Episode 162 Breaking through the bee's waist

On the Sakhalin issue, the original opinion was three to one: Tang Yunsheng, Xiong Dingming, and Xiang Xiaoqiang advocated a quick solution, but now that His Majesty's opinion has come out, there is no objection to it. The high command made a decision that the battle of Sakhalin would be quickly resolved, and the battle would be stormed under the cover of dense fog. Li Guoliang can only reserve his opinion. Now that the decision has been made, the Ming army's Kurkhalin troops have begun preparations for the general offensive and are to launch the final general offensive within five days. At the same time, an additional People's Guard division was sent to Sakhalin.

In the two months from November to January, the first batch of mass-produced F-38 automatic rifles has been installed in the hands of the People's Guard. This additional People's Guard division, which is now being sent to Sakhalin, is already equipped with this new gun. The Ming army command was anxious to test the actual performance of this gun in a real battle, and preferably a closed battlefield, to ensure that the enemy troops who had seen this gun would not run away. Sakhalin, on the other hand, happens to be such an excellent testing ground. Moreover, the Battle of Sakhalin Island will not have air cover, and the mountainous and dense forest environment will also greatly restrict the use of heavy tanks and heavy artillery. It can be said that it is a battlefield that relies heavily on light weapons.

On the night of January 17, the final general offensive began.

The general offensive of the Ming army this time was different from the past, first, there was no prelude to a large bombardment, and second, there was no artillery preparation, it was so quiet, tens of thousands of people took advantage of the dark night filled with thick fog, no one was allowed to speak, and sneaked forward with guns.

Because it was a silent advance, this time it was the infantry in front and the tanks and armored vehicles in the back, preventing the Soviets from hearing the roar of the engines before the two sides made contact. If the infantry attack is blocked, then the tanks behind will immediately drive up.

Got into the bee's waist. It's full of craters, and they're all huge. This is the area of the Japanese naval shelling during the day, and the earth has been turned over several times. Dozens of kilometers here belonged to the no-man's land between the Ming and Soviet armies, there were no scouts and no mines. In this way, he marched in fear for several hours, and never made contact with the Soviet troops. What was supposed to be a "smuggling" has now become a forced march in the snow. The Ming army relied on two legs, marching from 9 o'clock in the evening of the 17th to 6 o'clock in the morning of the 18th, walking in the snow on the waist of the bee all night, marching nearly 50 kilometers. This section of the bee's waist almost came quietly like this!

It's a bad taste. The soldiers were forced to march with fatigue and were not allowed to smoke. Everyone was looking forward to making contact with the enemy army, and they hurriedly started to have a good time. The soldiers of the Ming army were accustomed to marching in vehicles, and now walking dozens of kilometers in the ice and snow is also a big test.

At seven o'clock in the morning, it was already dark. A reconnaissance squad at the forefront of the squad suddenly stopped, and the squad leader raised his arm and motioned to the brothers behind him to remain silent and hide in place. Then, he quietly picked up the automatic rifle in his hand, squinted his eyes, and aimed at the dark shadow in front of him. Then he took a deep breath and whispered:

"Password?"

Several black shadows on the opposite side moved, and immediately half-bowed. Then a voice on the other side shouted in a low voice:

"Don't shoot! Own! ”

The squad leader of the Ming army sank in his heart and asked again:

"Password!"

The opposite side is still this sentence:

"Don't shoot, your own people!"

After talking back twice, I had already heard it clearly, not only could I not answer the command, but my tongue was still rolling. The squad leader of the Ming army shouted:

"Fire!"

Then with a pull of the trigger, there was a "pop", the muzzle flame flashed, and a black shadow on the opposite side fell. Immediately afterwards, ten automatic rifles behind him spat flames at the same time, and they all looked for targets to shoot. Then, several grenades were thrown over, and there were several loud "booms".

A light machine gun appeared on the opposite side, spraying tongues of fire with a "da-da-da", and the bullets grazed the scalps of the Ming soldiers, and flew over with a "whoosh". At the same time, the other party also threw several grenades, and in the loud noise, the Ming army immediately killed several people.

In the exchange of fire, the firepower and numbers of both sides were roughly clear. On both sides was a reconnaissance squad, all a dozen people.

The machine guns on the Ming side also opened fire, and the sound of tearing sackcloth filled the forest, and the bullets swept over like water. The opposing Soviet light machine gun had only more than 40 rounds of ammunition per egg tray, and after the fighting, it had to cease firing and change the reload. The Ming army, on the other hand, was a general-purpose machine gun with a 200-round chain that could be continuously fed. Soon, the Soviet light machine guns were dumbed.

The squad leader of the Ming army shouted loudly:

"Forward !!"

At the sound of an order, the remaining ten Ming soldiers rushed towards the Soviet troops on the opposite side with automatic rifles and general-purpose machine guns. A few Soviet soldiers knocked down a Ming soldier with a rifle, and then they were rushed in front of the remaining Ming army.

The Soviet soldiers all jumped up, rifles and bayonets, ready to start a white-knuckle battle with their men and horses. But a few tongues of fire flashed in front of him, and the remaining Soviet soldiers also fell to the ground screaming, and the rifles in their hands fell on the snow like blood.

This is the beginning of the war. Following the sound of gunfire, several reconnaissance teams on both sides in the vicinity were rushing to this side, and there was also a series of exchanges of fire. Soon, skirmishes coalesced. The entire vanguard of both sides collided, and an exchange of fire began on all fronts.

A few minutes later, a bright light flashed in the night sky to the south, and a moment later the air in the air hissed, and shells howled and fell on the Ming positions. For a time, the Ming army's troops were filled with flames and thick smoke.

In this half-hour between half past seven and eight o'clock, the offensive of the Ming army stopped - the infantry began to retreat, while the tanks and armored vehicles behind began to rush forward. After eight o'clock, the offensive vanguard of the Ming army was all replaced by armored forces. A large number of tanks and armored vehicles crowded through the woods, puffing green smoke and moving forward. The small trees in the forest were knocked down one after another, and the log bunkers, tunnels, and machine gun points of the Soviet troops in the forest were also pressed by the torrent of tanks one after another.

At this time, the Japanese fleet at sea opened fire.

It was at this time that the Ming army ushered in the real shelling. The Ming offensive front had already collided with the Soviet defensive line, and it was the follow-up troops behind them who were shelled. Due to the dense fog, the Japanese warships could not get any observation reports, so they locked onto the fixed area of Sakhalin Island and shelled them repeatedly. But this area is more than 60 kilometers long, and at its narrowest point it is 25 kilometers. The Japanese fleet consisted of only two battleships and six cruisers, and the remaining twenty or so destroyers had guns that were too small to have enough range. Although these dozens of heavy naval guns are powerful, the area to be shelled is too large after all.

The Ming army was relieved to find that the shelling of the Japanese fleet was not as terrible as imagined. Thanks to this fog, both the Japanese artillery and the Soviet artillery could only bombard aimlessly, unable to provide accurate target coordinates. That's a matter of probability. Although the Ming army suffered some casualties in the shelling, the offensive was not stopped after all. After three hours of fighting, the Ming armored front broke through the Soviet defenses and tore a hole several kilometers wide.