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Chapter 1583 Brutal War

On the Urals front, brutal fighting has been going on for more than 50 days. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoDuring these more than 50 days and nights, the Far Eastern Army and the Soviet Army used all weapons, including aircraft, artillery, and tanks, and nearly 300,000 people died in the battle.

At 0:00 a.m., everything was silent.

Normally, most people were asleep by this time, but on the banks of the Kama River, west of the Urals, Perm was confronted, the searchlights of the Far Eastern Army were still tirelessly patrolling back and forth.

Suddenly, the west bank of the Kama River was full of cannons, and countless cannonballs dragged their bright tails across the silent night sky, and the east bank of the river was as if it had been hit by a meteor falling from the sky.

Soviet rapid-fire artillery shells of slightly smaller caliber with a slightly low arc hit the defensive positions of the Far Eastern Army on the east bank of the Kama River, combing the empty trenches over and over again.

Medium- and large-caliber 122mm and 152mm howitzer shells, with a more sleek arc, fell behind the opposite riverbank positions, and exploded in places that had been artillery positions of the Far Eastern Army during the day or were suspected to be artillery positions. Although most of the artillery of the Far Eastern Army had moved to a new place, the Soviet artillery fire of such a density still hit some of the artillery positions and ammunition storage points, causing a violent explosion, and the whole earth kept shaking violently, as if the end was coming.

After two hours of shelling, more than 100,000 Soviet troops, led by political cadres and urged by a supervisory team composed of internal affairs troops, began to launch fierce attacks in three waves in an area of 15 kilometers at both ends of the Kama River railway bridge. As in all pre-battle mobilization meetings, the commanders of the group armies and the front army gave the order that if they were not successful, they would be benevolent, and in the face of the stubborn defense of the Far Eastern Army on the east bank, the whole offensive appeared extremely tragic.

The Kama River originates near the village of Khalpushkino at the northwestern foot of the Ural Mountains, is the largest tributary of the left bank of the Volga, and from late April to early June is the spring flood season of the Kama River, the average width of the river stretches to three kilometers, and the average depth of the water can reach 30 meters, but in this section of Perm, the river narrows sharply, the average width is less than 500 meters, and the water becomes extremely turbulent due to the squeeze of the riverbed.

The Soviet fire suppression was extremely fierce, and the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army who entered the first line of trenches had almost no chance to raise their heads, so they could only lie in the trenches, observe every move on the other side of the river, and be ready to shoot at any time.

Under the cover of rapid-fire guns, mortars, and light and heavy machine guns, most of the Soviet troops began to cross the river in thousands of wooden boats, while other Soviet troops began to build pontoon bridges with small boats and wooden planks.

The reason why the Soviet army chose to attack in the middle of the night was because it was afraid of the powerful air force of the Far Eastern Army. Due to the cover of darkness and night, even if the opponent's air force rises into the air to fight, it will not be able to aim at the target and suppress the ground troops, but it will lead to huge losses due to visual errors.

After a period of sorties, the Far Eastern Army Air Force lost more than 40 fighters, but achieved few results, so the Air Force basically did not go out at night, and this time, on the contrary, became the prime time for the Soviet Army to launch frequent attacks.

The battle was fought on all fronts, and the most fierce battle was the offensive and defensive battle of the steel-made railway bridge. Thousands of Soviet death squads rushed frantically onto the bridge like a wave crashing on the shore, and during this period, the Soviet troops used more than 100 artillery pieces to continue shelling the coastal defense positions on the east side of the bridge.

The soldiers of the Far Eastern Army, who were holding the iron bridge, braved the artillery fire of the other side and fired at the Soviet soldiers who rushed to the center of the bridge. The bridge, near the eastern head of the bridge, was soon covered with dense Soviet corpses, layer after layer, and the soldiers who charged behind, as if stepping on a cotton mountain, continued to advance in the blood and water.

From time to time, Soviet soldiers fell from the bridge into the turbulent Kama River, and the "pop" sound of falling into the water was instantly muffled by the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the dense firing of rifles and light and heavy machine guns, and the rumbling sound of artillery shelling and landing.

In front of the Kama River railway bridge, the bunkers built up by the Far Eastern army with sandbags have long been destroyed by waves of Soviet artillery fire, and several improvised fortifications built during the day near the bridgehead have also been blown away by dense bombs, and only the machine guns in the trenches on both sides of the bridgehead are still desperately firing.

The soldiers of the Far Eastern Army worked in pairs and twos, operating the Makqin heavy machine gun, and the sub-machine gunner was busy feeding the cartridge belt into the machine gun again and again, and the machine gunner in charge of shooting did not need to aim at all, his fingers were firmly buckled on the shooting button, the muzzle of the gun moved back and forth in a small range, and the ferocious machine gun fire covered the entire railway bridge, and the Soviet officers and soldiers who charged were in this dense rain of machine gun bullets, and hurriedly bid farewell to this world.

The battle continued, and countless strings of glowing machine-gun bullets rushed towards the front and sides of the bridge like splashing water, splashing countless sparks on the steel bridge trunk, and after a few minutes of shooting, it was not only the barrels of the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army that were hot, but even the bridge trunks of the bridge began to become hot because of the frequent friction with the bullets.

Despite the fact that the political commissar and military commander took the lead, the first wave of Soviet attack on the bridge was stubbornly blocked by machine guns, and the Soviet soldiers who concentrated three regiments for wave attack ended up with less than 500 people, and all of them were wounded.

However, the machine gunners of the Far Eastern Army bravely and stubbornly resisted, and more Soviet artillery fire came in, and the entire east bank of the bridge was almost in a sea of fire, and the casualties of the Far Eastern Army here exceeded 1,000, and a regiment defending the bridge lost almost two-thirds of its soldiers.

The battle on the river was also unusually fierce, and when most of the Soviet ships reached the middle of the river, the artillery of the Far Eastern Army behind the battle line began to attack.

Under the guidance of the high-altitude balloon of the Far Eastern Army, almost in the blink of an eye, five or six hundred water columns rose on the surface of the Kama River, countless Soviet soldiers were thrown into the water by the bursts of shrapnel and waves, and more than a dozen unlucky boats were even hit on the spot by falling shells, and sawdust mixed with broken copper and iron and strips of cloth flew into the air, scattered on the water like scattered flowers, and the entire river surface was covered with silt and blood.

After the continuous large-scale artillery bombardment of the river by the Far Eastern Army, the artillery of the Soviet Army, which covered the positions on the east bank of the river, began to look for the artillery positions of the Far Eastern Army placed behind the battle line, and the shells that originally fell near the trenches began to extend forward.

Like the reconnaissance balloons released by the Far Eastern Army, more than a dozen Soviet reconnaissance balloons that slowly rose into the air also began to point out the direction for the Soviet army's ground artillery fire, and the artillery positions of the Far Eastern Army encountered concentrated attacks by the other side.

However, the artillery of the Far Eastern Army was not arranged in a flat open field during the battle, according to the requirements, the artillerymen dug out bunkers on the position, and then placed the artillery in the bunkers, leaving only the muzzles to stretch out, and the smaller mortars and rapid-fire guns were almost completely hidden in the bunkers, so the damage of the low flat arc of the Soviet rapid-fire guns to the artillery and artillery of the Far Eastern Army has been reduced to a minimum, and at the same time, due to the influence of the suppression, the middle and senior commanders of the Soviet artillery have almost been purged, The artillerymen had nothing to do and were seriously untrained, so the accuracy of the powerful howitzers of the Soviet army was really unsightly, and the Soviet commander saw that his artillery was clearly covering the opponent's artillery positions, and he did not have time to rejoice, and the Far Eastern Army actually opened fire on the same position again.

Just when the Soviet artillery was tired of dealing with the artillery positions of the Far Eastern Army, the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army in the trenches finally got a chance to breathe, and a string of machine-gun bullets intertwined into a dense fire net on the river surface, like a deadly scythe wielded by the Grim Reaper, the Soviet soldiers on the boat and the pontoon bridge were hit one after another, screaming and falling into the turbulent river.

Then the light and heavy machine guns and mortars of the Far Eastern Army began to fire at the Soviet troops on the opposite bank, and when the Soviet commander realized that the situation was wrong and re-suppressed the trenches on the river bank of the Far Eastern Army with artillery fire, the Soviet troops crossing the river were already dead and wounded, and nearly a thousand small boats were quickly drifting downstream along the river without maneuvering.

After the failure of the first wave of river crossings, the Soviet commander immediately stopped the forced crossing operation, concentrated all his firepower, attacked from the railway bridge, and concentrated more than 500 artillery pieces to carry out intensive bombardment to the east of the bridge.

The commander of the Far Eastern Army immediately ordered the troops defending the bridge to urgently retreat to the rear, and at the same time mobilized strategic reserves to enter the inner ring position with the bridgehead on the east bank as the center and a radius of about 1,000 meters.

After pouring tens of thousands of shells on the two bridgeheads of the Far Eastern Army 500 meters wide on the east bank, another wave of Soviet assault troops quickly rushed across the railway bridge, and before the Soviet commanders had time to rejoice in the progress made, the Soviet soldiers who had already rushed across the bridge were met with frantic fire from the semicircular defense line centered on the front front, and hundreds of mortar shells fell like a torrential rain and quickly exploded, bringing groups of Soviet soldiers into the air and tearing them into pieces.

As the number of Soviet soldiers pouring across the railway bridge increased, the number of dead people on the ground full of large and small craters at the east end of the bridge also increased sharply, and the Soviet soldiers, under the leadership of the political commissar and commanders, could not even rush to the east of the bridge 200 meters away.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the Soviet commander decisively stopped the attack, concentrated the artillery, and prepared for a new round of shelling, and the entire battlefield fell into a dead silence.

Before you know it, the night has passed, the eastern sky is flooded with a hint of brightness, and the earth is gradually ushering in light with a gray color. The corpses of Soviet soldiers can be seen everywhere on both sides of the Kama River in the morning light, on both sides of the bridge, on the river beach and on the river, and of course, the corpses of many soldiers of the Far Eastern Army are also scattered on the east side of the railway bridge, and the flames and craters of gunpowder smoke are still burning all over the battlefield.

At this time, there was a "buzzing" sound in the eastern sky, and a dense group of planes appeared in the sky, and the Soviet artillery reconnaissance balloons panicked, and wanted to make an emergency descent, but there was still time there, under the close attack of the fighters, one after another the balloons exploded, and huge fireballs appeared in the air one after another, and the Soviet artillery reconnaissance balloons all over the entire river bank did not miss the net.

Subsequently, under the cover of fighters, bombers carried out a covered bombardment of the artillery positions of the Soviet troops.

The Soviet anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground, not to be outdone, screamed desperately, covering the rapid retreat of the artillery, but the Far Eastern Army was determined to make the opponent's artillery suffer this time, and the artillery on the east bank of the river suddenly suppressed the Soviet air defense positions, and then the SB-2 bombers threw bombs at high altitude, and the 120 B-2 dive bombers from Syria fired accurately at the Soviet artillery.

With the triumphant return of the group, the battle that lasted all night finally ended. And such brutal battles are taking place almost every day on the entire Ural front. Millions of armies are entangled, you have me, I have you, each of them simply represents a number, the number of attack, the number of defeat, the number of killed, the number of victory, life, at this moment, how fragile!

At a time when the Far Eastern Army's operations on the Western Front were in a stalemate, the Eastern Front, which was fighting against the Japanese army, showed a one-sided trend because of the strategic decisions made by the top leaders of the Far East.

On 11 June, the 3rd Division of the 1st Army of the Mongolian Military Region smoothly withdrew to Komsomolsk and boarded a train heading west. On the 12th, eight divisions of the Japanese army approached Komsomolsk, and at this time, the Far Eastern Army had already transferred all the industrial facilities and residents in Komsomolsk, and the three divisions behind the palace chose to retreat on their own initiative. Immediately after the Japanese occupied Komsomolsk, they divided their forces and swept the villages around Komsomolsk, but found nothing.

On the 13th, the last troops of the Far Eastern Army withdrew from Vladivostok, and the remaining naval officers and men blasted more than 400 surface ships, and one shipwreck after another blocked the port channel.

On the 14th, the main forces of the First Army of the Mongolian Military District withdrew from the Lake Marmezh area, took a train to Boli, and then went to Ust-Kamenn in Central Asia by the Trans-Siberian Railway. At the same time, most of the troops of the Far Eastern Army in Central Asia had withdrawn to Siberia by the main railway line, and although some units had not yet arrived, they had already begun to make new combat preparations.

On the 15th, the Japanese army entered the Sanjiang Plain in Heilongjiang Province, China, from the plain area north of Xingkai Lake. Xie Yi's 13th Group Army of the Northeast Military Region was ordered to urgently evacuate Jining, rushed to Jiamusi by train, crossed the Songhua River, and disappeared into the vast mountains of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in the north of the Yangtze River. The five divisions of the 11 th Group Army of the Northeast Military Region were urgently transferred to the west as early as April, and the 12 th and 13 th Group Armies, one south and one north, were not conducive to coordinated operations, and in the face of an unprecedentedly powerful Japanese offensive, they had to rely on Mongolia and form a group to deal with it. In the past six months, the 13 th Group Army, which is based on the Sanjiang Plain and the eastern part of Jilin, has mobilized and relocated more than 3 million people from Liaoning and the eastern part of Jilin to Mongolia, and together with the 7 million Chinese who have moved from the Far East, the population of Mongolia as a whole has reached about 12 million, laying a solid foundation for consolidating China's northern frontier.

On the 16th, a fierce battle broke out between the Far Eastern Army and the Japanese army in the city of Vyazemsky, south of the Khor River. The Japanese army mobilized 12 divisions to attack the fortifications, and the 6 divisions of the Far Eastern Army fought stubbornly against the Japanese army by virtue of the fortresses built in advance. The battle lasted for four days, and the next four divisions of the Japanese army bypassed the Sino-Soviet border and outflanked the rear flank of the Far Eastern Army from the plains in China.