Chapter 550: Grinding Meat Grinding Plate

Peng Shusen is the battalion commander responsible for defending the 189 heights, his battalion has 800 Nepalese soldiers, after the morning battle, the following report shows that the German sharpshooters pose a greater threat to their own heavy machine gunners, to deal with these sharpshooters in the German army, the only way is to use sharpshooters to deal with sharpshooters, but let these Nepalese soldiers fight according to the method of playing squares, but there are no sharpshooters among them, in order to solve this problem, he sent a guard platoon he brought, Two or three soldiers were assigned to each infantry platoon, and these Chinese soldiers were regular Wehrmacht soldiers, and their marksmanship was much more accurate than that of soldiers in ordinary national troops, and they were fed with bullets.

After solving this problem, in the defensive battle in the afternoon, there were many fewer machine gunners killed by the German sharpshooters, and almost everyone of the Chinese soldiers he arranged to go down killed one or two German sharpshooters in the battle, on the one hand, because the Germans did not expect the defenders to use this trick against them, on the other hand, the German sharpshooters were too many, so the quality was inferior, so they lost a lot in this attack.

In the attack on August 11, the sharpshooters in the German army did not appear again, it is estimated that yesterday's losses were too great, in this day's offensive, the German offensive is still fierce, but it is also a heavy loss, four days in a row, the German losses are extremely heavy, but the German army did not stop the attack, the German soldiers every night to collect the corpses is a very tiring thing.

Now the weather is too hot for the corpses to be exposed outside for too long, so every evening the battle is over. The Germans would send a group of unarmed soldiers waving white flags to collect the bodies, and the Chinese officers acquiesced in this behavior. However, they were not allowed to take the weapons and ammunition left behind in front of the position, when the Germans collected the bodies and left. The officers of the Chinese army sent people to pick up the guns and ammunition.

After a few days of adaptation and using the Germans as targets, the marksmanship of the Nepalese soldiers and Bhutanese soldiers has improved greatly, many of them can hit nine shots with ten shots, and most of them can hit six to seven shots with ten bullets.

On 13 August, the Germans launched their biggest offensive in nearly a month, with two divisions of infantry attacking in Bucha and Irpin respectively. Almost a regimental exchange offensive.

The offensive began at 8 a.m., and the fighting never stopped, nor did the gunfire and artillery fire, with a large number of German artillery shells pouring on hillside positions, and German warplanes bombarding Irpin and Bucha all day.

By the time the battle was stopped at noon, the side of the defending hill facing the Germans had become completely bare, it had been green and green, and there were many tall trees, thorns and other plants standing on the hillside, which were now gone. The whole side of the hill facing the Germans had turned into bare rocks, which had been blackened by the smoke of the bombs, some of the tall trees that had been burned to bare poles were almost blackened by this time, and the wooden pillars were still erected in their original places, and corpses were lying everywhere on the wide ground hundreds of meters in front of the position at the foot of the hill. Some of the bodies were piled up more than a meter high.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the temperature dropped a little, and the Germans began to attack again. They stepped on the corpses of their comrades and charged on the way to the attack, this time with no less ferocity. The German soldiers, completely unafraid of death, fell one after another on the way to the charge. Seeing that the German attack was so fierce, the artillery positions and mortar positions located on the top of the hill and on the mountainside began to exert their might, and the overwhelming shells fell among the charging German crowd, and the explosion blew the bodies of German soldiers into pieces, and countless blood fell from the sky, mixed with mud and gunsmoke, in addition to the blows of artillery and mortars, the defending infantry were not idle, rifle and machine guns fired together, and now all the firepower was used, just to block the German attack, on the two defensive lines of Bucha and Irpin, hundreds of heavy machine guns fired together, as well as the light machine guns of the Chinese guard units, such a powerful firepower even the Germans were ashamed of themselves, the Germans suffered heavy casualties, the battle ended before five o'clock in the afternoon, and the Germans did not launch a new offensive.

After the battle, the Germans still sent a corpse collection unit to the front of the position to collect the corpses, and the German soldiers silently carried the corpses onto the carriage, picked up the stumps and broken arms, and threw them into the carriage to transport them away.

In the evening, the casualty report was handed to the office of Marshal Mackensen in Zhytomyr, and after reading the report in his hand, Mackensen's hand trembled, and he was furious: "How can this be? Who are the people defending Bucha and Irpin? Why did they inflict so many casualties on us, weren't they the hill people who had just been recruited from Nepal and Bhutan by the Chinese country? Why do they have such a strong fighting force? ”

It is no wonder that Mackensen will be furious, for any general will be like this after seeing the casualty report in his hand, today alone, the number of casualties in the two places exceeded 13,000, since the attack was launched here, a total of a week, the total number of dead reached 50,000, more than 80,000 wounded, such a large casualty, so that the field hospitals in the rear of the German army were burst.

The adjutant said with a wry smile: "Marshal, we analyzed that the Chinese army is likely to have hollowed out the inside of those hills and highlands, and they have dug a large number of hidden bunkers and tunnels, they can support at any firing port at any time, and our artillery shelling and bombardment are helpless against the hidden bunkers inside those mountains, and the ground troops must be allowed to attack the inside of the tunnels to clear them in order to defeat them!" ”

"Also, Marshal, at the current rate of casualties, I am afraid that our army will not have the ability to attack in a few days, and it will be replaced by the Chinese army to attack us!"

Mackensen held his pipe in his mouth, his face was very ugly, he thought for a long time, took off his pipe and said: "Inform the German and Austrian 4th Army to come and take over the 11th Group to launch an attack on the enemy's position!" ”

The adjutant immediately said: "Yes, General!" ”

The staff officers of the German command also had a heated discussion, and they found that the Nepalese Corps and the Bhutanese Corps under the command of the Chinese army had a large amount of automatic firepower, and in terms of marksmanship, the marksmanship of those Nepalese soldiers and Bhutanese soldiers became more and more accurate, which was also one of the reasons why the number of German casualties rose in a straight line, and they also found that the defenders' firepower strikes were very layered, and the density of firepower strikes had a great relationship with the strength of the attacking troops and the intensity of the attack, the firepower of the defenders will increase significantly, on the contrary, the number of German attackers will decrease, and the intensity of the attack will decrease, then the firepower of the defenders will also decrease accordingly.

This discovery amazed the German staff officers extremely much, and it required the commander to command the troops to achieve this, in fact, they did not know that this was because of the squares, with the storage of those squares, each company had its own task, and the firepower of the defense would naturally increase or decrease with the increase and decrease of the German offensive strength and intensity.

The German-Austrian 4th Army belongs to the joint formation of Germany and Austria-Hungary, this army group has 200,000 people, Germany and Austria-Hungary each account for half, this army group was under the command of Mackensen swept Romania and occupied the entire territory of Romania, so from beginning to end, this group army is under the command of Mackensen, so this means that Mackensen can command not 300,000 troops, but 500,000 troops, and there are only a handful of marshals and generals who can directly command 500,000 troops in Germany.

The German-Austrian 4th Army received orders to quickly arrive from the rear, and the first to arrive were two divisions, which immediately took over the offensive tasks upon their arrival.

On August 14, the German-Austrian 4th Army, which had just taken over the offensive mission, lost a division of troops on the first day of the offensive, directly killing 15,000 people and wounding 3,000 people.

Now people all over the world know that Irpin and Bucha in Tsarist Russia have become veritable grinding discs, swallowing the strength of a division in one day, without burping, and Zhang Xiaozhun and Wang Zhanyuan, who defended here, also quickly became world-famous generals, and those Nepalese soldiers and Bhutanese soldiers who defended Irpin and Bucha have also become one of the strongest armies in the world, withstanding the German army with 10 times the strength of the army in turn, with 25,000 men, this is not the kind of proud record of any army.

Mackensen, the last veteran of the Second German Empire in another time and space, was now finally enraged, his glory not allowing him to suffer the pain of defeat, and he roared and ordered his generals to launch one onslaught after another.

On August 15, under the order of Markensen, the German army launched a full-scale attack on the first line of defense in Kiev, and the Visnev defended by the Russian army collapsed in three days, killing more than 12,000 people, more than 60,000 people were captured, and more than 20,000 people fled to the city of Kyiv, the first line of defense in Kiev was broken, and the defenders stationed in Irpin and Bucha were currently besieged before and after, fortunately the defenders had stored food and ammunition for three months in front of the garrison, and there was no sign of surrender under the leadership of the Chinese officers. Zhang Xiaozhun also ordered Nepalese and Bhutanese soldiers stationed in Irpin and Bucha to hold out to the end.

Zhang Xiaozhun was very angry that the Russian army of 100,000 people only held out for three days and was defeated on the whole line, he found the commander of the Russian army, Petrov, and sarcastically ridiculed it, so that the Russian general was so ashamed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, this Tsarist general is also a dignified person, he wanted to die after losing such a big face in front of Zhang Xiaozhun, so he asked to lead the remnants of more than 20,000 people to garrison the outer defense line of the city wall outside Kiev, and claimed that even if he died, he would die on the position, He also asked Zhang Xiaozhun to send a team of warlords to supervise the battle in the back, once it was found that there were Russian troops who abandoned their positions and fled, the team could immediately shoot and kill, Zhang Xiaozhun couldn't ask for it, so he immediately agreed to his request and sent a team of warlords to supervise the battle. (To be continued......)