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Chapter 1557 Jiang Kuotian Gao Fu Xiongguan

The city of Karazar, located 25 kilometers from the mouth of the Amu Darya River, is relatively narrow, only about 500 meters wide, and the width of the water surface in the rest of the world can reach 3 kilometers, so you can imagine how important the geographical location here is. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoActually, there used to be a highway bridge connecting the two sides here, but it was blown up by the Soviet troops on the other side before the arrival of the Anjia army, and now the Chinese and Soviet teams are facing each other along the river.

"What's going on the other side?"

Li Jinlong took a cadre of generals and colonels of the front army headquarters to the front-line position, and through the high-powered periscope set up in the bunker, he could clearly see the situation of the entire river and the Soviet trenches on the opposite side.

Li Jinlong couldn't figure out the gist for a while, turned his head and asked casually.

Lieutenant General Sun Desheng, commander of the Eighth Group Army, signaled Major General Li Li, commander of the 22nd Motorized Infantry Division, who was in charge of this section of the fortified task, to reply. Li Li saluted and respectfully reported:

"What we are currently encountering is the 3rd Division of the Soviet Army's Stillt Army. The Stillt Army was named after the Stillt Plateau in the northwestern region of Uzbekistan, and was mainly stationed in the plateau area of the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan border to prevent the Far Eastern Army or our army from attacking westward from the Caspian Sea. Since the start of the battle on the southern front of the estuary forest, the division has rushed here from the western plateau and then built fortifications on the opposite bank. Behind the front-line positions, there may also be several artillery regiments of the Soviet army, but where the exact location is, we do not know for the time being.

"After arriving here yesterday, I sent two platoons to carry out a sneak attack, but the mortar and machine gun fire of the other side was very fierce, and we still did not break through this section of the river after paying a lot of casualties!"

After speaking, Li Li lowered his head a little sadly.

"The enemy is protected by natural hazards, it's none of your business!"

Li Jinlong waved his hand, and then looked at the situation on the opposite side through the telescope again, but unfortunately the trench on the opposite side was very quiet, and not a single Soviet person saw it, so he continued: "The air force will bombard the other side of the river in a while, and you send an assault force to try to break through, if you can hit it, it will naturally be better, but if it doesn't work, you can also see the enemy's firepower configuration." ”

"Yes!"

Li Li immediately walked to the telephone and quickly conveyed the order.

Ten minutes later, a strange roar suddenly sounded in the sky, and Li Jinlong, Sun Desheng, Guo Sizheng, Wu Xianwei, Li Zhide, Luo Yi, and other army headquarters and generals of various group armies immediately walked out of their bunkers and saw one after another camouflage-painted fighter planes appear in the southwestern sky.

Soon, a lieutenant colonel of the Air Force attached to the front army picked up the radio intercom, and then began to report a series of numbers, and the fighters began to change formation, first drawing a large circle in the sky, and then rushing towards the target across the river, and the bombs soon fell from the planes that were diving at high speed, and after hitting the ground, they made a huge explosion and raised huge columns of smoke.

Along with the bombardment of aircraft, the artillery brigade of the Eighth Army also began to shell the enemy, and in just half an hour, the fortifications on the opposite bank were ploughed with aerial bombs and shells.

Five minutes after the bombers flew away, the assault team organized by the 22nd Motorized Infantry Division began to move, and about a battalion of officers and men rushed into the river at high speed with rubber boats in one hand and weapons in the other. They pushed the dinghy forward for a considerable distance on the river's face before jumping on it.

The soldiers then began rowing their oars desperately, trying to rush to the opposite shore as quickly as possible before the enemy found themselves. Not far away, the sapper battalion began to get busy, pushing thick planks into the water and connecting them one by one with wires and ropes. This is the preparation for doing the pontoon.

Since the mechanized boat bridge troops moved south with Ye Cheng's armored cluster, now Li Jinlong's troops could only build pontoon bridges through primitive means.

The first few minutes went smoothly, and everything went in an orderly manner, but just as the commando's rubber boats were about to reach the opposite bank, the Soviet machine guns rang out, followed by the whistling of rapid shells, and the originally calm river suddenly boiled, and large and small water columns surrounded those rubber boats.

The fragile rubber boat could not withstand the enemy's ferocious fire at all, and one by one it overturned in the water, but fortunately, most of the officers and men selected to participate in the mission were in good water condition, and they were also tied with inflatable plastic, so they were not in danger of drowning for a while, but they advanced under the enemy's machine gun fire and took the lives of many soldiers.

The Soviet artillery fire did not stop there, and began to extend to this side of the river, and soon the sappers who were building the bridge were also threatened.

Seeing such a scene, Li Jinlong knew that the troops could not break through the Soviet position for the time being, shook his head slightly, and said to Sun Desheng: "Stop the attack, artillery fire covers the retreat of our people!" The Soviets were defended more tightly than we thought! ”

After speaking, Li Jinlong put down the binoculars, sighed, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, distributed them to a cadre in the command headquarters, and finally lit them for himself.

"The enemy's defense is almost invulnerable!"

Looking at the thick black smoke rising from the other side of the river, Li Jinlong shook his head again. This unsuccessful attack just now caused the entire assault battalion to lose about a platoon of troops, and such a loss was almost unacceptable in Li Jinlong's eyes. You must know that since the beginning of the war, there have been no major casualties in the whole army, and this time can be regarded as a relatively heavy one.

Li Jinlong took a heavy puff of his cigarette, he understood that the most important thing now is to let the troops cross the Amu Darya River as quickly as possible - time waits for no one, Ye Cheng has already tightened his grip on the southern front, if he is one step slower, then the encirclement will be closed late, and then the Soviet army will have a great chance of escaping, once the Soviet army escapes back to the south, the future battle will be much more difficult.

At ten o'clock that night, after careful deployment by the headquarters of the Front, the Eighth Army again organized an attack on the other side of the river.

This time, an assault force of five hundred veterans with good water resistance attacked, and instead of rubber boats used during the day, they used sapper assault boats. Due to the reduced drag, the soldiers, after rushing to the assault boat, immediately rowed the paddle at a fixed frequency, making the speed of the boat even faster.

"Stop!"

Seeing a pillar of light shining towards the river on the other side of the river, Lieutenant Colonel Ding Guanying, who was in charge of commanding the operation, quickly raised his hand.

Seeing this gesture, all the soldiers immediately stopped paddling, and some officers and soldiers quietly picked up their weapons and stared nervously across the river.

However, it is clear that the Soviets did not search the river very carefully, and the beam of the searchlight only glided hastily over the river near the west bank and retracted it, and did not find the river crossing troops in the middle of the river.

As a result, the lucky Lieutenant Colonel Ding Guanying led his men and quickly crossed the Amu Darya River.

All the soldiers touched the shore in an orderly manner, and Ding Guanying crouched under the river embankment and carefully looked at the surrounding terrain. Due to the current, the landing site was about 600 meters away from the target site, so the troops had to swim upstream.

The team was on the road, and after walking for about ten minutes, a red dot suddenly flashed in front of the team.

Ding Guanying didn't need to think about it to know that this was a soldier of the Soviet vigil smoking a cigarette, so he waved his hand, and soon a soldier bent down and quietly touched it, and when he was close, he pulled out the military thorn on his body, and suddenly came to the back of the enemy and cut his throat, and soon the unlucky guy fell to the ground without saying a word, and the commando team broke through the opponent's first line of defense without any danger.

However, when crossing the second line of defense, an accident occurred.

Although he repeatedly told him to pay attention to his breathing and steps before setting out, it was impossible not to make a sound on the muddy river beach, but fortunately, the sound of gurgling water covered everything, so the enemy never noticed. Unfortunately, when passing by a bush, a soldier accidentally touched a signal flare activation device set up by the Soviet army in a very concealed way, and the red signal flare rose into the air, the enemy was alarmed, and the machine gun positions of the Soviet troops on the nearby high ground began to fire fiercely.

The commandos who were caught off guard fell in a pool of blood one by one, and Ding Guanying immediately realized that the Soviet army seemed to have taken countermeasures, but now in the face of bullets fired from all directions, he had no choice but to ask for artillery reinforcements through the individual communication system.

"Report!"

A communicator put down his headphones, stood up and saluted Sun Desheng, the commander of the 22nd Motorized Infantry Division: "The commando team reports that they are attacked by the enemy on the west bank of the Amu Darya River and ask for artillery assistance!" ”

"Understood, immediately order the artillery, suppress the enemy's artillery fire on the west bank, and at the same time tell the commandos the radio frequency of the artillery, let them guide themselves."

After a pause, Sun Desheng continued: "Order the second wave of troops to start crossing the river, and if they encounter the opponent's counterattack, retreat immediately!" ”

Just after Sun Desheng issued a series of orders, Deputy Army Commander Jiang Tao walked into the headquarters: "Army Commander, the temporary bridge of the engineer unit has been fully erected in accordance with the commander's intentions. But the sappers did not know, where was the bridgehead designated by the command of the Front? Speaking of this, Jiang Tao glanced at Sun Desheng: "Commander, do you want to send another army across the river to help Ding Guanying and them?" Now they're having a hard time! ”

"The second wave of river crossing troops has moved!"

Sun Desheng's expression was solemn: "But I ordered them to turn back immediately if they encounter an attack." Ding Guanying and they have already exposed the target, if we act arbitrarily at this time, then the reinforced troops can only become the live target of the other party, therefore, everything can only depend on their creation! ”

Speaking of this, Sun Desheng stood up, came to the map hanging on the wall of the bunker, and pointed his finger at it: "Look here--four kilometers downstream from the ferry we are fighting for, the current is very gentle, although the river is about three hundred meters wider than here, but now all the enemy's attention is on the line of Karasar City, which we are focusing on, so I think it is the most appropriate choice for the headquarters to put troops there!" In particular, when the commander entrusts our army with the heavy task of forcibly crossing, we must use our brains more and never make senseless sacrifices! Old Jiang, what do you think about sending the best soldiers in the army to an armed crossing? After speaking, Sun Desheng turned his head and looked at Jiang Tao.

"Got it! I'm going to get ready now! Jiang Tao nodded and turned to leave.

"Order the sappers who are building the bridge to immediately connect the pontoon bridges and transport them to a kilometer above the second crossing point downstream, and at the same time send our tanks and armored units to the second crossing point. The air force and artillery units will suppress the depth of the Soviet positions at the second crossing point at a quarter past seven tomorrow morning, and then our operational focus will be shifted there! ”

While carefully looking at the map, Sun Desheng gave orders to Major General Wang Qihua, the chief of staff next to him, without looking back.

As soon as the words fell, a violent explosion was heard, which was the artillery unit providing fire support for the assault team on the opposite bank.

A large-caliber artillery shell was like a huge fireball, with a whistling sound to the position on the opposite bank, following the trajectory of the shells in the sky, the Soviet position on the opposite side rose up a fiery red mushroom cloud, which was spectacular!