Chapter 970: The Chinese Character Flag Flutters

On May 24, the twelfth year of the Republic of China, this day was both unfortunate and fortunate for the Yellow Dragon Army, unfortunately the casualties of soldiers and officers under the long battle became more and more large, and nearly 100 wounded soldiers in the rear field hospital even died of serious injuries. Fortunately, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the reinforcements of the ** squadron in the ninth day of the Kizil defensive battle finally arrived.

The 9th Cavalry Brigade of the 3rd Division's Wang Jiejun Forward Unit was the first to rush to support, and they relied on the high speed advantage of the cavalry to recapture the railway area and backwater on the east side of the Kizil fortress in one fell swoop. The 9th Cavalry Brigade dispersed the Soviet garrison at lightning speed, making it impossible for the Soviets to encircle the Kizil fortress. Once again, the Chinese defenders were provided with water and protected from complete encirclement, while the infantry of the 3rd Division held firmly on the eastern flank of the Kizil fortress. Subsequently, Wang Jiejun ordered the cavalry to attack, using the cavalry's mobility and breakthrough ability to break the encirclement of the Soviet army, and encroach on the Russian soldiers, killing and wounding them.

The Soviet army, which was harassed by the Chinese 9th Cavalry Brigade, was in disarray, and the Soviet commander Blyukhel was so angry that he ordered his cavalry troops to attack the 3rd Division, and Wang Jiejun's army then fought and retreated along the Syr Darya River towards Tashkent, drawing out the three Soviet divisions. Sollinsky, chief of staff of the Soviet Army, discovered Wang Jiejun's intentions and said to Blyukherr that the purpose of this Central Asian tiger is not to fight a decisive battle with us, but to divide our main forces, and the Kizil fortress is about to be captured, and it is absolutely impossible to divide the troops now. We can send cavalry units to hold them down and make them unable to support. Now that siege warfare and street fighting are being carried out, the cavalry units are of no use for the time being, so let them have a duel with the Chinese cavalry troops.

On May 24th. That is, on the day when Wang Jiejun's 3rd Division arrived at the Kyzil fortress, the 16th Cavalry Division finally unified its thinking, and the division commander Makanranti received a telegram from his family. It was confirmed that there was no influence at home, and it was all a conspiracy of the Soviet army. The 16th Division, after the unification of ideas, immediately launched an attack on the Soviet army, but Blyukhel never forgot about this Chinese cavalry. He assigned Melnikov to lead the Kazakh Separate Cavalry Division and the 13th Ye Cavalry Division to ambush the Chinese cavalry.

Because Makanranti was so anxious to make a meritorious service that he rushed headlong into the ambush circle set up by the Soviet army. When the Soviet cavalry encirclement and suppression began all over the mountains, the 45th Brigade of the 16th Cavalry Division in front immediately retreated. During the battle, the commander of the 45th Cavalry Brigade, Aziz, was cut in two by a Kazakh cavalryman of the Soviet army, and the Turkic died before he could be punished by military law......

The 16th Cavalry Division lost more than 2,000 killed and more than 1,080 captured. Macanranti had to lead the rest of his army to retreat towards the town of Juzares. However, the Soviet cavalry pursued closely, and then after Zhao Ajiu, the 142nd Cavalry Brigade in charge of the aftermath in the town of Juzarez in the rear, learned of it, and also set up an ambush. A counter-ambush was carried out on the Soviet cavalry, forcing the Soviet cavalry to withdraw, saving Macanranti and more than 3,000 soldiers. Makanranti looked at Zhao Ajiu, who had saved his life, and was very embarrassed. Zhao Ajiu didn't say anything. I only asked about the casualties, but I learned that nearly 3,000 people were killed and wounded, the vitality of the 16th Cavalry Division was greatly damaged, and the 45th Cavalry Brigade was completely annihilated.

During the battle on May 25, the Soviets made a desperate attempt to storm the crumbling Kizil fortress. However, the squadron even threw poison gas bombs on their positions, and the Chinese soldiers jumped out of the trenches with gas masks to fight with the Soviet troops with bayonets. When the western wall of Kyzylorda was blown up and collapsed, Soviet soldiers poured in. When a Soviet soldier saw an officer in a lieutenant general's uniform, he rushed towards him with a submachine gun in his hand. Suddenly, I was startled, and I thought I was dazzled. Du Baosan, the commander of the Yellow Dragon Legion, even took his own guard battalion to make up for it directly, and then beat the Soviet soldiers down. The other officers were also frightened, and hurriedly pulled Du Baosan back, telling him to be in the command headquarters and not to come out. Under the persuasion of many officers, Du Baosan threw down his guard battalion as a mobile unit, and the guard battalion was like a firefighter, where there was danger, they would appear.

At the critical moment of the battle, the Soviet army attacked desperately, and the squadron and the Soviet army repeatedly fought in the middle of the three positions, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Suddenly, the 84th Regiment of the 254th Brigade, which was in charge of the frontal defensive position (the western position), raised the Chinese character flag with red and gold characters in high air, and all the other field officers were startled.

The 254th Regiment has put up the Dead Word Flag!

They're going to fight to the death!

The Chinese character flag was raised only when the whole regiment was on the verge of death, which showed that they were unable to hold the position, and they were determined to die on the position.

Du Baosan immediately ordered the soldiers of the guard battalion and four hundred supplementary regiments to rush to the 254th Regiment to take charge of support, and asked the staff officer: "Who is the commander of the 254th Regiment?" ”

"Zhang Xin, a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi, turned out to be a Northwest swordsman." Chief of Staff Tong Lin slapped the soil of his steel helmet down when he walked in, and replied by putting it on his head.

"Shaanxi Lengwa, strong!" Du Baosan sighed.

The 254th Regiment has only 260 of the 2,000 men left in the battle, the regiment's chief of staff Cao Cunjiang was killed, the first battalion lost four battalion commanders, the second battalion lost two battalion commanders, the third battalion lost one battalion commander, only two of the regiment's company commanders were old company commanders, and the rest of the company commanders were all temporary replacement platoon commanders or even sergeant majors.

It was precisely because of the massacre of Soviet prisoners of war on the main position on the west side of the Kizil fortress on the 24th that the Soviet army placed the main attack direction on the west side of the main defense of the 84th Brigade from the morning of the 24th. In the position on the western flank, the defensive position of the 254th Regiment was the top priority, and the Soviet retaliatory offensive led the regiment to a surge of pressure and heavy casualties.

Except for a few company commanders and a battalion commander of the 254th Regiment who graduated from the Yakeshi Military Academy, the rest of the people were all old officers from the Shaanxi Army, but the old officers did not necessarily mean that they were not brave, and these people showed completely different fighting qualities in the civil war in the face of foreign races. Shaanxi people belong to the kind of people who don't talk much, and would rather die themselves than cry out in pain, and this kind of character also makes the 254th Regiment have been bearing the enemy's key attacks alone unless they send a request for support to the headquarters in an emergency.

Now, as soon as the Chinese character flag came out, everyone found out how tragic the battle of the 254th Regiment was, and the whole regiment fought to the death, because the whole regiment was about to die.

"As soon as the Chinese character flag comes out, the big man should fight to the death!" Soldiers on other positions shouted loudly pointing at the positions of the 254th regiment.

Zhang Xin, the commander of the 254th Regiment, was injured in his left arm and had to hang his arm with a bandage, brandishing a large knife in his right hand that is particularly popular with Shaanxi people, and shouted loudly to the two hundred and sixty northwest soldiers behind him: "Shaanxi cold babies! Let Lao Maozi see, grandpa's big blade is powerful! He looked at the slowly rising Chinese character flag, the red military flag on the golden traditional Chinese character "Han" waving in the wind, what a beautiful red and gold, red represents the blood of the soldiers, gold represents the land guarded by the Han nation, he suddenly shouted again: "Old Qin, follow Ne to death!" ”

"Roar!" The soldiers stood up, and even the crippled wounded soldiers, not to be outdone, strapped defensive grenades to their bodies, ready to pull a cushion on their backs on the verge of death.

"Kill!" Zhang Xin brandished a broadsword and rushed towards the oncoming Soviet soldiers, and the two hundred and sixty Chinese warriors behind him let out an earth-shattering killing sound, so that the tide of Soviet attacks was immediately blocked. Two hundred Chinese ** people in camouflage uniforms entered the khaki Soviet camp and rampaged, actually crushed this wave of Soviet troops, scared, that Chinese are really not afraid of death, they are injured, they will definitely hold the Soviet soldiers and pull grenades, but if they want to die, they must roll to the place where there are many Soviet troops to pull the explosives.

"Stop the attack, retreat!" The eyes of the new commander of the front, the commander of the 1st Infantry Division of Smossosk, Aleyan, were filled with horror, and he gave the order loudly: "Retreat, retreat." ”

Behind the 254th Regiment, Tang Shengzhi's troops of the 113th Brigade jumped into the main position and defended the west side together with the 84th Brigade, but all the sergeants of the 254th Regiment were left with only thirty-nine people after repelling the Soviet army.

What kind of spiritual power sustained him to continue fighting after being stabbed fifteen times in his body? Take a look at the only 39 wounded soldiers of the 254th Regiment who have not died, perhaps because of the revival of the most primitive and ancient barbaric genes of the Chinese nation, the Chinese are no longer weak scholars, and the Chinese brutal genes are awakening.

The Russian soldiers were frightened, turned their heads and ran, as if they were afraid of missing a pair of legs. The Chinese are terrible, terrible, in order to attack the Kyzyl fortress, the Soviet army is afraid that nearly 100,000 corpses were left here, 200,000 Soviet troops and 50,000 Sakhalin legion soldiers, and now there are more than 150,000 left. Blyukhel could no longer bear the loss, and the bravery and good fighting of the Chinese soldiers made him finally bow his proud head. At the same time, the infantry and artillery of the 3rd Division also entered Kyzylorda to participate in the defense, and the 10th Division came to the aid of the stars.

Squadrons of ** constantly poured into the Kizil fortress, which, according to the original plan of the Western Military District and the command of the Chinese National Defense Forces, became the grave of the Soviet troops.

On May 26, the 339th Regiment of the 113th Brigade of the 39th Division of the National Defense Army, which took over the main position on the west side of the fortress, hung up the Chinese character flag, and the 2,025 men of the regiment except for three Mongolian soldiers, 11 Hui soldiers and seven Manchu soldiers were repeatedly ordered by Huang Qisheng, the commander of the Han Hakka regiment, to take away the regimental flag and not destroy it in the hands of the enemy, and the other 2,008 officers and soldiers were all killed, and none survived.

This was only the second day after the 39th Division took over the main position, and one regiment had already been killed, which shows the tragic situation of the battle. The ensuing battles intensified, with deaths happening every moment, and in the current situation, both sides are holding on, waiting for the collapse of the other.