Some ordinary Chechens began to flee for their lives, but there were Russian troops on all sides. The only way out, the Kaman Bridge, became the focus of competition between the Chechens and the Russians.
Two hours after Dudayev's death, a fierce battle broke out for the bridge. The tragedy was because the Chechens who wanted to withdraw from the city launched desperate battles again and again on this wide bridge, and
And full of charges of death.
After Dudayev was killed, the first people to prepare to retreat were the Chechens who spent a lot of money to recruit mercenaries from all over the world. They only fought for money.
Now that the sponsor was dead, they had no reason to stay in Grozny. After confirming that Dudayev was really dead, they began to retreat without hesitation, not even the slightest hesitation.
However, the city was surrounded by Russians in three directions: southeast and west. Their only way out was the Kaman Bridge in the north. When the mercenaries who were the first to retreat came to the bridge, they discovered that this traffic artery was no longer under their control.
In the area, there are Russian activities in the north of the Kaman Bridge.
The Russians who occupied the bridge brought two high-power searchlights from the rear and set them up on the bridge. They were constantly shining on the bridge deck and the river, looking for anyone who might sneak across the river.
Yu Yang told Williams how to cross the bridge with the signal flag, so there were Russian soldiers guarding the positions on both sides of the bridge. Moreover, these Russian soldiers had night vision and infrared equipment in their hands, so they could clearly see if anyone wanted to cross the bridge.
Take Yu Yang's route and sneak across the river.
As time goes by step by step, the sun finally wakes up from the long night, and the number of mercenaries gathered in the south of the bridge is increasing. From the first dozen people to more than 300 people now, there are still more
The gathered Chechen people, as well as some Afghan volunteers and militants, eventually numbered more than 500 people, and this number will become more and more as time goes by.
After these people saw the Russian soldiers waiting on the other side of the bridge, they were filled with despair. Some of them began to look for boats and wanted to go down the river.
However, they scanned for a week and found no tools to cross the river. In order to prevent the Russians from crossing the river and blocking their retreat, Dudayev had already destroyed all the boats on the river. Now there is not even a piece of wood on the river.
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Finally, some unbearable Chechen militants prepared to attack by force. When they retreated, they also drove several vehicles, hoping to use the vehicles to forcibly rush the bridge!
Moreover, this group of Chechen soldiers did not charge directly towards the bridge headlessly. Instead, they captured some Chechen civilians, planted bombs on them, and asked them to drive across the bridge while they followed at a distance.
These ordinary people in Chechnya watched in horror as their soldiers tied bombs to their bodies and ordered them to drive across the bridge, screaming in despair. However, they had no choice but to drive the car and shout loudly.
Four cars opened the road, followed by vehicles of Chechen militants. They carefully hid behind the cars. Several Chechen soldiers held detonators in their hands. As soon as the vehicles reached both sides of the front, they would immediately press the explosion button to open a gap.
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In the face of life and death, these Chechens almost don't care whether these people are their own people. As long as they can survive, they may even tie their own parents into the car and let them die.
When the soldiers guarding the bridge saw a vehicle rushing across the bridge, they immediately opened fire without hesitation. The four vehicles were four targets. The machine guns mounted high on the bridge kept firing at the four vehicles. The driver was directly killed.
, these vehicles stopped directly in the middle of the road.
The first group of people who rushed across the bridge died, but the militants behind them parked their vehicles behind them and started shooting at the Russian soldiers. Unfortunately, they had too few bunkers, only a few vehicles, and they hid behind them.
The militants behind the car did not hold out for long before they were all killed.
However, the charging action of this group of soldiers started the mode of death charge. More and more Chechens appeared at the bridgehead, making the bridgehead crowded. While the Russian soldiers on the other section of the bridgehead used mortars and some simple small-caliber
Artillery fire bombarded the Chechens in the south of the bridge, leaving a mass of casualties on the bridge.
Charge, non-stop charge, the people with the car drove the vehicle, stepped on the accelerator to the end, and wanted to rush over without hesitation, but on the other side of the bridge, there were more and more Russian soldiers. Within a few hours, dozens of armed sorties
Helicopters were transporting them back and forth. The number of Russian soldiers at the bridge had reached more than 300. More than 300 people had various weapons and armed the back of the Kaman Bridge like hedgehogs. There was no difference between trying to rush the bridge and committing suicide.
One day during the day, the Chechens paid more than 300 lives and still could not cross the Kaman Bridge. They hid in the south of the bridge and shivered. When it became dark, some Chechen militants began to try to cross the river secretly or cross the bridge, but they still failed.
All were neutralized by Russian soldiers.
When the early morning sun shone on the Kaman Bridge the next day, there were more than a hundred corpses on the bridge. The Russians fought all night and suffered a certain amount of casualties. By this time, the bombing had already begun.
Large-caliber artillery shells flew everywhere, and some landed near the south of the bridge. Thousands of people gathered here began to panic. The militants kidnapped some people and wanted to use their bodies as cover to rush over. However, the Russians used
Each bullet tells them that the Chechen people have no value in their eyes, if there is only one bullet.
A shell landed in the central area south of the bridge, killing dozens of people. The panicked crowd finally panicked. Some Chechen people wanted to leave this dangerous city as soon as possible, looking for some simple wood, and then
I ran under the bridge, then walked to the middle of the river to break through the thin ice and tried to float down.
A group of people went into the water, giving the Russian soldiers a chance to practice target. At the same time, because there were too many people, the middle part of the river collapsed first, and more than a dozen people fell into the cold river water. Then the Russian soldiers' bullets destroyed the thick ice at the edge.
As it was broken, more and more people fell into the water.
The temperature was more than ten degrees below zero. People who fell into the water and failed to climb ashore in time were all frozen to death in the river. Throughout the morning, there were dozens of corpses frozen on the river on the west side of the bridge. However,
Some people still tried to cross the river, but still failed.
In three days, the Chechens left thousands of corpses at the head of the bridge and the rivers on both sides. The corpses on the Kaman Bridge made it impossible for vehicles to pass, while the corpses under the bridge blended with the river and could not be distinguished from each other.
Or a corpse pit.
The entire area around the Carmen Bridge has become a purgatory under Dante's Divine Comedy.
