Chapter 246: The Fall of the Soviet Tank Division (Collision II)

"General!"

In the 11th Division of the Mechanized Infantry Division stationed in Mongolia, in Rao Guohua's command tank, the signal soldier put down his headset and said to Rao Guohua, "General, Commander Xu of the garrison area wants to talk to you." ”

"Hmm." Rao Guohua took off the radio headset hanging on the wall of the tank, put it on and said, "I'm Rao Guohua...... Yes, understood! ”

Half-ringing, Rao Guohua put down his headphones and smiled, if it weren't for the tank space being too small, it was estimated that he would wave his hand to express his excitement, but he still ordered with a happy voice, "Order the whole division to speed up and aim at the Hudaili River." ”

Just now, the commander of the garrison area personally gave his order, accelerated his advance, and prepared to engage a Soviet tank division that was about to arrive on the Sino-Soviet border.

What needs to be done now is to arrive at the Hudaili line of fire ahead of the Soviet troops, take the initiative to choose the battlefield to meet the enemy, and be ready to wait for work.

At the sound of the order, the entire mechanized infantry division began to advance at full speed, and after the 11th division entered the city of Selenga, it was only thirty miles away from the front line of the Hudaili River, half the distance less than the Soviets. And the real marching time, the overall speed of the 11th Division is even faster.

"Old Niu, how are the nearby herdsmen evacuating?"

At the front-line command post of Hudaili River, Wang Zhengke, head of the frontier regiment, asked after seeing political commissar Niu Shanhe walk in. With the war about to expand, the People's Army has been ordered to evacuate people from the northern part of Hudaili County.

"Just now, the commander of the militia company in Hudaili County called and said that the area closest to the border in the northern region has been evacuated first, and the rest is estimated to be later tomorrow. This is also because there are very few herders in the northern part of Hudaili, and they live in a concentrated area, so it is easy to evacuate. ”

Niu Shanhe picked up the kettle on the stove in the house and poured a cup of tea, the unique brick tea in Mongolia has a strong flavor, and it tastes dry and refreshing.

"Wang Tuan, how is the position being constructed?"

"There's no way to build it, we used other methods, let's go, I'll take you to see it." Wang Zhengke picked up the military hat on the wall, and Niu Shanhe took the guards out of the front finger.

"Yo, this scene is really lively, haha......"

When the two came to the Chinese side of the Hudaili River, they saw that the scene was really lively, only to see that the river had been completely blown up, and neither tanks nor people could pass through, and the People's Army had only deployed a small number of troops near the river, and the main force of the border regiment was placed on a five-kilometer-long Sino-Soviet land border zone.

The entire defensive area is about seven or eight kilometers long, and in the Mongolian steppe of Pingchuan, it is not too far, and the defense line is only a few minutes back and forth from east to west through the trucks of the border guard regiment as wartime support tools. That's the beauty of the savannah, even in winter, trucks with snow chains can run freely.

Of course, the flat terrain, suitable for the rapid march of mechanized troops, on the Mongolian plain, is also suitable for the rapid invasion of the enemy, which is also an important reason why the People's Army deployed heavy troops in the Mongolian region to defend against the Soviets.

In one night, the squadron was able to storm into Siberia, and in the same way, in one night, without resistance, the Soviets were able to storm into the heart of Mongolia.

Several military trucks dragging water pumps took icy water from the Hudaili River, and after the thick ice layer was blown through, the ice water hidden deep below was exposed, and a truckload of ice water was quickly pumped out of the river, and then quickly transported to the position.

On the other side, thousands of KPA soldiers were collecting a large amount of snow and ice, and quickly piled up a snow wall several kilometers long, which was more than a meter high.

Then trucks pull the icy river water over and pour it all the way through, quickly pouring water on the ice wall.

In just ten minutes, the watered snow wall quickly condensed into a wall of ice, and in the more complex section of the fortification, the sappers also built artillery emplacements for the regiment's artillery, anti-tank guns, and even anti-aircraft guns.

"At this rate, when the 11th Division arrives, we will be able to provide a more stable forward base. It is still necessary to pay attention to the problem of air defense, the snow stopped in the afternoon, and the planes of the Soviets are coming, and we cannot throw everything to the Air Force. Lieutenant Colonel Wang Zhengke knew that as the weather cleared in the afternoon, the battle had just begun, and the Soviets had a large number of planes stationed in the Kyakhta area, although they were all old models, but they were still fighters.

"Well, I see that several anti-aircraft gun positions and anti-aircraft machine gun positions are well repaired, and if they only take on some low-intensity air defense tasks, it will be enough."

It is more regrettable that in this snowy steppe, it is impossible to quickly build an anti-artillery hole, and the only way to rely on Kulen's air force to confront the Soviets is to do so.

"Report to the regiment commander, the vanguard of the 11th Division has arrived."

"Huh? So fast. Let's go, old cow, go and meet General Rao Guohua. ”

From time to time, in the front headquarters of the Hudaili River, Wang Zhengke and Niu Shanhe met with Major General Rao Guohua, commander of the 11th Division of the Mechanized Infantry Division, who arrived with a large force.

"Salute!"

"You've worked hard. What's going on now? Rao Guohua returned a military salute, and then asked, just now the garrison has issued the latest enemy situation, the task of the mechanized division in addition to defending the front line of Hudaili, the most important thing is to eat a tank division that the Soviets are about to come up.

"The situation on the Khudairi line is relatively stable for now, and the herdsmen have been moved to the southern part of the county, during which a small number of Bolsheviks are making trouble, and they have all been dealt with. Reinforcements also arrived from the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side, about a regiment or so, they did not rush into the attack, they should also be waiting for the air force and the tank divisions behind.

Judging by the pace of the Soviets' march, their other 3 ordinary divisions will not arrive until tomorrow at noon, and today our opponents will be mainly the air and tank divisions of the Soviets. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Zhengke briefly explained the current situation.

Rao Guohua nodded, he has an infantry regiment, an artillery regiment and other auxiliary combat units that can be put into defensive operations, and the reinforced tank regiment will directly collide with the enemy's tank division.

"The command of the infantry will be in charge of the 11th Division's deputy division commander, Colonel Wei Guoguo, and Commander Wang will be his deputy." Rao Guohua wanted to devote all his energy to tank battles, and handed over the defensive operations on the infantry side to the deputy division commander and Wang Zhengke.

"Yes!" Wei Guoguo and Wang Zhengke on the side saluted.

Subsequently, the chief of staff of the 11th Division began to lead the staff officers to lay out detailed battle plans, including infantry defensive operations and tank operations, and anti-tank operations. One of the key points is to build more fortifications.

The war was imminent, and Rao Guohua stepped out of the front finger and began to check the readiness of the troops.

"At the moment, the situation of each tank company is similar, it needs to be replenished with fuel, and the machine is still being overhauled. The Tiger 2 ran for more than 100 kilometers on this ice and snow day, and there were no more than five of them lying on the ground, which can be regarded as withstanding the test. "Zuo Quan, deputy commander of the 11th Division, is responsible for the equipment and marching of the troops, and of the 51 tanks in the entire division, 46 can participate in the battle, and the remaining 5 are lying on the halfway.

Rao Guohua didn't pay much attention to the five tanks lying in the nest, and in the harsh winter of Outer Mongolia, even the Tiger II tank had a high rate of marching and lying down, not to mention the T26 and BT17 of the Soviets, which had a frightening failure rate for forced marches on ice and snow days.

According to his estimates, this tank division of the Soviets may have more than 100 tanks at full strength, but it is still unknown whether it is full, and even if it is full, it will at least lie on the road for a considerable part of the forced march on such a snowy day.

Standing in front of the mighty Tiger 2, Rao Guohua said with emotion that although the number of Chinese tanks is not as large as that of the Soviets, in terms of advanced level, they are at least three or four years stronger than the main tanks of the Soviets.

Even if the Soviets were catalyzed by the war, it would take quite some time for the Soviets to quickly innovate their tanks to catch up with the Chinese Tiger 2.

At this time, the updated Tiger 3 will also be deployed to the troops, with more powerful firepower, stronger tank engines, thicker armor, and stronger comprehensive combat power.

In Rao Guohua's view, it seems that the People's Army has always been short of advanced weapons, but it is only for the purpose of comprehensively building this once very backward country, with limited equipment, and once the war requires, this country, which has been downplayed by the world, will burst out with super combat power.

For the upcoming battle, Rao Guohua is not worried much.

In addition to its strong mobility and strong engine, the biggest advantage of the Tiger II tank is its fierce firepower, and the 85mm tank gun with a caliber of 71 times can penetrate almost all the main battle tanks in the world at present, and even the heavy tanks that the perverted Germans are about to produce cannot withstand its direct hit at a certain distance.

With low manufacturing costs, thick armor, strong mobility, low failure rate, and fierce firepower, it can be said that the Tiger 2 is already a very mature main battle tank. With a total weight of 35 tons, it is fully capable of becoming the trump card of medium tanks in the world.

On the other hand, the T26 and BT7 of the Soviets, although not too backward in the world, are much behind compared to the Tiger 2 tank. After all, the Soviets did not work as hard as Britain, Germany and France on the development of tanks, and since Zhang Shusheng handed over the tank drawings to the Germans, the development of tanks has always been faster than that of the Soviets.

And what about the Soviets? Even the prototype of the BT7 is still an American tank.

At present, the main tanks of the two Soviets have weak armor, and the tank guns are only 35mm and 45mm respectively, which is very weak in front of the Tiger 2.

All this is due to the fact that the Soviet Union has not experienced a large-scale war for the time being, and the development of tanks is a little slow, although they may rapidly develop their own tanks after the outbreak of World War II, but at present, the Soviet Red Army tank units that blindly rely on numbers will be taught a lesson by the Chinese armored forces.

Quantity can sometimes represent an advantage, but it can also represent garbage.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the air forces of both sides had not yet appeared over the battlefield, and the tank divisions of the Soviets had arrived.

On the Chinese side of the border, the tank reinforcement regiment of the 11th Division, which had been prepared for a long time and was ready to attack at the slightest order.

If you don't play your cards according to common sense, you will beat the Soviets if you want to fight, this is an order from the military headquarters forwarded from the garrison area.

Rao Guohua coughed lightly twice, motioned to the communications staff officer to turn on the command radio, and pointed into the wireless telephone microphone, he began to say, "Brothers of the tank regiment of the 11th Mechanized Infantry Division, I am Rao Guohua.

Raising soldiers for a thousand years, using soldiers for a while. The value of the existence of military personnel is to protect their families and defend the country and expand their territory. Over the years, I have been waiting for the rest of the country, in order to be able to stand up and protect China when the country is in trouble and the nation is in trouble.

Thirty years ago, fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, we in China were poor and weak, there were the British, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Tsarist Russians, and myself, too many imperialist powers, cutting flesh from us again and again.

At that time, we did not have spears and cannons, only machetes and spears, but although the martyrs who resisted failed, they made their best with weapons far inferior to those of the great powers.

It's not that they don't resist, it's that the state is too weak and the army is too weak.

More than ten years ago, General Xu Shuzheng, it was in Outer Mongolia, here to fight back against the Soviets' conspiracy to split Mongolia, and today, we are fortunate to be a member of the protectorate, we have more advanced equipment, a stronger country, a stronger soldier, the country has a generation of talented people, today, let us participate in changing history.

Now I order, activate your tanks, counterattack the Soviets, and let our tanks torrent charge the Soviets! Charge! Charge!! Imperial Chinese Armored Corps, Forward!! ”

On the other side, Soviet tank divisions had just arrived.

"Welcome, General Pavlov."

Comrade Yumalov, commander of the regiment of the Western Siberian Military District of the USSR, the Kyakhta region, who was ordered to support the Soviet army on the Hudairi River, saluted Major General Pavlov, commander of the 3rd Tank Division of the Western Siberian Military District, who had just arrived.

"How's it going? Colonel Yumalov. "Pavlov has just come out of the tank, he, like most tank commanders, has the habit of riding in tanks, although the space of the BT7 fast tank is cramped, and the smell of oil is particularly strong, but it has to be said that Comrade Pavlov is a responsible commander of a tank division of the Red Army.

Although Yumarov was ordered to support, when he arrived, the Hudaili River was already a mess, although the Chinese did not rush across the border line to clean up the poor remnants of the Soviet Red Army, but began to stretch several kilometers of ice and snow positions on the opposite bank, and in desperation, Yumarov could only order to start learning from the Chinese and building forward positions.

The raid has turned into a border battle.

"Chinese reinforcements have also arrived, and they are building fortifications on the other side of the river."

Pavlov frowned slightly, in his plan, he was supposed to take this tank division with only about eighty percent of the tanks left to rush directly into China from the land border, however, even if these tanks braved the wind and snow to reach the front line, many of them had problems, and it would take a while to overhaul them.

He had no choice but to abandon his intention to attack immediately, and ordered the tank to be urgently repaired, while preparing for the attack.

Picking up the binoculars, Pavlov looked at the ice and snow fortifications built by the Chinese opposite, and couldn't help but laugh, "Stupid Chinese, the last country of capitalism, although they have heard about the rapid economic development over the years, they will never understand what a tank division means to their fragile defense line." ”

"Yes, General Pavlov's tank division will tear down the ice and snow fortifications of the Chinese like a mud wall." Yumarov did not have any nervousness when he saw the Chinese building the simple ice and snow fortifications, and in his opinion, the simple ice and snow fortifications against bullets and shell fragments may still have some effect, but in front of the Red Army tank divisions, they will be vulnerable and not worth mentioning.

"The economic development of the Chinese in recent years has been good, I heard that they are also equipped with some tanks, maybe after we arrive in Kulen, we will meet some of their tanks, but I don't know how effective it is, I hope it will not disappoint me too much." At Pavlov's level, he can also see some classified information. In Mongolia on the opposite side, the Chinese did also deploy heavy troops, and even had tank troops, but, according to intelligence, this kind of tank with unknown surname is pitifully small, and there is only one and a half tank divisions in the entire Outer Mongolia region, and the Soviet Red Army has three tank divisions within a radius of 500 kilometers from Kyakhta alone.

As for the victory, Pavlov did not want to hope for it, and his only purpose was to quickly break through the Chinese defense line and let them see the might of the tank divisions of the Soviet Red Army.

"We will bully Chinese like the Germans bully the Poles, hahaha......"

Thinking of the happy place, Pavlov couldn't help laughing loudly, the infantry was blocked by the Chinese at the border, and he would drive the tank, singing all the way into China, lucky, maybe even close to Kulen, which is the most important city in Outer Mongolia.

"Boys, hurry up and trim up, otherwise, your military exploits will be snatched away by the group of damned guys in the Air Force, as well as the three infantry divisions that are crawling in the snow behind, haha." Pavlov had never felt so happy, far from the Iron Curtain of the Bolsheviks, because this was the battlefield, and as a soldier, a general, he was happiest only on the battlefield away from politics.

According to the information just obtained, the Air Force will attack in an hour, and it will be on a large scale, and if it moves any more slowly, the credit will be taken away by the Air Force.

General Pavlov believed that instead of letting the squadron [***] cry under the bombardment of the Air Force, it would be better to die under the crushing of the tank divisions of the Red Army.

"They vilely used planes to invade us, but we will return fire with the attack of tank divisions."

However, just five minutes later, General Pavlov received a message that left him stunned.

"General Pavlov, tank units have been spotted in the direction of our right flank, suspected Chinese units, who are about to break through to our border line." A Red Army staff officer jumped out of the truck and, as fast as he could, ran to Pavlov to report the sudden news.

In the morning, the Soviets attacked the Chinese from the land border in the right flank, and with the ice river completely blown up, the main point of contention between the two sides would also be placed at the land border.

"Good!" General Pavlov couldn't help laughing, then climbed into the tank, stood on the roof of the BT7 fast tank, waved his hands and shouted: "41st Tank Division, forward!!" Boys, use your tanks to destroy all evil capitalism, eliminate ambitious imperialists, and eliminate the Chinese! ”

"Ula !!"

Immediately, thousands of Soviet Red Army troops erupted into high-pitched hoorays, one by one quickly returned to the tanks, started the engines, and the entire tank division, led by the tank troops, quickly rushed towards the right flank position, followed by a motorized infantry regiment. And the artillery regiment and the anti-aircraft regiment also formed a battle queue, ready to support the battle.

The two armies soon met.

Rao Guohua put the towed artillery regiment behind him, and did not lead an infantry regiment, but just led a reinforced tank regiment, and rushed across the Sino-Soviet border.

"Whew~!"

The Soviets were still much better than their own equipment.

When the first Tiger 2 tank climbed the slope of the Soviet position, an anti-tank shell came from a distance, flew by the side, and exploded on the ground not far away.

"Woohoo......"

The Tiger No. 2 in front of the car, quickly rotated the turret, the tank was not completely stopped, the whole turret shook suddenly, the muzzle jumped up slightly, an 85mm tank shell rushed out of the chamber, and exploded at an anti-tank gun point of the Soviet army just now, and several Soviet troops and an anti-tank gun were blown into the sky.

"The Chinese's tanks hit too accurately!"

Unlike some recruits who ran back in fear when they saw the Chinese behemoths rushing up, some veterans began to retreat in an orderly manner, and their own tanks, they had also seen a lot, but they were relatively small, although the speed was fast, but the barrel was much smaller than the Chinese's tank guns.

However, the Chinese tank, not to mention the mighty look, the thick barrel, one shot down is comparable to an ordinary field gun, how to fight!

"Attack, whoever retreats will be shot."

A low-level Soviet instructor saw that the situation was not good, and drew his pistol to deter and shoot the soldiers who were rapidly retreating, however, the next moment, a Chinese tiger spotted him, and the vehicle-mounted machine gun on the roof of the car extended fire, beating the brave Soviet instructor to minced meat.

The next moment, most of the Chinese tanks rushed to the position, and the front one crushed a sickle flag of the Soviet army under the tank tracks and charged in the direction of the Soviet tanks' assembly.

Now is the best time, and the air forces of both sides have not yet invested a large number of military planes to participate in the air battle, except for battlefield reconnaissance, and the tanks will decide the victory or defeat in advance.

"Full speed ahead!"

Almost at the same time, after climbing over a small hill, Rao Guohua finally saw from the command mirror of the tank that the Soviet tank division on the opposite side, about 2 tank regiments of Soviet tanks, was also charging with all its might.

It was a Soviet tank division consisting of BT7 fast tanks and T26 tanks.

"Attack!!"

Pavlov, the commander of the Soviet tank division, also discovered the Chinese tank unit at the same time, although he was a little surprised by the huge size of the Chinese tanks, but after thinking about it for a moment, wouldn't it be easier to hit the other side?

Rao Guohua tightly grasped the handle of the inner wall of the tank, the tank was moving at full speed, and the bumps were very strong, even if the anti-bump design of the Tiger 2 was relatively successful, it was still very shaky.

However, he was not uncomfortable, but nervous, and he was about to represent the Chinese tank forces and exchange fire with the Soviet armored forces.

According to intelligence, the tank units of the Soviets were not fully equipped with radios, and they all relied on battle groups to fight, and communication was not smooth. And the Chinese tank, the Tiger 2 tank, has all implemented on-board radios, which is a remarkable progress.

"Once in range, shoot freely and do not underestimate your opponent, even if their main gun is small." Rao Guohua shouted into the radio and ordered, this is an excellent opportunity, actual combat, complete actual combat, but the safety factor is very high.

Rao Guohua's command tank rushed to the third or fourth position, and was the first batch of Chinese tanks to enter the effective firing range, 85mm tank guns, 990 meters of effective tank gun range, while the Soviets' old tanks with single-row load-bearing wheels were still trying to charge, and 35mm and 45mm tank guns entered the effective firing range too early.

"Give them a taste of what we're awe."

Although Pavlov was a little jealous of the size and thick barrel of Chinese tanks, he thought of the tank warfare theory he learned in the military academy, and the theory of winning by quantity has always been an important one. And, perhaps, the Chinese are bloated because of poor technology.

As long as they enter the firing range, they will order the tank divisions to concentrate artillery bombardment, and strive to destroy part of them, looking at their dozens of tanks, if they are the first to be destroyed, it will be tantamount to failure.

"Entering the effective range, free fire!"

Rao Guohua roared and gave the order, commanding the tanks to adjust their shooting first, aiming at the Soviet tanks rushing densely more than 800 meters away, aiming slightly, and then firing.

"Bang!"

Like a muffled sonic boom, the Chinese tanks began to fire intensively.

"Damn!!"

After seeing the Chinese tanks firing, Pavlov subconsciously cursed angrily, hoping that his tank division would be able to resist the first wave of attacks by the Chinese.

However, in a matter of moments, Pavlov realized the seriousness of the problem.

"Boom ......"

During the intensive fire of at least a dozen tanks of the Chinese, at least seven or eight Soviet tanks were hit by the first wave.

Under the penetration explosion of 85mm armor-piercing shells, BT7 and T26 were hit by Chinese tank guns while they were still outside the effective range, and then detonated from the inside.

The violent explosion instantly woke up Pavlov, and he realized a fatal problem, "The tanks of the Chinese are far more powerful than they imagined." ”

"Dispersal, accelerated, dispersed, accelerated!!"

After Pavlov gave the order, several command tanks stretched out command flags, and the Soviet tank battle groups began to charge under the fierce tank fire of the Chinese, and in less than a minute they could enter the effective firing range, but this distance will be a line of life and death.

"Well done!! Keep shooting. ”

As more and more Chinese tanks began to come into range, the Tiger 2 began to fire intensively, and one after another armor-piercing shells came out of their chambers and flew towards the dense Soviet tank group opposite.

Although the Soviets dispersed rapidly, there were still tanks hit by the Chinese Tiger 2, and Soviet tanks were either blown into parts, or lying there, and even the turrets were blown away.

A one-sided slaughter, a complete one-sided slaughter!!

Rao Guohua excitedly smashed his fist on the inner wall of the tank, who said that only a close match can make people excited? The one-sided slaughter made people feel even more enjoyable.

"It's about to enter the range of Soviet tanks, everyone is scattered to fight, and the remaining tanks, one against the other, will be the time to test you. You are driving tanks that are far more advanced than the Soviets, and their tank guns will not be able to penetrate you even within two hundred meters, so go and fight, go and slaughter the Soviets. ”

Rao Guohua happily ordered that the Soviets must have a lesson that they will never forget, and that a tank division that has been completely annihilated will make the Soviets realize the huge gap between the Chinese and Soviet tank forces.

The first two rounds of salvo fire knocked out at least 20 tanks of the Soviets, but the fearless Soviet Red Army was obviously not comparable to those recruits just now, they didn't need to be driven by the political commissar, and they could drive tanks with a lot of differences.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! ”

Pavlov went crazy, leaned out of the tank, shouted loudly, but this did not help, although the Soviet tanks in the front had already begun to enter the firing range, but just entered the range, and before they were launched, they ushered in the hit of the Chinese.

A tank gun with a high hit rate and high power was a nightmare for Soviet tanks.

A massacre, an absolute tank massacre.

As the two armies got closer and closer, the Soviets had already eliminated a third of their tanks.

Forty-five Chinese tanks, like forty-five Chinese tigers, rushed into the flock and slaughtered these Soviet Red Army tanks with the Bolshevik faith as their frenzy.

Tanks printed with Bolshevik flags and Soviet flags were hit, and the Chinese tanks even reached an astonishing 35% hit rate.

And when the distance is getting closer, the hit rate of Chinese tanks is still increasing.

"I hit, I hit !!"

When the first Soviet tank finally aimed at a Chinese tank that was maneuvering left and right, and coincidentally hit it, the tank shell exploded a huge puff of smoke on the Chinese tank.

The Chinese's plow-shaped outer armor and round turret were drowned in the smoke of the explosion.

"What ???"

When the smoke cleared, the Soviet Red Army tank drivers and gunners saw an astonishing scene.

The Chinese tank that was hit within the effective range actually started again, turned its muzzle, and aimed at the Soviet tank that had just been shot, which was an 85mm armor-piercing shell.

"Damn, I was actually hit, fortunately it's okay, Xiao Liu, pay attention to Lao Tzu to do maneuver avoidance, and it's not good to be shocked a few times."

The Soviets' tanks were at least much stronger than the Yue Army, and the two Tiger No. 2, numbered 23, were hit by the Soviets within effective range.

The two almost connected loud noises made the tank jump up, and the Soviet 45mm tank gun armor-piercing shell hit the Tiger 2 with a loud bang, and then the armor-piercing failed and exploded head-on.

The whole battle went on very quickly, and in an open belt several hundred meters long and nearly two kilometers, it took 20 minutes for the Chinese and Soviet tanks to decide the winner.

From being numerically inferior at the beginning, to intensively destroying Soviet tanks, China's tank forces staged a perfect tank slaughter.

The Chinese tank troops, which had been dormant for many years, had been recuperating for many years, had finally defeated the tank forces of a so-called world power on a frontal battlefield.

Back then, the bean chariot that defeated Yue himself was considered a battle of tanks and armored vehicles, but now, a tank division of the Soviet Union was completely destroyed in just over 20 minutes, which shows a problem, the tanks of the Soviet army and the tanks of China are not on the same level.

"Attack their track positions."

Pavlov had already lost his military cap and tore the buttons of his military uniform, he only felt that his whole body was completely dead, and he never thought that the tank battle between China and the Soviet Union would begin in such a situation.

However, five minutes later, after the Chinese lost four tanks because the tracks were destroyed, the remaining 41 tanks did not suffer any casualties, although the exterior was blown up by potholes, or the external parts were blown up, but the entire interior of the tank was not damaged at all.

Counting the four tanks that lost their ability to move forward because their tracks were destroyed, the tank battle between China and the Soviet Union ended with a score of 4-84 in the 30th minute.

Of the 84 tanks of the Soviets, 62 were destroyed, and the remaining 22 surrendered.

Two tank regiments of the Soviet tank division, from Pavlov down, were captured 155 people.

"Go on the offensive, order the infantry to follow, let's go and destroy the artillery regiments and other units of the Soviets."

After receiving the order, Wei Guoguo, the deputy commander of the 11th Division, finally led an infantry regiment to rush across the border line in a car, following the tank regiment to defeat and capture the rest of the Soviets remaining on the border.

"Colonel Yumalov, General Pavlov's tank division has been defeated, and the tanks of the Chinese are attacking us."

When the heavy gunfire rang out, Yumarov got the worst report.

"Failed?"

Yumalov asked in despair? It seemed like an inquiry, and it seemed like disbelief.

"Yes, the tank forces of the Chinese are strong, our tank divisions failed. A large number of squadrons were following behind their tanks and attacking us. ”

Yumalov shook his head, the thick sound of artillery from the artillery positions of the tank division behind him may be the last resistance of his side, "Get ready to fight, Bolshevik party members, go to the front line." In addition, it was reported to the military district that we had been counterattacked by the superior forces of China, and that the two tank regiments of the tank division had been completely wiped out. ”

Thirty minutes later, the battle finally ended when tanks, spinning machine guns and muzzles on their roofs, escorted nearly two regiments of Soviet troops.

In the face of the charge of tanks, the lack of tanks, the lack of enough anti-tank weapons, the lack of air support, the lack of anti-tank trenches, only one artillery regiment, two dissatisfied infantry regiments, the Soviets, were quickly divided and surrounded by Chinese tanks with two infantry regiments, quickly interspersed and divided.

"It's an exciting moment."

Rao Guohua got out of the roof of the car, smelled the air that still smelled of gunsmoke, and took out his beloved Seagull brand point-and-shoot camera.

Not far in front of him, there was a long line of Soviet prisoners, two regiments of dissatisfied members, and after the death of the commissars, nearly 3,700 Soviet Red Army, in a hopeless situation, laid down their arms and surrendered to the People's Army.

Chinese tanks, while on guard, cooperated with the infantry to escort these prisoners back to China, these are all trophies.

Farther away, Chinese trucks or Soviet trucks, dragging cannons, truckloads of rifles, machine guns, and small and medium-caliber artillery, began to retreat towards Chinese territory.

One by one, the Soviet Red Army, with dull eyes, let the Chinese soldiers escort them, crossed the border and entered China.

In just one day, they went from invincible Bolshevik fighters in the mouth of the political commissars to prisoners of capitalist China.

These Soviet Red Armymen, each dressed in overcoats covered in snow and mud, raised their hands above their heads, and marched forward mechanically. Most of them even lost their military caps, and many even had unshaven Soviet Russian beards.

On a small hill, a Soviet Red Army officer was about to go downhill when he looked back in the direction of the Soviet Union.

"Click~"

Rao Guohua raised the Seagull camera and took a picture of the Soviet Red Army standing on the hill, a little confused, which will become one of the souvenirs of his war years.

On the other side, military reporters are taking pictures, and these photos can be airlifted back to the mainland in just a few days, and they will make the headlines of major newspapers and become explosive news.

On December 26, 1939, a border war broke out between China and the Soviet Union at the Hudaili River, and on the first day of the war, the Soviet army suffered huge losses, three dissatisfied infantry regiments were scattered or captured, and another tank division was completely annihilated by the Chinese within an hour.

When the Soviet Kyakhta Air Force finally arrived over the battlefield, it was full of devastation and smoke from the war, and burning Soviet Red Army tanks everywhere.

When the enraged Soviet Air Force was about to vent its anger on the Chinese, it encountered the Chinese Air Force that also rushed to the ground, and the two sides broke out in the first air battle since the beginning of the war.

(To be continued)