Chapter 244: Attack Vladivostok

The commanders and fighters of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division of the 16th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army had only one thought, "Advance at full speed, destroy the Soviet army, and never let them escape back to Boli alive." "Under the cover of the "Destroyer" tanks, the infantry closely coordinated with the tanks and launched a fierce attack on the Soviet troops.

Tank No. 1608 "Destroyer", after eliminating a light armored vehicle of the Soviet army, went straight to the Soviet convoy. Knock over those cars and crush the Soviet soldiers hiding under the cars under their tracks.

Yue Tengfei, the commander of the No. 1608 "Destroyer" tank, saw that a Soviet car was fleeing backwards in panic, and he stopped the artillery commander from firing, and he was really reluctant to use a shell that could buy a cow to hit such a worthless target. He opened the hatch above his head, kicked up the 12,7 mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun, and fired wildly at the fleeing car, instantly paralyzing the car and sending seven or eight Soviet officers and soldiers in the carriage to pieces.

Just as he was about to return to the tank's fighting compartment, a Soviet sniper pulled the evil trigger on Yue Tengfei from behind the wreckage of a blown up car.

"Ahh Fuck you! Lao Maozi" No. 1608 artillery commander Cao Yi saw that his commander was blown off the head, and shouted madly, he quickly turned the turret, full of anger, with the excellent skills he usually practiced, fired a shot at the wreckage of the car hidden by the Soviet sniper, and blew up the murderer who wanted to run after finishing the crime.

But even killing 100 Soviet snipers can't get back the precious lives of their comrades.

Cao Yi no longer cared about what shells were worth one cow or two cows, and he angrily fired shells at the Soviet army. The cars and armored vehicles that the Soviet army relied on were lifted into the sky. The infantry fighters who followed his tank immediately opened heavy fire on the stubborn Soviet troops.

The tank charged into battle, bravely in front, and the infantry behind followed closely behind and struck fiercely, and the infantry soldiers hit wherever the tank rushed, and the cooperation was very tacit. turned this place into a cemetery for the Soviet army.

Along the banks of the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River, they quickly attacked the defense line of the 76th Regiment of the 1st Red Banner Guard Division of the Soviet Army from the north and south sides of the armored assault group interspersed with the Soviet Army's rear like two torrents of steel.

While advancing at an off-road speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, they opened heavy fire on these Soviet troops, who had only light infantry weapons. In the face of the attack of the armored assault group of the squadron, the Soviet army, which was destroyed by artillery fire and had no field ability at all, was no longer able to parry, and they rushed one after another.

Run, that will definitely not work, the 7,62 mm machine gun located on the right side of the turret of the "destroyer" swept these Soviet troops who tried to flee in batches on this land that they occupied for 99 years. The soldiers on the infantry chariot following behind also kept "da-da-da, da-da-da" from the shooting hole of the armored vehicle and fired at the Soviet troops outside with Type 51 automatic rifles.

Within 70 minutes of the start of the war, more than 30 "destroyer" tanks, more than 30 armored vehicles, and more than 40 military trucks of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army rushed to the east bank of the Heilongjiang River, took the lead in entering Khabarovsk City, blocked the river bank, occupied all the communication arteries into Khabarovsk City, and completely cut off the retreat of the three regiments of the 1st Far East Guard Division of the Soviet Army.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, more than 3,000 people, including Lieutenant Colonel Buyinevich, the commander of the 76th Regiment of the Soviet Army who came to block the [***] team, were completely annihilated. A 5 km wide gap was torn from the center of the Soviet defense line, cutting off the rear road of the 74th Soviet regiment guarding the Bechkha area and the 75th Soviet regiment in the Vladimiroka area.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the tank battalion of the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps drove more than 30 American M26 "Pershing" tanks and more than 100 Dongfeng military off-road trucks carrying more than 3,000 reserve fighters of the Production and Construction Corps, and more than 2,000 cavalrymen from the Red Frontier also entered the city of Khabarovsk and began to receive the camps, warehouses, airports, docks and more than 30 large military factories of the Soviet defenders.

In the city of Khabarovsk, apart from a few sporadic battles between individual Soviet troops and the reserve fighters of the Production and Construction Corps and the cavalry of the Red Frontier, it was largely peaceful.

At dawn, the citizens of Khabarovsk noticed that the red flag of the Soviet Union with a sickle and hammer was no longer on the flagpole at the top of the municipal axe building in Khabarovsk, and was replaced by a hunting five-star red flag.

The streets are also littered with American M26 Pershing tanks with Chinese flags and patrolling military trucks. There are also those Chinese who ride low Mongolian horses and hold guns, and the people are not civilian, and the soldiers are not soldiers.

On February 11, 1959, Burli was liberated, marking the overthrow of 99 years of Russian rule. The arrival of the Chinese People's Liberation Army declared the exercise of national sovereignty over the city, which China had lost for 99 years.

The vast sea is pure blue, beautiful, quiet, serene and clean. When she is charming, she is covered with layers of white flowers. When she was angry, she rolled her body irritably, roaring, erupting with her infinite energy.

On the west shore of the Benhai Sea, there is a brilliant pearl - Vladivostok. The city, known in Russia as Владивосток (ruler of the East), was the second largest city in the Far East of the USSR and the capital of the Primorsky Territory of the USSR. It is located at the junction of China, the Soviet Union and North Korea, facing the sea on three sides, with excellent natural harbors, and is strategically located, it is the most important port of the Soviet Union on the Pacific coast, and it is also an important military point that controls the Sea of Okhotsk, which China calls the North Sea, and is the headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet and the 23rd Army of the Soviet Far East Air Force.

This is another sad place for the Chinese. Vladivostok is one of the few natural deep-water ports in Northeast Asia, and the naturally formed harbor is wide and calm. Such an excellent port was thrown to Tsarist Russia like garbage by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. As a result, China has lost its access to the sea. Of course, this is a traditional feature of the Chinese rulers. When there is a conflict between national interests, national interests and ruling power, they will not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of the people in exchange for maintaining their dominant position. When their dominance is threatened more than that of fighting with foreigners, they will not hesitate to compromise with foreigners first to ensure that their dominance is unshaken, and this has never changed.

For this distant east, nearly 10,000 kilometers away from Moscow, the Russians decorated it with the blood of docile Chinese and the beautiful pearl inlaid with bones, the Far East Corps headed by Deng Feng naturally wanted to take it back in this "bear hunting operation".

Destroy the Soviet Pacific Fleet and remove the threat of its southward movement to the coast of China.

The "Bear Hunt" plan was that after the campaign was launched, the bombers of the First Army of the Chinese Air Force took off from Yanji and Jilin airfields to raid the ships in Vladivostok and Soviet Harbor and the 23rd Army aviation base of the Soviet Far East Air Force on the shore, eliminate the Soviet Pacific Fleet, and paralyze the aviation base of the Soviet Far East Air Force.

The submarines of the North Sea Fleet of the Chinese Navy were deployed in the basin of the Benhai Sea, and cooperated with the Air Force to blockade the Benhai Sea and eliminate the submarine forces encircling and annihilating the Soviet Pacific Fleet.

On 10 February, six "Dolphin" drop-type diesel-powered submarines of the North Sea Fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) had quietly entered the Yubenhai Sea and were on the edge of the ocean basin 50 km south of Nakhodka, the most important civilian deep-water port in the Soviet Far East, on the western side of the Benhai near the mouth of the Tumen River and the most important and only civilian deep-water port open to the outside world in the Soviet Far East, and in the waters around the Soviet Port.

No one could have imagined that almost all of them were covered by sea ice, and in the cold and deep waters below the outer edge of the ice with ice mounds piled up to 6-7 meters, there were six underwater killers of the PLA North Sea Fleet quietly lurking. These Chinese submarines are waiting at the bottom of the sea, where they will hunt Soviet submarines.

In the early morning of 11 July, four J7 fighters, like four sharp swords, took off from Yanji Airport, which was only more than 100 kilometers away from Vladivostok, and went straight to Vladivostok. Three minutes after takeoff, they began to fire anti-radiation missiles at Soviet radar positions, first blinding the eyes of the Soviet army's land, sea and air forces.

Immediately afterwards, under the leadership of Xi Yang, deputy commander of the 1st Jian-H Army, 6 "Flying Leopard" fighters and 36 "Saboteur" bombers, escorted by 4 J10 fighters and 16 "Falcon" Jian-1 fighters, flew roaring into the theater of operations in the vast night sky, and flew straight to the Fifth Fleet of the Soviet Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok and the Pacific Seventh Fleet stationed in Soviet Port, the three airfields of the 23rd Army of the Soviet Far East Air Force, the Pacific Fleet Command and the 23rd Army Headquarters of the Soviet Air Force. A ferocious attack was launched against these vicious Tsarist successors - the Soviet Union.

The port area of the Soviet Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok and the Fifth Fleet was located in the Golden Horn at the tip of the Amur Peninsula. The Golden Horn extends from southwest to northeast into the interior, with a length of about 7,000 meters. The width of the bay at the entrance is about 2000 meters, the water depth is 20~30 meters, the width of the bay is less than 1000 meters, and the water depth is 10~20 meters. The southern side of the Golden Horn is separated by the East Bosphorus Strait, and there is Russian Island as a natural barrier. The bay is surrounded by low mountains and hills, and the situation is dangerous. Since the winter freezing period of Vladivostok is as long as 100~110 days, from early December to mid-to-late March of the following year, during this period, ships must use icebreakers to break the ice before they can navigate. Therefore, there are not many ships sailing in and out of the Golden Horn in Vladivostok in winter.

Approaching 70 kilometers of the Golden Horn, Xi Yang turned on the fire control radar on the J-7 and began to search for targets.

"50 kilometers ahead of the target azimuth, the Soviet cruiser Dimitri Pozhasky, in the direction of 1 o'clock, coordinates: 42 degrees 86 minutes 8984516 seconds north latitude, 132 degrees 51 minutes 7761198 seconds east longitude. Target locking. Lin Zhonghu, the weapon arranger, reported loudly.

"Attack!" Xi Yang ordered decisively.

The night of the military port was quiet, and the cold wind froze the battleships. The officers and men of the Soviet Pacific Fleet smiled happily in their sleep, but whether they could still see the red sea was up to their luck.

Xi Yang gently pulled up the fighter plane, and at a distance of 45 kilometers from the Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok, Captain Lin Zhonghu, a weapons columnist, had completed the identification and locking of the target, and after receiving the order of Deputy Army Commander Xi Yang, he decisively pressed the missile launch button.

A C803 missile left the pylon, dragged a beautiful tail flame with white and yellow, yellow and red, and roared across the silent night sky at Mach 0,9, and then gradually lowered the altitude of the flight and flew quickly to the intended target.

Lin Zhonghu then stared closely at the head-up display of the fire control radar computer, and headed to another Alexander. The cruiser Suvorov also fired a C803 missile.

The Soviet Navy, as a global navy, maintained the tradition of cruisers as the core ship of the Soviet Navy since World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. On the cruisers of the USSR there was the most complete armament and electronic command telemetry system. Soviet cruisers have always been the most important force for escorting Soviet nuclear submarines, as well as aircraft carriers, when sailing in the open ocean. Moreover, the cruiser was also a representative of the level of scientific and technological development of the Soviet Navy at that time, and almost all the shipboard weapons of the Soviet Navy in this era could be found on these two cruisers of the Soviet Navy.

The C803 missile launched by the "Flying Leopard" fighter piloted by Xi Yang hit the fuel depot on the cruiser Dimitri Pozhasky, which was launched in 1956 and can carry 3,900 tons of fuel, has a speed of 18.2 knots and a cruising range of 5,229 nautical miles, and a cruising range of 1,975 nautical miles when sailing at a speed of 33.5 knots. The generator sets are 5 TG300 turbine generators and 4 DG250 diesel generators. The ship can carry 150 tons of fresh water and 417 tons of boiler water, and it is self-sustaining for 30 days. But now because it is winter and there is no sailing mission, only 2,600 tons of fuel are carried on board. But it was these 2,600 tons of fuel oil that caused the complete destruction of the cruiser Dimitri Pozhasky, which had only been in service for more than 2 years.

(To be continued)