Chapter 568: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Northern Mongolia, and the Burning of Kruren (5)
Chapter 568: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Burning Kruren (5)
Amid the dense sound of grenade explosions and gunfire, Zhao Yi rushed over from the side of the Soviet artillery position with a platoon, and he wanted to [search for the latest update] as soon as possible.]
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The place where the flares in front of it and the planes that swooped down to sweep shè was the river beach.
All the troops involved in the war have only one thought, and that is as soon as possible
i near the river beach, blocking the counter-charge of the Soviet army, as long as the morning dawns, the Soviet army is doomed to the fate of total annihilation.
The third company on the right side of Zhao Yi lay down on the spot about 400 meters away from the river beach and began to build improvised fortifications. Zhao Yi rushed forward with a platoon for more than 50 meters, and seeing that the wildfire was gradually reducing the fire near the river beach, Zhao Yi ordered a platoon to build fortifications on the spot.
A platoon of soldiers immediately threw themselves on the meadow, which was still hot and full of ashes that had just been overburned, and couched out the sapper shovels behind them and dug up quickly in the soft grassland.
The sharp sapper shovel, as soon as the shovel goes down, is a shovel deep, and three times five divided by two digs a foxhole.
The Fourth Route Army attached great importance to the training of earthworks, and not only did each man have a sharp sapper shovel, but also digging fortifications and trenches was an important part of their training.
In addition to a dozen machine guns shè hands were busy setting up machine guns, bullet hands used bayonets to quickly pry open the shell box, ready for shè shots. The other warriors did not stop their sapper shovels, and on the basis of the foxholes, they began to expand rapidly on both sides, and soon a shallow arc-shaped trench took shape.
Zhao Yi, who was lying in the trench, looked behind him a little anxiously, he was looking for his heavy machine gun.
The Soviet army, which was still trapped, was likely to launch a counter-charge while they were not firmly on the ground, and if there were no heavy machine guns at this time, it would be difficult to deal with the decisive charge of tens of thousands of Soviet troops.
After searching for some heavy fires that were still burning in the Soviet camp, Zhao Yi was disappointed that he did not find a platoon of soldiers carrying heavy machine guns.
Although Zhao Yi was very anxious, he had no reason to blame these soldiers, carrying a heavy machine gun weighing nearly thirty kilograms, running for nearly a thousand meters, even those in excellent health would not arrive quickly.
Just when Zhao Yi was about to withdraw his gaze with some disappointment, the second platoon commander took one of his squads, carrying two Soviet-style Sokolov low-wheeled Makqin machine guns with shields, and ran straight to the position, which made Zhao Yi overjoyed.
"Where did you get this machine gun? Didn't find the old máo's turntable gun? ”。
Without waiting for the second platoon commander to stand firm, Zhao Yi hurriedly asked.
The second platoon commander wiped the sweat from his head, grinned and said, "This is from the artillery position of the old máozi nong, a total of five rings, two of them were blown up, and the rest let me nong come twice." Old Máo's guns were still all over the ground, and the rest of the second platoon was rummaging around Old Máo's camp, and they would find the turntable gun in a moment. ”
"A company commander is so slashing that you can bring back two heavy machine guns?" Zhao Yi asked with some disbelieving.
The platoon commander waved his hand and said, "Company commander, Yilian wants to thank us this time, if we hadn't killed from the oblique stab, a grenade blew up the old máozi, and it would have taken some effort to destroy the old máozi." I carried away the two machine guns in front of the company commander, and the men of the first company were supposed to stop them, but when they saw that their company commander had a black face and did not make a sound, they did not even dare to let out a fart. ”
Zhao Yi looked to the left rear, and could vaguely see that the soldiers of the first company were nervously building fortifications about sixty or seventy meters behind their side.
Zhao Yi smiled and said, "This time it was Wu Heizi, this kid was unlucky, he met the Soviet army's artillery position head-on, and he was delayed for some time, otherwise he would definitely repair the position in front of us." Hurry up and set up the old máozi and these two heavy machine guns for me. ”…,
Zhao Yi looked at the third company on the right again, and now the second company protruded 50 to 60 meters in front of the other two companies, and the flank of the position needed to be strengthened.
"These two heavy machine guns are placed on both sides of the position, and the old man came up and beat me hard to let Wu Heizi see if we are strong in the second company or the first company," Zhao Yi ordered loudly.
The second platoon commander happily agreed, "Yes, company commander, you just look at it, if I don't beat the old man so that I can't find my grandmother's house, I won't be the platoon commander." ”
After the second platoon commander finished speaking, he pulled up a second platoon soldier who was erecting a heavy machine gun, and was about to go to Cào to make a heavy machine gun.
"Come back, your people stay, you go down for me to control the troops."
Zhao Yi's words made the second platoon commander immediately stunned with a bitter face.
Originally, he thought that he had brought two heavy machine guns, and as soon as Zhao Yi was happy, he would be able to stay on the ground and not leave.
The soldiers, who were pulled up by the second platoon commander, looked at the second platoon commander with a wicked smile, hurriedly lifted the crane gun, and under the command of the first platoon commander, turned to the east side of the position.
Seeing that the second platoon commander was still stunned and didn't leave, Zhao Yi glared at him and "obeyed the order"
The second platoon commander knew that Zhao Yi was in a hurry, so he didn't dare to delay at the front any longer, and after muttering in a low voice, he turned around and ran backwards reluctantly.
The wildfires along the Kruren River are not only decreasing, but also burning much slower. This is because not only is the grass gradually thinning out along the river, but the humidity here is also high, and the grass has more moisture.
However, although the speed and power of the burning weakened, the smoke was also greater, not only on the river beach on the north bank, but also on this section of the river, it was also covered by a thick layer of smoke, choking tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers coughing, and the sound could be heard hundreds of meters away.
The wildfire was finally extinguished by the Kruren River, and at the moment when the direction of the river beach was about to fall into darkness again, hundreds of flares fired by mortars lit up the river beach again, and then 60mm 82mm mortars began to test shè.
The two armies of Xu Fang and Zhao Fengwu, because they wanted to emphasize the speed of movement, their artillery fire was mainly mortars, although each division also had a mountain artillery regiment, but the heavy mountain artillery had just moved in place at this time and was being assembled.
Moreover, in the face of the remnants of the Soviet army, which had almost no heavy weapons, the mortar fire was quite enough.
Xu Fang and Zhao Fengwu had already received news from the Air Force Corps, knowing that most of the Soviet troops had fled to the south bank, and there were only 20,000 or 30,000 remnants of the Soviet army left on the river beach on the north bank. However, Xu Fang is not a reckless person who only knows how to fight and kill, since the main force of the Soviet army has fled to the south bank, then he should eliminate the Soviet army on the north bank as soon as possible, or drive them to the south bank as soon as possible.
After two rounds of testing, more than 600 mén mortars began shelling the river beach.
Although the power of mortars is not as great as that of aerial bombs, the number of mortars is superior, and more than 600 mortars will throw more than 300 mortar shells onto the 15,000-meter river beach every minute at a speed of about two minutes.
Although the 20,000 or 30,000 Soviet troops were lying on the river beach, and the damage of the Soviet troops in each shell pile was not large, the shells were too dense, and the dozens of tanks that had escaped the bombardment were constantly hit and burned and exploded.
To charge, with the current morale of the Soviet army, it is almost to death, not to mention that the Soviet army that remains on the river beach now is no longer possible to carry out unified action.
After holding out for more than ten minutes, the Soviet troops on the river beach could no longer support it, and they got up one after another, rushed into the river, and rushed to the opposite bank. The crews of dozens of T-18 tanks, too, drove their tanks into the river Chuáng, trying to drive the tanks to the opposite bank. …,
The depth of the Krulun River during the dry season is only more than 70 centimeters, and tanks can drive through it in peacetime, and the Soviet army has already found out the situation, and in the bombing of the planes just now, more than a dozen tanks have safely rushed over.
However, when these dozens of remaining Soviet tanks rushed into the river, the situation was very different from just now, the water level increased significantly, and the engines of the Soviet tanks stopped one after another because of the flooding, and the Soviet tank crews had no choice but to open the tank hatch and jump into the river to escape on foot.
It turned out that in the bombing just now, nearly 20,000 Soviet soldiers were buried in the water, and the corpses of the Soviet soldiers who flowed down blocked the river channel in the shallows downstream, and the water in this section of the river rose by 30 centimeters, and now the depth of the river is more than one meter.
The Soviet troops who escaped across the river, totaling about 80,000 people, did not flee south all the way after crossing the river, but gradually gathered their troops about a kilometer from the river beach and turned to the east.
After gathering their troops, the Soviet commanders were faced with the defeat of the remnants of the army who not only did not have heavy weapons, but even had a few and a half without rifles, and they understood that it was impossible to fight the Chinese, and they failed, and they were completely defeated. Their only way out now is to flee back to the territory of the Soviet Union as soon as possible, otherwise there is only a dead end, or they will become prisoners of the Chinese.
After escaping more than 10 kilometers, the Soviet troops who fled to the east were again blocked by the main forces of Zhou Yaoming's troops and Han Guangcai's Second Army. And in the blockade, the wildfire was ignited again.
However, this wildfire did not help Zhou Yaoming, on the contrary, it brought great pressure to Zhou Yaoming's department.
In order not to be burned to death by the wildfire, most of the Soviet troops launched a decisive charge against the positions of Zhou Yaoming's troops.
Under the interaction of the threat of death and the strong survival **jiāo, the Soviet troops all rushed over with red eyes, screaming with rifles in their hands, shining bayonets, and braving the dense rain of bullets fired by hundreds of light and heavy machine guns.
Although the Soviet troops fell layer by layer, there were layers of Soviet troops to fill in, and in the face of the Soviet troops who did not want to die, the blocking troops did not even have time to replace the barrels, and the barrels of the guns were constantly exploding because of heat.
When the fire swept from behind the Soviet troops, the more than 30,000 Soviet troops who were lucky enough to survive without the threat of life, faced with the mountains of corpses in front of the position, their nerves finally collapsed completely, and they had to disarm and surrender in despair.
In this tragic battle, the Fourth Route Army won an unprecedented victory.
In this battle, more than 90,000 Soviet troops were killed, burned, drowned, trampled to death, and nearly 30,000 were captured.
In this battle, the Fourth Route Army suffered a total of more than 3,000 casualties, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides reached an incredible 1:300.
However, the Fourth Route Army's weapons and ammunition suffered large losses, especially the light and heavy machine guns of Zhou Yaoming's department were almost completely damaged due to the long time of shè shooting, either the bore was blown up or the barrel was deformed.
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