It's better to conquer them than to command the steel torrent

Chapter 116｜The Flow Never Returns
Thousands of horses galloping!

Although it was not the flood season, hundreds of millions of tons of river water accumulated in the reservoir rushed down all at once, and this scene deeply shocked everyone.

Shang Ke couldn't help but think of a line from a song - The Yellow River is roaring!

He subconsciously wondered if the collapse of the Tissalek Dam would actually not cause a flood. If there was any mistake, he might have to face trial in a military court.

"The main force retreated several hours ago. We should leave. The engineering company will take the lead now. Let's go!" Shang Ke raised his hand to look at his watch and gave instructions.

Major Bella's left lung was pierced by a bullet, leaving him critically injured. Fortunately, thanks to the effective first aid provided by a Class III soldier medic, he didn't have to worry about blood loss and shock. The medic performed a hasty closed ventilation and drainage procedure, and his condition is currently out of danger.

The Bella battle group then began to retreat westward.

Of course, Ivan Rus's army was unwilling to give up. The 232nd Infantry Regiment sent a telegram requesting support, and the nearest 50th Infantry Division immediately dispatched an infantry reinforced company and several armored vehicles to pursue.

The pursuit force even brought two military dogs, swearing not to let Shang and his group, who had caused such a big disaster, go, and it was obvious that they hated them to the core.

The weather conditions are good and there are no streams or mountain streams along the way, so the aura left by the Bella battle group will not dissipate in a short time.

Combining the footprints and the sensitive noses of the military dogs, the Russian pursuers caught up with the Hungarian officers and soldiers effortlessly.

In front is a man named Shang who is eager to return home and get away from the trouble as soon as possible, and behind is the relentless pursuer.

This is quite funny. The two teams started an outdoor hiking competition in the chaotic Hunnic plains.

It can be said that the imperial Russian soldiers' desire for revenge and perseverance were extraordinary. They pursued the enemy for a whole day and night, and the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed from more than 20 kilometers to just a few kilometers.

Shang Ke felt uneasy and decided to postpone his rest time and speed up the march for two hours.

Afterwards, he ordered the cavalry reconnaissance company to send out two squads to conduct a vigilant search, and they indeed detected the aggressive pursuers.

This discovery made Shang Ke very scared, because if he had not been so vigilant and noticed the pursuers, then based on the relative speeds of the two sides, he would probably have been caught off guard by the pursuers' night attack while he was resting and sleeping in the second half of the night!
"No, buddy, why bother?" Shang Ke was speechless about this.

How can you not eat this piece of fat meat that is right in front of you?
As the saying goes, if you come, make the best of it. Since it has come to our door, let's bury it here.

Shang quickly set up an exquisite ambush circle, determined to ambush the pursuers.

Because the two female sergeants used their abilities in reverse to block the telepathic search, the Russian pursuers initially did not realize that the murderous intention was so close.

However, the ironic thing is that the exquisite ambush circle was discovered by those military dogs!
It was really frustrating that a good ambush turned into an unexpected encounter.

But it just takes a little more effort.

A reinforced infantry company and three light armored vehicles dared to pursue the Bella battle group? Shang Ke felt that the enemy was too arrogant.

Of course, from the perspective of the Ivan Rus people, the Tisza River defense line collapsed completely, and hundreds of thousands of Huns retreated in a hurry. So what was this small destructive force insignificant?
The Bella battle group was indeed in a difficult situation. After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, they had very little ammunition left, and only six mortar shells.

However, Shang believed that the biggest threat to the pursuing enemy came from the three armored vehicles, and the rest of the infantry was not to be feared.

His fighting style was to first fire three artillery shells to scare the enemy, then use his only remaining anti-tank gun to deal with two of the armored vehicles, and leave the other armored vehicle to two light machine gun teams.

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The Russian-made BA-20 light armored vehicle has only 6 mm armor, which is very weak and can only withstand ordinary rifle and machine gun bullets. The Hungarian officers and soldiers carried a small amount of SmK armor-piercing bullets, which were enough to penetrate these tin cans.

The SmK was a German-made 7.92mm armor-piercing round with a tungsten carbide core, capable of penetrating approximately 10mm of steel at close range. Two Hungarian light machine gun teams, in the midst of a fierce direct firefight, quietly moved to the side, setting up their 31M light machine guns and opening fire simultaneously. Dozens of 7.92×57mm SmK armor-piercing rounds rained down on the targets, turning the two BA-20s into a hornet's nest of claustrophobic swarms!

In this way, the firepower of the Russian pursuers was immediately suppressed.

Upon seeing this, Shang Ke immediately ordered a platoon to encircle the enemy to the north, and asked the cavalry reconnaissance company to send a detachment to cut off the enemy's retreat and prevent them from breaking out.

Afterwards, after firing the only three remaining mortar shells, he decisively ordered everyone to put on their bayonets and launch a group charge.

It has been proven that hand-to-hand attacks in dense formations can be extremely deterrent under appropriate circumstances.

The battle lasted one hour and twenty-two minutes, and more than 200 Russian pursuers were completely wiped out by the Bella battle group in the hilly area south of a small town called Maigioso.

No one dared to stay, so they simply cleaned up the battlefield and continued to retreat westward.

That afternoon, two patrolling fighter jets of their own side discovered this seemingly isolated small force.

The pilot seemed a little curious and descended in altitude and circled a few times before flying away.

The Hungarian soldiers noticed that the khaki paint scheme of the two J-37s was very peculiar. It was not the paint scheme of the Royal Hungarian Air Force, and the friend-or-foe identification pattern on the tail was a crimson C-shape that had never been seen before.

"Maybe the Air Force has formed a new fighter wing." Dodotia guessed.

"No, it should be the Volunteer Air Force." Shang Ke said thoughtfully.

The day.

A Hungarian reconnaissance plane sent a concise message back to the General Staff.

"In the Tisadob area, the enemy's pontoon bridge has disappeared and is no longer visible. No flooding has been observed, and the flood control embankment is intact."

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The events that took place in the early hours of the morning are destined to go down in the history of war.

On October 10, in order to slow down the advance of Ivan Rus's 6th Army, the Hungarian army destroyed the Tiszalok Dam, which had been completed only seven months ago.

The river level suddenly rose sharply?!
The Ivan Rus army that was crossing the river downstream had no time to react. The surging river water destroyed more than ten pontoon bridges at the five crossing points along the dozens of kilometers.

Caught off guard, hundreds of soldiers and more than 40 trucks fell into the river, hundreds of people drowned, and countless supplies were lost. Now it became a hassle to choose a new location to build a pontoon bridge.

Just the day before, Tukhachevsky was still reporting the good news to St. Petersburg, claiming that he could defeat the Hungarian army's heavy forces in a whirlwind and completely destroy Hungary's resistance.

Unfortunately, no one expected such an accident to happen overnight.

Faced with such an unexpected situation, Ivan Rus's army was forced to stop.

When the northern section of the Tisza River defense line collapsed completely, more than a dozen Hungarian divisions were able to escape unscathed and moved westward relatively intact with only a small loss of supplies, trying to rebuild the defense line.

(End of this chapter)