The gray dawn sky sparkled with sparse morning stars. The wind blew from below the clouds. On the Angara River, the mist surged and circled on the slopes of the mountains along Lake Baikal, like a giant snake with a huge body, passing through the dense forest.
and sparse wheat fields, drilling into the valley.
The branches, beaches, lakes, reed ponds, dew-covered woods, and sparse rye fields along both sides of the river are all shrouded in a cool, bright red morning glow. The sun still lies behind the horizon and refuses to rise lazily.
Soldier Luo Qijin, who was lying under the mosquito net in the shelter, asked Kang Youcai angrily: "Squad leader, what kind of battle are we fighting here?"
Kang Youcai held the unlit cigarette pipe rod in his mouth, smacking away the smell of tobacco oil inside, and puffed twice more, and then said: "The battalion commander said this is called luring the enemy out of the hole, and we will wait until the enemies come out.
Shoot the motherfucker with a cannon."
"Where's the artillery? Why can't I see it?" Recruit Qin Shoucai poked his head out of the bunker, swatting away the mosquitoes in front of his face and looking south.
"Don't let all the cannons burn out, you have to leave some for us," the machine gunner muttered while oiling the gun.
"Why are you so anxious? The battalion commander said that there are tens of thousands of people this time!"
"Squad leader, I want to ask you something?" Qin Shoucai turned around and blinked, showing a curious look. "I heard that our battalion commander is very good at singing minor tunes. What did he do before he joined the army?"
"Don't pry!" Kang Youcai put the pipe and pot into his belt and glared at Qin Shoucai. The last time he told others nonsense, the battalion commander Monk Zhou heard it and was punished by writing the military regulations thirty times, and his hands were all wet.
I almost got cramps writing this.
Qin Shoucai blinked his dark eyes, looked at the squad leader, and asked: "Squad leader, you said our rifles can hit farther than the enemy, and we also have machine guns and cannons. What's the use of bayonet practice?"
"I asked you why you have so many problems..."
A few people were chatting about one thing or another, when they heard several loud noises in the distance, "Boom! Boom!", and several black dots rose from behind the hills to the north and flew towards their position.
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"Hidden!" Kang Youcai shouted to the people around him, and then he retreated into the anti-gun hole, cursing: "What kind of madness is this red hair so early in the morning?"
The artillery shells were fired from 1.8 kilometers away, using a 10-inch cast-iron mortar (called the Unicorn gun by the Russian army). The gun body weight of this gun is 850 kilograms, and it uses 2 kilograms of grenade.
The maximum range can reach 2200 meters. However, their effective range is much shorter. Generally, if it exceeds 875 yards, about 60% of the shells will fall outside the 4-yard radius of the target.
For the North Korean navy on the ground, this thing would be fine if it was accurate, but the scary thing is that it's not accurate. If you don't drill holes in the shells and don't take these shells seriously, they may explode on your head.
In the three days since the war began, the Russian artillerymen have also adopted the same tactics. They deliberately shoot at high elevation angles and shorten the fuse to allow the grenade to explode directly in the air.
The grenades used by the European armies in the 18th century were basically the same. Due to technical limitations, a 10-pound grenade would produce 18-19 fragments when using a 0.629-kg powder package. If it exploded in the air, the fragments could fly to a distance of about 220 meters from the explosion point.
meters away. If a grenade explodes on the ground, the fragments can only kill infantry within 12-15 meters. Beyond this distance, the fragments will fly over the heads of the infantry.
The biggest problem with a high elevation angle is that it will bring a greater impact to the gun mount and accelerate the wear and tear of the gun mount. In fact, European countries use the same shooting method as cannons in battles, firing at a very low elevation angle.
Let the grenade pass by at low altitude and jump up multiple times, and finally explode in the enemy's formation; if it cannot explode near the enemy's first line, it must also explode near the second line or reserve.
The problem is that this trick does not work against the North Korean Navy, so the Russian army is forced to carry out high-elevation angle artillery fire 1.5 kilometers away, and it is to run away after the attack. The 850-plus kilogram artillery truck together with the ammunition truck, six
Horses can ensure rapid transfer.
An artillery shell exploded in the sky more than ten meters away from Kang Youcai and the others. A cloud of white smoke exploded in the air, and several fragments hit near the trench. The soil on the roof of the anti-cannon hole where they were squatting began to rustle.
The shock came down. Qin Shoucai tightened his body to the inner corner of the bomb-proof hole, and pressed his two ears tightly with his two palms.
Two minutes later, five more grenades exploded over the position, and only one unlucky guy was hit in the calf by fragments.
Since the Russian mortars were located behind a hill on the other side of the river branch, the heavy machine guns could not hit them at all. After the company's two mortars fired back in that direction, the shelling on the opposite side stopped.
I don't know if it hit or not.
At noon that day, squad leader Kang Youcai received the mission, and his entire platoon was to conduct the first sortie to occupy the hill on the opposite side.
More than thirty soldiers walked among the reeds and advanced carefully along the river beach. The river flowed loudly, like a nagging storyteller. Compared with being in the suffocating trench, at this time, Kang Youcai felt that he
Finally, I am back to the world of vast seas and skies.
Recruit Qin Shoucai was particularly active. He held a rifle with a bayonet in his hand, eager for an enemy to appear and kill him. There was no road on the river beach, and the beach was rotten and slippery. Everyone's legs and feet sank into the mud from time to time.
It made the shoes heavy and wet.
The fork of the river was not far from them. Because of the low-lying terrain, the Angara River dispersed into several streams here, and in the middle of the river was a mudflat covered with reeds. The platoon leader took Kang Youcai's seventh squad
Together with Squad 8, they found a place with gentle water flow and waded across the river, while Squad 9 divided into two combat groups and stayed on the river bank for cover.
The Angara River originates from Lake Baikal. Because of its abundant water volume, it appears to be waveless on the surface, but in fact it flows very fast underwater. The North Korean Navy has conducted multiple reconnaissances of the river here before, and Kang Youcai himself has been there twice.
He knew exactly where to stay and where the water flow was fast.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Kang Youcai and the others emerged from the reeds across the river, they saw the enemy in the woods. This was a Russian light cavalry
The team is about fifty people in number.
In the armies of various European countries at the same time, the cavalry squadron was the basic unit of cavalry. There were often large differences in its rated strength, ranging from only 100 men to 250 men; even within the army of the same country,
The organization of different types of cavalry squadrons may also vary.
The Russian cavalry regiment generally had 4 squadrons, but there could be as many as 6, 8 or even 10 squadrons. At the end of the 18th century, the organization of different types of cavalry regiments in the same army could be significantly different. European armies
This haphazard organization was not changed until the Napoleonic era.
The Russian cavalry at the end of the 18th century was divided into several different types, such as light cavalry, heavy cavalry wearing cuirass, hussars wearing Hungarian costumes, and cavalry. The differences were mainly reflected in the size of the horses, in addition to weapons and equipment.
There are also differences, among which there is no difference between light cavalry and hussars.
The lancers in the Russian army are called "Uvan" or "Tovarzh", and they are generally independent cavalry units composed of Poles or Lithuanians.
At first, when dragoons were only mounted infantry, selected dragoons were sometimes called chasseurs. Later, in some armies, hussars (temporarily formed quasi-regular or irregular cavalry units) or small
The light cavalry received the title of "Chasseur". These troops were assigned to the regular cavalry and were responsible for reconnaissance and security services.
Unlike heavy cavalry who were equipped with straight swords, light cavalry were generally equipped with slightly curved sabers, two short muskets tucked into the leather holsters on the front of the saddle, and a carbine usually hung on the right shoulder.
After observing the enemy's situation, the platoon leader immediately ordered Kang Youcai's No. 7 Squadron to divide into two combat groups to attack, while the Eighth Squadron quickly outflanked the Russian left wing after the exchange of fire.
So using Kang Youcai's rifle fire command as the command, the squad's machine guns opened fire. The dense rain of bullets was like a swarm of bees looking for the target, and they "hooted" and got into the woods.
The bullets hit among the leafy bushes and made a swishing sound. The Russian soldiers who were shot to death in an instant fell to the ground without a word; the injured people who were not dead made a miserable sound from their mouths that could not be heard.
The remaining people raised their short guns and fired randomly outside the forest. Then they untied their reins and hurriedly mounted their horses, preparing to escape deep into the forest.
"Du~~! Dudu!" As the platoon leader blew a long sound and a series of short sounds from his whistle, it was time to launch an attack. After the Eighth Squadron, which was responsible for outflanking, quickly arrived at the left wing of the Russian army, the machine guns immediately launched cross fire.
Some of the cavalrymen who had just mounted their horses were immediately knocked off their horses, while several others quickly outflanked the enemy to the north, cutting off the enemy's return route.
In the woods, there was a chaos of people shouting and horses neighing. Qin Shoucai rushed out with a quick step, followed by Kang Youcai, Luo Qijin and others. When they got within 200 meters of the remnants of the Russian army, the machine guns on the right wing
The shooting stopped.
Squadron 7 followed the Russian army and began a fierce pursuit. Some of the Russian soldiers died on the road, while others ran out of the woods and ran eastward to the river beach in fear, and got stuck in the mud.
Of the more than fifty Russian soldiers, only one survived. He was hit by a bullet in the chest, and his beige uniform was soaked with blood. When Kang Youcai and others found him, the cavalryman knew in his confusion that
When he became a prisoner, he raised his right hand slightly and cried loudly: "Don't kill me! I came from..."
However, before he finished speaking, he died.
Afterwards, the ninth squadron, who was responsible for searching for loot, found a hand-drawn map of the North Navy's forward position in the backpack of a Russian cavalry captain. There were also several forks drawn on the north side of the position, one of which happened to be theirs.
Behind the hill to be captured.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Kang Youcai and the others rushed up the hill, but the Russian artillery had already left. Half an hour later, the signal corps from the battalion came to inform them that the second platoon had built a position on the reverse slope of the hill and was stationed here.
, responsible for monitoring the movements of the Russian troops in the "Zaimka Fortress".
Later that day, inside the Northern Navy headquarters.
Since the Russian army launched a tentative attack a few days ago, the Northern Navy Staff Headquarters has arranged the current preparations. In the afternoon, Zhao Xin ordered someone to issue an emergency notice, ordering all chief officers above the deputy regiment level, except for one person who was left to manage
Except for business affairs, everyone else will come to the staff meeting at eight o'clock this evening.
Among the current chief officers at or above the deputy regiment level of the Beihai Navy, in addition to the chief and deputy regimental commanders, there is also a political commissar in charge of propaganda, who is mainly responsible for grasping the ideological trends below and organizing literacy classes. Zhao Xin plans to wait for the administrative school next year.
After graduation, trainees are assigned to serve as instructors in each company.
The meeting place at the staff headquarters is a large wooden room. There are piles of smokey cattails lit outside the door, and more than a dozen sticks of mosquito repellent incense are lit in the corners of the room. The mosquitoes in Lake Baikal are big, fierce and serious in summer.
It roars like a tornado in swarms, and even if it is a single one, it can bite people for several days without getting rid of it.
The walls in the room are covered with maps. A map showing the current distribution of enemy and enemy forces is eye-catching in the middle of the wall. The red and blue arrows marked on the map are densely facing each other. Even the inexperienced
As long as outsiders look at it, they will feel that the violent storm of war is about to come.
Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and a group of captains and deputy captains were holding cigarettes in their mouths and chatting and laughing casually. It was not so much to smoke, but to drive away mosquitoes. Sheng Haizhou looked at his watch and saw that it was already seven
Click to remind Zhao Xin that the meeting is ready.
Zhao Xin walked to the situation map hanging in the center, pointed at the map and asked all the officers: "Have you seen the map?"
"I've seen it!" several people replied at the same time.
"Do you remember everything?"
"Remember!" This was the collective reply from everyone. The officers stopped talking and laughing casually, puffed in silence, and stared at Zhao Xin and the map he was pointing at.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "In the past six years, our war has become bigger and bigger! The Russian army is going to fight us in the field this time! Twelve thousand North Korean navy, against more than
With 80,000 Russian troops, it seems that Rumyantsev is planning to drive us back to the east of Lake Baikal!"
Zhao Xin's words were warning, and he stared at the officers in the front row. There was a sudden silence in the room, the air seemed to become tense, and the rising smoke seemed to have stopped, making the atmosphere seem a bit depressing.
"According to the latest intelligence sent by the reconnaissance team from the front, the enemy situation in front of us is as follows," Zhao Xin took the wooden pole from Sheng Haizhou, pointed it at a certain location on the map, and continued: "The enemy is entrenched in Angara.
The enemies on the western front of the basin, with Kutulik as the center, consisted of twelve infantry regiments, five to seven cavalry regiments, and a large number of civilians, totaling about 60,000 troops, along the post road built by the Russians.
We are advancing southward in a column in an attempt to press us from the west. The enemy's leading troops are currently only 130 kilometers away from us. The enemies on the northern front have been shelling the position of the third regiment since the day before yesterday. Although it has no effect, it can
According to forward drone reconnaissance, we learned that the enemies of Zaimka Fortress are preparing to attack."
At this time, there were two political commissars below who were talking to their ears during the pause in Zhao Xin's words. Liu Sheng suddenly stood up and glared, and the two people immediately stopped whispering, straightened their chests again, and waited seriously for Zhao Xin's words.
Keep talking.
Zhao Xin picked up the water glass from the table and took a sip. He glanced at the people in the room with a calm face and said: "This is what war is like. Either the enemy will destroy us, or the enemy will be destroyed by us! The Russians learned very quickly, and they now also know how to use it.
The tactic of running away after firing mortars! I tell you that you can't underestimate the enemy! This time, we will beat the Russians thoroughly. If we don't deal with the Russians neatly, we will not be able to carry out the operation south to Outer Mongolia next year.
plan!"
Then he announced: "You only have one day to make all preparations. The 2nd Regiment, the 4th Regiment, the 5th Regiment, Aoba Camp, and Hagi Camp will go west from Usolie and enter Betsu at dawn the day after tomorrow.
Set up defenses in the lower reaches of the Raya River in the area south of Uzkilug Village. How to set up positions, the staff accompanying you will tell you.
The 1st Regiment, the 3rd Regiment, and the Ainu Battalion continue to go north to deal with the enemies of Zaimka Fortress and will not launch an attack for the time being! The 6th Regiment is in reserve!
Why don't we let you move? The pigs must be fattened and killed, so that there will be more oil and water. If the enemies on the Western Front are not wiped out at once, the task of converging the two fronts in Yeniseisk cannot be completed on time! Fighting for two thousand miles, once the climate changes
, the difficulty of transporting supplies from the rear will be increased several times!" After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he stood still for several seconds before sitting down.
The officers below suddenly stood up and began chattering. Everyone looked excited, and there was no trace of any nervousness or uneasiness.
"Are we really going south next year? We're finally going to fight the Mongolian cavalry!"
"Tch~~ The Russian cavalry has been dealt with, but the Mongolian cavalry is still scared!"
"It's not enough to capture the general this time. We have to capture a marshal to be more energetic!"
"Stop it! I have to declare it in advance! No one can rob me this time, that marshal belongs to me!"
"You're making a damn statement! Everyone depends on their abilities!"