Chapter 46: The Bridge
In the boundless dark night, Liu Yanzhi plunged into the cold river and never surfaced again, and the guerrillas did not know that he had the special function of breathing underwater, and they couldn't help but sweat.
The sudden sound of motors came, Soviet patrol boats came, and the bright lampposts scanned the water, sometimes shooting at the shore, accompanied by the aimless strafing of light machine guns, the partisans hid in the dry grass, not daring to look up.
The Soviet army attaches great importance to surface defense, in addition to the uninterrupted patrol of three gunboats, there is also a frogman team to deal with the enemy divers, in fact, such a cold day, divers simply can not go into the water for a long time, let alone perform the task, the Huaijiang Iron Bridge is a railway and highway dual-purpose bridge built in the Republic of China, assuming the role of the main transportation artery on both sides of the Huaijiang River, during the war, it is the lifeline of the Soviet army's survival.
This Sino-Soviet war is different from the Sino-Japanese War thirty years ago, the Soviet Red Army's powerful mechanized troops far exceed the Japanese Imperial Army's combat effectiveness, but the dependence on logistics supply is also much higher than that of the Japanese army, and China in the 1970s was still an agrarian society, even provincial cities like Omi only had some light industry, unable to provide effective logistical support to the Soviet army, and the fuel and ammunition consumed by the army were served dry food, all of which needed to be transported from the distant Soviet Union.
All the supplies needed for the 1 million Soviet troops invading China were first collected from the Soviet Union's member states and Eastern European satellite states, and the laden train crossed the Ural Mountains, crossed the Siberian tundra, arrived at Vladivostok, a Chinese territory occupied a hundred years ago, and then entered China, passing through the white mountains and black waters of the three eastern provinces, reorganizing at the railway freight yard in Beijing, and sending them to various theaters of operations.
Under the modern war, the role of the railway is increasing day by day, just like the arteriovenous large blood vessels of the giants, maintaining the basic survival, while road transportation and air transportation can only play the role of capillaries, so an important task of the Soviet army is to maintain law and order along the railway.
The general leader of the Omi occupation army was the commander of a motorized infantry regiment of the Soviet Red Army, Vasily. Colonel Sergeyevich, whose regimental headquarters is located in the former Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee Building, and his residence is located at No. 1 Fenglin Road, which is said to have been the official residence of the first secretary of the Chinese Provincial Party Committee, although the living standards of the Chinese are very low, but their senior cadres enjoy the same luxurious life as the senior cadres of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, live in villas with bathtubs, eat special food, and from this point of view, the Bolsheviks in the world are really a family.
Colonel Vasily's main duty is to guard the Huaijiang Iron Bridge and fight against the guerrillas operating nearby, he has a motorized infantry regiment under his command, equipped with T55 medium tanks and BMP1 infantry fighting vehicles, and there is also an army aviation brigade at his disposal, which is more than enough to deal with the guerrillas, and the small life is quite leisurely, especially compared with his counterparts in Harbin and Beijing, it is said that the guerrilla war in these two cities is still going on, and there are more than 100,000 guerrillas hiding in the underground of the city, using intricate air-raid shelters, The subway and various tunnels fought against the occupation forces, and more than a hundred people were killed and wounded every day.
Of course, this leisure is only relative, in fact, the guerrilla resistance is frequent and fierce, the Soviet army has suffered heavy losses, in the past three months, more than five helicopters have been shot down, all thanks to the Yankees, their Stinger portable anti-aircraft missiles are the nemesis of the hind.
A few days ago, the Soviet army lost a helicopter in the battle of Cuiwei Mountain, and later the reinforcements found some strange things in the process of pursuit, there was a strange thing on the top of the mountain beyond their cognition, a huge metal cabin, the technicians accompanying the army could not say the purpose and material of this cabin, Colonel Vasily did not move the metal cabin for a safe purpose, but just let people take pictures and wash them out, put them in envelopes, and send them to the Soviet General Staff in Moscow along with other information.
The bureaucracy of the Soviet army was very serious, no less than the party system, but this time the response was super fast, and it was directly in charge of the GRU of the General Staff, and a colonel of the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence made a long-distance call to Vasily, telling him to make sure that he was on the lookout, and that a team of experts would fly in from Moscow in the fastest possible time to conduct a field survey.
So, Colonel Vasily adjusted his tactics and sent a detachment to garrison Cuiwei Mountain, he didn't need to send too many troops, one squad was enough, anyway, the distance between Cuiwei Mountain and Omi River was so point, the hind took off and arrived, and it could be supported by air at any time, and besides, this squad was also armed to the teeth, equipped with grenade launchers, RPG rockets and SVD sniper rifles, and the guerrillas couldn't get any advantage from them.
Late at night, the colonel was still working in the regimental building, with three telephones, a pot of coffee and a stack of papers on a large mahogany desk, and he scavenged some locally produced silks, spirits, and fine porcelain cutlery to prepare for the return of the army ship, which were not very valuable in China, but were in high demand on the black market in Moscow, and all the garrisons were doing such things, and the generals and colonels did not miss any opportunity to make a fortune, just like their fellow Guards in the GDR.
By the time Colonel Vasily signed an air transport bill, Liu Yanzhi had approached the piers, which had been cast concrete for quite some years, covered with moss, slippery, and overhead were snow-bright searchlights, and the bridge deck was lit as if it were day, military dogs pricked up their ears vigilantly, soldiers in tweed coats patrolled back and forth with automatic rifles on their backs, and AKM's ochre-red polymer magazines were dim under the lights.
On such a cold winter night, except for madmen, who will leave the warm bed, only those guerrillas who don't want to die, think that in Ukraine, the Soviet partisans launched an attack on the German Nazi railways day and night, cutting off the supply lines that harassed them, so in dealing with the guerrillas, the Soviet army is very experienced, there are tank guards on both sides of the bridgehead, and unknown vehicles that refuse to obey the command are all destroyed.
No one noticed the piers, which were the weakest point of defense, because it was impossible for frogmen to infiltrate, and it was impossible to avoid the searchlights and plant explosives on the bridge in a big way.
But Liu Yanzhi did it, his movements were more neat than that of an ape, quickly placing the explosives, dodging the illumination of the searchlight, and in less than fifteen minutes, the explosives were planted, and the black frogman quietly entered the water and dived away.
Five minutes later, he showed his head, and there was a violent explosion behind him, the fire reflected half of the sky, the explosives placed at the point of force detonated at regular intervals, and the wreckage of the iron bridge fell into the river in slow motion.
Five kilometers away, on the riverbank, the partisans hugged each other excitedly, and the mission was finally completed, and the iron bridge was blown up, which could interrupt the transportation of Soviet troops for at least three months.
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With a loud bang, Colonel Vasily in the regimental headquarters of the provincial party committee building was alarmed, rushed to the window, and saw a flame rising in the distance, followed by a series of explosions, his heart tightened, the Huaijiang Iron Bridge was blown up!
"Helicopter, quick." The colonel grabbed the telephone and shouted, "The guard company will rush over immediately, encircle and suppress, I will encircle and suppress!" ”
The orderly rushed in, picked up the tweed coat from the hanger and put it on the colonel, the open space of the provincial party committee compound became a tarmac, the pilot on duty got into the cockpit and started the engine, the sleepy-eyed soldiers of the guard company lined up to board the plane amid the platoon commander's scolding, and the colonel boarded another helicopter and sat in the position of the weapon operator, and two Mi-24 armed helicopters rose from the ground and flew in the direction of the Huai River.
A convoy of armored vehicles also rushed to the scene of the incident from the ground, the streets were extremely empty in the middle of the night, and the speed of the car could be reduced to 100 kilometers, and they rushed to the shore in an instant, and they saw that the Huaijiang Iron Bridge was broken into three parts, and the flames were soaring, but fortunately, the casualties were not large, and only a squad of soldiers patrolling on the bridge deck was blown up.
The gunboats on the river were firing flares, illuminating the night as if it were day, and the garrisons of the two bridgeheads were firing incessantly, with tank guns, with Deshka heavy machine guns, with grenade launchers and rocket launchers, with all the weapons at their disposal, pouring out their anger and fear.
Colonel Vasily quickly gave the order to rescue the wounded, search for the martyrs, and at the same time search the 10-kilometer radius along the coast on both sides, and immediately killed the moving target when it was found.
After a few moments, the search helicopters found some traces, the enemy seemed to be operating in the northern mountains, and Colonel Vasily sent all the helicopters under his command out and gave the order to catch the culprit of the bombing of the bridge.
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Liu Yanzhi returned victoriously, with heat exuding from his head, without fatigue, and proposed to attack Cuiwei Mountain immediately.
The enemy's helicopters were all diverted by the suspicious soldiers sent by Li Weidong, and now is a good time.
"Okay, I'll gather my subordinates and launch an attack immediately." At this moment, Li Weidong has completely believed in Liu Yanzhi, even if the other party proposes to take over his command, he will give it up.
More than 20 guerrillas marched to Cuiwei Mountain under the cover of night, attacking the hilltop outpost, Cuiwei Mountain, which had experienced a harsh war, had become a bare mountain, with no vegetation, no trees, and no cover, the Soviet troops responsible for guarding the commanding heights were all elites wearing blue sea soul shirts, they lived in temporary fortifications, did not relax their vigilance at all times, put a flare every once in a while, and immediately bombarded with mortars when they found abnormalities.
There was no shelter under the mountain, the climbing guerrillas were discovered, and the defenders immediately opened fire and called for support at the same time, but it was too late, the guerrillas adopted the tactics of attacking from the east to the west, and a large number of troops were placed in the south of the mountain to attack, but the real main force was Liu Yanzhi and others who climbed up from the cliff.
The battle ended quickly, Liu Yanzhi alone killed six Russian devils, Yu Hanchao killed two, Lei Meng killed two, and one master was killed by a pillar.
Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Liu Yanzhi did not have the joy of victory, these soldiers are still young men, with freckles on their faces and a faint fluff on their mouths, maybe half a year ago they were middle school students on the streets of Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev, but today they have become cannon fodder in the cold mountains of a foreign land.
The defenders left behind a lot of goodies, an 81mm mortar, a 35mm automatic grenade launcher, heavy machine guns and sniper rifles, dozens of boxes of ammunition, military cans and vodka, but the first thing they captured was the boots on the feet of the dead bodies.
In order to cope with the mud and cold in Russia, the Russian soldiers and even the Soviet army were equipped with boots, the soldiers used fat and stubby medium-cut walking boots, and the officers wore slender high riding boots.
Dang Aiguo went to inspect the traversal capsule and found that this place had been fenced off by the Soviets, and there were traces of prying on the hatch, which made his heart hang, and the importance of the Soviets was what he was most worried about.
"Professor Dang, take us back quickly." Yu Hanchao palpitated.
"We'll have to wait." Dang Aiguo said.
"How long will it take?"
"This is not a scheduled return trip, so you need to warm up, and it will take five hours at the earliest." Dang Aiguo said.
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