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Volume 3 Far East Stories Chapter 448: Dust to Dust and Return to Dust

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    It has to be said that Yegorov, the commander of the Soviet Ninth Army, and Budyonny, the cavalry division commander, are both unwilling to admit defeat. They both want to grit their teeth and win the battle when the coalition has a huge advantage in firepower, even if  It doesn't matter if it's a tragic victory, otherwise the pride and honor of the entire Soviet Red Army and the Southern Front would have been smashed into their own hands in more than a week from the moment they set foot on the right bank of the Volga River.

    Inza's division's attack in the western section of the coalition position clearly had the awareness of infantry-artillery coordination and machine gun cover, and achieved results in a short period of time. The 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 6th Cavalry Brigade defending this section of the coalition suffered a huge blow.  Casualties, three Browning heavy machine guns were knocked out by direct fire from the opponent's hidden and hit-and-run mountain artillery, while the 12 Browning squads that intercepted the opponent's charge used machine guns to scorch the opponent's as many as 20 Maxim machine guns.  More than half were killed or injured under the fire.

    In just a few minutes, the casualties on the first battalion's position increased rapidly. The heaviest casualties were the machine gunners. Each one was knocked out by the enemy's Maxim bullets before they even finished firing a magazine. They lacked the range and power of the shield.  The performance of light machine guns is far inferior to that of heavy machine guns. It is almost impossible to win against heavy machine guns on the battlefield.

    The First Battalion of the Allied Cavalry quickly suffered more than one-third of its casualties among the three companies on the position. Even after the battalion commander added three platoons from the fourth company in reserve, he still could not stop the opponent's attack. For a while, he could only rely on the rear of the position.  The platoon's mortars launched continuous attacks to block the charge of the Soviet Red Army. The 24 platoon mortars hid in the trenches behind the position and fired shells one after another to attack. However, the initial velocity of the mortars was very slow, making the opponent  The infantry can always hear the sound and lie down to avoid the damage of shrapnel as much as possible.

    Facing the charge of up to 3,500 soldiers of the Soviet Red Army Infantry Division on a 1,500-meter-wide front, the 24 platoon mortar fires of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Alliance Army obviously could not stop the opponent's overwhelming offensive for a while!  The Soviet Red Army commanders below Yegorov, the commander of the group army behind the position, could not help but wave their fists at the hope of victory.

    "On my order, the battalion's mortars fired in full line to intercept and fire at the enemy attacking in the western section. The artillery battery on the other side of the river opened fire in full. The target was the Soviet Red Army's heavy machine gun position 1,100 meters away. Order the First Regiment  The 4th Battalion reinforced the 1st Battalion's position and transferred the 4th Battalion of the 2nd Regiment to serve as a reserve force! The artillery observation post on the clock tower opened my eyes to observe the search. The artillery company in the town was incomparable after the opponent's two guns fired next time.  Knock it off for me right away!¡±

    The commander of the coalition forces, Division Commander Nezhkov, looked livid and issued the order. Because the radio station of the 5th Cavalry Brigade could not be contacted, for the sake of insurance, he relocated the three battalions of the 2nd Regiment to the south of Buzuluk Town.  On the position, only the fourth battalion was left in the town as a reserve team for the entire army. Unexpectedly, it was seriously bitten by Yegorov's tactics of protecting soldiers and vehicles.

    The first battalion responsible for the defense of the left wing was knocked out of the heavy machine gun by the opponent's mountain cannon, and the opponent's heavy machine gun suddenly opened fire to suppress the light machine gun firepower of the first battalion, causing the first battalion to suffer undue casualties. This made Nezh  Kokov was very angry, but at this time, the chief of staff and commander of the 6th Brigade, ?ovsky, could not hold back his anger and personally took the division's security company to the western section position to take command.

    "Moskanov, you idiot, the opponent's heavy machine gun position is 1,100 meters away. This distance is completely enough for your platoon's mortars. You panicked when 3,500 people rushed you. You closed your eyes.  You only know how to use mortars to hit the opponent's infantry groups, but you don't know how to suppress the opponent's machine gun fire! Have you forgotten all the things you usually teach?!" Nezhkov cursed Moss, the commander of the first battalion, on the phone.  Kanoff paused.

    Moskanov's aggrieved voice came from the receiver, "I said to the division commander, the platoon's mortars were aimed at the opponent's heavy machine gun position from the beginning, but it didn't work at all. Yegorov's heavy machine gun bunker was used  Several layers of logs and wet mud reinforced the top, and the 60mm platoon mortars couldn't penetrate it! Even the battalion's mortars couldn't lift the top of the opponent's machine gun bunker!"

    Nezhkov threw down the phone, walked quickly to the observation window, picked up the binoculars, and took a look. Sure enough, he had not been able to see clearly because of the smoke on the battlefield just now. But now he saw that the opponent's heavy machine gun position 1,100 meters away was actually used.  Several layers of logs were built up and the roof was covered with wet mud. What I thought was just a trench and a slope of earth was now exposed and the gun holes were spraying hot Maxim machine gun fire.

    Damn it, the opponent's artillery and heavy machine gun commanders are not simple. I really wronged the first battalion commander. Fortunately, I ordered the two artillery companies on both sides of the river to beat the opponent's heavy machine gun position. This is not a joke.  , otherwise it would have been an afterthought. Just as I was thinking about this, the hidden coalition artillery batteries in the woods on the other side of the two rivers in Buzuluk Town roared and roared, and groups of artillery shells were fired at the opponent's side from the other side of the river.  The heavy machine gun position smashed through.

    32 battalion mortars all support the coalition's most critical Western Sector positions. The power of the 81mm caliber battalion mortar's 3.6 kilogram anti-personnel grenade after explosion is justThe 1.5kg 60mm caliber platoon mortar is comparable. With the 24 platoon mortars, with the uninterrupted sound of mortar firing, raindrop-like shells chirped like a flock of sparrows.  They also fell into the charging crowd of the two regiments of Inza Division and Sami Division.

    The fragments of the mortar shells that exploded after landing on the ground produced ripples and ripples like stones thrown into a pond. The casualties of the Soviet Red Army in the western sector increased sharply. By the time they reached the 200-meter position, there were already almost 1,500  People fell on the short 100-meter road, bleeding into rivers. There were broken limbs and craters from mortars everywhere.

    At this time, the 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery shells of the artillery batteries fired by the coalition forces from both sides of the river were like having eyes on the Soviet Red Army's heavy machine gun positions 1,100 meters away and 1,000 meters wide, bombarding them indiscriminately.  No matter how strong the bunker at the Maxim heavy machine gun fire point of the Russian Red Army was, it could not withstand the bombardment of the 75mm mountain field artillery. As the real and fake heavy machine gun bunkers were blown up one by one, the Maxim heavy machine gun of the Soviet Red Army  The losses are also increasing.

    As the firepower density of the Soviet Red Army's Maxim heavy machine guns continued to decrease and decrease, the firepower on the coalition's first battalion position became fierce again. The squad used Browning machine guns, Mosin Nagant cavalry rifles, and M1 Garand semi-automatic cavalry.  The gunshots rang out loudly, and the appearance of three Browning air-cooled heavy machine guns from the 4th Battalion of the 1st Regiment, who came up along the communication trench for reinforcements, completely stabilized the situation on the 1st Battalion's position.

    When the main regiment of the 15th Inza Infantry Division rushed to the coalition position 200 meters away, only more than 800 people were left. The main regiment of the 17th Sami Infantry Division, which followed on the second line, dropped sharply from the 2,000 people at the time of departure.  With only more than 1,200 people left, every step forward by the Soviet Red Army cost dozens of lives, and more people were injured. At this distance, hundreds of cavalry shooting with mounted rifles and machine guns were deployed on the coalition positions.  Firepower.

    Of course, the casualties of the coalition forces are not small. After all, the number of Soviet Red Army troops 200 meters away is more than five times yours. A coalition cavalry rifle is facing the firepower of five Soviet Red Army rifles, but reinforcements are sent to the first battalion position.  The three heavy machine guns on board and the squad machine guns that fired again formed a scorching fire net, finally containing the charging pace of Inza Division and Sami Division. In front of the position, the Soviet Red Army infantry was lying 200 meters away.  Start shooting against the coalition forces.

    But the coalition's battalion and platoon mortars were still raining down the lives of the Soviet Red Army soldiers lying on the ground in front of the position. The battlefield with corpses and flesh everywhere looked bloody and heart-stopping.

    Kulik's two mountain cannons did not have the same good luck as when they suddenly opened fire. After knocking out the two heavy machine guns of the coalition for the second time, the coalition's two artillery batteries in the town, which had been prepared for a long time, came with urgent firepower.  The attack completely wiped out Kulik's two cannons and the infantry company that moved covertly with an auxiliary towed gun.

    The commander of the artillery regiment, Kulik himself, actually escaped. After firing the cannon, the guy got on his horse and galloped away. A series of allied artillery shells followed behind but did not hit the guy. However, when Grigory Yi  When Captain Vanovich Kulik escaped the bombardment of the coalition forces and returned to Yegorov, the situation on the opposite battlefield was already out of control.

    Yegorov already knew that the battle was an irreversible failure when he heard the roar of coalition artillery from both sides of the river. The artillery on both sides of the river was either secretly transported across the river by the coalition from Buzuluk Ferry, but  This possibility is basically non-existent, because the targets and movements of the artillery company are very large, and it is impossible to avoid the eyes of the lookout posts on your side by moving across the river.

    If it is not the artillery company in the town, then the coalition reinforcements have arrived. Although the scale and number of troops are not known, even if there is only one artillery company on each side of the strait, the coalition reinforcements are at least the scale of the regiment level, and now Yegoro  What the husband was desperately trying to attack was just a position defended by the opponent's cavalry regiment.  .  .

    As the artillery batteries of the coalition forces on both sides of the Taiwan Strait used dense rain of bullets to knock out the heavy machine gun battalions in the bunkers commanded by Malenkov one by one and completely defeat them, the outcome of this battle was self-evident. Without the support of machine gun fire,  Even though the 2000 Soviet Red Army had rushed 200 meters in front of the opponent's position, they still couldn't see any chance of winning.

    When the artillery battery in the town of the coalition used extravagant and wasteful firepower to knock out the two mountain cannons personally commanded by Kulik of the Soviet Red Army, the middle section of the position has been ravaged back and forth by coalition machine gun and mortar fire, but it is still suffering.  There were less than 300 infantrymen left in the Kikweize Division who persisted. After the political commissar of his regiment was cut off half of his head by a mortar shell, he finally couldn't help shouting, got up, turned around and ran to the back of the position.  , and fell into a state of collapse like Ust's troops before.

    The soldiers of Khadinyev's 19th Division, with less than 800 men left behind them, had long since lost their energy. Seeing the Kikveeze division turning around and running away, they all got up and ran back, and the coalition positions  The machine guns on the machine were not in a hurry behind these defeated Soviet Red Army infantry.Slowly pursuing and harvesting, countless people were swept down by the death-like machine gun bullets behind the coalition forces and fell to the ground bleeding in rivers.

    At this time, if the remaining nearly 2,000 people of the two regiments of the Inza Division and the Sami Division in the western sector continue to lie in front of the position, they will become a living target for the coalition machine guns and mortars. With the attack of Kikweize's troops in the middle sector  collapsed, just when the 2,000 men of the Inza Division and the Sami Division lost the support of machine gun fire and were at a loss as to whether to continue the attack or retreat.

    A melodious call to retreat sounded from behind the Soviet Red Army's position. The rest of the main regiments of the Inza Division and the Sami Division were stunned for a moment, and then suddenly they suddenly got up and ran back to their own positions. Behind them were the Allied Forces positions.  Machine guns were firing unhurriedly and in pursuit.

    Yegorov's desperate ground offensive failed at a huge cost in casualties. More than 4,000 Red Army soldiers fell on the battlefield, and more than 5,000 were injured and fell on the battlefield.  Unable to move up and down, there were no more than a thousand people who could successfully withdraw after the coalition forces stopped firing.
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