763 Great Siege Seven Flames Burning the City

The sun shone on the Kremlin's Red Tower at noon on December 2, 1937, and could be seen from the window of the apartment rented by the CG International Mission. Comrade Wang Ming is now the master here, and he is the new general representative of the Central Committee of the Chinese Government to GC International. Now he was standing at the open window, looking out of the open window, holding a cup of freshly brewed coffee. What he saw was a winter Moscow morning: clear blue skies, snow-covered cities, men and young women in military uniforms hurrying through the streets, crowded and dirty buses waddling through the streets, elderly Soviet mothers lining up in front of shops selling black bread, milk, meat, fruits, vegetables, and so on. Only cadres who have reached a certain level can enjoy special supplies, including Comrade Wang Ming...... This is the real GC doctrine - all for the sake of the GCD people's doctrine!

The center of the world revolution, the Kremlin towers across the river, huge, grandiose, and quiet; Its walls are dark red in the morning sun; The dome on the cathedral shone with golden light. A scene of harmony and tranquility, as if in peacetime! It seems that the offensive of the fascist German and Chinese expeditionary forces was really contained!

Wang Ming sighed softly, at present, there are three different views on this war within the Chinese G, among which the rightists led by Zhang Xueliang advocate joining the war against the Soviet Union! Fortunately, there are not too many comrades who hold this view by acquiring land from the Soviet Union to expand their power. The powerful faction, led by Zhou Elai and Mao Zd, advocated neutrality and limited cooperation with the Kuomintang in order to gain new territory from the Far East and at the same time prepare to take over the heavy task of the world revolution! Wang Ming himself was a clear-cut pro-Soviet faction...... Advocate helping the Soviet Union, opposing Chinese imperialism, and waging a revolutionary war to cooperate with the Soviet Union's anti-fascist war! It's just that although this correct viewpoint has won the support of the majority of comrades, Zhou Elai, Mao Zd, Zhang Xueliang and others, who have guns in their hands, are resolutely opposed. They even used the power in their hands to send themselves to Moscow. But this is also good, after arriving in Moscow, his pro-Soviet position will be more distinct, and if the anti-fascist war is won in the future, the position of the leader of the Chinese G will be in his own pocket!

"Citizens! Note! Air raid alert! Just when Comrade Wang Ming was looking forward to a bright future after the victory of the Chinese revolution, a calm and stern male voice suddenly came from the speaker on the street! Then the screams of air raid sirens sounded over Moscow.

Air raid siren!? This is Moscow! How dare someone fly a plane to Moscow to go wild? This is ridiculous, ridiculous! Wang Ming was not mentally prepared at all, nor did he pay attention to the location of the air defense shelter. When the air raid sirens came, he was shocked, and a chill suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart and quickly spread to his legs, so that the leader of the Central G could not even walk on the road, and finally walked out of the building, and did not know where the air defense shelter was? He looked up and looked around blankly, only to see that the stone pillars, shop windows and fences along the sidewalk were everywhere marked with the location of the anti-aircraft shelter......

Just when Comrade Wang Ming followed the flustered flow of people and poured into a dark and damp air-raid shelter, he was still thinking in his heart, this is not a real alarm, the fascist bandits will never bomb here, and the heroic Soviet Air Force will definitely repel them!

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At this time, 240 HE-111 bombers commanded by the fascist bandit Sun Yang had already broken into the city from the northwest of Moscow, began to look for the intended target, and prepared to bomb! His 240 bombers and another 760 German He-111 and Ju-88 bombers, each carrying 2 tons of bombs, contained powerful explosives and extremely terrible incendiary agents! According to the calculations of the fat Goering, just such a "thousand-plane bombing" can turn the entire capital of the Bolshevik state, into a ruin, into an endless cemetery. What the rulers of the fascist Third Reich wanted was the complete destruction of Moscow! However, the Chinese Air Force, which participated in the bombing, received an order from Wuhan: to avoid attacking civilian targets as much as possible!

"Attention to the 7th Aviation Division, maintain formation, target Binkuka airfield, reduce the altitude to 1100 meters to drop bombs, pay attention to the direction of the wind and the interval between bombs."

Just as Captain Sun Yang and Sun led his 240 planes around the skies of Moscow, looking for the "Binkuka Airport". Several I-16 fighters came out of nowhere, rushed above the center of the Chinese bomber group, and opened fire on the He-111 piloted by Sun Yang. The rotating turrets on the fuselages of dozens of Chinese planes also immediately returned fire on the I-16s, machine gun bullets dragging long strings of red fire in the sky.

Sun Yang felt as if his plane was shaking slightly, and he knew that it had been hit by a Soviet bullet. But he couldn't do it, because he was flying a bomber instead of a fighter like the BF-109 or FW-190. In this case, he could only maintain the course of the aircraft, and the entire aviation division's 240 HE-111s formed an airtight formation in the sky over Moscow. Each HE-111 has four machine guns and three machine guns on it, so as long as you stay in formation, you will have enough firepower to deal with it no matter what angle your opponent attacks from! Moreover, those free-moving F, M or 85mm anti-aircraft guns are obviously a great threat to horizontally flying bomber groups. Just a few minutes after the shelling, the Air Force Expeditionary Force from China finally paid their first casualty in the sky over Moscow! A He-111 bomber was unfortunately hit by the dense anti-aircraft fire of the Soviet army, and the plane was broken in two from the middle, dragging thick black smoke and falling rapidly! It ended up near Arbat Street in the center of Moscow. The crew members on the plane all died except for the co-pilot, Second Lieutenant Liu Shanben, who parachuted out and was captured by the Soviet army!

It was at this time that Sun Yang, with the help of the navigator, finally found his target - the Binkuka airfield of the Soviet Air Force. He gently pushed the lever, and the plane turned around, leading the huge group of bombers to the intended target.

"Thirty seconds to drop bombs ready! Open the bomb bay ......"

With the order of Lieutenant General Sun Yang, more than 200 HE-111 bombers in the sky began to open the belly hatch, the plane began to jolt, and the wind was also howling in the cabin, which was the effect of the disturbance of the airflow at the opening mouth of the bomb magazine.

In front of the aiming window of the HE-111's characteristic fully transparent nose, the bombardier stares intently at the angle meter, and when the target has just entered the angle meter, he pulls the bomb drop switch violently. Sixteen high-explosive incendiary bombs of 125 kg doped with white phosphorus and TNT explosives were violently detached from the pylons. The fuselage shook slightly, and it suddenly became relaxed. After dropping the bomb, the plane immediately closed the hatch, and then quickly raised, got rid of the threat of Soviet anti-aircraft fire and fighters, turned the nose of the plane, and began the long way home.

At this time, the Soviet army's Binkuka airport was already a scene of purgatory in a sea of fire, countless dazzling fires rose up, and the runway, oil depot, ammunition depot, hangar, barracks, and anti-aircraft artillery positions of the airport seemed to suddenly bloom with fiery red flowers of death, and the fire and gunpowder smoke instantly enveloped the entire airport! In just a few tens of minutes, more than 230 planes dropped nearly 500 tons of high-explosive incendiary bombs on the largest military airfield of the Soviet army, and the continuous explosions and fires completely flattened the place.

At the same time, 760 German He-111 and Ju-88 bombers were also bombing indiscriminately everywhere in the city of Moscow, and strings of high-explosive or incendiary bombs fell on all corners of the city, and fireballs and plumes of smoke rose one after another. As the explosion ended, the fire began to spread. Ancient brick and wood houses were engulfed in flames, and countless people who were ignited ran and screamed with the flames, the houses were torn apart, and the city was being flooded with flames......

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While the heroic citizens of Moscow were busy fighting the fire laid down by the invaders, another group of fascist bandits armed to the teeth were driving tanks, half-tracked armored vehicles, and trucks on the bumpy old Minsk Road, the road on which the French Emperor Napoleon led his army to Moscow in 1812. And now it is the 8th Armored Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force that is advancing along this path!

Sitting on a half-track armored command vehicle, General Hu Lian looked at the snow-covered road and the bewildered Belarusians on both sides of the road, and thought about the complicated situations that his Eighth Armored Division would encounter, trying to think of the most accurate response in advance. His division's furthest target in this attack was Smolensk, and it did not call for the capture of the city, but only a rendezvous with the German 19th Panzer Corps on the west bank of the Dnieper River west of the city! However, this task is not easy to complete, because the entire armored division has to rush more than 700 kilometers! During this period, there will also be an unknown number of Soviet Red Army blockades, there will be counterattacks by Soviet tank units, and even the Soviets may use the legendary T-28 tank that can deal with tanks No. 2 and No. 3. At this moment, a motorcycle used by the communications corps came from the front quickly, and it brought Hu Lian the news of the Soviet counterattack.

The half-track armored command vehicle stopped, several collapsible tables were set up, and a map and several telephones were put on it. The former enemy command post, which was so rudimentary that it could not have been more rudimentary, appeared on the side of the road leading to Kobrin.

"Where are we now? Where are they? Who is it? Hu Lian's question is simple and straightforward.

"We are less than 10 km from Kobrin, they are just outside the city of Kobrin. It was a Soviet tank unit, and they set up an ambush in the woods outside Kobrin, and ambushed some tanks, as if there were T-28 tanks. They ambushed our vanguard, destroyed three No. 2 tanks, and now the two armies are facing each other across a frozen river. Moreover, tanks, it seems that they are preparing a counterattack. "Major General Qiu Weida, chief of staff of the 8th Armored Division, used red and blue pencils to draw the battle lines of both sides on the map.

"What? Are they going to fight back? Hu Lian shook his head disappreciatively. It looks like these old hairy people don't think they're dying fast enough. ”

"Maybe they're afraid they'll take Kobrin, right? This small town is the gateway from Brest to Barnovic. If we had occupied there, the clusters of Soviet troops assembled in Brest would have been left alone. Qiu Weida analyzed.

"No matter how much it is, just repel them." Hu Lian shook his head, stopped figuring out the enemy's intentions, and began to arrange combat deployments.

The ambush of the 15th Tank Regiment was actually an old rival of the 8th Panzer Division, the 4th Tank Army, which belonged to the 27th Special Army of the Soviet Army. After the defeat of this corps at the hands of the 8th Panzer Division in Vovomin, it was transferred to Minsk by Marshal Ubolevich for rearmament, and received a batch of T-28 tanks repaired by the tank factories in the rear, and a batch of newly produced T-26s, and was only sent to Belyozha at the end of last month to serve as a reserve for the western defense line. Unexpectedly, as soon as he settled down, he encountered a large-scale attack from Germany. So the tank corps, under the command of the new commander, Major General Lukin, marched east to reinforce the Brest fortress. Unexpectedly, they encountered Chinese tank units near Kobrin. However, Major General Lukin did not know that his opponent was a full four well-equipped Chinese and German armored divisions!

After reporting the news of his encounter with the Chinese tank forces to the Front Command, Rear Admiral Lukin soon received an order to "counterattack". At this time, two tank brigades of the 4th Tank Army had 215 T-26 tanks and 125 T-28 tanks. In addition, the 109th Infantry Division, which was originally stationed in Kobrin, was also placed under the command of the 4th Tank Army.

Their opponents, the 8th Panzer Division, had 235 tanks 2 and 126 3, more than 70 assault guns and self-propelled guns, as well as a fully manned Panzergrenadier Brigade (8th Panzergrenadier Brigade) and a German motorized artillery regiment (the German 76th Artillery Regiment).

At 6:25 p.m., the sky finally darkened, and the Soviet counteroffensive began at the same time. The 96 cannons of the two Soviet artillery regiments roared first, and 76.2mm, 122mm and 152mm shells whizzed towards the embankment occupied by the squadron, completely drowning the opponent in the smoke column fire. The counterattack of Chinese and German artillery also began at the same time, with the No. 3 self-propelled guns of the 1 battalion, the No. 2 self-propelled guns of the 2nd battalion and the German 150mm artillery of the three battalions clearly gaining the upper hand in firepower.

Seeing that something was wrong, Major General Lukin hurriedly called the General Headquarters of the Western Front, but Lukin did not finish his conversation with the Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front. Having only reported to him that he had been engaged in an artillery battle with about two enemy divisions near Kobrin, Ubolevich excitedly ordered him to repel the invading enemy and hold Kobrin no matter what, and then hung up the phone. From the anxious tone of the marshal, Lukin already sensed the dire situation facing the entire front, and perhaps the situation could only be saved if Kobrin repelled the enemy's vanguard, right? Determined to make up his mind, Major General Lukin had to grit his teeth and throw his tank troops into the attack on the positions of the squadron.

At the same time, Hu Lian also gave the order to attack the tank troops. After the Battle of Vovomin, another tank battle between the Chinese and Soviet armies took place on the outskirts of Kobrin, a small Belarusian city. As always, the Chinese tanks formed a large tank cluster, with more than 400 tanks and powerful artillery forming a huge wedge, roaring forward and charging forward. However, the formation of the Soviet army was dozens of small tank groups, and they laid out a wide front, as if they wanted to surround the Chinese tank group! In fact, this was due to the lack of radio equipment of the Soviet tanks, which made it difficult to communicate with each other. And on the battlefield where the flames of war and the smoke of gunpowder filled, it was difficult for Soviet tankers to work together by observing the small flags in the hands of tank commanders. Therefore, this can only be used to disperse forces.

In order to compensate for this weakness, Lukin concentrated all the T-28 tanks on the front, hoping to withstand the onslaught of the Chinese tanks with their solid armor and strong firepower. At the same time, put the T26 tank group on both flanks, hoping to use their speed advantage to detour back to the flank of the Chinese tank group to attack.

So the first exchange of fire in this tank battle was the Chinese No. 3 tank and the Soviet T-28 tank. The No. 3 tank of the squadron was equipped with a 48-diameter 75mm cannon, which was powerful enough to penetrate the T-28's frontal 30mm armor at a distance of 1,000 meters, while the T-28's 26-diameter 76.2mm cannon could not threaten the No. 3 tank's high-quality armor plates up to 60mm thick at an angle. So the first to fire was the Chinese tank No. 3. The slow-moving, huge T-28 tank was the easiest target for Chinese tank gunners on this battlefield, and the T-28 tank was destroyed one after another, and the huge armored monster turned into a pile of scrap metal. By the time the T-26s on both flanks of the Soviet army had completed their roundabout maneuvers, more than a hundred of their T-28s had been lost. The battlefield was littered with wrecked and burning wreckage of Soviet tanks.

And the T-26 tank group, which then charged at both flanks of the Chinese tank cluster, did not take advantage of it either. Due to the high cross-country nature of the Christie suspension system and the powerful diesel engines supplied by the MAN company, these 22-ton and 32-ton "big tanks" did not look clumsy on the battlefield, and they were not at all slower than the 10.5-ton T-26. By the time these brave little tanks rushed to the flanks of the Chinese tank group, the Chinese tanks No. 2 and No. 3 assault guns had long since completed the turn, and the 75mm and 88mm projectiles rained over, and the Soviet tank 4th Army suffered another huge defeat in the Battle of Kobrin! The city of Kobrin was captured a few hours later by the squadron.

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