Chapter 109: The Ring of Steel
(The first update of the five watches)
What if your ground forces are blocked in the city and can't move forward? There was nothing more effective for the Soviet army than an aerial bomb-covered air raid, or a carpet bombardment of rocket artillery, and if a city stopped the advance of the Great Soviets, let it be reduced to a flat ruin!
Yanayev learned the lessons of Mogadishu and the first Chechen war, with the Steel Hail BM21 rocket launcher and the Hurricane 220mm rocket launcher deployed, and the Soviet Rapid Reaction Force's ring of encirclement pulling the Chechen rebels further into the city center, hiding in the high-rise buildings to resist stubbornly.
Walking on the masonry and ruins, the Soviet armored forces marched all the way, and after a rapid march, finally reached their destination, Naurskaya and Gudermes, the Soviet commissar sitting on the BMP tank jumped from the roof of the car, raised his eyes and looked out, the city buildings in the distance were emitting black smoke, the sound of fierce artillery was constantly heard, and the Hind helicopter constantly flew overhead, flying to the white-hot war zone to carry out air raid missions.
"Soldiers, ahead is Naurskaya, the first city that our great army will conquer." The commissar, with his rifle on his back and his boots on the rubble, said to the soldiers behind him, "The barrage of hurricanes will tear apart the cities ahead, fear and defeat will break the will of our enemies to resist, soldiers, use your bullets, your bayonets, your hands, to do the same to their filthy deeds of mutilating their compatriots in the Motherland!" ”
Before the pre-war mobilization, but the photographs of the bodies of the Russians hanging in Chechnya were distributed to every soldier who was going to the front line, Yanayev wanted them to figure it out. These are terrorists who slaughter their fellow citizens. Genocidaires without humanity. It is most ridiculous to show sympathy for the enemies of the Soviets.
Hurricanes and hailstorms are already in the firing position, waiting for the command from the top brass to completely flatten the city with more than 2,000 rockets, killing most of the militants hiding inside, and then move into the core of the city to wipe out the remaining armed forces.
As for the condemnation of the West? Yanayev said that who would dare to try in front of the Soviet troops? We have the trump card of red mercury in our hands! I don't believe you dare to sanction us. When embattled is better than fighting against the water, the Soviet giant bear with internal and external troubles is completely torn at this time, who dares to stop us. We dare to level the whole world!
The Chechens hiding in the buildings were dejected, they felt that it was impossible to organize the Soviet troops to continue to advance, the snipers of the Soviet army lurking everywhere could always easily eliminate their firepower points, when their own snipers were ready to return fire, they were greeted by the opposing tanks and rocket launchers, when the Chechnya was still trying to get close to the Soviet troops, they were able to set up firepower points and carry out cross-fire strikes on the Chechen armed forces without hurrying.
The Soviet army made full use of the golden three principles of street fighting of RPGs, PKM general-purpose machine guns and Dragunov sniper rifles, coupled with on-call air fire support, and the Chechen rebels, who had the advantage, fled like rats crossing the streets.
"Oh my God. We are going to lose, it is simply impossible to defeat the Soviet army. They are demons. An armed man sat in the corner talking to himself, and next to him was a Mosin Nagant rifle with half of the PU scope blown to pieces.
His ears were filled with hallucinations of explosions and artillery fire, and he and his comrades had tried to sneak up on the Soviet tank unit, but before they could reach the predetermined position, they were crushed in the head by the opposing snipers.
The people around him may have been affected by his emotions, but there was silence, and no one else spoke out except for the pain of the wounded**. It was only two short days since the Chechens vowed to bury the Soviet troops here and now they are thinking about how to escape for their lives. As for the military promised by Grozny before, they did not even see a shadow.
"Get up, and look at what you shitty people look like. Hurry up for me, the Soviet army is already attacking! As soon as the angry commander returned from the front, he saw the depressed appearance of a group of people, and suddenly a nameless fire burst out. He was already annoyed by the Soviet army's step-by-step pressing, and now his low morale made him even more angry. However, he assured Dudayev that he would hold the city and not take a step back, and only two days after the battle, the formed troops had already collapsed. With each step forward, the Soviet army threw down dozens of corpses of militants.
He grabbed one of them by the collar and angrily rebuked, "You bunch of waste, this is how you fight for the independence of Chechnya? ”
No one answered, the atmosphere was terrible, and finally a sniper with a wounded arm said slowly, "But sir, now we have no chance of winning, the Soviet army has completely suppressed our attack or sneak attack, our sniper team has been annihilated by the opponent's artillery fire, except for the seriously wounded people lying on the ground, there are no snipers who can sneak attack." ”
The thought of the 125mm smoothbore guns of the T80 tank scared them, and a single bullet had just knocked out a Soviet soldier, and before they could move their positions, there was an overwhelming artillery attack. The Soviets leveled the building where the snipers might have been hiding and left it in ruins. He was the only one who escaped with his life, his teammates were buried under the rubble, and the sniper was wounded in the arm and could no longer pick up a weapon.
"Let's retreat, Commander." "The Soviets were more proficient in street fighting, and although we broke up into pieces for surprise attacks, their ubiquitous snipers always found us, and we were shot by their snipers before they could get close to the Soviet tanks." ”
The rebels, who originally wanted to fight for the independence of Chechnya, cowered and feared death in the face of powerful opponents.
"Waste, it's all a bunch of waste." Hearing the complaints of his subordinates, the commander was even more furious, he pulled down the wrapped turban, stomped on the ground, took out a Magnum revolver directly from the holster at his waist, and shot the complaining soldier directly in the head.
The muzzle of the gun was still smoking, the sound of gunfire echoed in the empty room, the dead soldiers were hanging on the ground, no one dared to say a word more, he looked around at the wounded soldiers who were silent, and said in a cold voice, "If you can still go, let me go to the front line, if you dare to shake the hearts of the army, don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless." Guards, you have shown me that those who are only slightly injured and refuse to go to the front line will be shot on the spot. ”
Then there was a sound of bolts pulling, and the wounded soldiers shrank their necks, they did not dare to resist the commander, so they had to get up and go to the front, everyone knew that once they left this time, they were afraid that they would never come back.
The militants crawled out of their hiding bunkers, faced with a city in ruins, a devastated world, and they had been arrogant until they thought that the Soviet army could not even handle the Afghan guerrillas, and now they tried to crush everything for the first time with the steel army.
On the battlefield a kilometer away, the defeated soldiers are shooting while retreating, and the powerful war machine is undoubtedly stepping on the prisoners who are still on the ground, and this armored unit faithfully carries out the combat orders issued by the Moscow leadership.
There is no Geneva agreement, not a single prisoner is left.
What they do to our people and our army, we do the same against them, tooth for tooth and blood for blood.
Soviet helicopter gunships swirled high in the air, and in addition to constantly strafing the remaining remaining firepower strongholds, they also played the surrender of Soviet troops on a loudspeaker, and played it over and over the shattered Naurskaya, and the content was terrifying.
"Chechen rebels!"
"The Ring of Steel has surrounded your fallen city!"
"We will crush all those who dare to resist the will of the Soviet army!"
"Give up resistance!"
"Abandon your homeland!"
"Give up hope!" (To be continued.) )