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Chapter 2027 Crushing Breakthrough

At the same time as the 2nd Airborne Division attacked Hasakah City, the 1st Airborne Division and the 3rd Airborne Division successively parachuted in and completed the assembly, and Lieutenant General Ling Xing's army headquarters arrived with the last batch of transport airships. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info--net.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, after learning that Hasakah had been successfully conquered, that the Second Airborne Division had left one regiment to welcome the arrival of the First and Third Airborne Corps, and that the division commander Colonel Zhao Zhengyang led two regiments and troops directly under the division to the north along the railway, Ling Xing immediately made a decision and personally led the First and Third Airborne Divisions to march from the southwest to the city of Kamisli, the logistics center of the German army on the northern front.

At a quarter past two o'clock in the afternoon, war clouds hung over the border fortified area 100 kilometers east of Qamishli.

The officers and men of the divisions of the 24th Group Army of the Anjia Army have already entered the front-line positions along the communication trenches and are ready to be put on standby.

The main commanders of the divisions and regiments stood in front of the periscopes of the bunkers and carefully observed the situation of the German defense line on the opposite side. Since the launch of the "Iron Hammer" plan, the Germans have drawn a large number of fresh troops from both flanks, replacing them with the second line or even the servant ** team, and they can attack twice at the beginning, but with the sharp increase in casualties, the Germans had to switch from offensive to defensive, and the battlefields on the northern and southern fronts have quieted down.

At this moment, the position of the German army on the opposite side was as quiet as a huge cemetery, and some buildings and bunkers that had been set ablaze by the dense bombardment of the Anjia Air Force in the morning were still emitting wisps of green smoke.

In the front-line positions of the Anjia Army, the commanders of each company are assigning tasks.

"Brethren, our company's target is the southernmost stretch of German trenches directly ahead...... When attacking, the group army will send tanks, armored vehicles and army aviation units to support, once it has occupied the enemy's position, do not rush to advance in depth...... We were in a critical position, we had to completely clear the trenches, anti-artillery and anti-aircraft bunkers, remove all the German soldiers inside, remove all suspicious explosives, and beware of the sudden northward movement of the German army on the southern front. We will be firmly nailed there until the alert order is lifted! Do you understand? ”

In a section of the trench in the south, near the German breakthrough gap, a young lieutenant with a small height and a bright face was using a high-pitched voice to remind the soldiers who were sorting out their equipment.

At this moment, a company of nearly 200 soldiers was automatically divided into two columns, crammed into a short section of trenches, most of the soldiers were armed with Type I automatic rifles and Type I submachine guns, each squad was equipped with a Type I general-purpose light machine gun and two rocket launchers, and the platoon was equipped with a flamethrower and two 50-mm mortars, and the heavy fire platoon directly under the company headquarters had four 60-mm mortars and six Type I general-purpose heavy machine guns, and could even call the air force for support if necessary. It has reached the strength of the US military during the Korean War in later generations.

The Type I general-purpose machine gun has a difference between light and heavy, in which the heavy machine gun is equipped with a heavy barrel that can ensure that the machine gun's fire power is longer and the firing range is longer, usually using a triangular adjustable bracket and a chain to feed the ammunition, in principle, a heavy machine gun fire team consists of three to four people.

The light machine guns are equipped with bipods that are easy to transfer quickly, and because of the small amount of ammunition carried by individual soldiers, they mainly use 75 round assault drums, and usually a light machine gun team consists of two members, the shooter and the loader, with the loader mainly carrying ammunition on his back.

Here is another addition to the information on the Type I submachine gun.

The Type I submachine gun is a single melee weapon with continuous and intensive firepower designed by Major General Tao Xun, the designer of the Zhongzheng Type II submachine gun, in early 39, and its design purpose is twofold:

1. The previously equipped Zhongzheng-2 submachine gun cannot use a 75-round round drum, and the rate of fire at the same time is only 650 rounds per minute, which is similar to the power of the submachine guns of the United States, Germany, and the Soviet Union in the same period, and cannot achieve the effect of fire suppression in combat; Second, it is officially distinguished from the Zhongzheng-II submachine gun that uses 9mm pistol cartridges, and is unified into 7.62mm caliber bullets, which can greatly reduce the logistical pressure. (--net.)

I submachine gun using 7.62mm pistol cartridge, the whole gun is divided into 81 parts, the production of a gun only takes six man-hours, except for a few parts such as the barrel, the rest of the parts are stamped by steel plates, in the production of guns a large number of welding and riveting process, except for the barrel parts can be in the automobile repair shop, mold factory or hardware factory and other places by unskilled labor using very simple equipment for production and processing, those skilled skilled workers can be put into other more sophisticated weapons production, This will greatly improve the production efficiency of Anjiajun's military industrial enterprises.

Like the Type I general-purpose machine gun and automatic rifle, the Type I submachine gun that looks extremely rough in appearance is solid and reliable, and can be used normally in severe cold and hot environments, with a total mass of 3.35 kg without magazines, 1.15 kg lighter than the Zhongzheng II submachine gun, 5.18 kg when equipped with 75 rounds of drums, and an increase in rate of fire to 950 rounds per minute, compared with the American Thompson submachine gun and the German P38 and P40 submachine guns, it has an absolute advantage in fire suppression.

After the preparations of the front-line assault troops were ready, the familiar roar of aircraft engines came from the sky behind the position, and the sky and the earth were almost full of humming.

Because of the continuous air battles in the past month or two, most of the veterans did not bother to turn their heads to look at the spectacle that they were accustomed to. Wave after wave of B2 bombers, escorted by various types of fighters and attack planes, swept through the low altitude, and they formed a triangular battle formation every three or six planes, usually carrying three types of high-explosive bombs of 500 kg, 250 kg, and 50 kg when attacking ground targets.

"Bang bang bang-"

On the opposite defensive line, the German anti-aircraft artillery roared desperately, blooming black clouds in the sky.

In the blue sky after the rain, there was not a single German combat aircraft sprayed with blue-green block camouflage, and the silver-gray painted by the Anjia Army fighters became the only domination of this sky.

Although in order to regain its inferiority and at the same time provide the necessary intelligence support for the army, the Luftwaffe quietly transferred four or five hundred fighters from Europe to the Middle East and deployed them to various places, but in the face of the absolute superiority of the Anjia Army air force group, the Luftwaffe could only choose to avoid the war, otherwise the blind dispatch would bury the fire of the Luftwaffe.

"Whew-"

The mournful and sharp whistling sound of the B2 bombers filled the ears, and the continuous violent explosions shook the earth, and the air waves set off five or six kilometers away in the west quickly swept across the empty battlefield, so that the officers and men in the trenches of the Anjia Army in the east could also feel the warmth, and thus we could see how fierce the bombing was.

As far as the officers and men of Anjia could see, the German defense line, which had been battered by continuous bombardment, looked more and more precarious and vulnerable after a new round of steel and flames! However, this was still not a good opportunity for the offensive, and after half an hour-long air raid and a 10-minute rest, the artillery group behind the front-line position of the Anjia Army suddenly launched a rapid artillery bombardment that lasted for a quarter of an hour.

In the textbooks of the German colonels, the bombing of aircraft is usually the prelude to the infantry offensive, and it is estimated that at this time the German commanders are letting their troops urgently enter the trenches and tunnels of the front line from the anti-aircraft artillery and air-raid shelters, so that the Germans will suffer very heavy losses in the sudden supplementary artillery bombardment of the Anjia army.

The quarter-hour 150-mm and 120-mm heavy artillery attacks were fleeting, and on the front-line positions of the Anjia Army in front of the fortresses, the rank and file lieutenants and non-commissioned officers loudly reminded the soldiers who had engaged in the first wave of the attack to prepare for the attack.

At the same time, the roar of engines came from the rear of the starting position, from the position of the passage between the fortresses.

Unlike the sound of an airplane engine coming from the air, it was mixed with the "creaking" sound of a lot of metal grinding and the sonorous sound of crushing the ground, while the volatile smell of diesel combustion wafted in the wind and spread across the front at a depth of five kilometers.

When the Tiger I, Leopard II tanks, Type III armored fighting vehicles, No. I assault guns, and Type I tank destroyers of the ** Heavy Tank Brigade, the Tank Destroyer Brigade, and the ** Heavy Tank Regiment directly under the theater and the various group armies crossed the trenches and drove quickly towards the defensive positions of the Germans in front, a loud military horn was finally heard on the entire front.

"Drip, drip, daz, daz, drip-"

"Rush!"

"For the sake of New China, move forward!"

On a front of nearly 100 kilometers in the northwest of the Lianghe River Valley, tens of thousands of Anjia Army infantry climbed ladders to rush out of the trenches, and they had the same desire to win as the people's army that fought in the south and the north in later generations and resisted foreign humiliation, the only difference was that their equipment was more advanced, with steel helmets with large ears, ammunition packs and gas masks suitable for field combat, automatic rifles that could stab and shoot continuously, and submachine guns with dense melee firepower.

The bazooka man carried the bazooka on his back and held a 0.85 kg Type I pistol with 7.62 caliber bullets in his hand, and quickly followed the large group forward. Except for the ammunition men who carried and carried the ammunition boxes, most of the grenades carried by other officers and men were inserted in the belts or boots, and the captains and non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level, holding I-style pistols or shell pistols, constantly waved their hands forward, beckoning the soldiers of their companies and squads to attack the tanks and armored vehicles.

"Boom, boom—"

The artillery of the Anjia Army continued to pour shells on the German positions, and the dense barrage continued to advance in depth, and the middle field of the confrontation positions between the two sides since the battle was already full of potholes, mixed with bloody soil, I don't know how many times it had been cultivated, and it was worse than the surface of the moon.

The mechanized army of the Anjia Army, forming a rolling steel frenzy, bravely pushed forward.

The more than 100 Tiger I tanks in front, with their thick armor, bounced off the 37 mm, 57 mm, and 75 mm anti-tank shells fired from the German positions one by one, unless they were bombarded by 88 mm or larger caliber anti-tank guns, the Tiger I tank could be said to be invincible.

More than 200 Leopard II tanks closely followed by the Tiger tank, the front armor of the turret reached 120 mm, and the front armor of the body reached 90 mm / 30 degrees angle, which also has a certain resistance to the German anti-tank guns, and the same 105 mm 55 times the diameter tank gun as the Tiger I tank, worthy of the name of "tank opener", for the German reinforced concrete fortress, bunkers, fortifications also have a strong destructive power, the German army has built a defensive line for more than a year, almost a cannon past, will open a gap.

Although the Leopard I tank withdrew from the ranks of the Anjia Army and became the main foreign trade model, its reliable chassis gave the No. I assault gun and the Type I tank destroyer strong mobility ability, 75 mm 43 times the diameter and 48 times the diameter of the two guns, for light and dark pillboxes, machine gun bunkers and anti-tank positions, still have a suppressive firepower advantage, mixed in the mechanized army of two models of more than 100 combat vehicles, will make up for the lack of tank firepower, give the Germans a fatal blow.

More than 200 Type III armored fighting vehicles, although the defense is thin, but in front of the infantry back and forth, capturing every fighter, their 20 mm cannons, against the German strong defensive fortress, but the ability to suppress the German infantry firepower, kill and injure exposed personnel is very strong.

The more than 400 Type II full-tracked armored personnel carriers lined up at the back of the steel behemoth not only allowed the armored infantry in the carriage to fully rest, but also the 12.7 mm high-level dual-purpose machine gun at the front of the vehicle constantly spewed tongues of fire, blocking the last loophole in the entire offensive formation.

Looking east from the position where the Germans were located, the boundless sea of tanks, the powerful visual impact made the morale of the German army and the servant team fall into a trough in an instant.

As a huge group of more than 600 fighters, attack planes, and bombers in the sky were in place, and more than 200 helicopter gunships also killed from low altitudes, the entire offensive could be described as flowing smoothly and seamlessly.

After combing the heavy artillery group of the Anjia Army and the advance investigation of the engineer units, the minefield laid by the Germans in advance in front of the position has basically lost its effect, and the surging Anjia Army attack troops directly advanced to three or four hundred meters in front of the German position without much hindrance.

In the silent trenches of the Germans, stubborn counterattack fire suddenly burst out, MG34 and MG42 light and heavy machine guns, making a piercing sound of tearing cloth, and the muzzle of the guns sprayed out a series of violent fire whips, sparking the front armor of the tank.

The Germans, with their anti-tank guns and recoilless guns of various calibers, fired from their hiding bunkers in a timely manner, while on the front-line positions, the bazookas obtained from the technology of the Anjia Army were also manipulating their officers and men who were fearless of death and suddenly stood up from the trenches and fired a desperate blow.

In addition, most of the German infantry took out anti-tank grenades, flamethrowers and Molotov cocktails, and the "Iron Fist" anti-tank grenade launcher with a range of only 60 meters independently developed by the Germans was also ready.

To a certain extent, the defense of the German army has given full play to the combat effectiveness of the existing personnel and weapons and equipment, but in the face of the three-dimensional attack of the An Jiajun, this resistance is very weak and powerless, almost a point of fire is exposed, and it is hit by several shells at the same time, whether it is a fortress or a bunker, it collapses in an instant, and those bazooka fighters, who have just stood up and have not had time to aim, have been torn to pieces by the dense rain of machine guns and machine gun shells, and the rockets that have not been fired have time to explode in the trenches. Bury the surrounding German officers and soldiers.

The most terrifying thing is the helicopter gunship, because it hovers in the air, the German army's every move in the trench is clearly visible, and the dense rocket rain sprays out, although only half of them are shot directly into the trench, but due to the limitation of the narrow space during the explosion, the shock wave of the explosion and the sputtered steel fragments are multiplied, and the German officers and soldiers are torn to pieces before they can scream.

The artillery positions in the rear of the German army had just completed their assembly, and the B2 bombers of the Anjia Air Force had already roared down, dropping dense aerial bombs on the heads of the German artillerymen, and in an instant a large area became a steel purgatory. Not to be outdone, the attack plane relied on the protection of the 57 mm high-strength bulletproof glass in the cockpit and the 15 mm thick nickel-molybdenum alloy armor plate installed in the fuselage, and unscrupulously circled at a low altitude of twenty or thirty meters, with two 37 mm guns in the nose and one 12.7 mm machine gun on the left and right wings, and smashed the tank and armored convoy that the German troops rescued in a roundabout way.

I have to say that this situation makes people feel that this is a desperate situation in which the Germans are making the final struggle for their own survival, but in the face of the disparity in strength, the resistance of the German army is so powerless.

"Boom-"

In front of the German position, a fire several meters high suddenly burst out, which was the effect of the Germans pouring a large amount of gasoline and unrefined oil into the anti-tank trench forty or fifty meters away in front of the front-line position, almost instantly, a sea of fire broke out at the front of the long battle line, but the bombers of the An Jiajun flew over and threw down heavy aerial bombs, with the sound of violent explosions one after another, a piece of anti-tank trenches collapsed instantly, and the collapsed sediment and earth and rocks quickly filled the fuel oil, It didn't take long for the fuel to be cut off from oxygen.

The tanks, assault guns, tank destroyers, and armored vehicles of the Anjia Army, with the momentum of the air in the air, crossed the anti-tank trenches and rushed into the positions of the German army, and a large number of armored infantry of the Anjia Army wearing gas masks quickly followed, and the sound of firing from Type I submachine guns and automatic rifles began to fill the trenches and tunnels that the Germans had painstakingly managed, and in some places on the long front, even brutal white-knuckle battles broke out.

Before sunset, the Anjia Army, which had the advantage of morale and equipment, quickly broke through the first-line positions of the German army, but the 24th Army of the Anjia Army, which was in the southernmost part of the battle line, did not immediately advance to the deep defense line of the German army, but stabilized its position and organized a defense on the spot.

In the central and northern parts of the front, the two tank armies of the Anjia Army, with a total of six tank divisions and four armored infantry divisions, became invincible steel arrows, and the air force provided uninterrupted air suppression, and in just three and a half hours, they mercilessly penetrated the three defense lines of the German army with a depth of 10 kilometers.

Subsequently, the officers and men of the six divisions of the 18th and 30th Group Armies and their directly subordinate units swarmed up and rapidly expanded the breach, which was originally only 6 kilometers wide, to 25 kilometers.

At half past six in the evening, before nightfall, the news that the city of Kamisli behind the German line had been successfully captured by the sudden attack of the First Airborne Army reached the command of the former enemy, and the more than 400,000 tons of war materiel that the Germans had hoarded in the city of Kamisli had unknowingly changed owners.

Under these circumstances, Yang Jiuxiao, the commander-in-chief of the former enemy on the northern front, decisively changed his formation, and the powerful tank group was divided into two, with the First Tank Army remaining behind, and the 18th, 24th, and 30th Group Armies and the troops directly under the theater of operations, to make every effort to encircle and annihilate more than 300,000 German troops who were divided and encircled.

The Second Tank Army and the armored units directly under the theater and group armies marched directly to the city of Hasakah in the southwest without making any stops, and after joining up with the Second and Third Airborne Armies that had been airlifted in place, they continued to kill the city of Deir ez-Zor in the south along the railway and highway lines, completely muddying the situation of the war.

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