“…… Take off your white hat and present a basket of bright flowers. Gently, gently walk to your grave. In the most sincere words, I pour out my deepest and deepest thoughts. The plum blossoms in Nanjing are in full bloom, and I thank you again. You have also been sleeping at the foot of Zhongshan for a year, and another year. Tomorrow, when the morning glow begins, I will embark on a new journey to liberate the working people of the Americas. And you, but you are buried in the ancient East, the cemetery of GC China......"

On this night, when the night was as thick as a painting, Chernenko, who was leading the troops in the trenches to be on guard, Chernenko, the instructor of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 461st Regiment of the 154th Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, once again whispered his favorite long poem "Dedicated to the Warriors of the World Revolution".

Born in 1911 in the Siberian region of Russia, Konstantin was a child laborer as a teenager. Ustinovich. Chernenko was the most typical Soviet youth. Born in poverty, the revolution brought earth-shaking changes to his life, and he grew up listening to the legendary stories of the martyrs of the revolutionary predecessors since he was a teenager. In school, the teacher constantly instilled in them the lofty ideal of the liberation of all mankind, and this lyric poem about a revolutionary soldier who participated in the world revolution Lenin and Trotsky after the war to the grave of his comrades-in-arms in front of the flower shop has accompanied their generation through their entire adolescence.

They were raised according to the standards of world revolutionary fighters, and when they heard the order of the People's Commissariat of Labor and Defense of the USSR to declare war from the loudspeakers in the streets and alleys, almost all the Soviet youth excitedly shouted Ulla...... It was such an unforgettable night where Chernenko and his friends gathered. They talked about their ideals of life all night long, they were born for the world revolution, and the value of their lives can only be reflected on the battlefield of blood and fire!

Joined the Soviet GCD before the war. Chernenko, who had served as the head of the Propaganda Department of the Komsomol District Committee, was not immediately sent to the battlefield after joining the Red Army, but attended a six-month training course for political officers before being sent to the rebuilt 154th Division as a company instructor. As for the previous record of the annihilation of the 154th Division of the Red Army, he, like the rest of the more than 100 officers and men of the company, knew nothing.

At the same time that Chernenko was whispering poetry, more than a hundred of his warriors were scattered throughout the trenches, enduring the most weary sleepiness of this near-dawn period. Hold yourself Mosin. Nagant rifles or Tokarev submachine guns and Type 1932 anti-tank grenade launchers, listlessly looking outside the anti-tank trench not far away, many people were still drowsy. There was only silence anyway. Looks like I'll be able to spend the night safely again. Since tanks and planes began to become the protagonists on the battlefield, the night attack seems to have become a thing of the past, and the current attack usually starts at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, which is a routine of artillery plus air attack and tank assault. It is as if the world revolution began to the present. No one had attacked in the middle of the night. So what really worth looking forward to is after dawn. The heavy shelling for several days shows that the offensive of the squadron will soon begin. Perhaps as soon as the day dawns, the tank clusters of imperialist China will rumble, and then the fate of the world revolution will fall on the shoulders of these Soviet youth. It's exciting to think about this kind of thing!

At this moment, a vague figure that suddenly appeared from the anti-tank trench not far away finally caught the attention of several Soviet sentries, and their eyes widened. I craned my neck to probe carefully, and vaguely saw something squirming on the ground! And there are more than one or two. It's a large piece of unidentified object that slowly squirms! The distance they left the trench was no more than a hundred meters at most! I don't know who suddenly fired a flare, and then everyone saw a shocking scene, thousands of Chinese soldiers in camouflage uniforms had sneakily moved under their noses!

I don't know who was the first to react, and I started yelling at the top of my voice: "Sneak attack!" The Chinese are coming up! Then there was a crackling of gunfire, and all the Red Army soldiers in the trenches jumped up and opened fire, and a few hidden heavy machine guns on duty also spat out long fire houses, desperately blocking the way of the other side's advance. Chernenko and the commander of the company reacted immediately, the former drew his pistol and began to supervise the battle, while the latter began to deploy defense with a shout. The Soviet soldiers, who were awakened by the sound of gunfire, also began to pour out of the anti-artillery holes. But at this moment, the squadron returned fire, 80mm and 120mm mortars were erected in the anti-tank trenches, and 75mm recoilless guns were erected opposite the anti-tank trenches.

The sound of mortar and recoilless shells exploding shook the ground and shook the sparks. One after another, anti-tank fire points disguised as mounds were blown apart by 75mm recoilless gun hits, and 80mm/120mm mortar shells rained down on Soviet trenches, killing Soviet soldiers who had just poured out of the anti-artillery holes. The Type 31 automatic rifle weaved a net of fire at the front of the Soviet position, so that they did not dare to show their heads. The sound of gunfire, artillery, explosions, and the dying roars of Soviet officers and soldiers rang out. The Chinese combat sappers were not idle, they used explosives to blow up the side walls of the anti-tank trenches cut at a 70-degree angle, creating gentle slopes, and at the same time used detonating cords and sapper mortars to open several safe passages in front of the Soviet positions.

In the midst of shouts of killing, thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers opened fire with their own rifles of Type 31 with triangular steel thorns, and at the same time poured into the Soviet trenches, and the two sides almost immediately began a close combat. Although the strong Soviet officers and soldiers have a lot of advantages in hand-to-hand combat, the Chinese army's automatic rifles can fire non-stop, and no matter how good the stabbing combat is, it is not the opponent of automatic rifle shooting, not to mention that the Chinese army also has an overwhelming numerical advantage! The assault troops of the three regiments broke into the Soviet trenches almost simultaneously, and the Soviet troops did not resist for long before they were defeated and retreated, followed by the development of the two flanks, and the entire Soviet forward position was suddenly a mess. This night raid really achieved the greatest suddenness. The battle kicked off in an unexpected way with the Soviet command!

At the same time as the guns of the Soviet front on the opposite side rang out, the artillery located in the rear of the Chinese army also began to fire, and the flash of artillery fire fell and the eastern sky lit up! First, divisional artillery was deployed close to the front line. Then the chorus was joined by heavy artillery groups directly under the corps and army groups. There was another boundless roar on the battlefield. The shells accurately covered the second-line positions of the Soviet troops and the passage where they moved forward to reinforce, and suddenly a high wall of scorching artillery fire was created! Wu Qiwei, commander of the 18th Army, personally waited in the command post close to the front line at this time, and when he saw that the frontline raid was successful, he immediately issued an order for the follow-up troops to follow up. Three more regiments of officers and men with all their weapons and equipment rushed out of the trenches and rushed towards the front for reinforcements, and they were to quickly enter the trenches they had just taken, and meet the enemy's counterattack with the first assault troops, if possible. And quickly move forward to occupy more positions!

According to the pre-war plan, the main target of tonight's raid was an anti-tank stronghold located 200 meters behind the first line of Soviet trenches. This stronghold was directly in front of Yu Chengwan's wèizhì, and the movement just now had awakened the Soviet officers and soldiers guarding there. This reinforced concrete fortress is now spewing tongues of fire!

Chernenko and a dozen of his own subordinates had now retreated to the fortress, and the young GCD man was flushed with shame, and he was blaming himself for his weakness over and over again: "A glorious GCD man. A Soviet man who grew up under the sunshine and rain of the party. How can you retreat in front of the enemy's guns, abandon your position and run away! This is simply a crime against the Soviet Fatherland! ”

"They're coming up! All who can still fight take up your weapons...... Comrade Chernenko, what are you still in a daze! Hurry up and take your men to the cover positions outside the fortress! Chernenko's boss, regimental commissar Petrov, was hurriedly arranging defenses, and when he saw that the company instructor, who had just lost his position, was bowing his head and saying nothing with shame on his face, he was angry and amused in his heart. quickly assigned him a task and sent him to the front line to be cannon fodder, but he never dreamed of it. This order saved Chernenko's life.

Because this is not Poland, the Central Asian Front will not be as adequately supplied as the Polish Front. Of course, there is not enough reinforced concrete. This so-called reinforced concrete fortress is far from being as strong as it seems, the cement slab is too thin, the façade is less than 250 mm, and there is not much reinforcement to reinforce it. According to the original plan, such an anti-tank stronghold was supposed to use 76.2mm anti-tank guns at a distance of at least 1,000 meters to fire Chinese tanks. It is not a target for a 75mm recoilless gun at a distance of 200 meters, this recoilless gun is a copycat of the German LG32 75mm recoilless gun, and the use of armor-piercing shells at a distance of 200 meters is enough to break through a 95mm homogeneous steel plate, which is converted into a concrete slab of about 250mm!

Of course, that refers to concrete slabs poured from German cement and steel bars according to German standards, and only God knows what would have happened if they were replaced with concrete slabs from the Soviets.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Just when Petrov arranged for his men to push a 76.2mm anti-tank gun into the gun position, ready to teach the Chinese tank a hard lesson (he thought the Chinese tank was about to charge). Several earth-shattering loud noises came from his side, and the hot air waves carried all kinds of debris rampant in this anti-tank fortress, and the smell of gunpowder smoke was so strong that people couldn't breathe. Petrov also shook the ground with a huge wave of air, and before he could figure out what was going on, explosions rang out one after another, followed by earth-shattering shouts......

Yu Chengwan, the commander of the 155th Regiment, stood in the Soviet trench that had just been captured, holding a microphone and excitedly reporting the latest results to his superiors: "Our regiment has captured the predetermined target!" The first line of defense of the Soviet army has been broken through by our regiment, and the anti-tank stronghold of the Soviet army has been seized by our regiment, and our 155th regiment has killed a total of 885 Soviet officers and men, captured 361 prisoners, captured 4 76.2mm anti-tank guns, and destroyed 8 76.2mm anti-tank guns......"

At the same time, at the headquarters of the Soviet Army Group East Turkestan in Ayaguz, a trace of iron blue slipped over Khapaev's face. What annoyed him was not the news of the defeat at the front, but the fact that the enemy did not dispatch armored clusters, and the defense line of the 39th Army was actually torn open a hole nearly 15 kilometers wide!

"Comrade Commander, report of the 39th Army. The enemy threw in about 3 infantry divisions, taking advantage of the darkness to sneak up on their forward positions and launch a surprise attack without artillery preparation. Hit them off guard! In addition, the enemy used a new anti-tank grenade launcher (the Soviets mistook the 75mm recoilless gun for an anti-tank grenade launcher) with a range of more than 200 meters! Several of their anti-tank strongholds were taken out by this new anti-tank grenade launcher. ”

"Anti-tank grenade launchers with a range of more than 200 meters!" As soon as Khapaev heard the news, his face turned cloudy. Unlike at the beginning of the war, the current Soviet tank cluster is almost overwhelmed by the sea of Chinese and German tanks! The Stalker completely overwhelmed the T28 and T26 both in quality and quantity. So the current Soviet Union urgently needs low-cost infantry anti-tank weapons (it is clear that Chang Ruiqing made a strict mistake in getting the iron fist out), and the Chinese "iron fist" seems to have been developed and designed to meet this need of the Soviet Union! If there is now an "iron fist" with a range of up to 200 meters, it will definitely be great news for the Soviet army, which is at a disadvantage in armored combat power!

"Has this new 'Iron Fist' been captured?"

"It doesn't seem to be. The 39th Army was attacked by surprise and was ......"

Khapaev waved his hand and interrupted the report of the chief of staff: "Let them launch a counterattack." Retake the lost positions for me, and get a few new 'Iron Fists' in good condition and send them to Ayaguz. ”

"Comrade Commander, do you want to send reinforcements to the 39th Army?" The chief of staff asked in a whisper.

Khapayev snorted coldly: "Did the enemy use armored clusters?" ”

"I don't think so."

"That's not the main attack, it's mostly a feint. The aim is to attract our reinforcements. Create zào conditions for the assault of their armored clusters! Khapaev shook his head. He was too impressed by the armored assault of the squadron, in the Battle of the Alelesa River last year, his 500,000 troops were cut into two by the 8 armored raids of the 2nd Chinese Armored Cavalry Army, and finally lost the strength of 3 group armies! Had it not been for Trotsky, who thought that his command in the Battle of the Aloresa River had not made a big mistake, he would have been disgraced and dismissed by now, and perhaps still awaiting interrogation in Lubyanka 2!

His chief of staff also nodded, and the Chinese had at least one armored army in the Northern Xinjiang Army Group, which was the main attacking force of the Northern Xinjiang Army Group. Now the Chinese armored forces have not appeared, indicating that the main offensive of the Chinese has not yet begun. It was indeed too early to send out reserves.

In fact, the new commander of the Soviet 39th Army, Apanashchenko, did not think that the Chinese were now launching any main attack on the positions of the 39th Army. After hearing that the position defended by the 154th Division had been captured by the Chinese infantry, this hot-tempered Soviet general was immediately furious and dismissed the commander of the 154th Division, and without waiting for Khapayev to give the order to counterattack, he had already cobbled together three regiments of infantry to launch the first wave of counterattack!

The Soviet counterattack began with artillery bombardment, and the artillery group assigned to the 39th Army had hundreds of 152mm and 122mm howitzers and 76.2mm field guns. This huge artillery group had already launched a round of artillery battle with the Chinese artillery group in the battle just now, but it did not fall behind in the slightest, and such a record made Apanashchenko believe that the defeat of the 154th Division was completely caused by the dereliction of duty and carelessness of the front commanders!

And this time, the counterattack of the Soviet artillery group was even more ferocious! The entire night sky was turned into daylight, and the six Chinese infantry regiments that had just attacked the Soviet position were suddenly covered by overwhelming Soviet artillery fire, even though most of them had already taken refuge in the anti-artillery holes where the Soviet officers and soldiers were hiding, but there were still many soldiers and officers' lives constantly engulfed by artillery fire!

Lieutenant General Wu Qiwei, commander of the 18th Army, stood in the shelter set up on a small hill, holding a telescope and staring at the fires on the front line. The shelter was filled with ringing telephones and shouting of staff officers.

"What? The forward movement of troops was blocked by Soviet artillery fire and wanted to mobilize armored personnel carriers to transport reinforcements? Okay, I'll ask for instructions right away. ”

"The trenches were covered by Soviet artillery fire, and communication with the 155th regiment was cut off? Why didn't you send a communications corps to check the line? Already sent? Alright, I'll report back to the military seat. ”

Wu Qiwei put down the binoculars, strode up to the staff officers of the military headquarters who were on the phone, and said loudly with a gloomy face: "Immediately send a telegram to Commander Jiang of the group army, and tell him that the counterattack of the Soviet army has been launched, and that the second phase of the offensive will be postponed for the time being, and the defensive operation will be used to fully consume the enemy army first."

Then call the commander-in-chief of the artillery group, He, and tell him that whether the more than 10,000 brothers in front of our 18th Army are dead or alive depends on whether the artillery support is effective! Please, he will suppress the Soviet artillery group no matter what! It is also necessary to block the offensive channels of the Soviet army with artillery fire, and the blood of the Soviets must be drained in this counterattack! ”