Chapter 28: The Fight (Part II)
576 planes versus 208 planes, such a scale of air combat in the 20 th century in the forties of the two wars can only be regarded as an ordinary scale, but the performance of the aircraft and the cost of the soaring at the same time has made the total number of fighters that the air forces of various countries can be equipped with is constantly decreasing, a few years later in the air combat is likely to be only a few dozen fighters for over-the-horizon combat, and even the reciprocal air battle is rarely seen
The 40-minute battle was like a spectacular fireworks display, with explosions in the air and battle-damaged planes falling in the sky forming a splendid scene, and the sounds of the two fighters diving, rolling, firing and being shot converged into a unique war symphony. At the end of the battle, the Little Belt Strait and the southeastern coast of Jutland were littered with wreckage of aircraft and parachutes of escaped pilots. According to wartime statistics, the Soviet army lost a total of more than 170 fighters, which is equivalent to erasing ten flight squadrons from the combat sequence, and the scale and proportion of such battle losses are not unusual for the Soviet aviation forces. In the last year of the war, in order to compete for short-term air supremacy with the allies with strong air forces, the Soviet air force launched a powerful attack at any cost in almost every campaign launching stage, losing several hundred planes in a single day several times. Due to the delicate nuclear counterbalance, the Allies began to slow down the strategic bombing of the Soviet Union in the winter of 1947, and the Soviet military industry got a precious respite, and their consistent extensive mode also gave its military industry tenacious vitality, so that during the two campaigns of the invasion of western Poland and Germany, the Soviet aviation ensured the realization of the army's operational expectations with high-density sorties.
National character is one of the decisive factors in the character of industry. The Imperial Powers that concealed the rearmament of Northern Europe were still dominated by precision in the military industry. Although the number of fighters they put into use this time was only one-third of that of their opponents, and the losses of 33 jet and 49 piston fighters were less than half of those of the opponents, the experience of the two world wars proved that tactical victories could not be equated with strategic victories, and sometimes they were diametrically opposed. Forty percent of the fighters were lost in this first battle, and the next road for the Imperial Air Force was destined to be very difficult!
The battle in the air has come to an end for the time being, and the fighting on the ground continues. After dawn, the numerical superiority of the Soviet armored forces began to appear, and three of the four years after the war were fighting against new opponents, and their combat experience and the quality of the armored troops also obviously surpassed the emperor's ** team in just one round of impact. They succeeded in capturing the city of Koling, where they lost more than seventy tanks and hundreds of mechanized infantry in four attacks before daybreak, and the precious time spent was incalculable. Followed by. The Soviet tank column detouring from the left flank approached the Snowhoy and Little Belt Bridge at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, but unfortunately it was trapped by the mine array of the Imperial ** team when it was close to the target, and then watched the Imperial ** team retreating from the city of Koling to the island of Funen through the Little Belt Bridge.
By about 10 a.m., the steel tracks of Soviet tanks had run over a series of targets, including Snowhoi and Fredericia. Unexpectedly, except for some trouble for the Soviet army in the city of Koling, the imperial ** team did not carry out a frontal attack in any other area, let alone the "ultimate decisive battle" that the outside world speculated a lot, but the skirmishes in the air continued intermittently - the two sides were unwilling to give up air supremacy, and could not defeat the opponent in one go, thus entering the commonplace engagement in wartime.
With reports from the vanguard plus the results of aerial reconnaissance. Chuikov, who commanded the Soviet North German Front, immediately realized that the heavy punch he had swung while the opponent's foothold was not stable had failed, and because of the real intention of not allowing the imperial ** team to retreat to the island to defend, he ordered the main combat force that was rushing to stop advancing, and this column composed of 400,000 officers and soldiers and thousands of vehicles formed a snake on the map with its head held high and waiting for an opportunity to attack its prey. …,
In the case of conventional warfare, Chuikov's strategy is understandable, but the sea of national war is difficult for even the most wise commander to deal with. The smoke of Stuttgart summoned an indomitable will, and the landing of the Imperial ** team on Jutland sounded the clarion call for an all-out counterattack. Uprising! Insurrection! The whole of Germany was roaring, and in North Germany alone, large-scale uprisings broke out in Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Rostock and other port cities one after another. There have been countless uprisings at the village and town level, from dozens, hundreds, to thousands. Led by Reich underman, the Baath Free Regiment, and the underground resistance, the insurgents vandalized transportation facilities, raided and blew up bridges over rivers and canals, cut telephone lines, and attacked Soviet sentries, transports, and transport vehicles. Relying on villages and towns, forests, and mountains to fight against the Soviet army. The whole of Germany was burning, and the Soviet occupation troops certainly looked like people in heavy leather boots. They can barely walk through the burning meadows, but after staying in such an environment for a long time, the symptoms of overheating, poisoning, and suffocation will follow one after another, until they withdraw from the land or die here!
Reports of attacks on personnel and damage to facilities flew like snowflakes to Soviet army commanders and political decision-makers, whose total garrison in Germany at this time could have coped with the situation, but with heavy forces at both the north and south, the military forces in the rest of Germany were too weak. Civilians who lacked weapons and combat training were not to be feared, but the Reich fighters who had returned to Germany through various channels in the early days showed their destructive power at this time. In Stuttgart, the remnants of the resistance still held back tens of thousands of Soviet officers and soldiers, including the 11th Mechanized Corps, and in several areas around Stuttgart, German armed men responded to their counterparts in Stuttgart by encircling Soviet patrols and using radio communications to publish these battle reports to encourage more Germans to join the great national war.
Deeply fearful of the Soviet military machine, the Western Allies have spared no effort to covertly support the resistance forces in the Soviet-occupied territories since the signing of the armistice. In western Germany, the insurgents were heavily equipped with Allied weapons, which were relatively outdated light weapons, but this greatly improved the fighting power of the insurrectionary forces. On the night when the imperial army landed on Jutland, the insurgents in western Germany recaptured Kaiserslautern, Bonn, Meppen and other cities from the Soviet army in one go, killed hundreds of Soviet soldiers, and publicly hanged some puppet regime officials, causing a great sensation in the local area; In Essen, Cologne, Saarbrücken and other places, the insurgents occupied parts of the city and engaged in fierce battles with Soviet troops.
No matter how hot the flames were in the occupied territories abroad, it was difficult to make the population of the Soviet Union feel anxious, and the situation became very different when nuclear bomb-carrying aircraft appeared above them and mocked the Soviet Air Force combat planes. Under the sun, "discs" painted with the Iron Cross logo appeared over Murmansk, Leningrad, Moscow, and the Urals, and the official authorities of the Free Reich of Northern Scandinavia announced to the world that if the Soviet Union did not abandon its occupation of European countries, the Free Reich would carry out indiscriminate nuclear strikes against important Soviet targets until the Soviet government abandoned its foreign occupation - or was completely destroyed by a nuclear strike.
In response to the nuclear threat of the Free Empire, the Soviet Union quickly counterattacked: once the Soviet territory was attacked by a foreign atomic bomb, there was no need to determine which country it came from, the Soviet Union would drop a nuclear bomb enough to destroy the Free Empire in North Scandinavia, and warned the people of nearby Norway and Sweden to stay away from the occupied areas of the Free Empire as soon as possible.
The specter of nuclear war has once again filled the skies over Europe, and the governments of Western allies have rarely chosen to remain silent. In the early stage of the war between the East and the West, the Soviet Union always denied that it had nuclear weapons, and once accepted a team of international nuclear experts to enter the country for verification, but after the nuclear explosion in Königsberg, the international community unanimously believed that the Soviet Union had the key to open Pandora's box, and the Soviet government did not deny it again. …,
In the warm spring afternoon, it was the ideal time to take a break, but a group of speedboats of the Soviet Navy fought a battle with the escort ships of the Imperial Navy in the waters southeast of the Danish island of Loran, and the Soviets sank one light destroyer and one gunboat of the Imperial Navy at the cost of two torpedo boats, and seemed to have won the victory, but they saw the Imperial transport ships continue to approach the island of Rügen in northeastern Germany. After that, warplanes from both sides arrived in this area, and the Soviets intended to attack the imperial ships and landing forces, and the jet fighters of the Imperial ** team successfully shot down more than 20 Soviet bombers.
Unlike the Danish islands, the Soviets had control of Rügen since the occupation of Germany, and after the earlier Hidensee farce, the Soviets sent additional alert troops to the northern German islands, and after the Imperial troops landed on the Danish islands, the Soviets again sent additional troops to these islands and strengthened the fortifications. When the Imperial army landed on Rügen, there were more than 1,200 Soviet officers and soldiers on the island, and with the exception of one pier, the Soviets had destroyed all the island's shipping facilities and set up guard posts in every bay and shoal. However, no matter how careful the defense can not make up for the gap in the investment of troops, using the unusually abundant sea capacity, the imperial ** team invested 4,000 troops in one go, and used the landing ship to transport the tanks directly to Rügen Island, under the spirit of returning to the motherland, the imperial soldiers all descended the mountain like tigers, and with full preparations, they quickly gained a foothold in the three landing sites in the north and west of the island, and then attacked the Soviet positions without scruples. Although the Soviet resistance on Rügen would continue until the day after the landing of the Imperial Army, the attackers had already won the game in the first few hours. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )