The atmosphere at the headquarters of the army group in the north was very tense, and everyone was anxiously waiting for the situation of the various interspersed troops in the Far East. Although there are more than ten airships in the air to provide reconnaissance and alert, more than 100,000 cavalry troops are rolling westward, and if they are not careful, they will be discovered by the Chahar department.

If the Chahar Department had detected the strategic intentions of the Far East, the battle would have turned into a chaotic rout. The Mongols were very mobile, and as soon as they saw danger, they would immediately break up and flee westward. The nets that the northbound group army painstakingly laid out will leak wind everywhere, allowing the main force of Chahar to break out of the encirclement and flee back to the Xilin Gol grassland.

A short day passed, and it was already late at night, and on the airship where the headquarters of the North Group Army was located, except for the pilot who drove the airship, everyone else was looking for a place to sleep. But Li Ming didn't feel the slightest sleep, he hadn't closed his eyes for a day and a night, and he had been lying next to the sand table, quietly waiting for the news of the various interspersed troops on the front line.

Lin Hua walked over, handed Li Ming a cigarette, and said with a smile: "Commander, you go sleep for a while." If the news from the front comes back, I'll wake you up again. ”

Li Ming lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, and then said with a wry smile: "How can I still sleep at this time." It's okay, I'll get a good night's sleep when I'm done with this battle. ”

After he finished speaking, he sighed and said, "Since we launched the plan to go north, although there have been some changes in the shape of the battlefield, it has always been relatively smooth. I didn't expect to be bitten hard by the Chahar Department in the end, I am responsible as the commander! ”

Lin Hua shook his head and said: "Commander, the main responsibility lies with the General Staff, we did not take into account the threat in the direction of the Chahar Department when we made the plan, and let them take advantage of the loophole, and the main responsibility lies with me." ”

Li Ming said with a smile: "Now is not the time to talk about who is responsible, let's fight this battle first." The lesson this time is profound. When we formulated the battle plan, we still lacked a big picture and ignored the potential threat of the Chahar Division. There is also the combat of the troops, Yan zhòng relies on the support of the airship detachment, once it encounters extreme weather, the airship cannot be lifted into the air. We're going to be at a loss right away. I am ready to study with Lao Gao to strengthen the building of the ground reconnaissance unit of the army to avoid such a situation from happening again.

In this battle, I am still confident that the hundreds of thousands of elites of the Chahar Department will be left. Originally, I had been worried about whether our interspersed troops would be able to get to the predetermined location along the way, after all, if the 100,000-strong Chahar troops spread out, our actions really couldn't hide from them. However, according to the information sent back by the airship detachment, the Chahar Department is still not aware of the strategic intentions of our army, and they are now bound hand and foot by large herds of cattle and sheep and tribal women and children.

More than 100,000 elite cavalry were confined to the vicinity of the troops that moved westward for the booty, and the shape of the battlefield had changed. We are hunters now, and they have become prey. Once these hundreds of thousands of elites are eliminated, the Chahar Department will inevitably be empty, and we will not be polite, and directly send the elite main cavalry brigade to kill the Xilin Gol grassland, and go to the Chahar Department to scourge again. ”

Lin Hua laughed when he heard Li Ming's words, he knew that the commander was still haunted by the surprise attack of Chahar. The two chatted for most of the night. The first troops, interspersed in place, finally came with the news.

Followed by. One after another, news was transmitted back to the headquarters, and before dawn, all the Far Eastern cavalry units had arrived in the predetermined area and were ready to attack at any time. Because the troops were tired from the continuous march, Li Ming told everyone to rest for an hour, and all the troops launched an attack in the early morning.

Bargan slept soundly. Suddenly I was kicked and woke up. He rode for a day and a night, sleepy and hungry, and had just slept for an hour when he was woken up. He turned over and sat up and wanted to curse, but when he opened his eyes, he found that it was the brigade commander Zhao Guan standing in front of him.

"Call up your battalion. Let the warriors eat first, and then feed the horses with concentrate feed. It's about to attack......"

When Bagan heard this, he quickly got up from the ground, called several company platoon commanders in the battalion, and then asked them to wake up the soldiers. During the Chahar raid, although Bagan's militia battalion reacted quickly and retreated quickly, one of their battalions was blocked by the enemy and lost most of the Mongol militia. This also made Zhao Guan, Bagen and others hold back a fire in their hearts.

He took out a bag of concentrate feed from the horses, fed the horses separately, and then took out the dry food and ate it. After retreating to the forward base, they were re-supplied, and each cavalryman was given two boxes of canned whale meat and a few packets of compressed biscuits. Bargan quickly finished two boxes of canned whale meat, stuffed two more compressed biscuits into his mouth, and drank the cold boiled water from a half-military kettle.

Baghan, who was full of food and drink, stood up and patted his stomach, and then shouted to the militia in the battalion: "Brothers, hurry up and eat, you are about to attack." The brothers of the fourth battalion did not come back, and they all beat me hard when they attacked for a while, and we had to avenge them. ”

In the upper reaches of the Simlaren River, the barge of the brigade's inland steam deck slowly leaned against the shore, and the officers and men of the field division of the brigade jumped off the boats one after another. BTR-60 armored vehicles, UAZ-469 jeeps, UAZ-452 light off-road vehicles, KAMAZ military trucks and a large number of agricultural vehicles also drove off the ship.

The three brigades of the field division, all reinforced with an armored mobile squadron and a heavy artillery squadron. Together with the artillery battalion directly under the brigade, the firepower of the three brigades of the field division was extremely ferocious. The three brigades will land in the upper reaches of the Laoha River and the Xilamulun River, and then advance all the way to the west, and establish a series of blocking positions with battalions in the advantageous position on the road that the Chahar Department must pass back to the Xilin Gol grassland.

After Wang Haiyang's battalion landed, they marched all the way to the blocking point of their company and began to establish a defensive position. Each battalion of the field division was reinforced with three more water-cooled heavy machine guns and equipped with three 60-mm mortars.

In addition, an engineer platoon was equipped, a 500-meter barbed wire fence and snake cage fortifications were set up in front of the position, mines were laid, and more than a dozen powerful Russian-style MON50 directional mines were erected.

In this area, the field division has established more than 20 blocking positions at the battalion level. In the rear of the defense line of the field division, there were also more than a dozen artillery positions, equipped with more than 100 artillery pieces. and an improvised airfield was created, and six delta-wing aircraft were assembled to provide air support to the field division. Three armoured mobile squadrons were also deployed to the rear, ready to support at any time.

After a busy night, the defense line of the field division was finally established. Wang Haiyang wiped the sweat from his forehead, then sat down next to the machine-gun firing position, took out a cigarette from his pocket and smoked it.

Originally, he did not smoke or drink, but he was also influenced by his comrades-in-arms around him and became contaminated with such a vice. He took a few puffs of cigarettes, took a picture out of his jacket pocket, and looked at it with a smile.

The photo shows his family photo, he married a girl from Daming, and now his son is three years old. He watched the family of three sitting happily together, and his heart suddenly rose up with thoughts of his family.

He looked at it for a while, then put the picture back. At this time, the sky was already bright, Wang Haiyang quietly looked at the white belly of the fish on the distant horizon, and happily thought about his wife and son. (To be continued......)