On the Mongolian steppes. The war had entered the most dangerous time, and the Cossack cavalry division attacked the 5th Regiment in the pocket at any cost, inflicting huge casualties on the 5th Regiment. The makeshift defensive line was also shaky and could collapse at any moment.

"Soldiers, our Fifth Regiment is the ace regiment of the Northwest Military Region, and for the honor of our Fifth Regiment, we must resist it. Knock these cavalry down, the cavalry is outdated. Now it's the world of our infantry. Hold on to your guns and fuck you! Qiao Yanan stood at the forefront of the battlefield and shouted morale. Caribine bullets whizzed past him, but he didn't seem to see anything. Qiao Yanan's behavior greatly boosted the morale of the Fifth Regiment. The soldiers of the fifth regiment shouted, "Fuck it! ", showing the fearless spirit of not being afraid of death. The fear that had arisen from the massive cavalry charge was gone. The combat effectiveness that I usually trained is gradually being brought into play.

Thundered!

In the rear of the 5th regiment again came the sound of the horse's hooves of the cavalry. Qiao Yanan's face changed drastically. Soon, however, a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.

"Soldiers, it's our cavalry, it's the commander who has come to support us. Everybody hold on. Qiao Yanan shouted loudly. Immediately afterward, he felt a numbness in his back, and his body fell to the ground with some weakness.

"Political commissar, political commissar ......" The face of the guard next to him turned pale, and he quickly hugged Qiao Yanan, who had fallen softly.

"Don't ...... Speak up, help me...... Get up. Qiao Yanan said weakly.

With tears in his eyes, the guards quickly helped him up. Qiao Yanan's legs could no longer stand, and the whole person was almost hanging on the guard's body. His face was pale, and his back was already soaked with blood. The guard took out the bandage around his waist and wrapped it around his waist for him. Hopefully the bleeding can stop.

Qiao Yanan shook his head and said, "Don't get it!" I know the extent of my own injuries, and I won't be able to die for a while. Saying that, Qiao Yanan endured the pain and loudly encouraged the soldiers to continue to resist.

At this time, the cavalry of the brigade also approached. It was a cavalry unit of the 10th Division of the Northwest Military District. Unlike the 5th Division, which was completely infantry, the 10th Division was a newly formed division, and it was a mixed cavalry and infantry unit. Of the two brigades of the 10th Division, the 19th Brigade was an infantry brigade and the 20th Brigade was a cavalry brigade. Originally, Cao Zheng asked the vanguard regiment to be used as a decoy, but he did not expect that they would bring in the entire Cossack 1st Cavalry Division. But since something happened, Cao Zheng had no way to change it, so he could only dispatch the strength of the entire Tenth Division. The 20th Cavalry Brigade was responsible for supporting the 9th Brigade in the siege of the Cossack cavalry, and the 19th Infantry Brigade was responsible for blocking possible Russian reinforcements.

With the addition of a brigade of cavalry, the strength of the Northeast Security Army's pocket troops has increased greatly. Compared with the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, the cavalry in the northeast was far inferior to the Cossack cavalry, so the cavalry of the 20th Brigade chose a long-range fire attack. Under intensive fire, the Cossack cavalry was forced to go back.

"Good opportunity! Order the heavy machine-gun units to go forward and demand that the enemy surrender! "Rather than exterminate them all, Li Ning is still more inclined to capture them all. After all, the Cossack cavalry equipment and war horses really made his eyes warm. In addition, the whole Northeast is now in large-scale production, and a large amount of cheap labor is needed, although the price of domestic labor is not expensive, but there will be no cost-effective prisoners of war who do not spend money. Therefore, when the troops were advancing westward, Feng Yong also sent secret telegrams to the commanders of the troops, asking them to send the captured prisoners to the northeast to work as laborers. Even the domineering Japanese Feng Yong dared to let their captives be laborers, not to mention the Russian old Maozi. Moreover, the Russians have big shoulders and round waists, and they are absolutely qualified to be laborers.

Looking at the rows of heavy machine guns slowly approaching in the rear, and then at the dead enemy troops blocking the road, Major General Ruruer despaired.

"General, what shall we do? Is it war or surrender? Decide! The adjutant looked at his division commander. Don't know how to do it. In just half an hour, the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division, which had a size of 10,000 people, had already lost more than half. If the fight continues, within half an hour, I am afraid that the entire First Division will completely disappear from this world. Although they wanted to maintain the dignity of the cavalry, they were even more reluctant to die, so the direction of the 1st Cavalry Division depended on how Major General Ruruerdev chose.

Major General Rururudev looked at the slowly approaching Chinese soldiers around him, and then at the moving heavy machine-gun positions in the rear, and the sweat on his forehead flowed downward. He did not want to surrender, and if he did, he would be executed by His Majesty the Tsar even if he could return to the country in the future. But if they don't surrender, they will die now. How to choose to let him make that decision.

"General! Make a decision! The enemy is about to attack. Looking at the approaching enemy, the adjutant urged. Major General Ruruerdev finally gritted his teeth and said lonely: "Adjutant, wave the white flag." Let's surrender! After saying this, his whole person seemed to let go of his burden and suddenly relaxed. As for whether he will be executed by the tsar in the future, he no longer has the energy to think about it.

Watching the enemy unfurl the white flag, Li Ning clenched his fists fiercely. I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart. Fortunately, the enemy chose to surrender, and even if they can win, they will have to pay a heavy price.

At the mouth of the valley, Qiao Yanan saw the enemy's white flag, his heart was relieved, and then a sharp pain came from his back, and his whole eyes turned black and he fainted.

When the news of the total annihilation of the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division reached the headquarters of the Northwest Military District, Cao Zheng and Li Fei were relieved. And quickly telegraphed the good news to the Changchun headquarters. They knew that Feng Yong and they must be keeping an eye on the Mongolian war situation at all times.

Kulen, where the Cossack cavalry army was stationed.

"What, the 1st Division went out to pursue the enemy and is now completely out of touch? Damn Rururdev, is he a pig? Can't you see that this is a ploy to lure the enemy! The 2nd Cavalry Division was immediately dispatched to meet the 1st Division. If anything happens to the 1st Division, I will definitely send the stupid pig Rururudev to a court-martial. "The commander of the cavalry army, Lieutenant General Glezhnev, roared loudly.

As the commander-in-chief of the operation, Lieutenant General Glezhnev knew more information than Major General Rururudev. He knew that the Northeast, a local force of the Republic of China that had only risen for more than a year, was able to resist the old rival of the imperial dynasty, the Japanese Imperial Army. Lieutenant General Glezhnev did not know the specific combat effectiveness of the Northeast Security Army, but he knew the combat effectiveness of the Japanese. The Japanese may not be the best in equipment, but they are the most tenacious in their will to fight. The ferocity that doesn't take life seriously makes them feel terrified.

Glezhnev could not imagine how strong an army could be to fight such a crazy army as Japan and retreat in its entirety. But in his mind, he dispatched two divisions of more than 20,000 cavalry, even if he faced the entire Northeast Security Army and the Northwest Military Region, even if he couldn't win, it would be no problem to retreat.

But it was because of this idea that his Cossack cavalry suffered heavy losses, so that the Kulen area, which had been infiltrated with great difficulty, leaked out in front of the eyes of the Northeast Security Army.

"Regiment commander, this is the battle damage report of the fifth regiment. In addition, Commissar Joe was wounded. It has been rushed to the headquarters for rescue, and there is no news yet. "What?" Li Ning's expression changed, and he said with a worried face: "How is Old Qiao, is there any danger to his life?" ”

"I don't know yet. By the time the commissar was sent away, he was completely unconscious. Brigade. This time, our five regiments lost nearly 1,500 people, and almost all of the rest were wounded. I am afraid that I will not be able to participate in the war again in a short time. Feng Jinxi, the commander of the Fifth Regiment, said that in this blocking battle, Qiao Yanan, the political commissar of the brigade, was wounded, and the political commissar of their fifth regiment was even killed. The fifth regiment was also disabled, and only half of the total strength was left, and it was more difficult to recover in a short time. What made him even more depressed was that he himself had been walking through the rain of bullets for a long time, and he was stunned that there was no, and those bullets were like having eyes, all of them were avoiding him Feng someone.

"Jin Xi, the Fifth Regiment performed very well this time, let the soldiers recuperate from their injuries, I will report the specific situation of this war to the Military Region Headquarters, as for the losses of the Fifth Regiment, I promise you that I will definitely replenish you with excellent soldiers, so that the Fifth Regiment can restore the strength of the ace regiment of the Northwest Military Region as soon as possible." Those of them who lead the soldiers are like their own children to the soldiers under them, and every time a soldier dies, they will feel heartache. What's more, it is still a one-time loss of more than half. Li Ning was able to understand Feng Jinxi's feelings.

"Brigade commander, brigade commander, nineteenth brigade telegram!" The herald walked in quickly and handed him the telegram he had just received.

"Enemy reinforcements? Another division of cavalry. Could it be that the commander of the enemy is a fool? Li Ning said in surprise. In fact, he didn't know that the attack just now had broken the radio station of the Russian 1st Cavalry Division in the first place. Because of the fear of heavy machine guns, they simply did not have time to report to the headquarters of the army group, which led to the fact that the headquarters of the Russian army group only knew that they were chasing the cavalry regiment of the Northeast Security Army. But they did not know that they had been surrounded and annihilated.

"Order the troops to clean up the battlefield with all their might. Be sure to clean up the entire battlefield! Li Ning looked at the situation in front of him and pondered whether he should continue to lay out here and hunt down this cavalry division.

"Brigade commander, commander telegram!" The herald brought Cao Zheng's telegram to him. Li Ning took the telegram, and a flash of admiration flashed in his heart. A commander is a commander, and his strategic vision is not comparable to himself. While he was thinking about whether to ambush the enemy here, the commander's strategic plan was worked out. After receiving the news that Cao Zheng continued to lurk, he immediately ordered his soldiers to clean up the battlefield and camouflage the battlefield.

The battlefield of Kotani was cleaned, the corpses on the battlefield were buried, and the wounded were rescued on either side. Then quickly move to the rear. It was nearly a hundred miles from the Cossack cavalry headquarters, and even at the speed of the Ssack cavalry division, it was not an hour before it could be rushed. So they have plenty of time to lay it all out.

Boom, the 2nd Cossack Cavalry Division galloped with thousands of horses, and the dust it brought up made them even more imposing.

"Is there a telegram from the 1st Cavalry Division?" Major General Gularev, commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, asked anxiously. It had been almost sixty miles since they left the camp. Except for the horseshoe prints on the ground, there was no trace of the First Division. The telegram could not be contacted either, which cast a shadow over the mind of Major General Gularev.

Now there was no trace of relaxation in his heart to come to the wild land of the East. This sense of foreboding can only be felt when facing the troops of the Western European powers. And every time there was such a feeling, they Cossack cavalry suffered huge losses. Now he feels this way again, which makes his whole person cautious.

Since the enemy chose to attack the steppes, there would definitely be heavy machine guns against the cavalry, and there would definitely be quite a few of them. Purely compared to the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, the well-trained Cossack cavalry was definitely not comparable to the newly established cavalry unit in the Northeast. Major General Gularev knew this, and there was no reason why the enemy should not know, and they dared to attack the steppes in such a hard-hitting way, and they must have been fully prepared to fight the Cossack cavalry. Now Gulal won the lottery only in the hope that Major General Rururdev would not be surrounded by the enemy. This makes their task easier.

"The radio stations of the 1st Division remained silent. But according to the intelligence of the reconnaissance battalion, the 1st Division was supposed to move along this road. As long as we follow this footsteps, we can definitely catch up with the first division. The adjutant said.

Commander Guraldev nodded. Didn't say anything.

"Commander, there's a hilly area ahead. Looking at the horseshoe prints, the 1st Division should have crossed the hills. Shall we speed things up? ”

Major General Guralev looked at the approaching hilly area in the distance. It was as if there was a devouring beast crouching there, giving him a very ominous feeling.

"Stop!" Major General Gularev shouted. Then take the lead in pulling the horse's head. The hilly terrain in front of him was very unsuitable for cavalry charges, and Major General Gularev could not be careless. After all, the first teacher didn't know how to die, and the performance was too weird.

"General?" The adjutant was puzzled.

"Ordering the reconnaissance battalion to scout this place well, I have a sense of foreboding." As veterans of battle, they always have an inexplicable sense of danger. He is different from the impulsive Major General Rururdev, perhaps because he is older than Major General Rururdev. Major General Gularev was more cautious in his work. His cautious character was incompatible with the cavalry's bloody charging spirit, which was also an important reason why he could not sit on the throne of the commander of the first cavalry division with his qualifications.

Thundered! A small detachment of cavalry from the large cavalry force entered the valley to investigate. Li Ning, who was hiding on the mountain beam to observe the enemy, secretly scolded the enemy commander for being cautious.

The reconnaissance force quickly checked in the valley. Major Wieniawski of the reconnaissance battalion suddenly changed his face. Quickly jumped off the horse, and said to his subordinates.

"Dig up here!" He felt that the soil underneath was soft, and it didn't look like an army had marched at all. So he wanted to see what was buried in there.

"Not good!" Li Ning, who was observing from a distance, changed his expression drastically. Although they are already well disguised. But after all, dead people have been buried here, making the ground softer than the rest of the land. If they could see something buried in the ground and report it to the large army outside, then there would be no need to fight this battle.

"Order the Marksman Battalion to kill them!" They must not be allowed to know what is buried underneath, because of the time, these corpses are not buried deeply, and if they do not act quickly, I am afraid that they will soon dig up the corpses.

Bang Bang Bang!

Gunfire rang out from the ridge, and several soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion, who were digging the ground, immediately fell to the ground.

"There is an ambush, retreat!" The commander of the cavalry battalion, Major Wieniavsky, escaped because he was hiding behind his horse, and he quickly pulled over an uninjured horse, stepped on it, and quickly escaped.

The marksman is the prototype of the sniper of later generations, they are composed of the best marksmanship selected from the entire team, although not necessarily every shot, but still extremely accurate within a range of hundreds of meters. And the cavalry's target is large, and it becomes much easier to hit.

One after another Cossack scout cavalry was planted from their horses. A reconnaissance battalion of 500 people, less than a tenth jumped out. The combat effectiveness of the marksman battalion can also be seen from here.

As soon as the large troops of the cavalry division outside heard the sound of gunfire coming from the valley, they knew that there was an ambush inside. Major General Gularev secretly rejoiced in his heart, fortunately he was cautious, otherwise he really fell into the enemy's trap. Such a large valley, God knows how many people are ambushed inside. If you are wrapped in dumplings, it will be lively.

"The first division doesn't know what happened? Have they been eliminated by the enemy or have already passed, are these people in front of them trying to ambush them or themselves? "Major General Gularev could not judge the enemy's operational intentions.

"Order the 6th Cavalry Regiment to attack. Test the enemy's reality and reality. "Major General Guralev, who was not sure to pay attention, decided to test the enemy's firepower. If the first division is wiped out. Their second division would definitely not have the slightest hesitation to retreat quickly, if the first division passed. Then no matter what the cost is, they must open this channel. Receiving the retreat of the 1st Division.

Subconsciously, Major General Guralev does not like to compete with unknown enemies. In addition, the terrain in front of you is not conducive to cavalry charges, and rushing into it will only become a live target for the enemy.

Dada, dada...... The roar of heavy machine guns was heard in the valley, and Major General Gularev's face changed. He was so impressed by this nightmarish weapon. It was at this sound that the cavalry of a division was quickly smashed to pieces.

"Listen to the sound of at least fifty heavy machine guns? When did the armies of East Asia have such great firepower? Major General Guralev thought with a solemn face. In order to pursue mobility, their cavalry rarely had heavy weapons in the troops, and in addition to the shortage of weapons in Russia itself, the performance of the cavalry was once again too poor, and the kind of light machine guns suitable for cavalry to carry were certainly not prepared by the tsarist government. It can be said that the level of equipment of the Cossack cavalry today has not improved in the slightest compared with ten years ago.

(To be continued)