Chapter 393： Defeated

When a large-scale hand-to-hand battle broke out in Monol, the left army commanded by Lieutenant General Mandiv had arrived in a small village called Wano, less than 15 kilometers away from Monol.

When Lieutenant General Mandiv got Monol to break out a large-scale fierce hand-to-hand battle, he immediately ordered: "Order to leave a brigade to protect the artillery and other heavy equipment, and everyone else will march lightly. We speed up and rush to Monol."

"Yes"

The messenger who had received the order of Lieutenant General Mandiv immediately ran to give orders. Afterwards, the various divisions of the Left Army gave up their heavy backpacks, carried only ammunition and two days' rations, and all rushed to Monol lightly. There are their comrades who are struggling to resist the Hungarian attack and need their help.

When the right-wing army got the news, their vanguard had already arrived in a small town less than 13 kilometers from Monol called Shars. However, what arrived here was the only cavalry division in Romania, and the main force of the Left Army led by Lieutenant General Ankodar was still 10 kilometers away.

Like Lieutenant General Mandiv's choice after receiving the news, Lieutenant General Ankodar also asked the troops to lay down their burdens and go into battle. Artillery and logistics troops carrying these materials will catch up at their own speed. The cavalry division immediately rushed to Monol, threatening the People's Army's supply line.

In this way, both forces made the same choice. In their hearts, apart from worrying about the attacked Central Route Army, they were also afraid of letting go of the People's Army. No one wants to fight an opponent in a city offensive and defensive battle. This is simply an abyss that swallows the lives of soldiers.

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In the headquarters outside Monol, Landrell was secretly sad looking at the list of losses that had just been counted. At this time, a staff officer hurried in. He completely ignored the faces of others and said anxiously: "I just got the news that a large enemy cavalry was found five kilometers behind us."

The staff's words caused the list in Landrell's hands to fall on the ground. He stepped forward and grabbed the staff's staff and asked, "The enemy is in that position, you can point it out to me."

Then he took the staff officer in front of the battle map, and the staff officer who was dragged by him hurriedly pointed to a place marked as Churgo and said: "It is here that the enemy's cavalry was found."

Landrell has an impression of Churgo, where a river passes by, and there is a small hill next to it. So between Monol and Budapest, a rare good position conducive to defense.

After thinking about it a little, Landrell called a staff officer: "Immediately order the 17th, 19th, and 25th divisions to immediately drive out the enemy cavalry units that appeared in Churgo. In addition, after driving out the enemy cavalry, let them do Good protection work along the way."

"Yes, sir."

After getting the instructions from Landrell, the staff rushed to deliver the order immediately after answering a sentence.

Today, it seemed that God was going to fight Landrell. When the staff officer passed by the door, a figure hit him. The two people who had collided fell to the ground at the same time, and the staff officer who gave the order just wanted to stand up, when he realized that the opponent was faster than himself, he bounced with a swish. Before he could understand why this person reacted so quickly, the person rushed to Landrell immediately, and then an astonishing news reached his ears.

"What are you talking about, the enemy's left army has arrived at Balch, which is six kilometers away from us. How come the enemy has come before us, I know what they eat."

Landrell was stunned by the news. This was not a cavalry with a small number of enemies, but a total of fifty to sixty thousand. Such a large-scale troop appeared to his left rear, of course he knew the consequences.

God seemed to despair Landrell, and just then another staff rushed in and brought him another bad news. About 40,000 people from the enemy's Right Army were found ten kilometers away, and according to their direction of travel, it is very likely that the enemy's cavalry was infested in the area of ​​Churgo.

The news completely broke Landrell's defenses and made him feel powerless and desperate. The enemy formed a three-sided encirclement, and he had just fought a wave of attrition with the enemy. It was the moment when his morale was low, which made him good.

Even God cannot save him in this situation.

And seeing the look of his commander's head down, the staff who brought the news are all you look at me and I look at you, and no one knows what to do.

Under the caring gazes of several staff officers, Landrell slowly recovered. He is the commander-in-chief of the People's Army, and there are still 200,000 People's Army waiting to take him out of the predicament, so he cannot be knocked down.

He saw several staff officers in front of him, including the one who gave his orders, and said to them: "You wait outside for a while, let me think about it."

After seeing his commander-in-chief all right, the staff officers waited outside the door. After seeing the staff leave, Landrell felt a sense of weakness and dizziness. He immediately supported the stool next to him to slow down, and at the same time, he was holding back the dizziness and thinking about countermeasures in his mind.

Now I am facing two problems, the first one; the news of being surrounded by the enemy can't be concealed at all. This will make the morale of the army even more confused, and I must boost their morale.

The second one is how to break through the enemy's siege and return to Budapest.

And there is an idea in Landrell's heart that Budapest can't stop the enemy's footsteps. If he had not broken out a large-scale battle with Romania in Monol and lost so many troops, he would have the confidence to block the enemy's footsteps in Budapest. But now I can only lead these soldiers, trying to escape the enemy's encirclement.

With regard to boosting the morale of the soldiers, he has one or two preliminary ideas, which is to use the soldiers' desire to go home to encourage them. As for breaking through the enemy’s siege, this requires first detecting the enemy’s deployment.

While Landrell was looking for a way out for the Hungarian soldiers, General Salamik also endured his inner grief and was deploying against the Hungarian People's Army.

The arrival of the two-wing army finally made his worrying heart fall into place. Now he wants to vent his distress, there is nothing quicker than to fight back the enemy who had beaten him violently before.

He looked at several division commanders sitting in front of him and said: "I have negotiated with Lieutenant General Mandiv and Lieutenant General Ankodar. The next step is to strengthen our encirclement and wait until their heavy weapons are in place. Just launch a general offensive. But before that, in order to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall, we need to cooperate with the two lieutenant generals when they break through the siege."

"When the enemy breaks through the siege, the fifth division of Major General Fergus, the seventh division of Major General Foktor, the 19th division of Major General Dortridd, and the armored brigade of Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman will form the pursuit regiment. Under the leadership of Major General Fergus, he launched an offensive against the enemy to contain his breakout operations. After that, I will be in charge of the remaining troops and provide support as a reserve force."

"Does everyone understand?"

"understand."

After General Salamik assigned the task, everyone got up and then they needed to reorganize their forces, allocate weapons and ammunition, and prepare for the next battle. The second division's commander, Major General Dolce, was a little unwilling to leave, but thinking of the heavy casualties of his own division, he finally left without saying anything.

When Romania was preparing to let the Hungarian People’s Army wing its wings, the People’s Army had already investigated the current situation as the target of the siege.

A staff officer is reporting the results of the investigation to Landrell.

"Commander-in-chief, according to the situation we have detected. At present, the enemy has three divisions in Churgo, and Balch's enemy stopped at a distance of four kilometers close to us. They are currently building fortifications. And the enemy's cavalry is already Disperse, it should be responsible for monitoring our movements. In addition, the enemies of Monol also have large-scale assembly movements."

In the staff's narration, Landrell's mind had already come up with the deployment of the Romanians, mainly defending various traffic arteries, while sending cavalry to monitor the vast other areas.

This approach is aimed at the People's Army, which has assembled a large army, because they know that they will not go to other places and can only go through the main roads.

In fact, this is indeed the case. The People’s Army, which currently has 140,000 people left, cannot pass through other places and can only use the main traffic routes. At present, it seems that the enemy is strictly guarding his way back to Budapest.

This is also the most spacious road. As the main passage from Budapest to Szolnok, this is a large road that can accommodate four trucks or 20 people walking side by side. Other roads are not so spacious, but its defensive strength is not so much. How should I choose?

Landrell, who was lost in thought, couldn't make up his mind, but at this time the staff member said a word that made him make up his mind immediately.

"Our troops discovered a strange thing while investigating."

"what's up?"

"No car marks were seen on the way the enemy came over."

No car marks were seen, they did not see car marks. Landrell's brain is turning rapidly, and there is no car track, which means that the Romanians are lightly loaded and have a chance to break through.

Wanting to understand Landrell immediately issued an order: "Order the 17th, 19th, 27th, and 34th divisions to form the vanguard, and the target is Chuergo. After the 19th, 21st, and 26th divisions are left, the others March with me and we will act tonight."

Seeing that his commander was so anxious, the staff officer couldn't help asking: "Commander-in-chief, so anxious?"

In a good mood, Landrell said with a smile: "It's just so anxious, we can't leave time for the enemy, otherwise we won't be able to escape when the enemy is fully equipped."

"Yes"

Following Landrell's order, the People's Army left behind the defensive forces and hurried back to the rear overnight. They plan to launch an attack on Churgo tonight to break the encirclement.

The large-scale actions of the People’s Army did not hide Romania’s eyes. After hearing the movements of the Hungarians, Admiral Salamik in Monol immediately ordered the pursuit corps to set off immediately, dragging some of the enemy’s forces. The army led by Lieutenant General Mandiv immediately rushed forward, trying to entangle the enemy. The troops headed by Lieutenant General Churgo Ankodar are ready.

For a time, fighting started everywhere around Monol. One side wants to go home, and one side prevents its actions, leaving the two conflicting armed forces fighting each other.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, the troops led by Lieutenant General Ankodar finally engaged the enemy.

"Break their defenses and let us go home."

With a sound of going home, the soldiers of the People's Army regained their morale. Under the guidance of the home, these People's Army rushed to the Romanian soldiers one after another. The right wing army who arrived here shortly had no time to build fortifications. They relied on the local terrain as a cover and kept firing at the Hungarian army that rushed towards them.

The fierce firepower completely prevented the Hungarian army from rushing, and at this time the few artillery left by the People's Army were already in place. Aiming at the location of Romania's fire, fired his own shells regardless, because the commander-in-chief Landrell had ordered them to light up the shells tonight. Therefore, the Romanian soldiers who had no cover at all could only endure the shelling while firing at the charging enemy.

The fierce fighting continued, so that Jorge didn't stop here for a moment, and the two sides continued to invest forces in order to compete for the place.

However, over time, the Romanian army discovered a serious problem, that is, they did not have enough ammunition. As marching in light, they only carry not much ammunition. When the battle was fierce, their ammunition was consumed very quickly. Now the ammunition is running out.

When the news that there was not much ammunition reported to Ankodar, the highly rewarded lieutenant general was furious. "Damn it, it would be like this."

However, the lieutenant general can't change ammunition, he can only do it in a hurry. In the face of not having much ammunition, Romanian soldiers could only use sparingly, and this situation was quickly discovered by Hungarian soldiers.

"They are running out of ammunition, and they charge with me if they want to go home."

A People’s Army officer said loudly the enemy's lack of ammunition. This made the suppressed Hungarian soldiers greatly uplifted, and each of them saw the hope of returning home.

Immediately following the officer's footsteps, he rushed towards the Romanian.

In the end, Lieutenant General Ankodar failed. The Hungarian army, with a total of nearly 80,000 people, broke through the obstacle and fled to Budapest.

Admiral Salamik who wanted to annihilate the People's Army here was so disappointed that he could only watch the People's Army rushing out of the encirclement and sigh with excitement.

In the final battle of Monol, the Hungarian People's Army invested a total of 410,000 troops, but in the end only 130,000 people ran away (the main force was 80,000, and the remaining troops on the two wings were about 50,000). The Romanian army invested a total of 180,000 people, with 5.2 casualties, which also greatly injured the Romanian army's vitality. But in the end it won. I believe that in the next time, the People's Army has no longer dared to have any doubts about the Romanian army.

Although this battle was not perfect, it also fulfilled Romania's expectations and annihilated the main force of the People's Army. Next, Budapest exudes the fragrance like a ripe apple, which can only be picked by someone reaching out.