The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

This is an encounter that neither side is fully prepared for!

Whether it is the 101st Division going north from Kulun or the Soviet Russian Army going south, both sides need to cross the plateau mountains with complex terrain, break through the thick snow with difficulty, and travel more than [-] kilometers to reach the line of fire.

Because of the extremely bad weather, neither aerial reconnaissance nor space satellites can clearly see the ground operations. The special reconnaissance posts that were scattered before, under such ultra-low temperature and harsh atmospheric conditions, can guarantee that they will not be killed by volcanic ash and black snow. Rare, go out to investigate?No kidding!Any snow pit can bury people to death!

Even the radio equipment, because of the violent snowstorm and the complex terrain, is sometimes ineffective. It can be said that both sides are rushing forward in the dark, but the ability to grasp the fighter is due to the astonishing consistency in the decision-making of the high-level commanders. Coincidence crashed!

However, in terms of the spirit and fighting situation of both sides, it is obvious that Lao Maozi is obviously at a disadvantage.Although their tank brigade sounds scary, it is actually composed of three tank battalions and one submachine gun battalion; the total number of tanks is only 70.

These include the light t-26, the tasteless t-35 and the really powerful but bulky kv-1 tanks, as well as weapons and equipment such as infantry fighting vehicles.

The Chinese squadron is a regiment in name, but it is also composed of three tank battalions, and each battalion has as many as 40 tanks. A regiment adds up to 120 tanks, plus the machine battalion More than 40 infantry fighting vehicles, the total number of armored units is fully twice that of Maozi!And in addition there is a self-propelled artillery battalion.There are at least 12 105mm self-propelled howitzers, and the heavy armored regiment will have 18 122mm howitzers.

Then compare the quality and performance of the two weapons.That's a completely one-sided difference, not to mention anything else, just the power, main gun caliber, armor thickness, fire control system, speed and stroke, all exploded!

Relying on the familiarity of the terrain and the cooperation of the local leading party, I ran along the road countless times, and there were sufficient auxiliary facilities such as supplies and repairs on the way.Under the support of a series of conditions, the Soviet army set off early for half a day and ran more than 100 kilometers of mountain roads.By the time we reached the open area north of Kyakhta, we were exhausted!

Dong Qiwu's tank regiment couldn't be more comfortable!

The nasty black snow obscured the field of vision into pitch black, and the valleys and ditches hidden under the thick ice and snow could not be seen clearly with the naked eye. Thanks to the fact that they had several heavy construction vehicles clearing the way in front, they used giant push shovels to rumble The broken ice and snow pushed to the sides.And under the guidance of satellite positioning and navigation, you will not get lost or fall into the ditch.

even so.All the crew members on the rough and bumpy road almost spit out the overnight meal. Even though they were wrapped in a one-piece fire-resistant tank suit with excellent airtightness, their bones were still stiff from the [-]-degree cold outside. After a crazy meal like a sieve, he is already strong and tenacious without soft hands and feet and blurred eyes!

With all these things, it is doomed that the situation of the two troops is not much better.The 9th Tank Brigade of the Soviet Army had eleven T-35s that broke down along the way. When they reached the front position, half of the tank parts were trembling.It seemed as if it was going to jump out of its original position at any time and quit.Creaking and groaning everywhere, coupled with air leaks everywhere, even the drought-tolerant fighting people couldn't hold it, their fingers were as cold as chicken feet, and their movements were deformed. All of them turned into popsicles!

There is basically no prior temptation!The tank regiment of the 101st Division, which had just rolled out its formation on the wide and rugged battlefield, had no formation at all when it first ran over the abandoned small town of Kyakhta. The targets suddenly appeared in front of them, and they were basically within 300 meters. The sight window was blurred by the black snow and it was almost impossible to see anything clearly. Maozi's driver had to stand up half of his body against the skin-cutting wind and snow to search for it. Then he aimed at a target and opened fire viciously!

It can be said that various conditions have greatly shortened the gap between the weapons of the two sides. The armored weapons of the two armies that have been entangled from the beginning have all given up the possibility of long-range shooting. Come on, bayonet fight, hand to hand combat!

This is the only time for the Maozi to challenge their opponents relatively fairly!

Almost face to face, a battalion of kv-1 heavy tanks with the best performance and the most powerful firepower can't wait to fire!The powerful 76.2mmf34 tank gun roared angrily, and the muzzle shock wave instantly evaporated the rising black snow and reopened an arc-shaped circle five or six meters away, dragging the sharp armor-piercing projectiles that broke through the midpoint of the flame and whizzed out, viciously Smashed on the "Cheetah-3" tank armor-like plug-in composite armor!

"Bang! Boom!"

Hurricane's shells encountered pure composite armor plates, and the ultra-high-strength composite plate, which was as thick as two bricks, fiercely resisted the shell's puncture, and detonated in time, blowing up several pieces in a radius of one foot, exposing The rear is dark and ultra-high-strength armored body, but the damage to the members inside is minimized!

Then, without waiting for them to fire a second shot, the 105mm rifled gun and smoothbore gun fired back without hesitation. The high-strength alloy long-stem armor-piercing projectile was as sharp as a knife, easily breaking through the 90mm armor on its front, and even pierced a basketball from the rear. The huge hole, the occupants inside were smashed into broken sacks by the broken metal fans, the unprotected ammunition exploded, the tank exploded with a bang, and the turret flew seven or eight meters high!

That is, no more than one-fifth of the Maozi tanks fired first!That's because most of the soldiers in the tank regiment of the 101st Division are rookies. A few of them had fought against the Japanese army before, and it was the first time they played the leading role in a large-scale battle.

The tanks commanded by those veterans are a completely different situation!

Relying on the excellent performance of the sharp weapon, he rushed to the vicinity arbitrarily, almost pressing the barrel of the gun on the forehead of the opponent's tank and fired fiercely. Immediately, snow pits with a diameter of more than ten meters were swept out by the fragments of the exploded chariot, and large groups of grease burned on the steel with billowing black smoke.In the valley, the temperature rose rapidly!

Dong Qiwu cherishes this opportunity to be a pioneer officer very much, and he understands it better.The current strength of our own military group must shock the world!The Zhu family's direct lineage had already killed Japan first, and then landed in the United States. They had achieved great success, so the glorious mission of attacking Maozi in the north must follow closely.Don't want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live forever!

A high-protection heavy tank specially built for senior officers to charge into battle, with a heavy and wide body of more than 50 tons, equipped with a 120mm high-pressure smoothbore gun.The all-weather combat fire control system and photoelectric radar aiming allow them to ignore the impact of snowstorms and find targets 2000 meters away.And aim, fire and bombard!

Dong Qiwu has no intention of being delicate and expensive.A distance of 500 meters, after a condescending bombardment on a small hill shattered a KV-1, the tank drove at full power without stopping, smashed the ice and snow, and flew at a speed of 45 kilometers. It was a bang, smashing a T-1 that was spewing black smoke and moving slowly at a distance of 1000 meters!

That was a blast!

The world's only scum-level tank equipped with multiple turrets.The consequence of using three guns is that the armor is so bad that it can't even hold armor-piercing bullets above 37mm!Not to mention the armor-piercing 600mm special tail stabilized shell with an armor-piercing performance of at least 120mm or more!

Of course, Dong Qiwu can't be that extravagant either.At the critical moment, he was relatively calm and only used poor cap-piercing bullets.However, the great advantages in metallurgical technology and ammunition design are enough to ensure that armor units below 300mm can be easily killed. When that shot goes up, it will really only have 30mm thick armor, but there will be a full 9.72 meters long and 45 tons of steel. It was smashed into pieces!

The bombed car body was blown up and the main gun turret flew up to a height of more than ten meters. When it fell, even the gun barrels sprang out. The bullets are like setting off firecrackers, that is a wonderful event!

Dong Qiwu's forehead was steaming hot. Under the tank's excellent electric heating equipment to keep him warm, the environment inside the car, which was [-] to [-] degrees warmer than the outside, actually made him hot for a while, but his face flushed with excitement, and he grabbed his hat for a while. Repeated voices urged: "Hit! Give me a hard hit! If you don't beat the shit out of the old man, you will never retreat! His grandma, brothers, success is only a few days away, let me rush up! Kill!"

Unimpeded radio signals spread throughout the regiment, and the "Cheetah-3" tanks who had just started warming up burst into loud shouts: "Kill! Fuck it!"

Most of the tanks are not as comfortable as the heavy tanks used by the officers. In addition to ensuring a high enough airtightness, they are still as cold as an ice cellar. After two strokes, the inside of the car suddenly became steamy, and I didn't feel the stiffness and numbness anymore!

boom!boom!boom!

Monotonous, boring, chaotic and disorderly, without any organization at all, more than 100 main tanks from both sides were slaughtered together, without coordination, without formation, but with completely different shapes and directions of travel, aiming to stay away from us Nearest target, fire!Crazy fire!

The old man is also crazy!Liupasnov, the brigade commander who was born in the Cossack cavalry, was really not afraid of the cold. He opened his military coat to reveal half of his dark chest hair. It's enough to burn a person's esophagus and bald the skin, but he leaned half of his body out of the turret like drinking sugar water, and just faced the wind and snow, gulped down a mouthful, his eyes were red, and he pointed ahead. Shouted: "Rush up! Kill the Chinese monkey!"

rush!rush!rush!It's all the same order, no one thinks about retreating, and there is no way to retreat!Everyone knows their mission, losing a fighter will bring complete passiveness!

collision!bombardment!explode!

The two torrents of steel rolled up snowflakes rolling in the sky and collided. In just 5 minutes, they were completely entangled. After only 15 minutes, they killed each other and turned their heads!

Looking at the battlefield ten kilometers wide and five kilometers deep, there are dozens of piles of steel garbage billowing with smoke!Most of them are Maoziguo's backward gadgets, especially the vulnerable t-26t-35, which are almost lost. Only the rough-skinned and thick-skinned kv-1 barely survived!

Liupasnov, who went into battle shirtless, rushed to the end unscathed, when the surroundings were suddenly empty.When all the enemy torrents fell behind him, he looked left and right, and was shocked to find the large group of troops that had followed him.There were only two or three big cats and kittens left, scattered sparsely in the chaotic snow bottom, braving the billowing smoke to advance and retreat!

But he, who was already dizzy from the high alcohol, didn't hesitate at all. He waved his hand fiercely, and yelled: "Haha! We have also achieved results. Good job, turn around quickly. Kill!"

Yes, there are really a few Cheetah-3s beaten to the ground by them!But this is not caused by a head-on attack, it is completely when the two sides are mixed together.The armor-piercing projectiles that were bombarded from the side opened the skirt armor and shattered the tracks, resulting in the loss of mobility. There was no one that was actually destroyed from the front!

And these are the Cheetah-3s that can no longer run.The intact turret is still turning left and right quickly.Act as a fixed turret, give full play to its caliber advantage, and bombard and kill fiercely, without losing the wind at all!

Liupasnov didn't care so much, he only looked at the result of the encounter before him, not one-sided was enough.

The bulky tank roared, crushing the frozen ground and turning quickly, but it barely turned the car body sideways.Suddenly heard a deep roar rushing quickly from the front!In the messy wind and snow, one after another, low chariots with cannons were seen approaching furiously.Right in front of their heads, open fire unceremoniously!

122mm self-propelled artillery!

It can be used as an assault gun. It has the same chassis, power, suspension and other main systems as the Cheetah series. It bridges the 122mm howitzer on the low-slung welded car body. It completely replicates and improves the original goods beyond Maozi, and follows the tank brutally. They marched in groups, and when the battle broke out, they came from the side, but they caught the men who had pierced through the battle!

The thick barrel and the ferocious muzzle brake almost hit Liupasnov's head before firing the thick shell. The dazzling fire illuminated the battlefield in an instant. Huang, the savage Cossack who hacked many Chinese to death with a war knife roared in dissatisfaction and despair: "It's not fair! Damn it...!"

boom! The 122mm grenade hit the kv-1 turret and exploded violently, splitting the car body from top to bottom on the spot. The exposed body of Lao Maozi disappeared without a trace, and the heavy tank was thrown back several meters away by the surging force. , the two crawlers cracked apart, and the rest of the crew inside were also shaken to death!

The next moment, the rest of the self-propelled artillery rushed out with the ghost-like hula-la, aiming at a target each, leveling the barrels and bombarding them. After one shot passed, nothing was still intact. Those who were facing sideways were even more unlucky. The powder was crushed, and after the crushing stream of iron rolled over, the only thing left on the ground was piles of iron slag!

In less than half an hour, the first official Sino-Soviet armored collision came to an end with the complete defeat of Maozi's tank brigade. All three tank battalions did not have any scum left, and none of them escaped. Except for those who broke down and survived by luck, all who entered the battlefield will be ruthlessly destroyed!

Dong Qiwu led a main force to rush forward across the border, passed the rear camp, and arrived at Chroske Tsevsky on the bank of the Selenge River. He left a vanguard of the submachine gun battalion and the maintenance logistics team who stayed there. The personnel were bombarded by tanks in all directions, and there were not even a few prisoners left. After they were completely occupied, they stopped advancing.

Immediately, several light-armed reconnaissance platoons drove light tanks to disperse to guard and search and investigate the enemy's situation. The self-propelled artillery battalion behind slowly came up and set up camp a few kilometers away to prepare for the battle. Cooperate with other logistics units to arrange the advanced base in full swing, and start in a hurry in the snowstorm, ready to welcome the next fierce battle at any time!

Behind them, an engineer force of tens of thousands of people was mobilized with all their might against the wind and snow!

First of all, several large engineering vehicles, according to the previously explored route, forcibly broke through the thick snow to lay a temporary railway.These 1000-ton behemoths are actually equipped with a jet engine, which sprays out a high-temperature flame flow of more than [-] degrees in the shape of a horn placed forward and downward, not only completely evaporating the thick ice and snow into air, but also sweeping away five meters around The wide snowflakes were lifted, exposing the hard frozen soil ground.

Moreover, the frozen ground was also thawed and softened by the barbecue, and then rolled forward along the predetermined route!

The special engineering vehicle behind immediately followed up, completely shoveling off the soft layer of frozen soil and pushing it away, followed by heavy-duty road rollers, various sand and gravel layers, and prefabricated blocks until the laying of a 25-meter-long section After the wooden railroad ties are accurately photographed, the joints will be welded or riveted by an intelligent robot walking on the rails at the rear. Out of the drainage ditches, build parallel roads on the spot.

From here, all the way to the north, the first goal is Kyakta, and the second goal is the Far East Railway!

Yes, this is the real forceful advance strategy in the Northern Theater!That is not only to send troops to defeat the Maoists, but also to directly repair the roads, the roads and railways run through in one go, and every section of development must be followed by a complete and stable occupation mechanism, so as to truly recapture a place, clean up a place, and even the slightest bit. Without dragging.

All of this is going on quickly under the almost impossible harsh weather.

The Soviet Russian Far East Front Army Command did not get the exact news until three hours after the battle ended. When several generals were shocked to hear that an armored brigade was destroyed by the opponent three times, five times and two times, they didn't even know how many soldiers and horses they used , Those weapons, just swallowed them in one gulp, with a relaxed and slack heart, Qiqi was dumbfounded!

The lieutenant general was dumbfounded: "This is impossible! Besides our great Slavs, who else can fight under such harsh conditions?!" (To be continued...)