Chapter 219: The attack is thwarted
Not far from the mountain fortifications on the outskirts of Vladivostok, the regiment commander Li Qingyao saw that the artillery bombardment of his Dingbei Army had no effect on the mountain fortifications of the Russian army at all, took a deep breath, and said to the battalion commanders of the three infantry battalions around him: "Everyone has seen that our artillery has no way to deal with the fortifications in the mountain of the Russian army, and now we can only rely on our infantry!" The marshal personally watched behind us, and our regiment must take the hill in front! The 1st Battalion will attack first, and there will be 2 tank battle groups of the Panzer Division, which will coordinate with us in the attack. 1 Battalion commander, you have to use the tank as a cover, hit and rush, and after attacking the top of the mountain, throw grenades into the firing port of the Russian army's mountain fortifications, and blow up the inside of the Russian army's turtle shell. ”
The commander of the 1st battalion knew that it would be very difficult to capture the mountain fortifications, but he still nodded and said: "Regiment commander, don't worry, even if there is one person left in our battalion, we will definitely take the hill in front!" ”
Lin Daxin looked at his artillery and was helpless against the fortifications built by the Russian army in the mountain, and some hesitated to send infantry to attack, at this time Lin Daxin found that about 1 battalion of Dingbei officers and soldiers, under the cover of 12 tanks, had launched a charge against the Russian army's mountain.
The 1st Battalion of the 211th Regiment and the 2 tank battle groups of the Panzer Division, after receiving the order of the regiment commander Li Qingyao to launch an attack, bypassed the hill, with the tanks in front, some infantry following behind the tanks, and some infantry forming a straggler line to attack a hill in front of the 36 mountain fortifications outside Vladivostok.
The Russian army found that tanks and soldiers of the Dingbei Army appeared in the field of vision, and immediately began shelling the tanks and soldiers of the Dingbei Army that appeared, and countless shells fell on more than 500 officers and soldiers of 12 tanks and 1 battalion.
"Boom-" The shell of a 127-mm howitzer hit the front of a Black Wolf tank, and although the front was the thickest part of the Black Wolf tank's armor, it was only 37 mm. The Black Wolf tank was directly destroyed by this shell, and none of the 4 tankmen in the tank survived. More than a dozen infantry who were following and behind the Black Wolf tank were also affected, and they fell to the ground covered in blood.
Soon after, there was another "boom", and another Black Wolf tank was destroyed by Russian shells, and a T1 heavy tank with stronger armor was very unlucky to be hit by a 152-mm howitzer shell, which penetrated the weakest top armor and was destroyed on the road of the charge.
The infantry of the Dingbei Army of one battalion was constantly hit by shrapnel from artillery shells, and almost every moment there were charging Dingbei officers and soldiers who died.
The tanks of the Dingbei Army and the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 211th Regiment charged to the foot of the hill to attack, and the artillery bombardment became weaker, because this position made it impossible for the artillery on most of the Russian mountain fortifications to bombard, which was the dead end of these artillery.
At this time, only 3 T1 heavy tanks and 3 Black Wolf tanks were left among the 12 tanks of the 2 tank battle groups of the armored division, and the other 6 tanks had been destroyed by the intensive artillery fire of the Russian army, and less than 300 people remained in the attack force of more than 500 people, and the battalion commander was also killed under the fire of the Russian army.
The artillery bombardment has weakened, which does not mean that there is none, and there are still Russian shells falling on the tanks and infantry of the Dingbei Army at the foot of the mountain.
The company commander of the 1st company, taking over the position of the battalion commander, shouted: "Attack!" Attack the top of the mountain! The handsome man is watching us from behind! Brothers, rush! ”
Under the cover of six tanks, nearly 300 officers and soldiers in Dingbei continued to attack the Russian fortifications on the top of the mountain.
The commander of the Russian army guarding this mountain fortification is a Russian brigade commander, and this mountain fortification, including artillery, has a total of nearly 4,000 Russian defenders.
The Russian brigade commander sneered when he saw the remaining six tanks of the Dingbei Army continuing to lead the infantry to attack from the command headquarters inside the mountain, and then ordered the rapid-fire guns and Makqin heavy machine guns in the mountain fortifications and pillboxes on the mountain to start firing.
These rapid-fire guns of the Russian military fortifications are all small-caliber rapid-fire guns on naval warships, and most of them are 37 mm, 47 mm and 57 mm. And these rapid-fire guns can be fired flat, and soon 3 Black Wolf tanks with relatively thin armor were hit by these modified flat-fire guns and destroyed on the hillside.
The three thick-skinned T1 heavy tanks were not afraid of these small-caliber rapid-fire guns, and their shells hit the T1 heavy tank, but they could not penetrate the modern alloy armor of the T1 heavy tank, at most leaving a shallow crater on the alloy armor of the T1 heavy tank.
The infantry of the Dingbei Army continued to follow the three T1 heavy tanks and continued to attack the top of the mountain, but when the attack reached more than halfway up the mountain, the steep slope of the hill had almost become 60 degrees, and with the large protruding stones, the T1 heavy tank could not drive up at all.
The attacking infantry of the Dingbei Army saw this situation and did not flinch, and prepared to continue to attack the top of the mountain under the cover of 3 T1 heavy tanks, when suddenly the large-caliber artillery fire of other Russian troops on the hill carried out a covering bombardment of the position of 3 T1 heavy tanks.
After a heavy artillery fire, not only did the attacking infantry of the Dingbei Army suffer heavy casualties, but even the remaining three T1 heavy tanks were unfortunately hit by large-caliber shells and all of them were destroyed on the hillside.
The 1st platoon commander of the 1st battalion and 1st company, half-cated and hiding behind a big rock, there were only more than 50 officers and soldiers of this battalion left, and the 1st platoon commander found that all the company commanders were killed, and only he and 1 machine gun platoon commander of other companies were left here, so he gritted his teeth and shouted to the machine gun platoon commander not far from him: "Brother, here are the two of us with the biggest official positions!" I'm ready to go on the offensive, what do you think, brother? ”
The machine gun platoon commander was holding a Type 96 light machine gun in his hand, lying behind a big rock and shooting at the top of the hill, when he heard the words of the 1st platoon commander, he turned his head and shouted: "There is nothing to say, so many people have died!" If you don't continue to attack and lay down this mountain, people will not die in vain! You give the order! Brothers! ”
The artillery fire still fell on the hillside from time to time, but the loud voice of the 1st platoon commander was not covered by the explosion of the shells, "Brothers, our battalion received an order to capture this mountain, and now the battalion commander and company commander have died, I am the 1st platoon commander of the 1st battalion and 1st company, and now I have taken over the command position, I decided to continue to attack the mountain, the marshal is watching us behind us, we must not embarrass the sacrificed comrades, even if we die, we will die on the road of the charge!" ”
1 squad leader hid behind a big rock, blood on his arm, staining his entire sleeve, but he still held the submachine gun in both hands and said: "1 platoon leader, you give the order!" None of our battalion is a bad breed! ”
"Platoon 1, give the order!"
"1 platoon commander, take us to rush!"
"1 platoon leader, fight with Lao Maozi!"
The other surviving fighters around also shouted, completely ignoring the dense Russian bunkers and hidden bunkers inside the mountain above their heads, and countless gun muzzles had stretched out of the firing ports of these forts, waiting for the officers and soldiers of the Dingbei Army to collide and send them to death.
The 1st platoon commander's swarthy face, which was smoked by artillery fire, showed a look of pride, he glanced back in the direction of his hometown in the northeast, and then shouted loudly with all his strength: "Dingbei Army!" Advance! ”
After saying that, he stood up from behind the big rock and took the lead to rush towards the mountain above.
"Dingbei Army! Advance! ”
"Dingbei Army! Advance! ”
The remaining officers and soldiers of Dingbei also shouted the most excited slogans, followed behind the 1st platoon commander, and rushed to the top of the mountain without hesitation, and the high slogans seemed to have thousands of troops and horses, echoing in the air for a long time.
The brave more than 50 officers and men of Dingbei were fired at by many small-caliber rapid-fire guns, dozens of Makqin heavy machine guns, and thousands of Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles in the Russian fortifications.
It took less than half an hour from the attack of one battalion of Dingbei officers and soldiers and 12 tanks of the armored division to the annihilation of the entire army.
Li Qingyao, the commander of the 211th Regiment of the Second Division, saw that the officers and soldiers of his 1st Battalion fell on the road of the charge under the blows of the Russian army's artillery fire, the pillboxes on the top of the hill and the hidden bunkers in the mountain, and the 4 T1 heavy tanks and 8 Black Wolf tanks of the armored division supporting their attack did not come back, and they were all destroyed, and their teeth creaked.
Li Qingyao picked up a submachine gun and shouted: "2nd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, Guard Company, Engineer Company, follow me!" Take the hill of the Russian army and avenge the brothers of the 1st battalion! Then Li Qingyao was ready to personally lead the rest of the regiment to launch an attack on the mountain fortifications of the Russian army.
At this time, the platoon commander of the communications platoon shouted: "Regiment commander, the division headquarters ordered to stop the attack and let our regiment return to the camp." Then he handed a telegram to Li Qingyao.
Li Qingyao took it and saw that the division headquarters really ordered his 211th regiment to retreat immediately and canceled the order to attack.
Li Qingyao glanced at the mountain fortification that buried one of his battalions in front of the Russian army's Vladivostok outburst, felt unwilling to beat his head, and then shouted: "Withdraw!" The whole regiment retreats! ”
It turned out that Lin Daxin saw 1 battalion of Dingbei officers and soldiers and 12 tanks of the armored division from the telescope, in the face of these turtleshell-like fortifications of the Russian army, such a hard attack had no effect at all, and in less than half an hour, 12 tanks were destroyed, and more than 500 Dingbei officers and soldiers also died heroically on the road of the charge.
Even if he launched an attack like this, it would only increase casualties, so Lin Daxin directly ordered the attacking troops to stop attacking. R1152