Chapter 848: Sweeping the battlefield
"Comrades, work harder! The enemy's position is ahead!" Captain Malafeev greeted the soldiers in his rough voice.
The running Soviet soldiers responded without hesitation: "Go forward!"
Running quickly with a bulky ammunition bag is a very physically exhausting thing. However, Andrei Kantevic, a young soldier who belongs to the 1st Division of the Soviet Guards Infantry, is a man who is willing to be tired and not have no ammunition when facing the enemy. Moreover, the weapon he used is not the old and strong Mosinnagan manual rifle, but a brand new pps40 submachine gun. This fully automatic gun is very different from the Schmether submachine gun and the Beretta submachine gun that were equipped with a large number of equipment by the Western Alliance Team. However, the principles are basically the same. In addition, the same uses pistol bullets, which can be equipped with 35 round magazines and 65 round drums. In terms of actual combat performance, pps40 is enough to crush the Japanese army's submachine gun!
Suddenly, a shell fell down with a roar, and the explosion point was more than ten meters away. Kang Caivic saw a flash of flames from the corner of his eyes, and several figures flew up. The huge impact was like an invisible man hitting him from the side, and suddenly staggered, then faced down and a embarrassed dog gnawed the mud.
The afterglow of the explosion was still swinging in his ears. Kantevic felt a little dazed, and his belief in fighting seemed to have shaken. At this moment, Captain Malafeev's loud voice cheered him and his comrades up.
"Medical soldiers! Take care of the wounded! The rest of the people, rush with me! Move towards victory!"
After continuing to advance for two or three minutes, the companies began to spread out and advance towards different regions. Kantevic followed his company to approach a warning position, which was about a hundred meters horizontally, without second-line trenches and powerful firepower points, and was connected to the main position behind only through a few winding traffic trenches.
"The entire company entered the trenches, cleared the remaining enemies, collected ammunition, consolidated positions, and guarded against the enemy's counterattack!"
As soon as Captain Malafeev finished speaking, Kantevic entered the Japanese trench with a submachine gun. There were corpses and limbs everywhere, and he was alive and he was alive. But there were also survivors. Kantevic turned his head and saw a young Japanese soldier staring at him. He was covered in blood and leaning against the wall of the trench, as if he was holding a "melon" grenade in his hand. Seeing this guy move slightly, Kantevic was almost shocked. The thing could destroy himself and several comrades around him. Driven by the instinct to eliminate danger, he turned the muzzle and jumped lightly in the trench.
After clearing the remaining enemies in the trench, the Soviet soldiers quickly installed the Geggalev light machine gun. The coherent rattle immediately filled the entire trench with 16 years since the self-designation and production. The round bullet disc with simple structure and reliable performance, which can accommodate 47 rounds of bullets is its most eye-catching feature. The disadvantage is that it is large in mass, and the heat of the barrel during continuous shooting causes the re-induction spring under the barrel to be heated, which changes its performance, affecting the normal operation of the weapon.
After the breath was calmed down, Kantevic finally had the opportunity to take a good look at the battlefield. The east bank of the Halaha River was a very vast area in a broad sense. The Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces and the Japanese-Manchu army were mainly fighting for the wasteland south of Hailar, north of Alshan, and centered on Nomenkan. The battlefield width reached more than 200 kilometers, which was enough for hundreds of thousands of troops to fight here. After the first Halaha River Battle, the Japanese-Manchu army built a large number of field fortifications along the border line. This place with only coordinates and no names on the combat map was dug in the open area.
The prototype of the defense system, the defensive facility, can be traced back to the Russo-Japanese War more than 30 years ago, was upgraded and carried forward in the Balkan War and World War I. In the early days of World War II, the British teams that implemented local defense integrated trench defense and urban defense war. However, the German-Iraq coalition forces won the victory of the spear breaking through the strong shield with firm armored cluster tactics and infantry assault tactics. It was precisely because the senior commanders of the Soviet army saw this that they made up their minds and spared no effort to develop their own armored forces and mechanized infantry.
Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the Japanese army has entered one war after another to attack the strong with weak and won one brilliant victory after another. It can be said that it is an army born for war. The tenacity of Japanese officers and soldiers on the battlefield is almost unmatched. After the Soviet army broke into the front line, the Japanese army deployed in the second line trenches and reserve positions quickly launched a tactical counterattack. Seeing Japanese officers holding battle knives, soldiers holding bayonets and submachine guns, and the ground was pulled over. The Soviet soldiers in the trenches fired without hesitation with machine guns and rifles. The trained rifles were able to search and hunt enemy officers or submachine gunners on the chaotic battlefield. The light machine gunners kept firing at the dense areas of Japanese infantry with point or short shots, while the heavy machine gunners fired without hesitation.
When the gunshots were the most intense, submachine gunmen like Kantevic remained silent. After all, compared with rifles and machine guns, the effective range of this automatic weapon was much closer. Therefore, the submachine gunmen stood against the edge of the trench and stared at the Japanese soldiers who were yelling and rushing towards him with nervous eyes.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Soviet Russian army has not yet established a stable foothold to implement tactical counterattacks, it is indeed a good choice, but on this battlefield, the Japanese army cannot reverse the situation of distinct strength and weakness. Under the fierce and dense fire resistance of the Soviet army, the Japanese soldiers who were involved in the counterattack fell one by one, and in the end, few people were able to get close to the lost front-line position.
"Comrades, for the sake of the motherland and for the sake of victory, rush."
Under the guidance of this high-pitched voice, the Soviet soldiers rushed out of the trench and used their morale assault to defeat the enemy's counterattack. Hearing Captain Malafeyev's attack order, Kantevic decisively followed his companions to attack. While pushing forward, he kept repeating the shooting movements and pulling the trigger, loosen, slightly moved the muzzle, and pulled the trigger again. The dense bullets were like a big broom, easily cleaning up the "garbage" remaining on the battlefield.
"Colonel Murata! Colonel Murata! It's not good! The main position is completely lost, the second-tier position is broken, and the Russian chariot troops are about to attack here!"
In a field fortification located on the east bank of the Halaha River, more than 20 kilometers north of Alshan, a Japanese assistant in a yellow khaki uniform was reporting the situation on the front line to his superiors in panic. The colonel he mentioned was a solid beard with a big beard with a telescope hanging around his neck, frowning and worried eyes. Looking out along the shooting hole, smoke was filled with gunfire everywhere in the position, and there was a burst of gunfire that passed by his ears.
The colonel did not say retreating, nor did he say he would not retreat. The awkward atmosphere made people feel very depressed. At this moment, the phone rang, and a tall and thin sergeant picked up the microphone, "Hey, what is the command center of the 21st Regiment? General Idea? Hi! Colonel Murata, General Idea is going to call you!"
Hearing the words of General Idea, his beard teleported to the phone and grabbed the microphone from the sergeant: "General, I am Murata, Yes, the Russians' offensive is very fierce. They have invested at least two main divisions in my defense zone. The imperial officers and soldiers guarding the main position have basically been killed. The reserve position is still in our hands. General, please rest assured. We swear to guard the position to the death until the last person shoots!"
Hearing this last sentence, the officers in the command center had different expressions. After hanging up the phone, the colonel was silent for a moment, then pulled out his pistol from the gun holster and roared: "The imperial army only has heroic spirits who died in gloriously, and there are no cowards who escape from their lives! Everyone, it is time to be loyal to the Emperor! Take up your weapons and use your chest to block the Russian guns and cannons!"
War is a wonderful catalyst, without too much language, the officers picked up their guns and rushed out of the command center immediately after the colonel. Even the least determined wills bravely move forward in this kind of righteous atmosphere.
More than an hour later, the sound of gunfire on the second-line position of the 21st Regiment of the Japanese 5th Division had calmed down. The Soviet infantry holding bayonets began to clear the newly occupied positions, but unlike the brutal wars in the flintlock era, the surviving Japanese officers and soldiers could save their lives as long as they did not make obvious resistance. However, even so, some Japanese wounded soldiers still pulled out grenades with hopeless retreat.
After breaking through the defense line of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, the 3rd Mechanized Soviet Army, who served as the attack arrow, continued to advance in depth. In the empty fields, they easily removed the Japanese artillery positions deployed by the Japanese army in the rear, and some Japanese gunners were knocked down by the machine guns on the Soviet chariot before they even had time to resist.
After a rapid advance of more than 20 kilometers, the 6th Chariot Division, the powerful vanguard of the 3rd Mechanized Army of the Soviet Union, entered the Japanese reserve force assembly position on the shore of Ujur Lake with lightning speed. In addition to the 22nd Division and the 27th Division, the Japanese troops deployed here also had one of the most elite field aces of the Japanese army, who had ravaged the 16th Division of the US-British Allied Forces in South Asia and Australia. Under the sudden and violent impact of the Soviet armored cluster, tens of thousands of Japanese troops who were standing by as a reserve force were beaten to pieces.
In such a heavy battle, the C35 medium-sized combat vehicles and Ba10 heavy armored vehicles equipped by the Soviet army fully demonstrated their performance characteristics. The m7 four-wheeled off-road vehicles and n38 semi-track personnel carriers used to carry Soviet infantry to perform rapid assaults also played a very active role. The skillful mechanized coordinated tactics gave the Japanese infantry an almost cruel blow. The Imperial Warriors who jumped out of the trench with bundles of grenades and the temporary filling of various containers were often swept down by the Soviet infantry with submachine guns before they could advance two steps. When the Soviet tanks ran over the trench unstoppable, these Soviet infantry equipped with rifles and submachine guns cleaned up the remaining Japanese officers and soldiers on the position as fast as possible.
Chapter completed!