The weakest part of the entire encirclement was the city of Orsha, which was held by the 28th Army. Whether the Western Front in Frunze can be completely annihilated this time depends on whether the 28th Army can hold the city of Orsha and buy time for the encirclement of the large army.

"We'll be able to hold it." Lieutenant General Dong Guicheng looked at the map and said firmly: "Scatter all the artillery, we are going to fight a street battle, tell the soldiers not to be afraid of not finding their comrades, as long as one person is still alive, they will fight, and as long as there is one person in the 28th Army, we must not let the Russian army escape back." ”

Two divisions of the 28th Army were soon dispersed to all corners of Orsha, and their first task was to drive all the small Russian population across the Dnieper, while the 191st Division, another division of the 28th Army, was to defend the banks of the Dnieper to prevent Russian rescue troops from crossing the river.

The Russian rescue forces on the other side of the bank launched the attack first, and due to the suddenness of the incident, the Russian army could not mobilize many troops in a hurry, and only two infantry corps were transferred as forward troops. These troops soon launched an offensive on the other side of the Dnieper, and because the defense was too wide, the 191st Division was too weak to have enough troops, so they had to dilute their forces and leave a reserve to fight the fires.

The troops guarding the most important position on the East Orsha Bridge were a reconnaissance battalion led by Gao Yuan, the second son of Gao Lin, commander of the Second Guards Army, who was desperately firing at each other by relying on the sandbag fortifications piled up at the bridgehead and the trenches on both sides of the river.

"Battalion commander, let's not blow up the bridge for something." Zhang Shucheng, the squad leader who had already placed explosives under the bridge, said strangely that the Russian army was desperately charging from the bridge, which made the Chinese soldiers with a small number feel very stressed, so they all didn't understand.

Gao Yuan smiled slightly and said, "You are still a little tender, do you say that it is easy to pass from the bridge, or is it easy to swim from the river?" ”

Zhang Shucheng replied without thinking: "Of course, it's easy to walk on the bridge." ”

Gao Yuan said: "Yes, not only that, but armored vehicles can also pass on the bridge, which is why the Russian army is so desperate to seize the bridge." As long as there is this bridge to attract, the Russian army will concentrate all its efforts to seize it, and if they all disperse into the river, our defenders will be too small in number, and it will be difficult to defend everywhere. ”

Zhang Shucheng scratched his head and said, "Hehe, that's really the case." ”

Gao Yuan said: "Loading explosives is just in case, not to mention that when the large army comes up, we have to pass through here to pursue it." ”

At this moment, a screech of shells was heard, and Takato shouted, "Beware of enemy shelling." After speaking, he was the first to press Zhang Shucheng to the ground.

A volley of seventy-six-mm shells fell near the positions at the bridgehead, blowing up puffs of smoke and dust. After the shelling, Gao Yuan struggled to get up, shook off the soil on his body, and spit out two mouthfuls of soil foam and said: "The Russian soldiers are really stingy, such a small cannon only hits so many shots." ”

Zhang Shucheng also got up and said, "Come on, there are a few countries that want us to waste shells like this." ”

Before the words fell, another even more high-pitched scream came, but this time it was not attacking them, it was the divisional artillery regiment that made a threat, and pieces of 155-millimeter shells fell on the Russian artillery positions that had just fired, blowing up the Russian artillery who had not had time to retreat.

Seeing the violent explosion on the opposite side, Zhang Shucheng said with a smile: "Yes, I came here before I finished speaking, look at how powerful our artillery is, one bomb is accurate." ”

Another soldier next to him corrected Gao Yuan with a smile and said: "Battalion commander, don't stand and talk without backache, people's Russian artillery is imported, and it depends on the eyes of others how big the caliber is." Their shells are not only expensive, but they will be retaliated against by our artillery after a few shots, and they will not be able to run away if they hit too much. ”

At this moment, the Russian army on the opposite side began to charge again. Gao Yuan waved his hand and said, "Don't be idle, the Russians are coming, fight quickly." With that, he picked up his Type 18 automatic rifle and was the first to fire. The Chinese army used automatic rifles, and their firepower density was similar to that of light machine guns, and the dense rain of bullets hit the Russian soldiers who rushed to the bridgehead to the ground, but these Russian soldiers who were not afraid of death still rushed forward and charged one after another, not taking their lives seriously at all.

Under the continuous charge of the Russian army, the firepower of the bridgehead began to weaken, and many of them had their gun barrels turned red. At this time, the soldiers in the two trenches of the bridge turned their guns one after another and fired at the bridge from the side, but they were hit by the fire from the flank, and the Russian soldiers on the bridge fell to the ground one after another.

The Russian soldiers on the other side of the river immediately suppressed the Chinese positions on the riverbank, but the Russian attack on the bridge was contained, and the soldiers of the bridge guarding troops, who had gained a chance to breathe, took advantage of this gap and quickly replaced the barrels of several general-purpose machine guns.

The general-purpose machine gun on the bridgehead position sounded happily again, knocking down a large number of attacking Russian soldiers in rows, and the corpses on the bridge were piled high, and its density even affected the charging speed of the Russian soldiers behind, and after enduring heavy casualties, the Russian army could only retreat.

Fierce battles were raging along the Dnieper, and fire began to take place in the city of Orsha. Due to the attacks of the NATO coalition forces on three other sides, most of Frunze's troops were sent to resist in the other three directions, and only the forces of three armies were used in the Orsha direction.

Although he could not draw more troops, Frunze knew very well that Orsha was his only chance to retreat, so he put his three most elite troops here. Dense Russian artillery fire frantically covered the city of Orsha, and in order to be able to escape, Frunze had decided to sacrifice the entire city.

Frunze's reckless attack quickly reduced half of Orsha to rubble, and the Russian artillery also suffered considerable losses under the counterattack fire of the 28th Army. The highly mobile Storm Bear 2B howitzer of the artillery brigade directly under the army used its 240 mm caliber gun to teach the Russian artillery a solid lesson. But even then, under the blows of the artillery of the Russian army, which was numerous at any cost, the city of Orsha was quickly reduced to ruins.

It's a pity that Frunze hasn't seen Fang Xiaoyu, and if he could, Fang Xiaoyu would definitely tell him that it wasn't a good idea to turn a city into ruins. Ruins will make the terrain more complicated, giving defenders more places to hide, making street fighting even more difficult to fight.

Frunze did not have such experience, and few generals in the entire world had studied this area, that is, under the influence of his mother, Fang Xiaoyu, who had studied a lot of history books, understood in his heart that in World War II on the earth, the German army relied on superior firepower to turn the entire Stalingrad into ruins, but the German army failed to occupy it, and now Frunze is also encountering the same situation.

After preparing for the shelling, the Russian troops pressed on all fronts and rushed towards the city, but soon they were attacked by the Storm Bear 2E self-propelled rocket artillery at all levels of artillery of the 28th Army. Patches of rockets rained down on the unobstructed Russian attacking troops, destroying thousands of people in an instant.

Seeing the opponent's rocket artillery attack, Frunze's face turned green, and he immediately ordered the heavy artillery to return fire, but those self-propelled rocket launchers that had fired a round had already been transferred. And the ensuing heavy artillery return fire of the 28th Army added a long line of names to the list of Russian artillerymen's killed.

The artillery of the 28th Army at all levels relied on the ruins of Orsha City to fight a guerrilla war with the Russian army, and the artillerymen knocked the Russian artillery again and again, while the infantry went deep into the ruins and fought close combat with the Russian infantry units entering the city.

Due to the love of the three dwarven races for light weapons such as guns, after moving them to Zhonghua Island, Fang Xiaoyu opened a light weapons company named after his patriarch for each of the three dwarf tribes, and he allocated a large number of weapon designers to each of the three companies, so that the three companies started a sound weapon business, and the Type 18 gun clan is the product of Browning Arms Company.

Later, after Fang Ruijun ascended the throne, he imitated the Iron Blood Army and issued the pistol to the hands of every soldier, and at this time, the soldiers of the 28th Army used the Beretta 92F pistol produced by the Beretta Light Weapons Company.

In street battles, there were times when soldiers on both sides met within ten meters, and at such a short distance, the pistol was even more practical than the machine gun, and at this time, the Beretta 92F pistol in the hands of the soldiers of the 28th Army came in handy.

The Beretta pistol, which used 9 mm pistol rounds, had a strong ability to resist, and the enemy only needed to hit a bullet, even if he did not hit the vital point, he would temporarily lose the ability to resist.

The Imperial Chinese Army was different from the Russian soldiers who were untrained and of all ages, similar to conscripts. They all received good training, and street fighting training was also one of the regular training subjects in these trainings, so in the ruins of Orsha City, the soldiers of the 28th Army were like fish in water, and they hit the Russian soldiers who were at a loss for what to do.

"No reserves remain, press on all fronts." After a whole day of fighting, Frunze couldn't hold back any longer, and now the Russian troops in the other three directions were retreating step by step, and time simply did not allow him to spend a long time here. Only by capturing Orsha as soon as possible and opening up the connection with the other side of the Dnieper River could he withdraw his soldiers, so he did not hesitate to gamble.

The Russian army's re-increase made Dong Guicheng feel the pressure, after all, he only had two divisions in his hands, and he was obviously a little thin in the face of the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops who rushed up, not to mention that after the banks of the Dnieper River were a little tight, Dong Guicheng transferred all his artillery, and now they can only use the light weapons in their hands to fight the Russian army.