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Chapter 2000 Up and Down the Mountain (with testimonials)

Huge rock domes and handsome peaks, dimly lit gorges or dizzying canyons, and small but often well-defined valleys and plains are important geographical features of the Zagros region of northwestern Persia. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info Baidu search to quickly enter this site

Most of the border between Persia and the Soviet Union is bounded by the Arras River, and to the south is the Kara River, an important tributary of the Arras River, which joins the Akhal River in the northern area of the Salang Mountains, and the main trunk turns eastward until Ardabil, forming a unique "Gong" shape with two horizontal and one vertical, and that vertical is the main road connecting the north and south, and it is also the top priority of the defense of the Anjia Army.

Before the war, the Anjia army quietly abandoned the plain border cities on the south bank of the Jiehe River, such as Farsaad, Sarband, and Aslanduz, and retreated to the Zagros Mountains.

The German offensive on all fronts had been launched since yesterday evening, and the German vanguard suffered heavy losses due to the large minefields along the way, and after urgently sending sappers to clear the mines, the main forces had to move forward slowly until two o'clock in the morning before advancing the front to the Zagros Pass.

To open the gates to the Persian hinterland, it was necessary to take the high ground on both flanks of the Kara Valley. At three o'clock in the morning, after a short rest, the Germans launched a large-scale artillery bombardment, which lasted for nearly two hours before gradually extending to the rear.

The intensive artillery bombardment of the German army seemed to be very alarming, and the mountains were filled with smoke and fire, and there were blown up ruins and rocky hills everywhere, but in fact, the shelling was not focused, and the damage to the Anjia army's defense line was not great.

As the sound of German artillery gradually thinned out, the officers and men of the Anjia Army increased their vigilance, and built a solid reinforced concrete barrier on both sides of the mountain gorge and behind the main position, and cannons of various calibers and light and heavy machine guns stretched out from the black firing port, aiming at the bottom of the mountain.

During the shelling, the Germans began to sweat profusely, picked up sapper shovels to repair the fortifications, and after the artillery fire was extended, the Germans sent a force, under the cover of hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, in the direction of the positions on both flanks! Because it was a tentative attack, the Germans stretched the skirmish line very wide, and with less than two regiments, it covered almost the entire front.

The German tanks stopped moving five or six hundred meters from the foot of the mountain, and the sappers began to build gentle slopes with sand and stones and sleepers to increase the firing angle of the tanks, while the armored fighting vehicles still covered the infantry forward, and the whole land in front of the mountain was filled with an atmosphere of solemnity.

The German artillery fire gradually stopped, and when its infantry began to climb upward, their forward positions were still quiet, and just as the Germans began to wonder if the Anjia army had chosen to give up again as they had in the plains, the fortress on the mountain beam in the rear began to spit out tongues of fire violently, and the condescending rain of bullets knocked the Germans to the ground one by one, and the Germans dropped three or four hundred corpses and retreated in embarrassment.

Except for the fortress, the rest of the mountain is still unusually quiet.

In this round of feints, the Germans discovered a large number of firepower points, and the artillery fire began to focus on the positions of the Anjia Army on the mountain, and then the German mountain artillery units even used single artillery and heavy machine guns to carry out close and direct aiming, trying to destroy the exposed firepower points of the Anjia Army.

However, almost all of these forts were built to the highest standards, and the reinforced concrete walls at the front and top were nearly one meter thick, and the Germans' artillery fire from the bottom up could not carry out direct fire, so naturally it had little effect, and when the shells exploded, they only carved shallow holes in the outer walls.

The shelling stopped after half an hour, and the smoke and dust from the explosion hung over the ridges, and the Germans, believing that they had succeeded in destroying the defense line of the Anjia army, sent troops to attack the main position again. Under the cover of the darkest night before dawn, the dense German army climbed upwards like locusts, and because of the steepness of the mountain, its attacking troops were in a very unfavorable position to attack on the back.

It was only at this time that the defense line of the An Jiajun began to move, and with the sound of a sharp horn, a machine gun was dragged from the bunker to the excavated firing bunker, and the chain of bullets of the heavy machine gun emitted a glittering cold light.

At the forefront of the German assault troops, about four or five hundred fanatical SS officers and men, armed with submachine guns and chanting slogans, stood up in front, and just as they rushed to the steep slope two or three hundred meters away from the front of the position, a series of red flares rose into the sky, illuminating the earth as it should be blood-red.

Before the charging Germans could react, the overwhelming rain of bullets was already coming from top to bottom.

Blood splattered, limbs and bones flew sideways, the German soldiers who were shot continued to fall down the hillside, and the corpses rolling down from time to time caused a burst of chaos, but the German SS officers and soldiers who rushed in front still maintained a firm pace, completely disregarding life, and marched in a straggler formation to meet the barrage shot by the officers and soldiers of An Jia.

Driven by the demonstration of the SS in front of the assault, the German soldiers fell in pieces under the rain of bullets from the officers and men of Anjia, but they still managed to reach a depression 50 meters away from the front-line position of the Anjia army.

At this 50-meter distance of death, the German army, like a tide, forcibly launched two surprise attacks, but all ended in failure, and then the German army began to take advantage of the terrain and terrain to entangle with the officers and soldiers of Anjia who were defending the danger, many German soldiers actually piled up the corpses of their companions as a bunker breastwall, and the German mortars, howitzers and flamethrowers, and the grenades thrown by the officers and soldiers of Anjia and ammunition fired by heavy weapons such as bazookas, intersected in the air, and the sound of explosions, screams and the whistling of bullets and bullets were intertwined. Exciting.

The commander of the German front line saw that the battle was stalemate, and in a hurry, he actually replenished a new force to the front line again, from the starting position of the German army to the front 50 meters in front of the position of the Anjia army, the mountains were full of shouts and killing sounds from the German army in order to boost morale

Seeing that the German offensive was becoming more and more fierce and the crowd was getting denser and denser, the forts and bunkers built in various places in the mountains suddenly opened fire, and the dense bullet rain composed of anti-aircraft guns, cannons, howitzers, Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns, Maxim heavy machine guns, and general-purpose machine guns quickly surrounded the Germans in a meteor shower.

The German tanks firing at a 30-degree slope up the hill were a great threat, and due to the high accuracy of their fire, almost every gun would blow up a piece of flesh on the front-line position.

The anti-tank artillery of the Anjia Army in the high fortress was specially aimed at those tanks, and under the guidance of the light of the flares, the gunners calibrated the shooting elements, aimed at the German tanks that were firing, and quickly returned fire. On the entire majestic mountain range, a violent roar sounded, and the muzzle storm blew the withered yellow grass in front of the various forts, and they collectively fell downward, and the armor-piercing shells whistled towards the German tanks.

"The first hit!"

The chief gunner of the 75-mm anti-aircraft gun position on the upper deck of Pillbox No. 4 was Sergeant Zhang Mingyuan from Bengbu, Anhui Province, who pulled down the running bolt with his hand, but his eyes did not leave the sight scope, and when his right hand returned to the high and low plane, he couldn't help shouting, with a joyful smile on his face - the German tank he was aiming at just now emitted a puff of smoke, which was completely reimbursed!

Sergeant Tan Chong, the loader, also smiled, but he was happy, he was not slow at all, and reported loudly after a "clang": "Reloaded, blunt armor-piercing bullets!" ”

In a salvo of dozens of fortresses on a front of more than 10 kilometers, more than 50 German No. 4 tanks and nearly 100 armored vehicles were reimbursed.

"If you want to run, it's not that easy!"

Without wasting a second, Zhang Mingyuan cooperated with both hands, and re-aimed at a German tank in just a moment, and with a "boom", he shouted again: "Two hits!" ”

Seeing that the situation had changed unexpectedly, the German artillery fire rang out again, and the dense shells whistled and flew towards the mountain fortress of the An Jia army, and the earth and gunpowder smoke flew everywhere, and the young men did not have time to pay attention to it, and all their attention was on the target!

The sky was slightly bright, the artillery battle against the bombardment continued, explosions and black smoke were everywhere, the violent explosion of shells made the soldiers' ears "buzz", and the splashed earth flew into the gun emplacements through the firing port, and the faces of the officers and men who could not avoid the beating felt a faint pain.

"Leave them alone, the Germans are not in a good position, they can't form a direct barrage, they don't pose much threat to us, keep coming, and beat the Germans in one go!"

Amid the deafening explosions outside, Zhang Mingyuan almost roared and said hello, then continued to aim at the target, and soon locked on the third tank.

The No. 4 tank had barely had time to turn before the shell flew straight out of the muzzle and hit the tank's turret at high speed. The 75-mm anti-aircraft gun deserves to be called a tank killer, the armor-piercing shell directly penetrated the forty-mm armor at a ten-degree angle in the front of the turret, and an explosion occurred in the ammunition depot.

The Germans were thwarted in their frontal offensive and had to move their minds to the high ground on both flanks, farther away from the Kara Valley, in an attempt to break the stalemate by outflanking.

Unfortunately, the artillery fire on the high ground on both flanks was equally fierce, the Germans who suffered heavy fire casualties, the troops fell into great confusion, the German soldiers retreating down the hill collided with the upward attack, and in the chaos, the German front commander saw that there was no hope of a breakthrough, so he could only order the troops to temporarily retreat to the starting position.

Another half an hour had passed, and it was already six o'clock in the morning Gulf time, and the visibility in West Asia in November was not high, and the sky was still dark.

After adjustment, the German army began to cover with artillery fire again, and carried out a high-density attack on the weak point of the Anjia army's defense line in the attack just now, preparing to make a breakthrough from one point first.

At this time, our officers and men on the forward positions who had been notified in advance had already withdrawn into the tunnel. The artillery position set up by the An Jiajun on the anti-slope on the top of the hill finally could not bear it anymore, and heavy artillery shells of various calibers flew towards the German artillery positions like splashing water.

Almost instantly, looking out from the artillery observation post of the Anjia Army on the top of the mountain, I saw the rear of the German battle line, and in the haze, a burst of yellow light suddenly flashed.

The northern sky suddenly lit up with lightning bolts, and then there was a thunderous sound, and finally there was a violent tremor of the earth!

Amid the mournful whistle, hundreds of large and small shells exploded on the German artillery positions almost simultaneously.

The orange explosive dots that erupted in the early morning dawn were shiningly connected. The shells were so dense that they were in unison, and occasionally 203 mm caliber fortress shells flew by, dragging the roar of trains in the air and falling to the ground, and even on the hill four or five kilometers away from the enemy's position, the mountain could be felt violently shaking.

The sound of the dense explosion of cannonballs merged into a loud bang, "booming" and echoing on the ground, and any other sound was suppressed!

The German troops, who were preparing to launch a coordinated charge with their infantry artillery, were almost stunned when they saw such intense artillery fire, and they hid in the temporary positions they urgently built, opening their mouths and covering their ears one by one, enduring the huge shock and the loud sound of the explosion of shells that pierced people's hearts. Every German soldier shook violently with the vibration of the explosion, as if his heart and lungs were about to be shaken out. The smoke filled their airways and lungs, and it was so hot that it was breathless.

The German artillery frantically returned fire, one artillery position was silent, and the artillery in the rest of the place immediately replenished, and a series of shells exploded halfway up the hillside on the high ground on both sides of the river valley, but it was never able to pose a direct threat to the ingeniously conceived artillery positions of the An Jiajun.

The artillery of the An Jiajun carried out the shelling at the fastest speed, and the barrels of the guns were almost red. The mountains and mountains have become a world of shrapnel, the air is full of explosions, and the northern and southern skies are about to turn red.

However, the disadvantage of the terrain cannot be compensated for by courage, the German artillery positions are dumb one after another, and countless howitzer shells of large and small calibers flying from the opposite hill blow up terrible craters on the German artillery positions, and by the flash of artillery fire and the light of the morning light, the German soldiers who are shivering on the forward positions can clearly see the wreckage of one cannon after another being lifted into the sky by the air waves of the explosion, and even some trenches not far from the artillery positions also fly into sections of stumps and broken arms from time to time. The thin mist of blood was like rain, almost enveloping the German positions.

The shells fired by the artillery group of the An Jiajun who fired condescendingly were like rolling cumulonimbus clouds, scattering the rain of dead bullets everywhere, and occasionally an overweight shell fell in the middle, and I saw that the ground was like a volcanic eruption, the soil was blown up to the height of the sky, and the German troops on a large area of the position disappeared.

After more than an hour of shelling, the barrage of shells gradually became clear, but at this time the German artillery was almost completely muted, and the German front and subsequent positions were almost plowed by the shells.

After this artillery battle, not only were all the artillery of the German army covering the attack destroyed, but the infantry also suffered heavy losses due to the sloppy fortifications.

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