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Chapter 2016: Armageddon (5)

The front headquarters of the 56th Motorized Army of the German Army was located in an underground bunker seven kilometers away from the front-line position, and the dense electronic signals here had attracted the attention of the intelligence department of the Anjia Army, so after the counterattack was launched, six B2 bombers came to the sky above the ground and dropped tons of bombs here. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Erhard, who was on the phone to contact the front line. Lieutenant General Law, amid the frightened screams of the guards and staff officers, hurriedly threw down the microphone and ran towards the trenches outside, but at this time, several 500-kilogram or even 1,000-kilogram aerial bombs exploded directly on the roof of the headquarters, and the continuous and violent explosions came one after another, and the roof reinforced by steel bars, logs and earth completely collapsed. All the personnel of the command, including Lieutenant General Law, were all crushed under the mud and rocks, and their lives and deaths were unknown!

The entire German front was faced with almost the same situation, and all suspicious places that had received radio waves were under the monitoring of satellites and high-altitude airship radars, and without exception were taken care of by the fighters of the Anjia Army, and the command headquarters of the army, division, and regiment were destroyed in an instant, and the entire command system collapsed.

In the south, the 46th Panzer Corps, after the attack on the army headquarters, almost all of the defensive line was attacked with the heaviest attack since the start of the fighting on the Western Front.

In the previous successive offsets, the army had already lost about a third of its tanks and armored vehicles, and now it was under the heavy care of the Anjia army's air force and artillery group, and the overwhelming grenades and rockets swept through like a strong wind, and the German defense line fell silent.

In fact, there is no need for such a fierce artillery bombardment at this time, most of the German tanks, artillery and anti-aircraft guns are suppressed by the air force with absolute superiority of the Anjia Army, and they are wiped out, and even intimidated by the great reputation of several SS divisions, the second armored group of the Anjia Army attacking the Germans on this line also has more "flying gunboats" sent by the Air Force and a squadron developed according to the AN6 transport aircraft to assist in the battle, various cannons from 20 mm to 57 mm and 105 mm anti-tank guns, Raining down from the sky, the Germans were covered with the densest and most difficult to defend fire.

The two major armies, one in the south and one in the north, marched forward with great triumph, and divided more than 2,000 tanks from the north and south flanks to the west at high speed to outflank them, while in the easterly direction, there were still more than 1,000 tanks covering countless armored combat vehicles, self-propelled artillery vehicles, and personnel carriers, constantly advancing forward and breaking through again, and the defensive lines hastily constructed by the German army fell one after another.

General Hoth, who led the 257th Infantry Division and the 100th Light Division of the 44th Army to sit in a town more than 40 kilometers behind the entire front, although radio communications were completely paralyzed and the temporary telephone lines were basically cut off by the bombing of the Anjia Air Force, he still had a rough judgment of the entire battlefield situation through the timely alarm of the messengers sent back by the front-line troops.

In the face of a sharp turn in the tide of battle, Admiral Holt sent people to the front line to convey the latest order to rein in the defense, while directing his troops to build a defensive line to meet the coming cruel test.

By 5 p.m. on the afternoon of the 21st, the tanks of the Anjia Army on the north and south flanks were in place, while the German frontal defense line had collapsed for thousands of miles, and the 56th Motorized Army and the 46th Panzer Corps, together with Hort's corps headquarters, were compressed into a radius of more than 20 square kilometers.

At seven o'clock in the evening, after the airdrop persuaded to surrender to no avail, the general attack of the An Jiajun army was quickly launched.

More than 3,000 tanks and the same number of armored fighting vehicles formed a terrifying sea of steel, and countless attack planes, bombers, gunboats, and helicopter gunships of the army aviation were in the sky to help the battle, and the defense line temporarily built by the German army was broken through one by one.

When approaching the core area, the resistance increased sharply, in addition to counterattacking with anti-tank guns, recoilless guns and bazookas, the Germans also sent daredevils to stop the advance of the tanks of the Anjia Army in the night with ** bags, Molotov cocktails, cluster grenades and blasters and other means imaginable, but the armored fighting vehicles and armored infantry that followed the tank attack broke the German army's attempt to hold to the death, and batch after batch of heroic and senseless Germans fell to the ground unwillingly.

The 75 mm and II 88 mm and 105 mm assault guns accompanying the tank attack, as well as the self-propelled howitzers of the Type I 75 mm, 88 mm, 105 mm and 120 mm calibers, constantly fired shells at the front of the attack queue, and continued to explode violently, destroying the confidence of the German officers and men in victory.

The night was getting thicker and thicker, and the tanks and armored vehicles were approaching from all directions in the wilderness, and the front lights were turned on, and in the dazzling light, the German soldiers saw the overwhelming dark shadows and felt so helpless!

It was not that these Germans were not brave, but the disadvantages they faced now could no longer be compensated for by bravery alone, with tanks and armored vehicles "rumbling" closer, and German officers and soldiers who returned fire fell in pieces in dense explosions and bullets.

By now, there was nothing left to shake the hearts of the Germans, and from the morning to now, they had repeatedly learned what a steel storm was - in the eyes of the German officers and soldiers, the Anjia army on the opposite side was like a cannonball that could never be used up, and the ammunition dropped in every range far exceeded the base required in the military textbooks of the German ** colonel.

The artillery tactics, originally created and carried forward by the Soviet army, were completely borrowed and embodied by the An Jiajun, and the direct consequence was that the German army, which had conquered Europe with a strong will and meticulous and perfect execution ability, collapsed on all fronts and increased the number of surrenderers.

The final battle took place near the town where the headquarters of the Eastern Front Corps was located, where the German officers and soldiers lost more than a third after the first round of artillery fire preparation at two o'clock in the morning, although the shelling of the Anjia army was not long, but the density of units was frighteningly high, howitzers, cannons, mortars and rocket artillery, plus the shelling of tanks, it can be described as a thousand artillery fires, and in less than a quarter of an hour, many of the surviving German soldiers were frightened crazy by great fear, they held their heads hysterically and screamed, and their hands were desperately digging at the bottom of the trench, Trying to dig a pit and bury your head in it.

The endless sea of tanks was terrifying, and the armored personnel carriers that accompanied the tank attack could throw the infantry to the front line at the first time, and general-purpose machine guns, automatic rifles, bazookas and flamethrowers made any luck of the German army fail.

There have always been four cavalry divisions in the sequence of the West Asian Military Region of the Anjia Army, they are the best of the best on the basis of the eight cavalry divisions formed by Yang Jiuxiao in Mongolia in 38 years, the officers and soldiers come from the old department of Zhang Chengzhu, Suichare and Hebei and other places of skilled Han riders and Mongolian young people of all ethnic groups who have been inseparable from horses since birth, this army has participated in the battle into Afghanistan, Persia and the Lianghe region, although the role of cavalry has been seriously weakened after the regularization of the army, but it is the same as the Central Asian Military Region and the Mongolian Military Region, The West Asian Military Region has also retained the establishment of four cavalry divisions, which are mainly used for border defense and garrison tasks in northwestern Persia.

Today, the cavalry also joined the counterattack against the Germans, and if it was a normal day, the Germans would be happy to charge the cavalry of the Anjia Army to their positions, under the attack of MG34 and MG42 general-purpose machine guns and howitzers and mortar shells, the front of the position will soon be filled with Chinese corpses and dying horses, but now at the moment of the collapse of the entire defensive line, these cavalry are tantamount to death.

The valiant cavalry of the Anjia Army accelerated the horses under their crotches, and when they rushed into the German lines, the horses were at their highest speed. The brave and skilled riders no longer sat on the saddle, but on the stirrups, waving their swords and shouting the slogan "The cavalry of the Anjia Army advances", galloping forward without fear.

The Germans, who had lost their defenses, no longer cared about what position, they threw down their guns, turned around and ran, but where were the two legs faster than the four legs of the war horse? Then the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the snow swords were slashed down, and many German soldiers were cut in two before they could even scream.

The town where the German headquarters was located was now in ruins, the tanks approached and aimed at the civil engineering buildings that were still spewing flames, the cavalry scattered in squads to sweep the routed German troops in the wilderness, and the armored fighting vehicles also rushed back and forth on the battlefield, driving out and annihilating the remnants of the German army like chasing sheep, unless the other side raised their hands, what awaited them was a tragic fate.

At five o'clock in the morning, the infantry had basically taken control of the town, under the cover of tank guns and machine guns, clearing the buildings one by one, and at dawn in a collapsed underground headquarters, the body of Admiral Hult was found, and the German resistance was finally over, and all that remained was to clean up the battlefield.

General Yang Jiuxiao, who was in charge of the command of this line, left the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cavalry Divisions directly under the theater and the 25th Division and four guard divisions of the Ninth Army to contain and sort out the prisoners.

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The counterattack in the southeastern battlefield was mainly launched by two fronts.

Units of the 3rd Tank Group and 6 divisions and 9 tank brigades of the 7th, 8th, and 9th Armies attacked from the front line of Fehat and broke through from north to south, while the 4th Tank Group and six divisions and 12 tank brigades of the 28th and 29th armies attacked from the Samarra defensive line in northwestern Baghdad and broke through from south to north.

The battle began at 2 p.m. on the 21st, and in the first three hours of the offensive, under the cover of the air force and army aviation units, the offensive speed of the northern and southern fronts averaged 8 kilometers per hour, which is the speed achieved in the operation, and it shows how embarrassed the Germans were.

By midnight that night, the northern front of Baiyigi had been successfully conquered by our troops, and all the towns and villages thirty kilometers north of Samarra in the south had been recovered, and it was only a matter of time before the remnants of the German army in the wilderness were cleared.

Due to the all-round assault of the Anjia Army's multiple arrows in the north and south, a large number of German troops were divided and besieged in the wilderness, and along the railway line from Baiyiji to Samarra, the Anjia Army Air Force carried out fierce air raids on the German army, often killing and wounding hundreds of people with a single bomb.

Burning and abandoned tanks, armoured vehicles, cars and motorcycles were everywhere on several roads in the north-south direction, and the bodies of German soldiers could be seen densely packed on both sides of the Tigris River at any time.

At 10 o'clock on the morning of 22 July, the encircled German troops began to shrink their defenses from the north and south flanks to Tekrit, and in an area of more than 40 square kilometers, they were loaded into the three armies of the German First Panzer Group and the two armies of the Sixth Army, whose strength had been seriously weakened.

In the face of the continuous interspersed encirclement of the mechanized units of the Anjia Army, the German commanders believed that it was possible to resist for a longer time and wait for reinforcements only by firmly holding them together. However, the outcome of the battle was unexpected, and with the continuous progress of science and technology, the superiority of troops in a certain area was no longer enough to rely on it.

At 12 o'clock at noon on the 23rd, after three successive attempts to persuade him to surrender to no avail, General Ye Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the front, asked Yin Jinan for instructions and decisively dispatched air force units to drop thousands of No. 1 cloudburst bombs and more than 100 No. 2 cloudburst bombs on the defense line held by the German army.

The No. I cloudburst bomb has been introduced before, so I won't repeat it here, the No. II cloudburst bomb is a new model developed in May this year, the difference with the No. I is that it is not oil or other fuel, or even liquid, but special thermite dust, each No. II cloudburst bomb weighs five tons, only B-4A, B-5 and B-4S three four-engine heavy bombers and B-7 six-engine bombers developed according to the Yii transport aircraft can be installed, the effective killing radius is 150 meters, When it explodes, a huge mushroom cloud is created, and a cloud burst will burn all the oxygen in the vicinity, creating a unique area of low pressure that takes three or four minutes or more to replenish in the absence of wind.

Whether it is a Type I or Type II cloudburst bomb, its main means of attack is to carry out mass destruction through a high temperature of thousands of degrees in a short period of time and a shock wave pressure front, and the temperature and shock wave are pervasive and can even bend, and its power and penetration are much higher than that of artillery shells or aerial bombs.

For example, the shrapnel of a 1,000-kilogram aerial bomb can still be lethal at a distance of 100 to 150 meters in an open area, but if the target is hiding in a trench, it will generally be fine unless it falls within 10 meters. On the other hand, a one-ton Type I cloudburst bomb with a radius of 100 meters in an open area, even if the target is hiding in a trench, has a kill radius of about 60 to 80 meters, and if it explodes in a cave or tunnel, the frontal killing distance of the cloudburst bomb will not only not decrease, but will increase dramatically, because the shock wave energy is concentrated in several specific directions and is invisibly amplified.

In the open area of the lethality of the general bomb and the cloudburst bomb, used in the trench fortification area, the killing radius of both sides immediately becomes six to eight times, and the killing area is the square of the radius, that is, thirty-six to sixty-four times, this is the greatest value of the cloudburst bomb, in the previous attack on the Far East and Northeast fortresses and fortresses, the large-scale use of the I type cloudburst bomb, achieved unimaginable results.

As the I-type cloudburst bombs fell, the German defenses melted like glaciers in the heat. Then a four- or six-round heavy bomber flew over and dropped a radio-controlled Type II cloudburst bomb on the German defense line that might have been the headquarters, and instantly a fireball and mushroom cloud up to 100 meters high would rise, killing all humans within a radius of more than 100 meters, and in just a quarter of an hour, a large number of tanks, armored vehicles and infantry of the Anjia Army would advance under this spectacular sight and high morale.

And the corresponding is the morale of the German officers and soldiers collapsed instantly, the biggest effect of this new type of cloud burst bomb is to frighten, the German army inevitably fell into great chaos, no matter how strong the person, in the face of this kind of combat methods that can not be resisted by will or weapons, they can only choose to retreat, but they are soon drowned in the rolling torrent of the steel army of the Anjia army.

In the next two days, the Anjia Army Air Force continued to use cloudburst bombs, throwing a few Type I cloudburst bombs when encountering continuous trenches, and Type II cloudburst bombs in crowded places, in order to obtain the greatest destructive power, and at the same time let those super large mushroom clouds that went straight into the sky be seen by more German officers and soldiers, causing irresistible psychological pressure.

At 5 p.m. on the 26th, Ewald. Feng. Admiral Kleist, announcing his unconditional surrender in Turklitus, led the remaining more than 200,000 officers and soldiers to surrender to the troops under the command of General Ye Cheng, and in this short period of five days, the two major combat corps of the German army were completely annihilated, and Hitler's proud one million elite troops were buried forever in the area on the left bank of the Tigris River.

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