Chapter 261: The Bloody Battle on the Top of the Birch Tree (2)
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At the same time as the battle of Zhao Shaojie's No. 3 position, fierce battles also broke out in the other two positions. The difference is that there are all machine guns in the main position, and all the machine guns are crooked, and Depp in the morning has disappeared. On the main position, which stretched for more than a kilometer, at least 300 crooked handles were screaming, and the charging Russian troops were no longer able to advance when they reached a position of 200 meters, and the hillside was covered with corpses.
Looking at the No. 6 position on the right, it is the same as the No. 3 position, when the Russian army is within 100 meters of the top of the mountain, the grenade grenades that are as dense as hail leave all the charging Russian troops in the debris of the branches, and no one survives.
This difference stems from the fact that the front of the main position is covered by bushes, so there are no trees to cover it, so the covering fire of the machine guns plays a decisive role. The rest of the place was densely wooded, so the machine guns were much less useful in other positions.
The battle of position No. 3 came again one step ahead, and the Russian army crossed the rearmost line of defense in the death climb, stepped on the soft debris, stepped on the stumps and flesh of their comrades in the debris, and launched another attack on the top of the mountain.
This time, the Russian army did not have a strong rush, and after approaching 50 meters, they stopped at a position where there were relatively few explosions, lay on the ground, behind the roots of trees, and began to shoot at the top of the mountain.
The thumping gunfire was suddenly densed under the cheers of Depp behind him, and the return fire from the hilltop position was once again suppressed by the fierce fire.
Zhao Shaojie looked at the distance of the Russian army in the telescope, and cursed secretly: "Oh! Learn well!
The fighters at the top of the hill stopped firing during the intensive firing, except for observing the distance of the Russian troops through the gaps in the trunks. With such a dense number of bullets, even if they show very little, there will still be casualties. So, they all hibernated. Let the Russian army continue to shoot.
The battle has become a one-man show for the Russian army at this moment, but the Russian army has learned the lesson of the previous intensive bombardment of grenades, and it is no longer rashly advancing, so the bullets are densely suppressed on the top of the mountain, and the two sides are slowly detouring.
Zhao Shaojie watched the movements of the Russian army under the mountain. Not sad or happy, he didn't give an order, just waited.
The Russian army slowly approached the top of the hill from both sides of the mountain pack and was not blocked. But the oil bunker on the top of the hill was in a hurry in the binoculars, and the fresh wood that had gone to the branches showed that there were people here who were also defended.
Time, slowly and persistently, turned the Russian army in a few minutes. Within a hundred meters of the top of the mountain, an earth-shattering roar suddenly erupted, and both sides launched a charge almost simultaneously.
"Come on, Big Nose!"
The observers on both sides who were responsible for delivering the news shouted, took two steps back and stood up, raised the red and green flags in their hands, and several flags were played in a row, and then, the dense sound of tom tom sounded. The grenadiers that had been prepared on both sides burst out with the maximum rate of fire, and grenades fell overwhelmingly on the charging team. A loud bang rang out in the forest, and in the smoke of gunpowder, the branches of the trees broke one after another, and in the drift, they were torn apart by the flying shrapnel.
Suddenly struck, the Russian army did not hide on the spot. Instead, it exploded like a tide and retreated downward. In the roaring explosion, most of them were lucky enough to avoid shrapnel and retreat to positions 200 meters away.
The Russian army in the middle was in the middle at the moment when the two hundred explosions sounded, and the sound of Ula sounded. Stepping on the fluffy debris, he launched a dash towards the top of the mountain.
But where did they know that there were more than 500 grenadiers on the top of the mountain, one hundred and fifteen on one side, and about 200 in the middle. As a result, this plan became a joke in the roaring explosion, allowing the Russian army to throw away the corpses on the ground again and retreat like a tide.
The attacking Russian army did not cause much damage due to its good behavior, and all the people who added up to a few hundred people were left in the explosion area.
"Keep attacking!!"
The Russian commander did not stop the attack because of the damage and again gave the order to charge.
At this time, the frontal position, the Russian army was attacking while preparing artillery, and in the bitter cold, the 76-mm Type 1909 mountain guns dragged by horses and plows were assembled to prepare for the next attack.
Although the Type 1909 was a bit bulky, it had a longer range than the Japanese Type 92 infantry guns, reaching a distance of 8,000 meters, which meant that they were able to strike at positions on the top of the hill beyond the range of mortars.
Unfortunately, due to the inconvenience of transportation, only four of these mountain artillery divisions were carried for fire support, and they were all concentrated here in the frontal position. It's just that it comes in a hurry, and it takes time to assemble it.
At two o'clock, the four guns were assembled, and then, with a bang, the shells fell on the mountainside.
"Big Nose has more than fifty caliber guns!!"
The soldiers on the position were taken aback, and even Han Jie, who was far behind, was equally surprised.
He grabbed the phone and shouted: "Position No. 1, report the artillery coordinates!!" ”
Then there was a shout from the other end.
"Position No. 1 reports that the caliber is more than sixty and the firing range is more than five thousand meters, which is already beyond the range of our mortars."
"Oh yes! Let the position pay attention to the anti-artillery!! ”
Han Jie cursed, and quickly ordered all the returnee soldiers to quickly reinforce here, he couldn't wait to be bombed, and he had to destroy the enemy's artillery in the shortest possible time.
As soon as his shout fell, four shells fell on the front of the position one after another with the scream of the shells, exploding violently, and the frozen earth and debris flew all over the sky, and plumes of smoke rose with it.
"! Temporarily evacuate the position!! ”
"Withdraw! Remove!! ”
On the battlefield, shouts rang out one after another.
With the shouting, the warriors quickly rolled up the fur mattresses they were using on their stomachs, put away the guns and bullets, and quickly left the top of the mountain.
With four large-caliber guns, you can plow the position in a few minutes. They lie on their stomachs on unobstructed positions, which is just looking for death, and only increasing casualties. At the same time, they are not worried about the Russian army rushing up, which is the result they want, they can use a dense rain of bullets to bring the Russian army back, which is far better than waiting to be bombed.
As soon as the soldiers evacuated the place, the shells fell on their stomachs, and then the booming explosions rang out non-stop. Smoke billowed from the entire summit position, and frozen earth and debris obscured the sky. If it is not withdrawn, I am afraid that there will be a lot of soldiers' lives left there.
Han Jie stood outside the headquarters, looking at the smoke rising from the mountain in front of him, although he was two or three thousand meters away, he could still feel the violent vibration.
Just as he was looking at the thick smoke, the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Division of the 2nd Army, which was in charge of support, came to the headquarters with skis on his snowboards.
"Brigade Commander Qiu, now I will give you a task, the soldiers of your brigade are relatively strong in personal ability, plus the firepower of weapons is fierce, so I need you to destroy the enemy's artillery."
"Yes! Guaranteed to complete the mission!! ”
The brigade commander shouted for the order, and then turned back and shouted: "Third regiment, the task of destroying the enemy's artillery is entrusted to you." ”
"Yes!"
The commander of the 3rd regiment stood up to receive the order, and with it, the task went to the 2nd battalion and then to the company.
Just as they were preparing, Han Jie suddenly said, "Brigade Commander Qiu, if we are a full-front assault, can we rush to the vicinity of the artillery?" The artillery was five thousand meters away from the mountain. ”
"I don't think it's a problem." Brigade Commander Qiu's slightly younger face exuded confidence and replied calmly.
"Oh yes! It's better to blow it up than to grab it!! ”
Han Jie waved his hand and ordered: "Order, one battalion will be left in the No. 1 position, and the rest will be prepared for marching, and a counterattack will be launched when the enemy's artillery bombardment is over!" ”
"Yes!"
The correspondent departed quickly. Then, they withdrew from their positions at the top of the hill and waited for the explosion at the top of the mountain to end, and the soldiers who rushed back to the top of the mountain packed their fur mattresses one after another, received their five-day marching rations, and prepared for the assault.
The Russian army did not know that the enemy was preparing to counterattack, they had more than 10,000 people, even if the weapons were not good, it would not be easy for the enemy to break through, after all, they were surrounded by their soldiers, and even the flanks and mountains were also in their hands.
The shelling continued, the shells fell on the top of the mountain one by one, and the frozen soil and debris from the explosion blocked the sunlight and smoke, so that the mountain was all shrouded, covering the Russian army to slowly approach the top of the mountain.
Five minutes later, when the vanguard of the Russian army was already less than 100 meters from the top of the mountain, the shelling ended.
"Ula!!"
The Russian army erupted with an earth-shattering roar, and then rushed to the top of the mountain with a 100-meter sprint. 100 meters, although it is a mountain climb, it is only half a minute at most, and they can climb to the top of the mountain with a lot of wine.
At the moment when they launched a charge, the returnee soldiers who were ready to take the lead, carrying skis and submachine guns, quickly rushed back to the top of the mountain, and then, when the Russian army was forty or fifty meters away from the top of the mountain, the submachine gun rang out, and the crowd of people almost overflowed the top of the mountain and rushed towards the Russian army that was close at hand.
"Hold on!!"
"White-knuckle combat!!"
The Russian army shouted one after another, and in the sound of Ula, they collided with the rain of bullets.
But they made the same mistake as the No. 3 position, misestimating the rate of fire and power of these guns, and before they could rush a few steps, the Russian troops in front fell like wheat.
In the blood mist, the Russian troops behind discovered that something was wrong, and at this time, they raised their guns and shot at the gun.
But the people on both sides have already gathered no more than twenty or thirty meters, and there is no longer a gap in the slope of the hill, so that the Russian troops with guns are blocked by their comrades and cannot complete the shooting.
As soon as it was delayed, the thick and flying blood mist rolled down, and in the dense gunfire, the countryside rolled rapidly, like the tide of the Qiantang River, and no one could stop it.
Under the fierce rush, the Russian army immediately collapsed, turned over and retreated down the mountain.
As soon as the Russian troops retreated, an eerie picture immediately appeared on the hillside. The two groups of enemy barriers clearly formed two camps, one side retreated, the other side pursued closely, less than fifty meters apart, in the sound of gunfire, the number of people fleeing in front of them became less and less.
"Blocking the counter-charge !!"
The Russian positions on the hillside didn't care that there were their comrades in front, and at the sound of the order, Depp roared...... (To be continued......)