Chapter 478: The Battle of Shanhaiguan (7)
After all, Obumochaev has received a formal military education and has many years of military career, as long as he calms down, he will be able to make a correct judgment, knowing that Sokolov's division of the current war situation is correct, without the cover of heavy artillery, forcing an attack is basically equivalent to sending him to death, and Sokolov is also one of his superiors, and he is not good at opposing with strong words, so he is still a little unwilling in his heart, but he has to bow his head and remain silent. Bayi Chinese Network? (viii).
Seeing that Obumochaev's appearance had softened a little, Apalikov was also very satisfied, but he didn't want to stiffen the relationship with Obumochaev, although Obumochaev was his subordinate, but there was a huge force behind him, of course, Apalikov was not a person without a background, if there was no relationship background on the Russian side, it would be difficult to be promoted to the position of lieutenant general, but Apalikov, Obumochaev still has the ability to match his position, unlike the kind of person who only relies on his background to close the door, so Apalikov also has some appreciation for Obumochaev, so he doesn't want to have a stiff relationship with him, and on the other hand, there is no need to oppose the forces behind Obumochaev.
So Apalikov said: "The chief of staff's opinion is very right, if we want to break through the positions of the overseas Chinese, we must have the fire support of heavy artillery, and in two or three days, our heavy artillery units will reach the front line, and at that time, it is time for us to attack the overseas Chinese again, and let the overseas Chinese compensate us for our strength." After a pause, he said: "Commander Obumochaev, and you can't be idle these days, I hope you will sum up the experience of this battle, and when the heavy artillery unit arrives, the task of attacking this position will still be handed over to your division, and in addition to your division's howitzer regiment, another heavy howitzer regiment will also be handed over to you for command, I hope this time you will not let me down again." β
When Obumochaev heard this, he couldn't help but perk up, and he also knew that the main reason for the defeat in this battle was not that the positions of the overseas Chinese were impregnable and impregnable, nor that the opponent's artillery was accurate, but that there was a lack of heavy howitzers on his side, and because the power of the field artillery was insufficient and the firing range was not far, it was not enough to deal a heavy blow to the positions of the overseas Chinese and support the attack of the infantry, and it was easy to become a target for the opponent's howitzers to take advantage of the range advantage. And if you have a heavy howitzer, you can hit the opponent's position outside the range of the opponent, so that no matter how accurate the artillery of the overseas Chinese is, it is useless if the range is not enough. In this way, it is not difficult to capture the positions of overseas Chinese, and if they still capture the positions of overseas Chinese by their own divisions, they can also redeem the defeat in this battle and save their face and reputation.
Of course, Obumochaev also understood that the commander arranged this way to find a step for himself, and he couldn't help but know what was wrong and must insist on attacking, so he hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Excellency, commander, this time I will definitely not let you down again." β
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Seeing that the Russian army had withdrawn, Qiu Yahui also breathed a sigh of relief, although the Russian army's attack just now basically did not pose any threat to the positions of the People's Army, but the People's Army was facing a very embarrassing situation, that is, the consumption of bombs was too fast. This is not to say that the KPA does not have enough ammunition, but that it has too little ammunition in the frontline positions.
The ammunition allocation formulated by the People's Army is generally based on the standards of this era, with a base of 12o for general rifle bullets, 6oo for machine guns, 1oo for small-mouth guns, and 5o for medium-caliber guns, while on front-line positions, it is generally equipped with 3 bases of ammunition.
As a result, in the battle just now, the ammunition consumed by rifles was generally within a reasonable range, and only a small number of soldiers had completed a base number, which was generally within the range of a base number; however, machine guns and artillery guns had all completed two bases, and some machine guns and guns had even finished more than half of the ammunition for the third base, and if the Russian offensive persisted for about 1o minutes, or even 5 minutes, some machine guns or shooters would have been dumbed because they had no ammunition.
And the Russian army's offensive only lasted less than a small time, if the Russian army continues to attack, then all the people's army's machine guns, artillery may be dumbfired, although Qiu Yahui also urgently ordered the rear to deliver ammunition to the position, but it will take a certain amount of time, whether it is too late is really hard to say, after all, it is impossible to hold the position with rifles alone. Therefore, Qiu Yahui also wiped a cold sweat after the Russian army retreated.
In fact, the reason for the lack of ammunition on the positions is not only the lack of ammunition on the front-line positions, but also related to the lack of experience of the KPA, because it is the first time that it has experienced this kind of all-round defensive battle, and in the face of the overwhelming enemy forces attacking from all over the world, it is also a huge pressure on the defending soldiers, so once the fight starts, it is easy to get hot-headed, because it is a soldier who uses a shooting weapon, indiscriminately shoots indiscriminately, does not know how to control it, and consumes part of the ammunition in vain.
However, Qiu Yahui estimated that even if there was no ammunition consumed in vain, the ammunition equipped with the shooting weapon could last for more than 1 hour at most, and although the trench defense was effective, it cost a large amount of ammunition consumption, and in the old time and space, whether it was the Russo-Japanese War or the First World War, the ammunition consumption was far beyond the pre-war expectations. Therefore, Qiu Yahui also decided to increase the ammunition of machine guns and artillery in front-line positions to 6 bases.
Of course, Qiu Yahui also has a bottom in his heart, if it is really when the ammunition is insufficient, the warships anchored in the waters of Shanhaiguan will never sit idly by, and will definitely provide fire support to the position, and there is no problem in holding the position, but in this way, the navy may attract the attention of the Russian army, thus causing some trouble to the next step of the People's Army's Deng-6 battle plan. And now that the Russian army is retreating, Qiu Yahui is naturally relieved, so that the entire battle situation is still in accordance with the plan of the People's Army.
After the Russian army withdrew to its position, it counted the losses in this battle, a total of 527 people were killed and 639 people were wounded, of which 261 were seriously wounded, and nearly 8oo people were attrition in the battle, close to 1/4 of the whole regiment, and among the soldiers killed, 389 were killed in the positions of the attacking People's Army, and the rest were killed in field artillery positions.
Although compared to the total strength of the Russian army of 32,000, the battle attrition of less than 8oo is not a major loss, but this battle lasted less than 1 hour, so this casualty is quite a surprise. Therefore, several officers of the Russian army were also quite shocked when they saw the results of this statistics, although they had predicted before the war that it would not be as easy as attacking northeast China, but they still underestimated the difficulty of this battle.
Lieutenant General Apalikov immediately ordered the follow-up baggage troops to rush to the front line as soon as possible, and at the same time left only one regiment of troops in the forward position, and the rest of the Russian troops were all withdrawn to the town of Gaoling. And sent people back to Jinzhou to report to the Russian army headquarters that more howitzer shells were needed.
Three days later, the follow-up baggage troops of the Russian army finally arrived at the front line, and Lieutenant General Apalikov ordered to leave other food supplies in Qianwei Town, while three howitzer regiments carried two base shells and directly entered Gaoling Town.
With these three howitzer regiments, the confidence of the Russian army suddenly increased greatly, so Apalkov immediately ordered Obumochaev to go out tomorrow and attack the positions of overseas Chinese again. Obumochaev, on the other hand, rushed to the front-line positions overnight with another regiment to draw up a battle plan for another offensive and arrange the positions of the artillery positions.
However, the movements of the Russian army were completely under the control of the People's Army, so the day before the Russian army's follow-up baggage troops arrived at the front line, a fleet consisting of the Kunming, Changbaishan, and Akashi protective cruisers arrived in the waters of Shanhaiguan and joined forces with the Yueyang warship, the battleship Brandenburg, the ironclad ship Saxony, and the two torpedo boat destroyers stationed here to form a mixed fleet.
During this period of time, through the infiltration of drones and special forces, the Yueyang ship has reconnoitred the situation of several positions of the Russian army very clearly, and has generally determined several locations suitable for boarding 6, and used the ship's sonar to scan the sea area of these 6 locations and draw nautical charts to facilitate landing 6. In fact, the tools used by the People's Army to board 6, whether it is a hovercraft or an amphibious combat vehicle, have very low requirements for boarding 6, and can be boarded on more than 9o% of beaches.
After the fleet converged, Shang Jinfeng also quickly determined the location of the 6th board, and also sent a part of the special forces to go ashore in advance, implement a guard at the 6th place of the board, and guide the 6th troops to board the 6th when the 6th was boarded.
The KPA's Deng-6 site is about 1o kilometers away from Gaoling Town, so the Russian General Headquarters in Gaoling Town is naturally the first target of Deng-6 troops. According to the operational plan formulated by the People's Army, while the People's Army was carrying out the 6th Lunar Summit, helicopters and special forces were to be airborne in the west of Gaoling Town, so as to harass the Russian troops from the west, and when necessary, the helicopters could also be used to assist the special forces in combat, and the People's Army of the 6th Lunar Emirates would form a flanking attack on the Russian General Headquarters in Gaoling Town.
And after capturing Gaoling Town, the People's Army of Deng 6 will be divided into two groups, and two battalions will attack the avant-garde town of the Russian army to the north, because this is the logistics base of the Russian army, for this southward operation, the Russian army has prepared a large number of various materials, for the People's Army, these materials are naturally needed, so we must try our best to capture them, the more the better.
The other battalion went south and attacked the forward positions of the Russian army with the People's Army stationed at the Nine Gates and the Qing army stationed at Shanhaiguan, completely defeating the Russian army in one fell swoop. The Kunming and Yueyang warships were close to the shore and, according to the actual situation on the battlefield, used naval guns or missiles to provide fire support for the ground offensive forces.