The small town of Abkado, north of Ust-Kamen, is located next to the road leading to the Tangnu Ulianghai region of China. The entire town relies on the mountains and is built on hills three to four hundred meters above the ground. There are three
The Soviet troops of the division were surrounded in this town with an area of only ten square kilometers.
This was once a border fortress and garrison station of Tsarist Russia in the last century. On the way to the Far East and China, there were countless such small towns. It was through this step by step that Tsarist Russia encroached on millions of square kilometers of China's territory.
Purpose.
After sending messengers to urge the Soviet army to surrender to no avail, Anjiajun, who had no time to waste, launched a general attack on the enemy.
Under the guidance of the S3 reconnaissance aircraft in the sky, the artillery of the Anjia Army mechanized group located in the south and southwest conducted a fierce shelling on the small town of Abu Cardo.
The Soviet observers hiding in the civil fortifications on the gentle slope to the south of the town saw several clouds of smoke rising from the rear of the Chinese *** team. While sounding the alarm, they immediately shouted, "The Chinese have begun shelling."
” Before he could report the situation to his superiors, the sound of shells breaking through the air had already reached the ears of the Soviet troops in the trenches or fortifications.
One by one, the Soviet troops rushed into nearby field fortifications in panic to avoid the sudden artillery bombardment launched by the Anjia Army.
Civil fortifications built with tens of centimeters of earth covering layer and thick logs can protect the soldiers inside the fortifications to the greatest extent during shelling and bombing. In the early years when an offensive colonial site like Abu Cardo was built,
The Tsarist Russian army built more than a hundred civil fortifications made of logs and earth in the three lines of defense surrounding the town of Abkado.
However, there is a major prerequisite for the so-called ability to protect the wings safely, that is, large-caliber artillery shells cannot hit directly! Just imagine, 120mm and 150mm caliber artillery shells can easily penetrate even slightly thinner reinforced concrete structures, let alone
Civil engineering work is done.
"hiss--"
Many 76mm, 105mm, 120mm, and 150mm grenades with roaring sounds of breaking through the open ground directly hit the fortifications. Due to the use of delayed fuzes, they did not explode immediately. The high-speed grenades passed through dozens of centimeters of thick soil and hit the ground.
A wooden beam as thick as a calf was broken.
The Soviet troops hiding in the fortifications could almost hear the cracking sound of the wooden beams being impacted and deformed after the shells penetrated the soil, and their livers and gallbladders were split for a while.
"boom--"
Accompanied by the dull and huge roar of explosions, large-caliber artillery shells that penetrated the soil layers and wooden beams exploded inside the fortifications. The soil coverings and broken beams of the civil fortifications that originally seemed to be extremely strong were destroyed by the violent explosions inside.
It was thrown into the sky, and the wreckage of the Soviet army in the bunker was thrown at least twenty or thirty meters high.
How can ordinary people imagine the power of the artillery brigade directly under the mechanized cluster, the artillery regiment directly under the mechanized army, and the artillery battalion under the regiment to concentrate all the artillery for bombardment?
All of a sudden, all the meteor-like shells hit the heads of the Soviet troops. The sky above the Soviet defense positions, shrouded in smoke and explosions, was surrounded by a strange roar of shells piercing the air.
Various steel and cast-iron shells, with various whistling sounds, fell into the Soviet positions. The explosions raised thick smoke and fireworks, steaming and rolling, and the shells falling into the trenches also threw up a large number of Soviet remnants.
Severed limbs and minced flesh and blood.
Steel fragments flying at several times the speed of sound were flying over the Soviet position. At this time, the Soviet position composed of barbed wire, trenches, and civil bunkers had completely changed its appearance.
Just as the southern front was being bombarded, the mountains to the north of the town of Abcard were also under attack, but they were attacked by the infantry troops of the Anjia Army who were rapidly moving south from Leninogors.
The entire steep hill was shrouded in the rising flames and smoke of explosions. In a river about fifty meters wide in front of the hill, the artillery shells exploded white water columns, and the shrapnel shot up the water surface.
It's like boiling, making a roaring sound.
At this time, the northern position, which the Soviet army believed to be impregnable, seemed to be in the crater of a volcano. After being hit by intensive infantry artillery and mortar shelling equipped by the Anjia Army infantry unit, it boiled and erupted, and the entire mountain trembled in the artillery fire.
This time, the infantry and artillery units of the Western Front of the Mongolian Military Region for cross-border operations are equipped with 160mm and 240mm mortars newly produced by the Syrian Ordnance Research Institute, which are extremely powerful. For example, the Mongolian Military Region commanded by Lieutenant General He Yifei is in charge of the attack today.
The Seventh Army has an artillery brigade. The artillery brigade has three artillery regiments. Each artillery regiment consists of two heavy howitzer battalions and a mortar battalion. The mortar battalion is equipped with twenty-four 240mm mortars.
artillery and 48 160mm mortars. (Note: Most of the weapons are Soviet-style weapons supplemented by the Far East Republic, and a small number are reinforced by airlift from the Syrian government.)
"Load!"
Following the order from the commander of the heavy mortar battalion, the gunners immediately corrected their shooting and loaded the shells.
"Target: Soviet forward position! Launch!"
Each time it takes about thirty to fifty seconds to load a cannonball, with the sound of "dong dong dong dong", the 85-kilogram shell breaks away from the muzzle and flies straight towards the target.
"boom--"
Heavy grenades, as dense as hailstones, hit the Soviet positions on the hillside almost simultaneously.
The 85-kilogram 240mm artillery shell was loaded with 45 kilograms of explosives. The violent explosion produced strong shock waves and steel fragments, which leveled the position over a thousand meters to the ground almost instantly.
Loud bangs like thunder tore through the dense explosions in the air, and the feeling of the earth shaking shocked everyone. When the 240mm-caliber mortars extended their fire, the Soviet trenches and fortifications encountered
The violent explosion caused a devastating disaster and threw a large number of broken limbs and broken arms of the Soviet army into the sky a hundred meters high, and even threw them into the advancing position of the Seventh Army on the other side of the river bank.
The commanders, political commissars and internal affairs committee members of the Soviet army were all in mourning. Those civil bunkers that originally seemed to be solid were blown up to the sky one by one by the absolutely superior firepower of the Chinese Communist team.
The stumps of the bombed soldiers, machine gun parts, and broken rifles severely hit the hearts of the senior Soviet generals. They couldn't understand why the Chinese, who had always been cowardly and incompetent and conquered the world with rifles, could
Such powerful artillery fire?
"It must be those traitors in the Far East! Damn it! This is the most shameless betrayal of the Slavic nation and the Soviet Union!" Many people gritted their teeth and cursed bitterly.
However, more people feel a sense of powerlessness from the bottom of their hearts regarding the current situation.
The three Soviet divisions gathered a total of thirty-six 76.2mm 00/02p field cannons. In the first wave of bombing, they were hit and destroyed along with fortifications and bunkers by the artillery group of the Chinese Army.
It was destroyed before Yu could even fire back, and it was now reduced to a pile of junk.
"Woo——"
Listening to the weird sound of artillery shells piercing the air frequently, the special and somewhat clumsy sound of piercing the air. Most officers who have received professional training know that this is the sound of piercing the air caused by large-caliber grenades in flight.
The *** troops are equipped with too many artillery pieces, which makes people feel frustrated and desperate.
...
On the hill in the south, seeing that the Soviet positions were almost completely destroyed, Ye Cheng ordered the tank brigade directly under him to launch an assault on the enemy positions.
"Hey...is that a tank?"
Through the smoke of gunpowder, a Soviet commander in the trench saw a large area of steel machinery painted with strange colors coming like a tide in the distance. The tracks made of steel, heavy armor, and artillery made people feel...
My heart palpitated for a while, so I yelled desperately, with incomparable panic in my voice.
Through the radio station, the Soviet troops in the encirclement already knew that the friendly forces in Semipalatinsk and Ust-Kamen failed under this terrifying war machine. Now, they are aiming their advancement towards themselves.
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The Soviet army, from the corps commander and division commander to the ordinary soldiers below, watched in horror as the tanks approached, and they all fired their rifles at the approaching tanks.
but--
The bullet hit the armor of the tank and was instantly bounced away. All that could be heard was the crisp sound of the metal hitting the tank.
Behind the tank, armored infantrymen armed with submachine guns, automatic rifles and semi-automatic rifles, as well as one rocket launcher for each squad, followed the tank and steadily advanced towards the Soviet position in a skilled formation.
"Bang--"
A sniper following the side of the tank, without aiming, fired a shot at the head exposed in the trench 400 meters away. A Soviet officer fell down, his head was opened by the bullet, and his gray brains were splashed.
to the surroundings.
"Da da da——"
Gradually approaching the Soviet position, the infantrymen used their weapons to fire a hail of bullets at the Soviet troops leaning in the trenches to suppress their counterattack. When they approached a certain distance, they threw long-handled grenades into the trenches.
While the southern position successfully made a breakthrough under the cover of armored vehicles, the commanding heights in the north of the town of Abcard were also facing collapse under the coordinated attack of the Seventh Army's infantry and artillery. Many Soviets built bunkers based on the mountains and fired rocket launchers from the Anjia Army.
Under the precise shooting of the Soviet mortars, they were destroyed one by one without exerting much of their power. The Soviet mortar positions had just fired two or three shells, and were quickly hit by the Anjia army's howitzer shells with a range of more than 20 kilometers.
With reconnaissance planes guiding them from the sky, every move of the Soviet army could be seen clearly. Even when troops were assembled to counterattack, they would be attacked by artillery, making it impossible to assemble effective resistance.
Up to this point in the battle, there was basically no suspense. The moment the position considered impregnable by the Soviet army was breached, the morale of the Soviet army had dropped to its lowest point.
Subsequently, as the position was eroded inch by inch, the Soviet army's command system completely failed, and the Soviet army's proud political system also lost its function.
Finally, a group of Soviet soldiers whose psychological defenses completely collapsed chose to surrender. With the leader, a domino effect occurred across the entire Soviet position, and batches of Soviet soldiers laid down their weapons.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the battle in Abu Cardo Town ended. The mechanized troops of the Anjia Army and the infantry from the Tangnu Ulianghai area of Mongolia successfully joined forces. The nearest land transportation line to Mongolia was now fully connected.