Chapter 85: The Jedi Strikes Back (Part II)
Germany, Bavaria, Regensburg, south bank of the Reagan River, German positions
Tuesday, November 14, 1950, cloudy
Chirp...... Boom! Chirp...... Boom ......
Shells fell one after another into the ruined city, the bursting flames burned the broken bricks and tiles in vain, the mushroom-shaped cloud pillars mixed with dust and gunpowder rose unscrupulously, the river dozens of meters wide floated with all kinds of stains and pieces, and the sound of machine guns was heard from time to time in the distance, which set off the different coldness of the city. Between the collapsed buildings, the explosives formed many large and small craters, and the soldiers wearing steel helmets with large ears and light gray combat uniforms hid in them, a small number of them were responsible for watching, observing the movement in the direction of the river bank through their homemade periscopes, most of them like hibernating beetles, waiting for the next battle to come.
Chirp...... Rumble...... Tweeted...... Boom...... Tweeted......
As the sound of the cannon explosions intensified, the tremor of the earth became intense, the air heated up under the scorching heat of gunpowder, and the fine particles floated in a fog that shrouded large swathes of the city. The soldiers in the crater lowered their heads, and under the devastation of the blast energy, one by one they wanted to bury themselves deep in the sand.
Time is like a river, no matter whether people's subjective perception is fast or slow, it is like this river in nature, flowing every minute and every second. The whistling of the cannonballs gradually subsided, and the loud sound that pierced every nerve died down. The bravest soldiers resolutely emerged from the dust and stared ahead with tired eyes. The auditory sensation was reduced, and all kinds of sounds were heard, whistles, slogans, engines, and metal scraping, all of which reminded the defenders that another round of enemy attack had begun, and that the German soldiers had to fight with all their might in every battle.
"Attention! The enemy landing ships have come up, ready for battle, beware of enemy suppressive fire! ”
The young sergeant wearing a double red line collar badge has a heavy look that does not match his age. The face under the helmet was angular, and the bloodshot eyes burst out with a sharp light, and under his alertness, one after another steel helmets with large ears protruded around him. Some of them belonged to the early style of the Wehrmacht, some were fashionably sprayed with tactical camouflage, and the weapons in the hands of the soldiers also spanned several periods, such as purely manual bolt-type rifles, semi-automatic rifles using magazines, old-fashioned submachine guns with straight magazines, and assault rifles with curved magazines, German, American, and various imitations, and there was only the difference between victory and defeat, life and death in this bloody gladiatorial arena that lacked art. Everything else can be ignored!
In front of the left is the three-way junction of the two rivers, where the handsome Reagan River and the beautiful Danube meet, the Soviet troops who intended to capture Regensburg chose the narrow and shallow Reagan River as the main direction of attack, and dozens of ships tracing the river turned to the west at the fork of the river, at the same time, a large number of Soviet infantry using rubber boats appeared on the other side of the Regan River, and some strange-looking bridge-building equipment also arrived at the river bank under the cover of self-propelled guns and anti-aircraft guns.
The guns began to roar, and the steel helmets with big ears were ready to fire. Suddenly, a missile with a quadrangular tail grazed the top of their heads and flew towards the riverbank, leaving a slightly curved smoke trail in the air. In the blink of an eye, the missile was hitting a Soviet landing ship. The explosion sent up a white wave of water, and black smoke soon rose from the deck. Seeing that the river bank was close at hand, most of the surviving Soviet soldiers abandoned their boats and entered the water, some swam forward, some raised their weapons with both hands, and slowly and difficult to wade through the water.
If hundreds of missiles carry out a saturation attack in a short period of time, it will be easy to stop the enemy's attack. However, the defenders obviously did not have such equipment, and only a dozen missiles were fired into the river in front and behind, sinking and damaging more than a dozen Soviet ships. By the time the remaining landing boats approached the south bank, half of the rubber boats rowed by the infantry had already crossed the middle of the river, and the defenders were in full swing. The attacking forces on the north bank also showed no signs of firepower, especially the heavy assault guns equipped with large-caliber howitzers, which made a thunderous sound with every shelling, and the gunners in leather hats carried shells next to the chariots with the hatches wide open, without worrying about the counterfire, and the self-propelled tanks with single or twin anti-aircraft guns also lowered their muzzles, raging the defenders' positions on the other side of the river with a high rate of fire. …,
With a cohesive offensive layer, Soviet tanks and infantry soon formed an offensive on the south bank of the Reagan River. The battlefield situation seems to be biased in favor of the attacking side, but in the past week, the Soviets have launched nine attacks of this scale, and three fierce assaults in one day have been carried out in succession, and the old and new towns of Regensburg have been razed to the ground by artillery fire. But the German battle flag still flew on the southern banks of the Regan and Danube rivers. In fact, heavy shells and bombardment could destroy the entire line, but it could not remove the foxholes in the ruins, when the Soviet troops crossing the river approached the notorious "death zone." "The defenders suddenly burst out with terrifying combat effectiveness - guided or unguided rockets flew out from all corners, a machine gun ensemble played a symphony of death, and the vehicle-mounted rocket artillery deployed in the rear of the defense area also fired fiercely at the river bank, and the dense projectiles caused heavy rain on the river, many landing ships were hit before they had time to evacuate, and many caught fire and even capsized, and the two pontoon bridges that the Soviet siege troops were about to complete were also damaged one after another, and the Soviet army's rhythm of crossing the river was once again strongly disturbed. Although there were quite a few tanks and infantry that landed on the south bank, in the face of the calm and powerful resistance of the German officers and men, the number of troops fighting was rapidly reduced, and the offensive lasted less than half an hour before turning to the defensive. After turning the situation on the battlefield, the defending troops did not engage in a counterattack, and although this cautious defense was not conducive to expanding the results of the battle, it also made it difficult for the superior aviation units of the Soviet army to make great achievements, and the next battle inevitably fell into the old routine. If the Soviets could not make new progress before dark, they would inevitably withdraw the landing force after nightfall, so that they would not become spoils of the enemy in the night battle.
The battle of Regensburg is not accidental, it is not accidental, as an important town in northern Bavaria, it sits on the land and water transportation convenience, and from Regensburg north to Nuremberg, east to Passau are all continuous mountains (Alpine branches), the terrain is not only easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also not conducive to the passage of Soviet mechanized corps and baggage vehicles, but Regensburg at the confluence of rivers is also not a good bone to gnaw, it is the fifth largest city in Bavaria after Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Würzburg, with a vast urban area, dense buildings, ideal for urban defense warfare. In addition, the eastern part of the city, Regenstauf in the north, and Nittendorf in the west were also very ideal peripheral fulcrums, and the Soviets forced their attacks on the Regensburg city without capturing these fulcrums, so that they always had to redouble their guard against German infiltration and attack forces at night, and these passive vigilant defenses reversed the Soviet offensive forces.
In order to ensure the victory of the Battle of Munich, the German Joint Staff had already invested five German army divisions, two American defense line garrison divisions and a considerable number of imperial troops in the Regensburg area, and later sent a number of reserve troops. For more than a week, due to the Soviet army's firm control of air supremacy and obvious superiority in armored and artillery, the German army's loss rate on the battlefield was not optimistic, but the continuous investment of troops and steady defensive deployment made them grit their teeth and persist, and on the fifth day after the Soviet army launched an attack on Regensburg, the battle of Würzburg also began. As another strategic point in northwestern Bavaria, it is quite similar to Regensburg in terms of terrain and scale, as long as it occupies Würzburg, even if the Soviet army cannot win the battle of Regensburg, it can also pass through the flat basin of western Bavaria and threaten Munich, but the German team ordered to defend Würzburg is not a soft persimmon, more than 100,000 troops in the fierce general Joseph. Halpe's command was against twice the size of the Soviet forces, which had to pass through the Thuringian region before reaching Würzburg, where long lines of communication were constantly harassed by German rebels, and Würzburg's relatively narrow terrain was not conducive to the development of attacking forces. Despite the constraints of various objective factors, the Soviet Corps was in Andrei. Antonovich. Grechko's command was still swiftly engaged in siege warfare. Like the friendly forces fighting in Regensburg, the Grechko Corps occupied the city on the east bank of the Main River with a single sword, and crossed the Main River with extraordinary courage that night, but the battle still fell into a stalemate that the Soviets did not want to see, the Germans stubbornly resisted the Soviet offensive, and launched a large-scale battle in the Thuringian forest, which made the Grechko Corps once fall into a difficult situation of supply interruption, and the situation on the sand table even made the German generals see the bright prospects of encircling and annihilating this Soviet corps, However, the Joint Staff rejected the proposal of the Harpe command and continued to concentrate its main forces on the Battle of Munich, while the Soviet Army's powerful rearguard forces soon restored the lines of communication in the Thuringia area and sent nearly 100,000 additional troops to the Würzburg front. …,
In the face of the Soviet army's inevitable knocking offensive, the German Joint Staff sent all the troops that had recently arrived at home to the two key battlefields of Regensburg and Würzburg, and taking advantage of the time gained by the defenders' huge sacrifices, more than 700,000 German officers and soldiers rushed to southeastern Bavaria at night and night to add the German troops that had originally resisted the Soviet attack in the Munich area, and the total strength of the German army in the Munich campaign was close to one million, and this would also be the largest counterattack operation launched by the German army since the outbreak of the Second Soviet-German War...... )
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