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Chapter 59: The Battle of Muling River (15)

The Russian army attacking the north of the Muling River Railway Station was almost the same as the Russian army on the west, and the Russian army on the south side also received news of the failure of the Russian army on the southern front. Major General Tobulkinsky, the commander of the 35th Division, also decided to retreat overnight. However, the Russian army on the north side was on the east bank of the Muling River. Although the water in the Muling River was not deep, it was still difficult to cross the river in the middle of the night. Therefore, Tobulkinsky decided to withdraw to Shichangling and join the 9th Division and the 2nd Brigade on the northern front. After all, the Russian army would have nearly 32,000 troops, and Tobulkinsky had to make a lot of efforts.

However, it was already past 10 o'clock when the two sides met, so it was impossible to retreat overnight. Therefore, the commander of the Russian army's 9th Division, Lieutenant General Kyle Sheriman, decided to withdraw his troops early tomorrow morning.

Early in the morning of the second day, the 2nd Marine Division of the People's Army, which had been against the Russian army, suddenly launched an attack on the Russian army, and the offensive was quite fierce. In the direction of the Muling River Railway Station, armored trains also launched artillery and bombarded the Russian army.

Of course, Kyle Sheriman knew that the People's Army wanted to hold him back, waiting for the troops on the southern line to come and then encircle and annihilate him, so of course he could not be dragged by the People's Army. So Kyle Sheriman ordered the 2nd Brigade to stay and cut off the rear and block the People's Army, and the rest of the troops still retreated as planned.

Major General Stepanov of the 2nd Brigade almost turned aside after receiving the order, because everyone knew that the army that left behind the rear was a life-threatening death, but after all, it was difficult to violate military discipline, so he could only accept the order without forcing him to force himself.

After arriving at the rear, Kyle Sheriman immediately commanded the army to retreat westward. At about 9 a.m., the Russian army retreated to the Muling River. Although both people and horses could wader across the river, the Russian army now has two divisions, with artillery and supplies, and there are more than 200 vehicles. Of course, these vehicles cannot wader across the river. They must build bridges on the river surface. However, the Muling River is not wide and the river is not deep, so it doesn't take much time to build a bridge, and two hours are almost enough. So Kyle Sheriman ordered the Russian army to wader across the river in batches, and ordered engineers to set up wooden bridges on the river surface so that artillery, baggage and other vehicles can cross the river.

Although the Muling River is not deep, not all sections of the river can cross the river. Some sections have a depth of more than two meters, so people need to be sent to the water to test first and choose a section where you can cross the river.

About an hour later, the Russian army found two sections of the river crossing and crossed about one regiment of troops. Most of the bridge was set up. At this moment, Kyle Sheriman received a report that the 2nd Brigade, which was responsible for the cut-off, was defeated by the People's Army, and now he had retreated to the Russian crossing site. Kyle Sheriman was not shocked when he heard this, so he hurriedly climbed a small slope on the bank of the river. Looking around, he saw that 2 or 3 kilometers away, countless Russian soldiers were moving towards the riverside, but there was no formation at all. It was obviously a defeated army. If you listen carefully, you could still hear gunshots.

It turned out that the Russian 2nd Brigade was reluctant to stay in the rear, so the morale of the army was extremely low. Moreover, when the Russian army retreated, it pulled away most of the artillery, which weakened the combat effectiveness of the second Brigade. The People's Army also knew that the main force of the Russian army was fleeing, so it strengthened its offensive and tried its best to defeat the Russian army with the rear and pursue the main force of the Russian army.

In addition, the People's Army and the Russian Army have been fighting for several days, but there has not been a large-scale battle. Seeing the People's Army on other battlefields winning one after another, they are naturally eager to fight. Now they finally have the opportunity to fight, so naturally everyone is brave and vigorous. As a result, the 2nd Brigade failed to defend for an hour and was attacked by the People's Army. The Brigade Commander Major General Stepanov had no intention of fighting to the death. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately ordered a retreat. He thought that the Russian brigade had already crossed the Muling River at this time. The People's Army chased the Russian army and rushed over like the Muling River.

Kyle Sheriman walked down the slope and recruited Tobulkinsky and his staff to discuss the plan to arrange positions on the river bank and block the People's Army. But at this moment, a few "booms" sounds, and several shells fell into the river and exploded, stirring up several meters of water columns. Fortunately, the landing point of the shells was not the section of the crossing river, but the splashes of water caused to hit many Russian soldiers, but this also made the Russian army nervous. Are these shells coming from there?

Before the Russian army could react, the shells fell one after another, some fell into the river water, and some fell to the river bank. This time, many shells fell into the crowd on the river bank. Some Russian soldiers were killed by bombing, and the Russian soldiers were suddenly panicked. The Russian soldiers on the shore rushed into the river, regardless of whether they could cross the river section; the Russian soldiers in the river accelerated their speed of crossing the river and just wanted to get ashore earlier; the engineers who built the bridge also stopped working, some were watching, and some jumped into the river and swam to the other side; and many soldiers simply threw their guns away so that they could cross the river lightly, and Kyle Sheriman, Tobrkinsky and others could not command them.

At this moment, countless war horses were killed from the woods on the west bank of the Muling River. The knights on the horses waved their sabers and rushed towards the Russian army on the shore. Judging from the style of military uniforms, they were obviously the cavalry of the People's Army. Along the banks of the Muling River, three strange-shaped vehicles appeared, with horse-free donkeys leading themselves. Moreover, machine guns were obviously installed on the vehicles, not only shooting at the Russian army on the west bank of the Muling River, but also shooting at the Russian army on the east bank that was still in the river through the Muling River.

It turned out that after learning about the Russian retreat on the Northern Front, Luo Yue realized that the Russian retreat route must be blocked, so he ordered the plane to be dispatched to reconnaise the Russian army's march route in the air, determine the location for the Russian army to cross the river, and ordered the cavalry and warrior convoys at Beilin Station to attack to intercept the Russian army on the west bank of the Muling River. In addition, each armored vehicle also brought a 100 mortar team. Of course, the members were compressed to only 3 people. After all, the shells could be loaded on the warrior car. It was also required that the Russian army's crossing place must be reached within an hour.

Beilin Station is almost 50 kilometers away from the Russian ferry. Of course, there will be no big problem for the armored warriors. Although the warriors slowed down their speed due to the increase in armor, the speed of 5 or 60 kilometers per hour is still more than enough. The cavalry did not participate in the battle to encircle and annihilate the retreating Russian troops last night, so the troops were given a relatively sufficient rest. Moreover, the People's Army seized more than 3,000 Russian horses at Beilin Station, which could give the cavalry two horses one by one, so that the cavalry could speed up the speed of the cavalry.

Sure enough, after the Cavalry and the Martyrs convoy attacked, they arrived at the Russian crossing site within an hour. At this time, the Russian army had already begun to cross the river. Therefore, the People's Army immediately began to arrange mortar positions on the high ground 2-3 kilometers away from the river bank, and left 3 Martyrs chariots to help them transport shells and transfer positions. The other 6 Martyrs chariots were divided into two groups and assaulted along the river bank. This not only attacked the Russian army on the main bank, but also attacked the Russian army on the opposite bank; while the cavalry regiment was hidden in the jungle near the river bank, assaulting the Russian army from the front.

After the arrangement was made, the mortar troops first launched a long-range strike against the Russian army, disrupting the Russian army's position. Then the cavalry and warriors rushed out. At this time, the Russian army only crossed the river with one regiment of troops, and did not expect the People's Army to launch an attack on the river bank here. Not only did they not arrange defensive positions, the soldiers who crossed the river did not line up again, but were busy making fires and roasting clothes. It is now the end of September. Although winter has not yet entered, the temperature is not high, and the Northeast region is originally colder than in the pass, so naturally they cannot wear wet clothes for a long time.

As a result, facing the assault of the People's Army's cavalry, the Russian army had almost no stopping power. Therefore, in a blink of an eye, the cavalry of the People's Army rushed into the Russian army and slashed with the sword. Once the cavalry rushed to the front of the infantry, it would naturally be a nightmare for the infantry. As long as the cavalry used the power of the war horses and swung the sword, they could easily kill the Russian soldiers. Some Russian soldiers were even directly knocked down by the cavalry of the People's Army. Some of the cavalry of the People's Army used 96 pistols to shoot at the Russian soldiers, which immediately killed countless Russian soldiers and killed them and corpses everywhere. Although there were a few Russian soldiers who fought hard, some raised their guns to shoot, and some rushed to the horses to fight against the cavalry of the People's Army, but after all, the number of people was too small and could not change the overall situation.

At the beginning, the warrior chariot was still shooting at the Russian army on its own, but then the cavalry of the People's Army fought with the Russian army and had a clear advantage. Therefore, the warrior chariot turned the gun head and mainly shot the Russian army on the river and the other side. The mortar also placed the target of the attack on the other side of the river. At this time, the river was almost full of Russian soldiers, and a large number of Russian soldiers were crowded on the shore and preparing to go down the river. They all became living targets of the People's Army, which only caused heavy casualties and blood flow. Because of the fact that they were in the river, there were countless floating corpses, and even the river water was dyed red.

The Russian soldiers who had not yet entered the river hurriedly retreated to find a place to hide, but at this moment, the 2nd Marine Division had already pursued the river bank and launched an attack on the Russian army. At this time, the Russian army was already in chaos and had the ability to resist the attack of the People's Army, so they could only run around and escape.

However, although the People's Army had an advantage, the number of people in the competition was less than that of the Russian army and could not surround the Russian army. Therefore, many Russian troops took advantage of this loophole to escape from the battlefield, including two Russian division commanders, Kyle Sheriman, Tobrkinsky, and a group of staff officers.

But not long after, the 1st and 6th Divisions of the 1st Army of the People's Army, who came from the northern line, arrived at the battlefield and quickly expanded their forces to form an encirclement, surrounded the Russian army, and also dispatched troops to pursue the Russian soldiers who fled from the battlefield. In this way, the People's Army also had an absolute advantage in its forces, and the surrounded Russian soldiers could only raise their hands to surrender.
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