Chapter 259: Siege

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[259] Siege

After capturing the fortress of Polanich, the 4th and 10th Divisions did not stop at all, and continued to move all the way to the southeast, heading towards the twin cities renamed Ussuriysk by Russia.

4 episodes and 11 divisions went all the way east from the Bolanich fortress and occupied the area of Xingkai Lake.

The 4th and 12th Divisions served as reserves, accompanied by the headquarters of the Fourth Army, and stationed in the bombed and messy Polanich Fortress.

On the morning of April 6, after a short night of rest, the 4th and 10th Divisions launched a general attack in the pre-dawn darkness and began to liberate the homeland of the Twin Cities.

The 152mm howitzers unloaded from the back of off-road trucks raged wildly, and the shells cleaned the Russian defenders of the Ussuriysk fortress, and one shell after another dragged out fiery red ballistics in the darkness and roared towards the Russian positions.

The Twin Cities, the fortress named Ussuriysk by the Russians, were suddenly covered in black smoke and bright red flesh.

62 Light Tan advanced all the way, followed the artillery trail that stretched all the way, and rushed into Ussuriysk with the infantry regiment, and completed the transformation of the city from Ussuriysk to the Twin Cities in only one morning.

The Russian defenders in the Far East were completely unable to parry the blitzkrieg of the Chinese army, and one after another urgent telegrams were sent to Moscow like snowflakes.

On April 9, the 10th Division of the 4th Army, which had been moving south, surrounded Vladivostok and began a powerful assault on this fortified port, which had been carefully constructed by the Russian army in the Far East.

First of all, the 152mm howitzers of all three battalions of the Fourth Army were concentrated, because the industrial base of the republic was still very weak, more than 90 percent of the shells of the 152mm howitzers needed to rely on imports, and the high-priced shells from the 21st century pierced the sky with a killing radius of nearly 60 meters. Only a radius of 150 to 200 meters away is relatively safe.

In the Vladivostok fortress area, Russian artillery rang out sporadically, but was quickly extinguished by the fierce mortars that followed. Relatively speaking, the artillery hidden in the cement battery lasted longer, but as the infantry regiment of the revolutionary army found the target, the recoilless guns carried by it carried out a direct attack on the pillbox, and soon, the artillery in the cement battery also began to die down with the collapse of the outer pillboxes.

Seeing that the Chinese army was overwhelmed by the outer positions of the Vladivostok fortress, and the elite infantry of the Russian army stationed in Vladivostok had no way to retreat, the Russians showed their bravery in a desperate situation at this time, and the infantry regiments armed with bayonet rifles mixed with the infantry regiment equipped with Winchester 1866 lever-fired repeating rifles, rushed out of the fortress, and launched a decisive breakthrough against the Chinese troops surging into the port city along the dead ends of the artillery fire in the streets.

There were still more than 10,000 Russian soldiers hidden in the dense fortress tunnels of Vladivostok, and the commander of the Russian Far Eastern Military District, Liukin, knew that this ice-free port in the Russian Far East would not allow any mistakes, otherwise he would be sent to a military court and hanged even if he broke through and escaped.

Liukin sent infantry companies from the fortified area to the outer trench defense line in batches, hoping to recapture the outer positions as much as possible. However, there was no news of more than 2,000 people from 17 companies sent out before and after, which made him extremely uneasy.

The beard on the face of the Russian company commander Ivanov had not been shaved for half a month, and with a vicissitudes of life, he held a bayonet rifle, and together with other soldiers, he rushed towards the east of the North Bell Tower, seeing that the buildings here were still intact and had not been destroyed by Chinese artillery, and he felt that maybe he could rush out of the city from here, reinforce those troops who were still in the trenches outside the city, and recapture the outer defense line.

At the corner of a street, the Russian army encountered a group of Chinese infantry with red flags, and for a time the gunfire was loud, and the 56 and a half and light machine guns in the hands of the Chinese soldiers clicked, and more than a dozen Russian soldiers were swept down at once.

Ivanov and the Russian soldiers who retreated back to the corner of the street pressed their backs against the wall, and Ivanov yelled at the soldiers: "There are not many Chinese people, only a dozen of them!" Brave lads, get ready to listen to my orders and rush out together! Teach those timid Chinese guys a lesson with bayonets! ”

As Ivanov was about to count down, a rain of grenades # shells crackled around the corner of the street, and the explosion and the accompanying smoke of gunpowder immediately flooded the Russian infantry company, and the grenade # bullets thrown by the Chinese soldiers after suppressing the street with dense fire, all fell into the corner of the road perpendicular to the street where they were.

After a rumbling grenade # bomb exploded, "Kill!! Kill!!! Come on!!! Come on!!! ......" outnumbered Chinese soldiers took the initiative to charge, rushed through the intersection in one fell swoop, and occupied the corner.

Private Tao Yuannan followed the squad leader and rushed into the corner, looking at the corpses of the Russian soldiers who were blown up all over the ground, and couldn't help but vomit.

The squad leader Sun Ri said dissatisfiedly: "Xiao Tao, come all the way, let alone the dead, have you seen the corpses of the heart, liver, lungs and intestines blown out by the shells?" Why are you still throwing up? Hurry up and keep up! ”

Tao Yuannan had a bitter face, staggered and followed his comrades to continue to rush towards the city. His father was a private school teacher before liberation, and after liberation he became a teacher in the normal school, Tao Yuan has three male brothers, he is the youngest and the least courageous.

Not far away, there was a sudden loud bang, it turned out that a mortar shell fell on the bell tower in the north of Vladivostok, smashing half of the bell tower, and this sound was the sound of a bronze bell on the bell tower where two people hugged each other.

With the offensive of the revolutionary army, grenades# and artillery shells continued to explode in the city, and the hybrid of the fortress and the city was gradually being controlled by the Chinese army.

Tao Yuannan's infantry squad had just passed through the municipal square in Vladivostok when it was suddenly covered by a fierce burst of gunfire, which turned out to be south of the square near the East Wharf in Ussuri Bay, where a cement bunker was built, which was connected to an underground tunnel, and Russian soldiers stayed in it and fired at the Chinese army in a row from Winchester 1866.

The squad leader Sun Ri was shot in the shoulder, but fortunately the bullet did not hurt the bones, he gritted his teeth and ordered the whole class to quickly lie down and hide, and at the same time shoot back.

The squad leader Sun Ri's face was pale, and he ordered the deputy squad leader to take out five grenade # bombs, tie them together with yellow tactical tape, and stuff them into Tao Yuannan's hands.

"Xiao Tao, you go and blow up that bunker, and the rest of the people take cover!"

Tao Yuannan was stunned and cried: "Squad leader, I'm afraid." ”

Sun Ri scolded disdainfully: "Afraid of a bird!" Afraid of death, not soldiers! Soldiers are not afraid of death! If you don't go, I'll kill you now! ”

Tao Yuannan stubbornly said: "I'll go ......"

Tao Yuannan gritted his teeth, holding the squad leader's fire line DI#Y's cluster grenade# bomb, and crawled towards the bunker on the south side of the square. Behind him, the gunfire was loud, and the soldiers of the whole class used light machine guns and 56 and a half high precision to launch accurate fire on the fire points in the Russian pillbox and suppress them.

Due to the superior firepower of the infantry squad in his squad, it took less than two minutes for Tao Yuannan to rush to a stone step on the left side of the Russian pillbox. He glanced behind him, and the whole class had dispersed at this time, and the semi-encircled shooting at the Russian pillbox was pressing, so that the Russian troops in the muzzle of the pillbox did not dare to raise their heads.

Tao Yuannan opened all the back covers of the cluster grenade # bomb one by one, sorted out the fuse rope, cheered himself up in his heart, picked up the bundle of cluster grenade # bullets, and ran to the bunker with a few arrow steps to lie down, put the grenade # bomb against the wall of the bunker, quickly opened all the fuses# cables, and immediately rolled in place like a mouse into a corner of the bunker.

With a loud bang, five grenade # bombs exploded next to the wall of the bunker, which immediately collapsed the bunker, and the inner wall of the bunker collapsed under the shock wave, killing and wounding all the Russian soldiers in the bunker.

Seeing that the blasting was successful, the whole class of soldiers rushed forward with a roar and threw a few grenades# into the bunker.

"Well done, Xiao Tao, so brave! From today onwards, you will go from being a boy to a man! The squad leader Sun Ri took out a Red Star brand cigarette, lit it in his mouth, took a puff, and stuffed it into Tao Yuannan's mouth.

Tao Yuannan smirked, smoked the cigarette given by the squad leader, and coughed vigorously, this was the first time he heard the squad leader praise himself for his bravery.

"The whole class will follow me, continue south, and take the East Pier." Squad leader Sun Ri ordered.

Tao Yuannan excitedly held 56 and a half, and rushed to the front in the lead, suddenly a burst of gunfire rang out on the dock, Tao Yuannan fell to the ground in response, it turned out that the sailors on the ship in the harbor had shot.

"Xiao Tao! Xiao Tao !! Sun Ri yelled and pounced, but saw Tao Yuannan lying in a pool of blood, the back of his head was a sticky white, and he was obviously hit in the head.

Sun Ri snatched the Type 81 light machine gun from the deputy squad leader and roared and fired wildly at the Russian ships in the harbor.

"you grandma!! Die!! Die!! ……”

Thousands of miles away in Beijing, Yao Fan and the generals of the People's Military Commission were also paying attention to the battle situation in Vladivostok.

The Navy's North Sea Fleet has been ordered to carry out the task of blockading Vladivostok.

Li Lu was promoted to deputy division-level cadre because of his outstanding performance in the battle to liberate Hong Kong four years ago; he also read and wrote with a good hand, and was regarded as an outstanding young cadre by the Guangzhou Military Region, and was promoted to the Qingdao Naval Naval Academy for three years of advanced study, majoring in ship command and naval artillery.

After graduation, Li Lu was promoted to a full-time division-level cadre, serving as the captain of the third detachment of the North Sea Fleet and the captain of the No. 611 submarine hunting submarine.

This time, it was Li Lu's third detachment who was in charge of the Vladivostok blockade mission.

Due to the rapid development of the Chinese Navy in the first five-year plan, although it did not build large ships, it has formed a strong offshore combat capability, with 160 Fish # Mineboats and 30 037 hunting submarines.

The third detachment led by Li Lu consisted of 10 combat ships and 2 supply ships, consisting of 2 037 hunting submarines, 8 Type 026 fish # torpedo boats, and a 700-ton transport ship and a 500-ton oil carrier.

After the third detachment set out from Qingdao Port, after a short replenishment at the Luojin Port in Jilin Province, which had not been built recently, it hurried to the sea off Vladivostok, where the radars of the two 037 hunting submarines were turned on in turn, searching for suspicious targets at sea.

Because the Chinese Navy played an outstanding role in the two battles at the mouth of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, it completely annihilated the Chinese fleet and the East India Fleet of the British Royal Navy, and completely devoured the French Far East Fleet.

The Russian Far East Fleet has only 15 large and small gunboats and Fish # boats, and has observed the Chinese Navy's training at sea from a distance in the past few years, so Borisovich, the commander of the Russian Far East Fleet, did not dare to leave the port at all, but just hid in the harbor, relying on fortress guns, and tremblingly guarded the port in the Amur Bay.

The battle in Vladivostok continued until the early morning of April 10, when the entire city changed hands as pillboxes were blasted and the docks of the Russian Far Eastern Fleet were under constant attack.

On the No. 611 037 hunting submarine, the radar officer reported: "Suspicious targets have been found at 42 degrees 44 minutes north latitude and 131 degrees 41 minutes east longitude, and the number is about twenty!" ”

After Li Lu, who had just gotten up, received the report, he rushed to the command cabin of the bridge before he had time to wash.

"This is 611, and all the ships of the third detachment obey my orders and immediately follow the flagship to the target area." Li Lu held the intercom in his hand and shouted nervously.

Deputy Captain Liu Huyu calmly ordered the first officer: "The right rudder is 10, and the main engine is three-quarters output." ”

"Yes, right rudder 10, three-quarters output of the main engine."

The blockade fleet of 10 warships, ghostly turned out from behind the island of Buhamoca off the Amur Bay, dragged a snow-white track on the sea, and rushed towards the target sea.