Chapter 47: The Battle of Kodor (End)

Night slowly fell, and the town of Kodor, after a day of fierce fighting, fell silent, both sides of the war licking their bleeding wounds.

On the day of November 6th, the imperial army launched five large-scale attacks, Princess Roni divided the 100,000 army into four parts to attack in turn, Ouyang Yu's army and the coalition soldiers could only resist hard, dozens of dangerous situations occurred in the battle, and many positions were broken through by the imperial army at the critical moment, Ouyang Yu recruited five hundred elite soldiers, all equipped with Suomi submachine guns to fight fires everywhere, where Suomi submachine guns went, the imperial soldiers who broke through the coalition defense line could not resist at all, either killed or surrendered, only a small number of lucky people were able to escape。

There is no rest for a whole day, the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army and the soldiers of the coalition army are almost exhausted in spirit and physical strength, if the imperial army attacks at night, the coalition army without the strength to fight again will inevitably fail, fortunately in this other world, the soldiers are basically unable to see things at night because of their poor nutrition, so it is almost impossible to fight at night.

After dinner, Ouyang Yu was called to Brigadier General Louis's side, in just ten days, Brigadier General Louis seemed to be ten years old, and a lot of gray hair had added to his head, because he couldn't get enough rest, the wrinkles on his face had also increased a lot, he saw Ouyang Yu and hurriedly asked: "Now you are also very clear about the situation of our army, if we continue to fight, we will not be able to support it for a few days, what do you think we should do next? Do we continue to fight? Or ......?"

"Surrender?"

Ouyang Yu said what Brigadier General Louis didn't say on his behalf, Brigadier General Louis nodded silently, in his opinion, the Lucerne coalition army not only held its position for ten days but also severely damaged the imperial army, according to statistics, the battle loss ratio between the coalition army and the imperial army was about one to two, and it was already very remarkable to fight like this.

There is no word surrender in Ouyang Yu's heart, and there is no word surrender in East Asian culture, surrender will be regarded as a coward who can't hold his head up for the rest of his life, so in the Pacific Theater of World War II, the U.S. military can catch very few Japanese prisoners, and the same volunteer prisoners captured in the Korean War are quite few, so surrendering to the imperial army is not within Ouyang Yu's consideration at all.

"Your Excellency, in addition to fighting and surrendering, I think we have a third way, and that is to break through. ”

Brigadier General Louis's eyes lit up and he asked eagerly: "How will we break through? When will we break through? Where will we break through?"

Ouyang Yu pointed to the map on the desktop and said, "The time for the breakthrough is set at three o'clock in the morning this evening, and the direction of our breakthrough is here!"

"This is here!" Brigadier General Louis looked at Ouyang Yu's fingers, the direction in which she was preparing to break through was northwest, "Why don't we break through to the east, but to the west? ”

"This is because if we break through to the east, there is only a dead end. Ouyang Yu patiently explained: "The main force of the coalition army is indeed in the east, but there are still 300,000 imperial troops in the middle, our army breaks through to the east, do you think the 300,000 imperial army will look at us and ignore it? ”

Brigadier General Louis nodded incessantly after hearing this, but there was still a question in his heart, "Then where will we go after we break through?"

Ouyang Yu's white jade-like fingers drew an arc on the map, "After we enter the occupied territory of the Empire, we will go north, cross Mount Gallo, cross the Bird's Plain, and return to the Duchy of Lucerne from here. ”

Brigadier General Louis lay on the table and thought about Ouyang Yu's plan repeatedly, this is the best plan at the moment, "Our army has more than 5,000 wounded in the battle so far, and the ammunition and food are almost consumed, if you act according to your plan, it will take almost a month to return to the principality, where can we find food for such a long time, and where can we get ammunition replenishment?"

Ouyang Yu smiled, "Leave the transportation and treatment of the wounded to me, we can grab nothing if there is nothing, the 400,000 troops of the imperial army are fighting here, there will definitely be a large-scale logistics base in the rear, as long as we find it, are we afraid that there will be no supplies?"

"Okay! Come on, pass the order, all troops are ready, and the breakthrough will start at three o'clock tonight!"

At two o'clock in the morning on the 7th of November, when the three moons in the dark sky were all covered by thick clouds, and the visibility on the ground was very low, two sentries on the Imperial army position yawned around the fire, and the older soldier said, "It's so cold, this damn weather must be about to snow, right?"

The younger soldier replied, "Perhaps, I was born in the southern part of the Empire, where the summers are hot but the winters are not cold, and I haven't seen snow yet." ”

"Hahaha, the snow is beautiful, it's all white snow at a glance, every year when it snows, I take my wife and daughter up the mountain to play, alas, I haven't seen my wife and daughter for two years since I joined the army. ”

The older soldiers, reminded of homesickness by their words, fell into a depression, looked at the fire and stopped talking.

"This damn war. ”

The young soldier took out a black-and-white photo from his arms, the photo showed a teenage girl and a teenager, the girl and the teenager leaning intimately together, and the girl also held the boy's arm with both hands with a happy expression.

"Vivi, wait for me, I'll go back and marry you when the battle is over. ”

The young soldier chuckled softly and reached out to caress the picture as if caressing the girl's face.

"Whoosh...... Sou....... ”

Two faint sounds, two crossbow arrows were shot out of the darkness and accurately hit the necks and backs of the two Imperial soldiers, the older soldier died instantly, the younger soldier covered the neck of the arrow with one hand, and tried to pick up the photo that fell to the ground with one hand, but he couldn't breathe or scream, and he couldn't get the photo with all his strength.

A man wearing a big boot called into the eyes of the young soldier, the owner of the boots seemed to know what the young soldier meant, bent down and put the photo in his hand, the young soldier regained the photo of his lover and said a thank you that he could barely hear, and then closed his eyes with a smile forever.

In order to break through smoothly, Ouyang Yu sent a large number of elite soldier squads to infiltrate the positions of the imperial army, and the task of these elite soldier squads is to find as many important targets as possible before the breakthrough is launched, such as the gathering place of the imperial army's troops, magic crystal cannon positions, command posts, etc., and mark them, as soon as the time comes, Ouyang Yu can carry out artillery bombardment through the minimap.

In a T-35 heavy multi-turret tank, Ouyang Yu seemed to be closing her eyes and recuperating, but in fact, she was using the command system to observe the situation of the assault team.

Thanks to the blessing of the fierce battle during this time, her merit value has risen sharply, and she has lit up a lot of Soviet equipment in one go, and the T-35 heavy tank she is riding in is one of them.

The T-35 heavy tank was designed by the Soviet Union's N174 machine-building plant named after Marshal Voroshilov, mass-produced by the Kharkov Steam Locomotive Factory in 1933, began to be installed in the Soviet Red Army in 1936, and ceased production in 1939. In total, more than 60 vehicles were produced.

In the early days of tank development, many people believed that tanks should be like cruisers at sea, with a large number of guns and thick armor, so there were "land cruisers" with more than one turret.

The T-35 tank had a combat total weight of 50 tons and a crew of up to 11 people. Like the British Independence, it has five separate turrets (including a machine gun turret). However, the 5 turrets are arranged in two tiers. The main turret is the central turret, and on the top floor, it is equipped with a 16.5x caliber 76 mm howitzer (later changed to 24 times) with 90 rounds of ammunition and a 7.62 mm machine gun. On the lower floor, there are four turrets and machine gun turrets, two small turrets in the front right and rear left of the main turret, and two machine gun turrets in front left and rear right. The advantage of this arrangement is that the fire system and weight distribution are relatively balanced. However, except for the main turret, which can rotate 360Β°, the other 4 turrets and machine gun turrets only have a directional firing range of 165Β°~235Β°. That is, due to the limitations of the general arrangement, it was not possible to concentrate all 5 turrets of fire in one direction. two small turrets with 1 45 mm tank gun (200 rounds of ammunition) and 1 7.62 mm machine gun each; Two machine gun turrets each mounted one 7.62 mm machine gun. The ammunition base of the 7.62 mm machine gun cartridge was 10080 rounds. With 3 guns and 5 machine guns, it was a "land battleship" with superior firepower in the 30s of the 20th century.

The power plant of the T-35 tank was a 368 kW (500 hp) aviation water-cooled gasoline engine. The transmission is mechanical, the action unit uses a balanced suspension and small-pitch tracks, and there are 8 small-diameter load wheels on each side. The maximum speed of the tank is 30 km / h, the maximum range is 150 km. The thickness of its armor is up to 10~30 mm.

Ouyang Yu, as a member of the Multi-Turret Divine Cult, particularly likes the T-35 heavy tank, in order to break through successfully, she bought five T-35 heavy tanks, and as the front tank of the T-35 heavy tank, she also bought ten T-28 medium tanks, so that she has thirty-nine tanks in her hands, and when she breaks through, she will rush to the front as an assault knife.

The T-28 medium tank was the world's first medium tank developed by the Soviet Union. The design was completed in 1931 and production began in late 1932. [1] The T-28 was designed to support infantry in order to break through strong enemy lines, and the vehicle was also designed to work with the T-35 heavy tank, with many parts common to both vehicles.

The tank was officially equipped with the Soviet Red Army from 1933 and remained in service until 1941 (in some cases, 1944). In 1932, the Putilov Arsenal built a prototype of a medium tank. The total combat weight of the prototype is 17.3 tons, the crew is 6 people, and other indicators are the same as the design requirements. After the tests, the military demanded to increase the thickness of its armor and increase the caliber of the gun to 76.2mm. After the prototype was refined, the military agreed to produce it in series and called it the T-28 medium tank. Before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the T-28 medium tank, together with its brother the T-35 heavy tank, became the symbol of the Soviet Red Army.

In 1931, the Soviet Union began work on a new three-turret medium tank. The new program was developed by a group of OKMO ("Opytnij Konstruktorsko-Mekhanicheskij Otdel" - that is, the "Experimental Machinery Design Department") in the "Bolshevik" plant in Leningrad.

The head of the design team was Engineer S. Ginzberg. In January 1931, the design team led by him went to England to inspect and also visited the multi-turret "Independence" tank, which left a deep impression. However, the "Independence" tank belonged to the British top-secret test product and was not sold to the USSR. Therefore, when the Soviet Union developed the multi-turret T-35 tank and T-28 tank, the British intelligence service suspected that someone had betrayed the intelligence, which was the famous espionage case called the "Tower of London Officer Case", which was finally closed.

The main turret of the new tank was armed with a 45mm gun and a DT machine gun. "As an infantry support fighting vehicle, it is used to break through enemy lines and suppress machine-gun positions. This is where the task of the T-28 medium tank comes from. The main turret was electrically driven, which was rare at the time.Initial tests showed a number of problems with the chassis and transmission.In 1932, the tank building of the "Bolshevik" plant was separated and a new plant was formed, the 174th plant, and since the 174th plant was to devote itself to the production of the T-26 light tank, the production of the T-28 tank was assigned to the "Red Putilov" plant (which was renamed after 1934). Kirov "Plant".

Although all the drawings and documentation for the production of the T-28 were fully transferred to the Putilov plant in November 1932, the trial production of the prototype was completed at the Putilov plant in May 1932. The vehicle has three turrets, weighs 16 tons, is operated by five to six people, has a powerful engine that provides 400 horsepower, allows the vehicle to reach speeds of up to 37 kilometers per hour, and is armed with a 45mm M1931 gun and three machine guns (two on separate turrets, each of which can rotate 165 degrees). Together with the T-35 multi-turret tank, the tank was presented to Kirov, one of the leaders of the Soviet High Command at the time, in August 1932 and was praised by Kirov. In October 1932, it was officially finalized as the T-28 medium tank. Three people, including Ginzberg, the main developer, were awarded the highest Order of Lenin, and five outstanding contributors were awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.