Chapter 16 fourth quarter
The big gray horse rushed towards the Cossack with Commander Ga on its back.He tore off his white gloves and put his hands into the hard wind. No one could figure out what he meant by putting his hands into the cold wind.He caught something harder and sharper than a battle knife in the wind, it was an invisible knife.Commander Ga's hand jumped out of the waves like a live fish.
The desert is vast and empty.
I gather the dew of love when the ancient sea surges and splashes against us.
The horses staggered, and the two division commanders fought like lightning; Commander Ga didn't draw the saber, but took out the Hezhou short knife from his riding boots, and the knife slammed into the opponent's throat like a bird returning to its nest.The commander of the 1st Division of the Don River Cavalry stiffened on his horseback, with his legs in stirrups, his back straight, his head turned in the socket of his shoulders, his pupils were big and wet, rolling out the vast sea waves.The Don horses carried the dead slowly past the riders.The moment the deceased fought against Commander Ga, he switched his saber to his left hand and attacked from the left.This is a good trick of the Cossacks. When the two horses cross each other, they suddenly turn to the left side of the opponent. The opponent is often caught off guard and is chopped off by the horse.
The riders on both sides quickly approached, the horseshoes roared, and the blades collided. Many riders fell, and the horses dragged them away into the depths of the sun.After more than a dozen rounds, most of the Cossacks fell to the ground, and some fell on the stirrups and were dragged away by the horses, like farmers raking the ground.
The main force of the 36th Division withdrew from the battle, and the 114th Brigade dealt with the remnants of the enemy. The 114th brigade was full of recruits, and most of the riders were killed after a few charges.Commander Ga continued to issue orders to attack.The Cossack soldiers gave up their long formations and stood close to the military flag to resist desperately. There were only more than 200 people left in the 114th Brigade. The brigade commander threw away his saber and shouted at Hezhou Hua'er without lyrics. The last line of defense of the First Division.They hid under the horse's belly and stabbed each other's throats with Hezhou knives in their riding boots.The Cossacks sang the old battle song of the Don with a low guttural voice: Our glorious land is not plowed with plowshares... Our land is plowed with horseshoes. On the glorious land, the heads of Cossacks are sown. Young women, orphans everywhere, the peaceful Don River, the tears of our fathers and parents rolling with your waves... More than 7,000 Cossack soldiers lay around the flag of the 1st Cavalry Division.Two seriously wounded Cossacks climbed up to the radio station, Chief of Staff Wu Yingqi raised his gun and shot, and Commander Ga lowered his gun.The chief of staff said: "They are asking for help, and the reinforcements will arrive soon." Commander Ga said: "We have defeated the Northwest Army. What are the Cossacks?" Lead the main force to move to Dihua.
Reinforcements came, a whole armored division came, covered by fifty planes and charged towards the 36th division.
The riders dismounted one after another and faced the battle against the mountain.Tanks and armored vehicles fired at the foot of the mountain, bombers dropped bombs at low altitude, riders were smashed together with rocks, and horses ran into Tianshan with their souls on their backs.
Ma Hushan was seriously injured by the bombing, the officers and soldiers resisted desperately, and the Soviet armored forces were blocked on the dry riverbed.The officers and soldiers of the 36th Division, covered with explosives and grenades, crawled out of the dry reeds from the snowdrifts, and rushed towards the tanks and armored vehicles.Armored vehicles can be blown up in one blow, but tanks don't move at all, and sometimes they are blown over, and this behemoth is like a toad, breathing black smoke, turning over and continuing to attack. The officers and soldiers of the 36th Division were like hounds. A few people surrounded a tank, climbed on it, lifted the cover and jumped in. With a dull loud noise, the tank became a soft persimmon.
"Tear the egg and drench the yellow water, tank, you! The sun beats you!"
The riders seem to have met a woman, such a plump Russian woman with a big belly, suddenly aroused their male power, and hung a bomb to shine!You will be stuffed with hair and flesh, you will be stuffed with your whole body, and you will be beaten every day.The tank is like a woman, it can't stand the toss of the son doll, until it becomes soft into a pile of mud.
How could the proud Russian soldiers endure such humiliation.As night fell, more than 600 boys from the Soviet army hung up bombs and carried machine guns to carry out a tragic raid.Comrade political commissars encouraged them with Stalin, and the soldiers were as passionate as horses. They came from Kursk and the black land of Ryazan. They were not Cossacks. The Cossack cavalry had been cut down on the dry beach of the Toutun River.Old Rus cannot suffer any defeat.A lieutenant couldn't help singing Ross's ancient song "Igor's Expedition": The tornado came with dark clouds and God showed Igor the way—go back to Ross's homeland and escape from the Polov grassland.
It was dark and dark.
Igor jumped into the reeds like a ferret, floated to the surface of the water like a wild mallard, and seemed to run like a wolf... Six hundred strong men crossed the Toutun River and never came back, not even making a sound.The commander and political commissar completely abandoned any raid plan, and even tanks and armored vehicles were not dispatched.
After dawn, the tanks lined up, and thousands of guns fired.The plane can fly over calmly for low-altitude strafing and bombing. The warriors of the 36th Division, covered with bombs, cursed on the ground.
"Bitch, come down, you are flirting in the sky, you are flirting around in the sky, you are not even as good as a bitch, you can't stand it, get out!"
The machine gun shattered the warrior's skull, and his mouth and tongue fell to the ground, and his mouth and tongue were still cursing.
"Bitch, come down, you're flying chickens, you're flying your mother's legs, you're throwing your Russian ancestors away."
The blood stained the ground red, and quickly turned black under the baking of the gunfire, giving off a burnt smell.
During the most intense battle of the Toutun River, Sheng Shicai's troops lay on the top of the city and watched dumbfounded. The cavalry fought with planes, tanks and armored vehicles, and staged the most tragic scene in the history of war in the 20th century. , The sword flew in the air and screamed.
There is a flaming red mountain in Dihua City. All the defenders of Dihua went up to the red mountain. They used binoculars to look at the Toutun River with the naked eye. The bloody battle between horses and planes and tanks lasted for two days and two nights. From dawn to dusk, the blood of the sun In the Red Desert, the Soviet infantry and cavalry have never been seen.
The Northeast Volunteer Army on Hongshanzui is gearing up. This is the second time they have witnessed the spectacle of war. On the night of September 18, 1931, the Japanese army sneaked into the North Camp in Shenyang. The death squads of the Kwantung Army just rushed in and encountered the patrol team of the North Camp.The garrison of the Peking University reported several times to Zhang Xueliang who was far away in Beiping. Zhang Xueliang ordered not to resist. The brigade commander Wang Yizhe shouted into the microphone: "Deputy Commander, the two sides have exchanged fire. The Peking University Camp is our soldiers."
"Lock the gun and put the bolt into the officer's hand."
Wang Yizhe had received information from his friends in the Japanese army two days ago that the Kwantung Army would capture Shenyang City on the night of September 18. When Wang Yizhe reported this information to Zhang Xueliang, he was reprimanded by Zhang.Wang Yizhe could no longer be reprimanded by the deputy commander-in-chief, and the order of the young commander was sent to the North Camp, which was carefully and thoroughly implemented.The world's most advanced weapons imported from Germany and Italy were immediately put away and locked into the warehouse to show the sincerity and kindness of Chinese soldiers to the other side and the world.The valiant northeastern man changed from a wolf to a sheep in the blink of an eye, unarmed, and got up by blowing the trumpet.
The Kwantung Army woke up from the fear of artillery fire, oh, oh, oh, the Kwantung Army can calmly take over the army drills, first volleying guns, and then stabbing, to test whether the field training skills are excellent or not.The Northeast Army in some barracks is waking up, because everyone has received an order to store their knives and guns, thinking that there is peace, and they will sleep for a while, but the screams from a distance are suspicious, the air is filled with great terror, and the sun is wilting. There was cold sweat drooping on the face, everyone's hands and feet were not very agile, and the soldiers seemed to be soulless without their swords and guns.The Japanese soldiers became more courageous, and rushed in shouting, stabbing anyone they saw. A short charge, that is, a few hundred Northeast men, were picked up on the tip of the bayonet.The officers had the most fun. They swung their scimitars round and cut down snowmen like puffs. They chopped all the way, and piles of people all lay on the ground.The blood is slippery, and the spurs on the soles of the military boots are slippery. The blood is too thick and greasy, and it can always slip the warriors to the ground. If they can’t move forward with their heads high, they will be hated. The knife in their hands will become more and more fierce. .
The 500,000 well-equipped Northeast Army was beaten, and they did not listen to Deputy Commander Zhang. The bloody man followed Ma Zhanshan and fought against the Japanese Amano Division at Jiangqiao. They fought for a whole month, and the Amano Division was completely lost.Two divisions transferred from North Korea joined the battle. Ma Zhanshan's army alone could not resist, and retreated to Manchuria. According to international practice, he laid down his arms and took refuge in a third country.The Soviet frontier guards paid tribute to Ma Zhanshan and his volunteers with the highest military etiquette, and then the great march from Siberia to the hinterland of Central Asia. Tens of thousands of volunteers and their families trekked in the vast snowfield for eight months, from winter to winter, how many sick and weak Lives buried in Siberia!Back in Xinjiang, their fellow villager Sheng Duan is waiting for them.They took up their guns again and conquered eastern Xinjiang.Superintendent Sheng has strict discipline, good command, and clear rewards and punishments, which is not at all the same as Zhang Shaoshuai who indulged in alcohol, sex and opium.Everyone was filled with emotion, if Supervisor Sheng guarded the Northeast, Little Japan would have to bleed dry.The Northeast man's blood boiled all of a sudden.The 36th Division who played against them was even more amazing. They were not the legendary demons at all. Rumors and rumors kept pouring in from the front of the 36th Division from Dihua to Dihua. Many tragedies frightened the people of Xinjiang.However, the 36th Division that entered Eastern Xinjiang has very good military discipline. It is suspected that Zuo Zongtang came to the west. The old people can still think of the Hunan Army of General Zuo. They can fight tough battles, but they will never disturb the people. The 36th division has a new look and is unstoppable.A whole division of Red Cossacks lay dead in Tunhe, and the Red Army could only attack with aircraft and tanks.
The Northeast veteran on Hongshanzui said: "Little Japan is not so fierce. At most, there are a few small planes and a few armored vehicles. The people who charge are still alive. Why don't the Soviets even show themselves?" .”
"Small noses and big noses are bullying us Chinese, let's rush down to help the 36th Division."
The Northeast veterans stood up in a large area, and the surrounding area was full of military cadets run by Supervisor Sheng. The military cadets were a hard-core team.
"What's wrong, what's wrong, you want to rebel, this is Xinjiang, not your Northeast, you are not allowed to mess around here."
The military officers enlightened the Northeast veterans: "In the border area, you are right to listen to the chief. Supervisor Sheng has his own reasons for doing so. Supervisor Sheng is not a non-resistance general. Don't think that Ma Zhongying is a hero, and Supervisor Sheng is also a hero. You just came to understand This, you guys will gradually understand." The theoretical level of the officers in Supervisor Sheng is absolutely high, and he understands the intentions of his superiors quite well.
"We have lost the Northeast, and then the Northwest. What do the people of the whole country think of us? Ma Zhongying is a man, Ma Zhongying is Xiang Yu, and our supervisor Sheng is Liu Bang, the great ancestor. Gentlemen fight wits but not courage."
Everyone's blood gradually cooled down, and they stayed on Hongshanzui and watched from the sidelines.
Sheng Shicai is very clear about the emotions of his subordinates and the public, not to mention that he is only a temporary supervisor, and the Nanjing National Government has not yet officially appointed him.Ma Zhongying's 36th Division and the Eighth Division of the Ili Army were the national army, and the fierce battle between the national army and the Soviet army was to defend national sovereignty.Sheng Shicai immediately organized a huge delegation for peace talks, including people from all ethnic groups and social strata. The main force of the 36th Division fought fiercely with the Soviet Army on the Toutun River, and another cavalry brigade remotely controlled Dihua City.
During the war, Ma Zhongying met the representatives of the Dihua peace talks. The special agent battalion directly under the division headquarter came on horseback, and the military appearance was pruned.Ma Zhongying talked eloquently, with a tough tone, and while fiddling with the Soviet-style rotary machine gun, he said to the representatives: "Go and tell Sheng Shicai that the whole city surrenders. The conditions are up to me. All the troops belong to me. I can consider letting him be the governor." Chairman, he can’t be the supervisor of the border defense. The supervisor of the border defense is in charge of the army. He should learn from Jin Shuren and become the provincial chairman.”
Ma Zhongying was very polite, entertained everyone with canned Soviet food and biscuits, and specially sent two tubes of Soviet biscuits to Sheng Shicai.
When Sheng Shicai received the gift from Ma Zhongying, the flesh on his face jumped. When he heard Ma Zhongying's conditions for the peace talks, he smiled, "You can call him Commander Ga, and his conditions can be considered." His subordinates were anxious, "Hand over The right to send troops is over." "Regime is everything." The subordinates still couldn't figure it out, from Chiang Kai-shek to the princes of all walks of life, who would not seize the military power.Sheng Shicai smiled slightly: "Execute it. You will understand later." "What do you say to the outside world?"
"Just say it, say it with a lot of fanfare, and let everyone know."
The content of the peace talks spread throughout Dihua City.No one doubted Sheng Shicai's sincerity.Ma Zhongying was surprised, Mu Liao didn't believe that Sheng Shicai was so happy. "He is an old fox, can he satisfy a provincial chairman?"
The staff members are well-informed, and their underground activities are also engaged in riots, military operations, and have been keeping an eye on the army.Even foreign students like Wu Yingqi couldn't understand Sheng Shicai's true intentions.The Dihua side was very sincere, and asked the 36th Division to send someone to Dihua to discuss specific matters.
Chief of Staff Wu Yingqi and Director of the Political Department Yang Boqing entered Dihua City on behalf of Ma Zhongying.There were actually two senior Soviet military officers in the conference room, and the Soviet Consul General in Dihua was also present.Sheng Shicai couldn't stand the mocking eyes of Yang Boqing and Wu Yingqi. Sheng Shicai coughed twice and said, "Sheng Shicai longed for socialism when he was studying in Japan, and determined to overthrow the warlords of the great powers and eradicate the dark forces. To make a revolution, you must have the help of comrades in the Soviet Union.”
Yang Boqing said: "Is there such a help? You are not even as good as Jin Shuren. When Jin Shuren stepped down, he knew that he would not rely on foreign forces to sit in the world."
"Jin Shuren is a reactionary warlord and I am a revolutionist. The proletariat of the world unite."
Sheng Shicai recited many socialist slogans in one breath.Yang Boqing smiled, "Our 36th Division wrote such slogans all over the four counties in Suzhou."
"The 36th Division is the army of the Kuomintang."
"It's the establishment of the Nationalist government, but it's the armed forces of the people in the Northwest. The political workers are all members of the Communist Party. Didn't you expect that?"
What Sheng Shicai didn't expect was that Wu Yingqi could speak Russian. Wu Yingqi talked directly with the Soviet consul and military officers. No one knew what they were talking about, and Yang Boqing couldn't understand it.Sheng Shicai was very nervous, but his face was calm.
The secretary knew Russian. During the break, the secretary told Sheng Shicai the details: Wu Yingqi's main purpose was to tell the Soviet side that Ma Zhongying was a revolutionary and that the 36th Division was friendly to the Soviet Union. When it attacked Dihua, the 36th Division sent a small unit to Tacheng The border has contacted the Soviet border guards. "What's the attitude of the Soviet side?" Sheng Shicai was most concerned about this. The secretary reassured the supervisor that the Soviet military was extremely annoyed by the defeat of the Cossack cavalry division. "Don't worry about the supervision. It's useless if the 36th Division is all Communists. They are all red-eyed. The Soviet Union wants the 36th Division to withdraw from the battlefield and retreat 50 kilometers. Wu Yingqi wants the Soviet army to withdraw first and withdraw from the border."
"Did you hear clearly?" "That's right, I heard clearly."
Sheng Shicai was so nervous that he was still frowning when he returned home. His wife Qiu Yufang asked, "Why are you worried about the Soviet Union sending troops?"
"Ma Zhongying wants the Soviet army to withdraw. Is he crazy? The negotiator he sent has studied in the Soviet Union and is a Communist Party member. On the one hand, he wants to cooperate with the Soviet Union, but on the other hand, he wants the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops."
"What would you do if you were Ma Zhongying?"
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The liaison unit they sent to Tacheng Bianka was intercepted by us. They couldn't get in touch with the Soviet Union. I didn't expect that there were so many CCP personnel in the 36th Division, and there were even Soviet students. It was almost a bad thing. "
"They didn't make it."
"I'm nervous, I don't understand why Ma Zhongying gave up this opportunity."
"What you care about now is not Ma Zhongying, but this negotiator. This person is too dangerous. Don't let him contact the Soviets again."
"Their talks collapsed, and the Soviet army must destroy the 36th Division."
"Do you trust the Soviets so much? Now they are red-eyed, and when they stop fighting, the words of these CCP elements will work, and we will be miserable."
Sheng Shicai immediately summoned the chief of police to lock up Ma Zhongying's representative and not tell the Soviet adviser.
"Now you can rest easy."
Sheng Shicai's heart only rested for a while, and then he hung up.Madam got angry, "What's the matter with you, do you still want to eat this meal?"
"I just don't understand why Ma Zhongying gave up the chance of success."
"I know what you're thinking, I'd rather fail than be vigorous, and be a majestic hero!"
"Didn't we come to the desert to be heroes?"
"I fell in love with you at the beginning because you have the heroism of our Kanto people."
"Am I a bit of that now?"
"More mature, more cunning and more insidious. My beloved husband, Ma Zhongying is an eagle on the grassland, and you are an old wolf on the wasteland. A wolf is more suitable for the desert."
"Thank you ma'am, you always give me strength."
"Get on your fast horse and go out, the army needs your morale."
The officers and soldiers of the provincial army on the top of the Red Mountain were attracted by the sound of horseshoes like a torrential rain. Their chief rode a big white horse and rushed up to the West Bridge.The roaring glaciers and the sound of horseshoes like a torrential rain drew everyone's attention away from the flames of war on the Toutun River.When Ma Zhongying besieged Dihua, the vanguard once attacked the city and fought fiercely with the provincial army at the West Bridge.
Attack to the west of Xidajie, and if you attack a little bit more, the city of Dihua will be over; there is no need for large troops, and the leading search troops of the 36th Division can take Dihua.The provincial army was most aware of their danger, and even the ablest officers gave up the attempt to resist, and the whole army collapsed and fled to the top of the Red Mountain.Everyone was stupefied by the sight in front of them. Their chief Sheng Shicai rushed up to the West Bridge with a dozen guards like a gust of wind, and dealt a fatal blow to the cavalry of the 36th Division in the carnival.
The first to react was the Northeast Volunteer Army. A battalion of the Northeast Army hula rushed up, pursued and fought fiercely, and drove a small group of cavalry from the 36th Division out of the city.Now everyone saw the West Bridge again, and their chief rode majestically up the bridge on a big white horse. The sight of glaciers, snow peaks and horses made everyone excited.The chief didn't bring any troops, only two guards behind him, and they rushed across the West Bridge to the suburbs like a gust of wind.Everyone thought that the commander was going to observe the enemy's situation and was about to counterattack. No one thought that the artillery fire in the distance was attracting their commander; Can't be so casual.
There are no more troops from the 36th Division in the suburbs. The White Horse Brigade has just withdrawn and entered the Toutunhe battlefield. There are indications that the 36th Division has reached its final juncture.It has been a week since the Soviet army was blocked at the Toutun River, and the sound of bombs and artillery resounded across the land.On the top of Sheng Shicai's Leaping Horse Tianshan Mountain, the flames of war suddenly changed from sound to picture. The Toutun River is not a river at all, it is full of ice and flesh and blood.It was a rare and severe winter in Central Asia. Under the cultivation of artillery fire, the ice and snow did not melt, and the blood of the strong man was all condensed on the body, shining like rubies.What a strange scene, tanks and armored vehicles lined up on the west bank of the river, thousands of guns were fired but they dared not launch a charge, only the air force, a large group of bombers circled repeatedly to drop bombs and fire cannons.From time to time, a cavalryman rushed out from the low hill, as if he had jumped out of a crack in the ground. He raised his machine gun on his horse and fired at the plane; The fire net devoured the cavalry man and horse.
Sheng Shicai and his guards were all stunned, and Sheng Shicai almost blurted out: "They should build their positions in the Tianshan Grand Canyon, and the aircraft and tanks will lose most of their functions. Such a short mountain is just a joke."
When language is eclipsed, it means a huge and unavoidable reality: the Battle of Toutun River pushed Ma Zhongying's military career to the peak.On the top of Tianshan Mountain, the wind was piercingly cold, and Sheng Shicai was actually sweating profusely.
Back in Dihua, the first thing Sheng Shicai did was to summon Wu Yingqi.Sheng Shicai is very frank, and the frankness of the old fox always makes people feel strange.
"Mr. Sheng is still interested in admiring the spectacle of war?"
"Don't talk about the war, let's talk about Ma Zhongying, this man is incredible."
"Brings back fond memories of Mr. Sheng?"
“A great memory!”
"Mr. Sheng entered Xinjiang via the Trans-Siberian Railway?"
"It's this road, and everyone who goes to Xinjiang takes this road."
"After Zuo Zongtang, few people went to Xinjiang via the ancient silk road. This is the difference between Mr. Sheng and Ma Zhongying."
"You graduated from the Kyiv Military Academy. How could your 36th Division build their positions on the Toutun River, where there are low hills. If you put the battlefield in the Tianshan Grand Canyon, the aircraft and tanks will be useless."
"Mountain combat cavalry would also be useless."
"You want to attack?"
"The military must attack, even against planes and tanks."
"The way to use troops is to be flexible."
"Aren't you too flexible? You wouldn't say such things if you came to the Toutun River battlefield in person. The cavalry blocked the air force and tank troops by a small dry river. Is there such a precedent in the world's military history?"
"I just came back from the Toutun River."
"It takes courage to go there. Let me tell you a more exciting story. Do you know how Ma Zhongying knifed the commander of the Don River Cavalry Division? Everyone was watching how Ma Zhongying shoved the knife down the Cossack's throat. Few people heard him utter A voice, a very solemn and solemn oath of life: When the ancient sea surges and splashes towards us, I gather the dewdrops of love."
Sheng Shicai exclaimed: "The ancient sea, the Gobi Desert is the sea?"
"White mountains and black waters, forests, seas and snowfields are also the sea."
"Have you been to the Northeast?"
"You forgot that I graduated from the Kyiv Military Academy. I took the train from Manzhouli and crossed Siberia. Lin Tao in the black land will always remain in my memory. Later, when I went to the Northwest, I saw the deep ravines of the Loess Plateau. There is no water, but water is used as a place name, until the sea of dreams, rolling in people's blood for a long time, when they defend their lives, the blade turns into waves, one wave after another, overwhelming and overwhelming. "
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