The darkness before dawn always makes people feel difficult, for this sentence, Cai Ye at this time can be said to empathize, in the face of the Russian troops that crushed over like a millstone, Cai Ye had to let the battalions cover each other, and then gradually shrink the battle line. The battle defense artillery units were almost impossible to evacuate, and most of the battle defense artillery units fought to the last moment, and even a battle defense gun died with a Russian tank at a distance of 50 meters from them. Cai Ye tried almost every means to stop the retreat of the troops, and at the last moment, the mobile howitzers deployed by Cai Ye in the rear gave him the opportunity to be the most rear.

THE 75MM AND 105MM VEHICLE-MOUNTED HOWITZERS WERE FIRST DRIVEN INTO PRE-DUG BUNKERS WITH BREASTWORKS OF SUFFICIENT THICKNESS TO PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM LONG-RANGE ATTACKS BY SHRAPNEL OR SMALL-CALIBER GUNS, AND THEN LOWERED THE FIRING ANGLE OF THE BARRELS AND WAITED FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE OPPOSING PARTY. And these howitzers lived up to their expectations, teaching the Russians a good lesson with their short barrels and oversized charge grenades.

Under the alternate cover of the battalions, the entire armored brigade began to retreat to the third line of defense, and here the Chinese Army used the time it had gained to build a reasonably acceptable defensive line. Vehicles retreat behind the rammed earth wall, where they will fend off the most frantic Russian attacks, waiting for friendly surprise or death. With the roar of machinery, several assault forces of the Russian army finally converged, they formed a semi-circular encirclement and began to sprint towards the rear position, a large number of cavalry got off the horses, holding rifles and machine guns in their hands with armored troops to attack the rearmost fortress.

But at this time. The attack power of the Russian army has long passed its peak, and the inevitable decline in state is not only the loss of troops and equipment. The result of the emphasis on the speed of the assault inevitably led to a serious disconnect between the troops, the armored units and infantry cavalry rushing in front were huddled, and the senior intelligence officers in the rear were unable to understand the situation, so the subsequent attacks became disorganized, and the heavy artillery and anti-aircraft artillery units were left behind, without the protection of the tank units, and the towed artillery positions lacked flank protection. And without supporting firepower, it is quite difficult to fight against the defenders with cover and high fire density!

After hastily arranging the offensive formation. Groups of chariots and infantry rushed to the opponent's position, and in the eyes of the Russians, the exhausted Huaxia Army had completely turned into a paper tiger, which could be completely annihilated with a little force. But soon, the flat-firing of the medium-caliber howitzer behind the breastwork told the Russians what it means to be a tiger that cannot be defeated! What's more, this tiger still has the strength to fight! More than two dozen howitzers of various calibers fired hundreds of shells in five minutes. On the uncovered plain, the attacking forces of the Russians inflicted great casualties.

The formation of the Russians was as chaotic as ever. The shells whistled through a distance of several hundred meters. Shrapnel shells punched out fan-shaped death zones in the opposing front, and hundreds of prefabricated shrapnel formed a metal storm. The charging Russian troops fell one by one in a rain of bullets and pools of blood as if they had been cut wheat. SOME OF THEM TRIED TO HIDE BEHIND THE TANK, TRYING IN VAIN TO RELY ON THE TANK'S HEAVY ARMOR TO PROTECT THEMSELVES, BUT UNDER THE 105MM LEVEL ARTILLERY STRIKE, EVEN IF THEY USED GRENADES, THEY COULD STILL SAY THAT RUSSIAN COMBAT VEHICLES WERE BROKEN TO PIECES. AN IRON BOX OF LESS THAN 10 TONS IS NOT EVEN PAPIER-MÂCHÉ IN THE FACE OF SHELLS WEIGHING 15KG. Song Lijun saw a T1S tank that was charging, and slammed it, and then a shell came directly from the front of the hull. Then from the rear of the hull, a long sword composed of flames and fragments directly tore the infantry of a squad or so in the rear to pieces!

'Our offense was at its peak. The defense strength of the Huaxia Army has also reached its peak, and it is difficult for our support firepower to keep up. Nearly 100 guns of various kinds of artillery kept pouring bullets on the attacking troops, ranging from 60MM mortars to 105MM howitzers, but the most were 37MM guns and 75MM short guns. We are facing a real rain of bullets. It is difficult for our chariots to deal effective damage to the chariot after penetrating the breastwall, and we must struggle in flames and pools of blood with every step. In just ten minutes, the first wave of combat vehicles involved in the attack was completely destroyed, and the infantry of a battalion accompanying the charge was also knocked out by 8 percent! The huge losses make us shudder, and even if we win, the skeleton of the entire army will be more than crippled! A Russian officer later recalled

However, Linevich did not want to give up the victory in hand, and after weighing it for a long time, Linevich finally ordered the support artillery located in the rear to start moving faster towards the front line. "I don't care what method you use, whether it's trucking or horses, or pulling by manpower, get these big guys to the front line for me, I need them to smash each other's tortoise shells completely!" Ninevich ordered. In this way, under the cover of not having enough mobile troops, the support units of the Russian army began to move at an accelerated pace, almost all the horses and vehicles were used to tow artillery or ammunition, and all the people were busy, they put away the gun carriage and connected it to the trailer, put boxes of ammunition on the carriage, and then hurriedly jumped on the vehicle and began to drive towards the battlefield in the distance.

It was at this time, just when Linevich thought he was the closest to victory! The scales of war inevitably tilt rapidly to the Chinese side! Cai Ye had the last armored force in his hands, and most of the Second Independent Armored Brigade of nearly 4 battalions was put into battle at this time! And in the face of this armored army is the Russian support artillery that is rapidly maneuvering to the front line! And the main forces of the Russian armored forces are already concentrated on the front line, and these 4 armored battalions are located in the most vulnerable places of the opponent! The expensive and powerful towed artillery was crawling towards the front line, crashing into the muzzles of the four armored battalions that had broken through.

When he saw the large Russian army like ants moving, Xu Li, who served as the commander of the pioneer battalion, didn't believe his eyes, there was no battle defense artillery to provide cover, no armored troops to provide protection, and not even many infantry, when those artillery who had been responsible for fire support in the rear for many years had no experience in front-line combat, in the face of a 37MM rapid-fire gun sprayed with a rain of bullets, the entire artillery team was directly dismantled into several sections. Scattered soldiers and destroyed vehicles and artillery were everywhere, and an officer tried to draw his pistol to stabilize the formation, but was killed by a bullet fired from nowhere. The entire army was about to collapse at the touch of a button, and the Huaxia Army was like a hot knife cutting butter, after annihilating this army, it quickly developed in depth and inserted itself into the back of the main force of the Russian army!

After destroying several artillery units one after another, the armored unit was divided into 2 groups, one of which continued to attack forward to relieve Cai Yi, while the other group continued to search for the remaining logistics and baggage units of the Russian army that were being transported. Faced with a sudden blow and a chaotic battlefield, the Russian army was unable to react for quite some time. Looking at the Chinese chariots galloping and fighting on the wasteland, the Russian army even thought that its own troops had made a mistake, and then there was a farce of their own people beating their own people. A large number of logistics units were destroyed by half a battalion or even a company of armored vehicles, and the Huaxia armored battalion, which was responsible for the sweep at the end of the day, was even divided into companies to expand the results of the battle. The end result was that the Russians lost more vehicles and supplies in this assault than they had in the initial head-on engagement.

The remaining two battalions that had been relieved of the siege rushed to the main force of the Russian army, which was launching the most rear-end attack on Cai Yi's troops. The combat vehicles of the two battalions appeared in a neat wedge-shaped formation from the rear of the main side of the Russian army, and the sudden blow made the anti-aircraft artillery originally responsible for defense have no time to turn the muzzle, and many anti-aircraft guns and howitzers were destroyed by fierce artillery fire before they had time to turn around, if it were not for the small number of infantry, and very afraid of the opponent's "human-shaped anti-tank bombs", Xu Li's armored battalion may have cut into the formation of the Russian army. However, even so, under mutual support, the armored strength of the two battalions in Huaxia gradually wedged into each other's positions.

The sudden strength of the Chinese Army made the Russians very at a loss, but at this critical juncture, the T2 type "hindsight" combat vehicle, which has always been described as obscure, actually played a huge role, these guns were placed in the rear of the car, and the barrel was aimed at the opponent without turning, and the powerful power of the 75MM short gun and the defense that was okay allowed these tanks to finally block the assault of the Huaxia armored battalion. At a distance of several hundred meters, the No. 1 assault gun and the T2 tank launched a fierce fire, and the No. 1 assault gun, which has always been the core of defense and fire support, used as an assault hammer for the first time to engage in close combat with the opponent, both sides have the ability to kill with one hit, and the shooting range is not very good, in this case the steering speed and reaction have become the key to victory.

More than a dozen T2 tanks were destroyed in the process of blocking the attack, but their sacrifice was not meaningless, and the main forces of the Russian army, which had bought time, began to shrink the attacking force while transferring the anti-aircraft guns. "We were surrounded by Russian artillery fire, and from the observation hole, you could see a few barrels in almost all directions, and although they were panicked, their fire was quite fierce. We were in a situation like cavalry that had lost its speed and was then surrounded by opposing pikemen and infantry. We lack infantry to destroy those flat-firing guns. The opponent has an overwhelming advantage in the amount of projection. Xu Li recalled afterwards.

In the face of the increasing number of Russian main forces gathered around, Xu Li's armored battalion shifted from the beginning of the attack to the defense, and the two battalions alternately covered and retreated to the rear. At this time, although the Russian army has been disrupted, it still has the ability to protect itself, tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry, as well as a large number of anti-aircraft guns and tanks, which is enough to make 2 battalions of Chinese armored troops sink into the sand. However, what Xu Li didn't expect was that when they attacked again, they were no longer the main force!

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