Chapter 2033: The Last Battle III
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On New Year's Day 1943, both the "South China Daily" and the "Liberation Daily" published a New Year's message from State Head of State An Yi on the front page: "The past 1942 was a crucial year for the World Anti-Fascist War. Our army will win the final victory in the great war of self-defense and counter-attack, and now even our enemies no longer doubt it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info read h-u-n mixed with me *h-u-n--please remember
"The war has taken a tortuous path, and when Germany treacherously launched the war, the number of their army was about four times the number of our army, and the equipment and manpower, material resources and other resources of their army once far surpassed ours, after all, this country, which has the industrial and human resources of the whole of Europe, has previously conquered Denmark, Belgium, France, the Balkans, and won a decisive victory in the Soviet-German war.
"Because of this, the first phase of the war manifested itself in the offensive of Nazi Germany and our defense. After brazenly declaring war on us, the German army sent a large number of air forces to invade our airspace, and the army launched a fierce attack on our border defense line, and until 21 July, its more than 2 million troops broke through our army's defenses from the north and south flanks and captured a large area of land in the two river valleys of our country.
"During this period, we adopted a correct strategy, resisted one by one, delayed the enemy's attack, and while using a strong barrier to annihilate more than 200,000 German troops in the early stage, we gradually led them to our deep area, so as to win precious time for the final annihilation of the enemy and the arrival of our follow-up reinforcements.
"The war took a fundamental turn on the 21st of last month, when our air force was dispatched to basically wipe out all German air forces in West Asia and launch a full-front counterattack on all fronts. At five o'clock in the morning of the 22nd, the German army Hermann. The Eastern Front Cluster under the command of General Hult was completely annihilated, and the two mechanized armies of the Fourth Panzer Group and the Second Panzer Group, which were the absolute main forces of the German Wehrmacht, were completely annihilated, including more than 300,000 people including the two divisions of the 44th Army; At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th, the southeast group under the command of General Kleist surrendered to our army after successive defeats, and the total number of troops was annihilated by the German ace of the first panzer group and the three armies of the Sixth Army, totaling more than 500,000 people; At one o'clock in the morning of the 30th, the southern group under the command of General Paulus announced its unconditional surrender, and the road wiped out more than 300,000 troops of the German Sixth Army and the Second Army.
"After the end of the three major battles, the forces of the enemy and us in West Asia have undergone a fundamental reversal. On the 29th, on the northern flank of the border fortified area, our army concentrated two tank armies and three main motorized infantry armies to launch a counterattack on the German army on all fronts, and by 11 o'clock in the evening of the 31st, 400,000 German troops on the road were completely annihilated; On the 30th, our main army launched an attack on the southern flank of the German army, and the battle began at 6 o'clock in the morning, and by 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the German army had collapsed on all fronts, and the German army, which was anxious to flee for its life, hurriedly blew up the bridges and embankments on the Euphrates River, and fled to the Gobi region of the western desert in disarray, and then annihilated 150,000 German troops. --//(--Full Text)
"The German army, as the army west of Rubait on the southern front, had already fled west in the early morning of the 30th, and before that, the more than 500,000 troops on the road had lost nearly one-third of them in the face of our strong defenses, and the rest of the troops were continuously attacked by our troops in the process of fleeing, and it is expected that less than 200,000 troops will eventually return to Damascus and other places. On the 23rd of the previous day, our 1st and 2nd tank groups encountered the 24th Motorized Army of the enemy's 2nd Panzer Group and the 5th Army of the 9th Army during their movement towards the east bank of the Sersar River, and completely annihilated more than 100,000 Ludean troops.
"In the continuous battles, our heroic people's army has wiped out 2 million German troops, and the two major battle clusters of Bloomberg and Manstein, which are currently between the Boer River and the Sersar River, have been heavily surrounded by our army, and this 1.5 million army is destined to become the bag of 22 main army groups and 3.5 million heroic troops in our West Asia theater! The final victory belongs to us, and this is the general trend of history that no one can stop!
At this point, Nazi Germany's conspiracy to take West Asia, Central Asia, and the subcontinent into its pocket has all gone bankrupt, the most elite units of the German army in the two rivers of West Asia have been wiped out, and the troops in the Middle East, Turkey, and Transcaucasia have been wiped out, and the German army will be seriously reduced in the coming period, and the victory of the world anti-fascist war has begun to show the dawn.
"While winning successive military victories, the Chinese people have also won great victories on the political and economic fronts; up to now, we already have a complete light and heavy industrial system, all the resources for the production of guns, ammunition and advanced weapons, and tens of millions of skilled skilled workers. It is precisely because of all this that there is no longer any controversy about the improvement of the international status of our emerging country and the Chinese nation standing tall among the nations of the world!
"If our army is hot-headed, anxious to achieve success, and dazed and falls into the enemy's trap, it will bury the superiority that has been established with great difficulty. And our workers and peasants must also be conscientious, do their own work well, produce as much food and weapons and equipment as possible, and work hard for the final victory in the anti-fascist war!
"In the new year, I hope that the whole party, the comrades of the whole army and all the people will guard against arrogance and rashness, be down-to-earth, and march from victory to victory, and when we look back at 1943 one day in the future, we can say without shame that we are living up to this era!
"Finally, from Yongzeng City, a city in the distant northwest border region of the motherland, I wish all our party and government functionaries, commanders and fighters of the troops, all ethnic minorities, the people of the whole country, and overseas Chinese at home and abroad to win new victories on all fronts. I wish us great victories in the anti-fascist war, in industry and agriculture, on the economic and financial fronts, and on the cultural front.
"Long live the Chinese nation! Long live the people! ”
An Yi's New Year's speech revealed to the outside world for the first time the reality of the West Asian War, the invincible German army suffered an unprecedented defeat, causing an uproar around the world, except for the parties concerned, the Allied and Axis political leaders and generals were skeptical, and the number of reporters who asked to visit the West Asian region suddenly increased, and people wanted to witness this almost mythical scene.
In view of this, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, and the General Political Department of the An Jiajun issued a joint document urging all reporters who need to cover news to register at the embassies of various countries or Chinese embassies abroad.
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At seven o'clock in the morning Gulf time, through the railways and roads, the German army had gathered the strength of the 12 armies of the Anjia Army, the air force was also in place, and a super-large-scale general offensive was about to be launched.
The 15th and 23rd Armies of the 15th and 23rd Armies, which had just arrived in the West Asian theater by train on 29 July, were deployed in the town of Aif, more than 100 kilometers south of Mosul, and they would cross the Selsal River from west to east and strike a brave blow at the German army, which was 120 kilometers wide from north to south and 200 kilometers long from east to west.
It rained lightly in the early morning of New Year's Day, and in the early morning the wind and rain stopped, and the dry soil and wild grasses on the front line were wet and swaying in the morning light.
In the cold wind, the vanguard of the 15th Army, waiting for the order to attack, waited quietly in the bunker, there was no laughter, no talking, only the sound of metal clashes when checking the guns.
Lieutenant General Qin Zhirong, commander of the 15th Group Army, and the personnel of the command headquarters looked at the watch on their wrists from time to time and looked at the enemy on the other side of the river, and the sandbags used by the German troops on the other side of the river to build fortifications and the machine guns erected on the sandbags were all clearly visible.
Two hours passed, at nine o'clock, two red signal flares were raised, the loud trumpet of the charge came, and the position of the Anjia Army was boiling in the sky in an instant, accompanied by the earth-shattering roar of artillery, and bursts of shouts of "forward-" from the throats of thousands of people, as if flying from the sky, and as if bursting from the ground, shaking people's hearts.
The fighters, armed with assault boats and rubber boats, rushed down the embankment to the slightly swollen river, threw the tools to cross the river into the water, and then jumped onto the boat and rowed forward bravely.
Suddenly, machine guns rang out on the opposite bank, flashes of orange-red fire flashed on sandbags, dense mortar shells fell on the river, and boats were overturned in the water.
At this time, the second group of soldiers rushed out of the trench with boats and boats, and rushed to the river with the same shouts, and another dense rain of bullets hit......
The bombers of the An Jiajun and the helicopters hovering in mid-air kept pouring bombs on the German positions, and the ** tank brigade belonging to the group army advanced to the shore and launched strikes at the German fire points on the opposite bank to suppress the enemy's arrogance.
The assault boats and hovercraft were getting closer and closer to the opposite shore, and finally, the first group of fighters had landed on the beach, and the follow-up troops rushed onto the beach and rushed towards the shore positions.
Helicopter gunships, like flying tanks, knock out all exposed fire points from top to bottom. The Germans finally couldn't bear it and began to retreat backwards, although the Germans in the rear organized a strong counterattack at the first time, but at this time, the engineer units of the Anjia Army had begun to build steel pontoon bridges with firmware, and at the same time, the troops crossing the river were strongly supported by the air force and army aviation units, and several counterattacks by the Germans were repulsed.
The battle was extremely brutal, and by three o'clock in the afternoon, the position on the west bank of the Sersal River was basically taken by the officers and soldiers of Anjia, and the battle developed in depth.
At nine o'clock in the evening of the same day, the defense line around Hader City was broken through by the 15th Army of the Anjia Army, and the ancient city of Hatra in the north of the city was successfully taken by the 43rd Division and advanced to the direction of the urban area in the south, and in the east of the city, the 44th Panzer Division and the tank brigade directly under the Group Army had taken the edge of the city, and in the southeast, the 45th Division was bypassing the city and preparing to attack the rear flank of the German army.
In this case, the commander of the 6th Army of the German 9th Army, Helmut. Admiral Forster finally understood the danger he found himself in, and while sending a messenger to the cluster command, he led his troops to withdraw from Hadr City and urgently retreat to the west.
The offensive of the 15th Army was only one component of the Anjia Army's huge offensive plan. In the east, west, north, and south directions of the German encirclement, the 12 armies of the Anjia Army, totaling 2 million troops, marched in unison and pounced on the German army with an absolutely superior force of more than 20,000 artillery pieces, more than 5,000 tanks, and more than 8,000 aircraft.
The German army was not a soft persimmon, taking advantage of all the terrain to resist stubbornly, often a position had to be fought for many times, the battle lasted for half a month, and the German army surrendered unconditionally on the night of the 15th.
During this period, the Anjia army used all new weapons, including cloud burst bombs, and after the German army was divided and surrounded, and each did not fight, the Anjia army adopted superior forces to carry out ~~--net. Update the starter~~ breakthrough, destroy the enemies in one encirclement and then attack the enemies in the next encirclement.
In the continuous battles, many heroes emerged, and many film and television works in later generations were taken from this.
The last battle took place in Hlesier, where the German army ran out of ammunition and ammunition under the commander of the Ninth Army, Adolf. Surrender under the leadership of Colonel-General Strauss.
The German army invested more than 1.5 million troops in this battle, and in the end 620,000 became prisoners, and the rest were reduced to the ghosts of terrible modern weapons of mass destruction.
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