The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

() January 1941, 1, the Lunar New Year.

110 kilometers southwest of the headquarters of the Soviet Russian Far Eastern Front, outside the small town of Gusino Ozersk on the shore of Gusinoye Lake, in a vast field pushed out between the snowy fields, there are countless rows of tanks and armored vehicles into a neat array.Each chariot has been in motion for a while, with thick black smoke coming out from the tail, and hot air of different shades exuding from the whole body. From a distance, the entire array looks like a herd of prehistoric giant beasts waiting for an opportunity from the fog. A creepy murderous aura is spreading!

In the middle of the array, inside an extraordinarily large command vehicle with thicker armor, Chen Changjie, the commander of the 61st Army, raised his wrist again to look at the electronic military watch specially made for the northern battlefield. It showed that the time was already seven in the morning , but it was still dark outside, as if the long night had never left.

"Why haven't you started yet?"

Chen Changjie muttered something in a low voice, frowned, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to the side phone, but stopped suddenly when his middle finger just touched it, took a deep breath, then slowly retracted, shook his head and laughed self-deprecatingly : "It seems that my Qi-nourishing Kungfu is still not good enough! I can't hold back even in such a short time. No wonder Mr. Fu wants to send me directly to the front line to lead the troops."

Right now, he is not only an army commander, but also the deputy commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army. He directly controls three mechanized infantry divisions, one du li armored cavalry brigade, and two du li artillery regiments. The status and equipment in the legion are second only to the 35th Army of Fu Zuoyi's confidant.Bad, but only a little bit.

According to general principles, a lieutenant general like him does not need to go to the front line by himself. There are nearly 10 people and countless officers below, enough to carry out his various wills and orders.However, after several senior military command training courses at Guzhenkou, the final assessment and the judgment of the chiefs showed his ability to control the overall situation.Not yet.If you want to gain a firm foothold and develop in the entire army, you must mature and grow as soon as possible in frontal battles.

Chief Fu's expectation for him is to become the first real commander in the entire northern army --- the sixth and seventh armies, who can command millions of troops to sweep the battlefield. The first step is to be able to control at least one army modern military force.Gallop across the deep battlefield of the enemy country that is thousands of kilometers away, conquer and kill.

This made Chen Changjie feel great pressure.

These soldiers who came out of the older generation of military schools are outdated in all aspects of fundamental thinking, strategy and tactics.Just commanding a division of tens of thousands of people to fight in a small battlefield, he has already performed very well.In the battle against Japan to regain the Northeast, its level of performance.It is only second to the group army of Yu Baoguo, Zhu Bin's direct descendant.

But the battle against Maozi in the north was a geometric progression more difficult than in Japan.

This is not only a small-scale flexible and mobile breakthrough in the mountains and forests, but also high-speed combined killing of Jing equipment. The enemy we deal with is not the kind of poor Japanese army who can't bear to carry more bullets, but the second largest industrial productivity in the world. Powerful Soviet Russia!

The enemy on the opposite side, the number of firearms equipped, and the ammunition delivered by the cannon.At least five times that of the Japanese army.The breadth of the battlefield is also tens of times, and the harshness of the environment is several times and ten times. The most different thing is the huge change in the battle mode.That requires him, as a senior commander, to be able to unify a mechanized force of 20 million on a vast battlefield with a diameter of hundreds or thousands of kilometers.Flexible and fast progress.

The accumulation of such various conditions requires high personal qualities and great military accomplishments, which can be described as earth-shaking changes!

Although Zhu Bin's hard-core direct descendants are all from ordinary literate students, workers and passionate youths, his cross-age training conditions are too good, and from the very beginning, he has instilled in those people and practiced in a simulated environment based on high-tech conditions. The large-depth and large-scale strategic-level command capability under the command.Continuous training lessons for nearly ten years.In actual combat exercises, the abilities of those people are already beyond the reach of most generals in the world today.

Chen Changjie prided himself on his good background, and also felt that he was a rare general, not weaker than those boys who became monks halfway through.But when he actually started working on the front line, he realized that it couldn't be solved with confidence alone!

Faced with this situation, Chief Fu Zuoyi gave him a simple suggestion: "Go to the front line to command the battle, put yourself completely on the battlefield, learn in the battle, and grow the fastest."

Chen Changjie simply placed his military command in the battle formation that was about to advance, and acted together.

It's just that today will be the day when at least 50 first-line troops and 50 second-echelon troops will launch a general offensive on the entire frontline of thousands of miles. His 10 people are just one of the vanguards and must wait for the general signal to arrive .

The crisp and pleasant reminder electronic sound of "Dididi" suddenly came from the watch, and Chen Changjie's spirit was shocked. When he saw it, it was exactly 7:5 as agreed.Almost at the same time, three red flares rose in succession in the gray sky outside!

Chen Changjie opened his eyes and blurted out: "The general offensive has officially begun! I order all the 61st Army to move forward!"

"go ahead!"

For a moment, radio waves spread across the vast, icy northern border.Gusino-Ozersk and Petrovsk, which are more than 150 kilometers away, are two important military towns, and the 61th and 69nd divisions of the 72st Army mobilized in unison.

In front of them, Du Li's 7th Armored Cavalry Brigade, directly under the Du Li Tank Regiment, each acted as a sharp edge, launching hundreds of various armored machinery with a bang, the sound of rumbling engines, and the sound of clanging track collisions rang out in an instant. one slice!

In the camp where Chen Changjie was, densely packed light and heavy tanks of the 7th Tank Brigade lined up in the front were spewing thick smoke. The battalion was used as a unit, equipped with infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery, forming a fist force of hundreds of combat units as a cluster. About [-] kilometers away, the front of the fortifications built by the Soviet army more than a year in advance!

And in the mountains on the east side about 21 kilometers away from here, the heavy artillery directly under the 2st Artillery Regiment also completely tore off the camouflage, and just [-] minutes after the tank fleet moved violently, it opened fire!

Three artillery battalions, 18 105mm cannons, 152 18mm howitzers, and 32 122-tube [-]mm rocket launchers exploded together with a powerful force that was only one level behind the main force of the Zhu family's army. Hundreds of powerful shells!

In front of.On the front of the passage less than five kilometers wide, the sky above the seven or eight trenches of the Soviet army was filled with roaring noises like rolling thunder!

The reconnaissance outpost set up on the hill on the left wing heard it first through the loudspeaker, and hurriedly grabbed the phone and shouted loudly: "The enemy is attacking! Shelling! Shelling!"

Immediately, a shrill alarm sounded from Maozi's defense line, and the Maozi officers from top to bottom waved their pistols and yelled: "Hurry up! Hurry up and enter the position! Bastard, the damned Chinese devils are coming! We must stop them!" "

Don't look at the [-]-kilometer-deep defense line behind.But everyone knows that in the era of mechanized warfare, the safety of this distance is about the same as a layer of window paper.And the snowflakes in the sky are getting rarer and rarer, and it can be predicted that in the daytime after it is completely lit, there will be enemy fighter planes attacking.There will no longer be a safe place in the entire war zone, and entering the bunker fortifications is the only way out!

Obviously, the boys guessed it right!

The first round of 18 rounds of 152mm grenades landed directly without even passing through the school, and exploded violently at a low altitude of tens of meters before falling to the ground, thousands of killing fragments unscrupulously swept across the battlefield.Immediately, they were killed and wounded by the Maozi soldiers who hurried out of the artillery shelter and had no time to enter the trench!

The next moment, a 105mm armor-piercing projectile with extremely high firing speed swept across!Its carefully designed deep-drilling warhead suddenly fell at a nearly vertical angle after flying to the highest point. With the help of the supersonic end-impact kinetic energy, it ruthlessly plunged into the hard frozen soil, or the thick fortification bunker built by Maozi was deep. place!

Rumbling and violent explosions came from the underground which was as shallow as three meters and as deep as four or five meters, and the earth trembled violently.The structure of every trench and every anti-gun bunker was shaken and the dust flew up, and the chest of the soldiers hiding inside was swollen, and the rhythm of the heart beating was chaotic.

Although it is only a mere 105mm shell, it is practical and expensive for all countries. It is doped with heavy metals such as tungsten alloy, and its weight is twice that of conventional shells. Drilling into the bunker, the downward and forward impact explosion is a three-meter concrete or rock log fortress.Can also penetrate!Those are just a bunch of large-caliber armor-piercing shells!

High-density, high-speed armor-piercing projectiles are mixed among the 152mm grenades. With the help of the extremely advanced artillery sighting radar, they precisely aim at the main targets captured by satellite reconnaissance and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at low altitude.A series of semi-submersible bunkers were blasted apart abruptly, and dozens of people hiding inside were screaming and injured in the explosion!

This round of blows is not aimless.

Maozi's project of building a long line of defense started two years ago. In order to ensure concealment, before the construction, they had troops marching tens of kilometers ahead of the police, and tried to choose places covered by dense forests, and even worked at night. It is to prevent the target from being exposed.

It's just that they never imagined that the opponent on the opposite side has such a big killer as a military reconnaissance satellite. No matter day or night, the terrain and map changes caused by their construction are accurately marked, and passed by the unmanned reconnaissance drone a year ago. After scanning by technical means such as low-altitude thermal induction detection, the existence of artificial buildings can be confirmed.

Even if the structure of these buildings is extremely concealed, they won't last long under the attacking artillery fire group whose precision can be locked at a spread radius of 10 meters!

A series of shells unceremoniously penetrated into each stronghold, even if it resisted the first round and the second round, it could not withstand the next seven or eight rounds, almost endless berserk blows!

Hiding inside, the Maozi soldiers who thought they were safe watched helplessly as the building above was blasted away by the top-attack armor-piercing bullets one after another, and finally screamed in despair!There are smart ones who don't hesitate to run out of it and hide in the trenches. Even if they may be killed by shrapnel flying unscrupulously in the air, it is better than waiting for death inside every minute and every second!

It's so vicious!Damn it!It's so unreasonable!

The commander of Maozi's second army, who was slightly behind a line of defense, roared angrily after hearing the screaming report from the observation post in front: "How is it possible?! How did the Chinese know the coordinates of our fortifications? How did their shells hit them?" So accurate?! This is a joke!"

Are you kidding, God will not tell him, and the great Marxist-Leninist can't use theory to deduce it, because no one has heard of it, and it is possible to shoot shells so accurately from a distance of more than ten kilometers!

This is the beginning!

Just 10 minutes after the artillery bombardment, the rocket launch finally started!A total of 576 launch tubes ejected dazzling flames in a steady and orderly manner, and one round of 122 rockets rushed into the sky with a terrifying scream.The continuous light formed by all the gun carriages firing together even drew a long bridge more than ten kilometers long in the sky!Spectacular on a gray winter morning!

Not long after, swarms of rockets exploded on the raging front!Under the extremely high speed, the projectile drew a beautiful arc and dived to the low altitude, and then, one after another, the powerful and conscience-stricken cloud bombs.Bang and shine!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The terrifying cloud bombs, which are seven or eight times more powerful than large-caliber artillery shells, formed clusters of horrifying small mushroom clouds, with the ends sticking to the ground. The distance between each bomb was about 200 meters, like mushrooms after rain. However, the five-kilometer-wide position is raging crazily!

The position sandwiched between the two mountains was almost evacuated of all the oxygen at once!Those are hidden in the dense forest, behind the rocks.Halfway up the mountain, the firepower points, anti-aircraft artillery positions, machine gun fortresses, and caves for Tibetan soldiers on the hills were severely camouflaged during the previous shelling, and the top cover was opened. All anti-artillery, anti-chemical airtight and unobstructed facilities All of them were destroyed, and when they suddenly encountered a large weapon designed to kill and injure living forces, they had no defense ability at all!

In the opened fortifications.Thousands of Maozi huddled together in embarrassment, relying on the solid fortifications that could withstand large-scale and long-term shelling, but they never expected that such a terrible thing would come!

The clusters of rockets were precisely calculated and set, and the landing point evenly wrapped around every stronghold marked by the investigation. At the same time, the oxygen in the narrow areas with a radius of [-] meters was evacuated at the same time, and the high temperature of thousands of degrees was generated instantly. , the air is overheated, and the thick snow and ice accumulated on the ground are followed by gasification and evaporation.It was triggered by the cloud explosion bomb that fell later, resulting in a thousand-fold violent expansion, forming a terrible low-altitude detonation!

The ground at minus 30 degrees suddenly turned into a steamer over [-] degrees!The tens of millions of tons of high-temperature steam stimulated by the cloud explosion bomb swept and infiltrated into every gap and every inch of space recklessly, whether it was in the bombed fortifications or in the intact fortifications, even if it was a tree that was lucky enough to be collapsed. In the hollow covered by the broken stones, the world changed in an instant!

No matter how tough Maozi's will is.That is flesh and blood too!No matter how much vodka they drank, how much spirits they had, there was nothing but screaming in the face of the horrible steam that could burn them into pigs in a second.No second performance!

Mao Zi, who had high hopes and thought that these fortifications alone would be able to stop the frontal attack for at least ten days and a half months, saw that in less than half an hour, he was forced to sweep away the multiple defense lines several kilometers deep. !

Under the combined bombardment of various artillery shells for half an hour, the strongest fortification fortress was almost completely destroyed.On the contrary, those trenches that were built in a hurry recently and placed brightly on the flat ground unexpectedly did not suffer much damage. The soldiers who rushed in were basically intact, but they watched the surrounding hiding places completely destroyed , the Maozi thought desperately, even if the opponent didn't rush forward to attack, it only took one night to freeze them all alive here!

The roar of rumbling artillery shells began to extend forward, and in the valley filled with billowing water vapor and thick smoke, vibrations like earth dragons traveling quickly approached. Tiger main battle tanks, with huge push shovels in front of them, moved aggressively. The real face emerged from the inside, clinging to the front of the trench, forcibly opening more than a dozen wide snow walls.

The frozen snow of more than one meter was squeezed into a huge black wall of three or four meters high and stretched forward from the rear, and the rest was crushed into a flat road surface, which turned the previous difficult-to-pass road The ground became smooth.

Large tracts of primeval forest were completely destroyed. Behind the opened passage, groups of cheetah tanks and infantry combat vehicles deftly passed through, and the synchronized artillery fired again and again, escorting the big guys who opened the way ahead.

On the road ahead, the obstacles piled up with logs, the anti-tank trenches dug out by excavators, and even the destructive pits blasted out with explosives were all easily handled by Tiger tank wreckers without exception. Pushing and pushing, filling what should be filled, the momentum is like breaking a bamboo, like entering the land of no one!

On the battlefield directly in front, the wall of fire exploded and slowly advanced, like a boulder mechanism blocking the passage, pinching Commander Maozi's neck tightly by 1.1 meters, making him feel desperate --- here, you can't defend Living!

If you can't keep it, it's not just here!

Just another battlefield under the command of Chen Changjie, in the northern mountains of Petrovsk, several lines of defense stuck in narrow valleys were also bombarded with the same viciousness one after another!It is also the configuration of an artillery regiment, and it is also the precise strike mode of a mixture of armor-piercing projectiles, anti-personnel grenades and cloud bombs. In less than an hour, more than 100 fortifications within [-] kilometers were completely destroyed. None left!

The main force of the infantry of the 72nd Division, which was in charge of that side, was dispersed into company-level units. They drove straight in under the tank cleared, and passed through forcefully, aiming directly at the east side of Ulan-Ude! (m. Read.) rt