Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 2558 The decisive battle begins
Compared with the increasingly tense battle situation, it was only a trivial matter for Chinese soldiers to make a Soviet woman with a big belly, and Zhang Zizhong quickly forgot about it.At around [-] o'clock in the afternoon that day, as the aviation units under the Central Soviet Army and the German Army Group A successively dispatched sufficient numbers of fighter planes to compete for air supremacy in the battlefield area, the Battle of Osa entered the final stage.Today, regarding the importance of air supremacy, the three warring parties no longer dare to take any chances.And because Manstein wanted to use his own strengths to attack the other's weaknesses, it happened that the air force of the Central Soviet Army was the nemesis of its superior armored forces, so even though he knew that his own air power was weaker than his opponent's, he could only bite. Zhuoya ordered the air force under his command to come out in full force, hoping to exchange the sacrifice of the air force for the armored forces to retain a greater advantage.

Chen Chong was promoted to the commander of the Air Force of the Expeditionary Force after defeating the ace pilot Hartmann among the German aces, and thus he became the youngest general and commander of the Chinese Air Force.Perhaps it was inspired by this appointment that the pilots of the air force directly under the Expeditionary Force performed particularly bravely. Under the leadership of Chen Chong, they successively won many local battles against the German Air Force, and changed little by little. With the comparison of air power between the warring parties in the Osa area, they overwhelmed the Soviets and Germans and became the real masters of this airspace.

A new combat mission was issued, and Chen Chong smelled the breath of a decisive battle. He knew that the real test since he took office as the commander of the directly-controlled aviation unit of the expeditionary force had come.Because the expeditionary force is not dominant even with the addition of Soviet Red Army ground forces, and the heavy weapons and equipment are far weaker than the German army, so he understands Zhang Zizhong's request, knowing that their purpose of existence on the battlefield will be to maintain the suppression of the Luftwaffe And can give the German armored forces a heavy blow.He called a meeting of officers above the squadron leader under him, and first conveyed Zhang Zizhong's command spirit, and then encouraged everyone: "Brothers have always aspired to be the trump card of Hartman's trump card. To be honest, this is also my goal. Of course, now I have been deprived of the opportunity to go to the battlefield, so I can only hope that my brothers will fight for me in the headquarters." Everyone laughed.He paused and said with a serious expression: "Everyone hopes to shoot down more enemy planes. What I want to emphasize now is that this time our opponent is not just the German air force. German tanks and tank destroyers are also We need to focus on the ones we take care of. So I don't want you chasing German fighter planes when our infantry need us to help them destroy German tanks - you know what I mean?"

Zhang Zizhong had the courage to fight the German army and take the initiative to attack despite being at a disadvantage in terms of strength and equipment. The biggest reliance was Chen Chong's aviation unit and Wang Chengyi's Second Artillery unit.In terms of anti-tank vehicle capabilities, the armored units commanded by Jiang Tiezhang equipped with "Siberian Tigers" and "Phoenix" (actually only one) and Jiang Tongmin's helicopter brigade are actually more targeted, but because the two units are both large in size Limited, not enough to counter the strength of the entire armored group of Army A at the same time, so Zhang Zizhong can only rely on Chen Chong's aviation unit and Wang Chengyi's Second Artillery unit.

When all the units of the expeditionary force, including the Allied Forces, were ready to go into battle at any time, the southwest of the Soviet Russian Red Army had already launched an attack on the German Army Group A under the command of Timoshenko.Timoshenko belonged to the kind of perfectionist who pursued the best if he didn't do anything. Since he was powerless to oppose Stalin's decision, he would definitely go all out.Therefore, even though he was very dissatisfied with the fact that the Soviet Russian Red Army took the lead in the mission, he still put in all his strength to deal with this decisive battle.

Since the surprise attack against the coalition forces organized by Manstein, the two warring parties actually no longer have secret tactical actions.Therefore, when the Soviet Russian Red Army assembled in front of the German Fourth Army, the Germans were already ready to fight.

Just like the major battles that took place in other places during this time period, the battle that took place in the northwest of Sabie was still fired by the air forces of the two warring parties.After nearly half a year of recuperation, the Soviet Russian Air Force has recovered its strength to a certain extent.And because Stalin spared no expense to buy a total of more than [-] fighters of various types from China recently, the combat power of the Soviet Russian Air Force has made a qualitative leap.

At the beginning of the battle, a brigade of dive bombers from the Soviet Russian Air Force, escorted by two squadrons of fighter jets, raided the German forward positions from the southeast, and was immediately attacked by a brigade of fighter jets from the Luftwaffe.Then, the Soviet Russian Air Force immediately sent another brigade of fighter jets to join the battle, and the Luftwaffe was not to be outdone, and also increased the number of sniper fighters.Using this refueling tactic as a model, the Soviet-German Air Force successively invested a total of more than [-] fighters to fight, which also made this decisive battle show a cruel tone from the very beginning.

In the headquarters of the expeditionary army's directly-administered aviation unit, Chen Chong was staring at a radar monitor in front of him, with a highly excited expression on his face.Almost every minute, blue or red light spots disappeared. Even if he had experienced such a fierce air battle, he couldn't help but be dazzled by watching it.In this decisive battle, the Soviet-Russian Red Army took the lead in the first attack, which was regarded as a victory in China's military diplomacy.The emergence of this situation is certainly related to the persistence of Zhang Zizhong and other high-level expeditionary forces, and it is also related to the efforts of the Supreme Command and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.For this, Chen Chong was quite dissatisfied at first, worried that the Soviet Russian air force would steal their limelight, but now he is full of joy.He didn't mean to underestimate the Luftwaffe, it's just that he was used to the fighting style of rampage and direct display of power, so he didn't like to play after the attack. "Did the Russians call? No? Well, I want to see how long the Russians can last," he asked the chief of staff Tian Xiaofeng from time to time while watching the screen.

The fighter planes of the two sides in the sky were still fighting fiercely. On the ground, Timoshenko confirmed that the air battle could not tell the winner in a short time, and resolutely issued an attack order.Timoshenko had a very good view of the overall situation. Since a decisive battle was inevitable, he decided to try his best to resolve part of the battle before Army Group A and Second Armored Army converged, at least to determine the outcome and control the initiative on the battlefield.Thus, although air suppression failed to materialize as planned, he still decided to launch an immediate ground offensive.

"Empty..." The Soviet artillery fired.For this battle, Timoshenko assembled more than a thousand artillery pieces, and the thousand artillery pieces fired fiercely from more than ten artillery positions at the positions of the German Fourth Army. In an instant, the front positions of the German army were engulfed by fireworks.

(End of this chapter)