Chapter 793: The Final Blockade

Feng Jiwu had not had time to further think about and sort out the operational characteristics of the Soviet mechanized corps that he had discovered on the battlefield of the Kazadeu Pass, and the Soviet army's artillery fire began to extend, and then the tank clusters and a large number of infantry began to attack from the positions they occupied yesterday.

This time, the Soviet tanks and infantry were much more careful, not to mention the slowdown in the speed of the attack, the number of tanks was significantly reduced, the infantry increased a lot, and they were also deliberately divided into a number of independent attack directions, and they could also form jiāo fork fire between each other to support each other, and the front row was the submachine gunner, and the protection of the tanks was also much tighter, if the Chinese soldiers came to blow up the tanks again, they would have to pass through the defense line of the Soviet infantry.

This is obviously Zhukov summed up the experience of two days of operation, came up with the best tactical way to deal with the Chinese soldiers in white-knuckle warfare, to avoid a swarm of group attacks, and the Chinese soldiers took advantage of Luàn to break into the charge formation, and the tanks and heavy weapons were ineffective, Zhukov took great pains to find an effective way to deal with the squadron.

When the Soviet tanks and infantry rushed to the positions abandoned by the brigade with trepidation, they found that what they encountered was still the situation of the first day, the positions of the Chinese defenders were empty, and thousands of shells were just turning the positions over again and burying the bodies of their comrades who died in the battle yesterday.

The second defensive position, occupied by the Soviet troops, the commander of the 7th Motorized Guards Division, immediately reported this good news to the commander of the group army, Comrade Zhukov, who received the report, frowned, and the Chinese took the same way, blocking themselves for a day, and after inflicting a large number of casualties on the troops, they took the initiative to withdraw from the blocking position, which was a very smart way of playing.

Avoiding being killed by superior artillery fire, consuming one's own ammunition, and dampening the spirit of the attacking troops, and using their strength on the next blocking position, is this the art of war admired by the Orientals? In any case, the troops advanced a step, although only about a fifth of the way through the Kazadeu Pass, which was better than holding back.

Since the Chinese chose such a way of fighting, Zhukov could only use tons of shells to blow up the passage little by little, but before being blocked by the Chinese, he could not find the location of the opponent's position, "Order, the attacking troops continue to attack and advance, and immediately retreat after encountering the blocking of the squadron." Zhukov gave a completely different order.

Since the Chinese use strategy, I also have to change my tactics and use the advantage of artillery fire to kill and wound the Chinese soldiers who are blocking again on the surface position.

The Soviet soldiers, who had obviously lost their sharpness, continued to advance to the third line of defense, that is, the defensive position of the second brigade, this time, the Soviet army did not take a short break in the occupied position, and Feng Jiwu also noticed the subtle changes in the Soviet army's offensive mode.

He grabbed the phone, "Chen Jishan?" You should pay attention to the fact that the Soviet offensive this time is different from the previous one, you can adopt the method of putting some Soviet tanks and infantry in, cutting off their contact with the follow-up troops, and keeping an eye on the Soviet artillery attacks at any time. ”

Feng Jiwu already vaguely felt that Zhukov's most likely sharp weapon, the attack of the Soviet army, was surprisingly smooth, the striker had been deep for a long time, and he was still not blocked by the ** squadron, Zhukov was puzzled, could it be that he had misjudged? Or the Chinese withdrew all their forces to the next line of blocking defense.

The sound of guns and artillery at the front suddenly sounded, Zhukov hurriedly leaned in front of the artillery mirror, and saw a qiē, which made him extremely angry, the attacking Soviet troops, with dozens of tanks and about two battalions of infantry, were cut off from the follow-up troops, and the Chinese soldiers still came out of the soil, and the dense firepower pressed the infantry to raise their heads, and the Soviet tanks were probably scared in the past few days, and they did not continue to assault.

Just in the same place, artillery bombardment, in this way, became a live target for the anti-tank weapons of the squadron, from time to time tanks were hit, black smoke and flames came out, and after a while, in accordance with the commander's pre-war order, the Soviet troops, which were blocked, began to retreat.

Zhukov was almost furious, the tanks and infantry that were cut off from the retreat road became the squadron's shield against their own artillery fire, if at this time, the covering artillery bombardment would have been much better, and none of the Chinese soldiers who had become a lone Chinese soldier could hide back in the hidden department.

At this time, the artillery staff officer turned his head and asked: "Comrade commander, the commander of the artillery group came by phone to ask, can the shelling be carried out according to the original plan?" Zhukov turned around sharply, his eyes almost erupted into fire, and shouted: "You ask him, did you see that there are dozens of our tanks and nearly a thousand fighters in the shelling area?" If you don't see it, give him a rifle and personally go to the front to participate in the battle"

The artillery staff officer was stunned with fright, he didn't know that this normal question would cause the comrade commander to be furious, of course Zhukov knew that the purpose of the artillery commander's request at this time was to sacrifice the surrounded troops and exchange nearly 1,000 casualties for the largest casualties of the squadron, but Zhukov could not make such a decision, nor would he give such an order, and he would be replaced by other senior commanders of the Soviet army, maybe he could, Zhukov could not do it.

Chen Jishan's second brigade was lucky, at this time, most of the troops of the brigade were besieging a small group of Soviet troops in a relatively encircled state, if Zhukov ordered an artillery bombardment, the second brigade would have more than half of the troops, and Chen Jishan, who could not return to the anti-artillery dòng, did not realize that he was facing such a danger.

Feng Jiwu, who was in the command headquarters, was shocked into a cold sweat, as soon as the Soviet troops who were blocked retreated, he felt that things were not good, fortunately, surrounded a small number of Soviet tanks and infantry, if the Soviet commander was ruthless or unscrupulous, an overwhelming shell, the second brigade and the surrounded Soviet army would be wiped out together.

He grabbed the phone and said: "Chen Jishan, I order you, don't fall in love with the battle, end the battle within twenty minutes, the troops immediately enter the anti-artillery dòng, and the encircled Soviet troops are eliminated, which is the beginning of the Soviet artillery bombardment." ”

Zhukov could not see the small troops under siege being eaten by the Chinese in this way, and he ordered the retreating troops to relaunch the attack, and more than 100 Soviet tanks and nearly 10,000 soldiers, who had just withdrawn to a safe distance, had to reluctantly resume the offensive.

Feng Jiwu's eyes widened, and he muttered: "**, what kind of famous old máo son is doing?" This time there is no * fighting, there are no shells, fighting such a jiāo hand battle, Lao Tzu's troops have not been afraid of anyone, and ordered Chen Jishan to severely beat the small Soviet troops surrounded by Lao Máo, do not destroy them immediately, keep him, the Soviets do not dare to open artillery. Several brigade commanders who were watching the battle in the headquarters sighed, "Lao Chen, this guy is really lucky, there are no shells that split his head and cover his brain, and this battle is easy." ”

The attack of the Seventh Motorized Guards Division of the Soviet Far East was repelled by Chen Jishan's Second Brigade, and Chen Jishan also picked up a small bargain, for the first time in the positional blocking battle, he caught more than 300 Soviet prisoners and captured eight tanks. It's several times more than the troops who want to rescue, I don't know.

Seeing that small force disappear into the torrent of Chinese, Zhukov slammed the table fiercely, "Order, the artillery group immediately shells, and the shelling time is extended by thirty minutes," The soldiers of the Second Brigade who had just penetrated into the anti-artillery dòng, before they could catch their breath, in the sky, countless metal projectiles flew at high speed, and the screaming sound that pierced the air pierced their sweat máo, and they couldn't help but shudder.

Immediately, the earth began to tremble violently, and the ears were filled with the sound of non-stop explosions, this time, the Soviet artillery bombardment was particularly fierce and fierce, it may be that Zhukov was angry by the scene just now, and used all the artillery groups used to prevent Chinese artillery.

The Soviet artillery fought so hard that they simply stripped off their shirts and bare their backbones, and stuffed a large shell into the barrel of the gun, and with a loud "boom", the muzzle of the gun spewed flames, and a life-threatening shell flew to the position of the squadron with a scream.

The brigade commanders who watched the battle no longer envied Chen Jishan's good luck, and sure enough, there was no advantage in vain, Lao Máozi gave Lao Chen the shells that had accumulated several rounds at a time, enough for this guy to drink a pot, and the position of the second brigade was completely covered by the number of bombing points that could not be distinguished.

The unusually long artillery bombardment did cause unexpected casualties to the 2nd Brigade, mainly due to individual anti-artillery dòng, which could not help the long-term shelling, after the collapse, some of the fighters were buried in the soil, the artillery fire was extended, and the Soviet army began a new round of attack.

The soldiers of the second brigade came out of the ground, this time, taking the fighting style of the first two troops, they entered the white-knuckle battle at the beginning, next to the ground near the Soviet tank, suddenly drilled out a group of Chinese soldiers with bright and dangling broadswords, and before the Soviet submachine gunners had time to pull the trigger, the cold blade had already beckoned to the head.

Another standard cold weapon hún battle, all the senior commanders of the Soviet army, moaned like a headache, damn the Chinese, will not change the way of fighting? Bullying us Soviet Red Army fighters will not fight bayonets?

The 2nd Brigade fought all day, and the 7th Motorized Guards Division of the Far East, which came up to attack, was broken in the backbone and became a tired division that lost its edge, and Zhukov had no choice but to replace it with the 2nd Red Banner Army of the Far East, this trump card unit.

On the third day of the battle, the Soviet army occupied nearly half of the position of the Kazadeu Pass, which Zhukov laid out step by step with the corpses of more than 30,000 Soviet soldiers, more than 600 tanks, and more than 100,000 tons of artillery shells.

At this time, Tang Qiuli's two-wing outflanking encirclement of the 120,000 Soviet troops commanded by Lieutenant General Vuchikov had been completed, and Feng Jiwu, who received the notification, no longer had any worries about the last day of the blocking battle.