Chapter 205: The First Round of Scud Missile Launches
In fact, the reason why Stalin and the Supreme High Command moved their forces in this way was because the Soviet spies lurking in the German troops received some information that the German army would launch a large-scale attack with new weapons in the next two days. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Moreover, these new types of weapons are still on display for the first time, and they are rumored to be very powerful, even more powerful than the troops of the 13th Soviet Army Group last time.
However, it has not yet been ascertained where these weapons were manufactured and where they were intended to be delivered.
However, the targets of the attack have already been detected, that is, the Western Front of the Soviet Army, the Bullian side, and the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts.
Of course, the source of this information obtained by the Soviet spies was deliberately disseminated by Chen Yanlong's newly formed intelligence department.
This information is half-true and half-false, so the Soviet spies believe it.
When Stalin gave the order for the conversion of new troops, Manstein's troops had already withdrawn from Belgorod and Kharkov one after another, and had retreated to the vicinity of Kiev, waiting for Chen Yanlong's new combat order.
Although Manstein's Army Group South had withdrawn a third of its troops, a third of its soldiers had been annihilated by the Soviets, and the other third was retreating while resisting the Soviet attack.
In fact, for such a large-scale and continuous counterattack suddenly launched by the Soviet army, Manstein and all the soldiers of the army group were also unexpected.
The worst thing was that after Chen Yanlong evacuated the elite troops of the SS, the combat strength of Army Group South was also greatly reduced.
So they couldn't withstand the general attack of the Soviet army for long, and they began to lose the enemy.
In addition, many of the remaining soldiers were demoralized in horse-drawn carriages or trucks transporting their weapons and equipment; and part of the remaining military supplies, as well as wounded soldiers who often wailed in pain.
At that moment, the retreating Germans were in a very depressed and depressed mood.
There are many soldiers who are thinking about whether they can survive, whether they still have reinforcements to help, or how long it will take for reinforcements to come, and where the Soviet army is pursuing now, whether Belgorod and Kharkov are occupied by the Soviet army, and so on.
Even their group commander, Manstein, was full of melancholy, constantly sending telegrams to Chen Yanlong asking for help, and constantly sending additional reconnaissance units to reconnoiter the situation of the pursuing Soviet troops, and asking other units fighting on the front line about the current situation of the battle, and whether Belgorod and Kharkov were still under the control of their German army.......
And when he received all kinds of unfavorable news one after another, his heart was also very lost and silent.
At this time, the reconnaissance aviation team sent by Chen Yanlong to reconnoiter every move of the Soviet troops was also secretly flying to the front-line assembly area of the Soviet military headquarters to conduct aerial photography.
When they had collected the reconnaissance mission given to them by Chen Yanlong, they hurriedly turned around and left; Go back to Kyiv and tell their aviation commander, and then have their commander report to Chen Yanlong.
After this back-and-forth, Dr. Braun and the others finally received Chen Yanlong's combat order, and immediately launched the 'Scud missile' to attack an hour later.
In the face of Chen Yanlong's order, Dr. Braun, who had already made preparations for the pre-war attack, and Herman? Dr. Aubert and the others did not object, but nodded in agreement.
At this time, the troops left behind by Marshal Manstein consisted only two infantry battalions equipped with a large number of anti-tank weapons; They guarded Belgorod and Kharkov, and an infantry battalion guarded a place.
By the time Chen Yanlong issued his latest combat order, they had already fought against the Soviet army several times.
After one fierce battle after another, their casualties had reached two-thirds.
The remaining one-third of the troops also had many wounded soldiers.
Moreover, if many of these one-third of the soldiers were to support them because of Chen Yanlong's dispatch of a large number of aviation units, I am afraid that they would have already been confessed to the battlefield.
"Are we going to continue fighting here? I'm no longer able to do it, I want to retreat immediately! ”
"I don't want to die! When can we retreat! Sir! ”
"Sir! Let's get out of the way! If we continue to fight the Soviet army like this, we will be annihilated here! ”
"That's right! We've already killed and wounded most of our soldiers, and we don't have the ability to fight anymore! ”
But many of the remaining German troops were noisily demanding a retreat against their superiors.
"Wait for the command order! We are not asked to retreat, and whoever dares to retreat will be immediately executed as deserters! You are the warriors of our German Empire, so I hope you are not so greedy for life and afraid of death! And even if you want to die, you have to find a way to kill a few more Soviet soldiers to bury us! ”
"For the sake of your face and for the honor of our empire, you must die bravely! And not a wreck! ”
But in response to the noisy shouting of his subordinates, their superiors made up their minds to die and scolded loudly.
And at this moment, they just received Chen Yanlong's retreat order.
All the surviving German troops were greatly relieved by this.
As long as you can live, who doesn't like it.
The Soviet army, which behaved the opposite of them, was excitedly preparing to launch the final general attack at this moment.
Because in the first few rounds of attacks, they had already found only a handful of German troops holding Belgorod and Kharkov, and there was not even a regiment in the two places combined.
So they all thought that Manstein's German army was already too weak to continue fighting.
Perhaps the German forces in Belgorod and Kharkov were now the last fighting force of Manstein's Army Group South.
In this regard, Zhukov and Marshal Vasilevsky, as well as a large number of high-ranking Soviet officers, gathered around to discuss how to attack next.
After a fierce and cautious quarrel, the final decision of the Soviet army was to immediately launch a general offensive and occupy Belgorod and Kharkov.
So after the orders of Marshal Zhukov and Marshal Vasilevsky were issued, the Soviet army sent a large number of tank troops and infantry to launch a general attack after half an hour of artillery coverage.
The general attack of the Soviet army was plagued by the minefields in the city, and there was no German resistance at all.
So they took Belgorod and Kharkov very smoothly, and the city cheered and hunted for the remnants of the German army.
In this regard, Zhukov and Marshal Vasilevsky were also happy and immediately sent a telegram to Stalin to report their good news.
And they also planned to go to Belgorod and Kharkov to see the situation inside after receiving Stalin's next battle plan.
And the Soviet army was elated and excited; Dr. Braun, and Herman? Dr. Aubert: They have also given the operational order to launch the 'Scud missile'.
Missile launchers first transport the main body of the missile and the warhead and other components from the warehouse to the technical battalion of the missile brigade, and after simple preparations, they are sent to the preliminary assembly area.
Then the warhead is loaded into the missile, and the propellant and oxidizer are filled, and the missile brigade simultaneously enters the launch position ready for combat.
There is also the use of cranes to transfer missiles from semi-trailers to 9P117 launch vehicles, as well as surveys of the launch site, that is, surveys of wind direction, wind speed, humidity, air pressure and other aspects.
Finally, the missiles are installed, and the position of the targets they attack is calibrated using the latitude and longitude sights and gyro calibrators.
Then, within 15 minutes of the missile battery being turned on, the missile is launched.
As soon as the order was issued, the first round of 36 9P117 missile launchers and hundreds of 'Scud' missiles were launched from the transporter, vertical launcher, and three-purpose vehicles in a murderous manner.
These Scud missiles have a range of 50 km to 300 km and a flight duration of 165 to 313 seconds.