Chapter 543: The Decisive Battle Against Russia (7)
Gao Yuan pushed away Zhang Shucheng, who was about to bandage him, and shouted: "Brothers, hold your ground, reinforcements are about to come up, hold on, hold on is victory." "At this time, there were very few people in the position who could respond to him, and less than ten people survived in the entire reconnaissance battalion.
After a burst of shouting and suppression from the officers, the Russian soldiers rushed to the bridge again, Zhang Shucheng's head jumped with bruises, he picked up his general-purpose machine gun, jumped directly into the trench, straightened up and fired at the bridge. The tongue of fire from the muzzle of the gun was sown towards the charging Russian troops, and the Russian team was knocked down, but his right chest was quickly pierced by a bullet, and the huge kinetic energy knocked him to the ground, unable to get up again.
Several soldiers also followed Zhang Shucheng's example, raised their machine guns and swept at the Russian soldiers who were charging on the bridge, suppressing those Russian soldiers on the bridge, and at this moment reinforcements came up, and the soldiers of the 191st Division who jumped into the trenches quickly picked up their automatic rifles and drove the Russian troops down again.
The battle in the city was not easier than the bridgehead, in the gradually compressed space, the soldiers of the 28th Army and the enemy several times their own started a desperate struggle, the number was slowly decreasing, and Dong Guicheng's heart was also sinking.
"Commander, the north side can't stand it, and there are still two streets to hit the headquarters, you can move it." Chen Tao, commander of the guard company, reported.
"Move, the guard company will go with me, and we must hold the enemy back." Dong Guicheng waved his hand, picked up an automatic rifle and was about to go out.
Chen Tao flashed and blocked the door and said, "Commander, you can't go." I took someone to the rescue. ”
After speaking, he didn't wait for Dong Guicheng's order, and shouted in the runway yard: "The third platoon will leave to guard the headquarters, and the first platoon and the second platoon will follow me." ”
Li Guojun on the side sighed and said, "We don't have any reserves, I don't know when the big army of Lu Dao will arrive." ”
Dong Guicheng slammed his fist on the table with red eyes and said: "Even if there is the last person left, we must hold on, as long as I am alive, this group of Russians will not be able to escape." ”
Before Dong Guicheng's words fell, a rapid shelling sound came from a distance, provoking a violent explosion on the edge of the city. "It's a large-caliber tank gun, and our reinforcements are coming." Hearing the sound of artillery, Li Guojun shouted in surprise, Dong Guicheng also breathed a long sigh of relief, and the defensive task of the 28th Army was finally completed.
After breaking through the Russian defenses, the two armored divisions in Gao Deyu's hands took the lead in cutting into the Russian defense line and began to counter-encircle the Russian army from the inside, while the vanguard troops had already arrived in Orsha City. The Russian soldiers who were fighting in the city had no time to withdraw, and the Russian artillery waiting outside the city was dumpled by the sudden Chinese Imperial Chariot troops, and they were too late to rescue, and before Frunze had time to mobilize troops to go up for reinforcements, his command was already in danger.
Frunze, unwilling to accept defeat, immediately mobilized all the chariot troops, lined up in several columns, and rushed towards the encircled Cossack troops. Frunze was very clear-headed, and he specifically aimed the direction of the breakthrough at the Cossack army, which had the weakest combat effectiveness, and the chariot units of both sides began to fire at a distance of more than a thousand meters.
The Cossack Army still uses Grizzly 1 tanks, only a small number of more advanced Grizzly 2 vehicles, in the long-range shelling, with 76 mm tank guns M4 tanks and Wildcat tank destroyers took advantage of a certain advantage, many Grizzly 1 tanks were destroyed, and the Cossack Army's tank troops suddenly appeared local chaos.
"All-army assault." Seeing that there was an opportunity, Frunze immediately ordered all the troops to press, regardless of the NATO coalition forces surrounded by them, and the whole army rushed directly to the Cossack army. Just when the Cossack chariot units were in disarray, the roar of engines resounded in the sky, this time the Vulture 1 attack aircraft, affectionately called the 'tank opener' by the soldiers of the Imperial Chinese Army.
These low-flying attack aircraft relied on the armor on the fuselage, ignoring the pitiful anti-aircraft machine guns of the Russian army, and the two additional 37-mm machine guns fired one after another, easily penetrating the weak top armor of the M4 tank. In just one shot, nearly 20 M4 tanks were blown up, which frightened the Russian army into chaos.
The nightmare of the Russian army has just begun, the Vulture 1 attack aircraft is a brigade, the establishment of eighty aircraft, and the attack just now is just the vanguard of a squadron. This squadron has not yet turned back again, the main force of the attack aircraft group has already been in the air, and in the face of the Russian tank units that have no power to fight back, the attack aircraft group has opened fire and quickly eliminated the Russian tanks.
In desperation, Frunze had no choice but to give up the idea of breaking through and ordered the chariot troops to retreat, and the Russian army began to shrink back as a whole, preparing to choose a place to defend and wait for support. But at this time it was too late, and the NATO allies, who had already wrapped the encirclement tightly, began a general offensive on the Western Front of the Russian army.
A large number of combat vehicles were crushed towards the Russian army under the cover of intensive artillery fire, and the Russian army, which had been exhausted, retreated step by step, and was soon compressed in a small area on the outskirts of Orsha. The Kunpeng 3 bombers and albatross dive bombers in the air kept dropping bombs, carrying out intensive bombing of the Russian army, causing Frunze's troops to suffer heavy losses. After holding out for three days, Frunze committed suicide by drinking bullets, and the remaining Russian troops were forced to surrender, in addition to the troops that were wiped out by NATO allies these days, 300,000 Russian troops became prisoners.
Receiving the news of the surrender of the Western Front, the Russian troops on the other side of the Dnieper River were afraid of being counter-encircled by the advancing NATO allies, so they and the 191st Division broke away from the battlefield contact and quickly retreated westward.
After completely annihilating the Russian Western Front, the army in Gao Deyu's hands crossed the Dnieper River in one fell swoop, and pursued and fought wildly all the way behind the two Russian armies. The main force of the Russian army was defeated all the way, and even the defenders of some nearby cities were also defeated, and before Ulyanov could react, the Russian army had already retreated all the way across the Western Dvina.
The NATO Allied Battle of Smolensk-Orsha, combined with the previous battle on the border, had already annihilated more than 1.5 million Russian troops, plus the annihilation of the troops on the way to the line of the Western Dvina, the Russian army lost nearly two million troops on the eastern front in two months.
The combined forces of the Chinese Empire and the Cossack Empire were once again divided into three routes, one as the main force to the north, through Pskov to the Russian capital Paladin's Fort, all the way to the west of Minsk and Vilnius, and the last all the way to the south, the goal of approaching Kiev, an important city in the south of Russia, threatening the flank of the Russian Caucasian Front.
Several major annihilation battles between the combined forces of the Chinese Empire and the Cossack Empire severely damaged the morale of the Russian army, and made it much easier for the troops of the Islamic Empire, which were launching an offensive in the direction of the Caucasus. Due to the breakthrough of the rear, the Caucasian forces of the Russian army have already been divided and surrounded.
Under the panic of the people, the Russian army naturally could not defend its positions with all its might, and the Imperial Army of Istanbul was no longer the original division after experiencing the training and equipment change of the instructors of the Chinese Empire.
Under the triple blow of large-scale artillery bombardment, aircraft bombing and chariot advance, the already unappreciated Russian Caucasian army suffered heavy losses, and the Imperial Army of Istanbul soon advanced into the interior of Russia through various mountain passes in the Caucasus Mountains, while the Russian troops who had broken through the positions were forced to retreat on all fronts to avoid being encircled by the Imperial Army of Iraq.
In this way, on the two lines of defense, the Russian army began to retreat in full force, the clouds of defeat began to hang over the Paladinburg, in order to reverse the situation, the Russian government began to form a large number of militia units, and the Boston Empire also increased its arms assistance to Russia.
With these weapons, the Russian militia soon expanded to more than two million men, plus a million regular Russian troops, who began digging positions and anti-tank trenches around Fort Paladin, building fortifications and anti-tank cement piles, preparing for a life-and-death battle with the NATO coalition forces.
As for the speed of the offensive of the Imperial Chinese Army, the commander of the third class General Gao Deyu is still very satisfied, but Russia's territory is not small, and the NATO coalition forces must fight quickly and achieve victory as soon as possible, otherwise they will be dragged into a protracted war. Once it enters a protracted war, it will greatly consume the national strength of the Chinese Empire, and when the Chinese Imperial Army is trapped in the Russian battlefield, it is easy for other hostile countries to take advantage of it.
The Imperial Army of Istanbul pursued all the way, coupled with the southern route army of the Chinese Empire moving south, and the Russian Caucasian Front had no way to retreat and was surrounded in the Shakht area. Seeing that his troops were surrounded by NATO coalition forces outflanked from both sides, the commander of the Caucasian Front, Vasilev, was so anxious that his eyes were on fire, but he was helpless.
The Caucasian Front has always been a despised force, they have never carried out mechanized redressing, and in the process of retreating, they relied on their own feet to escape, naturally they could not outrun the fully mechanized troops of the Chinese Empire and the Iranian Empire.
After being encircled, Vasilev calmed down, he knew that the elimination of the Caucasian Front was a foregone conclusion, but how to make his troops serve the overall situation and buy more time for the government to prepare for war was what he had to consider now.
In order to boost morale, he signaled his cronies to spread the word among his troops that reinforcements were on their way and would soon be able to relieve them. Caught in the encirclement, the news of the Russian soldiers has become quite closed, not to mention in despair, as long as there is a slight chance of survival, they will also subconsciously choose to believe, so inspired by rumors, the morale of the Russian soldiers quickly increased.