[258] Skirmish

As early as a week ago, the Russian army in the Far East had discovered the build-up of Chinese troops in the border area and notified Moscow, and at the behest of the War Department in Moscow, the Russian army had carried out a troop movement with a fearless posture.

Thanks to the 600 radio transceivers that were imported from China at a cost of 3 million gold rubles in the past few years, the Russian army has now established a division-level radio contact system, and the strength of the country's 20 armies and more than 60 divisions under its jurisdiction all have their own radio stations. Russia has also used radio stations to form a radio network connecting the major cities of the country.

However, in China in 1881, radio had been popularized to the company-level formation of infantry, and artillery was to achieve separate command of each basic unit, and the radio command was implemented to the most basic combat unit, so as to adapt to the artillery tactics of the Republic that was independent of the world at this time.

Unlike the single dense positions of concentrated artillery deployment that was popular among the European powers at this time, the textbooks of the artillery school of the Republic of China required that each artillery position be set up in a relatively scattered manner, and the artillery commander could centrally command it by radio to prevent the situation of being attacked by the enemy, and at the same time, it could cooperate with the attack on the front line and flexibly deploy and change the artillery position.

After the crushing victory in the 10th Russian-Turkish War, the Russian army also carried out military reforms in the past two years, the most important of which was the strengthening of the requirements for digging trenches. After learning from the experience of blindly launching a large group of bayonet charges in the Russian-Turkish war, the Russian army began to emphasize that on the premise of basing itself on the defense of the trenches, it would exhaust the opponent's sharpness before launching a straggler line attack, and only when the strength was greatly stronger than the opponent's, it would take bayonet charges to seize the position.

Due to the tragic slaughter of the Russian army by the Winchester 1866 burst rifle of the Turks in the 10th Russo-Turkish War, the Russian army learned from the pain and decided to eliminate the single-shot rifle. Relying on the high domestic taxes attached to the import of advanced industrial products from China, the tsar earned a large amount of taxes, and thus gradually phased out the existing domestic Paedin rifles in the army, which imitated the French Sharps single-shot rifle, and began a large-scale rearmament.

Due to the outstanding performance of the Chinese Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in the War of Liberation and subsequent battles, the whole world is very enthusiastic about this mysterious rifle. Russia had hoped that China would export the prestigious Type 56 rifle to get a chance to copy it, but it was refused. China has stated that in order to maintain the stability of the world, it will not export weapons to any country for the time being.

As a result, the Russian War Ministry began a large-scale imitation of Winchester 1866, and at the same time asked Britain to import this type of rifle. Britain, which had nothing to do with money and could not prohibit Russian imitations, agreed to Russia's import requirements and sold more than 5,000 Winchester 1866 to Russia, plus Russia's own imitations, so the Russian army appeared a mixture of new and old rifles, and completed the refitting of an infantry regiment under each division.

Major Orich, commander of the Russian army at the Polanich Fortress on the east side of the Suifen River, is anxiously using the binoculars that Russia has just copied and produced in the past two years to observe the Chinese troops rushing along the road.

"The Chinese left the road five kilometers away, formed a straggler formation, and surrounded us along the nearby hills and forests." Staff Officer Barrozo said.

"The formation of the Chinese is sparse, and it is too far away from us now, so tell the artillery not to fire indiscriminately, and wait for the Chinese to enter the distance of two kilometers before firing." All infantry companies stick to the trenches, don't rush to attack, use the fire of repeating rifles, and teach the Chinese a hard lesson! Battalion Commander Aurich ordered.

At this moment, in the observation post of the Russian army, all the officers suddenly found that there were strange-looking vehicles rumbling out of the road, the appearance of these vehicles was completely different from the expensive Chinese jeeps or tractors on the European market, there were actually five wheels on both sides, and two small wheels that did not touch the ground rotated one after the other, and the wheels were wrapped with a layer of tracks that looked like they were made of steel.

Even more strange on the green cars was that there was no window to be found, and there was a bulging bulge on it, on which a long stick stretched out in front of it, and this stick ...... It's a lot like a cannon barrel, but with such a slender barrel, won't it blow up......

Before the Russian army could react, the 4th Division, the vanguard of the 10th Army, had already begun shelling.

Han Shihai, commander of the 10th Division, ordered from a temporary command post hidden on the hill in the distance: "The 1st Tank Battalion has begun to assault, order the 30th Infantry Regiment to follow!"

The 401st Artillery Battalion, in cooperation with the Infantry Assault Group, launched a twenty-minute non-stop artillery bombardment of the enemy's positions with 152mm howitzers!

The 31st and 32nd Infantry Regiments were arranged in accordance with the predetermined one-point-two-sided tactical arrangement, and made all their efforts to outflank and attack the enemy's fortress group from both sides.

The mortar companies of each regiment accompanied the infantry forward, entered the preset position, and when the shelling of the 152mm howitzer battalion was over, the infantry artillery coordination immediately began!

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"Pay attention to each artillery position, listen to my order, and fire the cannon in order according to the binding yuan!" Teng Yifeng, commander of the 401st Artillery Battalion, ordered on the radio after receiving the order from the division commander.

So the 4th Artillery Battalion of the 10th Division of the 401st Army was activated, and 12 152mm howitzers began the next 20 minutes of heavy artillery bombardment from the position ten kilometers away.

The Polanich fortress shook for a while, and the whistling 152mm large-caliber shells were like Thor's hammers, hitting the Russian positions one by one, and the simple cement bunkers were overturned, and the trenches were blown down, and the Russian troops in the trenches died in an instant, and the stumps of flesh mixed with the soil were blown into the sky.

"Large-caliber artillery! The Chinese used large-caliber artillery! Major Orić was terrified.

In the blue sky of the Far East, a red star painted under its wings, the number 1001 Chujiao 6 swept over the Polanich fortress from a height of 400 meters like a light swallow, and the pilot Chen Weipeng used the headset on his helmet to simply send back the parameters of the aerial fire to the ground.

"Here is 1001, according to visual inspection, the drop point is 25 east and 10 south, repeat, east 25, south 10."

"Here are 4 episodes of empty fingers, 25 in the east, 10 in the south, received, 1001 continue to observe."

"1001 understands."

The Air Force Liaison Command Center of the 4th Army immediately notified the 401st Artillery Battalion, and the battalion commander Teng Yifeng continued the shelling after informing him that the artillery binding parameters had been corrected.

The infantry of the 10th Division rushed from the hills, or from the valleys, or from the forests, in all directions, but the speed was not as fast as the 1st Tank Battalion, which had already descended the road at this moment, and along both sides of the road, the 1st Tank Battalion, which was advancing at 20 kilometers per hour, was the 30th Infantry Regiment of the 10th Division, which was the central assault group, and was carrying out infantry accompanying operations for the 1st Tank Battalion.

The 43 Type 62 light tanks of the 1st Tank Battalion of the 4th Army advanced at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and when they approached the Russian positions in and around the Polanich fortress, the loaders on the tanks began to strafe the Russian positions with 12.7mm high machines.

After a full twenty minutes of shelling by 12 152mm howitzers, the Polanich Fortress has been blown up, and the entire three-kilometer-long and one-kilometer-wide oval position was blown up like broken eggs, and the egg yolk protein flowed to the ground, and the surviving Russian troops trembled in the trench.

The 1st Tank Battalion and the 30th Infantry Regiment of the 10th Division of the 4th Episode did not stop, roaring mercilessly over the Russian trench defense line, closely chasing the fleeing Russian army, the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, the Type 81 light machine gun and the tank machine gun roared, constantly harvesting lives, and the regiment's recoilless artillery company fired occasionally, firing high-explosive anti-personnel grenades at the depth of the Russian position. Not to be outdone, the regimental mortar company fired shells at the fleeing Russian troops.

When the last Gatling gun position on the right flank of the Russian position was rushed into by the 62 Light Tan, this outpost battle was basically over like a Gatling gun crushed by a track.