Chapter 494: The Night Attack of the Anti-Japanese War
But it will definitely not work hard, if you want to hit one part of the Soviet army, the other will quickly pounce on you. And to strike at the entire convoy of the Soviet army, the strength of one regiment is obviously insufficient.
What's more, there are still a large number of Soviet planes on the day that can help in the battle at any time, and one carelessness may cause huge casualties to yourself.
It is absolutely inappropriate to fight such a tough battle behind enemy lines, not only Wang Demin will never agree to fight, but even he Shi Zebo himself will not do it.
However, although it is no longer possible to completely annihilate the Soviet transport troops as last time, it is still entirely possible to make the Soviet army suffer a big loss if you don't have to pay too much price.
Shi Zebo suggested to Wang Demin that the reconnaissance platoons and regimental reconnaissance companies of each battalion be pooled and used, and ten assault teams should be formed to kill and injure the Soviet troops by means of night raids, and to blow up as much of the military supplies that burned the Soviet troops as possible, so as to create some more trouble for the Soviet troops on the Western Front.
For such a quiet retreat, Wang Demin was also very unwilling. Therefore, as soon as Shi Zebo's plan was proposed, Wang Demin made a decision and agreed to Shi Zebo's plan. It was immediately decided that Shi Zebo would be in charge of the night attack, and Wang Demin would command the troops to be responsible for covering it.
Ten assault detachments, under the cover of the wind and grass, crawled slowly and carefully, and little by little slowly approached the six squads on the periphery of the Soviet troops. Six of these smaller assault teams, numbering a dozen men each, stopped forty meters from the Soviet outpost and quietly took up a strong combat position.
The other four commandos, which were relatively numerous, quietly crept into the wide area between the six outposts, dispersed and sneaked to a position thirty or forty meters away from the bonfire lit by the Soviets before finally stopping.
Although these scouts were the elite of the elite, and they had already developed excellent skills in infiltrating and capturing prisoners, it took more than an hour for the commandos to reach the predetermined position at a distance of just over 200 meters.
At three o'clock in the morning, Shi Zebo finally gave the signal to attack, which had been planned for a long time.
As a red flare rose from the hilltop to the west, heavy gunfire rang out almost simultaneously around the Soviet camp.
The accurate marksmanship that the scouts, who had already found their targets, came in handy, and their first shot almost killed most of the Soviet troops at the six squads. Immediately, the flame from the tail flame of the bazooka in the grass flashed, and the Soviet tank dozens of meters away exploded violently, and the powerful explosion blew up the Soviet tanker and the tank's turret into the sky.
In order to prevent bazookas and rockets from being acquired by the Soviets on the battlefield, and also given that the Soviet tanks were very thin in armor at this time, solid shells using high explosives were enough to destroy their armor. Therefore, now the rockets of the Fourth Route Army do not use hollow shaped charge technology.
But even so, the Soviet T-18, which was only a pitiful dozen millimeters thick at the thickest part of the armor, could not withstand the power of the rocket explosion, and the riveted turret was blown apart at once.
After blowing up the tank, the scouts rushed forward with non-stop fire from turntable machine guns and MP18 submachine guns, and the Soviet soldiers, who were lucky enough to miss the first round of shooting, were killed one after another under intense fire.
At the same time as the flare was raised, the Soviet sentries swimming in the bonfire area and the Soviet troops sitting around the bonfire were also killed by the sudden dense rain of bullets fired from the grass, and then more than a dozen bonfires were extinguished by grenades, which made the Soviet camp return to darkness.
The Soviet machine-gun shooters set up on the cart, after being awakened by the sudden sound of gunfire and grenade explosions, could not find their target for a while in the dark, so in a panic they had to grab their machine guns and shoot aimlessly and blindly. However, this immediately leaked their exact position, and shooting at targets dozens of meters away was definitely easier for the top shooters.
Because the location of these Soviet firing points had been confirmed by the commandos at the end of the night, there were snipers waiting for them, and these Soviet shooters were killed by accurate bullets after only a few seconds of shooting. And for the sake of insurance, almost at the same time, these points of fire of the Soviet army were swept by dense fragments from the explosion of several grenades.
At the same time, dozens of black shadows jumping up in the grass quickly pounced on the cart, and then, some of these black shadows jumped on the cart, some crouched on the wheels, used the cart as a cover, and used the turntable machine guns or MP-18 submachine guns in their hands to sweep at the rows of military tents in the camp and the hordes of panicked Soviet troops who had just rushed out of the tents.
Other commandos, armed only with short guns, almost each with a basket full of grenades, hid behind carts and threw grenades into the chaotic field.
For a time, the sound of gunfire and explosions in the Soviet camp, the howls of wounded Soviet soldiers and the neighing of frightened horses became one.
Under the sudden and dense rain of bullets and flying shrapnel, many Soviet troops were beaten into a sieve by the scorching rain of bullets and sharp grenade fragments before they could even figure out which direction the enemy was coming from.
Among the commandos who attacked the Soviet camp, there were also some people who neither fired at the Soviet camp nor threw grenades, but used the Soviet military water bottle in their hands to constantly splash liquid on the carts full of military supplies.
From the smell of gasoline that quickly fills the air, it is not difficult to know that the liquid they spilled is gasoline.
As the fire in their hands flickered, on three sides of the Soviet camp, in the wall composed of carts, more than a dozen carts quickly burst into scarlet flames, and these carts were instantly enveloped in raging flames.
As the cart burned, two more red flares were fired on the western hillside.
Seeing the signal, the soldiers of the commando team, who were fighting extremely happily, reluctantly jumped out of the cart one after another under the orders of their respective captains, and quickly disappeared into the darkness behind them.
From the sound of gunfire to the withdrawal of the assault team, the whole process was carried out cleanly, and the battle lasted less than three minutes.
A few minutes after the assault team had withdrawn, the reacting Soviets reoccupied the large wall of their cart that had served as a barrier to the camp, and began firing aimlessly into the darkness with their machine guns and rifles.
Although the Soviets did not expect their blind shooting to hit the enemy, it would give their terrified minds a sense of security.
A minute later, the commandos who had withdrawn to a safe position signaled a safe evacuation, and ten green flares rose into the night sky from the foot of the mountain.
Shi Zebo, who commanded at the top of the mountain, could clearly see the outline of the Soviet camp circled by more than a dozen burning carts without the help of a telescope at this time.
The main purpose of the assault attack on the Soviet camp was to ignite the carts surrounded by the Soviet troops in order to indicate targets for the mortars on the top of the hill.
At this time, three more red flares rose on the top of the mountain.
Forty-five 60mm and 80mm mortars of the whole regiment, which had already been concentrated and were on standby, immediately began to bombard the Soviet camp indiscriminately.
The screams of dense and terrifying shells sounded over the Soviet camp, which had already been in chaos, followed by a large number of mortar shells that continued to explode violently inside and outside the camp, and the Soviet army, which had already suffered heavy casualties, was doomed again.
The hundreds of horses pulling carts, which had just been startled by the sound of gunfire and explosions, had just been pacified and controlled by the Soviet troops, and in the violent explosion, the horses exploded again, and they neighed and struggled to break free from the control of the Soviet soldiers, and began to rampage wildly through the camp. Soviet officers and men were constantly knocked down and knocked off by horses, and horses were killed and injured by shells. The Soviets had to dodge not only the ramming and trampling of the frenzied horses, but also the flying shrapnel of the falling shells, which made the Soviet camp even more chaotic.
Each Soviet combat company was equipped with three mortars, and each regiment was equipped with a mountain artillery battery.
For the artillery bombardment of the Fourth Route Army, the artillery of the Soviet army also wanted to return fire, but it was dark everywhere on all sides, and the target could not be found at all. The Soviet artillerymen could only watch the artillery and watch the other side bombard their camp indiscriminately, without the slightest recourse.
In order not to be affected by the approaching artillery fire, the Soviet artillery position in the southeast corner of the camp had begun to move four mountain artillery pieces outside the camp in the dark.
At this time, the regiment commander of the Soviet army finally came to his senses, and hurriedly ordered the tank company commander to command the tank to push away the cart and lead a battalion of infantry to attack the artillery position of the [***] team to prevent the Chinese from continuing to shell the camp; At the same time, they also forced the truck drivers who were hiding everywhere to brave the artillery fire to drive the trucks on the river beach that had not yet been bombed by shells out of the camp to evacuate and shelter.
The trucks were all on the easternmost river beach of the camp, and the mortar group shelling had not yet found them. However, as the shelling continued to stretch, it was only a matter of time before the trucks were blown up.
The trembling truck drivers, most of whom were civilians, climbed into the truck under the threat of gunpoint, and in order to avoid the approaching shell explosion, they all drove at full speed, did not dare to stop, and desperately rushed to the gap in the large workshop, along the way the Soviet troops were constantly knocked down, and many wounded soldiers were directly killed by the truck.
Although more than a dozen trucks were set on fire by the falling shells, the vast majority of them managed to break out of the camp and hide safely in the dark.
The Soviets who had rushed out of the camp, led by tanks, had already rushed to the foot of the mountain to the west, and they could even faintly hear the sound of mortars firing from the top of the mountain......
(To be continued)