235 Siege 4
Due to the shelling of the White Russian army without money, and the fighters that flickered in the sky, it caused great trouble to the supply of machine gun ammunition. The last few times the White Russian army was able to enter the city, it was directly related to the lack of machine guns. If it weren't for the soldiers of the Guards Division, who forced their opponents out of the city with bayonets, the city wall would have changed hands by now.
Even now, Shaolin knows that his troops can no longer withstand the other party's attack tomorrow, this kind of "meat bullet" tactics not to mention the timidity of those militias who have not seen blood, even the veterans of Soviet Russia are a little weak, if the White Russian army still attacks the city like this tomorrow, it will not take a morning, and their troops will definitely collapse. Normally, if the casualties of the troops exceed one-third of the number of troops, the team is already disabled; If the casualty rate reaches 50 percent, it can be regarded as a loss of combat effectiveness.
However, when it comes to the Russian army, which is known as the "gray cattle" in Europe, it can only be regarded as incapacitated if the battle loss rate exceeds 70% under a slight change. At this time, in the battles in China, the average Chinese army, the casualties reached 10%, which was enough for the entire army to collapse. Fortunately, the pace of today's battle is too fast, and the White Russian army comes and retreats quickly. This made many Soviet Russian soldiers not have time to fear, but by the time they had dinner later, it was estimated that it was about to explode. Shaolin sighed in his heart, hoping to survive tonight in peace!
The Yenisei River is one of the great rivers of the world. It is located in the north of Asia, on the west side of the Central Siberian Plateau. It is the most abundant river in Siberia and the largest river flowing into the Arctic Ocean. It is slightly shorter in length than the Missouri-Mississippi River, but has 1.5 times the flow rate. Originating in Mongolia, it flows north to the Kara Sea, and its basin encompasses most of central Siberia.
On the right side of Krasnoyarsk is the Yenisei River, which has become a moat for Krasnoyarsk to resist the attack of the White Russian army. However, after the battle began, more than 60,000 troops of the White Russian army appeared in all directions in the north and south. Therefore, after the west was tight, Shaolin continued to transfer company-level teams from the east to "refuel". Before dark, there were less than 3,000 defenders here. In today's siege, the losses of the Soviet Russian army were not large, with more than 800 killed and more than 1,400 wounded, which is a remarkable achievement compared to the nearly 60,000 white Russian troops they eliminated. But the fighting was not only on the ground, fighters from the air dealt a fatal blow to the Russian soldiers in the living quarters of the city, reinforcements on the streets, and transporting ammunition. The number of losses in air raids was no less than in siege warfare. As for the shelling of the White Russian army, it was due to the fact that the previous ones were all small-caliber artillery and the targets were mostly bunkers and city walls, so the Soviet Russian army suffered fewer losses, and the large-caliber artillery of the White Russian army in the later period mainly stared at the large-caliber artillery of Soviet Russia and opened fire, so it did not "take care" of the Soviet Russian army in the city.
Therefore, after dark, Shaolin sent another thousand men from this place to the western city wall with weapons and ammunition to replace the two infantry battalions that had been fighting for a day and were short of ammunition.
"Whew!" A series of sudden roars swept across the desolate right bank of the Yenisei River. Under the nervous gaze of the defenders of Soviet Russia in the east,
After a few moments, the whole river shook, as if the water was boiling, and the water of the whole river became muddy, and the water kept beating against the shore, and pounced on the defenders of the city.
"It's not good, go and call that team back!" The team of 1,000 people has not been gone for half an hour, so go and shout at this time, and you can still pull them back to help! "Whoa!" With the sound of water, everyone saw a lot of huge black shadows surging on the black river.
"Flares!" The officer shouted, and immediately seventeen or eighteen flares rose into the sky, illuminating this short stretch of river. "Elephant!?" Seeing that the huge figure in front of them turned out to be an elephant seen in zoos and circuses, many Soviet and Russian soldiers were surprised. But without thinking about why elephants appeared in this cold and snowy place, the darkness completely blocked the scene in front of them.
Darkness is the biggest enemy of the Soviet Russian army, and the flares of the Soviet Russian army have almost only fifteen or sixteen seconds of illumination time, which is difficult to take care of all the city walls hundreds of meters long in the east, and the occasional sporadic shots after that are not enough to dispel all the darkness.
But the musketeers, who did not need the lights, followed the elephant and opened fire.
The crisp sound of gunfire was like a power switch, and the two long-standing war planes of Soviet Russia and the camp instantly joined together.
This was the first time Zhao Yun commanded a large-scale battle, and Zhao Yun, who was worried that his ability was not good, also pulled Timur over. With the assistance of Timur, Zhao Yun took out the "baby" that had been hidden and tucked away! In the first wave of the attack, he directly commanded the war elephants to form a shock formation and rushed towards the collapsed wall on the left bank of the Yenisei River.
The elephants seemed to move slowly, but the war elephants were not slow to run with all their might, and relying on the advantage of their height and weight, the war elephant herd waded through the water and attacked near the city wall. They were originally a surprise attack, and after a shocking roar, they ignored the obstruction of the Soviet Russian army and rushed into the dilapidated fortifications of the Soviet Russian army.
"Speed!" Watching the war elephants break out, crushing the Soviet Russian army, and rushing through the city wall in one fell swoop, Zhao Yun let the eight war elephants form a row, four columns, and form a small attacking team, sprinting towards the various defensive positions of the Soviet Russian army.
Those stragglers of Soviet Russia, or those who did not have time to retreat, were picked off by the tusks of war elephants as soon as they approached.
There are some machine guns in the Soviet Russian army, but in the face of war elephants with super defense, they are still helpless, these war elephants in iron armor are simply chariots, waving their teeth and trampling on their four hooves, directly trampling the Soviet Russian army blocking the road into a meat pie. It is even more suitable for urban combat than a chariot that cannot cross the obstacles, and some of the ruins and broken walls are directly climbed over the past, and the Soviet and Russian soldiers in the fortifications are dumbfounded.
"Fire? What are you doing stunned? The Russian officer took out a small pistol and commanded the heavy machine gun beside him. But before they could strafe the war elephants in front of them, they heard the sound of "tom tom", followed by a series of intensive artillery bombardment.
Seeing that this improvised machine-gun fortification had been overturned, the war elephants in the front row quickly closed and formed a meat shield. Silently rushed to the next target.
As the war elephants with the strongest individual combat effectiveness in the camp, Zhao Yun certainly would not only rely on their strong hand-to-hand combat ability and extremely high defense ability to fight on the battlefield, so he not only equipped them with a wave of elite musketeers armed with rifles and I18, but also installed them with "Scottish crossbows". These "Scottish crossbows" were mounted in parallel on both sides of the back of the war elephants, and were fitted to the trigger by means of a coupling mechanism that allowed multiple salvos to be fired. Although the Scottish Bow has an effective range of 100 m against a single target such as a tank, it can reach about 300 m and a maximum range of 700 m when dealing with fixed large targets. The vertical armor-piercing power of the projectile is 75mm, which is still quite threatening in terms of dealing with Soviet and Russian fortifications in the city.
Timur's 20,000 camp soldiers sat on rafts dragged by war elephants and crossed the Yenisei River, the "natural danger" of the Soviet Russian army.
At the same time, the artillery battle in the west also entered a white heat.
After eliminating the field artillery positions of the Soviet Russians, Rokossovsky mobilized 600 Russian artillery pieces to a narrow position of 1.5 kilometers, and carried out non-stop artillery bombardment of the "No. I" fortress guns that the Soviet Russians were proud of, and the entire fortress was covered by a scorching shock wave, and all the outer defensive positions were almost reduced to ashes. But the most important intermodal turrets were not hit due to the small size of the target, and still insisted on counterattacking. Rokossovsky deployed four 420-mm mortars to focus on "care" for the precise attack on the turret, and at the same time ordered all artillery to use salvo fire to suppress any movement of the Russian army around the turret.
The cannon's shell arced up to 122 meters and hit the target after 60 seconds. When the shells exploded, the dust, debris and gunsmoke formed a huge cone, which rose to an altitude of more than 300 meters. Artillery observers make corrections from reconnaissance balloons, allowing the shells to "gradually approach" the target. The Russian defenders heard the whistling sound of the shells as they landed, and felt the explosion getting closer and closer, as if it were exploding on their own heads. Their horrors were also higher than a while. From 6 p.m. until 1 a.m., after unremitting efforts, the shells of the White Russian army finally exploded above their heads, the steel warheads pierced the fortifications, the ceiling collapsed, the tunnels were blocked, the basement was full of flames and gas, and the sounds of explosions and shouts were mixed, as if the end of the world was coming.
When the "I" was temporarily silent, four 420-mm shells (weighing 1 ton) hit the roof of the turret one after another, inserting the turret armor plate on the roof of the fortress, and these shells were equipped with delayed detonation fuses, causing internal explosions in succession within a few minutes. The roof of the "I" armored turret was completely lifted, and the White Russian army immediately used more than 100 mm guns to fire incendiary shells at the open turret, and other artillery guns continued to bombard the facilities around the turret with free fire.
The entire shelling continued until 4 a.m., until the superstructure of the "I" turret was completely destroyed and all the Soviet officers and men stationed on the upper floor of the turret fortress were killed. At this time, the soldiers of the camp also completely occupied the eastern city wall, and repelled two unpleasant counterattacks of the Soviet Russian army, and controlled the streets entering the city.
Faced with the two-sided attack of the White Russian army, the Soviet army was caught off guard, and the two walls were declared lost when the first rays of dawn appeared in the sky. Saulin hurriedly mobilized all the Soviet troops back to the city to prepare for street fighting.
On the morning of the 29th, the White Russian army completely occupied the walls abandoned by the Soviet Russian army on all sides and began to slowly advance towards the city.
At the same time, most of the artillery also advanced 2 kilometers, at this time there was no artillery suppression of the "No. I" combined fortress guns, and the four movable 150 howitzers could not make any big waves, and the White Russian army could finally use artillery concentrated attack tactics with confidence.
Without the suppression of artillery, the Soviet Russian army was shelled and airraided by the White Russian army due to the roads, railways, telephones and other communication facilities between various areas of the city, which damaged Yan Zòng and could not effectively coordinate; Moreover, a large part of the commanders in the Soviet Russian army were inexperienced new officers, after all, Shaolin led an elite garrison unit, not an elite field unit, so many children of officials and eunuchs were stuffed in. And Shaolin's guards were stationed in the urban area, and the White Russian army naturally suffered a big loss in the face of crowd tactics.
However, by the afternoon of the 29th, Rokossovsky's infantry had not been able to enter the city.
The fortress "I" was not destroyed, and after the armored turret was blown up, there were still 600 Russian soldiers in the permanent fortifications of the lower 2 floors of the "I", who did not give up resistance and are still holding on! The remains of the fortress artillery erected before entering the streets of the city became a "roadblock" for the White Russian army to enter the city. So Rokossovsky mobilized a large number of 75mm guns of the White Russian army to approach the fortifications for zero-range armor-piercing shells and shrapnel shells alternately, and an hour later leveled the second layer of fortifications, but the Soviet Russian defenders refused to surrender and entered the third layer of underground defense. The artillery of the White Russian army could not attack underground targets, so it could only send combat engineering divisions to use explosives to blow up the entrance of the fortification piece by piece, but there were many hidden passages and hidden fire points inside the fortifications, and explosives could not play a decisive role; In the end, the White Russian army had to use primitive means to enter the fortifications and engage in white-knuckle combat with pistols, bayonets and sapper shovels, and occupied this "room of blood" at a heavy cost, when human blood flowed into streams in the firing ports and sewers, which shows the cruelty of the battle. Of the 600 Russian soldiers, less than 40 were captured.
By nightfall, the entire perimeter of Krasnoyarsk was under the control of the White Russian army, and the roads leading to the city were opened.
The darkness of the night bought Saulin the last time, and Rokossovsky, who was unfamiliar with the terrain, gave up his plan to attack the city at night. Just now, the 600 Soviet Russian soldiers relied on the remaining fortifications, and the White Russian army suffered more than 4,000 casualties before taking the fortress. If all the Soviet and Russian soldiers after this were like this, then this battle would have to be fought in a different way.
Beginning on the evening of December 29, all 1,300 artillery pieces of the Western Expeditionary Army, including three giant guns, were mobilized to carry out carpet bombardment of places in the city where four howitzers might be hidden, and after ensuring that nothing went wrong, they began to gradually clean up the high-rise buildings on both sides of the main road at fixed points, with the intention of opening up the urban area of Krasnoyarsk and converging the armies of the east and west.
With such obvious intentions of Rokossovsky, Saulin ordered the defenders to gradually resist and gain time for the final fall of Krasnoyarsk.
But since the White Russian army reached a complete encirclement of the city of Krasnoyarsk, the resistance of the defenders has no meaning. On December 30, after a day and a night of attack, the White Russian army reduced the intensity of the shelling, and the infantry followed the main road, capturing 50% of the city. Considering the safety of the citizens and the threat of the White Russian artillery, the Soviet Russian garrison in the city agreed to surrender, and at this time the commander-in-chief of the garrison, Shaolin, had been transferred to the bunker, and the Soviet Russian army was divided into several areas and had long lost contact with it. On December 31, the Belarusian army stopped shelling, and the Soviet Russian army bunkers and firing points in various areas also surrendered one after another. At this time, as the commander-in-chief of the garrison, seeing that the situation was irreparable, he got on the gunboat that had been included in the city and retreated with a small number of Soviet and Russian troops who were left in the city to retreat, forcibly broke through the encirclement of the White Russian army, entered the Yenisei River and retreated to Western Siberia. The warplanes that rushed to hear the news were bombed and sunk on the Yenisei River, and Shaolin's life and death were unknown.
At this point, the offensive and defensive battle of Krasnoyarsk came to an end. This city, known as the first city in Siberia, was once the pride of Soviet Russia, the birthplace of Siberian technology, the honor of Siberian culture, and the barracks of the entire Siberian Military District, but now it has become the base for White Russia to enter Western Siberia.
In the three-day offensive of the White Russian army, a total of 6,400 tons of various shells were fired, and the white Russian army on the periphery of the entire city paid the price of more than 60,000 killed and 80,000 wounded. The Belarusian Air Force made 2,500 sorties, 12,000 bombs of all kinds swept through Krasnoyarsk, and the machine gun fire of the Air Force reached a stormy range.
As a result of the fortress "I", all the buildings in the west of Krasnoyarsk were blown up, only the roads, libraries, parks, and schools in the central and eastern parts of the city survived, and the entire city disappeared by a third of the shelling like countless meteor fireballs.
However, despite the destruction of the city so badly, the citizens survived, and no matter how crazy Shaolin was, he didn't have the idea of pulling everyone in the city to bury with him, first, he didn't have that strength, and the 20,000 militia in the city would not allow him to do that, and the 10,000 Soviet Russian elites under his command alone obviously couldn't do it. Second, the various forces in the city are complicated, and in the face of the Soviet Russian regime, which stretched out its hand to the rich peasants and capitalists, the White Russians, who have undoubtedly always defended their interests, have won the support of these people, so the internal friction for various reasons has also greatly consumed the strength of the defenders.
It was with the help of these other forces that the White Russian army got a relatively intact Krasnoyarsk. On the first day of completing the reception of the city, Zhao Yun gave the order to resume production. It can be said that the entire city, in addition to prohibiting entertainment activities, the arsenal in the city began to step up the manufacture of artillery ammunition for the use of the White Russian army.
On the second day after the White Russian army entered the city, the whole city began to restore the order of life, and if Zhao Yun wanted to enter Western Siberia, then the city must be reserved as a base for advancement, so Zhao Yun only moved the real room and university of scientific and technological research and development to Ulan-Ude, and the rest remained the same.
After the war, more than 14,000 surrendered Soviet Russian troops in the city were all incorporated into Rokossovsky's Western Expeditionary Army under the "influence" of "acquaintances" and monks. He also pulled those young men in the city who did not have any skills into the team to make up for the previous losses, so that the Western Expeditionary Army, which was only in the early 400,000s after the war, including the wounded and disabled, swelled again.