Chapter 579 Steel, Storm! 5

As a Russian general, Chekov has seen spectacular pictures of countless cavalry charging, but it is the first time he has seen so many steel hedgehog gathered together and rushing forward. When the smoke rolled in the south ten kilometers wide, he found that there were less than 3,000 troops in that direction!

"Block them!"

"The fortress cannon opened fire!"

The commander's shouts and death threats after the defeat made the Russian soldiers play barbarism and rudeness to the extreme. In just one minute, the last two main guns of the fortress slowly turned around the muzzle and roared.

More 6-inch and 4-inch cannons were also added to the chorus. Just now, they were tortured by bombs and cried. Tomsk Fortress suddenly regained a few more anger.

A regiment exploded from between the two assaulted armored regiments. This scene made the newly arrived storm attack aircraft group manic. They thought that there was not much left after being swept away by the bombers, and they immediately found the target to kill them.

Unlike most fortresses, there is a lack of mountains around the fortress in Tomsk. In addition, Russian designers believe that the threat must come from the east, so the forts are all arranged in a trapezoidal shape on the front. Although they can also shoot around, some small-caliber guns in the lower part have dead corners.

Behind the fort, the main body of the fortress is cast from thick rock and cement. There is a wide fortress wall on the periphery. The Siberian railway runs through the middle of the fortress. In addition, there are scattered fire points on the periphery of the fortress, forming the whole fortress.

More than a year ago, when the fortress of Tomsk was just completed, the Russian army told Nicholas II that it was impossible to break through this huge fortress with a total area of more than 40 square kilometers without a large army of more than 300,000.

Unfortunately, at that time, not to mention Russia, even the world did not realize that the biggest threat of the fortress was no longer the army but the air force. If there were no bombers and no attack aircraft, unless there was a German Great Belta bombarded at close range, it would take at least 100,000 soldiers, otherwise it would rely on the Xinhua system of 105 and 152 millimeters alone. Rice cannonballs can't tear open the defense line at all.

But it's different now!

The Storm single-seat attack aircraft was carefully developed by the Aviation Design Institute. Without the harsh restrictions of the carrier-based aircraft, coupled with a moderate engine, it is infinitely close to the dive attack aircraft that Li Mo wants most. Therefore, when the firepower of the fortress was fiercely exploded and all exposed, the 12 fighters of the first team immediately found the target. Start diving at a small angle.

Fort No. 3, which was not destroyed in the previous bombing, became the target of the competition. An attack aircraft took the lead in grabbing the prey. Facing the anti-aircraft shells passing around, the pilot stared at the angler until he was about to collide with the turret.

The plane brushed the top of the sealed turret, and a 250 kg bomb roared into the cement structure under the turret. It exploded violently and tore a big gap there, and half of the battery was almost lifted.

Seeing that it was not completely destroyed, the pilot patted the helmet in frustration. At this time, the second attack aircraft had circled the rear. Thirty seconds later, the bomb dropped by the plane accurately hit the main body of the battery.

The bomb ran through the top of the cement, and the explosion occurred from the inside. With more than a dozen detonated 203 mm shells, the whole battery was flattened to the ground.

After all the eight most threatening fortress heavy guns were dumb, some pilots began to target some sporadic fire points outside the fortress that might prevent the pilot from breaking through.

"Did the reconnaissance plane find a breakthrough?"

In the bumpy armored command vehicle, Yongshan looked anxious. Fifteen kilometers is up to half an hour for the armored regiment. If the bomber can't knock open the thick fortress wall in half an hour, it will be very dangerous for the infantry following the armored regiment.

"I found it!"

After contacting the two Mustangs responsible for investigation and support, the communication officer excitedly removed the headphones and shouted, "Syman, there is a gap 20 meters in diameter on the east wall!"

"Great!"

Yongshan slapped the table fiercely and ordered: "Order a regiment to protect the infantry to the east, suppress machine guns and cannons with all their strength, and be sure to ensure the safety of the infantry!" The reading group dispersed in the camp to protect the safety of the two wings!

"Order the reconnaissance battalion to take a detour."

"Master, look at it."

The shouting of the staff interrupted Yongshan's words. When he looked up, he saw a fighter plane pulling black smoke towards him. When the plane passed over his head, a white umbrella flower suddenly opened from the sky, and the out-of-control plane hit the ground.

"Send three wild cats to rescue the pilot, and two more to check the wreckage of the plane and completely destroy it!"

"Yes!"

Just as the five wild cats quickly left the formation, the pilots in the sky turned red in an eye. It was not the first time that the second air division had a loss, but the old falcons were all damaged due to mechanical failure. This was the first time they were hit by a shell, so an impulsive pilot ignored the danger and hit his partner directly. The anti-aircraft guns rushed to the densest place.

In just two minutes, this battle position with five 57mm and four 34mm anti-aircraft guns was patroned by four 250kg bombs, so that the place was directly turned into a big pit.

Originally, the fortress had only 13 57mm anti-aircraft guns and 9 rapid-fire guns, all of which were installed in the fortress fort and killed. Most of the previous bombing was lost, so after destroying the last air defense point, it meant that the Tomusk fortress was almost pulled out in front of the attack aircraft.

With the rapid return of the first wave of 24 storms, the second wave of aircraft has also arrived and begun to circle. However, they did not immediately drop bombs inside the fortress, but carried out fixed-point bombing according to the assault route of the armored regiment. As the fire points were destroyed by bombs one by one, the Tomsk fortress was finally in the fourth step. The door was opened in front of the teacher.

After more than 100 M3 cheetahs moved to the front of the fortress with dozens of trucks, the 61st Army of the Russo-Caucasian Army, which had just rushed out of the fortress, suffered the most fierce blow. The 37mm machine gun at a distance of 800 meters was simply death. A division that rushed out was split before it unfolded along the fortress. The shells covering their faces were hit back, and more than 4,000 people were killed and injured in just five minutes.

Under the suppression of the tank, the fire point on the front of the fortress did not even have a chance to fire. Seeing this scene, the truck that had been following in the distance accelerated quickly and rushed to the back of the tank cluster and began to release the infantry.

Suddenly, several fire tongues were pulled out of several hidden fire points. Two trucks that had not yet stopped were beaten into sieves before they could dodge. More than 70 unprepared infantry on them were torn apart by rainstorm-like bullets before they could jump off.

However, a few fire points were not proud. The following 37mm shells drilled through the outer wall, and all three machine guns were dumb in just a few seconds.

"Spuse the formation and use the tank to cover!"

"Run, run!"

After nearly 5,000 infantry got off the car, the rest of the truck did not stop for a minute and turned around and headed south under the protection of 20 wild cats, because they had to rush back to transport the infantry partners behind.

Bullets shuttled between the fortress and the tank cluster. The Russian soldiers who were suppressed back used bricks and broken fortresses as bunkers. Although the machine guns on the M3 cheetah had also been fired and suppressed with all their strength, more than 300 soldiers still fell on the road of a few hundred meters.

Boom. Seeing that the infantry were about to approach the gap, the fire that suddenly exploded from among them made everyone's pupils shrink into cold stars. Even an M3 cheetah tank was lifted off the turret by unexpected shells and ignited a raging fire.

"Where did the cannonballs come from?"

"Behind, behind a ball!"

Following the staff officer's fingers, Yongshan seemed to feel a sharp thorn in his eyes, and only saw more than a dozen large iron boxes like train carriages slowly drilling out of the low woods in the distance.

Russian tank?

In those seconds, even Yongshan was a little stunned, because the intelligence never said that there were tanks in the Russian Far East war zone. Although the tank on the opposite side was really too big, as big as a train carriage, the tracks below, the fire were constantly spewing out in front of them, and the slow movement speed showed that they were ten. A few tanks!

At this time, it was too late to think about it. The reading armored regiment had spread to the north and south facing the Russian troops who enveloped from the two wings. The frontal tank troops were covering the infantry charge, so only the nearest was Ma Dongzi's reconnaissance battalion.

"Follow me!"

After more than ten years of military career, Ma Dongzi was no longer an ordinary officer in the security force. He instantly saw the threat of these Russian tanks. Without waiting for the order, he rushed up with thirty M3 cheetahs and eight wildcat armored vehicles from the reconnaissance battalion.

Sitting in the thickly armored Mendeleev tank, Major Boroni was a little proud. In order to avoid the bombing, he took 15 Mendeleves to the outside of the city and hid in the small forest. Unexpectedly, he became the life-saving straw of the fortress at this time. 15 120mm main guns had the power to tear anything. So after seeing the thirty M3 cheetahs, I snorted coldly in my nose.

"Little cockroach."

Major Boroni looked contemptuously at the galloping tanks. With his eyes, he could naturally see that the 37mm guns were desperate and were not qualified to challenge himself. He immediately roared, "What are you still doing? Continue to fire on the infantry in the direction of the fortress!"

The gunner immediately gave up the fast-moving reconnaissance battalion and opened fire in the direction of the fortress at full speed. The violent vibration and smoke made Mendeleev's tank seem to be on fire, but Major Boroni was particularly excited because his shell hit a Xinhua tank under the fortress in the distance again.

But this is also his last smile.

"Pone back!"

After quickly approaching 1,300 meters, Ma Dongzi suddenly shouted. With the sudden machine gun ringing again, the first tank battle in the Far East kicked off.

The 37mm rapid-fire gun on the M3 cheetah played a speed advantage. The five-group magazine was just hit and loaded, but what made everyone dumbfounded was that thirty tanks and eight night owls fired hundreds of shells and bullets, except on the frontal armor. After a series of Mars, I didn't see any wounds at all.

The dense shells jingled on Mendeleev's frontal armor, and several gunners were so scared that they squatted down. Seeing this, Boroni was angry: "Stupid, cough, goods, what are you still in a daze!"

"Their cannons can't penetrate the armor. Cough, don't fire quickly."

In the scolding of Major Boroni, the Russian tank soldiers found that they only heard the sound and could not see the armor being penetrated. They were immediately relieved and fired fiercely again.

"Your mother!"

This scene made Ma Dongzi's eyes red. Seeing that the battalion commander, who had always pretended to be a man, began to scold his mother, the gunner could only shake his head with a wry smile: "Bron commander, their armor is too thick."

"Is the front thick, and the side also thick?" Ma Dongzi stared at the gunner fiercely and shouted, "Leave fifteen, aim at the porthole, and suppress it with speed. Don't let them aim easily. Follow me for the rest."

In Ma Dongzi's shouts, fifteen M3 cheetahs and eight wild cats quickly moved to Mendeleev's left wing, but when the cannons roared for a minute to cease fire, he was even more dumbfounded.

Still didn't get through!

"Duck mud horse, what the fuck is this made of!"

"80 cannons!"

In the face of these turtle-like big guys, Ma Dongzi was angry, suddenly pulled off his helmet and got out of the tank, pointed to the front of Mendeleev, who was slowly turned around, and waved to the wild cat next to him with an 80mm recoilless cannon.

The two gunners quickly stuffed an armor-piercing shell into the gun, and twisted the muzzle and pointed it at the side of Mendeleev like a wall. When the wild cat rushed close to 500 meters, a hot flame rushed out of the tail of the gun and saw the side wall of Mendeleev in the distance, which seemed to be impercing, and finally swept a hole. .

But before everyone was happy, the rotating machine gun tower and flanking machine gun tower on the top of the Mendeleev tank began to shoot, and immediately hit the wild cat around, and everyone had to retreat.

"Bracks commander, let the bombers come." In the face of the Mendeleev tank, which seemed to be immortal, the machine gunner was even desperate. He happened to see a plane hovering in the sky. He remembered the amazing scene of the bomb just now. With the mentality of being a dead horse doctor, he suggested.

"Dog said, why didn't you say it earlier? Connect to the Air Force Channel quickly." Ma Dongzi has tore off the disguise of a good battalion commander. As soon as he connected the communication, he grabbed the microphone. No matter whether the pilot could understand it or not, he shouted.

His appearance has made the tank soldiers laugh and cry. At this moment, the major of the reconnaissance battalion looks like a blue face and a villain who has lost the fight and begins to call the helper to find the field!

However, he still had enough rogue helpers. After receiving the support request for a storm attack aircraft that had been hovering over the sky for a long time, he suddenly pushed the pole, circled around a big circle and roared and rushed down. This best thie probably felt that these iron boxes were indeed too arrogant, so he kept falling to 1. 50 meters before the bomb was dropped over the Mendeleev tank.

250 kilograms of bomb, after drawing a wonderful parabola in the sky, accurately drilled through the top of the Mendeleev tank, which was not much smaller than a train carriage.

Everyone only saw that this super-heavy tank, which was just covered with thick armor and had a toothache, suddenly exploded like a swollen balloon, and the broken steel plate even tore a big hole in the side armor of another Mendeleev dozens of meters away, and even an M3 cheetah 500 meters away was affected. The 37mm barrel was directly cut off from the side by a shrapnel.

The tank screamed loudly. Instead of thanking the swanters, they scolded. Is the tank without the machine gun still called a cheetah?

Call!

As soon as the tank soldiers pushed the accelerator, they rushed to the broken Russian tank. Before the Russian tank soldiers inside could escape, the undamaged synchronous machine gun began to swallow the fire and beat them into a sieve.

After seeing the power of the air bomb, Ma Dongzi began to desperately summon the plane to help. A full of 18 250 kg bombs made the second wave of attack aircraft return early. At the same time, it also made Major Boroni seem to have been thrown into the storm. When he woke up from his coma, he found that he had been tied up. Behind an M3 cheetah tank, it was like a broken burden.

After the biggest threat was eliminated, Yongshan was finally relieved, but more and more Russian soldiers pouring out of the fortress made him frown again. Except for a few wild horses responsible for reconnaissance, there was no plane in the sky. Without the cover of the air force, the firepower of the Russian fortress that had disappeared for a long time was again It's rampant. It's rampant

The infantry on the front have also reached the most critical moment. Because the gap is blocked by stones and rubble, the tanks can't rush in directly, so a regiment can only provide fire to suppress, watching the infantry rush inward across the gap like ants.

Just as Yongshan felt that there was a serious shortage of infantry, the earth seemed to shake in an instant. He only saw a black tide on the edge of the sky and rushed over quickly.

"Cry Division, the First Cavalry Division is coming!"

In the cheers of the staff, Shen Hao ran to the armored command car and saluted with a laugh: "Brother Yongshan, are we late?"

"Just right." After a salute, Yongshan said politely, "Just now, the reconnaissance plane sent a message that three Russian infantry divisions 40 kilometers away are coming quickly, you."

Shen Hao didn't know what Yongshan meant. He was afraid that the cavalry would lose too much in attacking the city, so he laughed and said, "Brother Yongshan, don't worry. If we get on the horse, we are cavalry, and if we get off the horse, we are infantry!"

"Attack!"

Before Yongshan answered, the rumbling sound of horses' hoofs had crossed the armored command car. A full 5,000 cavalry gave up their beloved horses and rushed in from the gap torn open by the fourth infantry.

With the addition of this new force, the gunfire in the fortress of Tomsk became more and more encrypted. Yongshan and Shen Hao knew that if they could not take the outer defense points of the fortress in three hours, the hundreds of thousands of Russian infantry who were urgently returning would tear them to pieces.

The battle suddenly entered the most critical moment.

(to be continued)