Chapter 539: The Decisive Battle Against Russia (3)
The Russian Air Force soon became overwhelmed, and after losing thousands of fighters, the Russian Air Force top brass could no longer afford such losses, so he had to order the surviving Russian Air Force to disperse and retreat. The combined forces of the Chinese Air Force and the Cossack Air Force did not pay any attention to the fleeing Russian Air Force, they simply covered the huge bomber group and rushed towards their destination.
Without the obstruction of the Russian Air Force's interceptor group, the Allied Air Force soon flew over various targets, and the first bomb drop of the Kunpeng 3 bomber stunned both the Russians and the Cossacks. The Kunpeng-3 bomber, which had a speed of 975 kilometers per hour, flew over Russian airfields at a speed faster than the Cossack Air Force fighters.
In the completely open bomb door of the Kunpeng 3 bomber, a string of aerial bombs rained down on the airfield, with a bomb load of up to nine tons, so that the Kunpeng 3 bomber did not need to consider the accuracy of the bombing at all, and only needed to roughly aim at the target and carry out carpet bombing. Before the bombers of the Cossack Air Force could be dispatched, only one bombing by two Kunpeng 3 bombers had already plunged the largest front-line airfield of the Russian army into a sea of fire.
The Kunpeng 3 bombers of the Chinese Air Force, together with the Kunpeng 2 bombers of the Cossack Air Force, thoroughly bombed all important rear targets of the Russian army in the direction of the Volga River, and the Russian army suffered heavy losses, 71 field airfields, 13 railway junctions, 23 supply warehouses and 7 military camps were devastated, causing tens of thousands of Russian casualties and the loss of a large number of supplies.
Subsequently, the Storm Bear 2, Storm Bear 2B self-propelled howitzers and Storm Bear 2E self-propelled rocket launchers of the Chinese Empire began a heavy shelling of the Russian positions. The dense rain of rocket artillery quickly covered the forward positions of the Russian army, blowing up large areas of Russian fortifications, and the towed heavy artillery groups of the Cossack Empire, not to be outdone, also joined the artillery bombardment.
The dense artillery fire suppressed the Russian troops on the position and couldn't raise their heads, but soon the Russian heavy artillery positions also began to counterattack, because there was a lot of smoke and dust during the salvo of rocket artillery, it was easy to be detected by artillery observers, which made the Russian heavy artillery aimed at these obvious targets.
However, what they didn't know was that the artillery of the Chinese Empire was already self-propelled artillery, and these rocket artillery were flexible, and they immediately shifted their positions after one shot, and then fired after reloading. Other self-propelled guns were fired in the same way, which made the Russian artillery almost ineffective, and the only damage was the inconvenient towed guns of the Cossack Empire.
The artillery units of the Chinese Empire carried out shelling in companies, each of which consisted mainly of seven self-propelled guns, one artillery radar vehicle, one command vehicle and ten tracked ammunition supply vehicles with lifting loaders. When the Russian heavy artillery position began to counter-suppress, according to the opponent's ballistics, the artillery radar vehicle used its own advanced computer system to quickly calculate the approximate position of the opponent.
The radar vehicle uses the command vehicle as a relay through the networked computer, and the calculated data is quickly transmitted to the gunner of the self-propelled gun, and the gunner does not have to aim, but directly uses the data from the radar vehicle to shell the target beyond the visual range.
The artillery units of the Chinese Empire relied on flexible transfer without any damage, while the Russian artillery suffered the accurate roll call of the Chinese Imperial artillery, after two hours of shelling and firing, the Russian artillery units had suffered casualties and completely lost the ability to counterattack.
After destroying most of the opponent's artillery forces, other artillery of the Chinese artillery also joined the ranks of the shelling, and soon under the cover of the Grizzly 3 tank, the Storm Bear 2 anti-tank destroyer and the Storm Bear 2C self-propelled mortar, plus the White Bear 2 armored personnel carrier transporting a large number of troops, began the front assault.
The Russian army that reacted quickly sent their trump cards, M4 tanks and Wildcat tank destroyers, but unfortunately whether it is an M4 tank or a Hellcat tank destroyer, the effective range of the 76 mm gun is only 1.5 kilometers, this is only an effective range, if you want to penetrate the 400 mm front armor of the Grizzly 3 tank, I am afraid that it may not be effective even within 100 meters, and when encountering the tank units of the Chinese Empire, these Russian tanks are considered a complete tragedy.
The 128-mm cannon of the Storm Bear 2 anti-tank destroyer and the 115-mm main gun of the Grizzly 3 tank can destroy the Russian M4 tank, which can be done at a distance of 2 kilometers. In addition, they are also equipped with a complete set of radar sighting devices with fire control radar and infrared night vision, which greatly improves their hit rate, so that a large number of M4 tanks and Hellcat anti-tank destroyers are destroyed on the way before they enter their effective range.
The Grizzly 3 vehicles and self-propelled guns of the Chinese Empire were equipped with an independent suspension system with a mixture of torsion bars and springs, and they drove on rough ground without any bumps, so they could travel much faster than wave-based vehicles with no suspension system.
In the case of a large advantage, the chariot troops did not hesitate at all, and the Imperial Chinese Army quickly cut through one Russian defense line after another like a quick knife, and quickly advanced behind the enemy, and then followed by the polar infantry army and the Cossack army on the truck, and worked together to divide and surround the panicked Russian army, and annihilate them one by one.
What the Russian top brass never expected was that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Imperial Army was so strong, accompanied by the cover of bombers and all kinds of artillery, the mechanized troops of the Chinese Empire quickly penetrated into Russian territory, penetrated 100 kilometers in one day and one night, and unexpectedly seized the largest railway bridge on the Volga River.
Relying on this bridge, the logistical supplies of the Chinese Imperial Army were continuously replenished, supporting the main force to continue to advance, and then the army quickly conquered the important Russian city of Kovel, and encircled the local 300,000 Russian defenders.
"I need reinforcements, I need reinforcements." The commander of the South-Eastern Front, Colonel-General Trotsky, shouted loudly over the radio. At this time, Ulyanov, who was in Fort Paladin, was also very troubled, in order to avoid being destroyed by the Chinese Imperial Air Force, the main force of the Russian army was not deployed on the border line, and there were more than four million elite Russian troops in the rear.
Facing the Southeastern Front, which had already been surrounded by NATO coalition forces, Ulyanov hesitated. His own equipment was inferior to that of men, and Ulyanov was mentally prepared for such a situation, and the news from the front confirmed his idea.