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Chapter 1785 The time and place are favorable

The port of Muscat, which is five time zones later than South China Time, is still 4 p.m., and the battle has entered a stalemate under the scorching sun. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese gathered their forces and held the high ground west of the port.

In order to ensure the stability of the battle front, Ito Shinji not only transferred the remaining regiment of the Ranyin Division, which was a reserve, to the Western Front, but even transferred most of the troops guarding Sidab Beach. The Japanese made full use of the fortifications built by the British and the barriers built in the mountains, plus the captured artillery and small cannons, as well as anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns moved from the port area to build a three-dimensional defense system.

Below the high ground guarded by the Japanese army, a small river about 20 meters wide and at least 2 meters deep meanders north and joins the sea. Since the boat-bridge vehicles equipped by the engineering units were being transferred, and the infantry could not cross the river without pontoon bridges, although the "Dolphin-I" tanks could wade through the water, it was obviously unwise for the lone troops to go deeper, so they simply stopped on the opposite side of the river and shelled the mountain.

The only steel-framed bridge over the creek had been blasted by the Japanese and minefields had been set up behind the bridge, and the Marines' attack was temporarily suppressed.

"Is the rocket launcher assembled?"

The commander of the Marine Corps, Colonel Gongsun Rong, stood in the headquarters built under the breakwater using the gaps in several reefs, holding a telescope and carefully observing the Japanese positions four kilometers away. He was not surprised at all by the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, after all, the devil was deeply influenced by bushido, especially after the Siberian fiasco the year before last, the Japanese army strengthened the education of recruits, and frequently used soldiers' family letters, collective oaths and other forms to make soldiers loyal to the emperor.

Therefore, under the condition that the structure of the troops at all levels is complete, even if the battle situation is unfavorable, these mongrels who leave the country and shout "see you" will not give in easily.

Lieutenant Colonel Duan Zhengming, chief of the operations section, reported: "The 107 rocket launchers of the rocket artillery battalion are still being assembled, and the ammunition supporting them is also on the way. The fleet command called, and in half an hour naval aviation will cooperate with us in launching an attack. The commander of the third regiment telegraphed that they would land on Sitab Beach on the eastern front half an hour after the general offensive was launched, and go straight to the port of Muscat, striving to capture the enemy before dark. ”

Gongsun Rong raised his wrist and looked at his watch, nodded and said, "Let the front-line departments temporarily get rid of contact with the Japanese army, drink some water and rest to recover their strength." The engineer battalion was ordered to get ready, the boat bridge vehicles should be almost in place by this time, and when the general attack was launched, they must build the pontoon bridge as soon as possible. ”

"Yes!"

Duan Zhengming saluted and left, and soon the front line fell silent.

The commander of the Japanese army, Major General Ito Shinji, saw that the Anjia army had stopped the offensive, and thought that he had a plan, and once again adjusted his forces by telephone to make up for the lack of a defensive line. Shinji Ito's plan was to hold out until the evening, and then take advantage of the darkness to retreat westward, retreating to the rolling Hajar Mountains, where he would take advantage of the complex terrain and maneuver with the Anjia army.

At half past four, the sun slowly tilted to the west, and as the daylight waned, the temperature began to slowly drop as well.

However, soon the temperature returned to its original state, even hotter than the hottest time at noon, and as the ground resounded with the scream of the 107mm 12-barrel rocket launcher, hundreds of fire dragons left the launch tube and rained down dead bullets on the Japanese position! A large number of meteors and fires pierced the sky, scrambling to fly towards the Japanese position, and the sky was full of meteors tearing through the air and making a screaming sound, and each with a long tail on their buttocks.

The first to suffer were the Japanese artillery positions.

Large balls of fireballs rose from the middle of the antique artillery, and the Japanese artillery gathered around the cannons and was ready at all times, but before they could let out a scream, they were knocked to the ground by the shrapnel that exploded densely, and many who were unlucky enough to be directly hit by the rockets were torn to pieces. The barrel, body, wheels and other parts were blown to pieces and flew in all directions. In the fierce air wave of rockets, a large number of stacked artillery boxes were affected, and those grenades exploded one after another, making an earth-shattering sound of martyrdom.

After two minutes of rain of rockets plowing on the Japanese artillery positions, they quickly moved forward.

As the meteor fire rain continued to fall, the trenches and fortifications built in the mountains collapsed in the violent explosions, and the devils and Lanyin soldiers who were hiding in the trenches and fortifications turned into clouds of blood and flesh in the bursting fireballs.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Shinji Ito immediately called and ordered to quickly withdraw the troops deployed on the front-line positions, but a ** rocket roared, and a series of loud "boom" sounded one after another, and those devils and indigenous soldiers who were trapped by the rain of bullets could not move an inch.

Every rocket is like a broom star that brings disaster, the fuel that has not yet burned out is thrown everywhere by explosives, often a rocket touches the ground, and the surrounding area is instantly burned into a fire dragon, and the rolling heat wave sweeps towards the Japanese positions under the action of a powerful air wave, and the personnel, guns and ammunition, trenches and bunker fortifications are devastating in the flames that rise to the sky.

For a time, the devils were in a big mess and fled in all directions, but because the rockets were too dense, they could not escape the blows, and many of the bunkers that looked extremely strong, as if they were made of rotten wooden planks, were lifted by the violent air waves, and the walls were destroyed, and they flew out one after another in the sound of explosions.

On the entire mountainous area where the Japanese army was located, there were large groups of flames, and the thick smoke that rose almost obscured the sun hanging in the sky.

The Japanese defense line was on the verge of collapse under the attack of a large number of rockets, and the Japanese army, which originally consisted of three brigades and one division, was attacked by air raids, landing battles, and this rain of rockets in the Muscat area, and less than half of the guns were left.

The sound of artillery gradually thinned out, and the dizzy little *** and the indigenous soldiers of the servant army Lanyin barely got up from the dilapidated trenches and bunker fortifications, and after seeing the surrounding situation clearly, they were all taken aback - nearly half of the pillboxes were lifted off the roof by rockets, many trenches were razed to the ground by artillery fire, and the ground that was blown up softly between several trenches was full of broken limbs and broken arms, flesh and blood powder and gun parts.

The anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns deployed between the forward positions were almost completely destroyed under such a fierce blow.

Shinji Ito, who was guarding the telephone, turned pale when he heard the feedback from the front, and his mind was full of questions: The artillery fire of the landing force of the Anjia Army was so fierce, and according to common sense, shouldn't the landing force lack heavy fire support? How many cannons fired such powerful artillery fire? How did the enemy drag so many cannons?

"Baga! Enemy planes are here again! ”

Standing in front of the lookout, Kazuo Nakasa, chief of staff Sakai, who was observing the battle on the front line with a telescope, suddenly shouted, and the officers in the command headquarters rushed to the lookout together, only to see hundreds of warplanes, whistling from the Gulf of Oman in the distance, and pounced on the hill on the west side.

The first to attack was the fighter planes, and the rockets hanging on the two wings were launched downwards as if they were not paying for money, so that the devil soldiers and the indigenous soldiers of Lanyin who were watching on the Japanese position once again enjoyed the overwhelming rocket attack. Before they could recover their senses, a dense rain of bullets from aviation machine guns had already fallen, covering the entire battle line and reaping the lives of the survivors.

Not to be outdone, the bombers swept over the Japanese positions at low altitudes, the magazines were opened, and strings of bombs fell from the sky like hailstones, and then violent explosions came one after another, and clusters of explosive gas waves ranging from a few meters to more than ten meters rose into the air, and the fragments of the shells were mixed with human limbs and gun parts, and they were fired in all directions.

This time the torpedo bombers did not carry torpedoes, but they were equipped with 1,000 kilogram bombs, as these heavy torpedo bombers swooped down from the sky, the planes almost broke through the speed of sound under the action of gravitational acceleration, and these heavy bombs left the pylons and pounced on the ground made of reinforced concrete that had not been blown down by rockets.

The roaring and falling bombs, the weight of the aircraft and the acceleration of the plane's dive, the power was incomparable, and the fortresses were knocked open in the huge explosion, and the devils and the indigenous soldiers of Lanyin who were hiding inside were instantly torn into powder in the air wave of the explosion.

As the Japanese defense line was almost destroyed inside and out, the loud trumpet of the charge sounded again, and the "Dolphin I" tank covered the officers and men of the landing team and rushed towards the hill occupied by the enemy.

Coming to the river, the amphibious tanks did not hesitate at all, and rushed down the river desperately, and the tanks waded through the water and rushed to the opposite bank almost without any obstacles, but because they were worried about the blasting of the Japanese "death squads", the tanks temporarily stayed on the other side of the river and acted as a battery to suppress the fire of the Japanese army.

Within five minutes, several steel pontoon bridges composed of components were laid across the river, and the officers and men of the Marine Corps rushed across the river with loud shouts, and the "Dolphin I" tank started again and rushed towards the enemy on the hilltop.

The Marine Corps offensive was like mercury, they formed battle groups, general-purpose machine guns, automatic rifles, submachine guns, semi-automatic rifles, mortars, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and flamethrowers worked together, plus snipers to clear enemy fire points, the Marine officers and men moved bravely towards the top of the hill, leaving the tanks that were struggling to climb on the steep slope far behind.

Under such a fierce blow, the remaining Japanese troops and Lanyin soldiers were all broken, but at this life-and-death critical moment, they could only bite the bullet and use all kinds of weapons to counterattack, but the officers and men of the Marine Corps crossed cover, and when they marched, they were as fast as thunder, and the charge was almost in one go, and they approached the Japanese position with very few casualties.

At this time, the snipers covering the assault of the troops, with great might, sent the Japanese troops who were still shooting to hell one by one, and the mortar and bazooka fighters fired accurately to destroy those remaining firing points.

The most awesome thing is the general-purpose machine gun, which makes a "porphyry" sound and shoots out a series of fire whips, and wherever the fire whip is drawn, the blocker is invincible. Dense bullets flew "whizzing" over the enemy's position, and many devils and Lanyin native soldiers who were shooting in the outcrop were killed, and the rest of the enemy was beaten so that they could not raise their heads.

Before rushing into the Japanese position, the officers and men of the Marine Corps threw a grenade, and then took advantage of the smoke from the explosion to enter the trench, and the automatic rifles and submachine guns vented a dense rain of bullets, knocking the Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the grenade blow to the ground. Many trenches are equipped with machine gun bunkers and individual positions, and at this time the flamethrower can be powerful, often a fire dragon shoots out, and a large number of burning devils rush out of those bunkers, and they are naturally greeted by a burst of bullets.

Occasionally, because of the angle, the flamethrower does not work, and the bazooka can come in handy, and those extremely tricky design bunkers fly into the sky one after another under the close range of rocket strikes.

With almost no major losses, the Marines broke through the first line of Japanese trenches and approached the second.

There were more surviving devils and indigenous soldiers in the second trench, and those devils saw the Marine officers and soldiers who rushed into the trench with guns, howling loudly, withdrawing the bullets in the rifles, and preparing to fight bayonets, when the indigenous soldiers were still hesitating to return the bullets as required by the instructor, a dense rain of bullets had already arrived.

Automatic rifles and submachine guns fired wildly, and the devils and Lanyin soldiers were swept to the ground like wheat harvesters, and no one could break through the wall of death. The officers and men of the Marine Corps did not give the other side a chance to fight bayonets at all, and the officers and men were very particular when shooting, changing magazines in a staggered manner, and occasionally when they ran out of bullets, they would immediately hang their rifles or submachine guns on their bodies, quickly pull out their pistols, and fire at the enemy, knocking the devils and Lanyin soldiers who tried to approach to the ground.

As the elite of the elite, the Marine Corps is not afraid of hand-to-hand combat. Those devils who hide in the corners of the trenches are often dodged by the vigilant Marine officers and soldiers as soon as the bayonets are handed out, and the next moment their throats have been cut by military thorns sticking out from nowhere, and blood rushes out.

When the Marines approached the third line of trenches, the Japanese had no choice but to send death squads.

The daredevils had explosives wrapped around their waists and rushed bare-chested at the officers and soldiers of Anjia. However, automatic rifles, submachine guns, and general-purpose machine guns knocked the devil's death squad to the ground like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and the occasional fish that slipped through the net also fell to the ground unwillingly under the precise point fire of the snipers in the rear. As the detonators on the bodies of those daredevils were detonated, violent explosions came and went, blowing up those devils who were not afraid of death into powder.

With the defeat of the death squads, the Japanese army was defeated, the third line of trenches was quickly breached, and the red flag was soon planted on the hill west of Muscat Harbor, and the best seaport in the Arabian Peninsula was completely exposed to the officers and men of the Marine Corps.

By this time, Shinji Ito could no longer construct a new line of defense.

Just when the fierce fighting on the Western Front was in full swing, the Marines of the Anjia Army landed on Sidab Beach on the east side of Muscat Harbor, and since most of the Japanese troops were transferred to the Western Front, it took almost no great effort to break through the Japanese defenses on the whole line and quickly broke through the city of Muscat.

With no available troops at hand, Shinji Ito saw the officers and men of the Marines of the Anke Army approaching the castle and immediately ordered the burning of military flags, cipher codes, and confidential documents.

In the evening, when the Marines broke through the fortress behind the castle of Joreli, they found that almost all the Japanese officers had committed suicide by disembowelment, facing the direction of Tokyo in the northeast, and fell to their knees, blood flowing from their waists and intestines, and the smell of fish was overflowing.

At this point, the port of Muscat was completely under the control of the Anjia Army, and the task force had a naval port comparable to the port of Karachi.

......

In Ossinovo, west of Kazan, black smoke suddenly rose from the silent woods, and with the thunderous sound of engines, hundreds of tanks roared out of the woods, knocking down bowl-thick trees, running over frozen rivers, and rushing eastward.

Behind the tanks, dozens of assault guns, and beyond that, there were dense Soviet Red Army infantry.

The tank battalion rushed out of the woods and reached a frozen river, and the anti-tank guns hiding behind the tabular pine on the opposite bank began to fire, and a fire rose from the first tank, causing the ammunition room to explode, and the turret flew into the air, and smashed heavily into the glacier, instantly submerged in the river, leaving only half of the barrel pointed to the sky.

The shells continued to explode, and the dense rain of bullets poured on the tanks, making the sound of firecrackers on the armor plates, and the rain of bullets was so dense that several more tanks with slightly thin armor rose with smoke and ran aground on the ground. More tanks roared across the glacier, assault guns knocked the opposite bank to the ground, smoke filled the air, and the infantry braved the rain of bullets and bullets, leaping forward in groups of three or five. The artillery, which was assigned to the tank units, concentrated all the mortars and fired at close range.

The guards of the Far Eastern Army gradually became exhausted, the firepower thinned out, and seeing that there were more and more Soviet troops, the commander of the Far Eastern Army had to retreat with hatred.

On the snow-covered ground, hundreds of corpses of Far Eastern officers and soldiers remained, more than 20 blown up mortars and anti-tank guns were slanted on the ground, and four BT7 and one T34 tank were destroyed and caught blazing.

Having broken through the border defense line of the Far Eastern Army, the Soviets continued their advance to the east.

According to the battle plan drawn up by Zhukov, the Soviet army's attack style was different from the past, and instead of massing troops, it was scattered into hundreds of battle groups, like torrents, flowing eastward, and like countless daggers, attacking and advancing eastward in the eastern edge of the East European Plain, which is full of rivers and swamps.

The attacking units of the Soviet army, like octopuses, stretched out their tentacles everywhere, and if the troops in front were blocked by the Far Eastern Army, the troops behind would bypass them; Surrounded by the Far Eastern Army, the attack group on that side crossed the battlefield where fierce battles were raging, a mechanized unit was wiped out, and more infantry continued on tanks, armored vehicles, tracked motorcycles, or sleds on their feet.

At the same time, a large number of small detachments disguised themselves as the Far Eastern Army infiltrated the defense line of the Far Eastern Army and disrupted the deployment of troops in the Far Eastern Army.

......

In the early hours of the morning, An Yi, who rushed back to Xinjing overnight on a special plane, immediately summoned the generals of the Military Commission and the General Staff to discuss the front-line battle situation in the Urals.

Yang Jie, who temporarily acted as the general staff after An Yi and Yang Fei left, stood in front of a large map of the Soviet Union, facing a room full of generals and colonels, and talked eloquently:

"The attack of the Soviet army was very sudden, and both the Far East and we originally judged that the Soviet army would launch an offensive in the spring, and no one expected that the Soviet army would actually make a move in the coldest January! After analysis by the Operations Department and the Intelligence Department of the General Staff Department, it was held that the Soviet Army did this precisely in order to give full play to its own advantages and contain the specialties of the Far Eastern Army......

"Now the entire Eastern European Plain and the Urals and Siberian regions are shrouded in wind and snow, and the superior air force of the Far Eastern Republic cannot attack to help in the war, but the Soviet Army can make full use of its superiority in strength and quickly compress the living space of the Far Eastern Army with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai.

"Many of the defensive lines built by the Far Eastern Army took advantage of the dangers of rivers, but now those rivers, without exception, are all frozen with ice several meters thick, and there is no pressure on tanks and heavy artillery, but in spring, summer, and autumn, those rivers become obstacles to the advance of the Soviet army. At the same time, with the collapse of the defense line of the Far Eastern Army, the sabotage detachments of the Soviet army penetrated into the rear of the Far Eastern Army, bringing great damage.

"Judging from the time, place, and people, there have been changes in favor of the Soviet army, which shows that the people who formulated this battle plan on the Soviet side are quite militarily talented!"

An Yi nodded, stood up and walked to the map, and looked back at a cadre: "The situation is indeed dangerous...... What do you think about the actions of the Soviet army, please speak freely! ”

Colonel Zhou Wei, who was newly transferred to the Strategic Planning Bureau of the Operations Department of the General Staff Department as director of the bureau, and had successively served as the squadron leader of the special brigade of the 26 th Army, the deputy commander of the special brigade of the front army under Gu Changfeng's jurisdiction, and the operational staff officer of the Third Group Army.

"We should still adhere to the operational policy of 'taking ourselves as the mainstay, mobilizing the enemy, waiting for an opportunity to destroy one of them, and accumulating small victories into big victories.' This strategy of all-round oppression of the Soviet army seems to be invulnerable, but in fact it is full of loopholes. The cold terrain of the ice fields is not only beneficial, but also has countless troubles, such as transporting supplies is a big problem!

"Now the fighting is taking place near the border line, there is no problem, but as long as it penetrates fifty to a hundred kilometers deep into the Urals, the pressure on logistical supplies will definitely increase. Units close to the roads and railways will not be affected much by the ease of supply, while those farther away from the lines of communication will have to slow down the pace of the offensive because of the difficulties in fuel and food, so that a number of arrows will appear that are detached from the other forces.

"If I were the commander of the Far Eastern Army, Yegorov, I would have tried every means to deploy defensive lines on some secondary fronts, delay the Soviet offensive step by step, and let the Soviet troops near the lines of communication in, and come to a close door and fight dogs. It is not difficult to achieve this strategic goal by concentrating superior forces to destroy the enemy and making full use of the difficulties in communication, liaison, and material supply caused by the ice and snow weather to all units of the Soviet army. As long as a few elite Soviet troops can be eliminated, the exposed gaps will make more Soviet troops fall into the dilemma of not being able to advance or retreat.

"As more and more troops are annihilated, the Soviet army can only choose to retreat, and then there will be a situation of a change of direction on the battlefield, which in turn will become a situation in which the Far Eastern Army attacks and the Soviet army is trapped."

"Well analyzed!"

An Yi smiled with relief and encouraged: "Zhou Wei's combat thinking is similar to what I imagined. But I have a question in my heart, Egorov is a well-known master of the art of war, at this critical juncture, why did he make a big mess and continuously increase troops to the front, didn't he know that the consequences of fortification everywhere were to be beaten everywhere? ”

The generals discussed for a while, and General Deng Bin, president of the National Defense University, said:

"In my opinion, the Far East is mainly reluctant to abandon Kazan. Because of its special geographical location and political and economic significance, Kazan is highly valued by the Soviet army and the Far Eastern Army, and the city has changed hands many times in the past few years, the most recent one was on the 9th of this month, when the Far East side had made a big deal about this victory, to a certain extent, it can also be understood that today's all-out offensive of the Soviet army can be understood as a counterattack on the capture of Kazan by the Far Eastern Army.

"In order for the Far East to occupy the moral high ground, it became a necessary choice to ensure that the founder of the Soviet Union, Comrade Ulyanov, had studied and fought and worked. To defend Kazan is to defend the legitimacy of the Bolshevik Party in the Far Eastern Republic. And it is not meaningless to defend Kazan, after all, this is the gateway to Moscow, from Kazan to the west, the closest to Moscow, and there are no large mountains along the way, it has always been a battleground for soldiers. If the Far Eastern Army can attract a part of the Soviet army here, the pressure on other fronts will be reduced accordingly, and conditions can also be created for a decisive battle of the main forces. ”

An Yi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart that the Far Eastern Army's defense of Kazan, just like the Soviet Union's defense of Leningrad and Stalingrad in World War II, was to ensure the morale of the troops. Since the Soviets could rely on Leningrad and Stalingrad to block the German offensive, perhaps the Far Eastern Army could also do the same, dragging the main force of the Soviet army on the Kazan front, and creating opportunities for its headquarters to mobilize troops and find a good opportunity for a decisive battle.

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