Chapter Thirty-Three: A Strange Night
The smoke never seemed to dissipate over Tsaritsyn, especially after the Ming landed in Corsica, and the French attack became even more ferocious.
The French and their allies, day and night, launched an attack on the Tsaritsyn railway station, the last position of the Ming army.
"How many of those ghost cannons have been killed?" The old monkey took a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Bayan.
"It could be Sanmen!"
"Possibly?"
"The third one hasn't been confirmed, but the ghost cannon hasn't been fired again before dark."
Listening to Bayan's answer, the old monkey nodded.
This is just a routine inquiry before the handover!
"Tell your brethren to be careful of the cannons. These dogs would have covered the shelling with heavy rockets before attacking.
You saw it when you came! ”
The old monkey nodded, and saw it when he crossed the bridge. There are many more holes in the Volga River, revealing the swarthy water inside.
It's so fucking cold, and some of the blasted places have been re-frozen.
It's not much in the river, and the craters by the river are shocking.
The ground, which was frozen harder than stones, was blasted out of a large crater three or four meters deep.
There is no moon today and it is dark.
If you really fall into such a pit, you will be crippled if you don't die. If you're lucky, you'll break your leg.
Russia's damn weather has made everyone frosty.
"Two of the fortifications in the basement have collapsed. You can't hide people at the mouth of the west, so be careful when you arrange it.
Also, the water tower is no longer stable.
During the day, no less than ten shells were fired directly, but fortunately, the original construction was strong.
In addition, when it was just dark, I laid mines three or four hundred meters in front of the position.
After a while, the mortar gunner will give you the yuan, and when the mine explodes, you will hit the yuan again.
The rest is nothing, it's all the regular one. ”
Bayan thought for a moment and felt that there was really nothing.
"Are there many casualties?"
"More than twenty wounded, eight dead. All were artillery wounds, no gunshot wounds.
The telephone soldiers died the most!
Now, we have all become artillery observation posts.
Throw shells on both sides!
Any idea how much ammunition we consumed last night? "It's time to retreat, and Bayan is obviously in a better mood.
"How much?"
"Two boxes!"
The old monkey glanced at Bayan, and then stopped talking.
One box of 800 bullets, two boxes of ammunition is 1,600 rounds.
During the daytime, from 6 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock in the evening, the ping pong game for a day actually consumed only 1,600 rounds of ammunition.
The "fierceness" of the battle can be seen.
"Pay attention at night, I look at the water tower when it's dark, and the other side seems to be holding something."
"What?"
"I don't know, you should be careful anyway."
Bayan finished speaking and left, many soldiers carrying stretchers. There are dying soldiers lying on it!
Judging from the poisonous eyes of the old monkey, after twelve hours of guarding, at least five of these wounded could not stand it.
Once you're in the position, go to the underground bunker to see.
Sure enough, the underground bunker at the west exit of the railway station collapsed in two places, and it collapsed at the entrance.
At this time, the underground bunker at the west entrance was completely abandoned.
"Dig and see if you can make an opening.
Otherwise, those who are guarding here will die during the shelling. ”
The old monkey decided to salvage it, and the entire train station was no longer fully built.
A lot of bricks that have been blown up have turned into powder because they have been blown up repeatedly!
The smoke from a cannonball can turn gray all at once.
If you're in the smoke, you feel like you're going to choke to death right away.
The GIs began to dig "snort" and "smack", and the shovels poked a few times until the sparks sparked.
When the basement was first built, there was a lot of steel in the cement.
"How long are your brains, take explosives, blow up!" The old monkey was a little skeptical about the intelligence of these soldiers.
Reinforced concrete ruins, you fucking dig with a shovel?
There is not much else in the hands of the soldiers, and there is absolutely enough explosives.
This time, the old monkey brought more than twenty boxes.
The Ming army was busy opening tunnels here, and the French army was ...... There was no movement.
And it didn't move all night!
Until twelve o'clock in the evening, not even a single gunshot could be heard on the other side.
The old monkey stood on the water tower and looked through the hole with a telescope for hours.
My feet are already cold and unconscious, my hands are almost unconscious, and I guess my gloves are going to freeze on the binoculars.
The old monkey is so nervous!
If the bullets fly like locusts, the shells will be smashed indiscriminately into the position. He's really not afraid!
It was such a quiet that he felt uneasy.
Licking blood on the battlefield all year round, the old monkey has developed a sixth sense beyond ordinary people.
The sixth sense told him that once the enemy army was going to attack, the sky must fall apart.
One night, minute by minute, in the restlessness of the old monkey, passed minute by minute.
The old monkey feels like he's getting by!
I was about to be numb from the cold, so I put down the binoculars in my hand, put my hands into my crotch, and kept stomping on the ground with both feet.
"!" The body was hidden in the darkness and lit a cigarette.
If it weren't for the wall, he wouldn't dare do it.
I stared at my eyes all night, and now I cry when I see the cool breeze.
The most disgusting thing is that it was too dark to see anything clearly.
Didn't look at anything, to be exact.
It was as dark as thick ink, and there was not even a single light in the coalition positions in the distance.
I looked at my watch, and it was already half past two in the morning.
In three and a half hours, someone will come and take his place.
The Ming army is changing shifts every 12 hours, and they will definitely not let their company run out of ammunition and food.
The withdrawn troops will be replenished with equipment and personnel as quickly as possible.
It's like Bayan's company, which reappeared on the battlefield a day later, was another fully equipped company.
The direct consequence of the rapid replenishment of the Ming army was that many companies were disabled countless times.
But there will be no annihilated companies!
With such a tight military situation, it is not easy to do this.
After smoking a cigarette, there was still no movement on the other side.
"Call the back and ask them to increase the density of flares.
Fuck, every ten minutes, you can't even see a rabbit. ”
Throwing off the cigarette butt hard, the old monkey picked up the binoculars again and looked at the coalition positions a few kilometers away.
A flare fell, and the enemy position was illuminated into daylight.
Holding up the binoculars, his eyes were almost gone, but he still didn't see a single coalition soldier.
Only the broken corpses lay quietly in the wind!
A human head was blown by the wind and rolled a few times like a Ming army's position, until it came to a stop leaning against the stone.
It was cold, and the human head was as hard as a stone.
"What are you messing with?
Report to the rear that the situation at the front line is unusual. ”
"No!"
As soon as the telephone soldier picked up the phone, an explosion shook the two of them and almost fell to the ground.
A shell is falling under the water tower and exploding.
Immediately after, countless shells smashed down in a dense manner.
Looking down from the water tower, the explosion points are dense, like a face covered with cowpox.
How many artillery pieces are concentrated here!
"Huh?" The old monkey sighed.
The artillery is terrifyingly dense, but the power is terrifyingly small.
The old monkey saw with his own eyes that a cannonball had burrowed into the ruins, and the explosion did not even break the pillar on the side.
"What's going on?
The artillery shells of the coalition forces got wet? ”
"Fuck off, what do you think your little whip? It's also damp. ”
The shells were not very powerful, but the smoke was great.
It only took five or six minutes before and after, and it was as if a thick fog was falling on the ground.
With the shelling, the smoke gradually increased.
After more than ten minutes, the old monkey could no longer see any targets on the ground.
The entire train station seemed to be in smoke.
The old monkey's eyes widened: "Gas bomb!" ”
By this time, the fool also knew that the coalition forces in a hurry actually began to use poison gas bombs.
While shouting, he hurriedly took out a gas mask from his carry-on bag.
"Hey, hey......! The coalition forces used poison gas bombs, and the casualties of our troops are unknown.
Repeat! The coalition forces used poison gas bombs, and the casualties of our troops are unknown. ”
After shouting twice in a row, regardless of whether the other side understood it or not, the old monkey quickly put on a gas mask.
The water tower is more than 30 meters high from the ground, and the poisonous gas cannot float up for a while.