Chapter 421: Blitzkrieg in the East
readx; At this time, the sky was just dawning, and the air force, which had already reached the basic take-off conditions, did not delay too much, and more than 2,000 fighters, more than 1,000 dreadnought dive bombers, and more than 500 B24 Liberator bombers filled the entire sky. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is the entire air force lineup of the Northern Army Group, and after years of development, the size of the Chinese Empire's navy, land, and air forces in the northeast region has long exceeded the strength of the Chinese Empire's troops.
Whether it is equipment or personnel, it can be said that from the very beginning, Su Dao was rushing to war with the Soviet Union, and the domestic military reform can be described as drastic, and it does not shy away from media exposure, but the reform in the northeast region is rarely known.
'Buzzing ......'
There was a constant buzz in the air, fighters and bombers, and all kinds of sounds mixed together, and there was a strange feeling.
As early as a few months before the start of the war, Army Group North began to sit and prepare for this, and special forces infiltrated the territory of the Soviet Union one after another, responsible for finding the airfields of the Soviet Air Force, as well as the army armored units and the army command center.
Although the strength of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District was not as strong as that of the West, the Soviet Far Eastern Military District at this time still did not dare to be underestimated. Historically, at the beginning of the Soviet-German war, the Far Eastern Military District had only more than 700,000 troops, but this situation changed after the arrival of General Apanashchenko.
Stalin seemed to have sensed the anomaly in the Far East, and not only sent some troops from the central region to the east, but also ordered Apanashchenko to expand the scale of conscription.
As a result, history was changed again, and by the end of November 41, the Far Eastern Military District, which was supposed to have less than one million troops, had two million troops, and this was the result of the transfer of more than one million troops to the west.
However, this is also just right, the Far East is already sparsely populated, and in many places there is not a single person for dozens of kilometers, and Apanashchenko's forced recruitment of so many soldiers can be said to have overdrawn their future war potential in advance.
Once the two million troops in their hands are annihilated, then they will be left with no troops to use, and the Far East will no longer be able to support this battle.
However, Germany attacked them in the western region, and the Soviet Union obviously could not have the extra energy to send troops to and from the Far East, perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps Su Dao had already guessed that there would be such a possibility, so it happened that it chose to start the war now.
At this time, Germany had not yet been defeated, and the war potential of the Far East had been stimulated by at least 80 percent, and a victory in the sortie would inevitably be a great victory.
Looking at the dense fighter planes in the air, Apanashchenko had a feeling of wanting to vomit blood, he had been in the Far Eastern Military District for a while, and he also knew a lot about the situation on the other side, although he didn't dare to say that any movement could not escape his control, but at least he knew himself and his enemy.
But now there are so many air forces suddenly, which makes Apanashchenko a little difficult to accept, because the intelligence in his hands is that the other side only has a maximum of 2,000 fighters, but now? There were no less than a thousand on their heads alone.
Apanashchenko obviously did not believe that the commander of the opposing side would use half of the air force here, since the war started, it would definitely be an attack on all fronts, then the air force that appeared with them was very likely to be a third, or a quarter.
Thinking that there was an air force airfield not far behind him, General Apanashchenko suddenly woke up, and hurriedly shouted with a somewhat panicked face: "Go and inform the air force comrades to take off to meet the battle." ”
"Comrade Political Commissar, please please report the situation here to Comrade Stalin, I need to immediately go and command the troops for defensive operations."
Apanashchenko glanced at the commissar hastily, and he was about to walk out of the room.
"Comrade Apanashchenko, the best defense is to attack, since the Chinese have already launched an attack on us, then we should respond to them with a more aggressive attack, not defense, I think Comrade Stalin will not agree to your request for defensive operations."
The commissar looked at Apanashchenko with some dissatisfaction and responded.
(At this time, the commissar did not know who it was, and the information could not be found for a long time, and there was very little information about the Far Eastern Military District, so I only found the commander Apanashchenko.) But now the Soviet Union has just finished a purge at home, and many people have been withdrawn. )
Like many political commissars, he did not fight any major battles, but after he came out of the political school, he entered the army as a political commissar, and later rose all the way to the current political commissar of the Far Eastern Military District
I have to say that the Soviet commissars in this era still had a lot of power, and even the commanders of military districts often did not dare to oppose their words, because they could put a hat on you at any time, and they didn't even need evidence, and the commissars could shoot officers or soldiers directly
The well-known Overseer is a group of soldiers led by the political commissar, holding a machine gun in the back, and whoever dares to retreat when charging, or stagnates to avoid the opponent's bullets, then the political commissar is likely to order the Overseer to fire.
The commissar who partnered with Apanashchenko was a complete nerd type, a die-hard admirer of Stalin, an unconditional supporter of Stalin, and no matter whether the decision was right or wrong, anyone who rebelled against Stalin, or said bad things about Stalin, was cleaned up by him.
Otherwise, he would not have sat in the position of political commissar of the Far Eastern Military District at such a young age, and Apanashchenko wanted to take a defensive approach to resist the attack of the [***] squadron, but the commissar felt that he should take the initiative to attack.
Because the prevailing idea in the Soviet army was now the offensive, the main cause was that after Trotsky was removed from all posts and expelled from the country, the principle of defense became a secondary form of war, and both Stalin and Zhukov were mainly concerned with blitzkrieg.
Because the shock brought to them by the German blitzkrieg in the previous was too great, and when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, it still used the blitzkrieg, which caught the Soviets a little off guard, so they wanted to imitate the Germans for blitzkrieg.
The two men quarreled with each other and wasted some time in vain, and in the end Apanashchenko, fearing that this would cause more time to be lost, had to promise the commissar that he would follow Comrade Stalin's tactical ideas and give the order for a counterattack after understanding the situation clearly.
In this way, the commissar let Apanashchenko go and let him know the situation, while he himself quickly contacted Stalin and reported the situation here truthfully.
One thing that needs to be explained is that the Soviet Union's military development can be described as rapid progress, from a rabble to a world-class power in just a few years, but in the early days of the war, the Soviet army did not make much progress.
Not only are their weapons and equipment backward, but their communications facilities are also relatively backward; many units do not have radio stations, and they basically rely on people for communication and individuals for operations. It's hard to do anything with friendly forces, and even if you do, it's easy to miss the best time.
And the telegram translation takes too long, it takes about ten minutes to go back and forth, of course, this speed is not slow, but compared to the radio on Su Dao's side, it is simply weak.
The main force of the air force soon arrived at the first airfield, and in the face of a dense crowd of enemy aircraft, the Soviet air force on the ground obviously did not expect such a situation, and as on the Western Front, they were faced with the loss of all their air force at the beginning of the war.
"The lightning group arrived at airfield No. 5, the fighters took cover, preventing the enemy forces on the ground from rising into the air, the bombers carried out bombing, and the dive bombers looked for some exposed targets for a secondary attack."
The lead plane looked at the situation of the lower airport through the bombshell and commanded one after another.
Immediately after that, the various fleets were put into battle, and the fighters were constantly hovering in the air, and if a Soviet fighter wanted to take off, or was taxiing, they would give them the most severe blow from the rear.
The aerial bombs on the bombers kept falling on the airfield, instantly blasting the snow-white earth into large craters, and a lot of snow turned into snow in an instant.
For a time, the Soviet air base, which was named the No. 5 airfield by Army Group North, became a sea of fire, with explosions, cries, and constant voices of welcoming the enemy, and ground anti-aircraft fire also joined the war group, but due to the lack of organization, many of them seemed to be a little free and scattered, and they were killed by dreadnought dive bombers or fighters as soon as they fired.
Although the fighter cannot dive, the bomb it carries under its belly is not a vegetarian, and the launch of the Weilai is not much weaker than that of the Dreadnought.
"Let's go, it's time for us to play, remember our mission, go around behind the enemy and surround him, if anyone falls behind, don't act alone, join the other combat classes nearby, and wait until the battle is over before returning to the team."
The veteran squad leader saw the platoon commander signaling the troops to leave, stood up, patted the snow on his buttocks, loaded the MP40 bullet on his chest, and beckoned his soldiers to walk forward.
The tank army and the armored infantry corps were responsible for the frontal attack, and the rest of the troops were outflanked from both flanks, and this time Li Chengxuan's purpose was very simple, that is, to use one of his own army groups to surround the Soviet army in front of him, and defeat them in one battle as much as possible, so as to win more preparation time for the troops.
But then again, it is indeed more than enough for an army group to defeat this little force on the opposite side, with the support of 1,200 tanks, and as many air forces as there are needed, there is no reason why he cannot win this war.
Hu Xiaoquan could only hold his rifle, load the bullet and follow the steps of the squad leader step by step, enlisted in the army for a year and a half, if it was placed in the past, he could be a squad leader if he didn't perform well, and if he had a little credit, he would be an officer.
But Hu Xiaoquan felt that his life didn't seem to be too good, he didn't catch up with the good time, he was a soldier for a year and a half, and now he is still a first-class soldier, one level higher than the new recruits who have just enlisted.
And what's even more tragic is that his marksmanship is not the best in the squad, so the position of sniper is out of his favor, and his reaction speed is not the fastest, nor is he the most clever, so the newly added assault and fireman also has no chance with him.
The tragic Hu Xiaoquan could only charge with a rifle on his back and a grenade, but Hu Xiaoquan had an advantage, although he said it before, no one believed it, so he didn't mention it later.
This battle seems very simple, but Hu Xiaoquan feels very dangerous, and a voice in the dark tells him again, cheer up, otherwise you will lose your surname.
"Speed up."
After talking to the communicator at the battalion headquarters a few times, the company commander hurriedly shouted loudly.
The unknown troops can only follow the company commander to accelerate forward, like this kind of combat they are impossible to take trucks, short-distance combat, plus now basically all the trucks have been transferred to logistics, it is impossible to come back for the time being, so they need to march at least 20 kilometers or more, and then put into battle.
But the real situation was that the tank army and the soldiers of the armored infantry army fought too fiercely, and the Soviets could not bear it and began to retreat, so in order to prevent the enemy from running away, they could only run desperately. (To be continued.) )