Chapter 2050: The City Burns with Fire
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At half past six o'clock in the morning of the 20th, when the whiteness of the fish's belly appeared in the sky to the east of the Jordan River, suddenly the brightness suddenly increased tenfold at the confluence of the sky below it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
If you are a person who has experienced the successive battles between the An Jiajun and the German army, you will know that this kind of alternative light is actually the fireworks phenomenon produced when a large number of artillery guns are fired, and the Chinese and foreign reporters who cover the war in the Middle East all use the cameras in their hands to faithfully record this thrilling scene, especially the war reporters who are allowed to enter the artillery positions, and they are extremely happy. In order to use a large number of shells and bombs to carry out a thorough purge of the entire West Bank, Lieutenant General Peng Wanjun, who was in charge of the offensive task on this front, concentrated all the artillery pieces of the First Tank Army, the 23rd Army, and the Jewish Division under his command together.
The two major armies, with a total of four heavy artillery brigades, plus two rocket artillery brigades and nine artillery regiments, totaling more than 2,000 artillery pieces, fired at the West Bank together.
This almost indiscriminate covered shelling, when viewed from the sky, looks like a super-large-scale directional blasting, and all the shells are not bombing everywhere in one go, but advancing forward in different areas, step by step.
From the sky, the entire defensive position of the German army in the West Bank was like a large Go chessboard, divided into several squares, starting from the eastern part of this chessboard, the shells of the Anjia Army almost covered the entire first layer of squares, and then advanced to the west one by one. The first novel is iron-clad
These shells are mixed with a large number of special shells with proximity fuses, as mentioned earlier, this kind of proximity shells are very insidious and shameless, when they explode two or three meters in the air, even the trenches cannot protect the soldiers hiding inside, and the rain of shrapnel shells that burst and sputter kills the soldiers hiding in the trenches almost instantaneously.
In the past, at the end of 44, the German army attacked the Allies in the Battle of the Bulge, and the American artillery used close-up shells for the first time in bad weather on 8 December.
Especially now, due to the skillful technology of the artillery of the Anjia Army, the cluster artillery bombardment has reached a very high level, and under the advance and crushing of this kind of firepower network composed of countless shells, any position that has been subjected to shelling has become a piece of ruins, and the suppressive barrage generated when the shells sprayed by various caliber artillery explode have made the troops of the German 30th Army and the Fourth Army of the French Eastern Crusade Corps, which are preparing to attack the Anjia Army head-on, have nothing to hide.
The Germans had no way to dodge, and in anticipation of the general offensive of the Anjia army in the next few days, most of the officers and men went into the trenches and stood by. In addition to the close-up shells, there were also several 130-mm rocket cloud bombs mixed in the shelling, and even if they were not shocked to death, they would be burned to death by incendiary bombs, or suffocated to death after the air was exhausted.
The artillery bombardment of this density gradually extended to the west, and behind the cluster artillery fire was some small and medium-caliber artillery and mortars, which finally suppressed the fire points that might have been missed.
In just half an hour, powerful tanks and armored units had begun to drive onto the pontoon bridges and launch a surprise attack on the West Bank.
By half past eight in the morning, after two hours of fighting, the Germans' painstakingly managed defense line on the Jordan River had collapsed, and the enemy retreated to the city of Jerusalem.
The fact that the German army had declared the indestructible area of the Jordan River in the media so quickly really greatly met the expectations of the European and American reporters who accompanied the army to cover the army, who followed the large army across the river and took pictures of the trenches one by one, but unfortunately there was not a single prisoner, and they did not understand how this trench tactic, which had been proven in the last European war and was still being used, could be deflated in the face of the attack of the Anjia army.
No one answered the reporters' questions, and the 1st Tank Army, the 23rd Army, and the Jewish Division, biting the Germans' butts, had been going west, nearly 30 kilometers, and by 12 o'clock at noon the forward troops had arrived, and the two sides exchanged fierce fire again on the edge of the city of Jerusalem.
The Germans deployed the 7th Panzer Division, the 20th Motorized Division, and more than 100,000 armed Arab soldiers to help defend the city.
The Arab soldiers had a bitter hatred for the Japanese who had repeatedly slaughtered their own tribes, and they did not have much affection for Japan's ally, Germany, but when they heard that there was a Jewish division in the ranks of the Anjia army, they immediately burst into strong national sentiment and enthusiastically joined the army, preparing to stop the advance of the Anjia army.
For siege warfare, the officers and soldiers of Anjia have long been psychologically prepared, and the armored infantry and infantry of other units engaged in the battle with the German army are basically the same in terms of equipment, but there is one difference, that is, in the load-bearing equipment of these soldiers, there are not a lot of ammunition for guns and bullets, the most conspicuous is those all kinds of grenades and grenades hanging on military uniforms, and even each soldier is carrying a 40 mm rocket launcher ammunition to provide ammunition for each squad equipped with bazooka hands.
After a brief standoff on the edge of the city, a heavy artillery brigade and a rocket artillery brigade rushed to another indiscriminate attack on the German lines, and the Germans had clearly learned the lesson of the morning and did not dare to deploy too many troops in the same area. Therefore, when the first round of shelling was completed, not many German corpses were left.
The siege was officially launched at half past one o'clock in the afternoon northwestern part of Zion Mountain, and under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, large numbers of armored infantry rushed into the city with billowing smoke.
"Attention, at eleven o'clock ahead, an enemy is spotted!"
Walking on the edge of the ruins after the artillery bombardment, the soldiers who searched carefully kept an eye out for the movements in the ruins.
One of the warriors noticed a man covered in sand and a man with a difficult face squirming a little under a broken wall.
As it was a full thirty meters away, they did not go over to inspect it, nor did they launch a tentative strafing fire, at which time the tanks and armored vehicles had already driven through the broken wall and were attacking in depth, and it seemed that the armored infantry could only solve it alone.
"Most of the Jews in the city were imprisoned in concentration camps, and there were no Chinese here, and this morning our air force dropped a large number of leaflets in English, Arabic and Hebrew on the city of Jerusalem to keep all civilians out of the fighting zone. Since these people are not leaving, they are our enemies! The first novel is iron-clad
"Xingping, come and clear the field with two grenades, pay attention to one of them behind the broken wall, be careful that there is a hidden fire point of the enemy!"
The squad leader, Sergeant Shan Hao, said as he observed carefully, and did not order any of the soldiers to come forward to check, and when he saw that there was no movement in front of him, he turned his head and gave a face-to-face lecture to a corporal.
Seeing that the corporal who received the order, without the slightest hesitation, he took out two grenades from his body, pulled the strings and threw them respectively, the two grenades accurately flew over a distance of more than 30 meters and fell near the suspicious area, and one of them flew out of an arc, directly over the broken wall, and fell to a place where the officers and soldiers behind the broken wall could not see.
"Boom oneβ"
Two violent explosions came one after another, and the grenade that landed in front of it blew a hole under the broken wall without any suspense, and a man in a submachine gun and a robe was instantly blown to pieces, and he died no longer dead.
The explosion effect of the grenade that fell behind the broken wall surprised everyone, because in the sound of the explosion, everyone clearly found that in the smoke and dust generated by the shock wave, the body of a militant wearing a white head was blown out, and while the smoke of the explosion was still steaming, there were faint painful moans and wails behind the broken wall.
"There is a situation! Two more! β
Seeing what was blown up behind the broken wall, Sergeant Shan Hao did not hesitate at all, and whispered an order to another corporal to make up the pitch.
This Jing corporal named Huang Lan did not hesitate at all, and the two grenades that had already been prepared in his hands were thrown out one after the other, and they landed precisely behind the broken wall like the grenades thrown by Corporal Xingping just now.
The explosions of the two grenades came one after another, which not only quickly put an end to the wailing and groaning, but also noticed that the explosions were not two but six, which was obviously a violent explosion of the grenade, which caused the opponent's grenade to detonate. The powerful shock wave generated by the continuous explosion completely knocked down the broken wall, and the scene behind it was suddenly revealed.
I saw that there were nine corpses lying there that had been blown up, each corpse was broken by the fragments of the grenade explosion, and the limbs that were blown off were scattered around, and two of the corpses were blown into two, and the intestines and stomachs flowed to the ground, it seems that two grenades hanging on the waist were caused to detonate, as for the other two detonated grenades, it is estimated that they were either placed on the ground or held in their hands before, and those flying flesh and blood and scattered gray robe and white cloth fragments were the result of comprehensive force.
"It's so dangerous, I almost gave these guys a yin!"
Corporal Xingping stepped forward with two soldiers and carefully examined the scene, and found a deep kiln against the wall below the corpse, which may be an important reason why these people escaped the shelling.
"Note that the whole class continued to search in a covering formation, with grenades and bazookas ready to be fired, and the Germans were mixed in with a large number of local armed mobs, who were probably in units of ten, one of whom lured the enemy, and the rest prepared to launch a suicide attack."
After the squad leader, Sergeant Shan Hao, gave a brief report to the company headquarters through the walkie-talkie, and then went on the road again, three of the soldiers put 40mm grenade launchers on the semi-automatic rifles in their hands.
"Whoosh-"
"Boom-"
The soldiers of the unit carried a large number of grenades and grenades, coupled with the advanced performance of the Type III 40 rocket launcher, and when they saw the wreckage of a threatening target, they did not say a word, first bombarded the past and then slowly searched.
If this does not destroy the opponent, call in a helicopter gunship, or summon a nearby tank or armored vehicle to come to support, and under such a powerful sweep, even a mouse will turn into flesh and blood under this sweep.
By 3 p.m., the battle had advanced to 4.5 kilometers to the southwestern foot of Mount Zion, the holy land for Jews and Arabs, and the fighting was becoming more and more fierce.
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