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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 353 The soldiers are coming to block your coming and my going

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    ~Date:~November 14th~

    Slavin ordered the burial of the bodies of the fallen soldiers on both sides, and turned to look at the coalition's wheeled armored tanks. These three tanks were destroyed by the artillery group commanded by Slavin and then detonated once by the retreating coalition forces. The turrets and heavy armored vehicles  The machine guns were all damaged and deformed. Slavin stepped forward and carefully looked at the barrel of the 12.7-caliber heavy machine gun on the turret. After a long while, he murmured, "The Chinese weapons are very advanced. This machine gun will only be used by Germany and Japan."  Britain and France are not equipped yet!¡±

    "Comrade Commander, the dead soldiers on both sides have been buried. We have 182 lightly wounded and 54 seriously wounded. The heavy machine guns on the other side's armored vehicles are too powerful. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the seriously wounded to survive. Please give us your next move!"  Xin Bike, the political commissar of Haodi Division, asked for instructions in a serious tone.

    "The vanguard regiment was changed to the rear guard, and the second regiment of the second brigade was the vanguard. The artillery company and the heavy machine gun battalion followed closely. Continue to pursue the retreating enemy from Buriguma! If you are injured, act with the group army headquarters.  Let's leave two medical soldiers to take care of the seriously wounded, give them some water and food, and wait for other brother troops to take them in! The rest of the lightly wounded will get on the carriage and follow the team first!"

    Slavin quickly made a decision. It was a last resort to abandon the seriously wounded. The rumors of the coalition's preferential treatment of prisoners had long been no secret. Aren't both Eh and Lezhevski alive and well?  But Slavin and the division commanders and political commissars did not dare to tell the soldiers directly. They could only let them experience it themselves. In any case, the seriously injured soldiers at least did not need to aim at their heads and pull the trigger like before.

    Although it was inappropriate for the political commissars at all levels of the First Siberian Infantry Division to leave the wounded to the enemy, in front of the powerful Slavin and Hao, even the division political commissar Simbik did not dare to speak nonsense. The rest of the brigade  The political commissars of the battalion and company were not stupid enough to stand up against abandoning the seriously wounded.

    "Comrade Commander, the coalition's armored forces have too much firepower and are well-trained. The opponent only had one battalion just now. But if our artillery hadn't used its power, both regiments might not have been able to defeat the opponent. Wouldn't we?  Just give it up and retreat to the west?" Hao finally boldly suggested.

    Slavin sighed inwardly, thinking, don¡¯t I want to retreat to the west as soon as possible?  But if we run now, the battle will be impossible. How can two legs run faster than someone else's four wheels?  Thinking of this, the guy waved his hand and said firmly,

    "It's not time to withdraw yet. We are pretending to be the main force of the group army. One of the opponent's armored battalions has suffered a loss and has probably moved closer to their main force. If we run away now, the opponent will immediately come to their senses and know that we are retreating, so  We must continue our attack and take advantage of the fact that the opponent's air force is restricted in dispatching at night, so that the whole division can advance another twenty kilometers. Then we will decide whether to withdraw or defend based on the situation! "

    Commander Slavin has a very high prestige in his Fifth Army. Since he insisted so much, his subordinates had no choice but to obey. Fortunately, although the casualty ratio in the encounter just now was completely unpredictable, we finally won, right?  ?  Therefore, the morale of the team has recovered a lot from the tension and panic in the morning. The whole division has packed up. The commander of the second brigade, Bi Shaofu, led a regiment to continue to open the way north. Behind him were six artillery batteries and one on each wing.  The heavy machine gun battalion, followed by three infantry regiments side by side, and the lightly wounded soldiers all mounted the horses of the remaining multiple companies of the group army's cavalry reconnaissance battalion.

    The seriously wounded and the two remaining medical soldiers watched in silence as the brigade headed north, feeling extremely sad inside. A few mentally broken-down guys screamed at their comrades to give them a shot, but no one paid any attention. The quarrel continued until later.  , a small medical soldier swung the butt of his gun and knocked it on the head with these roaring guys, knocking him unconscious and knocking him down.

    If it weren't for the rumors that the coalition forces treated prisoners preferentially on the Ufa battlefield, most of these severely wounded soldiers would have committed suicide, and the two medical soldiers would probably not have been willing to stay like this. Now, at least everyone still has some vague expectations.  , I was really captured, can I survive at least?  As for the decision to abandon the seriously wounded to break out with light equipment, since a group army commander has taken responsibility, what does it have to do with us unlucky guys?

    ¡°Besides, what happened to the commander of the group army?  Isn¡¯t Lezhevsky the commander of the Fourth Army?  Isn't Ahe the chief of staff of our Fifth Army?  I heard that the coalition forces still treated prisoners favorably after laying down their weapons!

    As Slavin himself said, of course, two legs can't run as fast as four wheels. Since the First Siberian Infantry Division accepted Deng's disguise as the main force of the group army to attack north to lure the enemy and attract the attention of the coalition forces, it definitely did not conduct reconnaissance and alert with others.  The saying that the troops fought a small battle and then turned around and ran away.

    At nine o'clock that night, Slavin's division encountered the coalition ground forces again. The movement was still the enemy's armored reconnaissance battalion, but the enemy did not wait for the artillery company on their side to take up its posture, and exchanged fire with the vanguard regiment before running to the north again.  The second regiment of the second brigade suffered 200 casualties, but the opponent seemed to be unscathed.? Withdrew and went north again.

    Slavin's artillery battery did not have time to deploy, and the heavy machine gun battalions on both wings did not contain him. At this time, the contact point between the two sides was ten kilometers northwest of Briguma. He was running on his feet and was covered in stinking sweat.  The Siberian Infantry Division stopped to rest.

    "Comrade Commander, the coalition forces seem to be luring the enemy deeper. The armored battalion has already disappeared if it wanted to run away. It is clear that it stopped and waited for us. Everyone is afraid that there is an ambush behind the enemy! Can we stop the pursuit and turn around?  Going west? ?" This time the division commander couldn't bear it anymore. This guy was also a bold man, but playing hide and seek with the coalition forces on this dim moonlight night made him extremely depressed.

    Just now, the commander of the second brigade led the second regiment to explore the road in front. They were ambushed by heavy machine guns from an armored vehicle. The other party set up a pocket formation and used grenades to temporarily set off triggers on both sides of the road.  Lei, the vanguard company of the second regiment was so blind that they could not see it. When the grenade went off, several soldiers were blown away. The explosion was like a signal. A dozen or so soldiers suddenly appeared in the woods 1,200 meters away.  With the flames of a large-caliber heavy machine gun, the vanguard company was caught off guard and was almost wiped out by the rain of bullets!

    By the time the artillery company behind unloaded its guns and opened up its stance to bombard the opponent's position, the group of armored vehicles in the middle had already disappeared. The heavy machine gun battalions outflanking the two flanks were too tired to catch up with the opponent. The carriage rushing in front stumbled again.  The grenades deployed by the opponent were blown up and the people who were bombed were turned upside down. Then a group of large-caliber mortar shells roared from the sky. The two heavy machine gun battalions lost at least six carriages and horse-drawn machine guns.  By the time the large group of people chased after them, the opponent had already retreated and disappeared.

    If Slavin's troops won the first encounter two hours ago and improved their morale, then this encounter at nine o'clock in the evening was obviously an ambush by the Soviet Red Army. A mere armored battalion dared to ambush a division.  , the opponent's commander's courage is really amazing, and he is superb in the use of grenades and mortars, a typical hit and run. The coalition's wheeled armored vehicle has a 360-degree rotating turret, which can shoot at the enemy regardless of whether it is attacking or retreating.

    The horse-drawn machine guns of the Soviet Red Army often had to stop and turn around before they could shoot at the opponent. The gap suddenly widened. What's more, the power of the Maxim heavy machine gun was far inferior to the opponent's 12.7 large-caliber heavy machine gun.  The defeat in the second battle obviously severely dampened the morale of Slavin's infantry division. This time the division commander could no longer bear it and ran to his commander again to ask for orders:

    "Comrade Slavin! The commander of the second regiment, Sabo, was killed! The vanguard company was almost completely wiped out. I don't object to your battle plan of luring the enemy and pretending to be the main force, but we are chasing them with two feet.  Four wheels are simply a fantasy. The coalition forces on the opposite side have flexible tactics. If we continue to fight like this, we will suffer few casualties. When we encounter the enemy's main force, we won't even have the strength to fight back!"

    The bandage of his wound was soaked with blood again, and just now the commander of the second regiment and the vanguard company were torn to pieces by nearly 20 enemy large-caliber heavy machine guns.

    "How can we fight with you? The entire division will turn around and run westward right now? Do you think the other side won't follow?" Slaven asked angrily. In fact, he was also very annoyed. He didn't expect that the other side was just a reconnaissance battalion.  So difficult!

    "Comrade Slavin, I have an idea." He said, pulling the livid Slavin aside and whispering,

    "We left three artillery companies to set up artillery positions in place, and then the infantry regiment, under the protection of the heavy machine gun battalion, led the other three artillery companies to turn west. After walking five kilometers, the three artillery companies set up their positions. This  The three artillery companies on the side will follow up. This time, these three artillery companies will follow the infantry regiment to the west for five kilometers, and then the three will follow up. In this way, the infantry can always move under the cover of our artillery group.  , what do you think?"

    Looking at his commander with no expectation, he felt quite proud of the method he had come up with. Without artillery support, the opponent's wheeled armored vehicles were simply irresistible. Ordinary infantrymen had no suitable means of dealing with them.  The means of wheeled armored fighting vehicles, and the firepower of their vehicle-mounted infantry after disembarking is also very high, and the squad machine guns and mortars are used to perfection.

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