Having lost heavy weapons, huge losses in troops, and the rest of the troops were scattered, the artillery was almost ready for the attacking troops, and looking at the dilapidated positions in the distance, Cai Ye felt bored. Killing chickens with a knife, this is really overkill, and then Cai Ye returned to the command tank and ordered his armored troops to attack. In the first battle of large-scale use of armored forces, the Chinese Navy will test the knife with the Russian Siberian Regiment!

SQUADRONS OF TANKS WERE DEPLOYED IN COMPANIES, WITH TANK NO. 1 ARMED WITH A 37MM GUN AT THE FRONT, ASSAULT GUN NO. 1 WITH A SHORT 75MM GUN AT THE BACK OF THE TANK FORMATION, AND OCCASIONALLY A VARIANT OF TANK NO. 1 WITH A 47MM LONG-BARRELED GUN. And then there are self-propelled mortars and truck guns. This is the first armored unit that the Chinese Army can come up with. Since there were no infantry fighting vehicles, most of the infantry accompanying the charge was on tanks. There are probably 4 or 5 infantrymen on a tank. Their contact with the tank is very simple, with a gavel in their hands, and they communicate according to the way they have contacted the tank in advance.

According to the regulations, they will jump off the battlefield at a distance of about 400 meters from the opponent's defense line to prepare for battle. Among the 5 infantrymen, two riflemen, two submachine gunners, and one grenadier were menadiers. After all, after getting off from 400 meters, at such a distance, the submachine gun has no accuracy at all, the rifle will provide long-distance cover, and there is also a grenadier to cooperate, but when rushing to a distance of less than 150 meters, the role of the submachine gun as a battlefield broom is too obvious! Enough to sweep the Russian soldiers in the bunker, as for why not machine guns? There are machine guns and rapid-fire guns on tanks, so why do you still have machine guns for infantry? And the combat group of 5 people really didn't carry machine guns.

Lu Ming, as the captain of the squad, was still very honest and in accordance with the pre-war regulations, at a distance of 400 meters from the opponent's position. He gently tapped the turret of the tank, and then the tank slowed down, and Lu Ming and his team jumped off the tank. Two riflemen covered the grenadiers ready to deal with the outcropping Russian troops, while the two submachine gunners followed the tank and continued to advance, the battlefield was surprisingly quiet, as if the opposite side was not the opponent's position, the tank slowly slowed down and lowered the barrel, and the driver-controlled front machine gun was also aimed at the front, ready to respond to the Russian attack. Dozens of tanks and hundreds of elite infantry formed an attack wedge to rush towards the Russian position!

At a distance of more than 200 meters from the positions of the Russian army. The other party finally fired a few sparse bullets. The counterattack was extremely fragile, organized resistance was not at all, at most a dozen Russian troops fought back in vain under the command of a company-level officer. And this is naturally nothing to the Chinese Army, which is armed to the teeth! The tank at the head of the team did not even use rapid-fire guns, but the machine guns in the bow constantly strafed the enemy exposed in the trenches. And for some Russian troops who are in a more tricky position, a grenade from the grenadier in the back can basically be done.

After killing a Russian soldier with a grenade and preparing to launch a suicide attack with the submachine gun in his hand, Lu Ming raised his head and looked at the surrounding situation. couldn't help scolding: "A group of lazy people." I don't know how to go shopping, I think I'm out shopping! Lu Ming himself came down honestly. But a small number of infantry were still on the chariot, and in a trance, Lu Ming felt that he was not fighting but going out for an outing!

Tank No. 1 with elite infantry swept the Russian defense line like a harvester in a wheat field, and the Russian troops scattered all over the trenches could not stop the resistance at all, and some people were holding bundles of grenades with red eyes and ready to launch a suicide attack, but then they were swept away by the elite infantry equipped with a charge, and after the tank cleared the landmark position with machine guns, under the cover of the submachine gunners, the elite infantry swept deep into the trenches in squads to sweep the remnants of the enemy. After breaking through the outlying positions. The troops on the battlefield did not stop and began to advance to shelters slightly behind the position. These shelters generally serve as starting positions and places of residence. Among them, there were also a small number of Russian officers and soldiers and command personnel who did not rush out.

IN THE FACE OF THESE RELATIVELY STURDY FORTIFICATIONS, THE 37 GUNS EQUIPPED ON THE NO. 1 TANK OF THE CHINESE ARMY NATURALLY COULD NOT BE EASILY DESTROYED, AND THE ASSAULT GUNS EQUIPPED WITH 75MM SHORT GUNS IN THE BACK COULD BE TRIED, BUT IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THE ATTACKING GROUP THAT RUSHED TO THE FRONT DID NOT WANT THIS VICTORY TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF OTHERS! Tank 1's machine gun fired tongues of fire to lock the enemy's firing holes, and then, after several smoke grenades, a group of infantry armed with blasters or explosive packs began to rush forward, rapidly approaching under the double cover of smoke and fire, and then using blasting canisters and explosives to solve these fortifications.

With a dull explosion, puffs of spicy smoke erupted from the openings of the bunkers, mixed with the smell of blood. Occasionally, a few bunkers will be torn apart by violent explosions, and it is predictable that these places should be ammunition depots or remnants of heavy firepower. With the follow-up infantry following up, the entire position eventually changed hands. From the attack of the armored forces to the killing of the last Russian army to resist, the whole process only took more than 20 minutes!

The outer line of defense collapsed very quickly, and after easily breaking through the position, the armored forces split into three groups, one to continue to reconnoitre, while the other two advanced to the two flanks, expanding the breach so that the follow-up infantry could follow while waiting for subsequent supplies. Although this result made the vast majority of officers and soldiers rush to the accident, it was normal for Cai Yi, who attacked two battalions of the opponent with one brigade, and suddenly attacked when the artillery preparation was extremely successful, so it was not difficult to destroy the opponent's forward defense. Even the Russian army was not too shocked by the breakthrough of the forefront, because their core line of defense was the second!

"The second line of defense is about 3 kilometers from the forward positions, there are minefields in front of the positions, and there are some small-caliber artillery, as well as a large number of mortars and machine guns, and there are ring fortification groups, and there are a lot more defenders, and we should have a regiment and a battalion in front of us. If you rush hard, it will definitely not work, I will make a frontal feint, outflank on both flanks, and the main fort at the core of the opponent's position cannot be directly destroyed. Cai Yi ordered after summoning several battalion commanders under him.

If the core position of the second line of defense of the Russian army is a turtle shell, then the surrounding trenches and pillboxes are the limbs of this turtle, the only difference is that this turtle is dead and cannot put away its limbs.

After the reinforced infantry took over the position, the 1st Armored Brigade in Cai's hands charged again. Cai Ye drew 80 percent of the tanks and detoured to the two flanks, while in the middle was a fire support formation dominated by assault guns and heavy mortars. The opponent is a regiment and a battalion, with several times more troops than the first line of defense, and at the same time has a better firepower configuration, which is the best touchstone to test the assault ability of armored troops!

"Our 6-inch guns have to be used to suppress the opponent's artillery, so we can only rely on ourselves. We have to use speed and dense firepower to quickly impact and cut the opponent's defense, when they are one, it is difficult for us to fight, but as long as we can divide it, we can gain a local force advantage, when our tank finds the opponent's firepower point, what can be destroyed should be destroyed as soon as possible, move quickly if one hit is missed, and for those that cannot be destroyed, you can bypass or hand over to more professional troops. In short, time will determine everything, and our time can only be used for interspersing and attacking, and any hesitation will lead to very serious consequences. Before launching the final attack, Cai repeatedly emphasized the principle of armored attack.

This principle was soon conveyed to the entire armored assault brigade. Immediately, the two armored battalions on both flanks began to attack, smashing towards the opponent's flank like two fists of one man! Between the artillery bombardment of the Chinese Army and the assault of the armored forces on the second line of defense, nearly an hour was enough time for the Russians to react. The Russian soldiers, led by junior officers, made the final preparations, and the Russian defense revolved around the flat-firing guns, the sparse and inadequate mine formations could not stop the footsteps of the Chinese armored forces, and the infantry weapons and suicide assaults were to the death in the face of the armored units covered by elite infantry.

Flat-firing guns are concentrated and surrounded by machine-gun and mortar positions, the former for tanks and the latter for destroying and blocking the infantry, and on the periphery are cheap infantry with only Mosinagan rifles in their hands, whose task is to delay the enemy's offensive with their flesh and blood!

This time, the 1st Chinese Armored Brigade must not be careless, they are facing a real test. With the sound of bangbang banging on the tank, Zhang Tianyi, who was the spearhead of the left flank attack, began to slow down the car, this time the guys who achieved the "free tank" did not dare to be careless, they jumped out of the car 400 meters away, after Zhang Tianyi's tank slowed down, other tanks were also doing the same action, the tank slowed down, the personnel got out of the car, and the grenadier group began to assume. The submachine guns continued to follow, and some of the tanks behind came to a halt, their slender barrels turning in search of possible targets. And the tanks that were attacking the front line were ready to move on after a short pause!

"Our support units are in place." After seeing the three-way signal flare in place, Zhang Tianyi nodded, signaling his formation to start attacking, these support units are not common mortars, but a larger caliber mortar, they have a closer range, but they are also more powerful, belonging to the kind of either I can't hit you, once it hits, it is a one-shot solution! THIS 180MM MORTAR CAN ONLY SHOOT A 70-KILOGRAM SHELL ABOUT 500 METERS. So these things have to be used with care.

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