Chapter 16 The night battle is still in full swing
Chapter 1600 The battle is still going on in the middle of the night
Central Asian battlefield.
At one o'clock in the morning, the Soviet army marched quickly under the cover of night and collided head-on with the Anjia Army's defensive position five kilometers north of Tashkent. Gunshots suddenly rang out, breaking the silence of the night.
While organizing their troops to attack forward, the Soviet army began to dig trenches one kilometer opposite the Anjia Army's position. Soviet artillery fire rang out, and the Anjia Army's main position on the northern front and both flanks were covered by artillery fire.
There were about two regiments of officers and soldiers of the Soviet army. After the artillery fire extended, they quickly formed a skirmish line and began to move towards the main position of Tashkent. The Soviet army's grassroots commanders and political workers rushed to the front of the team, shouting loudly to advance!
The Soviet army's skirmishing line was widely spread, and the strength of the two regiments almost covered the entire main position. Major General Gao Yunlin, commander of the 23rd Motorized Infantry Division in the main position, looked through the periscope and repeatedly observed the sparse Soviet army.
The offensive formation was entering the infantry range, and I couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
When Gao Yunlin stood up, Chief of Staff An Zongjun stood in front of the periscope. After observing, his expression suddenly changed and he hurriedly shouted: "Commander, order the main supporting fire points in the forward position not to shoot, and to stay hidden and on standby!"
Gao Yunlin looked suspicious and asked, "Chief of Staff, do you have any questions?"
An Zongjun pointed at the front of the position and said urgently: "Commander, this is clearly a test of firepower by the Soviet army. I suggest that the troops on the surface of the position be withdrawn into the tunnel immediately! Move quickly, otherwise it will be too late!"
After An Zongjun finished speaking, he quickly picked up the phone. Just as he was about to make a call at the forward position, there was suddenly a storm of gunfire. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers were shot and fell to the ground almost at the same time, under the fire snakes sprayed from the general-purpose machine guns.
, the Soviet army unexpectedly retreated.
Duan Zhihua, commander of the 87th Infantry Regiment, excitedly claimed credit on the phone: "Chief of Staff, Lao Maozi's attack was repelled by us!"
"Asshole! Can't you see that this is a test by the Soviet army? Are they throwing what they learned at the non-commissioned officer academy into Java? Immediately withdraw all the troops from the front line! You have to act quickly, do you understand?
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After An Zongjun finished speaking, he slammed the phone back onto the base with a "pop" sound.
Duan Zhihua, who was scolded instead of praised, put down the microphone with a dark face, and said angrily to the political commissar and staff waiting beside him with a smile: "The chief of staff ordered the troops to withdraw immediately!"
Shortly after the troops withdrew, the entire forward position was plunged into a sea of flames.
The Soviet heavy artillery unit used intensive artillery fire and fired three rounds of rapid fire at the main position. The Soviet army then mobilized cannons to cooperate with the heavy machine guns to carry out close-range direct aiming in an attempt to destroy the previously exposed fire points and bunkers of the Anjia Army.
After the Soviet army stopped shelling, it took a long time for the smoke and dust generated by the explosion to dissipate. There was silence on the forward position of the 87th Infantry Regiment. Those carefully constructed bunkers were overturned by cannon fire, and they were severely and lightly overturned.
The machine gun positions were in a mess, and most of the bunkers had collapsed and were no longer functional.
After a few minutes, densely packed Soviet troops swarmed toward the Anjia Army's main position like locusts. At the forefront of the attacking troops were still the grassroots officers and political commissars of the Soviet army. They held rifles with bayonets and shouted slogans,
Keep calling for troops to follow.
Anjia Army soldiers quickly entered the front-line positions from the rear artillery holes through traffic trenches. When the Soviet troops entered the firing range, they used general-purpose machine guns and mortars to organize mobile firepower and concentrate on attacking the Soviet assault teams.
Blood was splattering wantonly, and Soviet soldiers hit by machine gun bullets and mortar shrapnel kept falling on the charge. However, under the leadership of grassroots commanders and political cadres, the Soviet soldiers always maintained a firm attitude.
With a complete disregard for life, they lined up in skirmish formation and advanced against the bullets fired by Anjia's officers and soldiers.
The sound of machine gun fire that tore apart the oilcloth continued, and Soviet soldiers fell in pieces in the hail of bullets, but many of them still managed to get within fifty meters of the defenders' position.
"Throw the grenade!"
Following the order from the company and platoon commanders, the Anjia Army officers and soldiers picked up the prepared grenades from the lying shooting position, opened the cover, and threw them hard. A dense explosion sounded, and the Soviet soldiers lined up in rows.
The ground fell.
The Soviet army faced off head-on without flinching. Follow-up troops kept up with them and launched forceful assaults. However, the assaults still ended in failure several times.
Subsequently, the Soviet army changed its strategy, piling up the corpses of dead Soviet soldiers to serve as bunkers, pushing light and heavy machine guns and infantry artillery behind the sandbags made of human flesh, and firing at the Anjia Army's positions at close range.
The Anjia Army was not to be outdone, and mortars from the rear fell like raindrops on the heads of the Soviet troops. Almost every shell could take away several lives. Both sides went back and forth, and the battle was extremely fierce.
In the front-line trenches held by the Anjia Army, officers and soldiers were constantly being hit in fierce exchanges of fire. The Soviet machine guns and infantry artillery caused a large number of casualties to the Chinese soldiers. In the trenches where flesh and blood and shrapnel were flying everywhere, medical soldiers often
While dragging the wounded man, he fell to the ground.
The regiment leader Duan Zhihua was lying on the position, carefully observing the enemy's movements. Suddenly, a sharp roar approached, and Duan Zhihua felt that he had been hit hard by something. When he was dug out of the soil by several staff officers, he realized that
The guard crawling on top of him was already a bloody mess.
"Medicine! Come here, where is the medic?"
Duan Zhihua desperately shook the broken body of guard Xiao Liu, which was stained red with blood, but no one answered him!
When he was pulled to the rear bunker by the reinforcements, Duan Zhihua vaguely saw the bodies of the medical soldiers lying dead in the front-line trenches. One of them, a girl who looked eighteen or nineteen years old, looked at her with a pair of unwilling eyes.
against the dark sky.
...
In the rear position, Gao Yunlin clenched his teeth, and An Zongjun suggested hesitantly: "Should we...should use artillery?"
Gao Yunlin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The Army Commander just called us and asked us not to plan artillery. We can only rely on ourselves to find a way. With the strength of a group army, we have to pretend that the main force is gathered, so we can only put all the troops together.
The artillery is used together. The artillery brigade directly under the group army has three artillery regiments, plus the artillery regiments of our three divisions and the garrison division, there are seven artillery regiments in total. To disguise it as an artillery group of the front army, you have to use some brains.
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"Commander Sun told us that the artillery bombardment will be launched in the darkest period before dawn. It will cover the front of our position for the first time. Then the artillery fire will extend forward and even hit the trenches that the Soviet army is building, causing a powerful
The visual impact further strengthened the Soviet army’s belief that our army will defend Tashkent!”
An Zongjun thought for a while and said loudly: "It seems that we can only rely on our mortars and rocket launchers in the short term... I will go to the front line now and concentrate the mortars for use. The rocket launcher soldiers
Form a mobile strike force and seal the gap immediately if there is a problem. No matter what, the defense line cannot collapse from us."
Gao Yunlin nodded: "Bring the guards together. They are all veterans who have fought for many years. They are all equipped with automatic rifles and can play a greater role than other troops!"
An Zongjun responded and rushed out of the headquarters.
The battle that followed became even more brutal. The Soviet army rushed to the front line to replenish troops and created breakthroughs in several areas. But as soon as the Soviet army broke through, mortars hit like hailstones. After destroying the Soviet army that rushed into the trenches,
, carried out blocking artillery fire backwards, and the infantry with emergency reinforcements quickly regained the position and consolidated the defense.
If the Soviet army concentrated its artillery to suppress the Anjia Army's mortar attack, the rocket launcher soldiers would form a commando team, concentrate dozens of rocket launchers, and fire concentratedly at the gap. Then the guard company would rush up with automatic rifles and use a dense rain of bullets.
Drive the Soviet troops out of the trenches, wait for the infantry to be deployed, and then move on to the next target.
That night, the Soviet army deployed five divisions on the front line at one go. At five o'clock in the morning, when Anjiajun's defense line was crumbling, Anjiajun's shelling finally began!
To the north of the entire front line, in the darkness, a burst of yellow light suddenly flashed, and the northern sky suddenly lit up like lightning. Then there were muffled thunderous sounds, and finally the earth shook violently!
Amidst the shrill whistles, hundreds or even thousands of large and small artillery shells exploded two to three hundred meters in front of the main position almost simultaneously. Orange explosions exploded in the night, shining brightly in the wilderness.
They were connected together. The shells were so dense that there were countless shells. Occasionally, shells from the M1931 203mm howitzer and BR5 280mm howitzer captured from the Soviet army flew past, dragging out the sound of trains approaching in the air.
When it fell to the ground, the whole earth trembled violently, with an intensity similar to that of a magnitude 67 earthquake!
The explosion of the artillery shells finally merged into a loud noise, which echoed on the battlefield with a "rumbling" sound, and any other sounds were suppressed!
The Soviet attack suddenly stalled. After killing a few Soviet soldiers in front of the position, the Anjia Army officers hid in the trenches and observed the movements of the Soviet troops.
The scene of intensive bombardment by artillery fire was extremely spectacular, but for the Anjia army on the front line, it was also a kind of silent torture - they all opened their mouths and covered their ears, enduring the huge impact of their own artillery.
The vibrations and the loud sound of an exploding shell pierced people's hearts.
Everyone was shaking violently with the vibration of the explosion, as if their heart and lungs were about to be shaken out. The smoke filled everyone's respiratory tract and lungs, making people breathless. However, despite suffering a lot,
But everyone's hearts were filled with joy. Everywhere they looked, there were limbs blown up by the Soviet army, and fragments of guns and cannons were everywhere.
Not long after, after confirming that there were no Soviet soldiers at the front of the position, the grassroots company and platoon leaders of the Anjia Army were notified by the division headquarters to temporarily withdraw from the position to guard against possible Soviet artillery counterattacks.
However, the Soviet army had no time to worry about attacking at this time.
As the Anjia Army's artillery fire extended, the position that the Soviet army had been busy building all night began to be baptized by artillery fire. One after another, the artillery shells blasted terrible gaps in the position. The artillery shells were like rolling cumulonimbus clouds, killing people.
The rain of bullets gradually spread forward. Occasionally, an overweight artillery shell fell, and the ground was like a volcano erupting, and the soil was blown up half a height.
The machine gun fortress built of earth and wood, under such a large-scale bombardment, was like paper, and any trace of its existence in this world was instantly wiped out.
The artillery power of the Anjia Army was unexpectedly powerful!
Faced with such an intense artillery attack, the Soviet artillery units deployed in the rear did not dare to move at all. They needed to muster all their energy to prevent a possible counterattack by the Chinese army after the artillery attack ended.
By daybreak, the artillery fire gradually became sparse, and the Soviet position was already riddled with holes. However, from the beginning to the end, the Soviet artillery did not usher in the imagined scene of the Anjia Army infantry attacking.
After a fierce battle all night, both sides needed time to lick their wounds, and the battlefield unexpectedly calmed down strangely.