The fact that the attacking forces were blown up by several squadrons of strategic bombers approaching at low altitudes was only the beginning of the tragedy of the Austro-Hungarian regiment, and under the guidance and cover of the front-line group, the remaining group began to fly in depth. This time their targets are the heavy artillery positions, makeshift repair plants, supply depots, and headquarters in the back! The remaining hundreds of heavy bombers roared past the lows, as if the Grim Reaper was harvesting the enemy with a sharp scythe. Various logistics units were listed as the first targets, with transport brigades and their cars and wagons bearing the brunt of the attack.

"They're just a bunch of crazy people! I never thought that someone would fly a 30-ton plane at an altitude of several hundred meters! I happened to be out on an errand and escaped. But I'll never forget when I stood outside the parking lot and saw several bombers skimming over the ground at a very low altitude, and in just a few seconds, the parking lot, which could accommodate hundreds of trucks, turned into a sea of fire. The anti-aircraft machine guns we deployed around fired in vain at air targets, but the enemy was unmoved, I could even hear the sound of bullets hitting the steel plates, and a tongue of fire slid through the belly of an airplane, leaving no effect other than a series of sparks, and the protection of the enemy bombers even exceeded that of the German HE177 bombers. A few seconds later, the poor machine-gun crew was whistled into a mist of blood by a rain of bullets from the machine-gun tower in the tail of the bomber. All counterattacks were quickly destroyed and suppressed, and they could slaughter the remaining targets at will, even disbanding the formation to chase a fleeing convoy. ”

"The plane flew so fast over the side of the convoy that it was hard to believe that such a huge plane could maintain good maneuverability at low altitudes. The 10 large-caliber machine guns in the nose, sides of the fuselage, belly and tail slowly turned around, and then spewed out tongues of fire at the long convoy! A storm of bullets swept away a target on the road at breakneck speed. Ferocious machine-gun fire formed a rotating fan and swept back and forth. In just a few seconds, the plane fired thousands of bullets. Turning more than a dozen trucks into a pile of burning rubble. The Huaxia Air Force dealt a heavy blow to our transportation system in more than 10 minutes. After the war, an Austro-Hungarian logistics officer wrote this in his diary.

Although the Huaxia bomber unit caught the other side by surprise, not all targets were soft persimmons. Schrager was also prepared for possible air strikes by the Chinese Air Force. In particular, places such as oil depots and ammunition depots are of the highest priority. Even the front line is tight. When there was an urgent need for level-fire fire, he did not cut the anti-aircraft fire in these places. IN THE VICINITY OF THE OIL DEPOT, THE GERMANS DEPLOYED FIRE CONTROL RADARS AND TWO ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY POSITIONS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, CONSISTING OF SIX 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERIES ON THE OUTER LAYER AND FOUR BOFORS ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERIES AND FOUR ORIKON ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERIES ON THE INNER LAYER. Coupled with the fire control radar, it also blocked several tentative attacks by the Huaxia Air Force. However, this time, in the face of the Huaxia Strategic Air Force, which is like Mount Tai pressing on the top, it is impossible to say.

The first to enter the battlefield were sniper units equipped with guided bombs and electronic jamming planes, and to Huaxia's surprise, this batch of fire control radars seemed to have been improved, not only with huge power but also capable of burning through chaff jamming. It is also possible to change the frequency by guò to deal with aiming jamming. THE 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS DEPLOYED ON THE PERIPHERY COULD ALSO USE THE LARGER RANGE TO DRIVE THE BOMBERS OUT OF THE RANGE OF GUIDED BOMBS. So, this time, the main task of the sniper unit was no longer to attack the oil depots located in the core area, but to change to the outer anti-aircraft artillery positions.

Unlike the overwhelming attacks of strategic bombers, the sniper units are all about precision, and they don't carry a lot of bullets, but every bomb can inflict fatal damage on the opponent! AFTER LOCKING ON THE FLAME-SPEWING ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS WITH SIGHTING EQUIPMENT, A 250KG GUIDED BOMB BROKE AWAY FROM THE PYLONS AND STAGGERED TO THE TARGET.

"Damn! It's electronic interference! The bombardier tried in vain to guide the bomb to the correct position, but failed, and the jamming equipment that Austria-Hungary obtained from the Germans succeeded in jamming some of the radio-guided bombs. The effectiveness of this wave of attacks was greatly reduced, but a few bombs still fell on the anti-aircraft artillery positions. Completely destroy the anti-aircraft artillery along with the artillery crew! "We can only clean up the anti-aircraft artillery on the periphery, and there are still a large number of machine guns inside the other side, it's up to you." THE LARGE RANGE OF THE 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN ALLOWS SNIPERS TO THROW A RAT TRAP, AND THE AIRCRAFT NEEDS TO FLY IN A STRAIGHT LINE WHEN ATTACKING, AND IT IS EASY TO SHOOT DOWN. For safety, bombs with a longer range but not wire-guided can only be used. Therefore, this results in a decrease in the effectiveness of the attack. However, Huaxia was also prepared for this, and the Foxbat aircraft mounted on the machine gun pods solved the problem of the task of the sniper air team and began to suppress the ground fire, accompanied by the attack of the attack aircraft group. The bloodiest scene of this air raid has finally taken place!

Four Foxbat fighters rushed into the inner circle of the opposing team first, and they tried to keep the altitude as low as possible. PLUS TWO WING CANNON PODS, EACH FOXBAT FIGHTER HAS THE TERRIFYING FIREPOWER OF FOUR 20MM CANNONS AND TWO 40MM GUNS. The front of the plane was enveloped in a scorching aura. Every second, dozens of shells flew out of the slender barrels, and the oval impact points of the shells formed a dead zone, moving with the plane. DESTROYING THE QIĒ THEY ENCOUNTERED ALONG THE WAY, BUT SOON, THE OPPONENT'S COUNTERATTACK ALSO UNFOLDED, AND A LARGE NUMBER OF TWIN 40MM SELF-PROPELLED ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS MODIFIED FROM TANK NO. 3 AS A CHASSIS SUDDENLY TOOK OFF THEIR CAMOUFLAGE, AND THICK BULLET CHAINS SWEPT BACK AND FORTH IN THE AIR LIKE WHIPS. A 2-pound 40MM shell is definitely not something that an aircraft can defend against with armor. A Flying Fox fighter was hit in the base of its wing, accompanied by the explosion of shells and the tearing of metal. The entire aircraft disintegrated in an instant under the action of its own gravity. The other plane died even more simply, being concentrated by several anti-aircraft guns at the same time, and directly turned into a burning fireball.

The straight-line distance between the two sides is only a few hundred meters, dozens of machine guns are whistling and roaring, planes are constantly destroyed in the sky, and anti-aircraft guns on the ground are also shrouded in barrages from the sky from time to time and are riddled with holes, and the occasional loud explosion means that some unlucky guy has detonated the ammunition depot. The squadron of Foxbat fighters cleared the way for the subsequent attacking forces with their own courage and blood. The anti-aircraft fire around the attack line has been cleared, and it is time for the main owner to play!

A squadron of strategic bombers roared through the air, looking from the cockpit. Gasoline drums and tankers piled up in the distance can already be clearly seen, and the latter is trying to evacuate. But it was destroyed by anti-aircraft artillery blocking the way. "Wait, what's that?" It was at this time that a machine gunner saw a half-track vehicle appearing on the side of the attack course. A hint of foreboding rose from his heart!

"It's anti-aircraft artillery! Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns! "Accompanied by the opening of the carport in the upper part of the half-track. A 75MM anti-aircraft gun appeared in view. In the end, the Austrians kept a hand. On both sides of the attack line, more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns of various kinds hidden by the Austrians spewed deadly tongues of fire at the bombers who could not dodge at low altitudes! The bomber machine gunners tried to suppress, but the distance to deal with it was too far to reach!

SUDDENLY, THE NOSE OF ONE OF THE BOMBERS WAS HIT BY A 75MM SHELL. The powerful high-explosive bomb directly cut the entire nose off the fuselage, and the plane instantly lost control and staggered to the ground! Tons of aviation fuel and bombs exploded violently under the violent impact, a huge fireball rose into the air, and the burning debris formed a fire storm that spread out in all directions, and the area within a radius of more than 200 meters was covered with flames, accompanied by a series of explosions. A huge mushroom cloud rises over the battlefield.

Before the pilots could recover from the shock, the left wing of another bomber slammed into the air, and a shell exploded in the lower part of the wing's engine compartment, slicing through the armor of the engine compartment and colliding with the cylinders running at high speed. Streams of black smoke mixed with sparks poured out of the engine compartment, and the loss of two engines on one side at such an altitude was undoubtedly a death sentence for the aircraft!

"It was the devil's thing, and I saw the battered plane begin to swerve effortlessly and crash headfirst into a gas station in the distance. There was a key defensive area for us, with at least 3 Bofors self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns. Our firepower forms a dense web of fire in front of it. Shells constantly hit the target. We succeeded in breaking two huge wings, but this qiē did not organize the nightmare. This big guy weighing more than twenty tons finally crashed into there with flames and explosives all over his body, and in an instant, the entire gas station turned into a sea of fire! Such an account appears in the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the war.

In the end, the bomber squadron lost a total of half of its aircraft (some were injured and could not return and were forced to parachute. But no matter what, the Huaxia strategic bomber forces still threw bombs into oil depots and cargo stacks! Dozens of tons of bombs ignited entire fuel depots up to thousands of tons of various fuels. Burning fuel is flowing through the depot. Turn this place into a sea of fire. The raging fire, propelled by the shock wave from the explosion, engulfed all that could be touched. The anti-aircraft artillery in the field, which had not had time to evacuate, was finally engulfed in flames. The powerful updrafts created by the combustion were felt even by flying flying over 5 tons of flying flying overhead. "We could clearly feel the shudder of the fuselage as we flew over it. It was very difficult to control zhì and we had to raise the height. One pilot said.

It is said that the fire burned for three days, when the counterattacking forces of the Chinese and Russian legions arrived here. The fire has not been extinguished. In ten minutes, the Huaxia Air Force destroyed more than 60% of the fuel reserves of the Austro-Hungarian Army. Now, except for Lu Benin and the fuel that was prepared for Guderian's ministry in advance, the fuel of the other troops could not be supported for even two days! Not to mention back to Kirkuk!

At the same time that the fuel base turned into a sea of fire. The same doom befell other units, other units did not have such good anti-aircraft firepower, and in the face of the strategic bombers with thick skin and strong firepower, whether it was the heavy artillery position, the headquarters, the repair shop, or the reserve assembly area of the troops, they were all blown apart like bombs. In just a few hours, the Austro-Hungarian army was beaten down from the pinnacle of victory. I fell to the ground and couldn't get up at all.

Schrager trembled as he watched the smoke and fire rising in the distance, and his originally straight and straight body seemed to age more than ten years in an instant, as if a breeze could make him fall. He already knew the news of the destruction of the fuel depot, the heavy losses of the logistics and transportation troops, and even he could guess that the counterattack of the other side was coming soon. But at this time, after the indiscriminate bombardment of the Huaxia Strategic Air Force, there are really very few hole cards in his hand! Very little, very little!

"Tell General Sù Lü Benin, let him gather the remaining personnel of the front line and then unify them into the Bohemian division to cover the retreat of the whole army! And to Sù Guderian, let him move to the right flank of Lübenin's division, to block the counterattack of the Russians, and the fuel originally allocated to them could not be given to them until they were in place! Schrager ordered. This order was undoubtedly tantamount to letting Lübenin and Guderian serve as cannon fodder to cover the withdrawal of the main forces. Although this order seems to be unkind, the only troops that Schrager can take out at this time are them! The others were either hit hard or could not be contacted. There are 4 Austro-Hungarian elite divisions in his hands, and if they are all lost, then Kirkuk's defense will really become eggshells!

The radio waves conveyed Schlager's orders at the speed of light, and soon, the telegram was delivered to Guderian, who had just felt the battlefield, and at this time, looking at the chaotic battlefield, Guderry also felt a deep sense of powerlessness and a hint of happiness! "Fortunately, the bombs of the strategic bombers were dropped on the heads of the Austrians, and not on ours!" An officer next to him said what Gudri had thought but didn't say. However, avoiding the attack of strategic bombers does not mean that there is no danger, because Schrager's order is for him to block the opponent's counterattack, and the armored forces he has never wanted to face will not be able to avoid the head-on battle.

For a moment, Guderian didn't think that he had taken the fuel and ran away immediately. But soon he suppressed this idea, and the entire Austro-Hungarian regiment collapsed. Without the help of the Austrians, the German legions would have to face a formidable opponent on their own. And the Eastern Railway will also be cut off. The consequences were absolutely catastrophic. Guderian had a good view of the big picture, and in this case he would never allow to walk away for his own sake!

"Contact General Lu Benin immediately. It is hoped that he will be able to join our army at the appointed place. Let's break off together! Guderian took a deep breath and made the decision to push him and the army into the sea of blood.

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