Chapter 1172 1173 Earth-shattering
"Release the smoke!Cover our sappers for demining!" Opposite Miyamoto, the commander of the German Panzer Corps, Kurt Adolf Wilhelm Meyer, gave the order to allow his troops to continue the attack. A young man born in 1910, Meyer served in the German army for 30 years. Now he is a veteran who has been fighting on the front line for 2 years.
In return, the commander of the armored forces, who was famous in another time and space, has now become an experienced armored battalion commander, and as one of the two armored battalions in this offensive operation, his unit is responsible for breaking through the Japanese line on the left side, and working with the grenadiers to tear a gap and crush a possible Japanese tank counterattack.
"Just kidding...... How long has it been since the Soviets fought back with tanks? Are the Japanese tanks more powerful than the Soviets?" Meyer put down the binoculars in his hand, and the strange silence on the side of the Japanese position made him feel a little uneasy, and he frowned and asked the middle-aged officer next to the battalion tank who was looking at the map on the engine cover of the car, because this officer was assigned to his adviser on military operations in the Far East.
The advisor heard Meier's loud questioning and looked away from the map. He raised his head to look at the half-leaning Mayer from the turret of the tank, shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Most of the resources of the Japanese are used for the navy, and their tanks are about the same as our No. 2 tank...... Of course, if in a year they realized that they were inferior in tanks, it was possible to put into service a new tank. ”
Tanks of the Second World War era were not as sophisticated as modern tanks, including barrel casting technology, aiming computer technology, infrared night vision technology, and so on - the tanks of that era were nothing more than engines and similar steel plates, and even artillery could be improvised. Therefore, if Japan is determined to build a 100-ton tank, it is possible to achieve it, but only their Amaterasu Okami himself knows how effective this kind of barely managed thing is.
Hearing this answer, Meyer was somewhat relieved. He looked up at the Japanese defensive position in the distance, which was still motionless, and finally pressed the throat intercom, and shouted an order into the radio: "Send a signal to the air force, let the engineers go up, and start the demining operation!" The tanks of the 2nd Company will cover and return fire immediately if the Japanese open fire. ”
"2 companies understand!" Through the hissing sound of electricity, the voice of the commander of the 2nd company came from the earphones. Soon four armored demining rocket launchers began to move slowly under the operation of the engineers, and the German Leopard tanks on their flanks followed suit, and their slender gun barrels pointed majestically in the direction of the Japanese position.
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"Directly on the armored vehicles?What about the sappers??Where are the infantry?" Miyamoto, the commander of the Japanese armored forces, asked suspiciously, seeing a small number of German tanks from the telescope. He didn't know who he was asking, it seemed to be just asking himself, but when he asked these questions, he found that he didn't seem to be able to answer them.
Beside him, a Japanese commander opened the river according to the command knife: "Miyamoto-kun, maybe they are fighting to break through the position with losses in Europe, and then fight a war of movement, right? I heard that they are good at fighting a wide range of roundabout outflanking operations, but they are not good at fighting positional warfare......
"Whoosh...... I hope so. But I always felt that the other party had something we didn't know about, which gave me a sense of foreboding. Miyamoto was still a little worried about his defensive line, he turned his head sideways and said to the officer behind him: "Let Wing Captain Kawasaki's infantry find a way to test the temptation, and try not to let those strange German tank vehicles come close to our minefield." ”
"Hey!" the Japanese officer nodded and answered his commander's order. But before he could straighten his waist, the piercing air raid sirens echoed, and the sharp sound tore the hearts of every Japanese soldier on the battlefield.
"I don't think the Germans are going to be that simple...... Is it the Air Force? I really don't know how to converge when I take advantage of it......" Miyamoto seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as he watched one German Stuka 2 attack plane after another rush down into the sky and swoop down to drop bombs at a very close distance with that unique howl.
The Germans' killer weapon seemed to be this near-perfect air-ground integrated combat method, which he had heard had been proposed by the Germans during the First Nomenkan War -- but until now, the Japanese army had not been able to meet the requirements of the Germans at that time, and they did not even have the courage to try.
The Japanese army lacked tank forces capable of crushing the opponent, nor did it have the ability to train on a large scale and concentrate on the use of aviation, but in the Battle of Nomenkan that year, the Germans proposed a seemingly powerful combat method, and the few people in the Japanese army who understood it still remembered it. Miyamoto knew that the Germans had now realized what they had come up with and could skillfully use this method, putting terrible pressure on their opponents.
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Meyer saw his Stuka 2 attack planes through the binoculars, and saw them easily drop their aerial bombs on the Japanese defensive positions at an angle and altitude that almost hit the ground. The explosion seemed so devastating that even Meyer couldn't help but worry about the enemy on the opposite side - what would I do if you were dead?
With the German army's skillful air-ground integrated offensive coordination, the ground forces certainly could not just watch the air force bomb indiscriminately. They had to take advantage of the enemy's exhaustion to complete those complicated preparations before firing. The sappers skillfully fixed the bomb belt to the rocket, placed all the detonation devices, checked the safety and fixing bolts, and finally began their work.
After several people nodded to each other to confirm that all preparations were in place, the engineer commander in charge of demining pressed the button to fire. The electrified rockets immediately began to be fired one after another at the Japanese positions, and the dragged bomb belts, also pulled by the powerful force, flew over the minefield and extended to the Japanese trenches.
"Blast!" With a heart-rending roar, the sapper twisted the detonating device in his arms, and then the infantry in the Japanese trench was horrified to find that the thick "ropes" dragged by the unexploded rockets flying across from them suddenly exploded.
And with the trembling of the earth and the sand and gravel flying everywhere, many Japanese soldiers immediately went dark in front of their eyes and could not feel anything. The huge shaking and the roar of the explosion directly caused the Japanese troops in the nearby trenches to stagger, and a few unlucky guys were even killed directly in their own trenches.
The Soviets on the Soviet-German battlefield had already learned many times about such a shaky explosion, and this kind of massive demining operation was even more deterrent than artillery coverage, and most Soviet troops did not have the courage to challenge the second time after experiencing it once. Now, too, the Japanese have seen this terrible sapper vehicle, a "engineering vehicle" that is much more powerful than most of the weapons in their hands.
"Hey! It's been almost a year, and I still like the sapper demining truck the most! Every time there is a movement in demining, it really makes people's pores open and comfortable!" Meier put down his binoculars, and he could feel the momentum and deterrence of the mountains and seas far behind, and he shouted to the people around him with a smile, and the people around him also laughed back to his battalion commander.
"If you're on the Japanese side, you don't have this wonderful experience. Next to the car behind the tank, a German officer standing behind his back shouted to Meyer with a smile. It was also the first time he had seen this demining method of the sappers on the front line, and it was indeed enough to shock his heart. In just a few years, his country has become so strong that it is indeed a pleasant thing.
Such a wide road appeared so easily in front of the German armored forces, the German Stuka 2 attack planes on the Japanese position were still recklessly dropping their bombs at the Japanese soldiers, and this side of the smoke-filled road had been opened for the German army, the German sappers waved to the rushing tank troops, and the tanks of the 2nd company had begun to accelerate and rushed towards the Japanese defense line.
"Companies 1 and 3 follow! Let's go!" Meyer laughed, then he stretched out his hand, put on the headset around his neck, and on the turret of the Leopard command tank with the engine roaring, the commander retracted his upper body and easily buckled the hatch canopy.
"Attack! Attack! Reach the Japanese defensive positions along the passage, and then extend the breakthrough to both flanks! Cover our grenadiers as much as possible and reduce their casualties! The 2nd Battalion is on our flank, and there are more than 2,000 Soviet reserves behind us, and the Japanese are lost!" In the headset, various orders are given one after another, the German offensive has begun, and on their opposite side, a nightmare for the Japanese today, seems to have just begun.
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"Your Majesty the Emperor...... How can human bravery defeat such a terrible weapon?" Miyamoto looked at the wide minefield in front of his position, which was completely destroyed by a terrible mine-sweeping weapon of the German army, and sighed mournfully: "Next, we can only engage with the Germans in close combat...... Now let me see if their tanks are as powerful as the legend says!"
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