Chapter 636: Encirclement
"Old squad leader, he, he- you......
Wang Chunsheng looked at the few teenagers who were lying in a pool of blood not far away, and was stunned for a while, looking at the old squad leader in surprise, the corners of his mouth twitched for a while, and he was speechless for a while.
"I made those Vietnamese soldiers rich in this, what? Chunsheng, do you think I'm cruel? The old squad leader reversed his usual kindness, and a trace of fierceness flashed on his face.
"He ......, they're still children!" Wang Chunsheng only felt that his heart was about to jump out of his mouth.
"It's because they're all children, so we can't leave hidden dangers! Did you hear what he just said? He said, "When we grow up, we will all be killed"! The old squad leader said slowly word by word.
"Perhaps, this is just his momentary angry words, maybe-maybe they will regret it in the future" Wang Chunsheng's voice became lower and lower, and the last few words could no longer be spoken. Wang Chunsheng turned his head and looked at the indifferent faces of several comrades-in-arms in the squad around him, and he knew that his thoughts before joining the army were really naΓ―ve, what for the sake of civilization, justice, and chivalry, it was just nonsense used to deceive ignorant girls and ignorant teenagers, and there were only two things you could do after you went to the battlefield, either kill or be killed, and nothing else.
The old squad leader sighed slightly, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Chunsheng, today is your first time on the battlefield, and the first thing I want to teach you as your squad leader is that in addition to your comrades-in-arms on the battlefield, the rest of the people are your enemies, and it is not impossible to capture the enemy, but that can only be done when the other party is sure that there is no threat."
Do you know what the consequences would have been if those teenagers had been released, the consequences would have been for none of us to know that in a few years there would be our compatriot killed by them, and perhaps some of these people would have taught us to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, have you forgotten all this? Okay, you'll understand that later, now grab your gun and move on! β
Just when the First Army Group led by Liu Yecheng was in the middle of the battle in Irkutsk, Vasilevsky also led the main force of the Southeast Front to begin preparations before breaking through.
In an observation post 500 meters away from the outer position of the Soviet army in Nizhny Udinsk, Belitan was bending down and putting his eyes in front of the observation mirror to carefully observe the defensive position of the Soviet army, and behind him were more than a dozen senior generals such as Qiu Qingquan, Liao Yaoxiang, and Li Daxi, who also raised their binoculars to observe the situation in front.
The Soviet positions in front of them consisted of a mixture of thick logs and earth, bunkers, barbed wire, and numerous communication trenches, all of which ranged from 40 to 60 kilometers in depth, forming three thick protective rings around Nizhne-Uginsk. No soldier would doubt that these civil fortifications, made of tens of centimeters of overburden and thick logs, could protect the soldiers inside the fortifications to the greatest extent during shelling and bombardment, but there is a premise for all this: the shells must not hit directly!
Sun Beili took his eyes off the observation glass, slowly stood up behind him, turned his head and asked the generals behind him, and said: "Everyone, everyone has seen the fortifications of the Soviet Russians, and everyone may as well speak freely about how to break through the enemy's defensive line. β
Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the 46th Infantry Division, thought for a while and said: "Although these fortifications of the Soviet army have reached a depth of 40 to 60 kilometers, as long as we concentrate our artillery fire to open a hole and then the armored troops tear a hole and then expand the results of the battle, as long as we have three days, we can dismember and divide their defensive positions, and then the overall situation can be determined." β
Qiu Qingquan took a step up and said loudly: "Our Third Armored Division can fight in the front, and we will not give up if we do not break through the Soviet position!" β
After graduating from the Chahar Armored Academy, Qiu Qingquan was appointed as the commander of the Third Armored Division, but by the time he became the division commander, there was almost no war to fight in the country, and Qiu Qingquan could only drool and stay in the country watching the Marines fight hot in Sakhalin Island and other places. Now that he is finally going to fight with Lao Maozi, his armored division has finally been useful, and his heart has long been itching. Moreover, isn't the other commander in front of him who was born in the armored corps also because he was the first to follow President Su to fight the world and made countless military exploits, so he worshiped the second-class general and sat in the position of commander of the group army? If he can, why can't he himself!
At this time, Guan Linzheng, the group of army groups next to him, put forward a different opinion: "Don't sir, colleagues, I think the most important thing now is not how to capture the Soviet position, but how to prevent the Soviet army from breaking through." β
"Breakout?" The gods of the crowd couldn't help but become a little weird.
"Yes!" Guan Linzheng nodded and said: "Now the Soviet army in our encirclement is not old, weak, sick and disabled, although we eliminated and captured nearly 600,000 people in Irkutseast and Krasnoyarsk, but the elite of the Soviet army in the encirclement are all elites, they will not stay in it honestly and wait for death, now the defenders of Irkutsk have almost been wiped out, and the first army group of Chief Liu can arrive here within three days, and at that time, Vasilevsky will not be able to fly even if he puts on his wings." Therefore, he will definitely think of a desperate breakthrough in these two days. And we have already divided more than 400,000 troops to march westward, and whether the remaining 1 million troops can firmly withstand the 700,000 Soviet troops who are jumping over the wall and prevent them from breaking out of the encirclement is the biggest problem at present. β
Everyone was silent, the problem that Guan Linzheng said was reasonable, and it was very likely to happen, and he would not sit here and wait for the enemy's millions of troops to surround and eat him, and he would definitely try to break through desperately.
Belliren also nodded heavily and said: "Chief of Staff Guan is very reasonable" I will take more reconnaissance planes for reconnaissance in a while, find out the movements of the Soviet army, if they want to break through the encirclement, from which direction to protrude, these must be investigated. β
"Chief Sun, Chief Guan, I think we can't just wait for the Soviet army to take the initiative to break through, we can also take the initiative to attack and disrupt their breakthrough deployment, and by the way, we can also probe the reality of the Soviet army." Li Daxi, the commander of the 41st Division on the side, also added.
In this way, everyone you and I have fleshed out the plan one by one......
"The target Soviet Army Bunker No. 03 is 2865 meters away! Fire! β
Dozens of minutes later, with the sound of a password and several loud bangs, the gun body of the 155-mm howitzer arranged on the artillery position on the 327 Heights spewed a ball of orange flames back from the muzzle. Sixteen 45-kilogram howitzer projectiles fired by the 16 howitzers of the artillery regiment flew at a distance of 760 meters per second towards the target they had already aimed.
"Shelling!"
The Russian troops hiding in the civil fortifications immediately shouted loudly after seeing a few clouds of smoke rising from the 327 heights, and as soon as the roar fell, the sound of shells breaking through the air immediately reached the ears of the Soviet troops in the trenches or in the fortifications, and the Soviet troops closest to the field fortifications panicked and quickly penetrated into the field fortifications to avoid the shelling of the Chinese.
"Whoosh......!"
With a whistling sound of breaking through the air, a 155-mm grenade hit the fortifications of the Soviet troops. Due to the use of a time-delay fuse, the projectile did not explode immediately, and the 45-kilogram projectile flying at high speed passed through the covering soil tens of centimeters thick and smashed the thick wooden sorghum, and the Soviet troops in the fortifications could almost hear the sound of wood cracking after the shells penetrated the soil layer after the wooden stalk was hit and deformed.
"Boom!"
With a somewhat dull explosion, the shells that penetrated the overburden and the wooden sorghum exploded inside the fortifications, and the internal fortifications of the overlying soil and broken sorghum that seemed to be extremely strong were thrown into the sky by the violent explosion, and the wreckage of the Soviet troops in the bunker was also at least ten meters high in the air.
As the first cannon sounded, more and more artillery groups joined the chorus, and in addition to the 155 howitzers, 75 mm, 105 mm and even 207 mm military heavy artillery also joined the attack. As shells fell into Soviet positions, the entire Soviet defense line was alarmed, and Vasilevsky, who was far away in the Nizhny Udinsk headquarters, also received a call from the forward position.
"What, the Chinese Wehrmacht launched a massive artillery strike on the positions? Even heavy artillery of more than 200 calibers was used? I don't care what caliber of artillery the Chinese people in front of me use, your task is to hold the position firmly, even if you die, you will die on the position, if anyone dares to abandon the position without authorization, don't blame me for sending you to a military court. Huaxia Levsky put down the phone with a "snap", and a trace of anxiety flashed in his eyes.
Now the troops are urgently mobilizing to prepare for a breakthrough, but the Huaxia people, who have not moved for a long time, suddenly began to shell, are they aware of their own plan to break out?
"Comrade Commander Yan, our observation post has discovered that a large number of Chinese reconnaissance planes have appeared in the sky above us, and they are constantly hovering over our positions and cities to take pictures and conduct reconnaissance."
"Report to Comrade Commander, Comrade Mamonov sent a farewell telegram, in which he reported that Irkutsk had been completely lost, almost all the 380,000 Red Army soldiers had been killed, and now the Chinese were less than 200 meters away from his headquarters, and after sending this telegram, he would lead the guard company to launch a final decisive attack on the Chinese people!"
Bad news poured into Vasilevsky one after another, and the commander of the Southeastern Front, who had not closed his eyes for a day and a night, and was exhausted, could no longer support his tired body and sat heavily on the chair @.