753 Fierce battle on the Songhua River
The solution they came up with was not to widen the distance between them and the inland river gunboats of the Huaxia Army so that the rockets could not succeed, but to approach the river gunboats of the Huaxia Army in an attempt to fight with the river gunboats of the Huaxia Army at close range.
In doing so, the Russian river gunboats were completely self-defeating, and the ten river gunboats participating in the operation were either damaged or sunk.
The Russian army's inland river gunboats could not defeat the Huaxia Army's river gunboats, so they could only retreat to the big bubbles and did not dare to come out.
On the banks of the river on both sides of the big bubble, the Russian army has set up more than 10 large-caliber field artillery, although they are all old-fashioned field artillery without a restraint and retreat machine, but the shells are powerful, and the inland river gunboats of the Huaxia Army are all small boats, which can withstand one shot.
The inland river gunboats of the Huaxia Army did not attack Dabaozi, but patrolled far away at the mouth of the river to prevent the Russian river gunboats from escaping.
When the river gunboats of the Huaxia Army and the river gunboats of the Russian army were fighting, sixteen Monkey King airships flew over the big bubble, and inside the big bubble, the Russian river gunboats were very conspicuous, Lin Gecheng sent a signal to attack, and the Monkey King airship threw down one aerial bomb after another.
The aerial bomb dropped by the Monkey King airship this time was the "KRS-100-1" fire rat incendiary bomb that shone in the bombing operation of the Japanese mainland.
The fire rat incendiary bomb was filled with a large amount of aluminum powder and oil, which fell on the water surface and exploded, and the oil inside was spread on the water surface and burned, turning the whole big bubble into a lake of fire.
The Russian river gunboats were suddenly surrounded by flames, and the flames scorched the Russian sailors, who made an instinctive reaction in the face of the flames, that is, to jump into the water.
However, there was a layer of burning gasoline on the surface of the water, and the Russian sailors jumped into the water and were instantly engulfed in flames.
Many of the bombs dropped by the Monkey King airship fell into the flames of the lake, and the explosion instantly extinguished some of the flames, but generated more flames, which radiated a lot of heat, and the wooden decks of the Russian river gunboats were even scorched and set on fire, and the Russian river gunboats were in flames.
The burning generated a large amount of smoke, obscuring the sky and the sun, and the Monkey King airship would soon not be able to see the target, for this situation, Lin Gecheng had already prepared, he decisively ordered sixteen Monkey King airships, flying in the upwind direction, circling in the upwind direction, waiting for the smoke to dissipate, and then launching the next round of attacks.
But today's wind was very small, and the Monkey King airship hovered in the sky for more than half an hour, and the thick smoke above the big bubble still did not dissipate.
This time the Monkey King airship came out, in order to carry more fire rat incendiary bombs, it did not carry too much fuel, resulting in a pitiful two hours of air time, the Monkey King airship airbag was filled with helium, although it could float in the air and would not fall, but the fuel ran out, and the Monkey King airship lost power.
So Lin Gecheng ordered, the Monkey King airship temporarily withdrew to the base, stop the attack, at this time the Monkey King airship was still loaded with a lot of fire rat incendiary bombs, according to Lin Fei's Monkey King airship operating procedures, the Monkey King airship could not land with bombs, so Lin Gecheng decided to throw all the fire rat incendiary bombs to the enemy's position.
At this time, there was smoke in the sky above the big bubble, and the Monkey King airship did not dare to go over, because the smoke had a bad effect on the engine, and the engine used by the Monkey King airship was the Diesel II engine, which had certain requirements for the quality of the air.
So Lin Gecheng decided to turn to the southeast and throw all the remaining fire rat incendiary bombs of the Monkey King airship on the Russian army's river defense position.
The Monkey King airship quickly turned around and dropped fire rat incendiary bombs, and the Russian army's river defense positions were set on fire, and many Russian troops were surrounded by flames and turned into charred corpses, and the Russian army suddenly became busy, desperately shoveling soil to extinguish the fire, and the scene was chaotic.
At this time, the Russian river gunboats, which were scorched by the flames, decided to break out of the big bubble and escape from the flames, but as soon as they rushed out, they were hit by rockets from the river gunboats of the Huaxia Army and sank one after another.
The flames lasted for an hour before they were extinguished, and the Russian river gunboat unit counted the results of the battle damage, and of the remaining 50 river gunboats, 28 were sunk, and the remaining 22 were seriously damaged and completely incapacitated.
The Russian river fleet has been completely wiped out.
In Romanevsky's strategic plan, seizing control of the Songhua River is the beginning of all battles, and he intends to cross the Songhua River in the follow-up battles and launch an active attack on the Huaxia Army, but now, the control of the Songhua River is lost, and all follow-up plans have come to naught.
Romanevsky can only do to consolidate the river defense, but Romanevsky knows very well that it is impossible to win the war with simple defense, and if you want to win, you must attack, attack, and attack again!
Before Romanevsky could figure out a solution, the Chinese army attacked.
Lin Fei formed the Northeast Front Army before attacking Jilin, which was unified by the original Lushun Front Army and the Fengtian Front Army, and had under its jurisdiction the First Armored Division, the First Northeast Division to the Northeast Fifth Division, the Thirteenth Division, the Fourteenth Division, the Shandong First Division to the Shandong Fifth Division, and the Third Regiment of the Second Armored Division, with a total strength of 200,000 troops, 260 artillery and combat vehicles equipped with invasion, more than 200 HP-2 75-mm howitzers, and more than 100 HP-3 105-mm howitzers.
Later, Lin Fei transferred the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division back to the original unit, so the current Northeast Front Army has 60 less artillery fighting vehicles.
The 200,000 troops of the Northeast Front launched a general offensive against the Russian army at 8 a.m. on October 26 with a width of 30 kilometers.
The vanguard of the general offensive was the bridge-building troops, and the command of the Huaxia Army ordered to erect twenty pontoon bridges on a frontal width of thirty kilometers, and the bridge-building area was selected in the area where the Russian army was weakly defended.
According to the width of the Songhua River, the erection time of the boat bridge took about two hours, and the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Romanevsky, learned that the Huaxia Army was about to build a bridge, and immediately issued an order to prevent the Huaxia Army from erecting the boat bridge at all costs.
The best way to prevent the enemy from erecting the bridge is to transfer the artillery to the area where the enemy builds the bridge and use artillery to interfere with the bridge, but most of the Russian artillery is very cumbersome, and the speed of mobilization is extremely slow, and the number of Russian artillery is not enough to cover the entire river.
The Russian artillery movement was extremely slow, and Romanevsky could only order the infantry to rush to the bridge area of the Huaxia Army, and the Russian army was divided into two parts, one was a mobile force, with a number of about 10,000, and the other was a river defense force, with a number of about 290,000, so Romanevsky ordered the mobile force to rush to the bridge area.
As soon as the Russian mobile unit arrived at the bridge building area, it encountered the infantry of the Chinese Army who crossed the river in advance and covered the bridge, and the two sides immediately started a fierce battle.
The number of Huaxia troops who crossed the river in advance was very small, and the Russian army had an advantage in strength, but the inland river gunboats of the Huaxia Army joined the battle group to provide fire support for the infantry.
Romanevsky believed that if the Huaxia Army succeeded in building the bridge, the consequences would be unimaginable, so Romanevsky decided to mobilize 100,000 river defense troops to prevent the Huaxia Army from building the bridge.
Romanevsky was about to give an order, when suddenly an officer stood up and said in a loud voice in fluent Russian: "General Romanevsky, you can't mobilize the river defense troops. ”
Romanevsky looked at the officer and found that he was a Japanese, it turned out that this officer was Chiyo Kazuo, after the defeat of the Japanese army in Jilin, Chiyo Kazuo did not go to Korea, but crossed the Songhua River, came to the Russian army, and continued to serve as a military attache in Russia.
Kazuo Chiyo almost never spoke in the Russian army, because he was well aware of the contradictions between the Japanese army and the Russian army, so he tried not to attract the attention of others, but today, it is really surprising that he openly stood up against Romanevsky.
Romanevsky never dared to underestimate Chiyo Kazuo, he felt that Chiyo Kazuo had a special temperament on him, and he would definitely be able to achieve great things in the future, he saw Chiyo Kazuo opposing him in public, and he was not angry, and asked lightly: "Why can't I mobilize the river defense troops?" ”
"General, we have fought with the Huaxia Army many times, in Taiwan, in the Northeast, the Huaxia Army's favorite thing is to attack the east and the west, using conspiracy and tricks, the Russian army at this time is behind the river defense fortifications, your army's river defense fortifications are impregnable, even if the Huaxia Army attacks, it is difficult to break through, if your army leaves the river defense fortifications and rushes to the bridge area to fight a field battle, it is really a short and a long avoidance."
"Also, if the Huaxia Army takes advantage of the opportunity for your army to leave the river defense fortifications and break through the river defense fortifications in one fell swoop, it will be dangerous for your army."
Chiyo Kazuo is right, the Russian army's river fortifications are similar to those set up by the Japanese army in Jilin, the trench is added to the concrete breastwall, and behind the concrete breastwall is the Russian army's water dragon cannon, this water dragon cannon technology was learned from Japan, such fortifications are indeed very strong, so that the Chinese army is difficult to fight.
If the Russian army is transferred out of the river defense fortifications to fight a field battle with the Huaxia army, then the Russian army's chances of victory are not great, the Russian soldiers and the Japanese soldiers are obviously inferior in combat effectiveness, most of the Japanese soldiers have been brainwashed by bushido, and they are not afraid of death when fighting, and even dare to launch suicide attacks.
On the other hand, the Russian soldiers, most of whom are composed of prisoners, bankrupt peasants and homeless people, are discriminated against, if the officers do not use the bounty to stimulate and have no motivation to do anything, the Japanese soldiers can hold the explosives bag and the Huaxia Army artillery chariot and die together, but the Russian soldiers, don't even think about such a thing, even if the officer pays more bounty, they will not sacrifice their lives. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)