Chapter 62: Hesitation

As Chen Yiyang said, Harubin's strategic position was indeed very fatal. Obviously, Alexeyev also realized this problem. The Russian army set up a temporary logistics supply base here, built some simple fortifications, and deployed a division of troops here.

In such a large-scale battle, the strength of a division is not very prominent, but with the amount of force Yang Zhi and Shen Yiyang at hand and the lack of sufficient heavy weapons, it is not that easy to defeat.

Two barbed wire mesh that looked a little messy and thin, behind them were trenches dug by the Russian army. The former small fishing village had been expanded in circles. Behind the half-person-high wall, the Russian army was busy continuing to repair the wall.

"The military region was very thoughtful. The infiltrated troops were used to belong to the same division. There was no problem in terms of cooperation, but why did I think of it and let me take the lead?" Yang Zhi smiled a little distressedly and said to Chen Yiyang, the new chief of staff beside him.

"As the main leader of the Independent 7th Division, as the main leader of the infiltration, he made this suggestion when reporting to the military region. He believes that you have been fighting in the rear for a long time, are familiar with the situation, and are well aware of the Russian army's combat style. You have participated in the Suihua defensive battle before this. If you didn't stay and persist, you might have already been appointed as a school official, right?" Chen Yiyang smiled quietly and explained softly.

"You'd better stop talking about this. I was a captain and battalion commander. It's so funny to command such a huge army." Yang Zhi smiled even more helplessly. Chen Yiyang looked at Yang Zhi in surprise and said, "The military region has not ordered you to be promoted to three levels in a row. Now he is a colonel."

Yang Zhi looked at Chen Yiyang, who was more younger than him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Let's go, let's go back. This time the command is on my surface, but in fact, let's listen to Commander Liu more."

Putting away the telescope, the two of them slowly retreated from the grass, sneaked into a nearby forest, and disappeared into the afterglow of the evening.

"Haha, the command is decided by the superiors, and I firmly obey it. But there is one thing I want to remind you that the predecessor of the Independent 7th Division was the Third Security Division of Heilongjiang. Its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the regular army. The officer quality is not neat. We can send us in because we are familiar with the terrain." Liu Changrong, the commander of the Independent 7th Division, looked thin and tight, with his eyes, a bit like a teacher, rather than a soldier.

"Security Guard?" Yang Zhi said in a daze, and a bitter taste came up in his mind.

"Yes, our division commander was a commissioner of the Suihua area before." An official of the Independent 7th Division took the conversation with a smile. Yang Zhi and Shen Yiyang looked at each other and immediately understood a lot of things. The Independent 7th Division was equipped with Yishui Russian-made water pearls. Needless to say, these were all seized on the battlefield. The mortars were over ten years old, and the root of them was in this.

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Chen Yiyang was a little angry. He didn't say hello first for such a big thing. The war was about to start, but this incident happened.

"You didn't ask, what were we saying?" The official who interrupted said something dissatisfied. Commander Liu saw that the two were dissatisfied and quickly took over the conversation and said, "That's right. We came here this time mainly to cooperate with your actions. I didn't have time to say it before, it was my wrong."

Chen Yiyang and Yang Zhi understood why they became the leaders of this enemy's rear force. Although it was a bit like rushing the ducks to put them on the shelves, it could also show a problem from the side. At present, there is a shortage of troops in the northern military region, or the troops invested in the front battlefield, which the military region believes are insufficient.

The two exchanged glances with each other, Chen Yiyang took out his pocket watch to see the time, and smiled at Commander Liu quietly, "Haha, what's wrong with the security guard? Harubin's Russians are also a second-rate army, and there are no strong fortifications. As long as everyone works together and cooperates well, there is absolutely no problem."

Commander Liu himself was a civilian, so he did not fight for command power. At this time, he also saw the concerns of the two of them and nodded, "The Chief of Staff said it well, so we will go down and prepare according to the previous arrangement."

The people from the Independent 7th Division went down, and Chen Yiyang and Yang Zhi fell into silence.

"Is there any cigarette?" Yang Zhi suddenly said this, Chen Yiyang was stunned for a moment, and took out a pack of unopened cigarette from his canvas bag and handed it over.

After taking a few sips of cigarettes, Yang Zhi dropped the cigarette butt and stepped hard a few times, vented some dissatisfaction and whispered: "I understand, no wonder the military region just asked us to prepare before the war, wait for the reinforcements that were quickly inserted from the Western Front, and then attack Harubin."

Chen Yiyang also figured this out, took the cigarette viciously, lit one for himself, and after a while, he whispered: "The military region is planning to make us a reserve team, and we are not at ease enough. Think about it, before this, you were a captain, and I was a second lieutenant, hehe. Can we two lieutenants and military regions rest assured?"

Yang Zhi sighed: "Originally, the Sixth Army left a deputy division commander who coordinated the work behind enemy lines. He died last week. As a result, I became the most experienced and most positioned officer behind enemy lines. I want us to take the lead, but the military region is forced to do so."

"Well, time is not allowed. I guess the total attack will be in these two days. Look at whether we will play Harubin or not for a while?"

Yang Zhi thought for a while, and suddenly said with a fierce look on his face: "Fight, as long as the news of the general attack comes from the military region, we will fight. Look at the terrain of this area. If you don't take Harubin early, you will have no time to build the necessary fortifications."

Chen Yiyang said: "The problem is that we don't have enough artillery, and even if we have them, there are no regular artillery soldiers. If we fight hard, is it possible? Harubin is a regular division of the Russian army, with more than 12,000 people. Even if we capture Harubin, we will go there to find tools to repair fortifications?"

Yang Zhi said: "You don't have to worry about tools. When the Sixth Army retreated, a batch of supplies was buried nearby. I took people to do the work. I knew where the place was. After defeating Harubin, I took people to dig. Now let's discuss how to fight this battle."

After the two discussed, the sky gradually darkened. The result of the discussion was to form a powerful commando based on the veterans left by the Sixth Army, and use the cover of night to lurk Harubin and suddenly launch an attack. In terms of firepower, all the mortars were concentrated and violently bombarded. The Independent 7th Division was used as a reserve.

After the discussion, the two held an emergency military meeting and reported the results to the military region. The military region called back that night and said that they should be cautious and not be reckless. The call also informed the two that the general attack time was set, and the day after tomorrow was 4 a.m.

Such an instruction seems a bit vague. Is the military region not paying attention to the role of this force, or is it because of other reasons? Yang Zhi and Shen Yiyang were confused.

In fact, aftershocks and the leaders of the military region were also very troubled after receiving the telegram from Chen Yiyang. The situation reported below was indeed true. If the troops were interspersed after the general attack, if they could not succeed in time, it would be like letting the Russian army go to the Russian army. The most important thing is that Chen Yiyang, the "relative" of the president, was involved.

Yang Zhi and Shen Yiyang discussed urgently again, but finally decided to report the military region. They were sure to take Harubin and asked for instructions. At 12 o'clock in the evening, the military region called back to "approve".

After the matter was decided, the two began to make an emergency deployment. Although these two were young people, they were brave and bold, dared to think and act. Yang Zhi also had considerable combat experience. They should have been lucky because Harubin was the rear of the Russian army. The Russian division commander who was guarding the Russian army did not take the defense seriously at all. Usually, they were harassed by small groups of guerrillas. It was more than enough to guard such a small place, so they didn't care much about defense. They only had to do it for three days to fish and two days to dry the net. There were many loopholes in the entire defense system.

The scouts sent by Yang Zhi came back early the next morning to report that the Russian army's main task is to repair the walls. The barbed wire on the periphery was too thin, which means there was nothing, and the field fortifications were not repaired, and the trenches were dug one meter deep. At night, there were very few troops deployed on the outer positions, no more than one battalion. The reconnaissance troops easily touched the inside of Harubin and concluded that our army could use the cover of night to directly touch Harubin from the Russian army's poor defense, and caught him off guard.

Yang Zhi was overjoyed when he heard the news. Although the 7th Independent Division could not count on it, the more than 3,000 people left by the Sixth Army were all veterans baptized by war, and their night battle experience was quite rich. Organizing these people, a sudden attack could fool the Russian army.

After some discussion with Shen Yiyang, Yang Zhi and Shen Yiyang decided to ask the Independent 7th Division to collect all the grenades they brought and hand them over to the veterans for use. Each of them carried ten grenades and touched Harubin at night. Even the preparation for artillery fire was spared, which could save some ammunition.

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The time for the aftershock to launch a general attack is very particular. Because the telegram listening work is in place, the Russian army's mobilization and deployment are completely in the hands of the Chinese army. During this period, the Russian army was frequently mobilized and adjusted and deployed under the order of Alekseev. After discussing with Kze, aftershock decided to attack him a time difference. That is, while most of the Russian army's troops were still mobilizing, they suddenly launched an attack.

The development of the battle situation was as Chen Yiyang predicted before the war. Although the Russian army was caught off guard, the Eastern Front War situation was not fast because the Russian army had focused on defense before. The Russian army, which was temporarily at a disadvantage, fought desperately to fight for time. The Western Front War situation was on the contrary. Although the Russian army had a good position, the terrain advantage was not highlighted under the sudden attack of the Chinese army's superior forces. After a fierce battle between the two sides, the Western Front battlefield advanced 30 kilometers and was rapidly advancing in depth. The forces of a division sent by the military region to penetrate directly behind the enemy had also quickly taken advantage of the terrain to penetrate the rear of the Russian army under the terrain cover and rushed to Harubin in a starry night.

On the Eastern Front battlefield, after the initial rapid advancement of more than ten axioms, the Chinese army's advancement speed began to slow down. The reason was that the Russian army deployed a large number of troops on this front, and the harassed Russian army also built quite a few fortifications.

On the first night of the fierce battle, the Russian army retreated to a certain extent and barely stabilized its position and temporarily blocked the rapid advance of the Chinese army.

Alexeyev, who was in Yushu County, was shocked after learning of the sudden attack launched by the Chinese army and hurriedly readjusted the deployment. However, Alexeyev's reaction was still a little slow. That night, the Chinese army took advantage of the night battle. With the attack without stopping, the Western Front had approached outside Shulan County, and the Eastern Front completed the siege of the Russian army in Dehui County.

The constant bad news quickly made Alexeyev understand one thing: the Chinese army invested no less troops than the Russian army, and it was likely that there were much more. The shocking Alexeyev was that the number of heavy artillery in the Chinese army was astonishing, and the news came from the front line always mentioned the suffocating and terrifying artillery preparations of the Chinese army.

After a day and night of fighting, Alexeyev, who had not closed his eyes all night, obtained a vague statistical data. At least four Russian military divisions were defeated by the powerful assault force of the Chinese army during the first day of the battle. At present, these divisions have lost contact and the battle situation ahead has fallen into chaos.

Alexeyev realized that he was likely to usher in an important turning point in his military career. At this time, his best choice was to quickly order the entire army to retreat and retreat across the Hulan River line. The news came from the front that the front line was temporarily stable in Shulan and Dehui counties. At this time, should the troops be put into counterattack? Or should he retreat voluntarily, Alexeyev hesitated.
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