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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 447 A glimmer of hope

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    When Yegorov made a desperate move and launched a full-line attack, the 12 heavy machine guns of the four battalions of the first regiment on the front line of the coalition were gradually shifting positions. The number of heavy machine guns firing at one time dropped sharply, and only the first one on the 4-kilometer front was  The heavy machine guns fired less than half the time, which caused the casualties of the charging Soviet Red Army soldiers to drop significantly compared with earlier.

    The fastest ones were the soldiers of the 23rd Usti Infantry Division in the eastern section. They quickly ran from 600 meters to 300 meters. However, at this time, the heavy machine guns adjusted in position on the coalition positions opened fire repeatedly, and in the trenches  The Browning squad machine guns in the hands of the coalition cavalry who dismounted and fought also screamed happily.

    The 4 heavy machine guns and 12 squad machine guns of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 6th Allied Cavalry Brigade opened fire and formed a scorching firepower network that plowed down more than half of the remaining 1,300 infantrymen of the Usti main regiment in an instant.

    At this time, there were less than 600 Red Army soldiers left in Usti's troops in the eastern section. Finally they could not withstand the baptism of blood and fire and showed signs of collapse. Many survivors lay on the ground holding their heads and did not dare to move.  , and more people turned around with a bang and ran back towards their positions. Behind them, the rain of bullets pursued by the coalition's heavy machine guns continued to plow down rows of Red Army soldiers.

    At this time, the political commissars at all levels of the main regiment of the 23rd Usti Infantry Division had already suffered all casualties. The regiment commanders and political commissars who personally commanded the troops had been killed. The few remaining political commissars at the battalion and company levels were trying to stop their own troops.  The remaining soldiers of the 23rd Division who had bombed the battalion just wanted to escape from this purgatory that they should not have come to. The political commissars shot down several of their own deserters to no avail, and then they were not killed.  The scattered deserters were pushed down or beaten to death, or were knocked down by the machine gun bullets of the coalition forces. The entire eastern section of the Ninth Army, which was more than one kilometer long, completely collapsed.

    On the one and a half kilometer front in the middle section, the remaining 1,500 people of the main regiment of the 16th Kikweize Infantry Division consumed the least amount of physical energy because they had attacked the shortest distance before.  The Red Army soldiers leading more than 1,500 Kikweize divisions shouted and attacked the opposing coalition positions from 600 meters away.

    The attack method of the Kikvedze Division was different from that of the Usti Division. Although the Usti Division in the eastern section lacked the machine gun fire cover behind the position when charging, almost 1,300 people came to rush forward.  , making no attempt to organize his own rifle firepower to attack and attack at the same time, so he did not pose any threat to the coalition positions. It was of no use except for the overwhelming momentum. Therefore, he suffered the most violent blow in front of the coalition positions.  collapse.

    Although there are only 1,500 people left in the Kikweize Division regiment, the hierarchy can be clearly seen when charging. A group of 500 people is divided into three waves on the left, center and right. When one wave is charging, the other two waves lie on the ground and use rifles.  Organize firepower to concentrate on attacking heavy machine gun firepower points of the coalition forces.

    After rushing up 100 meters, the first wave lay down and organized volley fire on the spot to fire at the coalition's machine gun fire points, while the remaining two waves ran and charged at the fastest speed, alternately shooting to cover and charge, and it was very difficult.  He quickly rushed within 300 meters in front of the coalition position, and the volley of guns actually knocked out two heavy machine guns of the 2nd Battalion of the coalition cavalry in the middle of the defense. The coalition's squad light machine gunners also suffered several casualties.

    Of course, Kikweize's 1,500 men suffered much greater casualties under the encirclement and suppression of the opponent's light and heavy machine guns and mortar fire. When they rushed 300 meters in front of the position, there were less than 1,000 men left. Facing the tenacious and enthusiastic coalition forces,  With the light and heavy machine gun firepower and the rifle salvos, the remaining 1,000 men of the Kikweize Division could no longer raise their heads to continue the attack, so they stopped 300 meters away to look for various shelters and even the bodies of their fallen comrades.  Hiding behind and shooting at the coalition forces.

    Bullets don't have long eyes, and rifles from both sides have a chance to hit each other's personnel at a distance of 300 meters. The casualties of the light and heavy machine gunners on the coalition side are increasing, while the casualties of the Kikweize troops on the Soviet Red Army side are even higher.  It was a sharp increase, and soon 800, 600, and 400 people were left out of the 1,000 people. However, it was obvious that Kikweize's main force was much stronger than Ust's troops. They fought to the death and refused to retreat.  The casualties of Zhikov's 2nd Battalion gradually increased to nearly a hundred people, most of whom were machine gunners.

    Kikweize's troops fought to the death. In addition to the tenacious fighting style of Kikweize, the 16th Infantry Division, another reason was that the troops of a regiment of the 19th Infantry Division, which launched the second wave of attacks from the trenches, took the opportunity to surge in.  Coming up, this closed the space for the rest of Kikweize's main regiment to retreat, and their sacrifice actually opened a gap for the 2,000 men of the 19th Division.

    However, the power of the coalition's light and heavy machine guns and mortars cannot be underestimated. The 2,000 people of the main regiment of the 19th Khadinyev Infantry Division jumped out of the trench from 800 meters away and began to be showered by the coalition's hot machine gun fire and mortars.  Under the interception of artillery, in fact, the reason why Kikweize's 1,000 men rushed to 300 meters in front of the coalition position was because the 2,000 reinforcements behind them dispersed and attracted the firepower on the coalition position.

    Khadinyev??The price paid by the regiment of the 19th Division was equally astonishing. After rushing from the 800-meter starting trench to the 350-meter position, only more than 1,200 people were left out of 2,000. They were also attacked by the coalition's intensive light and heavy machine gun and mortar firepower.  He was so suppressed that he couldn't raise his head, so he could only lie down in front of the position where corpses were strewn with rivers of blood and shoot at the coalition forces. Whether he could hit him from 350 meters away naturally depended on his eyesight. The sharpshooters of several infantry divisions of the Ninth Army had already been there before.  In the duel with the opponent's snipers, all of them were wiped out!

    It must be said that Yegorov's desperate attack was timed very well. The heavy machine gun on the coalition position moved its position after it stopped firing, which gave him an opportunity. Yegorov also seized this opportunity, whether it was in the east or west.  Ust's troops had collapsed in the middle section, or Kikveeze and Khadinyev's troops, which had rushed to 300 meters in front of the coalition position in the middle section, were finally unable to follow up and were suppressed in front of the position and could not lift up.  The sacrifices and costs are all to create conditions for the Inza Division in the western section!

    Inza's 15th Infantry Division is worthy of the honor of Yegorov's Ninth Army's ace infantry division. The 2,000 men of the previous 15th Division's main regiment neither shouted nor fired after jumping out of the trench 1,100 meters away. They just kept silent.  Head forward, after the coalition forces opened fire across the board, Inza's troops immediately lay down on the ground to avoid the hail of heavy machine gun bullets fired from the opposite side. However, the soldiers of Inza's division lay on the ground instead of holding their heads to avoid bullets.  Nor is it a vain attempt to dig a hole in which to hide one's head, using whatever tools are at hand.

    The soldiers of the Inza Division lay down and crawled on the ground on their hands and knees. The speed was equally astonishing. By the time the coalition forces came to their senses, the position of the Inza Division was almost equal to that of the Kikweize Division regiment in the middle.

    After Yegorov blew the charge horn, Inza Division, which had rested on the ground for a while to recover, not only did not get up to charge, but continued to crawl forward on its hands and feet, which caused the Ukrainian troops in the middle and eastern sections to  The troops of Si Ji and Kikweize broke out forward, while Inza's division fell behind about thirty meters.

    It is an unbreakable truth that the gun will hit the first bird. The coalition's machine gunners were instilled with the concept of pouring bullets to the areas most needed in the shortest time. Therefore, the heavy machine guns on the first battalion's position even changed their targets and charged towards the second battalion.  When Kikweize's team shoots, everyone knows that targets rushing in front are more threatening, and upright targets are easier to shoot and hit than targets lying on the ground!

    Comrade Kulik, an artillery expert of the Ninth Army of the Southern Front of the Soviet Red Army, who won the reputation as the God of Artillery in the three battles of siege of Tsaritsyn, was waiting for this opportunity. He arranged two hidden guns 2 kilometers away from the opponent's position.  The 76mm 1904 mountain gun that was launched was waiting for this opportunity, and the 20 Maxim heavy machine guns deployed by the heavy machine gun battalion on the western front, which had been camouflaged and concealed, were also waiting for this opportunity.

    Grigory Ivanovich Kulik, commander of the ** Artillery Regiment of the Budyonny Special Cavalry Division, did not disappoint Yegorov and the officers of the Ninth Army. He personally commanded the two troops at a distance of 2,000 meters.  The only remaining mountain artillery of the Red Army, with direct visual fire and lightning speed, fired 8 shots in 2 minutes, knocking out four Browning heavy machine guns of the first battalion of the coalition's western sector position, ushering in the war.  The Soviet Red Army commanders who were directing operations on the hillside roared with Urah.

    Of course, Kulik didn't have time to greet the cheers. He dragged the two cannons from their original shooting positions with carriages as quickly as possible and rushed to move them. Sure enough, the coalition artillery company had just left the hillside when his cannons had left.  In 20 seconds, the roaring coalition artillery shells turned the entire mountain into a sea of ??flames!

    At this time, using the two cannons hidden by Kulik to knock out the heavy machine guns on the opponent's western position, the more than 1,500 people in Inza's division let out a cry, got up from the ground and rushed toward the coalition forces as quickly as possible.  On the position, the four heavy machine guns of the first battalion of the defending coalition forces had just been knocked out. For a time, only the 12 Browning squadrons of the first battalion within a range of 500 meters opened fire with light machine guns in time to intercept the opponent's charge.

    How does the firepower intensity and sustainability of a Browning squad light machine gun with a 20-round magazine compare with a Browning heavy machine gun with a 350-round magazine?  The 1,500 men of Inza's division and the 2,000 men of the Sami 17th Division, the second wave of reinforcements behind them, rushed toward the position of the first battalion in the western section of the coalition forces like a tsunami.

    At the same time, Malikov, the heavy machine gun battalion commander of the First Artillery Regiment of the Soviet Red Army, commanded his 20 Maxims to open fire across a width of 1.5 kilometers in the western section. 20 hot tongues of flames shot out crazily from 1,100 meters away.  Towards the position of the 1st Battalion of the Allied Forces, more than half of the 12 squad machine guns of the 1st Battalion of the Allied Cavalry were caught off guard. The remaining ones were suppressed and could not raise their heads, while the cavalrymen of the 1st Battalion who dismounted and fought held the weapons in their hands.  The Mosin-Nagant mounted rifles and M1 Garand mounted rifles were suppressed by the opponent's scorching firepower and could not even raise their heads.

    "And more than 3,500 Red Army soldiers who were roaring like a mountain and a tsunami shouted "Ula" and quickly rushed to the 300-meter position and continued to move forward bravely on the road opened for themselves by 20 Maxim heavy machine guns.

    Ye ?Yegorov and the division commanders around him looked at the situation on the battlefield with sweaty hands. Yegorov murmured to himself, "Before the opponent's artillery fire is transferred back, you must rush forward! You will definitely be able to rush forward!"  "
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