Chapter 162 Siberian Cold Stream (End)

After three days and three nights of artillery fire preparation, the Russian military positions were beyond recognition. The frontier minefields had been plowed back and forth by shells of various caliber, and were baptized by incendiary bombs, and had long disappeared. The peripheral trench system of the Russian military's defensive positions was flattened, the inner chest wall was shattered, and the inner fortifications of cement and masonry structures were riddled with holes.

The fire ignited by the white phosphorus inflammable bomb of the Chinese army burned the wooden structure, and the body ignited the ammunition to explode, and it made crackling sounds. The smoke of the gunpowder and the smoke of the white phosphorus inflamed fire, mixed with the smell of barbecue and the choking smell of the fabric burning. It scraped from north to south, causing the Chinese army to temporarily lower their bodies and hang up their masks. In such a cold weather, the steam exhaled from their mouths and noses easily turned the masks into frozen hard mass. But in the face of such a harsh battlefield situation, I really couldn't take much care of it.

The soldiers of the Chinese Army Imperial Guards wore thick snow glasses, which were fastened to their cheeks by rubber hoods. The sunglasses can weaken the reflection of the snow, prevent snow blindness, and block the smoke and wind and snow. The Chinese Army's special shooter held a US-made m1903 Springfield rifle sniper modified with a four-fold scope, fell secretly in the middle of the army, closely observing the movements in front from the rear.

The straggler line in front had entered the ruins of the former Russian army trenches and began to penetrate deeper inside without stopping.

At this time, the Russian army's hidden artillery group suddenly opened fire and began to cover and shoot violently at the calibrated area, that is, its outer positions.

The well-trained Chinese imperial guards quickly fell down and looked for hidden objects, but casualties were inevitable.

Cai E held the telescope behind and looked at it, with no expression on his face.

The Chinese military academy balloons and airships in the air began to guide long-range artillery groups to attack the emerging Russian artillery groups.

The 12-inch train cannon of the Chinese army raised its head and began to roar. The huge three-five millimeter armor-piercing bomb and high-explosion bomb poured deadly firepower onto the heads of the Russian army's artillery group. The attack airship on standby in the Chinese army immediately activated the engine and prepared to conduct accurate strikes from the air.

The Chinese Imperial Guards hid on the spot, enduring the baptism of the Russian artillery group's firepower. They waited until the group of artillery groups that had been hidden for a long time and were basically suppressed at the critical moment, and then they started their operations again. Soon, the forward attack spearhead was violently blocked by the remaining firepower points of the Russian army, mainly machine guns, 47mm rapid-fire cannons and mortars.

The Chinese army vanguard immediately concealed on the spot, and the accompanying light machine gun shooter lay down, found a simple concealment, set up a bipod and started shooting. The experienced imperial guards grenades set up grenades in ruins, low walls or craters, and shot forks in two or three rounds, and then fired. The 81mm mortar fired a smoke screen to block the Russian firepower point's sight. The heavy machine gun with a shield had been pushed up and began to shoot fiercely.

Under the cover of fierce firepower, the Chinese infantry blasting team formed three people, quickly approached the Russian firepower point from the oblique side, threw reinforced grenades inside, and used bamboo poles to extend the bound explosive bag below the firepower point, pulling the fuse, and seeing that it was almost the same, then quickly escaped and fell down.

With a loud bang, the Russian firepower flew around. The Chinese infantry with bayonets rushed up angrily, threw a round of grenades, and waited for the smoke to dissipate, leaving only broken limbs and broken arms inside.

In this way, the Chinese army's Xu Jin was in front of the barrage and the infantry followed behind. The speed of advance was not fast overall, mainly because the north wind was howling, the rolling smoke and the violently burning smoke deteriorated the observations on the battlefield, and also seriously affected the Chinese army's infantry's sight. Many times, they had to wait for the thick smoke to ease slightly.

The Russian army took advantage of the thick smoke and used their familiarity with the fortress terrain and used various hidden passages to transport troops here. Soon, the Chinese army began to face the counterattack of the Russian army. Using the broken and complex terrain, the Russian army launched a fearless attack from all directions of the Chinese infantry cluster, and was torn to pieces under the fierce firepower of the Chinese imperial guards. However, the bravery and complex terrain of these Russian soldiers also caused some casualties to the Chinese army. However, the Chinese imperial guards did not have any wavering or panic. The injured were calmly rescued themselves until the surrounding enemy troops were cleared, and the health soldiers were treated separately according to the severity of the injuries. The dead were placed in a hidden place and the personnel who cleared the battlefield were responsible for the subsequent fire. The seriously injured were sent to the field hospital for rescue by stretchers and sent to the field hospital for emergency treatment.

The Chinese Royal Guards make a living by fighting, with loyalty, honor and sacrifice as their creed. In this era, they received the highest salary and received the most complete guarantee. After they were discharged from the Imperial Guards' Military Resettlement Center would receive a generous monthly retirement fund according to their years of service, combat situation and military rank. They would also enter various industries of the Imperial Empire Royal Family after they were discharged from the army. They sympathized with each other, formed a big net anywhere, and were ready to accept the summons of the Imperial Emperor and join the battle again.

It is such the most professional and tenacious warriors who form precision war machines.

The Russian army had the most tight defense and equipped with the southern defense system with the most troops and firepower. Under the attack of the Chinese Imperial Guards with sufficient preparation and extremely efficient, the shell finally gradually collapsed and shattered, and began to expose the solid core inside.

Cai E has also led the command center forward and entered the Russian fortress area.

His troops were not seriously injured and were soon supplemented by reserves. The breakthrough of the Chinese army here not only mobilized firepower and troops from other directions of the Russian army, but also allowed the Chinese army's front-line command to see another hope. Lu Zhenming was at the moment of fire cooking oil and fame and fame. He fought a series of beautiful annihilation battles in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. He was full of confidence and immediately asked the Fourth Army of the Royal Guard on the southern line to invest subsequent troops.

In fact, they don’t need to mention it. Li Yuanhong, the commander who had just been promoted to wartime general, has asked the divisions to join the reserve team and transfer the 13th Division of the reserve team in the front.

At this time of the war, this Chinese army had already fought and had the ability to fight, which was quite confident that the German army was galloping across the Eastern European plains in the early stages of the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II. This was based on the achievements and strength.

Faced with the Russian internal defense system, the Chinese army did not advance rashly, but continued to use firepower to reconnaise the Russian firepower's firing boundary, investigate its weak links, and call for heavy firepower to further "weakened" operations. The Chinese army's telephone and soldiers have already pulled the telephone line to directly connect the regiment battalion command system in the front with the artillery command center in the rear to facilitate call.

In the attack direction of the Royal Guard, each division-level unit, in addition to its own artillery corps, has a "counter-way" artillery unit. In the direction of Cai E, he can dominate twelve one-to-five millimeter howitzers and have special artillery balloon shooting.

The Russian army's inner defense system is a permanent and semi-permanent fortress, and is also the real body of the Upper Ukinsk fortress, which is completely different from the elastic defense circles outside the outer layers. Although it has been bombarded by heavy artillery in the past few days, it still retains the basic defense system and situation.

The various artillery groups of the Chinese army also began to take turns to accumulate strength for the final general attack. The cannons need to be cooled down, ammunition needs to be replenished, and people also need to rest.

In the front, the Chinese army in all directions had basically arrived at the periphery of the Russian inner defense circle, and began fire reconnaissance, allocating troops, placing firepower, revising attack plans, infantry and artillery coordination, earthwork operations, resettlement command posts, observation centers, field hospitals, medical stations, ammunition, etc. in the rear must also be delivered.

The attack on the inner defense circle was prepared for three days and three nights.

During these two days and two nights, the Chinese artillery group and heavy floating troops once again violently baptized the Russian inner defense circle.

Unlike the outer defense circle, the inner defense circle of the Russian army has not only solid surface buildings, but also built a more solid and complex tunnel system underground. These complex tunnels closely connect the various forts, positions, and fortresses, making it easier for the Russian army to mobilize troops. Relying on the complex transport channels within the fortress, the planned firepower configuration, the decomposition of the firing boundary, and the coordinated command of artillery observation stations in various places, the Russian army can flexibly and efficiently respond to enemy attacks.

On the outside of the inner defensive position, there is a huge trench of five meters deep and thirty meters wide. On the inside of the trench, the Russian army built a fortification of one to two meters thick underground with the help of the terrain. There is also a three-meter-thick soil layer on the top. The entire fortress consists of a gate, officer's room, military ward, ammunition depot, telephone room, side trench, outer tunnel, trench protection trench, trapezoidal well, secret passage, artillery position, machine gun position, kitchen and bandage, castle, fortress backyard, wooden suspension bridge, scattered trench and other facilities. It is equipped with more than 50 rapid-fire cannons and mortars, more than 20 heavy machine guns, and there is a two-layer structure inside, with complex shooting ports, and there is a protrusion every 50 meters to form a side fire fire point. The bottom of the fortification is a troop transport tunnel.

According to the design, the Russian army's strong fortifications can defend against heavy artillery bombardment of two or three millimeters. Faced with such a solid defense, the Chinese army had to use naval armor-piercing bombardment. The three or five train guns and the two or three guns were concentrated, and a breakthrough was selected in each direction, concentrated bombardment, and airships were mobilized to bombard it from the air.

On the southern line, Cai E's troops had been replenished with troops and firepower, and were equipped with the combat engineers of the Imperial Guards, equipped with a large amount of blasting equipment. The division commander Huang Xing also used the 44th Regiment as his reserve team and was uniformly dispatched by Cai E.

Under repeated bombardment, several fortifications of the Russian army were destroyed in front of him. Cai E quickly adjusted his troops' firepower, and then started a general attack after supporting the extension of artillery fire.

Since the Russian fortress is mainly built underground and covered with thick soil, only a few places were damaged by bombardment by twelve-inch armor-piercing bombs, which can be supported overall.

According to the Russian army's idea, when the Chinese army was forced to descend below the trench, it would fall into the attack of the Russian crossfire, and there would be heavy casualties. The Chinese army behind could not see the situation below the trench in front, and would continue to rush forward, and then they would fall into the killing trap one by one.

Cai E only had a rough understanding of the structure of the Russian military's defensive positions and also speculated about its tactical intentions, but he could not determine how far his guess was and the actual situation was. However, he had always been cautious in using troops, so he did not drive away the troops and attacked fiercely, but took steps forward.

Facing the trench, the Chinese army did not enter rashly, but suppressed and attacked the Russian army's firepower above the trench, observed the situation, and re-allocated front-line firepower. Soon, the Chinese army's engineers began to gradually blast the outer wall of the trench and gradually exploded the gentle slope entry passage.

Several carefully maintained babies were also driven up, covering the 75-mm infantry artillery with shields to shoot, directly attacking the Russian firepower points and covering the commando.

The commandos of the Chinese Imperial Guards were mainly melee infantry and combat engineers. They all brought reinforced grenades and blasting equipment. They broke into the trench along the gentle slopes blasted by the engineers under the cover of giant smoke screens made by the Chinese mortars and infantry guns.

Although the Russian army's vision was affected, they still steadily launched their firepower, blocking the passage of the Chinese army with machine guns and rapid-fire cannons, causing heavy losses to the Chinese commando. Seeing that the strong attack was not good, Cai E was not discouraged and simply used fire attack. He concentrated the regiment's one-two heavy mortars, equipped the arson bombs, and mobilized a large number of gasoline barrels, and the soldiers rolled to the front, and then pushed them to the front of the Russian artillery base. After almost the same preparation, the Chinese army's heavy mortars fired a large number of white phosphorus bombs, and the Russian fortress was immediately shrouded in the terrifying flames. Taking advantage of the Russian army's panic, the Chinese army drove the tanker truck directly and directly used a canvas water dragon and water pump behind the back slope to directly fuel oil.

Soon, the flames rushed in along the Russian shooting hole, causing ammunition to explode. The Chinese army's flamethrowers also made their grand debut in this battle. Under the cover of soldiers holding steel shields, these strong guard soldiers carried fuel tanks and compressed air tanks and tubes, and started a fierce attack on the remnants of the Russian army.

In the end, the Russian defenders in the fortress were wiped out, and their bodies remained untold.

The Chinese army's attack did not stop, and they were constantly on the same day and night in three directions, relying on the absolute advantage of military firepower to attack one after another. The Russian fortress was like an onion, with its outer cloak being peeled off layer by layer and quickly thinned. The terrified Russian defenders kept asking for help from the command center, but the command center had no much reserve force and firepower.

This historic fortress, a base invading China that was reinforced many times under the guidance of French engineers, was recently boasted as a "turning point in the war" in the newspapers in St. Petersburg, and finally fell completely in the early morning of November 27.

early morning.

The fully armed Chinese soldiers, with a neatly pompous square, faced the core of the Wujinsik Fortress on the original, the City Defense Command.

The sun emerged from the east, and in the morning light, the sunlight regained its land inch by inch. The serious-looking soldiers of the Imperial Guards walked into the square with white gloves and holding a square red-bottomed golden dragon on the sun flag.

"salute"

All soldiers saluted.

Amid the majestic national anthem of "Ode to China", the national flag slowly raised to the flagpole, marking the first time that the Chinese Han-dominated force restored control of the Beihai (Lake Baikal) area since the abolition of the Beiting Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty.

The Battle of Shangwujinske ended.

In this battle, the Chinese army suffered 3,820 deaths, injured 8,350 deaths, and accumulated 5,800 non-combat personnel.

On the Russian side, 18,400 people were killed and missing, 36,800 were injured, and 46,500 were captured.

The day before the fall of Shangwujinske, Chita was captured by the Chinese army.

In Chita, the command system of the former Northeast Front Army, which had been in a strategic defensive situation, fought more unrestrainedly, and used heavy artillery and floating airships to destroy the main resistance of the Russian army in a completely unreasonable manner. During the day, the fierce firepower of the Chinese army and the brave infantry assault were repeated like a tide. At night, the flares illuminated the battlefield clearly, and the Chinese army suffocated and destroyed the Russian army's resistance with fierce firepower in an environment like daytime, and continued to shake and disintegrate the Russian army's defense with fierce assault.

Under such fierce attacks, the Russian army's superstition of severe cold, storm and fortress gradually collapsed. Geng Yifei, former chief of staff of the Northeast Front and current chief of staff of the East Xianbei Legian Front, proposed to promote surrender by fighting. The Chinese airship troops quickly began to carry out flyer bombing on the Russian army, and the Chinese army also began to shout on the front line, and the Russian army's troops gradually began to collapse.

Seeing that there was no hope of resistance, Lieutenant General Brushilov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian defenders, telegrammed Irkutsk to request surrender but was rejected. Irkutsk's telegram was very clear: stick to the last person.

Brushilov personally inspected the front line to boost morale, but was injured by heavy artillery in the Chinese army and fell into a coma. Major General Gores, the commander-in-chief of the southern front, immediately convened the officers to meet and decided to surrender. After contacting the Chinese army, the remnants of the Russian army laid down their weapons.

The news of the capture of Ujinske and Chita caused completely different responses in China and Russia.

In China, although "victory" has begun to experience some aesthetic fatigue recently, the severe cold of Siberia and the Russian fortress still make many people who care about military suspicion and fear. The previous victory is basically a defense in the local area, and annihilation of the enemy in the field. Even people who don’t know much about military affairs know that waiting for their own homes to work and making dumplings is different from fighting outside the country, which is not familiar with the place and having to come to the door to attack others’ fortifications with tight defenses.

In fact, there have been some voices within China recently, and it is recommended to "stop when it is better."

Japan has "submission" and North Korea has also recovered. The Russians were beaten to pieces and abandoned their armor. The general was captured. It seems that it is already a complete victory. Now it is in the severe winter, and it is difficult for the frontline materials to be transferred. It is really difficult for the soldiers to fight in the severe cold of minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. The country raises taxes, borrows, and the people tighten their belts to donate, and buy bonds. It is time to take a breath.

If you keep fighting, the string will collapse too tightly, and once something goes wrong, you will be extremely happy and sad. What country is Russia? It is a powerful country that has twice fought against the European hegemon and won in an unfavorable situation. Although China is prosperous, it is not necessary to fight to the death to the end?

Chapter 162 Siberian Cold Stream (End)
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