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Chapter 1552 Cavalry Blocking Battle

When the Soviet troops appeared in the low-lying area in the northeast and stepped on the mines, the officers and men of the two platoons who had concealed themselves with branches and straw were nervous, and they did not expect that the Soviet troops would choose the direction of the main attack on this line. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Hell! Isn't Lao Maozi worried that the swamps and quagmire here will swallow up their troops? ”

Captain Hou Xuntao, the commander of the motorized infantry company responsible for defending here, frowned and asked Second Lieutenant Chen Yue, an operational staff officer lying beside him.

Chen Yue's face was covered with mud, and he couldn't see his expression clearly, and he could only hear his voice trembling slightly after the rapid flow of heat in his body after soaking in the water for a long time:

"I guess the enemy is familiar with the terrain on this side and knows that this mud is all solid soil underneath. Think about it, this Uzbekistan is full of Gobi and deserts, there is such a place with plenty of water, it must be touched every inch of land, if my guess is right, this will be an important grain producing area in Uzbekistan in the future. ”

"Perhaps!"

Hou Xuntao nodded and gave an order in a low voice: "Everyone is in place, ready to shoot at any time!" Snipers pay attention to the commanders of the Soviet troops, machine gunners pay attention to large places with a lot of people, we do not have strong fortifications, we cannot put the enemy on our side to fight! ”

After receiving the order, all the officers and men raised their vigilance, the snipers watched every move of the Soviet troops in the sniper scope, the machine gunners adjusted the machine gun ruler, and the infantry tightened their hands with semi-automatic rifles, automatic rifles and submachine guns, striving to inflict maximum damage on the enemy.

At the headquarters of the Eighth Motorized Infantry Battalion, the battalion commander, Major Lang Lang, received an urgent report from the left, center, and right lines at the same time, and his expression was solemn, and he leaned in front of the map and looked at it carefully for a while. Now the artillery was suppressing the attack of the Soviet troops on the main positions due north, and the enemy's attack on this line was so fierce that the artillery had no time to be distracted. Listening to the heavy gunfire from the front, Lang Lang believed that the enemy's attack on both flanks should only be a feint to cooperate with the frontal attack, but just in case, he still sent a tank from the reserve to accompany the company to the right flank to reinforce it.

Due to the lack of artillery fire support, the Soviet troops set up a battle formation at a distance of about 800 meters, and this time the cavalry battalions directly under the two regiments took the lead, which were subordinate units of every regular unit of the Soviet army, with a cavalry regiment at the division level, a cavalry battalion at the regiment level, and a cavalry company at the battalion level.

The cavalry played the role of reconnaissance and rapid maneuver in battle, and on the way north to the estuary forest, they were responsible for clearing the way for the large force to be on guard, so they escaped the bombardment of the Anjia Air Force.

For the cavalry, storming the enemy's positions was their forte, so the Soviet cavalry, which was heavily influenced by Budyonny's 1st Cavalry Corps, quickly lined up and sat on their horses to wait for the final assault order.

Suddenly, the trumpet sounded, and the Soviet cavalry at the forefront of the line suddenly whistled, and then the riders began to urge their mounts under their hips, brandishing their sabers, and rushed towards the low-lying area.

Although during this period, many war horses stepped on mines and were blown up on their backs and shattered, but more knights were not afraid and moved forward bravely.

In the history of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, the cavalry has always been the brightest star on the battlefield. The Soviet Union is located in North Asia and Eastern Europe, with many plains and plateaus, and the endless Eastern European Plain and the vast Siberian wilderness and Kazakh steppe provide a natural battlefield for cavalry. Because of the vast pastures, there are many nomadic peoples growing here, and horses are the main livestock, and these nomads have been breeding here for generations. The convergence gradually formed a strong army, and a new ethnic group of Cossacks appeared.

The word Cossack is of Turkic origin and means "reckless hero" or "prodigal son". The Cossacks were mainly distributed in the Don, Terek and Kuban river basins, and formed several military communes according to the region, cavalry was their main form of armed forces, they were hired by the tsar for a long time, and the cavalry accounted for a considerable proportion of the Russian ** team.

After the October Revolution, in the civil war in the Soviet Union, more than a million Cossacks belonging to the Red Army and the White Army were killed! During the civil war, the Soviet army began to formally form cavalry units, the main of which were the Cossacks. During the Soviet Civil War, there was an invincible cavalry unit with cylindrical fur hats, some wearing black hooded hats, armed with cavalry rifles and Caucasian sabers, the Cossack cavalry under the command of Budyonny, the invincible First Cavalry Corps of the Red Army in the Soviet Civil War. The First Cavalry Army was the first regular cavalry unit in the history of the Soviet Army, and it was precisely because of the outstanding performance of the First Cavalry Army that the Soviet Army continued to expand its cavalry, and until now, almost every infantry unit also has cavalry.

Soon, these cavalry passed through the minefield, they kept whistling or shouting, the steel knives in their hands kept dancing in the air dazzling knife flowers, and the war horses galloped, rushing towards the place where An Jiajun was hiding. The cavalry were divided into three groups, and the distance between them was wide apart, and although the presence of the defenders could not be seen here, they were still very vigilant.

When they reached 300 meters away from the bushes where An Jiajun was hiding, the Soviet cavalry began to bend down one after another, sticking their heads to the horse's neck to minimize the area of the bullet on their bodies.

"Mortar shooting! Machine gun suppression! ”

Hou Xuntao ordered while looking at the approaching Soviet cavalry.

Soon, the 60mm and 40mm caliber mortars hidden behind the bushes began to fire, and one shell after another flew to the target with a sharp whistle, and in the violent explosion, some Soviet cavalry companies fell to the ground with their horses, and more of them were left behind the horses galloping, while the riders were blown into the sky.

However, twelve mortars were simply not enough to suppress two battalions of Soviet cavalry, and most of the cavalry broke through the fire interception of the An Jia army and continued to rush forward.

By this time, the machine gunner had already begun to pull the trigger and shoot.

The general-purpose machine gun's barrel is full of heat dissipation holes, emitting a hellish fire, while the ammunition feeder on the other side desperately straightens the metal chain so that the machine gun can fire smoothly. The locust-like bullets formed an impenetrable fire blockade, strangling all life in the area.

Almost instantly, dozens of Soviet cavalrymen who rushed to the front fell to the ground, and the blood that flowed from them and the horses under them after being shot stained the low-lying ground under them red, and many places where water had accumulated were all blood.

However, the Soviet cavalry did not flinch, but continued to rush forward even more frantically, and at the same time, the infantry behind the cavalry also began to charge, and the Soviets rushed towards the position of the Anjia army while shouting "Ula". While the shells and bullets mercilessly killed some of them, many more poured in, like a raging flood that continued to hit the undefended positions of the Anjia army.

Soon the low-lying ground was filled with corpses, but judging by the situation of the battle, the Soviets had the upper hand, and they far outnumbered the defenders.

Although the firepower of the two motorized infantry platoons is extremely powerful, especially the ten general-purpose machine guns constitute a dense blockade fire, this air-cooled machine gun has an unusually fatal weakness, that is, when the machine gun hits to a certain extent, the barrel will overheat, and the barrel can only be replaced.

For a skilled soldier, it only takes five seconds to change the barrel, but for the cavalry of the Soviet army, this short five seconds is enough, so, at the same time as several general-purpose machine guns are silent, the Soviet cavalry rushed into the bushes where the officers and soldiers of Anjia were hiding, and then found the defender lying on the ground, raised the long knife, and slashed it hard.

Due to the close attack of the cavalry, the machine gun position began to urgently move to the rear, the dense fire of the general-purpose machine gun stopped instantly, the pressure on the Soviet infantry immediately decreased, and the morale was greatly boosted, and the shouting and bayonet rushed into the bushes where the An Jiajun was hiding.

In an instant, the small breakthrough turned into a huge loophole, and countless Soviet troops shouted from here to enter the blocking position of the An Jiajun.

"Attention all, throw grenades!"

Hou Xuntao's face was full of murderous energy, and his forehead was rubbed with a bloody mark by the bullets fired by the Soviet army, and blood was overflowing, but this gave him an indescribable feeling of excitement.

On Hou Xuntao's side, about a platoon of soldiers formed a dense infantry defense line, and after hearing the order of the company commander, they threw out the long-handled grenades in their hands vigorously, and immediately blew up the Soviet troops to the point of a wolf howl, which was unbearable to see.

However, there are too many Soviet troops, in addition to the cavalry, there is a dense lump behind it, after all, it is the strength of nearly two regiments that presses up, even if it is one for ten, it is a situation where there is no win or loss.

After throwing three rounds of grenades in a row, blowing up all the Soviet troops close to the second line of defense, the infantry began to fire.

Automatic rifles, semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, all weapons fired together, and the Soviet soldiers fell screaming, but the Soviet troops behind, under the leadership of the political commissar and commanders at all levels, continued to rush forward, thinking that the opponent was also like the Mosin Nagant rifle in their hands, after firing a bullet, they must pull the bolt to complete the unloading before they can continue to shoot.

However, the truth was far beyond the imagination of the Soviets, their opponents, there was no stagnation of shooting at all, tongues of fire were constantly spraying from the muzzles, and the Soviet troops, from officers to soldiers, were constantly falling.

Especially the snipers, this time it can be said that it was too addictive, because when the Soviet army charged, the political commissar and the commander always rushed to the front, as a result, they became a live target, almost one shot, and soon, the commanders of hundreds of battalions, companies, platoons and squads of the two regiments were devastated.

At this time, the general-purpose machine guns that retreated to the rear of the second-line positions rang out again, and at the same time, the mortars behind the positions roared frantically, firing shells into the offensive formation of the Soviet army and exploding them, and the cavalry of nearly two battalions of the Soviet army was slowly exhausted in such a charge that was no different from sending them to death, and the corpses of the Soviet infantry were also stacked layer after layer, in addition to countless wounded people, moaning in pain.

The battle lasted for half an hour, twenty armored personnel carriers drove to the rear of the depression, and as the rear door opened, a company of infantry rushed out of the vehicles and quickly entered the battle. At the same time, armored vehicles began to shoot using a universal machine gun in the nose, and the rate of Soviet casualties and attrition was greatly accelerated.

Seeing this situation, the commander of the Soviet army in charge of the command had to order a temporary retreat and fight again with the whole army.