Six-five-zero asymmetry

May 7, morning. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Protected by six Mustang fighters, three blue and white relay command communications command airships slowly rose into the blue sky.

It is a modified version of a large Hippopotamus-class airship, which is equipped with 11 short and medium bō radios, which can carry 16 people at a time, and is used to coordinate communication between troops and guide the air force to support ground forces.

Only when you sit in the cabin and look at the dense troops below, you can understand why the emperor attaches so much importance to it, and also invited Mr. Truss to help solve the problem of radio interference, and use the winter truce to modify 6 such airships, because this time everyone has to face not a small battlefield like the Tomsk fortress, but between the Yenisei River and the Ob River, 370 kilometers wide and 580 kilometers long, with many rivers, dense jungles, and undulating mountains.

If it was only a vast area, there might not be a need for relay airships, but in this campaign, the 2nd Air Division alone invested 100 Mustang fighters, 660 Hurricane attack planes, and 180 Kunpeng bombers.

The Northwest Theater has taken out almost all the ground forces that can be used for the offensive, with 1 mechanized infantry division, 8 ** armored regiments, a total of 1,170 3 Cheetah tanks, and 810 Wildcat armored vehicles as arrows, followed by 65 infantry divisions with 1.3 million infantry, more than 10,000 cannons and machine guns, more than 6,000 trucks, 50,000 war horses and 780,000 bicycles.

For anyone, commanding, coordinating, and managing such a large combat force is dumbfounded enough, especially after studying the process of the large-scale German operations on the Western Front, the General Staff found that the confusion in command and communications was one of the main factors that caused the lack of coordination capabilities of the troops in various European countries and their eventual failure, especially in the key support and surprise division, encirclement, and other combat missions, which often fell short because of these problems.

Radio stations are already basic equipment for the domestic army, but because of the ground environment, woods and mountains, etc., it is not possible to contact anytime and anywhere, so it is important to have a large transfer station that can be in the sky at all times to help contact.

Originally, Li Mo wanted to use the transport plane as a platform, but considering that the transport plane has higher requirements for the airport and logistics, and the time in the air is shorter than that of the airship, and the advance speed of the troops in this era is not so perverted, so he used the airship.

Arrows swooped forward like há water, especially the armored regiments and infantry divisions, which became battlefield knives, rushing forward with the help of engines.

One by one, the heavy firepower points of the Russian army, which had finally woken up, had not roared for long, and under the guidance of the relay airship, they were turned over by the silver wings who had already itched their hands. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

The Second West Siberian Campaign, which was huge in scale but far from fierce, entered the stage of rapid and deep penetration without frantic artillery preparations and large-scale tactical bombardment.

If there are military fans in later generations who see this, they will definitely shout that the commander is idiotic, because there are still nearly two million Russian troops entrenched in the encirclement, but in fact, it has been three hours since the early morning, and the four armored regiments have already penetrated 100 kilometers in depth and encountered some sporadic resistance.

Sitting in the rickety "Sand Fox" tracked command vehicle, looking at the relay airship in the distance, the corner of Zhang Zuolin's mouth hooked up a smile, in fact, in the eyes of the emperor and the General Staff Officer, the West Siberian campaign is like a large-scale corps combat exercise with equipment and conditions, and the key is to make good use of this actual combat opportunity and accumulate experience for future large-scale battles.

Like the relay airship, the Sand Fox, which is also the second generation after the wheeled command vehicle, makes use of the chassis of the 3 Cheetah, but the interior space is large, not only has three radio stations, but can also accommodate 7 people working at the same time.

It's not the first time Zhang Zuolin has seen the "sand fox", and he knows far more than Sun Jiugong in his position, so he admires the emperor for having something strange in his head.

"What? Stayed in the staff for a long time and is not used to marching? ”

Sun Jiugong threw a cigarette to Zhang Zuolin and said with a smile: "I think it's not strange that you stay in the staff headquarters all day, so it's better to just report to our Northwest Army." ”

"I would like to, but it's a pity that the chief of staff and the emperor don't agree." Zhang Zuolin glanced at his old classmate angrily and asked, "Jiugong, you just pulled out and attacked?" The entire battlefield is almost 330 kilometers wide, and artillery fire is not prepared? Too bold, right? ”

"Bold fart!"

Sun Jiugong pursed his lips, as if he didn't have any interest in this battle, and said, "You haven't read the report I sent you in the past?" More than 90 percent of the Russian army lacked food supplies, and no less than 500,000 froze to death, and at least this number was sick and wounded, not to mention that they generally lacked heavy firepower last year.

I asked people to do an experiment, wrapped a Makqin machine gun in cotton cloth and put it in the wind and snow for the winter, but it turned out that it couldn't be used a few days ago, and now the Russian army has not been able to get supplies for a winter, and even if the heavy equipment can be preserved, there is not much left, in this case, you still let me prepare for artillery fire, not afraid that Minister Tang will point his nose and scold people for a while? ”

Thinking of the scene where Tang Fat trembled with anger after countless shells were aimed at the Russian army that had no power to fight back, Zhang Zuolin suddenly laughed, war is a gold-swallowing monster, a good general can grasp the degree of consumption of this monster to the country and the economy very measuredly, only reckless people will continue to use traditional artillery preparation methods when the opponent is dying.

What's more, even if you give up artillery preparation, you can still have a powerful enough armored assault force, and it is really not worth spending hundreds of thousands of shells in this situation.

The sound of the explosion came from the right, Zhang Zuolin raised the telescope to look, only to see a few kilometers away, several hurricane attack planes that had finished dropping bombs were climbing, and under the belly of the plane was a huge mushroom cloud that was still rising, as for the Russian position, which was still wrapped in gunsmoke, it had just been bombed and began to face the attack of thousands of infantry led by an armored company.

In order for him to see clearly, the sand fox slowly stopped, and the dense red rain-like shells swept past the Russian positions, and the infantry began to quickly set up mortars, and when the shells whistled, the small position gradually began to give up resistance.

"Let's take a look."

Under the protection of the armored battalion, the command vehicle quickly arrived at the position, and in the salute of the soldiers, Sun Jiugong and Zhang Zuolin walked to the position.

As far as the eye can see, the position is in tatters, the small log headquarters has collapsed in the explosion, hundreds of corpses are lying in the trenches, and the soldiers have begun to clean up and clean up.

Outside the trenches, nearly a thousand yellow-skinned, numb-eyed Russian troops had laid down their weapons and obediently lined up like sheep waiting for the arrangement of the soldiers, and with the arrival of a prisoner transport team consisting of 20 trucks and several wildcat armored vehicles, these Russian troops were quickly transported to prisoner of war camps along the railway line at gunpoint, becoming a much-needed labor force to repair the railroad damaged by themselves.

The prisoner of war transport team has become a busy group of people on the entire battlefield, and if it were not for the coordination of the command airship, it would be a big trouble to transport these as many as 100,000 prisoners of war to the nearest camp and then to the prisoner of war camp, and as the troops continue to advance, the scale of this work will increase.

"Report, General Shoushan, the 1st Infantry Division, reported that they were resisting in formation in our 15th Army in the southwest."

"Oh? How many people? ”

"There are about 150,000 people."

"Great, let's go!"

Hearing the news, Sun Jiugong got into the sand fox like a pepper under his buttocks, and even Zhang Zuolin was a little excited, finally ending this kind of walking attack.

"Order the 11th Panzer Regiment to support the infantry division."

"The 56th Infantry Division is too slow, accelerate, tell them that the division commander must be put into battle within three hours." Quickly rushing to the sand fox in Achinsk, Sun Jiugong kept issuing orders, thanks to his strong communication and coordination capabilities, sitting in a small command armored car, he could get the entire battlefield, the advance speed and orientation of dozens of divisions.

The three Kunpeng quickly lowered their altitude, and the moment the door of the bomb magazine opened, 12 250-kilogram high-explosive incendiary bombs fell on the base of the Russian 21st Army in Achinsk.

The base, which was all made of wood, was hit by incendiary bombs, and countless soldiers scattered in all directions, screaming and screaming, but their nightmare was not over, because another three Kunpeng had flown over.

The Kunpeng carried out an even somewhat boring bombing maneuver, and as many as 42 bombers returned from bombing and reloading, a bōbō hurricane summoned by the command airship began to rage again.

After Zhang Zuolin and Sun Jiugong arrived at Achinsk, the billowing smoke of gunpowder almost completely enveloped the small city, and under the repeated bombardment of 120 105-mm howitzers and nearly 100 sorties, the Russian 21st Army hardly had the slightest respite.

This scene made Zhang Zuolin, who came to the Northwest Army to investigate, smile bitterly and shake his head, using absolutely superior aircraft, tanks and artillery to fight the enemy with only rifles and dozens of cannons, this is not symmetrical combat at all!

"Boom."

A high-powered bomb fell in front of the stone house, and the wooden buildings outside were almost burned to the ground, and countless soldiers who had survived the winter and waved the cold had no chance to celebrate before they could be swallowed by a terrible flame that no one knew what it was, and became pieces of charcoal.

Lieutenant General Yaric was speechless, although he had long known that the other side would launch a general attack in the near future, and he had already taken full precautions, but until he faced the frenzied influx of aircraft and artillery, he understood that he and his opponent were not at all an order of magnitude.

It's like being in the ring, where a kid who has just learned a few basic moves faces a champion who is armed to the teeth and has knocked out countless super opponents.

Aggrieved, the nest is to the extreme!

"We surrender."