Chapter 371: The Red Guard Heavy Division Attacked

The Soviet Panzer Corps was assaulted by eight Apocalypse tanks and in turn was hit by a combined attack of four Intruder fighters.

The four Intruder bombers dropped a full sixteen joint attack bombs weighing more than one ton, and the fundamental purpose of this special anti-armor unit's joint attack munitions was to destroy as many armored group targets on the ground as possible.

Although the cost is not cheap, it is extremely effective against ground tank clusters.

A single Intruder fighter-bomber can carry a combined attack munition that can easily destroy a battle group of forty tanks.

Although it is often impossible to guarantee the maximum lethality of joint attack ammunition due to the position between the tanks and the battlefield environment, it is completely no problem to ensure half of the lethality.

And even if you can't directly damage the tank, you can destroy some tanks and injure another.

This bomb was massively equipped by the NATO Air Force during the Cold War, especially in Europe, in response to the Soviet Union's powerful ground-based armor clusters.

After the base technology is fully upgraded, all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment have also been unlocked, and this kind of joint attack ammunition is only one of them.

This is also the reason why Ma Yuhao and the other seven tanks quickly evacuated, under the attack of the joint attack ammunition, it will also affect the Apocalypse tank if it is not careful, and the top armor of the Apocalypse tank may not be able to withstand the empowerment attack of the joint attack ammunition.

A dense sea of fire broke out in an instant among the Soviet tank army, hundreds of tanks were directly destroyed, and dozens of tanks were traumatized to varying degrees, and in the end, less than forty tanks survived.

The commander of the tank army was lucky to avoid the attack, and when he came back to his senses and got out of the tank, he found that there were not many tanks left around him.

And on the opposite side, the previous eight tanks were nowhere to be seen.

A tank army, just like that, was destroyed, and from the beginning to the end of the battle, there was not even a ten.

All the surviving Soviet tank crews were stunned and frightened.

If the previous exchange of fire with eight tanks was a devastating ordeal, now it is a cold fear of hands and feet, from the inside out, and some people even pull their hair frantically and scream with crying.

Because of the war, like many units of the German army, many units of the Soviet Union were not fully staffed.

Although this panzer corps is at the level of an army, in fact, it has only 16,000 men, while a fully armored division in Germany has 16,000 men.

If it is fully staffed, the number of tanks in a tank army of the Soviet Union should be about 550, but in fact, there are less than half of the tanks.

During World War II, when the United States counterattacked the Pacific, the establishment of a division could even reach 30,000 people, because there was no comparison between the combat effectiveness and the strength of the troops.

It is like the heavy armored division of the Red Guard Corps, which has 700 main battle tanks and a personnel establishment of 22,000 people, including a mechanized infantry brigade, an engineer brigade, a combat aviation brigade, an artillery support headquarters directly under the division, and an air defense battalion, communications battalion, anti-chemical battalion, and military intelligence battalion directly under the division.

The direct combat strength of the heavy division includes a total of 12 tank brigades of heavy tank battalions, one heavy tank battalion has four tank companies, one tank company has three platoons, each platoon has four tanks, and one heavy tank battalion has 55 tanks.

The tank brigade of the heavy division does not have a regiment-level command center, and the brigade-level command directly commands the nine tank battalions under its command, and there are three heavy tank battalions, two of which are tank units of mechanized infantry brigades, and one is directly under the division.

In the artillery establishment, the heavy division is generally equipped with three self-propelled howitzer battalions, equipped with one hundred and eight 155-mm self-propelled howitzers and two multiple launch tactical rocket artillery battalions, and one tactical rocket artillery battalion equipped with eighteen 280-mm multiple launch tactical rocket launchers.

Because of the strong aviation artillery support, in the establishment of heavy divisions, brigade-level units do not have direct support firepower, and divisional artillery is often directly reinforced to tank battalions as direct support firepower.

The main combat strength of the combat aviation brigade under the heavy division includes an armed reconnaissance battalion, including two air reconnaissance companies and an armored reconnaissance company, two attack helicopter battalions, and 24 armed helicopter gunships.

Compared with the establishment of the Soviets, the combat effectiveness of a heavy division exceeds that of an armored army of the Soviet Union by too much, and even during World War II, it was impossible to have division-level troops with such strong combat capabilities.

At present, the ground forces responsible for operations against the Soviet Far East have only two heavy divisions and one mechanized infantry division, and they are facing half a million Soviet troops around the Ussuri River.

The 7th Heavy Division was responsible for a frontal attack, striking at the core of the Soviet defense line in depth, cutting the Soviet defense forces apart, and cooperating with the lightly armed troops to encircle and destroy them.

The 3rd Theater of Operations was equipped with 400 intruder fighter-bombers, as well as a large number of helicopter gunships.

As the scope of the offensive battlefield has expanded and the depth has been lengthened, there have been more and more tank units like Ma Yuhao fighting alone.

This also made the entire Soviet defense line front and back, inside and outside, everywhere the enemy's figure, so that the Soviet army could not organize effective large-scale resistance at all, and could only fight the troops around them.

In the rear of the tank unit of the Soviet Panzer Army, which had basically been defeated, the military commissar was helped up from the ground, and the picture in the distance, not to mention those tank soldiers, even all the Soviets in the rear, were all terrified.

The attack just now was only a moment's work, and under the roar of the fighters flying low in the sky, they just raised their heads and saw sixteen huge bombs falling, and then they scattered in the sky and landed on the ground, and the entire tank force was surrounded by explosions.

In the firelight, you can see sparks splashing everywhere, and when the flames gradually extinguished and the smoke dissipated partially, the remaining 200 tanks all stopped.

Many of the destroyed tanks burned on the spot, and the lucky tanks were only blown up by some equipment and the latter's tracks, and the tank crews inside couldn't wait to climb out of the tanks so as not to be buried with the tanks.

The political commissar's face turned pale, pushed away the people around him, and led everyone towards the place where the tank troops in front of him were.

When he saw a large number of armored soldiers, all of whom had left the tank, his face became even more ugly, full of gloom.