A cannonball exploded on the side of the street not far away, sending up a thick cloud of black smoke and countless fragments of the debris. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoA house that had collapsed most of it shook a few times, but in the end it did not collapse with this explosion, and it was still stubbornly supported there.

In the improvised trenches dug on the side of the street, two local citizens who had been forcibly conscripted cautiously crawled through the trenches until they got into the sturdy barricades on the side, and then got up and slapped the dust off their bodies a few times, and lifted the crooked steel helmet above their heads.

"Got in touch?" A bearded Russian officer stepped forward to ask, with a hint of anticipation in his words.

"I can't get over it at all." The soldier with a face full of gunpowder smoke replied, "The other side of Tverskaya Street is full of Chinese soldiers, not to mention people, even a mouse can't get by." And when we returned, we saw that the Chinese tanks with accompanying infantry were clearing Lomonosov Street, which we had already blocked. ”

"Huh~~~" The Russian officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel on his shoulder sighed helplessly, and waved his hand a little irritably to let the soldier leave. His name is Sergey, and he is a regimental commander of the 162nd Infantry Division of the Russian Caucasian Army. He and his regiment held out on this Felendowski street for only one day before he was almost crippled.

Now the last regimental stronghold remained in the positions on the entire street, and the remaining troops were less than 200 men. The corded telephone had long since been cut off, and the radio station was damaged in the bombing and could not be repaired. In a hurry, Sergei sent a signal corpsman to the division headquarters for an order to retreat, only to learn that he was already surrounded. You can imagine his mood at the moment.

The entire city of Baku is now in chaos. The Ming armored forces, supported by heavy artillery and dive bombers, covered the rapid advance of a large number of infantry. They don't have the idea of fighting house by house. Instead, according to the operational code compiled by Zhang Cheng, it was incarnated as a demolition team. Heavy artillery bombardment, aircraft bombardment, and explosives blasting, where the Ming army passed, there were almost no intact buildings left. As for the loss of property and life of civilians, please, now they are fighting on enemy soil!

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"Fire!" Lin Shuo shouted with a hint of hoarse anger in his voice.

An artillery shell instantly came out of its chamber, destroying a machine-gun fortification more than 100 meters away.

"Come again!" With Lin Shuo's roar, the heavy Tiger tank quickly readjusted its turret and breathed out fury again.

The Russian army was unable to stop the strong attack of the Ming army, and a very important reason was that the Russian army had almost no weapons in its hands that could threaten the Ming tank. Escorted by a large number of elite infantry, the Russian soldiers holding explosive bags and Molotov cocktails could barely get close to the Ming armored forces.

Lin Shuo's Tiger tank stopped in the middle of the road, and used its fierce firepower to clear the fortifications in the opposite barricade one by one. The infantry, under the cover of armored vehicles and machine gun crews, approached the core of the defenders, a church. According to intelligence, it was the location of a regimental headquarters of the Russian army.

"This bastard!" Lieutenant Colonel Sergei's eyes were spewing with rage as he stared at the terrible Tiger tank in the middle of the street. After observing for a moment, he gritted his teeth and roared, "The death squad is ready to attack!" ”

For the Russian army, they must destroy that powerful tank. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to hold out until dark. Lieutenant Colonel Sergei had already made up his mind to break through with his last soldiers as soon as it darkened. Staying here is just waiting to die.

As he spoke, another shell exploded on one side of the barricade. With a loud roar, a puff of smoke rushed into the core barricades, and then instantly spilled out of several machine-gun holes outside the barricades. The soldiers in the barricades were coughing with smoke, and everyone was desperately slapping the dust on their bodies.

More than a dozen brave soldiers, holding explosives bags and Molotov cocktails, quietly hunched over the road and prepared to take the road to the tank. But suddenly he felt the ground tremble under his feet, and then he was pushed down by the air waves, and the huge dust raised by the shelling instantly enveloped these Russian soldiers.

Lin Shuo had already noticed this small force. After seeing the tragic experience of Captain Yang Mengkui, Lin Shuo was very careful about these Russian death squads. After discovering that something was wrong, he immediately hit it fiercely. The 88 mm caliber grenade is powerful and definitely not comparable to ordinary infantry guns. As soon as the fire passed, most of the Russian troops in the assault team were either killed or wounded.

After the raid was discovered, there was no need for the death squads to die. Several Russian soldiers who were still alive hurriedly ran to the rear. As he ran, he wriggled around to dodge the flying bullets and the rubble under his feet.

The MG42, which was erected on the building and on the armored vehicle, immediately adjusted its muzzle and fired a dense rain of bullets at those Russian troops. Several Russian troops were quickly knocked to the ground, and only the last Russian soldier was still running for his life. When he ran more than ten paces away, several machine gun bullets hit him in the back accurately.

The sharp warhead pierced through the fat, making a crunch and shattering bones and internal organs. The blood vessels were cut, and finally the scar on the bowl was the size of the bowl, and then flew to the ground not far away, bouncing up dust. The Russian soldier collapsed to the ground with a wrenched wail, muffled by artillery fire.

It's just a small episode on the battlefield. After seeing that the Russian army had been completely defeated, the Ming soldiers turned their attention to the church again. By this time the outside fortifications and barricades had been almost cleared, and the only thing left was the sturdy church.

The attacking Ming infantry launched two attacks, but after leaving behind more than a dozen corpses, they were unable to even storm the church. The church was very strong, and the defenders were extremely brave, even rushing out of the church and launching a white-knuckle counterattack when the Ming army attacked.

"Can you blow it up?" The infantry captain and company commander raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his face, climbed up to the turret of the Tiger tank and asked Lin Shuo, who leaned out to check the battle situation.

"It's too sturdy to do it." Lin Shuo shook his head. The church was so strong that he would have to die of exhaustion if he relied on his tank guns to demolish it.

"Call in the bombers for backup." The captain sighed and looked up at the dense swarms of planes shuttling back and forth in the smoke-filled sky. Now the battle situation in Baku is chaotic, and the captain does not know if he can successfully contact the army aviation. After all, everyone wants support now.

Just as the Ming army was about to contact the army aviation, another armored unit suddenly drove over behind them. Lin Shuo took a closer look, and it was actually three self-propelled guns of the armored division artillery regiment!

"You don't need to call it Lu Airlines." Lin Shuo smiled and clapped his hands.

Self-propelled guns with 155 mm guns were so powerful that a three-story building collapsed into ruins with a single shell. It's best against a sturdy church.

"It's over." Lieutenant Colonel Sergei looked at the strange tank with huge barrels in the street and made a huge opening in the solid wall of the church with one shot, shaking the whole church to the ground, and immediately knew that this place could not be defended. But there was no way back for him at the moment. Now it seemed that there were Ming troops everywhere, and he and the last dozens of soldiers under his command didn't know where to go.

Soon, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei will not need to be entangled. The ferocious shelling of three self-propelled guns soon destroyed the church completely. Countless ruins have buried these Russian troops in the rubble.

The battle, which took place on Ferendowski Street, was just a small episode in the entire battle of Baku. More than 100,000 Ming troops stormed Baku with the support of superior firepower. Lacking heavy firepower and relying only on human lives to fill the defensive line, the Russian army retreated one after another, and soon handed over most of the city to others. And the casualties themselves are heavy.

After the failure of a massive counterattack launched during the night, the Russian army, which had lost its last reserves, could no longer fight.

"Blow up the oil fields." Lieutenant General Berekov raised his hand and touched his bald head, listening to the sound of an explosion getting closer and closer. Some reluctantly gave orders. It is not good for anyone to destroy their own important industry.

Lieutenant General Berekov got up and went to his desk, pulled open a drawer, took out a telegram that had already been written, and handed it to the communications staff officer. "Sent to St. Petersburg."

After a pause, he looked at the young communications staff officer, and looked around at the young people in the headquarters. Lieutenant General Berekov slowly lowered his eyelids, took a deep breath, raised his eyelids again, and shouted "Soldiers! You have done your part. You are brave and do not deserve any blame. Now I allow you to choose to surrender when you can no longer resist. ”

With that, Lieutenant General Berekov turned around and went back to his office and closed the door. A moment later, a dull shot rang out from the office of Lieutenant General Berekov.

The suicide of the Supreme Commander of the Russian Army announced the end of the organized resistance of the Russian army in the Baku region. After oil wells, oil refining facilities, cargo terminals, oil pipelines and other important sites and materials have been destroyed. Most of the remaining Russian defenders chose to surrender.

From the airborne troops' raid on Lenkoran to the fall of Baku, in less than half a month, Zhang Cheng defeated hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in one fell swoop and successfully captured Baku, an important strategic oil-producing place in Russia. Successfully cut off nearly 70% of Russia's crude oil supply.

When the Ming Dynasty lost one after another on various battlefields, Zhang Cheng's victory in the Caspian Sea became the only bright spot in a short period of time. According to the order of Lord Shousuke, various newspapers and radio stations began to report on this glorious deed. As for the reason, of course, it is to divert everyone's attention.

At this moment, in a situation where the start is not good, Shousuke-sama needs a hero to gather people's hearts. Zhang Cheng, who has won a brilliant victory, is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate. In a short period of time, Zhang Cheng became a well-known commander. Of course, this is also what Zhang Cheng wants. (To be continued.) )