Chapter 993: Resistance Battle
After the battle began, the two newly established cavalry divisions that participated in the battle launched an attack as a brigade unit and were in the second line of the battlefield as a reserve for the main force. In order to penetrate as quickly as possible to the area of departure of the attack, the brigades of the newly created cavalry division left artillery and direct units in the rear and placed them with nomadic detachments.
In fact, they are similar to other units in the Far East, they have always been in charge of filling in the gaps in the second-line area, and they have not experienced particularly fierce battles. The troops of the field army, because they were all mounted infantry, even after the battle had been fought for a long time, they rushed to the front.
At the forefront were mainly the main Mongolian cavalry divisions and the indigenous cavalry divisions of the Outer Northeast, as well as a large number of reserve militia brigades. These guys are hilarious, and after the main Mongol force in Mobei was divided and surrounded, they became even more energetic. Especially the traditional nomads, the favorite thing to fight is to fight with the wind, chasing the buttocks of the various tribes of Mobei Mongolia and slashing them fiercely.
Even the young men of the nomadic detachment behind were killed, and they were even more ferocious, leaving no chickens and dogs wherever they passed. Many of the young and strong elites of the Mobei Mongolian tribes were transferred by the Zasaktu Khan, Tushetu Khan, and Chechen Khan, and the rest of the tribe were old and weak women and children, and the old people and children were slaughtered by them, and only the young women survived.
The theater command of the Northwest Field Army did not particularly emphasize battlefield discipline for this campaign, so the cavalry of the Mongolian Army and the Outer Northeast Indigenous Corps also let go of their hands and feet, and the entire Mobei was full of bloody storms.
Zhao Lianhe was riding on a horse, holding a compressed biscuit, quickly stuffing it into his mouth, and eating it dryly, not to mention how uncomfortable it was. Then drink a few sips of cold water to make your stomach burn.
After the battle began, he never dismounted. Although he didn't experience any major battles, the small battles never stopped, and he also swept away several tribes, and the results were quite a lot, but most of the killings were small groups of defeated troops and the old and weak in the tribes.
Suddenly, a hurried trumpet sounded again ahead. But this time is different.
"Attention, everyone, this is an emergency call number...... Gather...... Collection ......"
The platoon commander's loud voice came, and everyone became nervous. After a while, several heralds from the brigade headquarters also galloped over quickly, loudly conveying the orders of the brigade headquarters.
Zhao Lianhe's cavalry brigade, after several days of deep penetration, was located in the northwest of the Tushetu Khan Department. Several main cavalry divisions in front were too excited and killed a little too fiercely, and a hole appeared on the battlefield.
Because the battlefield area is too vast. At that time, the airship troops in this airspace also had negligence, so that the main force of an elite 10,000-strong force of the headquarters of the Tushetu Khan Department gathered many tribal cavalry from various departments and rushed out of this opening by mistake.
Fortunately, an airship spotted the enemy force in time and reported it to the theater command in time. Song Tao received the telegram and was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother. He and Chief of Staff Shang Ming came to the map, and the unit closest to this entrance was a brigade of the newly built cavalry division.
The two were relieved when they saw it. A brigade of the newly built cavalry division with extremely strong firepower. There are dozens of machine-gun carriages alone, and it should not be a big problem to stop the enemy. So he immediately sent a telegram to the cavalry brigade, telling the troops to stop the enemy at once. Reinforcements were ordered to be sent to the surrounding troops, and airships in the nearby airspace immediately rushed there for air support.
However, the airboat unit sent a telegram again, and it turned out that the 10,000-strong troops of the Tushetu Khan had gathered a large number of tribal cavalry and young and strong herdsmen from various tribes along the way. The number has reached tens of thousands.
This gave Song Tao a bit of a headache, after all, a brigade of the newly built cavalry division numbered nearly 5,000 people, and all the directly subordinate troops and artillery and other heavy weapons were left in the rear, and the officers and soldiers of the brigade were only in their early 4,000s. Heavy armament consisted of only forty "hitch guns" and a dozen 60-mm mortars.
How can people close to this point stop tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry, even if there are more "gun cards", if these tens of thousands of Mongolians are scattered, the cavalry brigade of thousands of people can only watch. There are not many airships in the nearby airspace, and there is only one airship above the battlefield at present, and it takes more than an hour to arrive at the nearest airship from here.
Relying on this bit of people and equipment, he can't stop it at all. Once tens of thousands of people are dispersed, they can scatter and flee in an instant, and after they escape, they will inevitably be reduced to zero, the grassland is so big, where to chase it. Moreover, there are a large number of nomadic detachments in the rear, and the young men of these detachments have been drawn a lot, in case of this rout, the losses will be great.
Therefore, Song Tao once again sent a telegram to the cavalry brigade to drag this Mongolian Tartar at all costs. The other units of the two newly established field divisions should also speed up their efforts to encircle this enemy. Moreover, he also mobilized the young and strong herdsmen of the rear nomadic detachment and formed several militia brigades to converge on the battlefield.
The airship unit even dispatched more than a dozen airships from the nearby airspace, and all of them rushed to the combat airspace at the fastest speed to provide all-round air support to the troops participating in the blockade.
However, the fastest reinforcements will not arrive until two hours later, which will put a lot of pressure on the cavalry brigade's blocking mission. Once these tens of thousands of Mongolian elites are allowed to escape, there will inevitably be endless troubles in the future.
Tens of thousands of Mongol troops broke out of the encirclement frantically, and they were all extremely excited. Fighting in the grassland area, there is basically no possibility of total annihilation.
As long as the opponent collapses, they will inevitably scatter and flee, and you just can't catch up if you want to.
The reason why the Northwest Field Army was able to divide and encircle the Mobei units was also because of the all-round support of the airboat troops, which kept abreast of the situation on the battlefield at high altitudes and adjusted the participating units of each corps at any time, which ensured that the ground troops could accurately carry out large-scale and long-distance interspersing and interspersing to the designated areas before the Mobei units reacted.
If there was no all-round air support from the airboat troops, fighting in such a vast grassland, no matter how many people the Far Eastern Army were, it would not be possible to completely annihilate the elite of the northern parts of the desert.
Even if the Far Eastern Army has hundreds of airships to provide all-round air support, it is still difficult to completely annihilate all units, and there are definitely not a few Mongolian tribal cavalry and herdsmen who have escaped from the encirclement.
But it's a bit of nonsense to break out of the encirclement with such a large group of enemies. The main force of the Mongol cavalry and the airboat troops on the ground had to bear a certain responsibility. But that's all something to discuss after the war, and the top priority now is to find a way to stop these tens of thousands of elite cavalry in Mobei. (To be continued.) )