429 Battle (I)
The Poles were stunned by the sudden attack, which they had never expected to be intercepted in Kenchen. When the derailed locomotive rushed off the track with the carriage behind it, when the machine gun tower sounded, when the mortar shell fell on their heads, the Poles suddenly woke up!
They stumbled out of the overturned carriage and tried to fight back, but in the confusion, their thunder was neither heavy nor rainy. It was suppressed again by Dayan and his boys in a few minutes.
Watching the Poles fall like mowing grass, watching them howl and struggle in the burning carriage, Dayan couldn't help but feel a little happy. Before, these bastards were very arrogant, saying a lot of nasty things, and degrading the Jewish fighters to worthlessness. Now Dayan told them with ironclad facts that Jews were not so easy to bully, much less to be despised for.
"Hit hard, kill all these bastards!" Dayan commanded the heavy.
In just two minutes, the Heavy had knocked out three chains, and by the time the loader was about to load the fourth, the barrel of the machine gun had turned as red as blood.
"Change the barrel!"
The machine gunner and loader worked together, and in less than ten seconds the spare barrel was loaded, and when the rhythmic roar of the PK machine gun sounded again, there was another ghost cry from the Poles.
Two minutes later, the spare barrel was also red, and the machine gunner and loader were a little stunned in the face of this situation, in such a short time, it was impossible for the barrel to cool down naturally, but each PK machine gun only came standard with one spare barrel, which made them a little overwhelmed.
"Splash water!"
Li Xiaofeng calmly gave a solution, perhaps this will have a certain impact on the life of the barrel. But at the moment of death, who cares what barrel life. If the barrel is broken, it can be replaced with a new one. Let the enemy go, or simply be wiped out by the enemy, that's all over!
With a stabbing sound, the white water vapor rose, and under the action of the water, the two barrels of the gun cooled down rapidly. Then the machine gunners and loaders, who were forced to wait, reloaded it back.
It has to be said that the design of the Kalashnikov is very ingenious, and it is quite convenient to change the barrel of the PK machine gun. The Poles just took a slight breather. Then he was beaten by the overwhelming rain of bullets that fell from the sky and made the ghost cry wolf.
Half an hour later, most of the people on the train had either died from the rain of machine-gun bullets or had been incinerated along with the burning carriages. Almost a battalion of Poles, before they could figure out who the enemy was, was wiped out.
"Hurry up and build a position!" Li Xiaofeng commanded, "This is just the beginning, the enemy behind will definitely be vigilant, and don't think about sneak attacks again!" ”
Dayan agreed, and he mentioned again: "Your Excellency, Advisor." Let my troops defend the frontal position! ”
Li Xiaofeng once again rejected him without hesitation: "Your subordinates are all cavalry, and they are not good at positional warfare. My people are different! ”
Truly. The Vympel special forces that followed Li Xiaofeng were all elites selected from border police units with combat experience. They have experienced the test of positional warfare in Finland, and have undergone a new round of intensive training, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of Dayan's cavalry!
"Then I'm supporting you with a company!" Dayan proposed a new yì.
In Dayan's opinion, even if the Vympel special forces are very combative, their number is still too small, and there is only one squadron, that is, the size of the company. The fact that the Poles were directly impacted by this point really made him feel uneasy. Once there was a mistake, and the general counsel had an accident, Nadayan felt that he was guilty.
However, for Dayan's kindness, Li Xiaofeng categorically refused: "Nonsense, such a small bridge, where can it be placed in two companies!" More than 300 people were crowded here, and the enemy's shells fell, and we were reimbursed in one go! ”
This is reasonable, when conducting defensive operations, it is not that the more people there are, the better the denser the better, especially in the absence of permanent fortifications, the denser the personnel, the more likely they are to be killed and injured by intensive artillery fire.
Seeing that Da Yang wanted to say something, Li Xiaofeng was impatient and ordered: "Don't grind your teeth anymore, do what I order!" ”
drove away a well-meaning Dayan, Li Xiaofeng was secretly a little funny, this may be too underestimated the combat ability of the signal flag. The establishment and armament of this army are stronger than those of the Red Eagle Regiment, to put it mildly, the firepower of one company is enough to defeat a battalion of the Poles, and the battlefield is so big, how many people can the Poles put in at one time?
Indeed, as Li Xiaofeng said, the signal flag is very powerful, and one squadron has four squads and a communications squad. The four squads consist of three normal squads and one firepower squad. The fireteam has three PKS heavy machine guns and two MK19 automatic grenade single launchers.
Not much to say about PKS, it is a PK machine gun in the state of a heavy machine gun mounted on a tripod. It is worth noting the MK19 automatic grenade launcher, which is actually the same weapon used by the US imperialists in the Vietnam War. It can fire 40 mm high-speed grenades, with a maximum range of 2200 meters, and can effectively suppress targets within 1500 meters. To put it bluntly, this is a grenade machine gun!
The weight of the MK19 with a tripod is relatively large, reaching more than 40 kg, but this weight does not exceed the limit of individual load, compared to the Deshka heavy machine gun with a wheeled gun carriage without a shield, up to 102 kg.
A certain immortal purchased a small batch of MK19 for equipping signal flags, replacing the position of 60mm mortars. It must be said that in previous battles to destroy trains, the MK19 was much more lethal than ordinary machine guns.
In addition to the firepower squad, which is very strong, the ordinary squad has also been strengthened on the basis of the Red Eagle Regiment. Each ordinary squad has three infantry squads, each infantry squad has 15 people, except for the squad leader and a professional sniper and lookout, the rest of the personnel are divided into three combat groups, each combat group has a squad machine gun.
Yes, you read that right, it is indeed a squad machine gun. In February 1919, Federov finally got his dream automatic gun, and the assault rifle that fired the M43 was born decades ahead of schedule, and with it was more than just a rifle. It's a gun family. Although there are only two members of this gun family for the time being - automatic rifles and squad machine guns.
In fact, the difference between the two is quite small. Compared to automatic rifles. The squad reinforced the bolt and barrel with a machine gun, which was fed by a 75-round drum. Automatic rifles, on the other hand, do not have a bipod and are fed with a lightweight barrel and a thirty-round magazine.
In each combat group, with the exception of the squad gunner, the other three used automatic rifles, with the group leader using an automatic rifle with an undermounted grenade launcher. The firepower of the entire infantry squad is quite impressive, with three squad machine guns, plus 10 automatic rifles and one sniper rifle, such a firepower configuration is really shocking.
Of course. It is not without problems, because of the use of M43 shells, the long-range combat ability above 600 meters seems to be a little worse, and it is completely supported by the PKS and MK19 of the fireteam. In the long run, though, this is the trend, and it's unlikely that even elite German infantry will be able to hit a target up to 800 meters away with every shot. Once at a distance of about 400 meters, the lethality of the signal flag will become very impressive.
Especially at night, snipers and lookouts wearing low-light night vision devices will act as the eyes and ears of the infantry squad, and they can completely achieve early detection and early strikes.
In fact, what Li Xiaofeng was preparing to popularize at the beginning was not a low-light night vision device, but a thermal imaging night vision device. However, the latter is more expensive. Even he, an immortal, couldn't stand it, so he dealt with it with the glimmer night vision device.
In fact, even the low-light night vision device made him a little unbearable. The initial establishment of the signal flag is a brigade (that is, the size of an infantry battalion), each infantry squad has two low-light night vision devices and low-light sights, a squad is 12, plus five heavy weapons of the fire team, a squadron needs 17, a brigade needs at least 51, this is still 100% intact situation, in fact, there must be backup equipment, anyway, it took two months for a certain immortal to get together 70, and these immortal power is enough to purchase two C47.
Of course, having night vision devices is completely different from not having combat effectiveness, for example, on this night, the Poles could not see the target at a distance of 200 meters at all, while the signal flag could name them one by one from a distance of 200 meters.
The low-light night vision device mounted on the PKS heavy machine gun and the MK19 grenade launcher works very well, you can see a humanoid target at a distance of 200 meters in starlight conditions, and a humanoid target at a distance of 400 meters when there is moonlight, and it is completely possible to open a scoop to the Poles at a long distance.
"The enemy's firepower is unprecedentedly strong, with more than a dozen machine guns on a hundred-meter-wide frontage, my soldiers are so suppressed that they can't move, and I desperately need support!"
Pilsudski wondered - a dozen machine guns on a 100-meter-wide front, Nima, what kind of fire density is this, there must be a limit to! If you estimate only from the number of machine guns, Nima, the bridge defense unit must have at least one regiment!
The question is, where did this regiment of Jews come from? The Jews closest to him are also in Bartosice, can the Jews fly? Can you fly directly over Kolsie to Kenchen?
Pilsudski was suspicious of the words of the commander of the rear forces, who must have exaggerated the number of enemies, and that the bastard was probably only being harassed by a small group of Jewish partisans. The reason why there are more than a dozen machine guns, I am afraid that the goods are worried about being discarded by the main force, worried about becoming an outcast, so they shouted and deliberately exaggerated the danger.
Based on this judgment, Pilsudski taught the goods a harsh lesson, ordering him not to be alarmist, and not to abandon his position until he had completed the task of blocking the palace, let alone retreat in advance.
To tell the truth, this made the brigade commander in charge of the rear of the palace cry and laugh, he really didn't mean to complain bitterly, but his retreat route was indeed cut off by the enemy. An enemy with unusually strong firepower cut off the connection between him and the main force, and he is now facing a situation where there is a blockade in front of the pursuers, Nima, if this situation is not critical, and he can't complain about it, is it really waiting for the enemy to cry for help when he is surrounded by the enemy?
The brigade commander knew quite well that the situation on the battlefield was quite bad for the entire corps, and if he did not quickly jump out of the encirclement, there was a danger of annihilation. As the unlucky blocking force of the palace, the burden on his shoulders is quite heavy, and if he misses a little, he will be eaten to the point that there are no bones left!
No one wanted to die, at least not the brigade commander, anyway, if the retreat route was not opened, he would not dare to block the pursuers wholeheartedly.
His staff officer asked, "So what now?" His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief made it clear that he would not send troops to reinforce us. ”
I thought about it. The brigade commander made the decision: "Draw forces from the blocking forces." First go and clear the retreat route. ”
"But ......"
"Nothing! Execute the command! ”
The brigade commander knew what the chief of staff wanted to say. After the deployment of troops, once the enemy from the direction of Königsberg breaks through the defensive line, it will be over. But the brigade commander knew that he had no choice, and judging from his current situation, there was only one way to die if he stupidly blocked the enemy. You have to open the way back first!
Pilsudski's troops behind the palace were probably an integrated brigade, with a strength of about 5,000 people. In his opinion. These 5,000 men were enough to buy the main force enough time to escape, and it was difficult for these 5,000 people to be eaten by the Jews in one bite, as long as they were steady and steady, it would not be a problem to withdraw completely.
It was precisely because he felt that the troops of the palace were sufficient, so he flatly refused to give additional reinforcements. Little did he know, however, that the situation on the battlefield had changed. And this is also an important reason why later historians and military scientists criticized his command ability.
As the troops behind the Polish palace shifted their focus to open the retreat route, the signal flag and Dayan's cavalry battalion suddenly became under great pressure. The cruelty of war is fully exposed when waves of enemies fiercely assault your position, shells fall all around you, and your comrades around you continue to fall.
"Phew!"
Dayan shook his head. Shaking off the dust from the steel helmet, the enemy's artillery fire was quite fierce. Almost plowed the front of his position. Many of the young men were buried in the soil kicked up by the shelling.
"How many attacks have you made?" Dayan asked.
"It's the seventh time!"
Dayan raised his head and glanced at his position, to be honest, it was quite unfamiliar, yesterday it was still a forest, densely covered with vegetation. And now, the woods are completely gone, and the turf is out of sight. What could be seen were broken wood and large patches of broken corpses.
Da Yang only glanced at this qiē in a hurry, he was more concerned about the situation on Li Xiaofeng's side, and the signal flag responsible for defending the front was undoubtedly under more pressure. After thinking about it, Dayan asked, "How many more people can we fight?" ”
"No more than a company and a half." The deputy battalion commander replied sadly.
Dayan smiled bitterly, that is to say, in just a few hours, half of his troops were wiped out, and the fight continued at such a speed that they were done before reinforcements arrived.
Gritting his teeth, Dayan ordered: "You take a platoon and go to reinforce Mr. Andrei, he has more pressure there!" ”
The deputy battalion commander was stunned, now not to mention a platoon, even the strength of a squad is extremely precious, he opened his mouth, wanting to persuade him, but when he looked at Shang Dayan, he knew that this person had made up his mind and would not allow any changes.
When the deputy battalion commander crept into the position of the signal flag with a platoon of fighters, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, not that the situation here was unusually tragic, there were still some tragic, mainly the Poles were miserable.
The forward positions of the Vympel were almost soaked with blood, and every inch of land was sprinkled with the blood of the Poles. The number of Poles who died at their guns was uncountable, and it was densely packed with corpses anyway. When the Polish shells fell, the bodies were torn apart and lifted into the sky, stumps scattered all over the trenches. The unusually strong smell of blood and corpses makes people faintly disgusting.
The flare flags, on the other hand, were pleasant, with few casualties, and deadly shells would always veer off course, either hitting the pile of Polish corpses in front of them or falling into the river behind them. After several hours of fighting, the attrition was minimal, most of the wounded were injured by shrapnel in the arms or cheeks, just wipe them with alcohol cotton balls, there is no need for stitches, put a band-aid and go back to continue fighting.
The deputy battalion commander was very confused, and if it weren't for the fact that everyone was on the same battlefield, he would probably suspect that the Poles had deliberately spared these Russians and went to deal with them.
"Why are you here?"
When Li Xiaofeng saw the deputy battalion commander and the soldiers he brought, he was not happy at all, on the contrary, he thought that the Jews had done something stupid.
"Uh......"
The deputy battalion commander didn't know what to say, he was probably the most unpopular reinforcement in the history of world warfare. He could only tell the truth: "The battalion commander asked us to come and reinforce ......"
"Tsk!"
Li Xiaofeng sighed angrily, although Dayan's family had good intentions, but things really didn't do that. If you want to reinforce Lao Tzu, you have to ask in advance to see if Lao Tzu needs reinforcements!
"I'm in a good situation here, and I don't need reinforcements. Go back, return to your positions and continue the battle! ”
At the same time that Li Xiaofeng gave the order, the eighth Polish offensive began, and as in the previous ones, first with artillery bombardment, then with infantry charges. But now the Poles are a little smarter, and they don't have any dense charging formations. When storming the position of the signal flag, their formation was quite open.
And when storming Dayan's positions, the situation was completely reversed, the density of the Polish infantry was much greater, and the number of people who threw into the shock at one time was almost two to three times greater than on the side of the signal flag.
Just when Dayan's deputy battalion commander was stunned by the signal flag's super firepower configuration, Li Xiaofeng pulled him violently and shouted: "Dayan's situation is critical, you come with me!" ”
As he spoke, someone took out two silver sand eagles, and without waiting for the deputy battalion commander to react, he took the lead in crossing the trench, only to see him striding from the ground towards Dayan's position...... (To be continued......)
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