Chapter 049: The Battle of Irkutsk (Part I)

The Angara River bridge was attacked, which made the awakened Kolchak have a sense of foreboding, and soon his subordinates came to report that the Irkutsk East Bridge on the Angara River had been occupied, and the two sides were currently fighting a bloody battle, but the helicopters of the squadron could replenish troops and supplies at any time, making it impossible for them to recapture the bridge.

Kolchak was silent, things got tricky, if they continue to let the squadron occupy the bridge, then their army will be split in two, but there is no great possibility of recapturing, these days he has had enough of the squadron's kind of planes that take off and land at any place, he doesn't know how many such planes there are in China, but it is certain that it will not be less, for the current how many books he has written,

Although there are still two bridges under the control of the Soviet army, it is difficult to guarantee that the squadron will not occupy here, or blow up the bridge, if so, then they will still be divided into two, simply relying on simple river crossing tools can not effectively and quickly cross the river, the final result can only be sunk by Chinese aircraft into the bottom of the water to feed the fish, if this loss is indeed a little unwilling,

"Damn Chinese planes." Kolchak slapped the table hard,

After careful consideration, Kolchak consciously withdrew the army to the city, and fought with the squadron in street fighting, street fighting has always been a sharp weapon for the Slavs, with street fighting, they successfully dragged the German army, slowly consumed the strength of the German army, if China did not attack the Soviet Union, Kolchak believed that the final defeat must be the Germans, and the Soviet Union could get a piece of the pie at that time.

According to Kolchak's order, the Soviet army secretly evacuated the south bank of the Angara River, and Dai Anlan was going to send planes to bomb it, but he didn't do that, and as for the bridge, it wouldn't blow up, and he didn't cross the bridge if he blew it up, so he gave the Soviet army a chance to evacuate.

The Soviets had 60,000 troops on the south bank of the Angara River, and with Kolchak's order, the troops withdrew to the city of Irkutsk, and after a night of withdrawal, they withdrew half of them and some supplies,

The Chinese soldiers guarding the bridge have been attacked here, which is also Kolchak's attempt to divert Dianlan's attention, but he succeeded.

Dai Anlan saw that the battle for the bridge was so fierce, so he didn't rush to launch a high-intensity night battle, and the troops just slowly advanced to cooperate with the guards of the bridge.

Kolchak succeeded in deceiving Dai Anlan in this way of concealment, and when Dai Anlan learned that the Soviet army had retreated the next day, it was too late.

According to the plane's high-altitude reconnaissance, they only discovered this information at noon the next day, when the Soviet troops retreated another 20,000 people and a large amount of military supplies, and only 10,000 people remained on the south bank.

The Chinese Air Force was also deceived by Kolchak so late, and Kolchak relied on many planes, so the constant air battles and attacks made the Chinese Air Force have no energy to care about things on the ground.

After Dai Anlan learned the news, he knew that Kolchak was not going to fight a decisive battle on the south bank, so the Soviet army had withdrawn, and they would inevitably blow up the bridge, otherwise there would be no need to retreat.

The Air Force quickly carried out Dai Anlan's order, and the bridge was quickly blown up, and at the same time, another responsibility of the Air Force was to protect the bridge controlled by the squadron.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Soviet troops, who had no way to retreat, were compressed on the banks of the Angara River, hoping to rely on the artillery cover on the opposite bank to hold out until dark, and then flee back, but Dai Anlan had no intention of giving them a chance.

Feeling that he had been fooled, Dai Anlan became angry and mobilized a rocket artillery division and a conventional artillery division to launch a fierce and devastating shelling of Soviet positions.

The Soviet artillery on the other side could only watch as the tens of thousands of Soviet troops were bombarded by pieces of shells and could not do anything, their artillery could not reach the Chinese artillery positions at all, and there was no way to fight an artillery battle.

The Soviet Air Force has the heart to support, but unfortunately they have no way to support, the Chinese Air Force is not vegetarian, not to mention that China's aircraft are relatively advanced, after all, it is an improved version of the most advanced mass production aircraft in the United States, on the other hand, the Soviet aircraft, although it developed early, but after suffering an unparalleled blow from Germany, the industrial strength was greatly damaged, and the research work of the aircraft was greatly delayed or did not improve for a long time, and all production lines had to be arranged to produce aircraft. There is simply not enough funding and conditions to support their wholehearted research,

The shelling lasted for nearly an hour, and Dai Anlan thought that the rats there had already been killed and injured three times, not to mention the larger people, in fact, it was also the case, but there were still alive, but there were very few, who called Wang Hanzhang was too perverted, not only studied aviation incendiary bombs, white phosphorus bombs, but even studied the shelling, so now the Soviet army's position can be described as a sea of fire, and a large number of Soviet soldiers were burned alive,

An hour later, the fire gradually went out, and dozens of squads bent into the Soviet positions and killed all the dying Soviet troops who were still struggling.

Although these Soviet soldiers did not die, they were long crippled, they were stunned by the artillery, and it is a miracle that they can survive such a high-intensity shelling,

Watching a few people in the squadron enter the position, with the occasional gunshot, the Soviet troops on the north bank felt cold in their hearts, and the artillerymen wanted to open fire very much, but they were stopped.

Obviously, there are not many squadrons that have entered the position, it can be said that there are very few, even if the shelling will not kill a few, but will waste shells, in addition, the artillery positions will be exposed, so it will be very dangerous, and it will definitely attract the fire of the squadron.

The fighting was still fierce on the Chinese-controlled bridge, and the Soviets tried to blow up the bridge many times, but they couldn't succeed, their planes were pinned down by the Chinese air force, and Dai Anlan also placed two air defense battalions here to defend,

And it is impossible for the Soviet artillery to destroy here, and the squadron not only occupies this big mention, but also occupies a piece on the north bank.

The north and south here are already very wide, and it is very difficult for the Soviet artillery to aim, in addition, the squadron is on the north bank along the river, and a rocket artillery division is bombarding all possible places where it is possible to hide the Soviet artillery, and the air force has also dropped bombs on the positions of the Soviet army, and the helicopters did the same last night, so the purpose of the Soviet army has not succeeded so far,

Although the squadron is still blocked in a small place on the north bank, this place and the bridge have always been a nightmare that plagued the Soviet army, and they were like a huge fishbone stuck in the throat of the Soviet army.

The Soviet army wants to seize it every time, but it can't be attacked, there is no air supremacy, their artillery does not dare to mess out, although the planes on both sides are in sight, but the squadron still has helicopters This terrifying thing exists, and the existence of this kind of thing can also destroy the Soviet artillery at any time, run and run, the number of air defense forces is also limited, and if the squadron is willing to change, then their artillery is also finished,

Destroying the bridge is actually the most important thing, although the Soviet army feels that the bridge is destroyed, the squadron can also transport supplies by helicopter, but the same situation is different, the existence of the bridge allows the squadron to transport troops and materials anytime and anywhere, if the bridge can be destroyed, then the capacity of the helicopter is limited, and the squadron must be limited, and the Soviet army can take the opportunity to annihilate the squadron on the north bank in one fell swoop,

As long as the squadron is blocked on the south bank, the Soviet army, including Kolchak, thinks that this will be the second Moscow, and then the squadron is like the German army, and it will become more and more ineffective, and when Germany surrenders, or the Soviet Union grasps the initiative in the war on the Western Front, then they will have more forces to invest here, and finally defeat the squadron and take Outer Mongolia, the Far East, the Northeast, and North China......

But they can only think about how a city of a few million people like Moscow can be compared with a population of 600,000 like Irkutsk, although the city is still strong, but it is too small and has no strategic depth.

According to the plan specified by Wang Hanzhang, according to the analysis of the experience and summary of the German war against the Soviet army in Europe, Dai Anlan did not intend to fight with the Soviet army for each house.

In addition, even if you take it down, I'm afraid there is no good equipment that can be used, and Wang Hanzhang doesn't want to exchange human life for these, human life is the most precious, not to mention that there are so many cities in Asia and Europe, all of them follow the old path of the German army, and China has hundreds of millions of people who can't withstand it, and the other is that it is too wasteful of time to seize house by house, and now the situation in Europe has changed, if you don't control the rhythm of time, you are likely to lose the war, and it is difficult to say what China will be miserable at that time.

After the Soviet army on the south bank was completely annihilated, Dai Anlan ordered the Gaoji army to cross the bridge and attack the main city of Irkutsk under the cover of helicopter troops.

The artillery is not idle, all they have to do is destroy every house and try to take Irkutsk as soon as possible,

From a strategic point of view, as long as Irkutsk is taken, then the Soviet army in Central Siberia has no danger to defend, they have to completely retreat to Western Siberia, they are the largest heavy industrial base of the Soviet Union in Asia, the Siberian industrial base, the cities here are clustered, and concentrated, each big city is more advanced and larger than Irkratsk, and they can also support each other,

As far as China is concerned, as long as Irkutsk is won, then even if China gets tens of millions of square kilometers of land east of the Yenisei River, thinking of the natural resources here, how can people not be excited about the mineral resources underground?

Of course, Wang Hanzhang's ambition will not be limited here, if the Soviet Union survives, then they will use the Siberian industrial center as a base to concentrate millions or even tens of millions of troops to counterattack, so China is strategically at a loss, so of course Wang Hanzhang must continue to work hard to take the Siberian industrial center, take Central Asia and the whole of Siberia, and drive the Europeans back to Europe.