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Volume 1: On the Songhua River Chapter 778: Soldiers Arrive at the City

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    Chapter 778: The troops are approaching the city

    On August 12, the battle at Helianbo Fort lasted for 21 hours and ended with the direct-affiliated corps capturing the fortress. In this battle, more than 56,000 Outer Mongolian defenders were wiped out, of which 30,000 were killed.  There were more than a thousand people, more than 20,000 prisoners, and more than 3,000 people whose whereabouts were unknown. They were probably destroyed by the devastating artillery bombardment of the artillery group directly under the corps, leaving not even a trace of their existence.  -< Piaotian literature registered members recommend this work >-%.net

    Lieutenant General Subart, commander of the Helianbo Fort garrison, commander and political commissar of the Second Group Army of the Outer Mongolia Army, committed suicide. Among the four infantry divisions he belonged to, three division commanders were captured, one was killed, and four political commissars were captured.  One, the others died in the battle, including Major General Hangda Dorji who commanded the 1st Guards Division to besiege Duan Shude's troops, and other regimental and battalion-level officers. Except for those who were killed, all were captured, and Qiuba Mountain relied on to split,*  *'s military capital was wiped out in one battle.

    At this point, in Outer Mongolia, the Outer Mongolia separatist government no longer had a decent military group. The Battle of Helianboborg initially achieved Tang Qiuli's goal of annihilating the main force of the Outer Mongolian army, and the casualties of the directly affiliated corps exceeded 5,000, including  , most of them were troops that broke into the fort, and the name of the temporary commander, Major Duan Shude, has also become a hero in the minds of soldiers and officers of the directly affiliated corps.

    Tang Qiuli, commander of the ** division and commander of the directly affiliated corps, immediately issued an order to award Duan Shude the Second Class Warrior Medal, and notified the entire army that his family members enjoyed the treatment of martyrs. Only in the battle of Helianboburg, the directly affiliated corps received the bravery or warrior medal.  There are more than a hundred officers and soldiers. This is a fighting group with many heroes, and it is also the soil for cultivating heroes. The spiritual motivation represented by the medal inspires all the officers directly under the corps to be more brave and tenacious. Those who wear the medal  Officers and soldiers have become the envy of everyone.

    On August 13, the whole regiment rested for a day at Helianbo Fort. Because the battle ended at an unusual speed, Tang Qiuli had plenty of time to adjust his deployment. What he had always cared about was not the Outer Mongolian army.  , not even Kulun, but the movement of the Soviet army. Even if Kulun is captured, the Soviets will gather forces and fight to the death with themselves in Outer Mongolia. What Stalin cares about is not Choiba Mountain, but the geographical location occupied by Outer Mongolia.

    He did not yet know that the famous Soviet General Zhukov would become his opponent during the rapid formation of the First Army of the Soviet Far East. However, the commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Zhukov, asked Qiubashan to hold on for at least fifteen to twenty days to give him hope.  There is a buffer time for the formation of the group army. With the fall of Helianboborg, it has become an impossible task. This has brought immeasurable losses and difficulties to Zhukov's plan.

    During the fierce battle at Helianbo Fort, no Soviet troops were seen, and not even a single Soviet plane came. This was an abnormal thing in itself. At the same time, through contact with Feng Jiwu, who divided his forces to attack other areas of Outer Mongolia, various parties  The troops progressed smoothly and encountered extremely weak resistance. Most of them were local guards with poor equipment, and they rarely encountered regular troops from Outer Mongolia.

    The Soviets were unusually calm. The more this happened, the more unsure Tang Qiuli felt. He ordered the special operations detachments to disperse their troops and pay close attention to all Soviet movements around Outer Mongolia.  The scope of reconnaissance was expanded, and an airtight surveillance network was established on the border between Outer Mongolia and the Soviet Union. It maintained contact with division commanders 24 hours a day and reported all intelligence on Soviet troop movements directly to the division commander.

    On August 14, the troops who had regained their physical strength and combat effectiveness, after replenishing their supplies and ammunition, marched straight out of Helianbo Fort and rushed towards the last and largest attack target, Cullen, sitting in the command vehicle.  Tang Qiuli was on the road, but the lingering shadow of the Soviet troops still lingered in his mind. Kulun was the last battle to regain the land in Outer Mongolia, but it was the focus of the fight with the Soviet army. However, the Soviet army had not moved yet.  Is there a conspiracy or other reasons? What kind of opponent is coming this time?

    There was no obstacle on the road to Kulun. At about 4 o'clock in the morning on August 15, the regiment directly under the ** division, under the command of Tang Qiuli, approached Kulun City. Kulun City, located on the plains of Outer Mongolia, had neither  The ancient city wall has no modern defense system, only temporarily excavated field fortifications, which appear chaotic in the dim morning light.

    In addition to a large number of human resources, such a city does not even have decent tall buildings, and it does not have the basic conditions for street fighting. I don¡¯t know how Qiuba Mountain can defend the city. Even all the people can¡¯t withstand the destructive power of the Japanese division¡¯s artillery group.  Tang Qiuli had every reason to believe that the artillery group would only take two hours to turn Cullen into ruins and be wiped off the map.

    But this was not the result he wanted. A Culun in ruins was of no value to Tang Qiuli. He wanted to recover the country, not destroy it. The troops followed the orders of the corps headquarters and quickly took all-round measures against Culun.  surrounded.

    &nbsp; The fall of Fort Helenborg so quickly took Choi Bashan by surprise and unprepared. The urban residents of Culun had just mobilized, and everything was still in a state of disorder. Choi Bashan knew in his heart that except for one capital guard division, there was no defense against Culun.  In addition to the regular army, the other forces are a group of ragtag, temporarily armed civilians, incited to the front line by the Mongolian People's Liberation Party. Qiubashan does not even want to think about their combat effectiveness.

    At the critical moment, Qiao Bashan took ruthless but absolutely necessary measures to block the news of the fall of Helianbobsburg from everyone. Two confidential personnel responsible for receiving news from the front line of Helianboborg disappeared mysteriously. It is said that they are Chinese.  The spies hidden within the Outer Mongolian government have been secretly executed. Even the personal secretary who sent top-secret telegrams to Qiaobashan died inexplicably. Only Qiaobashan knew the news about the fall of Fort Helenborg.

    He wanted to use these few days to take a breather and properly deploy Culun's defense. The main force of the Outer Mongolian Army had been completely lost. Qiaobashan's only hope was Zhukov's First Far East Army, but Tang Qiuli did not even give him a chance to breathe.  He only rested for one day at Helianbo Fort before he came to the city.

    It was another dawn. The Kulun people, led by the cadres of the Mongolian Communist Party, came to the suburbs carrying tools and continued to dig trenches. What they saw stunned them. Overnight, the suburbs of Kulun were lined with artillery and tanks.  Cullen was surrounded from all sides. Countless Chinese soldiers were armed with live ammunition, and their cold gazes made their hearts tremble. Only then did they realize that they had gotten under the noses of the Chinese soldiers.

    The Chinese soldiers did not fire, and the crowd dispersed and fled back to the city. Helianbo Fort was lost, and the bad news that the Chinese Communist Army was approaching the city of Kulun quickly spread throughout the city like wings. The entire Kulun was plunged into chaos.  In the extreme panic, Qiao Bashan's lies went bankrupt, and the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city were shaken.

    Qiubashan held an emergency city defense meeting and implemented comprehensive military control and martial law in Kulun. The temporary court composed of members of the Mongolian Revolutionary Party adopted brutal suppression methods against those so-called wavering elements, those who attempted to escape, and those who had distracted the military morale. In order to stop  In panic, Qiubashan went on a killing spree and used red terror methods to tie more than 200,000 Kuron people onto the chariot of the separatist government in Outer Mongolia. This was also a road of no return.

    Throughout the entire day of August 15th, Tang Qiuli did not order the troops to attack. He was waiting for the Soviet Union's reaction, and for Qiubashan to repent at the critical moment and take the correct approach to save Cullen from danger.  The devastation of war also prevented the seeds of hatred from being sown in the hearts of the Outer Mongolians. The overwhelming force of the army was a deterrent.

    In panic, Cullen faced off against more than 200,000 Chinese troops. Qiaobashan even sent several telegrams a day directly to Stalin. The reply he received was, "The First Far East Army is being formed. I hope the great Mongolia will  Communists who can lead the heroic people of Outer Mongolia to resist the Chinese invading army until the arrival of the Soviet Red Army troops.¡±

    If this is not nutritious, if Qiao Bashan is sure, can he still be as anxious as an ant on a hot pot?  While Qiao Bashan was racking his brains on how to keep Kulun, an undercurrent was quietly surging inside Kulun City. Under the rule of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the princes and nobles who had lost their power and status were also brewing great changes.

    On August 16, the Chinese Communist Army still did not launch an attack on Kulun. Only a large number of tanks and military vehicles were mobilized back and forth outside Kulun, which increased the psychological pressure on the people in the city. Tang Qiuli was still waiting, and the Soviet army was still waiting.  There was no action. Various special operations groups located on the border between Outer Mongolia and the Soviet Union sent intelligence and found no signs of Soviet troops mobilizing.

    At about 4 o'clock in the morning on August 17, the roar of tanks around the city of Cullen, which had been silent for several days, broke the pre-dawn tranquility. After waiting for two days, the corps directly under the ** Division finally launched a full-scale attack on Cullen.  , there was no sound of gunfire, only the roar of tank engines, and groups of silent soldiers under the cover of tanks.

    Tang Qiuli chose the main attack direction very accurately. It happened to be the only trump card in Qiao Bashan's hand, the defensive area of ??the Capital Guard Division. This was the only unit with certain combat effectiveness. It was about two thousand meters away from the Outer Mongolian Army's defensive position.  At this time, the artillery of the Capital Guard Division began to shell the tank group of the Chinese Army.

    Scattered artillery shells fell on the attack column of the tank brigade directly under the corps, and smoke columns rose one by one. The small number of light artillery had an extremely slight damage effect on the modified "Izu" tank, and it was only in the anti-tank line.  In front of the trench, the tanks stopped advancing, lined up in a row, and bombarded the Outer Mongolian Army's defensive positions. This was also bullying the Outer Mongolian Army for not having anti-tank weapons.

    Smoke billowed from the Outer Mongolian army's position. The hastily built bunkers and bunkers were turned into ruins of broken bricks and rocks under the salvos of three tank brigades. They drove up from behind the attacking troops.  Dozens of auxiliary tanks and huge shovels in front of the vehicles pushed up large masses of mud.The light and heavy machine gun bullets of the Outer Mongolian Army hit the armor of the tanks with a "ding-dong" sound. These bulldozing tanks did not feel normal and continued to work.

    (To be continued)
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