I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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There are also soldiers who like the desert. A veteran of the Nanjing Army told reporters: "I like being in the desert, it is a very good and healthy life.

Especially at night, the sky and the earth have an indescribable, ethereal tranquility. The sky is so vast, like a huge dark blue gem, and the stars are particularly bright. Lying on the desert and looking up at the starry sky, it feels amazing.

In the evening, you can still feel the artistic conception of the ancients' phrase 'the lonely smoke in the desert'!"

Time gradually entered the middle of the night, and the battlefield in the east of the lake was still calm. Although the two sides continued to shout offensives and small-scale partial firefights continued, the main forces of both sides did not move.

Inside the Nanjing Army Headquarters, Feng Shengfa breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at Sun Tongxuan sincerely: "Yin Ting (Sun Tongxuan's name), your decision at that time was correct. It seems that the Soviet army planned to launch an attack in the middle of the night. Come on, all our brothers have got a good rest and don't need to be tired to fight!"

Sun Tongxuan smiled, and then said: "I know, I ordered the troops to dig trenches and build fortifications to fight defensive battles on the spot. You and many people don't understand. They think that my thinking is rigid and I don't know how to adapt. Regarding this, I admit Indeed, I feel that my abilities are limited and unstable in fighting this kind of modern warfare, so I have to be more cautious. In addition, I ordered the troops to dig trenches because of a special..." He laughed at himself, "...There is even a little suspicion of unfounded worry!"

"Oh? What consideration?" Feng Shengfa asked curiously.

Just as Sun Tongxuan was about to answer, Cao Fulin ran over in a hurry: "The Soviet army is attacking!" Almost immediately following his words, without warning, the earth-shattering sounds of artillery fire, gunshots, explosions, and shouts tore apart the ground in an instant. The night sky was cracked, and the sky was filled with red light, and the earth was shaken like a drum.

"Fight! Prepare to fight! The enemy is coming up!" On the Nanjing Army's position, the officers shouted hoarsely.

The officers and soldiers in the trenches and fortifications all stared wide-eyed as they loaded their bullets. They saw the mudslide-like Soviet troops pouring in.

Sun Tongxuan, Feng Shengfa, Cao Fulin, Huang Baitao and other senior officers raised their binoculars together in the headquarters. Amidst the raging flames, a nearly boiling wave appeared on the surface more than ten kilometers away, overwhelming and sweeping thousands of troops.

The artillery positions of the Nanjing Army began to emit thunderbolt-like flames, and waves of artillery shells roared away, continuously exploding fireballs, strands of sand, clouds of blood mist, and rain of flesh.

Fang Dazeng, a famous war reporter who was on the battlefield in the east of the lake, described: "After the night battle began, a large number of Soviet troops swarmed towards our army's position. They all fired with all their strength, and the sound of strafing and bombardment was so dense that they could not be heard at all.

Howitzers, infantry artillery, mortars, grenades, machine guns, submachine guns, rifles, and even a large number of thunder cannons all fired projectiles at the crowds of the Soviet army with a volley of arrows. Thousands of bolts of lightning were shining, and wherever the bullets went, the Soviet army fell one after another, splashing blood all over the sky, hands, feet and heads flying everywhere. The corpses of our army quickly piled up like a mountain in front of the position, and the blood flowing horizontally gathered into a massacre. A pool of blood.

The stubbornness of the Soviets is exactly the same as that of the Japanese, but the night combat ability of the Soviets is much worse than that of the Japanese. The Japanese can keep thousands of people silent when they launch a night attack, while the Soviets yell and pounce on the Japanese. Our army's positions are basically sent to death.

The reason why the Soviets and Japanese are like this is because they have been brainwashed, whether it is the Bushido spirit or the Bolshevik spirit, there is no difference in essence.

They regard the worthless and meaningless death as a moth to the flame as a great act, and beautify it as a glorious sacrifice. Their officers do not cherish the lives of soldiers, and their soldiers are proud of it. It's just plain pathetic.

Of course, as their enemies, we welcome their stupid and stubborn tactics.

The officers and soldiers were almost relentless, the barrels of the guns were hot from the continuous shooting, and the battlefield was completely opened up!"

The Soviet troops rushing from all over the mountains and plains were advancing in unspeakable pain in the firepower net of the Nanjing Army. A large number of Soviet troops fell to the ground in convulsions like electric shocks. In the fireballs of shells exploding one after another, circles of Soviet troops were tearing their hearts apart. Amidst the screams of the soldiers, they flew to the sky in pieces, and at the same time, a large number of landmines bloomed everywhere under the feet of the Soviet army. The Soviet army whose legs and feet were blown up was bleeding profusely, and fell into a pool of blood, howling ghosts and wolves.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who stood firm fought bravely, with bullets as dense as locusts; all machine gunners fired wildly, ammunitionists kept reloading bullets, and assistant shooters kept cooling the burning barrels with cold water; The shooters, infantry gunners, and artillerymen of the howitzers behind the positions sweated and loaded the shells together, and the shells flying like a meteor shower blew up the Soviet army with flesh and blood.

The attacking Soviet army seemed to have fallen into hell. In front of them was a hail of bullets and an abyss of death composed of mines and shells. They watched their accomplices in front roll to the ground like cutting wheat in a bloody storm, and then followed in their footsteps.

The "good times" when the Nanjing Army beat the Soviet Army didn't last long. Ten minutes later, thunder and lightning flashed behind the Soviet Army, and thunder and lightning flashed in the air. Suddenly, the artillery positions of the Nanjing Army Qiqi and a large section of the position fell into an earth-shaking big explosion.

Purkayev was also watching the battle with his binoculars. He watched the scene with satisfaction, because the heavy artillery he had tried so hard to hide began to play a role.

Chapter 472: Hundred Battles in Yellow Sand (2)

Although it is said that "the best defense is to attack", this conclusion also has a premise. When the enemy is obviously strong and we are weak, defensive warfare is the safest way. Positional warfare is the main form of defensive warfare. However, fighting Position defense warfare means that one's own position is fixed, so it is inevitable to fall into passivity.

On the Hudong battlefield, Sun Tongxuan adopted this kind of well-regulated but slightly conventional tactics, which enabled the Nanjing Army to achieve greater results in a relatively small way at the beginning of the war, but failed to attack the Soviet Army in the best way. As time dragged on into a bitter battle.

Before the Nanjing Army’s trench fortifications, on the saline-alkali land of Yimapingchuan, the Soviet Army was strangled by the stormy firepower net of the Nanjing Army, leaving piles of corpses and rivers of blood, but the Soviet Army soon launched a real and extremely violent offensive.

Waves of meteor-like shells flew across the night sky continuously, and landed on the positions of the Nanjing Army.

"What's going on?" Sun Tongxuan was shocked and looked at the front line through the telescope. He saw that the brothers were submerged in the flame storm one by one, and huge fireballs were blooming everywhere on the Nanjing Army's position like mushrooms after rain, stretching into a boiling fire. , The tumbling, surging sea of ​​flames, the flames reflected the sky red like a burning cloud at dusk, a huge amount of sand was blown into the sky, mixed with countless limbs, broken arms, and weapon fragments, dancing wildly like a tornado, despite the sound of the explosion It was thunderous and dense, but Sun Tongxuan was still heartbroken to hear the Chinese screams one after another amidst the explosion.

"How could the artillery fire from the Soviet Army be so violent? It's clearly a salvo of hundreds of heavy artillery pieces! What did the Air Force do? Why didn't it find out and destroy it in advance!" He was heartbroken and burnt inside.

The Nanjing Army still had a relatively good understanding of the Soviet Army. The first was intelligence collection and German information sharing, the second was Jiang Weiguo's "pointing the maze", and the third was the actual combat in the Far East War.

After the Far East War ended, Huang Wei once said, "Excluding the gap in artillery, it is absolutely no problem for one division of our army (more than 8000 people) to eat one division of the Soviet army (3 to more than 5 people). An army of the Soviet army ([-], [-] or [-], [-]) is also possible, but the actual situation is not the case, because the number of artillery pieces of the Soviet army greatly exceeds that of our army, which makes our army face the Soviet army with heavy firepower. Living at a great disadvantage made it very difficult for our army to wipe out the enemy.

If the Japanese army fought with the spirit of bushido, then the Soviet army fought with cannon."

Although these remarks are slightly idealistic, they are largely true.

The Soviet Army had too many artillery pieces, which caused the Nanjing Army a headache and fear.

During the Far East War, the key to the fact that the Nanjing Army was able to defeat the Soviet Army was that the Soviet Army was running out of ammunition and food at that time, with cannons and no shells (most of the shells were bombarded on the heads of the Japanese army). Now, the situation is different Now, the Nanjing Army must face the Soviet Army head-on.

The reason why the Soviet army on the East Lake battlefield had more than 200 heavy artillery pieces was because Pulkayev specially concealed them. During the march, the Soviet army marched day and night and buried the heavy artillery pieces in the yellow sand, which made it difficult for the Nanjing Army's reconnaissance planes to attack them. It is found, and even if it is found, it is difficult to destroy. The reason is very simple. The Chinese Air Force does not have so many bombers.

Sun Tongxuan overestimated the strength of her own air force.

In the battle during the day, Pulkayev specially kept the heavy artillery unit on hold, one is to continue to hide, and the other is to paralyze and deceive the Nanjing Army, so that it can hit the Nanjing Army to the maximum extent during the night's all-out attack. Facts have proved that Pulkayev's The strategy is right.

On the other hand, the number of Soviet artillery greatly exceeds that of the Nanjing Army, not only in large-caliber artillery, but also in small-caliber artillery, such as infantry artillery and mortars. The penetration rate and quantity of the Soviet Army are still higher than those of the Nanjing Army. a lot of.

These small-caliber artillery are not only more in number, but also scattered among the Soviet infantry units, so it is natural that the Chinese Air Force aircraft cannot destroy them.

"Master, it's too dangerous here!" Cao Fulin pulled Sun Tongxuan anxiously, "The Soviet army's heavy artillery will come at any time, please move to the rear!"

Sun Tongxuan shook her head: "The army is fighting hard because of my misjudgment. How can I retreat?" He sighed, and ordered with bright eyes, "Leshan (Cao Fulin's name), if I am unlucky, the next battle will be decided by you." Feng Shizuo takes over the command, and you take over the 20th Division, fight hard!" He could not say anything, and strode towards the front line where the artillery fire was the most intense.

Cao Fulin and other senior military officers were all shocked and in awe.

The 20th Brigade of the 20th Division is the backbone of the division, and the brigade commander is Sun Tongxuan's subordinate Zhou Zunshi for many years.

Because it was placed on the most important position, the 20th Brigade suffered heavy casualties from the Soviet artillery coverage and fierce attack.

The brigade commander Zhou Zunshi saw a large number of officers and soldiers being wiped out in the explosion flames falling from the Soviet artillery shells, and he was heartbroken. He picked up the phone and prepared to call Sun Tongxuan to ask for a temporary retreat. Unexpectedly, as soon as he picked up the phone, Sun Tongxuan's voice appeared Behind him: "If you want to say something, say it face to face, I'm right here!"

Zhou Zunshi was very surprised: "Master, why did you come in person? It's too dangerous here?"

Sun Tongxuan said: "The more dangerous it is, the more you should come?" Regardless of the persuasion of Zhou Zunshi and other officers, he personally led the division guard battalion to patrol and supervise the battle on the front line.

During the hail of bullets, more than half of the guard battalion suffered casualties, and Sun Tongxuan was almost killed by Soviet artillery shells. The officers and soldiers in the bitter battle saw that Sun Tongxuan came to the front line in person, their morale was greatly boosted, they persisted tenaciously, and firmly resisted the Soviet Union. The army's stormy attack.

In fact, Sun Tongxuan did this for two purposes, one is to stabilize the position, and the other is to delay time, attract and contain the main force of the enemy army, and win a fighter for Feng Shengfa's mobile force.

When the Soviet army launched this big night attack, Feng Shengfa's mobile force had also attacked. The mobile force was composed of two parts, one was more than 17 officers and soldiers of the Yellow Russian Army, and the other was the "patchwork" of the 20th and [-]th divisions. A tank battalion in China, the two sides are two or three kilometers apart, and they are in close contact with each other by radio.

The commander-in-chief of the Yellow Russian Army participating in this battle was a major of the Nanjing Army named Cheng Hu.

Cheng Hu is from the Northeast, and his family is in the west of Heilongjiang Province. Before the Nanjing Army recaptured Heixi, he had already joined the Maritime Statistics Bureau. He was one of the heads of the Bureau’s intelligence agencies in Heilongjiang Province. His father is Chinese, and his mother is a Russian girl who fled to Northeast China during the Soviet-Russian Civil War, so he is proficient in Russian language and Russian culture, and looks very Russian, so it is natural to command the Yellow Russian Army again. It couldn't be more appropriate.

After the battle began, Cheng Hu ordered his officers and soldiers to camouflage. Everyone put blood-stained bandages on their heads and bodies to pretend to be Soviet wounded soldiers, and then took more than 50 cars and drove swaggeringly to the rear of the Soviet army.

In an unnamed small village behind the Soviet army, Cheng Hu and other officers and soldiers of the Yellow Russian Army encountered a battalion-level Soviet army guarding the rear of the Soviet army.

The Soviet officers and soldiers in the small village were not suspicious at all when they saw this convoy driving over leisurely with red five-pointed stars painted on its body.

"Comrade, which unit do you belong to?" The Soviet battalion commander stepped forward and asked.

Sitting in the first car, Cheng Hu poked his head out of the cab. He and the Soviet battalion commander saluted each other, and then replied in fluent Russian: "We belong to the 65rd Regiment of the 196th Division of the 773th Army. Some of them belonged to the 226th Artillery Regiment. The vehicles were full of wounded soldiers. Please let us pass quickly. Many soldiers were seriously injured and urgently needed blood transfusion and medical treatment.

Oh, that's right!" He pointed to the compartment of the first car, in which sat a few disgraced Nanjing Army officers, the highest rank was a colonel, and there were two lieutenant colonels, "This is the one captured by the division. The senior prisoners of the Chinese army, we want to hand them over to Comrade Commander for interrogation. We will definitely be able to interrogate important information. Comrade, do you know where Comrade Commander is? "

The Soviet battalion commander touched his head: "I'm sorry, I don't know where the headquarters of Comrade Commander is, but I know that the headquarters of Major General Ad Kuleshov, commander of our 54th Army, is five kilometers north of here. By a small dry river, maybe you can hand over the Chinese prisoners to Commander Kuleshov!"

"Oh, thank you, Comrade Captain, I wish you good luck!" Cheng Hu expressed his sincere thanks and handed over a cigarette.

"Good luck to you too!" The battalion commander of the Soviet army smiled and took the cigarette.

Before the cigarette was lit, the bullet had already penetrated the Soviet battalion commander's head.

Cheng Hu passed a cigarette with his left hand and drew a gun with his right. With one shot, the battalion commander of the Soviet Army was blown out of his head. The sound of the gun was the signal. The "wounded soldiers" who were dying in the car jumped up one after another, and took the submachine guns hidden under their bodies. Fiercely strafing the Soviet troops outside the vehicle.

The bean-like shooting sound suddenly detonated the Russian howl of ghosts and wolves, and the blood splashed everywhere, and the Soviet officers and soldiers fell to the ground dancing and dancing as if they were electrocuted.

"Kill you Bolshevik bastards!"

"Russian devils, go to hell!"

"Avenge my father who was exiled by you!"

The officers and soldiers of the Yellow Russian Army gritted their teeth and cursed angrily while shooting.

The curses and screams in the gunfire are all in Russian.

After killing these unsuspecting Soviet troops with ease, Cheng Hu led the officers and soldiers of the Yellow Russian Army to rush towards the target at lightning speed. But finding out the location of Kuleshov, the commander of the 54th Army of the Soviet Army and killing him must be a great contribution to the battle situation.

The Yellow Russian Army’s surprise attack on the headquarters of the 54th Army of the Soviet Army was surprisingly smooth. All the Soviet troops on the scene, including Commander Kuleshov, were caught off guard. The officers and soldiers of the Yellow Russian Army rushed in like wolves into a flock of sheep The massacre, crazily firing and throwing grenades, Kuleshov was smashed into a hornet's nest by locust-like bullets before he could escape, and his body was loaded into a car by the Yellow Russian Army as a spoil of war. During this period, a Soviet officer at the level of major general was killed for the first time. At the same time, more than a dozen officers at the rank of colonel and lieutenant colonel of the 54th Army were killed and captured during this raid. A raging fire broke out, and the "brain" of the 54th Army of the Soviet Army was completely smashed.

The following tank battalion of the Nanjing Army rampaged to kill and disperse the Soviet Army, and the officers and soldiers of the Yellow Russian Army retreated.

While transferring, Cheng Hu interrogated several captured Soviet colonels and lieutenant colonels.

Cheng Hu, who was originally a member of the Maritime Statistics Bureau, was very familiar with the methods of interrogation that were neither fatal nor could make life worse than death. These Soviet officers were quickly tortured by him to give information like beans in a bamboo tube.

Cheng Hu was overjoyed to know the location of the Soviet commander-in-chief Pulkayev and several logistics and material bases behind the Soviet army.

"Get rid of their commander-in-chief, and then destroy their supplies, I'll see how they continue to fight!" Cheng Hu was very excited, but soon, he received a call from Luo Tingkang, the commander of the tank battalion.

"Brother Cheng, Feng Shizuo just gave us a new order to destroy the heavy artillery positions of the Soviet army!" Luo Tingkang's voice was very urgent, "The Soviet army has at least two hundred heavy artillery pieces firing on our defense line, brothers are about to support us!" Can’t stop, Master Sun has gone to the front line to personally supervise the battle! In addition, Master Feng explained that if possible, try to capture the Soviet heavy artillery, you know, we are very short of large-caliber artillery!”

"Damn it!" Cheng Hu was very annoyed, "There are three targets, the Soviet army's general headquarters, the Soviet army's heavy material base, and the Soviet army's heavy artillery position. If you want to eat them all, you are not strong enough..." He repeatedly weighed Pros and cons, I have to give up the plan to kill Pulkayev, abandon one goal, and put limited power on the other two goals.

"For this old Rakshasa devil, the time has not yet come!" Cheng Hu said bitterly, and then ordered loudly, "Brothers! Go on!"

The troops rushed towards the heavy artillery positions of the Soviet army in a storm, and it was more urgent to remove the heavy artillery positions of the Soviet army than the heavy material base of the Soviet army.

Destroying the supplies of the Soviet army can consume the Soviet army to death (in fact, the Nanjing army is not able to compete with the Soviet army for consumption, because most of the supplies of the Nanjing army are transported from Xinjiang, not only the distance is far away, but also the transportation is difficult. It can be collected on the spot, but it is difficult to collect weapons, equipment, fuel and ammunition on the spot), but it will take time, but before that, the heavy artillery group of the Soviet army has killed and wounded a large number of Nanjing troops every minute.

"Brother Cheng, this time, we will go ahead and you will follow us!" Luo Tingkang said on the radio.

"What's the matter? Seeing us kill an old Maozi army commander, are you jealous? Want to claim credit?" Cheng Hu was half joking and half serious.

Luo Tingkang said very seriously: "Of course not.

During the Far East War, we had no other way to deal with the artillery groups of the Soviet army, except for the limited bombing of aircraft, we could only use fast mobile troops to attack in a roundabout way.

It’s not once or twice that the old man has suffered this, I guess this time the old man will be prepared, we will go first, and you will fish in troubled waters!”

Cheng Hu felt enlightened: "That's right! Brother Luo, I'm sorry, I just judged the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain!"

Luo Tingkang said modestly: "Where, where, everyone is a Chinese soldier. Is it different who makes meritorious service?"

Although Luo Tingkang was only a regiment-level officer in the Nanjing Army, his on-the-spot adaptability was excellent, and he hit Pulkayev's mind.