Chapter 556: Timely Rain

Qu Jungang's recruitment really showed its effect the next day. Li Zhuang has always been in a regular manner without mentioning the agreed matter, and after rushing back to the Shanhaiguan garrison at night with a group of veterans and dozens of young men and females, except for staying in the temporarily assigned accommodation, eating and sleeping, he did not ask Qu Jungang to say anything. This made Qu Jungang feel a little bit about this five big and three thick Li Zhuang, it seems that this product does not give people the impression of being rough and leafy, it seems to be honest, but in fact, there are still a lot of eyes.

After a night of silence, Dong Ku collected a large number of cultural relics, and even some fine products of the Old Summer Palace, which were not found by the soldiers who raided their homes, and they were estimated to be hidden treasures. Because of this, he has a certain emotional foundation with these foreigners in the concession. At the same time, I also know why Laiken walked with Shui Yao'er, and why Shui Yao'er broke away from the women's special combat team.

It turned out that it was just a chance encounter, Laiken went to work outside the concession, but he was assassinated, and all six guards were killed. So, he snatched the gun that fell on the ground, killed a dozen people who attacked, and saved Laiken.

And when Laiken saw Shui Yao'er so beautiful, he immediately knew her. Shui Yao'er also had electricity for the handsome Laiken, so when the identity of the attacker could not be found, the two became acquainted. With Shui Linglong's consent, Shui Yao'er became Laiken's lover with personal goals and tasks. It's just that she has always kept the bottom line, doesn't get married, and won't let Laiken touch her.

Shui Yao'er didn't know how big the Rothschild family behind Lai Dao Laiken was, and the unexpected friendship laid a solid foreshadowing for Dong Ku's plan to implement.

These fragments did not affect his steps to leave Tianjin, and at the moment when Sun Tao's army began to arrive, Dong Ku left a brigade of troops to guard Tianjin and ensure the smooth flow of supply lines. He followed the army and left Tianjin. Go straight to Zhangjiakou. He had to rush to Mongolia as soon as possible, where the four positions had been blown up, and Zhukov and Goudan were fighting back and forth on the four positions, which were five kilometers deep and more than ten kilometers long. Back and forth.

Dogan adheres to a purpose, no one needs to fill it, and when the position is withdrawn, it will be covered with artillery fire, and it will not do the action of recapturing, but just blow up the Soviet Russian soldiers on the position into pieces, send a reconnaissance group to report the coordinates of the Russian army, bombard the artillery and tanks approaching the Russian army, and bombard the charging cavalry. And four artillery positions were built in the rear in a row, using the existing artillery and shells that can still be supported, to maintain a stalemate with the Russian army. But it is also constantly retreating, at least, four positions have been withdrawn in the past two days, and after that, there is no more solid cover to support the fighters from shelling.

At dawn, Qu Jungang's recruitment here continued. He's going to wait, two days. Zhang Zizhong's large army will arrive.

And today is destined to be a day that makes him not calm, because the soldiers recruited yesterday left with the truck at dawn after confirming that they did not need money for food and that their military salaries were really ten yuan a month. More people have joined the recruitment ranks.

Qu Jun had just drawn out a regiment and organized these recruited recruits as quickly as possible, dividing them into squads, platoons, and companies. Some of them were enriched into the troops with large battle losses, and most of the remaining veterans were directly arranged to be squad leaders, platoon commanders, and company commanders to control these recruits.

As for the officers among the veterans, most of them are not of high rank and have to be selected. After a morning of selection, those who are qualified have been made into a temporary establishment, and those who are unqualified have been unable to recover their physical strength, or they used to smoke a lot, but now although they have quit, but their bodies have been hollowed out, they have been sent two oceans, let them and others fend for themselves, or find a way to follow the troops through the steppe and return to Heilongjiang from Mongolia.

Although these veterans were not admitted, they received two oceans and a few full meals, and they were grateful to the advance army, so naturally there is no need to elaborate. Knowing that the troops rushed to Mongolia along Zhangjiakou and returned to Heilongjiang, these who failed to become soldiers packed up simple covers, organized themselves, and rushed to Zhangjiakou.

Their actions led a considerable number of the original households, who were exploited and oppressed by the Japanese and could no longer survive, after learning that these veterans were divided into two oceans, they believed in the benevolence of the advance army. They dragged their families with their families and joined the ranks of the northward march, hoping to live a comfortable life in the mouths of the advance army.

And these veterans are marching along the way with a large army, they believe that how can they rush back to Heilongjiang, return to their hometown, and return to the banks of the Songhua River, even if they can't go back to Changchun or Shenyang, at least they can return to the Northeast, right?

Li Zhuang did not have any ideas because many people were unqualified, those who were eliminated could no longer carry guns, at least, they could not march and fight, he led the platoon commander Sun of the guard platoon to continue on the road and carry out the great cause of recruitment.

With the increase in the number of people who went to recruit troops, by the time Dong Ku rushed to Beijing and marched to Zhangjiakou, the number of veterans of the Northeast Army recruited here had exceeded 30,000, and the number was still growing.

Qu Jun just looked at the rapidly growing recruit camp, and he was so happy in his heart. But he also knew that the basic training of these veterans should be carried out as soon as possible, otherwise the march would be a problem.

Dong Ku received Qu Jungang's report, and was surprised, Qu Jungang was going to recruit 50,000 people there alone, and Liu Canghao's movements were also not slow, and there were also quite a lot of veterans who were collected from the people, although these veterans were mixed, but they were indeed able to go to the battlefield in a short time.

Zuo Boyang saw the signs, and suggested that Dong Ku leave military stations along the route of the army to ensure that the people who followed up had a direction to march, and if necessary, leave grain and sell it to the people who were in a hurry at a low price, so that they could rush to Mongolia before the heavy snow closed the road, or divert to Heilongjiang, or stay in Mongolia, so as to enrich the population.

After joining the army, some young and strong people heard from the soldiers of the advance army how good the life of Heilongjiang and Mongolia was, and how good the land policy was, and they were all moved, and they went home to encourage their families to move north, which was better than suffering here.

More relatives and friends went to Mongolia at the beginning of spring, went to Heilongjiang, although there is no news, but let the people here have hope, their relatives stood there and stopped, went, there is also a refuge, right?

Although most of the soldiers of the advance army had never been in Heilongjiang or Mongolia, they all believed that what the Huya soldiers said and what the commanders said, hearsay, was just as convincing.

At this time. Yu Ke sprinkled his army into the mountains near Zhangjiakou, collecting dry firewood and dead wood, and preparing for the approaching army to survive the cold along the way.

Liu Haisong marched almost in a hurry, the trucks did not stop, and people rested. Spend the night in the truck, except for eating, rest for an hour, the rest of the time, people stop the car and go straight to Mongolia.

Goudan already knew that reinforcements were imminent, and he sent all the trucks and wagons while he was on the defensive side. Respond in the direction of the flow of the bangs. Heilongjiang also urgently mobilized there, and Liu Fucheng dispatched all the trucks in Heilongjiang to Mongolia, keeping up with the receiving team, and striving to bring the troops and those accompanying people to the territory before the heavy snow closed the road, so as to avoid being besieged by the heavy snow.

When Liu Haisong touched the convoy that received it, he did not let the convoy stop. Instead, he followed the route he had traveled and went straight to Zhangjiakou. To pick up more follow-up troops, he took two divisions, threw down a dozen broken down trucks, and let the receiving troops repair, and he entered Mongolia first.

At this time. There is no longer a position to defend here, and a new line of defense is being built out of wood and soil under the frozen layer.

Zhukov's multi-front offensive made him unable to draw troops to counterattack, so he could only passively destroy the opponent's artillery, sacrificing some scouts and soldiers who held their positions, making it difficult for Soviet Russia to gain a foothold on the four positions. The battle, although not tragic, was very dangerous, and once the blocking position was lost, the influx of Soviet Russian cavalry would be difficult to control.

With the loss of nearly 1,000 artillery pieces and more than 30,000 casualties of cavalry and infantry, Zhukov made quite good progress in the assault on the main position. This made him confident, and after entering the soldiers on the fourth line, he once again ordered the artillery fire to move forward, ready to crush the defenders in front of him in one fell swoop.

The hastily constructed defensive line here has given way to a narrow area, and beyond that, it will be open field, which will be difficult to defend. In this regard, Meng Zhaocheng was already ready to recapture the four positions in front and use people to carry the enemy's attack.

Once this is done, it will inevitably lead to a fierce battle and a sharp attrition of personnel. And it was precisely this intention of Soviet Russia to use attrition to drag down the defense of the advance army.

Shelling, again intense.

The artillery of Soviet Russia was laid very scattered, and there were not many shells near each gun, so that the power of the martyrdom was minimized, which also caused considerable trouble to Meng Zhaocheng. And the tanks and armored vehicles that have come off the production line, at present, have not yet been allowed to enter the battlefield. At this time, it is not yet the time to fight a counterattack, defense, these weapons are not used.

In the roaring explosion, the large-caliber artillery of Soviet Russia continued to roar, and one shell after another fell on the newly constructed position.

Broken earth and wood were rising, and the newly constructed position was immediately in tatters. The soldiers buzzed in their ears during the artillery bombardment that blew up a large crater, and in the positions that could only withstand a round of bombardment, they held machine guns and submachine guns, waiting for the attack of the Soviet and Russian cavalry.

"Ula!!"

During the artillery bombardment, the Russian cavalry burst out with an earth-shattering roar, and launched a charge from the ground position.

The war horses flew on all fours, stepping on the dilapidated positions full of dirt pits, and rushed forward like a tide.

"Hit!"

At the moment when the Russian shelling stopped, less than two-thirds of the fighters on the position erupted into a roar, and all the heavy machine guns, Maxim, and Depp erupted with tongues of fire. A dense barrage of barrages shrouded the charging horses.

Rumble!

The steel wall composed of barrage suddenly crashed into the charging team, and while picking up the blood beads and heat in the sky, the war horses that rushed to the front were connected to the soldiers, like meat grinders, and instantly smashed into minced meat.

"Fire!!"

At the same time as the Russian army launched a charge, Meng Zhaocheng shouted and ordered, and at the same time, ordered the second echelon to prepare to regain the position, preparing to recapture the front five kilometers of defense after defeating the Soviet Russian attack in one fell swoop.

At this moment, a tom-tom sound sounded intensively, and the bullets swept over the heads of the fiercely fighting soldiers on the position, and pounced on the rolling wave of charge.

With the convergence of this rain of bullets, the charging Soviet Russian cavalry immediately melted in an instant, as if the snow had been splashed with boiling water, leaving only the steaming heat, which drifted within one or two hundred meters in front of the position.

The warriors in the position shouted and cheered at the effect of the sudden burst of attack, followed by more intense fire towards the dissolving herds of horses.

At this time, Liu Haisong's troops had already arrived, and they heard the fierce gunfire in front of them from afar, and all the soldiers who had left the customs for the first time and stepped into the territory of Mongolia for the first time did not care about their fatigue, and took a truck to pounce on the position first, and then the anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns on the trucks roared angrily.

At this moment, the self-propelled artillery also raised its muzzle, and at the edge of the position, it sprayed projectiles one after another from its own position five kilometers ahead.

Their addition made Meng Zhaocheng only have long-range artillery left here, unable to bombard the enemy within two or three kilometers of the embarrassment of alleviation, the dense artillery fire blew away the Soviet Russian soldiers who were rushing to repair the trenches in the position, and the area became a blank area in the violent explosion, and dozens, hundreds of Russian troops rose up under the bombardment, and then were torn apart and turned into molecules.

"Ha Lu Ha! Crazy Liu came in time! ”

Meng Zhaocheng smiled and hugged the dusty Liu Haisong.

", you old bandit, I'm not a, let go!!"

Liu Haisong smiled and hugged Meng Zhaocheng tightly.

Meng Zhaocheng smiled, then let go and asked, "Crazy Liu, how many soldiers have you brought back?" ”

"There are not many soldiers, just two integrated divisions, 30,000 people, 600 self-propelled artillery, all of which are 200 calibers, and 300 long-range artillery, which will arrive in half a day."

"Holy! So many self-propelled guns, it's amazing! Quick, move to these points! ”

Meng Zhaocheng didn't care about reminiscing, pulled Liu Haisong to the map, pointed to a few points on the map and said.

"Good! You send someone to lead the way, and I'll arrange it! ”

Liu Haisong also knew that the original defensive positions here were in dilapidation, and he saw that the soldiers were about to fight with the Russian army without cover, and the number of short-range artillery and long-range artillery here was not mass-produced because of the relationship between manufacturing tanks, and in such a tragic shelling, those captured from Soviet Russia, the Japanese artillery was completely destroyed in a few days, so that the number of short-range artillery was particularly lacking, and the Russian army that could only rely on machine guns and semi-automatic shooting to kill the charging Russian army, the pressure was not small.

With the call of two people, the self-propelled artillery that arrived later roared in front of them, and drove towards the tense positions of the defense.

The fierce artillery fire made Zhukov very strange, he had been attacking for several days, why did the opponent's artillery fire suddenly become dense? Moreover, as soon as they rushed to the opponent's position, they used the broken position to build a defensive line, and were about to continue to push forward the front, when the sudden fierce artillery fire made the soldiers on the position not even have a chance to retreat, and they were killed on the position one after another. The frontal position was completely covered by artillery fire several kilometers deep, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and according to the reports from the front, at least three or four hundred large-caliber artillery guns roared.

Could it be that the other side intends to give up its position and then carry out the strangulation?

Zhukov looked at the map suspiciously, according to the situation reported by the internal line, the enemy's artillery should not be so much, although there are many hidden, but this side is still being bombed, and there can still be such dense artillery fire on that side, the opponent's artillery may add up to 1,000 guns, and they are all large-caliber. (To be continued......)