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Chapter 1514 Victory - Asymmetrical Contest!

The Soviet troops stationed on the front line of Semipaldinsk consisted of three infantry divisions that were not fully staffed, a cavalry division that was seriously short of war horses, plus a separate tank battalion armed with only twelve tanks and twenty-one armored vehicles. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In advance, the Soviet army not only got the news that the Anjia Army was about to enter Kazakhstan and launch a large-scale attack on the Soviet army, but also made the Anjia army's assault line clear, especially for the mechanized troops of the Anjia army, in an area with a diameter of two kilometers, arranged five blocking lines, trying to give the Chinese a dismount.

However, whether it was the commander of the Soviet army or an ordinary soldier, he never expected that he had not yet ushered in the attack of the ground forces of the Anjia Army, but he had suffered the baptism of the Anjia Army Air Force first.

After receiving detailed information about the Anjia Army's participation in the war, Stalin did not believe that China, as an agricultural country, could arm large-scale mechanized troops, and was hesitant about who would decide the outcome of the future war between cavalry and tank armored forces, so he issued an ambiguous order: the invading enemy was mixed with a small number of tanks and armored vehicles, and the rest were all Chinese, hoping that the front-line soldiers would carry forward the Red Army's fearless spirit of sacrifice, defeat the invading enemy, and promote the myth of the Red Army's invincibility.

The Soviet army, which had withstood the test of suppression, quickly mobilized and carefully equipped artillery and anti-aircraft artillery positions in order to deal with the "limited number" of tanks and armored vehicles of the Anjia army, and prepared to let the Chinese taste the power and fight a beautiful war of annihilation, as the Soviet high command said.

But no one expected that the first to usher in was not the ground offensive troops, but the relentless bombardment of the Anjia Army Air Force, the entire front was riddled with holes, almost all the artillery and anti-aircraft guns were lost, the armored vehicles were all reimbursed, and thousands of war horses were also covered by ruthless aerial bombs, with heavy casualties, and the war horses that survived were frightened, or broke free from the reins, or knocked over the fence, and fled in all directions.

The officers of the Soviet army who had just been promoted and had not yet been tested in large-scale combat were panicked one by one, but the internal affairs commissioners stationed in the Cheka troops and the combat supervision teams composed of the internal affairs troops were scattered in various units, and they were so murderous and eyeing each other that no one dared to speak lightly of defeat, otherwise no matter how high your official position is, the internal affairs commissioners have the right to cut off the first and then play the role.

At this time, political commissars at all levels of the Soviet army, holding horns, did not pay any attention to the B2 bombers whistling overhead, and carried out propaganda and agitation against the Red Army soldiers whose confidence was seriously shaken, calling on everyone to fight for the defense of the Soviets. Witnessing the deserters being mercilessly shot by the overseers organized by the Internal Affairs Committee, the Soviet troops, from officers to soldiers, all hardened their heads and nailed them to the front line like nails, waiting for the arrival of the mechanized troops of the Anjia Army.

The air raids continued, and amid the roar of the "rumbling" motors, the ground forces of the Anjia Army finally appeared.

The commanders of the brigades and battalions of the First Mechanized Corps could already see the Soviet positions in front of them through the periscope, and the First Tank Brigade under the command of Colonel Su Peili took the lead. The armored personnel carriers of the mechanized infantry brigade led by Colonel Wang Zheng closely followed the tank troops, relying on the strong breakthrough ability of the tanks to advance rapidly, and after breaking through the positions of the Soviet troops, they were interspersed with encirclement, dividing and destroying the opponent.

The sporadic blocking artillery fire clearly and unmistakably told the officers and men of the mechanized unit of the Anjia Army that the officers and men of the Air Force carried out the bombing mission perfectly.

In the rear of the entire armored forces, Xiao Wu ordered the artillery brigade directly under his command to carry out a high-intensity extended artillery bombardment of the Soviet positions five minutes before the vanguard troops entered the Soviet positions. He insisted in a strong manner that every soldier's life is precious, and that every large-scale attack must be preceded by high-intensity artillery bombardment to reduce the attrition of tanks, armored fighting vehicles, and officers and men.

According to the operational principles formulated by An Yi, war is to use any means to strike the opponent, if it is not necessary, soldiers cannot be consumed in vain, you must know that weapons and ammunition can be produced, but once human life is lost, it can never be recovered. In a war, soldiers are naturally expendable, but as a commander, it is necessary to reduce the consumption of soldiers to a minimum. This is not to say that An Jiajun is afraid of attrition, if necessary, An Jiajun will also swear to move forward and fight to the death, but when the overall situation has been decided, there is obviously no need to add unnecessary consumption.

Although it is not possible to talk about firing 10,000 artillery at once, the firepower of the artillery brigade of the mechanized unit of the Anjia Army is far from being as simple as ordinary people imagine. The artillery brigade directly under the command of the armored group has three artillery regiments, each of which has the following units: an artillery command reconnaissance company (4 light artillery school firing aircraft), a self-propelled rocket artillery battalion (12 I-type 24-barreled 150mm rocket launchers), a motorized heavy howitzer battalion (12 self-propelled 150mm howitzers), two motorized light howitzer battalions (24 self-propelled 120mm howitzers), and the artillery of the three artillery regiments is assembled for a salvo, and the formation is still earth-shattering. The positions of the Soviet troops, which were already scarred, were once again severely damaged.

The artillery brigade has the most advanced measuring instruments, plus there are reports from the sky from the calibration planes dedicated to artillery reconnaissance, the first to be shelled by the Soviet troops are the hidden fire points in the forward positions that are not taken care of by the air force brothers, and then those possible hidden points, until the artillery commander thinks that the artillery fire can be extended forward, the artillery elevation angle is adjusted, and after a short pause, the roar of the artillery is heard again, this time the artillery carries out a regular extended shelling, under the shelling of rows and rows, It can ensure a large number of kills and wounds of Soviet soldiers hiding in trenches and bunkers.

Every collapsed ground can be understood as a Tibetan point that has been bombarded.

According to military regulations, when the enemy is shelling, the soldiers must go to the pre-dug anti-artillery holes, that is, in the bunkers, to wait for the end of the enemy shelling, and then enter the trenches to wait for the enemy's attack, and now these anti-artillery holes have become the graves where Soviet soldiers are buried. The dirt on the ground of the collapsed fortifications was covered with strange clotted clumps and rags, the only thing left in the world by the Soviet soldiers who had been killed by shelling. Covered by such intense artillery fire, the soldiers are absolutely dead, and if they are directly hit by the shells, they will not be able to retain even a piece of flesh, and their human bodies will be shattered by bombs and rockets, and then vaporized and scattered by air waves.

The war is cold-blooded and cruel, the Soviet soldiers who survived the shelling lost their sense of hearing in a short period of time, and some even bled from their mouths and noses, temporarily losing their ability to move, many Soviet soldiers who were hiding in the bunkers were not directly hit by the shells, but the powerful impact and shock wave generated by the moment of the bomb explosion, if the mouth was not opened in time, the internal organs of the human body would be injured by the wave, and there was a considerable chance of internal bleeding and death.

The observation points arranged outside were almost swept away by artillery, and it was not until the tank units of the Anjia Army approached the first line of defense of the Soviet army that the Soviet troops hiding in the anti-artillery holes realized that the enemy was so close to them.

The commissars of the Soviet army shouted and blew their whistles, ordering the infantry to enter the trenches.

The Soviet soldiers who came out of the anti-artillery holes were so scarce, they were all in a trance, and they simply carried out the orders given by their superiors and entered the defensive line.

When they came to the position, the Soviet soldiers suddenly found that the M1905 and M1910 heavy machine guns, which were originally evenly erected on the position, had become piles of scrap metal, and under the orders of the officers and political commissars, and the various overseers set up the only M1905 and M1910 heavy machine guns in the rear, which were not used to kill the enemy, but to deal with deserters and Red Army officers and soldiers who responded passively, and the soldiers barely cheered up. Gather enough 7.62mm Tokarev Makqin light machine guns and prepare to slaughter the vanguard of the Anjia Army.

Since the Soviet army had already abolished the program for the modernization of Soviet armament formulated by Tukhachevsky and Yegorov, under the guidance of the theory of "cavalry victory" insisted on by Voroshilov and Budyonny, they strongly advocated that only a group cavalry attack would be the key force that would determine the outcome of the war. Although in the Armageddon at the end of last year, Budyonny was defeated, and the Subu Central Committee also realized that it would be difficult to repeat the scene of the civil war in the future war, and the theories of Tukhachevsky and Yegorov were very likely to be correct, so they began to quietly adjust the principles and policies of troop building, but at this time, most of the technical backbones of arsenals, aircraft factories and other factories were basically exiled to concentration camps in Siberia and the Far East. The old-fashioned tank design drawings can only be turned out and handed over to the major military factories for production and manufacturing, but due to the loss of technical backbones in the purge, the tanks and armored vehicles produced by various military factories are not even able to equip the military districts around Moscow, let alone the Soviet troops in Central Asia, so Moscow has not issued a special document to explain the situation, so as not to hit the morale of the troops.

Therefore, until this time, the Soviet officers and political commissars in Central Asia have always believed that the Chinese cannot have so many mechanized troops, those tanks and armored vehicles, just some planks or something disguised, is a non-lethal trick, they have stressed to the soldiers that behind those "toys" must be hidden a large number of Chinese cavalry, just like the Mongolian cavalry that has swept Asia and Europe in history, but everyone should not panic, just use Tokarev in their hands. Makqin light machine guns, as well as Mosin Nagant rifles for shooting. The conquest of Central Asia by Tsarist Russia in the last century proved that the role of cavalry would be greatly weakened in the face of absolute superior firepower.

At this time, the loud sound of shaking from the ground made the political commissars of the Soviet army feel that their judgment was not wrong.

As the 1st Tank Brigade led by Colonel Su Peili and the 2nd Tank Brigade led by Colonel Zheng Songjian appeared one after another, the tanks that could not be seen at a glance emitted a terrifying metallic light.

"Hit!"

Officers and political commissars of the Soviet army at all levels gave orders one after another, and then on the staggered positions, tongues of fire like sickles spat out and rolled up towards the tanks that pounced on the positions.

The horrific sea of metal created by the concentrated use of tanks and armored vehicles may seem creepy, but it reinforces the perception of Soviet officers and commissars that these must be fragile toys that are only used to scare people. You know, now even the heroic Soviet Red Army did not have so many tanks and armored vehicles, let alone the always cowardly Chinese in the impression.

(Note: The real data is that as of 1937, the Soviet Red Army was equipped with 30,684 artillery pieces, 2,802 tanks, 1,087 armored vehicles, 106 armored trains, 6,285 aircraft, and the Navy was equipped with 3 battleships, 4 cruisers, 40 destroyers, and 184 submarines.) Due to the division of the Far East, the time and space once led to the intensification of the Great Purge, and the data should be smaller than the historical data. Historically, it was not until 1939 that the Soviet Union carried out a great leap forward in military equipment, and a large number of scientists, engineers and skilled workers were released back to Moscow from the Gugra concentration camp and labor camps in various places, which greatly increased the industrial production capacity of the Soviet Union, and in 1939 alone, 2,794 tanks, 15,000 artillery pieces, and 10,137 aircraft were produced, laying the foundation for the subsequent victory in the Great Patriotic War. ）

Many Red Army units in Central Asia have entered the *** region and helped Sheng Shicai to unify *** to fight, in their minds, the squadron is completely vulnerable, as long as they resist their first wave of attacks, the subsequent battle will be simple.

The commanders and commissars of the Soviet army could not wait to see the scary camouflage smashed to pieces by bullets, and the soldiers pushing those toys turned into hornet's nests.

However, the reality was cruel, and the Soviet officers and commissars regarded them as useless toys, did not stop their advance, and continued to advance towards the trenches unscathed and unscathed, with sparks flashing from the surface of the tanks and bullets completely blocked by the armor.

At this time, the Soviet officers and political commissars were stunned, they had always believed in the orders issued by the Subu Central Committee, believed that the Chinese only had a small number of tanks and armored vehicles, and most of the rest were disguised by the Chinese to be scary. And what about the facts? While waiting for the black muzzles of the tanks and armored vehicles of the An Jiajun to emit strings of white smoke, many Soviet commanders and political commissars who were still thinking about it had been hit by artillery fire and then turned into mutilated corpses.

The Soviet soldiers, who had endured many years of Bolshevism, did not collapse because of this, they made senseless shooting movements, and after more and more Anjia tanks opened fire, the trenches were soon filled with broken corpses. Despite the terrible situation, the Soviet soldiers fighting on the front line did not think of surrendering or escaping, because the Commissar of Internal Affairs in the rear was keeping an eye on the overseers, and even the slightest slackness would be mercilessly shot by the M1905 and M1910 heavy machine guns.

"Ulla!"

Seeing that they would only sit and wait for death, the Soviet soldiers, led by the political commissars, bravely launched a counter-charge, they took individual weapons, climbed the trench, and charged forward frantically, the whole scene was spectacular.

However, manpower could not compete with steel after all, and the large groups of Soviet troops, before they could break through a hundred meters, were swept to the ground by the machine guns equipped with tanks. In particular, the distance of the last fifty meters has become a terrifying death line, and at least three or four thousand people fell on the way to the charge.

The entire breakthrough took more than an hour, and as the engineering units that caught up with them erected improvised bridges, the tank units successfully rushed through the trenches, tore through the defensive lines constructed by the Soviet troops, and then turned around and shelled the Soviet troops. The armored personnel carrier closely followed the tank, the door was wide open, and the infantry jumped into the Soviet trench and attacked the opponent from behind, and the Soviet army was successfully surrounded.

After a long period of fighting, nearly sixty percent of the Soviet army was wiped out, and all the Red Army commissars who led the troops to launch a surprise attack all died on the way to attack, and the overseers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs finally attracted the attention of the bomber groups hovering in the sky. It didn't take long for the internal affairs troops, whose hands were stained with the blood of their own people, to be wiped out with the cooperation of air and ground forces.

Without the threat from the Warlords, the front that the Soviet Army had worked so hard to support after being divided finally collapsed, and in the absence of contact between the troops and the coordinated operations, some Soviet officers who had already been frightened demanded conditional surrender.

After receiving an urgent report from the front, Xiao Wu promised to guarantee the safety of the lives of the surrendered Soviet prisoners, the ownership of their personal property, and the corresponding treatment from officers to soldiers, but they must be fully disarmed.

The Soviet army, which was responsible for the defense of the Semypaldinsk region, had long lost the courage to continue fighting under the coordination of the Anjia army, and if it were not for the instigation of the political commissars and the deterrence of the overseers, I am afraid that it would have collapsed long ago.

After receiving assurances, one of the division commanders who had been elected as a representative finally signed the instrument of surrender, and thus the battle for Semypaldinsk was officially over.

Subsequently, Xiao Wu sent a good news to the front headquarters, and at the same time ordered the large force to continue to advance, leaving a motorized infantry regiment to collect and guard the disarmed Soviet prisoners, and wait for the Far Eastern Army behind to receive and manage.

When Xiao Wu's command car passed by the Soviet army's hard-working defense line, through the bulletproof glass window, he saw the raging flames and steaming gunpowder smoke still burning on the position, and looked at the strange corpses of the Soviet soldiers who died in battle, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was saying to the adjutant and staff officers beside him: The Soviet Red Army is stronger than imagined, and the next battle will be even more cruel. In this contest of blood and fire, only the truly strong are having the last laugh.