Age of Conquest Reborn

Not long after Liu Tiehan's telegram was sent out, he received a reply from his division commander Tang Qiuli. The content of the telegram was even bolder than Liu Tiehan's.

"Brother Tiehan, I received the call. First of all, I would like to congratulate the East Point troops on their first battle, which ended with the annihilation of an entire Soviet army. Brother Tiehan will make a decision based on the actual situation on the battlefield whether to pursue the main force of the retreating Soviet army. My suggestion is,

It is disrespectful to come and go without reciprocating. The East Point troops can take the opportunity to capture the Soviet Union's important town of Chita outside the eastern border of Outer Mongolia and its surrounding areas. The battlefield situation is extremely favorable to us. The Soviet Far East Front Army will never dare to send another soldier."

"This move has two meanings. First, it can eliminate the biggest threat to our eastern border of Outer Mongolia. Second, it will cut off the nearest channel for the Soviet army's border with Chenbing. This will prevent the Soviet army from stationing troops outside our eastern border of Outer Mongolia.

The important gathering place also connects the eastern region of Outer Mongolia with the Ulan-Ude region and prevents it from standing out. This suggestion is for your consideration. If it is feasible, please call back and report the specific plan."

Looking at Tang Qiuli's call back, Liu Tiehan laughed up to the sky and said to Li Guangjin: "Guangjin, this is the difference between vision and appetite. I just want to eat this Soviet army. What the division commander wants is not only to kill him, but also to kill him."

This Soviet army also wants to capture Chita and push the eastern border of Outer Mongolia to the Soviet territory. Well, call back to the division commander. This is a very good suggestion. Chasing and annihilating the Soviet army and capturing Chita can be carried out simultaneously. The specific plan is

, report it later!”

"The Operations Department will immediately formulate a battle plan to capture Chita! Also, the headquarters will move forward and follow the troops!" Li Guangjin responded loudly: "Yes! The Operations Department will start immediately!" Then, he whispered in a low voice: "Okay,

The war is getting bigger and bigger!"

After Li Guangjin left, Liu Tiehan said to a staff officer beside him: "Order, the troops in frontal pursuit should not press the Soviet army too tightly. The troops on the left and right wings should carry out continuous and maximum blows along the retreat of the Soviet army to continuously weaken the Soviet Union.

The strength of the army is to reduce the pressure on the troops blocking the mouth."

"Order, Chen Guozhu's Department of the 10th Brigade and He Zhuguo's Department of the Cavalry Mixed Brigade are to change their original mission and must block the Soviet army on the Nerchinsk line!"

"Order, the aircraft fleet of the Northern Flying Group of the aviation force assigned to combat operations is dispatched to bomb the retreating Soviet troops and destroy all roads! Tell the commander of the fleet, don't be stingy with bombs. Bomb them hard!"

An unprecedented large-scale pursuit began, and the Soviet army's retreat was very unsmooth. It was like being stuck in a muddy swamp. Every step taken required a huge price. On both sides of the road, independent divisions continued to fight out

The troops, moreover, have the same tactics.

First, fierce artillery fire was fired at the Soviet army for a while, and then a dense rain of bullets was poured over, and the infantry began to attack. After eating a part of the Soviet army, they stopped pursuing and returned to the original position to meet the next wave of attacks.

The Soviet troops arrived and repeated the previous actions.

Liu Tiehan's style of play was a typical wolf pack tactic. Six brigades with hundreds of thousands of people lined up on both sides, with battalions as units, each responsible for a section. Taking advantage of the Soviet army's eagerness to retreat and unwillingness to get entangled, they constantly attacked on the flank.

, instead of desperately intercepting and killing the Soviet troops, they made full use of artillery firepower, light and heavy machine gun firepower, and let go after one bite. The casualties of the troops were not large, but the gains were not small. Just like sharp knives, the Soviet troops retreated.

cut flesh from the body.

Lieutenant General Yemenchenko has become numb. From the beginning of the retreat, the sound of gunfire has not stopped in his ears. The sound of gunfire behind him is normal. Are the troops of the Independent Division chasing him? But the guns on both sides

The sound was no less than that from the back, and the loudest ones were mortar shells like raindrops, whizzing and hitting everyone. I really don’t know how many troops Tang Qiuli brought out to deal with him?

There are more than 100,000 people in his three armies. The marching queue is at least more than 100 kilometers long. There are sounds of gunfire and shouts of killing everywhere. How come there are troops of the independent division along the line? Could it be that he has got into Tang Qiuli's army?

In his pocket? Along the way, he dropped countless bloody corpses of soldiers!

Seeing his hundreds of thousands of troops, like snowballs under the blazing sun, gradually melting, shrinking, and disappearing on the vast grasslands of eastern Outer Mongolia, Lieutenant General Yemenchenko had a premonition that he and ten of his troops would be destroyed.

With tens of thousands of soldiers, the chance of returning the front army to its organizational structure is very slim.

To be fair, whether it was Marshal Petroshilov, the Soviet Chief of General Staff, or Lieutenant General Yemenchenko, the commander of the team, their eagerness to retreat after learning about the siege of Liu Tiehan's East Command troops is questionable.

If the Soviet army sticks to its original position and fights head-on, with slightly more troops than the East Point troops, Liu Tiehan will still have to put in a lot of effort to defeat this Soviet army. He won't be able to do so within a week or so.

Solve the battle, and the casualties of the troops will increase several times.

The heavy firepower of the advancing Soviet army cannot be used at all. The artillery cannot fire on the run. However, the East Point troops are waiting for work and ambush in advance on both sides of the area where the Soviet army passes. The artillery has already established positions.

After setting the position and coordinates, as long as they saw the Soviet troops passing by, they would just fire. When the shells did not miss, one would retreat in a hurry. Although it was not panic-stricken, it was also unintentional to fight.

One side was well prepared, with artillery, mortars, and light and heavy machine guns forming all-round firepower. Any Soviet troops passing by would not leave hundreds of corpses behind. Don't even think about passing by. One place is like this, more than a hundred kilometers long.

It was like this everywhere on the route. How many troops could the Soviet army withstand the consumption?

This is the brilliance of Liu Tiehan's style of play. He deliberately left a gap for the Soviet army, so that the Soviet commander always had hope. After this period, it would be fine, and he would not be trapped and still fighting, trying to annihilate the entire army.

After a fierce fight, once the more than 100,000 Soviet soldiers reached the point of despair and knew that they could not break out, they had the idea of ​​​​fighting to the death. Even if the East Point troops won a complete victory, the price paid would be extremely heavy.

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The battlefield spread for more than a hundred kilometers. On the prairie in eastern Outer Mongolia, guns and artillery roared, creating a fire net of casualties composed of steel fragments, constantly devouring the lives of Soviet soldiers. Liu Tiehan accurately controlled the rhythm of the troops' attack, little by little.

They drained the blood of the Soviet army and consumed their vitality until they fell to the ground. Chen Guozhu's 10th brigade and He Zhuguo's cavalry mixed brigade, which were deployed on the Nerchinsk front line to intercept the Soviet army, were the last fatal blow to the Soviet army.

Killer.

Liu Tiehan was in a very comfortable mood. Such a battle was fought smoothly, and a lot of gains were made. The Soviet army just put on a posture of being beaten, sitting in the armored command vehicle, and he kept issuing various orders.

, "Zhou Fucheng, your second brigade is stuck too tightly. The infantry should not attack too deeply and use artillery fire more. If after the battle, your brigade's casualties are greater than those of other brigades, please give me a reasonable explanation!"

"Wu Keren, your fifth brigade has several positions that are too prominent. Be careful of the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops eager to retreat. They will drown you. Move back three kilometers and get out of the way. Attack from the side! Intercept! Like a wolf, bite

Just leave at once, this is not to stop the war, no one will let you risk your life to block the Soviet army, if you insist on not letting it go, be careful I will withdraw you!"

Liu Tiehan was shouting in the armored command vehicle. The staff officers in the vehicle couldn't help but secretly laugh. It has been several years since they had seen the deputy division commander in such a posture. It was really strange. He was also afraid of the troops.

Commander who hit you too hard!

On the battlefield in eastern Outer Mongolia, the nine brigades of the East Point Force, under the command of deputy division commander and commander Lieutenant General Liu Tiehan, fought hard against the Soviet troops who were eager to retreat. The fight was in darkness. Hagen Gol in northern Outer Mongolia,

On the Baiyinchagan battlefield, a big battle was also going on in full swing.

At around seven o'clock in the morning on September 29, the atmosphere in the Outer Mongolia Campaign Headquarters seemed very calm. The staff officers were busy with their own affairs. The troops of the Soviet Transcaucasus Military District in the encirclement circle continued to gather together. There was no trace of anything.

In an attempt to break out of the encirclement, the brigades directly under the corps did not receive orders from the division headquarters for a general attack. The battlefield seemed a bit dull. Only the Soviet troops in the encirclement knew their suffering.

The artillery of the Independent Division worked tirelessly from dusk to dawn, pouring thousands of large-caliber grenades on the position. The Soviet soldiers were already numb. When they saw the body of their comrade, who was still alive just now, with an explosion

, a ball of fire and gunpowder smoke rose up, and immediately became torn into pieces, with flesh and blood flying everywhere, and they no longer felt fear in their hearts. They knew very well that maybe in the next moment, they would become a fragmented corpse like their companions.

Division Commander Tang Qiuli, holding a cigarette in his left hand, was reading a telegram. The telegram was sent by Major General Yang Ketian, Chief of Staff of the East Point, who was commanding three brigades heading to the south bank of the Selenge River. "Division Commander, the progress of our division is

All goes well. According to the current marching speed, we can reach the south bank of the Selenge River and set up defenses before ten o'clock on the night of September 30th, completing the task assigned by the division commander to block the Soviet army's retreat."

"In view of the fact that the division commander mentioned in the enemy situation report that a division of Soviet troops had moved south from Ulanwood and Irkutsk, and seemed to be trying to compete with me for the Selenga River crossing, I have already dispatched two units.

The troops of the reinforced regiment formed a fast column and advanced lightly. They arrived at the north bank of the Selenge River ahead of the main force and built a position. At the same time, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade was ordered to strengthen the troops and look for opportunities to slow down the speed of the Soviet army moving south."

Tang Qiuli smiled slightly and thought to himself: "Yang Ketian is good. He knows how to adapt. Two reinforced regiments plus Zeng Shiqiang's cavalry brigade are enough to deal with a second-rate Soviet military division. No matter what Stalin's intentions are, this Soviet military division will never be defeated."

You can’t even reach the Selenge River!”

Putting down the telegram from Yang Ketian, he picked up the telegram from the cavalry commander Liu Chun and the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade Tong Batu. Before he could read it, the chief of staff Zhao Yuhe hurried in and said: "Division Commander, Commander of the Aviation Corps."

The call came in and the ground radar station reported that Soviet aircraft were dispatched, and they were still a large fleet!"

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