Chapter 044: The Bombing of Alashankou
On October 3, 1944, the 300,000-strong Socialist Party army was dispatched to launch a full-scale attack on the Soviet army in Central Asia.
The Socialist army marched from Altai in four routes, and they went down the Irtysh River, which flows into the Arctic Ocean, and there is a road from the past to the present.
The second army from Dihua (Urumqi), Shihezi, Alashankou to attack Kazakhstan after converging, Kazakhstan's Druzhba and Yucharal direction attack, they will and the first army as long as they hit the north of Balkhash Lake Akduka, and then to the west is the desert and plain of Pingchuan, there is no danger to defend, then the Soviet army will inevitably not be able to resist the attack of the Chinese mechanized army,
The Third Route Army attacked from Yining towards Kyrgyzstan and Almaty in Kazakhstan.
The Fourth Route Army attacked from Kashgar to Kyrgyzstan,
The border area between Xinjiang and Central Asia is a lofty mountain, extremely dangerous, the Soviet Union occupied a lot of important passes in later generations, when Sino-Soviet relations were okay, the Soviet army built a large number of fortifications here, with the first squadron launched a campaign to recover Outer Mongolia, the Soviet army once wanted to attack Xinjiang from here, and finally had to give up in order to avoid a full-scale war, but they began to build permanent fortifications, and now all the fortifications have been repaired, and they think that if the squadron attacks, it can be blocked for at least more than a year,
Wang Hanzhang was also studying how to attack from here, and the Socialists were also constantly studying, the terrain here is complex, and all important passes are controlled by the Soviet army.
If it weren't for the fact that a large number of ethnic minority intelligence officers in Xinjiang had drawn up a lot of topographical maps, and the information provided by Germany and the information provided by businessmen who had been doing business all year round, the squadron would have been blind to this place.
The main direction of attack of the Socialist Army is Alashan Pass, don't look at this place seems to be the most difficult place to attack, but the railway in later generations leads to Central Asia from here, and the mountainous area here is not as big as other places, so much, his width is much narrower, and the bottom is a lot,
Of course, there are more Soviet troops here, but this is not a problem, now Wang Hanzhang is most afraid of not how powerful the enemy is on the frontal battlefield, but afraid that the enemy will enter the mountains to fight guerrillas at every turn, so that although the damage that can be given to the squadron may not be large, but he is like a time bomb, you never know when he will give it to you,
Although the Alatau Mountains are very long and tall, they are not a group of mountains, and even if the Soviet army enters the mountains, they can be quickly cleared.
The Soviet army has stationed an army of troops just before and after this mountain pass, and there are complete permanent fortifications, if it is a normal way of fighting, I don't know how many people will have to die to take it here,
The oil fields in Xinjiang have been put into use, and Wang Hanzhang is actively developing them in order to provide fuel for the army, and of course, considering the need for a large number of incendiary bombs to attack Central Asia.
In fact, Wang Hanzhang didn't have any good plans for how to take this place at the lowest possible cost, so in the end he could only rely on his strength, there are many mountains and forests here, and there are many trees, and now it has entered winter, a large number of plants and trees have withered, and if he launches a fire attack, he believes that he can receive unexpected results.
The Battle of Alashankou only started at 9 o'clock in the morning, and after such a long air battle, Mao Weiguo and they had already figured out the strength of the Soviet Air Force, so there was no need to be sneaky in combat.
After the battle began, the Socialist Army did not move, and they silently watched as more than 300 fighters and bombers dropped napalm and incendiary bombs on Soviet positions or places where Soviet troops might be hiding.
Soon a piece of fire ignited on the mountain, and among the bombers that carried out the bombing was the newly developed Yama King bomber, which was named because his bomb load reached an astonishing 8 tons, and the range also had a range of 6,000 kilometers and a practical ceiling of more than 10,000 meters.
The aircraft was developed and designed from the B17 bomber of the United States, with the aircraft technology provided by Germany, and then developed and designed by Jewish scientists and technicians based on the goal of the four-engine propeller bomber proposed by Wang Hanzhang.
Of course, Wang Hanzhang also knows that the United States has a bomber called B29 that has come out, and its performance is more advanced than that of King Yama, in fact, Wang Hanzhang's concept also comes from this, but China's foundation is too thin to compete with the United States in technology, and it is good to have such an aircraft.
And the development of this aircraft is also because the naval strength of China is too weak, to deal with the Japanese threat must strengthen air superiority, with this bomber, the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan, the Philippines and the islands in western Indonesia are all within the bombing range, then it will be much easier to deal with Japan,
However, the plane also has a lot of shortcomings, first of all, the general bomber is enough for four or five people, or three people are enough, but the Yama King bomber needs ten people to operate, which is very fatal for Huaxia, which lacks pilots, the United States is a powerful country in the end, no wonder Germany and Japan were beaten ass and urine, and the victory of the United States was piled out of steel,
At present, a large number of Chinese pilots have been trained for three or four months before being pulled out to directly participate in the war, but fortunately, Wang Hanzhang's initial training plan was based on 10,000 units, which was to consider that if he did not take advantage of the nuclear ejection to snatch more living space, there would be no big chance in the future.
But no matter how much place is laid, it must be defended, so although there are many Chinese, they cannot die too much in young adults, so improving weapons and tactics is the most important, and the wars of later generations basically defeat a country in air wars, so the importance of the air force Wang Hanzhang is very clear, which is why he resisted everyone's opposition and turned the air force into a corps,
Now everyone admires Wang Hanzhang very much, and now there are tens of thousands of pilots in China, otherwise no one will drive any more planes produced.
Nowadays, most of the pilots on the Sino-Soviet battlefield are newly trained pilots, Wang Hanzhang is to train them, the Soviet Union has no planes, the United States aid can not catch up with the consumption at all, the squadron seems to be attacking very powerfully, but it is basically an air battle, Stalin after a period of consumption, really can't fight China, so simply do not invest more planes in the Asian battlefield, anyway, the squadron is basically stopped on land, while Germany is attacking in Europe is very powerful, and there are not many German planes, plus Central Asia and Western Siberia were bombed to the ground, and it was useless to send more valuable planes, and there was nothing valuable to guard them, so it was better to put them in Europe to guard the few assets of Europe,
This gave Wang Hanzhang the opportunity to train recruits, there was basically no threat in the air, as long as you pay attention to the anti-aircraft artillery on land, the recruits were very satisfied with the feeling of tons of bombs dropped on the Soviet positions, when the first bomb exploded, the timidity in their hearts gradually dissipated,
At this time, the Soviet troops hiding in the permanent fortifications were overturned on their backs, a large amount of material was destroyed by heavy bombs, and napalm and incendiary bombs were reduced to ashes everywhere they went.
Napalm attached to the trees, and soon the trees, whether dry or wet, immediately burned, and the wet plants and trees released a large amount of smoke and harmful gases, which floated into the caves of the Soviet army.
The bombardment lasted all morning, but the fire was missing for a whole day, and the children spread in all directions, and there was a great tendency to clean up the mountains of Alatau.
However, the air force did not stop, they continued to bomb the rear of the Soviet army in Alashankou, as long as the road Zhou Wei experienced a round of carpet bombing, the fire will be near the road is also very little clean,
As soon as the bombing began, the Soviets sent a telegram to Stalin, who sighed and said only one sentence: "The one who should have come has come." It is conceivable that he is not optimistic about the Soviet army,
In fact, he is the air force of the Chinese Air Force, when was the Chinese Air Force so powerful, when Chiang Kai-shek begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother for a few planes, as long as he sold the planes, he would give it as much as it cost, at that time China couldn't even make rifles, some parts had to be imported, look at it now, he can't understand why China is so powerful in just a few years,
The skies of Central Asia and Western Siberia are always covered with Chinese planes, and they bomb every city, every village, as long as they think they are worthwhile, every day for months, how much does it cost, how many bombs, even when the Soviet Union is strong, they dare not do this,
Of course, Stalin hated napalm and incendiary bombs the most, and the Chinese Air Force was particularly fond of dropping these bombs into the grasslands and crops, and now thousands of people are dying of hunger every day in Central Asia.
Fortunately, he did not allow the ethnic minorities to move to Europe, otherwise there would be chaos, and as for the permission for these people to flee to the Middle East, it was really because these people had no food and caused trouble everywhere, attacking the granaries of the Soviet army, otherwise where would these people leave when there was a shortage of soldiers,
Stalin learned that the Chinese Air Force bombed the Soviet defenders at Alashankou so fiercely, and fortunately used the napalm that he hated the most, there were bushes and grass everywhere, and those bombs exploded there was a sea of fire, and the wet Cai Mu would release a large amount of poisonous gas after being burned, he didn't dare to imagine how many Soviet troops would survive and resist after the bombing,