The third flare was raised, everyone's faces changed, and the corpses everywhere, dozens of Soviet soldiers who were still alive before, fell on the snow in just a dozen seconds. Under the flares, the Soviet soldiers who were still in the trenches could see the red blood flowing from the corpses, staining the white snow around them.

War is brutal. These Soviet soldiers knew this, but when they saw dozens of comrades dying in front of their eyes, and they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, everyone's heart shook. The invisible enemy is the most terrifying, and it is also the most terrifying.

In fact, at this time, Li Ze and others were lying about sixty meters away from the Soviet trenches. The battle, which was not supposed to continue like this, was turned into a special operation by them. At this time, even Li Ze and the others were wondering why the shelling had not yet begun. They have already lured out all the Soviet firepower in the forward positions, but why have the mortar units in the rear not opened fire until now. They didn't know whether to move forward or backward for a while.

Advancing is for fear of being accidentally injured by the mortars of your own people, so it is not worth it. Moreover, there are only a few dozen of them, and they cannot completely occupy the entire defense line, and the attack will only increase casualties. This is not in line with the concept of combat. And there was no order to retreat, and they did not dare to assert themselves.

At this time, at a distance of five hundred meters from the forward position of the USSR, under a slope, the main forces of the 2nd Regiment were waiting here. The commander of the regiment, who was the commander, used infrared telescopes to see the great results of the spearheads, and did not rush to attack. He wanted to make the Soviet soldiers a little more frightened, and then the attack would be much simpler.

The Soviets did not dare to stop the flares now, for fear that if the snow in front of them was shrouded in darkness again, the Grim Reaper, who was hiding in the shadows, would strike again and take away their lives. More than a hundred people have fallen, and that is the best lesson.

The regimental commissar in the rear of the Soviet army heard that it was not easy to think just now, but the continuous use of flares was not a problem. After all, there is not much ration of flares, and when the time comes, how to defend against the next attack.

"Put out the flames that are still burning in the trenches, and let everyone be black." Finally, the political commissar of the Soviet regiment thought about it and said.

After the order reached the troops, the Soviet soldiers began to extinguish the fire with snow, and as more and more flames were extinguished, darkness began to fall on the Soviet land.

But will the Wehrmacht let them get their way?

The commander of the 2nd Regiment saw that the other side had been setting off flares, and knew that the top soldiers had no chance to move, and the Soviet Union had begun to extinguish the flames burning on the position, and when the time came for them to attack, the advantage would be weakened. Only by maintaining the posture of the enemy in the open and in the dark can we reduce casualties to the greatest extent.

"Mortar units were ordered to eliminate the opponent's points of fire, and the forward companies waited for the order to attack."

After the order was given, mortar units, hidden on the left and right flanks, began to launch artillery strikes. The mortar shell fell into the barrel, the thimble activated the shell ammunition, and the shell was quickly ejected, forming a huge arc and falling into the forward position of the Soviet Union.

The speed of the shellers was very fast, and before the first shell fell and exploded, the second shell was put into the barrel, and when the first shell exploded on the Soviet position, the second shell also popped out of the barrel.

The mortars of the entire infantry regiment were concentrated, and the targets were those light and heavy fire points that had previously been exposed. Long before the battle, all were reminded many times. The Soviet army facing it today is not Japan, which was backward in the past, nor the Anglo-French coalition army, which was undersupplied, but the Soviet army with strong firepower and mechanical forces. We must not be careless, and any carelessness may lead to heavy casualties.

Commanders at all levels kept this statement in mind, and this is not alarmist, but a real fact. At this time, the Soviet Union, stimulated by China on the side, developed its military industry rapidly. And Stalin was not brain-dead enough to scatter the armored forces and fill them in the infantry. Even the number of artillery pieces has increased significantly. In addition to the navy, the army and air force are much stronger than later generations. It is completely comparable to the military power of the Soviet Union three years later.

Butterfly effect, Zhukov also took control of the Soviet army in the Far East early. This Hero of the Soviet Union, known as the first marshal of the Soviet Union, Chen Shao did not dare to despise and be careless. In the Soviet Union, he was one of the few high-ranking generals who insisted on the centralized use of armored forces. Therefore, Chen Shao asked Su Yusheng and Zhukov to fight, and in terms of tactical and strategic command, Su Yusheng's ability is one of the best in the general system of the National Defense Forces. Except for Chen Fuqin who can hold him down, it is difficult for others to say that they can hold him down steadily.

Su Yusheng had a lot of information about Zhukov, and Zhukov didn't even know who the commander of the Chinese army on the other side was at this time, and even the strength of the troops was still black. This is another advantage that China now has over the Soviet Union.

The whistling of mortar shells across the sky made the Soviet soldiers who were still fighting the fire feel palpitations. Before, they had been frightened by the sound of shells, and now they heard this sound again, regardless of whether the sound was loud or not, whether the explosion was as violent as before, and at this time they still had the fear of shelling, and when they heard such a sound, instinct drove them, and many Soviet soldiers lay down.

Under the fire of almost forty mortars, the Soviet forward positions again fell within the range of shelling. At the same time, the left and right flanks of the Soviet forward positions were also attacked by mortars, and it was the first or third regiment to shoot.

Mortars are different from large artillery such as howitzers and cannons, which can only blow up trenches and cannot directly drive shells into the trenches unless they are lucky. The mortar is different, and its special arc trajectory gives the small artillery developed in World War I a resounding nickname: trench buster. Because mortars can send shells directly into the trenches and explode directly in the trenches. Of course, this requires a very accurate gunner.

The Chinese mortar soldiers are all old gunners, and basically every mortar is a veteran of more than six years. Fed by countless shells, they don't even need the help of the sight to point where to hit. Previously, when the Soviet light and heavy machine gun fire points were exposed, the position was already remembered by these mortar crewmen.

The first few waves of shells hit these points of fire directly, and the light and heavy fire points placed by the Soviet troops on the forward positions were covered by artillery fire. The soldiers who operated these light and heavy machine guns were torn apart in the explosion, the light machine guns were torn apart, and even the heavy machine guns became a pile of parts, scattered from the air, and the heavy barrels were directly blown into twists, and they could no longer be seen as before.

After removing the firing point, the mortars began to shift their direction and aim specifically at the trenches where there were more soldiers. From time to time, shells are sent directly into the trenches, and as long as the shells can hit the trenches, they can take a lot of lives each time.

Mutilated limbs flew in the air, blood sprayed everywhere, staining patches of snow red.

Although the shells were much, much less than the previous shelling, and the power was far behind, the lethality to personnel was not worse than that of the heavy artillery. Shrapnel is flying, and as long as the shells fall into the trenches, it is difficult for people within a radius of five meters to survive.

In the Soviet position, the Soviet soldiers who wanted to hide in the anti-artillery holes when they heard the sound of artillery stopped this idea in the eyes of the instructor as if they were about to kill. There is still a chance to survive the shelling, anyway, the shelling is not dense now, and once the instructor enforces battlefield discipline, there is only a dead end.

In fact, the instructors didn't want to enter the anti-artillery hole, just because the regimental headquarters had just issued an order that they must be nailed to the position at all times and not leave a single step to prevent the Chinese army from suddenly attacking.

Three sides of the Soviet defense line faced another shelling, and the light and heavy machine-gun positions that had been built were also eliminated, and even the soldiers suffered many casualties. However, at this time, the commissars of the three Soviet divisions were not worried, because compared to the previous shelling, such shelling was nothing at all. And this shelling can also show that the Chinese army is not far away, because they can all see that this is a mortar shell, and the range of the mortar is so far that it is impossible for the Chinese army to be too far away.

It's just that they know that the Chinese army is very close, but they can't deduce how close the distance is. Several flares were fired, but nothing was found.

Mortar shells do not produce obvious sparks when excited, and as long as there is something in front of them, even if there is a spark, they are not afraid of the other party seeing it. This is different from a cannonball, the sparks generated at such a close distance, plus the light produced by the cannonballs, cannot be hidden.

At this moment, a company of soldiers took advantage of the darkness to attack, and the attacking troops, led by six armored vehicles, crossed the previously hidden depression and quickly rushed towards the Soviet position.

The sound of the engine of the armored car, which is very loud at night, was previously covered by the sound of heavy artillery, and at this time only mortars could not hide the sound of the armored car at all.

"Hurry up, fire the flares." The commander of a Soviet company in the forward position heard the sound of the engine and hurriedly shouted.

A series of flares were immediately shot out, and the night sky was lit up from near and far, and as the flares slowly landed, the ground was gradually lit up. For the first time, the attacking units of the Chinese army in the distance were also exposed to the eyes of the Soviet defenders.

At this time, after seeing that they had been exposed, the attacking Chinese army did not have the slightest politeness, and the 30 mm caliber guns on the wheeled armored infantry vehicles began to fire, and the two heavy machine guns in front of the armored vehicles also began to fire.

The soldiers of the vanguard company who followed behind did not have the slightest politeness, and at a distance of two or three hundred meters, they were already within the range of their accurate shooting, and the semi-automatic rifles in their hands began to shoot.

And the formation also slowly dispersed with the armored infantry fighting vehicles, and gradually the entire position seemed to be full of Chinese soldiers.

(To be continued)