As soon as the shouts of the observation sentries rang out, the enemy's artillery shells came through the air with a harsh whistling sound.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
Continuous explosions continued to sound, and the fires formed after them shone red in the somewhat dark trenches. Green smoke was rising everywhere in the originally dense river beach woods, as if covered by a thick layer of fire.
thick fog shrouded
.The golden grassland covered with long withered grass has been bombed beyond recognition, and is filled with huge craters and piles of upturned soil. Balls of fire are burning on the ground, and the entire grassland is covered in flames of war.
It's lit.
In several winding trenches along the banks of the Emba River, Republican officers and soldiers wearing steel helmets and khaki desert camouflage combat uniforms held their heads in their hands, half-opened their mouths, huddled at the bottom of the damp and cold trenches.
In the bunker, a large-caliber artillery shell
It landed on the edge of the trench, blowing up an observation shelter there. The poor soldier inside was instantly torn into pieces, and mud mixed with flesh and blood splashed onto the heads and bodies of the soldiers at the bottom of the trench, causing
Terrified screams.
As the autumn campaign unfolded, the 350,000 main force of the Soviet Red Army's Turkestan Front commanded by General Timoshenko was besieged in the lowland area of more than 600 kilometers from Nukus to Navoi in the southwest of the Aral Sea. In order to rescue them, they were
The besieged Soviet army, Zhuyashvili ordered General Kulik to command the South Urla
The 450,000-strong German Front launched an offensive from the Ural River to the Aral Sea area. In addition, the 200,000-strong Volga River Lower Front Army led by General Belov, with the support of the navy, attacked Aktau and Kras on the east coast of the Caspian Sea.
Landed in Novodsk and rescued the main force of the Turkic Front.
Within twenty days, the South Ural Front Army commanded by Kulik successively broke through the Ural River and Uyl River defense lines defended by the Republican Army. The two sides immediately started a fierce battle on the Emba River line.
Confined by the front lines of Ersk and Aktobeinsk, the Soviet attack force was dispersed, and the two sides formed a stalemate in this area.
The I-15 biplane fighter equipped by the Soviet Army is obviously no match for the monoplane BJ-106 fighter jet and NG-205 attack aircraft equipped by the Republican Army. On the contrary, the Supo-2 all-metal monoplane bomber equipped by the Soviet Red Army can occasionally break through the Republican Army.
Intercepted by military aviation, several bombings were carried out on the forward camps of the Republican Army.
During more than 20 days of combat, hundreds of Russian-made fighter jets were shot down over the battlefield every day. After losing more than 3,000 aircraft, the Russians completely lost control of the air.
The huge Soviet artillery units basically no longer dared to fire during the day and could only launch attacks at night.
Light snow fell in the sky. In such bad weather, the Kulik Group, under the supervision of Zhuyashvili, launched a full-scale attack on the Republican Army's defense line of more than 150 kilometers.
For the soldiers in the trenches, every minute during the shelling seemed very long, and fear gripped everyone's heart. If the shell unfortunately fell into the shelter, it was nothing new for the entire squad to be killed.
Although the chance of happening is very small, every soldier hiding in the bunker is worried about whether such a thing will happen to him. After several battles, the veterans feel a little calmer, and most of them pretend to be resigned to their fate.
posture to drive away inner fear.
Lao Maozi had so many artillery shells that it seemed like he could never finish them. On such an early winter night, thousands of cannons were pouring artillery fire on the Republic's forward positions along the Emba River at the same time. The heavy artillery in the rear of the Republic was also firing at the opponent.
The artillery positions of the two sides were fighting back, and the artillery shells from both sides were drawing bright lights and roaring in the night sky.
After about twenty minutes of shaking like a landslide, the sound of explosions finally became sparse. A few more minutes later, the sound of artillery gradually extended to the rear of the position, and the sudden silence seemed to make people feel like they were there.
In fantasy.
"Get up, the enemy is coming, get back to your fighting position quickly!" The whistles and shouts of the officers woke up the soldiers. The soldiers jumped up one after another and ran along the traffic trench to their fighting positions. Firearms, helmets,
Various steel objects such as kettles rubbed and collided with each other, converging into a unique sound in the trenches, and the tense atmosphere quickly spread.
La Paz stood up reluctantly, holding his semi-automatic rifle covered in mud and water in his hand. With a blank expression on his face, amidst the scoldings of the officers, he ran to his shooting position and stood with the people around him.
Behind the bunker, aim outward through the firing port.
As a poor herdsman without any assets, like many Kazakh youths, joining the National Defense Forces has become a guarantee for them to have a stable life. Under normal circumstances, after serving in the Republican Army for three years, the local government will arrange a decent job for them.
job, and may even become a junior local official.
With such a good wish, he joined the Republican Army, but what faced La Paz was the cruel reality. Due to the outbreak of the war, these unprepared young people were quickly pushed onto the killing battlefield.
.
Either kill or be killed, you have no other choice on the battlefield.
"Get ready, the enemy is coming!" Amidst the slogans of the officers, the soldiers with helmets on their heads stood on the inner steps of the trench, placed their rifles on the gaps in the bunkers, and constantly adjusted them to the appropriate position. In order to
To protect soldiers, trenches would be dug very deep, and the walls would be reinforced with wooden boards or logs. Most people would not be able to reach them even if they stood upright. They would have to stand on steps made of soil or stacked ammunition boxes.
Able to explore less than half of the upper body.
La Paz pulled the trigger, looked at the bullets inside first, then closed the barrel of the gun, took a deep breath, raised his right hand and nodded his forehead, hoping that Allah or God would bless him, and then
He stood up on the steps and carefully stretched out the barrel of the gun.
Under the night sky, illumination bombs shine with white or light yellow light, dyeing the earth with strange colors. Sporadic or clusters of gun bullets are dark red and orange, flying from the front trenches into the distance at extremely fast speeds.
In front of the trench is a landscape
Facing the open river flatland, further ahead is the Emba River, which is 50 to 60 meters wide. There were originally large forests and bushes under the river bank, but due to the continuous destruction of artillery fire, there were only a few tree stumps left there, and there were trees everywhere.
The pitted muddy ground.
The domestic 6.8mm Type 33 semi-automatic rifle has an effective range of 500 meters. La Paz was a little panicked to find that the tree stump 300 meters away that he used as a reference when shooting during the day had long disappeared. He didn't know what to do.
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As a Kazakh, Lapaz has never been able to figure out the difference between the distance of 300 meters and 500 meters. In his eyes, that place is "Ana", and the place further away is "Ana".
The place farther than that is "Ana-". Since ancient times, Kazakhs have used the length of the tone of "Na" to express the distance. There is no specific measurement method at all.
"How far did you set the watch scale?" Lapaz turned sideways and asked Qin Guoli beside him loudly.
"200 meters, why do you ask this?" Qin Guoli said.
"Nothing, I just want to know at what distance is appropriate to shoot!" Lapaz replied, while adjusting his sight sight to 200 meters, with a sly smile on his face.
Although the Emba River is very wide, its water depth is very shallow in winter. Some of the river beaches are even just below the knees. In the hazy firelight in the distance and the illumination of tracer bullets, countless black lakes are shaking on the opposite river beach.
Shadow, amidst the rumbling sound of motors, the Russian tank group also pressed forward.
Boom! Boom!
The artillery in the rear of the Republican Army began to fire, interdicting the artillery fire between the enemies. Under the artillery blow, the Soviet soldiers who were advancing in the skirmish line lay on the ground and stopped advancing, but started to jump up again after the explosion.
Keep charging.
The artillery's damage to the skirmisher line was very limited, but it was a disaster for the weakly armored Russian tanks. Under the artillery attack of the Republican Army, more than half of the tanks were destroyed in front of the assault river beach, leaving only