Chapter 241: Response (2)
Like Frieze, Boulter chose to use a speed of 10 kilometers per hour to let the armored vehicles and the infantry that followed them slowly crush the Soviet army's fourth line of defense. Although the political commissars on the four lines of defense of the Soviet army desperately commanded the Soviet recruits to resist, but in the face of the superior armored assault group of the German army, it was still annihilated, and Boulter took the fourth line of defense of the entire Soviet army for a full two hours, which means that the time at this time was six o'clock in the evening.
The geographical location of the Soviet Union is northern, at six o'clock, the sky is almost beginning to darken, and the sun is about to fall below the horizon, and after Poult finished reporting the situation to the headquarters, the headquarters gave Poult a strange order, ordering Boult to immediately organize all the infantry to repair the four lines of defense left by the Soviet army, and then when it was completely dark, all the tanks and most of the infantry retreated to the third line of defense, leaving only a small number of vigilant troops on the fourth line of defense.
What Boulter could not understand was that since the fourth line of defense was to be repaired, it must be to prevent the Soviets from taking advantage of the night to retake it, and how could all the armored forces and most of the infantry be retreated to the third line of defense in this case! Boult couldn't figure it out, but Poulter was not Frieze, and Boulter, who couldn't figure it out, still carried out the orders of the former enemy's general command to the letter.
By 8 o'clock in the evening, Poult had already repaired the four lines of defense of the occupied Soviet army, and at this time it was completely dark, and Poult began to organize a retreat, and the defense line more than ten kilometers wide Boulter left about a battalion of troops, and each squad was equipped with a walkie-talkie, and if there was a situation, the SS of the third line of defense could be notified in time.
The SS withdrew by night, not only Group A, but the other two groups also retreated to the third line of defense, leaving a small number of troops on the four lines of defense, in fact, the offensive areas of these three groups were close to the edge of the Caspian Sea, each group was about 20 kilometers apart, as long as the SS had two breakthroughs, the Soviet troops in the middle of the 20 kilometers of the line of defense were the turtles in the urn, of course, the task of destroying them was the task of the SS infantry, and there was no need for the SS armored troops to go to the heart.
The night is already very deep. In the ink-like sky, not even a crescent moon or a trace of starlight appeared. Occasionally, a meteor swept through the night sky with a cool feeling, and the blazing white light was so bleak and miserable. The wind, which blew in the evening, was at first a little gentle, wisps, moving the treetops and leaves, and then it became more and more vigorous and strong, twisting the wind, almost as ferocious as a bison, rolling and rushing on every line of defense in the Baku region.
The lights were still bright in the general headquarters of the former enemy of the SS, Zhang Jun and Rommel did not sleep, and judging from the various information transmitted from the front, their side had taken all precautions and waited for Zhukov to play his cards.
Zhukov and Chuikov were also highly excited, from 8 o'clock in the evening, Zhukov ordered all his artillery to be dispatched to the fourth line of defense occupied by the German SS, after Zhukov's careful deliberation, Zhukov judged that the SS should have a large number of armored forces and infantry on the four lines of defense to prevent the Soviet army from night.
This is easy to do, his own 2,000 cannons and "Katyusha" rocket artillery can completely destroy the German troops on this defensive line, but in order to prevent the counterattack of the German artillery, Zhukov divided the artillery group into three parts, the artillery is divided into two parts, and the "Katyusha" is a separate part.
According to the specific situation of the enemy and us, Zhukov drew up the following battle plan: First, 500 "Katyusha" rocket launchers were concentrated to suddenly bombard the fourth line of defense occupied by the German troops. And the firing range is only a pitiful 8.5 km, it is easy to be counterattacked by the German artillery, so you can only run after the fight, and when the German artillery group begins to counterattack, Zhukov's hidden artillery will immediately calculate the position of the German artillery, and then fiercely counterattack to destroy the German counterattacking artillery.
Of course, these artillery counter-attacking German artillery groups are only half of all Zhukov's cannons, and the other half Zhukov left to prevent emergencies, and when his artillery has finished striking the German army and knocked out the German artillery group, at this time the positions have been transferred, and the reloaded "Katyusha" will come with a salvo, completely destroying the fourth line of defense occupied by the Germans.
After the artillery was ready, Zhukov would order the Soviet infantry of the three armies and one panzer corps to assault the section of the defense line that had just been shelled, and when they had penetrated the second line of defense of the German army, Zhukov's three armies would turn around and rush towards the Caspian Sea, so that they could completely encircle the German troops occupying the second, third, and fourth lines of the Soviet army.
Zhukov mobilized eight elite Soviet infantry and two armored armies with 1,000 tanks for this counterattack, although the Soviet tanks were not very good, but in the case of the Soviet army with the support of "Katyusha" rocket artillery, the German tank Zhukov was not afraid.
These elite troops mobilized by Zhukov are all transported from the Far East, they are all veterans, and they have only fought with Little Japan, and they have beaten Little Japan all over the ground to find teeth, these armies are Zhukov's most elite troops, and now Zhukov has taken them out at one time, and it will soon be clear who will die.
Originally, Zhukov expected that all the troop movements would not be completed until 12 o'clock, but all of them were in place at 11 o'clock in the evening, so that Zhukov had an extra hour of attack time, because the German army had all the air supremacy, so all Zhukov's attacks must be stopped at 5 o'clock in the morning, otherwise he would wait to be bombed indiscriminately by German planes.
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"Hartman, are you kid ready for the night bomber?"
"Report to the commander-in-chief, it's ready, commander-in-chief, there are not many of our bombers suitable for night flights, there are only more than a hundred in total."
"That's right, you call all the pilots on standby, ready to strike at any time."
"Yes! Commander in chief. ”
Hartmann's night bombers were ordinary bombers that had been slightly modified and could barely take off and land at night, and the SS horizontal bombers were tactical bombers with bomb loads of more than 2 tons, and I don't know if this aircraft could play some role.
When the hands of the clock pointed to 11:10, more than 500 "Katyusha" of the Soviet army began to roar angrily, and countless "Katyusha" rockets dragged a long tail flame and flew towards the first line of defense occupied by the German army.
"Boom...... Rumble......"
The violent explosion instantly reflected half of the sky, and all the fortifications and tanks were under her cover, and the result could only be to turn into scum. The violent explosion made Flitz and Boult in the third line of defense dare not let go of the handrail in the tank, and the dozens of tons of copycat Type 99 tanks are constantly beating.
The time for the Soviet "Katyusha" rocket artillery attack was extremely short, the whole process was only 10 seconds, and the German SS artillery did not have time to react at all, and the "Katyusha" only needed 10 seconds to fire 16 rockets, and it started running away immediately after firing, and the German artillery did not have the slightest chance to counterattack, and besides, the SS artillery group was behind the third line of defense, and it could not attack the "Katyusha" artillery group outside the fourth line of defense.
It was important for the SS to know that the Soviets had launched a heavy artillery bombardment at 11:10 p.m., and that in such a short period of time countless powerful "Katyusha" rockets had been poured on the SS-occupied fourth line of defense.
After the Soviet "Katyusha" volley, it quickly disappeared into the night, leaving only the miserable state of the fourth line of defense, fortunately there were no German tanks and many troops on the position. Zhang Jun's arrangement allowed the SS tanks to escape.
This was only the first step of the Soviet army, the second step of the Soviet army's attack was soon launched, countless cannons began to bombard the fourth line of defense fiercely, the flying shells with orange firelight, drawing an arc against the fourth line of defense and smashing down, the fourth line of defense, which had been blown to pieces, instantly fell into the fire purgatory again, trembling, burning, tearing under the fierce shelling, every inch of land could not escape the test of purgatory.
However, the SS artillery counterattack expected by the Soviet army did not appear, this situation is really a bit abnormal, Chernier originally served in the Far East, a year ago was still a squad leader, in the Far East because of several great achievements in the war against Japan, was exceptionally promoted to a captain company commander, the abnormal situation on the front line, soon made Chernier realize that the German SS was really a bit abnormal, and quickly reflected this situation.
Zhukov soon received the situation from the front, but now Zhukov is ready to send an arrow, he has to send it, and still issued an order to attack according to the original plan, hundreds of thousands of troops are now all in place, Zhukov is impossible to give up the attack because the German reaction is a little abnormal, that is not Zhukov's character, as long as it is something Zhukov believes, it is difficult for external factors to make Zhukov turn back or change his mind.
As the commander of an infantry company, of course, it is impossible for Che Niel to break through on the first line, more than 500 tanks of Zhukov's armored corps roared against the German defense line, and the Soviet tanks were basically light tanks, and even slightly better medium tanks such as T28 were very few, but 500 tanks were still amazing.
Lieutenant General Cabaye, as the supreme armored commander of the Soviet Army, commanded the armored corps in the Far East and the Japanese in an armored duel, and easily annihilated the four tank wings of Little Japan...... (To be continued.) )