370 Blockade of the river
The corps commander of the Russian Fifth Tank Army, "Barker", punched the iron armor of the armored vehicle and looked at the thousands of densely packed Chinese bombers hovering in the sky with resentment. This chapter is provided by the website to read online
It's these damn bombers again, who snatched the "meat" from their mouths.
The round of frantic bombing just now smashed the forward units of the Russian Fifth Tank Army to pieces. Blocked the Russian Fifth Tank Army's pursuit of the remnants of the Chinese Third Tank Armored Army, allowing the Chinese tanks to immediately disengage and flee towards Siberian cities.
Inside the armored car, a Russian player poked his head out and said, "Commander Buck, the commander-in-chief has called, asking you to go to the meeting immediately to discuss a plan to cross the Ob River and attack the city of Siberia!" ”
Buck nodded, giving up on the idea of pursuit.
Russian Union Command.
Generalissimo Nosov, Deputy Generalissimo Vladimir, and several other marshals.
Commander of the 5th Tank Panzer Army "Barker", Commander of the 6th Tank Panzer Corps "Ulrik", and Corps Commander of the 4th Tank Army "Kosgriff".
There are also "Lomon", the commander of the First Panzer Army, and the "Jeffries" and "Chris" of the commanders of the Second and Third Armored Corps, who have already exhausted their forces.
More than ten members above the rank of corps commander have arrived.
Nosov swept over the generals, his face a little heavy. "Marshals and generals, in the past period of time, we have consumed a full three and a half tank armies to eliminate more than two and a half tank armies of our opponent. And this is the result of the fact that we occupy the absolute superiority of the 6th Army. I think everyone knows why this is happening, so I won't say more.
At present, we are at the forefront of the front. Two and a half tank armies remained. On the Chinese side, there is less than half of the tank army left on the front line. We already have an absolute 6-6 advantage in the field. Now we are launching a general assault on the city of Siberia. When occupying this Siberian stronghold.
But. The premise is to transport our two and a half tank armies across the Ob River. This Ob River. It is already the biggest obstacle to the general offensive of our Russian army in Siberia. Marshals. Checkmate. What do you think about crossing the river? ”
"There is ice on the Ob River."
"It's May. The snow in the mountains is beginning to melt. The river has begun to thaw. The ice is thin. It's simply not enough to withstand the weight of tens of thousands of tanks. Otherwise, why would the Chinese build several bridges over the river? After their tanks withdrew from the bridge. Immediately blew up the bridge. The goal is to prevent us from crossing the river. ”
"Our tank group is going to cross the river. It looks like the bridge has to be built! ”
"I think the biggest obstacle is. The Ob River is too close to the Siberian city where the Chinese built it. It's just over ten kilometers away. Chinese ground bombers can easily cover hundreds of kilometers of surrounding rivers 24 hours a day. ”
"Unless we can suppress the Chinese fleet of aircraft!"
The marshals and corps commanders of the Russian coalition were silent. Their combat planes could only take off from the nearest city of Omsk, and they had to fly 600 kilometers, and when they reached the sky of the Siberian city, they were estimated to have become a living target.
This distance to the ground gap. In the confrontation with the squadron, they could not gain air superiority at all.
Russian tanks could not enter the city of Siberia, so they could not destroy the Chinese airfield in the city. It is impossible to destroy the airfield. It is impossible to control the Ob sky. Unable to control the sky over the Ob River, it was difficult for Russian tanks to cross the river and enter the city of Siberia.
It's an unsolvable puzzle.
Although they have achieved an absolute 6-up advantage, they have not been able to exert their strength.
"There are currently two options that can be considered. The first is to take a long detour to the lower reaches of the Ob River to find a thick enough ice layer to see if you can cross the river. The second is to repair the bridge at night in the nearby area. In one or two hours, a large number of passable pontoon bridges were built, and tens of thousands of tanks from the three tank groups were allowed to cross the river in one or two hours.
However, if you go downstream, the supply line will be greatly lengthened, and it is easy for Chinese bombers to block the supply line and blow up the ice. And repairing the bridge at night also carries the risk of exposure, and the Chinese bombers only need a short time to arrive. ”
When he said these two plans, there was a little disbelief in his tone that even he could succeed.
Vladimir said: "It's better to try both methods." Try building a pontoon bridge at night, but it doesn't work, and then try to find thick ice! We also had a large number of soldiers in our hands, forcibly laying a thousand pontoon bridges directly on the spacious section of the river. Let's see if the Chinese bombers blow up the bridge faster, or if we build the bridge faster! In addition, I will be in charge of the construction of the bridge, and I also want to have a good time with the Chinese marshal of the city of Siberia. ”
Nosov thought for a moment, and since Vladimir wanted to take the initiative to take on this hot task, of course he agreed. Nodding his head, he said, "Okay." The deputy generalissimo commanded the infantry corps, responsible for carrying out the night raid and bridge building mission! The rest of the corps commanders. Always on standby, prepare the tank army to force a crossing of the river! ”
"Yes!"
The legions grew up and drank.
Vladimir returned to his command.
He was not absolutely sure about this raid and bridge building task. He had to give it a try, though. This battle against the Chinese city of Siberia has always been commanded by Nosov, which has allowed Nosov to establish too high prestige in the Russian Players Alliance.
But Nosov's command was not too clever, almost exhausted more than half of the tank army, and only then did the Russian army just reach the Ob River, and even the Siberian city had not yet been touched, and it was stopped by the Ob River.
Now Nosov is already in trouble, and many middle- and high-ranking generals have questioned the level of war command in other places.
This was an opportunity for him - if he could show sufficient military qualities in this command of the task of building bridges and raiding the city of Siberia. And in the process of storming the city of Siberia to establish sufficient prestige. Then it can attract a lot of middle and high-level players and generals to take refuge. It will be very helpful for him to fight for the position of Generalissimo in the future.
Thinking of this, his heart couldn't help but feel hot. Immediately summon subordinate generals and staff officers to arrange tasks.
"Take out all the camouflage tactics so that the Chinese cannot know where we built the bridge!"
"Send 5,000 trucks and infantry to deploy suspicious troops in various sections of the upper and lower reaches of the Ob River, and make a feint to build a pontoon bridge to distract them."
Inside the city of Siberia, the Chinese headquarters.
An intelligence officer hurriedly came to report. "Report! Five trucks of 1,000 units of the Russian army are moving fast, arriving at the Ob River about 20 kilometers, 30 kilometers, 40 kilometers, 70 kilometers, and 100 kilometers downstream. ”
"Is there any movement in the fourth, fifth, and sixth main tank groups of Russia?"
"No, not moving!" "Keep monitoring!"
"Yes!"
Qinglian glanced at the map and paid attention to this information.
Now the key to the war in Siberia is whether the Russian tank group can cross the river. The key to crossing the river lies in whether a number of pontoon bridges can be successfully built in a very short period of time.
The 2,000-kilometer stretch of the lower reaches of the Ob River has a width of about 300 meters and 00 meters. If the Russian tank group wants to cross the river quickly, it will have to build a large number of pontoon bridges and use a huge amount of materials. These materials need to be stored in large quantities, and the storage place is not too far from the river.
The Russian side made a move to build a pontoon bridge within a range of 20 km 00 km. The time it takes for the Chinese bombers to take off and arrive at the pontoon site is 12 minutes and hours from receiving information on the location of the floating beams, and it takes 12 minutes and hours to return.
However, the Chinese side has 3,000 bombers, which is enough to bomb all the pontoon bridges in turn, no matter what.
Unless the other side uses countless camouflaged pontoons, so that the Chinese bombers cannot judge the authenticity of the pontoons, resulting in accidental bombing, wasting ammunition and time. As a result, the Russian real pontoon bridge was successfully established.
However, regardless of whether the pontoon bridge is real or not.
Russian tanks must definitely pass over the real bridge, and absolutely cannot pass over the false bridge.
As long as the main tank of the Russian army moves, it will immediately be revealed by the Chinese airship, and naturally the location of the real pontoon bridge built by the Russian army can also be revealed. The bomber was able to take off and bomb immediately.
The Russian tank group will not be able to survive many tanks in such a short period of time.
The Russian army that crossed the river had too few tanks to capture the Siberian city, and it would only become a meat bun, with no return.
She couldn't think of any effective means for the tens of thousands of tanks of the Russian tank group to fly across the Ob River from the sky and the sea! If she really has this ability, she can only admire and have nothing to say.
To be on the safe side, she also didn't want to pin her safety entirely on the bomber.
Qinglian immediately gave an order.
"Dispatch 3,000 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles, and 3,000 infantry trucks of our army to the east bank of the lower reaches of the Ob River from 20 to 100 kilometers, disperse an average of ten squadrons of 100 tanks, and carry out mobile arming on these river sections! Once a pontoon bridge appears on the existing river, it can be bombarded directly without applying for an order. ”
In this way, even if the bombers did not arrive in time. Although these tanks are not enough to fight hard with the tanks of the two and a half armies of the Russian army, they are also enough to break all the real and false pontoon bridges and severely block the river, so that Russian tanks cannot cross the river hundreds of meters wide.
"Yes!"
The herald immediately conveyed the order.
3,000 Chinese tanks, armored vehicles, and trucks guarding the vicinity of the city of Siberia began to move 20 to 100 kilometers to the east bank of the lower reaches of the Ob River, and deployed along the long riverbank.