Chapter 342: Siege and Reinforcement
Putin had ordered Pugachev to build a rampart in the east to hold back enemy reinforcements from Kutabitka and Tobolsk. www.biquge.info In order to prevent the enemy in the city from sending troops to attack the eastern defense troops from behind, it really allowed Luskov's "center to blossom" and succeed.
The situation has become interesting, and star fruit has been allowed to stay in the headquarters with her father and brother. The top command of the eastern forces, the two division commanders still preferred to obey Pugachev, after all, in the Soviet era, he had a higher rank, and he was at the same level as the rebel general Luskov.
The map shows an offensive and defensive posture, the Russian army has surrounded Tyumen, and its own troops must stop the rebel reinforcements before the general attack. She didn't keep her dream alive after all, and before the sun rose, the eastern camp was a busy construction site for fortifications.
Pugachev shouted all who could be mobilized, long trenches were being dug and a large number of armored vehicles were lined up one after another. Star fruit stood at the door of the tent, and the Siberian autumn wind blew the little body and shivered involuntarily. "Winter will be in a few days." She muttered to herself, when suddenly a pair of large, gentle hands draped a sheepskin shawl over herself.
"Dad! There you are. ”
"You woke up. It's too cold outside, so you might as well go ahead and take a break. ”
Hu Chenghe has already changed into a down jacket, which was urgently sent by the logistics troops. You must know that many of the soldiers are still wearing summer clothes, and the climate in Siberia is always changing rapidly, and it will be September, and maybe a cold snap can cool down by 20 degrees.
But more of the soldiers were very hot, wielding shovels and pickaxes. Hu Chenghe said that the army should temporarily build a long and narrow defense line, the so-called machine gun and artillery defense line, to block the enemy.
"Isn't this a long snake formation?" Carambola said casually, but suddenly it occurred to her that this tactical defense system didn't seem to work. "Dad, don't you think this line of defense is too thin?" Before Hu Chenghe could explain, she immediately thought that this would not work. Lao Maozi really made the World War II thing a mess.
In the early morning, the east was bright, and the little girl suddenly broke into the headquarters. "Davarich, I have a disagreement with our defensive tactics."
Pugachev let her in, and he knew that the little girl's words were always valuable when it came to commanding operations. But the other officers were somewhat repulsed. "A little girl, don't interfere in tactical planning, the enemy is coming, and we don't have time to change the line of defense." An officer said.
"But I didn't say I was going to change tactics!"
Star fruit stands in front of the table where the map is placed. "What I'm against is your current method of defense. Our heavy weapons are too scattered, and the enemy can easily hit the superior forces and rush over. ”
"But what is the enemy's superior strength? A group of makeshift soldiers who are traitors to the state. Besides, what do they have? Heavy weapons? It's 10,000 pigs, and the machine-gun fire is gone for a while. The officer's words were very representative of everyone, and they did not know from which line the enemy was attacking.
But the star fruit's words made everyone feel very worried, because the enemy might really have heavy weapons. The Tyumen army group had more than 2,000 armored units before the rebellion, and the biggest factor in why the current rebels do not have so many heavy weapons that can be used is the lack of fuel.
After the rebels took Kutabitka, they found a large amount of buried fuel. Most of these fuels are crude oil, but there is also gasoline and diesel, which has been refined but cannot be transported. These things were quickly used in actual combat after they were discovered, and the new soldiers in the rebel army, most of whom were soldiers in the Soviet era, had more than 400 tanks in the more than 10,000 reinforcements, although most of them were old-fashioned T64s, or even T54s with five pairs of load-bearing wheels.
"We have to value them strategically and tactically. Think about it, if you were a general of the rebels, after capturing the oilfield city of Kutabika, and found the gasoline oil I had buried, you would definitely use it directly. ”
"Then we should change our defensive tactics?" Pugachev asked.
"Yes, it should be revised. My opinion is to use the same method used in the Battle of Kursk, modeled after the anti-tank strongholds, and use tank ambush tactics. Having five or six tank self-propelled guns form an anti-tank stronghold compensates for the lack of firepower with cross-firing range, and at the same time greatly strengthens the defense. ”
Pugachev immediately became vigilant, the little girl's approach was a good idea. If the enemy has a selective focus attack, the original tactics make the front line firepower weaker, so that the enemy can be given higher firepower within a radius of five kilometers. "Okay, just do as the child says, comrades, let's start preparing immediately."
He also agreed to the tank ambush tactic, which was to have the sappers dig a pit so that the tank was half-buried in the ground, leaving the strongest gun shield on the surface to be used as a fixed battery.
However, Hu Chenghe has a new idea, since this will evolve into a battle to encircle the point and send reinforcements, then as a Chinese who are very proficient in this tactic, it is indispensable to say what he thinks. His idea was to form a rapid interspersed force of tanks and armored vehicles, which, when the war began, would penetrate into the enemy's rear and strike the enemy by surprise.
"I can lend you thirty tanks, and the surprise attack force is under your command."
Hu Chenghe received the order so that he and his troops could temporarily remove the UN's helmet. There are many similarities between Chinese and Russian tanks, but the Chinese troops cannot immediately learn how to operate the T80, so only the commander is Chinese.
"Girl, as soon as the war starts, it's time for your father to behave." He confidently told the star fruit.
"Then I'll wait behind the battle line for my father's triumph."
At eight o'clock in the morning, the trenches were dug very quickly with the help of modern machinery, and there were also those tank ambush positions. Each fortified position consists of howitzers and tanks, as well as infantry armed with individual missiles, RPGs, and general-purpose machine guns. Of course, there was also a reserve team as a firefighter, and the other tank unit of Hu Chenghe quietly left the battlefield.
The rebels in the city found out about this, and they thought that this force was going to support Putin in the western siege. "The enemy must be planning a massive siege." Luskov said hatefully, he knew his situation very well. The buildings in the city collapsed under the bombardment of the Tu-95 at night, but fortunately most of the soldiers got into the basement and bomb shelter.
Many rebel soldiers were worried about their situation, and rumors quickly spread that the Russian army was about to attack on a large scale. Some people are complaining that the so-called wavering morale of the army can easily lead to a total collapse at this moment, and the officers are executing some soldiers who spread unfavorable news and declaring it a "last battle". If the war is defeated, because treason is a death sentence, it is better to defeat the Federation than to be executed by the Federation, but the success or failure lies in the reinforcements.
Putin was indeed planning a large-scale offensive, and in order to relieve the pressure on the eastern army, it was better to let his troops launch a fierce attack. Perhaps the onslaught will cost many soldiers' lives, but time cannot be delayed. Of course, everyone is very confident in the victory of the battle, that is, who will fall in this war, the soldiers do not know and do not want to know.
But the soldiers also knew that this time there would be no more onslaught, and although the new rockets had not yet arrived, the planes had arrived.
The rebel reinforcements who were hurrying saw Su Liangqi whizzing through the air, and these Su Liangqi found the mighty army on the ground and immediately gave a machine gun gift package. and sent a report to the command that rebel reinforcements had been found. At nine o'clock, a Su-27 formation dropped a round of bombshells on Tyumen, one of which was a ton of bombs that blew up a large crater of more than 30 meters. The huge mushroom cloud and the earthquake shook the rebels greatly, and of course gave Putin troops as they prepared to attack, which was a great encouragement.
Pugachev got the latest news, and soon the news spread to the front.
The brother and sister were forced to stay in the rear, and of course the same was true for Ding Chaoyong and Mu Xin. All men and women under the age of eighteen, even those who had already carried steel guns and were ready to fight, were now placed in the rear. "I can't kill a hen just to get an egg, I can't let the future of the country die." This old Maozi commander is still very humane, and the star fruit feels very pleased.
"I'm going to hold on here in the end." Da Ming lay on the marching bed in the tent and muttered to himself. From three o'clock in the morning, he participated in digging trenches, six hours of hard labor, and although he complained, he fell asleep. Carambola didn't want to sleep yet, she saw the pair of Mu Xin and Ding Chaoyong.
Sure enough, they are already in love, if they are ordinary children in an ordinary life, such a typical early love will definitely be chased and beaten by parents and schools. This is human affection under war, and as a woman, it is very natural to promise a person who has saved her life. This person is Ding Chaoyong, although Mu Xin still had a great impression of Yang Mingzhi before, star fruit guessed,
Her brother is even already the object of her self-X. It's really a Shura field, and fortunately, the Shura field was broken by a brutal war.
On the other hand, the vanguard of the rebel reinforcements, the vanguard with a hundred tanks, was rushing towards Tyumen. "Comrades, work hard, we are going to Tyumen, we will crush the federal army in one go!" Commander Andrewski came to a "group send" with a walkie-talkie in hand. There are a lot of infantry sitting on the tank, and what awaits everyone is the coordination of infantry and tanks. Although many of them joined the rebels temporarily, Luskov had his own criteria for selecting new recruits, so most of them had experience as soldiers or hunters.
The fighting art of the large corps, firepower comes first, and Andreovsky is very confident that this hundred steel torrents will be like a chisel directly inserted into Tyumen, and then the arrival of the large army, the scales will return to Luskov's side.
Putin ordered Su Liangqi to continue harassing the rebels until the fuel ran out and he had to return. The cannon fire gave the rebels some resistance, and they soon began to counterattack. Quadruple high-altitude planes and even individual missiles were launched at the Su 27. Unfortunately, two were hit by shells and crashed.
The rebels paid no attention to the dead brethren, and the army still rushed towards Tyumen.
Pugachev was on the front line, and the smoke and dust of enemy tanks in the distance were already fainting. "Order self-propelled guns, ten kilometers away, three rapid fire!"
Twenty self-propelled guns, 152 calibers, sixty shells were smashed at the rebels. After a series of explosions, the rebels lost a number of people unmoved. The noise woke Da Ming up, and he immediately sat up and touched left and right in front of the bed, directly grabbing a furry thing and pulling it hard.
"Oops! Who tugged me by the hair! Elder brother! You calm down, I'm your wife! Star fruit grabbed Daming's arm and shouted.
Da Ming was stunned, he wanted to find the gun but hurt his sister, and in an instant he became gentle, and apologized to her who was crying in the corners of her eyes.
When the battle began, the siblings didn't have time to sleep, and like everyone else, they all walked out of the tent to see what was going on. The soldiers told everyone to go back to their tents and were not allowed to go to the dangerous front line.
The rebels in the front, Androsky did not know at all and did not bother to what was happening in the rear after that. The troops on the offensive front of the rebels were slightly more spaced, and the shelling did not have a big effect on their damage.
Of course, he soon encountered an unprecedented blockade, and a large number of shells wanted to hit himself. The front line was in full swing, and all kinds of artillery were fired at the same time. If a shell hits a tank, it can be well stopped, but it can't parry five or even ten rounds. Especially for 152 caliber self-propelled guns with flat fire, a powerful leader will not help even if the tank is heavily armored.
Not to be outdone, the rebel tanks opened fire one after another, many shells hit the ground in front of the position, raising a large amount of sand, and some flew over the line.
Hu Chenghe looked at it with itchy teeth, but it was a pity that he still had to continue to ambush, and the rebel army in the rear was his own dish.
"HQ! Headquarters! We are facing great resistance, so send reinforcements quickly! Andrewsky shouted, and the troops in the rear began to accelerate their advance.
Shells were fired one after another, and more tanks were paralyzed. They narrowed down the attacking front and used wedge tactics like chisels to penetrate the defence, and they did, but just as Andrewski was thankful that the hardest thing had passed, they were hit from the flanks.
Pugachev was satisfied, the little girl's words were very wise, oh yes, this is the tactics of the USSR in World War II. The shells easily smashed the side impact of the rebel tank, the area of the hit was larger, and the command vehicle of Andreovsky was also killed, and everything was over for himself.
At the front, the rear of the rebels was not clear, they were storming, and there was a fierce artillery battle on both sides.
Da Ming hugged his sister and looked at the cannonballs whistling overhead, and the cannons on his own position were also constantly sounding. The barrels of the artillery can already be roasted, and the two sides do not care about anything after the rush of the eyes. In the deafening battlefield, star fruit was held in the arms of her brother, and the two squatted on the ground.
He protected him, praying that no unlucky shells would explode in the camp. It's a pity that she is not a superwoman, although she is a reborn soul worn here, and some are just wisdom, in the final analysis, she is still an ordinary person who can kill a small life with a stray bullet.
The rebel infantry and tanks attacked at the same time, and the positions were heavily lit with gunfire. The artillery of the defending troops finally hit the barrel so hot that it could not continue firing, and Pugachev was anxious. The rebels have a lot of tanks, and their shells are as lethal as their shells, and their own casualties have already appeared.
There are not many missiles to attack the top, and they are all used at the moment. However, the enemy's armored units are huge, and now the rebels are aware of the defender's artillery anomaly, and they are attacking with superior forces.
It was at this moment that the troops used thermobaric shells. Hu Chenghe's troops were on the front line, and they were also involved in this blocking battle, and the battle just now shook this group of young people in their early twenties, and what happened next. They saw, they saw a dozen mushroom clouds appear on the enemy's front.
The RPG of the thermobaric warhead brought by the star fruit is extremely lethal to soldiers, and even better than artillery. The deflagration was followed by a powerful wave of hot air that blew the enemy down, and the gaps in those tanks were exerted by the high-pressure gas. The soldiers did not stop, they continued to drop thermobaric bombs, and in this way, the hot wind was blowing on their own positions, and even in the rear camps could feel it.
"I don't know how many more people will be burned to charcoal." Star fruit muttered to herself.
"So are you guilty? The weapons you invented killed so many people. Da Ming, who was squatting and hugging her, asked.
"Does it make sense to say guilty now? Our army uses this counterattack, and if the rebels rush in, it will be us who will die. ”
Hu Chenghe, who was watching the battle, felt that the time had come, and the powerful weapon invented by his daughter was like a region, and even the flames of the crater. The rebels were shocked, and just when they were panicking, the tank unit led by Hu Chenghe suddenly came out.
This unit is mainly composed of T80 tanks, and the overall performance is higher than that of the rebels. The rebels put their tallest T72 in front, but unfortunately it was blown to pieces by various artillery fire, and then it was roasted to 500 degrees by thermobaric bombs.
What followed was a massacre, thirty tanks like the hob chariots of ancient Egypt, and the Pharaoh's massacre of the Hittites as it is now. The coaxial machine guns of the defending tanks rushed to the ground, and the unprepared infantry fell to the ground.
The T64 and T54 tanks of the rebels did not work well against these T80s, on the contrary, the T80 tanks could blow them up with one hit. The results were clear, the rebels were powerless with heavy weapons, not to mention the weakly armored infantry fighting vehicles. The rebels' RPG7 was useless against the tanks, they had already used all their might, and the raid on the Hu Cheng River was the last straw to break the rebels.
The rebels began to retreat, and Hu Chenghe ordered the troops to stop the pursuit.
These tankmen were red-eyed, and they were reluctant to accept orders from the Chinese commander, not to mention that his orders had to be translated. Therefore, the troops began to pursue, and there was a saying that the poor Kou Mo chased, but it was the right way for their defeated emotions to continue to ferment. In the end, Pugachev ordered the tank crews to retreat, because Putin would order the planes of the second round of air strikes to give the fleeing rebels a burst of cannons and bombshells.
The battle ended at one o'clock in the afternoon, and the reinforcements that Luskov had hoped for were repulsed, and sure enough, it was either a regular army or it could not be done. But how can he have time to plan? In the afternoon, Putin's general offensive began.