399 Truncating the retreat
A Russian prisoner of war stepped forward and asked, "What do you need our help with?" ”
Lin Yuan didn't answer directly, but asked, "How is your life here?" ”
The Russian prisoner of war laughed and said, "Very well, there is no danger to life, and you don't have to work like an animal." ”
Lin Yuan smiled: "Cattle? Why do you say that? Didn't your superiors treat you badly? Of course, Lin Yuan knew that the treatment of Russian soldiers in the army was very poor, so he was asking knowingly, in order to arouse their hatred of Russian officers so that they could help him.
The prisoner of war said, "If they had been nice to us, we would not have surrendered." Lin Yuan asked again: "Are there any friends or relatives of yours in the current Russian troops?" ”
As soon as this question was asked, several prisoners of war came up and nodded their heads, and Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, you follow me and let them come over too, okay?" The POWs agreed.
It turned out that Lin Yuan thought of the reason why the Russian army desperately resisted, that is: the Russian top must have said something to the soldiers, making them believe that the Chinese killed all the surrendered people, or treated the prisoners of war with more cruel means, so that the soldiers did not dare to surrender, and could only resist desperately, so they found prisoners of war themselves and let the lies of the Russian officers be self-defeating. Lin Yuan came to the front line with more than 100 prisoners of war and told Zhang Xiaoguang his thoughts, Zhang Xiaoguang suddenly realized when he heard it, so he arranged manpower to send these prisoners of war to the front line to recruit the Russian army.
Lin Yuan guessed correctly, the Russian officer saw his soldiers flocking to surrender, and he was in a hurry, and threatened the Russian soldiers and said: "Do you know what the Chinese troops eat so well?" It's all the meat of prisoners of war, and whoever surrenders will be eaten! "The Russian soldiers, of course, did not want to be eaten, so they surrendered one after another.
When the Russian soldiers saw these prisoners of war who had not been eaten, they did not believe the words of the officers, and the next battle was much smoother, and the Russian troops in front of them retreated one after another, and those who surrendered abounded.
Lin Yuan also ordered the 2nd Independent Brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division to launch an attack from the rear of the Russian army.
It was not until seven o'clock in the morning of November 22 that Grogerko gave the order to withdraw all three divisions, and Grogerko's order was transmitted to the division, and when the division passed down, it was found that many of the troops below could not be found, but the situation was urgent, so they no longer cared about these troops that could not be found, so the Russian army concentrated only all its strength and retreated to the rear.
The retreat of the Russian army happened to hit the blocking line of the second brigade of the first division, and the second brigade of the first division occupied the hill near the line of communication and shot at the retreating Russian army, while the Russian army only cared about fleeing for its life and failed to organize effective resistance at all.
After the Russian army broke out of the encirclement, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts, they knew that they could return to Khabarovsk after crossing the Heilongjiang River, where at least there were fortifications to rely on! But they didn't know what to do, and Chen Fei's troops were waiting for them!
Lin Yuan then ordered Chen Fei: Blow up and sink the Russian army's pontoon bridge to stop the Russian army's attempt to cross the river! And ordered all departments to speed up the chase and strive for the total annihilation of the Russian army!
According to Lin Yuan's arrangement, the troops led by Chen Fei arrived at Heifeng Mountain on November 21, and after arriving, they immediately hid in the mountains and used the mountains as a base to attack the Russian army's transportation lines.
In the past few days, Chen Fei's camp has long been full of complaints, for no other reason, just because the battle in the past few days has been too aggrieved, there are too many enemies to fight, and the enemy is close to not fighting, and the soldiers have thought to themselves: "We are the elite of the mountain division, when have we suffered this kind of grievance!" ”
At this time, Lin Yuan's order came, and when everyone heard it, they suddenly came to their senses, at this time, Heilongjiang had begun to freeze, but the ice was only a shallow layer, and it couldn't bear the weight of people at all, so blowing up the Russian army's pontoon bridge could completely block the Russian army on the west bank of Heilongjiang, which was a great merit for the total annihilation of the enemy!
As soon as Chen Fei received the order, he immediately began the combat deployment, Chen Fei pointed to the map on the ground and said: "Look, the Russian army has deployed ten pontoon bridges on the river, each pontoon bridge is one kilometer apart, and on the edge of the pontoon bridge, there are Russian sentry posts, and our combat goal is to destroy the enemy's sentry first, and then destroy the enemy's pontoon bridge." ”
Chen Fei took out another model of the pontoon bridge and said: "Look, this is the structure of the Russian army's pontoon bridge, the main body is a boat, the boat is paved with wooden planks, and the boats are connected together with pins, and the boats closest to the shore are tied to the wooden stakes on the shore with ropes, and after we occupy the enemy's sentry posts, blow up their wooden stakes, and the boats in the river will naturally float away along the river." ”
Liu Shijiu said: "Division Commander Chen, I think we will not only blow up the wooden stakes, but now the river has frozen, and the ice may freeze the hull, and the Russian army will be able to cross the river at that time." ”
Chen Fei thought for a while and said, "Your analysis is very reasonable, in that case, after we capture the sentry post, we will blow up and sink the boat with the pontoon bridge!" ”
Chen Fei said: "We have 500 people, we divide these 500 people into ten groups, each group of 50 people, each group will have a bazooka squad, we launched an attack at night, because everyone has no watch, so everyone does not have to do it at the same time, whoever arrives at the destination first will do it first, after getting it, don't stop, immediately return to our camp in the mountains, do you understand?" ”
Chen Fei finished deploying the battle plan, at nine o'clock in the evening, he led the troops to quietly come down from the mountain road, this night was unusually quiet, dark clouds covered the moonlight, the sky and the earth were dark, only the Russian army sentry post was still lit up, after going down the mountain, each group acted separately and attacked the Russian sentry post.
Due to the rush of time, the Russian army did not build a decent fortress, but only built a dozen wooden houses by the river, and built a fence on the side of the wooden houses.
So Chen Fei and they approached the cabin without much effort, Chen Fei saw that there were no sentries outside, so he asked the bazooka hand to prepare, a rocket accurately hit the cabin, and in the huge explosion, the cabin collapsed, and the Russian soldiers in the other houses hurriedly ran out.
But Chen Fei and they hid in the dark, the Russian soldiers were in the light, not only could they see nothing, but also became Chen Fei's target, soon, the Russian army in the house was wiped out, Chen Fei led everyone, boarded the pontoon bridge, laid explosives in the bridge boat, and then detonated the explosives, the explosion tore a hole in the bottom of the ship, and the ship sank quickly.
The battle only lasted four hours, the ten pontoon bridges of the Russian army were all destroyed, Chen Fei led everyone to retreat back to the camp in the mountains, Chen Fei contacted Lin Yuan and said: "The pontoon bridges have all been blown up!" Should we occupy favorable terrain and prepare to intercept the retreating Russian army? Lin Yuan said: "You don't have to do this, the Russians don't have a pontoon bridge, they will definitely send troop carriers to pick up the defeated soldiers, you immediately prepare to lay mines on the road that the Russian army must pass!" ”