Chapter 726: Steel Frenzy
Just when Linevich was thinking about whether to continue fighting or choose to retreat, when the Russian army on the front line was in a dilemma and the rear was in chaos, just when Cai Yi had been thinking about when Peng Yi's main force would be in place. The rumbling of artillery from the northwest direction of the chariot completely upset the balance on the battlefield. "It's a 6-inch cannon!" Like the sound of a hammer hitting the ground getting closer and closer, the shells flew towards the area where the main forces of the Russian army were assembled with the roar of death, and in the air, there were two airships! And all this indicates the fact that the main force led by Peng Yi has finally arrived!
Because Cai Yi commanded the main force to resist the attack of the Russian armored group, he was not able to contact Peng Yi for the first time, but because Cai Yi's series of actions in the early stage greatly delayed the pace of the Russian army's offensive, so that when Peng Yi's forward troops arrived at the designated position to outflank, they found that Cai Yi was actually taking the initiative to attack the Russian army, and then the Russian army turned to attack the Cai Yi brigade located on the right flank. Originally, Peng Yi could already invest part of the troops at this time, but in order to ensure the advantage as much as possible, Peng Yi still held back, and it was not until Cai Yi played the last card and completely disrupted the deployment of the Russian army that Peng Yi finally entered the battle!
On the one hand, some people believe that Peng Yi lost a large number of technical, technical, equipment and personnel before entering the battle when the Cai Yi Brigade ran out of oil, which is an extremely irresponsible attitude towards friendly forces, and some people even say that this is a very bad start in the Chinese Army, after all, whether it is the Beiyang era or the previous battle. None of this has ever happened.
Another group of people believes that Peng Yi's approach is right, and it is best to invest decisive force at the most appropriate time, if it is not for Cai Yi to completely disrupt Linevich's deployment. In the face of a guarded enemy, the losses of Peng Yi's main force will definitely increase a lot. There is nothing wrong with doing so for the sake of victory in battle, and it is only a small sacrifice in exchange for a greater victory. This kind of controversy lasted for a long time, but Peng Yi and Cai Yi, as the parties concerned, did not express much of their position. There are many things where reason and emotion are in conflict. It wasn't until one day, when Cai said at a gathering of senior military officers that if he were Peng Yi, he would do the same, that the controversy finally ended. War is bloody. Sometimes Iron is the same as victory and efficiency!
Although the attack was late, Peng Yi's preparations were still quite sufficient, not to mention that the 6-inch heavy gun was dismantled by Peng Yi into three pieces and sent to the front line! These artillery pieces were originally intended to be handed over to Ma Yukun. AS A RESULT, BECAUSE OF THE LIMITED TRANSPORTATION CAPACITY, IT WAS TEMPORARILY PLACED HERE BY PENG YI, AND THE TIME BECAME ABUNDANT, AND THE RUSSIANS ALSO HAD A BIG GUY LIKE A 107MM CANNON. So in order to increase the firepower. Peng Yi moved some of these heavy artillery pieces to the battlefield. In addition to the equipment, Peng Yi's troops are also outflanked very well, his troops have been like a huge pocket from the northwest direction of the entire Russian army quickly clustered, in addition to part of the armored forces continue to surround the Russian army in chaos in the baggage and transport troops, the main force has been in the vicinity of the Russian offensive troops, and the powerful 152MM heavy artillery is the prelude to this attack!
Shells like meteors streaked across the sky, and 45KG heavy shells bloomed in the positions of the Russian army! The main force of the Russian army, which had just been overwhelmed by the Xu army, was completely stunned by this sudden and fierce artillery bombardment, and the flames swept through everything around them with huge energy and shrapnel. Whether it was chariots, artillery, or infantry, they were finally reduced to pieces in this indestructible rain of steel. Pillars of smoke rose high like the sword of judgment one day. Let all the Russian troops feel the coming of death!
The Russian army did not build any effective positions, and the infantry had nowhere to hide, so they could only curl up behind the armored vehicle or find a hill to hide as much as possible, and the body close to the ground felt the tremor of the earth, and the sound of shell explosions kept ringing in their ears, and countless shrapnel flew overhead, feeling the approach of death. The cavalry had already abandoned their horses and left them to run through the position, eventually being blown into a pile of pulp by cannonballs or knocked down by their own men. The tense spirit finally collapsed at this moment, and they left everything they could throw away despite the intimidation of the officers around them. In the rain of bullets, they ran in the direction they thought were safe, but in the end, these people were either torn apart by shells or killed by the bullets of the Warlords, and none of them made it out of the battlefield alive!
Just when the infantry and cavalry were rapidly crumbling under heavy shelling, the remaining armored vehicles of the Russian army were not having a good time. They were dazed in their chariots, moving under the baptism of steel, at this time they didn't care about the surrounding situation, maybe their car was in front of a cannon, maybe it was their comrades, maybe even their commanders, but nothing could organize them to crush the things in front of them to pieces, although relying on the protection of armor, they could avoid most of the shrapnel attacks, but the sound of shrapnel and steel balls constantly hitting the armor still made the Russian tank driver feel frightened and panicked.
SHORTLY AFTER THE 6-INCH GUNS JOINED THE ATTACK, THE 160MM HEAVY MORTARS THAT MOVED TO THE FRONT LINE ALSO JOINED THE SHELLING, AND THESE RIFLED MORTARS EXCEEDED THE 6-INCH GUNS IN TERMS OF ANGLE AND PROJECTION IN ADDITION TO THE RANGE, AND THEY WERE MORE NUMEROUS! If the rain of bullets from the 6-inch guns just now was only at the level of "heavy rain", then the projection volume of these rifled mortars was directly increased to the level of "heavy rain"! Dozens of heavy mortars fired shells formed a barrage of barrages on the Russian positions constantly rolling, the barrage of the first group of shells just went away, and the barrage of the second group of artillery came again, if the 6-inch heavy artillery just knocked out some nodes of the Russian army, causing certain casualties and fear, then the heavy mortars in place were like a grinding disc and finally crushed the Russian heavy army group a little bit!
And just when the artillery was like a whack-a-mole to break up the main force of the Russian army, Peng Yi put in 6 battalions of tanks and assault guns plus a large number of infantry to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Russian army, and the main force of the Chinese army was like a net to surround the entire main force of the Russian army, and did not immediately launch an attack. The armored troops, which were supposed to be the spearhead of the assault, were more like a besieger and container in this battle, killing the resisting Russian troops and driving the surrendered Russian troops into the prisoner of war camp. The defeat of the main forces of the Russian army was inevitable, and after the shelling, under the cover of a large number of infantry, the armored forces began to divide the remaining Russian troops, and it was good that the offensive at this time was no different from cleaning up the battlefield.
In just 3 hours, Lynevich felt the sensation of going from heaven to hell. Originally, he was at least sure that he would annihilate an entire brigade of the Huaxia Army. But the reinforcements he suddenly felt knocked his troops to pieces, and if he could have been able to consolidate his position on the premise of fighting steadily, he could have held out for a while longer, but now the result is that the front has not been defeated, and his weakness has been crushed by the other party. Although because of the huge battlefield, Peng Yi's main force, which had just entered the battlefield, was eager to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Russian army, he did not carry out a thorough sweep of the scattered units and logistics units scattered in various places. But Lynevich knew that the war had reached such an extent that it was only a matter of time before the entire army was destroyed.
When the main force was surrounded and annihilated, Linevich could no longer take out a reserve to support, and the armored vehicles naturally needless to say, they were all assigned to the main force to attack the fortification, and there were still some infantry and anti-aircraft guns, but most of them had been destroyed by the small forces scattered and assaulted by the opponent, and even if there was still some leftover, these flat-fire guns could only be used for defense and not for attack. And even if you go, it's a bit unlikely now, for the simple reason that the loss of horses and vehicles is too great! Without horses or trucks to haul them, how would these heavy guns go? Not to mention that the equipment can't be taken away, people can't walk, a distance of hundreds of kilometers, you let the Russians run back on two legs?
Just after Peng Yi cleaned up the main force of the Russian army, a large number of armored squads began to sweep away the remnants of the enemy on the battlefield like a comb, and the battle went on to such an extent that even the most die-hard Russian troops gave up resistance. In the vast wasteland, there are no horses and not enough supplies, there are Chinese armored troops spitting deadly bullets everywhere, and they can't find their companions, the battlefield situation is not clear, all kinds of rumors have begun to spread, and the military spirit has been completely dispersed. Even Linevich chose to surrender when the opposing tanks rushed up. With the collapse of the Russian Mobile Corps, the last elite field unit of the Russian army in the Far East was finally wiped out.
Before his capture, Linnevich's last telegram contained only one sentence: "The war has been lost, and Russia has finally lost its dominance of the Far East." And when he saw this telegram, Kulopatkin also agreed with him, and even earlier, Kulopatkin believed that it was impossible for the Russians to win the war, the inferiority of troops and equipment was not mentioned for the time being, and the transportation capacity was too bad, and Russia had only one "barely usable" usable railway, while Huaxia had established a nearly complete system of railways and roads behind its own positions. The reason why Kulopatkin fought so far is more for a more decent ending with fewer losses, and now, all this has become impossible. The longer you fight, the greater the loss!
According to the plan of the Chinese Army, after Peng Yi eliminated the elite troops of the Russians, Ma Yukun on the southern front should immediately attack, but at this critical moment, the order from the Prime Minister's Office stopped Ma Yukun's army, and the political problems directly affected the military, and this time Britain and France finally decided to come to the front!
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