Chapter 40: Victory Without Victory
"Rush! Brothers, rush with me! ”
Master Xiong Bingkun shouted loudly, he could clearly see the black mole on the face of the Russian officer opposite, and he noticed that the Russian was staring at him with a fierce look.
The bullets on the battlefield exploded like a hornet, but Commander Xiong really regarded himself as a squad leader, he was not used to commanding operations in the back, and he liked the position in front when he was charging, because he felt that he knew what he could do here.
A brother next to him snorted and fell headlong. Crimson blood oozed from under his helmet, quickly staining his entire face bright red. Blood dripped down his chin, staining his mud-stained clothes a large dark red.
Xiong Bingkun's eyes stared at the Russians who were getting closer and closer on the opposite side. The group of Russian soldiers apparently found themselves unable to escape, and another Chinese unit was striking at them. With no hope of retreating, the Russians hastily formed a resistance formation.
"Grenade ready!"
Xiong Bingkun shouted.
The soldiers in the vicinity were really able to play some tactical cooperation that they had only had in training at this time, and in the process of continuing the attack, the bombardiers prepared grenades, and the machine gunners continued to strafe the front.
"Stormtroopers! Bayonet! ”
The soldiers in the back row had already loaded their rifles with bayonets, and just as they were about to rush to the Russians, the old bear shouted:
"Cast!"
A volley of grenades flew out of the hands of the Chinese soldiers and smashed into the crowd of Russian troops. And the grenades of the Russian troops also flew towards their heads, and the sound of violent explosions suddenly rang out. The surging splinters of sharp shards engulfed everyone in the land.
When Commander Xiong got up from the ground, he didn't look at how many people were around him, and a few old hairy men on the opposite side had already rushed over with bayonets, he threw away his rifle, pulled out two pistols full of bullets from his waist, and fired his bow left and right.
The distance was very close, one shot was accurate, and there was no need to aim at all, and in the blink of an eye, the first batch of more than thirty Russian soldiers who rushed up were knocked down seven or eight people. This also made him the first target of the Russians.
"Ulla!" Two Russian soldiers suddenly rushed out from the flank, killing them on the left and right. The cooperation is very tacit.
Xiong Bingkun dodged the enemy on the left. The bayonet on the right couldn't be dodged, and the Russian just wanted to pierce the bayonet on Xiong Bingkun's body, when his heart suddenly felt cold!
A soldier who got up from the ground drew his bayonet and wanted to rush over and stand side by side with Xiong Bingkun. But there were five more on the side. The two of them continued to chase after Master Xiong to kill. Three other bayonets stabbed at the soldier.
The soldier did not retreat, but stabbed at the tip of the knife next to him, ignoring the fact that three bayonets were stabbing at him at the same time.
Three bayonets stabbed the warrior in three bloody holes. But the bayonet in his hand also pierced into the heart of one of the old hairy people.
Scarlet blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, but a very strange expression appeared on his face, as if it was painful, and as if he was laughing. This expression made the two Russians next to him stunned for a moment, and in a moment, the soldier suddenly opened his bloody mouth and shouted: "Ahhh ”
Rushing forward, two bayonets pierced deep into his body, but his hand stuck in the throat of a Russian like iron pincers!
After the soldier's breathing stopped, his arms and fingers were still as hard as iron, and the face of the Russian who was stuck by him suddenly turned red! Another old man next to him struggled several times at this time to pull the bayonet out of the soldier's body, and was about to cut off the soldier's hands to save his companion when an infantry vehicle drove over, and a string of tongues of fire swept out from the car, and the flesh and blood of the two Russian soldiers were flying.
Division Commander Xiong also saved the day with the help of his comrades-in-arms, looking at the corpse of the brother who fell to the ground, and then looking at the Russians in front of him fleeing in embarrassment, Xiong Bingkun's chest rose and fell sharply a few times, grabbed a light machine gun on the ground, and rushed forward in his arms to shoot continuously!
The battle has been fought so far, and it is guts! Tactical coordination and the personal quality of the soldiers are really not the most important, the Chinese soldiers are really brave after seeing the hope of victory, they originally came to Beijing from the south with a lot of blood, at this time one rushed faster than the other, one was more than the other was not afraid of death, as if they were the elite of the rest of the battle.
Old Maozi is completely different, the Chinese armored vehicles are rampage on the battlefield, crushing their desire to fight, and the Russian artillery has died down after being severely hit, and at this time you can only see the Chinese shells constantly bombarding the heads of the Russians!
At first, they could still have some organized resistance, but after this resistance was quickly destroyed by the Chinese with artillery fire, armored vehicles, and infantry units, Lao Maozi gradually only knew how to run back.
They hope that they can run faster, faster than the Chinese behind, faster than their comrades-in-arms.
General Ali Wanbski's face was already pale! He saw through his telescope that the Chinese troops were frantically pursuing, while the Russians were fleeing in a panic, and the pale yellow uniforms of the Chinese were rolling in like a torrent on the battlefield.
He really didn't know why this battle was fought like this, and he clearly heard the sound of the Chinese shouting in his ears, which was like a hammer beating the general's already fragile nerves.
"General, General Kilingsky sent a telegram that the troops of our army in the rear have reached their intended positions!"
Ali Wanbsky sighed, General Kilingsky's troops arrived in time, the defeat was like a mountain, the Chinese soldiers had already played that murderous aura, but the Russian troops fell into panic and chaos. At this time, even if there are new forces entering the battle, I am afraid that they will not be able to take advantage of it, and they will not be able to change the situation of the war. However, at least it could repel the Chinese attack and prevent them from pursuing the retreating Russian forces.
"Let the general attack immediately and cover the safe withdrawal of our troops from the battlefield."
After the Russians threw in new forces to attack from both flanks, Wu Zhaolin really did not dare to rush down again. After a forced recoil to push back the Russian troops into the battlefield, the artillery immediately made a brief interception, and the infantry gradually withdrew from their positions.
The battle began at 5 o'clock in the morning and lasted until 2:15 p.m., when the gunfire on the battlefield ceased as Russian reinforcements arrived.
The battle losses were quickly reported, and Wu Zhaolin did not take much advantage of the Russians in the whole battle, and the losses of the infantry were not much different from the two sides, and the Third Front Army sacrificed more than 6,000 soldiers, while the Russians estimated that they also lost about 8,000 people.
Strictly speaking, the Russians lost the battle, but the Chinese troops did not win.
Neither side's strategic intentions were realized. They all wanted to make their opponents lose the lead with a surprise strike. From the current point of view, the battle situation is still back to a stalemate.
But the eyes of some Western countries were immediately attracted by this battle! They began to eagerly search for the real data of this battle by all means!
The first is that in this battle, both sides used combat vehicles at the same time. In this collision of modern combat vehicles, Lao Maozi's twenty infantry vehicles were all wiped out. The news from the battlefield was that the size and firepower of the Chinese tank were significantly beyond the ordinary. Compared with the immature infantry vehicles of the Russians, Chinese tanks clearly have the ability to determine the outcome of the battlefield.
The Germans immediately sent a telegram to Beijing, asking China to provide all the data on armored vehicles, and the British gave a death order to the intelligence services. Be sure to figure out how the Chinese do it.
Another thing that Western countries want to know very much is how Chinese artillery is fired.
The war has been fought until now. For the first time, Chinese artillery took the initiative to engage Russian artillery in an upright artillery battle! in quantity. With the caliber and ammunition volume far inferior to the Russians, the Chinese artillery units relied on flexible tactics and preemptive strikes. Let the Russian artillery return with a big defeat!
The Russians lost nine hundred guns, almost half of the number of guns put into battle. The Chinese did not release specific figures, but military experts predicted that China's losses could be as low as 400.
Therefore, even though Yang Xiaolin repeatedly said after the end of the war that the Chinese side did not achieve the expected results in this battle, General Xia Fei of France expressed his views on the war after carefully watching the battle process between China and Russia: "From the circumstances of each request, we can conclude that this is an unexpected battle, and neither the Chinese nor the Russians may have expected to encounter the main force of the other side. In this unexpected encounter, the commanders of both sides showed great composure and calmness, and I was not excusing the Russian generals, but I put myself in the shoes of the Russian troops, if I had been in command of the Russian troops at that time, I might not have been able to do a better job than General Ali Wanbsky.
The reason why the Chinese were able to achieve victory was because they invested new combat weapons on the battlefield, and the guy called the tank by the Chinese obviously played a role in determining the outcome of the war. I was also amazed by the fighting qualities shown by the Chinese artillerymen in this battle. The Chinese artillery, which had been dodging the Russian artillery, chose to fight the Russians head-to-head this time, and they won, and I think that from now on, maybe General Kilingsky will not be able to say the phrase "turning Beijing into powder with powerful artillery fire......"
At the end of his commentary, General Xia Fei said that it seems very stupid to continue to put the chips of the Sino-Russian war on the Russians. This battle made it necessary for both sides to adjust their pace, and time was running out for the Russians.
Their hopes of breaking through the Chinese line of defense are getting smaller and smaller, and the Chinese side is gradually improving its combat preparations, Xia Fei said that he suggested that the Russian government immediately ask a third party to mediate the war, otherwise the Russian forces could face the worst and catastrophic consequences in the history of the war.
As soon as Xia Fei's comments were published, they were violently attacked by the Russian side.
The Russians swore that the battle was just an accident, and they firmly believed that they would be able to enter the city of Beijing in November, and Nicholas II also asked the French government to continue to support Russia, and promised that after the end of the battle against China, the Russian side would go to the European theater with a strong force, ready to deal with the sudden changes in Europe at any time. (To be continued......)