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The Iron-Blooded Republic Volume 2: The Art of Power Chapter 892: The Red Tank¡¯s Final Song Part 3

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    "Fire! Fire quickly! Block their infantry!"

    "Call for artillery support! Damn it, what are our artillery doing?"

    "There is no way, the phone can't get through, there is no way to tell the artillery the coordinates"

    At this moment, the entire Soviet front was in indescribable chaos. The millions of troops under Frunze and Baranov were all fighting independently. The front-line troops and the artillery in the rear could not communicate at all, so there was no way.  Received timely and accurate artillery support, and the number of artillery deployed on the front line was not large, and the caliber was not large. It was mainly used to deal with tanks, but it could not defeat the Chinese Army's Cheetah tank destroyer 2,000 meters away. It was deployed in Luoyang.  The 330 T-28/1936 tanks on the line from Sino-Petrovsky to Elekt also seemed to be herding sheep. Some huddled behind and did not move, while others bravely rushed to the edge of their own anti-tank trenches.  , used their 57mm cannons to bombard the Chinese Army's Cheetah tank destroyers, and were soon beaten into piles of smoking scrap metal!

    The attack on the Chinese side was as orderly as in the textbook. When tank destroyers and self-propelled artillery bombarded the Soviet front line, the Chinese infantry and combat engineers who were attacking in armored personnel carriers got off the armored vehicles and swarmed towards the anti-tanks in front.  Trench, prepare to use explosives to collapse the inner wall of the anti-tank trench to form a gentle slope that can be attacked by tanks. This is originally a risk-taking job. The anti-tank trench is the barrier for the Soviet forward position, and they will definitely concentrate all their firepower on it.  The Chinese infantry and engineers wanted to destroy it.  However, now the Soviet frontline cannot contact their artillery positions at all, and their artillery and tanks on the front line are busy fighting against more than a thousand tanks and assault artillery of the Chinese army.  There was simply no hand left to suppress the Chinese infantry that was constantly pouring into the anti-tank ditch.  Even if they try not to hit Chinese tanks, how powerful can those 45mm or 57mm anti-tank guns be against infantry?

    As for their 76.2mm anti-tank gun, it can be used as a field gun.  However, this kind of anti-tank gun placed in a carefully camouflaged artillery bunker is the biggest trump card in the hands of the Soviet infantry from Losino-Petrovsky to Elekt, and there are not many in total, so  How can you use it to bombard infantry when you are not willing to open fire and expose the target until the most critical moment?  This kind of artillery is not as fast as the 45mm anti-tank gun that can move positions. As soon as the target is exposed, it is guaranteed to be silenced by the Chinese army's heavy artillery!

    result.  Facing the surging Chinese infantry, the only weapons the Soviets could use to fight back were rifles, machine guns and mortars.

    ¡°Call the stalkers and suppress Lao Maozi¡¯s machine gun position!

    "Mortar. Counterattack!"

    ¡°Commando, come with me!¡±

    There was a problem with the firepower coordination of the Soviet artillery infantry tanks. The Chinese infantry who had just rushed to the edge of the anti-tank trench opened their battle lines. Their machine guns, mortars and recoilless rifles were all set up.  got up.  All kinds of ammunition were sent to the Soviets for free.  They also used the radio to call the anti-tank destroyers behind them, requesting fire support.  In an instant, the Soviet army's forward position was shrouded in all kinds of bullets and fireballs.

    "Distance xxx, azimuth angle xxx, civil engineering works, No. 1 armor-piercing projectile, fire!"

    Since the artillery group at the rear of the Soviet army did not know what they were bombarding, no high-explosive grenade fell around the Chinese army's tank-destroying horizontal formation.  So the commander of this Stalker tank destroyer numbered 590 simply opened the top cover and leaned half of his body out.  Holding an optical rangefinder in his hand, he acted as an artillery observer.  After he broke out a series of data, the 48-caliber 75mm cannon immediately sprayed out a ball of fire.  While the vehicle body vibrated, the targeted Soviet firepower points suddenly exploded like brilliant fireworks.

    Although the distance is more than 1,700 meters, the power of 75mm armor-piercing bullets is not something that civil fortifications built with sandbags, soil and wood can withstand. Even the Soviet T-28/1935 can withstand stalkers at this distance.  The 75mm cannon is both mentioned.  Although judging from the paper data, the front armor of this latest model T-28 is very strong, the performance of Soviet weapons on the battlefield has always been not as good as the paper data.  Therefore, there is no big problem even if the Stalker is used to deal with the T-28/1935, but there are so many Cheetah tank destroyers on today's battlefield. Where can a small man like the Stalker show off his majesty?

    "Left 4 degrees, distance 1800, civil fortifications, armor-piercing shells" After another series of orders from the commander, the stalker's cannon once again spit out an armor-piercing shell.

    Another Soviet firepower point turned into a pile of ruins with a roar.

    ¡­¡­

    "Comrade Commander, Comrade Commander!" A staff officer rushed into the former enemy command post of the Baranov Group in Losino-Petrovsky City with an anxious face, and loudly reported while breathing heavily: "  Comrade Commander??, General Vasilevsky sent someone to inform them that they were already fighting with the Chinese armored group!  "

    The expression on Baranov's face relaxed slightly. It seemed that everything was going according to plan - except that the communication between the troops was very problematic.  Next to him, Lieutenant General Konev, chief of staff of the cluster, clapped his hands suddenly: "Great! It's our turn to attack!" He looked at Baranov: "Comrade Commander, give the order!"

    "Okay!" Baranov has been waiting for this moment.  "Tank cluster, attack! Target the flanks of the Chinese armored cluster! Tell comrades, now is the battle of honor for our Soviet tank soldiers. Comrade Trotsky and the future proletariat are watching us!"

    "yes!"

    Dozens of tank brigade commanders gathered in the war room of the command post roared at the same time. After solemnly saluting General Baranov, they poured out of the command post and ran to the hidden locations of their respective tank brigades.  .  Baranov and Konev looked at each other, picked up the military caps placed on the map table and put them on their heads, and walked outside one after another. They would also direct the battle on the front line.  Like Marshal Tukhachevsky, he was prepared to succeed or die.

    ¡°For the sake of the Soviets, go for it!¡±

    "For the motherland! Ula! Ula!"

    In the plains around Losino-Petrovsky, the sound of crazy urras suddenly echoed through the sky.  In order to cooperate with the tank cluster assault, so as to establish a defense line in time after breaking through the Chinese army's position, and cover the tank cluster to attack the flank of the Chinese armored cluster, a large number of Soviet infantry were ordered to ride directly on tanks and assault artillery to participate in the assault together!  Baranov even collected many trucks to transport infantry behind the tanks.  This style of play that completely ignores the artillery coverage of the Chinese army can only be described as crazy!  Their opponent, the Chinese 7th Group Army commanded by General Li Zongren, was also an old unit that had fought all the way from Eastern Siberia. In the face of such a desperate counterattack by the Soviet army, its position remained intact.

    Nearly 650 105mm and 155mm howitzers from 36 artillery battalions of 3 corps-level artillery regiments and 9 division-level artillery regiments deployed behind the 7th Army front opened fire together.  At the same time, dozens of German Air Force hs-129 attack aircraft circling in the air to support the Chinese offensive also joined the battle group.  The hs-129 is a special attack aircraft with strong anti-tank effectiveness developed by the German Henschel company. What appeared on the Lossino-Petrovsky battlefield today is the hs-129b-equipped with a 37mm anti-tank gun.  Type 2/r3.  Although there are only two squadrons with a total of 32 tanks, the nickname of tank can opener is by no means unearned.  The 32 hs-129s were divided into eight four-machine formations and launched successive attacks on the Soviet tanks. When the first hs-129 fired its shells and left the target area, the second one immediately followed up and attacked, and the Soviet tanks burst into flames.  The falling Chinese howitzer shells knocked the Soviet infantry accompanying the tanks to their knees.

    However, Baranov, who was watching the battle from a half-track armored command vehicle at the rear, was not moved at all. Now this loss was completely within his expectation. As long as the tank group can break through the Chinese infantry in front of it and bypass the Chinese armored group  On the flanks, the Soviet tank troops can become the last bright spot in this world revolution.

    "Speed ??up! Don't worry about the planes in the sky! Rush over, don't stop and fire, use the tracks to crush all the Chinese!" Konev, who was directing the assault further ahead, saw the Chinese infantry on the battlefield ahead attacking his own  He retreated from the starting position and shouted excitedly: "Charge over! Charging over is victory. Charge, crush them to death, kill all these damn invaders"

    And Konev¡¯s current opponent, Lieutenant General Wei Lihuang, commander of the 22nd Infantry Corps of the Chinese Defense Forces, was a little dumbfounded when he received the news that the Soviet tank group had launched a counterattack.  His unit was an infantry unit that had just realized motorization. It didn't even have a tank or armored vehicle, and now it encountered an assault by a Soviet tank group!

    "Damn it, Lao Maozi is just trying to get someone to help him before he dies!" This historical Tiger General slapped his palm on the map table, causing everything on it to jump.  "Go and send a telegram to Commander Li and Commander Liao to report the situation and request reinforcements from the armored forces."

    "Order the 64th and 65th Divisions to resist me no matter what!"

    "Order the 66th Division to send two regiments to reinforce the 64th and 65th Divisions!"

    "Order each artillery regiment to push the anti-tank gun battalion to the reserve position immediately. It must be fast!" (To be continued)
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