Chapter 693: Fighting Behind Enemy Lines
The Russians, perhaps not expecting a single unit to make it to the rear, received information that four Russian infantry regiments, supported by heavy artillery, engaged the Chinese armored forces in the breach and about two other regiments of infantry. Subsequently, the Huaxia artillery carried out counter-battery operations against the Russian army, and the artillery on both sides suffered heavy losses, in which case this unit was transferred from the rear and prepared to continue to support the infantry groups at the front. DUE TO THE LIMITED NUMBER OF RUSSIAN 152MM HEAVY ARTILLERY, THIS TEMPORARY ARTILLERY COMBAT UNIT IS MAINLY COMPOSED OF 107MM CANNONS AND 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS. IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING FIRE SUPPORT, THESE 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS AND SOME 57MM GUNS WILL ALSO BE USED FOR ANTI-ARMOR OPERATIONS.
ACCORDING TO THE RUSSIANS' VISION, THIS MIXED ARTILLERY CLUSTER WILL BE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS, 6 107MM GUNS AND 8 LONG-BARRELED 75MM CANNONS WILL BE USED FOR FIRE SUPPORT, AND THE REMAINING 8 75MM INFANTRY GUNS AND 10 57MM GUNS AND 47MM GUNS WILL BE USED FOR ANTI-ARMOR OPERATIONS. In addition to the artillery and the infantry attached to this huge Russian artillery unit, there are also a large number of transport units, the total number of people adds up to more than 1,000 people, and there are a large number of carriages, such a large number of troops can only advance along the road, and they must also find roads with water sources around, not to mention, the water consumption of horses alone is definitely not a small number, if you want to rely on pulling water trucks to supply, the Russians will not say that they will be in place the next day, even if they are given 3 days of preparation time! Fortunately, there is a blister here that can supply fresh water, but it is precisely because of this that they encountered a Chinese armored force interspersed with them!
"There should be large-caliber artillery in the middle of the camp. IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S 107MM. "One of the scouts saw something long and thick in the light of the fire in the Russian camp opposite, the guns were too large and the Russians were not trying to hide them. So it was discovered. "THESE ARE NOT THE MOST TERRIBLE, THOSE 57MM GUNS AND 47MM GUNS THAT ARE OUTSIDE ARE ANNOYING, THESE GUNS HAVE BEEN PUT DOWN AND WILL SOON BE IN COMBAT MODE, PROBABLY THE HORSES ARE PULLED ASIDE TO DRINK WATER." Another scout whispered.
"These should be artillery and baggage troops, and their combat effectiveness should be average." An hour later, Zhang Tianyi looked at the information summarized above. Analyzed. But even so, in the case of a serious disadvantage in troops, facing enemy units with battle defense artillery. How to act really needs to be looked at.
"The main task of the four mortars is to quickly suppress the units on the attack surface of the tank after launching an attack, not to seek to hit more accurately, but to throw as many shells as possible in the shortest possible time." "Short assault gun No. 1 accompanied the support. 37MM LONG-RANGE POWER IS A BIT LOW. Units suspected of being 75 rapid-fire guns and 57mm guns need to be found and destroyed as soon as possible. ”
"The remaining tank forces are divided into two groups, this time our enemy has a large number of anti-armor weapons, I need you to quickly get close to the target and destroy it with heavy fire, speed and courage will be the key to our success, I will take the first company to attack from the front, the second company to attack in a roundabout, we must be in place before 5 o'clock. Attack after 5 o'clock if the opponent does not counterattack. Before entering the enemy's position 500 meters, all tanks are not allowed to open fire or turn on their lights. After the offensive of the attacking forces. Mortars and assault guns can only fire. After some discussion, Zhang Tianyi finally formulated the entire assault plan.
Tank 1 is indeed slow, especially when idling, and is not faster than infantry, but it also has the advantage of being very quiet. Far from the reflective body of the lake, the entire attacking tank cluster was shrouded in night, and the low noise made it imperceptible to the opponent. However, it is very problematic to maintain the formation in the low-light environment during the night march, in the case of not being able to turn on the lights, Zhang Tianyi will also install the mirror on the rear of the car body, and use the reflection to determine the direction, of course, the effect in this case is better than nothing, and the driver is more based on the weak sound coming from the front to locate. In this way, there was also a situation of losing one, and the originally designed attack formation had already existed in name only before it entered the battlefield.
But even so, in the face of the defenseless Russian army, the first blow of the Huaxia armored forces behind enemy lines still caused great damage to the other side. At a distance of about 500 meters from the Russian position, with the fire of the lead tanks, the first chain of all No. 1 tanks attacked in a curved fire pattern, and a total of more than 20 tanks of 2 companies in both directions poured more than 400 rounds of 1-pounder shells in less than 3 minutes. The sound of explosions sounded in the Russian camp in an instant, and many Russian soldiers on the periphery were killed by sharp shrapnel in their sleep. Flames from the dense rain of bullets burned in the position, and horses frightened by the artillery scurried around the camp, and in just a few minutes, a regimental army was completely disorganized!
"I didn't know what happened to the road until I was captured at the end of the day. All they saw was shells raining down on the camp, destroying everything they touched, vehicles, horses, men and ammunition. The alert forces on the periphery were not effective at all, and they could have been killed by ferocious fire or crushed by the tanks that arrived after them before they could react. A Russian prisoner said.
The distance of 500 meters was already very close, and after being suppressed by the first wave of bullets, the Huaxia armored forces broke into two directions and rushed towards the center, they ran over the damaged vehicles, picked up the enemy forces that continued to resist with machine guns, and advanced towards the depths of the Russian positions, where there were the most valuable targets. AFTER THE CANNON FIRE, THE MORTARS IN THE REAR ALSO JOINED THE BATTLE, AND THEY DESIGNED ACCORDING TO THE PRE-PREDICTED TARGET, AND THE 82MM GRENADES WITH MORE THAN 10 ROUNDS PER MINUTE WERE CONSTANTLY HAMMERING INTO THE LINE OF DEFENSE THAT HAD BEGUN TO ERODE LIKE A HEAVY HAMMER.
THE 107MM CANNON IS EASY TO IDENTIFY BECAUSE OF ITS RELATIVELY LARGE SHAPE, AND THE SCOUT CALIBRATES THE COORDINATES MORE ACCURATELY, AFTER SEVERAL ROUNDS OF COMPARISON. The area where the heavy artillery was parked was taken care of first, and it was unlikely that the artillery would be destroyed directly in low-light conditions, but this did not prevent the artillery behind from blowing up the entire area into a sea of fire, and the ammunition accumulated nearby was ignited, and a violent explosion came from the center of the camp, and the thick column of smoke quickly rose into the air, gradually forming a mushroom cloud, and the detonation caused by a large number of 107MM shells directly blew everything within a radius of several hundred meters into pieces. Tons of shells mixed with fragments of various objects swept everything, and nearly 200 Russian troops were killed by a violent explosion before they knew what was happening.
"And that's the end? Isn't that a little too simple? Looking at the fire that was rising into the sky not far away, and listening to the sound of shrapnel hitting the armor outside, Zhang Tianyi said a little depressedly, what do you say? It feels like happiness came too suddenly, and it was going to have a bloody battle! "Bang", a slight impact sound came from the side, very crisp, like the sound of armor plate tearing, but in this background, he couldn't hear it clearly, but then, a series of similar sounds came from the side. Finally sensing that something was wrong, he immediately grabbed the steel helmet and leaned out.
As a result, it didn't matter, Zhang Tianyi found that the two tanks on his flank were billowing with smoke, the guns were hanging to the side, and the hatch was tightly closed, and it seemed that the personnel inside had not successfully escaped. In the firelight, a flat-fire gun was slowly turning, and the smoking muzzle began to aim at Zhang Tianyi's car. "It's over!" The distance between the two sides was less than 300 meters, and it was still on the side of the tank, Zhang Tianyi thought that he could not survive the blow of this blow, and at this moment, the 37MM gun of the No. 1 tank turned around in time, and then cleanly punched a long point, sending the gun and the gun crew operating it to the west sky.
The Russian layout made it possible for them to counterattack. They placed part of the rapid-fire gun crew in the northwest direction of the camp, near the lake, and neither the initial assault nor the subsequent ammunition detonation had any effect on this part of the rapid-fire guns. And after the initial panic, these killers lurking in the night began to launch a counterattack! The Chinese armored forces were almost completely exposed to the flames, and they were unfamiliar with the terrain, and some tanks even got stuck in the mud. There is no way to advance or retreat.
At this time, the complete test is the quality of both sides, which are also caught off guard, and they are also unable to effectively communicate with each other. Zhang Tianyi commanded his battlefield to rely on tents and burning vehicles to go around the camp, and used machine guns to sweep the rout in front. Searching for targets hidden in the depths of the camp. AT ONE CORNER, A DULL SOUND OF FIRE CAUGHT HIS ATTENTION, AND FROM THE SOUND ANALYSIS, IT SHOULD BE A 75MM GUN, AND THEN A COMBAT VEHICLE IN THE REAR OF THE SIDE WAS INSTANTLY SMASHED INTO A BURNING IRON BOX. THE DRIVER SLOWLY MANEUVERED THE TANK DEEP INTO THE BARREL FROM THE CORNER, AND THEN THE TURRET QUICKLY TURNED AND AIMED AT THE HEAVY GUN THAT WAS TRYING TO TURN IT, BUT THE LEFT AND RIGHT ANGLES OF THE FRONT OF THE GUN WERE SMALL, AND BEFORE THE RUSSIANS COULD TURN THE GUN AROUND, A ROW OF 37MM SHELLS TURNED THE ENTIRE GUN POSITION INTO A SEA OF FIRE.
Just when Zhang Tianyi was glad that he had another result, a flash of fire suddenly appeared in the corner of his eye. The shell accurately smashed into the front of the hull, but did not penetrate the armor because of the angle problem, and then Zhang Tianyi's battlefield turned the barrel to destroy it, and the direct confrontation between the tank and the anti-aircraft gun continued. EACH EXPOSED GUN EMPLACEMENT WILL BE COVERED BY A 37MM RAPID-FIRE GUN, AND THE SAME ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN IS ALSO VERY EFFECTIVE IN ATTACKING TANKS, AND THE 75MM GUN IS A ONE-HIT KILL!
AND FINALLY CRUSHED THE RUSSIAN DEFENSE LINE WAS THE 3 ASSAULT GUNS AND MORTARS THAT ARRIVED LATER, THE POWERFUL 75MM GRENADES AND MORTARS WITH A SUPER HIGH RATE OF FIRE COVERED ALL THE POSITIONS OF THE COUNTERATTACK, AND THE BATTLE DEFENSE GUNS WITH ONLY IMPROVISED ARTILLERY SHIELDS COULD NOT DEFEND THE OPERATORS FROM SHRENEL FROM ALL DIRECTIONS. In the end, in the baptism of blood and fire, this Russian artillery was completely defeated. The price paid by the Huaxia Army was as high as 20 combat vehicles of various types, and after this battle, Zhang Tianyi's troops completely lost their ability to propulsion.
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