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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 222: Battle of Urumqi

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    "Commander, Lao Maozi's artillery is too powerful, we can't go on like this. Think of a way, commander." On the Urumqi front line, a division commander under Sheng Shicai shouted on the phone.

    His division suffered considerable losses under the artillery fire of the Tsarist Russian Xinjiang Expeditionary Force. The artillery fire of the four divisions alone was obviously not enough to suppress the artillery fire of the opponent's three divisions.  If you think about it, you will know that Sheng Shicai's four artillery regiments only have the firepower of three artillery regiments in the eyes of the Tsarist Russian Army, while these three Tsarist Russian army divisions have the firepower of six artillery regiments.

    The difference in quantity is twice that of Shengshicai's artillery, which is average, and this time the Xinjiang expeditionary force sent by Tsarist Russia from Moscow is not the parallel import troops that were disabled last time.  They are well-trained elite troops that are first-rate in the Tsarist Russian Army.  Sheng Shicai's army only completed its expansion last year, so it would be strange if it felt easy to fight now.

    Sheng Shicai shouted feebly on the phone: "Hold it, hold it."

    What else can Sheng Shicai do? After establishing himself as the King of Xinjiang, Sheng Shicai offended everyone in every aspect.  Although Nanjing ignored his distress telegram, even Moscow did not believe him this time. Neither side took Sheng Shicai's surrender telegram seriously.

    Sheng Shicai became anxious and hurriedly sent a telegram to several Ma Jiajun people who now lived in Gansu and western Ningxia and Sun Dianying in Qinghai to explain the reason for this.  They hoped that Ma Jiajun, Sun Dianying and others would give up their old suspicions and immediately send troops to rescue Sheng Shicai and Urumqi.

    However, it was not until those who grew up in warlord melees that they forgot that the warlord troops have a good habit, that is, friendly forces will remain unmoved when in trouble.  The full text is to retreat and turn in as fast as the wind, to outflank and detour as fast as the forest, to plunder money and invade as fast as fire, and to move friendly troops as hard as a mountain.  The Fenglinhuoshan in Sun Tzu's Art of War was changed to look like this, and the ancestors lost all face.

    When Ma Jiajun and Sun Dianying looked at the map, their first impression was that Urumqi was too far away, more than a thousand kilometers away.  Lao Maozi's railway must be built at least two to three hundred kilometers along the ancient Silk Road in Gansu to pose a threat to them.

    "It's just that Lao Maozi's railway has just been built to Alashankou. It's still early.  There are still thousands of kilometers to go, and it is probably difficult to build a railway in desert terrain at this time - the desert area in Xinjiang is a mobile desert. If you build a railway and highway today, but there will be a sandstorm tomorrow, the railway and highway will be gone.

    Therefore, although Ma Jiajun and Sun Dianying are also worried that Lao Maozi will attack them after they capture Xinjiang, they are even more worried that they have offended Lao Maozi before and Lao Maozi will attack him first.  After all, Lao Maozi is building this railway to Gansu or Qinghai. This matter is still to be determined.

    So the replies from both sides and Sheng Shicai were hesitant, emphasizing their own difficulties and praising Lao Maozi's combat effectiveness. Since the Central Army was able to defeat Lao Maozi's seven divisions in Suiyuan with three divisions, you Shengshi  How come there are only four divisions that cannot defeat Lao Maozi's three divisions?

    In short, it takes Shengshicai to resist desperately and consume a lot of Lao Maozi's troops. Maybe he won't dare to come by then.

    Sheng Shicai thought the same thing. The Seventeenth Army reorganized on the Guisui Front last year did indeed defeat the seven divisions of Tsarist Russia with three divisions.  My Sheng Shicai's troops are no worse than others, so why can't they defeat the three divisions of Tsarist Russia?  But as soon as the fight started, the people below started complaining, which made Sheng Shicai very angry.

    It can only be said here that Sheng Shicai and others only read newspaper reports on the great success of the Central Army's reorganization of the 17th Army, which defeated seven divisions of Tsarist Russia with 100,000 men.  I haven¡¯t seen the organization of the Seventeenth Army and the various conditions at that time. The Seventeenth Army was reorganized with more than 100,000 people. At that time, most of the heavy artillery of the Tsarist Russian Army was damaged in the artillery battle with the Twenty-ninth Army. In the air,  The Japanese-Russian coalition also did not have an advantage.  In the end, the Seventeenth Army was reorganized and relied on the rapid breakthrough of armored forces to divide the positions of the Russian Army. As an ally, the little devils watched the show and defeated the Russian Army.

    With so many favorable conditions, Xu Tingyao and others would be damned if they still can¡¯t win.

    It can be seen that now, the three divisions of the Russian Xinjiang Expeditionary Force have more than 40,000 people, and the four divisions of Shengshicai Department have only more than 30,000 people.  In terms of artillery, Tsarist Russia's Xinjiang Expeditionary Force was twice as powerful as the Shengshicai Department.  Tsarist Russia's Xinjiang Expeditionary Force has nearly a hundred tanks and armored vehicles, while the Shengshicai Ministry only has 30 tanks and armored vehicles captured from Tsarist Russia.

    In the air, Tsarist Russia has three aviation groups with more than a hundred fighter jets. Its main tasks are reconnaissance, escorting supply lines and covering the Tsarist Russian Army. The Shengshicai Ministry once established a Xinjiang aviation group with the help of Tsarist Russia, which only had more than 30 fighter jets. As for combat effectiveness,  , at least these few air battles did not take advantage.

    Sheng Shicai wanted his subordinates to replicate the so-called Suiyuan victory without any favorable conditions.  If he could really win this fight, Shengshicai would probably give himself the title of Military God again.

    ?????????????????????????????On the surface, people are still stronger, although the weather is not as good as the right place, and the good location is not as good as the people.  But these days when Sheng Shicai ruled Xinjiang with high pressure, people were killed and shed blood every day.  The brutal suppression made the people of Xinjiang dissatisfied with Sheng Shicai's rule for a long time. It was just that Sheng Shicai had military power and people had nothing to do against Sheng Shicai.  This person is no longer on Sheng Shicai's side a long time ago.

    Although the people in Xinjiang do not have a good impression of Lao Maozi, they are still willing to see Sheng Shicai and Lao Maozi fighting each other.  It doesn't matter who loses or wins. What everyone thinks is that no matter whether Sheng Shicai was overthrown or Sheng Shicai won a tragic victory, can the rule be worse than when Sheng Shicai was strong?  The Battle of Urumqi broke out under such circumstances.

    After the artillery battle, Sheng Shicai's troops entered the position one after another. The officers faced Lao Maozi's vodka charge and shouted: "Hit me hard. We have a deadly feud with Lao Maozi. Don't expect Lao Maozi."  If we can treat the prisoners preferentially, we can only survive if we kill the old man."

    The rifles and Czechoslovakia light machine guns on both sides were breathing fire and life. It¡¯s funny to say that what Tsarist Russia aided Sheng Shicai and what Sheng Shicai grabbed from Tsarist Russian mine guards were all standard equipment of the Tsarist Russian Army.  7.62mm machine rifle ammunition is not produced or imported in China. The bullets and shells used by Sheng Shicai's department to resist the invasion of Tsarist Russia's Xinjiang Expeditionary Force are all bullets and artillery provided to Sheng Shicai free of charge by the Tsarist Russian government.  Those who paid for these bullets and shells were naturally the taxes of the people of Tsarist Russia. The taxes they paid turned into the bullets that killed their own relatives and soldiers. I don¡¯t know what they would think.

    Under the influence of alcohol, the soldiers of the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Force in Xinjiang rushed to the position of the Shengshicai Department for the first time. However, the red-eyed Tsarist Russian soldiers did not know that most of their number fell on the way to the charge. Not only did the soldiers  Formations that are not dominant are also scattered and disorganized - the little Japanese once taught Lao Maozi a lesson with the classic three-man bayonet array, but how could a soldier who had drunk vodka remember so much.

    According to the teachings of the Tsarist Russian officers, the Shengshicai Ministry threw the grenades and attached bayonets to Shui Lianzhu. The soldiers from both sides quickly crossed a distance of more than ten meters to kill each other.

    Lao Maozi was tall and strong, and his eyes were red from drunkenness. He still had a certain advantage in the stabbing battle. However, the more than a hundred people who rushed to the position this time often used bayonets to overwhelm one or two soldiers from Sheng Shicai's troops.  Later, he was overturned from the side by the soldiers of Sheng Shicai Department.

    The highest commander of this position is Ma Chao, a regiment leader of Sheng Shicai's department. Now Ma Chao can hardly believe his eyes. His troops actually defeated the Tsarist Russian attack and wiped out all the Tsarist Russian troops who rushed to the position.  Ma Chao was so excited that he forgot what to say.  The soldiers below shouted "Wan Sheng" excitedly on the battlefield. Some of the more sober ones had already begun to clean the battlefield to see if there was anything useful or to replenish some ammunition.

    It was not until the sound of shells breaking through the air that Ma Chao was reminded by his adjutant to shout: "Anti-gun!"

    Without him shouting, the soldiers began to look for bunkers or lie down directly.

    The Tsarist Russian commander on the opposite side put down his telescope and said: "It's just a fire reconnaissance, don't be so excited. Let the second regiment prepare to attack."

    Yes, the first attack just now was just a fire reconnaissance by the Russians, and the troops sent were only one battalion of infantry.  Even the commanders of Tsarist Russia couldn't believe that this small force actually rushed to the opponent's first-line position. In fact, according to the order, it was enough for them to rush to a distance of one or two hundred meters and let the artillery behind them destroy the opponent's heavy firepower.

    But drinking makes things worse.  This group of idiots drank too much and the soldiers who charged in the first round under the stimulation of vodka rushed directly to the position - Tsarist Russian troops adhered to the European tradition and were somewhat humane, that is, they would never fire on their own people.  When the little Japanese saw that the melee troops could not hold the position, they would immediately flood the position with a barrage of artillery shells, causing greater damage to the defenders.

    Although the Tsarist Russian artillery bombarded the front-line positions after the charge troops were annihilated, the damage caused was much less.  Many people in Ma Chao's regiment also survived. After the Tsarist Russian bombardment, Ma Chao asked the following to take a look. The regiment that originally had more than 1,600 people now only has less than 900 people including the lightly wounded who are still capable of fighting.  .

    After hearing the news, Ma Chao immediately shook the phone at the regiment headquarters, picked up the earphone and microphone and said: "Division Commander, are you the division commander? I am Ma Chao. My regiment just won a battle and wiped out thousands of enemies, but now our regiment has suffered heavy losses.  , with more than half of the casualties, urgent need for support, urgent need for support.¡±

    The division commander did not believe that Ma Chao could annihilate thousands of enemies, but it was still possible to annihilate hundreds of enemies. Exaggeration on the battlefield was also an art.  And when a leader needs to be able to understand this kind of artistic behavior and make detailed and accurate judgments - this is the kind of thing that novices are most likely to get confused about.

    It is also good news. The division commander said on the phone: "I will send you a battalion, and the artillery will also be on your side. You must hold your position."

      Ma Chao shouted on the phone: "What our regiment needs is to withdraw and rest."

    "We can't retreat now. I dare say the Russians on your side have already attacked."

    As if to confirm the division commander's words, the Tsarist Russians soon informed Ma Chao from an observer at the regiment headquarters: "Commander, the old man is here again."

    Hearing this, Ma Chao put down the phone and picked up the binoculars. As expected, Lao Maozi's infantry rushed up again in his field of vision.  Only this time there were more troops charging and the battle line was longer.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to search Piaotian on Baidu and collect and recommend it. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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