Chapter 172: Dancing with Demons (1)

As the artillery net advanced deeper into the enemy's depth, the Chinese tank units flying the blood-colored battle flag began to storm the enemy position.

From the grove to the west of the village of Aktobe to the small hill to the east of the village, on a two-kilometer front, the six armored companies of the 1st Brigade were deployed in a line, leading the three reinforced infantry battalions of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Janissaries to rush forward amid a shrill sound of horns and whistles—

On the left flank, the nine Flying Thunder light chariots equipped with the 2nd company were lined up in three wedge-shaped squads, and the three wedge-shaped squads formed a big wedge, the first platoon led by the company commander was in front, and the second platoon and three platoons were in the left and right rear, and each car was at full power, spewing black smoke, and within a quarter of an hour they were killed from the starting position to the edge of the woods two or three kilometers away, but fortunately, the starting position of the infantry was less than one kilometer away from the enemy formation, and the two infantry companies carrying heavy equipment held back their strength and ran violently, and finally did not fall too far.

The artillery fire just now was ready to blow up the tall conifers at the edge of the forest, and the surviving Russian troops fired a dense rain of bullets from both the forest and the village, hitting the steel plates of the chariot with a clanging bell.

The Flying Thunder Chariot with 2 companies slowed down slightly, turned its turret, and returned fire with 37 guns and machine guns, and the Russian artillery fire scattered around the surrounding smoke clouds of snow and earth, shrapnel had little effect on the tank, but it was enough to slaughter the exposed infantry.

The enemy's artillery positions must be found and destroyed as soon as possible!

The turret hatch of the company commander's car opened with a "clang", and a red and green pennant stretched out from it, waving violently in a circle: this was the signal "follow me".

Leaving behind the prostrate infantry moving all over the ground, the 2nd Company of the Infantry opened at full speed, passed through the orange light and shrapnel of the enemy's artillery fire, and rushed to the heart of the enemy.

The 1st Company, which belonged to the Left Wing Commando, was far behind, and it took half an hour for the 6 heavy tanks of the 1st Company to climb the open space of less than 3 kilometers, which became a blessing for the infantry.

Fu Liang, the commander of the 1st company, led 3 chariots of the left team, and Zhong Yi, the commander of the 1st platoon, led 3 chariots of the right team, each of which led a reinforced infantry company, and entered the enemy formation according to the tutorial in a regular manner.

On the front of the assault of the 1st Company is a circle of trenches built by the Russian army relying on the terrain, from the edge of the woods to the main road through the village, the width is less than 500 meters, and the depth reaches the fortress in the village, and the defenders have strengthened the machine gun and artillery 1 infantry company.

When the 1st Company of the Armor reached the enemy's position, the 2nd Company of the Equipment, which was supposed to be covering the left flank of the 1st Company, had disappeared without a trace, and the two infantry companies that were supposed to be guided by the 2nd Company of the Installation were crushed by the enemy's fire in a depression and could not move.

I saw that the 75 short guns of the "Strategy" were fired one after another at close range, the dust and snow were flying, and the corpses were scattered, and after a while, the raging Russian machine guns were beaten into mute, and the infantry behind them suddenly rose in morale, braving the artillery fire to approach the enemy position, and procedurally threw a hail-like grenade first, and before the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, they jumped into the bunker with a bright bayonet, stabbed left and right, and seized the first bunker line in just a few minutes.

Fu Liang didn't dare to pause for a moment, played the banner of "follow me", and led the team to continue to advance.

The enemy's position was obviously hastily formed, the trenches were dug very narrow and shallow, and no obstacles such as deer barbed wire were arranged, so not only was the movement of the chariots not hindered in any way, but the movement of the infantry was also very convenient.

Each infantry company of the assault force was given as much firepower as possible: each company was directly equipped with 1-2 37 infantry guns that could be carried by six soldiers, 1-2 Spitfire groups, 2 heavy machine guns, and 1 or 2 submachine gun squads, light machine guns and grenadiers were assigned to the squads, and each rifleman carried at least eight grenades - for this purpose not only the direct units of the division and corps were used, but also a large number of fire detachments were drawn from the units that did not participate in the assault.

While the left flank team captured the first-line bunker, the 7 units of the 4th Company of the middle lane team and the 7 Flying Thunder of the 5th Company were combined in a wedge team (the company commander's car was the tip, and the left and right rear followed by a three-car wedge squad) launched an attack from the 800-meter frontal between the east side of the village road and the hill east of the village, and the four companies of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Guard Regiment and two companies of the 3rd Battalion were led behind, of which four companies of the 1st Battalion were to attack the village from the front, and two companies of the 3rd Battalion were responsible for attacking the hill.

Eight Fox machine-gun chariots and eight wind-chasing armored vehicles of the right flank took up the road from the east of the village to the eastern outskirts of Selenginsk, supported by two reinforced infantry companies in the trailers of tracked tractors, in an attempt to bypass the hill east of the village, detour back to the back of the village, and cut off the retreat of the defenders.

Brigadier General Yuan Xu, the brigade commander, personally rode a "telegraph" and led five "hounds" of the brigade headquarters and a mobile reconnaissance platoon to advance and stop along the road through the village after the Chinese army to control the attacking troops at any time.

The battle began on the front less than two kilometers, and for a while, the iron armor was rampage, and the guns and cannons were fired: bullets rained down on one side, and flashes of light on the other; This place is red and snow-white, and the other is muddy and erosive; This chariot rotated in place, rolled up the snow and buried the Russian soldiers alive in the bunker, and the chariot tracked sonorously, chasing dozens of routs and strafing and crushing; This company of chariots made a detour and drove at full speed to the artillery position behind the village, and the chariots of this company crisscrossed the enemy line, leading the infantry to break into the village and sweep around......

The commanding heights of the battlefield - the hill east of the village, the 102 heights on the map have become the focus of contention between the two armies.

After controlling this hill, the Russian artillery position behind the village lost its eyes and could not accurately intercept our troops.

Lieutenant Colonel Bamiyan was well aware of the importance of the 102nd Heights, and devoted half of his forces to defending the area, including one infantry company with two 76-point 2 field guns, four 82 mortars and six light and heavy machine guns to guard the hill, and one infantry company with two 47 naval guns and eight light and heavy machine guns along the foot of the hill.

Of course, the Chinese army did not take it lightly, concentrating most of the heavy artillery to bombard the hill for nearly an hour, and thousands of heavy artillery shells blew up the small hill within a radius of three or four hundred meters beyond recognition.

With the support of smoke screens and tank fire, two companies of the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment took advantage of the situation to simultaneously charge the top of the hill from two directions, and the reinforced machine guns, grenadiers and 37 infantry guns played an important role, and the exposed Russian fire points were almost immediately suppressed. The flamethrower used for the first time combined with a rain of grenades turned the bunker painstakingly constructed by the Russian army into hell. The submachine gun squad drawn from the combat engineer company showed its might in the battle to sweep the bunker, and the rain of bullets sprayed by the Jinling submachine gun beat the remnants of the enemy in the bunker to the point of crying wolf.

When the brightly colored battle flag of the Cloud Dragon Regiment was raised on the top of the mountain, Lieutenant Colonel Bamiyan had already fled.

No, it should be said, he personally ran to call for help.

The Chinese officers and soldiers waving battle flags on the top of the hill and shouting long live soon saw a dreamy scene that they would remember for the rest of their lives: several frighteningly tall black shadows slowly moved on the road behind the village—the farmhouse next to them was like a toy!

As the smoke cleared, the shadows revealed their true faces: a large, coarse-surfaced rectangular box with an earthy primer, three strange machines—from a distance, they looked like just three pairs of three-story iron wheels spinning.

Several groups of Cossack cavalry with swords and spears unfolded around the shadows, seemingly to cooperate with these monsters to launch a counterattack.

I saw that the large rectangular iron box trembled and moved for a while, suddenly stopped, and lowered its body to the ground, and a cannon barrel suddenly came out of front of it, and a large stream of snow suddenly rose at the foot of the mountain—

The infantry of the 3rd battalion fell to the ground and shouted in a big voice.

"Damn, it's fiercer than our one-zero-five!"

"The brothers of the 2nd battalion are really not deceiving, Maozi really has a Martian chariot!"

"Let's set up the three-seven cannon and fight!"

"Grandma Rita, didn't you say that the seven or five cannons of the heavy chariot are useless?"

"Xiao Wang, go and contact our chariot troops and tell them the location of the enemy's chariots! Find a spare barrel and bring it—"

The spare machine gun barrel was of course used to knock on the door of the tank, which was one of the most effective means of communication between infantry and the vehicle on the battlefield at that time.

"Huzi, go to the back and pull up the phone line!"

The purpose of pulling the telephone line was, of course, to call the artillery, and each assault company was reinforced with a wired telephone group with wires leading directly to the artillery command post.

On the other hand, taking advantage of the onslaught of the Central Route Army on the 102 Heights, the attention of the Russian troops was attracted to the past, and the Right Wing Army rushed forward, not entangled with the enemy, and successfully bypassed the east side of the 102 Heights, leaving only one armored car and two tractors behind.

After bypassing the 102 heights in this formation, the 8 Jiehu units equipped with the 3rd Company and the 7 Chase Foxes equipped with the 6th Company covered the tractor convoy carrying the infantry in the rear, and suddenly encountered a small group of chariots rushing out of the woods behind the village.

There is no need to identify, this single-tracked monster tank is definitely not owned by our army!

Jiehu, who was equipped with 3 companies, rushed forward without hesitation, turned the turret to strafe the enemy vehicles, and the enemy tanks did not show weakness, and counterattacked head-on at a speed no less than that of Jiehu, and the thick Makqin machine gun sleeve stretched out from the small turret and fired wildly at our tanks.

The bullets of both sides rattled on each other's cars, sparks splashed everywhere, but they could not penetrate the hole, and the posture of the two sides facing each other was like a heads-up competition of medieval ironclad knights in Europe. Unconsciously, the two teams of chariots were close at hand, only to hear a chirping sound, a Jie Hu of the 3rd Company and the Russian tank on the opposite side collided together, the huge momentum made the Jie Hu turn half a circle to the side, and the track was loose, and the strange Russian single-track chariot rolled two or three times in a row, fell to the ground, and the semi-circular turret rolled out of the turret -

However, it was said that the other 4 Russian small chariots and the Jiehu equipped with 3 companies passed shoulders in a flutter, and did not turn around to fight again, but went all the way to the east of the village.

There is nothing there.

"We watched in amazement as they rushed towards the deserted road at an astonishing speed, jumping over the ditch and crossing the road, without turning or slowing down, but just running in a straight line in the direction they had set out, as if the thing could not turn at all, and was born to go straight...... They disappeared behind the depression on the east side of the road, and half an hour later they reappeared, turned around, and rushed straight ahead, just in front of the muzzle of our 37 guns......"

A company commander of the 3rd Infantry Battalion wrote in his diary.