Chapter 211. Total Attack
The smoke gradually filled, forming a gray mist in the sky above this mountainous area, like a thin veil that could not be dispersed in hell, enveloping any life in this mountainous area. The only theme here is gunshots, cannons, shouts and miserable howls, and death and war and intense fire are a nightmare for everyone. Although it was the beginning of spring, the cruelty here was even more cruel than the winter days of the previous months.
The westernmost defensive pillbox has been pitted, and there have been many traces of cracking on the outside of the narrow shooting hole, and occasionally one or two rifled guns have appeared on it, so that the M2 Browning heavy machine gun in the shooting hole temporarily stopped firing for a few seconds, but then there was a dull sound, so that on the back of the hill more than a thousand meters away, the expressionless Soviet elite infantrymen also brought incomparable resentment and a little panic in their eyes.
Hundreds of corpses of Soviets were thrown in the middle of the two or three hills, and the miserable corpses looked to have been torn into countless pieces by the bombardment of artillery fire, and even now, from time to time, two or three shells cut through the air, accurately hitting the anticline area where they were, blasting out countless dirt and rubble, mixed with the fragments of artillery fire in the shock wave, and turning a few unlucky people who were caught off guard into bloody corpses.
They did not carry sapper shovels with them, so they could only rely on the bayonets in their hands to simply dig a few ravines, and carefully hide themselves in the pit less than thirty or forty centimeters by taking advantage of the shelter of the anticline. It was the simplest of individual fortifications, but in other words, it was only a shallow pit that could accommodate them, and even the patches of dirt that were lifted up by shells from a distance made them cover their bodies like layers of dirt, but they did not have the slightest effect.
Several heavy machine gun crews at the top of the hill have also been set up, and it seems that they are also firing at the defensive pillboxes that are a kilometer away, and the Soviet-made 12.7mm heavy machine guns are also counterattacking. Although it was six large-caliber heavy machine guns and a firing group of six heavy machine guns, in the face of the defensive pillbox in the distance, the firepower in the narrow shooting hole made them dare not shoot for a long time in this simple position, but they were suppressed under the hill and did not dare to rise easily.
The Soviet officers had already engaged in heated discussions in the rear, but there was no better way to deal with the fortifications that had already been foreseen. The permanent semi-buried defensive bunkers can almost be said to be the strongest line of defense in mountain warfare, not to mention that in front of them, it is completely a bunker group composed of nine bunkers, as well as the karst cave tunnels deep into the ground, even if they are clear one by one, it will not have much effect!
Originally, they also thought that the task of their trip was just to clean up the large number of American troops that might appear, and it was not at all to eliminate the rat-like American special forces in this cave. After all, after an intensive tactical bombing by a bomber formation, a battalion of specialized mountain troops would sweep up, and it would not be their turn to fight as they did now. And now it's not just the battle, they can be said to have hit their heads and bleed, and they suffered heavy casualties!
More than 600 of the 2,000 elite Soviet infantry from the Bering Strait theater were killed in that hour, and more than half were seriously wounded. Seven of the sixteen T55 tanks of a battalion were destroyed, and the valley and hillside were still burning with blazing flames, emitting huge black smoke like black dragons with teeth and claws. If we count the 300 people of the mountain infantry battalion that were almost completely annihilated before, their casualties have been close to 1,000, which is an unprecedented painful lesson for the Soviet formed troops, even in the border war that clashed with the Americans, there were no such heavy casualties.
This is no longer the time when the current supreme commander, the commander of the elite infantry regiment of the Soviet army, can easily decide the victory or defeat on the battlefield. In fact, all the middle and high-level commanders of this regiment already had a slight red in their eyes, and bloodshot was already all over their eyes. Now they can only win this war and annihilate the Americans in this mountainous area to ensure that they have the opportunity not to plant potatoes in Siberia, but if they retreat now, then the Suppression Committee will not even let their families go.
No one could bear this kind of pain, and the feeling of ice and snow had already felt the endless devastation even when they were on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Therefore****** also with the order of the regimental political commissar, it was also in the hands of any elite Soviet infantry at the bottom, and in the defensive pillbox separated by a few hills, it was also impressively noticed that the Soviets in front of them, although even the fire suppression of the aviation helicopter formation was lost, but the action of the activity became more and more frequent.
The Soviet army as a whole has been completely broken into pieces, and they have consciously divided into three waves of offensive sequences, with squads as squads, scattering towards both sides of the frontal battlefield. The westernmost defensive bunkers had already made them suffer, so outflanking them on both sides, testing out the defensive bunkers on the rest of the hills, using extensive and intensive offensive waves to consume the Americans' firepower and experience, and preparing for the final charge, this group of Soviet elites was also extremely skillful.
The Soviet army is already good at large corps operations, let alone wave attacks in this complex mountainous area? They took advantage of the bottom of the undulating hills, quickly moving to the left and right, and there were dozens of meters of empty distance among the countless teams, and the number of thousands of people seemed to cover the anticline of more than a dozen hills. On the frontal battlefield on the west side, the remaining nine T55 tanks were still using the rifled guns to release shells, and the density and speed of firing were also much faster.
As if it was a unified appointment, from three directions, these elite Soviet infantry instantly climbed over the obstacle of the hill, shouted and rushed to the defensive pillbox in front of them with their rifles. The heavy machine guns and mortars that have been scattered in the rear of the Soviet army have also appeared, and their firepower is also firing at the defensive bunkers in front of them.
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