Chapter 598: Raid
On the banks of the Ishim River at dawn, the mist is thick, the clear water flows slowly, and on a railway bridge only two hundred meters long, a train carrying supplies is speeding by, loaded with distant North American munitions and sent to the Omsk front. At both ends of the bridgehead there is a semicircular defense line made of sandbags, behind the defense line is a ring of anti-aircraft gun emplacements, one after another anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns pointed high into the sky, like a hedgehog ready to meet the enemy from the sky. In fact, the bombers of the Chinese Army Aviation had bombed the railway bridge twice before this, and not only did they not achieve any results, but they lost two Thunder bombers, and the wreckage of one of them is still in the mud of the river beach.
A few hundred meters downstream, the commander of the 1st Parachute Regiment, Cai Yi, lay behind a bush, vigilantly observing the Russian air defense position in the mist at the southern end of the bridge with a telescope. The eastern end of the railway bridge over the Ishim River is protected by the city of Petropavl, and it is impossible to attack from the east bank, while the western end is protected by a large river beach swamp, although it is not impossible to get through Guò, it is difficult to approach the target quietly on the open and unobstructed river beach, once discovered, the Russians will put the muzzle of the anti-aircraft machine gun at will, and their own regiment will be wiped out here.
His paratrooper regiment is well-equipped only in terms of individual weapons, like automatic rifles, real automatic rifles, not semi-automatic used by the Marine Corps, in addition, rocket launchers, 82mm recoilless guns, 82mm mortars, grenade launchers, flamethrowers are all standard equipment, but there is no heavy artillery that can suppress Zuò, and wanting to storm is no different from suicide.
"Captain, you can swim through the water, pick a few good ones from our brothers and dive directly under the water, now the river is covered by fog. It was difficult for the Russians to spot. An officer next to him leaned up to him and whispered.
"And then?" Cai Ye said with a move in his heart.
"It's simple, use this." The officer smiled and took out an eighty-two mortar shell filled with shaman.
"Can I touch it with this? As soon as we open fire, as long as the Russians find out that it is a gas bomb, they will immediately put on gas masks, these are old fritters that have been smoked by poison gas in Europe for five years, and they are very vigilant at this point, and they are not unused in Omsk, as long as they react, they can wear protective gear in the shortest possible time, even if we can smoke half of the Russians, the remaining half can still be easily extinguished with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. Cai Ye said angrily.
"What if it doesn't blow up?" The officer smiled even more sinisterly.
"Very well, just do it!" Cai Yi instantly understood his intentions. Immediately said without hesitation, and then the two retreated to a hidden place, this is a small forest near the river, a paratrooper regiment of 2,000 soldiers are hidden in the dense grass, plus green camouflage cover, even if you walk into the woods, it is difficult to find if you don't pay special attention.
It is very simple to select commandos, the airborne divisions are all trained as special forces, and they can be said to be all-round talents. Some of them are water-based, and they are familiar with all weapons in the army, from artillery to combat vehicles to piloting airplanes, let alone dismantling artillery shells. Forty commandos were quickly selected, connected by ropes, and one of them had two shalins without fuses on his waist, and went straight into the water with a reed pipe in his mouth and quietly swam along the course of the Ishim River towards the railway bridge. The mist and aquatic weeds on the surface of the river conceal their whereabouts well.
In fact, even if there was no fog, the Russians would not have found out that it was just dawn and those guys were sleeping soundly. The sentries who have been guarding for most of the night are drowsy at their posts, not to mention the dozens of reed pipes on the water, it is difficult to say whether these guys can be found directly from the swamp in front of them, because they have never imagined that there will be enemies attacking from the ground in the rear of this kind of front, and the vigilance of these Russian troops is very low, and the so-called standing guard is just a formality.
Forty commandos cautiously touched the back of the Russian defense ring from under the water, exposed the water one by one in the reeds near the river bank, and after determining the direction of the wind, they dived again and dive until they reached the north side of the railway bridge, and then one by one they resurfaced, put on gas masks, put on protective clothing, hid in the reeds, and began to quickly disassemble the shasa forest shells they carried. This little work is only a minute or two for them, and after they are done, they start to pour out the deadly oily poison as quickly as possible, and then they throw the cannonballs out, dive directly under the water, hold their breath and dive downstream, they really can't hold back, and then risk surfacing to the surface, take a deep breath, and continue to dive as fast as possible, until they feel that the distance is safe enough, and then slowly dive back to the hiding place with the reed pipe in their mouths.
And behind them, the poison of eighty shalinan shells slowly volatilized in the air, drifting silently to the Russian air defense positions with the wind, and drilling into the nostrils of those sleeping Russian soldiers, the killing efficiency of this thing is very high, and those Russian soldiers who slept soundly woke up from the pain of suffocation one by one, and they didn't even have time to warn those who were not poisoned, so they convulsed and fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth and went to hell, until they were almost half dead, Only then did one soldier struggle to sound the air raid siren.
While the poignant sirens woke up all the Russian troops on both sides of the strait, it was also equivalent to sending a notice to Cai Ye to attack.
"Rush, rush as fast as you can!" Cai Ye, who had quietly moved to less than 300 meters of the Russian defense line, jumped up, raised the submachine gun in his hand and shouted, and in the dense grass next to him, one by one the airborne soldiers wearing gas masks, transparent protective suits, and camouflage cloaks also jumped up, holding automatic rifles and rushing towards the Russian air defense positions at a speed of 100 meters.
And on the Russian positions opposite them, the surviving Russian soldiers who were awakened did not understand what was going on, and by the time they understood that they had been attacked by poison gas, there were less than a third left, and these guys were busy looking for their gas masks and protective suits. By this time, the fastest Chinese soldier had already reached the outside of the line, followed by a grenade that cut his head and covered his face, and then a storm of bullets from automatic rifles. The poor Russians, guarding a bunch of weapons of mass destruction, were unable to make any counterattacks, and in just two minutes, they were broken through the defensive line, and by the time the Chinese paratroopers rushed to their positions, none of those Russian troops were able to stand up and resist, and were either gassed or killed by intensive fire.
"Quick, turn the muzzle!" Cai Ye roared while personally pounced on the nearest three-seven-millimeter anti-aircraft gun, although there is a huge gap between the performance of this British-made anti-aircraft gun and the standard anti-aircraft gun of the Chinese Army, but it is a big killer to deal with the aircraft and the ground, Cai Ye, who is familiar with the operation of these things, was the first to aim the muzzle at the Russian army on the opposite bank with the help of several soldiers.
And the latter was also in chaos at this time, after the initial alarm sounded, their side was also woken up, but the Russian army here did not know what was happening on the west bank, and thought that there was an air raid, and then the gunfire and explosions made them inexplicable, and when they woke up to the ground attack, Cai Ye had already led people to rush into the Russian positions on the west bank, and the commander of the Russian army on the east bank reacted quickly, although he did not know what was going on with the Russian army on the west bank, but he also issued an order to his subordinates to turn the muzzle as quickly as possible.
But it's a pity that they were a step too late, just when those Russian anti-aircraft artillery were desperately rotating their handles to turn around and shoot flat, Cai Yi's 37 artillery had already spewed out flames first, and almost at the same time, more than a dozen other anti-aircraft guns also opened fire in an instant, and the flames of the explosion immediately enveloped the Russian positions on the east bank. There was no suspense in the next battle, twenty anti-aircraft guns and a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns, plus ordinary light and heavy machine guns, automatic rifles, and even mortars, recoilless guns poured artillery fire on the east bank for more than ten minutes, directly beating the Russian army into slag.
After almost exhausting the shells of the Russian anti-aircraft artillery on the west bank, Cai Yi ordered to stop shooting, and at this time there was no counterattack of the shells on the opposite side, and then the sappers began to place zha medicine on the railway bridge, in order to blow up the bridge more thoroughly, half a ton of antimony and antimony were piled up on the piers everywhere, and as the detonator was pressed, the entire railway bridge disappeared without a trace in an instant in the flames of the explosion, and even the bridge piers did not show the water, these guys blew up too thoroughly, So much so that later, in order to pass through Guò, it took Wang Shizhen a full month to rebuild it.
The battle of Cai Ye, who completed the mission, is not over, because they can't go back, there are four Russian armies across them and the Siberian Front, and trying to kill them is no different from committing suicide, and it is impossible for the transport plane to come back to pick them up without an airport, Aunt Juncker did resist, but she didn't resist to the point that they could take off without finding a random place at the airport, and the Russian army could not give them time to build a field airfield.
Therefore, Cai Ye must lead his subordinates to the north to sneak into the vast forest and wait for the main force of the southern front to come, or if he wants, he can also fight guerrilla attacks nearby and continue to attack the Russian army, no one cares about them, anyway, if they need supplies, it is nothing more than sending a telegram to the transport plane to drop it, they don't have to wait too long, once the railway is broken, the Russian army will not be able to fight again, they do not have the Chinese army's strong car transport capacity, and the nearly one million army has completely become a tiger without minions without a railway. (To be continued......)