Within 15 minutes, 20 122-mm self-propelled rocket launchers of the artillery battalion of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Regiment and 20 tanks of two companies poured 2,000 shells of various types on the position of the headquarters of the Soviet 45th Army with armor-piercing, explosive, anti-personnel and explosive shells, grenades, and napalm.Chinese

What is this concept? This meant that each building had to withstand more than 60 shells. The Soviet army really can't fight this battle. After the artillery fire, there were no more buildings, all that remained were piles of rubble. No, strictly speaking, the ruins are not ruins, and there are still some remnants of the ruins, and now all that remains is a burning pile of construction debris.

This effect was not even expected even by Zou Zhengjun, deputy commander of the 5th Jibu Regiment, who commanded the artillery preparations. Zou Zhengjun stood in the right hatch of the turret of the "Destroyer" tank, looked at this piece of real fire without exaggeration, and sighed: "Holy! It's too fierce, it's a bit too exaggerated this time. ”

The gun commander standing in the hatch on the other side also said to himself at the magnificent Soviet army crematorium with thick smoke billowing and boiling flames, "Dog, I see that you old men are still jumping!" ”

Zou Zhengjun got back into the car, picked up the microphone and ordered the commander of the 7th company: "Feng Lian, you take someone to blow up the sewer culverts around the fire for me with explosives, don't let Lao Maozi slip away from the sewer." You leave 4 armored vehicles and a tank here to keep an eye on these buildings, which usually have basements and semi-basements, in case you can get a living handful, don't let them escape. The rest of you clean up the remnants of Soviet troops in the blocks to the east and west. I advanced north with 8 companies. ”

"Yes!" The commander of the 7th company, Feng Kesu, agreed.

"That's right. There is one more thing," Zou Zhengjun instructed the commander of the 7th Company: "Tell you that the soldiers who stay here and are in charge of guarding must find me the lieutenant general of the 45th Army of the Soviet Army whose name is Big JBSKY, whether it is dead or alive, but I must find it!" ”

"Yes, I promise to see people alive and corpses when I die." Feng Kesu, the commander of the 7th company, corrected the pronunciation of Deputy Regiment Commander Zou while agreeing, "But Zou Tuan, people are not called Big JBSKY, people are called Veyov. Daki Bassky".

"Ha, ha, ha, don't drag the with me here, aren't you still a big jbsky after talking about it for a long time?" Deputy Regiment Commander Zou Zhengjun laughed happily and said, "Don't talk nonsense, let's go to work immediately." ”

Feng Kesu thought about it, but too, he explained for a long time that he was still a big JBSKY. Fuck! Why did his mother give him such an indescribable and inexplicable name in the first place? It's loud, but it's not urbane enough. Certainly no consideration has been given to how bad the international repercussions this will be.

Veyov, hiding in the basement of the headquarters. Lieutenant General Dakibasky was not really injured by such heavy artillery fire, but the completely collapsed building crushed him and more than 100 people hiding in the basement under the rubble. With a loud roar, the basement shook violently, and dust fell from the cracks in the cracked ceiling. Frightened people are taking refuge, desperate to find a safer place. But where could there be a safer place?

Vijov sitting in a small office in the basement. Lieutenant General Dakibasky looked at the staff officer Yersaf, who was glazed in eyes and had an earthy face, and asked, "Did I ask you to send someone to contact you with the 34th Tank Division?" ”

"Man, I sent it out two and a half hours ago," Yersaf replied mechanically.

"Oh no! The generator room is on fire," someone outside shouted hoarsely.

Yersaf looked at the expressionless Viyov in horror. Lieutenant General Dakibasky asked: "General, what to do?" What are we going to do? ”

After a while, Viyov, who let the dust fall on his head and was indifferent. Lieutenant General Dakibasky, very calmly, said: "There is nothing left to do. It seems that those who are the main and faction are still right, and we are indeed not the opponents of the Chinese now. There's a lot of stuff we don't know, we don't know. Then he closed his eyes, waved his hand outward, and said weakly, "All right, Lieutenant Colonel Yersaf, you can go out." ”

Yersaf turned and walked out with a blank expression.

Veyov. Daki Bassky stood up, walked to a dusty corner cabinet in the corner, took out a bottle of vodka, slowly unscrewed the cap, threw the cap aside very casually, and then tilted his neck sharply, "dong dong" to dry the bottle of wine in one go.

He gently placed the wine bottle on the corner cabinet, then he walked to the desk, took out a pistol, loaded it with bullets, sat down in the chair very calmly, carefully examined the pistol, slowly raised his right hand and aimed the muzzle of the gun at his temple, in the eyes red with alcohol, there was no trace of fear, no panic, only unimaginable calm. He seemed to enjoy the feeling before he died, and his fingers slowly pulled the trigger.

An unobtrusive "bang" of gunfire put an end to the not-so-elegant, but loud name of the commander of the Soviet 45th Army, Vyov. The life of Lieutenant General Dakibasky.

An insignificant bullet caused the fall of a Soviet general.

Yersaf walked out of Vijov. In Daki Bassky's office, what he saw was a gruesome sight: several people whose clothes had been charred ran out of the generator room in a panic. As he shouted, he quickly picked up the burning pieces of clothing that remained on them.

Smoke billowed from the door of the generator room, and several tongues of fire burst out of the door. After the fire, people desperately retreated to get away from the fire, and many people were already on fire. The charred clothes and trousers were clinging to the skin of the wounded, and several Soviet soldiers were covered in black and musy clothes, with large burn marks on their bodies, and in the middle of the burnt skin, there were large patches of exposed red muscle tissue, which may have been caused by the burning of the epidermis.

The lights in the basement suddenly went out. The darkness exacerbated the horror of the people, and the terrible cries made it hard to believe that this was a human sound. The whole basement is like hell on earth.

However, the disaster did not end there, the stored diesel fuel exploded violently, and the diesel fuel flowing everywhere made the whole basement smaller and smaller place where people could stand, people pushed each other, many people were pushed into the fire, beating wildly in the fire, splashing the burning diesel everywhere, increasing the area of the flame, making the space without fire smaller and smaller, and then instinctively pounced on those places where there was no fire but were already full of people, and brought the flames burning on their bodies to these people who pushed themselves into the fire pit

In the midst of this cycle of evil, the entire basement has been completely engulfed in flames. The combustion consumed all the oxygen, and finally even the fire of hell that took people's lives was extinguished. All that remained in the basement space was the scorching and deadly smoke

However, let the commander of the Soviet 45th Army, Vyov. What was the 34th Tank Division of the Soviet Army, which Daki Basky had in mind before he died, doing?

The artillery preparation before the attack of the Chinese [***] team caused heavy losses to the 45th Tank Division of the 34th Army of the Soviet Army, and the division headquarters and regimental headquarters were destroyed by Chinese 300-mm rocket artillery. Three fuel depots were destroyed, two ammunition depots and one spare parts depot were destroyed. More than 500 officers and men, including a division deputy chief of staff and a regiment commander, were killed or wounded.

After the attack, the 34th Tank Division was in a hurry, all information was interrupted, and the whole division fell into a predicament of being overwhelmed, and two hours later, the wired communication between the regiment and the division headquarters was restored, and three hours later the wireless communication part of the battalion was restored. Gradually advance in the direction of the Sino-Soviet border.

The offensive of the 34th Tank Division of the Soviet Army consisted mainly of the following units: the 3rd Tank Regiment on the left side of the line, the 1st Tank Regiment in the center, and the 2nd Tank Regiment on the right.

At noon on the 11th, the 1st Tank Regiment of the Soviet Army Central Line and the 1st Tank Battalion, which served as the advance force on Route 64, had entered the village of Epolkassk, which was composed of 45 T55 tanks, 6 rescue vehicles and 129 other vehicles, with a full strength of 1,151 officers and men. When they assembled from the camp, they were hit by the long-range artillery fire of the [***] team, and they set off in a hurry, on the road, assembling while marching, but they constantly encountered electromagnetic suppression, and the communication situation was extremely bad. The vehicles had to communicate with each other in flag language for a long time, and they were constantly attacked by the [***] team, a short distance of more than 50 kilometers. With the "favor" of four Chinese "Hunter" helicopter gunships, half of the battalion's tanks and vehicles had been destroyed by the time they arrived in the village of Epolkask.

At 13 o'clock in November, a 69th Army of the 1st Tank Battalion of the Soviet Army went to reconnoiter stopped with a "crunch" of the wild car, and a sergeant scout jumped down in a panic and reported to the commander of the advance battalion of the 1st Battalion, Captain Andrey Temansky: "Report, the Chinese tank has reached the front of the village of Epolkask, less than 3,000 meters from here!" ”

Captain Andrei Temansky, who was leaning on the tank and chewing on the black, sour, and icy snarling, heard the news, and he was a little surprised: "What? Could it be that the Chinese have already crossed the Amur River? Moving so fast? As he spoke, he put the rest of the big leba into his jacket pocket, "Shoshakhovich, go, get in the car!" Let's go ahead and have a look. Derbysowski, you move quickly. Let's check the situation. ”

The 1st battalion of the Soviet Army, Captain Andrei Temansky, himself boarded his mount, tank No. 341.

"Let's go!" Andrey Temansky gave the order, and the T55 tank rumbled out of the forest path. Drove out of the entrance to the village of Epolkask.

The [***] team is not only so fast, the 1st Tank Regiment of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 2nd Group Army of the Shenyang Military Region has been waiting for them here for a long time.

This piece of land, which is located on the left bank of the Heilongjiang River, in the northeast of Heihe County, only more than 40 kilometers away from Heihe County, and where the Jingqili River and the Heilongjiang River meet, will stage a contest between the armored forces of the two sides. This will become a classic example of armored warfare in the world in the future, and it will affect the world for half a century, perhaps even longer.

The reason why Deng Feng's Far East Corps Headquarters preset this place as a battlefield for the destruction of the 34th Tank Division of the Soviet 45th Army was mainly based on the Soviet army's tactical theory and the Soviet army's defense thinking; Here is the Jingqili River and Heilongjiang River impact plain, which is also convenient for large-scale armored operations; This is close to our rear supply base, which is convenient for the replenishment of troops.

The 1st Armored Regiment of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 2nd Group Army of the Shenyang Military Region met 3 tank battalions, 1 armored infantry battalion and 1 air defense company of the 2nd Tank Regiment on the right flank of the Soviet Army with 3 tank companies and 1 infantry company of 3 battalions and 1 infantry company.

2 battalions against the 1st Tank Regiment in the middle of the Soviet Army; 1st Tank Regiment on the left of the Soviet Army with the 3rd Battalion; This tank battle was fought first in the middle lane.

The 2nd Battalion of the 1st Armored Regiment of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 2nd Group Army of the Shenyang Military Region, before the 1st Soviet Tank Regiment reached the small farm of Epolkask, the 1st Company of the PLA Tank had already crossed to the 123rd Heights, a small hill on the north side of Epolkask, and lurked there, the 2nd Company stopped on the road west of the village to intercept the Soviet tanks, and the 3rd Company was lurking in a cornfield and the edge of the primeval forest on the south side of Epolkask.

The Soviet army did not understand this situation, and the four Soviet scouts just now took a gas 69 to reconnoiter the situation along kilometer 64, and all they saw were the three destroyer tanks of the PLA 2 Company parked on the road west of the village to intercept the Soviet tanks head-on.

The tank No. 341 of the 1st battalion of the Soviet Army, Captain Andrei Temansky, passed through the grove on the edge of the village on Route 64, and his vision suddenly widened, and he was taken aback. He first noticed that in the wheat field about 2,000 meters on the left side of the road, there were three small, low-looking tanks that were slowly moving with bells and whistles, and the outline was not very clear.

"At 11 o'clock in the left front, the target was found, 3 tanks," Captain Andrey Temansky shouted loudly, "Shoshakhovvich, accelerate to meet it." Loaders, armor-piercing shells, Debysovsky aimed at the first Chinese tank and took out the ugly little Beetles. ”

The T55 tank accelerated again, the turret quickly turned to the left, Debysovski put his eyes on the gun mirror, he looked at the gun limiter, his right hand was on the launcher, and the loader behind him also quickly pushed a 105mm armor-piercing round into the gun chamber with a "clang".

(To be continued)