June 5, Petrovsk, the command of the Western Front.

Since the last time he had a fight with a Russian airship, Zhong Xia angrily drove his "Western Division Zhizhi No. 1" command airship back to the airship factory of Beiyang Heavy Industry, and asked the other party to transform the "Qiangyun", which "firepower is equal to zero", into an air warship equipped with a large number of artillery and machine guns.

However, the general did not give up the pleasure of commanding the battle in an airship, taking the "floating night battleship" used in the Battle of Chita as a precedent, the Western Front Aircraft Floating Group modified a newly manufactured "Ziyun" airship, and after the technical personnel equipped this medium-sized airship that was one size smaller than the "Qiangyun" with four heavy machine guns, a small radio station, and a searchlight, Zhong Xiahuo was satisfied to board the command airship named "Western Division Jiji No. 2", although the boat did not have the large floor glass windows and huge map table of the No. 1 boat, The communication ability is also much weaker, but General Zhong still proudly declared: "If I encounter that Russian airship again, I will personally knock it down!" ”

On this day, due to the excessive wind speed, the airship could not set sail safely, and there was a lesson from the "Weigang Wind Attack Incident", Zhong Xiahuo obediently stayed on the ground, sat at the map table with General Deng Jian, the chief of staff, with his head stuffy, and waited for news.

"Why hasn't the telegram come yet?" Zhong Xiahuo glanced at the teacup and then at the radio.

"Don't worry, Xu Soul and Qian Zichen are the generals you personally selected, and the Forbidden First Division and the Forbidden Second Division are the two strongest divisions in the empire, and reinforcements have also been sent, so they should be foolproof." Admiral Deng Jian, who has a scholarly temperament, is not good at appeasing others.

On the map table, at Onohoi on the south bank of the Uda River, a triangular encirclement has been formed since June 3, and the 19th Army of the Russian 6th Army is deeply trapped in it. At the bottom of the encirclement was the Fifth Army of Lieutenant General Zhao Minhe, and on the flanks were Major General Qian Zichen's First Praetorian Guard Division (with the Ninth Forbidden Brigade and the First Guard's Cavalry Regiment) and Major General Xu Soul's Second Praetorian Guard Division (with the Twelve Forbidden Brigade and the Second Janissary Cavalry Regiment).

However, it is not so simple to eat the 19th Army in one go: in the area of Onokhhoi, the main force of the Russian Reserve Army Group is assembled, with a total of 3 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry divisions; Southwest of Onohoi, facing the Xu Soul Division, the 18th Army and the 1st Army of the Russian 6th Army were assembled; In the northeast of Onohoi, facing Qian Zichen's department, the 24th Army and the 1st Army of the 3rd Russian Army were assembled. In other words, Xu Soul and Qian Zichen's troops were actually in the double anti-encirclement of the enemy. In view of the above situation, Xu Soul and Qian Zichen, who were on both sides of the triangular encirclement, respectively built two defensive lines facing each other, and due to the limited number of troops, the two armies had to build a small number of forward fire support points on the defensive line, and gathered forces between the two defense lines to form a number of mobile troops, ready to repel the enemy who tried to break through the defensive line at any time. As for the task of annihilating the enemy's 19th Army, it will be mainly completed by the main force of the Fifth Army under Lieutenant General Zhao Minhe, and the reserve of the Praetorian Guard under the command of Lieutenant General Luo Kun will be put into the battlefield at the most critical moment.

Since yesterday, the Russian army, which was unwilling to lose the 19th Army, launched a large-scale counterattack operation, a total of 9 infantry divisions and 4 cavalry divisions launched a fierce attack on Xu Soul's Army and Qian Zichen's army one after another, and the besieged 19th Army also struggled desperately, and at the same time, the 4th Army and the 3rd Army on both flanks of the 6th Army also launched a diversion attack on Zhao Minhe's Fifth Army with the strength of one division each, and the situation suddenly became urgent.

On the one hand, the headquarters of the front army sent reinforcements of a janissary regiment to each of Xu Qian's two armies, and on the other hand, it strictly ordered the Fifth Army to storm the 19th Army in the encirclement, and agreed with Xu Qian's second army that the battle situation would be reported every two hours after dawn on June 5.

It was 12 o'clock in the afternoon, and it had been five hours since dawn.

"What the hell! Is it that hard to send a telegram? No, I'm going to fly over and see! Zhong Xiahuo couldn't bear it.

"Wait, it should be fine." Deng Jian was still calm.

Zhong Xiahuo swallowed his tea angrily, and his huge fist rang out and closed.

Another hour passed.

Zhong Xiahuo decided to take a "Violent Tiger" car that had recently arrived at the headquarters to go to the front line, but was stopped by Deng Jian.

"You can't go!"

"Then you give me an explanation! Half a day has passed, and I haven't sent a single telegram for those two dead guys! ”

"Let's go!"

"Okay, then let's take an airship to the front line together!" Zhong Xiahuo was uncompromising.

"Report! Xu Soul Detachment called! Zhong Xiahuo's adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Zichang sent a fatal telegram in a timely manner.

Zhong Xiahuo snatched the telegram and saw that it was written on the paper: "Junzuo Zhong Jian, the subordinate division headquarters was attacked by the enemy cavalry early in the morning, and the radio station was damaged. However, the enemy's offensive was becoming more and more intense, and his subordinates went to the front line to witness it, and now the division headquarters was still under enemy artillery fire, and the brigades of the inner and outer defense lines were even more overwhelmed, hoping to flank the enemy with a powerful army to support our army. Forbidden Second Division, Xu. ”

"It's okay, this Xu Soul, although he meant to ask for help, he didn't say that he wanted to send reinforcements directly to him, but let us 'flank behind the enemy with a powerful army', a bit like encircling Wei to save Zhao, hey, this is really like me!" General Zhong Xiahuo means......

"Can I go back now?" Deng Jian breathed a sigh of relief.

"No, there's no news from Qian Zichen's side yet!"

"Let the Janissary Field Army Command find a way to contact each other, it's more convenient for each other."

"That's also a solution......" Zhong Xiahuo faltered.

Half an hour later, the telegram of Qian Zichen's detachment was transferred from the headquarters of the Janissary Field Army to the headquarters of the Front Army.

“…… The defense line is broken, the division headquarters is surrounded, and the division's radio station is damaged. Is it so miserable? This is not the same as the situation at the time of the Battle of Moscovidino! ”

Zhong Xiahuo dropped the telegram, swallowed the remaining one-third of the large meat bun in his hand, stood up and paced around the table.

"Chief of Staff Deng, what do you think?"

"I think it's time to put in the reserves."

"Where?"

"One regiment is used to support the Xu Soul Department, and the rest of the reserves are all used to flank the enemy in front of Qian Zichen."

Zhong Xiahuo was a little puzzled: "Why is it not the enemy who flanked the Xu Soul Department?" ”

"Because the battle line of the Xu Soul Department has not wavered, and the battle line of the Qian Zichen Department has been destroyed, the encircled enemy will inevitably stand out from the gap with all his might, at this time, with the reserve to directly support the Qian Zichen Department, the enemy who has broken through will not be able to recover, my idea is that the reserve of the Praetorian Guard will strike at the flank of the enemy in front of Qian Zichen, forming a second layer of encirclement, which can not only stop the enemy who has broken through, but also surround some of the enemy troops who participated in the siege, and at the same time rescue the Qian Zichen Department, it can be said that it kills three birds with one stone."

"How can you be sure that the front of the Xu Soul Department is not in danger?"

"Because since Xu Soul did not say that his front collapsed, then his troops must still be able to hold it, and Qian Zichen said that his front has been broken, then his troops must be in crisis, which has been confirmed by the Battle of Beryozovka and the Battle of Moscow Vitino, respectively." Deng Jian explained, holding his gold-rimmed glasses. 、

"Well, it's not just these two battles......" Zhong Xiahuo obviously thought of more, "Then it's decided, let's work hard Xu Soul." ”

Front.

Qian Zichen once again tasted the feeling of the headquarters being besieged.

This time, his identity is the division commander, a major general, which is one level higher than the last time, and the number of troops around him is three or four times more, from a guard battalion to a whole guard regiment, and the commander of the regiment is He Fengqi, his guard battalion commander during the Battle of Vitino in Moscow last year.

Since the early morning, the Russian troops inside and outside the encirclement have repeatedly attacked the positions of Qian Zichen's detachment like a tide, in fact, the Russian army outside the encirclement has used a full 6 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry divisions to deal with Qian Zichen's army, while the Russian 19th Army in the encirclement has used almost one-third of its troops in the direction of Qian Zichen's detachment.

The battle went on until 9 o'clock in the morning, the defense line of Qian Zichen's detachment first broke down from the outside, and the advance of the enemy's encirclement relief force rushed through both sides of the headquarters of the 1st Forbidden Division and killed the inner defense line of the encirclement.

The corpses of the enemy are all over the front of the battle, the wounded soldiers are wailing in the formation, the guns are densely sounded, there are enemies in all directions, the fierce battle is continuous, and there are friends around them...... It's like last autumn.

In that year, Qian Zichen led his troops to block the enemy's army with the strength of a brigade, and after two days of fierce fighting, the forbidden fourth brigade lost more than eighty percent of its officers and men, and was almost crippled, but it successfully completed the task of blocking the attack.

What about today?

Qian Zichen summoned Colonel He Fengqi, the head of the guard regiment.

"How's that, can you still withstand it?"

He Fengqi said without hesitation: "Since we were able to block one army of the enemy with one brigade last year, and now we have four brigades in our hands, then we can withstand the enemy's four armies!" Rest assured, the division commander, we are only temporarily cut off by the enemy, mobile units are coming, and soon we will be able to close the gap! ”

Qian Zichen nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, I think so too, I just want to hear your determination, it's gratifying, we depended on each other for life and death during the Battle of Moscow Vitino, and this time we are still fighting side by side, I believe that we can also turn evil into good fortune!" ”

"Yes, everyone's morale is high, and they say that fighting the enemy is like fighting birds......" He Fengqi shook the sniper rifle in his hand and smiled.

Qian Zichen snatched the sniper rifle from He Fengqi's hand: "It's confiscated." ”

He Feng said: "Commander, this ......"

"You are now a regimental commander, a senior commander, and not an ordinary sniper! Besides, you've shot more than 300 times now, and I'm sure no one will surpass you before the end of this war, so it's time to take care of it......"

"Yes...... So...... If there's nothing to do, I'll go to the position first......" He Fengqi was deprived of the greatest pleasure in his life by his boss, and he had no intention of staying for a while.

"Wait a minute, I'll go with you and see how the brothers hunt birds." Qian Zichen didn't intend to comfort his guard commander.