Chapter 486 486 Over the Ural Mountains
"The Chinese are too bad, dare to fight for a while?!" I believe that this is the voice of many Soviet and Russian soldiers, when they gathered and began to prepare to resist the attack of the Chinese, the result was no different from the previous two days, or air raids.
However, even if they really ran into the Chinese army on the opposite side, they would only be defeated, because the unit in front of them was the first trump card of Qi Yiming's Red Police Corps, formerly known as the 309th Division of a military district of the Soviet Union with the strength of one division, and now a three-star unit called the First Red Police Division.
In Qi Yiming's view, it was not a difficult thing to cross the Ural Mountains to attack Soviet Russia. Sometimes the place is too wide and does provide a lot of depth for the defenders, but this also depends on the situation, like Qi Yiming aggressively pulled 2 million troops over, with the area of 4 million square kilometers in Western Russia, it is really nothing.
The terrain of the Ural Mountains is not particularly high, and the mountains are flanked by endless plains, the Soviets built highways and railways through the mountains, and there are many directions to choose to break through, one is the route from Yekaterinburg in the north and the first Uralsk to Perm, and the other is Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust through Yuryuzan and Sim to Ufa.
The south road is a bit undulating, which is a bit troublesome, but the 1st Division of the Red Police is in charge, so it should be fine. The northern road is a direct bypass of the Ural Mountains, and the Kama River, a tributary of the Volga River, cuts through the Ural Mountains, making the middle part of the Ural Mountains not only relatively flat, but even surrounded by river valley plains.
Qi Yiming's Red Police Corps and the troops of other countries were almost fully mechanized and heavily armed, and they could not climb the mountains, so they could only take highways and railways, and the flat terrain of the northern line facilitated the mobility of Qi Yiming's troops. When the border between Siberia and Makashev was divided, the borders of the Sverdlovk and Perm regions were hastily used as the de facto control border. Both sides are basically safe, and the E22 highway crosses the two states, which is a natural advantage for the attackers.
After China announced that it was going to attack the Soviet army in Makhashev, Leopold laid a heavy defense in Perm Oblast, especially in this area, where the river valleys were crisscrossed, although there were no permanent military fortifications, but a real defense could also make the attacking side uncomfortable. However, the flat and unsheltered area was devastated at the beginning of Operation Thunderrage, and even had to abandon the established defensive lines one after another to avoid being hit more violently.
The main offensive on the northern front is the Siberian and Far Eastern armies, about 100,000 people from both sides have gathered together, all Soviet-made equipment, speaking of which these troops are not the most elite forces of the two countries, but after the independence of the two countries, the reorganization and training of the troops have not stopped, compared with the current miserable Soviet Russian army, it is a strong one.
Although the armies of the two countries also follow the road, it is not necessary, because there are at least tens of kilometers of plains on both sides of the road, which is convenient for the movement of their heavy troops. The Soviet Russian army was a defensive force in the early 20,000s, and the first two days were taught a hard lesson by the air force, and now they are sleepy and tired, and they were suddenly attacked by the Siberian and Far Eastern armies, and they were repulsed before they held out for long.
On the contrary, the average quality of this Soviet Russian army was slightly higher, and although it suffered defeat, it was not completely defeated, but retreated in a relatively orderly manner under the command of the commander of the unit. And the Siberian and Far Eastern armies also pursued relentlessly, attacking the rear guard units of the Soviet Russian army one after another, and eating the Soviet Russian army one bite at a time.
The commanders of the Soviet Russian army actually have their own small calculations, they plan to lure the coalition forces into the depths, and then pull them to a deep enough place, and then concentrate their forces to kill them. However, there were several technical difficulties that allowed their project to finally unfold, but the effect was completely different.
First, the defense force of the Soviet and Russian armies on the northern route is 50,000 or 60,000 people, and the Siberian and Far Eastern armies, the forward troops of the coalition forces, are a large combined army of 100,000 people.
Second, the joint 5th Army of the Siberian and Far Eastern armies is a vanguard force, followed by the joint 11th Army, the 12th Army and the 19th Army of the United as many as 300,000 troops, the Fifth Army has entered, and the three armies behind will definitely follow up when they get the order.
For the sake of the convenience of joint command, Qi Yiming established a unified joint operations command center, redivided the establishment of the 12-nation coalition forces, and established 20 joint group armies, the former Soviet republics of Siberia, the Far East, and Kazakhstan, basically formed six joint group armies because of Soviet-made weapons, and those who also used Chinese weapons were listed separately, and the Red Guard Corps and the remaining friendly armies of small countries were organized into 14 other joint group armies.
Qi Yiming also did not organize the small countries that came to rub equipment into the same group army, because then the combat effectiveness could not be guaranteed, and the troops of a single country were stuffed into the group army dominated by the Red Police Force.
In fact, to be honest, there is almost no gap between the two sides of the equipment level, they are all Soviet-made weapons, but they can't stand the larger scale and more number of the combined Fifth Army, maybe in the case of one division against one division, the Soviet Russian army can still fight a dozen, but if the number is too different, it can't be fought at all.
The Fifth Army also first called the air force and its own artillery to bombard it for a while, and then the tank troops and mechanized infantry rushed up. The Fifth Army of the Northern Front pursued the Soviet Russian army all the way to Perm, the capital of the region, and at this time the Soviet Russian army also eased up, and the rest of the troops also came closer, and launched a relatively fierce battle with the Fifth Army on the outskirts of Perm.
At the beginning, more than 60,000 Soviet Russian troops and the Fifth Army were still inseparable, and the Fifth Army could not take advantage of too much, but until the joint 12th Army, which had three integrated Red Police Divisions, arrived, the Soviet Russian army could not resist. The firepower of a single Red Police Division is comparable to that of an entire Soviet-made Fifth Army, and a large number of Type 99 main battle tanks are interspersed with destruction on the battlefield, cutting off the Soviet Russian army like a sickle harvesting wheat.
The unstoppable Soviet Russian army wanted to withdraw into the city of Perm, but was still directly blocked by the fast-moving Red Police Division, so they had to drop their weapons in large areas and surrender to the coalition forces. The northern front was penetrated by the coalition forces, which made the coalition forces obtain the first breakthrough point, from Perm to the southwest are important Russian cities such as Kazan and Ulyanovsk, which are also the main entrenchments of the Soviet Russian army.
The victory was achieved on the northern front, and the combined 1st Army from Chelyabinsk in the middle was also unambiguous. Although the passage of the boulevard was very dangerous and far less convenient than that of the northern line on the plains, it nevertheless crossed the Ural Mountains and reached the Republic of Bashkortostan as expected.
Qi Yiming still had some scruples at the beginning, worried that the Soviet Russian army would turn into pieces and attack and harass his troops with small troops in the Ural Mountains, but now it seems that the Soviet Russian army does not have this IQ, it is estimated that they do not have the ability to execute, they are worried about what will happen if the soldiers are released and desert or defect to the enemy, so in the end they can only start a contest on the battlefield.
The Republic of Bashkortostan from the east of the capital Ufa, the Soviet Russian army in order to defend against the attack of the coalition forces, laid out several defensive lines, but from the beginning of the thunderous attack, these defensive lines could not be maintained at all, when the first division of the Red Alert rushed up, the defense line did not achieve the expected defensive role, the trenches dug were also directly bulldozed and filled by engineering tanks, and even the Chinese tanks could directly run over the trenches.
During this period, some clashes of varying sizes broke out, and the Soviet Russian army dispatched tanks to block the advance of the 1st Red Police Division, but they could not hold back the 1st Red Police Division at all. More than a dozen T-72 tanks rushed up, these T-72s are not the T-72B3s equipped with 1130 horsepower engines in later tank competitions to cheat, but even the T-72B3s that can be called "tank racing" in later generations are more suitable for running laps than off-road.
The already poor fire control could not ensure the aiming of the shot at all in an environment with extremely poor driving stability, not to mention that the opponents of these T-72s were not 96A tanks in the southern region with dense water networks, but 99A5 main battle tanks that had been equipped with the 1st Division of the Red Police for less than a year.
The Type 99 tank, which can be called the third generation of main battle tanks, has been changed to the fifth version by the base and NORINCO, and the total combat weight has fallen from 58 tons of 99A3 to 52. 5 tons. The reason is that the new tank uses a large number of new materials, and the defense power has increased greatly, and the frontal defense has reached the terrible equivalent of 1250 mm of homogeneous armor, and even the defense power of weak positions such as the side and back has more than 700 mm of defense. The A5 model has once again increased the power of the engine to 1,800 hp, with a power-to-weight ratio of nearly 35 hp/tonne. In addition, the design capability of hitting artillery-launched missiles has been increased, making it more mission-oriented.
At a distance of five or even six thousand meters, the 99A5 can shoot artillery missiles, and the T-72 at this time does not even have a shadow of a 99 tank. The artillery-launched missile, which is a new generation of China, has a sudden jump when attacking the tank at the end, and then attacks the most vulnerable roof part of the tank from above.
These dozen or so T-72s didn't even hit the 99A5, and they were all blown up by several 99A5 artillery missiles, and the scene was really shocking. The 99A5 main battle tank is like a heroic knight wearing a famous horse under heavy armor on the battlefield, wielding the horse lance at will to pick off the miscellaneous soldiers one after another.
Until the later stage of the battle, as soon as the Russian tank crews saw the Chinese 99A5, they would even immediately jump out of the car and curse in their mouths: "How to fight with such a monster?" ”