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When he rushed outside to look at the sky, the scene he least wanted to see still appeared in front of his eyes. He only saw three biplane I-15 fighter jets chasing and firing at an Fw-200 that was about to land!But what makes people laugh is that this kind of Soviet fighter jets seem to be unable to catch up with the big transport planes, and the distance between the two sides is getting farther and farther... But Sun Liren's heart is tightly lifted, he knows that his logistics is now encountering Trouble!

Chapter 0735 raid ([-]) protect the Soviet Union?Protect Russia?

In the early morning of October 1937, 10.The artillery fire that had been raging over the heads of the Soviet troops in the encirclement of Borgia finally came to an abrupt end.It made those Soviet Red Army soldiers who were accustomed to the shrapnel flying above their heads and the sound of shell explosions in their ears feel a little uncomfortable.Everyone looked at each other suspiciously.The officers hurriedly took this opportunity to order the communication soldiers to check the line, so that the communication network that had been completely destroyed by the bombardment could be partially restored.At this time, it was already morning light.Signal flares rose one after another suddenly on the Chinese front.Watching the signal flares shining with various colors slowly fall, the Soviet Red Army officers and soldiers who had been stunned could react effectively and slowly.The Chinese infantry attack is about to begin!

The sound of the sharp whistle immediately resounded through the entire front, and the defender's signal flares were also launched into the air.When the communication network is destroyed by artillery fire, this method is the only way to notify the troops, enter the position, and prepare for the attack of Chinese imperialism!When the disgraced Red Army soldiers were flocking to the trenches, the mortar firepower, mountain artillery, and infantry artillery deployed by the Chinese National Defense Forces at the front launched another sudden attack.Immediately, flesh and blood flew all over again, and screams rang out one after another!Then the roaring sound of the motor came from the opposite position, and under the slightly dewy morning light, one could vaguely see huge black shadows rumbling towards them, and behind the black shadows were groups of M35-style helmets flashing there. move!This is a coordinated attack by step and tank!The officers of the Red Army shouted orders loudly with sweat on their faces, even if they stabbed with bayonets, they must block the Chinese tanks!The soldiers were assigned to carry weapons and ammunition, braved the flying shrapnel and rushed into the trenches, and the surviving firepower points in the fortress were also in place. After 24 hours of bombardment and more than ten hours of dive bombing, the entire defense system of the fortress has been beaten to pieces.Most of the fort bunkers have been damaged to varying degrees, the artillery of the fortress is almost gone, and the outer trench system has almost been filled up by one-third.Many of the trenches, which were as deep as a person and reinforced with log parapets, had been beaten down to only half a person deep!

In front of the defense line, all the woods have been beaten bare, only the charred stakes are still smoking there.The ground is full of bullet craters.It looks like it's on the surface of the moon.Obstacles have disappeared.And the Chinese tanks slowly pressed over from a distance. What a huge armored force this is!These Soviet Red Army officers and soldiers did not know that they were in charge of attacking them. Eight Chinese infantry corps and one White Russian infantry corps commanded by General Xia Wei of the Chinese National Defense Army had a total of 27 divisions and nearly 45 people!And there are one thousand No. [-] tanks of eight military tank regiments!Admiral Xia Wei invested [-] tanks from four tank regiments at one time, covering the eight infantry regiments of the Belarusian Second Army with nearly [-] infantrymen and launched a full-line attack!

Lieutenant General Hu Zongnan, commander of the First Infantry Army, was in charge of directing the attack on the front line.His command position was in a bunker not far from the Soviet position.Surrounded by signal soldiers and messengers on standby.And his staff.He and Lieutenant General Roach, the commander of the second army who served as the deputy commander of today's attack, both guarded an artillery mirror.Looking at the bursts of muzzle flames flashing on the Soviet position opposite.He cursed bitterly: "Mother Xipi, this group of Red Army is really stubborn, their empress has already let the past go! Why are they still stubborn and must be buried for the Bolsheviks? I don't know how the Communist Party educates them ?”

Liu Kan, who was the chief of staff of the First Army, laughed and said, "Brother Shoushan is really not afraid of death when he is a Red Army? There are internal affairs personnel and political commissars holding machine guns behind them! But that is useless. The fortifications have been beaten up like this, as long as our tanks rush up, they will crush a lot of them with their tracks! It is estimated that we will be able to take the periphery of the Borgia Fortress today."

"The key to this battle is not whether Borja can be captured, but how many prisoners can be captured!" At this time, Roach reminded: "The queen we are assisting in command still counts on those old captive soldiers to help her take care of the country. Woolen cloth!"

Several people in the shelter couldn't help but chuckle when they heard "the queen of the assistant commander", which is a nickname Anastasia has among the upper class in China.People close to Luo Yaoguo called her that behind their backs, but Luo Yaoguo's opponents called her an ugly "Queen of Whores".

Although the ordinary people down below don't know much about this affair because of the news control, the upper-level people regard it as gossip after dinner, and even make up a lot of nasty jokes... In fact, for this empress of the Romanov family , most Chinese people don't have a good impression of it!

"Tat-tat--"

At this time, Chinese tanks had already escorted 200 Belarusian soldiers to a place more than 1 meters away from the Soviet Red Army position.The heavy machine guns ambushing all over the position began to spit out flames, knocking down the Belarusian infantry around the tank like mowing grass.Sporadically, clusters of flames rose up, some were mortar shells exploding in the attacking troops, and some were the only ZIS-37 anti-tank guns or ordinary 20mm anti-tank guns that gave the weakly protected No. [-] tank to the ground. Make a ball of fire!However, the anti-tank guns and machine guns that exposed their targets were quickly counterattacked by the [-]mm machine guns equipped by the No. [-] tank, and columns of flames and smoke suddenly rose on the positions of the Soviet Red Army.

"Long live the Empress! Ulla! Ulla—"

Suddenly, Russian shouts rang out on the entire battlefield. No one needed to give orders. The machine guns on the enemy's positions were the signal for a decisive charge. Twenty thousand White Russian officers and soldiers with long bayonet-mounted rifles and submachine guns shouted "Queen! "Long live" slogan, with a firm face, and began to charge with all his strength without hesitation!This White Russian Second Army is not composed of those "White Russian youths" who came back from abroad. They are the original Trotskyist Red Army, that is, the main body is the Russian peasants in the labor camps, and they are also the most loyal supporters of the Queen!

Surprisingly, these Russian peasants actually loved the queen the most!In their view, Empress Anastasia is a holy angel, an angel sent by God to save the suffering Russian peasants!She will feed all the Russian peasants, there will be no machine-gun requisitions, no damned collective farms, and no targets for arresting people for Siberia!As for her affair with the Chinese marshal, what does that have to do with Russian peasants?At best, it's just a topic of entertainment after dinner... If it were changed to the private life of Stalin or Trotsky, would anyone dare to talk about it?Whoever said that he should not be charged with "viciously attacking the great leader" and sent to Siberia for labor reform!And so many people in Vladivostok are chewing their tongues, has anyone been arrested?Those aristocratic lords really do not know their blessings in the midst of blessings!

So for their angel queen to sit on the throne of St. Petersburg, so that their children and grandchildren will no longer suffer from hunger.The [-] Russian White Army surged forward roaring and rushing, like an unstoppable torrent, pouring into the trenches of the Soviet Red Army.The firepower confrontation suddenly turned into a hand-to-hand battle!This hand-to-hand battle did not last long.After all, among the tens of thousands of soldiers who made up the Soviet Red Army, half of them were Russian peasants who suffered and suffered, and there were also descendants of various class dissidents.Why are they fighting for the usurper Stalin?So when waves of White Russian officers and soldiers rushed into the trenches, they simply dropped their weapons and raised their hands to surrender!Of course, not everyone's surrender is acceptable. Those Red Army officers and soldiers wearing blue hats or officer uniforms are often stabbed down by bayonets by red-eyed White Russian officers and soldiers!The empress forgave them, but not for the bitter Russian peasants!This frenzy was not stopped until the Chinese tanks behind came.

Two days of indiscriminate bombing plus 24 hours of bombardment preparations, plus three days of political offensive, and 20 years of tyranny by the Bolsheviks ensured the success of the Infantry-Tank joint commando in one fell swoop!The green signal flare announcing victory rose from the front, and there was a burst of cheers from behind."Long Live the Empress" in Russian resounded throughout the battlefield!Those who shouted this slogan included both Belarusian officers and soldiers, as well as elated Soviet Red Army prisoners of war!

As a veteran Soviet Red Army lieutenant general, Barnov participated in the First World War, participated in the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution, and participated in the subsequent Soviet-Polish War. The first military operation to suppress the Russian peasants!I have fought victorious battles and also lost battles, but I have never seen such a scene of joyful surrender, and I never thought that it was my own troops who happily surrendered to the enemy!At this time, he finally understood why Comrade Stalin was so afraid of this whore-like empress.If it was the Chinese National Defense Army that launched the attack today, those Red Army soldiers might be defeated, might escape, or might surrender, but they would never surrender so happily!

"Fire! All artillery fire! Punish those traitors severely!"

The anger of the commander and the trembling guns of the internal staff made the remaining artillerymen of the fortress ignore the Thunderhawk dive bombers that had already flown over the Borgia fortress.Just two to three minutes later, six 3mm B-203 howitzers slowly raised their muzzles and roared.

More 150mm and 122mm cannons also joined the chorus, and balls of fire flew up over the positions that had just been captured by the Belarusian and Chinese coalition forces.This scene made the dive-bombers who had just arrived suddenly frantic, and immediately formed a dive-bombing formation in the sky, and then found the target and rushed to kill it!

Unlike most of the forts built on the basis of danger, the Borgia Fortress was built on a flat ground and lacked enough building materials, so the protection of the fortress was even weaker, and there was no such thing as the Maginot Line of Defense. Armored turrets, there are only some artillery positions hidden behind the main defensive wall of the fortress made of thick rock and cement, and some fortification systems such as fortress groups, firepower points, and underground bunkers.And those concealed artillery positions will be exposed as soon as they fire, and they will immediately attract artillery counterattacks and air strikes.Although there are many anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns deployed at various air defense firepower points in the fortress, compared with the overwhelming number of aircraft of the Chinese Air Force, this level of air defense is useless.So all exposed artillery positions, forts, and bunkers have been destroyed at this moment.And Barnov's order to fire in broad daylight naturally ruined the last counterattack force in his hands.

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The headquarters of the Soviet 21st Army, here is now an atmosphere of despair.The outskirts of the fortress were all captured by the enemy in a morning's battle. So many infantry regiments and artillery companies in the front, and the perfect defense system were defeated by the enemy. Terrible Article 26 of the Criminal Code, raised his hands and surrendered to the White Guards on the battlefield!At the check point, the three armies of the 21st Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army now have the largest number of troops, the 3st Army, which has only 101 people, the 8000nd Army has less than 102 people, and the 103rd Army has a maximum number of around 21.After a short and intense half-day battle, the [-]st Group Army suffered heavy casualties, tens of thousands of casualties, tens of thousands of people were captured, and countless artillery and machine guns were captured by the enemy.Now it can barely form a line of defense along the main defensive wall of the dilapidated Borgia Fortress.Before the Chita reinforcements arrived, Lieutenant General Barnov found in despair that they no longer had enough strength to hold on!On the road from Chita to Borja, there are not only countless Chinese dive bombers waiting for their prey, but also a torrent of steel composed of thousands of Chinese tanks advancing along the road from Chita to Borja!It seems that the general reserve team in Bluecher's hands cannot be reached even with wings.

Morale is low, troops are weak, firepower is insufficient, surrounded on all sides, and foreign aid is cut off.Now is the situation facing Barnov.According to the reports of the political workers of the various units, no one among the lower-ranking officers and soldiers wants to fight anymore. Every moment, some people risk their lives and climb out from the gaps in the main defensive wall of the fortress to attack the White Guards or Chinese White Army outside. surrender!

The shells still exploded dullly around the Borgia Fortress, although they didn't have the same intensity as before.But it was still enough for the soldiers in the trench to curl up and dare not stand up.But some people risked their lives to surrender!Barnov thought to himself: "I am afraid that the current problem is not on the battlefield, but outside the battlefield! It has been more than ten years since the victory of the revolution, but how much is the life of the Soviet people compared with the old Russia under the tsarist rule?" What about improvement? No! Not only has there been no improvement, but there has also been a serious regression! At least compared to 1914 before the First World War, it is a substantial regression..."

The headquarters of the 21st Army Group is located in a solid bunker with a depth of more than ten meters, which is also the core fortification of the entire Borgia Fortress.Dim electric lights were on inside, and dozens of Red Army officers, high and low, sat in the headquarters with livid faces, silent and not speaking.Many people still have injuries on their bodies.A white bandage leaked from the lower brim of the military cap.These communist elites are all looking ashamed now, and there is no hope in any of them.Their eyes were all focused on Lieutenant General Barnov, who was slumped in a chair, and another letter of persuasion written by Empress Anastasia herself.Just now, these officers also reported the situation of their troops face to face. The enemy has completely controlled the outer positions of the fortress. According to the observation from the core position of the fortress, they are stepping up to rebuild the roads, fill in the trenches under the cover of artillery fire, and clear the obstacles. Clearing landmines, while also transporting the wounded and prisoners.Seems to be preparing for the next attack.Their reserve forces are constantly moving forward, and a dozen 210mm heavy howitzers have been dragged to the rear of the first line of positions. It seems that they are going to use this kind of gate to directly bombard the main defensive wall of the fortress—of course it is After I rejected the other party's persuasion to surrender again!

Surrender regardless of the safety of your family!Then save your life and get a gift from the queen.I'm afraid everyone in this room thinks so, right?Barnov took a deep breath, straightened up from the map table, and scanned the group of officers under him who seemed to have completely collapsed with bloodshot brown eyes: "Comrades, cheer up! In those In front of the White Guards and the yellow-skinned monkeys, you only have this little courage? Can't you face death bravely like a real Communist!" The officers below, including the head of the internal affairs department wearing a blue hat, avoided Barr Novov's eyes, as experienced front-line commanders, of course they know the desperate situation of the troops, they also know the difficulties faced by the Soviet motherland, and they know that as a communist, now is the time to fulfill their vows and sacrifice their lives!But……

"But Russia needs us! Her Majesty the Empress said in the letter that she and Russia need each of us!"

"What! Comrade Zhukhlai! You actually called that whore Your Majesty! You...have you forgotten your identity?" Barnov could hardly believe that he had eyes and ears!The person who said this was actually Colonel Ivan Zhuhlai, the head of the Army's Counterintelligence Department and the acting political commissar of the Army Group, a veteran Cheka soldier and Communist!During the civil war, because he exceeded the target of killing counter-revolutionaries in Ukraine, he was also cordially received and commended by Comrade Lenin!

Zhu Helai stood up suddenly, staring at Barnov with the same blood-red eyes: "Comrade Commander! Wake up! The Soviet Union is over, she can't defeat the whole world... let alone liberate the whole world! This road was a dead end from the very beginning. Trotsky was right on this point. No country can establish a socialist system under the hostility of capitalism all over the world! Neither can the Soviet Union! But the Soviet Union is gone, and Russia is still In! Not for the empress nor for the Romanov dynasty, but for Russia, we also need to live, at least not die worthless here... because Russia needs an army! Only a strong army can guarantee that she will not Partitioned by China, Germany, and Poland! So, Comrade Commander, please lead us to the side of the Russian Empress! From now on, we will defend the Russian motherland."

Chapter 0736 Raid ([-]) Siberian Jungle Battle

Zhukhlai's sentence "Defend the Russian motherland!" shattered the last psychological defense of Lieutenant General Barnov, and the commander of the Soviet 21st Army was completely desperate.So at two o'clock in the afternoon that day, he finally walked out of the underground bunker, led the remaining 5 Red Army officers and soldiers and more than 13 temporarily recruited civilians in Borgia City, and swore an oath to Russian Empress Anastasia I After allegiance, he collectively joined the Russian Army, and subsequently accepted the position of commander of the No.[-] Army of the Russian Army and the title of Marquis.

At 1937 o'clock in the afternoon on October 10, 14, after paying 3 officers and soldiers casualties (including 4500 from Belarus and 2400 from the Chinese National Defense Force), 2100 tanks were lost (48 of which can be repaired, 18 were completely damaged), and 30 fighter planes (6 A-3a Thunderhawk dive bombers, 4 A-2a light dive bombers, and 2 Bf-1 crashed due to mechanical failure when returning to the voyage), the blue sky and white sun flag was finally inserted in Borja On the top of the tallest watchtower in the fortress, the national flag flying high indicates that the Amur River defense line in the Soviet Far East has been torn a fatal breach.

However, the biggest gain in this battle is the Marquis Barnov and his 12 officers and soldiers!After surrendering to the Russian Empress, these former communist fighters were rewarded and pardoned!Including the "most evil" former Cheka soldier Count Zhuhelei-he was sent to Vladivostok by a plane immediately after his surrender, and was appointed as the deputy director of the Russian Imperial Secret Service!The remaining 12 people, in addition to supplementing the six Russian armies fighting under the command of the Northeast Front Army, were also organized into the No.13 and No.14 armies of the Russian Army.

This "massive surrender" incident, which occurred on the fourth day after the launch of the Chinese army's full-scale offensive, was later considered by historical research scholars to be the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Red Empire!Because after this day, all the officers and soldiers of the Red Army and the Russians suddenly discovered that there was not only one road ahead of them!They can also choose another way of life... to live as a human being, not a screw in the Red Empire!

But at that time, no one thought that the red empire had fallen.At least for the thousands of Chinese paratroopers standing in Krasnoyarsk, an important town in Eastern Siberia, and the surrounding dense forests, the battle has just begun!

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Local time in Siberia, Soviet Union, 15th, morning, 2:[-] sharp.

The cold snap in Siberia in October is already evident. Soldiers need to be wrapped in thick cotton coats to work at night, and Min-26 automatic rifles also need to be held in their arms at all times, so as not to be frozen by the cold snap at night.The night is dark tonight, and there is no moonlight in the sky. This is what Major Xie Zhihan and the others are looking forward to.Because he and his more than 400 brothers were preparing to ambush a group of "blue hats" who would discredit the advance.This team of "blue hats" has about 2000 people, it should be a group, and it is going up along the Yenisei River.Xie Zhihan didn't know where they crossed the river. They probably came by rowing quietly at a ferry further upstream. Now they are quietly smearing and advancing without even lighting a torch. It looks like a sneak attack, but But it was discovered by the Chinese airborne troops who had long mastered night combat skills.

Siberia in the Soviet Union is too vast. There is only a small area of ​​human activities here, and other places are full of unknown jungles. It is impossible to build a continuous line of defense here, and the situation of war is not simply a defense of one side. The other side attacks.Instead, take the initiative to search for the enemy in the dense forest and destroy the enemy, so that the enemy will never dare to enter the dense forest for half a step!Only in this way can these thousands of them be firmly nailed here, blocking the main artery of east-west traffic in the Soviet Union...until the time when Siberia is really cold!At that time, even the Russians who are the least afraid of the cold can only waste time in the warm house, watching their Far Eastern Front Army and Baikal Front Army slowly disintegrate.

Xie Zhihan was squatting behind a big tree that had grown for hundreds of years, and he was also holding a Min 26 automatic rifle in his hand. There were hundreds of such automatic firearms in the woods on both sides of him, and they were using black holes The muzzle of his gun was aimed at the shadow that was approaching in the distance.There are also several powerful MG37 general-purpose machine guns and 60 mortars that have also been erected. More than 400 elites carefully selected from various units of the National Defense Forces are now like more than 400 experienced hunters, waiting for their prey near.

After a while, the sound of the marching team's rumbling footsteps became clear, and through the gaps in the trees, the Soviet troops in the "blue hats" could be vaguely seen advancing slowly along the forest path.At this time, the depths of the woods were as quiet as if there were no animals. Apart from the footsteps of the Red Army soldiers, the only thing that could be heard was the whirring of the wind.

Xie Zhihan tightly held the automatic rifle in his hand. After the previous battles, he had greatly improved his confidence in this "secret weapon". The firepower of this weapon was no less than that of a light machine gun on the battlefield. Its weight is very light, and it can be operated flexibly by one person. Soldiers who have received strict training can use it to charge and shoot at the same time!For Soviet Red Army infantry armed only with rifles and machine guns, this new weapon was simply the call of death!But those blue hats are not afraid of death at all... Now, the elite who graduated from the seventh batch of Whampoa, didn't know that the entire Soviet army, including thousands of blue hats, had already surrendered to the "Queen"!All he knew was that the enemy was getting closer and closer, and had already entered the ambush circle.

"Fire! Fire——" Xie Zhihan yelled, and the automatic rifle in his hand began to shoot "chug-chug". A string of red light rushed towards the Soviet marching column more than 200 meters away. In an instant, the sound of gunfire Great work, countless strings of light flew towards the panicked Soviet Red Army soldiers!

"Suddenly—" The quiet Siberian jungle suddenly turned into a battlefield filled with gunpowder. .Hundreds of light machine guns!This is the number of machine guns owned by a regular Soviet Red Army infantry division!Is there a Chinese infantry division with more than 1 people ambushing themselves now?I don't know since when, people who do war for a living have always been very sensitive to the number of enemies. When they find that there are six or seven times more enemies than themselves, they are usually very, very scared!The wrong judgment made the commander of the Red Army make a wrong decision in the first place.

"назад! назад! (Retreat! Retreat!)" As the Soviet commander yelled out this word, the Red Army soldiers who had already panicked immediately began to flee in a collapsed manner. Everyone turned around and ran away without saying a word. Only a few machine guns were still firing aimlessly according to the order to cover the retreating comrades, but soon a few 60mm mortar shells blew them and the machine gunners who operated them into parts!

Seeing that the enemy's machine gun had been killed, Xie Zhihan waved his hand vigorously and shouted: "Charge! Charge! Kill—" Then hundreds of Chinese paratroopers all jumped up, chasing after him with automatic rifles that spit out flames. kill and go.

This is just a scene of the battle in Krasnoyarsk. In the dense forests on both sides of the Yenisei River, such scenes abound. There are not only Chinese airborne troops who successfully ambushed the Soviet army, but also the Soviet army who attacked the small Chinese National Defense Force. , Even Sun Liren sent two battalions of officers and soldiers to infiltrate the other side of the Yenisei River to attack the Soviet army's headquarters. The brutal jungle battle made both sides a little unexpected.

"The 506th regiment was ambushed by a Chinese infantry division on the east bank of the Yenisei River!"

"The 507th regiment called for reinforcements! They were also overwhelmed by about a division of the enemy!"

"There are too many enemies, and the guard battalion is about to be overwhelmed! Comrade Army Commander, move quickly."

Several mortar shells landed near Chuikov's temporary headquarters, and dust fell from the ceiling shaken by the explosion. But compared to these, the news brought by the messenger made him even more worried.The number of Chinese troops is obviously larger than the information, not just a few thousand, but at least 111 to [-]!Although they lacked heavy weapons, they had enough machine guns, and they were quite elite. In one night, they overwhelmed their [-]th Special Army of the Red Army.

"A regiment of the 330th Division encountered approximately one division's infantry of the enemy. It has been defeated and hundreds of people have died. It is now retreating to the dense forest to the south. The other regiment of the division is almost unable to withstand it. It seems that we will temporarily They were defeated." Krasnov, the chief of staff of the 111th Special Army, pointed to the dense forests on both sides of the Yenisei River on the map and said to Chuikov: "They seem to be very good at fighting in the dense forests. We are far outnumbered, so we must temporarily retreat to safety, rally and call for reinforcements."

Chuikov let out a heavy breath. He also felt helpless in the current situation. Now only one division has rushed to the west bank of the Yenisei River, and another division is on the way, and the opponent probably has three divisions!

"What is the current loss situation of the troops?"

"About 20% of the personnel have been lost." The chief of staff also shook his head when he replied. In just two days of fighting, the troops actually lost 3000 people. This was fought by the 330th Division, which was adapted from the elite internal guards. If it were replaced by the reserve 331 Division, the entire army would probably be wiped out by now, right?

"These guys seem to have received strict training in night combat and jungle warfare! They must be special elite troops...I shouldn't let the troops cross the river to sneak attack them, I should slowly consume them with artillery fire and infantry." Cuikov raised his binoculars and looked ahead At the place where the exchange of fire was taking place, "Hey! Their rifles rarely fire? It seems that they are all using light machine guns! It doesn't look like a submachine gun from the range... Have the troops in front seized their weapons?"

"Okay." The chief of staff picked up the phone and called the military guard battalion who was fighting hard ahead to give an order. After 20 minutes, a well-crafted but strange-looking firearm was sent to Cuikov.Chuikov pulled out the somewhat bent magazine, pulled out a bullet, held it in his hand and looked at it, and said with a wry smile: "They shortened the 7.62mm rifle bullet... so this gun is the standard equipment of their infantry ’” he sighed. “Find someone to send the gun and bullets to Moscow for the People’s Commissariat of Defence, and hopefully we’ll make a copy in time!”

"Comrade Commander, should we move?" The chief of staff looked at the direction of the exchange of fire with some worry, as if he was a little closer to himself!