Chapter 649: Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg was founded in 1733 and was named after Tsarina Catherine I. It is the center of the Sverdlovsk region, an important industry of the Urals and Soviet Russia,
Transport, trade, scientific, cultural and administrative center. The city is located in the eastern foothills of the Ural Mountains, on the banks of the Iset River, 1,667 kilometers east of Moscow, the capital of Russia, with an area of 490 square kilometers.
Since Sun Liren led his Second Army Group to surround him, all external communication here has been interrupted, and the Soviet troops in Yekaterinburg can only rely on radio stations to receive instructions from Moscow, and in the face of Moscow's order to hold on to the last man, Yekaterinburg must not be left to the Chinese army, and the supreme commander of the defenders of Yekaterinburg, General Sisyat, is very helpless.
How could an army of less than 200,000 people, with only ten divisions in his hands, resist the attack of more than one million Chinese troops outside? They were about to drown themselves in a mouthful of spit, but thankfully the Chinese troops had not attacked so far, but had built fortifications outside, as if to be patient with the soldiers of Yekaterinburg, and there had been no major exchanges of fire for a week.
The commander of the Second Army Group, General Sun Liren, and the commander of the Russian Protector, General Alexei, came to a small hill, and from the telescope, you can faintly see the dome in Yekaterinburg.
"It's been twenty-three years, twenty-three years, and I'm finally here." After putting down the binoculars, Leksey muttered: "I will never forget the scene when I heard the murder of the Tsar's family twenty-three years ago, and my whole body was about to collapse, and the family of Miss Yulia and the Romanov family to whom I was loyal were all killed by those Social Workers............"
Sun Liren sighed softly and patted him on the shoulder, "Aren't you back now?" Just take revenge on them. β
"General Sun, let's take the lead in this attack on Yekaterinburg. I must occupy it and get back the remains of His Majesty's family. Looking at Alexei's pleading gaze, Sun Liren nodded, "Don't worry, even if you don't say it, I will also find the remains of the Tsar's family." β
Two days ago, Sun Liren received a telegram from the governor of the Soviet Union, in which Su Tong ordered that after the conquest of Yekaterinburg, the remains of Nicholas II's family, who had been shot dead by order of Umiyanov in Yekaterinburg 23 years earlier, were not only at the request of his daughter-in-law FΓΉ Yulia, but also a good opportunity to crack down on the condemnation of Stalin and the Social Workers Party he led. Now, since Alexei and his Russian protector are rushing to take the lead, how could Sun Liren refuse?
"General Sun, I understand that the reason why you are not attacking Yekaterinburg immediately these days is because you are worried about the interference of the Germans and the logistical supplies that will not be delivered in time. But now that half a month has passed, supplies should have arrived, right? Isn't it time to attack now? Seeing that Sun Liren finally agreed to his request, Ah Zhikexie couldn't help but ask.
Sun Liren did not answer Alexei's question head-on, but asked rhetorically: "General Alexey, have you read my country's famous book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? β
"Read!" Alexei nodded: "That's a great masterpiece, I can't believe that people more than a thousand years ago have swung strategy and war to such an extreme." β
"Yes, it's a great masterpiece. Do you have a situation where we are now and how similar it is there? The three nations are competing to fight on this land, and countless intrigues and violence are constantly staged. Sun Liren sighed: "Now we not only have to fight against the army of the Social Workers, but also to guard against the sneak attack or conspiracy of the Germans, so we must be very cautious in every step of our actions, and must not let the enemy have an opportunity, but after our observation these days, the Germans' hand has not yet reached here, so it is time to take it down, General Alexey, are your troops ready?" γγ
A hint of hideousness flashed in Alexei's eyes: "Dear General Sun, I have been waiting for this day for twenty-three years!" β
"Woo ......"
Several bombshells fell on the positions of the Soviet troops, and the attack of the Chinese army began, and in a moment after the order was given, tens of thousands of artillery pieces began to attack Yekaterinburg. The earth seemed to be shaken by this sudden bombardment, and the smoke and shells flying everywhere seemed to tell people that this was hell. Sirens sounded from time to time in the sky, accompanied by dive bombers dropping bombs into Soviet positions.
The dense sound of cannons enveloped the heavens and the earth and immediately formed an impenetrable loud sound, mixed with the screech of cannonballs cutting through the air or a somewhat dull whistling. About tens of seconds of effort. The Soviet positions, which had been bombed into ruins, were immediately bombed with dense bright spots.
In the smoke, I saw countless red lights flashing continuously, and the explosion sound that was enough to burst the eardrum was continuous like firecrackers, and the Soviet troops in the trenches and anti-artillery holes were caught off guard by this sudden and dense artillery fire.
In the moment, the originally neat position was blown up beyond recognition in the shelling, and the position was full of broken trenches and trenches, many soldiers were buried in collapsed trenches and scattered earth, and more soldiers felt that their eardrums were shaken by the strong explosion sound, and the ground under their feet seemed to be shaking rapidly.
Everywhere, some soldiers were blown up by shells that fell into the trenches, and their stumps, severed arms, and broken internal organs mixed with bloody mud were thrown around by the impact generated by the explosion, and the impact of the explosion in the air washed over every soldier on the Soviet position like a flood!
Looking at the planes that kept dropping bombs and the flying shells Private Loxoska, he felt like the hideous face of the Grim Reaper, and at this time it felt so weak and powerless, the only thing it could do now was to shrink its body in the trench, praying that it would live, and next to him was a bomb-blown anti-artillery hole, where one of his platoon of comrades was buried.
The artillery bombardment lasted for a whole hour, and the artillery and air forces poured hundreds or thousands of tons of bombs on the Soviet positions, combing the Soviet positions several times before this barbaric bombardment stopped.
Feryanov, the infantry lieutenant of the Russian guard at the front of the attack position, shook the steel helmet, removed the dirt before putting it back on, he raised the Suomi submachine gun in his hand, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Soldiers, the artillery and the air force have cleared the obstacles for us, now it's time for us to play, everyone rush with me." β
After saying that, the submachine gun in Feryanov's hand took the lead and rushed out of the trench.
"Ulla!"
"Rush!"
As the shelling stopped, countless Russian guards wearing dark green combat uniforms rushed out of the trenches, shouting the same slogans as their ancestors, jumping out of the trenches and rushing towards the Soviet positions.
When the surviving soldiers of the Soviet positions poked their heads out of the collapsed trenches and rubble, there were now dense soldiers everywhere in front of them, shouting the same language as their own charges, and the rifles in their hands kept shooting at themselves in a dense rain of bullets, many soldiers were stunned, they had never encountered this situation before, and some Soviet soldiers forgot to shoot with Mosingana rifles in their hands.
"You bastards, they are all the tsar's white bandit army, the army of those evil capitalists, hurry up and fire me, fire all at all!" At this time, the surviving Soviet political commissars hurriedly kicked and beat the stunned soldiers and drove them all to the trenches and opened fire.
"Dada......"
These soldiers, who speak the same language and are of the same ethnicity, began a bloody battle for their different camps and beliefs.
"Suzu Suzu Yoon"
Less than half an hour after the sound of the artillery rang out, the telephone rang in front of the desk of General Sisyat in the Yekaterinburg command.
"I'm Sithat, what's wrong? γγ
"Comrade General, the Chinese have attacked us, they have attacked us! Our forward positions were heavily shelled, the soldiers on the positions suffered heavy casualties, ask for artillery reinforcements, ask for artillery reinforcements! β
"You must resist it, and I will immediately let the artillery fire support you!" After putting down the phone, Admiral Sisyat picked up the phone again: "Pick up the field airfield ...... for me"
Wei Bing drove the Bi-7 fighter plane over Yekaterinburg and circled constantly, as a fighter pilot, he was now very envious of the brothers below who were flying dive bombers, who could throw bombs into the enemy's positions and enjoy the fun of bombing, while he could only act as nannies at high altitudes. This can be described as a painful torture for Wei Bing, a pilot who claims to be the proud son of heaven.
At this time, Wei Bingxian flew a group of small black dots in the southeast direction, and slowly these small black dots got closer and closer, and an airplane that he often saw in enemy aircraft models flew towards them.
"Everyone get ready for battle, the Yak fighters of the Russians are coming." At this time, the captain's voice also came from Wei Bing's headset.
At this time, the boys of the escort squadron all saw the Soviet fighters below that were painted silver and white.
The target group of the target formed an attack formation like a pack of bloodthirsty wolves and sheep, and swooped downward, and the heavy fuselage showed its advantage at this time, and in less than a moment they rushed to the side of the Soviet fighters.
"It's a plane from the Chinese people, let me catch it up!"
The commander of the Soviet army also commanded his own fighters to meet them.