The battlefield on the afternoon of May 17 was unusually quiet, with the Russians licking their wounds in tiǎn, as did the Chinese. The battlefield was full of corpses, human corpses, corpses of war horses, and the smell of burnt human flesh, the smell of ammunition and gunsmoke, and the sky was no longer blue because of the smoke.

I don't know when a flock of crows began to fly, maybe from hundreds of kilometers away, smelling human flesh. What was even more chilling was that more than a dozen vultures also circled over the position, and when they saw that everyone was not paying attention to them, they immediately pounced and told a man who had been torn apart by a mine and ate the stones.

The red flag of Soviet Russia was either burned or trampled on the ground, and the Chinese flag was re-erected and fluttered high in every trench.

From 6 o'clock in the morning of the 16th to 8 o'clock this morning, the Russians carried out three attacks, and they threw nearly 10,000 corpses in front of the Kizil fortress, and from early morning to 8 o'clock this morning, the Soviets threw down about 5,000 corpses, including even thousands of cavalry. Judging from the results alone, the first battle of the Soviet army was a crushing defeat. The artillery and weapons of the Chinese were more advanced than the Soviet and Russian armies, and although the Chinese lacked bravery at the beginning, they did not lack tenacity, and the later the Chinese were able to hold on.

Although these three attacks were defeated by the Yellow Dragon Legion, they also led the Yellow Dragon Legion to suffer more than 3,600,000 casualties. The corps commander Du Baosan was stunned after receiving the casualty statistics report, and exclaimed how this was counted, could it be a mistake? Wang Yuan, the military minister in charge of counting the results of the battle, shook his head and said that it was absolutely impossible, the number of direct casualties reached 2,000, and more than 1,600 people were wounded, of which 900 were seriously injured and could no longer fight, and I don't know how many soldiers returned to the front line after simple treatment. The Chinese have always been more patient, Wang Yuan said that our injuries were actually bigger than this, many soldiers were even shot and did not report the injuries, and some people also thought that only broken arms and broken tuǐ were injured.

In these three attacks of Soviet Russia, the northwest soldiers of the 29th Division, which was responsible for the main defense, suffered the greatest casualties, and the division commander Sun Liechen looked at the rows of corpses and wept bitterly.

Du Baosan sighed, he asked the chief of staff, Tong Lin, to do a good job of scheduling and statistics, and he came to the hospital of the fortress to visit the wounded soldiers. Here Du Baosan unexpectedly met Zhao Hengxi, the commander of the 39th Division, the two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, Zhao Hengxi said: "My Hunan Tsai also died nearly 400 people, which were lost in the battle with Lao Maozi's cavalry during the counterattack last night, alas! ”

The 39th Division was reorganized from the Hunan Hunan Army, and the casualties were all Zhao Hengxi's fellow countrymen, he said: "This time our soldiers mainly because they suddenly encountered the enemy's suicide soldiers, they were strapped all over with explosives, and they lit a fire one by one and directly pounced on our tanks. If it weren't for the infantry around the tank who rushed over and hugged it with their lives, and died with the enemy, we would have suffered a big loss this time. But it was precisely because of the protection of the tank that some of these lads were even blown apart, and they could not find anything except a severed hand and a broken foot. Speaking of this, he said with a slight cry: "What is this, the battlefield is missing?" Missing? I'll just fucking get back a hand, a hand! ”

"It's so tough." Du Baosan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Your little cubs are very good." He also emphasized, "Since ancient times, you Hunan and Shaanxi people have been fierce, if it weren't for the local poverty, the Northern Expedition ten years ago was really successful by you." ”

Zhao Hengxi heard Du Baosan praise his hometown, but he couldn't laugh, if the praise could be exchanged for his life, he would rather exchange it for the resurrection of his own soldiers. He was one of the first domestic warlords to cooperate with Wang Maoru, of course, he was a bit too small, and he also had some hints of grass on the wall. He was the first to raise troops against the Beiyang Army, then against the Northern Expeditionary Army, and then later accepted Wang Maoru's secret assistance to form a group of forces on his own, and led his subordinates to implement the rule of Hunan people. When the National Defense Forces unified China, he was the first Hunan warlord to accept reorganization. The Hunan army was reorganized into two divisions, and among the many warlord leaders, Zhao Hengxi became the first top officer of the Hunan army, while the commander of the other Hunan army division was Cheng Qian, the commander-in-chief of the Hunan army with a Kuomintang background and more troops. Zhao Hengxi and Cheng Qian cannot be compared, Zhao Hengxi is alone, Cheng Qian has the support of the Kuomintang behind him, but when accepting the reorganization, Cheng Qian also chose to abandon the Kuomintang, which is also the reason why he became another leader of the Hunan army.

Zhao Hengxi has always been confident that he will definitely enter the command center headquarters in the future, after all, he has a good relationship with Wang Maoru, and compared with Cheng Qian and others, the advantages of his cooperation are more obvious. However, Zhao Hengxi has always been cautious about his top boss. Du Baosan belongs to the young and strong faction of the National Defense Army, and there is He Rufei, the head of the Lu Da family, behind him, and he will definitely not wait for leisure in the future. Although he had some prejudices against the young general in his heart - Du Baosan was ten years younger than him, he was still passable on the surface.

"I'm so tired, I'm so tired." At this time, Wang Yuan, the chief military chief of the legion, walked over while complaining, as if he was talking to himself: "It's too late to bury it, what should I do?" ”

"What's wrong?" Du Baosan asked.

"The fighters fought all day yesterday, and today they have to dig trenches again, and they don't have the strength to tidy up the battlefield, what about the corpses of the enemy? What to do with war horses? Wang Yuan said depressedly, "Just put it there?" If you leave it for two days, it will stink, and in three days you will get the plague. ”

"That's easy to do." A small staff officer beside Zhao Hengxi suddenly said, "Aren't there still residents of Kyzylorda City?" Drive them to carry and bury the corpses, tell them that the Soviet army has been badly damaged, and they are ready to slaughter the city after entering the city, and they will definitely work together to help us. Especially when they see tens of thousands of corpses of Soviet soldiers on the battlefield, they will definitely psychologically agree. ”

"Good way." Du Baosan's eyes lit up and he smiled: "What's your name?" ”

"He Jian, a native of Liling, Hunan."

Du Baosan said with a smile: "Hunan is a strong general, I didn't expect the staff officer to have a hand." ”

Zhao Hengxi said with a smile: "Thank you for the compliment." ”

Subsequently, Wang Yuan asked the soldiers of the Propaganda Department to publicize the news of the massacre of the Soviet army to the residents of Kyzylorda, which made the residents extremely panicked, and ordered the corpses of the Soviet soldiers to be buried on the battlefield in the residential area, and the residents had no choice but to go. About 3,000 young men and women spent an afternoon burying more than 20,000 Soviet soldiers.

When the Soviet observation sentry saw it, he wanted to report to Blyukhel, but Blyukhel thought expressionlessly for a while, and then asked: "Who knows how many shells they have left for their fortress artillery?" ”

"It should be less than fifteen hundred."

Blyukhel suddenly laughed and said: "This is good news, they smashed half of the shells on the first day of the war, which is really the best." ”

"But the morale of the boys is a little low, and the casualties in yesterday's battle were too heavy." Sollinsky said sadly.

At this time, Bostyev walked into the headquarters with a pistol, and with a look of displeasure, Sollinsky asked: "Comrade commissar, what happened?" ”

"The officers of the White Guards refused to continue the fight and were executed and shot by me." Bostershev said unconcernedly.

Blyukherr and Sollinsky looked shocked, they didn't know about this, Bostyev couldn't help but take the headquarters too seriously, not to mention the taboo of killing generals in battle.

"They are preaching the theory of escape, which is extremely dangerous, and if I do not punish him on the spot, it is very likely that the entire Sakhalin regiment will flee." ”

Blyukhel did not want to discuss this issue anymore, and said: "We had better study how to break this fortress, the Chinese bullets and shells rain loudly, and our soldiers killed more than 34,000 soldiers, which is an unbearable loss for us." ”

"Report!" The correspondent hurriedly ran over and said: "The left-wing troops led by Political Commissar Melnikov have been attacked by the strongest troops in China!" ”

"The strongest troops?"

"Yes," said the signal soldier, "it is Wang Jiejun's division of the third division of the Western Regions Army of the Chinese." ”

"So they're here." Sollinsky exclaimed, "This Wang Jiejun, known as the Tiger of Central Asia, swept through Central Asia with a division of 20,000 troops, conquered the Kazakhs, Tajiks, Turkmens, Uzbeks and Tatars, and his cavalry units even hit the Bos. This Central Asian Tiger is the strongest unit in the Western Regions Military Region and one of the six troops raised by Generalissimo Wang Maoru. If you defeat him, the morale of the squadron will decline rapidly. ”

Blyukhel glared, looked at the map and asked, "Where did they meet?" How's that going? Did our army suffer heavy losses? ”

"The battle took place in the desert area between the salt marshes of Ares and Lake Asicol, and the other side did not seem to have been hit, believing that our army was the main force, and they had already laid out pockets and ambushes. This time the enemy's ambush was very accurate, but it seemed that the weather was not on their side, because of the sudden wind blowing, the ambush of the squadron failed, and this allowed our army to break through. Said the signal soldier.

"Okay, report any battle situation to me immediately, pay attention to the contact." Blyukherdau.

"Yes, Comrade Commander." The signal corps saluted.

Several commanders sat down next to the map again, and carefully studied it, the Chinese were using the Kizil fortress to set up a bureau, which had long been aimed at the Soviet army, that is, to let the Soviet soldiers be in a big heel here, otherwise it is not difficult to understand why the Chinese have such sufficient ammunition reserves. It is clear that judging by the first day of fighting, the Chinese did not think about the issue of ammunition, either they went crazy, or they had long been prepared and prepared enough weapons and ammunition for the Soviet troops to hit the steel plate headfirst.

In the sāo disturbance of several bombings by Chinese bombers several times a day, the first hundred thousand Soviet troops in the Kizil fortress spent 17 May. rs！。

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