Chapter 008: Attack on Outer Mongolia
On September 17, 1943, the Qin army launched an attack on all fronts, and Wang Hanzhang did not choose any special day, he did not have that habit.
Of course, the troops first sent planes to carry out a fierce bombardment of the Soviet air bases and barracks, and the Chinese side had already sent the Mongolian people inclined to China to infiltrate Outer Mongolia to inquire about the news.
However, the effect of the bombing was not very ideal, and the Soviet army had been prepared for a long time, and they made many models of airplanes and tanks out of wood, so that the Chinese side thought that the bombing effect was significant.
That trick was understood by Wang Hanzhang in history, but it was used to confuse the Japanese in history, and now it is used by Mao Zi to confuse himself and others, of course, Wang Hanzhang received a telegram from the Air Force, although he doubted the results of the battle, but there was no evidence, and Wang Hanzhang himself was worried that Soviet Russia would sneak attack, so he also made a large number of aircraft and tank models, but I don't know if it can be used.
After the first wave of bombardment, the Qin army immediately attacked, a force of 50,000 people from Erenhot directly to Kulen (today's Ulan Toba), this force was Dai Anlan's 88th Army, this force is also the best equipped unit in the whole army, they have 200 tanks, all of them are equipped with dragon assault rifles, a water automatic weapon.
The 88th Army started from Erenhot, there is no wide river here along the way, so it is very suitable for mechanized warfare, the Soviet Russian side according to Wang Hanzhang's troop deployment, especially the 88th Army is famous, so the Soviet Union said that a semi-armored brigade and two infantry divisions and two pseudo-Mongolian divisions are deployed in Saiyinshanda between Erenhot and Kulun, which is the only way to Ulaantoba from the mainland.
During this period, Mongolia was only 810,000 people, and Saiyin Shanda was an important place for business travel and rest, so there were more than 3,000 residents, not to mention that it was not as good as a small town in China, but there were only 810,000 people in the territory of millions of square kilometers in Outer Mongolia, which is a lot of people.
Although there are no fixed cities in Outer Mongolia itself, these people are herders, so they all have no fixed residence, and usually hundreds or even dozens of people graze together to graze.
Saiyin Shanda has been built into an impregnable wall by the Soviet army, Dai Anlan is not in a hurry to attack, he understands the situation in Soviet Russia, the industry is developed, so there are many mechanized troops, but it is not comparable to small Japan.
In addition, he knows very well how the Soviet Russian army attacked small Japan 4 years ago, and now that Soviet Russia has developed for so many years, it is impossible not to send mechanized troops, if they do, then they will definitely not be in the small Saiyin Shanda, if so, there will definitely be a big conspiracy.
Dai Anlan let the troops rest and recuperate 10 miles away from Saiyin Mountain, and at the same time let the guerrilla tanks reconnoiter within a radius of 20 miles, and the air force reconnoitred the surroundings.
Lieutenant General Pavlov, who commanded the battle of the Soviet Army, saw that the ** squadron did not move, and he wondered if the ** squadron had guessed something, and it seemed that he had underestimated the commander of the ** squadron.
Originally, he was going to wait for the squadron's attack on Saiyin Mountain to reach its most intense, so that the Air Force's Beihe armored unit would come out and annihilate the Dai Anlan Department in one fell swoop.
Although the opposite side is a famous Chinese general, but in Paplov's opinion, he is just a child in the war, Pavlov did not watch the squadron slowly search there because the squadron did not attack, and then was discovered. He decided to take the initiative and must give the Chinese a fatal blow and let the Chinese go back to China, a little further away from the range of Soviet Russia's strength.
At 4 p.m. on the 17th, the Soviets attacked, believing that they should be able to settle the battle before sunset, so they even saved calling the air force, and they decided to deal directly with the Chinese with artillery and tanks, and the Russian soldiers were convinced of this.
The Soviet tanks camouflaged with withered grass received an order and immediately set fire to prepare for an attack, they wanted to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the squadron to destroy the squadron, Pavlov could already imagine, an hour to defeat the squadron, two hours to pursue the squadron, and three hours to end the battle, although it was already dark at that time, but even if there was no one to escape.
The sound of hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles launching was deafening, and the squadron felt almost everything, especially the armored troops, who were most familiar with this roar.
Dai Anlan naturally knew that it seemed that the Soviet army was about to attack, so he immediately ordered everyone to prepare for battle, and the tank crews were ready to meet the enemy, and at the same time called for air force support.
10 minutes later, countless steel monsters formed a torrent to kill the position of the squadron, at this time the artillery of both sides rang out in unison, and the two sides carried out a fierce artillery battle, but the tanks of the Soviet Russian army did not stop, they divided into multiple steel torrents to kill.
The armored troops of the squadron are divided into three, two from the left and right flanks, and one in the middle to meet the battle, although these tanks in the middle have to withstand great pressure, but they have infantry support, and the infantry has anti-Tanya weapons, and Soviet Russia should not know yet.
Soviet Russia saw that the ** squadron was divided into three, and the tank army in the middle was very weak, and the fortifications built were also very simple.
A group of Soviet armored soldiers cheered, they cheered that although the squadron had tanks, but they didn't know how to use tanks, the Soviet tanks divided into two fierce battles with the two tank units that China tried to outflank, and the large army was killing in the middle, the tanks paid attention to the speed of one billion, they believed that as long as the Chinese infantry troops were defeated, then the Chinese armored forces could only be slaughtered by them.
When the mid-lane tanks faced the Soviet army, a large number of bazookas were aimed at the Soviet tanks, and the Soviet tanks fired at the Chinese tanks, undoubtedly, in the face of the powerful firepower of the Soviet tanks several times their own, the mid-lane tanks were killed one after another, fortunately, these people are all novices, but they have been trained, and the accuracy is not very good, otherwise they will be killed in one round.
Although the Soviet tanks were almost the first time to fire at the enemy's tanks on the battlefield, but seeing that several Chinese tanks had been destroyed, the Soviet tank soldiers were even more crazy, and they desperately killed the positions of the Chinese infantry, trying to crush the squadron.
The Soviets found that the squadron did not seem to have many anti-tank guns, although they themselves had destroyed a few tanks, but at the urging of the captain, they all thought that as long as the tanks hit the enemy's infantry at high speed, then the infantry would definitely break and flee, and the experience of the Germans has shown everything.
Seeing the Soviet tanks and armored vehicles getting closer and closer, countless bullets were fired at the positions on the tanks, and real white eyes appeared on the positions.
"250 meters, fire!" An officer yelled.
As a result, countless bazookas fired armor-piercing shells at Soviet tanks. The "bang-bang......" armor-piercing shell hit the Soviet tank, causing a huge bombardment, and more than 20 Soviet tanks were killed in an instant.
The Soviet army did not react for a while, or it was useless to reflect, the tanks are not people, it is impossible to turn around and retreat flexibly all at once, they can only rush to the land of the squadron.
And waiting for their soldiers round after round of bazookas, Huaxia lacks technology and lacks scientists and technicians, so many things Wang Hanzhang wants to get out of it is also more than enough and not enough, so it is the most cost-effective to equip that simple and effective weapon, and it is easy to operate, you must know that there are too few people with lice in Huaxia, and you need to have a certain degree to drive a tank, otherwise it is difficult to get started, Wang Hanzhang's rise did not last long, so he did not train many tankers.
Seeing that their tanks were being killed all the time, the Soviet armored soldiers had numb scalps, more and more tanks were destroyed, they could only use artillery fire and machine gun bullets to hide their fear, they didn't know what weapons the squadron used, and they didn't have time to think about it when they saw from the lookout hole that it was a shell fired from a very simple weapon.
At this time, the Chinese Air Force arrived and immediately launched an attack on the Soviet Russian tanks, a large number of bombs were smashed on the Soviet tank positions, and countless tanks were destroyed.
The air force of their own side came to help, and the squadron had just destroyed countless Soviet tanks, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became, and the soldiers with bazookas relied on their flexibility and had jumped out of the trenches to kill the Soviet tanks. The Soviet infantry was blown up on their backs, and the Soviet artillery had nowhere to hide at this time, so they could only be passively bombed.
20 minutes later, the Soviet Air Force arrived, and the second wave of the Chinese Air Force also arrived, the planes of both sides were intertwined, but the battle on the ground continued, and the squadron on the ground currently had the upper hand, and now it depends on the Air Force, as long as the Air Force wins, it can master air supremacy, and then the Soviet Army will be brave in battle, how well-equipped, and how many tanks there are, then there will be no squadron, and the same is true for Dai Anlan.
Pavlov nervously watched hundreds of planes fighting in the sky, you chased after me, and from time to time planes were shot down, but after more than 20 minutes of fierce fighting between the air forces of the two sides, it was actually the Soviet and Russian air forces that were shot down more.
It turned out that the experienced and slightly longer flight time of the Soviet Russian Air Force had long been transferred to the European theater, and now only the cadets who are still training remain. On the contrary, the Chinese Air Force has newcomers, but there are many aces in the previous air battles with the Japanese army, so for a time the Chinese Air Force had the upper hand, not to mention that they drove the P51, which was known as the best propeller aircraft during World War II.