The Rakshasa army who wanted to break out of the encirclement and return home was already fighting tooth and nail. It could be said that when the people in front fell, the people behind them made up for it, and they kept charging forward.
Facing such a fierce assault, the Hunan Army on the ground tried their best to fire various bullets to prevent the enemy from approaching, but they were still unable to do so.
In this way, the first line of defense was quickly broken through.
Fortunately, the soldiers of the Hunan Army only wanted to reduce casualties, so they did not fight desperately on the first line of defense.
Seeing that there was nothing they could do, they retreated to the second line of defense in an orderly manner and continued to defend.
Lieutenant General Strelnikov led hundreds of thousands of Tsarist Russian troops to break through the first line of defense of the Hunan Army without stopping at all. He asked the 3rd and 7th Divisions, which had just made a desperate charge and suffered heavy losses, to repair on the spot.
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Then, send other troops to continue the attack on the second line of defense.
At this time, the soldiers defending the second line of defense were reinforced by soldiers from the retreating first line of defense, and their strength was strengthened compared to the original strength.
This time their firepower was even more fierce, and now the Rakshasa army was facing various bullets that kept coming like raindrops.
But this time the Hunan Army soldiers saw the resilience of the Slavs.
These Rakshasa soldiers lay on the ground and crawled forward slowly. Some of them shot forward from a distance of one to two hundred meters to provide certain firepower reinforcements for the Tsarist Russian soldiers in front.
But this time it was not easy for them to break through the defense line.
Because Lu Chun in the south already knew that the Rakshasa Army had begun to launch a fierce attack to the north.
After Lu Chun received the news, he immediately judged that the Rakshasa people were ready to break out.
So Lu Chun immediately issued an order to the soldiers attacking the city, asking them to speed up, clean up the remaining enemies in Changchun City as soon as possible, and then attack the Rakshasa Army's retreat from the south gate.
At the same time, Lu Chun sent out the Second Hunan Army and the Second and Fourth Japanese Divisions to quickly bypass Changchun City and send reinforcements to the south.
On the North City side, Lieutenant General Strelnikov understood the importance of time now.
If they still cannot break through the Hunan Army's defense line, they may be surrounded by the enemy in the wilderness.
Therefore, Lieutenant General Strelnikov gritted his teeth and issued an order, asking other Tsarist Russian troops to join the offensive and to attack continuously from all aspects without giving any respite to the defenders of the second line of defense.
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At this time, hundreds of thousands of Tsarist Russian troops roared from all directions and launched a charge towards the second line of defense.
Lieutenant General Strelnikov was completely desperate. If he did not break through the defense line, he would let all the hundreds of thousands of people fall on the ground.
This time, the Hunan Army's second line of defense immediately had loopholes.
Due to the uneven defensive strength, the barrels of the soldiers' guns in several places were already red, but they still could not stop the approach of the Tsarist Russian army, and finally had to retreat again.
Just when the Tsarist Russian army was about to break through the second line of defense, there was another roar in the sky.
It turned out that this was the Hunan Army's air force, coming again for reinforcements.
This time, the air force was in full force, with a total of 20 H-6 bombers and 24 J-H-7 attack aircraft dispatched.
After these planes arrived in the sky above Shenyang, they found that the battle on the ground was going very smoothly. It seemed that the Hunan Army had already invaded the city wall and was engaging in street fighting with the enemy.
Wang Kang, who was originally leading the team, thought that this time it might be in vain. He saw from a distance in the sky that the fighting was very fierce in the north direction of the city.
So Wang Kang roared toward the north with dozens of planes.
When we reached the north of the city, we lowered our altitude and observed, only to find that a large number of Rakshasa soldiers were attacking the Hunan Army's defensive positions.
The Hunan Army position they faced was now somewhat shaky.
Since this was the case, Wang Kang was not polite and immediately ordered all kinds of fighter planes under his command to launch attacks one after another to reinforce the Hunan Army on land.
Wang Kang's attack came at the right time. As the heavy aerial bombs landed, the Tsarist Russian soldiers on the ground were immediately blasted into gaps, which greatly reduced the pressure on the defending soldiers.
Lieutenant General Strelnikov now raised his head from behind, looking at the plane roaring down from the sky, gritting his teeth.
If these planes had arrived a few minutes later, he might have broken through this second line of defense.
But it is no longer useful to say this now. Lieutenant General Strelnikov had already thought about the possible threat from the air before breaking through, so he specially organized a group of heavy machine guns to cause trouble for these aerial enemies at the critical moment.
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Following Lieutenant General Strelnikov's order, dozens of heavy machine guns were immediately launched from the Tsarist Russian army. They tilted the barrel of the machine gun on a high slope, and then pointed it at the sky from all directions.
Fierce shooting began.
However, their attack was completely in vain. Without professional sighting equipment, it was almost impossible to shoot a fighter jet flying at medium speed with a machine gun.
What's more, the heavy machine guns used by the Rakshasa Army are too bulky. If you want to design the machine gun with a large tilt angle, you must tilt the machine gun body. This greatly reduces the stability of the machine gun, so their shooting
The accuracy is even worse.
However, although they did not pose much of a threat to the fighters in the sky, the flying bullets still had a certain impact on Wang Kang and his fighters, making them afraid to lower their altitude too low.
Even so, these dozens of fighter planes caused huge casualties to the Tsarist Russian army.
Especially the huge bomb load of the H-6 bomber, even if it could not carry out precise bombing, and then used horizontal bombing, it also caused unimaginable losses to the Tsarist Russian army on the ground.
By the time the 20 H-6 bombers left, hundreds of deep craters had been left on the battlefield.
Within the scope of the bomb's impact, there were almost no living people left.
It means that the casualties caused by such an air strike to the Russian army exceeded 10,000.
In addition to the people who were killed by the bombing, what was even more serious was the psychological fear that was created in the Rakshasa Army, which could not be dispelled for a long time.
Although Lieutenant General Strelnikov knew that the losses on his side were very heavy and fear arose among the soldiers, he could not make the soldiers stop and recuperate.
Because once the soldiers stop attacking, the impulse and courage in their hearts will quickly disappear. At that time, hundreds of thousands of them will have no choice but to wait and die.
Therefore, instead of letting the soldiers rest, the lieutenant general ordered the attack to be strengthened and the second line of defense must be broken through again within an hour.
Facing the order from the top, the soldiers at the bottom could only grit their teeth and charge forward with their rifles in hand.
However, after a morning of fighting and aerial bombing, their morale was indeed not as high as it was at the beginning, so their attack efficiency was much worse than before.
This allowed the defending Hunan Army soldiers to seize the opportunity, re-deploy some, and reluctantly once again firmly grasped the position.
After nearly 20 minutes of fighting, the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom did not make any important progress, and even lost an area of the original battle area in some places.
Lieutenant General Strelnikov saw this situation with a telescope from behind the formation, and his brows were as furrowed as a mountain. He knew that the soldiers were already tired and that continuing to drive them to attack would not have any effect and would only increase the number of soldiers.
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At this time, a scout sent a piece of information. To the north of Changchun City, the Hunan Army had dispatched a large number of soldiers. They were adding more soldiers to one side and would appear on the enemy's position in about an hour.
Faced with this critical situation, Lieutenant General Strelnikov gritted his teeth and made a decision.
That is to order grassroots officers and nobles to form death squads and launch a charge against the enemy's positions.
This was also the lieutenant general's last resort. He did not expect these officers and nobles to have any effect.
The main purpose is to use the deaths of these officers and nobles to inspire the grassroots soldiers to have the courage to fight decisively.
Lieutenant General Strenikov's order was quickly passed on to all the troops. After receiving the order from the superior, the commanders of each division were stunned for a while, but in the end they immediately understood that what had happened must have happened.
What happened that forced the Lieutenant General to take such a risky approach?
Faced with the danger of the entire army being destroyed, these division commanders no longer cared about their subordinates, so they quickly organized a death squad consisting of more than 500 officers and nobles.
As soon as this unit appeared at the front of the position, the already tired Tsarist Russian soldiers were in an uproar.
Because these soldiers had long been dissatisfied with the officers and nobles hiding behind them, now that they saw these masters actually forming a death squad, they were first surprised, and then their morale increased greatly.
In fact, these officers and nobles have been scolding their mothers in their hearts. Although they have been in the army, they can be said to be pampered due to their status.
Now let them take guns and go to the death squads. None of them is willing.
However, it was not up to them to decide the matter, because behind these people there was a group of people pointing machine guns and rifles at them. Anyone who dared to retreat would be immediately beaten to death on the battlefield.
Therefore, these hundreds of people finally weighed the pros and cons, and for the sake of their families back home, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and die.
As the first wave of death squads charged, the ordinary soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom behind them also moved forward bravely. This wave of offensive immediately had an effect.
Faced with this overwhelming attack by the Rakshasa Army, although the Hunan Army on the second line of defense inflicted a large number of casualties on the enemy, the rifles in their hands were really a little tough on the crazy enemy soldiers.