I ask Comrade Division Commander to send a tank battalion to cover the hill guarded by the small Chinese troops, so as to completely annihilate the enemy forces and ensure that our main force advances along the Lì."

The Transcaucasian Military District of the Soviet Union, Major General Galosov, commander of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division, who received the telegram, did not have the slightest doubt that this Captain Paslov was his confidant and favorite general, who had repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and had contributed to himself a lot, a reinforced platoon against a reinforced company of the enemy, and he could also entangle the enemy, which was very good!

If you want to ask for help, there is no reason not to send troops, and moreover, you have to send more, Major General Galosov ordered: "The second battalion of the 1st Tank Regiment, plus a mortar company, immediately provide fire support according to the location provided by Captain Paslov, and fight quickly, we have no time to waste on small groups of enemy troops!" ”

On the hill, there were a few wounds on Si Riguleng's body, and there were less than fifteen soldiers who could still fight, and all of them were wounded, but the Soviet scouts under the hill did not take advantage, and the right leg of the communication soldier Liu Suozhu was cut by the fragments after the grenade explosion, and the blood had stained the trousers red. The platoon carried a first-aid kit, and all the bandages were used up, but he barely managed to stop the bleeding.

Liu Suozhu's face was pale, lying beside Si Rigulen, and while pressing the bullet in the platoon commander's magazine, he said: "Platoon commander, it hurts, I guess, we can't go back this time, platoon commander." You're all beating the old man, what should I do? ”

Sriguleng aimed at the fire from the muzzle of the gun opposite, fired a long point shot, and a Soviet scout, half-pulled head, disappeared. Fall on your back, and then. This point of fire. Met with frantic fire from Soviet light machine guns.

Si Riguleng pressed Liu Suozhu under his body and said loudly: "Zhuzi, you don't have to do anything else, do you see it, from the Soviet mechanized troops passing on our right, you will observe the situation." All of them are reported to the command, and as much as they can report, they are as much as they can be! ”

Taking advantage of the pause of the Soviet machine guns, Sriguleng rolled on his side. When he came to a small rock, he poked his head out, and saw a string of lights branching out from the long line of Soviet mechanized troops, coming in his direction, getting closer and closer.

"It's time to come, it's finally here" Srigu thought to himself coldly, the Soviet scouts who were heavily wounded called for fire support, and the last moment of the second platoon finally came, he no longer saved bullets, and the muzzle of the submachine gun burst out with blazing flames, and the scorching shells flew in front of him, hitting a fan-shaped fire killing range.

Twenty minutes later, in the sky, there was the sound of mortar shells piercing the air and screaming down, and the low-trajectory shells of tank artillery, with tail flames, also fell at the same time.

"Boom, boom!" There was an earth-shattering loud noise, and the small hill was full of fires from explosions, whistling shrapnel, splashes of soil, and low bushes, which were uprooted under the impact of the explosion's firelight and air waves, and were cut into sections of stumps by shrapnel, and the small hills, like volcanic eruptions, instantly blazing.

Ten minutes later, the shelling stopped, and Captain Paslov, with the remaining dozen or so soldiers, walked up the hill where the soil was still boiling hot, and on the hill, there were bomb craters everywhere, scattered bushes everywhere, and the bodies of the Chinese scouts torn apart by shells, not a single person was alive, and Captain Paslov's idea of killing people and killing people was completely realized.

But in his heart, there was no sense of relaxation, next to a radio station that was blown into parts, a young Chinese soldier, the lower half of his body, was blown away by a cannonball, and his blood-colored right hand was still tightly holding the electric keys of the transmitter, maintaining a posture before death.

Captain Paslov, looking at the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder has been blown away by the night wind, there is not a single intact corpse of Chinese soldiers, he was silent for a long time, his eyes were complicated and confused, and after a long time, he said to the communication soldiers around him: "Send a telegram to the division commander Galosov, a small group of Chinese army soldiers, have all been wiped out, no survivors have been left, and no prisoners have been captured, the battle is over, Paslov's reconnaissance team, please return to the team!" ”

The Soviet scouts left, and on the hill, the bodies of more than 20 soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army of the Independent Division, the 1st Company and 2nd Platoon of the Brigade Reconnaissance Battalion, who died on the hill, were left on this land.

This extremely small-scale battle, in the later Tang Qiuli's independent division, more than 200,000 troops, and more than 200,000 Soviet troops in the large-scale battle, was an inconspicuous small wave, in the battlefield of the fierce battle of 560,000 troops on both sides, not even a ripple, but this small-scale battle at the cost of the sacrifice of the second platoon was recorded in the history of the Outer Mongolian border guards after the end of the second Outer Mongolia campaign.

The names of the 25 soldiers headed by the second lieutenant platoon commander Sri Guleng were written on the first page of the history of the Second Outer Mongolia Campaign, and it is said that this was a special instruction from the division commander Tang Qiuli.

At about 3:30 a.m. on 20 September, on the north bank of the Sejingge River, there was a sudden uproar, and the lights of countless trucks, armored vehicles, and tank cars illuminated the north bank brightly, and Major General Sun Zhenbang, commander of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army, stood in the shelter of the headquarters on the south bank, looking at the menacing Soviet army lineup on the other side, and his heart sank for a while.

On the south bank of the Sejingge River, a front of more than 20 kilometers long means that the defensive front of each of the four infantry brigades is about 5 kilometers wide, and the infantry brigade of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army, unlike those main field regiments, each brigade has more than 15,000 soldiers, and even if it is fully staffed, it is only more than 9,500 people, that is to say, the strength of the 1-kilometer-wide defensive front is less than 2,000 people.

It is a blocking battle with a huge disparity in strength, I am afraid that in a few days, each brigade will be disabled, but it can block the Soviet army for four or five days, even if the troops in his hands are exhausted, it is worth it, Sun Zhenbang thought to himself.

Putting down the binoculars, Sun Zhenbang asked the staff officer behind him, "Did you find it?" Which reconnaissance unit was the first to discover the enemy's situation? What is their current position and situation, order them, do not move closer to the main forces, avoid the Soviet troops, and hide themselves! ”

The staff officer replied: "Commander, I have found out clearly, it is the second platoon of the first company of the reconnaissance battalion of the third infantry brigade, the platoon commander is called Srigulen, the location of the second platoon, and the place where the Soviet troops were found, however, the radio of the command headquarters, after receiving specific information from the Soviet troops, suddenly lost contact with the second platoon, and now, the situation of the second platoon is unknown!" ”

"The situation is unknown!" Sun Zhenbang muttered to himself, hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops flooded by, on the battlefield, the situation is unknown, it probably means that the second platoon has disappeared in the whirlpool of war, perhaps, their radio station was broken, perhaps, it was on the way to transfer, it was not turned on, Sun Zhenbang hoped that it was the latter two results, although he knew that the hope was very slim, but there was still a trace of illusion.

Sun Zhenbang put down his mind and said to the staff officer: "Convey my order, all the troops in the front line, immediately enter the shelter department, evade the Soviet artillery shelling, the first artillery brigade and the second artillery brigade, prepare for the counterattack, report to the division commander, at 3:30 a.m. on September 20, about four divisions of the Soviet mechanized troops arrived at the line on the north bank of the Sesagoge River, outside the range of our artillery fire, the Soviet army is making preparations before the attack!" ”

Kulun, at 3:40 a.m. on September 20, Colonel Wang Jun, chief of staff of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army, handed Tang Qiuli a telegram, looked at it, and Tang Qiuli said: "Send a telegram to Sun Zhenbang, with elastic defense as the mainstay, supplemented by positional defense, after giving the Soviet army a certain amount of casualties, according to the situation, you can decide whether to retreat or not, and pay attention to the movements of the 3rd and 5th Cavalry Brigades behind enemy lines." ”

At 3:45 a.m. on 20 September, on the north bank of the Sejingge River, General Kulygin, commander of the Soviet Transcaucasian Military District and commander of the Command of the Campaign for the Restoration of Outer Mongolia and member of the political committee, was sitting on a canvas marching chair, smoking a thick cigar, and listening carefully to the chief of staff of the military district, Lieutenant General Zirnianko, who was reporting on the strength and firepower preparations for the offensive.

Lieutenant General Zirnenko said: "Comrade commander, before we carried out the first wave of attacks, we first used the strength of four artillery divisions and more than 900 large-caliber howitzers to carry out a 40-minute artillery fire to cover the positions of the defending troops of the independent division in all directions, and then, the artillery fire was extended, the engineer units erected 12 pontoon bridges on the Sejingge River, four tank brigades took the lead in launching a river-crossing attack, and the 1st and 3rd mechanized infantry divisions of the military region coordinated the attack of tanks. ”

"After occupying the beachhead, the main attacking force will continue to advance in depth, and all the remaining troops will be used in the second wave of the attack, and in addition, the air force assigned to us will send some bombers to cooperate with the attack."

General Kurygin nodded with satisfaction and said: "Comrade Zirnianko, the preparations before the attack have been very well done, and at four o'clock, let's start the offensive according to this plan!" However, the offensive strength is slightly insufficient, plus all the 37th mechanized infantry divisions of the Third Army, the first attack will deal a fatal blow to the Chinese army! ”

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