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Chapter 1558 The Raptors Cross the River

The battle for the forced crossing of the Amu Darya River is raging. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the west bank of Karasar, Lieutenant Colonel Ding Guan Ying and his assault team are undergoing the most severe test, and the rain of bullets from all sides has overwhelmed them, and soldiers are constantly being overturned by bullets or mortar shells.

Seeing this situation, Ding Guanying knew that it was now a critical moment of life and death, and immediately said to the communication soldier who was following him:

"Tell the artillerymen to let them suppress the 091 heights in front of us with heavy artillery!"

A minute later, the cannonballs rained like hail into the small high ground opposite the commandos, instantly turning it into a red furnace.

After another five minutes, artillery fire began to slowly cross that height.

Seeing this situation, Ding Guanying waved his hand heavily: "Brothers, charge, take the high ground opposite!" With that, he rushed forward with an automatic rifle in his arms.

Seeing that Ding Guanying, the deputy captain of the division's special brigade in charge of this mission, rushed ahead, the other soldiers immediately rushed forward with shouts.

Soon the officers and soldiers rushed to the enemy's position like a pack of wolves, and the Soviet soldiers who were hiding in the trench defense holes had just come to the position, and they didn't expect the squadron to come up so quickly, not to mention the heavy artillery bombardment just now, which made the surviving Soviet soldiers dizzy, so when Ding Guanying rushed up, they were not met with any strong resistance at all.

"Da-da-"

With the onslaught of automatic rifle fire, a Soviet soldier who had just stood up and looked frightened collapsed to the ground, holding an unloaded Mosin Nagant rifle in his hand.

Almost instantly, Ding Guanying's comrades-in-arms also rushed forward, automatic rifles, submachine guns, and general-purpose machine guns, began to spray bullets as ruthless as the scythe of death, reaping the lives of those remaining Soviet soldiers.

After only five minutes, Ding Guanying and his assault team took control of the 91-meter-high hill and successfully drove a nail into the Soviet defenses.

At this time, on the east bank of the river, the sappers of the Anjia Army were desperately busy, one after another planks and wooden pillars were pushed into the river, and then those sappers used rubber boats and wooden posts to tie them together with iron wire, and soon most of the construction of a pontoon bridge was completed.

"I don't know what our commander wants to do? Braving enemy fire to build bridges? ”

Seeing this inexplicable pontoon bridge, Major General Li Li, commander of the 22nd Motor Infantry Division, shook his head heavily. Then he looked across the river, where the gunshots continued to ring.

"Hopefully they'll hold out until tomorrow morning!" Li Li muttered silently.

In the headquarters of the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the Soviet Army's Stillt Army, not far from the Amu Darya River, Major Yegonor, the commissar of the 9th Regiment of the Soviet Army, was holding a telephone and angrily venting the commanders of the four battalions under him, threatening to send them to the internal affairs department for examination. Because the 091 heights captured by the commandos led by Ding Guanying were the defense area of the Ninth Regiment, which greatly shook the defense of the Soviet army in this area. Therefore, as the internal affairs commissar of the Ninth Regiment, he was under great pressure. Major Yelovsky, the political commissar of the 9th Regiment, and Lieutenant Colonel Valodya, the regiment commander, got together to discuss how to recapture the position, but when they heard the earth-shaking shelling outside, they were at a loss for words.

"Report! Front-line emergency: Just now the searchlight was shining on the river surface, and the first squadron of the issuance squadron is erecting a pontoon bridge! A communications soldier reported loudly.

Yelovsky looked shocked: "Stumped the enemy wants to open the gap from our regiment in one go?" ”

"It should be!"

Valodya nodded: "The river is the narrowest here, and it is easiest for sappers to work....... Comrade Political Commissar, Comrade Internal Affairs Councilor, I propose to immediately ask for help from the division headquarters! Now our defense task is very arduous, not only to defend the river, but also to recover the 091 heights, the troops are stretched, and we can only ask for guidance from our superiors! ”

Yegonol discussed with Yerovsky, and also felt that the responsibility for losing the position was heavy, and agreed with the opinion of the regiment commander Valodya, so the news of the forced crossing of the main force of the squadron in Karazar was reported to the division headquarters.

The Soviet command center reacted quickly, drawing two regiments of troops from both flanks of the entire front, concentrating on Karazar, and ordered that the 091 heights must be recovered before dawn, and at the same time the artillery also moved closer to the area, trying to destroy the enemy's pontoon bridges, and never allowing the enemy's superior forces to cross the river.

Just when the Soviet army was determined to recapture the heights at all costs, Ding Guanying organized a platoon of troops, under the cover of heavy artillery on the east bank, launched a surprise attack on the 082 heights on the flank of the 091 heights, although the Soviet army had strengthened the defense there, but was still taken by surprise, after a quarter of an hour of firefighting, the Soviet troops lost about 300 people, basically lost the ability to attack, and the commandos retreated with fruitful results.

After receiving the news that Ding Guanying's assault team had gained a firm foothold on the north bank, Sun Desheng immediately revised the plan, and the second wave of reinforcements immediately took an assault boat and forcibly landed in the 091 highland area controlled by Ding Guanying's troops. This 500-strong contingent of officers and men of the Special Brigade of the 22nd Motorized Infantry Division and the Teaching Regiment, armed with a large number of mortars and rocket launchers, and carrying a large amount of ammunition, successfully carried out the landing and joined up with Ding Guanying's unit, which greatly increased the defensive strength in the area, and the Soviet troops felt more and more uncomfortable.

Therefore, the Soviet army decided to strike first, organized a ferocious attack, and sent a reinforced battalion to advance from the front to the 091 heights, but was met with stubborn resistance from the Anjia army.

Under the intensive rain of automatic rifles and general-purpose machine guns, the Soviet troops suffered heavy casualties in an instant and had to retreat to their original positions, but the Soviet commander was not discouraged, and half an hour later, the counterattack force consisting of two regiments began a new round of offensive, for which the Soviet troops again concentrated three artillery battalions to carry out heavy bombardment of the 091 heights.

When the first shell landed on the position where the assault team was located, Ding Guanying immediately realized that the Soviet army was preparing to attack, and the scale was definitely not small, so he only left a few observation posts on the position, and the rest of the people all withdrew to the anti-artillery holes dug by the Soviets.

Ten minutes later, the east bank of the Amu Darya River sounded fierce shelling again, at the beginning, only two shells fell on the Soviet artillery positions one after the other, which made the Soviet artillery panic for a while, but after three or four minutes, seeing that there were no follow-up shells falling, I thought it was an aimless shelling by the Anjia army, so I continued to attack the 091 heights.

After another five minutes, after a shake in the sky, the shells fired by various artillery on the artillery positions of the Anjia Army on the east bank of the Amu Darya River flew towards the intended target, and the fire of the explosion instantly reflected half of the sky, and then almost every two minutes, the shells would cover the intended target again, bringing great casualties to the Soviet artillery.

Obviously, the Soviet artillery that had just undergone the Great Purge could not be compared with the war-hardened Anjia Army in terms of the quantity, quality, caliber and even the quality of the artillery itself, so it didn't take long for all the Soviet artillery that was originally raging to become dumb.

But at the front, the offensive of the Soviet troops was not affected by the defeat of their artillery, and after slightly adjusting their formation, the Soviets began their attack.

The troops of nearly 4,000 men of the two regiments poured into the position guarded by Ding Guanying and his commandos like a tide. In the face of the multiple firepower strikes from all sides of the opponent like a sea of mountains, the assault team withstood a very big test, and the enemy's mortar shells and mountain artillery shells kept falling on the 091 heights.

The battle was fierce, as the Soviet soldiers slowly approached, many of the commandos fell in a pool of blood, and what was more terrible was that due to the need for continuous fire to resist the fierce attack of the opponent, the ammunition carried by the commandos had begun to be tight, and most of the machine guns had less than three base ammunition.

In the dark night, the Soviet army, which was outnumbered and had a good individual quality, had a decisive advantage, and soon surrounded the 091 heights like an iron bucket array, seeing that the other side could not escape, the Soviet commander actually used a psychological offensive and sent two people who knew Chinese to constantly shout to the 091 heights through the microphone, hoping that the soldiers on the heights could disarm and surrender.

You must know that this area was originally the ancient Silk Road, and Chinese culture was widely spread here, so it was very easy to find a few people who could speak Chinese.

"Surrender? Just with you Mao Zi soldiers who haven't evolved yet? ”

"If you have the ability, step on our corpses and come up......"

"Lao Maozi, throw away the gun and obediently lick Lao Tzu's asshole, and make Lao Tzu happy, I don't necessarily think about it......"

There were bursts of laughter from the 091 heights, and the warriors of the Anjia Army clearly rejected the surrender of the Soviet army through gossip and jokes.

The Soviet army was annoyed and angry, and launched an attack again, and the warriors of the An Jiajun Army, who had experienced a hundred battles, used their accurate marksmanship to block the crazy assault of the Soviet army again and again.

At this time, all kinds of weapons in the hands of these soldiers played an extremely important role, whether it was an automatic rifle or a semi-automatic rifle, whether it was a general-purpose machine gun or a sniper rifle, every soldier on the high ground had become a majestic sniper, and after the bullet popped out of their chamber, it was like having eyes, as long as any Soviet soldier dared to show his body a little, there would be an extra hole in his body.

No matter how much effort the Soviet army expends, how many troops they invest, they just can't help this small 091 heights.

However, this battle also greatly depleted the strength of the commando, and during the battle, the officers and men who held their positions were painted to varying degrees, including Captain Zhong Zaiwu, the commander of the special brigade of the 22nd Motor Infantry Division, who was later reinforced, and Lieutenant Huang Jing, the commander of the second company of the teaching regiment, were all killed by Soviet bullets.

However, the commandos did not collapse because of this, they were firmly nailed there like a nail, faithfully fulfilling their duties.

"Commander, the main forces of the Soviet army have all been pinned down by our army to Karasar, and the river crossing operation can be carried out as scheduled!" Sun Desheng, who had been commanding the battle for a night, reported to Li Jinlong, commander of the front army.

"Okay, the soldiers have worked hard, please pay high tribute to the front-line soldiers on behalf of the front army headquarters. Hold on, and once we succeed at the second crossing, the pressure on them will be greatly reduced! Li Jinlong encouraged on the phone.

"Thank you Commander for your concern, I will always take care of this side, and the artillery will suppress the enemy, and I will definitely support it until the main force arrives!" Sun Desheng said into the microphone.

After another hour, the eastern sky glowed with a bright color, and five kilometers from Karasar, in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya, where Li Jinlong's front army threw six heavy artillery regiments and began to cover the other side of the river.

"Boom-"

More than 400 artillery pieces of various calibers ravaged the Soviet positions on the opposite bank for half an hour, consuming a total of tens of thousands of shells.

However, Li Jinlong did not think so, and through the battle of one day and one night, he had clearly realized that the enemy on the opposite side was not easy to match, and that the Soviet army's tight defense and ingenious construction of positions were far beyond imagination, and it was necessary to resolutely crush the enemy's stubborn resistance in order to let the troops break through as soon as possible.

After another quarter of an hour, a terrifying roar sounded in the sky, this is the B2 dive bombers of the Anjia Army Air Force came to reinforce, hundreds of fighters surrounded the entire sky tightly, accompanied by a sharp whistling, one plane after another began to dive at a large angle, and soon the fortifications on the west bank of the river, which had just been calm, fell into a sea of fire again.

Li Jinlong looked at his watch, turned to Chief of Staff Wu Xianwei and said:

"Order the troops to cross the river at once and occupy the bridgehead! Artillery fire began to stretch, don't let the opposing reinforcements add a single soldier here. The sappers immediately began to assemble the pontoon. In short, in half an hour, I want to see our armored units set foot on the land on the opposite bank! ”

Li Jinlong pointed to the other side and said loudly.

When the last B2 dive bomber dropped its bombs, the assault troops, selected from various armies at Sun's suggestion, numbered 1,000 men, began to cross the river. In order to achieve the effect of surprise, the assault team abandoned the tactic of crossing the river with rubber boats and assault boats, and simply carried out armed crossings.

Dressed in inflated rubber vests and with boots on the sides of their shoulders, the soldiers, while holding their weapons aloft in their hands, under the cover of infantry guns and mortars, began to swim across the river.

Under the cover of artillery smoke, a team of thousands of people silently came to the west bank of the Amu Darya River, many Soviet soldiers were knocked down on the bank of the river before they could even open the bolts, and the defensive positions behind the Soviet troops, due to the double blow of artillery and B2 bombers, most of them were muted, and the rest were soon sent into the sky by the bazookas and grenades of the commandos, and it took only ten minutes for the river bank fortifications to change hands.

Taking advantage of the superiority of their troops, the engineer units began to build bridges, first knocking down wooden stakes on both sides of the river, then connecting the sections of the pontoon bridges that had been made overnight yesterday until they were connected to the other side of the river, then reinforcing those connection points with rubber boats and assault boats, and finally knocking down the wooden stakes on the connection points, and soon a wooden bridge connected both sides of the Amu Darya River.

After another 10 minutes, after being run over by two tanks and proving their safety, the Wolf and Leopard tanks of the Guards Armored Brigade directly under the Front Army and the Armored Regiment directly under the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Armies began to drive onto the pontoon bridge, and the balance of war quickly fell to the side of the Anjia Army.

By two o'clock in the afternoon, the Soviet troops, under the blows of the armored forces of Li Jinlong's front, began to retreat, which then turned into a major rout.