Chapter 168 Highlights

With a bang, a shell fell on the positions of the Soviet troops, stirring up a cloud of dust. There seemed to be no reaction at all in the trenches, Sun Liren looked at the calm Soviet position with a telescope, and felt that something was not quite right, which was also too quiet.

"Ten minutes after the artillery fire is prepared, the last regiment will go to see the movement, be careful, don't get trapped." Sun Liren's troops were limited, and he was not sure to encircle and annihilate this Soviet army, but he was unwilling to wait for the troops behind him to come up and share the credit.

The 155 howitzers and 75 mountain guns of the divisional artillery regiment rang out, and the artillery was fired quickly and urgently, and the shells of a base number were quickly finished, and the Soviet troops still did not move at all, and the infantry that jumped out of the trenches pressed forward cautiously in a straggler formation. Less than three hundred meters from the Soviet position, suddenly a sharp whistling sound sounded in the sky.

"Lie down!" At the time of the shouting, the raining shells had already fallen. It must be said that Sun Liren led the troops well, and when the advancing troops were shelled, they looked very calm and looked for cover, and when they couldn't find cover, they lay on the ground, holding their heads and praying to God.

The rifer crew's torn throat was desperately calling for air support, and the reconnaissance plane had not yet flown far, and soon returned. Soviet artillery was hiding in a wood, which was the reason why aerial reconnaissance did not detect it before.

When the divisional artillery regiment wanted to open fire and suppress, it was unexpectedly found that the firing range was inferior to the Soviet 122 howitzer. This is a big problem, because the howitzers of the Soviet army are coming to the artillery positions. Caught off guard, the 138th howitzer company of the 155th Division, which was too far ahead, was terminated. This face is a big shame.

When the angry Sun Liren had not fully reacted, a new change appeared on the battlefield. More than thirty tanks suddenly burst out of a wood, spewing black smoke and rushing towards the advancing infantry regiment, while the tanks were followed by a vast number of infantry, shouting Ula to rush forward.

Seeing this scene, Sun Liren was not angry but happy, why didn't this old Maozi have a long memory? Fortunately, the position was preset before, otherwise it would really be a loss. "Inform the artillerymen. Give me a hard beating of his infantry. "At the sound of the order, the 75th Mountain Artillery Battalion was busy, and it was the most suitable thing to fight the infantry, and the artillerymen who had been trained hard could shoot 25 shells a minute with the Bofors Mountain Cannon.

Sun Liren was quickly escorted down by the head of the vanguard, although Lao Maozi's T26 is not very good, but it is always very dangerous on the front line. Don't kill Maozi, the division commander was reimbursed by the 122 howitzer first.

Soon Sun Liren realized that he was very wrong, and the counterattack of this Soviet army was bold and resolute. The spirit of not being afraid of death in the face of artillery fire is palpitating, and the Soviet artillery fire has not stopped, and the attacking troops are rushing forward with the explosive point. It was a premeditated counterattack. The speed of the Soviet advance was so fast that before the tentative troops of the vanguard regiment could enter the position, the Soviet army appeared in front of the position. In particular, the T26 tank of the Soviet army, throwing off the infantry and rushing wildly, rushed through the first trench in one breath.

Stand inside the Cathedral, the only high-rise building in town. The commander of the 280th Soviet Infantry Division, Koniev, waved his fist excitedly. Shouting: "Well done boys! "Korinev was a staunch proletarian revolutionary, at the beginning of the Soviet revolution. Coming from a poor background, his family life was extremely difficult. Because of his good background, he was not purged when he rebelled.

In this East Kazakhstan campaign, the 280th Division had been used as a reserve, and after Lukin's counterattack order was issued, due to the distance of the garrison and the bombardment of the road, Konynev's marching speed was affected, and the order to retreat had been issued when he approached the battlefield. Konev also wanted to retreat, the question was where to retreat, and without waiting for him to think more, the mechanized troops of the Chinese had already rushed forward during the day, and the 280th Division, hidden in a nearby wood, was not discovered. In fact, even if it was discovered, the 11th Mechanized Army would not care much, at most one charge would be dispersed, and the troops would have to continue to advance.

As soon as Konev saw this formation, he knew that the situation of the battle had deteriorated, but he refused to give up and decided to buy time for the troops behind. So he ordered to attack Zhansugurov, but he did not expect to encounter any resistance, but instead collected the remnants of a tank battalion of the Soviet army. After the Soviet army, which advocated attack, discovered Sun Liren's troops, they decided to launch a local counterattack. At this time, they are considered to be behind enemy lines, and they can't beat the mechanized troops, and they can't beat your infantry?

Konev decided to use his own counterattack to disrupt the rhythm of the Chinese attack. So, in the midst of a retreat in East Kazakhstan, one of the most brilliant units of the Soviet army appeared.

Despite the huge casualties, the officers and men of the 280th Division still moved forward bravely, and after an hour of fierce fighting, the squadron retreated. More than half of Sun Liren's vanguard regiment suffered casualties, and the divisional artillery regiment was also hit hard by the Soviet artillery. The anxious Sun Liren shot the head battalion commander who was the first to retreat, and originally planned to shoot the head of the head regiment, but this guy was wounded and fainted in the battle, and his life and death were uncertain when he was carried down by his subordinates. Sun Liren gave a death order, did not take a step back, and resolutely resisted.

When it was time to fight hard, Sun Liren ignored the obstruction of his subordinates and personally led a battalion to launch a counterattack. Before Konev had time to rejoice, the remnants of the artillery regiment of Sun Liren's division and all the artillery of the units rang out. After just ten minutes of shelling, Sun Liren raised his submachine gun and jumped out of the trench first, shouting: "Follow me!" ”

There will be a heart of death, and there will be no greed for life! It was a battle of courage, and every Wehrmacht officer was indoctrinated with a similar mindset when he entered the academy. There are no useless soldiers, only incompetent generals!

At this very moment, the blood of the Wehrmacht reached a peak! Also stepping on the bombing point, the assault battalion of the 138th Division of the Wehrmacht went up and down, moving forward. Of course, the tactical maneuvers that should be there must be carried out. Fire support ignored the suppression of Soviet artillery fire and fired wildly.

There were still a few Soviet tanks in the position that became the biggest stumbling block, and six bazooka teams risked being sieveed by machine guns, crawling to around 300 meters, and with a few booms, the Soviet tanks were ignited, but only three of these bazooka men were left in the end. The battle was fierce, and the shortcomings of the Soviet army's backward equipment were exposed, with a network of fire composed of general-purpose machine guns and semi-automatic rifles, and mortars incessantly tilting shells at all distances.

The Soviets occupied this position for less than an hour before they gave a powerful counterattack to the 138th Division, and all 33 T26s were destroyed in less than four hours of fighting. In fact, in the course of the battle, Konev sent reinforcements, but at this time, the four Eagle Three of the Chinese Air Force arrived belatedly at the right time, and a regiment sent by Konev was dive-bombed by Eagle Three as soon as it appeared, and then it was crazy strafing. As soon as the four Eagle Three ran out of ammunition, the four Mustang fighters rushed to the battlefield again and stabilized the battle situation for Sun Liren again.

Konev witnessed the wreak havoc of the Chinese Air Force, and although his fists were pierced, the skin of his palms was pierced by his nails. Helpless, Konev could only order a retreat, giving up the idea of continuing the counterattack. In this contest of courage, Konyev had to admit that the courage of the Chinese soldiers was no less than that of the Soviet army.

I can't help but say that Korynev's luck is really good, he has just withdrawn his troops into the city, and Sun Liren's reinforcements have arrived. In the face of the transportation hub of Zhansugurov, the reinforcements of an army had to stop and prepare for the attack. The 30th Infantry Army of the National Defense Army, commander Wang Yaowu, graduated from the senior class of the infantry department of Baoding Army University.

When Wang Yaowu found Sun Liren, this guy was squatting in front of an officer and was sad, this was his assault battalion commander, his stomach was opened three holes by a machine gun during the battle, his intestines flowed out and he struggled forward for five or six meters, holding the military flag tightly in his hand, leaning forward to keep it from falling.

Wang Yaowu stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Life and death on the battlefield are common, don't blame yourself too much." ”

Sun Liren sighed and said, "Blame me, I underestimated the enemy." I didn't expect that the Soviet army still had a unit hiding here, and there were tanks. ”

The loss of more than half of the 138th Division in this battle can be regarded as a wake-up call for the whole army. Sun Liren himself did not receive much criticism in the battle report because he made a decision on the spot and fought back decisively. Wang Yaowu brought an order for Sun Liren to leave his troops to the deputy division commander and go to Dihua to report to Shang Zhen, deputy chief of staff of the Central Asian Front.

A two-wing, two-seater reconnaissance plane flew to the battlefield and landed on a piece of grass, and the pilot said that he had come to pick up Sun Liren on the orders of Zhang Zhizhong, chief of staff of the front army. Shang Zhen, the deputy chief of staff, is mainly responsible for coordinating the overall situation, taking care of everything, but not doing anything.

Sun Liren got on the plane, first went to Yili Airport to stop for refueling, and then flew to Dihua. When he arrived in Dihua and found the headquarters of the Front Army, he found that he was not the only one who was ordered to return from the front line, and Liao Yaoxiang and Chen Mingren were the first to arrive. Both of them turned out to be division commanders, Chen Mingren was the commander of the 87th Infantry Division of the A Division, unlike Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang, who were the B Division after a hundred years.

Shang Zhen's qualifications are very old, but he has never been a military commander, and he has always been a deputy position. When he saw the three of them, he told them with some envy that the reserves of Shandong, Jiangsu, and Henan provinces had newly organized three infantry corps, and the General Staff appointed the three of them as army commanders. They are the 70th, 71st, and 72nd armies, and the troops will arrive in Dihua tomorrow, and they will have half a month to familiarize themselves with the troops.

These three did not know that the strength of the Central Asian Front at this time had been continuously enhanced, because it was determined that Japan would move south, and 40 new infantry divisions drawn from the southeast and central China would be handed over to the Central Asian Front. At this time, Liu Mingzhao also received an order from the Ministry of National Defense to promote him to a three-star general of the army, and he was the general of three mechanized armies and 100 infantry divisions under the Central Asian Front. The total strength of the army is already close to one and a half million, which is second only to the second largest military group of the Far Eastern Front. This is not counting the coordinated Air Force, counting the Air Force it will be 1.7 million.