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Chapter 1600 The battle is still raging in the night

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At one o'clock in the morning, the Soviet army took advantage of the night to march all the way and collided head-on with the defensive position of the Anjia army five kilometers north of Tashkent.

While organizing troops to attack forward, the Soviets began to dig trenches a kilometer opposite the position of the Anjia Army. Soviet artillery fire rang out, and the main position and the positions on both flanks of the Anjia Army on the northern front were covered by artillery fire.

The officers and men of about two regiments of the Soviet army, after the artillery fire was extended, quickly formed a skirmish line and began to move towards the main position in Tashkent.

The skirmish line of the Soviet troops was stretched wide, and the strength of the two regiments covered almost the entire main position. Major General Gao Yunlin, commander of the 23rd Motorized Infantry Division in the main position, could not help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief after repeatedly observing through the periscope that the sparse offensive formation of the Soviet army was entering the range of the infantry.

When Gao Yunlin stood up, An Zongjun, the chief of staff on the side, came to the periscope, and after observing, his expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly said loudly: "Division commander, order the main supporting firepower points of the forward position not to shoot, and to be concealed and standby!" ”

Gao Yunlin looked suspicious and asked, "Chief of Staff, is there any problem?" ”

An Zongjun pointed to the front of the position and said urgently: "Division commander, this is clearly a fire test by the Soviet army, I suggest that the troops on the surface of the position be withdrawn to the tunnel immediately!" Act fast, it's too late to be late! ”

After An Zongjun finished speaking, he quickly picked up the phone, and was just about to call the phone of the forward position, when suddenly a storm of gunfire sounded, and hundreds of Soviet soldiers were shot and fell to the ground almost at the same time.

Duan Zhihua, the commander of the 87th Infantry Regiment, excitedly asked for credit on the phone: "Chief of Staff, Lao Maozi's attack has been repelled by us!" ”

"Bastard! Don't you see that this is a temptation by the Soviet army? Throw what you learned at the non-commissioned officer academy into the state of Java? Immediately remove all the troops on the front-line positions! Move fast, you know? ”

After An Zongjun finished speaking, he threw the phone back on the seat with a "snap".

Duan Zhihua, who was scolded without praise, had a black face, put down the microphone, and said angrily to the political commissar and staff officer who were waiting on the side with a smile on his face: "The chief of staff ordered, hurry up and let the troops withdraw!" ”

Shortly after the troops were withdrawn, the entire forward position was in flames.

The Soviet heavy artillery units used intensive artillery fire to fire three rounds of rapid fire at the main position, and then the Soviets mobilized cannons to carry out close and direct aiming with heavy machine guns, in an attempt to destroy the previously exposed fire points and bunkers of the Anjia army.

When the Soviets stopped shelling, the smoke and dust from the explosion took a long time to dissipate. There was silence on the forward positions of the 87th Infantry Regiment, and those carefully constructed bunkers, which had been turned upside down by cannon fire, were thrown upside down, and the light and heavy machine gun positions were in shambles, most of which had collapsed and were difficult to function.

After a few minutes, the dense Soviet troops, like locusts, flocked to the main position of the Anjia army, and at the forefront of the attacking troops, there were still the grassroots officers and political commissars of the Soviet army, who were holding rifles with bayonets, chanting slogans, and constantly beckoning the troops to follow.

The soldiers of the Anjia Army, who quickly entered the front-line position through the communication trenches from the rear defense holes, waited for the Soviet troops to enter the firing range, used general-purpose machine guns and mortars, organized mobile firepower, and concentrated on attacking the Soviet assault team.

Blood was splashing indiscriminately, and the Soviet soldiers, who were hit by machine gun bullets and mortars, kept falling on the way to the charge, but under the leadership of the grassroots commanders and political cadres, the Soviet soldiers always maintained a firm pace, completely disregarded life, lined up in a straggler formation, and advanced against the bullets fired by the officers and soldiers of Anjia.

The sound of machine-gun fire tearing the tarpaulin kept rang out, and the Soviet soldiers fell in pieces in a hail of bullets, but still many managed to reach within 50 meters of the defenders' positions.

"Throw a grenade!"

With the order of the company platoon commanders, the officers and men of the Anjia Army picked up the prepared grenades from the firing position on their stomachs, opened the covers, and threw them vigorously, and the dense explosions sounded, and the Soviet soldiers fell in rows and rows.

The Soviet army did not flinch in the slightest with a hard encounter, and the follow-up forces kept up and forcibly launched a surprise attack, but the charge still ended in failure several times.

Subsequently, the Soviets changed their strategy, piling up the corpses of the dead Soviet soldiers as bunkers, pushing light and heavy machine guns and infantry guns behind sandbags made of human flesh, and firing at the positions of the Anjia army at close range.

Not to be outdone, the mortars in the rear rained down on the Soviet troops, and almost every shell could take a few lives. The two sides have come and gone, and the battle is extremely fierce.

Soviet machine guns and infantry guns inflicted a large number of casualties on Chinese soldiers, and in the trenches where flesh and shrapnel were flying, medical soldiers often fell to the ground in the process of dragging the wounded.

The regiment commander, Duan Zhihua, lay on the position, carefully observing the enemy's movements. Suddenly, a sharp whistling approached, Duan Zhihua felt that he had been hit hard by something, and when he was dug out of the soil by several staff officers, he found that the guards who were crawling on him were already bloody and fleshy.

"Medic! Where's the medics? ”

Duan Zhihua desperately shook the broken body of the guard Xiao Liu, who had been stained red with blood, but no one answered him!

When the soldiers who were reinforced came up pulled to the rear bunker, Duan Zhihua saw the corpses of the medical soldiers who died in the front-line trenches, one of them looked like a ten-year-old girl, and she still had a pair of unwilling big eyes, looking at the dim sky.

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On the rear position, Gao Yunlin gritted his teeth, and An Zongjun suggested with some hesitation: "We...... Isn't it time to use artillery? ”

Gao Yunlin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The army commander just called, asking us not to attack the idea of artillery, everything can only be done by ourselves." With the strength of a group army, we can only concentrate all our artillery forces together to disguise the situation of the main forces. The artillery brigade directly under the group army has three artillery regiments under its jurisdiction, plus the artillery regiments of our three divisions and garrison divisions, a total of seven artillery regiments.

"Commander Sun told him that the artillery bombardment will be launched in the darkest period before dawn, and it will cover the front of our position at the first time, and then the artillery fire will extend forward, and even hit the trenches that the Soviet army is building, causing a powerful visual impact and strengthening the Soviet army's perception that our army is holding Tashkent!"

An Zongjun thought for a while and said loudly: "It seems that we can only rely on our mortars and bazookas in the short term...... I'm going to go to the front line now and concentrate on the mortars. The bazooka troops form a mobile strike force, and wherever there is a problem, the gap is immediately plugged, and in any case, the line of defense cannot collapse from us. ”

Gao Yunlin nodded: "Bring the guards with you, they are all veterans who have fought for many years, all of them are equipped with automatic rifles, and they can play a greater role than other troops!" ”

An Zongjun responded and rushed out of the headquarters.

After that, the fighting was even more brutal, and the Soviets recklessly replenished the front line, causing breakthroughs in several sectors. However, as soon as the Soviet army broke through a little, the mortar hit like hail, and after destroying the Soviet troops who rushed into the trenches, they carried out blocking artillery shelling backwards, and the infantry that urgently reinforced quickly recaptured their positions and consolidated their defenses.

If the Soviets concentrated their artillery and suppressed the attack of the Anjia Army's mortars, the bazooka soldiers would form an assault team, concentrate dozens of rocket launchers, and fire at the gap, and then the guard company rushed up with automatic rifles, expelled the Soviets from the trenches with a dense rain of bullets, and waited for the infantry to be deployed in place before moving on to the next target.

On this night, the Soviet army threw five divisions into the front line in one go, and at five o'clock in the morning, when the defense line of the Anjia army was crumbling, the shelling of the Anjia army finally began!

To the north of the entire front, in the darkness, suddenly a burst of yellow light flashed, and the northern sky suddenly brightened up like lightning, and then a thunderous sound was connected, and finally there was a violent shaking of the earth!

In the mournful whistle, hundreds of thousands of shells, large and small, exploded almost simultaneously two or three hundred meters in front of the main position, and one after another orange explosion points that erupted in the night were shining in the wilderness. The shells were so dense that there were no more than a few shells, and occasionally the shells of the M1931 203 mm howitzer and the BR5 280 mm howitzer captured by the Soviet army flew over, dragging out the sound of trains in the air, falling to the ground, and the whole earth trembled violently, and the intensity was similar to that of an earthquake of magnitude six or seven!

The explosion of the shells finally merged into a loud bang, "booming" and echoing across the battlefield, and any other sound was suppressed!

The Soviet offensive stalled suddenly, and after killing a small number of Soviet troops in front of the position, the soldiers of the Anjia Army lay down in the trenches to observe the movements of the Soviet troops.

The scene of intensive artillery bombardment was extremely spectacular, but it was also a kind of silent torture for the An Jiajun who were in the front line - they all opened their mouths wide and covered their ears, enduring the huge shock caused by their own artillery and the loud sound of shells exploding that pierced people's hearts.

Everyone shook violently with the vibrations of the explosion, as if their hearts and lungs were about to be shaken out. The smoke filled everyone's airways and lungs, and it was so hot that people couldn't breathe. However, although they suffered a lot of crimes, everyone's hearts were happy, and as far as the eye could see, there were limbs blown up by the Soviet army, and fragments of guns and artillery were everywhere.

Not long after, after confirming that there were no Soviet soldiers at the front of the position, the platoon commanders of the grassroots companies of the Anjia Army were notified by the division headquarters to temporarily withdraw their positions to guard against a possible artillery counterattack by the Soviet army.

However, the Soviets had no time to take care of the offensive at this time.

With the extension of the artillery fire of the Anjia Army, the positions built by the Soviet troops who were busy all night began to encounter the baptism of artillery fire, and one shell after another blew up terrible gaps in the position. The cannonballs were like a rolling cumulonimbus cloud, spreading the rain of dead bullets forward step by step. Occasionally, an overweight shell fell, and the ground erupted like a volcano, and the earth was blown up to the height of the sky.

The machine-gun fort made of civil engineering, under the shelling of this scale, was like papier-mâché, and all traces of its existence in this world were erased at once.

The artillery power of the An Jiajun is unexpectedly powerful!

In the face of such a fierce artillery attack, the artillery deployed by the Soviet army in the rear did not dare to move at all, and they needed to muster all their spirits to prevent a possible counterattack by the squadron after the end of the shelling.

By dawn, the artillery fire was gradually thinning out, and the Soviet army's position was already full of holes, but from beginning to end, the Soviet artillery did not usher in the imaginary scene of the infantry of the Anjia Army.

After a night of fierce fighting, both sides needed time to lick their wounds, and the battlefield was eerily calm.