Chapter 199: Demolition of Buildings and Suicide Counterattack

The bearded man didn't take the wrong medicine, but made such a choice very helplessly. Simply put, the Soviet Union needed time to accumulate strength for a counterattack on the Siberian battlefield, and also because from the defensive battle in Novosibirsk, it seemed to have found a little way to deal with the Chinese. In particular, the rapid advance of tanks against the Chinese was clearly demonstrated in previous battles, and tanks could not exert their full power in street battles.

Winter came, Stalin seemed to see the dawn of victory in the counterattack, and if he wanted to choose the battlefield, he could only choose Siberia. Winter in Central Asia is too mild compared to Siberia!

Therefore, it is necessary to drag the main forces of the Chinese Central Asian Front, even if it is a huge cost, to drag the Chinese, and create conditions for Chuikov's counterattack in Siberia, once the Siberian counterattack is successful, Chuikov can go south to the flank to hit the Asian Central ** team, and then he will undoubtedly be in a strategic advantageous position.

Zhukov knew that Moscow had made a choice, so he had to call back and obey the order. As an excellent soldier, Zhukov knew that because of Pavlov's stupidity, the current Soviet Union could not concentrate its forces on multiple battlefields to counterattack. Moscow must have weighed it again and again and threw the main force of the counterattack to Siberia, and the counterattack force must have been the elite drawn from Europe. As for the newly formed troops, Chuikov, like Zhukov, was used to fight defensive battles, and those who survived were fucking veterans.

Zhukov hastened to adjust his deployment and used Samarkand, a large city rarely seen in Central Asia, as a basis to reserve as much as possible food, water, ammunition, and other materials. Intensify the construction of fortifications and prepare for street fighting. At this time, Zhukov definitely played the last trump card in his hand, that is, the Third Mechanized Army, which carried out a powerful counterattack against the 10th Mechanized Army of the Chinese National Defense Army, which was crushed to the west on the eastern front. In order to make the counterattack more successful, Zhukov has been hiding more than 300 fighters far away. Also put into battle all at once. One of the biggest features of these fighters is that the airport is far enough, so they buy a one-way ticket, which means that if they can hold out until the end of the battle, there will be no fuel to fly back.

It cannot but be said that this is a thing that makes Zhukov extremely sad, the performance gap of the fighter plane is large, and the direct airport does not dare to put it closer, otherwise it may be discovered by the Chinese reconnaissance plane. And then there were the constant air strikes.

Beijing, Changhe, a certain weapons test site. A weapon that looks stupid and thick is being test-fired.

"The Great Wall tank chassis was adopted, the barrel was shortened, the barrel length was 5087 mm, and the caliber, rifled part was 3981 mm long. The number of bore rifling reached 64, and the barrel weight reached 5.2 tons. The shells are split ammunition. A small crane is installed on the left side of the gun carriage for loading ammunition, and the rate of fire of shells is 1 round in the first 2 minutes, and 1 round in 1 minute after that, the firing range is 17.5 km, the muzzle velocity is 607 m / s, and the crew is 15 people. Research is also underway on different types of shells, and there is also a self-propelled howitzer of this type with a caliber of 203. Clement, a Jewish engineer who worked for Rheinmetall, was in charge of giving a detailed explanation to President Fangda. This howitzer, which took two years from design to research and development, has finally come out with a sample.

The Wehrmacht advocates movement warfare. There is a tradition of destroying the enemy in the movement. But this sports war requires objective conditions, and sometimes you want to fight sports war to commit suicide. For example, in the two major battles that are being fought now, there is a situation where you can't exercise if you want to.

This is the case in Novosibirsk, which is simply not fully encircled by Novosibirsk, which is backed by the Ob River, before the onset of a harsh winter. Armored forces also do not have the environmental conditions for a large-scale long-distance attack. In the case of modern warfare, it is simply impossible to rely on railways and highways. So this movement warfare is a specific tactic that arises under specific conditions.

Historically, this tactic suffered a big loss from the Americans in North Korea, and as a cross-section, Fang certainly would not make this mistake. Therefore, when the army was modernized to a certain level, in the face of the Soviet Union, which was also an industrial power, it was inevitable to attack the fortified position. How? This is also thanks to the Soviet Union, which is parallel to time and space, and has invented many effective tactics and weapons for tackling tough battles.

For example, the howitzer with a caliber of 280 in front of him is a sharp weapon for demolishing buildings in President Fangda's mind.

"First give 12 military operations to Central Asia and the Far East, and test the effect in actual combat. I estimate that in Samarkand and Tashkent, there is a tough battle to be fought. Especially in Tashkent, the level of defensive warfare of this guy Lukin is very high. President Fang Da began to chatter again, and the people around him were used to it, so hurry up and record it.

At this time, Fang Jianxiong was most concerned about the Siberian battlefield, and Gao Sheng had already formulated a new battle plan, which was approved by the General Staff after being perfected many times. In order to realize this plan, a certain period of preparation for the campaign was required. The key to the plan was the thickness of the Ob River's ice, and didn't the Soviets look forward to winter? Gao Sheng is to fight a large-scale sports battle in winter, make full use of the opportunity of hardening roads and rivers in winter, and teach Chuikov a hard lesson.

In order to cope with the winter of minus 20 degrees, all kinds of cold materials began to be hoarded half a year ago and distributed one after another. There was no doubt that it was a difficult battle, but Gao Sheng was confident and decided to fight, and the General Staff agreed after repeated deductions. One of the main reasons for this is that the Far Eastern Military Region has nearly 500,000 officers and men who have been stationed in the Far East, Mongolia, and other bitter cold regions for a long time, and these officers and men have a considerable ability to withstand the severe cold that the Soviets have high hopes for.

When Lukin is mentioned, President Fang Da can't help but think of the famous Smolensk blockade, this guy is amazing! Guderian was beaten out of shit by Lukin. Therefore, to deal with the Tashkent fortress defended by this guy, you have to use a special weapon for demolishing buildings.

Sixty kilometers east of Samarkand, a contingent of armored vehicles and three-wheeled motorcycles rolled along the road. This was the vanguard of the 10th Mechanized Army, and according to the requirements of the General Commander, Bai Chongxi's 10th Mechanized Army quickly advanced westward. Liu Mingzhao did not intend to give Zhukov too much time to prepare for a defensive battle.

The torrent of steel rolled forward, and more than a dozen fighters in the sky were cruising at low altitude, and the battlefield seemed to be calm. The marching team also carefully formed an attack formation, using a tank brigade as an arrow, and quickly advanced along the road.

Bai Chongxi's expression in the command car was stern, and the reports from the front showed that no signs of Soviet troops had been found within ten kilometers. This phenomenon made Bai Chongxi very uneasy, after all, it was not far from Samarkand. The normal march was formed in two hours, and Bai Chongxi repeatedly asked the 30th Mechanized Division, which was the first to be careful and careful, to send as many small motorized troops as possible.

Boom, boom, continuous explosions blew up a few motorcycles that were moving, the vanguard squad turned around and flashed, and soon the tank regiment drove up, the Soviet artillery fire became more and more urgent, the vanguard tank regiment saw that it was all howitzers in a long-range attack, and the regiment commander Zhao Dengyu ordered to stop advancing, and continued to advance in a scattered formation at the same time calling for air reinforcements.

The four fighters that were cruising soon arrived, flying towards the Soviet howitzer position, and the Soviet army, which had been prepared for a long time, fired desperately with anti-aircraft guns, and the dive effect of the four planes was not good, but the location of the Soviet artillery position was accurately found. And the tank units of the Soviet army were discovered, and the news was returned.

Soviet tanks were found in the front, which showed that they had encountered the trump card in Zhukov's hands, the 3rd Mechanized Army of the Soviet Army. The 10th Mechanized Corps of the Wehrmacht was rapidly deployed, the self-propelled artillery regiment suppressed the artillery fire, and during the artillery battle between the two armies, the 60th Tank Regiment encountered Soviet tanks. Or rather, it was a flank attack by Soviet tanks, and about a regiment of Soviet tanks, killed from the woods where the two wings were hiding, and advanced as fast as possible in order to avoid air strikes.

After destroying more than 30 Soviet tanks, the planes could only continue to fly forward to find other targets to strike, because the tank formations of the two armies had been staggered together.

The intertwined tanks were 185 from the Chinese and 300 from the Soviets, which was almost one to two. According to the establishment of the Chinese tank regiment, Zhao Dengyu's 60th regiment should have more than 200 tanks, some of which were lost in previous battles and some of which broke down on the way. In contrast, the Soviet tank regiments were fully loaded and waited here for a long time.

This was a premeditated ambush, and the Soviet tanks desperately rushed forward, relying on the superiority of numbers, to mix with the Chinese tanks. After repeated experimentation, the Soviets found that it was impossible to destroy the Chinese Great Wall tanks with the T26 improved T45 tank guns on the front, and attacking from the flank or from the rear was the only option. So there is today's tactic of fighting the pain of being fired first, mixing with Chinese tanks and rushing to the back to open fire.

This tactic took a heavy toll, as one regiment of Soviet tanks was wiped out, but it also achieved good results, with 66 Great Wall-4 tanks destroyed or unable to advance after being hit on tracks. The entire battle lasted two and a half hours, and the sound of tank guns on the battlefield came and went, and everywhere there were tanks that caught fire after being hit.

This tank battle once again verified the superiority of the Great Wall tanks, among which a small number of Great Wall-5 tanks, even if they were shot in the back, were not pierced through the armor. Later war history used this paragraph to describe the Soviet counterattack, "This was a "suicidal" counterattack, and the Soviet Third Mechanized Army launched a fierce counterattack against the Chinese Tenth Mechanized Army at a place less than 60 kilometers from Samarkand under the premise of no air supremacy. This counterattack inflicted heavy losses on the 10th Mechanized Corps and successfully forced the 10th Mechanized Corps to halt its rapid advance for three full days. ”