Eryi Gong roared, and the snow only stopped, but when the sky was overcast with lead ash, there would be another blizzard?

The snowfall of the past few days has made the snow on the ground almost half a person high, although it is not conducive to transporting supplies, but now it is by the Angara River. Thousands of soldiers were still struggling to pull the homemade sleds. All the munitions and supplies that were transferred from the ships to the "Angara" station were transferred to the "Angara" station, so that enough supplies could be stored for the winter.

As the supreme field commander of the "Angara Station", Liu Fuji is now standing on the bank of the Angara River, supervising the soldiers to transfer supplies, whether it is Chinese soldiers or Russian soldiers, they are all working hard under his supervision, and no one dares to be lazy, because they know very well that once they are lazy, they may be severely punished, and the punishment means is to go to the forest to work night shifts and monitor the Bolshevik troops in the north. But no one wants to stay in the forest all night in these temperatures.

In order to transport these supplies, Liu Fuji mobilized a full 2,000 troops, almost half of the total strength of the "Angara Station", as for the "Angara Station", only 500 people remained in the barracks, and the rest were busy in the forest preparing firewood for the winter, in order to survive in Siberia in this harsh winter. You have to be diligent, in this kind of "ice and snow purgatory". The lazy are not able to live to see the spring, but as a group. There's no room for any lazy guys here.

Standing on the hill, Liu Fuji held a telescope, overlooking the river valley, which had been frozen, and the fleet was frozen on the river, and the soldiers had to carefully dig a channel in the ice and use small boats to transfer military supplies.

Liu Fuji looked over the valley and pondered about the troops' winter, and according to the staff's preliminary calculations, the fleet, which arrived here before dark yesterday, had transported enough food and ammunition for the troops to use for two months, if we added the supplies that had been stored in the barracks. Then the "Angara station" can barely support until the spring of the next year, and this is under the premise of not having to fight. If I live a fight. Then at least some more ammunition should be replenished.

The staff officers suggested that the rear bases be asked to drop some ammunition from aircraft to the "Angara station". Liu Fuji also agreed with this catty, and proposed that since the center has now used Kyakhta as the general logistics base of the tsarist government, then the air base there has prepared some transport planes, and by using those transport planes, with the help of the field airfield on the way, it may be possible to provide some supplies for the "Angara, the station." Although it is a drop in the bucket. But it's better than nothing at all.

Besides. Liu Fuji also decided. In the next few days, soldiers were organized to go hunting in the depths of the forest, and fish in the river, stocking up on more meat food. After all, the temperature here is getting colder and colder. In this low temperature environment. People have a high need for calories. Meat can obviously provide enough calories for the human body to withstand the bone-chilling cold. And to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops. Stabilize the mood of the soldiers.

Liu Fuji turned the lens of the telescope and looked to the north, where a small river was crossed, where the Russian Bolshevik troops were stationed, and like the "Angara Station", it was now defended by wooden fortresses, and the soldiers would also spend the winter in those wooden forts, and like the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army, since the snow stopped last night, the Bolshevik soldiers were busy replenishing firewood from the forest, and everyone knew that they would face an exceptionally cold winter. In addition to the fact that the climate is their enemy, the threat of the enemy army is always on everyone's sidelines.

It snowed the other day. It was not conducive to the attack, but now that the snow had stopped, no one dared to guarantee that the enemy would not attack.

Liu Fuji really has no offensive plan. His task was to defend the "Angara Station" and prevent the enemy from advancing southward, but what the enemy was planning on the north bank of the small tributary of the Angara River, Liu Fuji did not know what to do, and after the snow stopped last night, he had sent scouts to the north to reconnoiter the enemy's movements, but so far. The scouts had not yet sent back the news, and Liu Fuji had to be careful and set up several forward positions on the south bank of the small river. Provide front-line alert for the base camp.

Considering that the ground was piled up with almost half-human depth. Liu Fuji believes that although the possibility of the enemy taking the initiative to attack exists, this possibility is indeed not very large, after all, walking in the deep snow is already very physically exhausting, and he has a deep understanding of this, the "Angara Station" stronghold is only a few hundred meters away from the river bank, but in order to complete this distance, the soldiers have to trek for nearly half an hour.

The transhipment of supplies along the Angara River, which began this morning, is now nearly noon, and only a small half of the supplies have been transported, and the rest is expected to be fully transferred before dark. Now Liu Fuji's greatest fear is that the Bolshevik troops will suddenly attack and interrupt the transfer of supplies. In that case, the rest of the supplies may have to wait until tomorrow to be transported, but looking at the weather conditions, no one knows if it will snow tomorrow, and once it snows, the transfer of materials will only be more difficult, and the soldiers will complain more.

After all, most of the soldiers of the Far Eastern Legion are not fighting for faith or conviction, they are here for money, and the Far Eastern Legion is an international mercenary group, in the eyes of this armed group, money is paramount, and it is not easy to follow the commander to such a remote place to garrison, if the commander wants the soldiers to attack in the snowy weather. Whether it's transporting supplies or attacking enemy barracks, this can provoke anger among soldiers.

This is also another reason why Liu Fuji did not formulate an offensive plan, he did not want to take risks in the winter, when he was studying at the Army University, he had been clearly told that in the case of a harsh environment, the best tactical choice for the commander is not to attack, but to defend, unless the ammunition is exhausted, otherwise, it will be the best tactic to huddle in a strong fortification and wait for reinforcements.

Liu Fuji kept this principle firmly in mind, and when he fought a war on the Korean Peninsula in those years, he had a deep understanding of this tactical principle, and he planned to apply this tactical principle at the "Angara Station."

Just when Liu Fuji was pondering how he would defend if the enemy attacked, he suddenly heard gunfire from the north, rifles, machine guns, and even mortars.

"It's the front of the north! The battle over there has begun! ”

A staff officer stood behind Liu Fuji. Pointing to the north, all the officers looked north, but the visibility was not good, and they could not see anything clearly. Only gunfire could be heard.

"Herald! Stop transferring supplies, and all soldiers immediately return to their positions and prepare for battle! ”

Liu Fuji was not ambiguous, and immediately issued the battle order, and at the same time was very surprised that the Bolshevik troops really took advantage of the snow stop to take the initiative to attack, which was simply contempt for the defense capability of the "Angara Station".

Amid the bombardment of field artillery, Liu Fuji led his staff officers to retreat down the hill and retreat to the stronghold of the "Angara Station." It took almost half an hour to rush back to the command post, and then he learned accurate information from the front line.

The attacking Bolshevik troops, numbering about 5,000 men, in two groups, attacked from the lower and upper reaches of the small tributary of the Angara, with small boats and artillery, were clearly not a feint, but a general offensive.

No one knows what the Bolshevik commander really thought that he wanted to launch a general offensive in such traffic conditions, and if nothing else, the movement of those artillery troops would probably be a great difficulty. The snow is half a man deep, and even the war horses will be trapped, let alone the soldiers walking in the ice and snow.

Now there are more than 2,000 people defending the stronghold, and those troops who went to the forest to collect firewood were far away. It may not be possible to return in time before the enemy troops arrive at the "Angara station", therefore. The defensive plan drawn up by Liu Fuji and his staff officers was based on a force of 2,000 men, taking into account that the enemy was coming from the north. Then, the key defensive area is in the northern position.

The "Sugara Station" is a military camp made of a wooden fort. Built on a high ground, the terrain is high enough to control the nearby wilderness, and the barracks are surrounded by a wooden wall with bunkers and shooting holes at the foot of the wooden wall, which is more than enough to deal with the infantry who lack heavy firepower, although it cannot withstand heavy artillery bombardment.

Considering that the enemy's artillery was far behind the infantry in front, Liu Fuji specially sent a unit to monitor the flank of the barracks and lurk in the forest, and at the same time dispersed his artillery on the high ground, and conducted a fire test fire before the enemy arrived, and determined the coordinates of the shelling.

After the arrangement was made, all that remained was to wait for the enemy to come, which lasted several hours, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, the attacking troops approached the "Angara station" at the same time. The army sent by Liu Fuji to the forest for logging also rushed back, and both sides approached the fort almost simultaneously, so that the first place to start the battle was not the open area in front of the wooden wall, but the hilly area near the forest.

After a long journey, the attacking Bolshevik troops were exhausted, and they wanted to rush to the hilly area to rest for a while, but they did not expect to suddenly encounter the enemy here, and at the same time, the artillery in the direction of the fortress also opened fire, and under the fire from both sides, the Bolshevik troops who had rushed to the hilly area first were quickly repulsed and retreated to the rear guard, while defending on the spot. While waiting for the artillery units to arrive, they were also subjected to artillery fire from the "Angara station".

Standing on a watchtower of the "Angara Station", Liu Fuji had a full view of the situation on the battlefield, and he admired the tenacious will to fight of the Bolshevik troops very much, but at the same time, he also thought that the commander of the other side was a straw bag, knowing that his side was at an absolute disadvantage, but still held on, which was simply murdering his own soldiers, but considering the actual situation of the current Russian Bolshevik troops, it seems that it is not difficult to understand this battlefield situation. Many of the commanders of the Bolshevik units are actually officers of the former tsarist army, but they have changed their titles, and they used to be called "officers" and now they are called "commanders", although the titles have changed, but since the quality is still that quality, it is not surprising that they will continue to use the rigid and outdated command principles in the Tsarist Russian army in those years.

According to the analysis of the intelligence transferred from Kyakhta, Liu Fuji knew that the current Russian Soviet power was forming a new armed force, which was said to be quite strong in combat, but the enemy unit in front of him did not seem to have undergone similar transformations, which can be seen from the rigid and conservative tactics.

The battle lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon, when it was almost dark, the Bolshevik troops were gradually unable to hold up, and the artillery units never arrived on the battlefield to support, in which case the commander of the attacking side finally decided to face reality, declared a ceasefire, and at the same time raised a white flag and sent men to surrender to the commander of the Far Eastern Army defending the "Angara station".

Faced with this sudden surrender, Liu Fuji was a little incredulous for a while, and asked. It was only from the mouth of the officer who approached the surrender that the Bolshevik troops had chosen to attack today not only because there was no snow today, but also because they were running out of supplies in their barracks, and since thousands of reinforcements arrived, the shortage of supplies in the barracks was very serious. Food, in particular, can only last a few more days. So, the commander decided to take the risk of attacking. If the "Angara station" is taken, it will spend the winter here. And wait for reinforcements. But did not expect the attack to be thwarted, and the Supreme Commander was also killed by shells during the battle, therefore. The rest of the people decided to surrender to the defenders in exchange for a chance to live, otherwise, even if they could escape back to the barracks alive, they were afraid that they would starve to death in this icy Siberia.

Liu Fuji hesitated for a moment, but finally accepted the surrender of this enemy force, and after disarming them, he specially designated an area near the southwest corner for them in the barracks, and at the same time sent a telegram to the rear to inform them of the situation here. It is necessary to provide more logistical supplies as soon as possible, or to send people to bring the captives to the port of Baikal, after all, there is not enough supplies here.

What Liu Fuji didn't know was that at the same time as he won this victory, he was on the entire Siberian front. Many officers of the Far Eastern Corps, like him, achieved similar victories for the simple reason that they achieved. Because the Trans-Siberian railway line was being heavily bombed and transportation was not smooth, the logistical line of the Bolshevik troops in Soviet Russia was basically cut off, and in this situation, the Bolshevik troops fighting deep in the Siberian region could no longer hold on to the battle, and either retreated or surrendered.

Although the Soviet government in Petrograd insisted that the bombers that were bombing the Trans-Siberian Railway were bombers of the Chinese Air Force, most likely from field airfields close to Central Asia, the Chinese central government vehemently denied this, and at the same time. However, the two governments have launched a new round of negotiations on the redemarcation of the north-western border.

The fact is that as long as the Soviet Russian side does not budge, then. Bombers taking off from Xinjiang will continue to carry out strategic bombing of the Trans-Siberian Railway.