Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 313 Target: St. Petersburg (5)
At this time, Zhang Yu's Mongolian cavalry was facing a big trouble in front of the Bloodthirsty Cathedral of Christ. The cavalry division was led by Khalkha Khan Limuzhuo.Facts have proved that this cavalry division galloping across the grassland is completely unsuitable for the requirements of street fighting, and there is also a lack of effective tactical guidance. The criss-crossing streets of St. Petersburg are like a huge maze, and the windows of every building are always open. It is possible to spit out red flames.In less than two kilometers of travel, this unlucky cavalry division lost nearly a battalion.This made Li Muzhuo very annoyed, he yelled and cursed at the dark alley from time to time.

For the 74th Division of the Russian Army, which is responsible for the defense of this area, even if the entire Bloodthirsty Cathedral of Christ is turned into rubble, it is the order of the Tsar to repel or even eliminate the Chinese.Compared with imperial power, the spiritual symbols of these people are really nothing.Anyway, if they can't keep it, this place will soon not be their land.In addition to ambushing firepower points in the surrounding buildings, the Russian army also set up several fortifications in front of the street to start a frontal attack with the Chinese.

In order to make up for the gap in firepower with the Chinese army, this Russian army also specially used wheel-mounted tube retreat artillery. In order not to let the opponent find out, they also disassembled the artillery and quietly transported it into the two front buildings. in the body.

From the moment Li Muzhuo's cavalry team arrived here, they fell into the quagmire of being encircled and suppressed, unable to extricate themselves.In desperation, Li Muzhuo sent a battalion of troops to focus on shooting at the Russian firepower points on the two buildings in order to attract the enemy's firepower, so that a brigade of troops could concentrate on dealing with the frontal Russian military fortifications.The rest of the cavalry circled around from the flanks, trying to find a breakthrough.However, due to the narrow terrain, it is not convenient for the cavalry to disperse, so the Russian artillery played the greatest role at this time. Often, one shell can end the lives of dozens of cavalry at the same time. Hiding behind a bunker and being in a high position, Li Muzhuo's offensive strategy was quickly broken.After two rounds of shooting, the Mongolian cavalry lost nearly a quarter of their troops, and the narrow space was densely covered with Chinese corpses and blood.However, Li Muzhuo only took away one firepower point of the enemy, and mainly set up peripheral observation posts with light machine guns.Fortunately, due to the limitation of the narrow space between the buildings, the Russian army had to use smaller caliber artillery, and the accuracy of the hit was not very good.If the Russians push their 85mm caliber battalion artillery over, Li Muzhuo and his cavalry division will definitely be wiped out in a short time.

Seeing the warriors on the grassland being shot down one by one, and hearing the stern neighing of the war horses, Li Muzhuo couldn't help closing his eyes, and prayed silently in his heart: "The gods of the grassland, Li Muzhuo is willing to exchange his life for Your blessing"

Maybe it was Li Muzhuo's sincere prayer that worked, or maybe it was the ice field where the gods of the grassland really descended. Li Muzhuo suddenly heard a huge roar of machines not far away, and the ground under his feet began to vibrate.

"Tank! It's our tank!" Li Muzhuo followed the direction of the soldier's finger, and saw two black steel behemoths, crushing countless broken bricks and rubble, slowly coming from the dark and deep street behind.

boom!The Hunter Tiger tank at the front greeted the Russians with shells, and half the wall of the second-story building on the right collapsed, and the Russian soldiers hidden inside shouted in panic: "What is that?" ?” “Destroy this nasty monster with artillery!”

Several artillery pieces of the Russian army pointed their muzzles at the hunting tiger. Suddenly, the sound of the cannons and the smoke filled the air. The two shells finally hit the front armor of the tank and exploded, "Hit! This time!" Let's see how the Chinese are still showing off their prestige." But after the smoke from the explosion dissipated, the rumbling sound of machines sounded again, and the two tanks seemed to be unharmed, and continued to move towards the Russian fortifications.

"what happened?"

"Devil"

The Russians were stunned!
Just when the Russians were in doubt, the two tanks had passed through the dense bullets and artillery fire, rushed to the front of the Russian defense line, raised their muzzles and let out an earth-shattering roar at the firepower point on the opposite building. The 5.5-inch main gun, one 7.92mm Maxim machine gun and two 7.7mm Lewis machine guns fired together. The bullets hit the front of the two buildings with thick smoke, and the Russian artillery on the opposite side poured its artillery fire on the Jaeger. On the No. [-] and the Land Ship.Of course, the light artillery of the Russian army has no way to cause big trouble to the two tanks.boom!Accompanied by a loud noise, the entire floor where the three Russian cannons were located collapsed, and a large number of bricks and tiles mixed with the corpses of the Russian soldiers and the wreckage of the cannons fell one after another, and landed heavily on the open space in front of the building. .However, the artillery on this side just went silent, and the Russian artillery on the other side fired again.The first shell landed directly less than half a meter away from the land ship.Seeing this scene, the machine gunner on the upper tower opened fire quickly in an attempt to suppress the firepower of the artillery.

Taking advantage of the tanks holding most of the firepower of the Russian army, Li Muzhuo gave an order, and a cavalry regiment rushed into the building at the fastest speed, holding all the rotary machine guns in their hands, and aimed at the Russians in the building. The people swept across, and the Russian soldiers in the building screamed in fright: "The Chinese have come in!" The four artillery deployed on the second floor were helpless in the face of the Chinese cavalry who rushed in suddenly, and the artillerymen wiped cold sweat. , while yelling at the soldiers downstairs: "Kill them, we must not let them rush up!"

Although the rate of fire and ammunition of this type of disc machine gun is very small, the combined firepower of hundreds of machine guns is still very impressive, and the Chinese soldiers immediately seized the four corners of the room according to infantry tactics as soon as they got off their horses. , covering each other alternately, interweaving into an extremely tight fire net. Whenever the Russian army shoots at a certain point, other points will fire together. These suppressed Russians have no way to raise their heads.Under such circumstances, the death toll of the Russian army soared sharply, and the soldiers upstairs continued to support, but there were still very few people who could come back.The cannon fired again leisurely.The gunfire downstairs was getting louder and louder. The artillerymen were panting nervously. The artillery completely lost control and lost the last bit of accuracy.

"Boss, look, it's a plane, our plane!" Suddenly there was the roar of machines in the sky, Li Muzhuo looked up, and saw two Chinese planes leading an airship in the deep blue sky The formation is flying this way.The plane was much faster than the airship, and it reached the sky above the Bloodthirsty Cathedral of Christ in the blink of an eye. The two planes circled at low altitude in two directions, and arrived at the designated position first.

Li Muzhuo was very excited, but it was still very difficult for a high-altitude plane to accurately hit a building, especially in such a neighborhood.Skyscrapers.If the target building is not marked, even the best pilots will have no way to drop the bomb where they want to drop it.But at this time, we can only rely on Li Muzhuo's ground troops to do the marking.

Therefore, Li Muzhuo selected a few capable cavalrymen, handed the purple smoke bombs to the opponent, and said to them: "The life and death of the entire army now depends on you, I hope you will not embarrass the Mongols!" After a pause, he continued, "Remember, you must hit the fog bomb on top of the building on the left. If you make a mistake, our plane may drop the bomb on us by mistake."

The 12 soldiers touched their chests with their right hands, bowed slightly, and said, "Don't worry, the leader, we won't come back if we can't finish the mission."

Li Muzhuo's eyes flickered: "Young man, you are wrong. People on the grassland are not afraid of death, but they must not make unnecessary sacrifices."

The time for the plane to circle in the sky is limited, and the distance of the airship is still far away. Therefore, this special team must complete the marking task in the shortest time.At this time, the two tanks of Liehu and Landship were still attacking forward, and they were about to rush to the front of the four fortifications built by the enemy.The gunfire on the first floor of that building sounded like popping beans, and the soldiers who charged in must have been engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy.While the enemy army was in chaos, Li Muzhuo gave an order, and the cavalry around him began to cover fire. This time, all their machine gunners were dispatched, desperately covering the impact of the assault troops, and those selected assault troops The troops began to infiltrate in a detour from the east.But the Russians are not wooden. The soldiers guarding the fourth floor discovered the abnormal behavior of the Chinese, and began to turn their guns one after another to suppress the infiltration force desperately.The battle between the two sides was very fierce.The 12 assault soldiers selected by Li Muzhuo were under the blow of the enemy's storm, and more than half of them were killed or injured in just 2 minutes, but they all knew in their hearts that the short distance of tens of meters in front of them would be paved with their own blood.

Under the cover of the vitality of the Chinese side, the two assault soldiers who finally survived touched the bottom of the building by approaching in a roundabout way, and then they lit two purple smoke launch canisters within a distance of about ten meters.A few seconds later, the two jars began to slowly smoke.In the beginning, the smoke was just a few wisps that spread out.After a few more seconds, the smoke began to thicken, and soon groups of thick smoke rose into the sky, enveloping the entire building tightly.

When Li Muzhuo saw that he was done, he hurriedly ordered the communications soldiers to use signal flares to call the cavalry in the building to evacuate the building.

At this time, the two fighter planes circling in the sky began to climb higher to obtain the altitude required for dive bombing.When they climbed to nearly 1000 meters, they suddenly rolled over in the air and entered a dive state with the nose down.At this time, the few Russian artillerymen who were fighting stopped their movements one after another. They stared blankly at the two "flying monsters" without blinking their eyes.

(End of this chapter)