Chapter 306: Counterattack
General Brucher's eyes were red, and he stared at the metal planes wreaking havoc in the sky.
In the sky, beautiful fighters bathed in golden sunlight with a dazzling beauty luster, whistling and drawing beautiful arcs in the sky, using the machine guns and bombs they carry to bring the greeting of death to this otherwise peaceful city!
General Brucher, whose brows were tightly locked, felt a deep sense of powerlessness for no apparent reason. His hands were clenched together, and his finger bones were clenched white. The general knew very well in his heart that the Far Eastern Special Army Group simply did not have special anti-aircraft weapons!
The city's only air defense is those grandfather planes on suburban airfields. It's just that, except for a dozen fighters that have been shot down, the rest of the planes were buried in a violent explosion and a ferocious sea of fire along with the airport!
It's really shocking, the original poor and white semi-colonial neighbor is now so powerful? That kind of all-metal monoplane does not even have the capitalist vampires of Britain, France, and the United States!
"How is that possible?" These were the words that General Bryucher had been whispering all morning. The air power of the entire Far Eastern Special Army was almost completely destroyed in a matter of hours! Now they can only fight bombs with their bodies.
The self-confidence, which was still extremely strong before the war, was stabbed a few times by the battle situation within a few hours, and he also stepped on a few kicks. Thinking that he had actually formulated a combat plan to counterattack and attack the neighbor's house, General Bryuhel couldn't help but put a self-deprecating wry smile on the corner of his mouth.
"What a fool."
After destroying all the enemy's air power, the fighter formation in the sky began to launch an air attack on the city where the enemy headquarters was located.
As for anti-aircraft fire on the ground, it's just that some erected heavy machine guns can do what damage to advanced metal fighters?
"Sir, this battle is too easy. I really didn't expect my first result to be so easy to get. The pilot of an F4 Wildcat fighter with the number 0127 laughed loudly in the shortwave communication channel.
The commander of this attack wave, Major Li Tianyu, lowered his eyelids slightly, picked up the walkie-talkie and said in a deep voice, "Don't be complacent! If it weren't for the performance of our fighters, completely throw the enemy a few streets. I don't know what the road will look like! ”
There was an instant silence in the communication channel.
"The enemy's courageous fighting spirit is worthy of admiration and learning. Just now they wanted to hit us directly, this is the highest embodiment of the courage of soldiers! If it weren't for the slow speed of their planes, then the first battle damage of our air force would have come from our formation! Li Tianyu said in a cold voice.
"And." Li Tianyu looked at the city below that was filled with gunsmoke and screeching sirens, and shouted very dissatisfiedly on the communication radio, "How did you graduate from the Air Force Training School?" Who taught you to play in circles next to enemy planes? This is the battlefield! What can you do? Well!? Or the first to fall into battle? If it weren't for the speed of your kid's plane, you'd have been knocked down just now! Go back and write me a 10,000-word review! If you don't reflect deeply, give me a roll back to school and continue to study! ”
"Yes, sir." A low, feeble voice came from the channel.
"Young man, it's worrying. This is a battlefield, a battlefield where life is a stake! Not an amusement park! A rookie is a rookie. After teaching the rookie who was too excited, Li Tianyu shook his head slightly. He whispered.
A swarm of warplanes in the sky strikes at any seemingly worthwhile target in the city. Even the fighters launched a dive straf. Those weak counterattacks on the ground can be completely ignored.
In the headquarters of the Special Army, the nervous-looking operational staff officer came to General Brucher, who was standing by the window, with a telegram, looking hesitant and afraid to speak.
Since the news of the start of the war came, the battle reports from the front line flew like snowflakes to the headquarters.
After the desperately brutal artillery fire was over, a large number of enemy troops, under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, and with the support of dense fighters in the sky, rushed to the bombed and messy position in a large number of various vehicles!
Breakthrough across the board! In a very short time, the defensive line that General Brücher had spent months carefully deploying was broken through on all fronts! The front-line troops suffered heavy losses! Even the retreat of the front-line troops, who are super mobile, has become a luxury.
He was distinguished by his exploits and was known as the king of defense. The 51st Infantry Division, which had achieved great feats in the Civil War, was severely damaged! Two hours after the enemy attacked on the opposite side, the ace force, on which General Brücher had placed high hopes, collapsed on all fronts.
The 51st Division, defending its position on the first line of Shuangchengzi, was subjected to brutal shelling that lasted for several hours. Tens of thousands of large-caliber shells completely destroyed the division's positions, and by the time enemy armored units rushed up, the remaining soldiers put up the last desperate resistance.
There are no advanced anti-tank weapons. The 51st Division, which could only rely on a small number of anti-tank guns and brave soldiers carrying explosives packs to carry out a decisive assault, failed to continue to defend their honor. Thousands of officers and soldiers were killed, wounded, and captured. The battle line was broken with a single blow!
The enemy's high-speed troops are approaching Shuangchengzi! Further on is Vladivostok!
With the exception of a few old biplanes left in Khabarovsk, all of the air power in General Bryucher's hands has been destroyed. It's just a few hours!
This is not just a gap in weapons and equipment, the enemy can accurately find the target. But I don't know anything on my side! The gap in intelligence is even more deadly!
The Far Eastern Special Army, which seriously lacked air defense, could only watch as the whistling eagles wreaked havoc on their heads, but there was nothing they could do.
The exhausted General Bryuhel let out a long sigh and turned to look at the young staff officer. whispered, "Where was it broken through?" ”
The young staff officer trembled his pale lips slightly, and opened his mouth slightly to say something, but in the end he couldn't say it. Just shook his hand and handed the telegram to the general.
Picking up the telegram and looking at it for the first time, General Brücher's pipe fell to the ground. Mado's eyes were wide open, and his face was full of disbelief.
"On the line from Chita to Irkutsk, a number of railway bridges were blown up by enemy aircraft! Trans-Siberian iron traffic is cut off! ”
"It's over." As soon as General Bryuhel's hand loosened, the heavy telegram fell gently to the ground. The supply lines and retreat routes of hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Special Army of the Far East were cut off!
Twin Cities Front. The Vladivostok assault cluster that was pushed along the Suifen River advanced to a place less than ten kilometers away from Shuangchengzi at noon in only a few hours under the cover of strong force!
Garrisoned by the Twin Cities was the 35th Infantry Division, which General Bryuhel had transferred from the central region. After receiving the order to start the battle, the officers and men of the 35th Infantry Division, who had just begun to enter the position, were surprised to find that only a few hours later, the enemy was already under their noses!
"Did they fly over? What are the troops on the front line doing? ”
At the forefront were the reserves of the 1st Division of the 14th Mechanized Infantry Division and the 6th Panzer Division. They were the striker positions that had been grabbed after the first wave of attacking forces that were still cleaning up the battlefield.
The speed of the march of these troops, which were advancing entirely on wheels, was terrifying in those days. No army had ever marched at such a high speed as theirs, not even the Mongol light cavalry hundreds of years ago!
The special group army, which was still stuck in the combat capability of the First World War, simply could not keep up with the rhythm!
The troops of the mechanized march came to a stop a few kilometers in front of the defensive positions of the 35th Division. After a morning of combat marching, they also need to rest, eat lunch, replenish ammunition supplies, repair equipment, refuel vehicles, and wait for follow-up troops.
Yazov, the commander of the 35th Division, found that the enemy dared to rest his troops without scruples under his nose. Immediately ordered the troops to launch a counterattack.
After the 35th Division had only a few artillery pieces and a few rounds of artillery cover, more than 1,000 infantry and hundreds of Cossack cavalry shouted "Ula!" "Rushed to the station of the 14th Mechanized Infantry Division.
"He's NND, a bunch of madmen who don't want to die. Lao Tzu wants to eat a meal, and it doesn't make people feel stable. Colonel Zhang Changgong, commander of the 55th Mechanized Infantry Regiment under the 14th Mechanized Infantry Division and a cadet of the first phase of the Nanjing Army Military Academy, looked at the enemy troops in front of him in a dense formation, threw away the cigarette in his hand with hatred, and cursed.
"All ready to take on the enemy!" With Zhang Longbow's order, the officers and men of the 55th Mechanized Infantry Regiment quickly set up an improvised defensive line. Numerous MG42s were erected, long chains of bullets loaded, and cold muzzles pointed at the dense crowd in the distance.
"Boom!" A cannonball fell in a grove not far away with a sharp cry, stirring up a large amount of dust, and several tall pine trees 'creaked' to the ground.
Zhang Changgong frowned, and shouted to the communication soldier beside him, "Send a telegram to the Air Force and ask them to blow up all those small cannons on the opposite side!" Also, where are the artillerymen now? Why is it so slow? ”
Behind the brave and fearless, young and enthusiastic infantry of the 35th Division, a large wave of elite Cossack cavalry, brandishing sabers, began to gradually accelerate.
Hundreds of Cossack cavalry slowly detoured from the flanks of the infantry and charged towards the grove on the left flank of the 55th Mechanized Infantry Regiment. That place, the position of the reserve troops of the 6th Panzer Division!
"What do they want to do?" An armored captain wearing a large cap and a full beard stood on top of his chariot and asked suspiciously.
A young ensign standing beside him shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know, maybe I'm here to reconnoitre, right?" ”
The captain gave him a blank look and said, "You haven't fought a war as a veteran?" This is obviously the cavalry preparing to charge! ”
At this moment, their commander, the commander of the Reserve Armored Regiment of the 6th Armored Division, Colonel Yang Zhanqing, came to the front line and loudly ordered the troops to enter the battle line and prepare for battle! (To be continued......)