On the day of the battle, Ji Yulin's "Yangshan" command not only directly commanded the "Yangshan Column" to fight, but also the army unit that feinted the "Ural Barrier" was temporarily under the command of "Yangshan". Once the "Yangshan Column" completes the roundabout task, the Chinese army feint attack troops on the front of the "Ural Barrier" will become a single combat force. Their task is to attract the attention of the enemy on the opposite side and ensure that the main force completes the strategic roundabout.

Dai Anlan stayed to assist the artillery troops in bombarding the depth of the enemy's position, and Huang Wenhe and the major staff officer boarded the off-road vehicle again and rushed to the 706th Tank Regiment, which was also an offensive force in the sequence of feint attack troops.

Half an hour later, the off-road vehicle arrived at the 706 Tank Regiment headquarters and rear base. The major led Huang Wenhe to find the remaining staff of the tank regiment. The staff had received a notice from the radio station of the front enemy command headquarters, so he politely led Huang Wenhe to a tank, pointed to the "Gray Wolf" medium tank with two "patches" on the side, and said a few words to Huang Wenhe.

"This is the No. 19 car, the deputy commander of the regiment. He ate two armor-piercing bombs on the side. The regiment deputy was killed on the spot. The tank engine was destroyed. The position could not be repaired, so he had to drag it back for repair. It took several hours of emergency repair in the morning. Just after it was repaired, you immediately took the car to the front line. There was still fierce fighting there, and by the way, you also brought the repaired self-propelled artillery to the front line."

Huang Wenhe was not vague, took off his military equipment, took the piece of tank armor handed over by the staff, put on the tank cap, pulled the hand handed over by the tank soldier on the tank and boarded the tank, and then sat in the crew compartment.

The captain's seat could also see some blood stains that were not cleaned up. The air was very dirty, the smell of blood was very strong, and the smell of oil was even more severe. The part that was penetrated by the enemy's anti-tank shells on the side of the car was only reinforced with steel plates. The enamel coating there was broken like glass, and it was just applied with putty.

“Start the engine.”

Huang Wenhe did not pay much attention to the damage to the tank, but immediately issued his first order.

The tank engine that had just been installed was obviously not a new machine. After it was started, a burst of black smoke immediately emerged. Huang Wenhe immediately heard the repairmen outside the tank shouting.

"Reduce throttle and reduce throttle"

Huang Wenhe poked his head out and looked at the back of the tank. After the exhaust pipe stopped so thick black smoke, he sat back and closed the top cover with a "bang".

"Let's go, let's go to the front line."

Huang Wenhe issued an order to the tank driver, and also issued an order to set off to the self-propelled cannon that had been repaired.

The front line is not too far from the 706 tank regiment, and the straight line is only nine kilometers away. The battlefield is actually in a wilderness east of the "Ural Barrier". On the west side of the wilderness is a small river. It was originally a border line between China and the Soviet Union. On the west side is Soviet territory and China territory is Chinese territory. An iron bridge is built on that small river. A highway connects the small border town between China and the Soviet Union through here. In the past, this highway was specially used to export fertilizers and import timber to the Soviet Union. However, after the war between China and the Soviet Union, the highway was closed, and the Soviet army also strengthened its warning on the other side of the bridge.

The mission of the 706 Tank Regiment was to attack this iron bridge and act as if he was trying his best to occupy the iron bridge. However, the Soviet army reacted very quickly. Before the 706 Tank Regiment came, the Soviet army had already crossed the small river, occupied a forest on the east side of the river bank, and established a defensive position. The reason why the Soviet army had to act as a fight against the water was mainly because the terrain of the forest on the east bank of the river was higher than that of other places, which was conducive to defense and surveillance. After the Soviet army occupied this forest that originally belonged to China, it stood high and laid out some anti-tank guns and some howitzers in the forest, and opened some passages in the forest for tank access and concealment, which made the attack of the 706 Tank Regiment and infantry units very difficult.

When Huang Wenhe led the tanks and self-propelled artillery to the battlefield, the two sides had just ended an artillery battle. The forest by the river was rolling in black smoke. Behind another forest at the east end of the wilderness was the attack position of Chinese tank troops, which were everywhere. The commander of the 706th Tank Regiment squatted behind his tank, eating his lunch, and there were a box of canned food and a few compressed biscuits. Since there was a dense forest in front of the position, although the Soviet army opposite was high, it was difficult to observe the situation of the Chinese position invisibly, and the battle had become a stalemate.

Seeing Huang Wenhe jumping from the No. 19 tank, the regiment commander just stood up and waited for Huang Wenhe to walk over.

"You are my new team deputy? My surname is Huang?"

When Huang Wenhe walked up to him, the team leader asked first.

"Huang Wenhe, Lieutenant Colonel of the National Defense Army." Huang Wenhe reached out.

The regiment commander smiled, reached out and shook hands with Huang Wenhe, saying, "Sun Liren, Lieutenant Colonel of the National Defense Army Army, looks like our ranks. I heard that you came from the General Staff, but my qualifications are not comparable to me."

"Captain Sun is polite. I am your subordinate now. The subordinate obeys the superior. As for qualifications, on the battlefield, the shells will not care whether you are a general or a soldier." Huang Wenhe smiled.

"You are right. In the face of artillery fire, the general and the soldiers are treated the same. If you want to find fairness, fairness on the battlefield is true."

Commander Sun also smiled. When he asked Huang Wenhe that he had not had lunch, he dug out a few boxes of cans from the tank tool box and handed them to Huang Wenhe.

While having lunch, he studied a battlefield situation chart with the regiment commander. This battlefield situation chart was drawn by Captain Sun on the ground with a bayonet. Although it was simple, it basically clearly painted the deployment of troops between the enemy and us, and it looked clear at a glance.

"Look at this place, this is a minefield, and it is buried with anti-tanks. The tanks cannot pass through, so I can only walk from here. However, the Soviet army has installed a lot of anti-tank guns here. My original regiment deputy was killed in the artillery here. The tank almost couldn't be dragged back at that time. Fortunately, the infantry attracted the attention of the Soviet army when they retreated, so I took the opportunity to drag the regiment deputy's tank back to the position."

Commander Sun used several empty cans as tanks and gestured on the battlefield situation chart. Obviously, the battle in the morning was very fierce. The Soviet army relied on the forest as cover and defended and refused to retreat, but did not take the initiative to attack. During the attack, the 706 tank regiment lost fifteen tanks, and more than twenty tanks were damaged, half of which were seriously damaged and could only be dragged to the regiment headquarters and handed over to the repair company for emergency repair.

"I guess that the Soviet troops in the forest opposite are at least one brigade and are elite troops. They have heavy tanks, but they do not take the initiative to attack. They only suddenly jumped out of the hidden place after our tanks approached. I ordered the artillery to shell the forest where the Soviet army was hiding, but because the forest was too dense and blocked the view, they could not shoot effectively. Moreover, the caliber of the guns here is too small, and the self-propelled artillery is 105 caliber. I asked the superiors for support in the morning, but until now, the artillery has not transferred the heavy howitzers to come."

Commander Sun continued to tell Huang Wenhe about his tactical intentions. The use of artillery reminded Huang Wenhe of the two super cannons he saw in the south before coming over.

"When it comes to cannons, the artillery has now transferred two train cannons, both of which are super cannons. It is very shocking to pass by one shot. Why not ask the command for the support of train cannons?" Huang Wenhe made a suggestion.

"Oh? Is there anything wrong with this? I don't know if their range is enough?"

When he heard Huang Wenhe's words, Commander Sun jumped up and immediately asked the staff to contact the command center. After a while, the staff brought the command center's reply over.

"The train cannons are now rushing to the north, and I don't care about our side. The front finger said that after the troops in the north break through, we will fire our guns at us."

"Okay, we are not in a hurry to attack anymore. We will first arrange defensive positions. When the artillery has free time, we will attack again."

Commander Sun immediately made up his mind and ordered the troops to move into defense on the spot. The infantry troops that assisted in the attack also retreated to the side and rear positions of the tank regiment.

Although the tanks and infantry did not attack again, the artillery was not idle either. The 105-caliber self-propelled artillery quickly began to fire at the Soviet positions on the opposite side. The positions of the two sides were not very far apart, about six kilometers, and were within the range of the other party's artillery. The Chinese team began to shoot, and the Soviet army quickly began artillery counterattacks, but the shells rarely landed directly on the positions, one in the east and the other in the west. Although the gun sound was fierce, the threat was not great. Moreover, the anti-aircraft bunkers built in the forest played a good role.

Standing in the fox pit filled with rain by the forest, Huang Wenhe held a telescope and looked north. The battle there was much more intense than the battle here. You could hear the very dull sound of shell explosions. Huang Wenhe intuitively judged that it should be the "suona" bombarding the Soviet positions.

The artillery battle between the 706 tank regiment and the Soviet army lasted for more than two hours. At the beginning, the artillery fire was quite fierce, and it began to become sparse after half an hour. The Chinese team did not take the initiative to attack, and the Soviet army was also motionless. The two sides gradually turned the fierce artillery battle into cold artillery harassment.

Afterwards, some unidentified aircraft appeared in the sky, but there was no attack because the weather was getting worse and worse, and the visibility was very poor, and the planes quickly disappeared from afar.

It was not until six o'clock in the afternoon that news came from the front enemy command that the train gun had completed the breakthrough mission to cover the main attack troops in the north, and now it can support the feint attack of the 706 tank regiment. Although it was a feint attack, the Soviet army must be driven back to the west bank of the river. Only in this way can the Soviet commander's sight be disturbed and the judgment was made, and that the fortification area was being attacked fiercely.

From 6:30, the train and artillery troops began to provide artillery fire support to the 706th Tank Regiment. Because the super cannons were too powerful, the artillery actually gradually extended from the back of the Soviet position. When those several tons of concrete blasting bombs began to fall on the Soviet position opposite the 706th Tank Regiment, even though the distance between the two sides exceeded six kilometers, the people still felt the vibration from the ground.

"boom----"

"boom----"

Under the command of the front-line artillery artillery cadets at the position, most of the shells fell accurately into the forest on the east bank of the river occupied by the Soviet army. Every bomb explosion would create amazing damage in the forest and release a terrifying atmosphere.

Although only two train guns would fire a concrete blast or high-explosion grenade into the forest defended by the Soviet army every few minutes, and the firepower density was not strong, but because the power of a single shell was too strong, it caused a great shock to the Soviet army. Therefore, after an hour of artillery attack, the Soviet army guarding the forest voluntarily retreated, retreated to the west bank of the small river, and blew up the iron bridge on the river.

At nine o'clock in the evening, after it was completely dark that day, the 706 tank regiment advanced to the river and occupied the forest that was originally controlled by the Soviet army. Huang Wenhe also saw the forest passages opened by the Soviet army and the heavy tanks abandoned in the forest. The tanks were basically destroyed or severely damaged by train guns. The huge crater on the forest ground shocked Huang Wenhe and all the Chinese soldiers. They fully understood the Soviet army's eagerness to retreat.

After nightfall, the sound of guns and cannons on the battlefield gradually became sparse. The first day of the "Thunderstorm" operation was very successful. The Soviet troops on the border were completely defeated, and the "Ural Barrier" also entered a sleepless night with the cannons of the Zhongzhan team. When most Chinese soldiers fell asleep, the Soviet soldiers who were defending the barriers were anxiously open their eyes and looked at the dark border line with vigilance. It was pitch black and terrifying. The Zhongzhan team seemed to rush out of the darkness at any time and pounce on the Soviet positions.
Chapter completed!