Part 5 Chapter 54 The Second General Attack

Throughout late June, the Russian army suffered hundreds of ambushes of all sizes on the supply line. Alexeyev was forced to transfer a cavalry division to be responsible for escorting. Fortunately, the horses ate grass everywhere at this time, not only the forage of a cavalry division was enough to make trouble.

Even if there was a cavalry division specifically escorting supplies, the good days would not pass by. The Sixth Army left behind scattered soldiers and yelling soldiers who destroyed the supply line, equipped with a large number of mortars. Three or five people carried a cannon and brought a few shells into the forest. It was really hard to find out. Russian troops had to go on a road. Often, when a transport team set out from Suihua and arrived at the frontier of Jilin, they would have to be hit by at least dozens of shells and lost thirty or fifty people.

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How to defeat Lushun with the minimum loss? When this question was put in front of the officers attending the meeting, most of the officers who graduated from regular military academy did not think of many good solutions. It was nothing more than increasing the time for artillery preparation, strict supervision of war, etc. How to fight a fortress is a brand new problem facing everyone. No one had participated in the so-called fortress offensive and defensive battle before this.

After a while, no good result was achieved, Zhang Guangming had to announce the reconciliation of the meeting and let a group of officers go back and mobilize all the officers and soldiers to find a way.

This move is really good. In less than three days, the suggestions sent by each division were all kinds of. Some said they would use the quilts soaked in the cart cover and push forward, some proposed to learn from Zeng Guofan's tricks to attack Jinling and dig tunnels and blast, some proposed to make a steel plate for the strong to hold the machine gun bullets, and some suggested launching a general attack at night. There were many methods, and Zhang Guangming threw them all to the staff, asking them to choose some feasible methods from them, test them, and then they would go to the battlefield.

Zhang Guangming had a headache, while Lushun's garrison Kantrachenko was even more troubled. Although the attack on the first day was defeated, the casualties of the troops were astonishing. Moreover, the bravery and tenacity shown by the Chinese army when launching the attack was not expected.

When the war started, the Russian army was condescending, and it was a permanent fortification and a fortress. The firepower was not bad, but the Chinese soldiers on the battlefield rushed up with dense firepower. The roaring sound of beasts came to an end, and it was like a wild beast. I remember that I had nightmares when I went to bed at night. The most troublesome thing was the fierce firepower of the Chinese army. I won’t mention the 28 cm howitzer. Everyone knows that all permanent fortifications were

The destruction was all done by it. What impressed Kantlachenko the most was the mortars equipped by the Chinese army. This kind of artillery was simply a nightmare for the Russian army's non-permanent fire points. When the battle was fierce, Kantlachenko personally went to the Jiguanshan position to supervise the battle and witnessed the Chinese soldiers skillfully operating the mortars. Not only did the fire points be knocked off one by one, the soldiers in the trenches felt a little invisible under the curved trajectory of the mortars.

If it weren't for the preparation of a large number of mines and rolling down in times of crisis, the Pineshushan position might not have been saved.

Originally, he thought that the Chinese army would continue to attack the next day, but Kontrachenko did not sleep all night, urging the soldiers to speed up the repair of fortifications and beware of the night attacks of the Chinese army. As a result, it was safe overnight. The next day, the Chinese army's artillery fire began to greet each other every now and then, specifically targeting the exposed firepower points, but the general attack did not continue. Kontrachenko did not think that the Chinese army was afraid at all, and maybe they were holding back something? With such an idea, as the passive side, Kontrachenko could only order the frontier troops to stare at the movements of the Chinese army.

After three days of hard work, Zhang Guangming handed over three plans. The first was to try a night general attack, and the second was to send engineers to the tunnel to the Russian army's permanent fortifications and blast them with explosives. The third plan was proposed by the artillery, which brought some small-caliber flat-fired cannons to the trenches and carried out close-range artillery. The method was also named "cannons and bayonets".

After Zhang Guangming looked at it, he thought that these moves were good, and he would use them all next time.

On a night without a moon and without stars, Chinese soldiers quietly moved to the forefront of various attack positions. The searchlights of the Russian army on the mountain have now learned their lessons and will not turn on them if they kill them, so as not to become targets for mortars.

The 75mm caliber artillery gun in the dark was dismantled into several large pieces, and then brought to the front to reassemble it. Seeing the soldiers busy in an orderly manner, and then looking at the quietness on the hill, there was no sound of birds singing, Zhang Guangming couldn't help but look forward to a new round of general attack.

The darkness before dawn was unable to see his five fingers. Zhang Guangming in the command post had no expression on his face. He had already boiled his heart and subconsciously walked around the command post to relieve his nervousness.

At four o'clock in the morning! Three red signal flares cut through the tranquility of the night sky. In an instant, the whole night was boiling. The airtight artillery fire instantly knocked all the hills into daylight.

Kantrachenko, who was on the Jiguanshan position, had just lying down on the small marching bed in Yonggu Fortress for a while, and was shocked by the sound of cannons. Kantrachenko, who had not even taken off his shoes, rushed to the observation hole quickly and stared at the ballistics like countless meteors in the night sky.

The top of the fortress was shocked by artillery fire and pieces fell down. Kantrachenko dared to swear to God that this was the most violent artillery fire he had ever seen in his life. Even the soldiers inside the fortress had many faces of panic, and some were shocked and could not stand it. They directly covered their ears with their hands.

"Everything is faster, the Chinese army is coming soon." Kontrachenko ran around and roared, watching the sound of cannons gradually sparse, and rushed out of permanent fortifications and landed on the surface.

"Oh, damn it, get up quickly. Your butt is so high that you don't have to be cut off by Chinese shrapnel." As he said a joke, Contrachenko raised his foot and kicked a soldier huddled in the trenches. With such a simple sentence, coupled with his own example, the soldiers quickly returned to their respective positions.

"Boom!" A shell hit a bunker about ten meters away. The soldiers inside died before they even screamed. The splashing gravel made the soldiers in the nearby trenches hold their heads, and several unlucky ones were hit by the gravel and rolled on the ground in pain.

Contrachenko was stunned by the scene in front of him, but around 100 meters, more than a dozen cannons were bombarding the position unscrupulously. Another shell hit the concrete fortress directly, and the soldiers in the shooting hole screamed.

"Damn it, order the turret to fight back! You must suppress these cannons."

As soon as the order was issued, the Chinese soldiers had already jumped out of the trenches and rushed up like a tide. Everyone was holding a rifle and bayonet, shouting "Kill" at the top of their lungs.

"Let's fire, fire quickly!" Kangtrachenko ran around the trenches without any hesitation, shouting, and urging the soldiers to shoot.

The starting point of the Chinese army is only fifty meters away from the Russian position on the front line. There is a trench five meters wide and three meters deep in the middle. There are three barbed wire mesh opposite the trench. In the past few days of intensive artillery attacks, the barbed wire mesh has been broken.

The Chinese soldiers rushing in the front carried the ladder, door panel, and triangle support frame. The soldiers in front jumped down the trench without hesitation. Many sharp wooden stakes were buried there, but they were all filled with sandbags by Chinese soldiers. The soldiers who jumped down the trench skillfully set up the tripod, then ladders were placed one by one, and then the soldiers quickly lay the door panels.

Seeing this scene at the foot of the mountain, the Russian machine guns and cannons would not be snatched by it. Although the dense shells flying below were no different from the rain, Russian soldiers could only shoot with their teeth. Everyone saw Contrachenko holding a pistol to supervise the battle everywhere in the trenches. The commander was not afraid of death. What else could the soldiers worry about?

Although the Russian army's firepower was extremely fierce, the engineers still built more than a dozen wooden bridges passing through the trench within three minutes. The soldiers rushed up along the bridge. From time to time, someone was shot and fell into the trench. People behind quickly filled it up.

The Russian army on the top of the mountain cannot be said to be untenable. The grenades were thrown down like rain. When the Chinese soldiers rushed thirty meters away, they also responded to the rain-like grenades. The mortars never stopped and poured shells into the Russian positions like crazy.

The darkness gave some cover to the Chinese soldiers. The Russian army's firepower efficiency was obviously not as high as that during the day. At this time, the searchlight was also turned on. Although it was immediately patronized by mortars, it still had a good effect within a certain period of time, indicating the machine guns in the Russian army's fortress a proof of blockade.

Rows of soldiers fell down in machine guns and artillery fire, and more soldiers continued to rush up. The Russian front-line positions quickly could not stand it. The panicked Russian soldiers gave up their positions and fled back to the second-line positions dozens of meters away.

The situation on the Jiguanshan position was obviously beneficial to the Chinese army. The artillery soldiers on the front line braved the fierce firepower of the Russian army and continued to attack the fixed firepower points of the Russian army. One by one, one bunker after another flew into the sky in the artillery fire, and one by one Russian machine gun was silent in the artillery fire.

The charging soldiers quickly broke through the first and second positions of the Russian army. At dawn, on the positions on Jiguan Mountain, the Russian army had only the last line of defense left, and this line of defense was the strongest, consisting of a huge permanent fortress and dozens of bunkers.

"The Russian army's firepower is very strong! The soldiers on the front line were suppressed. On the 203 Highland, the situation is even more difficult. Almost all the Russian army's fortresses are shooting on the 203 Highland to suppress them." Duan Zhigao put down his telescope and turned back to Zhang Guangming worriedly.

Zhang Guangming had no expression on his face and watched the Russian army on the last line of defense shooting wildly. The elites of the First Army were pressed into the position that the Russian army gave up and were shooting at the target with the weapons in their hands.

"Hmph! They are elites. Since they are elites, they should have the awareness of elites. The more difficult the scene is, the more they should win in the best way. Tell the front-line commanders not to mention any casualties to me. I just want them to rush up and use bayonets to kill those hateful Russians. Just say that it is me who comes to me. He comes to be the commander of the army, and I will be the commander of the division to command the front line instead of him." Zhang Guangming's order was somewhat unreasonable, but it was particularly encouraging.

"No, the Russian army in the direction of Jiguanshan is counterattacking!" Duan Zhigao said, and Zhang Guangming's heart was in his throat. He hurriedly raised his telescope and looked over. He saw hundreds of Russian troops rushing out of the trenches and throwing the grenades down like rain. The advantage of being condescending was too obvious. The situation in the trenches was in a critical situation. The charger failed to carry the machine guns, and it was difficult to suppress the Russian counterattack. Sure enough, after more than ten minutes of fierce battle, the Russian counterattack regained a position.

"Fuck!" Zhang Guangming angrily threw off the telescope in his hand and shouted angrily: "What is this bastard Li Zhen doing? Why don't he lift the heavy machine gun up?"

"Brother Zhang, don't get angry. Maxim is too heavy and has a big target. She lifts it up during the day. Aren't you using soldiers as targets for the Russians?" Duan Zhigao quickly persuaded him, and Zhang Guangming snorted and did not get angry anymore. He couldn't help but envy the Marine Army Division. They were equipped with five hundred light machine guns, and one squad was one! Lord Shen was too partial.

The second general attack from dawn to darkness, on the positions on Jiguanshan and Songshushan, the Chinese army progressed relatively better, with poor performance in the 203 Highlands, but it only broke through two fortifications of the Russian army. This has a lot to do with the Russian army's key firepower reinforcements and the large number of solid fortresses.
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