In the town of Kabuch on the south bank of the Yangiyur River north of Tashkent, Sun Desheng, commander of the Eighth Army, stood in front of the window of a two-story house in the north of the town, holding a telescope to look at the situation on the other side of the river.
Major General Li Li, commander of the 22nd Motorized Infantry Division, introduced from the side:
"Because this is an area bordering desert and grassland, and the terrain is flat, the Soviet army can cross the river at any time from any point on the more than 200 kilometers long river. If we defend according to the river, we do not have that many troops, and we are fortified everywhere.
All are flaws, so
So we did not build river fortifications, but fortified the town of Capuchi two to three hundred meters away from the railway bridge. After a week of reconstruction, we have built the entire town into a strong fortress, and strive to be as safe as possible here.
Kill and injure the enemy in many places."
Sun Desheng put down the telescope, turned around and said: "The Soviet army was still worried about going south. They formed a long snake formation. The head of the snake reached the Yangjiyur River, and the tail still fell on Ares. According to the intelligence fed back by the Air Force, the enemy's forward is now
There are only three divisions at best, and the enemy will definitely seize the town of Capuchi at all costs and open the way for the large troops to move south."
Major General Wang Qihua, chief of staff of the group army, pointed in the direction of the bridge and said with a smile:
"This railway bridge is well preserved! You destroyed all the five kilometers of railway tracks and roadbed to the north of the bridge, but left such a bridge. It is really a stroke of genius. Everyone has a habit of thinking, and there is a ready-made bridge."
On the river, the Soviet army would not have thought of building a pontoon bridge, at least not until they hit a wall.
If you think too much, the troops will continue to move towards the railway bridge. Since we have dug up the railway, the Soviet army cannot use trains to quickly rush across the railway bridge for assault. They can only use tanks, armored vehicles and infantry to attack, and use Timberwolves to attack.
Fight us with oil tactics, but this is our strength!"
"The task of our group army is to injure and cripple the Soviet troops, making them think that Commander Ye's troops are in Tashkent, and induce their main force to speed up southward, seek a decisive battle with us, and move the enemy away from Ares and Shymkent.
area. Now it depends on how well your first shot goes!"
Li Li solemnly saluted: "Commander, Chief of Staff, just relax! This time, the group army deployed the direct artillery brigade behind our defense line, plus two air force regiments stationed in Tashkent to assist in the battle.
It is a completely asymmetrical war between us and the other side. As long as they don't send more than ten divisions to surround us at once, we are confident that we can continue the battle."
Shortly after Sun Desheng and Wang Qihua left, Li Li just returned to the underground headquarters two kilometers behind the village. An urgent report was sent from the Air Force. A Soviet division quickly headed south from Ziljia Town, five kilometers north of the Yangjiyur River, towards the railway.
The bridge was approaching. The Air Force deployed two high-altitude airships between Tashkent and Ares, equipped with high-power telescopes and fully-activated radars to monitor every move of the Soviet army. Therefore, the Soviet army knew about it just after they set off.
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On the north bank of Yangjiyur River, red flags are flying.
The marching team with no end in sight was constantly advancing towards the iron bridge. The middle and senior commanders of the Soviet army on horseback, surrounded by guards also riding horses, stopped from time to time to wave the troops forward.
"Buzz-"
Suddenly, a sound like a dense swarm of bees rang in my ears. Just as all the Soviet officers and soldiers were looking around blankly, a fleet of aircraft appeared in the southern sky - two squadrons of the Anjiajun Air Force, mainly B1 Mosquito bombers.
, and fought towards the Soviet marching team.
Since the flight altitude of the fighter plane is only one to two hundred meters, people on the ground can not only see the flying fox logo under the silver-white wings, but also the appearance of the pilot in the cockpit.
The sudden appearance of the aircraft group plunged the Soviet army into a huge panic. The neat queue suddenly broke into commotion. Some people lay down on the ground to avoid the bombs, some raised their guns and shot blindly into the sky, and others rushed towards them.
He ran to a place with few people and fell to the ground the moment the plane arrived.
Stimulated by this scene, the horses under the crotches of the Soviet officers also lost control and began to gallop and jump wildly.
The Soviet soldiers lying on the ground were considered smarter, and those who ran away and fell to the ground were even more wise. Soldiers who tried to be heroic were not so lucky.
Major Qin Ke, the commander of the 7th Flight Squadron who was responsible for the combat command mission, decisively issued the order to fight separately. The B1 Mosquito bombers of the Anjia Army Air Force began to attack Soviet targets in this area. The B1 Mosquito bombers showed up.
Flying horizontally and passing over the heads of the Soviet troops, fart
A string of 50 to 100 kilogram-level aerial bombs were dropped from below. The huge shock wave generated by the explosion and countless high-speed rotating shrapnel flying in all directions swallowed up the lives of hundreds of Soviet soldiers and soldiers in an instant.
Torn yellow cloth strips and gun parts fell one after another.
After the smoke dissipated, only huge black craters were left on the ground. The ground was covered with disgusting human limbs and intestines, and fragments of red flags were scattered everywhere.
In the flat wilderness, except for an unknown small village, there was nowhere to hide. The Soviet soldiers scattered in panic, looking for a place where there was no one. Everyone had a sense of luck - the other party's
There's no way a fighter plane could drop expensive aerial bombs just for me, right?
This intuition was undoubtedly very correct. Seeing that it was very difficult to chase down scattered people in the wilderness, the Anjiajun Air Force's bombing target turned to the only small village nearby. One after another roared towards them.
The B1 bombers fired wildly at the Soviet officers and soldiers on the ground who were holding guns and looking confused. The aviation machine gun bullets shattered every living life into pieces.
Those small houses made of wood and stone appeared extremely fragile in the face of the aerial bombs dropped by B1 bombers. The Soviet soldiers standing on the road in the village also fell into pools of blood in pieces during the explosion. B1s from two squadrons
bomber, almost
The village was destroyed. Even the only three-story brick-concrete building in the village, which was used as a working and resting place for railway workers, collapsed after being hit by three bombs. The Soviet officers and soldiers inside who had no time to evacuate died immediately.
Death, injury, injury.
The Soviet troops hiding in the village were like wasps that had exploded their nest, running desperately outside. However, when they appeared in the wilderness in groups, they became the best target for the aircraft machine gun on the nose of the B1 bomber.
It was not until the Anjiajun Air Force's bombing and strafing came to an end that the Soviet officers and soldiers woke up from their dreams and began to organize anti-air defenses in some places. Light and heavy machine guns were mounted on some objects protruding from the ground in an attempt to force these bombers to no longer be so aggressive.
Carrying out low-altitude strafing attacks recklessly.
However, the pilots of the Anjiajun Air Force have already experienced hundreds of battles. Weaving through the strings of machine gun bullets rising from the ground is their specialty. Shooting the exposed ground machine gun fire points is even more difficult for pilots with rich combat experience.
It's commonplace, improve
Later mosquito bombers were equipped with alloy steel plates in the cockpit. Although it once affected the speed and bomb load of the fighter, it was a good guarantee for the lives of the pilots. And with the emergence of high-horsepower aircraft engines, speed and
The bomb load not only did not decrease but actually increased.
More than a dozen Soviet soldiers, under the command of a regiment political commissar, mounted five Tomakav and Deggarev machine guns on a battle position made of more than twenty empty ammunition boxes. They were surrounded by
They were soldiers retreating in a hurry. This row of unyielding machine guns was in sharp contrast to the chaotic scene next to them.
"Shoot that plane! Yes, that's the one!"
The political commissar pointed at a B1 bomber not far away that was flying over and dropping bombs at low altitude, and shouted loudly. The soldiers hurriedly turned their guns to the bomber. When the two bombs fell from the bomber to the ground, hundreds of bombs fell on them.
You can feel the earth shaking violently from meters away.
The hands of the five host gunners were all affected by the explosion and shook in unison. As a result, a large number of bullets missed the target far away. When they tried to chase and aim again, the target had already been raised quickly and could no longer hit.
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"Next time, aim and hit! Here we go, over there! Over there!"
The political commissar looked very dissatisfied. The soldiers hurriedly turned their guns in another direction. There was a B1 bomber flying towards the temporary machine gun position at low altitude. At this time, almost all Soviet officers and soldiers could see it.
The stern faces of the Anjia military pilots were seen in the cockpit, as well as the red flames sprayed from the aircraft's machine guns on the front.
A few seconds later, An Jiajun's fighter plane pulled up its nose and flew away, leaving only five lone machine guns and the bodies of a dozen warriors on the ground.
The bombing by the Anjiajun Air Force lasted only eight minutes, and then disappeared into the southern sky. The earth returned to calm, but the blackened craters on the ground, the corpses of Soviet officers and soldiers scattered everywhere, the damaged and collapsed
The houses are all evidence that Anjiajun fighter planes have been here.
The Soviet army, which was hit head-on, was very resilient. After being summoned by military commanders and political cadres at all levels, they quickly formed their troops and marched towards the railway bridge again.
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A quarter of an hour later, we were more than 300 meters north of the railway bridge.
"Everyone, keep up! We will reach the target soon!"
A Soviet captain and battalion commander who rushed to the front shouted loudly to his soldiers. Running thousands of kilometers in the hot summer is not a fun thing. Everyone is breathing heavily, and their whole body is
All soaked with sweat.
These charging Soviet troops held their Mosin-Nagant rifles diagonally across their chests, and the bayonets on the front of the rifles were shining brightly in the hot sunlight.
Suddenly, the captain and battalion commander discovered a large black and round thing rising silently from the town across the bridge. These things rose higher and higher, and their trajectories were very different from ordinary artillery shells and bullets. Soon,
Then he jumped into the crowd and exploded.
The sudden and intensive mortar attack did not cause the Soviet army to fall into a large-scale panic. After experiencing the bombing by planes, the current mortar attack seemed much gentler. Watching their companions fall one by one, a large number of Soviet soldiers instead
Speeded up the pace of progress.
The frequency of mortar firing is much faster than that of ordinary artillery fire. They exploded again and again on the path of the Soviet army's advance. The flying shrapnel killed and wounded Soviet officers and soldiers in a large area. Gaps gradually appeared in the Soviet army's advancing queue.
When the first wave of Soviet troops rushed into the shooting range of Anjiajun's general-purpose machine guns and rifles on the north bank of the railway bridge, the oncoming dense bullets made everyone feel helpless. The Soviet soldiers who were shot in the chest or head, due to inertia,
He knelt on the ground behind his back, opened his hands, and couldn't help but throw out the weapon in his hand. He fell face down and passed away.
"keep going!"
The Soviet captain and battalion commander had just taken the next step when an oncoming bullet penetrated his body silently. The moment his body leaned back, his red star hat flew out, and his brown hair was due to
His scalp was covered in sweat and clinging tightly to his scalp, and his eyes stared blankly at the blue sky for the last time.
When he knelt on the hot ground, the battalion commander suddenly felt that the ground was so soft, like a comfortable big bed, and he was about to sleep on this big bed forever.