Chapter 420: Attack with a cannonball
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Considering himself unlucky, Claes ordered the maintenance vehicles to tow away the four lost tanks, and then set off to crush the third line of defense of the Soviet army a few kilometers away.
The layout of Timoshenko's defensive line is very orthodox on the surface, but in fact there is a difference, and the defensive line arranged by Timoshenko is completely composed of small circular fortifications.
Even if the German army broke through the Soviet defense, the ring fortifications that had not yet broken through on this front could still be held, so the order given by Timoshenko was to hold on to every inch of land, and any retreat without an order would be treated as a deserter.
Claes did not know what the third line of defense of the Soviet army was, and as Claes began to set out from the attack position, he asked for air and artillery support.
This is also adhering to the meaning of Commander-in-Chief Guderian, it is necessary to use the most fierce bombardment to destroy everything suspected of being Soviet anti-tank guns, and artillery fire is of course inevitable, Claes does not want to encounter being attacked by Soviet anti-tank guns.
The third line of fortifications of the Soviet army is much more complete than the first two, all of which are composed of countless ring fortifications, one after another, layer upon layer, and the entire defense line is composed of three layers of ring fortifications stacked together.
The Soviet army has 2.8 million troops in the entire Petrovsk, and it is fully capable of arranging such a defensive line, and as for their armament, Claes has now roughly mastered it.
"Buzz...... Buzz ......"
Claes's request was quickly answered, and more than 100 planes of various kinds flew over Claes's armored assault group, and now the air superiority of the German army in Germany is not something that the Soviet Air Force can break, and the strength of the Soviet Union in the future is the sea of tanks, and the current Soviet army can only be beaten.
As for how the Air Force fights, it is not Claes's turn to speak, and Claes's hand will not stretch out so long, anyway, Claes is emphasizing, asking the brothers of the Air Force to look carefully in the air, as long as it is found to be a bit like a cannon, or a fortification that can hide a cannon, all of them will be blown up, and the Luftwaffe will have the strength to meet Claes's requirements.
Throughout the Petrovsk region, Guderian mobilized most of the aircraft of the two air armies of Army Group South to participate in the battle, and the total number of aircraft was about two thousand.
There were about 700 planes defending Stalingrad, 2,700 planes of Army Group South were allocated, and 70 percent of the planes took part in the Battle of Petrovsk.
"Buzz...... Woowoo...... Boom ......" German planes raged on the Soviet positions, and countless bombs poured down on the Soviet positions, and puffs of gunpowder rose from the Soviet positions from time to time, and all kinds of artillery and fortifications on the Soviet positions were scattered under another heavy bombardment by the Luftwaffe.
Sitting in the tank, Claes felt a violent tremble, and the minimum number of bombs carried by these planes was 250 kilograms, even the fighters were no exception.
All the Soviet airfields in Petrovsk and Kharkov were bombed by Germany, and it was impossible for the Soviet troops to sneak into the skies over Petrovsk when there were planes, and even if Soviet planes came to sneak attack, German fighters could throw away their bombs to meet the enemy.
"BF109" can carry two 500-kilogram aerial bombs, of course, the bombing accuracy of "BF109" is not high, but "BF109" only needs to drop this 500-kilogram aerial bomb within 100 meters of the target.
With such a heavy bomb, the power is absolutely terrifying, and people within 150 meters will definitely be shocked to death, and lying down cannot be avoided.
If the BF109 wanted to blow up the Soviet artillery, it needed to be thrown within fifty meters of the Soviet artillery. It's not that the "BF109" bomb can't be accurate to 50 meters, but Amini requires all BF109 aircraft not to deliver bombs at low altitudes.
The low-flying "BF109" could also be shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire, and the Air Force commander did not want unnecessary losses of his aircraft.
German planes roared over the third line of defense of the Soviet army, and a large number of heavy aerial bombs smashed down on the hidden artillery or fortifications of the Soviet army.
The violent, powerful explosion was felt from several kilometers away, and Soviet anti-aircraft weapons of various calibers fired fiercely at German planes in the air without stopping.
It is impossible to have no war damage, the German planes that were hit, as long as they could barely fly, would fly the planes as far as possible to the side of the German attack, even if they crashed in the end, these pilots would not become prisoners of the Soviets, the planes were important, and good pilots were equally important.
"Woooooooooo......oo Buzzing...... Da Da ...... Boom"
The Soviet anti-aircraft fire and artillery are always the most priority targets for German aircraft, and the planes have a great advantage in attacking stationary targets on the ground, and the Soviet army's air defense weapons are absolutely heavy losses in this air raid, and of course the German planes also paid the price, five planes were shot down and more than a dozen planes were damaged.
This was only the first wave of air strikes, and at this time the German armored assault group was still a few kilometers away, and the second wave of air attack groups of German aircraft began to fly over the head of Claes.
It was time for the first wave of air raid planes to return home, and when the enemy's anti-aircraft weapons were not completely destroyed, the German air force forbade its own planes to strafe at ultra-low altitudes, and left after dropping bombs.
After the Soviet anti-aircraft weapons were destroyed and there was not much power to fight back, the German planes could strafe at ultra-low altitudes, and now it is better to continue to drop heavy aerial bombs!
Claes leaned against the top window of the tank, looked at the flying planes, and couldn't help but laugh and scold:
"The **** air force, it's really good enough, it's righteous enough, after this battle, Lao Tzu invites you to drink, hehe."
As soon as the air force returned, the German artillery coverage came again, and more than 1,500 heavy artillery pieces bombed the same area at the same time, and 300 six-barreled rocket launchers were added, and the momentum was absolutely earth-shattering.
Every shell exploded, carrying with it the smoke of earth and gunpowder, and of course some human stumps, when this explosion continued, the Soviet positions were like a sandstorm.
Ten minutes later, the German artillery fire began to extend, the German tanks began to advance with the artillery fire, and the remaining Soviet troops in the trenches had a chance to drill out of the anti-artillery holes, and the German tanks, armored vehicles and infantry came up, and the remaining Soviet troops did not even have the strength to fight back, so they went to see Marx. (To be continued.) )