Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Every time a cannon explodes, the earth shook. The barrel has a lifespan, and the five Reading Heavy Artillery Regiments have been established for so many years, and they have never been fighting for half a day like now.

"It is estimated that after this battle, this cannon barrel will be scrapped." Cheng Feixiang, the commander of the artillery regiment, looked distressed, this cannon is the lifeblood of artillery. This kind of cannon, in particular, is even more precious. The new pain is distressed, the military order is like a mountain, and the artillery must be fired, so the soldiers in charge of observation can only be more careful, and more careful, try to ensure the hit rate, and do not waste even a chance to shell.

The reconnaissance plane came back from a circle, dropped a copper pipe, opened it to see the number of jù inside, and the four 305 giant guns hurriedly adjusted the ruler, waited for the reconnaissance plane to send back information, and continued to fire. This is to rely on air supremacy in hand, so dare to do it so economically. The defenders of Tashkent, who did not have a little air power, could only bear silently at this time.

The main targets of the giant artillery were two strong batteries on the hillside outside the city, the Soviets dug holes in the hillside, two 122 howitzers were located in the holes, and the ground troops tried to rush up several times, but they were shot down by the defenders, of which two 122 howitzers caused the most casualties. Lao Maozi's cannon has a long range and is not small, which has caused a lot of trouble to the offensive of the Wehrmacht.

The prelude to the siege of Tashkent was to clear the fortifications at the north and south ends of the city and the forts scattered on a dozen hills on both sides of the road. The hungry and cold Soviet troops are now fighting in a trapped position, and they don't know how to make trouble, and there are few surrenderers. In between the shelling, a C-47 flew over the city defense position and threw leaflets down.

The content of the leaflet was to persuade the Soviet soldiers in Tashkent: You have been abandoned by Moscow, you will never be replenished with even a grain of food, and do not make meaningless resistance. Surrender the gun and don't kill, the Wehrmacht treats the prisoners preferentially! A million leaflets were scattered everywhere like rain.

In fact, at this time, Tashkent was almost out of food, and ordinary soldiers could only get 2 taels of black bread a day, and they had stomach drops before they could taste it.

The C-47 flew away, and the cannon with the adjusted ruler fired again, and the earth was shaken by a shell that went down! Suddenly, like an earthquake, there was a violent tremor on the unknown mountain, and a loud bang followed by a thick smoke in the circle.

Cheng Feixiang was taken aback, just like that, one shot can hit this effect, and the dozens of shells before were all in vain? I quickly looked through a telescope and found that the accident was happening on the fort. In fact, a cannonball miraculously landed on a temporary pile of base shells on the edge of the battery. The power of the cannon was huge, coupled with the explosion it caused, so the defenders were tragic, not a single one was left alive in this fort, and eighty percent of the hundred or so people were shocked to death.

When the infantry of a company cautiously touched the fort, the scene they saw made many people vomit on the spot. There were severed human limbs everywhere, and in a cannon hole, about fifty soldiers were all staring at each other, bleeding to death. It's the result of all the internal organs shattered. Looking at the fort, the solid concrete façade is full of cracks and rubble. There was also a cannon 122 howitzer that was intact, but all the soldiers were shocked to death, and there were seven or eight others who were a little further away who did not die, but it was almost there, and there was only one breath left hanging, and the infantry came forward with a bayonet to give them a ride.

Lao Maozi's turret is very interesting, and the angle of fire is actually 180 °, which means that as long as the turret is not lost, he can still hit the opponent who is attacking the city when he turns his head. It just so happened that the Reading Heavy Artillery Regiment had no suitable target to continue using heavy artillery, so it simply sent a squad over, and after finding the ammunition depot, it used the remaining 122 howitzer to bombard the Soviet positions in front.

Before January 30, the Soviet army in Tashkent was compressed within two kilometers of the periphery of the city, about 200,000 Soviet troops were annihilated, only more than 30,000 prisoners, and about 20,000 casualties of our army, which shows the stubbornness of the Soviet army's resistance.

In order to completely solve the unpleasant blockade of Tashkent, the Central Asian Front concentrated 600,000 troops to sweep the peripheral Soviet troops from the north, south and east, and completed the three-sided encirclement of Tashkent. You can think of it with your toes that at least one mechanized corps is waiting for the Soviets to break through and retreat.

Lukin's failure to run does not mean that the soldier is willing to wait for death in this place, and even if he waits for death, Nima will be hungry all day.

Fang Rui was promoted to the commander of the 55th Division as he wished, and the general commander of the A division is a lieutenant general, and he has to be forty years old. Fang Rui's identity was too special, and he crawled out of the pile of dead people, and no one in the entire front army dared to question it.

Seeing that the siege battle was about to start, the 55th Division was placed on the front line again. This was requested by Fang Rui himself, and the chief of staff, Zhang Zhizhong, informed Liu Mingzhao that he had passed the guò. Seeing that the siege battle was about to start tomorrow, Fang Rui was accustomed to walking to the front line to take a look. In particular, a regiment of the 110 Brigade will launch the first wave of charges as a commando.

Fang Rui knew very well what the commando meant, so he used his personal connections to get a lot of good things from the logistics department. Chickens, ducks, fish, meat, Chinese cabbage, potatoes, beef, etc., were loaded into several truckloads.

In order to avoid casualties as much as possible, the besieging troops excavated earthworks, and trenches were dug to a kilometer in front of the Soviet position. Be careful when staying in such a place, you have to be careful with a fart, the snipers of the Soviet army and the snipers of our army are waiting in some dark corner for the next target to be named.

When Fang Rui touched it, a ball was about to start dinner. In the low command post, seeing the commander of the division coming, the regiment commander, the chief of staff, and the life guide were all nervous. Fang Rui's identity had already spread, and everyone in the front army knew that the eldest son of the great president almost hung up on the battlefield. This thing is very morale-boosting, whose life can be more expensive than the eldest prince Jin?

"Commander, what are you doing at this time? It's too dangerous, Lao Maozi's sniper is very powerful, and a mortar will come if he is cold. "The head of the regiment, Liu Gaoming, is a big man from Shandong, with a beard and a military uniform, which looks dirty in this place.

"Whose life is not fate? Don't talk so much nonsense, hurry up, get something to eat. Along the way, I didn't dare to take a car for more than ten kilometers, for fear of being targeted by Maozi's artillery observers. Fang Rui looked indifferent, and the people below couldn't do anything. Liu Gaoming hurriedly asked people to prepare lunch, and he and the chief of staff reported on the pre-war preparations.

After having dinner in a hurry, Fang Rui walked along the traffic trench and walked to the front-line trench, and after boosting his morale, it was also dark. Just as he was about to go down, suddenly someone on the battlefield shouted: "Don't move!" ”

"Don't shoot, don't shoot!" The voice was not loud, and soon a Soviet soldier climbed into the trench and sat in the trench panting: "Give me something to eat, I'm here to surrender, I don't have a weapon." "Lao Maozi's Chinese language is very blunt, but he can basically understand it.

Soon the Soviet soldier was brought to Fang Rui, there was no hope for dinner, Fang Rui asked him to give a compressed biscuit and a can of luncheon meat, and then get some water for the Soviet soldier. The filthy-looking soldier gulped down biscuits and canned food, and when he ate two cans in a row, Fang Rui came forward to stop him and said, "Eat less, so as not to hold on." Say, name, position, what are you doing here? How can you still speak Chinese? ”

"Yusuf, a local, second lieutenant platoon commander of the XXX Infantry Division of the Soviet Army, my family is from Tashkent, and I often deal with Chinese businessmen, so I learned some Chinese. In order to save food, the Soviets killed everyone they could. Now the locals in the city, except for me who mixed into the army, the rest are some women, and these women are also starving to death, and no Soviet soldier has only 2 taels of bread a day, where can they take care of them. I came to surrender just to get revenge, and my family was killed. Father, mother, two younger brothers, and a younger sister. I didn't even dare to go back and look at it, for fear that the Soviet soldiers would find out about my anomaly. The instructor went to a meeting tonight, and I took the opportunity to creep over. ”

The hatred that flashed in Yusuf's eyes could not deceive anyone, and although his tone seemed calm, it was not numbness, but a precursor to an outburst. Fang Rui handed him a cigarette, lit a fire for him with his own hands, and said, "I need information!" ”

"Give me pen and paper!" Yu Sufu took a hard puff of his cigarette, grabbed the pen and paper handed over and drew it, and soon a map of the distribution of fire power gradually took shape. Fang Rui watched him draw slowly very calmly, and after about an hour, You Sufu stopped, handed it to Fang Rui and said, "That's all I know, I hope to participate in the war tomorrow." ”

Fang Rui said: "I still need to confirm your information. As he spoke, he handed it to Liu Gaoming, and several staff officers began to check the results of the usual reconnaissance, and in less than ten minutes, Liu Gaoming came back and said: "That's right, this picture is true, and there are several fire points and mortar positions that we have not found." If we really want to fight, these firepower points are enough for us to drink a pot, and we will have to take dozens of lives. ”

"Find him a military uniform to change into, and give him a submachine gun. That's it, I'll go back. Tomorrow morning, I would like to see a regiment of flags planted on the positions of the Soviet troops. ”

Yusuf, who changed his clothes, wrapped in a down jacket, randomly found a corner in the trench and began to sleep, and soon snored like thunder. The soldier in charge of monitoring him was stunned for a moment, but Yusuf was having a nightmare, in which he witnessed his parents and brothers lying in a pool of blood, and his sister screaming under the Soviet soldiers. (To be continued.) )