Volume 4: The Great Era, Chapter 120, Central Asia (5), Steel Torrent (1)

Jiang Fangzhen stopped Liu Mingzhao, and said in a low voice after branching left and right: "Walk slowly on the road, it will be almost the same as half a month." ¤ Website of this site: ¤ I will carry something wrong. "How smart Liu Mingzhao is, the famous god of war, the best among the human spirits. Nodding his head, he said, "I understand my humble duties, and I promise not to delay major events." ”

Xu Shuzheng also walked over and said: "When you arrive in the northwest, you will respect Chief of Staff Xu in everything, and you will just do it." It's also difficult to be a big president, the bastards in Congress don't stop, how can they make a show and show them, it just means, don't take it seriously. They are all in the army, and there is no reason to fall into the well and push the stone. Besides, this battle was fought with the mind of supporting the commander, and our mechanized troops did not have much experience in large-scale actual combat, and this time Leng Yu used a division, which is a relatively large scale. After the matter is over, you are still back to be your mechanized commander. ”

Speaking of which, Liu Mingzhao knows what to do better. "I went to the northwest to study, and I must sum up the experience of this battle and report back to the two commanders."

Liao Lei brought a heavy artillery regiment, 24 155 howitzers, plus an artillery regiment belonging to the garrison division, 12 105 howitzers, and 12 75 mountain guns. Heavy artillery fire instantly turned the position on the hillside into a sea of fire. On the artillery position, shirtless artillery ran back and forth, shooting out a base number of shells as fast as possible.

The Soviet troops on the position endured hardships in the sea of fire, and this unit was the cavalry battalion that pursued Chen Lifu, and was temporarily ordered to hold on to the block. The intensity of the Wehrmacht's artillery fire. It was obviously beyond Lukin's expectations, and it felt wrong when he heard the sound of the cannon from afar. The Chinese really came, and Lukin's uneasiness was verified. Are they so undisguised? Don't worry about provoking a war between China and the Soviet Union? In the face of this sudden ** that is completely out of prejudgment. Lukin didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly urged the reinforcements of the mountain pass's troops to move faster. At the same time, I also thought about how to get rid of responsibility. It seems that the cavalry battalion is still all killed in battle, and there is no proof of death to clear the suspicion that he was ineffective in commanding and guiding the cavalry to cross the border.

Even more frightening than the brutality of the battle are the guys with round hats and fur coats.

At the same time as the battle for the mountain pass began, Lukin ordered the artillery to open fire. Preparing to attack was an infantry division disguised as natives, and the commissar was doing pre-battle mobilization. It is required to rush in with a bang, and those who retreat without permission are served by the Makqin of the Overseer Team. Lukin was most worried about a transport plane hovering overhead, which didn't look like it was here to do good.

This is a reconnaissance aircraft. The bullying Soviet troops did not have anti-aircraft weapons, and the height at the moment was only 1,500 meters, in order to find the artillery positions of the Soviet troops. Whether or not the air force can be used to defeat the Soviet artillery has a bearing on the number of casualties in this battle. Don't look at the battle of Siberia in which the ** team won. The casualties of that time were enough for the Wehrmacht to remember for a long time. The tenacity of the Soviet troops. Left a deep impression on the Wehrmacht, in the face of such an opponent, Leng Yu and Xu Chongzhi first thought of using equipment advantages to minimize casualties when making plans. Since the North-Western Military District did not have paratroopers of the Air Force, this time the plan was flawed. According to the new tactics studied by both China and Germany, there should also be a paratrooper unit parachuted behind enemy lines to seize key points and disrupt communications.

Artillery preparations for the Soviet army also began, and Margerand was a town. The power of 12 122 howitzers is enough to collapse the armed forces of these places that have not experienced regular combat, right? Lukin thought to himself. At the same time, I hope that Yamaguchi can hold out for a morning, otherwise this time it will be a big trouble.

Twenty minutes of artillery preparation is really trivial compared to more than ten hours of preparation in World War I Europe at every turn. Of course, on the part of the Wehrmacht, it is really not for savings, but because the mode of war has changed. As soon as the artillery fire extended back, the assault troops began to advance, and the four fighters circling in the air began to dive, and the Soviet soldiers who were running up the position had no experience in this area, and the four bombs caused a lot of casualties. After pulling up, the plane dived again, and the 12.7 mm machine gun made it difficult for the Soviet soldiers on the position to look up.

Then the fighters suppressed, and the infantry approached more than 200 meters to the Soviet position without any casualties. As the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in the battle, Xu Tingyao's face did not have the slightest joy, the commander of the National Defense Force had studied in college, and the distance between fifty and one hundred and fifty meters was really threatening. The vast majority of the officers and men of the independent garrison division that was on the offensive had never been on the battlefield in the real sense. The difference between recruits and veterans is too great, the years of peace are too long, and the troops will not fight anymore.

Tatata, the first to sound was the Soviet machine gun, after the first few soldiers fell down, the soldiers who had been trained for a while still panicked, but quickly calmed down, and after dispersed, they fought almost with the instinct that they had trained for many years. The general-purpose machine gunners at the class level work in pairs, quickly lie down on the spot, and suppress the fire. Even 60mm mortars were quickly erected, looking for valuable targets to strike. The snipers after the fall were even more agile in finding cover, not to mention that there was only one sniper group in each company, and the role played was no less than that of four 60 mortars.

When the reaction on the battlefield fell into view, Xu Tingyao relaxed a little this time, the assault force is a very standard four-team tactic, and the tactics that have been practiced all year round are somewhat jerky in actual combat, but the sacrifice of comrades-in-arms still makes these young soldiers ignite the anger of revenge after a short period of fear. Of course, there were also individual soldiers who were afraid to turn around and run, and immediately had their squad leaders call a halt, and those who did not obey the order were quickly executed on the battlefield discipline, screaming and falling, with their backs to the position.

The Soviet troops on the position had almost no heavy firepower, and it was obviously quite uncomfortable to face such an opponent armed to the teeth, not to mention that this was a tactic that brought the infantry combat effectiveness to the extreme. The Soviet troops could not raise their heads under heavy fire, but there were still Soviet soldiers who insisted on shooting. The soldiers of the independent division also fought bloodily, refused to take a step back, and continued to rush forward under the cover of fire under the fire of the Soviet army. Finally, the soldiers in front threw out a grenade and rushed to the position of the Soviet army in the smoke, and the follow-up troops were surging, and Liao Lei, who was holding a telescope in his hand, just showed a satisfied smile when he saw the continuous explosion of the position.

A dozen Soviet soldiers pulled the grenade in their arms and rolled into the pile of Wehrmacht soldiers who were charging.

The smile solidified on Liao Lei's face, and also on the faces of Zhang Zizhong and Xu Tingyao, known as the Confucian general Zhang Zhizhong, and his face was also calm and calm. There was no doubt that the attack failed, and the suicidal counterattack demoralized the recruits, and the Soviet soldiers lurking in the trenches suddenly opened fire, knocking down the soldiers who were rushing upward. The brutality of the war was on full explosive display at the very beginning.

"Dog's old hair!" Liao Lei's cheeks twitched violently a few times, and this time the attack threw into a battalion, with no less than fifty casualties. Gao Yongsheng called the fighters in time to dive and strafe to cover the retreating infantry. Zhang Zhizhong walked up to Xu Tingyao and said, "Let the tanks go, I don't think the Soviet army has anti-tank weapons." ”

"This slope can be driven?" Xu Tingyao asked rhetorically, and Zhang Zhizhong nodded: "It's not a big problem, I look at it now, it should be less than fifty degrees." Xu Tingyao nodded, and Zhang Zhizhong immediately picked up the microphone.

When the artillery began firing again, four more fighters flew in, but instead of going up to the mountain pass position, they flew directly into depth behind enemy lines. "What's the situation?" Xu Tingyao muttered to himself, and Zhang Zhizhong said: "It should be that the artillery positions of the Soviet army have been discovered, and the reconnaissance planes of the Air Force have been operating in the sky over Marjilan. ”

"Lao Maozi's 122 howitzer is a good thing, powerful and long-range. The howitzers of the independent division are old-fashioned equipment, and the firing range is not as good as Lao Maozi's 122 howitzer. Zhang Zizhong added on the side, and Xu Tingyao said lightly: "It's useless to tell me this, we are not the main force in the first place." This time, I'll go to Commander Leng and ask for an explanation. ”

"I heard that there was a new type of artillery, very powerful, capable of firing sixteen shells at a time. I heard that it was the result of the research of American experts, and the Eurasia Group spent a lot of money to buy the technology. Zhang Zhizhong, who put down the walkie-talkie microphone, interjected, he could feel the envy, jealousy and hatred of these people towards him, so he had to have a good relationship.

The side of the independent division that was repulsed was uncomfortable, and the Soviet troops on the position were even more uncomfortable. Nearly an hour before and after the battle, the battalion instructor was killed in the battle, and a bullet pierced his head as he was demoralizing. The battalion commander Krolev also had a piece of flesh cut off from a single piece of his arm, and after a simple bandage, he continued to direct the battle. There were only nine officers and men left in a company on the position, and all the officers were killed. Krolev had two companies of troops in his hands, but more than half of the casualties were in the first battle, and when he didn't know how to fight the next battle, the artillery fire began to rage again.

This time the artillery fire took a longer time to prepare, a full half an hour, each cannon fired three bases, and the barrels were red. As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the smoke did not clear, and another charge began. Krolev, whose brain was still dazed, picked up the binoculars and looked at them, and his face changed, this time it seemed that he was going to die on the ground.

Zhang Zhizhong threw in a tank company, and 12 Great Wall-4 tanks were discharged in a cone, followed by infantry. Because of the need to cover the infantry, the tank did not drive very quickly, but the pressure generated by a slow advance was even greater than that of a rapid advance.

When the tank advanced to about 200 meters, the fighters in the sky swooped into the position and fired fiercely, pulled up, dived again, and strafed again. It is difficult for the Soviet troops on the position to think that at this distance, the Chinese planes could do this......)