Age of Conquest Reborn

Liu Hongzhang's tone contained a meaning of discussion, but also an unquestionable order. The commander of the guard battalion, who had only been with him for a short time, did not understand his temper. He did not blame his predecessor too much.

The commander of the guard battalion was transferred to the fourth regiment as chief of staff. If that kid was still here, his eyes would light up when he heard this, and he would be gearing up, hoping to catch a battle or something.

The commander of the guard battalion hesitated for a moment, and it would not work if he stopped him. The chief of staff personally gave the order to the guard battalion. Just then, the chief of staff Liu Chenglin came back after conveying the order. The guard battalion commander hurried over and whispered to the brigade just now.

I repeated the long story, and at the end, I looked at Liu Chenglin in embarrassment.

Liu Chenglin was happy and said: "Then follow the brigade commander's order. By the way, send more soldiers and a few armored command vehicles to follow. If you feel danger, you can force the brigade commander to the armored command vehicle.

, if the brigade commander is blamed, you come to me!"

After receiving the instructions from the chief of staff, the guard battalion commander looked relaxed and went to prepare happily. Liu Chenglin knew the brigade commander's temper too well. The battle had already begun. It would be better for him to stay in the armored command vehicle.

If you kill him, you can't stop him. If you forcefully stop him, he will curse!

Under the protection of two companies of soldiers and several armored command vehicles, Liu Hongzhang climbed to a highland about seven or eight kilometers away from the brigade's temporary headquarters. The altitude of the highland is not high, but the location is very good.

On the high ground, you can have a panoramic view of the battlefield.

On the twilight grassland, the explosion point caused by the artillery shell exploded into a ball of fire. The bullet dragged a dark red trajectory and flew chaotically in the night sky. A huge roar came towards the face. How did Wu Luan look at it?

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It was a messy night battle scene, but in Liu Hongzhang's mind, it was as clear as a three-dimensional picture. The first regiment and the fourth regiment, side by side, were attacking the two Soviet divisions that were half disabled.

Launch a ferocious attack.

The second and third regiments, after breaking through the weakly defended flanks of the Soviet army, were like two sharp knives, piercing into the marching queue of the main Soviet army. Fierce fighting was taking place everywhere within a radius of dozens of kilometers.

, the gunfire was as dense as a summer rainstorm pounding leaves. In one area, red smoke flashed from time to time. It was our own large-caliber howitzer regiment, which was violently shelling the Soviet positions.

Liu Hongzhang turned his telescope to look farther to the right. On the deserted wilderness, strings of car lights formed a strip of light, twisting and twisting, running toward the Ural Mountains. They were retreating at full speed.

The distance to where the main force of the Soviet army is located is increasing.

The battlefield of the battle was only more than 20 kilometers away. However, the light belt had no intention of turning towards the battlefield and kept flowing forward. The situation on the battlefield was as Tang Qiuli and Liu Hongzhang had judged. The main force of the Soviet army

The troops never want to get entangled with the pursuing reading force troops.

There was a sarcastic smile on the corner of Liu Hongzhang's mouth, "That Vasilevsky, facing this situation, must be exhausted. The five brigades of pursuit troops are tearing apart the Soviet army every day.

A few pieces of meat, but what can he do? The division commander only used five brigades of troops directly under the corps to pursue the retreating Soviet army of more than one million people. This move is really wonderful!" He observed the battlefield situation,

At the same time, he secretly praised in his heart.

At this moment, General Vasilevsky, the commander of the Soviet Outer Mongolia Front, who was commanding the troops to retreat towards the Ural Mountains as quickly as possible, felt extremely fed up. To use a vivid metaphor, it felt like there was a mouthful of phlegm in his throat.

, even if he coughed violently, he couldn't spit it out, and he couldn't swallow it. The force-reading division unit that chased the troops of the Outer Mongolia Front for days and nights was the phlegm in General Vasilevsky's throat.

Based on the reports of various units under attack, General Vasilevsky and the front army's chief of staff, Lieutenant General Bozhenev, came to a unanimous conclusion that the number of reading division troops pursuing them was, at best, five divisions with less than 90,000 men.

The troops were divided into five groups, and they followed the troops in a stalking manner, like a mad dog, chasing and biting them all the way. It was not just General Vasilevsky who was extremely upset.

The Soviet commanders at all levels of the Outer Mongolia Front were extremely annoyed, especially the reading division unit on the left wing. It went too far. It cut into the depths of the retreating troops out of desperation, biting the two divisions and beating them hard.

, General Vasilevsky received the report and was so angry that he was even happy.

According to common sense, for the Outer Mongolia Front Army, which has more than one million troops, the force of reading divisions is not a threat at all. Sending out a group army unit at will can drive the Chinese people everywhere. If

Before the launch of the attack on Seinshanda, General Vasilevsky would have ordered his troops to devour tens of thousands of Chinese troops without hesitation, without even burping.

But now and then, the situation has changed. The only task of the Outer Mongolia Front Army now is not to eliminate the troops of the readers, but to rush to the European battlefield as quickly as possible. Just this afternoon, Vasilevs

General Ji received another urgent telegram from Comrade Stalin. Six or seven days have passed since the evacuation of Seyinshanda battlefield in the mountains. He himself cannot remember clearly. This is the first telegram from the leader himself.

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The content of the telegram made General Vasilevsky anxious and helpless. Stalin emphasized in the telegram, "The speed of the withdrawal of the troops of the Outer Mongolia Front has disappointed him. For more than a week, they are still wandering in the Outer Mongolia area. At this speed,

It may take several months to feel the European battlefield, but the situation of the European battlefield does not allow the Outer Mongolia Front to withdraw so slowly!"

General Vasilevsky felt very aggrieved and aggrieved. He had tried his best to get the Outer Mongolia Front Army to leave the battlefield as soon as possible. To this end, he racked his brains and tried his best, even at the cost of losing soldiers to protect his carriages.

made a cruel but necessary decision,

On the northern battlefield of Saiyin Shanda, the 37th Army was left behind by that hateful and cunning Chinese Tang Qiuli. Around Kulun, the 35th Army was left behind, with nearly 300,000 people in both armies.

The big bait is to keep the readers' troops busy fighting with the two

Two group armies were engaged in battle, but they did not bother to pursue and entangle the main force of the retreating front army. They said that the 37th Group Army was covering the retreat of the main force, while the 35th Group Army stayed behind in Kulun, waiting for a comeback. But I knew in my heart that the two group armies were not

Possibility of survival.

So what if the 1.5 million-strong Outer Mongolian Front Army had been rampaging through Outer Mongolia for nearly a month? It didn't hurt Tang Qiuli's hair. It didn't matter whether a strong man cut off his wrist or lost a soldier to save a chariot. This cruel decision was

What must be done, Vasilevsky knew very well in his heart. Without giving the Chinese Tang Qiuli some sweetness, he would not be able to leave the land of Outer Mongolia as soon as possible.

Including the previous group army that was deployed outside Minusinsk, the Outer Mongolia Front Army has deployed three army groups. Although huge sacrifices were made, the development of the battlefield situation was not satisfactory.

, Putting aside the pursuit force of the readers who were stalking like crazy dogs, all the roads leading from Outer Mongolia to the Ural Mountains left General Vasilevsky helpless and helpless.

All the bridges on the main rivers, without exception, were bombed to the point where no bridge piers were left, and the key areas of all roads were completely destroyed. The Outer Mongolian Front Army adopted a mechanized marching method.

, leave the roads and bridges, and let the soldiers walk back to the European battlefield on their feet?

I'm afraid it will take more than half a year, but can Comrade Stalin afford to wait? There is no good news in the war situation report from the General Staff Headquarters. The situation in the Soviet Union is not optimistic. The German army is invincible in the Soviet Union and is advancing at a fast pace.

It was astonishing that, as if they were in an uninhabited country, the Soviet Red Army's troops in Europe were beaten to a pulp. In just twenty days after the war began, the troops in various military districts in the west were almost completely defeated in the face of the German attack.

After the fall of Kiev, the Soviet Red Army had lost more than 1.7 million troops in the western battlefield. Among them, as many as 800,000 were captured by the Germans. Seeing this number, Vasilevs

General Ji, you can't believe that an army larger than one of his own fronts was gone in just twenty days?

Of course, in a similar situation, the general staff's battle situation, according to Comrade Stalin's order, was only communicated to the level of the commander of the front army, and even the chief of staff of the front army was not allowed to know. In other words, in the eastern region, only four people knew about the current situation.

In a bad battle situation, in addition to himself, there are also General Zhukov, the commander and political commissar of the Far Eastern Front, General Kilganin, the commander and political commissar of the Transkhinggan Mountains Front, and General Gregaliev, the commander and political commissar of the Baikal Front.

What shocked Vasilevsky even more was that the war situation report from the General Staff also mentioned a situation in particular. Comrade Stalin was very annoyed by the unfavorable combat situation in several western military regions. In order to stop the wave of defeats, he took

Severe measures were taken and mass killings were carried out.

On April 23, an order was issued to form a Supreme Military Tribunal, which included the Commander of the Northwest Military Region, General Pavlov, the Chief of Staff of the Northwest Military Region, Major General Klimovsky, and the Director of Communications of the Northwest Military Region, Major General Grigoryav.

, Lieutenant General Korobkov, commander of the Fourth Army, and four others were sentenced to death in court and executed immediately.

As for the charges, of course they were related to the unfavorable battle and the collapse of the Soviet Red Army. "Afraid of death, commanding the battle incorrectly, panicking in the face of the German attack, mishandling, resulting in heavy losses to the troops of the Northwest Military Region!" These charges, no matter what,

One sentence is enough to be shot.

((To be continued.)