Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Rise of China

The Ninth Army of the National Defense Forces, since getting Qian Guanglu from the guard regiment and having to change the entire night attack plan, Luo Zhang has been paying attention to the three commandos, and he can't wait to fly to the battlefield to direct the incident night raids.

Just as the political commissar of the Soviet forward had guessed: the three Wehrmacht commandos that broke into the Soviet barracks were indeed the only mobile units that Luo Zhang could use.Once there is any change in the three commandos, the Ninth Army will fall into an embarrassing situation where soldiers are available in the next battle.

Therefore, Luo Zhang, who got the news, stood by the radio station and followed every move of the commando at any time.

Hearing that the commando was preparing to retreat, Luo Zhang's heart, which had been tense for several hours, finally relaxed.After a long sigh, he ordered to the chief of staff behind him: "Immediately order Commander Wang, the heavy artillery division assigned to us by the group army, to cover the commando team from the Soviet barracks at all costs. If the Soviet army is found chasing troops, immediately intercept them with firepower..."

Because of the Soviet Red Army's air superiority and ground artillery superiority, in order to avoid being exposed to the Soviet Air Force in advance and being devastated, thousands of officers and soldiers of the Third Independent Heavy Artillery Division, which had been hidden in the underground tunnels as a trump card, finally had a vent. A chance to rage in your own heart.

As soon as Luo Zhang's order came to their ears, thousands of artillerymen seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. Without the supervision of officers at all levels, they began to arrange artillery positions as quickly as possible, so that the artillery was in the best firing state.

As time passed by, the black hole barrels of more than a hundred artillery pieces all pointed directly at the sky, behind the shelling target.

The order "fire..." finally reached everyone's ears.

"Boom..." The deafening roar of artillery sounded on the battlefield.More than a hundred cannons with orange-red tail flames spewed out from the muzzle quickly, like a dazzling meteor.It hits the target at a flying speed of several hundred meters per second. [

The National Defense Forces attacked the Soviet heavy artillery position where the commando was located at night. After bursts of violent explosions came from the breakthrough point I selected, thousands of officers and soldiers of the commando who temporarily acted as gunners also completed their last round of artillery fire.Not only that, dozens of super-large detonating explosives that were connected in a row and piled up a large number of heavy artillery shells on the surface were all completed under Qian Guanglu's instructions.

Reluctantly looking at the group of hundreds of cannons in front of him again, Commander Qian Guanglu ordered decisively: "Since we can't take him away, we can only blow him up...the whole commando has it. Cars, break out from the direction of the bombardment, set off..."

Accompanied by the roar of chariots in the heavy artillery position of the Soviet Army, a huge torrent of steel composed of more than [-] heavy tanks, more than [-] armored vehicles, and more than [-] transport vehicles rushed towards the shelling area.

And at this moment.The second round of the Soviet attack on artillery positions also officially began.

When the dense Soviet infantry and heavy tanks crushed the corpses of the soldiers killed in the first round of attack, bypassed the wreckage of the destroyed tanks, and slowly entered the position 300 meters away from the artillery position, preparing to step into the minefield.

A series of explosions that could be called earth-shaking suddenly sounded from the artillery position in front.

At the moment when more than a dozen huge fireballs soaring into the sky rose from the ground, the hundreds of thousands of heavy artillery shells covered by the explosives supplier flew around like a goddess scattered flowers...

To know.These scattered cannons are heavy artillery that have been fuzed, as long as a slight impact may detonate them.

As a result, a total of tens of thousands of heavy artillery shells produced by the explosion of more than a dozen giant explosive packages exploded one after another when they landed.

You know, the total area of ​​this artillery position with more than [-] heavy artillery pieces is only more than [-] square meters.Tens of thousands of heavy artillery shells with a killing radius of more than ten meters suddenly exploded within an area of ​​more than [-] square meters, which means that every ten square meters of small area can be allocated one heavy artillery shell.

that's all.With the sound of intensive and violent explosions in front of us, the heavy artillery positions of the Soviet army with hundreds of heavy artillery were directly hit by an unprecedented devastating blow.

At this time, the night attack commando with thousands of troops had rushed to a position less than 500 meters away from the Soviet defense line.

"Contact the Heavy Artillery Division, split the artillery fire into two, and quickly extend to both ends of the breakthrough to prevent the Soviet army from blocking the picture breach..." Inside the armored command vehicle, seeing the Soviet defense line that had turned into a sea of ​​flames, Qian Commander Guanglu directly ordered a signal soldier with a sneer on his face.

Afterwards, the vehicle-mounted walkie-talkie microphone handed over by the communication soldier gave another serious order: "Tank regiment, launch an assault on the Soviet defense line immediately, and tear a breach in the direction of the Soviet army...Armor regiment, car transport Regiment, prepare for the assault. As long as the breakthrough is opened, all vehicles must break out at their fastest speed...attack..."

More than [-] medium-sized tanks first launched an assault in the direction of the Soviet army, which had been completely submerged by artillery fire, with a roar and black smoke. [

Although thousands of Soviet troops and more than a dozen heavy tanks were stationed in the Soviet defense line in front of the commando, after 5 minutes of ravaging by more than a hundred heavy artillery, there were only a few of these defenders left.Therefore, a charge of the tank battalion, the breakthrough of the night assault commando protruding from the Soviet barracks was opened.

The position of the Ninth Army of the National Defense Forces received the news that the commando had broken through the encirclement and was retreating to the position.Commander Luo Zhang led the army to the front line in person, waiting for the return of the night raid commando.

With everyone's eagerly looking forward to it, an excited exclamation quickly reached everyone's ears.

"Back, the Night Raid Commando is back..."

Under the cover of the dark night, although everyone has not seen the specific figure of the commando.However, the roar of hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles, and even transport vehicles of the commando slowly reached everyone's ears from far and near.

As the roar became louder and louder, walking in the front, a tank that had been smudged into darkness slowly appeared in everyone's sight.

Immediately afterwards, more and more tanks and armored vehicles, like a flood that burst a bank, continued to flock to their positions.

Just then, a tank was covered in pits.The armored vehicle that was also blackened by gunpowder suddenly stopped in front of Luo Zhang and the others.Afterwards, Qian Guanglu, who was tired but not excited, quickly jumped out of the armored vehicle.And walked quickly to where everyone was.Salute, reported loudly.

"Report to the military seat, all officers, the night raid commando was ordered to complete the task, please instruct..."

After Luo Zhang returned a military salute, he said with a satisfied face: "There is nothing to instruct, and your mission has been completed very well. No, not only very well. It also exceeded all of our expectations. The soldiers have worked hard. It's been a whole night, and we all go back to have a good rest, tomorrow morning, you and the other two regiment leaders will report to us the details of the battle."

After finishing speaking, he ordered to Chief of Staff Wu Xin behind him: "Chief of Staff Wu, the next task will be entrusted to you. Make sure all the brothers who participated in the night attack eat well. Rest well..."

"Yes, the military seat..."

The brightly lit army headquarters, although everyone still doesn't know the specific results and losses of the night raid commando.However, from the size of the convoy that retreated to the position, everyone has felt that the loss of the commando must be very small.

Therefore, without any worries, they couldn't help but start discussing the huge losses that the Soviet army might have paid in this night attack.

Just when everyone was arguing at the headquarters with smiles on the loss of the Soviet army and whether the heavily damaged Soviet army still had the ability to attack.Lieutenant General McKiss, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet forward, was already surrounded by his subordinates.Return to the command post, which has not suffered much damage.

The National Defense Forces night attack team successfully broke through surrounded by their own heavy troops, and easily ate the only three heavy artillery divisions in the forward position.Such an unprecedented heavy loss, as the political commissar of the Lieutenant General who is directly in command of the battle, is suspected to bear the main responsibility.

So, without waiting for Lieutenant General McKeess to speak.The political commissar, whose face was pale because of the defeat, handed over the command of the troops to Lieutenant General McKeess.In the subsequent time, it is like a doll standing in the command post.No more comments.

After glancing at the decadent-looking subordinates in front of him, Lieutenant General McKeess knew that even if the troops suffered little losses in the battle tonight, with the troops' current morale, they would never attack the National Defense Forces without a few days of rest.

Of course, this is just an assumption of Lieutenant General McKeess. After a night of night raids and witnessing several soldiers and tanks being wiped out by the heavy artillery attack of the National Defense Forces, Lieutenant General McKeess knows that the loss tonight It can definitely be called unprecedented.

However, as the highest military officer, McKeess knew in his heart that even in the face of a major blow, he would not be able to collapse.

After heaving a long sigh, he had no choice but to hold back the worry in his heart, and comforted his subordinates.

"Comrades, I hope everyone understands that failures are temporary. Behind us, there are millions of Far East Red Army soldiers who can send troops to reinforce us at any time. There is a saying in China that 'victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs', so, I I hope everyone can cheer up and don't be frightened by the failure in front of them. The heroic Soviet Red Army is invincible and will definitely win the final victory..."

Seeing that everyone's decadent faces improved slightly, Lieutenant General McKeess changed the subject and ordered with a serious face: "Now I order: everyone return to your troops immediately, and count the casualties and losses of the troops. Before dawn , all the data must be sent to me. Because everyone's statistics are related to whether we can continue to stay here after dawn..."

Two hours later, when the dark sky began to dim, McKeess, whose eyes were bloodshot because he had not rested well, finally received a loss report from the [-]st Tank Division.

"The 89st Tank Division lost a total of 75 tanks in the two consecutive days of attack. In the night attack last night, a total of 119 tanks and 190 various logistics supply vehicles were lost. So far, the [-]st Tank Division has a total of [-] tanks left Tanks can continue to participate in the battle. However, because the logistics supply vehicles have been destroyed in large numbers, the fuel and medicine left by the troops can only maintain the combat consumption of the remaining tanks of the tank division for one day at most..."

After reading the report, Lieutenant General McKeess couldn't help feeling a bit of heartache and dizziness.However, before he recovered from the heartache, the loss reports of the [-]nd Tank Division and the [-]rd Tank Division appeared on the desk of Lieutenant General McKees at the same time as if they had been negotiated.

Because all the tanks in the first round of counterattacks against the heavy artillery positions came from the Second Tank Division, so the Second Tank Division, which had a total of 360 heavy tanks, almost lost its combat effectiveness. A total of more than 290 tanks were in the two-day battle and the night attack last night. turned into scrap iron...

The Third Tank Division happened to be in the direction of the Wehrmacht's night attack commando breakout.And also sent a large number of tanks to pursue.Therefore, the entire night attack also suffered heavy losses.A total of more than 250 tanks or lying down lost their combat effectiveness.Or just turn it into a pile of scrap metal.A full-staffed tank division has only one tank regiment left after one night.

Putting down the three reports in his hands, Lieutenant General McKees's face turned red with anger, as if he could bleed.After slamming his clenched fists on the table in front of him, he asked the chief of staff with a gloomy face, "That is to say, of the more than 1000 heavy tanks before departure, until now, only three tank regiments are left. Less than four hundred."

"Yes. Comrade Commander..." the chief of staff replied guilty.

Then, he continued with a worried face: "Comrade Commander, this is just the loss of the three tank divisions... The losses of the three infantry divisions are also very serious."

"Just state the results, how many people have been lost by the three field infantry divisions, and how many people can continue to participate in the battle..." Lieutenant General McKeess asked bluntly with a gloomy face.

Although he didn't know whether he could bear the possible anger of the commander, the conscientious chief of staff still answered.

"The three field divisions totaled 8000 troops. In the night attack last night, 1 people were directly massacred by the commandos of the Wehrmacht. Not only that, but at least [-] people were killed in the subsequent shelling. After all, after the National Defense Forces occupied our army's heavy artillery group, they fired at least [-] heavy artillery pieces at the barracks of three tank divisions..."

"In addition to the 8000 people who died directly on the battlefield, there are a total of 9000 people who lost their combat effectiveness either because they were burned or because they were injured by artillery..."

"Three field divisions went out to the relevant logistics units. So far, only 1 people can continue to participate in the battle...just enough to be reorganized into four field infantry regiments..."

"In terms of artillery, the three heavy artillery divisions with a total of more than 360 officers and soldiers were all bloody massacred by the commandos of the National Defense Forces. A total of more than 18 heavy artillery pieces, except for [-] heavy artillery pieces are still intact and can continue to be used. The remaining heavy artillery pieces were all destroyed. In addition , all the guns we had stored in the artillery emplacements. All were also destroyed..."

Unexpectedly, after I finished my report, I didn't hear the expected scolding.Facing the bloody numbers of casualties, Lieutenant General McKiss standing in front of him immediately became numb.

After 5 minutes of silence in the small headquarters, Lieutenant General McKees, who fell into a sluggish state, said in a low tone: "That is to say, from the 4 troops before the dispatch, there are only [-] left now." No. More importantly, more than [-]% of the heavy weapons have been destroyed by the opponent..."

Under McKeess' eyes full of lifelessness, the Chief of Staff didn't speak, but nodded his head in agreement.

For a while, the headquarters fell into deep thought again because of Lieutenant General McKees' silence.In the end, the political commissars who were still sitting on the side couldn't bear this atmosphere. Of course, it was also for the sake of their own safety in the future. Lieutenant General McKees asked beside him.

"Comrade Commander, I don't know if you have any good ideas about the current battle situation. It will be dawn, what should we do next, whether to continue to attack the National Defense Forces here, engage in a military confrontation with them, or retreat immediately, Please make a decision immediately, time is running out..."

McKees, who had high hopes from everyone, finally said: "We failed to wipe out the commandos of the National Defense Forces who attacked us at night, and the main force of the National Defense Forces in front of us is still there. More importantly, through last night's night attack, we saw The Wehrmacht has at least one heavy artillery division hidden in its hands."

"Under such circumstances, if we cannot completely wipe out the National Defense Forces in front of us within a day today. At night, the National Defense Forces with the advantage of heavy artillery will definitely launch a new round of attacks on us. At that time, what is waiting for us will really be become a catastrophe..."

After understanding the hidden meaning of Lieutenant General McKees's words, the tense and serious expressions on everyone's faces finally showed signs of easing.Continue to look at the face in front of him and calm down slowly, the commander, waiting for Lieutenant General McKees to speak.

Without making everyone wait too long, Lieutenant General McKeess, who had already made a decision in his mind, ordered decisively: "Chief of Staff, you immediately order the generals at all levels to quickly reorganize the troops and prepare for retreat..."

"Comrade Political Commissar, you should immediately contact the General Command of the Far East Military Region and report the current situation of our army verbatim. At the same time, request the military region to immediately send the air force to cover our forward troops to retreat, and temporarily break away from contact with the National Defense Forces to avoid being caught. Wehrmacht wiped out..."

"The remaining people will be arranged by the chief of staff, and they will be immediately distributed to various combat units to assist the relevant generals in reorganizing the troops, so as to avoid causing panic in the entire army after the order to retreat is issued..."

Because there are too many Soviet Red Army killed on the battlefield, and more than [-]% of the entire forward transportation vehicles were destroyed in the night attack last night.The Soviet Red Army that hastily retreated took away tens of thousands of wounded, tens of thousands of corpses of the Soviet Red Army, weapons and medicines everywhere, destroyed heavy artillery and tank wreckage...all were left on the battlefield cruelly by Lieutenant General McKees.

In this way, the Soviet striker, who lasted for two days and brought unprecedented heavy losses to the Ninth Army of the Wehrmacht, had to withdraw from the battlefield in embarrassment under the escort of air fighters, waiting for the follow-up main force. (to be continued...)