Part 4 Chapter 110: Choice! The will of the Empire! (xiv)
In order to be able to quickly and forcefully complete the task of detour before the enemy can react, the assault group concentrated most of the mobile forces of the front, including: the 5th Panzer Army (13th, 15th, and 16th Armored Brigades), the 6th Panzer Army (18th, 19th, and 20th Armored Brigades), the 4th Cavalry Army (26th, 27th, and 30th Cavalry Brigades), the 5th Cavalry Army (5th, 8th, and 9th Cavalry Brigades), and the Praetorian Panzer Cavalry Detachment (consisting of the 1st and 2nd Janissary Panzer Cavalry Brigades). A total of 200 towed artillery pieces above the brigade level are equipped, and a total of 540 armored combat vehicles and self-propelled guns can be put into battle.
In order to ensure the flank and rear road of the assault cluster, the covering cluster commanded by Lieutenant General Wang Tao will be deployed closely behind the assault cluster, with the 8th and 9th Infantry Divisions and the 15th and 29th Cavalry Brigades as the backbone, along the supply channel of the assault cluster, to build a "breakwater" in the direction of Orenburg, so as to prevent the enemy from launching a counter-assault from the side of the assault cluster, weakening or even breaking the "armored spearhead" of the assault cluster; It is also necessary to prevent the enemy from cutting off the fragile supply lines of the assault clusters based on the rush of roads and truck transportation, so that our mobile units that are deep in the field will be in a dangerous situation of being cut off from supply.
As the most indispensable bargaining chip, the special operations detachment commanded by Major General Liang Gensheng will be airborne behind enemy lines at an appropriate time to continuously sabotage communications behind enemy lines in the form of guerrilla warfare, and if necessary, it will also launch surprise attacks on key enemy targets such as headquarters, arsenals, and airfields, so as to disrupt enemy lines as much as possible and create convenient conditions for the movement of the main forces.
Thinking of that Liang Gensheng, Liang Tianhe was a little angry: Isn't it just the empress's fart, you give Lao Tzu a fart face, it's great to take a few bridges, our older generation followed Captain Liu from scratch, and was born and died and worked tirelessly for more than 20 years to build such a coveted Chinese empire, where can you allow these half-way two or five boys to sit back and enjoy it? I knew that you would raise your neck with me today, Lao Tzu should have listened to Zhong Xiahuo back then, led the million-strong army from the outer northeast to the south, and buried your gang of dogs and bitches together with the eldest lady of Jian goods into the military capital......
At a temporary platform on the outskirts of Aralsk, 850 kilometers southeast of Orenburg, a train dragging a long flatbed wagon is being unloaded, and one after another, tall and mighty four-wheeled vehicles covered in tricolor camouflage drive down the slope of sleepers and steel plates, and are neatly lined up in the open space on the other side of the platform.
"Looks like someone is thinking about me."
Liang Gensheng, who was leaning beside one of the "Iron Horse" special assault vehicles with his arms crossed, said to himself coldly, the evil smile on his face seemed to be about to pass through the other side of the universe and go to the dark world realm that had never been before.
"Sir?"
Lieutenant Colonel Huang Chengming, an intelligence staff officer of the Special Operations Command beside him, cast a look that seemed to understand whether he understood or not.
Liang Gensheng took off his military hat and rubbed the stubble on his head that stood up like a hedgehog: "It's nothing, maybe it's telepathy, but I don't know who it is." ”
"I heard that you are getting a divorce, is it okay?" Huang Chengming's gossip soul is obviously excessive.
Liang Gensheng glanced at him obliquely—like looking at a rookie dog barking on the side of the road: "You know too much." ”
"Not as much as you know." Huang Chengming didn't seem to care about the disdain on the other party's face.
"Tell me, what's your mission?" Liang Gensheng straightened up and stretched his numb limbs.
Huang Chengming blinked and made an innocent statement: "The chief means ......"
"The emperor sent you to me, what do you want?" Liang Gensheng was too lazy to go around in circles with him.
"Did you think I was here to spy on you, sir?"
"It doesn't matter, I believe what you say."
Huang Chengming smiled, tilted his head and said: "That's right, I was sent by the emperor, and I have many tasks, but the most important one is not to spy on you, but to ......"
"Stop me from going up there anyway?" Liang Gensheng took out a gilded silver cigarette case from his inner pocket and shook it towards the southern sky—among the cascading clouds, the shadow of the ship floating in the air was gradually becoming clear.
"The chief does know more than I do." Huang Chengming didn't seem to be willing to bow down.
"Don't worry, I won't embarrass you." Liang Gensheng opened the cigarette box and handed it to Huang Chengming.
Huang Chengming hesitated, but still picked up a cigarette from the box.
Liang Gensheng also sent a cigarette to his mouth, so he closed the cigarette case, stuffed it back into his pocket, and took out a lighter from the outer pocket of his jacket, and lit it for Huang Chengming first.
"Since the chief has said so, then I have nothing to worry about. The emperor is also worried about you, always involved in danger, it is inevitable that there will be an accident, this special operations force is the emperor's new Praetorian Guard, and it will be of great use in the future, so it can't be done without you. ”
Huang Chengming took two puffs of cigarettes, saved his mind, and said leisurely: "Before coming, the emperor repeatedly told me not only to protect the chief, but also to learn from the commander carefully, we cats and dogs in the palace, what we lack most is actual combat experience, no matter how good the equipment is, no matter how difficult the training is, it is all in vain if I don't experience it on ......the front line."
Before he finished speaking, Huang Chengming's legs suddenly weakened, and he slid down the hood behind him and sat on the ground, his head hanging weakly on the fender.
Liang Gensheng smiled, pinched off the cigarette roll in his hand, and reached out to wipe Huang Chengming's half-open eyes.
"You kid also want to brush up on experience? No problem, just follow me. ”
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Fifty kilometers southeast of Orenburg, a few kilometers south of the small village of Rozhdestvenka on the south bank of the Ural River, hundreds of motor vehicles of the Praetorian Guard armored cavalry detachment, ranging from armored fighting vehicles to two-wheeled motorcycles, were covered in thick camouflage nets and stood by in concealment.
The sound of dense artillery came from five or six kilometers away on the other side of the Ural River, and the four Janissary divisions of the right flank cluster were already deployed on a 12-kilometer front, and their advance troops should be rowing rubber boats under the cover of artillery fire to force the crossing of this narrow, winding, fast-flowing and densely populated section of the Ural River, while the combat engineering units followed closely behind, braving enemy artillery fire to assemble modular light boat bridges, while at the same time, the armored vehicles attached to the infantry units were to be dispersed across the river on mobile floating rafts.
As soon as the bridge is completed, the assault force will quickly move to the opposite bank to build a strong bridgehead with the support of armor and aviation to cover the construction of a large pontoon bridge for the engineering units to pass through the baggage troops.
Six large pontoon bridges will be built on the right flank group, which is equipped with more than eighty percent of the army's engineering strength, four of which are intended for assault clusters, and the remaining two are shared by the cover cluster and the right flank cluster.
As a reserve for the assault group, the Praetorian Panzer Cavalry Detachment will leave the current assembly area only after the main force of the group has crossed the river, keep a distance of about 20 kilometers from the main force, and follow the march with a posture of being ready to meet the enemy attacking from the flank and rear.
Hidden in the bushes, a tall and imposing young captain was anxiously looking through a telescope at the banks of the Ural River.
"It's not our turn so soon, it's still early, Wuzhen Mansion...... Ah no, Commander Zhong ......".
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