The anti-tank trenches did not seem to have been completely destroyed, and the two tanks could not pass for a while, but this did not mean that they did nothing, they walked back and forth along the anti-tank trenches, constantly using tank guns and machine guns to eliminate the machine gun bunkers and firing points of the Northeast Army in the second line of trenches, covering the Soviet infantry to blast the anti-tank trenches.

As that section of the anti-tank trench was constantly being blasted and the anti-tank trench was blown to pieces, the Soviet tanks had begun to turn their bodies and try to attack the second line of trenches over the anti-tank trenches.

"Order the machine gun battery, 82 mortars fired three rapid fires, targeting the junction of the 25th and 26th regions."

The situation in the Northeast Army was dangerous, and if Soviet tanks crossed the anti-tank trenches, the second line of trenches was dangerous. Shi Ming did not dare to wait any longer and ordered the mortars of the machine gun company to bombard the infantry of the Soviet army.

Shi Ming's order, one of the four heralds who had been following him, drilled out of the shelter, and ran towards the core position as if flying.

Since the firing elements in the area around Zhagainor had already been determined, from Shi Ming's order to the beginning of the shelling only a little more than a minute, 36 rounds of 82mm mortar shells flew towards Zarainuoer with a scream, and fiercely plunged into the ranks of the Soviet army.

Although the breakthrough of the Soviet army was about 100 meters wide, and even the gap was still expanding in the attack of the Soviet army, the hundreds of Soviet troops who rushed in along the gap were concentrated in this narrow area at this time, and the formation was very dense, so every shell caused great casualties to the Soviet army.

From the high ground where Shi Ming was located, the effect of the shelling was very good, as if 36 black round flowers suddenly bloomed on a gray background. It's just that this black flower blooms with the blood and death of the Soviet army.

Since the Soviet tanks had already rushed to the edge of the anti-tank trenches, these shells fell on the infantry group behind the tanks, causing little damage to the tanks. If the 82mm mortar shell fell on the tank, with its power, it would definitely blow up the Soviet tank, but it didn't hit the tank, which made Shi Ming somewhat regretful.

With the sound of Shi Ming's artillery, the mountains, field artillery and mortars in the city of Zalainuoer also began to blockade and shell the breach and the area beyond the breach.

In Shi Ming's telescope's field of vision, two Northeast Army soldiers suddenly climbed onto the edge of the anti-tank trench and rushed towards the tank with cluster grenades, but the two were quickly knocked down, and it can be seen from the tank's rotating turret that they were knocked down by the machine guns on the tank.

Six or seven soldiers of the Northeast Army with cluster grenades jumped out of the trenches one after another, and two tanks quickly reversed and turned around, dodging the soldiers of the Northeast Army who were rushing towards it. The intent was to shoot these soldiers of the Northeast Army through the Soviet troops behind it. The soldiers of the Northeast Army in the trenches took the opportunity to reorganize their firepower and suppress the Soviet troops behind them, and the Northeast Army in the machine gun bunkers also ignored the threat of Soviet tanks and fired fiercely. The dense rain of bullets hit the Soviet troops, who had nothing to cover, lying on the ground and unable to raise their heads.

Because the Soviet tank did not have the cover of the soldiers behind, it would be very, very dangerous to be here, so it had to turn around and flee towards the breakthrough.

As soon as the two tanks ran, the Soviet soldiers did not dare to stop in front of the position of the Northeast Army, and they all got up, took two long legs and turned around and ran.

The mortars of the Northeast Army began to chase the Soviet troops and bombarded them, and rows of mortar shells roared into the retreating crowd of Soviet troops, blowing up the Soviet troops' flesh and blood, and throwing down many corpses along the way.

"Tell Zalainor, pay attention to the artillery, the artillery should immediately move the position." Shi Ming anxiously ordered the signal troops.

As soon as the flag whisperers gave the signal, the Soviet artillery group began to suppress the artillery of the Northeast Army in Zalainuoer. Under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Soviet army, countless smoke and dust rose in the city for a time, and the several areas where the artillery fire was concentrated were the artillery positions of the Northeast Army. Inferring from the sound of artillery of the Northeast Army, it should have been just mortars who had time to transfer their positions just now, and the mountain artillery should not have moved in time.

Shi Ming shook his head helplessly. The Fourth Route Army did this very well, and their artillery had an almost harsh rule, that is, in the event that the enemy had an artillery advantage, unless it was the enemy artillery position they had locked on, the mortar fire had to be shifted after three shots.

Regarding this point, the commander of the machine gun company explained to him: "Liang Fang, the instructor and division commander, studied artillery in Germany, and the Germans can determine the opponent's position and calculate the shooting elements within three minutes after the opponent's artillery fires, and the artillery of the Fourth Route Army can basically do this now." Therefore, the artillery of the Fourth Route Army placed great emphasis on changing positions in time after firing. ”

Now it seems that the Soviet army can also do this, and the artillery of the Northeast Army is still using the experience of the civil war to fight the Soviet army, so it is no wonder that they do not suffer losses!

The attacking units of the Soviet army did not withdraw to the starting positions, but retreated to the section of the trenches occupied by them. The Soviet artillery stopped firing after shelling for more than 20 minutes. With the cessation of the shelling, the battlefield quickly calmed down. The Northeast Army nervously mobilized troops, repaired trenches and fortifications, and carried a large number of wounded from the battlefield on stretchers, and it seemed that the casualties of the Northeast Army were not small.

Shi Ming put down the binoculars, rubbed his eye sockets, which were a little sore because he had been in contact with the telescope for too long, and asked the soldiers of the first company to step up the repair of the fortifications and prepare for the big battle.

He knew that this tranquility was temporary, short-lived, and that the Soviet army must now be redeploying its forces according to the situation of the attack just now, and the artillery will calibrate the newly discovered firing points, and when they are ready, they will definitely launch a more fierce attack.

Sure enough, an hour later, the silence was shattered by the piercing sound of air raid sirens coming from Zalainor.

Shi Ming, who was standing outside the bunker breathing fresh air, looked at the northern sky for a long time, but did not find the shadow of the enemy plane. Still, he ordered his troops to do a good job of air defense cover.

He himself returned to the Shelter Ministry. The communications soldier told him, 'A flag message was sent from Zhagai Nuoer, and a call came from Manchuria to discover that 12 enemy planes were flying southeast across Manchuria, and the target should be Zhalai Nuoer. Only then did Shi Ming understand that the alarm sounded, but he did not find the reason for the enemy plane.

Five minutes later, twelve enemy planes flew over Zalainor, including only two fighters, and it seems that the Soviets did not give a damn at all to the planes of the Northeast Army in Hailar.

After the enemy planes circled twice over Zalainor, four of the bombers pounced on the high ground where Shi Ming was located, and the rest of the planes began to bomb Zalainor.

Shi Ming stopped the commander of the company who wanted to go out to observe the situation, he knew that in the absence of effective air defense weapons, the best way to defend himself was not to expose his position, otherwise it would be an absolute disaster for the infantry. For example, the shelter where he was located was actually the forward observation post of the first company, and in order not to attract the attention of Soviet artillery observers, the upper cover was not reinforced too much, although it was made of steel rails, but it could not withstand the direct hit of a 100-pound aerial bomb.

Since he could not get out of the shelter, Shi Ming did not know much about the bombing of the high ground by enemy planes, and if he did not hear the huge explosion sound from outside, he could roughly determine that it was the enemy planes bombing the trenches. Although he could not grasp the situation of the bombing of the high ground by the enemy planes, he could clearly see the situation of the bombing of Zalainorr by the enemy planes through the observation post.

Four bombers were attacking the machine-gun and anti-aircraft artillery bunkers of the Northeast Army in the second line of trenches in the northeast corner of Zalainor, one by one. Soviet planes, flying very low, had already destroyed several bunkers with aerial bombs, and several other planes, after attacking an exposed artillery position in the city, concentrated on bombing the dispatch building at the Zalaino station. The two Harchikai heavy machine guns on the small building have been blown up, and the enemy planes can now bomb the dispatch building without any scruples, and the roof of the dispatch building has been hit by two bombs in a row, but it is still standing.

The roof of this dispatch building was paved with three layers of heavy rails close to each other, and two layers of sandbags were pressed on top of it, and the small bombs of the Soviet army basically did not use it. The Soviet planes did not dare to fly too low, and if they flew too low, they would be fired at by the machine guns of the Northeast Army at the window on the second floor of the dispatch building, and if they flew high, it would not be easy to hit the target. Moreover, the area of this dispatch building is not very large, so only three bombs hit the roof of the building after the Soviet plane bombed for half a day. The two Soviet bombers attacking the dispatch building, presumably running out of aerial bombs, circled twice at high altitude and flew north.

Suddenly, a huge fireball erupted over Zalainor, and it was so bright that it was clear even in the bright sunlight of the sun that had long since risen in the east. This fireball was created by the volley explosion of a Soviet bomber that was diving towards the bomb. From the exploded fireball, there was almost no large piece of the wreckage of the plane, it was estimated that the fuel tank and the bomb carried exploded at the same time, otherwise it would not have such a great power, but it is not known what weapon it was hit by the Northeast Army.

The Soviet planes that followed behind did not care about dropping bombs, so they hurriedly pulled up their noses and quickly climbed to a high altitude and circled. After circling a few times, led by an airplane, they swooped down, only to bomb not the trench bunker they had bombed earlier, but a compound in the northeast corner of Zalainor. The compound was quickly reduced to rubble and a fire broke out under repeated bombardment by several aircraft.

The bombers flew north, and the two fighters, still angry, swooped down on the rubble with a roar and fired fiercely for a while, before shaking their wings and chasing the cluster he was going to escort north.

As soon as the plane flew away, the Soviet artillery began shelling the heights again. First with heavy artillery bombardment, the target is still the trenches. Ten minutes later, the Soviet heavy artillery bombardment began to turn to Zalainor, but the shelling of the heights did not stop, but was replaced by 75mm mountain guns and 82 mortars.

Shells of this caliber are effective against ordinary positions, but not very hard frozen fortifications, and the Soviet troops, who have a long experience in cold zone operations, will not be unaware of this, and their purpose should be to prevent the defenders from repairing the trenches.

The commander of a company suddenly pointed to the observation port and shouted: "Battalion commander, look, the tanks are coming at us." ”

Shi Ming hurriedly looked in the direction of the finger of the company commander, and saw two tanks driving from the Soviet position in the northeast, and the two tanks drove to the woods under the high ground, turned a corner, and drove slowly towards the high ground. At this time, more than 500 Soviet troops with rifles poured out from behind the woods, formed a formation behind the two tanks, and began to attack the high ground.

Shi Ming looked at the direction of Zalainuoer again, where more than 1,000 Soviet troops appeared this time, divided into two echelons, but there was no trace of tanks in front of the team. The two tanks that rushed to the high ground should be the two just now.

Shi Ming knew that the soldiers under his command, and even their Fourth Route Army, had not seen tanks, and their understanding of tanks was only limited to the explanations of the people sent down from the division before the war.

Shi Ming looked at the company commander and said with a smile: "What, are you afraid of the Soviet army?" ”

The commander of the first company raised his head and said, "Where are you afraid of them, we didn't knock out dozens of people just now." It's just that these two tanks of theirs are a little crazy, and it's the first time we've seen it. ”

The first company commander hesitated and asked: "Battalion commander, you said that our Molotov cocktails can really deal with tanks?" ”

Shi Ming nodded and said, "Absolutely." The tank is powered by diesel, its fuel tank is at the back of the tank, once it is hit by our Molotov cocktail, the liquid in the bottle will stick to the tank and burn, once the tank's fuel tank is ignited, the tank will explode. ”

Shi Ming pointed to the direction of Zhainuoer and said: "You see, there are no Soviet tanks there, which shows that the Soviet army only has these two tanks in Zhainuoer, and we must take this opportunity to kill these two tanks, otherwise let them rush up, and our core fortifications will be in danger." The number of Soviet troops attacking this time is more than 500, you can transfer the troops from the other three sides to resolutely repel this Soviet attack, as long as you kill these two tanks this time, it will be a great achievement, and I will send troops to support you. ”

The first company commander nodded and said, "Okay, battalion commander, you can see well, I will definitely kill these two tanks." It's just that you have to go back to the core work, so you can rest assured that you can leave it to me here. ”

As soon as the first company commander's voice fell, Cui Xiaomao, the commander of the battalion headquarters guard platoon, drilled into the shelter and immediately reported: "Report to the battalion commander, the deputy battalion commander asked me to bring the guard platoon to listen to your command." ”

Shi Ming nodded gratefully, thinking that although he was not a young deputy battalion commander, he was very careful in his work, and this guard platoon was clearly sent to protect him, but he said that he was here to listen to his command.

Shi Ming said to the commander of the first company: "There is a platoon of guards, don't worry about my safety, I am here to watch you take out the tanks of the Soviet army." ”

Seeing Shi Ming's resolute attitude, the first company commander knew that it was useless to say more, so he said to the deputy company commander: "Lao Wang, the battalion commander will be handed over to you, and you will organize the personnel of the company headquarters." With that, he rushed out of the shelter to organize a battle.

Shi Ming said to the deputy of the company, who was also going out: "The guard platoon is also under your command, you mix the personnel directly under the company headquarters with the guard platoon, and prepare for hand-to-hand combat." ”

Wang Dahu, the deputy company commander of the first company, is a big man with a big waist and a round waist, with a foundation in martial arts, and has won the first place several times in the whole regiment's stabbing competition, and has long been taken by Ye Changgui, but Zhang Yafei even blew his beard and stared at him, and Ye Changgui reluctantly stopped. As soon as Wang Dahu heard that the battalion commander wanted him to take the guard platoon to prepare for hand-to-hand combat with the Soviet army, he was so happy that he grinned and hurriedly pulled the guard platoon commander out of the shelter to organize the personnel directly under the company headquarters to organize the troops.

The Soviet troops, led by tanks, maintained an offensive formation and attacked the high ground without hurry. From time to time, two tanks stopped, turned the turret, and fired at suspicious targets in the trenches with tank guns. It wasn't until he was 200 meters away from the top of the mountain that he picked up speed and rushed towards the top of the mountain with thick black smoke coming out of the back of the car. The Soviets, who were following behind, also shouted Ulla and trotted and began to charge.

As soon as the Soviets entered 150 meters, the mortars on the hill began to concentrate on shelling the infantry behind the tanks. The battalion had a total of 116 60mm mortars and 12 120mm mortars, which were scattered in three core fortifications in order to avoid being locked and destroyed by the Soviet artillery group, and fired alternately to bombard the Soviet infantry.

Each of the three artillery groups had about 40 60mm mortars, which, although not very powerful, were very effective against infantry. A web of fire was formed within 200 to 100 meters from the top of the mountain, and the flying shrapnel continued to devour the lives of Soviet troops.

With the sound of artillery, machine guns, rifles, and submachine guns on the mountain also began to fire at the Soviet infantry. It's just that the dirt and smoke from the mortars affected the vision of the soldiers of the Fourth Route Army in the trenches on the hill, but that's it, and the Soviet troops who rushed out of the shelling area were also less than 100 people.

By this time, the Soviet tanks had stopped firing, but just roared and rushed up the hill.

Tanks of this era did not have the ability to shoot on the move, they could only aim and shoot when they stopped. To deal with infantry hiding in trenches, machine guns from tanks were allowed to fire only when crossing trenches. However, in the attack on Zalainuoer just now, especially in the attack on the first trench of Zalainuoer, the tank crews of the Soviet army found that they basically did not need to use machine guns and tank guns to attack the infantry of the Northeast Army, and as long as they drove the tanks at full power, the huge roar of the engines would frighten the soldiers of the Northeast Army, and even run for their lives. Therefore, at this time, the Soviet tankmen no longer had the heart to open fire, they just wanted to drive the tanks to the enemy's position as soon as possible, and reproduce the scene just now.

Although the Soviet infantry continued to fall in a rain of bullets, and the attack was slightly suppressed, the Soviet troops following behind the tanks quickly approached the hilltop position.

The fighters of the first company threw a volley of grenades, a dozen of which were inadvertently thrown at two tanks. Although the grenades caused some casualties to the attacking Soviet troops, the two tanks were unscathed and still roared towards the top of the mountain.

(To be continued)