The brutal fighting on the Ural front line has lasted for more than fifty days. During these fifty days and nights, the Far East Army and the Soviet Army used all weapons including aircraft, artillery, and tanks, and nearly 300,000 people were killed.
Died in battle.
At midnight, everything is silent.
Under normal circumstances, most people have fallen asleep at this time, but on the banks of the Kama River facing Perm, west of the Urals, the searchlights of the Far Eastern Army are still patrolling back and forth tirelessly.
Suddenly, thousands of cannons fired on the west bank of the Kama River, and countless shells dragged their bright tails across the silent night sky. The east bank of the river seemed to be hit by falling meteors from the sky, with violent explosions one after another, and dazzling clouds of fire.
The firelight, like the gasoline barrels lined up being intensively ignited, rose up one after another, illuminating the sky and the earth.
The Soviet rapid-fire artillery shells with a slightly smaller caliber hit the Far Eastern Army's defensive positions on the east bank of the Kama River with a slightly flat arc, combing the empty trenches over and over again.
The medium- and large-caliber 122mm and 152mm howitzer shells, with a smoother arc, landed behind the positions on the opposite river bank, and exploded in places that were or were suspected to be artillery positions of the Far Eastern Army during the day.
although
Most of the Far East Army's artillery has been moved to new locations, but the Soviet army's dense artillery strikes still hit some artillery positions and ammunition storage points, triggering violent explosions, and the entire earth continued to tremble violently, as if it was the end of the world.
advent.
After two hours of shelling, hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops, led by political cadres and urged by a supervisory team composed of internal affairs troops, began to launch fierce attacks in three waves within a fifteen-kilometer area at both ends of the Kama River Railway Bridge.
As in the mobilization rallies before previous battles, the group army and front army commanders issued a do-or-die order. Facing the tenacious defense of the Far Eastern Army on the east coast, the entire attack seemed extremely tragic.
The Kama River originates near the village of Karpushkino at the northwest foot of the Ural Mountains. It is the largest tributary on the left bank of the Volga River. From late April to early June is the spring flood season of the Kama River. The average river width stretches to three kilometers.
The water depth can also reach 30 meters, but in the Perm section, the river suddenly narrows, with an average width of less than 500 meters. It is squeezed by the river bed and the water flow becomes extremely turbulent.
The Soviet army's fire suppression was extremely fierce. The Far Eastern Army soldiers who entered the first trench had almost no chance to raise their heads. They could only lie down in the trench, observe every move on the other side of the river, and be ready to shoot at any time.
Under the cover of rapid-fire artillery, mortars and light and heavy machine guns, most of the Soviet troops boarded thousands of wooden boats and began crossing the river. Other Soviet troops began to use boats and wooden planks to build pontoons. During this period, almost every day
The battle across the river broke out again late at night.
The reason why the Soviet army chose to attack late at night was because they were afraid of the powerful air force of the Far Eastern Army. Due to the cover of darkness, even if the opponent's air force took off for combat, it would not be able to aim at the target and suppress the ground troops. Instead, it would be affected by visual errors.
, resulting in huge losses.
After a period of attacks, the Far East Army Air Force lost more than 40 fighter planes, but achieved very few results. Therefore, the Air Force basically stopped dispatching at night. During this period, the Soviet Army often launched attacks.
Prime time.
The battle started on the entire front, and the most fierce battle was the offensive and defensive battle of the steel-structured railway bridge. Thousands of Soviet death squads, like a wave crashing on the shore, rushed onto the bridge crazily, and
During this period, the Soviet army used more than a hundred artillery pieces to continuously bombard the shore defense positions on the east side of the bridge.
The soldiers of the Far Eastern Army who stood firm on the iron bridge braved the enemy's artillery fire and shot at the Soviet soldiers who rushed to the center of the bridge. Many Soviet soldiers who were shot fell to the ground and before they could even groan, they were stepped on in the face by people from behind.
, died in endless pain. The bridge near the eastern bridgehead was soon covered with dense Soviet corpses, layer after layer. The soldiers charging behind seemed to be stepping on a mountain of cotton.
Keep moving forward in the blood.
From time to time, Soviet soldiers fell from the bridge into the turbulent Kama River. The "pop" sound of falling into the water was instantly followed by earth-shattering shouts of death, the dense firing of rifles and light and heavy machine guns, and the rumble of artillery shelling and landing.
Covered by the sound, the entire battlefield seemed to be playing a brilliant sonata, but the price was the loss of fresh lives.
In front of the Kama River Railway Bridge, the bunkers built by the Far Eastern Army with sandbags had been destroyed by waves of Soviet artillery fire. Several simple fortifications built during the day near the bridgehead were also blown away by dense bombs. Only the bridgehead was destroyed.
The machine guns in the trenches on both sides were still firing desperately.
The soldiers of the Far East Army worked in twos and twos, operating the Maxim heavy machine gun. The deputy machine gunner was busy feeding the ammunition belt into the machine gun again and again. The machine gunner in charge of shooting did not need to aim at all. His fingers were firmly on the shooting button, and the gun
The mouth moved back and forth within a very small range, and ferocious machine gun fire covered the entire railway bridge. The charging Soviet officers and soldiers hurriedly said goodbye to the world in this dense rain of machine gun bullets.
The battle continued. Countless strings of gleaming machine gun bullets rushed towards the front and sides of the bridge like water, splashing countless sparks on the steel bridge trunk. After several minutes of shooting, it was not only the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army who were burning hot.
The barrel of the gun and even the trunk of the bridge began to become hot to the touch due to frequent friction with bullets.
Although the political commissars and military commanders took the lead, the first wave of Soviet attacks on the bridge was blocked by machine guns. About three regiments of Soviet soldiers were concentrated in the wave attack, and only a few were left in the end.
There were 500 people, and all of them were injured.
However, the machine gunners of the Far East Army fought bravely and tenaciously, and were met with more Soviet artillery fire. The entire east bank of the bridge was almost plunged into a sea of fire. The casualties of the Far East Army here also exceeded a thousand people. The bridge defenders
One regiment lost almost two-thirds of its soldiers.
The battle on the river was also extremely fierce. When most of the Soviet ships reached the middle of the river, the Far Eastern Army's artillery located behind the battle line began to attack.
Under the guidance of the Far Eastern Army's high-altitude balloons, almost in the blink of an eye, five to six hundred water columns rose from the surface of the Kama River. Countless Soviet soldiers were driven into the water by shrapnel and waves, and there were more than ten unlucky boats.
, and was even hit on the spot by a falling cannonball. Wood chips mixed with scraps of metal and cloth flew into the air. They were scattered on the water like a goddess scattering flowers, and the entire river was covered with mud and blood.
After the Far Eastern Army continued large-scale artillery bombardments on the river, the Soviet artillery covering the river bank positions on the east bank began to search for the artillery positions arranged by the Far Eastern Army behind the battle line. The artillery shells that originally landed near the trenches began to extend forward.
Like the reconnaissance balloons released by the Far East Army, more than a dozen Soviet reconnaissance balloons slowly lifted into the air and began to point out the direction for the Soviet ground artillery fire. The artillery positions of the Far East Army encountered concentrated attacks from the opponent.
However, the Far East Army's artillery was not placed in a flat open area during the battle. According to the requirements, the artillery dug bunkers on the position, and then placed the artillery in the bunker, leaving only the muzzle of the gun sticking out.
The smaller mortars and rapid-fire guns are almost completely hidden in bunkers. Therefore, the damage caused by the low arc of the Soviet rapid-fire guns to the Far East Army's artillery and artillery has been reduced to
At the lowest level, due to the influence of the suppression of counter-revolutionaries, the middle and senior commanders of the Soviet artillery were almost wiped out. The artillerymen were idle and seriously lacked training. Therefore, the accuracy of the Soviet army's powerful howitzers was really disappointing. The Soviet army
The commander saw that his artillery had clearly covered and fired at the opponent's artillery position. Before he could be happy, the Far Eastern Army actually opened fire on the same position again.
Just when the Soviet artillery was tired of dealing with the Far Eastern Army's artillery positions, the Far Eastern Army soldiers in the trenches finally got a chance to breathe. Strings of machine gun bullets intertwined into dense fire nets on the river.
Like a sickle, the Soviet soldiers on the boat and on the pontoon were hit one after another, screaming and falling into the rushing river.
Then the Far Eastern Army's light and heavy machine guns and mortars began to exchange fire with the Soviet troops on the other side. When the Soviet commander discovered that something was wrong and used artillery fire to suppress the trenches on the river bank of the Far Eastern Army again, the Soviet troops crossing the river had suffered heavy casualties, nearly a thousand
The small boat drifted rapidly downstream along the river without being controlled by anyone.
After the first wave of river crossings failed, the Soviet commander immediately stopped the forced crossing operation and concentrated all firepower to attack from the railway bridge. More than 500 artillery pieces were concentrated and intensive bombing was carried out to the east of the bridge. The Far East was already full of dangers.
The military bridgehead was once again plunged into a hailstorm of artillery shells.
If you persisted at this time, you would be making a fool of the lives of the soldiers. The commander of the Far East Army immediately ordered the bridge guarding troops to retreat to the rear. At the same time, he mobilized the strategic reserve team and entered the bridge with a radius of about one kilometer centered on the bridgehead on the east bank.
In the inner ring position, the tank troops hidden in the woods five kilometers behind the first line position on the east side of the bridge also received orders and were ready to launch a counterattack against the bridge at any time.
After pouring tens of thousands of artillery shells into the two 500-meter-wide Far Eastern Army bridgeheads on the east bank, another wave of Soviet assault troops quickly rushed across the railway bridge. Before the Soviet commander could be happy about the progress,
The Soviet soldiers who had already crossed the bridge were fired upon wildly from the semicircular defense line centered on the front. Hundreds of mortar shells fell like a rainstorm and exploded quickly, carrying groups of Soviet soldiers into the air.
, torn into pieces.
As more and more Soviet soldiers poured across the railway bridge, the number of people who died on the ground full of large and small craters at the east end of the bridge also increased sharply. Under the leadership of political commissars and commanders, Soviet soldiers
Unable to even rush to the place two hundred meters east of the bridge, the Soviet soldiers who rushed across the bridge could only lie down helplessly in the craters, and then turned into balls of flesh and blood under the intensive bombardment of shells.
Dye the earth red.
Seeing that something was wrong, the Soviet commander decisively stopped the attack, concentrated his artillery, and prepared for a new round of bombardment. The entire battlefield fell into a dead silence.
Unknowingly, the night has passed, and there is a hint of bright color in the eastern sky, and the earth is gradually welcoming the light with a gray color. Under the morning light, Soviet troops can be seen everywhere on both sides of the Kama River, on both sides of the bridge, on the river beach and on the river.
The corpses of soldiers, of course, were also scattered east of the railway bridge. The corpses of many Far Eastern Army soldiers were also scattered on the east side of the railway bridge. Burning flames and smoke-belching craters were scattered all over the battlefield.
At this time, there was a "buzzing" sound in the eastern sky, and a dense group of aircraft appeared in the sky. The Soviet artillery reconnaissance balloon panicked and wanted to make an emergency descent, but there was not enough time. Under close attack by fighter jets,
, one by one the balloons exploded, and huge fireballs appeared one after another in the sky. None of the Soviet artillery reconnaissance balloons spread across the entire river bank missed the net.
Subsequently, under the cover of fighter jets, the bombers carried out coverage bombing of the Soviet artillery positions.
The Soviet anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground screamed desperately, not to be outdone, covering the rapid retreat of the artillery. However, this time the Far East Army was determined to make the opponent's artillery suffer. The artillery on the east bank of the river suddenly attacked the Soviet air defense position.
A suppressive strike was carried out, and then the SB-2 bombers dropped bombs at high altitude, while one hundred and twenty B-2 dive bombers from the Syrian government carried out precise bursts of fire at the Soviet artillery.
As the fleet returned victoriously, the battle that lasted all night finally came to an end. Such cruel battles took place almost every day on the entire Ural front. Millions of troops were entangled together. I am among you, and you are among me.
, each person simply represents a number, the number of attack, the number of defeat, the number of killed, the number of victory, life, at this moment, is so fragile!
Just when the Far East Army's western front operations were in a stalemate, the eastern front fighting the Japanese army was showing a one-sided trend due to the strategic decisions of the Far East's top brass.
On June 11, the Third Division of the First Group Army of the Mongolian Military Region successfully withdrew to Komsomolsk City and boarded a train heading west. On the 12th, eight Japanese divisions approached Komsomolsk City. By this time, the Far East Army had already captured Komsomolsk City.
After all the industrial facilities and residents in the city were transferred, the three divisions at the rear chose to retreat. After the Japanese army occupied Komsomolsk, they immediately divided their forces and raided the villages in the surrounding areas of Komsomolsk, but found nothing.
On the 13th, the last batch of Far Eastern Army troops evacuated Vladivostok. The remaining naval officers and soldiers blasted more than 400 surface ships. The sunken ships blocked the port channel one after another. The Japanese Navy was helpless, but the Army was ecstatic.
We successfully entered Vladivostok the next day and then marched towards Khabarovsk.
On the 14th, the main force of the First Army of the Mongolian Military Region withdrew from the Malmez Lake area, took a train to Khabarovsk, and then traveled to Ust-Kamen in Central Asia via the Siberian Railway. At the same time, most of the Far Eastern Army's troops in Central Asia had
Withdrew from the main railway line to Siberia. Although some units have not yet arrived, preparations for a new round of operations have begun.
On the 15th, the Japanese army entered the Sanjiang Plain of Heilongjiang Province from the plain area north of Xingkai Lake. The Xie Yi 13th Group Army of the Northeast Military Region was ordered to evacuate Jining urgently, rushed to Jiamusi by train, crossed the Songhua River, and disappeared in Jiangbei.
In the vast mountains of Xiaoxing'an Mountains, the five divisions of the 11th Group Army of the Northeast Military Region made emergency adjustments to the west as early as April. The 12th and 13th Group Armies were located in the south and north, which was not conducive to coordinated operations. Facing unprecedented strength,
A large Japanese offensive must rely on Mongolia and form a group to deal with it. In the past six months, the 13th Group Army based in the Sanjiang Plain and eastern Jilin has mobilized and relocated more than 300 troops from Liaoning and eastern Jilin.
Thousands of people moved to Mongolia, and together with the seven million Chinese who migrated from the Far East, the population of Mongolia as a whole has reached about 12 million, laying a solid foundation for consolidating China's northern border.
On the 16th, a fierce battle broke out between the Far Eastern Army and the Japanese army in the city of Vyazemsky south of the Hall River. The Japanese army deployed twelve divisions to attack the fortress. Six divisions of the Far Eastern Army relied on the fortresses built in advance to fight against the Japanese army tenaciously.
The battle lasted four days
, the following four divisions of the Japanese army bypassed the Sino-Soviet border and outflanked the rear flank of the Far Eastern Army from the plains in China. The Far Eastern Army reconnaissance plane discovered the Japanese army's attempt and had to make an emergency retreat. At this point, the gateway to Khabarovsk, the core city of the Far East coastal region,