For a whole day, the French always finished the artillery bombardment and the infantry rushed after the artillery bombardment.

The elevation of the small mountain bag was cut down by a meter by the shell.

Li Yuan's infantry company was left with no one in the afternoon.

When Liu Wenxiu sent people to reinforce him, there was only Li Yuan, who was like a little ghost, and three wounded soldiers who still insisted on fighting.

"My soldiers are here, and I won't go down. I'm going to go with them! Li Yuan's voice was so hoarse that he couldn't speak.

But he still roared, breaking free from the medics who were about to carry him down.

A piece of shrapnel was still embedded in the shoulder, and the slightest movement caused the bleeding to flow.

Although one arm was no longer obedient, Li Yuan still pushed away the medical guards who were about to carry him away.

The medical guards were in a hurry, and there was only a little time between battles. If it's delayed, maybe even the medical staff won't be able to leave.

It doesn't matter if you're an infantry or a medics!

The roaring Li Yuan suddenly softened and collapsed to the ground weakly.

Several medics hurriedly stepped forward to support them, and then carried them onto the stretcher.

The company commander who came to replace him glanced at Li Yuan: "Hurry up and carry him down." ”

After speaking, he urged the soldiers to repair the fortifications.

In fact, there is no point in rushing to repair the fortifications, and the stones on the hill have been blown apart.

The dirt on the ground has turned into floating dirt, and your feet can reach your calves when you step on it.

Dig with a sapper shovel and dig and dig out, and you can dig out your own robes.

Most are human fragments, an arm or a leg. Sometimes you can dig up half a human head!

In some cases, it is possible to exhume the entire corpse.

His face had turned purple, and his hands and feet were stiff.

The mouth was wide open, and it was full of dirt.

These people were buried alive in the dirt kicked up by the shells!

The warriors piled up the corpses of the robes, one leg at a time, and one hand at a time.

There seemed to be countless such things buried in the soil, and in a short time they were stacked more than two meters high.

Dark red muscles, white bone stubble, and hard skin.

The most terrifying thing is the half-pulled head, the eyeballs drooping outside the eye sockets, which is very scary.

The company commander looked at the corpses piled together, complete or incomplete. My face is a little blue!

"Class 3, get the corpse down the mountain. After a while, there was another shelling, and it was lost. ”

They are all corpses of robes, and our Ming people still pay attention to returning to their roots.

Even if the corpse can't be returned, at least a handful of ashes must be returned.

As for whose ashes belong to the end, there is no way.

They are all siblings, so they probably don't care about that.

At the foot of the mountain, a lot of firewood was hurriedly made.

The pieces of the corpse were burned with firewood, and when viewed from a distance, it seemed as if they were burning coal.

Liu Wenxiu drank bowl after bowl of water!

Li Yuan's company was wiped out in just half a day!

Not disabled, but destroyed.

This is more shocking!

Liu Wenxiu hadn't seen it yet, and it only took less than half a day to cripple a company's battle.

As soon as the reconnaissance airship flew over the battlefield, it was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft guns.

The pilot parachuted out and was blown by the wind and fell to the positions of the French. This made Liu Wenxiu depressed for a long time!

Unexpectedly, God didn't help Daming this time.

Could it be that the heavenly gods who fought abroad were also replaced by foreign gods?

"More than 100 people, why didn't they make it for half a day." Li Yuan, who was carried down, had already woken up, and the medical staff carefully removed the shrapnel from his shoulder.

Fortunately, it was on the shoulder, and if it was in the neck, the shrapnel would have to be transported to the rear before it could be surgically removed.

"Commander, their artillery fire is too fierce.

Their infantry rushed fiercely, and I had no choice but to put a platoon on it.

But the enemy is really ruthless, the distance between the two sides is only more than ten meters, and they cannons when they are about to fight.

The entire position was overturned, and the ground was plowed by shells.

My brothers in that platoon are ......!

Later, I didn't dare to send it up one platoon after another.

It can only be sent up from class to class, and finally it becomes half a class, and half a class is sent up.

There were more people and heavy losses due to shelling, and fewer people could not hold on.

The territory is occupied, and I have no choice but to lead people to counterattack.

After a counterattack, at least half of the squad was killed or wounded.

From morning to ten o'clock, just four hours. The enemy's company charge was launched six times!

One of my companies was simply worn away.

Head......! ”

Li Yuan howled in his mouth, but there were no tears in his eyes.

"That's it! Okay, let's go down and recuperate. The position is not lost, and this is your credit. You and your brothers, Daming will not forget. ”

comforted the students and subordinates, and Liu Wenxiu comforted Li Yuan helplessly.

The airship pulled Li Yuan off the ground and flew backwards.

Now the airship can only hang around behind the position, and does not dare to approach the combat zone at all.

Somewhere in between, an anti-aircraft gun will knock down the airship.

Now the enemy is armed with an unknown number of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, even if you rise to the air.

"Tell the troops in front not to place more than a squad of troops in their positions.

Otherwise, the enemy's artillery fire will come down, and the casualties will be very large. ”

This is the only piece of advice that Liu Wenxiu can give to the soldiers on the front line.

The heavy artillery of the enemy troops, the artillery company of the regiment did not dare to stay in one place.

Otherwise, if one is not good, the position will be detected by the enemy, and the only artillery company with six guns will be reimbursed.

On the Don River, the French army built a pontoon bridge in just five hours.

Groups of French soldiers crossed the Don River on pontoons.

The position of the Ming army, like a reef in a stormy wave, received wave after wave of beating.

Every time it is beaten, there is flesh and blood buried in this land forever.

In the evening, Liu Wenxiu found that something was wrong.

Because it's just one day, no, it's a daylight hour. From early morning to dusk, his troops were actually disabled in four formed companies.

It was only a day, and more than one battalion was gone.

And under his own command, there are only three battalions.

Even counting the men and women, the regimental team can only barely make up a battalion.

If you continue like this, you can fight until the day after tomorrow at most.

Then, the regimental commander himself can carry the Aka rifle to the forefront.

The situation is not very urgent, it is extremely urgent.

"Napoleon is calculating!" Li Xiao looked at the map and slammed his fist on the table.

Attack from Kiev to the east, crossing the Don.

A hard punch in the soft underbelly of the battle line, crossing the Don River will soon capture Tsaritsyn.

Then the next step, they can threaten the Central Asian Railway.

The Central Asian Railway, which is the main artery of the whole war, absolutely does not allow any mistakes.

Napoleon saw through this and launched this attack.

When Li Xiao first started, he was still wondering, and he could not imagine that only the Prussian army would attack Moscow.

So where did the French troops go?

Now I know that the French actually deceived the aerial reconnaissance. It's hard to sneak to the edge of the Don River!

It was too sudden, this attack was so fucking sudden, and it was so sudden that Li Xiao was completely caught off guard.

"Handsome! The Don defense line could not be resisted, and our troops still held their positions. But the Russian troops on both flanks have begun to retreat because of too many casualties. ”

Stilwell walked in with the telegram in his hand.

Another bad news!

The Russians can't be blamed for this, all the troops that can fight are defending Moscow. The troops deployed along the Don River were all third-rate troops who were not even second-tier troops.

The second-rate troops of the Ming Dynasty also have demobilized veterans and cadets of military academies as the backbone, but the third-rate troops of the Russians.

It's worse than the militia of the Ming Dynasty!

Their armament, even a company has a light machine gun. Only a few mortars in one regiment!

It was simply impossible for this equipment to compete with Napoleon's elite.

But no matter what, Li Xiao didn't expect that these people wouldn't even be able to carry it for a day.

"Immediately order our troops to retreat, blow up and burn all baggage and heavy firearms.

As long as people come back with light weapons!

Airships were sent to transport troops from the front to Tsaritsyn.

We're going to hold back the French in Tsaritsyn! ”

Li Xiao poked his finger at a key point on the map - Tsaritsyn.

This place in later generations, had an even more well-known name, Stalingrad!

"No, Sir, if we retreat like this. The French will move forward unhindered!

It will also take time for us to set up defenses in Tsaritsyn. ”

Stilwell looked at Li Xiao with some anxiety, he was afraid that the big marshal would be disrupted by this sudden attack.

"Let the Mongols go up, and we must delay the enemy's attack as much as possible.

Do whatever it takes! Li Xiao gave an order to Stilwell in confusion.

This is very in line with Li Xiao's character, this kind of battle is almost a death battle, and he will not let the Liao army fight.

In Li Xiao's words, if you want to get the same status as the Ming people, how can you do it without paying blood.

Only those who have shed blood for the Ming Dynasty are qualified to be called Ming people.

In this large-scale conscription, the Ming Dynasty recruited three divisions in Mongolia with a team of more than 38,000 people.

The reason for the requisition in Mongolia was that all three divisions were cavalry.

No way, except for Tsaritsyn, there is no railway.

If you want to move troops quickly, you have to be cavalry.

However, these cavalrymen, when they fight, also dismount to fight. War horses are now just a means of transport.

These cavalrymen had just arrived in Tsaritsyn and were still in the stage of recuperation.

"Dashuai, are you equipping the Mongols with heavy firepower. We still have some tractors on the front line, and it's a pity that these guys were bombed like this. ”

Stilwell knew that artillery was needed for offensive operations, and artillery was needed for defensive operations.

These Mongols were cavalry, and their heavy firepower was mortars.

The French artillery fire is very fierce, and it can be said that it has obtained the essence of the Ming Dynasty.

The Mongols did not have heavy firepower, and it was too difficult to delay the French attack.

"Good! It was possible to pull back the artillery and support the Mongols.

However, once these weapons are likely to fall into the hands of the French, they must be blown up first.

We must not allow our weapons to fall into the hands of the French.

Now everyone's technical conditions are similar, and as long as they have samples, they will soon be able to make the same thing.

There are not many things that Daming is leading, and we must control our technology not to flow into the hands of others. ”

"No!"

Stilwell agreed happily and immediately ran back to give orders

The attack of the French greatly disrupted the established deployment of the Ming Dynasty.

A column of reinforcements that wanted to support the Moscow direction was pulled directly to Tsaritsyn!

As many supplies as the mountains were also pulled to Tsaritsyn.

Even in Akhtubinsk, two hundred kilometers behind Tsaritsyn, the construction of an airstrip began.

The Liao troops sent to Russia were all recruited from Liaodong and Hebei and Shandong.

Li Xiao is also considered to be bleeding heavily, and there are many recruited veterans in this team, as well as cadets who have graduated from military academies and are about to graduate.

The soldiers in these three places were used because the winters in all three places were cold. In particular, Liaodong is very close to Russia in terms of climate.

Even the Shandong soldiers could adapt to the climate of the Stalingrad generation. Because in terms of latitude, Stalingrad is almost the same latitude as Jinan.

These places are the traditional sources of Liao soldiers.

Originally, the atmosphere of martial arts was strong, and militia training was also the best area.

And these soldiers have been in the army for more than half a year, and the things that should be trained have been almost trained.

In terms of combat effectiveness, it is much stronger than those southern soldiers sent to the Middle East.

For two whole days, Li Xiao stayed in the General Staff Headquarters with red eyes.

When I was sleepy, I squinted on the sofa in my office for a while.

The Liao army has won many battles, but it has not had much experience in defeating battles.

Retreat is a very learned thing, and whoever goes first and who goes last, requires an extremely high level of dispatch and command ability.

Once the retreat loses order, it is a rout.

And once the army retreats, the lamb to the slaughter makes no big difference.

Li Xiao didn't want his army to be slaughtered, so he ordered to blow up the heavy equipment and use an airship to bring people back.

For Li Xiao, talent is the most important.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty only deployed two divisions on the banks of the Don River, with more than 20,000 people.

Moreover, these two divisions are both temporarily formed divisions, and they are not yet fully equipped with heavy weapons.

There are quite a few tractors, because the road conditions are not good. Towing baggage can only rely on this tracked vehicle.

The crushing of tracked vehicles makes the road more and more damaged.

In a vicious circle, trucks are barely able to move here.

It was under such an order that Liu Wenxiu handed over the artillery company, and all the rest of the people boarded the airship and flew to Tsaritsyn.

His superiors had already told him how much he had lost this time, and that he would make up for it all in Tsaritsyn.

Liu Wenxiu was the last to board the airship, amid the rumbling noise. He looked through the porthole to the ground, and there were Russian soldiers scurrying around like headless flies.

They did not have the treatment of Ming soldiers, they had airships to ride, and for them, they could only rely on their legs if they wanted to escape.

Some people would look up at the rumbling airship, curse, and continue to flee along the road for their lives.

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