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Chapter 510 The Battle of Muling River (6)

Of course, at this time, both sides were not on the same level at all. First of all, the People's Army fought against a brigade of the Russian army with one division, so it had a relatively obvious advantage in terms of military strength. Moreover, the People's Army is now attacking from three sides, which can fully expand its military strength advantage, while the Russian army is trapped in a corner, which is inferior to the People's Army in terms of military strength arrangement.

In fact, there is a certain advantage in concentrating forces like the Russian army, which is to be in the inside line, so that the force dispatch is faster than the People's Army, and can better control the overall situation, and form superior forces on local battlefields. Therefore, as long as the force is properly dispatched, it may not be disadvantageous. However, this requires the Russian army to have good organization and unified command. Unfortunately, the Russian army has not had both conditions now. Because at the beginning of the war, the People's Army's artillery attack on the Russian army disrupted the organization of the Russian army, and the People's Army's take advantage of the situation and made the Russian army not have time to reorganize and rectify.

Strich, who is now in the command center, has lost most of the information about the situation of most troops. Because the People's Army's artillery just now, many Russian troops have transferred their positions or positions. Although these troops have also sent communication soldiers to the General Command to report their new positions, the People's Army then attacked the Russian positions. Many Russian troops have not yet waited for the telecommunications troops to report their own troops. Even the telecommunications soldiers cannot find their own troops there, and some communication soldiers were killed on the way. Therefore, the only ones that Strich can still control is the two battalions closest to the command center and his own guards, so naturally they have lost command and control of the entire army, while the other Russian troops can only fight on their own.

The People's Army is different. Although after entering the Russian position, the People's Army was also scattered into battalions as units to fight each other, it is essentially different from the Russian army's separate forces. The scattered troops of the People's Army are closely linked to their superior level. The regiment headquarters knows where the three battalions are located and what battles are carried out, and the division also knows the situation of the various regiments under it, and looks at the overall situation to conduct comprehensive command and dispatch. This is naturally completely different from the situation where the Russian army is now not aware of the soldiers and the generals.

In fact, the individual combat effectiveness of Russian soldiers is quite good. The sense of honor of soldiers and the nature of combat nations also make Russian soldiers not inferior to those of the People's Army soldiers. Therefore, in a one-on-one situation, seven or eight out of ten wins are Russian soldiers. However, the battlefield is not a competition of individual combat capabilities, and the People's Army soldiers will not fight with Russian soldiers one-on-one, but rely on group cooperation, from small squads to even a war group, to large squads, to even a battalion, and behind them there is the overall command of the division headquarters. The People's Army is divided and time-to-time, and each army cooperates with each other, so the combat efficiency is naturally far higher than that of the Russian army.

As a result, the Russian army's strongholds were lost one after another, and the scattered teams were either annihilated by the People's Army or even more scattered. The People's Army gradually controlled the situation on the battlefield, and the positions controlled by the Russian army were also decreasing.

By around 8 o'clock in the morning, the Russian army's positions had lost nearly 70%, and the defeat was determined and irreversible. Moreover, even Strich's command was surrounded by the People's Army, with only two companies and their own guards guarding each other, totaling about 600 people.

It turned out that at the beginning, the 2nd Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment discovered the Russian command center. However, the sky was not yet bright, and the 2nd Company launched an attack without seeing it clearly. Only after the fight started, I found that the number of Russian troops was quite large, and there were hundreds of people, and they could not settle it by relying on one of their own companies. However, this also means that this is a big piece of fat, so I hurriedly sent someone to notify the battalion commander. Since the battlefield was approaching at this time, it was easy to find a piece of fat with hundreds of people, so the 3rd Battalion immediately pulled the entire battalion over.

In fact, when he was attacked by the 2nd Company, Strich knew that the situation was not good, so he ordered the entire army to retreat. However, seeing that the People's Army had not many troops, he was not too anxious. After all, there were still many things in a brigade's military headquarters, some of which were to be destroyed and some took them away. Strich decided to leave the last 30 minutes to deal with these matters.

But Strich did not expect that in less than 20 minutes, the People's Army suddenly increased its troops, which was no less than the Russian army. Now the Russian army could not retreat calmly. At least stop to resist for a while, stabilize the battlefield first, and then look for an opportunity to evacuate. Of course, at this time, the Russian army could still immediately break into pieces and disperse them into squads and evacuate in squads. Although the team was disbanded, because the forces of both sides were roughly equal at this time, the Russian army had not had enough troops to conduct a comprehensive interception, and at least half of the personnel could escape from the battlefield. Strich was mixed in a small team, and the possibility of escaping from the battlefield should be more than 50%. However, if he was not lucky and was stared by the People's Army, he could basically not escape. Burstrich was cautious and would not adopt such a risky strategy unless he could not do so. Therefore, he ordered the entire army to organize resistance on the spot.

After such a struggle, the sky was bright, and the People's Army could clearly see that this Russian army was obviously different from other Russian troops. It was probably the command center of the Russian army. After all, the People's Army and the Russian army had fought several major battles and had a considerable understanding of the characteristics of the Russian army. Therefore, the battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion also realized that what he found was not a piece of fat meat, but a big fish. Of course, no matter how he said, the Russian army could not be allowed to run away. So the battalion commander led the battle and reported to the regiment headquarters.

After receiving the report, the 1st Regiment's headquarters naturally dared to be careless. After all, it would be of great contribution to trapping the enemy's command center and capturing the enemy's highest commander. Moreover, the overall situation has been decided now, and other troops have no important tasks. Therefore, the 1st Regiment immediately drew troops from other troops to reinforce, and soon the regiment headquarters mobilized three companies to rush to reinforce the 3rd battalion.

Originally, the Russian army and the People's Army had already stabilized their position. Strich was also planning to leave two companies to block the People's Army and lead his own guards to evacuate. However, the three companies reinforced by the People's Army arrived, completely breaking Strich's plan. It can be said that Strich's every step was a move, and it was extremely dangerous now. At this time, Strich had no other way, so he could only order the entire army to be broken into pieces and break through with the squad as a unit. After the order, Strich only brought two guards to evacuate from the battlefield. It was not that Strich didn't want to bring more people, but was worried that there were too many people to attract the attention of the People's Army.

However, it was too late to break the Russian army into pieces at this time, because the People's Army's strength is almost twice that of the Russian army. Of course, there are enough troops to intercept the Russian army's small troops. As a result, some Russian troops were completely wiped out by the People's Army, some were disbanded, and some were surrounded.

Streach was not lucky and was surrounded by a platoon of the People's Army. Nearly half of the guards were killed. At the end of his life, Streach had to surrender to the People's Army and confessed his identity to the soldiers of the People's Army. Of course, it would be impossible not to confess, because Streach was wearing a general uniform and had his identity exposed.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the battle was completely over, and the People's Army won a comprehensive victory, killing 3,427 Russian soldiers, capturing 2,869, and less than 1,000 Russian soldiers fleeing, and capturing Major General Strech, the Russian brigade commander, was also the captive of the highest rank of the Russian army captured by the Far East War Zone. The People's Army was killed 382 people and another 477 were injured.

The 2nd Division, the 71st Division, which followed the Russian army, had arrived at Jiguan Huozi at this time and was advancing towards Xiyang Mountain. After learning that the 2nd Brigade had been completely wiped out, they naturally did not dare to advance anymore and hurriedly retreated. The 1st Division of the People's Army had to rest on the spot and clear the battlefield. Therefore, the 6th Division crossed the 1st Division to face the 1st Division of the People's Army, and did not dare to respond to the battle. They retreated to Dadao Mountain before resuming.

Luo Yue was also very happy to receive the battle report. He won both the north and south sides. Although neither victory was a decisive battle, it also set a good start for the Far East division. Moreover, through interrogation of Russian prisoners, by interrogating Strich, Luo Yue basically understood the tactical plan and military deployment of the Russian army, so that he could arrange it calmly.

Although the People's Army won both the north and south lines, the progress on both sides was different. The Russian army on the northern line retreated to Shichangling and fought against the People's Army, while the Russian army on the southern line was still on Dadao Mountain. From the map, the Russian army on the southern line was about 20 kilometers ahead of the Russian army on the northern line, and the straight line distance reached 40 kilometers. This is because the People's Army used the tactic of luring the enemy into depth on the southern line, so the Russian army was more suddenly on the southern line, and the two sides are now in an interlaced state. The People's Army on the northern line and the Russian army on the southern line have a huge gap on their flanks.

Luo Yue immediately realized that the fighter plane he had been waiting for had finally appeared. If he could make full use of this gap at this time, draw a division's troops from the northern line, and penetrate straight to the southern line, cut off the retreat route of the Russian army on the southern line, and work together with the two divisions on the southern line to annihilate the two divisions on the Russian army's southern line, then the People's Army will be sure to win this battle.

So Luo Yue immediately recruited staff to discuss the feasibility of this plan. After everyone discussed it, they believed that although this plan was quite sure, it also had great risks. At present, the risks mainly lie in two aspects. One is that after the People's Army on the North Line sent a division southward, only one division was left to fight against the Russian army. The Russian army on the North Line had two divisions and one regiment. Since the division-level organization of the Russian army was the same as that of the Japanese army, it had two brigades, that is, four regiments, and the number was about 20% more than the division of the People's Army, so the forces of both sides reached about 3:1.
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