Chapter 217: Air Raid on the Black Sea Fleet
Let the photographer take a few pictures of himself, showing that he was the first to occupy the municipal building of Niov. Flitz occupied Neoff, but Flitz made some losses to his troops because of his greed, and Flitz's various behaviors, I don't know how Zhang Jun will deal with it, waiting for Flitz to praise or punish, everything is still unknown.
Flitze's greed for merit was quickly reported to Zhang Jun, and it was indeed necessary to examine Flitze's handling of Zhang Jun, and it was absolutely undesirable not to deal with this kind of behavior of ignoring casualties and friendly forces advancing by leaps and bounds for the sake of merit, and Flitz must be dealt with as a typical example, otherwise if this situation occurs in the future, it is likely to put the troops in a desperate situation.
If the handling of Frieze is too heavy, Zhang Jun is afraid of damaging the enthusiasm of the front-line commanders, and this kind of greedy behavior must be dealt with, and the Soviet Union did not react in the early stage, but once the Soviet Union eases up in the later period, it will definitely be a very difficult war, and this kind of behavior of Flitz will put the troops in a catastrophic predicament.
After Zhang Jun's careful consideration, Flitz was demoted to the military rank, and he was directly pushed from the colonel to the end, and became a sergeant, which is equivalent to the rank of a squad leader, and the position is the acting regimental commander, that is to say, Flitz carries the rank of sergeant on his shoulders, and his actual military position is the acting regiment commander, or the command of his "Death Scythe" armored regiment.
This kind of treatment can be said to be heavy, and it is undoubtedly a huge blow to the Germans who regard honor as something, but Zhang Jun still gave Frieze a chance to make meritorious service and let him continue to command the "Death Scythe" armored regiment.
Flitz originally thought that he should have received an order for commendation, and he knew that he had received an order for demotion, which made the arrogant Frieze feel devastated, and he cried with the punishment letter, and began to think deeply about what he did badly, or did wrong, but fortunately, Frieze is not a foolish person, and can deeply reflect on himself.
Zhang Jun conquered the capital city of the Soviet border province in one day, and ordered the troops to rest well for the night, and at the same time do a good job in the maintenance of all kinds of vehicles, and tomorrow the troops will march to Volrog, which is 300 kilometers away. The Rommel experience has completed the encirclement of Odessa, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet anchored in the Odessa military port, was bombed indiscriminately by the German JU87 dive bombers, although the Black Sea Fleet has many ships, but without the support of the Air Force, it can only be passively beaten, and the Soviet Black Sea Fleet quickly withdrew from the port of Odessa after losing one-third of its ships.
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Rommel commanded 550,000 SS field troops in the southern section, broke through the three lines of defense of the Soviet army in half a day, and also captured many Soviet prisoners, because Odessa is more than 190 kilometers away from the German-Soviet border, Rommel can only rush to Odessa in one day, and surround it, it is impossible to launch an attack overnight, and Rommel is not the kind of reckless person.
Rommel had precise calculations about when to attack and when to rest, and absolutely did not exceed the physical limits of the soldiers. This is the best front-line commander, all kinds of factors will be taken into account, and Zhang Jun's tactical command can only be described as bad. As soon as Zhang Jun saw that the Soviet Union had lined up its troops, defended everywhere, and lacked strategic depth, he began to order his own armies to attack freely. Zhang Jun's command was purely a "sheep-herding" command, and compared with Rommel's rigorous tactical command, the gap was too great.
Zhang Junqiang strategic command ability, Rommel strong tactical command ability, the two cooperate with each other is the most perfect, now divided into two sections to fight, it is only a temporary arrangement in the first few days, after the SS takes Neov and Odessa, it will attack and advance to the confluence of Volrog, and then Zhang Jun and Rommel will not be in separate command.
After Captain Carpenter bombed the Odessa airport, he was ordered to carry out a comprehensive attack on the Soviet Black Sea Fleet in the Odessa military port, and the Carpenter squadron had a total of 12 JU8 dive bombers, and they went to bomb more than 120 planes of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet in three groups, including 80 JU87 dive bombers, and the other 40 were horizontal bombers, most of these 40 horizontal bombers were soy sauce, and it was difficult to bomb moving warships, and if they bombed at low altitudes, the air defense weapons on Soviet warships were not vegetarians, so these horizontal bombers can only choose medium and high altitude bombing, so that their effectiveness is much worse. If it weren't for the Soviet Black Sea Fleet in the harbor, these horizontal bombers would be a pure waste of ammunition, although the area in the port of Odessa is large enough, after all, it is not as wide as the sea, and there are still certain restrictions on the places to avoid, maybe there are a few bombs on these horizontal bombers that can hit the target.
"Buzz...... Buzz ......"
More than 100 bombers flew towards the port of Odessa, this is the largest number that Rommel can draw, and the other planes have their own tasks, according to Rommel's idea is to send about 500 bombers to directly wipe out the number of Black Sea Fleet, in order to eliminate the trouble of this maritime threat in the future, but the SS just that little plane, the "Barbarossa" plan started, the first wave was started in the air, and the use of the air force was already the limit, Rommel still gritted his teeth and dispatched 120 planes to carry out bombing missions, Rommel did not dare to say that he could give a devastating blow to the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, at least inflict heavy losses on the Black Sea Fleet, and at the same time expel the Black Sea Fleet from the port of Odessa, so that when Rommel's ground forces attacked Odessa, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet could not use naval guns to support the ground defenders.
You must know that the caliber of naval guns is relatively large, and if a 203 mm naval gun falls on about ten meters of the cottage 99 tank, this cottage 99 tank will become scrap metal, and there is no possibility of repair. This is why Rommel gritted his teeth and sent planes to bomb the Black Sea Fleet.
The main surface ships of the Black Sea Fleet are 1 battleship Paris Commune, 3 heavy cruisers Red Caucasus, Voroshilov and Molotov, and 2 light cruisers Red Crimean and Red Ukraine. 3 destroyer lead ships, 11 new destroyers, 4 old destroyers, 44 submarines, 2 gunboats/escort ships, 18 minesweepers and 84 torpedo boats.
The Soviet Black Sea Fleet protected the Soviet Union's foreign trade, and the port of Odessa accounted for 50% of the Soviet Union's foreign trade, which shows the importance of Odessa and the Black Sea Fleet to the Soviet Union.
"Captain Carpenter, your squadron is attacking the heavy cruiser on the lower left, it seems to be the Red Ukraine."
"Understood."
After receiving the order from the commander of the formation, Carpenter began to line up in a long snake formation, because the JU87 is a dive bomber, and it is best to bomb a moving target such as a bombing warship, and it is best to dive bomb one by one, Captain Carpenter's squadron has a total of 12 aircraft, and even if the Soviet heavy cruiser has enough anti-aircraft artillery, it is impossible to shoot down all the JU87s, and a 500-kilogram bomb is enough to seriously damage the Red Ukraine.
"Adjust the course and enter the bombing route from the tail of the Red Ukraine."
"Understood."
"Bang bang...... Bang bang ......"
Carpenter's just entered the bombing route, countless anti-aircraft shells exploded around Carpenter's plane, at this time Carpenter was about three thousand meters away from the Red Ukraine, and the altitude was also three thousand meters, no matter how fierce the Soviet warship's anti-aircraft fire was, Carpenter still could not increase the flight altitude of the plane, Carpenter had to let the plane fly over the Red Ukraine at a horizontal altitude of three thousand meters, and then dive bombing, so that the hit effect was the highest.
"Bang bang...... Bang bang...... Woowoo woo ......"
Countless anti-aircraft shells exploded around Carpenter's aircraft formation, the anti-aircraft shells were quite dense, it seems that the anti-aircraft fire of the Soviet heavy cruiser is not weak, and the red Ukraine below is also sailing the S-shaped route, which of course will increase the difficulty of their bombing in Carpenter, but this S-shaped route is not very useful for high-speed dive bombers like JU87, you must know that the dive speed of JU87 is 1000 km per hour, and it almost rushed to the jet fighter.
"Woooooooooo......oo Bumper ......"
In Carpenter's JU87 bomber formation, there was a JU87 that emitted black smoke and fell headlong into the sea, but the pilot of the JU87 plane did not parachute, and Carpenter hurriedly shouted on the radio:
"Skydiving, skydiving, !!"
"Woooooooooo......oo Rumble......"
There was no echo on the radio at all, or whimpered and plunged headlong into the sea, and when the plane that was hit violently touched the sea, there was a violent explosion, Carpenter did not have time to grieve, look at the position of the red Ukraine heavy cruiser below, almost two hundred meters ahead, Carpenter slammed the nose of the nose, and began to dive at the red Ukraine heavy cruiser, behind Carpenter was a row of ju87 dive bombers, they were about two hundred meters apart.
As soon as Carpenter dived, the other planes began to follow Carpenter's pace, one following the other, and dived towards the red Ukraine heavy cruiser in turn.
"Woooooooooo......oo Woowoo...... Bumper ......"
This time, the anti-aircraft fire on the red Ukraine heavy cruiser was more intense, but unfortunately, the elevation of the anti-aircraft artillery of the red Ukraine heavy cruiser was limited by angle, and the 75-degree muzzle elevation was the limit, so the carpenter, who rushed to the first, was the safest, and the rack JU87 behind the tail undertook all the anti-aircraft shells.
"Woooooooooo......oo Woowoo woo ......"
It was the deathly scream of the Carpenter dive bomber, and there was also a dying swan song from a hit JU87 dive bomber, and before the bombing began, two JU87 dive bombers were shot down, which made Carpenter's heart cut like a knife, gritted his teeth, and dived dead on the red Ukraine heavy cruiser that was sailing on the S route.
"Woooooooooo......oo Woo woo woo ......" (To be continued.) )