Age of Conquest Reborn

The counterattack commanded by Major General Liu Hongzhang, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Corps directly under the **Division and commander-in-chief of the Selenga River Campaign, was extremely smooth at the beginning. Hundreds of mortars and hundreds of recoilless guns were fired.

The dense artillery shells hit the Soviet troops gathering on the river beach with maximum firepower and disrupted the Soviet position.

After the infantry began to attack, the battle became intense. On a battlefield that was more than 20 kilometers long and only a few hundred meters wide, more than 100,000 soldiers from both sides were mixed together. The gunfire was as dense as a summer rainstorm, and there was no need to aim.

, every bullet will hit the target. A large number of Soviet soldiers equipped with submachine guns took a great advantage in this kind of close combat, causing the Soviet soldiers to stagger and suffer heavy casualties.

As the battle progressed, when they broke into the depths of the Soviet troops, they encountered stubborn resistance from Soviet soldiers. All Soviet officers and soldiers, including the commander, Major General Wadkin, understood the situation they were facing.

Behind him is the turbulent Selenge River, in front of him are the submachine guns in their hands, and the soldiers of the Army are constantly spitting tongues of fire. If they cannot withstand the attack, what awaits them is the fate of being wiped out on the river beach.

As the officers said, there was no sign of the assault boat that had been evacuated to the north bank. Even if it came, the mortars of the Japanese Army exploded like the river was boiling. The Chinese were obviously trying to cut off their own.

On the back road, when faced with this situation, soldiers usually have two reactions. One is to panic, lose all fighting spirit, and obediently raise their hands to surrender. The other is to resist desperately, hold the beachhead position, and wait for the assault boat from the other side to arrive.

There is still a chance of survival.

The tradition of the Soviet Red Army imposes extremely severe penalties on troops and soldiers who surrender to the enemy on the battlefield. The troops have their designations revoked, and the top military commanders and political commissars are shot if they return alive. The soldiers are usually punished with treason, and they are also

His family members were implicated. Historically, during the Soviet Patriotic War, the ruthless and ruthless Stalin shot more than one Soviet marshal and general because of the defeat in the war.

Moreover, according to the Soviet Army's political work regulations, the political commissar of the army can, without authorization, remove any top commander who wavers on the battlefield and has a tendency to surrender to the enemy until execution.

Under the tremendous pressure and blows from the ** division troops, the Soviet army faced wavering and collapse. Chaos arose and the troops showed signs of losing control. This was also a normal reaction.

Only a veteran force that has been fighting for a long time can maintain relative calm. However, the Soviet troops on the south bank are not. At this time, political commissars at all levels in the Soviet troops played a role. They shouted "For the Soviets!"

For Comrade Stalin, we will fight to the end!" He pulled out his pistol, pointed it at the retreating soldiers without hesitation, and pulled the trigger.

This extreme approach had a great effect. The chaotic Soviet soldiers began to return to their organizational structure and gathered together to form fighting groups with political commissars as the core. They gathered together and stared at each other.

On the shore, they became scattered but hard-to-gnaw bones. Two brigades directly under the ** Division and four reinforced regiments of the Outer Mongolia Border Guard Army, with more than 40,000 troops, encountered opponents who dared to fight hard. The sharp momentum of the attack.

was contained.

With a distance of less than 200 meters, standing on the bank of the Selenge River, more than 50,000 Soviet soldiers would become corpses or prisoners. But with such a short distance, the troops could no longer attack.

The Soviet soldiers marched forward one after another, holding on to the last position regardless of casualties.

Colonel Fan Dezhi, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Mechanized Brigade of the Directly Affiliated Corps, commanded the four battalions under his command and was responsible for the counterattack mission in one main direction. As soon as the battle began, Fan Dezhi, protected by several guards, rushed to the front and rushed to the front.

The regimental guard company commander was sweating on his face and followed the regiment leader every step of the way. For this, he even got kicked by the regiment commander several times because he thought he was in the way!

Like a sharp knife, the mass suddenly cut into the Soviet troops. Fan Dezhi looked around and was happy at that time. What a good guy, he grabbed more than 5,000 Soviet soldiers in one fell swoop, and followed each other.

Scurrying around like headless flies, the gunshots fired back were sparse and messy. Fan Dezhi immediately judged that this Soviet army was in disarray. It was a good opportunity, despite the fact that the regiment only had more than 3,500 troops.

But Fan Dezhi was confident in his heart and was not afraid of bursting his belly. In this situation, the Soviet soldiers were like frightened birds, and their will to resist was extremely low. More than 5,000 people were just a flock of sheep, and they were all wrapped up together. Maybe they could form a fighting force.

, the result of one regiment wiping out the most enemies.

Fan Dezhi turned around and looked around. There were melees and fierce battles everywhere. Except for the company commander of the regiment's security company and more than 150 soldiers of the company, who still maintained a complete organization and followed him, there was no other member of his regiment.

Organized soldiers.

Fan Dezhi clucked his teeth and said, "What the hell kind of war is this? It's like herding sheep, there's a lot of noise everywhere, a big pile of Soviet soldiers doesn't taste good, why don't they divide it into several pieces to eat? Those four

The battalion commander is also a fool, he doesn’t know how to keep in touch with the regiment headquarters, he only cares about himself and has no idea of ​​the overall situation. At the critical moment, he can’t find anyone, so he is anxious!”

At this time, if he had a battalion of troops in hand and concentrated his firepower to strike deep, he would be able to split the large pile of Soviet soldiers in front of him into two pieces and eat them all easily. Fan Dezhi hurriedly sent out

The four guard soldiers went to contact the four battalion commanders, and then led the guard company themselves to fight deep into the Soviet army.

Fan Dezhi was firing with the submachine gun in his hand. Suddenly, the guard company commander next to him threw him to the ground. Then, a long string of bullets almost flew past his scalp, knocking him away.

Helmet on head, Fan

Dezhi saw with his own eyes that a dozen soldiers from the guard company in front fell to the ground. At some point, a Soviet firepower point suddenly appeared, a heavy machine gun, spitting tongues of fire, blocking the front.

open space.

A sticky, warm liquid flowed down his forehead. Fan Dezhi wiped it with his hands. His hands were full of blood. Although the heavy machine gun bullets did not hit him, the steel helmet that was hit by the bullets broke his helmet.

On the forehead, as the Soviet gunfire became more intensive, the charge of the guard company was suppressed in place and unable to move forward. Fortunately, the craters everywhere provided cover for the soldiers.

Otherwise, on the river beach with an unobstructed view, a company of soldiers, including Fan Dezhi, will become a living target for the Soviet heavy machine guns. Because the two armies are mixed together, the recoilless rifles in the rear positions will be unable to do anything and just stare!

Fan Dezhi was furious. After fighting for ** years, he was injured a few times, but they were all hit by shells or bullets, which could be regarded as injuries from the line of fire. However, he was injured by his own helmet, which was considered a casualty.

What's going on?

If word got out, the Second Regiment Commander and the others would laugh at him to death! In future meetings at the brigade headquarters, he would become the butt of their jokes.

Although he was angry, he did not lose his mind. The bullets from the Soviet army screamed and flew over his head, causing goosebumps all over his body. Lying on the cold and wet river beach, Fan Dezhi kept a very calm mind and observed.

Looking at the surrounding situation, he found that the battlefield he was on was no longer chaotic. The Soviet soldiers began to stabilize their positions and began to fight back in an organized manner.

Fan Dezhi pounded the ground hard. The battlefield was rich and he knew that today's counterattack could only go so far. The Soviet army had already reacted. If they attacked forcefully, they would win in the end, but the troops would not be able to win.

The price paid would be extremely heavy and his vitality would be damaged. In the next few days, he would not be able to stop the Soviet follow-up troops. He also believed that the brigade commander would not be so reckless.

Fan Dezhi pulled the communications soldier who was following him closely and was carrying a walkie-talkie on his back. Under the deafening gunfire, he lay in his ear and shouted loudly: "Report to the brigade commander immediately, the Soviet army has stabilized its position and has begun to attack."

The organization fought back, but the attack of one regiment was blocked. The regiment leader Fan Dezhi suggested to the headquarters to stop the attack immediately!"

Liu Hongzhang, who was always commanding operations on the front line, not only received reports from the regiment commander Fan Dezhi, but also received reports from other units in the counterattack direction. The contents were basically the same. As he attacked the Soviet army in depth, he encountered more and more resistance.

As the war progressed, the troops began to suffer casualties. In several major counterattack areas, the troops were suppressed by Soviet firepower and were unable to continue the attack. The commanders of each unit were adjusting their firepower in an effort to defeat the Soviet resistance in one fell swoop!

Liu Hongzhang really wanted to continue the fight. More than 50,000 Soviet troops were an attractive piece of fat. If you swallowed it in one bite, your mouth would definitely be full of oil. However, 40,000 to 50,000 were originally thin-skinned but big-stuffed.

Liu Hongzhang's concerns were the same as Fan Dezhi's. He was afraid that the troops would lose too much and would be unable to hold on to the Selenge River position for four days under the attack of the Soviet army's follow-up troops.

Therefore, Liu Hongzhang resisted this temptation and said to Chief of Staff Liu Chenglin: "Chief of Staff, immediately issue an order to the counterattack troops to immediately withdraw to their original positions. The mortar troops should stop blocking the river and instead shell the Soviet troops crossing the river.

, since I can’t eat it, before I leave, I have to use tens of thousands of artillery shells to give me a good farewell!”

Although Liu Hongzhang felt very sorry for not being able to annihilate more than 50,000 Soviet troops, judging from the effect of the counterattack, the purpose of the battle had been achieved, and even exceeded expectations. According to his own observation, half of

Many hours of shelling, coupled with infantry assaults, killed at least 10,000 Soviet troops. The Soviet troops tightly defended the river in order to withdraw to the north bank. The shelling of the mortar units was impossible to count in the dark, and they were blown up.

How many assault boats did the Soviet army have?

It was obviously to assist the evacuation of Soviet soldiers. Finally, the nails wedged into the position were pulled out, and the Soviet troops occupying the beachhead were driven back to the north bank. Although regretful, Liu Hongzhang was also quite pleased.

(To be continued)(To be continued...)