Chapter 644: The Clash of Steel

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The Armenian army was armed to the teeth by the Chinese Empire. A large number of equipment in active service of the Chinese emperor can be found in the Armenian army, which makes the Armenian army although less than 120,000 troops, but it is a fully mechanized army, combat effectiveness is extremely strong, known as the world's second army is not accidental, but according to the military strength standards of the Chinese Empire, the Armenian army is the second country in the world after the Chinese emperor to fully realize the mechanization of the army.

If we talk about mechanized forces alone, the German army has only achieved the mechanization of a quarter of the main force, about 500,000 people. Among the main forces of the US military, there are many mechanized units, accounting for about one-third of the total strength. However, with the entry of the Chinese Empire into the war, the Chinese Imperial Navy blocked all shipping routes in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, and terminated the supply of oil to the Central Powers.

As a result, oil supplies on the European battlefield began to shrink. Despite the efforts of the German army to restore Romanian oil production, it was only two-thirds of the level before the bombing, which was not enough to support the fuel consumption of the American and German allies, and even the domestic industrial oil in Germany could not be satisfied.

Oil became a serious constraint on the Allied forces fighting in Europe, forcing Germany to bear the oil consumption of the Allied countries alone. Fortunately, Germany built a large-scale coal-to-oil industry, and under the grim situation, Hitler elevated the coal-to-oil project to the status of Germany's top priority, along with the nuclear weapons project. As a result, Germany's coal-fired oil production has increased significantly, reaching 12 million tonnes per year.

However, this is because Germany ignores the cost of coal-based oil under the premise that it ignores the cost of coal-fired oil under the Songun policy, and the refining cost of a barrel of coal-fired oil is almost several times the cost of crude oil extraction, and the long-term large-scale use of coal-fired oil will make Germany economically troubled until it is finally dragged down.

Thus, Hitler was well aware of the current situation in Germany. No worse than the United States. After Hitler declared war on China, he had already realized that the Chinese Empire would freeze oil exports to Germany and the entire Allies, and he knew that a war with the Chinese Empire would be a protracted war of attrition, so oil became a key factor in the German army's ability to resist the attack of the Chinese Emperor until Germany developed nuclear weapons. ╔╗

And Hitler also knew very well that the Soviet Union's Transcaucasian oil zone was currently under the actual control of the Armenian army, and Armenia, as a hardcore ally of the Chinese Empire, would never give Transcaucasian oil to Germany. And Transcaucasia is rich in oil resources. Once the Germans occupied it, then the problem of oil shortage in Germany would be fundamentally solved. There is no longer even a need to refine coal-to-chemical oil.

And so. Hitler's military conference, immediately after declaring war on China, gathered more than 200,000 elite German troops to advance into the Don River valley controlled by the Armenian army before the Second Battle of Stalingrad was clear.

Hitler wanted to seize the Transcaucasian oil zone, and the Armenian government naturally would not sit idly by, so the Armenian army took the initiative to attack, and the preemptive attack on the German army in the Don Valley became one of its inevitable choices.

The third key factor in the Armenian army's initiative was the result of the Chinese Empire's political and military pressure on Turkey. As early as the Armenian invasion of the Soviet Union's Transcaucasian oil region, Turkey, then a member of the Central Powers, faced strong political and military pressure from the Chinese Empire, and the Turkish government was forced to abandon the attack on the Soviet Union. ╔╗Withdraw the Turkish army in the Black Sea to the mainland to avoid head-on friction with the Armenian army. Because firing at the Armenian army is a declaration of war on the Chinese Empire, and the Turkish government knows this very well.

And when the Chinese Empire officially declared war on the Central Powers. After weighing the pros and cons, the Turkish government decided that it was not suitable to attack the Soviet Union again, and offending the Chinese Empire would bring ruin to Turkey, after all, the Chinese Empire's military base in Cyprus had a strong military capability and could inflict a devastating blow on Turkey in a short period of time. Therefore, on the day that the Chinese Empire declared war on the Central Powers, the Turkish government announced its withdrawal from the Central Powers, but it did not dare to offend the Allies, so it declared neutrality.

When the Armenian army attacks the Germans, the flanks will be threatened by the Turkish army. Therefore, the Chinese Empire, anxious to let the Armenian Military District fight the German army, had to put pressure on the Turkish government again, forcing the Turkish government to abandon its neutrality and must choose a side.

The Turkish government was originally very entangled, but soon after the Chinese Empire dispatched more than 10,000 bombers to raze Washington to the ground, the Turkish government immediately announced its membership in the United Nations and declared war on the Allies, completely standing in the United Nations camp headed by the Chinese Empire.

However, the Turkish government claimed that it had no money or equipment to fight the Allies, and had refused to send troops. ╔╗ So the Chinese Empire provided free aid to Turkey 50 million dragon coins to improve the lives of the Turkish people, and provided 1 billion dragon coins interest-free loans, allowing the Turkish army to purchase military equipment and war materials from the Chinese Empire.

In this way, the Turkish government, which had taken the money, had to set an example by declaring a state of war for the 220,000 Turkish troops in the Balkans and launching an attack on Bulgaria and Romania on the opposite side.

At the same time, more than 300,000 Turkish troops, who had been stationed on the Armenian border, withdrew. In this way, the Armenian army had no worries and was relieved to send the main forces to attack the German troops in the Don region.

On May 15, 1943, Armenia dispatched its entire air force and launched a large-scale surprise attack on Mostov, Luhansk, Donetsk and other cities actually controlled by the German army in the Don River basin.

It was a Sunday morning, and the clouds over the Don Delta had just disappeared when the hands of the clock tower in the center of Mostov pointed to 8:45. ╔╗In the Mostov Air Base, everything is as usual, a large number of German officers are routinely paying homage to Hitler's portrait, and many air defense post duty room personnel are changing shifts.

Suddenly, the roar in the air suddenly rang out, and thousands of Armenian fighters struck like lightning, which caught the Luftwaffe by surprise, and a large number of German planes were destroyed on the ground before they could take off.

On this day, the Armenian Air Force almost poured out, and even trainer aircraft went into battle, carrying out full-scale raids on 3 air bases and 25 field airfields of the Allied countries in the Don River valley.

The battle lasted from morning to about six o'clock in the evening, and the Armenian air force carried out four waves of raids on the German, Italian, Romanian and other Allied forces.

After taking off from the air bases of Gyumri and Vanazor, the Armenian Air Force planes maintained a four-plane formation and set sail in the direction of the Black Sea to the west. Armenian Air Force pilots skillfully used the thick clouds over the Black Sea to avoid the detection of Allied air defense posts on the ground, and evaded the search of Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft.

Subsequently, the planes skimmed the sea at an altitude of less than 10 meters above the sea surface, and after entering the land, they rose to 20 meters, and instead of flying directly to the target they were going to attack, they flew to the north of the Don River Delta, suddenly turned south, and attacked from the Bulgarian air defense zone through a sudden attack on the German air base, and the attack altitude was only 100-150 meters. During the attack, the Armenian pilots followed the latest air attack tactics learned from the Imperial Chinese Air Training Base, and the principle of "hitting the runway first, then hitting the planes" made it impossible for the German planes to take off and could only stare dryly on the ground.

The first wave attacked two air bases occupied by the Germans in the former Soviet Army, the main air force of the Allies in the Don River valley, which was listed as a key target by the Armenian Air Force. The second wave mainly attacked the field airfields of Italian bombers in Zaporozhye and eight airfields of more than a dozen mixed aircraft of the Balkan Allied forces such as Romania and Bulgaria. The third wave attacked the German airbase in Krivoy Rog. Finally, after completing the assault on two air bases and 25 field airfields in the Don Delta. An hour after 5 p.m., the base of the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet controlled by the Romanian Navy on the Simferopol Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea was also attacked by the Armenian Air Force, causing serious damage, and two Armenian Navy destroyers were sunk.

Thus, within 60 hours of the start of the war, the Armenian Air Force destroyed a total of 1,451 Allied aircraft, of which the Germans lost 1,036 and the Italians lost 161. The Allies lost more than 95% of their combat aircraft in the Don Delta, the entire Allied Don Air Wing was paralyzed, and the Armenian Air Force lost only 126 aircraft.

To carry out this air strike, the Armenian army carried out reconnaissance and preparation for a long time. Basically, they found out the situation of the various teams of the Central Powers, especially the situation of the air force, such as the location of the air base, the condition of the runway, the anti-aircraft artillery facilities, etc., and even the activities of the German officers were well understood.

Of course, most of this information obtained by the Armenian army was provided to them by the Chinese Imperial Intelligence Bureau. Its accuracy is almost 90 percent, highlighting the remarkable results achieved by the CIA in Europe for nearly half a century.

After the successful raid of the Armenian Air Force on the Alliance, it gained air supremacy over the Don Delta in a short time, so the Armenian Army quickly attacked and launched a blitzkrieg against the Alliance with its powerful mechanized forces.

On 15 May, half an hour after the Armenian Air Force carried out an air strike, five divisions of its ground forces, led by tanks and armored vehicles, launched a major offensive against the Allies on the opposite side from Taganrog, Shammert and Kamensk.

The Germans had five infantry divisions and two panzer divisions in the Don Delta, totaling about 120,000 men, at various strategic points.

Because the German army had a deep understanding of the Armenian army based on the experience of the previous Transcaucasian war, it adjusted its tactics and deployed a large number of troops in the Don River Delta, and the troops east of the Don River were empty, because they were afraid that Armenia would suddenly turn around and launch a blitzkrieg against the German army.

After repeated attacks, the Armenian army occupied the area around Taganrog and entered an area of more than 70 square kilometers west of the Don River and east of Luhansk. Then, the Armenian army attacked the Don Delta region in three directions, and the local Soviet partisans actively cooperated and informed the allied forces of the deployment of troops, which greatly reduced the military miscalculation of the Armenian commander. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. ).