Chapter 498: The Contest of Nations (8)
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"Long live the Ula Soviets! Kill these white bandits."
"A son of a bitch!"
The pre-dawn city of Chelyabinsk was surrounded by such shouts and shouts, artillery and machine-gun fire destroyed the feelings of compatriots, and the great Russia that had been torn apart was like the sky at this moment, in the darkest period before dawn.
In the front-line headquarters, Frunze was lying on the table, his eyes shining with a burning light under the kerosene lamp.
Moscow is being pushed to the brink of life and death! Although Stalin took Tsaritsyn and pinned Denikin on the Crimean peninsula, the cunning and despicable Poles began to gear up again, and at the instigation of Britain and France, they were eager to try. Ukrainian, Finnish, Romanian, Czech enemies appear one after another! However, these are not over, when the European wolves are eyeing the two gangs of Kolchak and Dutov in the Far East, there is a rapid rise of upstarts! Just like Japan, which proved itself to be a world power by defeating Tsarist Russia, the Chinese are also following this path! And they are stronger, more decisive, and more swift than they were in Japan! Not only did they take advantage of the fact that the revolution was initially unable to take into account the Far East, they blockaded the Ural Mountains in one fell swoop, robbed all the machinery and equipment, gold and silver worth billions of dollars, but also sent troops to occupy the city of Krasnoyarsk, cut the Trans-Siberian Railway from the Yenisei River, and took control of the vast Russian territory east of the river! Now they are taking advantage of the internal turmoil in Russia and suddenly fighting in Central Asia, East Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as Andijan, which is known as the heart of Central Asia!
No one can imagine. What a terrible scene it would have if an unstable Russia faced both Poland and China at the same time, coupled with civil strife! So, one direction must be solved first, no matter what!
For this reason, Moscow this time made a great determination to destroy Kolchak as soon as possible, advance the front to the Barnaul and Tomsk lines, and curb the penetration of the Chinese to the west. So he mobilized almost all the mobilized troops. 4 armies of the Eastern Front, with a total of more than 300,000 soldiers in 16 divisions, launched a general offensive against Ufa and Chelyabinsk! Especially Chelyabinsk, as soon as it is cut off, the entire Urals will be surrounded. If you add 3 divisions of the Turkestan Army Group in the Andijan direction. The entire Eastern Front was left with Shumyasky's Far Eastern Army and a handful of partisans, who could not help, so this time it was a fight to the death!
Petronko pushed open the door and walked into the headquarters with a cold wind. This one has been through European competitions. Commander of the 518th Ural Regiment and a member of the Military Council of the Eastern Front.
Zinoviev asked: "Comrade Petrolenko, how is the river?" ”
"It's already starting to freeze, and I think we'll cross the river in a day or two." Without waiting for a few people to get excited, Petronko walked to the map with a solemn face, pointed to the east and said, "I just got the news." Here, Huchiye discovered that a large number of white bandits were coming, and Comrade Blokhin was leading troops to intercept them. But the enemy took out a lot of machine guns, and also used armored trains, and he could not get close to the railway line! ”
I just heard that the Mias River is beginning to freeze, and the troops are expected to directly cross the river and force their way across the river to encircle Chelyabinsk, but I didn't expect that Huchiye actually appeared with enemy reinforcements! This made the command tense all of a sudden. Frunze even stood up. "How many are there?" Which troop? ”
Petronko shook his head: "It's too dark, Comrade Blokhin they can't make out it, but they speculate that it should be the Kolchak bandits who came from the direction of Omsk." ”
Hearing that it was the White Bandit Army, Zinoviev and Kamenev were slightly relieved. Huchiye was located 80 kilometers from Chelyabinsk, but thousands of partisans were deployed to intercept it, taking into account enemy support. No matter how powerful the White Bandit Army is, it is impossible to quickly approach it. Now the speed of freezing on the river is accelerating, as long as it is delayed for a day or two, it will be possible to achieve a big victory when the main force crosses the river.
Only Frunze always felt that something was wrong. Omsk was Kolchak's stronghold, and after fighting him for more than a year, he was all too familiar with these white bandits. The temperature in Siberia at night has dropped to below zero, and the pampered white bandit army rarely takes the initiative to attack at night. With a distance of only 80 kilometres, they would have felt that it was too late to attack after dawn, so why risk a night battle with the greatest casualties? And also carried a lot of machine guns, where did they get the ammunition?
Frunze was very upset and said: "Comrade Petrolenko, you personally take the truck and the troops to Huchiye to support Colonel Blokhin. ”
His order made Zinoviev and Kamenev, who were analyzing the situation, prick up their ears at the same time and asked: "Comrade Frunze, do you have any worries?" ”
Frunze analyzed: "I think something is very wrong, Kolchak's troops rarely attack at night, and the consumption of ammunition at night is much greater than during the day, and now there are only a few hours before dawn, they can wait for a while." ”
Kamenev's military ability is insufficient, but Zinoviev has led the troops to fight for a long time, and immediately realized the problem, and his expression became nervous: "Do you think the Chinese interfered?" "I don't know, but even if I hadn't intervened, I would have supported a lot of weapons and ammunition!" Frunze's gaze swept over the Trans-Siberian railway line: "They controlled the railway, starting from Irkutsk, coming here in a few days. Comrade Kamenev, the comrades in Chelyabinsk should be allowed to revolt as soon as possible, we cannot wait. Comrade Petrolenko, as soon as you go, blow up the railroad tracks in Huchiye! ”
"Okay!" Petrolenko, who is in his thirties, is a typical young general, who previously worked under Tukhachevsky, and was very popular with the soldiers when he took the lead in battle. As the signs of a Polish offensive became more and more apparent, the latter had already been transferred to the South-Eastern Front. So he was also anxious after listening to Frunze's analysis, and immediately set off with his troops.
80 kilometers of flat grass is not too far, if you can reach it in two hours by truck during the day, but at this moment the temperature has dropped to minus five degrees, and it is very dark and the speed cannot be fast, so he simply led the cavalry regiment to go first, hoping to blow up the railway as soon as possible to ensure safety.
But he did not know that a terrible catastrophe was waiting for him and his troops! Because Kong Qinggui had already rushed to Huchiye with his own armored train.
"Hurry up!"
"Put the hoe down."
"Don't be idle, hang the shells up and get ready."
"Pay attention to stray bullets, let the Russian Maozi spread out to protect the railway and the surroundings, Lao Tzu doesn't want to hang up first."
This southern young man who is extremely afraid of the cold is the first-class merit of Chapter 518. This time he was the first Wehrmacht unit to come to the Great Plain of Western Siberia again, only this time the armored train under his command had been completely replaced.
The captured 420mm Great Belta railway-type heavy gun has been erected, and it is much faster because it relies on cement to build a solid firing position unlike the towed type. But this fast is also relative, and it is not simple to finally load this gun on the car, in addition to increasing the stationing hoe, it is also necessary to strengthen the body, and before use, a large number of iron pipes should be used to support the bottom of the carriage where the gun carriage is located, and the rest of the carriages must be separated at least 100 meters, and the ammunition car is parked 300 meters away. In addition, ammunition loading is also very troublesome, you need to take it out of the ammunition truck, then transport it to the launch car with a cart, and then use a crane to lift out the special one-ton high-explosive grenade in Hanyang, and it takes 15 people and 10 minutes for the loader alone to load the shell smoothly. And 200 kg of propellant is used up for each shot, so the army is not very interested in this gun, preferring to use the simple and fast 210mm train gun.
But in Kong Qinggui's eyes, this is a cannon! Of all the current equipment of the Wehrmacht, it is the only one that can blow up a solid concrete bunker several meters thick from 9,800 meters away, and destroy all heavy targets within a radius of 200 meters when using high-explosive grenades! So when the final preparations were completed and the shells were stuffed into the barrel little by little, he gradually became excited, stuffed the heater to his comrades, and excitedly ran into the bunker a hundred meters away. Because the power is too great, the cannon cannot stand at close range when fired, so this cannon uses electric remote control to fire. All personnel were to retreat to the living compartment 100 meters away and use the thick armor on its hull as cover to protect themselves, and each was given a special thick hat and earplugs to avoid deafness.
After the comrades-in-arms who checked the circuit ran back to the bunker, Kong Qinggui was not even afraid of the cold wind, rolled up his sleeves high, and in the eyes of more than a hundred pairs of excited, slowly opened the lid of the firing twist box, put his fingers on the electric door lever, and looked around triumphantly: "Tell me, what can this shot hit?" ”
In the laughter of his comrades-in-arms, he only heard Kong Qinggui shouting, "Open your mouth, be careful!" Then press the gate lever hard.
Petrolenko led the cavalry regiment all the way to the front, not even caring about the sweat of the war horse under the crotch, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when a fierce fire appeared in the distance, which showed that the enemy had not yet broken through the Huchiye line. He soon met Blokhin, who had set up a defensive line here with thousands of guerrillas, and the latter was also happy to see the reinforcements, saying: "To the southeast, there are many white bandits, and their firepower is very strong. ”
"Don't worry, my cavalry will clean them up!" With a wave of his hand, more than a thousand cavalry that came with him ran in a neat southeast direction, and just as the two of them were about to study the bombing of the railway, a strange scream suddenly came, and before they could see what it was, they ran out of the center of the cavalry regiment a few hundred meters and suddenly exploded into a huge and bright fireball! Hundreds of elite cavalry who had just arrived melted in the fireball, and the personnel, horses, and guns were all torn apart in an instant, and then the ground shook violently! …… (Site. Your support is my biggest motivation. ).