The situation in Vladivostok is extremely critical. The Japanese have captured the main positions outside Vladivostok. The entire Vladivostok is within the range of Japanese artillery fire. The countdown to the fall of Vladivostok has begun.
Genda Bingwei danced excitedly. In his opinion, Vladivostok was already within his grasp. As long as he worked harder to conquer Vladivostok, the great success of occupying the Primorsky Krai would fall on him.
By then, I thought that I would be able to advance further in my official position, and becoming a general would not be a big problem. Thinking of this, Genda Bingwei had a smile on his face.
However, the bright smile on Genda Bingwei's face did not last long. News reached his ears that Hunchun Ridge had been lost.
Hunchunling is the retreat for the Japanese. The fall of Hunchunling means that the Japanese's retreat has been cut off. As a result, Genda Hebei is faced with two choices. One is to continue to attack Vladivostok. As long as the entire Vladivostok is occupied, then the retreat will be considered.
The road was cut off, and he could also get supplies from the sea. This battle was definitely won. The other option was to return to Hunchun Ridge and eliminate the Soviet army occupying Hunchun Ridge.
Genda Hebei chose the former without hesitation. In his opinion, Vladivostok was just around the corner. It would be a pity to give up the attack at this time. Of course, the direction of Hunchun Ridge also had to be defended, so Genda Hebei was fighting with
After communicating with several division commanders, they ordered the 18th Division, which served as the rearguard, to return to attack Hunchunling.
At the same time, Genda Hebei threw all the troops at hand and launched the most violent attack on Vladivostok. Suddenly, the sound of artillery roared, the entire Vladivostok was filled with smoke, and explosions continued. Vladivostok was facing tremendous pressure.
Savushkin sent out all the troops at hand, and even wanted to go to the front line himself. Cherev stopped Savushkin and said: "Comrade Commander, you are a commander, not a soldier, you cannot
Go to the frontline battlefield."
Savushkin said: "My comrade political commissar, what time is it? Vladivostok may be captured at any time. At this time, I should fight with the soldiers instead of hiding behind."
Cherev said: "Comrade Commander, if you really can't hold it, retreat."
Savushkin smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "Where to retreat? Only Vladivostok is left in our hands in the entire Far East. Are we allowed to retreat into the sea? Comrade Political Commissar, we cannot be deserters!"
Cherev sighed. He also knew that Vladivostok was now at its last moment. If Xu Rui could not defeat the Japanese rearguard in time and attract the Japanese to return to defense, then the entire Vladivostok would be over. With Stalin's temper, even if he and Stalin were
Vushkin fled back to Kazan, fearing that he would also end up being shot.
Thinking of this, Cherev gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, Comrade Commander, let's go. The two of us will go together!"
At that moment, Savushkin and Cherev left the city defense headquarters. As soon as they left, they heard several loud "boom" noises. The city defense headquarters was hit by several howitzer shells and suddenly turned into a pile of rubble.
Savushkin and Cherev were shocked and said to themselves that it was lucky that they had left the city defense headquarters, otherwise, they would be dead by now.
The two men did not dare to hesitate any longer, and immediately came to the front line position to command the troops to defend. However, the Japanese cannons were too powerful. Savushkin saw that his fortifications were destroyed one by one under the Japanese cannons. He knew that if this continued,
, his own troops not only suffered huge casualties, but also could not defend Vladivostok at all.
Amidst the sound of artillery, Savushkin called Cherev to his side and said loudly: "Comrade Political Commissar!"
"Boom!" A shell exploded next to him, and Cherev shouted: "What did you say?"
Savushkin pulled Cherev and squatted under a ruined wall, shouting: "Comrade political commissar! We can't continue fighting like this, otherwise the soldiers will die in vain!"
"What are you going to do!" Cherev shouted.
"boom!"
Another artillery shell exploded not far in front of the two people. Fortunately, there was a wall blocking it, so the two people were not injured except for some tinnitus.
After coughing twice and feeling his ears feel better, Savushkin said: "Comrade Political Commissar, I plan to let the Japs in, and we have to use the terrain of Vladivostok to fight the Japs in the streets. What do you think?"
"Okay, Comrade Commander!" Cherev shouted.
At that moment, Savushkin issued an order to all troops to abandon all positions outside the city, and all troops retreated to Vladivostok to engage in street fighting with the Japanese.
On the other hand, when Genda Heibei saw that the Soviet army began to retreat, he believed that the Soviet army could no longer withstand it. Without even thinking about it, he immediately ordered all troops to chase into the city and completely eliminate the Soviet army in the city. As a result, a massacre began in Vladivostok.
A bloody battle...
Above a house, soldier Tchaikovsky held a Mosin-Nagant rifle with a sniper scope in his hand, constantly observing the surrounding situation through the sniper scope.
At this moment, he saw a Japs head sticking out of the alleyway in front of him. The Japs were standing at the alleyway with a machine gun in their hands, shooting all around. Tchaikovsky was about to shoot.
, another sniper next to him said: "Don't move. Have you noticed that the enemy's bullets fall completely aimlessly? In other words, the enemy did not find us. This is just their fire reconnaissance."
That’s all.”
Tchaikovsky took a closer look and saw that this was really what happened, so he became quiet again.
The Japs in the distance saw that there was nothing happening in the machine gun fire reconnaissance, so he waved, and more than twenty Japs came out from behind him. Each of these Japs was holding a Type 38 rifle, moving extremely quickly, and kept moving forward.
Move forward step by step.
Closer, closer, Tchaikovsky could already see the pockmarks on the faces of the Japanese soldiers across from him. He took a deep breath and shot the Japanese leader with a machine gun.
I saw a bloody hole suddenly appeared in the head of the Japs who was walking at the front with a machine gun, and he fell to the ground on his back.
The next moment, gunfire erupted from the rooftops of the houses on the left and right sides of the alley. Two machine guns formed a crossfire, knocking the Japanese to the ground one by one. A moment later, most of the twenty-odd Japanese were killed or injured, and the remaining two were about to escape.
But they were killed one by one by Tchaikovsky and his companions.
In less than two minutes, only one of the twenty-odd Japs escaped, and all the others were killed.
The Soviet troops on the roof jumped down, refilled their guns with the Japanese who were still alive, and then once again prepared to wait and wait.
After a few minutes, a group of Japanese soldiers arrived at the entrance of the alley. This time, the Japanese soldiers did not attack rashly. Instead, they set up four mortars and fired indiscriminately at the roofs on both sides of the alley. Dozens of rounds were fired.
When the shells fell, several houses deep in the alley collapsed, and the two Soviet machine guns were buried in the rubble.
Seeing that there was no movement ahead, the Japanese troops entered the alley and searched suspicious places to prevent being ambushed by the Soviet army.
After a while, the Japs pulled out two injured Soviet soldiers from the ruins. Several Japs doused the Soviet soldiers with gasoline and set them on fire. Amidst the screams of the two Soviet soldiers, the Japs clapped their hands and laughed.
After dealing with the Soviet army in the alleyway, the team of Japanese soldiers moved forward again. From a distance, they saw an open field in front of them. There were only two piles of rubble taller than a person in the open field, distributed on the left and right. They saw that there was no place to ambush around.
, these Japs breathed a sigh of relief, and more than a hundred Japs quickly moved forward again, getting closer and closer to the two piles of rubble.
"Ta-ta-ta..."
Two tongues of flame suddenly appeared in the middle of the two piles of rubble, forming a crossfire and blocking all angles. The Japanese were caught off guard and a large piece fell down. The remaining Japanese wanted to find bunkers, but they were surrounded by open spaces, and there was nothing there.
Can I take cover?
When the Japanese soldiers behind saw it, they immediately set up their mortars.
"Snapped!"
A gunshot hit the head, and a Japanese soldier who was setting up a mortar was shot through the head. Another Japanese soldier quickly ran over and tried to set up a mortar.
"Snapped!"
Another shot to the head, and the devil's head was blown off again.
In the rubble, Tchaikovsky roared loudly every time he killed a Japs. The mortars surrounding the Japs dropped a dozen corpses.
Under the full stranglehold of machine gunners and snipers, this group of nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers was finally completely killed.
"withdraw!"
Tchaikovsky roared, and dozens of Soviet soldiers immediately withdrew from the battle and retreated to another part of the city.
On each side of the city, more than a hundred Japanese devils entered a residential area. The people of Vladivostok had evacuated the city before the war, so there were no residents in this residential area. When the Japanese were advancing, they were attacked by people on both sides of the residential area.
A shot was fired from above the roof, and everything fell down immediately.
This group of Japanese soldiers responded in time and immediately retreated into several houses, relying on the walls of the houses to resist the Soviet attack. The two sides formed a confrontation.
At this time, several Soviet soldiers brought flamethrowers and sprayed blazing flames at several residential buildings. In an instant, several houses were filled with flames, and bursts of screams of Japanese soldiers could be heard.
Two Japanese soldiers covered in fire rushed out of the house, but were immediately killed by Soviet snipers...
Fierce street fighting continued. The Soviet soldiers took advantage of the familiar terrain and automatic weapons to gain the upper hand. However, the Japanese artillerymen did not dare to use cannons to bombard them. They could only rely on their superiority in strength to continuously strengthen their offensive and fight.
The battle was extremely fierce, with blood and corpses everywhere, smoke and flames of war everywhere in Vladivostok, and the battle was in a stalemate.
At the same time, Xu Rui commanded the rapid assault force to continuously attack forward. After wiping out the artillery regiment and the heavy supply regiment of the 18th Division, Xu Rui's troops finally encountered the main force of the 18th Division.
Infantry Regiment.
Without saying a word, Xu Rui directly issued the order to attack. Although after a night of fierce fighting, the tank troops did not suffer any losses. Except for a few that broke down, the rest were able to continue fighting.
At that moment, more than ninety tanks rushed like tigers into a flock of sheep, rushing towards the infantry regiment that the Japanese were rushing towards...
