Chapter 59: A Small Town in the Mountains

In the bunker, close-range scuffles and shots were going on in the corner of the bunker that had been blown open, and the black figures were twisted together, screaming like beasts coming out of their mouths.

The sharp sapper shovel flickered in the night, and when it struck a person's body, it was as if it were chopping a piece of wood. It's just that the wood hair made a terrible shout.

"Ah......h

Roaring like a madman, like someone who has just woken up from a nightmare.

"Machine guns! Where is the machine gun? ”

At this time Paul. Kochagin had an important question on his mind. There should be working machine guns in the bunkers, and the machine guns in the firing points should provide more cover for the cavalry divisions when they launch a final attack.

In the darkness, there were rolling bullet casings everywhere under my feet.

"These dogs, but they shoot a lot of bullets!"

On some gut feeling, Paul. Kochagin found the high-level dual-purpose machine gun in the bunker, two crescent-shaped butts that could be pressed against the shoulder, so that the human body could cling to the machine gun and feel the throbbing figure when the machine gun fired.

"Come and help, let's move the machine gun!"

Paul. Kochagin reached out and grabbed the body of the Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun, and below it was a huge tripod. It seems that the people in the bunker never expected these machine guns to shoot at planes in the air.

"No wonder their machine guns are so powerful, this thing is used to fight planes, but it is used to hit us!"

Someone in the dark, with a Ukrainian accent, shouted at the mother.

"Hurry up and help, you son of a!"

For some reason, when the bunker was basically cleared, more soldiers poured in and entered the passages under the bunker, where they fought fiercely with the enemy.

Staying on it, intending to use the weapons here, the soldiers who supported the cavalry division's attack looked happy. Even when they scolded their mothers, they were smiling.

Soon after, a machine-gun flame flickered from there, but it was no longer directed at the attacking cavalry, but at the firing port of another pillbox parallel to it.

With this support, another bunker was quickly conquered both underground and above. When Paul. Kochagin could sit down on a large pile of shells that were still emitting heat when someone stuffed a cigarette roll into his hand.

"Comrade instructor, take a puff, these tobacco leaves are left for us by the dogs in the bunker!"

"You dog, go and move the bullets, we still have to support the attack of the cavalry division!"

Obviously, the assault of the cavalry division was a little later after the artillery fire had been prepared, and as for the sound of those huge horses' hooves attacking, it was still heard later.

While scolding rudely, Paul. Kochagin blamed himself for this uncivilized change, and when he stuffed the Mohe cigarette into his mouth and took a big sip, he found that the cigarette holder had already been wet with the guy's saliva. It shows that this cigarette has been smoked by that guy for a while.

"Bastard, go move 12.7mm bullets, we're going to shoot ...... soon!"

While scolding loudly again, Paul. Kochagin took the smoke ring from his mouth, ripped off the second half, and took another big puff. However, the smell of blood mixed with the bunker was not so choking, and a large puff of smoke did not make him cough.

"Ah, the smoke is coming from my brethren, and that's probably a good thing!"

"Attention, the enemy counterattacked, counterattacked ......"

On the battlefield, some old English or French chariots counterattacked the pillbox line. The windows of the buildings in the small town also flashed with a little light, and with the flickering of these lights, the bullets whistled like bugs and flew over the field.

"Shooting...... Rapid Fire ......"

Someone shouted, Paul. Kochagin picked up the mount of the Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun again, and in the circle-shaped sights, you could see the armored fighting vehicles that were staggering through the field, like some strange beast. It's just that such beasts are now spewing tongues of fire, trying to suppress more and more bullets coming at them.

"Tom tom...... Tom ......"

The 12.7 mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun is much deeper than the ordinary machine gun, and the chain of armor-piercing and incendiary shells is mixed, and the bullets fired together form a beam. Those armored vehicles that were staggering forward were hit, and armor 15 mm thick would not be able to fully withstand the fire of such armor-piercing shells.

At this moment, the mortar in the bunker also made the sound of firing, and after the tom-tom sound, the armored vehicles in the field that were shaking forward stopped, and the explosion raised a column of smoke with dirt in front of and behind it.

"Ha, these bitches have to use armor-piercing bullets against them, boom, blast them all to your mother's......"

As if hearing Paul. At Kochagin's call, groups of heavy artillery shells flew through the sky and fell straight into the counterattack force with the opposing armored vehicles as the vanguard.

"This is the heavy artillery of the divisional artillery battalion...... How could they be so timely? ”

Doubts in Paul. Kochagin's mind slipped, but it didn't stay. The fire from the high-level dual-purpose machine gun at his disposal was firing a series of piercing bullets into the direction where the armored vehicles were.

Subsequently, he understood that this would be a "timely" artillery fire, and not something specifically against those armored vehicles. However, because of the attack of the cavalry division, the devastating artillery bombardment provided in the process of moving deep into the enemy's defenses.

Repelled this counterattack, Paul. Kochagin got off the Goping dual-purpose machine gun. It was in the hands of the other machine-gun shooters in the company, who were to provide more fire support to the cavalry units that were rushing towards the city.

The whistling cavalry group overwhelmed the white infantry that had just been defeated, and the cavalry rushed forward like a torrent. The running infantry was knocked down by the horses, or struck by the sabers that the cavalry leaned out of his body to him.

The complex of buildings, which was the last line of defense of the city, was fired by a 12.7mm machine gun from a distance, and the huge bullet easily pierced the seemingly thick walls of the buildings, forming a random flight of ricochets in the room.

The scene was exactly the same as that of the Red Army offensive in the morning, and the White infantrymen who were holding on to this place were unable to lift their heads from the 12.7 mm machine guns of the opposing side. Even the dense machine-gun bullets were like sickles, and even some two-story buildings collapsed downwards because the pillars had been broken.

As more and more cavalry reached the edge of the city, the dismounted soldiers began to use their infantry weapons to engage in street battles with the White soldiers defending the city. As at the beginning of the chapter, the sapper shovels, which are suitable for wielding horses, are used again as axes in street fighting.

Of course, the use of almost as many Stern submachine guns on both sides made the street fighting even more brutal and bloody. The only difference is that the White Army is completely equipped in the same way as Western armies, relatively speaking, they have submachine guns. The number of light machine guns was somewhat inferior to that of the Red Army.

In street fighting, their firepower was no more superior than that of the Red Army.

When the main forces of the Red Army cavalry division entered the city completely, the entire line of defense of the White Army was attacked from the rear by the Red Army cavalry maneuvering from the city, and it collapsed very quickly. The White soldiers rushed into the black forest, either on horseback or on foot.

Or, against the cavalry, this is their only chance to survive.

This time, the operation of sending a more mobile cavalry division deep into the rear of the enemy army and ending up the enemy's supply base was finally successful. In this operation, the casualties of the entire cavalry division of the Red Army reached 1/5, and the offensive capability was almost completely lost. Although in the subsequent battles, they relied on the work and ammunition left by the enemy to complete the task of defense.

But by the time the entire front of the Red Army could protect them, their losses had already amounted to 1/3, almost completely incapacitating them.

Just like Paul. The reinforced company that Kochagin led at the beginning was reduced by 1/3 in this operation. There are only about 50 people left in the entire company. And this time the operational objective of completely crushing the White Army and completely expelling them in the North Caucasus was finally achieved at great cost.

To this end, Stalin was appointed chairman of the military council for the entire Caucasus, and a large number of officers under his command were promoted. In addition to the soldiers in the local training camps, there were also troops who came here from the Far East via the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to show friendship to China.

Although, the forces have been strengthened, but for the Caucasus the fighting will be even more brutal. Because they were facing a German-Turkish coalition that had begun to partially deploy in this direction as the weather warmed up, the fighting there would be more intense and brutal.

Moreover, in this offensive operation, the ground forces of the Red Army, which had lost air forces in the early stage, suffered very huge losses under the blow of the enemy's air forces. Despite the fact that they were armed with a considerable number of anti-aircraft machine guns, the mobility of these weapons in the mountains was somewhat limited, so Stalin's understanding of the role of aviation in combat increased considerably.

So, an urgent telegram came to Lenin's office in Petersburg.

"Judging by our attacks in the Caucasus, the air force will have a great impact on the superiority on the battlefield, and according to our track record, the 'Sabre' fighters provided by China will play a great role in engaging the enemy. Especially in the later stages of the campaign, they were put into battle together with the attack aircraft units, which provided the ground forces of the Red Army with better cover than the mobility of artillery fire, so I proposed to equip the Red Army with more aviation units, and only then did ......"

Seeing this, Lenin let out a long sigh.

"A leader in politics, in the military, is maturing!"