Chapter 994

At this time, there was only one airship in the sky above the battlefield, and they had been monitoring the enemy protruding from the encirclement at a high altitude, and according to the real-time information transmitted by the airship, Song Tao, commander of the theater, and Shang Ming, chief of staff, gathered in front of the map after repeated discussions, and finally placed the blocking positions in two places on the south bank of the Aruhun River.

Thanks to several months of reconnaissance by the Intelligence Department and ground reconnaissance, the Theater Command learned that these two blocking positions, located between two mountain passes, are also the most suitable sections of the Aruhon River to cross, both of which have narrow banks and slower currents.

This is also the traditional crossing place of the various tribes of the Tushetu Khan, the two river crossing sites are relatively close to each other, and the cavalry of the brigade will choose to cross the river at the same time at these two ferries. According to the analysis of the route of the routed army of the Tushetu Khan army, they are rushing here.

If the defeated army of the Tushetu Khan wanted to break out of the encirclement, it had to cross the Aruhun River, which limited the time for them to move north after the rout, so that it was convenient for reinforcements and airboat units from the northern corps of the Far Eastern Army to reorganize the encirclement on the south bank of the Aruhun River.

After a day's galloping, the officers and men of the 6th Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division, which was in charge of the blocking mission, finally set up two blocking positions on the south bank of the Aruhun River before the arrival of the defeated army of Tushetu Khan.

The two blocking positions are more than 10 kilometers apart, and they are all arranged along the riverbank, the terrain is flat, and there is almost no danger to defend. And the north is bordered by the Aruhun River, which is also a backwater battle.

Because of the urgency of time, the officers and men of the two blocking positions could only build simple positions. In order to encircle the other troops in this Tushetu Khan army, they could only hold back the enemy as much as possible, so the troops could not expose their fire too early, lest they scatter in a hurry.

Once the other party is defeated, they will inevitably scatter and flee southward, and it will be difficult to encircle them again. Tens of thousands of people listened a lot. But as soon as it was sprinkled on the vast Mobei grassland, it disappeared in an instant. Even if the airship troops arrived, they would not be able to track down the defeated army of Tushetu Khan on the steppe.

Zhao Lianhe took a shovel and kept filling the bags in the hands of his comrades-in-arms with sand. The rout of Tushetu Khan's army was about to be killed, and the officers and men of the 6th Cavalry Brigade could only build a simple offensive in two blocking positions.

The officers and soldiers freed up a large number of bags and loaded them with sand to build a simple fortification one meter high. A dozen machine-gun wagons were evenly spaced on two blocking positions. And a certain camouflage was made.

As soon as the fortifications were more than half completed, there were bursts of horses' hooves in the distance, Zhao Lianhe felt the ground tremble, and the cadres and non-commissioned officers of the army began to shout loudly.

"The enemy has arrived, everyone is ready to fight......"

Zhao Lianhe lay on the back of the sandbag, holding a double-barreled shotgun and aiming at the mountain pass in the distance. Several war horses were the first to rush out of the mountain pass, and they restrained their war horses and looked coldly at the half-built blocking position.

These were several rangers of the defeated army of Tushetu Khan, who looked for a while at the blocking positions on the riverbank. Turning the horse's head and burrowing into the mountain pass, he disappeared in an instant.

After a while, a loud sound came, and countless Mongolian cavalry poured out from the mountain pass, constantly spreading out slowly in the flat place outside the mountain pass. There were more and more people, and at last the huge clearing in front of the pass was almost full.

In the face of countless Mongolian cavalry, the faces of Zhao Lianhe and the other recruits turned white with fright, even Zhao Lianhe, who had seen several battles with the Mongolian Tartars. I was also trembling with fright from the opposite position.

How many people are here, the Mongolian who used to go south to Ningxia Town to fight the grass valley broke down. At most, there are a few hundred, and as few as a dozen. There are 10,000 or 20,000 people like today.

"Everyone has to listen to the command for a while, and you can't shoot without an order. Choose a single head of live ammunition, and then fight when you get closer...... Hit ...... closer"

The heads of the various units kept repeating this order. The officers and men all replaced the bullets of the double-barreled hunting guns with two single-headed live ammunition. He also unscrewed the back cover of the grenade, and then looked nervously at the dense Mongolian cavalry in the distance.

Suddenly, there was a desolate sound of bullhorns from the opposite side. More than 1,000 cavalry of the Mongol tribes rushed out of the army formation and killed the blocking position.

Zhao Lianhe felt that his throat was dry, and his hands didn't obey the call. After a year of training, all kinds of tactical moves have long been ripe, but I don't know why, today's movements are all deformed, and even the aim is forgotten.

"It's a temptation...... This is temptation...... The first battalion is ready, each person will only fire one shot, and the next shot will be fired after the order......"

"Bang ......"

I don't know that the fighter, probably because of nervousness, pulled the trigger directly. Immediately afterwards, many people subconsciously followed and shot. The Mongol Tatars were still a few hundred meters from the blocking position.

A non-commissioned officer rushed up behind the soldier and kicked him down.

"Just what you owe it, who told you to shoot, paralyzed...... I'll see how I clean you up in a moment......"

He kicked a few times, and then shouted: "Be so energetic, if anyone doesn't listen to the command, Lao Tzu will kill him......"

At this time, the horses of more than 1,000 Mongolian Tartars had already rushed up and were frantically rushing towards the blocking position.

"Steady...... Hold ...... steady"

This time, no one dropped the chain, although everyone was nervous, but after a little fuss just now, their spirits were also relieved a lot.

"Putting ......"

With the shouts of several non-commissioned officers, hundreds of double-barreled hunting guns opened fire almost simultaneously, and the effective range of several hundred single-headed live ammunition could reach one hundred and twenty meters. But it may be that everyone acted stiffly, and the results of the first round of salvos were very dismal, and only more than 100 people were knocked off their horses.

"You're so blind...... I'll aim at it and hit ......."

"Bang...... Bang ......"

The effect of the second volley was much better, killing and wounding two or three hundred people in an instant.

The Mongol Tartars, possibly testing their firepower, fired an indiscriminate shot at the blocking position, and then turned their horses and retreated. Only a few dozen of the arrows they threw fell to the front of the position, and there were no casualties on the blocking position.

Zhao Lianhe watched the Tartar withdraw, and his heart became even more nervous. He knew that it was time for the Tartars to attack in a big way, and this time it would definitely not be the size of more than a thousand people.

The Tartars desperately broke out of the encirclement, and only by crossing the Aruhun River could they be regarded as truly breaking out of the encirclement. Therefore, they desperately have to occupy this ferry to cross the river, if they are trapped here and caught up by the Far Eastern Army behind, then they will definitely be dead.

I only heard a desolate horn sound again, but this time the horn was even more tragic, and listening to it made people feel very resentful.

The horse team of the Mongol Tartars on the opposite side moved, and saw thousands of cavalry begin to trot out of the ranks, and then slowly accelerated, faster and faster, and finally they were almost within the range of the shotguns.

Thousands of war horses pounced like a tide, and this kind of power made people tremble. Zhao Lianhe's pants were about to be scared to pee, that was thousands of Mongolian Tartar cavalry, when hundreds of Mongolian Tartars came to Ningxia Town, they all had to make the Shaanxi Trilateral Governor's Mansion like a great enemy. (To be continued.) )