Chapter 201: Fierce Battle (Part II)
The weather is sunny and the sun is in the sky, such weather is extremely rare in winter, and people should have enjoyed this rare winter sun. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 But at this moment, the scorching flame was burning on the ice field.
Because of the good visibility, the forward positions of the Russian army could be seen with the naked eye from the artillery positions several kilometers away, but they were caught in a sea of fire and smoke -- after receiving the order of the brigade commander, the artillery of the brigade and regiment poured every shell on the Russian positions, the 75-mm rapid-fire guns with the longest range, the most powerful 120-mm heavy mortars, and the 82-mm mortars belonging to the battalion.
The gunners were eager to smash everything on the positions of the Russian army, and for a time thousands of shells were dumped on the Russian front in just a few minutes. The biting cold wind blew away the gunpowder smoke on the Russian army's position, and then the gunpowder smoke connected the front and depth of the Russian army, forming a thick gray-black smoke on the position, and the smoke shrouded the Russian army's position in a huge smoke wall, and the scene was very spectacular.
At the end of the first round of artillery preparation, almost all the gunners were blackened by the gunpowder smoke when they were withdrawn, and the whole person except for the teeth and eye sockets was white, and the whole person became, and the gunners saw each other's appearances and pointed to each other's faces and laughed, but the laughter did not last long, in fact, it was only a dozen seconds, and with the order of the commander, the second round of shelling began.
The Russian soldiers, who had been hit by a dense rain of bullets, leaned out of the trenches at that moment when the fire stopped, and those who had survived the shelling looked out. That face changed color in an instant. His eyes turned red.
Fill the battlefield through the smoke of gunpowder. They saw a large black skirmish line appear in the white snow in front of them, and the cold light of thousands of bayonets flashing in the sun.
"The Chinese Yankees!"
I don't know who shouted first, there seemed to be a hint of excitement in that shout, they seemed to want to vent their anger, the deadly shelling had taken too many lives before, and now. These damned Chinese have finally begun to attack!
"Shoot!"
Just as the Russian soldiers shouted and raised their Mosinagan rifles to aim and fire, a shrill or dull whistling sound was heard again above their heads, and a new round of shelling began. Once again, the position was plunged into a sea of fire, and at the same time as the dense barrage fell on the Russian position, the charging troops had advanced to a position less than a hundred meters away from the Russian position.
When Li Long charged with a bayonet, he could even hear the wind whistling in his ears, and other than that, all he could hear in his ears was the sound of his own heartbeat. Other than that, there was no other sound.
Panting for air. His eyes were straight ahead, his cold steel helmet clasped over his head, but he didn't feel anything, neither its weight nor its coldness, he just rushed forward with his gun in his hand.
Closer, closer, closer!
Through the thick cloud of smoke, Li Long saw the position of the Russians—a black line in the snow and ice, a trench only half a man deep. At this moment, the cloud of smoke that was constantly blowing up extended towards the rear of the Russian army, and Li Long and his comrades were only a few dozen meters away from the Russian position. The bullets fired by the Russians kept whistling around them, and from time to time a comrade-in-arms was knocked to the ground.
"Grenade ......"
In the shouts of the squad and platoon commanders, Jin Xianzhong, who was holding a gun in his left hand and a grenade in his right hand, was the same as his comrades, his body was slammed, his body was like a slingshot, and he threw his right hand high and his wrist buckled, and when the grenade came out of his hand, the fire ring on the little thumb pulled out the fire rope casually, so the grenade was pulled at the same time as the shot, and the fire rope was hung on the little thumb.
At the moment when the grenade came out of his hand, Jin Xianzhong directly squatted on the ground, immediately picked up the rifle, aimed at the Russian army in the trench, and immediately pulled the trigger at the moment when the crosshair pressed the Russian soldier.
Almost at the same time as the back seat of the gun, Li Long pulled the bolt again, and the smooth bolt of the Han-style rifle showed its advantage at this time, just two or three seconds when the Russians were about to rush out of the trench, he and his comrades had already fired a second salvo, hundreds of bullets fell on the Russians like a rain of machine gun bullets, only to delay the actions of the Russian troops who tried to break out of the trench and launch a counter-charge.
When they fired the second round, the second wave of troops behind him and his comrades was charging at full speed.
Just when the second wave of assault troops was about to arrive at the position of the first wave of assault troops, clouds of smoke exploded in the trenches of the Russian army, and the grenades thrown earlier exploded near the trenches and trenches, and the Russian troops who had just rushed out of the trenches were instantly shrouded in the smoke cloud of the grenade, and the Russian soldiers who were lucky not to be killed by the grenade were also blown up this time.
"Kill!"
At the moment when the grenade exploded, the shouts of killing on the battlefield became a loud sound, and in the midst of that shouting and killing, Li Long had already jumped into the Russian trench, and when the Russian soldier in front of him was about to raise his rifle, with a heavy shout, the bayonet at the head of the gun pierced into the chest of the Russian.
Step Assassination, rotate 45 degrees to the left, draw the knife...... Thousands of times of training have made this action instinctive, and in this instinct, he forgot the previous fear, and only instinctively repeated the action that had long become a cost in thousands of trainings.
Spike! Left defense, right defense...... Kill!
At this time, the Russian trenches were completely a river of blood, full of desperately tore trenches, those Russian soldiers who survived tried to beat back the Chinese soldiers who rushed up with longer bayonets and the advantage of height, and those soldiers who had just rushed up wanted to seize their defense line from these Russians, and a fierce hand-to-hand combat that had never been seen before was immediately staged on the battlefield.
As the battle intensified, no one noticed that the shells that were fired at the rear of the Russian positions became sparse, but not everyone noticed, and almost as soon as the fire became thin, the Russian reinforcements were immediately thrown into the battlefield.
"What's going on! What are the artillerymen for! ”
Zhang Huaizhi, who was supervising the battle at the forefront, couldn't believe his eyes. The moment when the Russian reinforcements were about to march to the front were seen through the binoculars. First scolded. Then he commanded loudly again.
"Put all the reserves into it at once! Tell all the officers that either they will take the Russians' positions alive, or they will enter the Martyrs' Shrine with Lao Tzu! ”
Without any hesitation, Zhang Huaizhi was keenly aware that it was time to compete in will.
"Sir, the artillery regiment reports that there are now only five or six shells left for each gun!"
Li Chun's voice seemed a little nervous, there were only five or six shells left, which was not even enough to fight for half a minute! The firepower of rapid-fire guns is powerful. But it is no less a waste of shells.
"The last shell must be fired, and the shell must be finished with the last bullet, and then the bayonet will be killed!"
With a loud roar, Zhang Huaizhi, whose eyes were red, violently unbuttoned the wind and discipline button at the collar and ordered at Li Chun.
"Order the machine gun unit to carry the machine gun on my shoulders and shoot at close range! Grandma's, I don't believe that I can't beat Lao Maozi's defense, you go in person, who dares to take half a step back, kill! ”
At the same time as he roared and shouted. Zhang Huaizhi threw away the binoculars in his hand, and the person walked out of the shelter. Came to the forward trench, when he arrived at the forward trench, he saw that the soldiers of the machine gun squad had already carried heavy machine guns and advanced towards the front line where the soldiers were in full swing, machine guns, which was the biggest advantage of the Northeast Army over the Russians.
Zhang Huaizhi didn't know what he had inadvertently created, at this time, for him, he had only one thought - to seize the position of the Russians, after the artillery fired the last shell, all he thought of was to turn the machine gun into artillery, and if it was blocked by his own people, then shoot at close range.
Compared with the Maxim machine gun, the Shen heavy machine gun is not heavy, in fact, it can be described as lightweight, the weight of the gun body is only 12 kilograms, the weight of the gun carriage is only 7.4 kilograms, less than 20 kilograms of heavy machine guns, if necessary, even one can lift it up, but in this snowy battlefield, this heavy machine gun needs to be carried by two soldiers, one carries the gun, and the other carries a tripod.
As a machine gunner, Tian Yiyuan witnessed his comrades tearing and killing in front, and when he was powerless, his heart was like a fire, and he wanted to shoot, but the shooting area was blocked by his comrades, almost at the moment when he received the order to attack, he immediately released the fixing bolt, and strode towards the front line of the two armies with his gun.
In the rapid gunfire, dozens of bullets really drilled into the dense reinforcements, and suddenly swept down a large area, and suddenly appeared on the battlefield machine guns, which suddenly turned the tide of the battle at this moment, and the machine guns that were originally trapped in the firing range and could not provide cover for the attacking troops to block the Russian reinforcements immediately poured bullets at the Russians after arriving at the front line, and the machine guns that spit out the flames of the long spears instantly became the most eye-catching stars on the battlefield, and the Chinese and Russian riflemen who were originally desperately tearing apart immediately realized the change in the situation.
"Protect the machine gun!"
Just when the Russian infantry tried to attack the machine guns, the sharp-eyed riflemen shouted loudly, and took the initiative to gather around the machine guns, forming a protective circle around the machine guns, any Russian who tried to attack the machine guns was either stabbed down by bayonets or hit by rifle bullets, under the cover of the infantry, more than a dozen machine guns were almost directly mounted on the chest wall of the Russian trenches, shooting at the Russian soldiers in the trenches or behind the trenches.
The situation on the battlefield underwent a fundamental reversal in the strafing of firepower on this side, and the attacking troops, which seemed to be about to be pressed back by Russian reinforcements, not only gained a firm foothold in the positions of the Russians, but also launched an attack on the depth of the Russian army under the cover of machine guns.
"Machine guns, accompany the attack!"
The company platoon commanders shouted loudly, and after a fierce tear-off, the machine guns immediately showed their importance, and the company commanders of each company took the initiative to keep only one machine gun, after all, there were not many machine guns. And when attacking, they would protect the machine guns with one infantry platoon, and while the machine guns were covering, the other two platoons would attack.
Brutal warfare always teaches people tactics first, and after some blood and fire, these soldiers finally learned how to attack with the machine gun, which was a bit bulky, but it did not prevent them from developing a new tactic.
"Hooray!"
Looking at the situation of the battle completely reversed from the telescope, Zhang Huaizhi couldn't help but shout, but in his heart he was more glad that God was on his side.
"God forbid!"
Secretly rejoicing, he saw through the telescope that the black tide in the snow was very conspicuous, and the line of white, which was almost integrated with the snow, was the Russians in white military uniforms, but they were constantly retreating under the machine-gun pursuit of the attacking troops. On the positions of the Russians, red flags have been planted.
"Ordered a pursuit?"
Li Chun asked the chief.
"Of course, we have to pursue, take advantage of the fact that the Russians have not reacted, press the troops up, press them desperately, draw the 7th reinforced battalion over to reinforce the 24th Regiment, attack the Russian positions from the flank, don't let the Russians catch their breath, order the 23rd Regiment to wait for an opportunity to break through the Russian defensive line!"
One order after another came out of Zhang Huaizhi's mouth, maybe he had his own selfishness, but at this moment he was an extremely qualified general, at least he did not miss any opportunities, those fleeting opportunities on the battlefield often determine the outcome of a battle.
After giving these orders, Zhang Huaizhi stared at the battlefield, looking at the smoke of gunpowder, and suddenly ordered Li Chun.
"If my expectations are correct, the Russian reinforcements must be coming over soon, Li Chun, I order you to lead the cavalry battalion around the rear of the Russians......"
Now the road to Vladivostok has been opened, and the troops have been able to enter the rear of the Russians.
"You have to keep in touch with Russian reinforcements at all times, but you must not fight the Russians head-on, understand?"
"Sir?"
Li Chun seemed a little puzzled by this order, and he couldn't even figure out why.
"The Russians have no more reinforcements than a division, we are almost out of shells now, and your task is to delay the Russians, not to block the Russians from the front, understand? Let's talk ...... again."
Glancing into the distance, Zhang Huaizhi smiled.
"If I'm not bad, as soon as you show up on the Russian flank, those Russians will definitely retreat, because ......"
The words paused slightly, and Zhang Huaizhi's expression looked a little proud.
"Vladivostok is more important than here!" (To be continued.) )