Chapter 143: The Battle of Beicang (2)
Seeing that the Russian army was getting closer and closer to the opponent's defense line, it was estimated that it was only about 500 meters, but at this moment, only the gunfire on the opponent's defense line was heard, and the Russian soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
When Lin Neviqi saw this, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, because judging from the sound of gunfire, the opponent's firepower was really strong, and it seemed that he was also equipped with a large number of machine guns to cause such a big momentum.
This attack lasted only ten minutes, and the Russian army retreated, leaving the corpses of about 200 Russian soldiers on the position, and the casualties were not small. However, Linnevich was not discouraged, because this was a tentative attack, and Linevich believed that the effect had been achieved, and he had identified the main position of the opponent, and could bombard the opponent with artillery.
Of course, from the beginning of the Russian attack, the other side has not used artillery bombardment, which also shows that the other side is also worried about the exposure of its artillery positions, waiting for the Russian artillery to fire first, and after determining the position of the Russian artillery, it will launch a strike.
However, Linnevich was also prepared for this, he did not put all the artillery on one position, but divided two artillery positions, artillery position A and artillery position B, and divided the Russian artillery into two and arranged them separately. Although this will weaken the intensity of the artillery strike slightly, it can spread the risk, and only one of them will fire, if the opponent's artillery fires back, at most only one artillery position can be destroyed, and in this way, the opponent's artillery position will be exposed, then another artillery position can strike at the opponent's artillery.
Thinking of this, Linnevich immediately gave the order and ordered all the guns of the artillery position A to open fire and strike at the opposing side.
And not long after Linevich gave the order, the artillery of artillery position A has not yet fired, only to hear a series of huge roars from the opponent's position, Linevich can't help but be a little surprised, because this should be the sound of the opponent's artillery firing, but when the Russian army attacked just now, the opponent's artillery did not fire, and now the Russian army has stopped attacking, and the other side has begun to shell instead, I really can't figure out what this group of overseas Chinese is planning to do? Or that the yellow-skinned monkey has a limited IQ, so it's not surprising that he makes some stupid moves.
But just as Linnevich was thinking, he only heard a series of violent explosions "boom, boom, boom", and the direction was the artillery position A of the Russian army. In other words, the shells fired by the other side fell on the artillery positions of the Russian army accurately, which also shocked Linevich, how did the other party know the location of his artillery positions?
In fact, the whereabouts of the Russian army and the distribution of troops are not a secret to the crossing army, because the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft has already seen the movements of the Russian army clearly, and transmitted the timely video to the Beicang command headquarters of the crossing army, so the commanders of the crossing army, Zhu Yaping and Qin Yuhai, are pointing at the display screen and discussing the distribution of the Russian army.
The Russian army divided the artillery into two positions, and the two commanders naturally saw it very clearly, but the Russian army did not intend to use artillery at the beginning, so the crossing army was not in a hurry to strike at the Russian artillery position, but after the first attack of the Russian army was frustrated, the artillery of the artillery position A began to move, Zhu Yaping and Qin Yuhai immediately knew that the Russian army planned to use artillery to bombard the positions of the crossing army, so they immediately ordered two mortar companies to immediately strike at the Russian artillery position A.
Before the start of the battle, Zhu Yaping and Qin Yuhai set up five artillery positions on the front, the number was much more than that of the Russian army, but the two did not disperse the mortars on the five artillery positions, and they were still used intensively, but they kept transferring the position of the mortar positions in the battle, simply put, they changed the place with one shot, and the use of mortars was light and flexible, whether it was transferred or rearranged, it was much faster than ordinary artillery, so that it was impossible for the enemy to master the artillery position of the crossing army.
At this time, two mortar companies with a total of eighteen mortars have been assembled at the No. 1 mortar position on standby, and the drone has already transmitted the coordinates and positions of the two artillery positions of the Russian army to each artillery group, so it can be said that all preparations have been made, just waiting for the order.
After receiving the order from the command, the two mortar companies were divided into two batches, each batch fired three rounds in a wave, and then replaced, so that they took turns to fire at the artillery position A of the Russian army, and took advantage of the rotation to correct the parameters of the firing unit.
Mortars are not only light and flexible, easy to move, but also much faster than most medium-caliber guns of this era, even if they are manually loaded, but the fastest rate of fire can reach 20 rounds / min, at that time in the actual battlefield, such a rate of fire could not be achieved, the general rate of fire is 6-12 rounds / minutes, now the firing speed of the mortar battery is roughly in between, so the first three rounds of shelling were all fired within 30 seconds, a total of 27 shells, most of which accurately landed in the positions of the Russian troops, and suddenly the sound of explosions sounded on the artillery positions of the Russian troops.
Although the power of mortar shells is much smaller than that of artillery of the same caliber, the shell power of the PP89 type 100 mm mortar used by the army may not be as powerful as the shell of the 75 mm howitzer of this era, but it is not trivial to fall on the position and explode, because the artillery position is different from other positions, it has no cover, and the trajectory of the mortar is a large arc, which can bypass most of the bunkers, and there are also a large number of shells stored on the artillery position。
Immediately after that, the second batch of mortar companies also opened fire, and there were three more volleys, and then the first batch of mortar companies immediately followed, launching a third round of strikes on the Russian artillery positions, followed by the fourth, almost wave after wave, without any interruption. And these four rounds of shelling took only more than two minutes before and after, and a total of 108 shells fell on the artillery positions of the Russian army.
Although some of the 108 shells missed, most of the shells still fell within the strike range determined before the shelling, after all, such shelling does not pursue high-precision strikes, but relies on the formation of a barrage of covering strikes, so as long as the shells can fall into a general range, the formation of a barrage strike, plus there is a drone in the air, providing shooting parameters, it is naturally difficult to hit all over.
And after this round of shelling was over, the Russian artillery position A was covered by a series of explosions, in addition to the shells that crossed the army, many Russian artillery shells were also detonated, so all the artillery was destroyed, and most of the Russian artillery was killed and wounded, and the artillery position A was also completely disabled.
The results were transmitted to the commander of the Russian army, Linnevich, and he was also so shocked that he was speechless for a long time, but he didn't expect that in just two or three minutes, one of his artillery positions was knocked out by the other party, and the other party's artillery bombardment was very accurate, and the Russian army could not play such a beautiful result even in peacetime training, so the other party must have mastered the precise location of the Russian artillery position A, but how did this group of overseas Chinese do this? The Russian army's protection of artillery positions is quite tight, is it difficult for their scouts to go to the sky and into the ground, stealth and hide?
But now is not the time to think about these things, Linnevich is also a soldier who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and immediately reacted, immediately ordered artillery position B, immediately calculated the position of the opponent's artillery position, and bombarded the opponent's artillery array.
After the order was issued, Linnevich was also a little relieved, fortunately, he had prepared and set up two artillery positions, and now although one was knocked out by the other side, there was no defeat, and there was still a chance to turn the tables. Because although the opponent knocked out one of its own artillery positions just now, it also exposed the opponent's artillery position, although the results of ballistic reversal are not very accurate, but the general direction is still accurate, as long as you fire in that direction. As long as it can knock out the opponent's artillery positions, then the Russian army still has a great chance of winning this war.
However, Linnevich, as an experienced commander, will not think about the good aspects, and there are still many unfavorable factors for the Russian army, since the other side can find its own artillery position A, it is possible to also find artillery position B, and what if the other side is the same as himself, the artillery is divided into two positions? Thinking of this, Linnevich's heart couldn't help but feel uneasy, but now Linnevich had no other way but to pray silently to God in his heart, hoping that God would bless Russia and, of course, himself.
Time passed little by little, Linnevich's heart also rose to his throat, for fear that at this time there would be another sound of artillery shelling on the opponent's position, and I don't know how long it took, only to hear the sound of "boom", the Russian artillery position B finally began to carry out artillery bombardment, and then the sound of "boom boom boom" was endless, and the artillery position B was full of firepower and momentum.
Linnevich also breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the other side did not find his artillery position B, and God is really bless Russia. Even if the opponent can calculate the position of artillery position B through ballistic calculations, it is impossible to calculate it very accurately, and it may not be able to cause much damage to its own artillery position B, so there are still a dozen in this battle.
However, it was only a few minutes after the Russian artillery returned fire, only to hear the sound of artillery bombardment on the opponent's position, and it was obviously from a different place than the last shelling, Linevich's heart was hanging, the other party really had an artillery position, and Linnevich's thoughts did not stop, only to hear a loud "boom", on the Russian artillery position B, there was a huge explosion. And Linnevich's eyes were dark, and he knew that it was all over.
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