The contradictions of the Russians have nothing to do with the Chinese!
On the Kdusnoyarsk battlefield, Zhang Zuolin's Northeastern Army and the Russian White Guards launched a round of attacks against the Soviet Red Army.
While holding on to their positions, the Soviet Red Army was not to be outdone and launched wave after wave of counterattacks against the Chinese and Russian coalition forces.
Their only purpose is to try to suppress the enemy with offense, and then try to gain the initiative on the Kdunsnoyarsk battlefield, so that they can concentrate on dealing with the enemies coming from both wings.
The war has entered a fierce stage.
The roar of the Russians resounded through the sky, even overpowering the "rumbling" of the artillery. The first row of Chinese artillery shells missed, and the shells exploded next to the Red Army soldiers, which seemed to cheer the Russians.
Li Jinglin, who was commanding at the front line, shouted into the microphone, asking the artillerymen to correct their targets. The second row of salvos fired accurately. The shells fell into the Red Army's charge formation, and the crowd was torn apart by the blast of air.
But the Red Army ignored the fallen comrades around them, passed through the barbed wire that was blown apart by artillery fire, and charged towards the position with large strides. Under the pale moonlight, the mountains and plains were covered with the reflection of helmets and bayonets, and the cold light shone.
The White Guards commanded by Captain Babaloski defended the high ground on the left flank of the position. Next to him was Captain Kianov's company.
Red Army artillery fire cut off the connection between the two companies, and Barbaroski was furious. The death squads had rushed into the space between them and attacked him from the flank.
In the darkness, only the rhythmic clashing of gun butts and roars of the Bolsheviks could be heard: "Kill the Tsar's lackeys, the heroic Bolsheviks advance!"
Captain Barbaroski picked up a machine gun and rushed towards the Red Army death squads with curses: "Butchers, come all! Long live His Majesty the Tsar!"
A platoon leader could not hold him back and hurriedly led his men to follow Barbaroski in the attack. Although they repelled the Red Army death squads, the enemies who charged head-on still rushed to the position. The two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat and fought to the death.
Barbaroski failed to return to the division in time, the left flank position wavered, and the White Guard soldiers jumped out of the trenches and retreated.
Captain Keainov saw that the Red Army had broken through the left-wing position and that he was in danger of being outflanked, so he quickly fought and retreated. A soldier saw the billowing smoke in the light of the explosion, and suddenly thought of the weapon that had been used on the Russian battlefield.
His first reaction to the poison gas bomb was that it was the poison gas released by the Red Army.
"Poison gas, poison gas!" he yelled, dodging the smoke.
It didn't matter what the shout was. The retreating White Guards immediately became confused. People huddled together and rushed toward the second line of defense defended by Li Jinglin's apprentice, Major Zhang Xiangwu.
Zhang Xiangwu pulled out his pistol and fired repeatedly into the sky, forcing the panicked soldiers to stop, and shouted loudly: "Stop, stop, I will shoot anyone who wants to escape, hold on!"
Zhang Xiangwu's intimidation worked. The defeated soldiers turned their guns and used fierce firepower to withstand the pursuing Red Army.
Zhang Xiangwu reorganized his troops without hesitation, designated junior officers of the White Guards to act as commanders who died in battle, and launched a counterattack. The troops composed of Chinese and Russian forces attacked fiercely and regained the lost positions.
Zhang Xiangwu sent a platoon non-stop to support Barbaroski on the left.
The Bolsheviks could not withstand the enemy's crossfire and retreated again, leaving behind their wounded soldiers.
The left-wing position was retaken, but the situation on the right-wing position was not good. The Red Army captured the right-wing position. The remnants of the right-wing troops retreated. Li Jinglin ordered the artillery regiment to bombard the positions occupied by the Red Army, and at the same time began to organize death squads. The Russians did not give him a buffer at all.
time, and then launched a charge towards the main position.
Li Jinglin decided to further shrink the front line. He ordered to withdraw to the northern end of the highland less than one kilometer away from the main position. This shortened his defense line, but due to the restrictions of the rugged terrain, the defense line was still very thin and dangerous, and could not be integrated with other troops at all.
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Regardless of casualties, the Red Army continued to rush forward over the corpses of its own men. Although the speed slowed down, they did not stop because of the machine gun fire and the explosion of grenades and mortar shells!
On one side of the high ground, rushing at the front were the remnants of a battalion led by Yelich of the Soviet Red Army. Yelich lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, and ordered his men to advance toward the anti-aircraft artillery position ahead.
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The defensive position was crumbling. Red Army soldiers crowded into the trenches in dense numbers. The two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat, fighting with bayonets and rifle butts. Corpses were littered on the mountains.
Yelich led the way, swung his saber to cut through the barbed wire, and slashed forward without hesitation. The saber was dripping with blood and full of gaps. Several soldiers followed him and rushed into the artillery position. The Chinese artillery quickly put down the cannon and picked up their rifles to fight back.
.A bullet scratched Yelic's cheek, and blood flowed down his neck. He wiped it randomly, and his whole face became like a gourd of blood.
"Come on, seize the cannon!" Yelich staggered towards a cannon and hacked to death two gunners who resisted tenaciously.
A row of bullets came, and all the soldiers around him fell down. Yelich threw away his saber, turned the muzzle of the gun and shot at the enemy, but there was no shell in the barrel. He picked up a cannonball and loaded it into the barrel, and a gunner flew over.
They hugged him and rolled around. Yelich pressed on the gunner and strangled the gunner's neck. The Chinese soldier used his last breath of strength to fire a grenade. With a "boom", the two men died together.
A Red Army officer led a dozen followers and rushed toward the headquarters of the 11th Division, shouting "Ula". Li Jinglin drew his pistol and fired back, commanding the staff to join the battle.
In the smoke and melee, Li Jinglin could no longer contact his subordinates. He ordered each unit to fight independently and stick to their positions. If anyone dared to take a step back, he would not be merciful and would deal with them according to military law on the spot, including killing them without mercy.
After the Chinese gunners repulsed the Red Army, they quickly lowered the muzzle and fired flatly. The shells were everywhere and exploded in the crowd of Red Army soldiers who were coming up, causing howls of ghosts and wolves. Those Red Army soldiers who had not been defeated still stepped on the corpses of their comrades and poured into the trenches, covering most of the position.
Still lost.
Zhang Zuolin saw all this clearly. The 11th Division was retreating across the board. Once they could no longer withstand it, the entire defense line would be completely destroyed.
The situation was extremely urgent, so he ordered the reserve team to dispatch urgently for support. At the same time, he ordered the heavy artillery on the position to turn their muzzles and concentrate firepower to support the position.
At the critical moment, Chinese artillery commander Liu Sihai's artillery turned the tide. The Red Army in front of the queue was organizing a charge formation to outflank the high ground. Artillery fire poured down on their heads and faces, blooming in the dense ranks. Soldiers fell in groups, bleeding.
into a river.
Seeing that the situation was favorable, Li Jinglin lost no time in commanding his troops to launch a counterattack.
The Red Army, which was attacked from three sides, finally could no longer hold on and was forced to retreat across the board.
On the same night that the main force of the Red Army launched the attack, Colonel Voldrock of the Red Army led 600 men and also launched an attack to the west of the position.
The soldiers of the Red Army tragically carried out the "human sea tactic" and strode into the open space at the front of the position.
They happened to be a living target for the Chinese Air Force aircraft, and more than a dozen "Thunder" dive bombers immediately carried out a massive bombing. The Chinese pilots looked down from the air, and the Russians were lined up in a neat formation as if they were practicing on a playground.
They charged forward, turning a blind eye and turning a deaf ear to the bombs falling around them. They passed through the smoke and dust, and crossed numerous bomb craters, looking at death as if they were home. The mountains and fields were full of shining helmets and bayonets. The officers and flag bearers in front fell, and the soldiers behind them continued.
They continued to advance despite passing the flag, resisting the blazing shrapnel with their own flesh and blood, and no one retreated in the face of the battle.
The Chinese officers and soldiers who were waiting in full formation were all dumbfounded. This was not a war in the era of hot weapons. It was like returning to an ancient battlefield.
Vodrok made a desperate move and threw all the command staff into the attack.
The billowing smoke swallowed up the blood-red sunset, and the sky was dark. The Chinese soldiers were hiding in the bunker, recharging their strength. Everyone knew that after the fierce shelling, there would be a fierce battle to the death.
Li Jinglin had been observing the opponent, and now he felt that victory was certain. He immediately asked his superiors to send an assault force to outflank the enemy who failed in the attack. If he launched a counterattack from the high ground, the Russians would be unable to escape.
The general headquarters quickly answered him that if there were not many casualties on the highlands, the troops would attack across the board at dawn tomorrow!
As the sun set in the west, night fell, and the mountains became hazy and blurry, Voldrok led more than 800 regrouped officers and soldiers to get out of their positions and secretly approached the high ground in a roundabout way.
The Chinese artillery fire was extremely fierce, and the shells flew over like a barrage, making it airtight.
The crawling Red Army soldiers learned the lesson this time. They no longer raised their bayonets and made unnecessary charges. Instead, they took advantage of the gaps in the artillery fire to fire cold shots to lure the squadron to expose the firepower of the machine guns, and then threw grenades to explode.
The rising smoke rushed into the trenches.
Fighting in close combat, the Chinese artillery did not dare to fire easily, so it was difficult to exert its due power. This battle was more fierce than the previous night. Small groups of Red Army continued to break through the position locally and reach the rear to attack in a roundabout way.
Li Jinglin ordered Captain Barbaroski to voluntarily withdraw the second line of defense and let the heavy artillery on the position blast the position he gave up.
There was continuous artillery fire on the high ground, thick smoke billowing, and the bare trees were ignited by the bullet fire, igniting a sea of fire and illuminating the dark mountains.
Regardless of life or death, the Red Army continues to attack the second line of defense!
The Red Army was approaching the Chinese mortar position. The Chinese gunners lowered their muzzles and shot the enemy face to face like bayonets seeing red, forcing the Red Army to roll down the mountain in piles.
The fierce fighting lasted until dawn, with only more than 60 men in Barbaroski's company left, and more than half of the other companies suffered casualties. The second line of defense collapsed at the first touch.
Li Jinglin once wanted to use the reserve team, but his rationality told him that the final victory depended on persisting in his efforts!
Sure enough, after he withstood the last desperate charge, the Russians were also exhausted and unable to organize a strong attack. They only set up machine guns and fired intermittently in a bluff.
Chinese aircraft arrived again to join the battle and easily eliminated the remaining firepower of the Red Army.
Seeing that the time had come, Li Jinglin decisively ordered the reserve team to launch a counterattack.
The exhausted remnants of the Red Army could not withstand the effective counterattack. They abandoned the captured positions and retreated rolling on the ground.
The Red Army's offensive efforts finally suffered the most disastrous failure!