Because of the fierce counterfire in this open area, plus more soldiers from the 5th Agricultural Division, several Soviet soldiers were immediately knocked to the ground. It's just that the piercing gunfire and flashing fireworks told the armies of the two countries, which are also in a state of high tension on both sides of the border: there is no way to retreat, the war has begun, and the only way to fight is to continue.

Li Chen's eyes were a little out of focus, his expression looked dazed, he had a kind of heart palpitation at the moment of the dead man just now, but now, he was a little helpless. In fact, most of the soldiers were the same as him, although everyone practiced hard and learned technical and tactical knowledge, but no one thought that one day, they would have to fight the enemy on the battlefield with their guns.

Commander Liu of the Fifth Agricultural Division did not become at a loss in the face of such a situation, but he was able to play quite few cards. In their eagerness to collect the fragments of the ship, they basically brought with them light weapons such as automatic rifles, and then some loaded vehicles. Although as soon as he arrived here, the division commander ordered some soldiers to dig sand and build trenches, the geology in this area was too soft, and they did not dig enough reliable fortifications after digging for half a day.

Li Chen subconsciously clenched the steel gun in his hand, and the commanders of various grassroots units were already assembling their soldiers, and in the limited number and depth of the trenches, they were holding their breath and staring at the next wave of attacks that might come from the Soviets. The Soviet soldiers who had just been killed were taken from the fragments they had collected from China, as well as the rifles and ammunition they had in their hands, all of which were common weapons.

"Why didn't the Soviets move?" Li Chen was not assigned a trench, but used the plate of an unloaded animal-powered cart as cover on the spot.

Not long after this thought flashed through his mind, suddenly there was a rumbling sound of a motor not far away, and someone was shocked: "It's a tank!" ”

Naturally, the soldiers did not know what kind of formed unit the Soviets were on the other side of the road, but their division commander knew the road clearly, and the first one on the opposite side was a mechanized division directly under the Turkish Military District, and behind them was the entire 32nd Army from the Central Asian Military District. Compared to the strength of the Soviets, their strength was so low that it was even a little terrifying.

However, Division Commander Liu had no choice, and the order given to him by his superiors was to collect and protect these spacecraft fragments at all costs, and he could not just withdraw like this. Or even if he retreated now and retreated back to Bole with his soldiers, the Soviet armored soldiers with tracks and wheels would be much faster than them in flat pushing, and it would still be a dead end.

Solinsky, the commander of the Soviet mechanized division, looked with a hint of contempt at the Chinese troops opposite, who were not even equipped with a little heavy firepower. He didn't know that he was only facing a reserve farming division, but in his opinion, even an elite Chinese mechanized division on the opposite side could not resist the crushing of the T-64 tanks driven by their division's armored troops.

"Damn, in order to protect something weird, even the artillery won't let us use it." The elite troops led by Solinsky not only have a regiment of nearly 100 T-64 tanks, but also 2S3 152mm self-propelled guns, these self-propelled guns are Solinsky's treasures, and Solinsky even regards them as more important than T-64. In addition to these self-propelled guns, the whole division was also equipped with towed howitzers, some recoilless guns and mortars, and the overall firepower did not feel much weaker even in the face of the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army.

Because the battlefield is actually a scattered area of spaceship debris, the order from above clearly requires Solinsky to be careful when moving to avoid harming those fragments, and this means that before the armored troops go into battle, repeated artillery fire can not be done, but fortunately, the opponent's Chinese army has no heavy firepower, so the T-64's horizontal push seems to be overwhelming.

In addition, the T-64 tank is equipped with night vision devices, and the artillery wants to strike accurately in the dark, and it is not easy for fire control to do this, and Solinsky can only comfort himself that it is inefficient to wash the floor with artillery at night.

The T-64 tank, which was relied on by the Soviet Union as the core of the armored corps, was domineering and majestic in front of the almost unarmed Fifth Agricultural Division. The soldiers raised their five-six-style or eighty-one bars in vain, and could only see a burst of noise on their excellent composite armor shells, but they could not stop this guy from advancing arrogantly.

The Soviet soldier, who operated the machine gun on the roof of the car, shouted Ulla and fired at any Chinese soldier he could see. Most of the soldiers chose to hide in the trenches, or take cover from a variety of available covers, and lay down if they couldn't. The T-64 tanks that broke through the national border with the coordination of some infantry rushed forward and successively broke through the three trenches arranged by the Fifth Agricultural Division on the periphery.

The division commander's eyes were red, and although he couldn't see the blood of the soldiers behind him, he could see the figures without hesitation, using his flesh and blood to block the T-64 tanks that rushed up. Even in such a situation, the soldiers of the reserve did not give up resistance, only to see a veteran in his thirties, constantly shooting at the tank, and his comrades-in-arms who were acting with him repeatedly fell beside him, but he still gritted his teeth, attracting the attention of the tank, until he turned over and jumped into the trench next to him, and the tank rolled into the trench after him, this trench was dug very wide, and the T-64 supporting the turret was careless, and the front end of the hull was planted in the trench, And the heavy tracks ran over the legs of the veteran who had just hid in the trench.

The veteran did not scream at all, but held the grenade bundle that had been prepared for a long time, pulled it directly, and took his body and arched between the softest tracks of this tank - the fatal lower belly of the armored monster. A loud explosion came from the trench, and the T-64 became the first Soviet tank to be damaged in battle, and a dozen soldiers paid for it with their own casualties. Just this insignificant scene on the battlefield is not enough to change the current situation. More and more T-64s rushed out in the deep darkness of the night, like bloodthirsty monsters, they often did not fire, but two machine guns strafed the soldiers of the 5th Agricultural Division who had no protection. When it came across some cover, the 125mm smoothbore cannon showed its face, and with a bang, everything in front of it was blown to smithereens.

Li Chen trembled, holding his rifle, rolled into a trench, he faced such a bloody battlefield for the first time, he saw the familiar figure in the past turned into a puddle of blood in the guns, the whole body fell into uncontrollable spasms, he wanted to fight back, but he felt that his body was no longer under his control, and even the rifle he was holding was trembling.

"Why is this happening—why is this happening?" Li Chen shouted in his heart, and no one could answer him. The conflict broke out so suddenly, even if it was expected, but few people really thought that China and the Soviet Union were going to engage in some kind of fighting.

The division commander of the Fifth Agricultural Division was stunned, and he almost rushed up to fight with his own soldiers, but at this time, it was impossible for the division headquarters to be without him, so he hurriedly found the phone and reported to his superiors, and just five minutes before he called, the supreme military command had been transferred from the Xinjiang Military Region, which was unfavorably deployed, to Qi Yiming.

Qi Yiming took the phone, listened to the trembling report of the commander of the Fifth Agricultural Division, did not have the slightest silence, and said: "Division Commander Liu, please immediately gather your troops and retreat in the direction of Wusu, the Eighth Division will be able to meet you immediately, I order you, give up what you have in your hands and retreat to the rear." ”

Then there was a pause that seemed to be struggling, "If you can't withdraw, I authorize you to surrender to the Soviet troops." ”

Division Commander Liu called to seek a solution to the problem, but what he didn't expect was a young chief, who authorized them to give them a chance to surrender with a unit with a glorious tradition.

"Chief, I don't know which part of the land you are in charge of, but in our PLA, there is no one who takes the initiative to surrender, that is, there is a soldier after the battle to the extreme, there are only soldiers of the Fifth Agricultural Division who stand and die, and there are no soldiers of the Fifth Agricultural Division who kneel to survive, you can take this as my last words!" The phone was cut off, and a busy tone was heard.

Qi Yiming, who was hung up on the phone, was stunned for a moment, he pursed his lips and didn't say anything for a long time. In his opinion, no matter how precious this alien spaceship is, it is no more precious than the tens of thousands of lives of the Fifth Agricultural Division, as long as his 309th Division is in place, it can directly beat the Soviet army down with unrivaled firepower, even if they seize the fragments of the spaceship, they can spend some effort to beat them all into real pieces, and let the Soviets gain nothing.

However, Commander Liu, who knew that it was absolutely impossible for the Dao to win, and still wanted to use his weak flesh and blood to resist the torrent of steel, told him that his so-called clever calculations never existed in the PLA's exercises, even though they were only a reserve force now.

Even the crazy Imperial Japanese Army had written rules for surrender, and until thirty years later, the PLA, despised and ridiculed by the Western media and military experts, was secretive about the word surrender at any time. Only standing and dying, not kneeling, knocked heavily on Qi Yiming's heart, he felt both admirable and resentful, but no matter what, it seemed that Division Commander Liu and his soldiers would not change their minds and turn their backs to the enemy.

"It seems that I still underestimate the honor of this army." Qi Yiming sighed in a low voice.

Liao Huairen understood Qi Yiming's request to let the Fifth Agricultural Division surrender when the mountains and rivers were exhausted, he patted Qi Yiming on the shoulder and said: "No way, this is our army, some stupid but absolutely cute and respectable troops, but what you should be thinking about now is not this, but how to protect these soldiers and protect those heavenly properties as much as possible." ”

A cold light flashed in Qi Yiming's eyes, and he said, "Since the Soviet Union wants to play, then I will accompany them to have fun!" ”