Chapter 202: The Battle of the Two Cities
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The busyness of the night passed quietly. The Japanese still did not try to attack at night, and before dawn, a group of dozens of Japanese soldiers quietly touched the position on this side and lay on the snow about three or four hundred meters away from the position.
Their arrival was not detected by the observation post, after all, there were too few of them, and they deliberately crawled low.
The sky is slowly brightening. The Japanese soldiers, who were already freezing to the core, hid near the corpses left yesterday and looked at the long queue that gradually became clear in surprise.
There was no damage to the opposite position!!
This discovery made dozens of people even colder, and in a whispered command, they crawled backwards and returned to their own camp.
"What? The positions were not destroyed?!! ”
Ichiro Kui was taken aback. That's not 3,000 or 2,000 shells, that's more than 100 cannons bombarding all day!!
Is the opponent's position cement-watered?
All the generals present had this question.
But everyone knows that it is impossible, not to mention that the fall of Harbin has been less than a month, and it is impossible to make cement buildings just because it is freezing in the cold ground.
"Your Excellency Commander, the shelling has been ineffective for so long, are we ......?"
Ichiro Kui glanced at the lieutenant general who spoke, his eyes narrowed, and then ordered: "The troops hurry up and have breakfast, start at eight o'clock, concentrate artillery fire, except for the 11th and 12th heavy artillery positions that do not move for the time being, other firepower is fully opened, the tanks are assembled to assault the open field, Koizumi's 103rd Brigade will attack the open field, the second echelon of Aono's 78th Brigade and Kawada's 31st Brigade will attack the left mountain beam, and the 68th Brigade of the Miyauchi will attack the right mountain beam. Shelling stopped at nine o'clock. Unleash an all-out attack!! ”
"Hayi!"
A neat roar came from the command headquarters.
As the order was given, the Japanese army had a quick breakfast, and then, the tanks drove out of the assembly area and moved to the front of the Japanese position, and the Japanese army followed closely. The assembly began.
In Dong Ku's headquarters, a voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Chef, chef, the dishes have arrived, the dishes have arrived." ”
"Can't stand it?"
Dong Ku, who had already finished breakfast, picked up the microphone and shouted, "Chef received, Chef received, you can go back to the kitchen!" You can go back to the kitchen! ”
With Dong Ku's shout, more than a dozen white figures suddenly stood on the snow only a kilometer away from the Japanese camp, propping up their skis and quickly rushing towards this position.
At the moment when the figures stood up. Dong Ku grabbed a phone and shouted: "Attention all units, the Japanese army is about to attack!" The rifle can shoot when it sees a figure, and the machine gun will be fired after nearly 100 meters! ”
After shouting, after a neat roar came from inside, he grabbed another phone and shouted: "Operation Sparrow can begin!" Put nearly 300 meters! ”
"Yes!"
At least a dozen or more voices on the other end shouted.
The clock was ticking, and the positions on the side of the two cities were in full battle, and the Japanese army was ready to attack.
When the dozen or so figures rushed into position. Drilled into the trench along the large point of the shooting hole, just put the ski. When the fur mattress for lurking in the snow was lowered, a whistling sound could be heard in the sky.
"! Thankfully, I ran fast! ”
A few people rejoiced and quickly moved out of the way to avoid being hit by shrapnel.
The roaring explosion rang out as the shells fell, and the smoke of gunpowder immediately covered the upper control of the position. The rising debris fell like rain on the frozen soil, and shrapnel screamed. collide with each other in the air.
The recruit nervously crouched over to the firing port, his new gloves removed from the trigger on his three fingers, his eyes fixed on the outside through the billowing smoke.
"Put your gloves on! Get out of the shooting port!! ”
The veterans shouted, dragging the recruits' eggs one by one.
"It's going to be a moment of shelling, and you're lying on the ground so early. After a while, it will freeze through. ”
"You don't have to take off your gloves, or your fingers will freeze in a while!"
Under the shouts of the veterans, the recruits left the shooting hole one after another and put on gloves, but they were still excited and nervous staring at the top of their heads or the shooting port, and it was difficult to relax.
The earthquake trembled, and more than a hundred cannons roared and poured cannonballs. The mountain beams on both sides, which were not bombed in the first two days, also ushered in the baptism of shells today, with rocks splashing and trees broken, and the soldiers on the mountain beams quickly cleared out the area with a wide field of vision.
The trees there were cleaner than they had fallen down, and they were quickly torn apart the moment they were blown up.
On the hilltop position, the fighters hid on the back slope of the mountain beam, hiding from the shelling.
A few dozen meters further down is a wooden fort, these cannons are firmly supported by the platform built by sawing off the waist of the tree, the cannonballs on the opposite side are impossible to hit them, but their cannonballs can hit the opponent's position according to the elevation angle.
Dong Ku stood at the command post, looking at the gunsmoke in the front position, and waited quietly. What he had to do was not only to defend the twin cities, but to strangle the Japanese army as best he could.
Wars are fought not only with financial resources and weapons, but also against the population and soldiers. He knew the strength of the Japanese army very well, and the population was limited, and it was impossible for them to gather a million troops at will, so the consumption of their excellent soldiers became the key to winning the war in the future.
The shelling has not stopped, this time the density of the shelling is greater than before, in the violent shaking of the trenches, the frozen layer on it was shattered layer by layer, was lifted away, and debris one or two meters deep flew everywhere with the impact force, covering everything.
In Shuangcheng, some students and young people who had just learned to bandage were nervously carrying stretchers, leading horses to climb plows, staring at the dark sky in the distance, and the roar in their ears made them anxious, thinking that there were casualties now. But they were not allowed to get within two kilometers of the position, and the shells did not have eyes.
With the artillery bombardment, the Japanese troops slowly advanced, and in the midst of the great earthquake, they gathered to a position about 500 meters in front of the position, and assembled on standby.
They looked at the smoke billowing in front of them, and one by one they licked their lips bloodthirsty, waiting for the arrival of the big war.
At 8:50 a.m., the shelling began to move forward and extend, and the bombardment began to be carried out deep into the position.
"Charge!"
All commanders at this moment gave the order to charge.
Twenty tanks roared and lined up, covering the infantry as they rushed into the smoke.
The attacking troops near the open field followed the tanks closely and hurried forward. They had to get as close to the position as possible, and only when they were close to the position could grenades, grenadiers, and guns be able to reach.
Mortars were erected one by one in a slightly concealed position behind them, and no less than 200 mortars were placed in an attack area of three or four kilometers, which shows how much money the Japanese army has invested.
Hearing the explosion no longer overhead, the veterans shouted: "Get into position!" Get into position! ”
In the shouts of the veterans, the recruits quickly fell down in front of the firing port, quickly poked out the muzzle, and the moment a faint black shadow appeared in their sight, they pulled the trigger one after another.
None of the snipers moved, they lay there quietly, with breathing apparatus, and kept the camera away from them to avoid frost.
The clock, when it struck nine o'clock, the shelling stopped abruptly, and the enemy was already less than two hundred meters from the position. In the sound of gunfire like beans, the damage was not great, even if there was no tank to cover it, the bullets flew past them, and most of the bullets fired from the opposite side flew into the air.
The troops on the opposite side didn't shoot well! Based on this, how did they get into Harbin?
All the Japanese troops came up with this idea.
Where did they know that 8 percent of the enemies on the opposite side were recruits, and it was good to be able to hit one or two occasionally.
The tank, which was about 100 meters away, stopped in a row and began to shell the positions in front of it with a bang.
Unfortunately, the caliber of their guns was too small, and in the debris one or two meters deep, it did not play much role, at most it lifted up ice chips in the sky.
After three shells from a tank, a machine gun began to shoot tongues of fire at the position.
"Grenades!"
"Kill the tank!!"
Amidst the shouts, the grenades, which had long been aimed at the target, flew towards the rumbling tank with a muffled thud. Aiming directly, the armor-piercing blasting projectile can accurately hit the target within 100 meters. At the same time, the accuracy of a gun grenade within a hundred meters is comparable to that of a sniper.
A tank spewed tongues of fire into a visible shooting hole, and the new and old soldiers who were hit by the bullets were lying behind the wood and unable to lift their heads, and two recruits were directly smashed in the heads. Just as the machine gunner in the tank was firing comfortably, he suddenly heard a violent explosion, and at the same time as he heard the sound, a ball of fire instantly penetrated his body, burning along with his consciousness.
The advancing tank was stunned, and then a large hole appeared under the turret, and the driver and machine gunner inside were all killed instantly, and the tank also stopped in smoke, but did not burn.
With the destruction of the first tank, each tank either caught fire, exploded violently, or exposed a large hole in the frontal armor, killing all the drivers inside.
The sudden blow made the Japanese soldiers who followed behind stunned for a moment, and then in the shouts of the second lieutenant Cao Chang, a shocking roar broke out, passing the stopped tanks and rushing desperately towards the position.
There was a small commotion at this moment in the boot behind the firing port, and he began to pull the trigger recklessly, pull the big bolt, and pull the trigger again. At this time, they don't have to deliberately aim, such a close distance, such a large density, as long as the muzzle is not rushing to the sky and the ground, they can be blinded by the enemy, and they began to get excited, a figure fell in front, so that the nervous mood was gradually replaced by the excitement of fighting the enemy.
"Machine gun fire! Snipers take out grenadiers and machine guns on the opposite side! ”
In the dense gunfire, shouts rang out from the trenches.
With the shouting, the long-awaited machine gun roared. The sniper accurately takes out the targets that have been locked on for a long time.
The Battle of the Two Cities kicked off at this moment (to be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )