Chapter 192
The artillery fire prepared to surprise the old monkey very much, according to the coordinates he had reported.
Almost in half a minute, more than 200 rockets were smashed on the ground, which was less than a kilometer in front and only a few hundred meters deep.
This density is like hail.
The attacking Hebrew army was engulfed in a raging smoke almost instantly.
"I'm fucking his grandmother, what the hell is this!" The old monkey wiped the cold sweat from his head.
This thing is too ferocious, in the past, when there was a war, there were only twelve rocket launchers in the division.
The probability of wanting rocket artillery to support the front-line positions is very low.
Unless you're in the position of the kind of very important core position!
Well, now, there is such a thing.
According to his experience, the weapons that the Ming army had, the coalition forces would have after a while.
At that time, how the fuck will fight.
"Keep your heart steady, there will be no more Hebrews attacking tonight." Ding San spit out the dog's tail grass in his mouth and drilled into the anti-artillery hole with a sniper rifle.
Sure enough, as Ding San said, until the next morning, when the Hebrews changed their defenses, they did not attack again.
Maybe they were also frightened by the new weapons of the Ming army!
At eight o'clock in the morning, the company retreated on time.
The old monkey doesn't want to stay even a second longer!
The engineer squad spread all the mines on the positions, and even the main roads that were not mineed were covered with mines.
Anyway, it's going to retreat, and these things are still cumbersome to carry, so it's better to spread them directly on the position.
More than twenty tractors came from the rear, and the old monkey took one last look at the dangerous position.
I put my head on my head and slept in the warm sun.
I stayed up all night last night and was really tired!
While the old monkey was sleeping, Li Xiao had already come to the forward command post of the northern front.
The senile Kutuzov and Stilwell are in the command post!
"How's it going?" Although he asked so, it could be seen from the expressions of Kutuzov and Stilwell that the battle was not going well.
"Oops!
In the early morning of the day before yesterday, the German army suddenly launched an attack on the Russian front.
Their artillery preparations were very short, almost clearing the minefields, and they came up like a tidal wave.
The Russian army was in a hurry, and the front-line troops retreated.
I couldn't help it, I put the only two divisions I had on top.
After a day of fighting, the casualties were very large.
Some positions are also lost!
Without reinforcements, we can only retreat. ”
In just a few words, Li Xiao heard the seriousness of the matter.
The Russian army collapsed!
Otherwise, Stilwell would not have put his only two divisions out to the front.
"How did the Russian army collapse so quickly?"
Li Xiao looked at Kutuzov like a tiger.
There are 800,000 Russian troops on the northern front, although they are not as numerous as the other side, but they are in a defensive position, how can they collapse after a day of fighting.
"The battle happened so suddenly that in some places the German army did not even prepare for artillery fire.
And so they rushed up!
In the course of one night, our positions were completely lost.
All the troops rushed to the back, and they couldn't stop it.
The law enforcement team shot and killed some of the deserters, which caused the deserters to mutinied and killed the law enforcement team.
We are gathering the defeated troops in front of us in the rear and regrouping them into battle. ”
Kutuzov was a little hairy when he was stared at by Li Xiao, and he didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of the Russian army under his command had actually deteriorated to this point.
"Forget it! Russian troops withdrew and deployed fifty kilometers west of Moscow.
We don't have much time to find someone to build a position as soon as possible. Li Xiao commanded helplessly.
Such a newly defeated army cannot be immediately put into battle, even if it is forcibly integrated into the battlefield.
In the event of an enemy attack, it will collapse in the shortest possible time.
There is no way to do it, and morale has fallen to the point where it can't be lower.
In the short term, even immortals are irretrievable.
Perhaps only under the city of Moscow, with their capital behind them, can arouse their morale.
"Marshal, but the Russian army has withdrawn, and I have no reserves under my command.
Our troops will be eaten by the German army. ”
When Li Xiao said this, Stilwell immediately became anxious.
"It doesn't matter, Cao Wenzhao has already arrived in Moscow with the third division.
When I received the telegram the day before yesterday, I had already sent him a telegram.
He has now driven to a distance of only twenty kilometers from you, and I have them set up positions.
As long as your people hold out until the evening, they will be able to pull out smoothly.
They retreated in echelons and prepared the battlefield under the city of Moscow.
I can't say it, there is another battle of Tsaritsyn. ”
Li Xiao sighed helplessly, but as long as there was the slightest possibility, he was unwilling to put his troops into that kind of meat grinder-like battle.
"The Third Division is also here?" Stilwell's eyes widened, he knew that the Third Division was the last field division of the Ming Dynasty.
Stay in the country and ensure the stability of the country.
A few days ago, I heard that the commander of Jinyiwei had killed Luo Yangxing, and it was the time when the country needed strength to suppress it, so how could the third division be transferred.
"Hmmm!
The third division was transferred to fight the Battle of Moscow. ”
"How many posts are there in the Third Division now?" The Third Division has always been in the rear as a general reserve, and Stilwell has been in Russia for a long time, and he does not know how far the Third Division has been expanded.
"The division is 87,000 men, with two tank regiments, to assist the infantry in combat."
"Tank regiment, assisting the infantry in combat?"
Stilwell was a little confused, he didn't understand how the tanks could fight with the infantry.
The number of tank troops in the Ming Dynasty is not large, so they are all used intensively.
Ordinary infantry divisions have a lot of artillery, but there are no tanks.
However, Stilwell's heart was also relieved with the arrival of the third division.
A fully equipped division, and it is also a unit that has been recuperating in the rear for a long time.
There will be absolutely no problem with combat effectiveness!
"It doesn't take the night, we can retreat now." Stilwell said to Li Xiao.
"Retreat in broad daylight? You're not afraid that the troops will be pursued? Li Xiao's eyes widened, he didn't expect Stilwell to make such a low-level mistake.
"Marshal, the German army is now hiding during the day, and will only come out to attack at night."
Stilwell looked a little helpless?
"The Germans attacked at night?" Li Xiao was a little confused, what kind of routine is this, he doesn't fight in the daytime, he just picks it up and fights at night?
"During the day we have an air force, and the German army has to do the only thing to do with bombing.
Moreover, the kind of napalm that has been recently transported from the rear is very useful, and when it burns, it is a large piece, and it is very lethal to the enemy infantry.
Even if you hide in bunker, you can't get out of here.
Therefore, the Germans hid in various bunkers during the day, and some in the woods.
Anyway, they won't attack during the day, and when our air force can't move at night, their infantry will come out to attack.
The aerial reconnaissance photos that had just been sent back showed no trace of the German army at all. ”
Stilwell said, handing over a few satellite photos.
Li Xiao looked at these satellite photos and pouted helplessly.
The entire western part of Moscow is the vast Russian Great Plain.
But on the road from Smolensk to Moscow, there are several hilly areas.
More than 100 kilometers long hilly area, countless small hills with an altitude of two or three hundred meters are gathered in the middle.
In addition, Russia is a vast and sparsely populated region with very dense vegetation.
These small mountain bags became an excellent hiding place for the German army.
It was not too easy for the Air Force to find the hidden German troops in such a dense and vast area.
"Then give the order to retreat immediately, and be sure to retreat behind the defense line of the third division before dark.
The retreating troops were immediately reorganized and replenished, and a new defensive line was formed 10 kilometers behind the 3rd Division.
We need to use a cascade defense strategy to defend against the attack of the coalition forces.
Even if you can't crush their attack, it's good to delay it, or thwart their attack. ”
"No!" Stilwell immediately ordered the signal corps, and conveyed the commander's order.
Li Xiao was also a little worried in his heart, after all, the Third Division had just come to Russia, and he was really worried about facing such a tricky situation.
Just when Li Xiao gave the order to retreat, the German army in front was also readjusting.
Inside the headquarters, the bald Moltke was standing in front of the huge sand table with Kong Tingxun.
"Hans!
Your suggestion is very good, we take cover during the day and attack at night every day, which greatly reduces our casualties.
In the last two days of the offensive, we have managed to advance 20 kilometers.
If it weren't for the powerful sniper attack of the Ming army, we would have surrounded the Russian army! ”
Moltke was in a good mood, and advanced twenty kilometers in two days of the battle, and the casualties of his troops were not large.
For a general with two million men under his command, the casualties of several thousand were almost negligible.
"Marshal Moltke, we must advance to Moscow as soon as possible.
Since the Ming troops have pinned down our two flanks, they cannot allow us to smoothly encircle the retreating Russian army.
Then we simply abandon the wings and break through in the center tonight.
Then the troops in the center swept to both sides and surrounded the Ming army that was resisting.
Napoleon exerted all his strength, and he did not completely annihilate all the Ming troops.
This time, as soon as we made a move, we were going to knock out two divisions of the Ming army.
The Führer would have been very happy to hear such news. ”
Kong Tingxun had a smile in his eyes, as if the German army had eaten the Ming army.
As an honor student at the Shanhaiguan Army Military Academy, Kong Tingxun studied battle studies very well.
When the German army attacks the Russian army, it is like cutting butter with a knife.
The morale of the Russian army has collapsed on all fronts, they are all scrambling for their lives, and no one wants to stay behind and die.
At this time, change the direction of the main attack, assault from both flanks, and concentrate forces to encircle the Russian army and fight a war of annihilation.
To the present central breakthrough, and then to the reverse encirclement of the two divisions of the Ming army at both ends of the battle line.
Since the war was fought last year, many divisions of the coalition army have been annihilated by the Ming army, but the coalition army has not once successfully annihilated the first-level army of the Ming army.
And Kong Tingxun knows the biggest weakness of the Ming army!
That is, whether offensive or defensive, the Ming army relied on artillery to a high degree.
Without artillery or air support, the Ming infantry was actually no better than the German army.
Because of this, the Ming army was most afraid of being attacked from both sides.
As long as everything goes well tonight, history can be made.
"That's a good offer!" Moltke had to admit that there was a reason why the Oriental man was favored by the Führer.
The Northern Front was led by the German army, supplemented by the armies of the Nordic countries.
Together, there are more than two million people, and as the commander of such a large army, if he loses this battle, he might as well commit suicide.
In the evening, the German army again launched a fierce attack.
The focus of the offensive is on the middle front of the Russian defense!
After the heavy artillery fire was prepared, everything was quiet when the German troops rushed to the Russian positions out of breath.
Except for the occasional few unlucky ones who stepped on mines, they did not see a single Russian army.
Could it be that the Russian army has run out?
Without any hesitation, the German army immediately began to sweep towards both flanks in accordance with the pre-battle plan, hoping to encircle the two Ming divisions that were still resisting.
But what they didn't expect was that when they rushed to the Ming army's position, the Ming army actually disappeared.
However, there are many more mines left in the positions of the Ming army than there are in the Russian army.
The company that was the first to rush to the position of the Ming army, not a single enemy soldier did not see it, and more than 30 people were killed and wounded.
The company commander howled angrily, but he couldn't find a place to vent.
Both the Ming and Russian armies chose to retreat, much to Moltke's delight.
As soon as the news from the front came back, he gave the order to pursue.
Countless German troops rushed across the battle line like a tidal wave.
At four o'clock in the morning, in the dim moonlight, Batu saw a group of sneaky German soldiers.
The Mongolian battalion had just been reorganized, and Batu also carried two bars and three stars on his shoulders.
He was the only colonel battalion commander in the Ming army.
Now, together with the Mongolian battalion, he is assigned to the third division that has just entered Russia to fight.
After all, the troops of the third division had just come from the country and were not so familiar with the battlefield.
"Hugjiril, you take a company to sit on the tank, and when you see the red signal flare, you will attack!"
"No!" Inside the telephone receiver, the voice of Hugh Jiri was heard.
The regiment assigned a platoon of tanks and nine armored personnel carriers to the Mongolian battalion, which followed them.
This had not been done before, and Batu's plan for this evening was to use two companies to withstand the attack of the German army.
Hugjirile rode tanks and armoured vehicles around the rear of the German army and gave them a look.
The order passed down from above is that you can retreat when the enemy army is strong, but you must kill and damage the enemy to the maximum.
Seeing the German army on the opposite side, Batu had no fear at all.
Behind him, there was a whole artillery battalion, providing him with fire support.
And this is still a reinforced artillery battalion, because Batu was in it and saw a small-caliber rocket artillery that had never been seen before.
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