The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

After decades of not fighting, many people have forgotten how brave and powerful the German army was at the time. It almost wiped out the entire western powers by itself. At that time, they did not have any advanced tanks, advanced aircraft, long-range cannons and the like.

Today, the German steel torrent, which is mechanized and motorized, has changed its face. It seems that it has forgotten its former style, but it has to go back and pick up the past tradition in the face of the old Maozi's rough and direct local comprehensive defense front. .

This change was unexpected by most people.Zhukov, whose main energy was concentrated in Moscow, did not expect it, nor did the generals in charge of commanding the defense of Leningrad!

The Baltic Fleet was suddenly hit with unprecedented violence. The German army demonstrated their air-sea combat capabilities for the first time, blowing up the naval ships that supported nearly half of Leningrad's firepower, and then the infantry that suddenly attacked, Pushing forward with difficulty and resolutely amidst the explosion of boiling anti-yingtian, one after another the defense lines collapsed under the trampling feet of the soldiers!

Although the previous German attacking force was as many as 180 million, they were scattered in a wide area along the coast, around Leningrad and even Lake Ladoga. If you can't concentrate and fight back effectively, otherwise such an iron barrel formation is very likely to be caught and break through with a little force!

Six thousand artillery and more than 5000 mortars and small artillery were erected on such a long position and blasted inward. It seemed that they could inflict terrible explosion damage on the opponent, but in fact, after fighting for half a year, the simple artillery killed Among the 10 casualties among the Maozi soldiers and civilians in the city, not even one cent is counted.The low efficiency is simply outrageous!

Such a costly and poorly achieved method of warfare is nothing more than a continuation of the tradition during the First World War. While the Germans retained a group of officers who were rare at the beginning, they also retained artillery tactics that had not been kept up for decades. Compared with other great powers, it is only a gap of fifty or a hundred steps.But a gap is a gap!When the Soviet army disregarded the casualties and mobilized all their manpower to dig out countless trenches and artillery fortifications, and used the whole city as a fortress to fight against, those seemingly intensive shelling appeared weak, and the killing effect on personnel became extremely small. !

When soldiers and civilians are no longer afraid, or in other words, they can't care about the explosion of heavy artillery bombardment, the attack without direct killing seems wasteful and ridiculous!

The members of the China Observer Group did not make it clear.However, I also reminded them more tactfully that the German generals have very good brains, and many of them have gone to the Chinese battlefield to observe it. Choose, just try it!

Thousands of large-caliber artillery were hit on one attack surface.The strike width is only ten kilometers, nothing more.Almost every volley can ensure that there is no dead angle between the landing points of the shells, advancing layer by layer, and the barrage is so dense that even large anti-aircraft fortifications will be blown to collapse!

Heavy snow piled up on the frozen northern land, so hard that even armor-piercing shells could hardly penetrate too deep. Every shell blasted up tens of tons of snow.The steam produced by the gasification of thousands of degrees of high temperature in an instant is boiling like a pot, and thousands of explosive fireballs are clamoring together, forming a surge of hot wind in an instant, and the snow on the ground is wiped out in a blink of an eye. The huge cold under thermal shock.The storm became agitated like an angry dragon, and the roaring gusts pushed and pushed the poles in all directions, or swirled and rose with the blowing of the north wind, rushing straight to the sky, blinding the field of vision and obscuring anything!

The cloud of smoke disturbed by the swarms of shells blinded both sides, but the battle became unprecedentedly fierce!

After the German army changed the way of casting nets all over the sky, the concentrated fighter planes broke through the air defense net and contained the Soviet Air Force's fierce attack. After that, the specially reinforced twin-engine heavy reconnaissance plane followed closely, and positioned the various air defense firepower points that broke out on the ground according to the previous ones. The measured grid coordinates were quickly marked, and at the same time, the rocket-assisted radio beacon was launched and pierced near the position.

The Peregrine attack aircraft that followed immediately fired the German version of the wireless guided glide bombs from beyond the limit of the range of the anti-aircraft artillery fire. The slander is more than ten times higher!

And with the hardened head heavy gliding bombs that have been enlarged and strengthened, each one is as powerful as a torpedo. After being dropped at a speed exceeding Mach 0.6 at a large angle, it can penetrate all the floors of a six-story building and hit the root. It is no problem to destroy the entire building with one explosion, and again, it can also kill all the people inside and nearby!

Hundreds of peregrine falcons, following the advancement mode of dozens of special reconnaissance planes, achieved unprecedented results in just a short gap in winning the air supremacy!The anti-aircraft artillery group lined up in the south of Leningrad was immediately dumb by [-] to [-] percent!

And the Stuka fleet, whose attack power was greatly limited because of its slow speed before, can finally carry a 500-pound bomb, slowly climb to high altitude again and again, and then fall one by one. Come down and launch a precise top attack on buildings, heavy artillery or mobile tanks, abrupt fortresses!

After being hit hard by the air battle in England, the improved ju87d Stuka was replaced with a bomb load of 1800 kg. The other ju87g mounted 37mm guns on both wings, dived down, and aimed at the unbalanced Soviet armor T34 and Other main tanks can easily attack and penetrate through the top, and the effect is excellent!

In the previous onslaught, they were beaten by the dense anti-aircraft artillery and the crazy fleet of the Soviet army, and now they finally came in handy!

At this time, the industrial production of the Soviet army had begun to gradually recover. At least the production of aircraft supporting air combat was increasing day by day. Their cheap and simple craftsmanship did not fear the Germans' war of attrition at all, and the acquisition of air supremacy only took a while.

But that's enough!Numerous calibrated artillery positions and key targets were fed back to the German heavy artillery units behind after the double calibration of aerial reconnaissance planes and radio beacon bombs. After emergency calculations, the high-precision K18 173mm long-range heavy artillery was launched from more than 20 kilometers away.Using the group mode to roughly strike, the precise shells dropped at a large angle can often destroy a target point with a salvo. The efficiency is unprecedented!

Before, the Germans could not imagine.Using a cannon as a sniper rifle dozens of kilometers away to hit a certain target, they can’t do high-end gadgets like tanks with terminal sensitive bullets, but they want to talk about control accuracy and ballistic stability, and improve the processing accuracy and stability of the artillery However, this is exactly what the German mechanical blood is best at. Once reminded, there will be a change immediately!

The k18 heavy artillery, which was first presented on the northern front, has an excellent improvement in power, accuracy, and range compared with the main force of the 150mm artillery.And the Germans also installed it on the chassis of the Tiger heavy tank and used it as an assault gun.

In addition, another new k38 210mm heavy gun also joined the battle.However, this thing is honestly too bulky. The 33-ton iron lump has to be transported by train; and the operation of the artillery wheel is so complicated that ordinary people can't play with it. This not only leads to transportation, It is difficult to maneuver and deploy, and has higher requirements for the environment and the quality of operating artillery.As a result, after the successful development, the output is low, and the time spent on the battlefield is less.It has never played a positive role.

But this time, the six assembled 210mm cannons took on the heavy responsibility of assisting precise strikes. Together with the K18 173 cannons and the bloodline-sourced K39 advanced 150 heavy cannons, they were used as a force for precise destruction and strikes. .Launch non-stop long-range fixed-point killing operations!

Buildings, forts, cannons and tanks, and even groups of machine gun nests, once discovered by air power.Then there will be the baptism of gliding bombs, Stuka dives, and long-range precision artillery fire.Behind the positions where the two armies confronted each other, the first round of defensive buildings began. On the front of the ten-kilometer row, unprecedentedly violent German artillery fire, like layers of monstrous waves, kept surging forward. , What was left behind was a scorched ruin that was completely blown into a rubbish dump!

Such a ferocious attack stumped the Soviet army. They didn't know what to do, but the offensive and defensive battle that lasted for half a year also gave everyone a certain amount of experience. The frontline commander Without saying a word, he ordered all the infantry to go into defensive operations.

According to the general law, the German army must attack a little bit, drag the rest, pull out the gap and disperse the breakthrough. Therefore, if the troops are mobilized, it will become very dangerous.

Sudden lack of sea support, the Soviet army on the southern front was not too flustered. The artillery positions they set up on the highlands by the sea were sufficient to provide a considerable degree of suppression, and more importantly, they summed up their experience in the two battlefields. Special deployment The tank groups on the two wings, when the German army launched a frontal attack, came out by surprise and attacked from the middle, which worked repeatedly!

This time, it should be no exception!

Therefore, when the frontal intensive artillery fire began to extend backwards, Maozi soldiers who had huddled under the artillery fortifications for a long time poured into the trenches one after another, armed with weapons in the steaming black and white mixed positions, tense Aim forward!

The main frontal attack force of the German army, the skirmish line stretching across ten kilometers has advanced to the front!The first thing that appeared in Mao Zibing's line of sight were the huge and heavily armored Tiger tanks, plus dozens of road-breaking engineering vehicles with huge push shovels in front of them, and behind them, shadowy figures swayed, and the number of them was not small !

But this is not a problem. The Soviet army, which has been completely numb, is no longer in the panic that started last year. A line of long bows trotted in the trenches, slapping the soldiers to remind them to cheer up, and then laying down the anti-tank guns, Anti-aircraft guns were pushed out from the depths of the bunker, ready to take aim.

But at this moment, there was a muffled sound from the rear of the German army, which was too dense to be heard. Thousands of large-caliber mortars fired tens of thousands of shells forward one after another at the maximum firing speed!The terrifying density almost reached 1.1 meters, and the depth of each other is about 100 meters, and all of them are air-burst anti-personnel bombs. A steel storm formed by millions of steel balls and prefabricated fragments shot down from the air crazily, It just formed a terrible hell of death!

The trenches that were bombarded by heavy artillery, the bunkers that were half paralyzed, and the exposed positions, tens of thousands of Soviet troops were caught off guard, and they were devastated. Thousands of people were killed and injured in the blink of an eye!Before they could recover, another series of smoke bombs swarmed down, drowning them together with the echelon defensive positions behind them that had just raised their heads from the carpet bombing!

When a gust of wind swept past and the vision became a little clearer, the remaining Soviet soldiers were shocked to find out.Around them, there are countless German soldiers!

Three divisions were thrown into the front at once. Everyone was wearing thick cotton clothes and a seemingly bloated composite flap nylon body armor. German soldiers with short 40mm assault rifles and general-purpose machine guns look like a group of bears looking for food out of their holes.Puffing out thick white smoke, he slammed into the trench with a heavy plop, and then fired wildly at the soldiers in tattered military uniforms and poor equipment, most of whom were holding Mosin Nagant rifles. !

A trench hand-to-hand battle that hasn't been seen for a long time broke out!

Almost all the German soldiers with automatic equipment met each other without saying a word, and first smashed in a large grenade the size of a fist.As soon as the explosion smoke rose, the people jumped in, fiercely swiping the sharp steel sapper shovel and hacking!The tattered cotton clothes on Mao Zibing's body were torn open like a piece of paper, which can tear people's intestines open!

Submachine guns, shotguns, and assault rifles seemed not afraid of accidentally injuring their own people at all. They pulled and fired again and again when they aimed at the target.During a face-to-face meeting, Maozi was killed and injured.Get down a lot!

However, after years of baptism of thought, the Soviet army has entered a desperate mode at this time. The rest of the long rifle bayonet has no time to turn around.

But apparently they didn't take that into account.The main force of this group of infantry is powerful!They were carefully selected from the millions of soldiers who besieged Leningrad. The bravest, strongest, and most loyal SS elites. Before they set off, they drank high alcohol and took stimulants. of.Running all the way here has already completed the warm-up, and this is the time when the combat effectiveness is the strongest!

The number of people, fighters, firepower, quality, bravery, and the overall superiority of the German army did not take too much effort to clear the first trench, and then piled up dozens of passages at the fastest speed to allow tanks and wreckers to Passed through, rushed to the second trench, and the overwhelming mortar shells also continuously smashed another killing barrier in front, and continued to advance!

In the rear, the second wave of German troops accelerated their charge and poured into the trenches to replace the first wave and quickly set up a forward defensive formation, covering the other troops behind to continuously enter the battlefield!

All this happened too fast, as fast as thunder!The astonished Soviet commanders did not dare to be negligent, and hastily ordered the tank groups on the two wings to go into battle immediately. They knew that if they could not stop the German assaults on the front, and the entire line of defense was also diluted, they would be forced to give up and turn to the battlefield. What is terrible about city defense operations is that the buildings in front of them are being completely destroyed layer by layer!

A steel cluster composed of more than two hundred tanks rushed out quickly, like the left and right punches of a boxing master, and slammed into the waist of the German army!According to the general law, the German army will inevitably be distracted by the sudden blow and lose touch with the front and back. At that time, the frontal pressure will drop sharply, and this attack will inevitably return without success!

But as soon as the two sides met, Mao Zitan was shocked to find that what was lying in front of them were all Tiger tanks!Of the previous attacks, only [-]% were used for frontal breakthroughs, and the remaining [-]% were regarded as defensive forces and were always placed on the two wings. When they came back with their old tricks, they headed back head-on!

The armor of the Tiger tank is thick, with composite armor on the outside, the main gun is thick, and no one can stop it when it blasts past. The chain defense formed by only 34 tanks, one against two, forcibly resisted the Soviet army's t[-]s in groups, and it was difficult to move an inch!

The gap between the two sides was immediately revealed!There were two heavy Tiger tanks from the other side that took one shot. Nothing happened. They shot back and destroyed them directly. After a while, the Stuka bomber followed, and under the attack of a crazy dive, the remaining ones were ruthlessly blown into scrap iron!

In order to prevent the Germans from attacking, the Soviet army cut down almost all the forests around Leningrad and used them all to build fortifications. The whereabouts are also exposed, and there is no cover in the face of the German air attack!

The consequences of the killing of the Baltic Fleet have emerged!Without one side of suppressing artillery fire and the failure of the two-wing iron fist attack, the ten-layer wave infantry attack of the German army will not be interrupted. The sea of ​​​​people tactics once again played an amazing role, hitting the Soviet bunker hard layer by layer. On top of that, constant corrosion, impact, advancing steadily!

Such a three-dimensional strike system is so closely integrated that it has never appeared on the Soviet-German battlefield before.The buildings and fortifications that were killed by the German army's total destruction tactics, regardless of good or bad, directly caused half of the preset artillery to be unable to fire, and the rest managed to turn around from a distance. It can only cover a part of the German army behind, and those who have already rushed into their own battlefield are powerless!

The terrible thing is that as long as they open fire, they will soon be discovered by the German aerial reconnaissance planes, change their strategy, and no longer blindly bomb the German army. Artillery, constantly destroying!

The front line of defense, with a negligible loss of German infantry, forcibly tore open a gap up to ten kilometers wide, rolling towards the front and approaching quickly! (To be continued..)