Chapter 49

On the position under the cover of night, the figures in the darkness swayed, and night fighting has never been the main way of warfare, especially if the superior side does not fight lightly. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Korean War were exceptions, and the difference in strength between the warring sides was too great. The squadron was forced out, and it was too much of a loss to fight in a dignified manner.

Crunch! Crunch! The slight sound of footsteps and breathing mingled together, and a large number of Soviet troops gathered around the Ob River, and the forward quietly lurked hundreds of meters of the defensive line.

"It's time to begin!" Frunze looked at his pocket watch and nodded. On the banks of the Ob River at night, a sky suddenly burned. Soviet artillery suddenly opened fire and launched a heavy artillery fire on the Combine Army, which was "retreating".

"What's going on?" Kolchak's face changed drastically, and according to the previous deployment, the Russian troops on the defensive line were retreating. The most difficult thing when fighting is not to attack, but to retreat. Kolchak rushed to the window, looked at the dazzling fire of the first line of defense, was shocked, hurriedly put on his shoes and ran out. The adjutant stepped forward and said, "Go to the command of the Chinese." ”

When I went out and looked into the courtyard, the White Russian generals were in a mess and were rushing out of their rooms.

The headquarters of the Volunteer Army was brightly lit, and Qi Zhenghong was looking up at the map with his back hand and his expression calm. Li Daxiong crossed Erlang's legs and smoked, and Liu Zhenyue sat on the phone and did not speak. Kolchak rushed in and saw that the three of them were so indifferent, and couldn't help but say angrily: "What's the matter? The enemy is on the offensive, why not organize a counterattack? ”

Qi Zhenghong didn't look back, Li Daxiong didn't look up, Liu Zhenyue smiled slightly, looked at his watch and said, "It's only been ten minutes since the shelling, don't worry." Seeing that the three of them were not panicked at all, Kolchak's expression was stunned, and Derichoff strode in. Glancing at Kolchak, he saluted: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief!" ”

Kolchak looked at Dericho's expression indifferently, and couldn't help but say: "What's the situation?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just a small ploy, our army has been infiltrated by the Red Regime too much, and this place in Novosibirsk was originally snatched from the Red Regime. It can be said that with the red regime, we have no secrets. Dericho replied calmly. Even a little disdainful of Kolchak. Instead, it's not for nothing. Unfortunately, Derichkov's appeal is not enough, plus the Chinese need more than a puppet.

"Why did the artillery stop?" Liu Xuanyue showed an incredulous expression. Qi Zhenghong turned around and said lightly: "It's not strange, planes bomb every day." It's strange that the logistics of the Soviet army kept up. Artillery fire! The reserves were ready to go into battle. ”

Quack, the 280 howitzer slid slightly on the train tracks, making a tooth-wrenching sound. Boom, the ground shook slightly, and eight heavy guns of the 1st Brigade of Independent Artillery opened fire together, targeting the ice on the Ob River.

Ulla! In the darkness, the Soviet soldiers rushed across the ice quickly, stepping on the ice and having no time to clean up the corpses. Rush to the enemy positions on the opposite side. In order to achieve the greatest results, to defeat the Chinese and Russian troops who were retreating to the second line of defense, Frunze invested eight infantry divisions at once, along a kilometer front. Unleash a fierce attack. Capture the line of defense and inflict heavy losses on the enemy troops, this was the plan of the Soviet army.

There is no doubt that the Soviet army was fooled. This is a disinformation, or rather a trap. Before the war. Qi Zhenghong is full of distrust of the White Russian army, the reason is very simple, the White Russian army is rotten from top to bottom, no matter how Kolchak personally wants to restore Russia, the roots of the people below are not a lot of one heart. The vast majority of the White Russian nobles wanted to escape to a safe place and continue to live a stable life, and it would be best if they could continue to be drunk and dreaming of death as before. Because of this, the Red regime easily established an intelligence network within the White Russian Army, and in front of the Soviet Army, the White Russian Army was no different from naked. The retreat from the first line of defense was indeed true, but it was an hour earlier. There is also the fact that the squadron is ready to fight back after dawn.

Qi Zhenghong dug a pit for the Soviet army and waited for the Soviet army to jump in. The key point is that the weather is gradually getting warmer, and the ice surface of the Ob River does not look like it has changed, but it is actually quietly thinning, unlike in the harsh winter, a bomb of more than 200 kilograms cannot explode the ice, even if a big bomb explodes the ice, it can be frozen overnight. Just like Leningrad in World War II, it was difficult for the German army to cut off the Soviet army's logistics line no matter how much it bombed.

The killer weapon in Qi Zhenghong's hand is the 280 train guns, a total of eight, staring at the fierce bombardment of their predetermined lots, it won't take long to blast a section of the ice on the Ob River. There is also the 210 howitzer, which can achieve the same effect with a bit of luck. Heavy artillery bombarded the river, and hundreds of other large-caliber guns bombarded all predetermined target sections on the Ob River. That is, as soon as the Soviets began to cross the river, the artillery of the coalition forces was already under full fire.

Half an hour after the shelling began, large cracks began to appear in the ice on the Ob River. Under the fierce bombardment of heavy artillery, the ice cracked, one by one holes in the river appeared, and the Soviet troops who were desperately charging continued to fall into dozens of cold holes, at the same time, the Soviet troops who rushed into the White Army's defense line and the Soviet troops who attacked the Volunteer Army's defense line were all subjected to fierce artillery fire, Frunze knew that he was fooled this time, but it was too late, since the attack had been launched, he could only rush forward. In the artillery fire, there were constantly screams of Soviet soldiers, some of them were directly turned into pieces, some were stunned by the shock, and more of them became wounded, screaming and waiting for death on the icy river.

The heavy artillery fire did not stop until midnight, when the artillery fire gradually stopped. After the Soviet troops with heavy casualties hurriedly entered the trenches of the first line of defense, before they could catch their breath, a series of explosions exploded in the trenches one after another.

Five explosive points per kilometer, fifty kilograms of high explosives per explosive point, hum! Hearing this voice, Qi Zhenghong felt that it was not good, the pleasure of being congested to the point that the pores were fully open! Thanks to the dozen or so mining companies opened by Chita last year, not only did a large number of prisoners have a place to go, but also laid the foundation for this miracle stroke. Otherwise, where can you get so many explosives, and even if there are so many explosives, you don't have so many equipment and sappers.

The violent explosion set the banks of the Ob River on fire, like a huge fireworks extravaganza. The explosion made the whole of Novosibirsk tremble, and the ice on the Ob River was full of cracks, and when it fell silent, there was a slight creaking sound on the ice. Numerous cracks tore through the surface of the river for tens of kilometers.

Twenty kilometers away, in a small town, in the headquarters of the Soviet army, there was a stunned Soviet general. Frunze's face was even more pale, and he insisted on fighting this battle. The envoy Stalin maintained his apparent calmness, but the green tendons of his pipe-holding hand were exposed, betraying the truth of his heart at the moment.

A gunshot rang out from one of the rooms, and everyone shuddered slightly. Revolutionaries are ruthless to their enemies and even more ruthless to their own people. This quality is well known to everyone present, including the special envoy Stalin.

When the sky turned white, the airport was busy, and one after another warhawks took to the sky, rushing to the Ob River, thirty-five kilometers away. When 40 bombers and 40 Eagle 3 fighters with 227 kg of bombs appeared over the Ob River, Qi Zhenghong's fatal blow was struck. Show one’s true colors in the end!

The bombers washed the Ob River again with 227 kilograms of bombs, followed by the dive of the Eagle 3 bombers, dropping bombs one bomb after another on the river. The cracks in the ice on the Ob River became larger and larger, and the continuous bombing turned the Ob River into a river full of ice floees, and more than 100,000 Soviet troops crossing the river were trapped on the east bank, and the back road was cut off.

According to incomplete statistics after the incident, the violent explosion caused more than 30,000 casualties of the Soviet troops to lose their combat effectiveness, of which more than 20,000 were directly killed by the explosion, and more than 100,000 Soviet troops fell into a desperate situation of panic and anxiety.

Frunze's reaction could not be said to be unpleasant, and the sappers built a bridge on the river overnight, but under the continuous bombardment at dawn, it was difficult to build a pontoon bridge on the river. The 100,000 Soviet troops who crossed the river were unable to attack the coalition forces in front of them, and it was no different from sending them to death, let alone not yet reaching the final point of despair. After all, there are still 300,000 battleable main forces of the Soviet army behind them, and there is hope as long as enough pontoon bridges are erected.

The problem was that Qi Zhenghong did not intend to give the Soviet troops crossing the river any chance to breathe, and as soon as the first round of bombing by aircraft ended, the artillerymen, who had rested for several hours, began to appear. More than 1,000 guns of various calibers were ploughed again in the future on the defensive line that had become tattered in the explosion, and then two infantry divisions attacked under the cover of hundreds of tanks in two armored brigades.

The Volunteer Army is not the kind of waste wood army of the White Russian army, and the sharpness of a generation of famous generals Liu Mingzhao on the battlefield has been given the opportunity to show in this battle. The commandos bent over with their guns in their hands and advanced quickly with standard tactical movements. The non-commissioned officers, who have mainly experienced veterans of the European war, brought out the soldiers with no bad tactical movements.

Encountering the suppressive blow of firepower, the grass-green waves immediately fell to their stomachs, looking for cover, and counterattacking on the spot. Hundreds of meters later, heavy machine guns were immediately erected and the fire was suppressed. Mortars pulled out the remnants of Soviet machine-gun fire one by one on the position, broke through the trenches, threw grenades continuously, and quickly advanced as smoke rose. Each squad was a combat group, a light machine gun, a submachine gun, under the direct crushing of the tank's fierce fire, without any suspense rushed into the trench.

The Soviets did their best to try to save the trapped troops on the other side, but Qi Zhenghong did not intend to give Frunze any chance. The trap that has been laid a long time ago will naturally not let go of the opportunity to beat the water dogs. For a whole day, continuous attacks, continuous bombardment on the river, the Soviet troops could not erect even a single pontoon bridge.

It was almost dusk, and 100,000 Soviet troops ran out of ammunition and food!