Chapter 1293: Bloody Battle
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"Someone, send a telegram to that idiot Yakov and order him to hold Orsk! Wait for reinforcements from Orenburg! "Grand Duke Nicholas issued an order with a blue face! Now the Trans-Siberian Railway has been cut off by the Chinese, and if Orsk is lost again, it will be even more dangerous for the Russian army! Although there were also railways in Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg that crossed the Ural Mountains, Chelyabinsk was also under attack by the Chinese, and the railway west of Yekaterinburg was heavily bombed by the Chinese air force. A railway bridge in the eastern foothills of the Ural Mountains was blown up, paralyzing the entire railway, and now the Russians are counting on only the defenders of Orsk and Chelyabinsk to hold their positions! In this way, if the war does not go well, the Russian army will be able to retreat in time.
"Yes, Marshal!" The communications officer hurriedly replied! Everyone knows that Grand Duke Nicholas is in a rage at the moment, and if he touches his brow, he will definitely suffer an unjustified disaster!
It's just that Grand Duke Nikolai wants to break the blockade of the Trans-Siberian Railway by the squadron with troops stationed in Orenburg and the Urals, how easy it is to say it! The squadron has gathered almost 600,000 troops in Orsk, not to mention the initiative to attack, and countless previous battles have proved that in the field, the Russian army is not the opponent of the squadron at all! The armored units of the powerful Chinese army can easily crush the Russian army in field battles. It's just that now Grand Duke Nikolai obviously doesn't care so much. In a war whose end was already doomed, any of his efforts seemed futile. The Russian army and the squadron are not heavyweight opponents at all! The Russian army has only a small number of artillery. And the squadron is not only full of artillery. And planes and tanks. The contrast between the two sides is like that of an adult armed to the teeth and a baby with nothing but a wooden stick! It can be seen that if the Russian army wants to defeat the squadron, there seems to be no other way than the manifestation of God!
At this time, the fierce battle in Orsk continued, although Lieutenant General Yakov lost control of the Trans-Siberian Railway, but he successfully used Orsk's fortifications to resist the attack of the squadron, and achieved good results!
The Russians of the Siberian Plain had the habit of digging cellars. Almost every household dug cellars, which undoubtedly helped the Russian army a lot, and these cellars could be turned into strong anti-artillery holes after simple modifications. When the squadron carried out fierce shelling and bombardment, the Russian army hid in these cellars, and when the squadron's shelling and bombardment were over, they came out and fought fiercely with the squadron that entered the city! In addition, if they encounter danger, they can also hide in the cellar, and then get out of the back of the middle ** team, this kind of elusive play. Inflicted great losses on the squadron, even if Orsk seemed to be about to be blown into ruins. But the real casualties inflicted on the Russian army are not large!
A platoon of squadrons and a squad of rìben mercenaries were searching a block in Orsk, with the rìben mercenaries in front and the squadron in the back. The troops followed the houses on both sides of the street to avoid being attacked by the Russians as much as possible!
A Russian man emerged from the roof of a small two-story building, lying on the roof with his Morgancina rifle loaded.
"Die! You yellow-skinned monkeys! The Russian whispered, and pulled the trigger!
"Smack!" A crisp gunshot rang out, and a blood hole suddenly appeared on the head of a mercenary soldier who was walking in the front with a cat on his waist, and the whole person fell to the ground, and he had lost his life! The other mercenaries and officers and soldiers of the Chinese Army in the back immediately lay on the ground, and the machine guns had already been set up, sweeping the direction in which the bullets were coming! However, the Russian had already run away!
The urban area of Orsk is very large, and the 200,000 Russian troops scattered throughout the city do not look crowded at all. They used the houses on both sides of the street, as well as those barricades and other fixed fire points that had already been built to block the attack of the squadron.
"Da Da Da!" A Russian heavy machine gun was frantically sweeping the entire neighborhood from this firing point on the corner of the street. There are already more than a dozen corpses at the corner of the street, most of them are from the mercenaries, and some are from the squadron!
"Mortar! Give me the heavy machine gun to destroy the Russians! A captain and company commander roared with red eyes! His company has been blocked here for a while, and he has launched several attacks, but they have not succeeded, leaving behind corpses everywhere!
"Boom! Rumble! "Two 80-mm medium mortars fired at the target! However, the location of the heavy machine gun fire point of the Russians was exactly around the corner of the street, and the shells were blocked by the buildings on both sides of the street, and it was difficult to hit the target!
"Damn! Call in air support, ask the Air Force to destroy that point of fire of the Russians! "There is really no way, the captain and company commander have to ask for air support! The lives of Chinese soldiers are precious, and if they can be filled without human lives, then try not to do so!
A few minutes later, an FH5 Falcon dive bomber hovering over Orsk launched an attack on the target, and with the kind of whistling sound that almost punctured people's eardrums, the Falcon dive bomber began to dive, and at an altitude of 500 meters from the target, a 500-kilogram heavy aerial bomb was dropped!
"Whew!" The aerial bomb exploded less than 10 meters away from the Russian army's firepower point, but the power of the 500-kilogram aerial bomb was simply not something that a reinforced concrete firepower point could withstand. After the aerial bomb exploded, the houses on both sides of the street were destroyed, and the machine gun fire point of the Russian army was long gone!
"Haha! Well done, finally knocked out that firepower point! The captain and company commander shouted with joy!
"Da Da Da!" Suddenly, a tongue of fire rose from a small building at the end of the street, and the bomb was dropped, and the F5 Falcon dive bomber that was pulling up was hit by the tongue of fire, and the tail of the plane emitted billowing smoke, and then fell to the ground, erupting into a violent explosion. None of the pilots on the fighter plane had time to escape.
"Dog rì! Give it to me, kill those Russians! "When the captain and company commander saw that his fighter plane was destroyed, his eyes were about to burst into flames!
Hundreds of Chinese soldiers and mercenaries began a fierce attack on the Russian army!
The Russian army has been preparing fortifications for many years, and finally began to show its strong power step by step, in order to exterminate the Russian army in the city, the squadron paid a heavy price for it! After the battle on April 30, the squadron only controlled less than a tenth of the city. And, again, with the help of aircraft artillery. The losses were staggering, and in today's offensive, the 11th Army lost more than 4,000 men, most of whom were seriously wounded and killed. And the losses of the mercenaries were even greater, and the three divisions that cooperated with the attack of the squadron all suffered heavy casualties, and the number of killed and seriously wounded was almost around 10,000! And the casualties caused by the squadron to the Russian army, although there are no accurate figures, they must not be too big!
The failure of the offensive made the commander of the 11th Army, General Zhou Shun, have a black face all day, although he had expected that this battle would be a bitter battle before the attack, but he did not expect the Russians to be so difficult to gnaw.
"General, it seems that the Russians have built the entire city into an impregnable fortress, and the Russian troops guarding it are also Jīng sharp troops, and the battle is very tenacious! Although with our strength, we will definitely be able to capture this place in the end, but I am afraid that the casualties paid will be too much for us to bear! Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao, Chief of Staff of the 11th Group Army, said with some concern!
"What about the other armies?" Admiral Zhou Shun asked.
"It's not too optimistic! Those doggy Russians have almost built these cities into perverted fortresses, and it is not difficult to break through the outer positions of the Russian army, but once you enter the street fighting, it will be more troublesome! The casualties of the various units are not small! Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao said!
"It seems that the Russians have been preparing for several years, and it is still very productive! However, if the Russians want to make us give up like this, it is definitely a miscalculation! We've all fought harder battles than this back then, let alone here! Tomorrow let the armored brigade assist in the attack, and be sure to break through the defenses of the Russians! Admiral Zhou Shun's eyes flashed with a murderous intrigue!
"Armored brigades? General, the Russians definitely have anti-tank guns, and if the armored brigade enters the city, it will definitely suffer heavy losses under the blows of the Russians' anti-tank guns! Lieutenant General Jiang Qiao hurriedly said!
"Now I can't care so much, although the Russians have anti-tank guns, but there are certainly not many! When the time comes, ask for the support of the Air Force, and destroy the anti-tank fire points of the Russians as soon as they are discovered, so as to minimize the losses! Admiral Zhou Shun said! In order to annihilate the Russian army in the city, now only armored troops can be used! Although the armored forces will be very limited in street fighting, they are also much stronger than the unprotected army! Moreover, as long as the anti-tank fire points of the Russians can be detected in advance, the tanks will be able to destroy the enemy's anti-tank fire points in one step, thereby reducing the casualties of the troops!
"Yes, General, I'm going to give the order to get the armored brigade back!" Lieutenant General Ebashi said!
Admiral Zhou Shun nodded, and didn't say anything, he knew that the bloody battle had just begun, and the battle would be even more fierce tomorrow! . )