The Bahce Pass is located many kilometers west of Gaziantep, the largest city in southern Turkey. The terrain is steep and it guards the railway and highway lines connecting the Seyhan River plain and the Islahiye lowland. It was captured by the Anjia army in early February.
After Gaziantep City and its surrounding areas, it was the most important obstacle that brought the war to the Taurus Mountains west of the Seyhan River Plain.-< >-Net.
The German troops stationed here have built a solid defense line on both sides of the Bahce Pass, on both sides of the railways and roads in the valley, and on the highlands.
The 49th Infantry Division, which is part of the German Türkiye Group, relies on various fortifications built on the mountains, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and are continuous.
These fortifications and firepower points were widely dispersed. The German officers and soldiers were condescending and could attack the troops passing in front of the mountain and at the foot of the mountain at will. They used machine guns and artillery to tightly block the choke points leading to central Turkey.
There are also a large number of trenches and civil fortifications deployed on both sides of the railway and highway below. The machine gun fire points made of sandbags on these trenches and the anti-tank guns hidden in the civil fortifications can definitely make the infantry without artillery cover bleed into rivers.
As for the superior tanks and armored vehicles of the Anjia Army, can they raise their heads to attack the targets above? The only effect is probably to become a living target for anti-tank guns!
Each section of these fortifications embodies the efforts of Major Generals Walgen, von Harstein, commander of the 49th Infantry Division.
The German army in the Two Rivers area was really defeated too quickly and was in such a mess. Major General Hasstein, who urgently accepted the mission, led his troops to work overnight. Since strategic materials such as steel bars and cement from Europe could not be allocated at the moment, they could only use the nearby ones.
The dismantled rails at the foot of the mountain, the strips of stone from the mountain quarry and the attached
Use logs and other materials felled from nearby mountains to reinforce all heavy firepower points, or simply use those natural caves to find ways to connect each cave, and then dig gaps on the slope side of these caves, and use sandbags at the gaps.
Build up incredible defensive positions.
Harstein, who is only 39 years old this year, is one of the few young generals in the Wehrmacht and has a unique talent for civil engineering. He combined his own troops and the more than 500 anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns and anti-tank guns he received from the defeated army.
Artillery, cannon, howitzers and infantry artillery are scattered like beans in the bunkers on both sides of the mountain pass and on both sides of the mountain road. The consequences of this
, although it greatly reduces the density of artillery fire and reduces the damage that a round of artillery fire can cause to the opponent, it greatly improves the survival probability of each fire point. It effectively avoids the dangers caused by carpet bombing by the Anjiajun Air Force.
Huge damage, and keeping these heavy firepower units for as long as possible, giving the Anjia Army's offensive forces maximum damage.
Major General Hasstein's intention is very obvious, which is to use the current conditions to delay the attack of the Anjia Army as much as possible, and wait for the Imperial High Command to recover from the panic of the unprecedented defeat and deploy troops to build a fort in the Taurus Mountains further back.
More complete fortifications will block the Anjia army from marching towards the European continent.
Through internal relations, Hastein knew that his government and army were secretly negotiating with the top leaders of the Anjia Army. However, no clear orders came from either the Army Group Headquarters or the Supreme Command. Hastein, who graduated from the Berlin Army Academy,
, we can only do our best to complete the persistence task.
Of course, the heavy workload of building strong bunkers on the mountain and transporting artillery of various calibers to the mountain made the officers and soldiers of the 49th Infantry Division complain endlessly. Especially in this winter with heavy clothing and high altitude
On high mountains ranging from 1,600 meters to 1,600 meters, the surrounding mountain tops are still covered with a large amount of snow, making it even more miserable.
However, Major General Hasstein insisted on completing this feat together with his officers and soldiers in just one and a half months. In order to prevent the destroyed vegetation and new soil thrown out from the mountain blasting from exposing the location of the firepower point, the German officers and soldiers
He just used shovels, pickaxes and engineer shovels to dig out the hard frozen soil bit by bit.
, dug bunkers one after another on the mountain, and then used clumsy methods such as shoulder resistance and body pull to send rails, logs and bags of sandbags up the mountain and cover them on the bunkers to form a solid defense. Finally, they spent a lot of time
After working hard to transport artillery pieces and light and heavy machine guns to various firepower points, a tight fortification group was built.
In order to make these fortifications perfect, Major General Hasstein spent day and night with his officers and soldiers, leaving his footprints on every hilltop, mountainside and foot of the mountain. Hasstein even personally visited various key firepower points.
, check the construction status of the bunker, and carefully calculate to what extent the artillery in it can block the ground.
With more than a thousand fire points, large and small, Hastein can clearly tell the degree of resistance, the location of the fire point blockade and the angle area, and he knows the specific position of a squad. To a certain extent, Hastein has already
Reached the limit of knowledge.
The Germans' efforts were undoubtedly worth it. Due to the complex terrain, the artillery shells fired from the ground attack were unable to cause much damage to the bunker due to angle and other issues. The German artillery conducted live ammunition tests and found that unless the artillery shells directly hit the bunker,
In the few corners that can be seen from the bottom up, most of the artillery shells can only explode around the bunker, and have no effect except shaking down the numerous sandbags and soil outside.
As for those direct-firing artillery shells, most of the newly built bunkers have a groove dug into the mountain. This makes it difficult for the direct-firing artillery shells to directly hit the extended part. The space dug out in the mountain is like a hole deep underground.
Like a coal mine, it was supported with logs and rails to withstand collapse caused by an explosion.
Full of confidence in the solid fortifications they had built with their own hands, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the German 49th Infantry Division was high. They had reason to believe that even in the face of attacks by Anjiajun Air Force attack planes and dive bombers, they would not be able to defeat the legendary wolf-like tigers.
The infantry of the Anjia Army can still stand proudly on their own position.
At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 20th, Gaziantep, Anjia Army Center Line Corps Headquarters.
After the glorious victory of the Two Rivers, the West Asian Theater Command re-divided the various fronts. The Mountain Cluster was mainly responsible for recovering the Transcaucasus region in northern Persia, and advancing the defense line to the Caucasus Mountain Pass area to completely block the German army's path south.
The eighteen armies fighting in Türkiye, Syria and Transjordan in the south were divided into three major combat corps.
Among them, the Northern Front Corps is commanded by General Wu Liheng. Under his command are the 28th, 29th, and 30th Group Armies that follow him from the southwest to the western front. They are mainly used for operations in the mountainous areas of eastern and southeastern Turkey, covering
It protects the northwest areas of Lianghe and western Persia. It also serves as a flank cover for the mountain clusters.
The Middle Line Corps has the second tank group army and the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and 16th Army. The total strength of the five groups of the group is General Yang Jiuxiao. The main battle direction is southern Turkey.
It is the gate of the Southeast Toros Mountains in the central part of Turkey to the north, and moves west to the Siiham Plain in the northeast of the Mediterranean. Relying on the Tomoos Mountains, it builds a strong line of defense and protects the North and Northwest Road in the Middle East.
Safety.
The chief commander of the South Line Corps is General Ye Cheng, under the jurisdiction of the first, third, and fourth tank group army and seventh, eighth, ninth, eighteenth, twenty -fourth, twenty -four
The Group Army, a total of ten groups, is divided into the Fifth Route Army. Every road is responsible for fighting in one direction. Today, the attack on the East Bank of Jordan is the Fourth Route Army that Peng Wanjun.
After the Damascus captured the westward to the westward, I continued southward after the seventh and the 24th Army consisting of the seventh and the 24th Army.
After the strategic goals of each road, they immediately returned to construction and arranged by the theater to make overall arrangements to fight against other lines of military regiments at any time.
"The German turtle shells are extremely tight and clever. According to the feedback of our scouts, if we rashly launch an offense. I'm afraid we have to eat a lot!"
The former deputy commander of the first 16th Army, the current chief of staff of the Corps, Xiao Ruofei, will stand in front of a large sand table, hold the command stick in his hand, and talk: "Please see.
The changeable terrain allows our 82 bomber to take into account the climbing space after dive bombing and throwing bombs. If the aircraft does not hit the mountain, our bomber must increase the distance and height of the bomb.
The accuracy of the bombing does not achieve the expected effect at all.
"Secondly, Pingfei's B, B3 bomber and Q2Q3 strong strike machine, in such an environment, did not have much strike target to choose from. Due to the rugged terrain in the mountains, the fighters that enforced low -altitude bombs can only be in a certain direction.
Flying, changes in any direction may lead to the ending of the destroyer of the plane.
"Third, the wind direction in the valley changes very obvious. Once suddenly the wind is blowing at a certain period of time, it will make our plane lose enough floating power, resulting in the out of control of the aircraft, or it will be reduced to the German air defense in the slow climbing rising.
The living target of the cannon.
"According to the feedback from the investigation forces, the Germans have at least more than 200 high -firing guns and four or five hundred high -firing machine guns. Such a tight firepower network is enough to allow our pilots to experience the baptism of the barrage of storms.
Horizontal bomber, even armed helicopters, will face major tests in such a terrain. "" ""
After Xiao Ruofei finished speaking, he put down the command stick in his hand and looked at the commander of the main position.
General Yang Jiuxiao groaned and greeted a few group commanders who came to the meeting: "Let's discuss it. We have won all the areas east of Bachcame Mountains. Just last night, General Yan Zilin had commanded the 16th Army of the Sixth Army.
The two divisions successfully won the city of Kahlaman Marash. The striker successfully entered the mouth of the lake in the northwest of the city, blocking the highway where the German army went south. At this point, we basically completed the first stage of combat tasks.
"Our focus in the next stage is to open the Bahce Pass, advance to the Seyhan River Plain, and capture this granary in southern Turkey and the extremely important Port of Mersin, thus completely cutting off the Germans' eastward approach."
"Why not use cloud explosive bombs? When fighting in the Northeast and Far East, didn't it prove that cloud explosive bombs are effective in overcoming such barriers?" Major General Ye Jian, chief of staff of the 14th Army, asked puzzledly.
Xiao Ruofei replied: "According to the intelligence, the German trenches and tunnels are very cleverly constructed - most of them have ventilation holes connected to other places. At the same time, in view of the characteristics of cloud bombs, gates are built to isolate the air, so that they can be the first to be attacked.
Time blocks the invasion of flames and heat waves.
"Our cloud bombs are not invincible and require specific terrain. And as I said before, because the terrain is too complex, our fighters cannot accurately throw them, and the effect of using cloud bombs is not good.
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Chi Zongyuan, Fang Jide, Qin Zhirong, Li Yuewu and other generals were talking about it, and they all felt that the problem was thorny. Yang Jiuxiao walked around with his hands behind his back, unable to make up his mind for a while. If he chose to attack by force, he would grit his teeth and pay the casualties of 30,000 to 40,000 officers and soldiers, and take
Nizhny Bahce Pass
There is no problem. After all, the advantages of Anjiajun are there. No matter how ferocious the firepower of the German army is, they cannot withstand it. But whether it is worth paying such a heavy price to conquer such a pass that no longer affects the overall situation is worth debating.
question!
"Excuse me...does the German army control all areas of the Bahce Mountains, including all the mountain peaks on the north and south flanks and the east and west depth areas, as well as the areas behind the mountains that are insignificant to the German army and are on the reverse slope? Do our helicopters
Is it safe to reach the places I pointed out?"
On behalf of the Military Commission and the General Staff, Major General Cheng Shiming, the Minister of Military Affairs of the General Staff Headquarters, who came down to observe the war closely, suddenly broke his silence and asked meaningfully.
Yang Jiuxiao was stunned for a moment, and immediately came to the sand table, observed carefully, and after a while suddenly patted his thigh: "I'm confused! Now Keqinbehan in the south and Kahramanmarash in the north are both under our control
Next, the enemy's defense line is not impeccable to us, as long as this..."