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Piaotian Literature of the Fourth Empire of China www.piaotia.com Chapter 535: Tear open the defense line

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    Malyanovka, the headquarters of the Russian Army in Siberia.  Here, more than 300,000 Russian troops gathered, accounting for almost half of the Russian troops on the entire Siberian battlefield.  Veteran Field Marshal Joseph Vladimirovich Gurko sat here personally to direct the battle.

    Joseph Vladimirovich Gurko was born in Mogilev Province in 1828. He is now 71 years old. He graduated from the Noble Military Academy in 1846 and served in the Guards Hussars Regiment.  He participated in the Crimean War and served as commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division from 1875 to 1877.  In the Russo-Turkish War launched by Tsar Alexander II in 1877 and 1878, he showed his talents as a military commander.  He performed outstandingly in the Russo-Turkish War of 1878.  Later, he was promoted to field marshal in 1894 due to his military exploits.

    Although Gurko is a very talented general with rich experience, he still does not have much confidence in this war.  Although he now holds more than 700,000 Russian troops, only half of these Russian troops are regular troops, troops transferred to Siberia from Europe. The rest of the troops are all farmers who have just put down their hoes.  Expecting such an army to fight China's elite army, which is armed to the teeth, is simply asking for death.

    As a frontline general, Gurko has a clearer understanding of the current situation.  He knew that Russia could no longer be defeated.  If the war is forced to continue, Russia will only pay a heavier price.  Of course, the conditions proposed by the Chinese are too harsh.  If a condition acceptable to both parties can be obtained during negotiations, this will be a good thing for Russia.  will be very important.

    "Marshal!" Suddenly.  His lieutenant.  A young Russian boy, Levslovic, although he was only thirty years old, but already a colonel in the Russian army, walked into Marshal Gurko's office, looking a little anxious.

    "What happened? Did those despicable herdsmen attack our transportation lines again, or conquer any town?" Marshal Gurko asked with a frown.  The humble herdsmen he spoke of were exactly those from the five ethnic groups in Central Asia.  With the support of China, the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes was acquired in Siberia.  Attacking the Russian army's logistics supply lines, or directly attacking Russian settlements, and even a nomadic cavalry crossed the Ural River and entered Europe, which made Marshal Gurko very anxious.

    "No, Marshal! Reports from the front line indicate that there is something unusual about the Chinese position. At 6 o'clock in the morning, the Chinese position was already bustling with people, and they seemed to be preparing to launch an attack!" Colonel Levslovic reported  .

    "Chinese. Do they want to go to war with us?" Marshal Gurko frowned.  He knew that he could not defeat the Chinese team in front of him, so he hoped that both sides could live in peace.  but.  Now the abnormal behavior of the Chinese team made him feel a hint of crisis.

    "Your Excellency, Marshal, I heard that the current peace talks in Beijing are not going well. Your Excellency, Foreign Minister Izvorski, rejected the Chinese request and was very tough during the peace talks. Therefore, I wonder if the Chinese will  They will attack us because of this," Levslovic said.

    "Damn it, it's really possible! Order all frontline units to be prepared to resist the Chinese attack!" Marshal Gurko ordered.

    "Yes, Your Majesty Marshal!" Colonel Levslovic immediately went to deliver the order.

    At this moment, on the Chinese position on the left bank of the Irtysh River, the soldiers had entered the trenches and were ready to attack.  Behind them, heavy artillery pieces had been pushed into the artillery position, their ferocious muzzles pointing diagonally towards the sky.  When the Chinese Army captured Omsk, the Russian army did not react, so the railway bridge over the Irtysh River fell completely into the hands of the Chinese Army.  This allowed the Chinese Army to advance the front to the left bank of the Irtysh River.  Otherwise, the wide Irtysh River will cause great trouble to the attack.

    At 7 o'clock in the morning, Cai Yun, China's Minister of Army, personally issued the order to start the offensive.  For a time, on the nearly 30-kilometer-long defense line on the left bank of the Irtysh River, the Chinese Army concentrated more than 1,500 heavy artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 105 mm, and launched a fierce bombardment of the Russian defense line.  .  The shells streaked across the sky one after another, with a sharp whistle, and fell on the Russian army's position, bursting out with orange-red fire.  The smoke filled the air, completely covering the Russian defense line.

    At the same time, the First Cavalry Corps and the Third Cavalry Corps of the Chinese Army launched an attack from the flanks. They would bypass the rear of the Russian army and block the Russian army's retreat.  Strive to annihilate as much of the Russian army's effective forces as possible in this battle.

    On the front line, the Russian army deployed a total of 300,000 troops.  But among the 300,000 Russian troops, only half were veterans who had received formal training, and the rest of the soldiers were recruits who had only learned how to shoot.  Amidst the overwhelming shelling of the Chinese ** team, these Russian soldiers held their heads and lay down.The bottom of the trench was trembling, praying to God that the shells would not fall into the trench.  Some shell-proof caves were already crowded with frightened Russian soldiers.  However, the Russian army lacks steel, cement and other materials, and their anti-gun holes are often not very strong. Not to mention the shells of the 155mm heavy howitzer, even the shells of the 105mm light howitzer, as long as they are hit continuously, the anti-gun holes will  The holes will be blown down.  In this case, if a bombproof hole is blown up, hundreds of people will often be lost.

    "Counterattack! Counterattack!" The Russian artillery began to counterattack after the Chinese artillery had been plundering for a full twenty minutes.  However, as soon as they fired their guns, they were quickly discovered by observation balloons in the sky.  Three 155mm heavy cannon battalions of the Chinese artillery, which had been on standby for a long time, immediately began to suppress the attack.

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The shells fell on the Russian artillery position one after another. The violent explosion swept everything and easily destroyed the Russian artillery position.  The cannons exploded into pieces one by one, and the casualties were even more severe.  When the artillery shells piled on the position were hit, there was a terrible explosion.  Under such a blow, the Russian artillery positions went silent one after another in less than half an hour.

    After that, the Chinese artillery aimed all its firepower at the Russian defense line.  Under the overwhelming artillery fire, the Russian defense line was blown to pieces during the shelling.  One by one, the permanent firepower points were blown up to the sky, and Russian soldiers were constantly blown into pieces during the shelling. Their bones, limbs, and arms were broken, and they were everywhere. The entire Russian defense line was completely destroyed.  It became a Shura hell.

    At 8 o'clock in the morning, the Chinese artillery bombardment began to extend backward, focusing on bombarding the Russian army's second line of defense, while also preventing the Russian army from supporting the first line of defense.  There are three lines of defense of the Russian army on the left bank of the Irtysh River, each of which is less than two kilometers apart.

    "Attack!" After the artillery fire began to extend, the infantry, which had been prepared for a long time, jumped out of the trenches and launched an attack on the Russian army.

    "Get up! You cowards! Get up quickly, the Chinese are coming!" The officers on the first line of defense of the Russian army pulled up the trembling recruits and asked them to get their guns and enter.  Go to the position and prepare to block the attack of the Chinese army.

    "Fire! Fire! Kill all those Chinese!" the Russian officers ordered loudly.

    "Bang! Bang! Bang!" The crisp sound of rifle gunshots began to ring out in a chaotic manner.  The Russian soldiers were afraid of firing at the attacking squadron in the trenches.

    "Ta-ta-ta!" Soon, the heavy machine gun began to scream.  In the orange-red firelight, bullets were fired at the Chinese team.

    Under the attack of the Russian army, the attacking Chinese troops fell to the ground one after another.

    "Machine gun cover, mortars, knock out the enemy's firepower points!"

    "Ta-ta-ta!" The light machine guns set up began to fire wildly at the Russian army's position, suppressing the Russian army's counterattack.

    "Boom!" The mortars also started bombarding the Russian army's firepower points.  As soon as a shell fell, the Russian army's firepower point was blown into the sky.

    "Attack!" After seeing the Russian firepower blown away, the soldiers of the Chinese Army jumped up from the ground and charged towards the Russian position again.

    The previous shelling has already caused heavy losses to the Russian army.  Under the pressure of their officers, although they took up arms to block the attack of the Chinese army, their counterattack seemed so weak.

    By 9 a.m., the Russian army¡¯s first line of defense had been broken through by the Chinese army.  The Chinese ** team began to clear the Russian troops on the defense line.  The Russian troops defending the first line of defense had to retreat after the line of defense was breached.  In the process, they needed to get through the artillery blockade of the Chinese artillery. On this flagship, they suffered a very heavy loss.

    Of the 100,000 Russian troops deployed on the first line of defense, less than 30,000 were safely withdrawn to the second line of defense.

    After taking down the first line of defense of the Russian army, the Chinese Army took a short rest and then launched an attack on the second line of defense.  The Russian second line of defense, which had been plundered for a long time, was still vulnerable even if it supplemented the troops that had retreated from the first line of defense.

    Under the fierce attack of the Chinese ** team, by 11 a.m., the second line of defense was also broken through by the Chinese ** team.  The Russian army suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat to the last line of defense.  In less than a morning, the two lines of defense of the Russian army were broken through one after another, and hundreds of thousands of people were lost. The remaining hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were all crowded into the last line of defense, and this line of defense was in the center*  Under the attack of the * team, it also became in danger!

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