Chapter 195: Killing the Bear! Encircling thousands of miles! (Sixteen)

Taking off the wet carbon black "colored" guard uniform, the cool breeze in Siberia in August made Li Ruishi shudder. On the river surface behind him, most of the floating rafts that were overturned by shells were inserted into the water, swaying downstream with the waves.

This is Uyal, a small railway station less than 100 kilometers away from Krasnoyarsk. The river that Li Ruishi just crossed is a tributary of the Yenisei River. The river water surging northwards, converging with large and large rivers such as the Angara River from Lake Baikal, injecting into the Arctic Ocean that is bitter and cold all year round.

"Captain Li? Colonel Li Ruishi of the 106th Division?"

Hearing this surprising call, Li Ruishi noticed that a figure who was not very strange was squatting on the top of a flying wolf light chariot turret on the shore that was trapped in the mud.

"Now I am the leader of the First Imperial Guard Regiment. I said we will meet again, but I didn't expect it to be so soon, and I didn't expect it to be when I was in the most embarrassing position."

Li Ruishi smiled and twisted the wet clothes on his hands, draped them over his shoulders, and between his chest and abdomen, wet muscles shone brightly in the sun.

"Hello, Lieutenant Qiu Yipeng, it seems that we are not lucky this time."

Compared with Li Ruishi who was over thirty and tall and strong, Qiu Yipeng, who was much shorter and thinner, smiled and used his hands and feet, jumped down on the side of the turret, saluted with his legs, and immediately took out the cigarette box and lighter with a smile, and handed it to Li Ruishi.

"This is the lighter you gave me last time. It's so good and beautiful. Our chief clerk asked me how many times I asked for it, but I didn't give it to me..."

Li Ruishi smiled slightly and went straight to the topic: "Do you have any clothes to dry?"

"Yes, they are all in this big package, I'll find it for you."

Qiu Yipeng said this. Li Ruishi could see more clearly that this small chariot that was one person tall was fragmented, with a lot of things tied up, such as canvas wraps, wooden boxes, gasoline and iron barrels, it was simply a crawler-type mobile grocery store. If you hit the guns and cannons, it would be difficult to turn into a human barbecue oven - but the troops rushed to the long distance and were difficult to follow up in time. This was also a solution. His own troops used trucks as piles of goods, stacking up high layers after layer. If the turn was a little faster, they would definitely overturn.

Leaving the Queen, leaving the palace, and leaving the capital, what touched Li Ruishi the most on the front line was a brand new thing that was completely different from the previous war: armored blitzkrieg. Large-scale deep progress, integrated air-ground coordination...

If the last war was mainly determined by human lives and cannons, it was more people than the cannons. This time, the empire mainly relied on the ground, which was far beyond the military technology and combat concepts of various countries.

From Pearl Harbor to Lingyan Bay, from the Battle of Ulan-Ude to the breakthrough battle of Alkut, whether naval, land, or empire military machines cannot be explained by the amazingly advanced nature of the national advanced theory.

From the late emperor Liu Yun to the current empress. The sudden change in the situation far exceeds the normal logic. From the sudden death of Empress Dowager Cixi in the previous dynasty to the "false report of the earthquake that caused the Kinki martial law incident" during the Asian-Russian War, various doubts gathered together, which only made the truth hidden under the heavy shady curtain even more confusing.

Official statements always fail to satisfy Li Ruishi's curiosity. After the training of real guns and ammunition in the Asian-Russian battlefield and the tortuous experience of aiding Abyssinia, he was trusted by the Queen and in charge of the palace guards. He had the opportunity to get in touch with all kinds of confidential information that were difficult to public. When he was confident that he could "touch" the truth within a few steps, the war broke out. The Queen asked him to leave the palace. He was sent to the front line to "make me meritorious service."

The smarter the person. The more worries he was, Li Ruishi finally realized that when he was in the palace, he was indeed too smart.

The queen didn't need him at all. No one could see through her heart. What she really wanted might not be everything she could enjoy as an emperor...

"Sir, the clothes you want - maybe a little smaller, just make do with it for the time being."

Qiu Yipeng, holding clothes in his hand, interrupted Li Ruishi's "lucky" thinking, and shook casually, revealing a long-sleeved casual shirt.

"I'll find another pair of pants--you wait."

The enthusiastic Qiu Yipeng got back to his grocery store, completely ignoring the rumbling sound of cannons around him, and turbid water columns rose from the nearby river surface. The dense paddles of paddles and rubber boats and motorized floating rafts were passing through the river. The Kewu Group Advance Detachment's river crossing battle had just begun.

Due to the obstruction of the Irkutsk Fortress, the Northern Army was unable to carry out normal railway and water supply to advance troops hundreds of kilometers west of Irkutsk. They mainly rely on automobile transfer and air transport. They are not efficient and have low transportation volume, so they cannot provide large-scale troops' activities, so they can only concentrate on ensuring small-scale troops assault.

Under the restrictions of supply conditions, the Front Army ordered the First Armored Army to draw troops in good condition and fully equipped with troops into the Kewu Group, which was personally led by General Xu Hun, the commander of the group army. From August 2, he attacked from Taishet in a row and a continuous breakthrough of more than 200 kilometers within 36 hours, crossing three rivers that required floating rafts and pontoon bridges, and during the march, lightning captured the Kansk gateway to the city.

The group advance detachment commanded by Lieutenant General Yin Tian, ​​the commander of the 1st Army, was even more unstoppable. The detachment took the 1st and 2nd Armored Brigades as the base, and was equipped with the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guards, which were equipped with one truck-mobile Imperial Artillery Battalion and the Independent Motor Engineer Battalion. More than a thousand vehicles carried tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, just like a sword was unsheathed, and the sword was aimed directly at Kecheng. At this moment, the detachment was forcing the land to cross the land, which was the last larger river outside the Yenisei River on the road to Kecheng.

As the largest infantry unit in the detachment, Li Rui Shidiqian 1st Regiment is responsible for landing in front of the main force, clearing the enemy's firepower points on the landing field, building a bridgehead, and covering the main force's passage.

Unexpectedly, the new regiment commander who tried to lead the way and decided to follow the first wave of landing troops to land, fell off his feet at the beginning, and the floating raft he was riding over by a shot. He became a drowned chicken and swam to the shore with all his might. However, he found that all his followers were gone and there was no enemy. While trembling, he met the second Lieutenant Qiu who had met once...

In the Battle of Alkut that ended more than a month ago, Li Ruishi led the 106th Division advance detachment from Lake Baikal and met with Qiu Yipeng's advance detachment north of Irkutsk, completing the complete encirclement of the Russian East-West Siberian Front, which made headlines. The scene of the meeting was also engraved into prints, becoming one of the backgrounds of official posters sent to the intersections of important roads in various places.

After the Battle of Alkut, Li Ruishi was ordered to be the commander of the First Imperial Guard Regiment. The regiment was known as the "First Regiment in the World". It has made outstanding achievements since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and was specially awarded the title of "Yunlong". The officers and soldiers were carefully selected by each unit, and their equipment was different from him. Not only did the entire regiment use trucks, armored vehicles, and motorcycles to transport them, butt-type grenades were also given priority. The number of heavy firearms at all levels was more than standard, and the supply was also given priority. Therefore, the morale was extremely high, and the grassroots officers and soldiers were proactive. Since the war started, they have been put into key battlefields to cooperate with armored troops. They can often attack the crowd with few and defeat the strong with weak.

Such an old-fashioned brigade that is loved by many people naturally must have corresponding abilities and reputation. The officers who have served as the commander of the regiment will have unlimited futures. However, Li Ruishi's predecessor is an exception...

"Sir, you are so developed, the First Imperial Guard Regiment, I heard that this is much more blessed than being a commander of an ordinary infantry division..."

Li Ruishi, who was changing clothes, heard Qiu Yipeng's emotion, and his face became gloomy and shook his head and sneered: "I'm blessed, do you know? My ex was sent to the military court."

"Military court? No way?" Qiu Yipeng turned around with his pants in disbelief.

"The soldiers plundered, traitors, tyrannical, murdered innocent people, damaged the honor of the emperor, and connected in the army to develop members of radical organizations, and involved in politics in the army - I am afraid that I will never return to the army in this life." Li Ruishi frowned and took the pants handed over by Qiu Yipeng.

Qiu Yipeng touched his head and clapped his hands and shouted, "Ah, it's the Commander Li Xiang, he has done a lot of work. I heard that once the troops passed by a village, he heard a gunshot and ordered the village to burn it. The man beheaded his head and hung the entrance of the village, and all the women... But I heard that Commander Xu of the Group Army admired him very much."

Li Ruishi shook his head, quickly changed into dry clothes, put on his military rank and epaulette, and pointed at the riverside: "Forget it, don't worry about this, my people are coming soon, are you going to be with us?"

"My people are here too, then, my reinforcements." Qiu Yipeng pointed to a grass-green chariot that was slowly driving down the raft not far away. "They will drag me out. When everyone and the car are all here, I will go to perform my mission-see there, he has arrived too."

"he?"

"My brother, named Ding Qian, is the deputy company commander of the railway company. He leads a survey team to survey the railway facilities on the route at any time. My task is to be a bodyguard for him."

Li Ruishi nodded and smiled: "That's it, look over there - my bodyguard has arrived too."

Following the direction of Li Ruishi's finger, a row of floating rafts rode four chariots and rushed up in one stroke.

Qiu Yipeng was stunned for a moment, and exclaimed: "Be good, I am worthy of being the No. 1 regiment in the world. The guard squad of the regiment commander has been changed to a chariot platoon!"

"Just, that's not my guard squad, it's the support force that comes with the 1st brigade. The commander or the duke."

While speaking, the rescuers of Qiu Yipeng had already arrived. The young corporal jumped out of the car and ran to Qiu Yipeng's ear and muttered a few words. Qiu Yipeng shook his head regretfully and turned to Li Ruishi: "Sir, my brother may not be here. I don't want to go there in vain. There is a place to use us, just give me instructions."

Li Ruishi nodded happily: "Welcome, welcome, actually, I just thought of an idea, and I am using you."
Chapter completed!