At 13:21 p.m. on June 23, a bright Soviet flag was planted on the Japanese positions in the Amugulang area, announcing that the Amugulang area had once again changed hands and was captured by the 35th Division.

Several hours of indiscriminate bombardment greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Japanese defenders in the Amugulang area, and the attacking 35th Division successfully eliminated the remaining Japanese troops and occupied the position without even making a tentative attack.

Lieutenant General Kazuichiro Sonobe, the commander of the 7th Division on the side, gloated: "Komatsu-kun, your troops have suffered too many casualties in the battle for several days, so it is better to go down and recuperate and let my 7th Division go up." ”

Kazuichiro Sonobe and his Seventh Division had actually wanted to seize the task of the main attack for a long time, but because of what the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenkichi Ueda, said, the face of Komatsubara, the 7th Division, did not ask for the main attack mission, so they watched the battle for several days without doing anything, and finally said the request for the main attack today.

But where would Komatsubara, who had already lost his red eyes, agree, "Sonobe Kazu-kun, my 23rd Division has not been defeated and still has the strength to fight, and tonight I will launch another night attack to regain the lost position!"

Kazuichiro Sonobe looked at Komatsubara, who looked like a gambler, and persuaded: "What if you can recapture the position at night? The Soviet troops who were driven away last night only lost three or four hundred people, but you lost three thousand people just now, and you also lost nearly a thousand people in last night's attack, which is too different from the battle loss ratio of the Soviet army, even if you seize the position again, you will not be able to hold it, and it will not be worth burying the lives of the soldiers in vain." ”

Kazuichiro Sonobe's kindness was not rewarded, and Komatsubara, who had been blinded by hatred, insisted on going his own way, and decided to carry out another night attack tonight. Kazuichiro Sonobe could only shake his head helplessly and leave the headquarters of the 23rd Division, he judged that the Soviet army had suffered a night attack last night, and the night attack of the 23rd Division was very likely to be effective again, and he would also arrange targeted tactics, in case the 23rd Division was defeated, he would also arrange his 7th Division to respond. He had a hunch that the Soviet troops on the opposite side would definitely launch a counterattack.

After the afternoon, the battlefield was extremely quiet, and the 141st Regiment of the 35th Division repaired and strengthened the occupied positions, re-laid three layers of barbed wire and mine arrays, and the Japanese scouts lurking in the distance recorded all the firing points built by the 141st Regiment.

At half past one o'clock in the morning of the 24th, when the preparations for the decisive attack of the 23rd Division were completed, Komatsubara picked up the phone and ordered: "When the time comes, I will order the attack to begin!"

"Boom, boom...... Boom, boom, boom......!"

One after another, Japanese artillery shells fell on the newly built firing points of the 141st Regiment during the day, and the firing points made of sandbags or logs were destroyed by the falling shells, and the three-layer barbed wire fences and mines outside the positions were also damaged and detonated by the dense shells. Several safe offensive routes were opened.

"Onboard!" ×N.

More than 7,000 Japanese soldiers had already taken advantage of the darkness to lurk very close to the 141 position, and the place where they launched the attack was only five or six hundred meters away from the position.

Ouyang Yu, who was on the front line to command, had already turned on the command system when the first Japanese artillery shell landed, and on the battlefield map that only she could see, circles of conspicuous red ripples expanded around the map, and the Japanese artillery positions hidden in the fog of war were marked with the approximate location, almost as soon as the Japanese artillery group fired, it was found by the system, and its speed was countless times faster than the ordinary measured trajectory. As a result, the artillery fire of the counterattack was countless times faster, and the Japanese artillery only carried out two rounds of shelling. The shells of the counterattack fell in their vicinity.

"Nani, so fast?"

Hearing the explosion from the artillery position, Komatsubara almost suspected that his ears were hallucinating, but as more explosions and deafening explosions came, he believed that there was no problem with his ears, but that the opponent's counterattack was really fast and abnormal.

"Quick, immediately calculate the position of the Soviets' artillery and shoot counter-counter-artillery!" Komatsubara intends to repeat last night's glory.

The professional level of the Japanese artillery is still very good. The artillery positions of the 35th Division were quickly calculated, and the 24 Type 96 150-mm field guns of the Independent Field Artillery Wing, which had been entrusted with the important task by Komatsubara, launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the 152nd artillery position of the 35th Division.

The Japanese army's 150 field artillery group was marked by the command system as soon as it fired, and Ouyang Yu looked at the newly appeared marker with a cruel sneer on his face, "It's finally out." I've got something good for you. ”

Five kilometers behind the position of the 141st Regiment, twenty-four hideous steel monsters took off their gun jackets and revealed their true faces, these steel monsters received a loud nickname in the Great Patriotic War a few years later, Stalin's hammer, which is the famous 203 mm cannon in history, the B-4 howitzer.

The B-4 howitzer has good ballistic properties and high shooting accuracy, with a total weight of 15.8 tons. Due to the large weight of the gun, the designers equipped it with a tracked gun mount, which weighed 11 tons and used the chassis of a "Comintern" heavy tracked tractor, which could provide the gun with limited maneuverability. The B-4 howitzer can be called a monster mounted on a tractor. The tail of the B-4 howitzer mount is equipped with auxiliary wheels for traction, and the towing speed is about 15 km / h, because most of the Soviet Union is in the ice and snow in winter, and the ice and snow are often muddy after melting, which is very unfavorable for the maneuverability of heavy artillery, for the B-4 with a total weight of 15.8 tons, the improvement of maneuverability after the installation of tracks is quite obvious.

The B-4 used a special dual stationary and retreat system, which was the first artillery in the Soviet Union to be equipped with this system, and it was very stable when firing. The first part of the double stand-off system is the same recoil as the normal gun, and the second part is on the gun's battery bed, which slides along the slide rails on the large rack. The gun body pitches around the trunnion, the height and direction rotation are manual, and the high and low firing boundaries of the gun are -2~+60 degrees, and the directional firing boundaries are 30 degrees on the left and right. Although the B-4 howitzer is a large piece of artillery, it can be quickly transferred to combat status with little external support. When the gun fires, the rear section of the chassis lowers its attitude and at the same time inserts the rear hoe into the ground. Formation of a solid firing platform.

The B-4 has a barrel length of 5087 mm, a rifled section with a barrel length of 3981 mm, a bore rifling count of 64, and a barrel weight of 5.2 tons. The Soviets prepared a range of ammunition for the B-4 howitzer, including concrete-penetrating shells and special tail-stabilized shells, the latter of which had warheads made of chrome-vanadium alloys. The length is about 1 meter, and because of its very high material density, it can increase the penetration force of the warhead. The shell body is equipped with a heavy shell that can withstand the impact force when penetrating, and the rear end of the shell body is equipped with four steel wings, which are wrapped in an outer barrel. When the shell breaks out of the muzzle, the outer barrel automatically falls off, and the four wings automatically jump away by the action of the spring mechanism, so that the trajectory can be stabilized. According to the principle of concentration of inertia, the warhead can penetrate reinforced concrete fortifications up to 4 meters thick. The shells of the B-4 are divided ammunition, a small crane is equipped on the left side of the gun carriage for loading ammunition, the rate of fire of the shells is 1 round in the first 2 minutes, and 1 round in the next 1 minute, the firing range is 18 kilometers, the muzzle velocity is 607 m / s, and the crew is 15 people.

"Shell loading. Target OXOX, put ......!"

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

Twenty-four hideous steel monsters fired with huge recoil. Letting these sixteen-ton behemoths retreat a meter or two, the surrounding artillerymen immediately returned to their posts after firing, and began the second round of shooting preparations in a busy and orderly manner.

"Uh......h Boom, boom, boom, boom......!"

More than 20 200 mm shells accurately fell into the Japanese 150 field artillery group, and all the Japanese artillery within a radius of 100 meters were blown into countless flesh foam, and the 150 field guns, which were regarded as treasures and killers by Komatsubara, also turned into piles of scrap metal in the earth-shattering explosion, and after five rounds of firing, the once invincible independent field artillery wing was completely wiped out. Removed from the sequence of the Japanese army.

After solving the artillery that was in the way of the Japanese army, Ouyang Yu ordered all the artillery to attack the Japanese infantry units that launched the attack, which had been completely destroyed in Ouyang Yu's plan, and the position in the Amu Gulang area was a dog bone thrown to the Japanese army, and the 141st Regiment stationed on the position deliberately made an irresistible appearance and slowly retreated. In this way, the Japanese army would not retreat because the artillery was destroyed and could not capture the position, and after the Japanese army successfully took the bait and had penetrated deep into the position, the powerful counterattack of the 35th Division began.

The 141st Regiment suddenly stopped retreating and used powerful automatic firearms to contain the Japanese attack, and then the 140th Regiment and the 142nd Regiment, under the cover of 160 tanks and armored vehicles, outflanked the flanks of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army and launched an attack.

T-35 and T26 tanks, as well as BA-10 armored vehicles, spitting deadly flames as they advance, followed by these tanks, The system soldiers near the armored car, they carefully watched the crater near the steel monsters, after the 23rd Division found out, in order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army, Komatsubara ordered the troops to start a crazy breakthrough, because of the lack of anti-tank weapons Komatsubara did not hesitate to use their southern enemy's tricks, human bombs, I don't know from which crater will jump out of a Japanese soldier with a bomb, plus it is a very poor night of vision, there are already several tanks or armored vehicles, the Japanese army **** that suddenly jumped out It was blown up, and even the surrounding system soldiers were killed and injured.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, onboard!"

Several Japanese soldiers suddenly shouted and jumped out of the crater, after several fierce battles, the Japanese army also learned to behave, in order to increase the success rate of ****, they often send several people to launch a decisive charge together, but only one of these people is tied to the bomb, the others are the bait of the soldiers who confuse the system, it is difficult to see in the dark who is tied to the bomb and who is not tied, the Japanese army's strategy has really increased the success rate of ****, blowing up a lot of tanks and armored vehicles.

The Japanese army's crazy counterattack made Ouyang Yu feel very tricky, if the assault would pay a lot of casualties, according to the scout's report, the Japanese Seventh Division has exchanged fire with the reinforcements she arranged, the Seventh Division is the Japanese Army's A Division, the combat effectiveness is very strong and it is also conducive to the night battle of the Japanese army, only half an hour The Seventh Division launched eight group charges, if the reinforcement troops are replaced by other Soviet troops, the Seventh Division has already broken through the interception and the 23rd Division.

Lieutenant General Kazuichiro Sonobe, commander of the Seventh Division, put down his binoculars and sighed: "This Soviet army is really powerful, the automatic firepower is incredible, and the soldiers' will to fight is also very tenacious, but the tactical command of the commander of the unit is a little worse, if the Soviet army is so powerful, not only will the empire's northward expansion policy be completely bankrupt, but also it is necessary to guard against the Soviet Union's southern invasion at any time, which is very unfavorable to the empire's future strategy." ”

"Your Excellency, the commander of the division, has been worried. The chief of staff of the 7th Division, who was beside Kazuichiro Sonobe, said: " The enemy opposite our army is a special existence, it is the 35th Division newly formed by the Soviet Union in order to test large-scale armored tactics, the predecessor of this force is the Comintern Armored Brigade that severely damaged the German army during the Spanish Civil War, the division commander is the youngest female general in the history of the Soviet Union and even Tsarist Russia, Major General Catherina Viktoevna Ivanova, I heard that this female general is only in her twenties and is very beautiful, by the way, I also heard that this female general is a second-generation Chinese immigrant born in the Soviet Union. ”

"The second generation of Shina immigrants?" Kazuichiro Sonobe was stunned for a moment before he sighed: "There are many talents in the land of China, there are Hua Mulan, Yang Men female generals, Qin Liangyu in ancient times, and now there is a female general of the Soviet Union, should we be very glad that this female general was not born in her motherland?"

The chief of staff also echoed and replied in a relaxed voice: "Your Excellency the division commander, I don't think so, in fact, it is only in our favor that she was born in her own country. ”

"You're right, that female general was really born in her own country to really benefit us, because in China, a country that has become decaying, her talents can never be brought into play, and she can only take care of her children at home, hahahaha......!"

A little joke made Sonobe Kazuichiro's mood a little better, he learned through the radio that the current situation of the 23rd Division was very bad, Ouyang Yu mobilized all the artillery to bombard the 23rd Division, the position of the 23rd Division was in no danger to defend and nowhere to hide, if the 7th Division could not open the breakthrough passage within two hours, then the 23rd Division would be the first division in the history of the Japanese army to be completely annihilated, and he Sonobe and Ichiro, as the commander of the rescue force, would accompany Komatsuba to be nailed to the pillar of shame and be scolded by future generations。 (To be continued.) )