Chapter 22: Capture the Bridge
Dawn, surprisingly quiet! And the darkness before dawn is often surprisingly dark.
Shenyang under the moonlight, the same quiet surprisingly, Shenyang City, still a Chinese city, the army did not enter the city, but outside the city, along the old station of Shenyang, the new station of Shenyang, tens of thousands of troops who are being repaired are nested around the city, in the battle of Shenyang two days ago, the sudden counteroffensive of the Russian army, the third army of the army was taken by surprise, and the losses of the third group army, which was originally a fierce rush, were quite heavy, and this further aggravated his losses.
After the 1st and 2nd Group Armies led by General Hei Mu Weizhen and General Ao Baogong successively arrived at Tieling and pursued the Russian army, the 1st, 7th, and 9th Infantry Divisions and the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Third Army, which had lost heavy losses, withdrew to Shenyang for repair and replenishment.
Accidentally? What surprises will there be?
After Yue Ben explicitly refused to negotiate a "new tariff treaty" with China, in the face of the Chinese [***] team, which was not very friendly, and it was a Chinese [***] person across the river, perhaps he also felt that he needed to take some precautions.
On both sides of the Liao River, the west bank is the defensive line that the Central [***] team has painstakingly operated for months, although most of the area was later abandoned, but on the Shenyang line, the Guards have been stationed here, and on the east bank, from the 9th, the Yue army has re-repaired the Russian defense line and built its own front, regardless of whether the Chinese will attack, but out of caution, whether it is to build a defensive position, a warning position, it is always necessary to make some preparations.
In the darkness before dawn, both the east and west banks seemed to be shrouded in silence, but in the west bank was also shrouded in a dark trench, the newly equipped steel helmets were reflected in the moonlight, and the bayonets of rifle heads reflected in the moonlight, and under the steel helmets were excited and nervous faces.
When the war broke out, some people were excited, some people were nervous, and everyone had a completely different performance, Zhang Bo added his lips, and his gloved left hand couldn't help but touch the gun, and then his eyes were fixed on the company commander standing in the sortie position and looking at the company commander on the opposite bank, at this time the company commander was holding a whistle.
And in front of them, every 50 centimeters, a simple ladder, that is the ladder for sorties.
"Check the ammo!"
From time to time, the squad leaders and platoon commanders repeated orders that had been repeated several times to check whether the ammunition was complete, 120 rounds of ammunition and 4 grenades per person.
Check the first aid kit, four bandages, two pieces of gauze, and what, a bag of dry food filled with fried noodles, a water bottle, once they receive the order to attack, they will not have a chance to eat a hot meal at all.
In this anxious waiting, the leader of the cooking squad carried a hot bamboo basket, which was full of big buns the size of two fists, and it was also white, and the fragrance of the buns filled the trenches.
"Hurry up, hurry up and make big meat stuffed buns, take two per person first, you can make as much as you can! Enough! ”
Like grabbing food, the warriors who were originally waiting to attack immediately began to grab the steamed buns, and whether they were nervous or not, everyone gobbled up like hungry ghosts.
"Dog's mother, it's the last hot meal!"
Li Tianfeng gulped the buns, swallowed the boiling water, cursed in his mouth, scolded and bit the buns, but the tears couldn't stop flowing, no one knew whether this battle was dead or alive.
"Big meat-stuffed buns that dogs say,...... If only there was a bowl of lamb noodles! ”
In the days before the Great War, there was no longer the expectation or anxiety of the past, but only the reactions of the people in the trenches, perhaps normal or abnormal.
"Lao Tzu is dead, which is a big meat bun!"
Tie Guoliang scolded, perhaps feeling that the steel hat he had just received a few days ago on his head was too heavy, he took off his steel helmet, and after eating two fragrant big meat-filled buns in a row, he could eat at least eight, but he couldn't eat it.
"Squad leader, are you afraid!"
Ma Guozhong, who was holding a light machine gun next to him, asked in a daze, in the past, he shouted the eggs of this little devil, but his legs couldn't help but tremble, this is his first time on the battlefield, for the soldiers of the 52nd Division, this is not the first time to go to the real battlefield, they have killed with the Hezhou infantry team, but it is a war of two eras, and now they need to face the army of the great powers with will and equipment that is not inferior to theirs.
"I'm afraid, I'm afraid of a bird, Xiao Yue is not three-headed and six-armed, bullets can still kill, and cannonballs can also kill!"
He muttered.
"Your kid will aim and shoot me at that time, whether the brothers in the squad can survive depends on your machine gun!"
Muttering, he raised his head to the national flag planted on the trench, the national flag was floating towards the northwest, and they wanted to plant this national flag at Fengtian New Station, a distance of 50 kilometers in a straight line!
Time...... The whistle is blowing!
"Tom!"
With the sound of the bolt closing, the breeches of the 48 152-mm long-range cannons of the First Heavy Artillery Brigade of the First Army were closed, and the slender barrels of the cannons with the cannons and camouflage nets removed from the cannons pointed straight to the sky, which was a long-range heavy cannon designed with a ship's barrel, with a range of more than 20 kilometers, almost the longest range ground artillery in the world.
The gunner who pulled the cannon rope, tied the cannon rope in his right hand, everyone's eyes were staring at the small flag over there, waiting for the order to open the cannon, and the officers who were crossing back and forth would open their pocket watches from time to time, and the dignified air at the last moment was almost suffocating At the same time, on a temporarily laid railway branch line from more than a dozen highways in the Liaohe River, a giant cannon spanned the cross-shaped railway line, and under the adjustment of the motor, the cannon on the articulated envelope adjusted the angle of fire, "Bang! ”
The 800-pound shell, driven by the electric projectile, was loaded into the barrel, followed by a cartridge pack, while the gun was loaded, Xue Tian, who was standing on the command table, kept giving orders to adjust the angle of fire, and the slender body of the 52 times 305 mm gun of the train gun that completed the loading began to slowly point straight to the sky at a 45-degree firing angle.
Honk...... Just when Xue Tian adjusted the angle of the railway cannon, with the sound of the whistle in the night sky, a train spewed smoke and rumbled towards the Liaohe Railway Bridge, which was the only bridge on the Liaohe River, and on the west bank of the bridge there was a brigade of soldiers of the Yue Army, this train seemed to be no different from the trains that passed here in the past, it was nothing more than a train carrying flour or wire, steel rails and other commodities, whether it was the army or the Russian army, these goods were needed.
Ten minutes later, when the train was still a kilometer or two away from the railway bridge, the train began to slow down, and the soldiers in the carriage were loaded with guns and ammunition, and through the small windows of the stuffy tank car doors, the train could be distinguished from the trees and buildings on both sides of the railway.
"Brothers, the gun is loaded!"
Pushing the submachine gun forward from under his shoulder, Wang Yi's eyes looked straight out of the carriage, and the sound of loading echoed in the carriage.
"Get on the bayonet!"
Then there was a series of clattering bayonets, and there seemed to be no more clattering sound in the stuffy tanker car that was clattering along the way, and it was surprisingly quiet, except for the nervous and hurried sounds of the soldiers.
Next to the door of the carriage, a soldier was ready to open the door at any time, and then inward, six fighters with submachine guns and light machine guns aimed at the outside of the carriage, and only waited for the moment the door opened, and then opened fire.
In the midst of this tense solemnity, the train drove into the iron bridge, and the train rolled up a gust of wind on the iron bridge, and the wind whistle became smaller and smaller, and the speed of the train became slower and slower.
On the sentry post surrounded by sandbags at the west end of the bridge, the soldier with a gun squinted at the train with the electric lights on, he felt that today's train seemed to be different from usual, until the train was about to leave the bridge, he realized that the train did not seem to play the whistle today, and the speed was also very slow, and it was getting slower and slower, just in a daze, he saw that the door of the carriage was suddenly opened, and before he could see clearly from the darkness, he felt that more than a dozen black shadows jumped out one after another, The shadow fell on the snow, but it rushed towards the sentry post with a crawl.
"Enemy attack!"
This thought just came to him, and before he could even pull the bolt of the gun and open the safe, he saw a man rushing over the sandbag, and the man was waving a sapper shovel in his hand and had been raised high, and in an instant, he only felt a numb face, and the whole person fell, and the splattered blood stained the snow on the ground, and no one shot at the soldiers who pounced on the sentry post, and similarly, the soldiers on the sentry post did not have a chance to shoot.
After a quick and brief hand-to-hand engagement, three distorted bodies were left on the sentry post, and a burst of gunfire could be heard in the distance.
"Hopping ......"
On the train that had not yet stopped, Wang Yi kept howling, and one by one the soldiers jumped off the train and rushed towards the military camp with their guns in hand, and the rapid gunfire echoed in the air.
"Grenades!"
Almost when they rushed outside the barracks of the Yue Army, their counterattack was more violent, but hundreds of grenades had already been thrown into the barracks, and in the continuous explosions, screams and panicked shouts sounded in the barracks of the Yue Army's bridge protection team, Wang Yi had already led his subordinates to attack the barracks from the main gate.
"Chinese!"
When the two sides were tearing apart, those soldiers who were not in a hurry to put on cotton clothes and boots, and saw clearly the enemy rushing in by the light of the fire, most of them with a cry of surprise, they never dreamed that it was the Chinese who attacked them, and it was Chinese officers and soldiers, and when they discovered this fact, the battle for the railway bridge was nearing the end.
"Kill them all! No prisoners will be spared! ”
After emptying a shuttle of bullets, Wang Yi took advantage of the time to change the magazine, and ordered loudly to his side, at this time, the strange noise in the air attracted his attention, he raised his head and looked at the sky, and saw nothing, but the sound ...... It's the sound of cannons.
Taking out his pocket watch, he looked at the time, 4:15 a.m., March 13.
(To be continued)