Chapter 787: Street Fighting in Moscow (1)
The Soviet army was deceived by the Chinese army, the Chinese army used smoke and gramophone, played the recording of the large-scale attack, in a cloud of smoke, the Soviet soldiers hiding in the small buildings could not see the situation in front clearly, in order to prevent the Chinese army from coming, the Soviet officers in the small buildings ordered the soldiers to open fire.
Not only did the soldiers shoot one after another, but even heavy machine guns, mountain guns, and mortars opened fire aimlessly, and a large number of gunfires, cannons, and explosions were heard from every box and on the streets.
The Chinese army did not only play the recorded sound of gunfights, in order to make the real effect of the attack, the Chinese army also arranged for many soldiers to shoot at the small buildings where the Soviet troops were hiding.
It wasn't until an hour later, when all the smoke had cleared, that the Soviet soldiers found that the streets and boxes were empty, not a single person, not even a single corpse, but that there were bullet holes and craters everywhere they could see, and the streets and alleys were devastated by bullets and shells.
The Soviet soldiers were dumbfounded, why was there not a single figure in the streets and alleys, and the corpses were gone? This was a great shock to all Soviet soldiers and officers, and it also made some of the shrewd officers of the Soviet army realize that this situation was not a good thing.
No one in the Soviet army knew about China's military history, and no one knew that the straw boats borrowed arrows, which made the Soviet army confused, and did not understand why this was the case after the battle, and perhaps there were Soviet officers and soldiers who made up their own brains, guessing that it may be that the Chinese army acted quickly and took all the corpses away before the smoke cleared.
The Soviet army did not know that it was fooled by the Chinese army, and was extremely afraid of the Chinese army firing smoke bombs. The smoke emitted by the smoke bombs obscured their view, which caused great inconvenience to their defense, although the Chinese army would also be affected to a certain extent during the attack. But after all, the smoke bombs are controlled by the Chinese army, and the Chinese army controls when and in which direction it wants to launch the smoke bombs, and the Soviet army can only passively meet the battle, which is the sadness of the defenders, and the sadness of the initiative being in the hands of others.
After the Chinese army fired smoke grenades and began to move. It was impossible for the Soviets to ignore it, because the Soviets did not know what kind of military action the Chinese army would take after firing smoke grenades, and the only way to prevent the Chinese army from approaching the fortress was to open fire. Bullets and shells were densely packed on the route of the Chinese army, and if the Chinese army attacked at this time, then the Chinese army would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and the Soviet army also thought so. Although this somewhat consumes ammunition. But this is also a matter of no choice, if you ignore the smoke, once the Chinese army breaks under the fortress, this will be fatal to the Soviet army.
In this way, after a large amount of ammunition of the Soviet army was consumed with smoke bombs, the Chinese army began a real offensive, first of all, the Chinese army decided to knock out the Soviet mortars in every small building, this is the first thing to do, if not to solve the mortars hidden by the Soviet army in the attic of each small building. None of the heavy weapons of the Chinese army could be moved, nor could they fire. Otherwise, it will be shelled by Soviet mortars, and only when the Soviet mortars are eliminated will the activities of the Chinese army not be restricted.
In the attacking force, the Chinese army equipped each platoon with two mortars to deal with the Soviet mortars and to provide artillery support to their own attacking troops, and at the same time, each soldier was equipped with a much larger number of grenades than usual, mainly because of the heavy use of grenades in street fighting.
Chen Shaobai was a platoon commander, and he took his platoon as a combat unit in the first wave of attack forces to attack a block, and there was a small four-story building at the T-junction of the street.
In order to protect the perimeter security of the small building, the Soviet army deployed some soldiers on both sides of the small building and in several houses on the opposite street, but now he still does not know how many houses are hidden by Soviet soldiers around, and to attack the small building defended by the Soviet army on the opposite side, the first thing to do is to solve the Soviet soldiers hiding around the small building.
After the attack signal was issued, Chen Shaobai thought for a moment and then asked the two gunners of the mortar group to find and order: "Before attacking, you must first knock out the Soviet mortars on the roof of the small building opposite, have you seen it?" The roof of the small building was broken, and the Soviet army deliberately pierced it, the purpose was to make the mortars out of the way, and now you two mortars are knocking out each other's mortars and making the other side lose their artillery strike ability! Remember, each cannon fires three shells in a row as fast as possible, and move immediately after the shot, if you don't knock out the opponent's mortar, you may be knocked out by the opponent when the opponent sends your position! ”
The two gunners glanced at each other, and at the same time said to Chen Shaobai: "Platoon commander, we know!" ”
When the gunner returned to the mortar, he immediately beckoned his deputy and the ammunition man to set up the mortar, and after the mortar was erected, the angle was adjusted, and the two gunners confirmed with their eyes that they were firing at the same time.
After two special sounds, "tom" and "tom", two shells were fired.
The gunner did not immediately reload the second shell, the first shell was a test shot, to see the accuracy of the shelling, and then the angle of fire was calibrated according to the place where the first shell landed.
The two shells landed almost at the same time, both fell around the small building where the Soviet troops were stationed, after observing the landing point, the gunner quickly calibrated it, this time was very short, after the calibration was completed, the two people immediately took the shell handed by the ammunition hand and put it on the muzzle, let go, the shell slided, and then flew out, followed by two shells each were fired.
There was no time to observe the effect of the shelling, and the two gunners immediately beckoned the others to pick up the guys and move their positions, and if the other side was not hit, they would soon counterattack.
The effect of this shelling was not very ideal, but one of the six shells fired out one after another hit, and it just landed on the hole in the roof of the building, and the explosion blew up the attic of the entire small building, and the Soviet mortars and ammunition men hiding in the attic were naturally not spared, and the mortars were also damaged. This can be seen from the fact that the other party did not react this time, and if the other party is fine, he will definitely take countermeasures as soon as possible.
After the mortar shelling ended, Li Shaobai found that the attic of the small building opposite did not fire shells, which showed that the other party's mortar had been destroyed, so he found two gunners and ordered them: "Do you see the shed trench five meters in front of the small building?" There must be Soviet soldiers in there, and the trench has a roof, and I suspect that the defense should be very good, but I believe that the roof will not be able to withstand the continuous shelling, and now your task is to shell the covered trench and bombard it! ”
The two gunners promised: "Good! ”
Mortars soon spoke again, the advantage of mortars is that they can be fired at close range, the trajectory is parabolic, and there is no need to worry about obstacles in the middle to block the trajectory, while mountain artillery and howitzers are not, two gunners set up two mortars behind a house, and shelled the small building across the house, and the mortar on the attic of the opponent has been knocked out before, and now you only need to adjust the firing angle to shell the covered trench in front of the small building.
"Tom tom! Tom Tom Tom"
The two mortars fired shells continuously, and the two gunners were also old gunners, and they hit very accurately, because with the previous reference, now the first shell hit the target, and after the two shells exploded, the camouflage on the covered trench was lifted, and the turf was blown away, revealing bare logs blocking the top of the trench, and the Soviet soldiers hid in the trench, because there were logs on the top to protect them, they were not afraid of shelling for the time being.
But they soon couldn't calm down, and a dozen shells fell on logs in a row, and even steel would be blown through, let alone just wood? Under the continuous shelling, the protective logs on the trenches were also blown away, and the Soviet soldiers hiding inside were naturally not spared.
After flattening the trench in front of the small building, the gunners quickly carried the mortars to transfer their positions, these guys were lucky, they just transferred, and the house in front of them was blasted out of a big hole by the Soviet army's direct-aiming mountain artillery hidden in the basement, and several shots came down in a row, and the house had been pierced by shells, if they did not transfer in time enough, it is estimated that they would be blown away by the Soviet mountain artillery.
The mountain gun hidden in the basement was a great threat to tanks and armored vehicles, but it could not be dealt with with mortars, after all, it was hidden in the basement, only one gun port was exposed, and even if the first layer of walls was blown through, it would not pose a threat to it. The only way to deal with it was to get close and stuff the grenade through the window of the ground where the muzzle was located, and blow up the Soviet artillerymen.
Then the rest of the thing is to attack, because the Soviets have arranged soldiers and heavy machine guns on the second and third floors to defend, if you want to get close to the small building, the safest way is to release smoke bombs, touch the corner of the small building in the smoke, and then find a way to rush into the small building and engage the Soviet army in a short encounter.
With Li Shaobai's order, the two soldiers threw out the two smoke bombs with the grenadiers, the grenadiers hit very accurately, and the two smoke bombs fell a few meters in front of the small building.
Seeing this, Li Shaobai immediately gave the order to attack, and two columns of soldiers with rifles and machine guns went under the eaves of the houses on both sides of the street to the small building opposite.
A large number of footsteps remembered, and there was also the sound of tank engines, and the Soviet soldiers thought that the Chinese army was playing tricks again, so the officers did not give the order for the soldiers to fire, after all, there was not much ammunition.
Who knew that this time it was true, before the Soviet officers and soldiers reacted, the Chinese army was only a few meters away from the small building, this distance was too short, and the Chinese soldiers quickly rushed to the corner of the small building. (To be continued......)