Chapter 2007: The First Wave of Disturbances
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At 8 o'clock in the morning of 11 July, the mighty German army appeared near the border of the Syrian desert, and at this time, several reconnaissance planes of the Anjia Army hovering at high altitude nearby quickly discovered the German army's people and horses billowing in smoke and dust, and immediately dispersed and deliberately lowered the flight altitude to find out the situation of the German army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The sound of fire from the anti-aircraft artillery vehicles in the ranks of the Germans began to expel these reconnaissance aircraft, but the speed of the S4 reconnaissance aircraft reached more than seven hundred kilometers, and all the anti-aircraft artillery vehicles did useless work.
General Shalmuz, commander of the 30th Army, who was the vanguard of the entire southern front and broke out in front of the six corps units in this cross-border operation, stood in the passenger seat of a moving open-top jeep and saw a silver-gray reconnaissance plane with the flying fox logo to see the situation of his troops clearly, and his mood was very depressed.
"Command the whole army, speed up!"
Sharmuz asked the jeep driver to stop the car, got into the communications command vehicle that followed closely behind the jeep, and motioned to the staff officers to convey orders to the subordinate divisions.
The team continued on their way, and after about half an hour, the desert terrain changed completely, and a large area of exposed weathered rock appeared in the field of vision, and it seemed that it was close to the edge of the desert. Just when Sharmuz was pondering how to deal with the Anjia army that discovered the movement of his subordinates, an urgent telegram from Lieutenant General Wu Erf, commander of the 22nd Infantry Division, came, saying that he had led his troops to the border line and had just encountered a tank unit of the An Jia Army.
Sharmuz was extremely shocked, always felt that the matter revealed a strange atmosphere, and after thinking about it, he hurriedly asked the commander of the Southern Front, Hans. Feng. Marshal Zalmut reports.
Hans. Feng. Zalmut's command car is still driving in the middle of the desert fifty kilometers away from the border, all around is a vast yellow sand, the morning sun rises from the east, through the window, the dazzling light stimulates his eyes to quickly fill with tears, Zalmut hurriedly closed the curtains, and after the vision returned to normal, he stroked his chin with his hand and thought carefully against the map.
Hans. Feng. Zalmut had just been promoted to marshal by Hitler, and he was unwilling to lose the first battle of his troops after being promoted, thinking that the possibility of this surprise attack was no longer there, and the large forces of the Anjia army would inevitably drive to the border area, and at this time there must be a foothold to advance to support the next battle.
After thinking about it repeatedly, Zalmut ordered the front-line troops to change direction and first occupy the Goodwell area, which is more than 30 kilometers southwest of Rubet, and then consider attacking after gaining a firm foothold.
Located on the hill at an altitude of more than 800 meters, Gudejing is the birthplace of the two Gobi rivers in the south and the north of the Haolangan River and the Eisnagan River, and is the confluence of a large number of underground rivers near and far, with many artesian wells gushing out of the springs, which is the most famous water source in this area.
After occupying the Gude Well, at least the water supply was temporarily guaranteed, and the advance could capture the fighters to the north to join up with the assault troops on the northern front, and the retreat could be fortified, so as to continuously attract the troops of the Anjia Army to the southern front and create conditions for a decisive battle on the northern front. At the same time, Goodwell is not far from the border between the west and the south, and it is completely possible to retreat calmly when the battle situation is unfavorable.
After the order was conveyed to the armies, Zalmut pondered it carefully, and personally telegraphed General Han Sheng, the commander of the 54th Army, asking him to speed up his march and approach the Thirtieth Army in front of the breakthrough, so that the forces of the two armies could be gathered, and the general opponent would have nothing to fear.
The desert march was very hard, whether it was hills or valleys, all the yellow sand was in sight, and the hard ground could certainly pass the convoy, but as long as a strong wind blew, the sky and the ground were all gray. Although all six armies of the Southern Front were equipped with troop transport trucks, the wind blew sand and gravel everywhere, and the soldiers who sat in the wagons and slept in the open all night had long since turned into mud figures.
The convoy rolled forward, turning over one sand dune after another, but there was still endless yellow sand as far as the eye could see, and it seemed that it could not be finished. As the sun rose and the temperature rose rapidly, the soldiers had to take off their thick clothes, still feeling the scorching heat.
Many trucks broke down due to engine entangled in the sand, and soldiers had to get out of their vehicles and walk on foot, sweating and carrying 20-kilogram backpacks and five-liter plastic buckets.
It didn't take long for these poor men to feel heavy on their feet, the steel helmets hanging from their belts were extremely hot, their heads were steaming, their bodies were dripping with sweat, soldiers were constantly suffering from heat stroke and collapsed, and the ambulances of the field hospitals, which were ready to receive the wounded and sick, were quickly filled with fainting soldiers, and the speed of the march of the ranks was unconsciously slow.
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More than 20 kilometers west of Goodwell is a concave hilly area with a drop of about 200 meters, forming a huge fault from west to east, except for a road in the middle that leads directly to Goodwell, the two wings of the mountains have a slope of nearly sixty or seventy degrees, the German mechanized troops can not cross it at all, if you want to bypass, you must pass through the Lutbay area, but from east to west, you can go straight to the top of the fault along the shallow slope of more than ten degrees, and the construction of artillery positions on it can threaten the canyon and the flat land in front of several kilometers, I have to be amazed by the magic of nature.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Colonel Jiang Yufeng, commander of the 51st Division of the An Jia Army, sat in a communications command vehicle parked halfway up the southern mountain range, anxiously waiting for the arrival of the German troops. Four hours ago, after the air force confirmed the direction of the German army, he was ordered to come to the ambush here with three regiments of troops, and an hour had passed after all the preparations were ready.
"It is reported that the German army has reached five kilometers due west, and the command wants us to delay the enemy's advance with the cooperation of the air force."
The report of the communications staff officer made Jiang Yufeng feel relieved, and he immediately ordered the troops to enter a state of combat readiness.
Half an hour later, on the road between the two mountain ranges, a long steel dragon slowly drove from west to east, and in front of the procession were more than a dozen three-wheeled motorcycles, followed by four light yellow armored vehicles and more than 30 German tanks, and behind was a huge transport convoy that could not be seen at a glance.
This German unit was very cautious in its march, stopping and moving from time to time.
The German soldiers sitting on the back of the motorcycles would jump out of the cars, climb quickly to the high ground on both sides of the road, carefully observe the surroundings with binoculars, and return to the cars to continue moving forward if there was no problem. And the machine guns in the subcompartment of those motorcycles were consistently aimed at the mountain beams on both sides.
In addition to yellow or yellow, the heaven and earth are still yellow, making people feel that the heaven and the earth are stagnant, the ambush officers and soldiers of the Anjia Army and the self-propelled artillery car are all covered with camouflage cloth, blending with the surrounding scenery, and the German scouts, who are already extremely tired, hurriedly glance over, and have no interest in even taking a second look, so they return to the car, and the whole team moves forward again.
"Boom-"
When the huge convoy of the German army entered the valley, a deafening explosion came from the front of Jiang Yufeng's communication command vehicle.
With the sound of this cannon, the sound of intensive rocket firing sounded intensively, and in the sound of "whoosh", the rocket artillery units of the An Jiajun ambushed on the high ground on both sides of the mountain beam suddenly attacked, and the dense rain of bullets rushed into the long dragon under the mountain like a waterfall, triggering a series of explosions.
In order to achieve a surprising victory, the army group headquarters sent six of the nine rocket artillery battalions directly under it to the 51st Division, and together with the fire of the rocket artillery battalions of the divisional artillery regiments, almost instantly, more than 2,000 rounds of 130-mm and 107-mm rocket artillery shells fell on the unprepared German troops.
Like a torrential rain pouring down from the heavenly river, the front and rear of the German army were full of firelight, and the flames flowed in all directions on the trembling earth like boiling lava that burst out of the ground after a landslide.
Most of the German officers and men sitting in the trucks turned into powder the moment they were shelled, and a few of them jumped out of the trucks and leaned against the mountain wall to avoid the devastating shelling.
Most of the tanks in the ranks were doomed, and only a few survived, turning in panic and retreating to the rear.
The German troops who were in a state of confusion, the bazooka officers and soldiers who were ambushed on the ridges on both sides opened fire one after another, and at the same time, the sound of intensive shooting sounded, general-purpose machine guns, automatic rifles and sniper rifles fired together, and the German soldiers who had escaped the rocket artillery attack before were quickly put to the ground by the intensive fire of the Anjia army, and those tanks were also turned into coffins of fire in the rain of rockets from above.
Because the Tiger tank is very prone to problems when traveling long distances, most of the German troops on the southern front this time are light and medium tanks, which are very powerless in the face of the Anjia Army Type III 40mm rocket launcher, and they want to fight back and cannot attack the opponent because of the problem of the angle of fire, which creates a situation where they can only be passively beaten.
As the German tanks were destroyed one by one, the loud trumpet sounded, and the overwhelming shouts of killing came from the mountains on both wings, the officers and soldiers of Anjia launched a surprise attack, and the remaining German troops finally collapsed under the rapid thunderous blows of the Anjia army, except for a small number of remnants who escaped from the western pass, the rest of about three or four thousand people were buried in this valley.
At this time, the rear of the German army was not very peaceful, and about four squadrons of bombers, under the cover of a squadron of fighters, flew indiscriminately against the chaotic convoys and crowds of German troops.
Originally, the German self-propelled artillery trucks were looking for the terrain that could suppress the opposite hilltop, and the towed cannons had just been lowered from the trucks, and the artillerymen were in full swing to deploy artillery positions.
As the bombs fell, the German self-propelled artillery trucks and artillery were severely damaged, and the dense explosions sounded one after another, and the German army became more and more confused.
Colonel Xiang Shuang, the leader of the flight group who led the team to cover the bomber attack, and her wingman Second Lieutenant Yang Caiqi were very bored, and after circling in the air for a few times, Xiang Shuang found that some trucks in the German army wearing special yellow cloth and arc-shaped carriages were very eye-catching, and when she drove the fighter plane from a low altitude, the German soldiers in the carriage all jumped down in horror, and those trucks with arc-shaped carriages were just driving vigorously to avoid it, and no one jumped down at all.
Xiang Shuang's heart moved, and he said to the wingman: "Bunting, you keep an eye on those vehicles that are driving and evading, and see what they are loading." ”
"Yes!"
Yang Caiqi agreed, not afraid of the rain of bullets fired from the air defense positions that the German troops on the ground began to gradually organize, and swooped towards one of the trucks, shooting a string of bullets at an altitude of about 200 meters, only to hear a loud "boom" sound, the whole truck quickly turned into a ball of fire, the rising flames rushed up thirty or forty meters high, and the flames from the explosion quickly ignited several trucks around that could not evade.
"Well done, it turned out to be a German tanker!"
Xiang Shuang praised loudly, then changed the call channel, and gave an order to the fighter pilots of the entire squadron: "All pay attention, specifically aim at those trucks with arc-shaped compartments, as long as the Germans' fuel trucks are knocked out, once the enemy's vehicles run out of fuel, the whole army will have to lie down obediently!" ”
As a result, the German army suddenly became very lively, bombers threw bombs at artillerymen, self-propelled artillery trucks and crowds of people, while fighters used machine guns and aviation machine guns to attack the tanker trucks at one point, of course, there were many escaped trucks that did not explode, because they were German modified water trucks, which were not much different from the tanker trucks, which helped the tankers attract a lot of firepower.
However, in the desert, water is more important than oil, and as the jars are broken one by one, the clear water "gurgles" to the ground, and then evaporates on the dry and hot ground.
The air raid lasted more than 20 minutes before it ended, and the German army, reinforced by the follow-up 72nd Division, finally organized its air defense positions, and various types of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns began to fire at the air, while the Anjia Air Force, which was only responsible for harassing the task, took it when it saw good, and withdrew from the battlefield under Xiang Shuang's order and disappeared into the northeast sky.
Lieutenant General Woolf, commander of the 22nd Infantry Division of the German Army, was shocked and angry, not only because of the huge losses suffered by the troops, but also because he found that at this time he had lost communication with the troops in the rear, and the radio stations equipped with the division headquarters and the regiments and battalions below were all emitting sharp electrical noise, and all frequencies were paralyzed.
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