Episode 141 Blitz on the Soviet Union

On September 26th, .

It's D-day, and it's only half an hour until x-hour. Within three days, a large number of trained White Russian saboteurs had infiltrated the past one after another to carry out all kinds of sabotage. Assassinate Soviet commanders, set fire to cars, blow up electrical equipment. In the early hours of September 26, the mass destruction of telephone lines began.

This kind of scattered acts of sabotage have existed since the war between Ming and the Soviet Union. And it's mutual. The Ming army sent White Russian agents over, and the Soviet army sent yellow agents over. There are a large number of yellow people in the Far East Army of the Soviet Army, all of whom are indigenous people from Siberia and the Far East, and their ancestors are all Mongolians, Oroqen, Hezhe or something, and now they have all become Soviets. Although the saboteurs on both sides are also called "agents," most of them are temporarily trained, and they carry out simple sabotage missions behind enemy lines, which are not the same thing as the specialized "agents" of intelligence agencies.

It was precisely because this mutual destruction had become the norm that the Ming army dared to use this trick again on the eve of the attack. Because this trick has been repeatedly used by the Ming army, it will be recognized if it is not good. But several times practical experience has shown that the effect of such destruction on the eve of the offensive is really good.

With the experience of the Northern Expedition, the Ming army is now familiar with this kind of "cross-river blitzkrieg." In the dark night, the Ming army of nearly a million troops gathered on the banks of the Ussuri River and the Heilongjiang River, and countless assault boats were piled up on the riverside, covered with thatch and camouflage nets. The soldiers of the first wave of attack were wrapped in steel helmets with nets tied to the nets, and the nets were tied with branches and leaves, and they lay quietly in the lush thatch by the river, showing no trace at all.

The troops that served as the first wave of attacks this time were still the old troops that crossed the river in the first wave on the D day of the Unification War. The soldiers looked at the dark shore rather calmly, slowly wiping their weapons and checking their ammunition and equipment. Occasionally, a herald came running over and whispered the latest order.

There was no moon in the sky, but it was a brilliant starry sky. The weather was very sunny and cloudless. This is the ideal weather for an attack. Originally, if the weather on the 26th was bad, such as cloudy or severely cloudy, and the planes dropped bombs, then the D day would have been postponed. Nearly a million troops were gathered on the banks of the two rivers, and even if the secrecy measures were tight, they would remain for a day or two at most. Whether it is a Soviet reconnaissance plane taking pictures, a small group of scouts crossing the river to conduct reconnaissance, or spies sending information, Moscow will be able to react in a day or two at most. Moreover, if the 26th is missed, then the 27th will be Monday, and Moscow and the military districts will be in a more efficient state.

The Zhouqiao troops, who participated in the battle of crossing the river in the Unification War, are now also in position at the rear. Just wait for the first batch of assault boat troops to hit the beachhead, and then they can build bridges in a familiar way.

The dozens of front-line airfields that the Ming army rushed to repair in the northeast, as well as the front-line airfields built by the original Japanese army, are now coming in handy. At about four o'clock, more than 500 bombers and more than 300 fighters roared to take off, and the pilots of various squadrons and major units were extremely skilled, relying only on the small flashing lights on the fuselage of the planes to identify each other in the night sky, keep their distance, and form a formation at the same time. One bomber after another flew like dark clouds towards the Soviet airfields on the other side of the river.

These twin-engine bomber groups were divided into two parts, the "A Group" and the "B Group". At the beginning of the offensive, the "A Aircraft Group" was to destroy as many Soviet planes as possible, preferably on the ground. These bombers carried small but numerous "hail bombs", which were scattered in large areas and capable of covering the entire airfield. The mission of the "B Aircraft Group" was to bomb the barracks, ammunition depots, fuel depots, tank and car parking sites of the Soviet troops, as well as transportation hubs connecting the various troop stations, such as railway stations, bridges, and so on.

In the Nanjing Headquarters, the bell in the command hall went to half past four o'clock. The entire hall was silent, and all the generals and officers looked at Tang Yunsheng.

The adjutant trotted over and reported:

"My lord, Group A is already approaching their respective target airports. The B groups will also be over their respective targets within a few minutes. ”

Tang Yunsheng nodded, very satisfied. After the experience of a long period of war, the command and coordination level of the Ming army's air force is now quite ideal. This time it was almost "stepping on the point", and the performance was even more rare.

He picked up the phone and said two words quietly: "Start." ”

Suddenly, the silence broke in the halls of the front and the headquarters at the same time.

On the banks of the Ussuri River and the Heilongjiang River, it was already slightly dawn at this time.

Suddenly, without warning, the silence of the four fields and thousands of cannons fired in unison. Heaven and earth were illuminated, and there were rapid flashes of orange everywhere, and then in an instant they were plunged into darkness. At the same time, a bright yellow light rushed into the air. Within seconds, the surface of the river was covered with dense flashes of light. The whiteness of the fish belly that had just been exposed in the east was also completely submerged by the flash of tens of thousands of large and small artillery.

Heavy artillery with a caliber of one or two hundred millimeters, as small as mortars with a caliber of 80 millimeters and 60 millimeters, fired at the opposite shore at this time. Heavy artillery bombarded targets in depth more than 10 kilometers away and 20 kilometers away, while mortars bombarded targets 1,000 meters or several hundred meters on the other side of the river. The Soviet army's riverside fortifications, temporary observation posts, machine-gun bunkers, and sandbag gun emplacements that had been detected in advance were all caught in a sea of fire.

In the extreme distance on the other side of the river, hemispherical spots of light are constantly flickering, one after another. It was the flash of a heavy artillery shell exploding a dozen kilometers away.

Because compared with the original Qing army, the vigilance of the Soviet Far East Army is obviously relatively high, so the Ming army did not take the risk of adopting the method of "ground attack first, then bombing the airfield". Because if the Soviet army reacts quickly, it is likely that a large number of planes will fly in this time gap. When the Ming army raided the Qing army, it first took advantage of the cover of the night to let the first group of assault boats quietly row to the opposite shore. And the bombing of airfields, there must be a minimum of visibility, so it starts when the sky is dark. In this way, the Qing army was inefficient and slow to react, and still allowed a large number of planes to be bombed on the airfield.

Now in the face of the Soviet army with high vigilance, the Ming army does not dare to play the "time difference" anymore, and it is still honest and at the same time. Then it can only be when the sky is dark. And since it has been clouded, it is obviously unrealistic for the assault boat soldiers to sneak past. Then simply carry out fire preparations, and after shelling the opposite bank, let the assault boatmen kill them "with open fire".

The river was shaken, and bombs were dropped on the Soviet airfield in the rear at the same time.

Despite knowing that dozens of divisions of the Ming army were on the other side of the river, no one seemed to be able to resist the laziness of Sunday morning. - What's more, this is not a "lazy sleep", it is only early in the morning, and it is still the time when you sleep the deadest, even if you are usually on duty, you will not get up so early. Many Soviet officers and soldiers at the airport were blown out of their beds.

Suddenly, I heard the ground shaking outside, and the air waves broke through the glass window of the dormitory. Many Soviet officers and soldiers rolled off the bed, some lying on the ground, some shouting for trousers, some not wearing trousers, grabbing their clothes and rushing out. A commissar rushed out shirtless, shouting:

Collection!! This is sabotage! The saboteurs detonated the ammunition depot!! ”

"Not sabotage!" An officer threw himself beside him and also pushed him to the ground, dodging the splashing glass, "Comrade Major, this is bombing!" The Ming bandit army is bombing us! ”

"Bombing?" The commissar shouted, "What is the air defense department doing!" This is serious paralysis! I'm going to take him to court-martial!! ”

As he shouted, a fiery thing spun and fell in front of him.

That's a half-cut propeller.