The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"It really broke in!"

In just a few hours, the Soviet defense line in front of Uritsk was severely torn open a wide gap!The German infantry, who were continuously impacted by the tide, stepped on the smoke of heavy artillery bombardment and continued to fight for the trenches. They insisted on fighting in close quarters, fighting a bloody road, and paid tens of thousands of casualties. The siege has not reached a height for several months!

Manstein was extremely shocked. Hearing the latest news reported by the observers in front, he directly ignored the number of casualties and fixed his eyes on the military map. The thick curve marked with a red line, there, represented The obstinate bunker fortifications of the Soviet army are now continuously marked with piles of black numbers!

All the fortresses were pulled down, all enemy troops were wiped out, all obstacles were cleared, and the infantry rolled forward again and again, surrounded by dozens of heavy-duty Tiger tanks and armored sharp-edged soldiers, non-stop. Push forward bravely!

Excited!surprise!joy!All kinds of long-lost emotions lingered in the German Army Command, and the faces that had been dark for half a year cleared up. Many people couldn't help coming up to congratulate: "General! We finally won!"

Manstein waved his hands reservedly, did not show a gaffe, and even calmly reminded: "It is too early to say victory! We have just opened up the situation, and we must not relax in the slightest! Tell the generals in front to maintain the current situation." state, continue to fight until the complete capture of Leningrad!"

"Hi Hitler!"

The officer from the SS gave a very powerful salute, and then rushed out excitedly, rushing to the front to observe and coordinate operations on the spot.

In this battle, the elite strikers of their SS army were the first to open the line of defense. This is a credit.After fully affirming the rationality and necessity of their existence and the superiority of the organization, the head of state must be happy to deliver four or five hours of wonderful speeches and call on the entire army to study across the country?

meritorious service!All for merit and glory!

Of course, these guys will never thank you for reminding them.It is enough to provide a certain amount of tactical support to the Chinese observation team. For this kind of thing, it is better to make a fortune in silence.

Manstein is different. He is a general who pays great attention to honor. In his heart, he always maintains the chivalry spirit of the German Junker nobles. He is proud of himself, but he never engages in the kind of betrayal and fraud for the sake of vanity. , it's not embarrassing enough!

therefore.He solemnly expressed his gratitude to Luo Zhendong and other representatives of the Chinese observation group.Luo Zhendong just smiled: "It's nothing. In addition, I must remind the general that the initial sudden tactics worked because the Soviet army was not psychologically prepared. Once they recover, they will definitely counterattack with all their strength! At that time It is the fiercest and most dangerous moment of the battle! The key depends on whether your fighters can continue this aggressive attack, and continue to maintain their superiority and decisiveness in the following street battles!"

Manstein nodded vigorously: "Please believe that the German soldiers are the bravest and most professional. The situation you are worried about will never happen!"

This is actually a bit too much.It was really as good as he said.When the attack was launched last year, when the Soviet army was completely unresponsive, it was actually very possible to break through the defense by taking advantage of the active attack with equal forces.It's just that the tactics of the Germans are mostly rigid. They have reached the city defense battle, and they stubbornly insist on the main attack of the armored group.

If it is replaced by Chinese heavy armored forces.It's no problem to play like this, with the powerful and irresistible "Tianqing Chariot" as the main attacker, assisting a group of Tiger main battle tanks, it is enough to tear a crack several kilometers wide.Use attack aircraft and heavy rocket launchers, missiles and precision artillery as suppressive forces to seal off the opponent's blocking heavy weapons, and the rest is to directly destroy the city with the tank fleet.

That is to make the opponent's artillery completely useless.The attacking armored soldiers didn't care about anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank weapons, and the tactics of joint street cleaning, and most of them used tanks to directly demolish buildings to clear the way. After the battle, basically only a pile of ruins remained.

Do the Germans have that ability?It is said that there are.If Hitler sent two P1000 Giant Rats, six E-types, plus a bunch of Tigers and assault guns, the efficiency may be low when demolishing buildings, but with air supremacy, the odds are high.

The problem is that Hitler's ambitions and appetites are too large, heavy weapons are scattered too much, and when he attacks such a huge city, the strength of his troops is almost the same as that of the opponent!What's more terrible is that Mao Zibing is fighting with his back, and his homeland is behind him. If he doesn't fight hard, he will be swept to death by the machine guns behind him. There is no way out except desperately!

In modern warfare, the investment that is not afraid of sacrifice, the method of panning for gold in the sand, directly trains veterans with recruits through actual combat, and after paying hundreds of thousands of casualties, the survivors can fight with guns, which is a big trouble for the attacking side!

The tactics of the German army are too rough, the primary and secondary are not clear enough, and it is not surprising that they are blocked at every step!

Manstein also knew that this was an excellent opportunity for him to turn around, and if he failed to grasp it, it would determine the rest of his life.Therefore, no matter how calmly he said, he did not dare to relax his attention to the battle at all!

He first set his sights on the navy and asked them to be nailed to the bay no matter what. Once the enemy troops were cleared, they would immediately push towards the shore and bombard the Soviet army's lines of communication and key targets with heavy artillery. For this reason, no expense was spared. Some light ships went to minesweeping!

The air force, Goering's fat man still hasn't handed over power, but under the pressure of Hitler, they twisted their noses and invested more. The key is to judge the battle situation and invest in the intensity of the strike, which cannot be done by themselves.Otherwise, these bastards are likely to look down from the sky, a cloud of smoke rises, and think that the key target of the enemy army has been destroyed, and they will kill the infantry in the middle of the way, ruining the entire attack plan, that is the most terrible thing !

Manstein knew how the generals of the China Observer Group evaluated the Luftwaffe, one word --- clumsy!The tactics are terrible!To put it bluntly, the German Air Force has not actually learned how to use air power, nor has it really realized that in modern warfare, the importance of the Air Force is at the forefront!Only with air supremacy can victory be guaranteed!

If a country's air force is in the hands of a greedy fat man, the flexibility of front-line operations cannot be guaranteed.The use of fighter planes requires a bastard in the rear to move at will, regardless of the needs of the front battle. This kind of thing sounds like a fucking thing.

Having personally experienced the sharpness of air-ground joint strikes, Manstein sincerely envied his Chinese counterparts. All the main attacking troops can call for air support at any time to accurately destroy them.Continuously remove obstacles for the infantry, provide guidance for the artillery to shoot, and form an organic combination of light and heavy, rather than throwing bombs randomly to create panic. The gap is really indescribable!

Ahead, the scattered defense of the Soviet army really can't withstand such a crazy attack!The trenches were concentrated and the air and ground were advanced together, which stifled the ability to resist, facing the elite German soldiers who were armed to the teeth.It's useless to use life-changing tactics to stop them. I watched them flatten the trenches one by one, push the obstacles away, and reach the city!

In Leningrad at this time, after half a year of brutal fighting, the surrounding town buildings basically collapsed, forming large areas of rubble and ruins, submerged in the white snow.Relying on the spot by the Soviet army, it was transformed into countless relatively concealed fortifications, and millions of defensive troops hid among them.Anti-war guns, direct-firing cannons, heavy machine gun positions, and sniper positions are scattered everywhere, and it is difficult to destroy them at once with concentrated artillery fire!

They were carefully deployed according to Zhukov.Turning the entire city into a terrifying death jungle, from any angle, any road that wants to rush through, has to face ubiquitous obstacles, so to speak.For attackers who cannot deploy a large number of infantry, it is enough to form a heavy mental pressure!It is more cruel and difficult to deal with than a face-to-face attack!

Last year, during the three months of the most intense offensive, the German army actually rushed here many times, but after being restricted by the terrain to disperse their forces, they were repulsed by the Soviet army's tenacious fortifications.The heavy artillery and aerial bombardment of the German army can't do anything about them.Such a successful tactic has also been applied to the Moscow front, and the effect is equally obvious!

But today, things are completely different!

The German army frantically gathered thousands of planes and thousands of heavy artillery pieces, but they used them tightly to destroy the ten-kilometer frontal front, patiently destroying buildings higher than two floors one by one with heavy bombs, at least A 500-pound terrifying big guy with a charge of at least 100 kilograms, if it hits any place, it is enough to kill and injure the defenders of the entire building!

When the German infantry broke through the first line of defense, aerial bombardment and long-range precision artillery fire completed the destruction of the first-line buildings.At first, the Soviet commanders didn't take it seriously. They thought it was a boring repetition. The soldiers in the fortification were even a little optimistic waiting to kill the German fascist soldiers.The slogans were shouted loudly, but the bombs that fell wiped them all out!

When a wall of gunpowder and fire rose straight into the sky from the front, and the entire defense line was destroyed, the Maozi leaders felt that something was wrong!No such fight!Especially when it was determined that no other places around Leningrad had been attacked on a large scale, General Konev first realized that the tactics of the German army had changed!

In terms of level, he is second only to Zhukov in the Soviet army, or almost, and his judgment on the battle situation is quite keen and precise. He immediately ordered the defense lines on the east and south sides to be transferred to the southwest, and let them be scattered layer by layer. The soldiers behind the line of defense immediately moved forward to increase the thickness of the troops in front and stop the crazy German attack!

But it was too late to wake up!The Baltic Fleet was destroyed first, and more than half of the flank's defensive firepower was paralyzed!The remaining artillerymen were savagely killed as soon as they emerged, and an unprecedented and terrifying attack was advancing rapidly!

Flank attack, failure!Frontal blocking, failure!The rear heavy artillery covered the attack, but it still failed!He even dispatched a group of precious Katyusha rockets to launch a wave of carpet bombing on the German attack array, hoping to intimidate and destroy its attack. However, after the explosion, the German soldiers still moved forward on a large scale like ants. rush!

It was too late for Konev to act!He didn't expect that the wave-like attacks adopted by the German army kept an excellent distance from each other, the division of labor was clear, and the key was proper control!And Manstein's tactical change of using infantry as the main attacker because of the original mechanized armor group made his previous series of deployments even more useless!

The originally stalemate [-]-kilometer position was broken through one after another, and German tanks and heavy engineering vehicles, surrounded by tens of thousands of infantry, came to the edge of the city!

The large buildings that appeared in front of them all collapsed, billowing thick smoke --- the inflammable materials were burned out in the bombing for half a year.The tenacious Soviet soldiers were scattered on the collapsed wall.Piles of rubble, temporary machine gun nests, and the rear of the anti-aircraft artillery fortress continued to fire and intercept.

The thick-skinned Tiger tank and the heavy-duty engineering vehicle carrying a large push shovel stood alone in front of them, stumbling and crushing the ground covered with bullet craters.The front armor and composite armor were jingled by bullets, and sparks flew everywhere, but they couldn't hurt at all. The thick muzzle turned slowly, and mercilessly fired one shot after another at every place where flames were sprayed. Boom!

There are too many accompanying infantry!Moreover, the matching of weapons is very precise. The 10-round burst of semi-automatic rifles forms a non-stop line of fire, quickly blocking every fire point.Snipers assisted suppression, heavy machine guns and "Iron Fist" rocket-propelled grenades, each squad had at least one, and at most two, piercing every enemy fiercely like a hedgehog!

What worried the Soviet army most was that the German artillery pushed the line of fire to the building complex and did not continue to bombard it disorderly. The self-propelled artillery immediately accelerated to catch up and joined the ranks of approaching direct fire.Swarm around the tank and act as a wrecker.For any building that was not completely destroyed, patiently blast it to pieces with large-caliber artillery at all costs!

It's hard to see if it's missing, hundreds of self-propelled artillery, the smallest is 88mm caliber, and the big ones are 128mm, all lined up on a position with a width of only ten kilometers.Almost every inch of space can be sealed.The rest of the heavy artillery, after advancing forward, joined the ranks of precisely removing key targets successively discovered in the city, neat and orderly, and the bullets were not in vain!

Enter the street battle!

Streets outside Leningrad.In fact, they are almost blocked by rubbish from collapsed buildings. Except for the winding and bumpy passages that can barely pass through small trucks after being cleared out, there is no way to find a place where a large number of armed forces can drive in parallel.On the contrary, the barricades are everywhere, and the positions are stacked. Any window or behind a pile of stones may have Soviet firepower points.

It's just that under the blow of the heavy bomb, most of them have been lost. The reinforcements came up, and before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the German army had already rushed up!

Konev was still thinking that if the German army still attacked like that, the trouble would not be too great.It's not like the street fighting has been fought once, and they will definitely fail to follow suit!

What is more worrisome is that after entering the street, the powerful Soviet artillery fire will not be effective. It can only be extended forward to intercept the German army's rear, preventing it from forming a continuous investment of troops and replenishment of ammunition supplies. As long as it can be delayed With the recovery of the firepower of the Baltic Fleet, a successful blocking battle can be expected!

But his calculation only lasted for a short while before it was severely smashed by reality!

What the German army attacked was not just a small group of scattered infantry, but an organized group of 30 infantry, which almost filled every trench that belonged to them before!There are 5 to [-] people scattered on the front line!It is enough to form an absolutely thick and lasting force input!

not only that!Not long after hundreds of self-propelled artillery joined the demolition, the Tiger tank group that had been guarding the two wings gathered together one after another. The two horn-like arcs ruthlessly scraped across the two wings of the Soviet army to outflank the front of the counterattack force, and headed towards the center line. Converging in the past, staggering and embedding close to the rear of the first wave of offensive forces, immediately turned the first-level joint attack into a triple-level attack!

This means that the previously weak armored shield of the German army has become three layers, and it is useless to break the first layer simply by tenacious resistance!

Not only did the ten-kilometer front not expand, but it tended to shrink!Along the collapsed city on the side of the bay, more than 200 tanks advanced slowly and steadily along dozens of guides, assisted by heavy engineering vehicles to clear obstacles!Resisting the intercepting firepower of the Soviet army, and constantly pulling out every nail, the infantry immediately started cleaning up every collapsed ruin like mercury pouring down the ground.

After they evacuated, the armored accompanying area was immediately filled by infantry pouring in from behind. They rushed in one after another, and then continued to disperse and disappear among the collapsed buildings and fortifications that originally belonged to the Soviet army!

This move is simply a draw from the bottom of the pot!

Before, the Soviet army relied on its ubiquitous troops to exhaust the strength of the German army, forcing them to continue to attack.The previous attack of the German army was as sharp as before, but the front and rear were out of touch. The front broke through, and the rear was immediately besieged by the roundabout or lurking Soviet troops. They were tired of coping, their ammunition was exhausted, their armor was continuously broken, and they had to retreat due to serious injuries. This happens over and over again.

But this time it's completely different!After the heavy weapons were destroyed, without waiting for the Soviet army to look up, the German soldiers carried a bunch of automatic and semi-automatic weapons in their hands. The grenade bazooka opened the way and fired at close quarters. They were covered by body armor and were not afraid of bayonets and pistols. Never lag behind, clean up every building!

30 people poured into a battlefield and poured in at once. Such boldness, madness, meticulousness, fine control and clear rhythm have never been seen before!Wait for the German army to completely occupy the five-kilometer-wide front of the coastline, break through the two-kilometer urban area forward, and form a U-shaped defense arc from the right wing by the armored soldiers, and build their own laneway defense line mainly against customers, and open up a stable coastal supply Channel, Konev finally realized that they are in big trouble this time! (To be continued..)