1099 The fierce counteroffensive of the Chinese army

The air force, which had high hopes for itself, suffered losses in the face of the sudden air reinforcements of the Chinese army, which had almost no room to fight back.

The rear artillery group, also under the intensive bombardment of a bomber formation of the Chinese Kazakh Air Force, has completely lost its combat effectiveness ....

The air force is gone, and the artillery is gone....Lieutenant General Silinkov, the commander of the old Maozi division, directly pinned his last hope on the infantry and a heavy tank regiment behind him who had not yet had time to go to the battlefield. I hope that with the remaining forces at hand, I can try to salvage this defeat as much as possible.

However, what Lieutenant General Silinkov did not expect was that such an idea had just arisen in his heart. His opponent, the 46th Army, directly followed closely behind and launched an intensive artillery attack on the assembly area where his infantry was located, completely shattering the little hope that had just been ignited in his heart...

A large-caliber incendiary bomb exploded, and people and objects within a radius of several tens of meters were shrouded in raging flames almost immediately, and they did not even have time to react and dodge. In just the blink of an eye, the first round of more than 100 large-caliber incendiary bombs quickly formed a small fire field in the dense infantry assembly area behind the command headquarters...

In the fire, all the soldiers who were engulfed in flames could not get rid of and extinguish the flames on their bodies, no matter how they rolled on the ground. In the end, I could only watch as the soldiers who were swept into the sea of fire, with bursts of heart-rending screams, slowly lost their lives and were finally burned to ashes.

Seeing the scene in front of me, I thought of an hour ago, when I gave the order to attack Chinese positions with incendiary bombs. One of the faces of the division commander Silinkov turned pale in an instant. I couldn't help but let out an exclamation to my subordinates around me: "Incendiary bombs, the Chinese army is actually equipped with incendiary bombs....how is it possible." How is this possible..."

However, at this moment, there is no time for him to think about this problem, and the artillery cluster of the 46th Army is constantly firing round after round of shells, which is expanding the area of fire in the rear infantry assembly area at a rapid speed.

Lieutenant General Silinkov, who was stunned as he watched more and more soldiers being swept into the flames, finally reacted from the shock. to the staff officers beside him. Exclaimed loudly.

"Bastard, what are you doing in a daze, do you want more than 10,000 Red Army warriors to die in the fire... Command the troops, immediately disperse. Quickly carry out the scattered transfer..."

As soon as the order was issued, the front line took the initiative to withdraw from the hand-to-hand combat battlefield, and almost thousands of old Maozi soldiers who fled all the way back were routed. Immediately after that, it appeared directly in the eyes of the division commander, Lieutenant General Silinkov.

Before waiting for the political commissar, who has always been known for his severity, to react from the shock. Lieutenant General Silinkov's scolding was the first to sound in the command: "Bastard." Who told them to retreat ... The Chinese used Molotov cocktails, do they want to come back and be burned alive on the positions ....stupid, simply stupid, I want to shoot their commanders ..."

The words of Lieutenant General Silinkov just fell, the voice of the political commissar. Directly followed by a sound: "I agree with the opinion of Comrade Division Commander, for these cowards. Not killing is not enough to appease the anger of the warriors. The morale of my great Soviet Red Army was defeated at the hands of these cowards ...."

It is different from the indignant expressions of the two chiefs. The face of the chief of staff of the major general was calm from beginning to end....After the scolding of the two people, with the last shred of reason, he reminded the two commanders: "Comrade division commander, comrade political commissar. The Chinese fired too fiercely, and they also used incendiary bombs. What should we do next. Do you take the initiative to retreat, or do you hold on to the spot...."

"Without the order of the commander-in-chief, we can only hold on to the spot ... All combat units were ordered to disperse at once. Dig trenches on the spot and prepare for entrenchment... If nothing else, after the reinforcements of the Chinese army come up, they will definitely launch a series of counterattacks against us..."Relying on his own combat experience, Lieutenant General Silinkov directly ordered with a dignified face.

"Yes, Comrade Division Commander ..."

During the half-hour artillery bombardment, more than 150 artillery pieces were poured more than 25,000 incendiary bombs on the Japanese positions. Although on the eve of the shelling, more than 10,000 old Maozi, under the orders of Lieutenant General Silinkov, carried out a certain degree of evacuation and protection. However, more than 20,000 incendiary bombs still caused a huge price for the Soviet Red Army at least 5,000 people directly killed.

What's more, under the raging fire, most of the heavy weapons and baggage carried by the 30,000 old Maozi were almost completely burned......

The old Maozi soldier, who experienced the incendiary bomb attack for the first time, has not yet reacted from the shock. A deafening roar reached everyone's ears on the battlefield directly from far and near. Immediately after, the old Maozi soldiers, who were still in shock, all felt the slight tremor of the earth without exception...

Lieutenant General Silenkov, the division commander who was familiar with modern warfare, just now had a slightly calm face, and directly turned pale. Facing the two partners beside him, he said directly: "Heavy tank troops, definitely heavy tank troops, and hundreds of heavy tanks....how is it possible, didn't the newspaper say that the Chinese army is only equipped with medium tanks...."

As soon as the words fell, at the end of the grassland in three different directions, a black line composed of a large number of tanks appeared.

As the roar of the tank engine became louder and louder, the attack formation of the Chinese heavy tank, which was still like a black line just now, directly revealed his hideous face...

In three directions, more than 100 American-style heavy tanks each, holding their own black holes, spitting black smoke, lined up with the most basic armor interspersed with charging formations, like an unstoppable sharp arrow, quickly interspersed with three different directions to their positions.

"Bastard, what are you still doing in a daze, ordering our own tank troops, immediately attack to meet the battle, block the tank units of the Chinese army... Go quickly...."Lieutenant General Silinkov, the old Maozi who reacted from his astonishment, did not hesitate and ordered with a nervous face.

"Yes, Comrade Division Commander... It's just that, after the shelling just now, the number of heavy tanks in our hands is already less than 100. At most, it can only slow down the offensive speed of the Chinese army..."A combat staff officer quickly took the order and left....

"Boom..." Amid the roar of the huge engines, the remaining more than 80 tanks around the headquarters of Lao Maozi's division were directly under the command of their respective battalion commanders, divided into three different directions, and quickly attacked to meet the enemy.

Looking at the torrent of steel rolling away, the nervous heart of Lieutenant General Silinkov, the commander of the old Maozi division, calmed down a lot a little. Facing the chief of staff in front of him, he continued to speak and order.

"Comrade Chief of Staff, immediately order all commanders on the battlefield to build fortifications on the spot and stand by for reinforcements....In addition, concentrate all the anti-tank guns carried by our army in these three directions. In any case, we must block this counteroffensive of the Chinese army....and, report the current predicament of our army to the commander-in-chief, and ask the commander-in-chief to send reinforcements immediately. Of course, even if there are no reinforcements, it is hoped that the commander-in-chief will be able to draw some air forces to provide our army with the necessary air support. ”

"Yes, Comrade Division Commander ..."

Lao Maozi's remaining 80 or so heavy tanks had just driven out of the position less than a kilometer before they collided directly with the heavy tank division of the Chinese army. As a result, two tank units, which were completely disproportionate in number, fought together as if they were hand-to-hand combat...

"Boom..."A large-caliber armor-piercing shell gushed out from the long barrel, and the bulky tank body couldn't help but let out a tremble. The scorching armor-piercing projectile, directly under the action of huge inertia, smashed at an initial velocity of several hundred meters per second, and smashed directly opposite, an old Maozi tank that was preparing to attack the combat vehicle of his colleague.

"Boom...."The hot shell, after less than a second of flight in the air, smashed into the front armor of the target with great precision. Suddenly, a white light flashed at the hit point of the shell, and the old Maozi tank, which had just been adjusting the muzzle, was directly torn apart by this shell, making a violent explosion......

The commanders of more than 20 Lao Maozi tanks, although they all have very superb combat experience. However, with the same type of tank in the Chinese army, and it still occupies an absolute numerical superiority, there is no room for counterattack at all. Because, just as they fired a shell, the Chinese tank cluster directly opposite, at least five or more tanks, had already fired armor-piercing shells of the same caliber at the same time......

A violent explosion began to sound on the battlefield of hand-to-hand combat in tanks. Lao Maozi tanks, under the direct hit of several shells, were instantly torn into a pile of fragments. Immediately after that, the pile of debris turned into a huge fireball...

Of course, under Lao Maozi's sharp attack, the three heavy tank regiments also paid a lot of casualties. However, these insignificant losses did not at all serve any damage to a tank division with more than three hundred heavy tanks.

The Lao Maozi tank defense line, which was blocked in front of the three heavy tank regiments, was torn to pieces under the attack of the Chinese heavy tank division after only one round of fighting

Hand-to-hand combat between tanks and tanks ended with a complete victory for the Chinese heavy tank divisions.

The dense tank cluster carried the infantry of the three regiments of the 139th Division who had just arrived on the battlefield behind them and were eager to try. Quickly crossed the wreckage of more than 20 Lao Maozi tanks, like an unstoppable torrent of steel, and quickly swept towards a line of defense temporarily built by Lao Maozi.......