Chapter 860: The Emperor's Old Army!
Poltavchenko, who commanded in the rear, was not easy to detect, but the Russian troops on the front line knew in their hearts that for almost every Chinese soldier killed in battle, the Russian army would be stabbed to death by two! In other words, even if the Wehrmacht is extremely tired, even if the Russians have a certain physical advantage, the tactical quality of the Russian army is still not comparable to that of the Wehrmacht!
With a loud "boom", a rocket fell about a hundred meters away from the front of Poltavchenko's stealth bunker, in addition to sending a mortar position of the Russian army into the sky, it also stirred up the dust and stumps in the sky!
Poltavchenko frowned and looked at the mess of artillery positions, but he had to admit that the gunners of the Chinese Defense Forces [including rocket soldiers], snipers and engineers and other technical arms were very good! The Russian army's lower-level battlefield commanders and important firepower points have been killed and destroyed a lot!
And the tactics of the Chinese are also very flexible! While launching the offensive, they also temporarily built positions between positions, which are difficult to detect in the current weather, and if the front is restored, the Russian army returns to the front, and the Chinese discover the opportunity, a rocket can make the Russian army pay a big price.
It was dawn, the battle was still going on, and the Wehrmacht had absolute superiority after all.
But without the cover of the night, it was clear that the Wehrmacht's offensive was not as smooth as it had been last night.
In the morning, after two hours of fighting, the Wehrmacht, after launching an offensive with little effect and few casualties, changed their tactics and played kraft candy again. Although the casualties will not be very large, the number of rockets consumed by the bilateral rockets is the number of rockets. In the past few days, the Wehrmacht has played such tactics, depleting the Russian army's rocket reserves little by little. Even on the battlefield where the Wehrmacht surrounded the Russian fortress, the Wehrmacht played such tactics - purely to hurt people.
As a result, an unexpected situation brought the fighting to a halt - the heavy rain that had been brewing for days finally fell.
It was an absolute rainstorm that continued to rain until the evening, and although the rain decreased a lot, it had no intention of stopping! This made Poltavchenko's mood even more depressed!
Although this heavy rain greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the superior cavalry units of the Chinese. But their Cossacks were also half-crippled.
And the problem of reserves, some of the few remaining rockets in the hands of the Russian army are damp, and many powder kegs are also damp.
The staff officer of the first lieutenant of the Russian army gasped, ran up in embarrassment, and said loudly: "General! The soldiers are tired, hungry and cold, the trenches are full of rain, the Chinese rockets are still firing, they are constantly approaching us! ”
The high winds obstructed the view of both armies, but if there was anyone who was more unlucky, it would have to be the Russians. Because they are the besieged party!
Even if Poltavchenko ordered the army to expand the defensive area as much as possible at the first moment of encountering the enemy situation - the Russian defense line was also light in the front and heavy in the rear, and only a small number of troops were retained in the first and second lines - rocket troops, and there were soldiers with battalion and company formations in the third line and the rear - but it was still them who had a bad momentum.
Now the defensive positions of the Russian army are constantly shrinking and constantly being eroded by the Wehrmacht. The density of soldiers on the positions of the Russian army will continue to increase, and the threat to them from the rockets fired by the Wehrmacht will become heavier and heavier.
And the number of rockets in the Russian army is also getting smaller and smaller, and the launch of rockets has become more difficult.
Because many of the rockets of the Russian army are still arquebus, of course the weather is affected now; And the development of rockets on the part of the Wehrmacht until now is completely in the form of fire caps. The launcher has become more and more professional from a simple bracket at the beginning, to a sight, a simple rangefinder, a level, and a flintlock machine.
What the captain and staff officer of the Russian army said was all the truth, the heavy rain really caused too much trouble for the Russians, the rockets were on the one hand, the water in the trenches on their positions - the trenches of the Russians had not yet evolved to the point of having drainage ditches, and the crackling and crazy raindrops seriously affected the food supply of the Russian army, as well as their own warmth and cold protection.
All over the world, except for China, which equips every field soldier with a convenient raincoat, other countries have this condition.
The situation of the Russian army is really not good now.
But Poltavchenko had already ordered that his subordinates were not allowed to spread unfavorable information about the situation in public! When the Russian soldiers on guard around looked at him in surprise, Poltavchenko had already "snapped" and slapped it in the face of the captain's staff officer.
"Bastard, you stupid stupid pig!" Poltavchenko glared at the staff officer angrily. "The Slavs can conquer even the cold winter wind and snow, what is this rain? Victory is ours in the end! "Although the Wehrmacht is getting more and more tightly surrounded, Poltavchenko does not admit defeat, and the Russian army is just very tired because of the continuous march. At this moment, he has ignored the fact that the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side have been marching for days, and blindly believes that the Russian army is a tired army and needs to rest. And after the rest, the tall Russians can definitely pick two Chinese at a time.
Is this a kind of self-deception?
However, Poltavchenko did not know that while he was speaking, the Wehrmacht was rapidly shrinking its forces and gathering a little bit of strength, preparing to launch another fierce attack on the vanguard of the Russian army tonight, and it was best to deal with this Russian army in the rainy night.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the Wehrmacht paid a certain number of casualties, but finally completed the division and outflanking of the Poltavchenko brigade! The militia regiment attached to his unit had been torn down by the Wehrmacht, and it could be said that it had bitten into its mouth, but it had not yet swallowed it. Poltavchenko successively issued orders to the Oganesan and Popov regiments to immediately open contact with the militia regiments.
After the second charge of the Russian army was repulsed, Poltavchenko sent out the only remaining reserve regiment in his hand, the strength of this regiment is only more than 1,000 years, and it has been staying with the brigade headquarters before, and it is the absolute reserve force in the vanguard brigade, and its combat effectiveness is much worse than the two main regiments, and it is stronger than the militia regiment.
The Russian army still maintains its previous tactics!
It is almost the same as the process of the Chinese National Defense Forces in offensive warfare. That is, first bombarded with rockets and artillery shells, and then took the opportunity to attack with infantry. During the third attack, the middle and lower-ranking officers of the Russian army began to gasp for breath, and then commanded their soldiers to storm the Wehrmacht regardless of casualties.
And at this moment, the Wehrmacht is also stepping up to eliminate this militia regiment of the Russian army.
When playing offensive battles, Chen Han's triangular offensive and crowd tactics Jinhua still don't have much. Because Chen Ming took out the advanced infantry tactics with high standards, he had a foundation of 80 points, and if he wanted to be excellent, and then he wanted to go to a higher score of fireworks, of course, the advance range would be low.
Just like the offensive tactics of the forward team - wave charge, which is a common tactic of the Japanese army during World War II, the attacking troops will be according to one-tenth of the total strength, wave after wave of the enemy's weak points, carry out continuous attacks, to create the opponent the feeling of infinite attack forces, and then destroy the enemy's self-confidence and break through the enemy's defense line.
The offensive tactics of the standing team are this system, and the character of the Japanese makes them more suitable for this type of warfare. But they've fought a lot over the years, right? I've never seen any improvements to Wave Charge.
The militia regiments of the Russian army are already in a great crisis!
Although the offensive strength of the Wehrmacht is not too much than that of the Russian army, the Russian army has also built simple trenches, and it rains, and the floating soil on the battlefield that was blown up by rockets has turned into silt, and the advance speed of the troops is not fast at all, but the militia units of the Russian army still cannot stop the fierce attack of the Wehrmacht.
Half an hour later, the militia regiments of the Russian army had lost most of their positions.
But the resistance of the Russian troops in the remaining positions has also become stronger, because their forces are more dense. But this was not a problem, the Wehrmacht also carried grenades with them, and they had rockets behind them.
The fighting spirit of the Russians is really quite tenacious, and it has come to this point, and this militia group is still resisting, and the attitude is resolute. really told Wei Xiuzhi with facts that one of the characteristics of the Russian militia unit is that its combat effectiveness is not strong, but its will to fight is tenacious. It's a pity that no 'spirit' is useful in the face of rockets falling from the sky, and when the Wehrmacht attacking troops follow the rockets to the last position of the Russian militia regiment, they will no longer meet a few people who are being slaughtered with their necks straight.
Large swaths of Russian soldiers lay on the ground, dead in a terrible manner, and the mud turned red under the light of the torches.
And it may also be that God does not want to see so many deaths and injuries, this heavy rain has finally seen the signs of stopping, and the rain has fallen to the point of light rain.
The Wehrmacht quickly got rid of the remnants of the militia regiment, and sent the commander of the Russian regiment, who had lost one of his legs, to the field hospital in the rear.
Inside the improvised trenches, Poltavchenko was covered in mud and the smell of gunsmoke, squinting at the waves of explosions one after another, and the sound of fighting on the militia regiment's position gradually disappearing!
The Chinese artillery and rocketeers fired very quickly and accurately! And its firepower intensity is also more than several times higher than that of the Russian army!
Poltavchenko had a very bad feeling in his heart. Because he thinks that today's 'vanguard brigade' is like a piece of bamboo, the Chinese are like a machete being wielded, when enough force is enough to split the first bamboo joint, the rest is - like a bamboo! The Chinese have spent a lot of money to gnaw the militia regiments, so will they soon break through the Oganye regiment and the Popov regiment one after another? The front is less than half a verst from the brigade headquarters in Poltavchenko!
Rumyantsev, who commanded the Russian army, also took advantage of the darkness and rain to launch a fierce attack on the Wehrmachtcha blocking forces. But the latter is like a boulder, a nail, so that several attacks of the Russian army have come to nothing, and without exception, they have suffered heavy setbacks!
Before you know it, the front of the position is quickly filled with bloody corpses! There are both those of the Wehrmacht and the Russian army!
According to the reaction of the Russian soldiers, these Chinese soldiers of average stature are not only tenacious, but also have rich white-knuckle combat skills! What's more, each of them has a cuirass, sharp assassination skills, and a few times when they fought with the Russian army with bayonets, they took a big advantage!
Dark night is indeed a good time for bilateral armies to fight to the death.
Because neither of the two armies had enough rockets to play carpet bombing in front of the positions. Even if the flares were raised, it would be a shame to look at the queue of soldiers above the zero, who could drill through a whale at a large distance from each other, and launch rockets.
The cost of these rockets is not high, but the cost of being transported to the banks of the Kama River is also skyrocketing, and it is not so wasteful. Therefore, the white-knuckle battle between the two armies is indispensable.
At this time, the Wehrmacht's blocking positions had already been staggered, and a chaotic situation of "you have me, I have you" had formed in the light rain of the night, and if the Wehrmacht could not support it, or even wavered a little, a situation of collapse of the whole regiment would be formed!
It may not make the main force behind it waver.
Fortunately, Wei Xiuzhi always cared about the blocking troops, and after discovering that the situation was not good, he immediately sent reinforcements there.
The mud and blood in the rain stained the positions red, and the soldiers on both sides collided with each other with bayonets, and their will to fight was extremely strong!
The war is fierce and bloody!
The Russian army that attacked in the follow-up couldn't help but be dumbfounded - this tenacious will to fight is really shocking. You must know that the attacking force of the Russian army is a fist unit in the hands of Rumyantsev, at least twice as many as the Chinese.
As for the Wehrmacht, I can only sigh that it is the old unit of the emperor's beginnings, and it is a team separated from the 'tank battalion', and it really does not disappoint anyone.
Of course, there were soldiers on both sides who were scared silly! A few people also began to try to sneak back, or smear their faces with bloody mud and sly lie on the ground and pretend to be dead!
In the middle of the night, it was a quarter of an hour before one o'clock in the morning.
Poltavchenko had only one remnant of the command left in his hands, his reserve regiment was collapsed, and the two main regiments were divided into several large pieces by the Wehrmacht and were on the verge of being wiped out!
Poltavchenko's face was gloomy and he looked out of the encirclement in despair. The reinforcements to the west still failed to break through the Chinese troops!
Poltavchenko felt that he was really going to die. He could not see the daylight tomorrow unless he was willing to surrender to the Chinese. But for this great shame, Poltavchenko would rather be on the battlefield than bow his head.
"General, the Chinese's rockets have been able to hit here!" The adjutant spoke with anxiety, interrupting Poltavchenko's continued despair. The adjutant is also from a noble background, only in his twenties, and he is already a lieutenant colonel. He still has a great future and decades to live, but he doesn't want to be sent to death with Poltavchenko.
But now he can't leave Poltavchenko behind and run alone to surrender.
There are so many people in the command, it is impossible for them all to die. If he really abandons Poltavchenko and runs away alone, his reputation will be completely stinky. Even if he returned to St. Petersburg alive in the future, there was no future for him. It is not impossible that even his family will remove him from the list in order to maintain his reputation.
The main forces of the Russian army on the periphery have fought fiercely with the Wehrmacht, and although they have inflicted a lot of casualties on the Wehrmacht, they have never been able to break through the Wehrmacht's blocking line and move closer to the Poltavchenko Brigade! What the form of this battle will be is not yet certain. But the vanguard of the Russian army is bound to be removed.
Poltavchenko was a little indifferent. Death is not death.
With a loud "boom", a solid bullet hit the bunker where Poltavchenko was hiding, and the Russian guards inside fell to the ground despite the mud on the ground, and Poltavchenko's body couldn't help shaking.
But he still didn't want to leave.
This is his headquarters, and he deserves to die here.
……
Solid shells are not very destructive to bunkers. Poltavchenko was still very targeted when he marched, and the area that the vanguard had originally controlled had no mountains, but a small forest. Now the trees in the woods have been cut down by the Russian army, and his own brigade headquarters are reinforced with thigh-thick logs. A layer of logs and a layer of loess, so that the top is covered with three layers, and finally covered with an earthy yellow canvas as a cover.
The Wehrmacht is getting closer! In the dripping drizzle, Poltavchenko could already faintly see them through the observation port.