Chapter 616: The Great Soldier Pressed the Realm
The power of the Mother of Bombs stunned the attacking Chinese soldiers, who seemed to them to be out of the realm of weapons, which was nothing short of a miracle.
In fact, Emperor Yang's version of this thing is very different from the tall cupboard, because for him there is no target for this kind of bomb, he is purely to show the Russians prestige, those Russian fortresses can't even withstand a ton and a half, let alone six tons. So he doesn't need to consider too high penetration ability, simply put, he doesn't need to make the shell too thick, so that the charge can be increased, so the bomb of less than six tons is stuffed with a full three tons of passivated black gold and aluminum powder mixture, which is much more ruthless than the genuine tall cabinet, both the charge and the power of the charge are much more ruthless.
The power generated by the instantaneous combustion of three tons of this mixed charge in a closed tank leveled hundreds of meters around, and created a huge crater tens of meters deep, and more importantly, the seismic effect of the explosion collapsed countless Russian bunkers around, and even their underground headquarters were almost destroyed, even if they did not collapse completely, those shattered concrete blocks also beat the inside into a mess, and poor General Karekin had one leg smashed, and his entire face was blurred with flesh and blood, even if he could be saved, he would be crippled.
This bomb completely destroyed the will of the Russian army, and in the face of such weapons, there was no point in holding on, even without the order of the command, those gray cattle who watched the group of liberators hovering in the sky, and feared that they would become the next target, began to walk out of their broken fortress in droves and surrender to the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side. After the mother of the second bomb fell, General Karekin, who understood that the situation was over, gave the order to surrender to the remaining 94,000 officers and soldiers in the hospital bed of the ambulance, and then all the Russian troops surrendered one after another out of their hideouts, and Kurgan was captured.
Immediately after that, while making every effort to repair the railroad damaged in the war, the 1st Army, which had opened the way with the 1st Panzer Division, began to rush towards Chelyabinsk, and the 11th Army on the southern route also began to move north. Preparing to encircle Chelyabinsk with the First Army, the 7th and 9th Armies, which had previously stopped advancing on the Northern Front, launched another offensive aimed at Kamensk.
The fall of Kurgan was like a heavy blow to Grand Duke Nicholas directly stunned, his whole plan was completely bankrupt, he really couldn't imagine how his army of hundreds of thousands could not hold a city with plenty of ammunition and supplies for even half a month, but soon when the Liberator bombing group appeared in the sky over Chelyabinsk, he suddenly understood how heavy the pressure Karekin was suffering these days.
"Destroying the cities of the Russians with bombs, destroying their spirits, making them wail day and night in fear, turning Chelyabinsk into a blazing torch. Let our lofty image be forever engraved in their minds, so that for a long time to come, they will face us with only bone-chilling fear. On the military airport in Pavlodar, Wang Shizhen looked at the liberators taking off in front of him and said proudly.
This is actually Yang Feng's goal of forcing them to capture Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg before the arrival of winter, these two cities are the real gates of Russia, and to the east of these two cities, no matter what kind of Russian army is played. Nikolai will not be really afraid, only by conquering these two cities can he really feel fear, this is a psychological boundary. Of course, this is also a military boundary, if large airfields are built in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. Liberator bombers can cover almost all of Russia with a ton and a half of bombs, and they can bomb Moscow or St. Petersburg directly with a ton and a half of bombs.
Yang Feng would not have made the mistake of Napoleon and the mustache, he would not have launched an offensive in Russia in winter. The Chinese do not have the cold tolerance of the Russians, and if they risk launching an offensive operation in the freezing cold of minus 30 degrees Celsius, they will be like his two predecessors, and during this time he will at most go south to clean up the remnants of the Kazakhs. Attacking the Volga valley is resolutely not to be done.
Of course, he could not have watched Nikolai survive the winter comfortably, during which he would have to carry out a non-stop strategic bombing of Russian cities, burning them with cheap coagulation, just as the United States had done against Japan and Germany in the original history. Get thousands of bombers, thunder bombing at close range, the Volga River basin is no problem, and you can fly to Kazan with 500 kilograms of bombs. Long-distance use of the Liberators, his current task for Kunpeng Aviation is to produce at least two hundred Liberators a month, mobilize all industrial capacity, must ensure this number, and then these Liberators are all piled up on the Russian battlefield, as long as the weather permits, they will not stop bombing. Navigation stations have already been built in Sweden, and if a few more are built in Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, it will be enough to ensure navigation throughout Russia.
Moreover, Russia has no air capabilities, and the fastest speed of the fighters in their hands cannot even reach half of the Liberator's, let alone catch up, even if the Liberators are waiting for them in the final air battle, it is difficult to say who will lose or who will win, and the bunch of large-caliber machine guns like hedgehogs are not vegetarians.
Of course, Grand Duke Nicholas would not have thought of this, and air bombardment has become the norm, but he still doesn't understand the high-end concept of strategic air raids, and what he needs to think about now is how to keep these two cities, but looking at the bombs that are whizzing and falling in the sky, His Royal Highness the imperial uncle really has a feeling of powerlessness, he can face the enemy on the ground, but how can he face the enemy in the sky?
Anti-aircraft artillery on the ground? By now, those anti-aircraft guns have fired thousands of shells, not even a single bomber has been shot, and even most of the shells can't reach these aerial monsters at all, the rate of fire that can be hit is too slow, and the shells have flown to a high altitude and people have left early.
Airplanes? More than 50 fighters in his hands took off to meet the enemy, but those planes were also useless, you must know that the liberators were more than 5,000 meters at this time, anyway, such bombing, as long as the coagulation qiyou bombs were thrown down, as for aiming, it didn't matter, even if the aim was not accurate, just throw it into Chelyabinsk, such a height can be obtained for the Russians who are at the mid-World War I level of aircraft, but it is almost the limit.
A series of small Russian planes with their heads held high and desperately firing, like a flock of sparrows, in vain attacking the huge liberators, the latter raised the altitude a little and they were helpless, some of the liberators who had completed the bomb even flew directly to the top of these small planes, and then a large caliber machine gun spewed flames, and the Russian fighters that did not shoot down the enemy planes scattered like frightened ducks, and several unlucky ones began to fall in flames, and this scene made Grand Duke Nicholas feel sad and indignant, Fighters can't beat bombers, what kind of world is this.
In this way, when the millions of troops on the ground were advancing towards their respective targets, hundreds of bombers in the sky also began to bomb Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, and Kamensk every day, and before the Chinese soldiers arrived, the entire east of the Ural Mountains had been bombed into a mess, and those ordinary Russian people fled from their homes one after another, helping the old and the young to flee westward in various ways, as for the soldiers who stayed behind, while enduring the bombardment every day, The courage to fight is also running out day by day.
From Kurgan to Chelyabinsk is nothing more than 200 kilometers, the fastest armored division has begun to attack the outer defense line of the Russian army in three days, and Nie Xianfan has an infantry division in a truck, with only more than 30,000 people, but Grand Duke Nicholas, who has an army of more than 100,000 people, still does not dare to go out and take the initiative to attack, in fact, this is what Nie Xianfan is looking for, in his opinion, the best thing is that the Russians take the initiative to find themselves to die, and he can just test the chariot ring defense line that has not had the opportunity to use.
At this time on the northern front, the Seventh Army easily seized Shadrinsk, where the Russian army only had a dissatisfied, less than 40,000 people, how could it block more than 200,000 troops, not to mention that it was not a strong fortress like Kurgan, and the Russian army was directly driven out under the bombardment of a large number of rocket artillery.
The Ninth Army, which attacked Yekaterinburg from Tyumen, was the fastest, because they not only had an armored division in their hands, but also captured several trains in Tyumen, and the front chariots were raided, and the trains and trucks in the back were transporting troops together, and before the First Army could reach Chelyabinsk in a big way, they had already reached the north of Kamensk. Miao Haining, who fought all the way from Central Asia, didn't care about the Russian army in Kamensk at all, he knew better than Qin Cheng the power of an armored division in the field, and after leaving the 6th armored division and their old partner 106th Division to guard the Russian army in Kamensk, the remaining 200,000 troops crossed Kamensk and went straight to Yekaterinburg.
The Kamensk Russian army stupidly tried to cut off the rear of the Ninth Army with an army to the north, but Han Yuanhe and Li Tingyu turned back head-on, not only did not complete the task, but lost more than one division, with their mechanized group staring at the side, the Kamensk Russian army also broke this idea, and the Seventh Army was about to hit the door, who still has the time to care about others.
At the same time that the rocket artillery of the Ninth Army opened fire on Yekaterinburg, the main force of the First Army finally drove to Chelyabinsk, and then the 11th Army, which was the slowest at the slowest speed, also captured Yemanzhelinsk on the southern front, and the four armies were all in place and began to launch a general offensive against the last three armies of the Russian army east of the Ural Mountains. (To be continued......)