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If anyone faces the wind head-on, not only will they not be able to open their eyes, but they will also find it difficult to breathe.

In a gently undulating hilly area, with visibility of only three or four hundred meters, a vanguard brigade of the Russian army (with an additional regiment of militia) was surrounded by the Wehrmacht in a very short period of time with a mixed brigade, a regular cavalry regiment, and two or three thousand vassal cavalry, the latter of which had an absolute superiority in strength with nearly 20,000 infantry cavalry.

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The time has come to April of the sixteenth year of Chengtian.

The West Siberian plain has just been blown by the warm winds of early spring. The Wehrmacht offensive really began. And at the beginning, while besieging the fortress cities, he mobilized troops and took the initiative to find the mobile forces of the Russian army for a decisive battle.

The battlefield was in the middle reaches of the Kama River, a tributary of the Volga River on the western slope of the Urals. It is also more than a hundred miles southeast of Izhevsk.

It was a contest of equal forces. After besieging the fortress cities, there were many cavalry units left behind to guard the rear road, and the total strength of the Wehrmacht was only about 30,000 men, including four or five thousand vassal cavalry.

As for the vanguard brigade of the Russian army surrounded and the 20,000 foot cavalry of the Wehrmacht, this is all a strategy.

The strategy of the Russians was to attract the large Chinese forces with small forces, exhaust their energy, frustrate their fighting spirit, and then the decisive battle came. And the Wehrmacht is the main force that first crippled part of the Russian army, and the mobile forces of the Russian army had to come to the rescue. Then come the final showdown between the two sides!

Each other knows the tricks.

And before the two troops appeared on the banks of the Kama River, they had already circled hundreds of miles in the tail of winter, and it took half a month.

This also made it clear to both sides the 'fact' that this was a fair contest and that there would be no reinforcements from either side in the short term.

It can also be said that both sides are a tired army.

And Rumyantsev, who had been avoiding the Wehrmacht without fighting, suddenly became tough, why? That's a rare opportunity.

The Chinese also know that when their own troops are strong, Rumyantsev will not come to fight hard, and only when the strength of the two sides is drawn closer to a considerable level can Rumyantsev be moved. And that's exactly what happened!

The pressure on Rumyantsev is also great. From the beginning of the war to the present, he has lost all the way. The reputation he had accumulated in the past wars was almost ruined, and he also wanted to win a decisive battle as soon as possible to boost the morale of the Russian army and make his reputation in St. Petersburg a little better.

Moreover, the wars of the rocket age have fully demonstrated the longevity of each other in the past time. For the encircled Russian fortresses, the importance of mobile forces outside is undoubted. And for the Wehrmacht encircling the Russian fortress, blocking the mobile forces of the Russian army on the periphery of the encirclement is also a top priority.

There are many internal and external factors for this.

So, Rumyantsev came.

"Your Excellency, General, did you immediately send a signal for help to the main force?" The 'sloppy' adjutant has forgotten to maintain his noble image as an officer, and his brand-new military uniform has been covered with loess, and he is already sloppy.

As he spoke, the corners of his eyes kept looking around, because the position of the major general was too close to the battle line, and the shouts of the Russian soldiers on the position could be clearly heard here.

Under the cover of this gale, the Wehrmacht quickly closed and filled the junction! The Russian army fell into a relatively large passivity at the beginning, and the visibility of the field of vision was too low, which shrank the police line in the real sense by more than half, and the whole battle seemed to fall into the encirclement at the beginning, with the Wehrmacht on all sides, and there were small-scale firefights on the front and flanks, almost all of which were pressed and beaten by the Wehrmacht!

"Be cautious and vigilant. If you encounter a large army of the enemy, immediately defend and build fortifications on the spot! "This is an early instruction from Rumyantsev to the vanguard brigade.

There is no distinction between superior and inferior strategies between the two sides, and who wins and who loses depends on the execution of the two armies. No matter how good the strategy is, if it falls on an army that moves slowly, the result will only be to miss the fighter in vain.

The strategy between China and Russia is already very clear, and the gap now lies in the strength of the implementation of the bilateral military, which at that time was high and low.

The relatively strong cavalry units of the Wehrmacht are still hovering around, and if at this time the Russian army is opened a gap, and then the Wehrmacht cavalry takes advantage of the opportunity, it will definitely be a disaster! On the contrary, if the Russian army can stabilize its position, if the cavalry units of the Wehrmacht dare to charge on a large scale, what awaits them will be an absolutely devastating blow!

Twenty minutes later, Poltavchenko's temporary command was set up. Under a huge yellow canvas, in a headquarters where most of the 'volume' was hidden beneath the surface, Poltavchenko and other vanguard brigade commanders lay dirty on a map, studying the nearby terrain!

Again, this is the advantage that the Russians have over the Chinese.

To a certain extent, it can also counteract the 'proximity' of the Wehrmacht.

"Report! Your Excellency, General! A Russian staff officer saluted and said loudly: "The troops of the Oganye and Popov regiments have exchanged fire with the Chinese, and the rocket launches of the Chinese army are very dense and scattered. In addition, they also have a lot of chasseurs, and many rocketeers have been shot and killed in our army. ”

Poltavchenko turned his head to look at the staff officer, looked at the staff officers and guards of the command headquarters out of the corner of his eye, and couldn't help but glare at them viciously with his eyes, because he saw fear and worry in the tone of the staff officer and the expressions of the people around him.

But what is there really to worry about in the Vanguard?

Yes, the Chinese have much more troops than the vanguard brigades. But before the rockets in the hands of the vanguard brigade were consumed, no amount of troops from the Chinese dared to storm the vanguard brigade.

What is there to worry about today's vanguards? There were six or seven thousand of them. There are 2,000 rockets carried by the army, and if you save a little, you can last three or five days.

It's just that Poltavchenko, who 'knows himself and knows the other' on both sides, and is all clear, is still very surprised by the enthusiasm of the Wehrmacht.

Both of their troops have been walking around in circles for half a month, and they are all tired from top to bottom, and each other's main forces are infantry rather than cavalry, why are the Chinese so powerful today?

The sound of a stormy 'whine' was thrilling even though Poltavchenko was used to hearing the whistling. The earth below him trembled slightly, and the sky seemed to dim all of a sudden, and countless smoke and dust rose into the sky, as if the sky was falling apart. The rockets flying in the sky are like fireworks in a festival, and the brilliant flames cross the sky.

The earth-shattering explosion sounded, and countless pillars of black and red fire burst into the sky. In this day and age, this kind of bug-like weapon is indeed not a force that human beings can resist!

The 'yellow' winds were 'polluted' by the black smoke. The clouds in the sky seemed to fall a thousand feet at once, and they were next to the heads of countless people. The black smoke and dust fog made it impossible to see the situation 200 meters away.

And this also gives a special force the opportunity to move easily.

No one will take a precious rocket to play carpet bombing, although the cost of a single rocket is not high, but people are in demand. In this day and age, only snipers can deal with snipers. But the Russian hunters are like amateurs and professionals compared to Chinese snipers.

Now Poltavchenko is no longer signaling for help, and it is impossible for the follow-up troops of the Russian army to see it.

An hour later, the main forces of the two divisions of the follow-up Russian army arrived and tried to get closer to the besieged Russian army, even if both sides knew each other's plans, some small tricks should still be used. The main forces of the Russian army, two versts from the Poltavchenko brigade, were 'deadly' stopped by a regiment of the Wehrmacht.

Between the two units of the Russian army, it is really a 'chicken and dog smell'. A little more than two versts? Two kilometers more than a little bit. It can almost be said that this blocking regiment was connected with the main force of the Wehrmacht encircling the vanguard brigade. The main forces of the Russian army just want to play anti-encirclement / anti-division, that is impossible.

The main forces of the follow-up Russian army all arrived a day after the first shot was fired in the battle.

Compared with the positions of the Russian vanguard brigades in the encirclement, the intensity of the fighting in the blocking positions can be described as very low. Both sides rarely took out rockets as a weapon of mass destruction, and more often used small artillery to bombard the army.

The number of guns on both sides was not large, and the muzzle caliber was generally small. This will be put in a hundred years, how many dozens of cannons, the bombardment is still a bit interesting, but now? Seventy or eighty percent of the shells hit solid shells. The scene was very lively, but it couldn't kill a few people at all.

The real battle appeared two days later, and the main force of the Wehrmacht, which had been inked for three days, felt that it had consumed a lot of rockets in the vanguard of the Russian army, so it decided to fight a dozen and give it a try. They first concentrated their firepower - rockets and artillery bombarded the Russian army for half an hour, and then a group of elite Wehrmacht soldiers, holding bayonets and pulling scattered queues, frantically pounced on the Russian positions!

In front of the Russian position, rockets exploded like firecrackers. The shouts of killing were accompanied by artillery fire and gunfire, and limbs, rain, blood, and mud flew into the air......

Half an hour later, the Wehrmacht stopped the onslaught, and the losses were very small, but the progress was still limited, and the confrontation with Poltavchenko continued.

But this confrontation did not last long, not an hour, and a wave of soldiers of the Japanese battalion with yellow homespun cloth covering their heads, which showed two eyes, quietly touched the positions of the Wehrmacht to the positions of the Russians.

Thanks to this strong wind, which had been blowing for four days and three nights, the Russians would not have waited until the Japanese battalion had advanced to a position of just over a hundred meters from them. Then the rockets rang out again as intensively as the firecrackers during the Chinese New Year.

During the day, the Wehrmacht launched five attacks on Russian positions. Then it got dark.

Wei Xiuzhi didn't know if it was for psychological reasons, or if he had really observed it with the naked eye, the clouds in the sky seemed to be thicker. The wind has been blowing for so long, and it hasn't gone away at all.

In the night, the Wehrmacht launched another attack on the positions of the vanguard battalion of the Russian army. And Rumyantsev is not a vegetarian, he judged from the density of attacks received by the vanguard battalion today that the Chinese are really ruthless against the vanguard battalion. Then the Russian army also began a fierce attack on the blocking forces of the Wehrmacht.

When fighting bloody battles on the battlefield, waves of Russian troops and Wehrmacht forces squeezed over from all directions like a tide, and then retreated! In the dark night, the Wehrmacht finally rushed to the position of the vanguard camp of the Russian army, and the Russians did not show weakness, and the soldiers on both sides carried rifles with bayonets to hedge!

The shock wave and counter-shock wave composed of the stragglers on both sides, every contact represents a brutal white-knuckle battle!

Poltavchenko's mood was heavy.

The Russian army now also wears cuirasses, which are pieced together from wooden blocks and leather. Many of the Russian soldiers in the vanguard brigade are equipped with this kind of wooden armor. But when fighting with the Chinese, it seems that the Russian army is still at a disadvantage.

It was an artillery position. There was only one artillery battery, a total of six small guns.

It was seized by a group of Chinese soldiers.

It was already dawn, and Poltavchenko, who was hiding in the tunnel, watched a brutal white-knuckle battle with his own eyes with his binoculars.

The artillery company belonged to the Ogansan regiment, which was the guard unit of Moscow and could be regarded as an elite of Rumyantsev's hands.

The artillery company was wiped out!

The soldiers fought very bravely with the Chinese who rushed to the position until the last moment. The Russian troops, who quickly went to reinforce with a battalion of troops, rushed to the position of the artillery company, although they could not change the outcome of the artillery company, they still quickly recaptured the six guns. The small group of Chinese troops that came in by surprise was less than a squad left, and was easily driven out of the artillery position by a counterattack by the Russian battalion.

But soon, the Chinese gathered a considerable number of troops to counterattack, and about two or three hundred Chinese soldiers rushed to the position and launched a fierce white-bladed battle with the Russian battalion that had just recaptured the artillery.

With a two-to-one comparison of troops, Poltavchenko thought that the Russian battalion would win easily!

But the end result was completely unexpected. The Russian battalion is twice as strong as the Chinese, and it is impossible to take Chinese soldiers! It's a white-knuckle battle. The Slavs were obviously much stronger than the Chinese, and the Russian army's ability to fight bayonets was also famous in Europe, but the battle ended with the rhythmic retreat of the Chinese soldiers, and the Russian army, which had the advantage in strength, did not even dare to pursue. Until now, Poltavchenko seemed to have the cold light of the Chinese bayonet flickering in front of his eyes.

Poltavchenko's mood was unprecedentedly heavy. Poltavchenko is still convinced that the victory belongs to Russia, and they will definitely have the last laugh, but they will pay a much heavier price than he previously expected!

The regimental headquarters of an offensive unit of the Wehrmacht, in a tunnel.

A battalion and a team have returned, and only 22 of the 88 people who made many meritorious contributions in the anti-Qing war, came back alive!

It was twenty-two bloody men, each drenched in blood from head to toe. As if they had just crawled out of a pool of blood, they would leave rows of bloody footprints on the ground wherever they passed, dripping from their bodies or clothes.

Drop by drop, drop by drop......

In the morning sun's rays, the blood stains reflected a palpitating bright red.

The battalion officer who led the team limped to the front of the queue, his expression was hard and his eyes were determined.

He had a bayonet cut open on his arm and a thigh that was deep into his bones. There was also a large hole in the cheek, and the flesh that opened was like an open fish's mouth, ugly and hideous. The head is like a blood gourd, and the whole face is covered with blood, some of which are his own, and more of which are the enemy's. In this battle at dawn, he stabbed seventeen old hairy people to death!

The whole team suffered heavy losses, and the officers of the team died on the battlefield, as the leading battalion officer, the reason why he did not die was not because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, but because of his high force.

Yang Yuchun didn't know if he had a chance to go to the battlefield again, he was very badly injured, and it might be winter again after recovering from his injuries. But he felt that he had learned a good job, and the next time he fought hand-to-hand combat, he really shouldn't have stepped forward with a bayonet, he should have carried a large blade.