Chapter 951: Assault on Soviet Positions
"Hey, hey, what, the ground forces that destroyed the Japanese army appeared on the front, mainly tanks and countless armed armored vehicles, what? The enemy's shelling has begun, you hold on, and we will send reinforcements to replace you, you must hold on to where you are, otherwise they will break through the line and approach our industrial area. ”
The phone hung up, and the chief of staff of the 1st Kazakh Front, Major General Niu Sikim, walked up to Marshal Malinovsky with a sinking face and said:
"Comrade Commander, the enemy has begun to attack on all fronts, our cavalry corps on the front line was driven back by their bombardment this morning, and nearly 20,000 comrades were sacrificed, and now the 77th Army on the position has not yet met the enemy, and now it is endless bombing and shelling;
How can we resist such an offensive method as destroying the Japanese army, they even use tank units as artillery support or temporary assault troops, and do not give us a chance to fight head-on at all. ”
"What are you afraid of, the revolution needs sacrifice, and we are not afraid of sacrifice, our great Soviet Russian Red Army still has tens of millions of troops, and tens of millions of people, even if we lose for a while, we finally defeated the powerful German army with the people's war;
Destroying the Japanese army is only two million troops, and we can drown them even with our numbers, not to mention that the Allies will fight them in Egypt next;
Once they defeat Egypt, the annihilating Japanese army will withdraw the troops of the southern front for the sake of their interests in the Middle East, and then we will have the opportunity to carry out a full-scale counterattack against the annihilating Japanese army. Malinovsky said coldly.
This was purely a consolation to himself, as a high-ranking general. Even if he no longer has military knowledge, he has no worries when he sees the appearance of various powerful weapons to destroy the Japanese army, unless he is a fool.
"The Second Front also began to suffer massive air strikes and artillery shelling. The annihilating army had a large army from the middle route, which was now close to Baputral;
According to our arrangement, the troops where they are ready to intercept them for half a day, and then retreat to the second line of defense, but I am worried that under such a large-scale air attack, our troops will be able to complete the assigned defensive mission. Niu Xikin shook his head and said.
Malinovsky sulked a cigarette rolled out of paper, defensively. Completely passive defense, such a war is simply a mental destruction of officers and soldiers.
"Is it possible for us to organize a counterattack against the enemy, or to attack their flanks in a roundabout way. Otherwise, even if our people die, it will be difficult for them to fight a positional battle. Niu Xikin frowned as he looked at the strategic map that the staff officers had quickly revised.
"The sky is full of enemy planes, and our every move will be under their surveillance, and it will be a detour to send us to death, to fight back? Where are the enemy's tank artillery waiting? Even if a million army counterattacks at the same time, it will be in vain. Malinovsky said helplessly.
"What about that night? We can send small forces to sneak up on them. Niu Xikin continued unrelentingly.
Malinovsky felt a cold pain in his forehead. He rubbed it vigorously before saying:
"Look at the troops that have been bombed today, how many of them have been moved by us last night, and the artillery positions that we have scattered and the remaining tanks that have been transferred elsewhere have also moved at night, but they were bombed at dawn this morning;
I suspect they have some special means of surveillance that can detect our troop movements, it could be spies, it could be our radio station, but I don't know what it is. ”
"So if the Japanese army has such a thing, then how can we fight? And aren't our plans for the future useless? Niu Xijin said in shock.
Malinovsky says:
"Not really. The Volgograd campaign plan drawn up by the National Defense Committee was aimed at an all-out general offensive war. did not use any strategy or detour at all, and directly destroyed the Japanese army with a large-scale land and air war;
Comrade Si Lunac and Comrade Vasilevsky probably also knew that it was useless to fight a positional war with the annihilating Japanese army, so they designed that all-out attack plan, hoping that it would succeed. ”
While they were talking, the huge bomber group of the Japanese army, escorted by fighter jets, had already carried out a devastating bombardment of the remnants of artillery and tanks on the two fronts of Kazakhstan.
On the position of the 77th Army of the First Kazakh Front, the commander Bosk personally went to the position, and when he saw the dense tanks and armored vehicles two or three kilometers away, he put down his binoculars and looked at his men;
These soldiers, who only had mohicans or a handful of submachine guns, and those small cannons that had not been blown up, understood that there was no point in dealing with the steel chariots in front of him.
In front of his position, a multi-purpose command vehicle was parked behind a small hill, and the army corps commander Hou Baoshan was waiting for Liu Chaoshan's order;
The bombardment at the front has ended, and the second round of air strikes will saturate the second front of Soviet Russia, so the first line of defense needs to rely on tank groups and armored groups to carry out an active attack.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the walkie-talkie of the command car rang dripping, Hou Baoshan pressed the answering button, and Liu Chaoshan's indifferent voice came out:
"Start attacking."
"The general offensive began, the artillery covered the full range of saturation bombing for fifteen minutes, the tank group began to attack at a constant speed, shelling the enemy positions, and the armored group then assaulted the enemy positions, whether they fled or not, we just had to take the position before the second round of air strikes." After receiving the order, Hou Baoshan turned on the full-range intercom and ordered loudly.
When Hou Baoshan's order was issued, under a ridge ten kilometers away from the rear of the front line, more than 300 rocket vehicles that had already been aimed at the target erupted a long flame from behind the launch tubes, a piercing and fierce sound, and countless white tail smoke left a long arc in the air with the high-speed departure of the rocket;
In less than ten seconds after a round of launch, when the smoke and dust of the rocket wagon's launcher had not dispersed, one bomb loader after another quickly drove to the back to quickly load the rocket and then turned to leave.
"Knock knock knock" along with the launch of the rocket car also has a dense heavy artillery group, the destruction of the Japanese army's consistent heavy firepower strikes in the air force has gradually reduced the role of artillery after the air force has a large number of bombers;
However, at this time, thousands of heavy cannons were constantly firing, and the barrels of the cannons were constantly retracting due to the reaction force of the launch, and the huge sound made the earth tremble.
The heavy artillery group is reloaded at the fastest speed according to the artillery bombardment rules of the Japanese army, and continuously strikes separately according to the pre-given firing units, so that the shells are not wasted and have the most effective killing effect. (To be continued......)