Years of the Republic of China 1913

Frunze is worthy of being one of the best Soviet military strategists. After arriving in Serov, he immediately made targeted adjustments to Serov's defense.

Since the start of the war, the Chinese tanks and planes have beaten the Soviet Red Army to the brim, with almost no power to parry.On the one hand, these new weapons are indeed powerful, and the Red Army’s combat effectiveness and training level are not high. On the other hand, the Red Army’s tactics still follow the old European battlefield in terms of offense and defense. There is no way to organize effective resistance in the center of ground and air attack.

After receiving some information from the Chinese armored forces and air force, Frunze, who retreated all the way from the Far East, has been thinking about how to fight against such an opponent. According to his offensive characteristics against tanks and aircraft, combined with the original tactics, Frunze racked his brains and finally came up with a set of preliminary defensive tactics against new weapons such as tanks and aircraft, and made major adjustments to the defense of the Serov area.

The advantages of tanks are their superior mobility and assault performance. In addition, tank guns and machine guns serve as assault cover for infantry.The main function of the aircraft is to attack the enemy from the air, use aerial bombing, machine gun fire and other methods to cooperate with the ground troops, knock down the important positions of the enemy's positions with great damage, and eliminate and suppress the enemy's artillery and other heavy weapons, so that There is no way to organize an effective confrontation.

For this reason, the defensive adjustments made by Frunze are mainly aimed at tanks and aircraft.He ordered anti-tank trenches to be dug in front of various positions to destroy the mobility of tanks on the plains. The front of the positions is not full of troops like the European battlefields, but is divided into companies and platoons as basic combat units. Connected trenches here and there engage in mobile defensive battles.

in addition.In terms of position setting, it is not only necessary to dig anti-gun holes, but also to take care of the bunkers bombed and strafed by Chinese aircraft to achieve the purpose of reducing casualties.As for the large troops, Frunze withdrew them all to the rear, relying on reinforced air defense buildings in various places in the city for concealment.Once the position needs support, the reinforcements can be quickly sent to the forefront through the passages connecting the trenches, and directly enter the combat state.

As for heavy weapons, especially artillery, Frunze canceled the original artillery regulations, and changed to breaking up cannons into pieces, concealing them and setting them up separately in the rear. In addition, various parameters were prepared in advance at various positions on the front line to ensure the fastest Support and attack with artillery fire at critical moments...

Although these measures of Frunze have never been verified.Even he himself didn't know how effective it would be if he fought.But in fact, Frunze's response was correct. Although there were still many immature aspects in his changes to the Red Army's defensive tactics, these countermeasures did bring trouble to the attacking Chinese army.

On April 4, the third day after Frunze arrived in Serov, the Battle of Serov, which attracted worldwide attention, finally started. At eight o'clock in the morning on the 16th, the air force of the Chinese Army took off from Tyumen Airport, and the overwhelming bombers and fighter jets began to bomb Serov like hell at around nine o'clock.The Red Army's ground attack lasted for more than an hour.At the beginning of the bombing, the artillery of the ground troops began to roar at the same time.For a time, Serov's Red Army position was completely covered by a brilliant artillery fire. [

Before the bombing and artillery preparations were completely over, Bai Chongxi's armored troops cooperated with the infantry division to launch an offensive.From the Chinese side's point of view, Serov's defenders will not last long in such a scene, just like the few battles since the start of the war. The fall of Serov may only take a few days.

But the battle started, when the troops of both sides formally contacted.Bai Chongxi soon got news of the battlefield from the commander at the front. The Chinese army, which had been attacking smoothly all the time, encountered tenacious resistance under the city of Serov. Because the defenders dug many anti-tank trenches in front of and behind the position, the armored forces could not be arranged at all. Advance quickly in battle formation.In addition, it stands to reason that after the indiscriminate bombing of the air force and artillery.The defenses of the Red Army had suffered heavy blows, and it was almost impossible to organize effective resistance.However, the reaction of the Red Army surprised the Chinese commanders. On the position covered by bombing and heavy artillery fire, when the Chinese National Defense Forces rushed to the area 50 meters from the front of the position, one after another Red Army soldiers appeared, with rifles, Machine guns and even several field cannons rang out suddenly, and the Chinese soldiers who rushed to the front fell down a large area at once.

"How could this be?"

When he received the battle report of frontline casualties, Bai Chongxi couldn't help being taken aback, and quickly asked, "Where's our armored unit? Why don't the tanks go up to cover the infantry?"

"These old men are too hateful. They look normal from the front. When the tanks drove to the front, they discovered that the old men had dug dense trenches on the ground, especially the trenches 300 meters away from the old men's positions. The width of the trenches is too large. Although we can climb over, our tanks can't drive through at all. When the infantry rushed to the front of the position, we found that the old man actually had artillery support. In addition, our tanks can't get close, so we can only temporarily use it as a fixed fort support. Be careful, you will be hit by field artillery that suddenly appeared..."

"What!" Bai Chongxi's eyes widened immediately, he grabbed the staff officer and asked, "Is there a cannon in the other side's position? How many of our tanks were destroyed?"

"Master seat... Teacher seat...." The young staff officer was frightened and nodded vigorously, but he was still clever and quickly explained: "Don't worry, teacher seat, the opponent's cannons are not many, just one cannon. We were careless at the beginning, but now Captain Tan in front has ordered the tanks to concentrate on attacking the position of the cannon, overwhelming the opponent to lift their heads..."

Bai Chongxi had a strange expression on his face, he let go of the staff officer and immediately ordered: "Call the front line immediately, and ask all the tanks and soldiers to withdraw immediately!"

"Master...seat...?" Hearing this order, the staff officer was a little confused. The battle has just begun, why is Bai Chongxi going to withdraw his troops?Although I encountered a little trouble in front of the enemy's position, it shouldn't be like this, right?According to the current situation, at most it will only pay some casualties. With the fixed artillery support of tanks and excellent infantry, it should not be difficult to win the position.

Just as the staff officer was in a daze, the anxious Bai Chongxi kicked over: "Damn you! Did you hear my order! Hurry up! If it's too late, I'll kill you!"

Bai Chongxi's fury made the staff officer turn pale with fright, he got up from the ground and ran out without saying a word.

"Jiansheng, do you think that Lao Maozi's artillery is still there, and it is likely to launch an artillery attack on our attacking troops?"

At this moment, Zhang Zhizhong asked thoughtfully on the side, and Bai Chongxi nodded solemnly: "I don't know how the opponent kept the artillery, but since the soldiers on the opponent's position can still organize firepower to resist, and there is still If the field artillery is used, it is very likely that the opponent's artillery may not suffer any losses, that is, the heavy fire weapons still exist, if at this time we take advantage of the opportunity of our troops and armored forces to gather in front of the position, suddenly... "

Zhang Zhizhong's expression changed drastically. He completely understood what Bai Chongxi meant, and also made a judgment on this possibility.

"I'll go to the front and get all the troops to withdraw as soon as possible." [

"Wenbai, you..."

"Needless to say, our regiment and the infantry regiment were engaged in the attack. It is too late to inform the infantry division to convey the order. My rank is high, so it would be faster to go directly there."

"Well, you pay attention to safety and be careful in everything."

"Don't worry!" Zhang Zhizhong put on his helmet, turned around and left the command post, rushing to the front line.And Bai Chongxi was not idle, he quickly went to the phone, picked up the phone, and called the infantry division.

About ten minutes later, there was a sudden burst of violent artillery fire behind Serov's position, and artillerymen of the Soviet Red Army began to fire at preset positions from behind various bunkers.Hearing the sound of the Red Army's artillery, Bai Chongxi immediately asked his own artillery to suppress it. After hanging up the phone, he hurried to the observation port, holding up his binoculars and staring at the front line full of artillery fire. (to be continued...)