Chapter 246: A Thousand Miles Leap Forward (2)
Ike's four armored divisions assaulted very smoothly, how could a man's leg run past the tank, because the Soviet confusion and the SS bombardment made the roads here impassable, and the trucks were blown up a lot, and the Soviets could only rely on their legs to escape.
Behind the skeleton army is the mechanized infantry, truck-based, motorized infantry followed by four armored divisions, by the next morning, Ike led the army to break through the fifth line of defense of the Soviet army, the two pincer attack armored divisions as soon as they were encircled, the entire Soviet army was completely surrounded, after most of the night fled for the Soviet army, at this time there were less than 30 percent of the portable weapons, and there were only casual light weapons, heavy weapons were not a single one.
Since yesterday evening, Che Nier, an infantry company commander of the Soviet army, has watched hundreds of tanks on his side completely wiped out by the fierce artillery fire of the SS, and the intensity of the artillery fire has completely shocked all the Soviet soldiers.
Then there was a fierce bombardment, Chernier looked at his comrades, who were torn to pieces by German aerial bombs in an instant, and had already begun to retreat, which immediately turned the retreat into a collapse, at this time the SS suddenly sent a large number of panzer divisions to attack with pincers, and surrounded the Soviet army, which made the already collapsed Soviet army even more panicked.
Chernier, like the rest of the soldiers, mingled in the collapsed crowd, running desperately, and his own soldiers had long been nowhere to be found, who cared for anyone in such a dangerous situation!! By dawn, Chenier couldn't run anymore, lying on the side of the road like a dead dog, and Chenier, who had just been lying down for a short time, heard the crowd exclaiming, the German tanks were coming again, but the direction of the German tanks was the direction of Chenier's escape, and it was over, Chenier secretly shouted in his heart, the German tanks appeared from the direction of Chenier's escape, which showed that Cheniel they had been surrounded by German troops.
At this time, the Soviet army completely lost its structure, completely lost its command, lost its weapons, and lost its fighting spirit, and as soon as the German tanks arrived in Chenier, they raised their hands and surrendered, just like other Soviet soldiers, in this case, only surrender was the only way out.
More than 10,000 of these 200,000 Soviet troops died last night, and the rest were completely taken prisoners of the SS, and now Blyukhel is not afraid of having no subordinates, these soldiers were originally the soldiers of Blyukhel, the former Soviet Marshal of the Far East, as for how many people Blyukhel can recruit from these captives who are willing to follow him, it depends on his personal charm, Zhang Jun will not force any Soviet prisoners to join the Russian SS, everything is voluntary, only those who voluntarily join the Russian SS and hate Stalin's reign of white terror, It is possible to fight bravely, and it is of little use to forcibly capture.
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Besides, after Vincent crossed the Volga River on April 21, 40, he ran all the way, assaulting 500 kilometers a day, Vincent in order to ensure the speed of the advance of the troops, all the drivers were driving in turns, no matter what kind of vehicle it was, people did not stop, 24 hours a day, everyone basically spent 20 hours in the car, and the remaining 4 hours were the time for maintenance and repair of the vehicle.
The average speed per hour is only 25 kilometers, which is not very fast, mainly because there are no roads here, although it is a plain, but the speed still cannot be increased, but fortunately, the Soviet Union could not imagine that the German SS would dare to send a dead force directly into the depth of the Soviet army, Stalin did not expect that even the so-called famous generals of later generations in Britain, France and the United States still did not think of it, nor did they understand the strategic intentions of the commander-in-chief of the SS.
According to the direction of the SS troops' assault, they could roughly determine that this unit was going to the Soviet Ural industrial region, and it seemed that the SS wanted to dig Stalin's old nest, and Stalin also received the latest information on the same day, but Stalin had no mobile forces in his hands that could be mobilized.
You must know that this is more than 100,000 elite SS troops, where did Stalin find hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops to block this SS armored assault group at this time, Stalin had troops, but those forces were basically in the direction of Moscow, not in the depths of the Soviet Union, and ordered to blow up all roads and bridges on the way of the SS armored assault group.
It's a pity that this is a plain, there are no bridges at all, even the road is a dirt road, there is no value to blow up at all, there is not even a river, and the Ural River is not on the way of the SS armored assault group, Stalin still ordered that some troops of the Red Army in the Far East have not yet arrived in Moscow, and urgently transfer to the Ural industrial area, but Germany has dispatched as many as 50 B-29 Super Aerial Fortresses at this time to bomb dozens of railway junctions and stations very thoroughly.
Even if the Soviets had a strong repair capacity, it would have taken at least a week to restore the smooth flow of these railways, by which time the SS would have rushed to the Ural mountains. Stalin, who had no choice, ordered the Red Army in the Far East to quickly advance to the Ural Mountains by various means, and the Soviet railways extended in all directions, and it was still possible to go to the Ural region by detouring points, and Stalin, who had transferred 500,000 troops to support the Ural troops, was still not at ease, and at the same time ordered the transfer of 200,000 troops from Moscow's defense forces to start from Moscow, so that they could flank the arrogant SS troops who dared to break into the depths of the Soviet Union on both sides.
What Vincent needs to face is more than 800,000 Soviet troops, including 500,000 in the Far East Red Army, 200,000 in the Moscow Front, and more than 100,000 local troops in the Urals.
Vincent's armored assault group can get fifty B-29s a day for eight hours of full escort, B-29 has a range of more than 7,000 kilometers, and the time of cruising in the air is more than ten hours, except for the time on the road, the rest of the time these B-29s will be escorted in the air, of course, the main task of these B-29s is to bomb all the airports within a thousand kilometers of the perimeter, as long as these airports cannot take off and land planes for three or five days.
On the first day, Vincent could still get the support of the two SS "Sixth Master" air defense regiments, and no Soviet planes dared to harass his armored assault group, and by the second day, there were still no Soviet planes to harass his armored assault group, and the next day there was no super nanny of the "Sixth Master", so why didn't the Soviet planes come to bomb Vincent's huge convoy!! This is mainly due to the bombing of the Soviet airfield of the fifty B-29s sent by Zhang Jun to Vincent, the battle of Baku was in full swing, Zhang Jun did not send a single B-29 back to support him, all of them were transferred to Vincent, and Zhang Jun would not be transferred later, and after Vincent arrived in Olsk, these B-29s were Vincent's only supply channel.
If these B-29s fly continuously, they can supply Vincent up to six times a day, that is, three hundred tons of supplies, which can only be replenished four times in normal times, and the pilot can't stand the supply six times, and the B-29 also needs maintenance.
Stalin could only watch Vincent swagger towards the Urals, and on the morning of the third day, Vincent's armored assault group appeared on the periphery of the city of Orsk, Vincent did not let the soldiers rest, and directly ordered all the SS troops to attack immediately, no need to reconnoitre, no temptation, as soon as they came up, they went all out, this is the place of death, if they cannot occupy the city of Orsk as soon as possible, Vincent's troops will be extremely dangerous.
The city of Orsk was guarded by a local division of the Soviet army, which could not stop Vincent's armored and infantry assault at all, and the Soviet local division, which lacked anti-tank means, was cleared in one day, and the first thing Vincent did when he took Orsk was not to build fortifications and airfields, but to drive more than 500,000 citizens of Orsk out of the city.
Vincent was deeply influenced by Zhang Jun's combat thoughts, he would never kill innocents indiscriminately, Orsk would soon be completely plunged into the flames of war, these Soviet citizens said that it was the biggest destabilizing factor in Vincent's defense of the city, and now it must be eliminated, driving out of the city is the best way, and it can also keep these citizens away from war and death, and at the same time Vincent has also eliminated hidden dangers.
Another advantage is that Vincent's expulsion order is very interesting, all citizens of Orsk can leave with whatever money they have, but the food must be left behind. In this way, Vincent did not have to provide food to these citizens after the siege of Orsk, which was 500,000 people, and one pound of grain per person per day was also 500,000 catties, which was equivalent to 250 tons of grain. And Vincent only has a few B-29s, only the real fifty, which can transport fifty tons of supplies to Vincent each time, and in order to meet the minimum food security of these citizens, it is necessary to occupy all the transportation supplies of Vincent.
In this case, Vincent did not have to fight, and the supplies dragged down Vincent, and now Vincent ordered the expulsion of all citizens from Orsk, and all the SS soldiers actively cooperated. A city's food stock is generally not less than the city's population needs for three months, this is the minimum standard, a day later Vincent expelled all the citizens of Orsk from the city, for which the SS finally captured 20 million catties of food, enough for Vincent's troops to eat for a year, this is to solve Vincent's biggest problem, in the future his own B-29 does not need to supply himself with food, only need to transport weapons, ammunition and medicine, and can even be used to transport supplies.
During the expulsion of the citizens of Orsk, the whole city was filled with crying and screaming, women crying, children crying, even the male citizen was crying...... (To be continued.) )