Chapter 616 Turning Offense to Defense
Almaty is the key attack position of Dong Ku, so although the number of tanks and armor in Junzi's army is small, it has absolute air power.
An ambush, hundreds of Russian planes did not see the team in the woods, and it disappeared in a matter of minutes.
Before the smoke of gunpowder in the sky cleared, the helicopter group roared into formation, and the attack planes covered the transport planes and went straight to Almaty.
The army, hidden in the woods, followed, marching rapidly through the woods and in the snow towards Almaty.
The Russian troops in Almaty already knew that the plane had gone and had not returned, but they did not know whether the plane had dealt a blow to the enemy, and the moment they heard the roar of the plane and saw the helicopter appear in sight, they knew that their plane might not have caused losses to the other side.
The machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery of the Russian army roared one after another at the moment they saw the helicopter and launched a fierce attack on the group of aircraft in the air.
The moment the helicopter group saw Almaty in the distance, it swooped down, clinging to the treetops, and sped forward.
The dense interception network of the Russian army's air defense weapons instantly lost its effect and entered the void one after another.
"Where did they go?!"
"Watch the air!!"
The sudden disappearance of the trace shocked the Russian army, the plane flew so low, for them had never seen it. But the roar of the engine is still there, indicating that the enemy aircraft is still there.
They stared nervously into the air, their eyes constantly searching for their targets, and they made a warning in the direction of the sound.
Suddenly, the treetops a few hundred meters away shook, as if blown by a strong wind, and then a rain of bullets followed, and then they saw the shadows of enemy planes rushing out from behind the treetops, and saw tongues of fire.
"Over there!!"
The Russian army shouted one after another. Quickly turned the anti-aircraft machine gun and Depp's muzzle, and pointed at the onrushing enemy plane.
But at such a close distance, where is the bullet fast in their movements? The rate of fire of the Vulcan guns on the attack aircraft was quite terrifying, and while they were shouting, the rain of bullets had already drowned out the anti-aircraft machine guns and Depp on the positions before the muzzle of the guns was moved.
Immediately, a mist of blood and debris flew up. The hundreds of dense bullets of the Russian army on the position were torn apart, and those anti-aircraft machine guns and Depp did not have time to shoot, and the people who controlled them became minced meat.
With the emergence of the breakthrough, one after another attack planes from behind the treetops pounced, like swimming fish, swaying from side to side and strafing, and plunged into the front line of the Russian army.
The machine guns locked on those anti-aircraft guns, cannons, and the bombardment constantly spat out projectiles. In the light of fire, artillery positions and anti-aircraft artillery positions were blocked.
No sooner had they launched their attack than transport planes began to climb over the woods, revealing their figures, and as the machine guns attacked the anti-aircraft artillery positions, the improved cluster bombs they carried were dropped one after another.
Tank units also drilled out of the woods at this moment, followed by armored vehicles infantry vehicles, self-propelled artillery and trucks. then in the rear of the armored forces, in the woods. Rapid travel on the mountain road.
The steel ball bomb of the transport plane exploded in volley. The dense steel balls roared and scattered, and the shrapnel and steel balls were like a cloud of black mist, so that all of them were shrouded.
With the explosion of the bomb, Almaty's forward positions immediately howled and shook the sky. The short and miserable howl of the dead, the miserable cry for help of the wounded. Let the Russian troops in the city waiting for reinforcements feel numb when they hear it.
In the loud roar, the forward positions of the Russian army were destroyed in an instant, and the defense line that stretched for thousands of kilometers was no longer able to hold on to it at the moment when hundreds of helicopters flew in, and it was only a few minutes before and after.
Tanks and armored vehicles that followed rushed into Almaty with the roar of bombs. The resistance encountered was nothing more than the futile explosion of machine guns in pillboxes and flying grenades.
One by one, the pillboxes were directly destroyed by the tanks, and the bunkers were shattered by the direct sight of the tanks.
The fierce attack made the Russian army immediately go crazy, they howled, set up anti-infantry mortars, and pounced on the cannons with the barrels of the books, for a desperate battle.
With a door on the mortar mount, the dense artillery bombardment of tom tom hits, and the projectiles flew out in pieces. But the Russian army's 81-caliber artillery is like tickling, so that the shells fall on the tank has no effect, and it is just a matter of listening to the firecrackers and watching the fireworks in vain.
The Russian army had no fear, but they were helpless and desperately reloading shells, desperately pulling Makqin and Depp, sparks flew on the tanks, and watched the tanks gallop towards them.
The moment the tanks rushed into the position, the helicopters hovered one after another, three or four hundred meters away from the city wall, and the muzzles of their guns spewed out tongues of fire, shooting flat at those Russian troops who were strafing with machine guns.
Bullets passed by, debris and blood mist flew all over the sky, and the Russian army on the city wall and its bunkers, in the rain of bullets, quickly reduced in size, turned into debris and gravel, flying in the air.
The T33 of the Russian army is not far from the T62 in the face of the T62, not to mention the same as a toy. In the face-to-face bombardment, one Soviet and Russian tank after another was bombed, hundreds of tanks did not work, and not a single enemy tank could be replaced, so it was destroyed by the tanks of the advance army and turned into torches.
The tanks rushed through the positions without hindrance, threw down countless Russian troops, and rushed straight to Almaty, with the roar of artillery, blasted open the bunkers and pillboxes in front of the city gates, roared into the smoke and dust, and rushed into the city.
The dense fire of the armored vehicles and infantry vehicles that followed behind knocked the surviving Russian troops on the position into holes, and in the midst of the screams, they passed through without stopping at all.
The self-propelled artillery that arrived then smashed through the bunkers that did not collapse, exposing the figures who had fled in a hurry to the guns of the soldiers on the truck.
In the midst of the heavy gunfire, the soldiers on the truck quickly got out of the truck, squad by squad, and rushed into the dilapidated bunker to carry out the most tragic cleanup.
The fierce battle, at this moment, entered the white heat, hand-to-hand combat, so that the Russians saw the opportunity to fight for their lives, although the losses caused to the advance army were greater than their own casualties, but they had a chance to exchange one life for one life, two lives for one life, isn't it?
However, the strength of the resistance was too weak, and after the army overflowed the position like ants, there was no longer a single Russian army still panting, and the frontal forward position was completely lost in less than ten minutes.
The battle in the city was the same as always, the moment tanks and armored vehicles split the streets and shelled the barracks, it was only a matter of time before the battle ended, and when the infantry entered the city, the battle would end in half an hour at most.
The Seventh Army, which reinforced Almaty, was still on its way, almost a hundred kilometers from here, and the fighting here would end on all fronts, making the reinforcements a joke.
Junko personally followed the army, and at the moment of attacking Almaty, he did not let the whole army enter the city, but ordered that the five hundred 200-caliber howitzers that followed the troops were erected on the positions of the Russian army, and the Russian artillery was carried away, and the damaged ones were piled up on one side and replaced with the cannons he carried.
The helicopters did not participate in the capture of the city, and while the armored broke into the city and the infantry poured into the position, they landed in the open space at the front of the position.
The amount of fuel carried by the helicopter is too small, resulting in a short stay in the air, so it is especially important to follow the fuel replenishment.
Junko is strangling the Russian troops in the city while building a defensive position, obviously, the rhythm of the offensive has been stopped and turned to defense.
Junzi is on the defensive, Erskemen is there, Meng Zhaocheng is also cleaning up the Russian army at the same time, building a defensive line, artillery, piece by piece, helicopters are ready to take off, anti-aircraft artillery, the whole city, and the sky control of all positions, a small number of armor and tanks are deployed here at the same time, attacking several small villages and towns around, so that Erskemen is firmly in his hands.
It seems a bit inappropriate for these two places to go on the defensive and stop attacking. If they take advantage of the present attack and engage in encounters with the reinforced troops on the road, their chances of victory are eighty percent, and the losses are large, but the speed and number of the enemy will not be low.
But they are indeed defending, and it is not an ordinary defense, it is purely a defensive posture.
At this time, Qu Jun was in a hurry, he was rushing to the battlefield, but the difference between him and Yu Lei was eight or nine hours, not to mention, the distance was 500 kilometers away, so it would be good for them to reach the edge of the battlefield in one day and one night.
At the same time, the Oroqen soldiers of the thirteenth division of Goudan closely pursued Yu Lei's army, and the team, under the protection of tanks and armored vehicles on both sides, as well as self-propelled artillery, cleaned up the battlefield here in Novosibirsk, and the trucks marched forward in patches and went straight to Omsk.
Yu Lei waited for the infantry, Shunzi and Meng Zhaocheng Han Jie built a defensive line, and the transport troops poured into these two places one after another, while the bearded man also sent the only special armored force in his hand to Central Asia.
On the train, huge canvas-covered objects lined up the carriages, and the rows of flames were all the same, only assembled with pulls, and the rest were directly pulled by the car version.
These are nothing else, they are the self-propelled artillery that the advance army exposed in the battle around Shanghai, but this is a new tank artillery designed by the Russian army itself in a short period of time, not self-propelled artillery.
Soviet Russian tank artillery vehicles already existed when the T24 was installed, but at that time it was a 95 caliber gun, and now it is a 150 caliber gun, and it is also equipped with armor-piercing shells, but the amount of ammunition carried is a little less, and each tank artillery vehicle has only eight shells.
These cannons are quite bulky, unlike the barrels forged by Dong Ku's self-tightening artillery skills, and the weight is much larger, and the most important thing is that these guns cannot adjust the elevation angle, but only stand horizontally on the tank chassis. That's it, the weight of the whole is more than twenty tons. For this reason, the designers of Soviet Russia sacrificed the protection of the tank artillery vehicle, so that its defense was similar to that of armored vehicles, which can be said to be a sharp weapon without fighting.
These newly installed tanks and artillery vehicles are the methods that the bearded man can think of and can use to deal with the tanks of the advance army. The tanks of the advance army were too hard-hitting, and the 75 anti-tank guns were not very effective, and until the beginning of the war, very few tanks have been destroyed by artillery, and their own T33 simply cannot compete with them. (To be continued......)