Nine Hundred Thirty-Three Machine Gun Positions

Why did the Soviet Union launch the battle to go south to Kursk in such a hurry? It started with the fact that the senior leaders of the Soviet Union learned that the Japanese army was trying to attack the Far East of the Soviet Union northward. We must know that the Soviet Union used to be a powerful and huge country. This country spanned the Eurasian continent and had a vast territory and huge population resources.

If in the past period of time, even if they knew that Japan was trying to attack the Far East, the leaders of the Soviet Union would probably laugh and talk about it as a joke for a few days. Even in the initial stage of the Soviet-German War, the Soviet Union maintained its superior force against the Japanese army in the Far East.

But now things have changed a little bit. The main force in the Soviet Far East has been transferred to the Western Front, and now the remaining troops are at best only reserves. Using this force to prevent a possible full-scale attack by the Japanese army, obviously everyone has no idea.

We must know that the Soviet Union has always maintained a military advantage in the Far East, so it has always maintained a high-pressure offensive posture. This is also the main reason why the Japanese Kwantung Army has built fortifications in Northeast China. Now the offensive and defensive transitions of the two sides are reversed, those with defenses want to attack, and those without defenses need to defend instead—there really is a sense of helplessness in the impermanence of the world.

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In the end, the top leaders of the Soviet Union felt that it was necessary to quickly stabilize the retreating western front, otherwise the entire Soviet Union would not have any effective resource supply bases: the Baku oil field near Stalingrad was interfered by the Germans and could not make ends meet; the Far East If there is another problem with the supply line from the United States, then the Soviet Union will really fall into a comprehensive dilemma.

So Stalin was in a hurry, and he decided that he would rather give up Moscow than keep Stalingrad. This will at least give him the opportunity to restore the Soviet Union's resource supply, allowing the Soviet Union to have the capital to organize counterattacks in the Far East or on the Western Front, and regain the strategic initiative. Based on this idea, the main force of the Soviet Red Army began to move southward in an all-round way, competing with the main German forces for the strategic initiative on the Soviet-German battlefield in the Kursk region.

It's a pity that neither Stalin nor Zhukov expected that the g group army, the most powerful force in Germany, would be such a hard nut to crack, and the Soviet army would not be able to swallow this group army for a while. You must know that the top Soviet leaders had experience in attacking the German Liszt Group E Army. They generally believed that even if the G Group Army was more elite than the E Group Army, the Soviet Army, which was not what it used to be, was sure to wipe out this elite German army.

After all the calculations, they still underestimated the strength of the German armored forces. The overestimated combat capability of the German armored forces in the eyes of the Soviet high-level officials was proved after the battle started-they still underestimated the Germans. fighting power.

It is also because of this that the battle plan to keep the Baku oilfields on the western front has been completely shattered. The war may not be decided within a month. Judging from the current battle situation, it may even be dragged into the second. winter. So now comes the question-what about the Far East on the Eastern Front?

Among the endless mountains in the Xing'anling area in northeastern China,

The dim light shines on the face of an ordinary soldier of the Japanese Kwantung Army through the dense woods. He holds his 38-type rifle and walks staggeringly on the road made of soft and fallen leaves, vigilant. Looking around.

Beside him, another Japanese soldier was also holding a rifle in his hand, stepping on the elastic decayed leaves, walking forward step by step carefully. Farther away, more Japanese soldiers appeared densely packed without end. They were crossing the Sino-Soviet border, or in other words, they were crossing the dangerous "Manchurian border" they called it.

Kimura is a standard infantry soldier of the Kwantung Army. He carries his suitcase and an anti-tank mine on his back, and is equipped with standard infantry equipment of the Imperial Japanese Army. The bullets in his pocket have never been so abundant, there are more than a hundred rounds, the only thing that makes him feel regretful is that he has to carry these things by himself, after all, the Japanese army's logistics supply problem has always been in the "extremely immature" the initial stage of exploration".

But for grassroots soldiers, it is really not good news to launch such a hasty attack on a powerful enemy. When everyone heard that they were going to attack the Soviet Union, they were all trembling. They had heard of the thrilling attack in the Nomenkan area I also know that the battle that the Japanese Army lost was quite ugly.

So this time everyone came here again with guns in hand, obviously they were all very nervous. No one knew what kind of situation was waiting for them, and no one knew what kind of terrifying posture the Soviets on the opposite side would jump out of. Kill them all.

"I heard that when the squadron leader explained the attack route, I heard that this time we will only take the mountain road and not fight the Soviet tanks." It can chatter even when fighting, and the only way to stop it from closing its mouth is to remove its jaw or smash its head.

Without fighting enemy tanks? The news sounds good. But what about the one anti-tank mine that every infantryman must carry? I heard that the various units have also strengthened their engineers, and many of them have also trained the combat method of using anti-tank mines as ammunition bags and destroying enemy tanks... Anyway, it sounds quite scary, and it makes people feel uncomfortable.

"Hey! I said... Fujiwara..." Kimura swallowed a mouthful of saliva, carefully blocked his figure with a big tree in front of him, and then asked the gossip man next to him: "On the map, didn't it say here?" Is there a village? Where is the village?"

"Don't you know what kind of map those idiots from the training department drew? They said there is a road here. You walked all the way, did you see it?" The gossip man named Fujiwara curled his lips, as if The look of disdain on the face. He pushed the plants at his feet aside with the butt of his gun, and then continued to walk forward disapprovingly.

"Thug! Chug!" Not far behind a dense plant, a faint white smoke suddenly spewed out. It was the gas that diffused when the machine gun kept firing. Apparently there was a well-camouflaged firepower point there, and it was pouring dense ammunition violently towards the Japanese soldiers who were approaching tens of meters away.

The sudden attack caused these Japanese soldiers who were walking in the forest in a scattered formation to panic. They are not the elite first-class divisions of the Japanese army a few years ago, so many of them have not experienced real war. They practiced marksmanship with local people in China, and then came to "fight" with the Soviets with real swords and guns.

Tracer bullets shuttled through the crowd, and Kimura was so frightened that he hugged his head and threw himself on the ground. Fortunately, the rotten leaves on the ground were thick, so he didn't feel too uncomfortable when he fell. Barely see the surrounding situation. The Soviet machine gun position was firing violently, and the friendly troops around him had already been killed and wounded.

"Baga!...Where's the cover? Fire! Oh my God." As Kimura, who has participated in strict military training, the current situation has not made him too messy, but the friendly troops behind him can Without his composure, these farmers who were sent to the battlefield without training for a few days were actually no different from civilians in combat effectiveness.

So under the hail of bullets, these Japanese soldiers were in a mess, and it wasn't until dozens of soldiers died that they realized that they should fight back. So in the distance, some 38-type rifles were the first to fight back. Their bullets hit the grass, and the branches flew far away.

The Soviet machine guns were obviously suppressed by the dense Japanese shooting, and the shooting began to become incoherent, and the Japanese soldiers had more opportunities to shoot, so many Japanese soldiers knelt on the ground with their guns in hand and fired. Howling, holding a rifle with a bayonet inserted, he rushed towards the grass.

Kimura glanced at the nosy boy Fujiwara who was hit by the bullet and lay on his back on the ground, and he was temporarily relieved when he heard that he still had the strength to shout. So he pulled out the grenade from his body, and after pulling away the danger, he tapped on the helmet, and then threw it out forcefully.

"Boom!" The grenade exploded near the grass, kicking up a piece of black soil. Seeing that the enemy's firepower was completely suppressed by the grenade, an officer shouted from somewhere in the distance: "All! Assault! Long live the Empire of Japan !Long Live His Majesty the Emperor!"

With this shout, the Japanese soldiers who were lying on the ground and not moving forward seemed to be stimulant, staggered up from the ground, shouted "onboard" and rushed towards their target crazily.

At this time, Kimura, who had thrown the grenade that decided the victory, managed to get up from the soft place. Leaning against the big tree, he glanced at Fujiwara, the gossip man behind him, only to find that the noisy comrade who had been shouting like a pig just now had stopped moving. The amount of blood on his body was shocking. Obviously, this kind of injury is absolutely hopeless in the deep mountains and old forests.

"Damn it!" Kimura muttered, just when he was about to go around the big tree and continue to attack, he found that the battlefield had already quieted down. He passed by some soldiers standing in a daze, and got to the front to see the scene behind the bushes. There were two dead Soviet female soldiers and an old-fashioned Maxim heavy machine gun that was blown up... This is an isolated position. Obviously, the purpose of the other side here is to sneak attack.

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