Chapter 624 The rat enters the bellows, and both ends are gassed
July 11, 1943. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoSiberia.
The Japanese received information, and the Soviets began to attack the Germans. At the same time, the Japanese also received a notice from the Germans that they were required to attack the Soviets at the same time.
The Japanese army agreed to the demands of the Germans very happily. They knew that without the rapid destruction of the Soviet army, they would never be able to get out of their predicament.
The Japanese army took the Soviet army as the target of attack, and divided 200,000 people to approach the Soviet army. The remaining tens of thousands of troops were ready to hold back the Northeast coalition forces behind them.
The progress of the offensive was unexpectedly delayed by the plague.
The panic of the soldiers was contagious to the junior officers. The officers demanded that the troops take measures. At present, the entire Japanese army did not have much rations, there were not enough medicines, and there were many sick soldiers. Although the doctors said it wasn't the plague, the soldiers just didn't believe it. The actions of the troops were affected.
When the Germans learned the news, they were also helpless, but the decisive battle with the Soviet army was already difficult to take, and there was only a war.
The Soviets concentrated 300,000 regular troops, and 200,000 partisans launched an offensive against the most prominent force, the German army, with more than 200,000 troops.
Both sides had been preparing for a long time, and the battle finally broke out.
Although Hitler declared that the Soviet Union was gone, Stalin was still there, and the Soviet Union still had two million regular troops and millions of partisans. With the exception of a few cities, the vast majority of Central Asia was still in Soviet hands. The vast majority of the Urals, the vast majority of Siberia, were still in Soviet hands.
In the area from the Ural Mountains to Siberia, the territory was vast, the Germans could only occupy a few cities, and the puppet government had not yet been established. Many factories in the Soviet Union did not have time to move, so they went to the countryside, and they were still producing large quantities of munitions. Although the mechanized units could not be activated due to lack of fuel, the combat effectiveness of the infantry artillery was still strong.
In order to cope with this passive situation, the Soviet Union demanded that the guerrillas behind enemy lines intensify their activities.
The guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines had paid off in the past few months, and the long lines of communication of the German army had become sausages on the chopping block, and the partisans were like sharp knives, often cutting the lines of transport.
The German attack on Central Asia immediately slowed down.
The German army, like the Japanese army, melted like spring ice and snow, and a large number of German troops died every day, although there were no large-scale battles, the number of German dead was much larger than that of the Soviet army.
In response to the call of the Japanese army, a group of German troops went deep alone, along the railway, and attacked Siberia. Now that Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Omsk have been occupied, the vanguard is approaching Novosibirsk. At present, it was all up to the partisans to sabotage the railways and roads in order to delay the German offensive.
The Soviet Union had already gathered more than 300,000 people near Novosibirsk, with Germans on one side and Japanese on the other, and the situation was not very favorable.
Although the Soviet army had more troops than the guerrillas, the army was all infantry, and even the senior Soviet leaders did not have self-confidence, so they demanded that the Chinese army attack Japan with all their military strength, and even asked them to attack the German army after destroying the Japanese army.
After agreeing to the battle plan of the Northeast Coalition Army, the Soviet army mobilized all 300,000 troops and launched an attack on the German army.
The offensive took place at night, when the Soviets sent thousands of troops, secretly approached the German garrison, blew up German tanks with anti-tank grenades and recoilless guns, and fired at important Japanese targets with Katyusha rocket artillery. The Soviets spent almost all of their fuel in Siberia for this campaign, and the Katyusha rocket artillery also went to the offensive position.
Katyusha rocket launcher is the most famous weapon invented by the Soviet Union during World War II. This kind of rocket artillery, the originator of modern rocket artillery, has created a new class of offensive weapons. This weapon is similar to the German rocket principle, the difference is that the German rocket is large and has a long attack distance, while the rocket artillery is small and the attack range is similar to that of ordinary self-propelled guns.
The Soviet Union began to study in 1933, and the direction of research was only in the direction of anti-aircraft rockets, rockets carried by aircraft, jet engines, etc. MLRS was a successful product, with initial success in 1938. By 1939, the 16-tube 180-degree rotating sports car was successfully developed, and the technology finally matured. It was put into service on a large scale after the start of the Great Patriotic War.
Its eight slides, one on the top and one on the bottom, have a range of 8 to 9 kilometers and can be fired singlely, in a salvo, or continuously. Because it is mounted on a truck, it moves fast, because it can fire volleys, it is vigorous and ferocious, and it can drop a lot of firepower in a narrow range in a few seconds, covering an area of up to 8,000 square meters.
There are comments that one rocket car, equivalent to the firepower of eighteen self-propelled guns.
Initially, the name of this weapon was kept secret, it had a letter K on it, and the Soviets called it Katyusha. The Germans called it Stalin's organ.
After more than an hour of saturation bombing, almost half of the tanks on the front line were also blown up after paying the price. The flames of the explosion illuminated the German positions, and the burning tanks pointed the way for the Soviet offensive.
After the Soviet artillery fire stopped, the Germans also began to counterattack, because the Germans were in an offensive state and did not build positions, so they had to deploy along the railway and open fire on the attacking Soviet troops on all sides. The German fire was so heavy that the attacking partisans soon could not stand it, and several partisans retreated.
The Soviet Army's most mysterious combat overseers once again showed their might by immediately arresting the leaders of several retreating guerrilla detachments and shooting them on the spot. The machine guns were aimed at the retreating partisans, telling them to turn back and attack.
The guerrillas had no choice but to turn back and go on the offensive. The Germans had seen clearly these tactically unskilled teams and regarded them as the main targets, and the partisans fell in rows and rows.
After the battle lasted seven hours, it was dawn.
Immediately after dawn, the situation changed, and German planes flew over the battlefield and aimed at the Soviet bombing. At the same time, the remaining tanks of the German army were organized and launched a counter-charge against the Soviet troops. The Soviet troops, who did not have tanks, retreated back and drilled into the mountains and forests in accordance with the battle plan. After chasing for a while in the steppe fields, the tanks had just entered the forest when they were blown up by more than two dozen vehicles, so they had to retreat.
At night, the Soviets attacked again. This time the Soviet offensive gained experience and suffered fewer casualties, while the German casualties were as severe as yesterday.
In this way, the tug-of-war between the Soviet army and the German army began the war. The Germans were undersupplied because of logistical sabotage, and five days later, the Soviets got the weapons and ammunition transported by the Northeast Coalition Army, and the American guns went to the battlefield, and the offensive continued, while the Germans ran out of ammunition.
The Germans asked for help from the base camp in the west and demanded reinforcements from a large army, and demanded that the puppet army quickly get rid of the harassment of the guerrillas and move closer to the east. In the east, the Japanese army was required to attack westward and flank the Soviet troops.
At the same time, the Germans demanded that the Japanese troops quickly enter the battle. The Japanese told the Germans that their tail had been bitten by the Northeast Coalition and that the battle was difficult. In addition, the Soviet army was plagued, and its combat strength was greatly reduced, and it could not last, as long as it persisted, it was possible to defeat them.
July 13, 1943. Siberia.
The situation on the battlefield became clear, the Germans found out, and the Soviets attacked themselves with all the troops hit. At the same time, the Japanese also discovered that the Soviet troops on the opposite side were gone, and they retreated completely.
The Germans told the Japanese army that the blow to the Soviet army was going well now, and asked the Japanese army to enter the battle as soon as possible. The Japanese army gave up waiting and waited and prepared to make a desperate bet to flank the Soviet army to the west.
If the Soviets and the Japanese were to join forces, the political significance would be enormous, not only to boost the confidence of all Germans, but also to deal a heavy blow to the confidence of many resistance forces. It was a political battle, which is why the German and Japanese armies had to go deep alone. This is like why the German army, after the war with the Soviet army, did not wait for the Japanese army to cooperate, and relied on its own strength to defeat the German army.
A large number of Japanese troops were dispatched, and one car after another pulled their baggage and slowly drove to the bridge of the Yenisei River. After crossing the river, not far from the Soviet army. They left 40,000 or 50,000 men to block the Northeast Coalition Army, which was still far away from them, more than 20 kilometers.
The river was the front line of the Japanese and Soviet troops. At that time, the Soviet army did not blow up the bridge in order to block the Japanese army, the Japanese army attacked, the Soviet army retreated, and the Japanese army desperately kept the bridge in order to attack. In order to fight for the bridge, there were many skirmishes between the two sides, with countless casualties, until the plague broke out and the Soviet troops retreated, and the Japanese army took the bridge steadily.
At this moment, the rumble of airplanes was heard in the sky.
The Japanese recognized that some of the planes that flew were Japanese, some were Soviet, and even two German planes. The only one that could combine Japanese aircraft, Soviet aircraft, and German aircraft so perfectly was the Northeast Coalition Army.
Ten days ago, the Germans sent their air force to reinforce the Japanese army, and in accordance with the instructions of the Japanese telegraph, a formation of planes landed at a temporary airfield by the river. After landing, the Japanese troops at the temporary airfield suddenly turned into the Northeast Coalition Army, perfectly capturing the German aircraft formation.
Ever since the Northeast Coalition destroyed three airfields of the Japanese army by means of a sneak attack, the Japanese army has lost air superiority. In the past few days, the German army and the Soviet army have been fighting, and the Japanese army has completely lost air supremacy.
Just as the Japanese army was reacting, the plane had already reached their heads. After leaving the plane, the bomb dropped by the plane exploded rapidly, and thousands of small black dots were splashed down.
Today, the Japanese army has known about this devil-like bomb of the Northeast Coalition Army, and knows that this kind of bomb is not only powerful, but also very annoying, and some of the bombs that do not explode do not know when they will explode, which is more annoying and dangerous than mines and grenades. Japan's local military research institutes have begun to imitate it, but it is very unsuccessful because of the complex technology.
The Japanese troops quickly dispersed.
Bombs exploded in the ranks of Japanese troops on the roads and exploded on the ruins of the city.
The cars could not dodge, and after intensive carpet bombing, the cars were all blown up, and the fire soon broke out.
Hundreds of thousands of troops marched westward in groups, two bridges and one bridge full of people. Planes bombed, and these people had nowhere to hide. The small bombs that fall cannot destroy the bridge, not even the railings on the bridge, but they can kill people. After a round of explosions, the bridge was littered with dead bodies and wounded.
After the bombing lasted for more than twenty minutes, the plane flew away, and the Japanese troops immediately rushed to the road, and the army hurried to cross the river.
Soon, the plane came again. This time, only six planes came, two on each bridge, and they bombed the Japanese troops on the bridge repeatedly, and all that was dropped was the kind of small bombs. The bridgeheads on both sides were the focus of the bombing.