Chapter 207: The Victory of the German Counterattack and Chen Yanlong's Fear
But before the Soviet aviation came to help, the German bomber group had already given the Soviet troops a massive bombing, causing them at least 10,000 casualties. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Because this time the bombing of the German bomber group not only dropped a large number of heavy bombs, but also a lot of incendiary bombs, as well as napalm.
Chen Yanlong dispatched 400 additional bombers at one time, after the first round of carpet bombing; Using napalm, the Soviet troops in Belgorod and Kharkov, as well as the Orel landing site, were bombarded indiscriminately for more than two hours.
Each German bomber carried six to eight tons of incendiary bombs, with an incendiary area of up to 6,500 square meters.
Before the bombing, German navigators would reach the Soviet airspace, send signal flares over the intended target area, and then drop incendiary bombs, i.e., large quantities of napalm, to indicate targets for follow-up aircraft.
After that, the German bombing group, under the cover of a large number of fighters, successively dropped napalm at the Soviet assembly area at single intervals.
With the sound of bombing louder than one after another, the entire Soviet theater of operations was on fire and spread rapidly. The scorching heat caused by the fire formed a strong convective wind with the cold air, especially after the Germans desperately dropped more than 3,000 tons of napalm.
The high temperature on the ground immediately set all combustibles (including human bodies) in the area occupied by the Soviets on fire and burned.
For Chen Yanlong's sudden release of new weapons and equipment again, the Soviet army was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.
And when the Soviet aviation unit arrived, the German aviation had already finished bombing and quickly left.
Regarding the German army's way of fighting as soon as it said it would come and withdraw as soon as it was said, all the Soviet air forces gritted their teeth angrily.
But there was no choice but to bomb the areas where the Germans were stationed.
It's just that they didn't bomb for long before they were driven away by the German fighter group.
And the German fortified areas that they bombed did not inflict many casualties on the Germans there.
The reason for this was that the Germans were already hiding in their underground bomb shelters and tunnels.
Therefore, no matter how the Soviet army bombed in the sky, it did not have much lethality, and the German army was also divided into several places to continuously drop napalm at various troop concentration points of the Soviet army at the same time as the Soviet army attacked.
And they continued to launch "Scud" missiles against Zhukov and their troops, I don't know if it was God's blessing; In the German army fought back so fiercely; and bombing air raids, but Marshal Zhukov and Vasilevsky were unharmed and were able to continue to command their troops; Rapid use of anti-aircraft guns to counter German air raids, and the rapid withdrawal of those units with heavy casualties.
"Let's get out of here first! When you get to a safe place, organize your troops to fight back! There are more and more new types of weapons for the German army! I don't know how they have so many new weapons, and our intelligence services don't know anything about it! ”
Zhukov looked at the napalm of the German army in the distance, burning a large number of soldiers to death and wounding, and said sadly.
"Our wretched intelligence services should be cleaned up by Comrade Stalin! Or we don't know when we will die under the attack of the Germans for no reason! ”
Marshal Vasilevsky said angrily.
"Hmmm! Let's get out of the way! While those German bombers are temporarily withdrawn, we need to speed up the time! ”
Zhukov nodded.
Marshal Vasilevsky did not answer, but nodded silently, then turned around and got into an American military off-road vehicle and left.
And Zhukov, also under the protection of his own henchmen's guards, followed him and left without stopping.
Of course, at the time of leaving, Zhukov also gave the order to evacuate to his troops through the field phone while leaving.
At this moment, Moder's 9th and 2nd Army Groups were also fighting with Rebalko, with his 3rd Guards Tank Army, and the 11th, and 4th Guards Tank Army were killing in the dark, and corpses were strewn all over the ground.
Of course, the heaviest losses were still Rybalko and his 3rd Guards Tank Army.
Because the main target of Moder's T-54 tank corps was the 3rd Guards Tank Army.
And as the battle became more and more intense, the Tiger and Leopard tank units of the 503rd and 505th Heavy Armored Battalions also joined the battle formation.
The tank losses of the 3rd Guards Tank Army under double flanking were not at all optimistic.
It didn't take long for more than 200 tanks to be annihilated, and other Guards tank units wanted to come to support, but they were also blown up by German anti-tank bombs; Moreover, the Soviet infantry units that followed behind the tank group were burned to death by the German napalm and burned thousands of people.
Moreover, at the climax of the fighting, the Germans suddenly withdrew from the battlefield and let the Scud missile group be bombarded indiscriminately.
After a terrible attack, the entire 3rd Guards Tank Army Group was able to operate less than 20 tanks.
Moreover, the casualties of their infantry have exceeded 6,000, and if they continue to fight, I am afraid that not only will the tank army be wiped out, but also the number of casualties of the infantry will also double.
Faced with such heavy casualties to his own troops, Rebalko immediately retreated with discouragement.
At the same time, he also had a fierce look in his eyes, clenched his fists, and secretly resolved in his heart that he must carry out a devastating revenge against Moder's troops and the German aviation units.
Seeing that the Germans were counterattacking so ferociously, when the remnants of the 3rd Guards Tank Army were evacuating, the other Guards Tank Corps were no longer in love with the battle, but hurriedly evacuated with the other side.
And in the end, for this very sudden, very sudden retreat, and a large-scale battle with heavy casualties; Both the Soviet army and the German army were heartbroken, and they were greatly relieved and let go of their hearts.
However, as for the results of this large-scale counterattack, Comrade Stalin roared angrily in his Kremlin like a mad tyrannosaurus.
"Zhukov, Vasilevsky, you two fools! Idiot! I sent so many troops to fight back against you, but I still gave the Germans a sudden and miserable number of casualties! You! I'm going to scold you guys! ”
At this moment, Chen Yanlong, who had received a counterattack at the same time, smiled slightly, but soon he touched his head with a lot of gray hair worriedly, and stared at the miscellaneous smartphone in his hand in fear.