Chapter 291: The Longest Day
Russian tanks gathered until late at night and did not attack. They did not dare to rashly expose the tanks, they could not resist the anti-tank guns in the fortress, even if there were many of them, more than a thousand meters, enough for the enemy to eat easily, after all, the loading of shells was not slow, and the number of them was unknown. They are waiting, waiting for tomorrow's attack.
But during this period, the bombardment of the mountains has not stopped, although not intensive, but also disorderly and continuous. If the mortars are set up again on the hill, it will be difficult to survive.
Dong Ku was not in a hurry, since he chose not to attack, he was sure to hold on for three or five days, it was nothing more than a large consumption of ammunition, anyway, Makqin's role was about to be lost, and his next heavy machine gun was definitely lighter than Makqin, and the firepower was not bad, and even surpassed. Therefore, it does not matter if Maxim's bullet consumption is indiscriminate.
Kaijiang, he has already heard the old man of Hulin say, in previous years, this time is about the same, the river has occasionally cracked ice, at most five days, when the sound of ice explosion appears, within an hour, the ice surface will completely collapse, and start to run ice volleyballs.
Five days, which means that he will hold on for five more days at most, and he has a bigger backhand, that is, to concentrate artillery fire, effectively bombard a point, and blast the ice surface more than two meters thick, so that the river overflows, forming a glacial lake, arching the ice upstream, and blocking the delivery of Soviet and Russian supplies.
It's just that there are too many shells consumed like that, and it's not something that can be blown up in three or two rounds. As a last resort, he will wait.
The night was spent in the continuous shelling. At this time, the attack and defense were in different positions, and Soviet Russia once again took the initiative, and the infantry moved along the blind spot of the artillery, sticking to the riverbank, and gathered to the front of the position.
, they spent the night under the embankment. Survive the still cold nights and wait for tomorrow's attack.
Dong Ku hadn't slept all night, and he knew that the enemy's attack might be in the early hours of the morning.
Sure enough, the sky and sea were not bright, and it was only past four o'clock. The rumbling sound of artillery under the embankment was no longer a sporadic bombardment of the mountaintop, but covered the entire group of forward pillboxes and the top of the mountain.
The loud rumbling and screaming shells suddenly woke up the soldiers of the advance army, who were a little sleepy, and quickly entered the combat post, staring wide-eyed into the darkness, and in the flickering afterglow of artillery fire, they could distinguish whether there were moving objects.
Just then, a rumbling sound came. And the earth trembled.
"Cavalry!!"
Dong Ku was startled, and raised the shimmering telescope to look out of the smoke.
When the galloping horses appeared in view, he shouted, "Fire!!" ”
Xing Yuan stared at Dong Ku closely, and at the moment when Dong Ku shouted, he yelled on the phone: "Fire!!" ”
With Xing Yuan's roar, thousands of Makqin suddenly roared, and there was no need for a grenadier because. If the horse's speed is close to 100 meters, it will not be stoppable.
Four or five hundred meters away. The ultra-sleepy Russian cavalry held explosives and bundles of grenades, galloped wildly, and rushed straight to the position in the front of the fire.
At this moment, the shelling came suddenly, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air. Only the top of the mountain still exploded.
The terrifying sound of the tom heavy machine gun was intertwined, and the dense barrage tightly blocked every inch of space, the bullets hit the horses, the fluffy blood mist splashed, and the war horses in front were quickly broken into pieces in the overturn.
The horses in the back trampled on the debris of the plasma. Continue to rush into the torrent of steel, even if it is annihilated by breathing, it does not stop for a moment.
The dense sound of gunfire held out the tide of horses, and the charging tide was like a fountain, like the waves of the sea, tumbling and agitating, surging forward, allowing the waves to splash in all directions.
The Russian cavalry roared wildly, rushed forward without fear of death, and in less than a minute, they rushed out of a hundred meters of advance with minced meat and blood, and they were still moving forward.
"Anti-aircraft artillery fire!!"
Xing Yuan yelled.
The sound of tom tom cannon immediately roared, and more than 50 Type 88 75 anti-aircraft guns continued to spray fire, one after another shells shot out flat, and then exploded three or four hundred meters away, and the power should not be underestimated in the dense herd of horses, and they also exploded one by one.
"Bounce the chain ready!"
One shout after another rang out in the bunker, the sub-gunner had docked the ammunition company, and at the same time prepared a spare Maxim outside the bunker, and in the event of a malfunction, the damaged machine gun would be replaced in a few seconds.
"Pan Mazi! Fire!! ”
Xing Yuan yelled at the microphone.
With his roar, the silent cannon sound on the top of the hill sounded again, and in the firelight, in the flying but heavy, one after another shells flew over the mountain, through the smoke of gunpowder, and fell to the position five or six hundred meters ahead, and the hail of black pressure fell down.
The cannonballs fell, immediately like festive fireworks, and the continuous explosions cut off the tide, making the wave appear in a blank area of dozens of meters. In the middle, large pieces of flesh and shrapnel flew everywhere, war horses neighed, and people screamed.
"There are also mortars on the top of the mountain!! Cover me for the attack!! ”
The commander of the tank shelling lying on the embankment saw the dense explosions in front and immediately shouted.
With his roar, the tom cannon sounded intensively, and a projectile tore through the darkness and flew towards the mountain, and then the mountain light flickered like day, and the smoke rose to cover the entire mountain.
At this time, there were no less than 300 tanks aiming at the top of the hill, and the intensive bombardment, not to mention the mortars in the improvised bunkers, even if it was a 30-centimeter cement bunker, I am afraid it would not last two minutes.
But in the flickering light of the fire on the mountain, pieces of projectiles still flew out without hindrance, falling towards the frenzy of attack below, tearing apart those galloping war horses, and crushing the Soviet Russian soldiers on the war horses.
The dense explosion of the roar made the galloping iron horse shush for a short time, and was cut into several sections, and the barrage of Da Da firmly stuck the sniper for 300 meters, allowing the speed of the war horse to charge fast, and it was also beaten into minced meat between about 300 meters of breathing.
There, blood was permeated, thick and almost viscous, and the smell of gunsmoke was obscured inside. The heat rose, making that area a blind spot, and even the war horses were running wildly with their senses, and they couldn't see the road at all.
"Stop attacking!! Hold down the mortars on the top of the hill!! ”
The major general in charge of the command in the back saw that the casualties of the attack were too great, and immediately terminated the attack, even if the soldiers who rushed forward could not retreat, he could not endlessly fill in. The mortar threat from the top of the hill is too great.
With his order, the follow-up attacks stopped, and those who rushed to the bank were in a hail of bullets. Die out quickly. Then, the tanks and artillery on the river embankment roared in unison, and the projectiles roared to the top of the hill in the night.
The boom and explosion were even more intense, and the light of the fire lit up half the sky.
During the bombardment, a captain stepped forward and said: "Comrade Major General, it seems that the mortar position on the top of the hill is not at the top of the mountain. It should be on the back slope of the mountain. ”
"Back slope?"
The major general held up the binoculars and looked at it for a while, and he ordered again: "Artillery fire extends, bombard the back of the hillside!" ”
Sure enough, what the captain said was right, on the back of the mountain, the original 75 mountain artillery and field artillery batteries were all filled with mortars, and there were five batteries in one battery, which were stacked on top of each other for three layers on the hillside, stretching for several kilometers.
Shells flying over the hill could not directly hit the mortar. However, the flying debris and shrapnel caused a lot of casualties to the fighters on the position, and they all hid at the base of the mountain and stopped the shelling.
Seeing the effect, the major general gave a loud order: "Do not stop the shelling, the cavalry charge!! ”
At this time, the sound of machine guns in the fortress bunker also stopped, and they checked their guns because they could not hear the sound of horses' hooves. Wait for the next round of attacks to begin.
The smoke has not yet dissipated. As soon as you look at it, you can't see a hundred meters away, even if there are flares and the fire on the top of the mountain, you still can't see it.
Less than five minutes after a break, the rumbling of hooves came again.
"Here we go again!"
The fighters took their positions one after another, without giving orders. Already left the fire.
At the top of the mountain, mortars can't carry out shelling in the dense roar, and falling rocks are denser than raindrops, and they can kill people without hitting the vital point.
Pan Mazi heard the report. The situation was passed to Command.
When Dong Ku heard the report, he ordered without looking back: "Hide on the spot and stop the shelling!" ”
At this time, it was the stage of the 75 anti-aircraft artillery and Makqin, without the support of the mortars on the top of the mountain, the offensive of Soviet Russia was like the waves of the sea, wave after wave, the deafening sound of horses' hooves shook people's hearts, and in the dark, there were no four people and blood, but the battle was not as tragic as imagined.
At this time, it was purely a blind man shooting a blind horse, the machine gun bullet was no more than half a meter above the ground, and the anti-aircraft gun was no more than a meter above the ground, so he pulled the trigger with his eyes closed, and there was no need to aim at all.
Seeing that the mortars on the top of the hill had been successfully suppressed by the river embankment, the bombardment was more intensive, and one cannon after another sent shells to the top of the mountain.
The intention of Soviet Russia at this time was extremely obvious, that is, to use people and artillery shells to pry open this door. No matter how many bullets there are, there will always be a time when they can't keep up, no matter how good Makqin's performance is, it will be damaged in frequent work, and at that time, Zi Awu will be able to block their progress.
Listening to the roar of cannons overhead, Dong Ku shouted: "Pan Mazi, come and don't be rude!" Cover me with the river, cover 'Dalenevchensk'! ”
"Yes!"
As Pan Mazi received the order, the cannons in the fortress roared in unison, and a projectile flew towards the target that had been set a long time ago, and it exploded with a bang.
However, the effect of this intensive bombardment was not great, there was not a single figure on the ice, and there were not many people there in 'Dalenevchensk,' and the attacking troops entered the river from a long distance, clinging to the frontal positions close to the river embankment, and then went up to the river bank to attack.
Dong Ku did not know that the bombardment of the road had no effect, and the reconnaissance team was squeezed by the Soviet and Russian troops and could not get close to the battlefield at all, and in the darkness, except for the fire of the tank, there was no other situation.
The battle ushered in the dawn with the roar of machine guns, but the morning sun could not penetrate the thick smoke, so that the soldiers in the fortress still felt that it was not dawn.
The Russian army has prepared five cavalry divisions, and there are thousands of tanks on the riverbank, and their posture is to conquer the tiger's head in one fell swoop, and use people to take it here.
In the midst of the booming explosion, several hours passed. The gunfire never stopped, the attacks never stopped, and the horses trampled in the mud all over the ground, and they did not stop rushing to death.
In the bunker, the soldiers who had just changed their guard took over the sweaty Makqin guard, and let the machine gun pause for less than a second before continuing to roar.
In the corner, two damaged machine guns that had been disassembled and were waiting to be replaced, and the machine guns could not withstand the continuous rotation, and after an hour or two, they had mechanical failures.
Fortunately, the number of captured Makqin was sufficient, and the shooting had not yet stopped.
Just after lunch, the soldiers who had changed guards took earthen baskets and used shovels to clean the bullet casings all over the ground, and they could no longer remember how many baskets had been cleared.
In the fortress, everyone was numb at this time, so that the gunfire shook so much that they didn't even bother to speak, they were all mechanically busy with their own, anyway, they didn't need to aim, just load the battery, hook up, pull the trigger, and clean up the cartridge case.
The charging Russian soldiers were equally numb, and they had nothing but shouting Ula and urging their horses wildly.
The battle ushered in the twilight in this numbness. The two sides fought for a whole day, almost without stopping.
The top of the mountain, at this time, was a mess, the top of the mountain was naturally needless to say, the powder of the rock was already half a foot thick, the back slope of the mountain, there were not many trees that did not fall, the shells tore all the trees, and the position platform behind the hill was not much hit, but it was full of rubble.
At 10 minutes after dark, the Russian attack came to an abrupt halt, and the tanks were the first to stop the shelling. The battlefield suddenly fell silent, and the silence made people feel weird.
Is it finally stopped......
In the fortress, everyone looked blankly at the darkness in the distance, they didn't know that it was already dark at this time, and they didn't know that the time of the day had passed.
Dong Ku did not participate in the aftermath at the moment when the fighting stopped, he stood there, quietly looking ahead, wondering if it would be a round of intensive shelling, and then rushed over, blowing up the tank with an iron fist and grenades, once and for all, no longer being abused by the shelling.
Without the assistance of tanks, the troops of Soviet Russia, whether they are horses or people, Dong Ku has absolute certainty that they can easily keep them. After all, it is possible to compile a barrage when you can see clearly, and this kind of sight is not possible, and the only way to block the enemy who may approach with dense bullets is a waste of bullets, and the effect is not good.
At this moment, a clear call suddenly came.
Dong Ku turned to look at the confidential officer, and he knew that the call from this time must have something important.
Sure enough, after the confidential officer quickly translated the secret language, he handed the call to Dong Ku.
"Oh yes......"
It turned out that the call was a team that took advantage of the darkness to climb along the ice to a position not far from the Soviet Russian tank, and after seeing the exact news, they left there and sent back the message.
There is nothing else in the message, except that the Soviet and Russian soldiers are also tired, they are refueling the tanks, people are eating and resting, and they are obviously exhausted.
Rest......
Dong Ku looked at the translated information, his eyes lit up, and he shouted: "It's been a day since I beat Lao Tzu, you said to rest if you rest?!" (To be continued......)