The wheel of fate with Ulan-Ude as the axis is constantly turning, from the shore of Lake Baikal to Chita, the fierce battle of hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Russian troops is the breaking point of the Chinese army's sudden capture of Setunginsk, and slides at high speed towards a temporary end......

On the afternoon of 19 January, the 2nd armored part of the Chinese army, which was attacking from Tuluntavoye, collided head-on with the 14th Russian Siberian Division that was crossing the ice of Lake Baikal. Wen Yu, commander of the 2nd Army, sent a task force with 30 light tanks as the core to pursue overnight, and the task force arrived in Omuir the next morning, and the remnants of the enemy had no intention of responding to the battle, and retreated to the Baikal side, and the Chinese tanks caught up with the ice and fired and crushed, because there was no shelter on the ice, the Russian army suffered heavy casualties and countless surrenderers. The 14th Siberian Division attacked from Irkutsk with more than 16,000 men, and when it returned from defeat, there were less than 3,000 men left.

On January 20, in Petrovsk, a hundred kilometers southeast of Ulan-Ude, the right assault group under the command of Lieutenant General Xing Xiaoqiang captured the Russian 6th Siberian Army advancing west along the railway from Chita, and Lieutenant General Xing decisively ordered 130 chariots of 4 and 15,000 cavalry of cavalry 5 and 4 to pounce on the Russian troops crowded along the railway from both sides of the enemy and the main force of the 7th Infantry Army (1214 Infantry Corps) from the front. All the artillery of the group had already been deployed along both sides of the railway, connected by telephone lines, and more than 100 cannons were fired at the same time to bombard the enemy's position at the same time. The iron flowed and the horses' hooves trampled, and after hours of fierce fighting. The Russian 2nd Division and the Siberian 12th Division, which were in the front, were cut off and encircled, and the battle lasted until dusk. The headquarters of the 6th Army and the 11th Division in the rear fought and retreated to Chita under the cover of armored trains, and the Chinese army ~ pursued the battle overnight despite fatigue, pursued 120 miles within 24 hours, captured the important transportation town of Hillock, destroyed the armored train 2, and captured the commander of the 6th Army in Siberia, Lieutenant General Dolonin. Within two days, the right assault group smashed an entire army of the opponent in one fell swoop with a heavy hammer blow, and the number of prisoners alone amounted to 20,000! One of the remnants of the enemy retreated along the railway to Chita, and the other took the road and escaped into the Yablonov mountains.

On the other hand. Since the 19th, the Russian troops in the Ulan-Ude encirclement have concentrated their forces to break through to the west of the city, and used heavy artillery in the fortress to open the way for the breakthrough troops.

The highlands west of the city, which was held by the 10th "Lion's Roar" Regiment of the Praetorian Guards, were buried by the ace regiment of the enemy's two divisions in turn in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Asian-Russian War. At night, the enemy death squad took advantage of the darkness to break up to the high ground, and the regiment commander Hou Changqin led the guard platoon and the reserve composed of cooks, coachmen, grooms, and clerks to counterattack, and fought fiercely. They drove the enemy down.

The next day, the Russian army first slammed the high ground with heavy artillery for more than an hour. The first reinforcements—a battalion of the Twelfth Guard—finally arrived—but the battalion was killed within a few hours, and the battalion was killed within a few hours, and the commander of the 10th Regiment, Hou Chang, was also seriously wounded, but insisted on directing the battle on a stretcher.

Seeing that the enemy was about to succeed, reinforcements from the 2nd Armored Brigade and the 4th Cavalry Brigade suddenly ~.killed, and more than 30 chariots and more than 2,000 cavalry cut off the enemy position like a hot knife cutting cream. Thousands of enemy troops at the front were wrapped in dumplings, and at dusk, the main force of the 12th Praetorian Regiment rushed to the battlefield and cooperated with friendly forces to completely destroy the enemy forces in the encirclement.

This thrilling battle of the "Ice and Blood Heights". The Russian army lost more than 8,000 people, the four regiments of the main attack were almost crippled, and our army suffered more than 2,600 casualties. The 10th Janissaries Regiment was almost gone.

Relative to the sacrifice of the 10th Regiment of the Praetorian Guard, the Russian troops in the encirclement lost the 21st day of the breakout, the 5th Chinese Army, which had been serving as a reserve, drove to the city of Ulan-Ude, and after the 3rd, the 2nd Army arrived, and the ratio of the number of divisions of the besieged to the besieged changed from 23 to 6:3, which could be saved......

To the west of Ulan-Ude, the offensive of the left assault group of Xu Soul was able to continue until the 23rd thanks to a large amount of supplies captured in Selenginsk, and the spearhead of its forward armored 1st Army penetrated 120 miles in three days to seize the important communication point of Tanghoi on the shore of Lake Baikal, while the follow-up armored 1st Janissaries Army and Praetorian Cavalry Corps were busy expanding the results of the battle, encircling and annihilating the Russian infantry divisions cut off east of Selenginsk one by one.

Due to the lack of strength of our troops, and the fact that the Russian army quickly broke into pieces and fled into the mountains in small groups, by January 24, only the 3rd and 5th divisions of the enemy in Siberia were confirmed to have been completely annihilated, but the captured artillery and baggage were very considerable - the enemy troops in the retreat were obviously unable to carry these heavy things into the mountains to suffer.

On January 24, due to the exhaustion of fuel, the thunder and lightning operation marked by the deep assault of the 1st Army drew a magnificent end -- the 5 internal assault troops advanced 170 miles, killed more than 10,000 Russian troops, captured more than 3 people, destroyed and captured nearly 200 combat vehicles and armored vehicles, and 300 artillery pieces and mortars. The price paid by the group (excluding the 2nd Army) was: 1016 killed, 3214 wounded, 431 missing. Sixty-eight combat vehicles and armoured vehicles were destroyed (including self-destruction due to mechanical failure) and 89 had to be sent to the rearmament battalion for overhaul - in other words, almost 40 per cent of the armoured vehicles were lost.

While the Mongolian Front Army was fighting against Ulan-Ude, the Northeast Front Army was not idle, and the 1st and 2nd armies under the command of General Zhang Yiye marched together in the cold and rushed to Chita with a competitive ~.

Since the main force of the Russian 6th Army defending Chita had advanced westward to participate in the Battle of Ulan-Ude, the 1st and 2nd armies did not encounter strong resistance since the offensive on January 14, but the Russian army sabotaged the railways, transported grain, and burned villages along the way.

In view of the above situation, General Zhang Yiye ordered the formation of two rapid assault clusters with cavalry as the core, which quickly advanced before the main force of the group army to stop the enemy's sabotage actions.

The 1st Army, with the 21st and 22nd Cavalry as the backbone, and the 2nd Regiment Corps, with the 1023rd Cavalry Brigade as the backbone, reinforced artillery, machine gun, infantry, and armored vehicle detachments, formed the 1st and 1st assault clusters respectively, and launched assaults around January 17.

The 1st Assault Group arrived in Nercen on 19 January) and on 22 January joined the 2nd Assault Cluster at Karemskoye, 80 km southeast of Chita, and captured a full > of grain that could be transported away. By January 24, the advance force of the 1st Assault Group had reached the outskirts of Chita, and the defenders withdrew from the battle after a brief exchange of fire.

Zaikchita seems to have no suspense.

A few days later, a belated snowstorm swept across Lake Baikal, and the temperature plummeted to minus thirty or forty degrees......