The Soviet offensive was repulsed, and on a two-hundred-kilometer front in the middle of the Urals, the Soviets completely retreated to their positions. However, this attack of theirs left a dense mass of corpses on the banks of the Ural River and on the ice of the river.www.biquge.info There is also a large number of wreckage of burning tanks.

After this Soviet attack was repulsed, they paid an extremely heavy price. So much so that after Timoshenko got the battle damage report, his whole face became very ugly.

In this round of attack, the Soviets lost more than 100,000 casualties. The number of seriously injured and lightly injured is even more numerous. Of course, many of the seriously wounded were abandoned on the battlefield, and no one cared about them. Even the Soviets themselves didn't care about these casualties, and the Imperial Army naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to help them.

The armored forces of the Soviet army also suffered heavy losses. In this attack, they threw more than 2,000 tanks into the attack. But there were only a thousand Soviet tanks that retreated to the starting position. Moreover, the vast majority of them are fast T-26 light tanks and BT-7 fast tanks. As for the KV-1 heavy tank, because it was too bulky and at the same time inflexible, the Nene was not able to evade the pursuit of the Imperial Air Force and armored forces and was destroyed.

A single attack cost the Soviets hundreds of thousands of troops and half of their tanks. This was undoubtedly a heavy loss for the entire Lower Ural Front. What's more, morale has been affected too much, which will make the next offensive of the Soviet army full of greater difficulties.

"Bastard! Won't our two million men be able to break through the line of less than 200,000 Chinese* troops? "Timoshengo was very aggrieved. They were more than ten times larger than the 3rd Army of the Imperial Army, and ten times as many tanks. However, in front of the defense line of the Imperial Army, the head was still broken and bleeding, and the losses were heavy. Such a result is undoubtedly difficult to accept.

Of course, if the effect can be seen after paying a heavy loss, this may be acceptable to Timoshenko. However, now the losses were so large, but they had no effect, except for the consumption of a large amount of ammunition of the Imperial Army, so how did Timoshenko explain to Stalin, who was far away in Moscow? If you are not able to break through the defense line of the Imperial Army, and if you are not able to defeat the Imperial Army, the consequences will be very serious. Timoshenko didn't want to be court-martialed or shot.

"Order the front-line units to launch another attack in half an hour. Even if it is filled with human lives, it is necessary to break through the defense line of the Chinese. Let the gendarmes form a patrol team, set up machine guns, and absolutely not allow them to retreat without an order. Temoshenko commanded with a dark face.

Although he knew that such an order was very cold-blooded and ruthless, he had no other way to break through the defense line of the Imperial Army. Rather than let Stalin come to him for trouble, it is better to fight with the lives of these ordinary soldiers. If it succeeds, there may be a glimmer of life. Of course, if it fails, then there is no way.

Half an hour later, the Soviets attacked again. It's just that this time, there was a little more numbness on the faces of the Soviet soldiers. On the positions of the Soviet troops on the west bank of the Ural River, the overseers set up a strong heavy machine gun. However, they were not aiming at the positions of the Imperial Army across the river, but at the Soviet soldiers who were preparing to attack.

"Comrades, soldiers, the Chinese imperialism on the other side is nothing more than a paper tiger, and they only repelled our attack by relying on 5,000 advanced equipment. As long as the comrades are not afraid of sacrifice, bloodshed, and death, they will definitely be able to break through their defenses. As long as they break through their defenses and strangle with them, their advanced technological weapons will be useless. We can easily defeat them! For the sake of Soviet Russia, for the sake of Comrade Stalin, attack! Ulla! "The political workers worked hard to cheer for these Soviet soldiers. In order to send these Soviet soldiers to the battlefield to die, they can be said to do everything. Coercion and inducement have been used in various ways.

"Ulla! Ulla! The Soviet soldiers erupted in earth-shattering shouts, and the morale that had been lost seemed to have been restored again.

On the defense line of the Imperial Army on the east bank of the Ural River, when they heard the Soviet troops begin to shout the slogan 'Ula', they guessed that the Soviet offensive was probably about to begin. The soldiers began to sort out their weapons, all the magazines were reloaded, and the machine gunners were sorting out the chains. In defensive operations, strong firepower is required. Therefore, the machine guns that the Imperial Army is now equipped with, whether they are squad machine guns or heavy machine guns, can be directly loaded into the chain. In this way, the rate of fire can be further increased and the firepower can be strengthened. After all, if the magazine is used, the magazine of a light machine gun can only hold twenty rounds. In the heat of battle, all the bullets are often fired in the blink of an eye.

"Ulla! Ulla! The Soviet soldiers, chanting slogans, attacked again. However, they were greeted by the heavy fire of the Imperial Army. Machine gun bullets, rifle bullets and artillery shells poured on the Soviets as if they didn't want money. Under the dense firepower, the Soviet army seemed to have hit an invisible wall, and it was blocked there and could not advance a single step. And under the strong firepower of the Imperial Army, it paid heavy casualties.

"Boom!" The tanks of the remnants of the Soviet armored forces also attacked, and one after another T-26 light tanks and Bt-7 fast tanks rushed out of their positions and launched an attack on the Imperial Army lines.

However, they were greeted by shells from the Imperial Army's anti-aircraft guns or anti-tank guns.

This thin-skinned tank could not withstand the anti-tank fire of the Imperial Army at all, and one after another was destroyed. However, more tanks are still on the offensive. The tanks of the 3rd Armored Brigade of the Imperial Army did not open fire at the beginning, but waited for the moment. The last encounter had already made the 3rd Panzer Brigade of the Imperial Army realize that Soviet tanks could hardly pose a threat to them. In such a situation, they were able to slaughter the armored units of the Soviet army, as long as they avoided other anti-tank weapons of the Soviet army. For example, the Soviet army's anti-tank guns and large-caliber howitzers can still pose a certain threat to the tanks of the Imperial Army.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Soviet tanks attacked and opened fire in an attempt to completely destroy the seemingly dilapidated Imperial Army lines. However, it soon became clear to the Soviets that this was not useful at all. The powerful firepower hidden behind the seemingly broken lines of the Imperial Army could still make the Soviet army suffer, even the Soviet armored forces.

While the Soviets continued their offensive, soon the Imperial Air Force arrived on the battlefield. Dive bombers, ground attack aircraft continued to carry out slaughter on the armored forces of the Soviet troops. Fighters slaughtered Soviet infantry with aviation machine guns.

However, in order to cover their armored forces and infantry, the Soviet air defense units were also constantly firing in order to shoot down these Imperial Air Force aircraft. However, these anti-aircraft fires were often suppressed or even destroyed by Imperial Air Force fighters shortly after the fire was fired.

Subsequently, the 3rd Panzer Brigade of the Imperial Army also hit the river beach and began to destroy Soviet tanks. Under the combined strangulation of the Imperial Air Force and Panzer and infantry anti-tank fire, the Soviet armored forces soon collapsed due to heavy losses. Those infantry hurriedly turned around and fled. But many of them were directly knocked to the ground by the powerful firepower of the Imperial Army.

"Don't go back, keep going, keep attacking. Otherwise we will open fire. A Soviet military worker yelled loudly.

However, the retreating Soviet soldiers turned a deaf ear.

At this time, the heavy machine guns on the Soviet positions opened fire, and the dense bullets fired at the Soviet soldiers who retreated without permission, knocking the Soviet soldiers in front to the ground.

The retreating Soviet soldiers were immediately frightened, and they stopped and looked at their compatriots in horror. They really couldn't figure out why their compatriots were firing at them.

"Keep attacking, or die!" The political workers shouted loudly with hideous faces.

In desperation, the Soviet soldiers had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to attack. Anyway, it is better to die on the way to attack, and naturally you can become a martyr. If you die at the guns of your own family, you can only be regarded as a deserter, and your own family will be affected.

Under such circumstances, the Soviet soldiers had no choice but to continue the offensive. It's just that there is no difference between their attack and their death.

The Soviet offensive did not stop until the sun went down. Although the offensive lasted longer, the Soviet army still failed to break through the defense line of the Imperial Army, but left more corpses in front of the defense line of the Imperial Army.

The Soviet Army's fearless attack also made the Imperial Army feel the pressure, and some defensive lines even broke out in a tragic white-knuckle battle, causing a lot of losses to the Imperial Army.

General Zhang Yunnong, commander of the Western Front of the Imperial Army, who was far away in Yasne, was silent for a long time after learning about the situation at the front. After that, he issued an order to all units of the 3rd Army, if the Soviets continued to launch an offensive tonight or tomorrow, then they should begin to carry out the plan of luring the enemy into depth, and take the initiative to abandon some positions and let the Soviets attack in. Then the two wings and the bottom were blocked to form a pocket, and the Soviets were loaded in, and finally they were encircled and annihilated. (To be continued.) )