Chapter 644: A Big Pocket Full of Human Heads
If the No. 3 slope with an elevation of 142 meters is located in the Almaty region, it is a soil that cannot be seen by people at all. However, in the flat Aral Sea region, on the shores of the Aral Sea, the slopes of the mountains rise from an altitude of 142 meters, and they show an extraordinary momentum in the vast plains. So it became one of the sniper positions of the Wehrmacht, so it became Lieutenant Colonel Ivan of the Russian Army. Aleksandar Norvich's sad place.
Ivan. Alexander Norvich was a regimental commander, he concentrated almost all the mortars in his hands, fired at the 142 heights with the most heavy bombardment, and then went on the offensive with histopathology. A battalion-sized attack team pulled out of formation and rushed to the front-line position of Heights 142 with a 'Ula' sound. Then, under the blow of the Wehrmacht's perfect firepower, more than 200 corpses were left behind.
When Liu Xian commanded the artillery group to prepare to close the net, the Russian army outside the 142 position was preparing a new attack.
The person in charge of guarding the 142nd Heights was also a lieutenant colonel, a battalion deputy of the Ninth Division, three brigades under his command, equipped with 40 60 and 80 mortars, and dozens of heavy machine guns, and repaired more than 20 machine gun forts and pillboxes.
Its headquarters dug a semi-crypt-like hole along the dirt slope at the back of the 142 Heights, which was reinforced with wooden stakes and planks, and Hugh said that it was a mortar, and the 120 shells would be fine if they exploded.
When the lieutenant colonel came down from the front line and drilled into the headquarters, the Wehrmacht artillery group opened fire. Fifty-six rocket artillery pieces and more than 200 light and heavy artillery pieces, the former in addition to the thirty-six in the Battle of Tacheng, there are also twenty that have recently been transported to the front from the interior, and then there are cannons. More than half of the gun emplacements inside were also brought in from the rear these days. Among them, heavy artillery accounts for eighty or ninety percent of the total.
The eastern sky really brightened as much as day. For two quarters of an hour, there was almost no pause in the sound of "clang" explosions. The entire 142 Heights trembled slightly with the sound of explosions, and the sturdy support roof on the head of the command headquarters was constantly "slopping" down with mud and sand. Soon the map on the table was covered.
But the lieutenant colonel was always at the telephone at the headquarters. He needs to wait for an order, an order to strike. Otherwise, how could a 142 heights be equipped with three field brigades. And forty mortars, so far he has used only twelve to return fire. All the 80 mortars were waiting for this order, so that they could immediately open fire and extinguish the artillery on the opposite side.
You don't need the help of a 60 mortar, a five-shot shot can directly reimburse the damn!
But the lieutenant colonel circled around the map on the table, still not waiting for the order to shell. To the east of Heights 142, you can already see the defeated Russian troops coming in a slump of troops. The lieutenant colonel believed that the two-mile-long flat open space in front of the town of Korakal at this moment must have been filled with the corpses of Russian infantry cavalry!
Five miles away. On the front of twenty or thirty miles long, there were twenty-two large and small sniper positions of the Wehrmacht, and there were 16,700 people hidden in them, which was completely the combat strength of an integrated division, except for artillery.
These 142 heights are the level with the highest hidden forces among them.
The troops of the entire 142 heights are well concealed, and the defense line built according to the layout of three lines connecting trenches and bomb shelters and fire support points can minimize the possibility of the defenders being killed or injured by Russian artillery fire. At the same time, it is also convenient for troops to attack!
As long as the phone rings, the strength of the three brigades is left behind, and the other two field brigades can pounce on the defeated Russian army like a tiger.
Human flesh and blood cannot be compared with artillery fire. No matter how many people. In the face of absolute superiority in firepower, it is also in vain. Otherwise, in the Battle of the Somme during World War I, how could the British army lose 60,000 people in one day?
On the unsheltered flat land, he was baptized by 56 rocket launchers and more than 200 light and heavy artillery. There are almost the same number of light and heavy mortars, and the Russian army, whether it is a man or a horse, has the same fate - death!
After such a bloody baptism. The Russian army, which has already broken up, is afraid that it will be difficult to maintain any more than one company formation.
Wehrmacht artillery fire was still under heavy fire. These shells do not fall on the heads of their own people, the coordinates of those blocking positions. Artillery clusters have long been familiar with them.
The shelling gradually subsided, and the dense gunfire and bursts of shouts penetrated the loess and entered the 142 command. Fall into everyone's ears. The lieutenant colonel stood up, one hand had already grasped the telephone receiver, and several battalion staff officers around him also turned their eyes to look at the lieutenant colonel, waiting for the order to be delivered.
"......, your ministry decides for yourself!"
The lieutenant colonel looked excited and reassured him on the phone. The order finally arrived, and it was a very proactive order, which made the lieutenant colonel very excited.
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The western wilderness of the town of Korakal is littered with bomb craters, burning trees everywhere, and the choking smell of gunpowder smoke permeates everywhere. ** sounded from time to time, and the terrible scream, but the earth-shattering screams of Lao Maozi disappeared in unison.
Liu Xian did not venture into the war, but Zhang Zhongkui did not mind taking a small risk, and after asking the Praetorian Guard Division to clean up the battlefield, he personally walked the two miles, and Liu Xian did not know what he saw. He only saw that Zhang Zhongkui, who had been back to the headquarters for most of the hour, had a slightly pale face, and his shoes and trouser legs were stained with black-brown blood. The sole of the shoe left a series of blood marks on the ground of the headquarters, from deep to shallow, as if someone had just entered the house in heavy rain outside.
The next day, after all the wounded Russian soldiers outside the town were sent to the prisoner of war camp, Liu Xian left the battlefield in the morning. The crater had been filled in completely, and not a single plant was visible, not a sapling or a small piece of grass.
The ground is full of new soil.
This is the scene below that the people below don't want Liu Xian to see after the shelling. Liu Xian didn't mention it either. This is the heart of the people below.
The Russian defense line has collapsed. The 75,000 cavalry that attacked head-on were left directly in the town by no less than 10,000 people, and the five miles of thorns made the Russian army shed blood, and when the Wehrmacht frontline positions that they thought they had cleared suddenly burst out one after another heavy machine gun bunkers hidden underneath, the Russian army could only use human lives to block and catch the eye.
The 75,000 Russian troops who escaped from this last iron rope on foot were afraid that there would be less than 10,000 horses.
And then the 50,000 Wehrmacht, which was still accumulated, with the support of artillery, took advantage of the loss of the soul of the Russian army, the army's morale was in turmoil, and it also lost its commander-in-chief, Lukin. Sokolov really didn't know where he died, anyway, he didn't return to the Russian position. It was at this juncture that the Wehrmacht launched a fierce attack. The so-called beating of water dogs is not the case.
As for the 40,000 Russian troops who came along the Aral Sea, when these people were put by the Wehrmacht at a distance of 14 or 5 miles from the small town of Kolakal, hundreds of mortars and no less than 50 individual rocket launchers bombarded for 20 minutes, and the dense Russian army broke up like a stormy wave.
Liu Jintang took advantage of the situation with 5,000 cavalry troops, and the 40,000 Russian troops had already collected 20,000 prisoners by dawn. And the corpses of the Russian army were dragged out for a hundred or twenty miles from the beginning of the Wehrmacht's counterattack.
Liu Xian could see clearly from the virtual map that the Russian army had run out of six or seven thousand people, but less than a thousand people actually ran towards their landing site and escaped the pursuit of the cavalry. The remaining five or six thousand men went east. Therefore, Liu Xian ordered Liu Jintang to divide a battalion of cavalry and expand the search area to the east as soon as possible.
If it is delayed for a few days, when this group of people is completely dispersed, Liu Xian will not be able to tell where they are. The people on the map are small, and there are many Kazakhs around the Aral Sea.
The frontal line of the Russian army has been completely laid down. The total number of 1780,000 Russian troops in this battle lost 10,000 or 20,000 in the previous battle, and then there was a battle in the early morning, and the 100,000 army was wiped out, but there are still a lot left. There are 50,000 or 60,000 people!
However, they lost their commander-in-chief, were affected by the fiasco, and faced the absolute firepower superiority of the Wehrmacht, and these 50,000 or 60,000 Russian troops were scattered and arranged, and their arrangements were dragged from the small town of Karakol to the town of Akdouka at the beginning, and then from Akdouka to the original defense line, stretching for sixty or seventy miles, and the troops on the frontal front line were only 20,000 or 30,000 people.
After all, before that, the Russian army had always strongly believed that it was about to win. The huge contrast almost destroyed the psychology of the Russian army. Therefore, the resistance of the Russian army plummeted rapidly.
The Wehrmacht also has an absolute advantage in firepower, and the Russian defense line is the same as the previous Wehrmacht defense line, which can be opened with a weak stab. Then there was the rout of the Russian army, a complete rout, the artillery positions of the Russian army were all abandoned, only rudely destroyed, and as a result, more than thirty 75 guns were rescued by the Wehrmacht from them.
"Your Majesty, in the early morning battle, our army captured more than 74,000 prisoners of war. More than 19,000 of them were on the southern front, 40,000 were in their pockets, and after the troops broke through the Russian defense line, they captured 15,000 Russian troops again......"
"The main forces of the Russian army have been completely defeated. Our cavalry units were chasing the defeated and approaching Akdouka. Fighting is expected this afternoon. ”
"More than 30,000 Russian troops were annihilated on the southern front, and only a small number of the remaining Russian troops fled back to the landing site, and now all the Russian ships have left there. Most of its remnants are heading east. The cavalry unit of a battalion of our army is heading east. ”
"Order Zhang Zhongkui to capture Akdouka as soon as possible, and then continue to march west."
"Sent a report to Beijing in an explicit text. Our army has defeated the Russian army in the Aral Sea, completely annihilated more than 120,000 main forces, and is now pursuing the remnants of the enemy. ”
Liu Xian hopes that this telegram can be seen by more people in the fastest possible time. It will be the first to appear in Whitehall in London, on the desks of the Queen and the Prime Minister; It will be the first to appear at the Palais d'Elselle in Paris, in the hands of the President and Prime Minister of France; It will appear at the White House in Washington as soon as possible, and be delivered to the desk of the President of the United States by the office staff of the Presidential Office as quickly as possible; It will make headlines in the world's major media outlets, and become the talk of countless people around the world. Whether these people are rich or poor, white or yellow...... (To be continued......)