Due to the cutoff in communications, the German troops fighting on the front line did not know that earth-shaking changes had taken place in their rear areas. They still maintained high morale, clashed left and right, and continued to exert pressure on all fronts of the Anjia Army. ("")
On the Eastern Front battlefield, the German 56th Motorized Corps has been launching attacks for two consecutive days. During this 24-hour non-stop attack, the officers and soldiers on both sides have suffered tremendous mental and physical suffering.
"Boom boom——"
On the west bank of the Tigris River, the 30-kilometer front line responsible for the 25th Division of the Ninth Group Army of the Anjia Army was covered with dust everywhere, just like when a sandstorm passed through. However, the air was not filled with the fishy smell of soil, but with strong gunpowder smoke.
with the smell of blood.
In the dense explosion, as the firelight flashed continuously, large clouds of loess were lifted into the air by the air waves, and then sprinkled down like dense raindrops. The Anjia officers and soldiers in the bunkers and anti-aircraft holes, one by one,
There was sand in the corners of his eyes, nostrils, teeth, ears and neck.
Looking through the gap between the sand and smoke, the defensive positions have changed their appearance. There is fire and smoke everywhere, and tragic scenes of shrapnel. The viper-shaped barbed wire fence at the front of the position has been blown into pieces, and huge craters are like
It's the surface of the moon, which is shocking.
"Don't worry, it'll be fine if you wait a little longer!"
Listening to the dense explosion, the young noncommissioned officer leaning against the wall of the shell-proof cave wiped his dark face, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out, put it in his mouth, and said with a smile, "Zhu Rong"
” brand windproof lighter to light the smoke
After burning, he took a comfortable breath and then continued to say to the newly recruited officers and soldiers: "The German artillery is afraid of our air force, so they usually have to move quickly after four or five minutes of firing, otherwise they will never even get a single cannon."
remain!"
There was a hint of pride on the face of the young noncommissioned officer: "At the beginning, the Germans were very arrogant and opened fire. As a result, our bombers and attack secrets flew over in dense numbers, and they were easy to beat. The Germans' side immediately burst into flames and exploded.
Continuously, the intensity of the German artillery bombardment immediately weakened a lot. After being bombarded many times in a row, the Germans became smarter. The artillerymen almost always ran away after hitting them twice, which was better than rabbits!
"But even this is not a good thing. Generally, if the Germans launch an artillery attack for one minute, our artillery will accurately calculate their position based on their ballistics. After a minute and a half, dense artillery shells will be fired at their artillery positions.
Completely suppress their artillery fire!"
The sergeant patted the dust on his body again. Hearing that the sound of artillery outside gradually became thinner, he was very satisfied with his judgment and raised his finger: "Listen, the sound of artillery outside is about to stop. It will only take two or three minutes."
, our artillery is enough to kill one-third of the German artillery fire. It is estimated that the German commander is already crying at this moment! It is the practice of the German army to bombard before attacking. Their tanks and infantry should be charging now.
On the way!"
As soon as the sergeant finished speaking, the explosions outside the position suddenly stopped. Instead, there was the "bang bang" sound of heavy artillery firing from the artillery position behind his position, the shrill scream of large-caliber artillery shells passing over the position, and the distant sound of
The roar of the explosion is still coming.
"Fortunately, everything is coming to an end. We will soon launch a full-scale counterattack. The Germans will be surrounded, eliminated, and routed by us in turn. With the cooperation of our powerful air force and mechanized army, the Germans will have no choice but to surrender! Prepare!
Fight, guys!"
After saying that, the noncommissioned officer threw away his cigarette butt, hugged the automatic rifle in his hand tightly, and waited for the whistle to sound when entering the trench.
At this time, in an underground bunker built four kilometers behind the position, trucks and armored personnel carriers were ready to go. After the frontline counterattack was launched, these vehicles would drive to the front line, load the officers and soldiers in the trenches, and accompany the tanks.
Together with the armored fighting vehicles, they swept towards the German army.
The people in the artillery cave are all veterans of the Anjia Army who have been in battle for a long time. The only difference between them is that they have varying degrees of understanding of the battlefield conditions due to the different time they entered the front-line positions. After listening to this, they have already persisted on the battlefield.
After two days and two nights of introductions by the noncommissioned officers, everyone nodded subconsciously, understanding that although the German army had been the main attacker and defender, the initiative was firmly in the hands of their own troops from beginning to end. For the next step
The counterattack has more confidence.
In the bunker in front, the observer slowly moved the periscope to observe the smoke-filled battlefield, searching carefully through the black smoke that blocked the sky, lest he fall into a corner.
The hard work paid off, and soon the shadows of German tanks appeared in the periscope with telescopic effect, including the huge and plain-looking Tiger tank, the front of the car, and the Panther tank with a large turret design, and the front of the car.
The tilted Panzer IV tanks with square turrets are full of rugged and powerful beauty.
Although these war monsters were only seen in the periscope, and although they were still five or six kilometers away from each other, observers in the front-line bunkers could still feel the impact of hundreds of tanks gathering together to charge.
The powerful deterrence and the powerful destructive power displayed by the thick tank guns, and behind the tank formation, followed a large number of armored vehicles and motorcycles, as well as German infantry who followed the tanks and armored vehicles in front of them with their guns drawn.
Since almost all the areas in front of the pre-war positions were marked accordingly, when the German tanks successively entered the optimal shooting distance of the artillery, the observer spoke a series of numbers into the walkie-talkie to guide the artillery behind to quickly determine
Good at shooting Zhu Yuan.《》
"Boom boom——"
Following the commander's order, the first wave of hundreds of 150mm, 120mm and 105mm caliber artillery shells exploded simultaneously in the German tank formation. The German offensive queue, which was originally advancing slowly, was violently violent in an instant.
Shrouded in flames and smoke from the explosion.
Not to mention the concentrated firing of hundreds of artillery pieces. The huge damage caused by the artillery shells being gathered in a relatively fixed range and exploding at the same time can cause much damage to tanks and armored vehicles. Just the damage to the accompanying personnel is enough for the German army.
Drink a pot.
Wave after wave of artillery shells fell continuously, and the German thin-skinned tanks and armored vehicles were blasted into the sky by the huge potential energy generated by the explosion. The turrets were blown up more than ten meters or even dozens of meters away with the explosion, and they were black and red.
Smoke and clouds filled the air everywhere, and the hot and sharp shell fragments were killing German soldiers wantonly. The German column that was originally on the offensive suffered devastating damage almost as soon as the artillery bombardment arrived.
The well-trained German soldiers reacted quickly. The moment the shells exploded, they dispersed quickly and jumped into the foxholes dug by the attacking Germans or the huge craters created by the shells.
Some simply lay down on the spot, holding the helmets on their heads tightly, and allowed countless fiery shrapnel to rub against their bodies and shoot away, destroying everything that dared to block their flight.
The shells falling from the sky were as dense as raindrops, and the ground was shaking like chaff. Fireballs exploded in the air and on the ground, devouring all targets crazily, and the sputtering flames caused turbulent airflow.
With bone-eroding heat, the wilderness of Western Asia in the middle of winter was almost plowed by artillery fire. The soil mixed with steel fragments was thrown into the air by the air waves, and then crashed down. The entire battlefield was changed beyond recognition in just a few seconds.
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Due to the violent explosion, the hot air flow continued to spread, carrying the majesty and domineering power of destroying everything. Large and small steel shrapnel roared, with the ferocious smile of death, tearing the German officers and soldiers who were blown into the sky into pieces.
Limbs and arms were broken, and then the scattered limbs and arms were chopped into pieces of flesh and blood by the next round of artillery fire, and finally fell together with dust and steel fragments onto the loess that had been plowed over and over again.
These densely packed artillery shells were mixed with a large number of air-burst bombs using radio proximity fuzes. Those German soldiers who escaped the shelling and hid in bomb craters, foxholes or lying on the ground barely had time to react and were killed.
The dense fragments of artillery shells exploded in the air at a low altitude of four meters and were torn apart.
Continuous explosions in the air and on the ground gathered into huge plumes of smoke that shot straight into the sky, leaving countless mutilated corpses on the ground that had been ruined. The shell fragments hit the thick armor on the outside of the tank and made a sharp impact.
The bell-like metallic roar echoed back and forth on the battlefield and never faded away for a long time.
Those German medium and heavy tanks that were struggling in the shock waves generated by round after round of explosions were also suffering heavy blows like nightmares. The consequences of large-caliber grenades directly hitting the access hatch on the top of the tank turret, even with thick
The Tiger tanks protected by thick armor are also unbearable. Moreover, many German tanks have the bad habit of driving with their roofs open. You can imagine what tragic things will happen.
The shells falling like hail have a high chance of hitting various parts of the tank. Except for the Tiger tanks and some Panther tanks protected by thick armor, the huge potential energy impact caused by the violent explosion and the violent vibration through the armor
The wave is enough to make tank crews inside other types of tanks dizzy, or even burst their internal organs and kill them.
Even if these medium and heavy tanks were not directly hit, the steel fragments that exploded densely at low altitude and flew to the surface with a muzzle speed of up to two thousand meters were enough to tear apart the weakest cooling fan on the tank, and the powerful shrapnel
with high-speed rotation
The moment the hot fan hit, and with the sound of metal shattering, black smoke immediately emerged from the engine compartment. Some elusive shrapnel even flew directly into the open turret hatch, entered the turret, hit the tank crew and even detonated the tank inside.
ammunition.
When hundreds of surviving German soldiers and more than 30 Tiger and Panther tanks retreated in embarrassment, rumbling sounds came from the north and east. Many people subconsciously turned their heads to look, only to see densely packed objects appearing in their field of vision.
There was a figure of a tank, and in the low altitude, a strange aircraft that had never been seen before, with a propeller on its head, rushed toward the unit at high speed.
In the higher airspace, an overwhelming fleet of aircraft rolled in from the east. The huge fleet of aircraft almost obscured the brilliance of the sun hanging high in the sky, moving forward with unstoppable momentum, leaving patches of shadow on the earth.
The German officers and soldiers screamed in horror as if they had seen a ghost, then grabbed their guns and ran desperately towards the starting position. The Tiger and Panther tanks whose outer armor had been battered by previous shelling also
Spread out and sped up.
Every German officer and soldier knows that in this two-river plain area with sparse woods and flat terrain, the only way to avoid disaster is to hide in the firepower network of anti-aircraft artillery.
However, everyone has a question in their mind: Can the air defense and ground firepower of this combat group be able to withstand the opponent's dispatch of so many tanks and aircraft?
As attack planes swooped down one after another and passed by from low altitude, the German tanks were shot by rockets and 37mm aerial cannons. The tanks that narrowly escaped the attack were dive-bombed by B2 bombers following the attack planes.
, tanks screamed and fell to the ground, or their turrets were blown down, and they sadly turned into burning steel wreckage.
There were no fighter planes to chase down the infantry. The Anjia Army's First Armored Group had three tank divisions, two armored infantry divisions, and five ** heavy tank regiments with more than 1,800 Tiger and Leopard II tanks, like tigers emerging from their cages, heading towards
The German army rushed towards the position. When they reached three or four kilometers away from the German defense line, the German artillery fire began to cover the front line of the position, trying to block it.
To block the assault of the Anjia Army armored group, the German artillery positions were quickly hit by Anjia Army bombers. As for the anti-aircraft guns that were shooting wildly in the air, they were dealt with by attack aircraft and armed helicopters, like a violent storm of rockets flying from the sky.
Shooting down, the secret rain of bullets quickly swallowed up the German anti-aircraft troops on the German anti-aircraft positions.
Seeing the rolling torrent of steel, Lieutenant General Erhard Rouse, commander of the 56th German Motorized Corps, whose artillery fire was completely suppressed, had to send his remaining eighty tanks to fight, but at this time
The Anjia Army's tank unit stopped strangely. Just when the Germans were surprised to guess what had happened, more than 400 rocket launcher vehicles accompanying the Anjia Army tank group attack had opened fire.
"Swish swish——"
"Boom boom boom——"
Shrill roars and continuous and violent explosions suddenly appeared. Almost instantly, the German frontline was attacked like a violent storm.
If it were night, many people might regard this as a gorgeous fireworks show, with countless comet-like rockets dragging their long tails toward the German tank group and the defensive positions behind them. More than four hundred people
130mm 19-tube rocket launcher
, a single salvo can fire more than 7,000 artillery shells. Of course, the gunners will not be so wasteful. They use 70 or 80 vehicles as a wave to control the rockets and cover the German positions from front to back, meticulously and without missing a beat.
I "combed" it carefully.
Specially designed concrete-destroying bombs and napalm bombs turned the German defensive positions into mountains of flames. In the center of the explosion points of those napalm bombs, even the steel bars used by German engineers to support the bunkers were burning.
The molten iron ignited the wooden planks, sending up black smoke that covered the sky.
After suffering a devastating blow, the gunfire and artillery fire on the German positions quickly fell silent, while the Anjia Army's tank army regained its vitality and continued to advance towards the depth of the German army.
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