Chapter 644 of the New History of the First Sino-Japanese War: Night Battle
"MOST OF OUR WEAPONS USE INDIRECT FIRE TO ATTACK, WHETHER IT IS A 37MM RAPID-FIRE GUN, A MORTAR, OR EVEN A MACHINE GUN. The veterans were fed with ammunition, holding the armrests of the machine guns with both hands and moving slowly, and under the instructions of tracer bullets, you could see a long whip of bullets slowly moving to coincide with the Russian attack line. From my position, I could see bullets and shells weaving into a barrage of bullets and pressing down on the enemy. ―Ye Ming
The Russians seemed to be completely stunned by this sudden blow. In the panic, they did not know how to dodge, did not continue to move or retreat, like a group of frightened beasts, lying on the spot and unable to move, officially because of this delay hastened their demise. The projectiles and bullets flew over a distance of several hundred meters in less than 1 second and landed on their heads! With the help of searchlights and flares, bullets and volleys of cannonballs quickly harvest each other's lives! In less than 1 minute...... None of the Russians in the first wave were able to move, they were either killed on the spot, or they were seriously injured by the rain of bullets or shrapnel, crying helplessly and writhing, and the wails looked so miserable and desperate in the dark night! …。
The sudden blows and scattered flesh cast a psychological shadow over all Russians. Some of the third wave of Russian soldiers who were not hit at the first time finally couldn't help it, they dropped the explosives bag in their hands and then tried to run back to their positions with their hands and feet, but at this moment, being too tall by 1 inch means that you are a big step away from death, not to mention these Russian soldiers who are half-straight and ready to run back? Without the need for machine gunners to take care of them, snipers with carefully selected rifles and 25x scopes began to shoot leisurely at those who dared to ignore the laws of war.
From the scope, they could clearly see clouds of blood mist coming out of the frantically fleeing figures. The heavy clothing apparently affected their speed, and after a few minutes, there was no living creature over 1 meter tall on the scope, and they were either killed or lying on the ground praying for God's protection.
"Knock those searchlights off for me, fire all weapons—this is our last chance, this battle must be decided tonight!" Major Galev roared and ordered! This was his last chance, or rather, the last chance for the entire Russian sneak attack force, as a colonel-level officer, he knew that it was not only his own men and the troops besieging Station 1135 who were engaged in this battlefield, but also other units ......... around the battlefield.
The idea of the High Command was to encircle the point and send reinforcements. Constantly depleting the combat effectiveness of the Chinese logistics troops, attacking this armored train is only the beginning, if you can't even stop this armored train, then what kind of encirclement and reinforcement are there to talk about? The other side will soon be able to blossom in a center with the support of reinforcements! After this battle, even if the Russian army still has enough troops to infiltrate, it probably won't have the fighting spirit to face these steel monsters, right? So in today's battle, Galev must do his best, even at the risk of total annihilation, he must defeat the other side!
THE REMNANTS OF THE 47MM GUNS AND BM MORTARS BEGAN TO FIRE, AND THIS TIME THE RUSSIANS LEARNED WISELY BY CONSTRUCTING IMPROVISED BUNKERS FOR THE ARTILLERY, FIRST BY BUILDING A BREASTWORK WALL FROM THE UBIQUITOUS TIMBER AND THEN BY ANOTHER EARTHEN WALL ON THE OUTSIDE. SOME GUN EMPLACEMENTS ALSO HAVE A LID ATTACHED TO THEM, SO THAT UNLESS THEY ARE DIRECTLY HIT BY AN 84BM MORTAR, NEITHER A DIRECT HIT OF A 37MM RAPID-FIRE GUN NOR SHRAPNEL FROM A 60MM MORTAR CAN CAUSE FATAL DAMAGE TO THESE GUN EMPLACEMENTS. By order of the commander of the gun, all the guns were replaced with grenades and high-explosive shells, and their target was not the solid body of the train, but the searchlight above! …。
The searchlight was fragile, even with the addition of a cover, it was still not completely immune to shrapnel attacks, and soon three searchlights were destroyed in the dense rain of bullets, and in order to save the other searchlights, Ye Ming decisively ordered the lights to be turned off. In this way, the lighting on the entire battlefield can only rely on tracer and flares, well, if you count the natural light source, the moon is also one! Without sufficient light, the dark curtain covers the battlefield again, and the Russian attacks are active again! …。
In the faint light, Ye Ming could see more and more figures rushing out of the woods, and then rushing towards Youlong No. 1 under the cover of machine guns and artillery. A large number of Russian soldiers began to rush out of their positions, and they either pulled their mortars forward...... Or unfold the pig protrusion with a bag of explosives. The dense firepower gradually became unable to stop the large number of enemies, and unless you can see the battlefield clearly, it is really difficult to resist the opponent's attack by relying on bullets alone!
Seeing that the armored train that was still spewing tongues of fire just now was gradually suppressed by their own firepower, the Russians' attack became more and more fierce, and it was not possible to see a figure running away, and then some of them were knocked down by bullets, others were hidden, and then found an opportunity to continue the charge. And the Russian artillery bombardment has also entered the peak state, all the artillery has been put into the battle, the 47MM gun is constantly spitting fire, every time a shell is just fired, the Russian soldier wearing thick gloves can't wait to open the chamber, and then a yellow-orange eggshell is ejected, and then a heavy shell is sent in. Then the cannon rope was pulled, and another shell flew towards the ......... of the Dragon.
From time to time, the Dragon was hit. The shells exploded on the carriage, and then shrapnel flew everywhere, and many shrapnel flew into the narrow firing hole, knocking the officers and men of the Chinese Army who were fighting to the ground. PERHAPS THE RUSSIANS FELT THAT THEY WERE ONLY ONE BREATH AWAY FROM BREAKING THROUGH THIS FORTRESS, SO GALEV NO LONGER HID IT PRIVATELY, AND 4 PRECIOUS 84BM MEDIUM MORTARS ALSO JOINED THE BATTLE, AND THE SILENT SHELLING CONTINUED TO COME FROM THE WOODS, AND A HEAVY SHELL FELL NEAR THE HULL OF THE YOULONG 1, AND EVEN A SHELL DIRECTLY SMASHED ON THE TURRET OF THE 37MM RAPID-FIRE GUN, AND THE HUGE SHOCK DIRECTLY SHATTERED THE GUN CARRIAGE OF THIS GUN, AND THEN SCATTERED FRAGMENTS INJURED THE GUNNER, AND A GUN WAS SO DUMB!
"It's finally here!" YE MING STOOD UP AND STOOD IN THE CONSTANTLY FIGHTING CARRIAGE, PICKED UP THE MICROPHONE AND SHOUTED: "THE 120MM HEAVY MORTAR GROUP IS READY TO SHOOT, TARGETING THE ENEMY ARTILLERY POSITION. Repeating, the MM heavy mortar group was ready to fire, targeting enemy artillery positions. Ye Ming was a little excited when he said this. He waited for a long time, waiting for the opponent's most threatening weapon to reveal himself from the beginning of the war! Only after these mortars are destroyed can the Youlong No. 1 armored train and him be truly safe.
In fact, the armored train is not so invincible, how to say it, the biggest feature of this kind of thing is that even if it bullies the weak NB, it is absolutely soft enough to choke when it encounters hard bones. If the other party can have a BM38L cannon, and with armor-piercing shells, it can destroy this expensive armored train in one piece! But alas, the Russian cavalry simply could not carry the French 15 rapid-fire guns weighing more than 75 tons. Not even to mention the M guns, even the 59BM guns can't be carried, because they are fighting behind enemy lines, mobility is put in the first place, although it can be used to tow the cannon with horses, but on the rough road, its speed will still be reduced to a level that can be easily caught up by the opposing cavalry If it is overtaken, the Russians who lack supplies will either fight hard or abandon the artillery, so the Russians will at most bring the 84BM mortar as the most powerful offensive weapon, And this has become the only long-range weapon they can use to threaten the Dragon One! …………。
To a certain extent, the 120MM heavy mortar vehicle is designed to completely suppress the opponent's BM mortar, which is enough to resist the opponent's attack defensively, and is better than the opponent in terms of bullet rate of fire and accuracy, at this moment Ye Ming finally decided to take out his most terrible killer weapon and completely break the backbone of the Russians!
The two tightly guarded upper covers of the carriage were slowly opened, and the two thick barrels slowly extended out of the firing window at the top of the carriage, and then under the operation of up to 9 gunners, a high-explosive grenade weighing 20MKG was sent to the gun chamber, and then the gun was locked. According to the command of the artillery commander, the artillery slowly aimed at the Russian artillery position that was constantly spitting out bullets in the distance! "Boom!" A long roar resounded across the battlefield, and the neighing of machine guns and the muffled sound of artillery were overwhelmed by this dull sound at this moment. People looked up at the sky, wondering what kind of presence had descended on this battlefield
In less than 3 seconds, a loud noise came from the Russian rear artillery position, and then a dazzling orange fireball rose from the bunker, and a huge crater appeared on the ground, and just now this was still a position of an 82BM mortar group, and a shell completely wiped out this artillery group that was still showing off half a minute ago, and all this was just the beginning, one after another shells were fired from the Youlong No. 1, and a dense rain of bullets fell from the sky...... The sound of explosions sounded in the woods one after another, accompanied by columns of smoke and jumping pieces of wood and parts, and the few artillery pieces of the Russians were finally wiped out, and many Russian gunners were killed by shrapnel and raging flames just after completing the turn around and running out of NO meters away, and the Russian artillery baptized by the 120|M heavy mortars and 84BM mortars became the unit with the highest casualty rate in the entire army, and the final result was that 70% of the officers and soldiers of the artillery unit were killed on the battlefield! …。
When the biggest threat was cleared, the searchlight on the Dragon 1 turned on again, and the dazzling pillar of light once again swept across the battlefield! At the same time, countless flares and tracer bullets flew into the sky, and the whole battlefield became bright again, and this time the Russian soldiers exposed to the light were not scattered groups of soldiers as they had been at the beginning. Hundreds of Russian soldiers were struggling to advance, some in a daze, some trying to run the last 200 meters, others preparing to retreat or find shelter as the beams of light shone on their faces. But all of this was rendered meaningless by the operation of the weapon system of the Dragon One.
At the moment when the light reappeared, Youlong No. 1 erupted with his powerful combat power like a truly angry dragon! Numerous machine guns, rapid-fire guns, and mortars fired wildly at the exposed crowd. The dense rain of bullets formed several dazzling rings of fire spread out in all directions, and all the Russian soldiers who were touched by the ring of fire were directly divided by several bullets, no matter what posture the Russians faced the enemy, their fate was the same, and the rapid and fierce shooting turned the 500-meter range of the front of the Dragon No. 1 into a dead place! Only the dead and dying are left on the battlefield! …。
At this time, Major Galev, who had reached the end of his rope, was like a gambler who had lost all his capital, throwing the last coin on the table, and when he found that the winner was still not him, the gambler did not choose to leave, but angrily pressed everything on himself.
wants to demand the last chance to turn the book, if you talk about gambling, luck can help him at the last moment, but on the battlefield, in the face of absolute strength, the so-called luck does not exist at all!
Major Galev picked up a flare gun with his own hand, and a red flare rose into the sky, and the Russian troops, who had made a detour to the other side, also attacked. Flank the remaining Russian forces on the Dragon One! But even so? The Russian units, which had lost almost all of their long-range fire support, had already lost too much blood in several charges. Even though there was a new attack surface, but in the face of the ferocious firepower of Youlong No. 1 and the hundreds of Chinese soldiers on it, the final attack of the Russians was like waves lined up on the reef, and the moment the two sides fought, they were torn to pieces by the ferocious firepower!
In the face of the battlefield that has been covered with blood and corpses, in the face of the rain of bullets that covered the whole field like a rain, no matter how tenacious the fighters can not continue to fight, when the terror reaches a certain level, it has surpassed the prophet of reason, honor and sense of mission, and some people in the Russian ** team began to break out, at first it was one or two people, and then they were killed by the Russian ** officer who was supervising the battle behind, but the large-scale rout that soon occurred completely drowned several guys who were yelling with pistols! And the MM heavy mortar on the Youlong No. 1 also began to extend its firepower! Closely follow the pace of the rout, and shoot a cannonball! …。
"Lost, completely lost." Looking at the scene of defeat in front of him, Galev leaned weakly against a tree. He knew that he had completely failed, and even said that all the Russian troops who had desperately infiltrated this time had failed, and he couldn't stop the attack of an armored train of the opponent with all his might, let alone stop other troops. The rest is already very simple, gather the remnants and quickly withdraw from the area controlled by the Huaxia Army and return to their camp. There are not many Chinese cavalry, and a lot of soldiers and supplies are consumed, so there are a few war horses for a person, and it is not a big problem to run away, right? Galev began to figure out a way out.
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