The KMT armies adopted a policy of encirclement and annihilation of the Red armies. He ordered a huge cavalry encirclement, achieved via a sweeping strike behind the Spanish army. Bayerlein led a breakout through the Soviet encirclement. Some 15,000 Soviet troops managed to break through the encirclement. This resulted in the Soviet encirclement of the German Sixth Army and other Axis units. The Huns preferred to fight at long range, utilizing ambush, encirclement, and the feigned retreat. After six days of encirclement, both armies were destroyed. A special kind of encirclement is the siege. The Yugoslav partisans break out of an encirclement. Stalin refused, leading to the encirclement of the Red Army forces and a total defeat. This led to the partial encirclement of the Maratha army. The Ottoman army soon after collapsed under the pressure of the encirclement. Napoleon III ordered the army to break out of the encirclement immediately. The encirclement of No.7 Platoon was now complete. They were one of ten groups attempting to break out of the Soviet encirclement.