dognovel Chapter 254: Shooting oneself in the foot, Apocalypse tanks attack
Chapter 254: Shooting oneself in the foot, Apocalypse tanks attack
If you want to know what it feels like to shoot yourself in the foot, that's what General Lazarevsky is feeling now.
When daybreak came, he knew that he probably had no chance.
"Order all troops to break out immediately in the direction of Kansk and retreat into the Kansk defense line."
Not only did this fail to allow the lone army to advance successfully, but it also caused the Renaissance Army to suffer heavy losses. There is a high possibility that hundreds of thousands of troops will be surrounded by the Renaissance Army.
Therefore, it is most correct to issue the order to retreat at this time.
Zaralevsky is indeed a veteran on the battlefield, able to make calm choices in such a critical situation.
But the orders he issued were not passed on to the front-line troops.
The Air Force dispatched more than 10 EB-66 electronic warfare aircraft to carry out continuous electromagnetic interference in the Kansk area.
At the same time, the radio stations of the Tsarist Russian troops were continuously located.
The radios in Tsarist Russia were mainly equipped at the regimental level, and only mechanized troops such as tanks were equipped at the company level.
Therefore, as long as an active radio area is found, the high ground will be the regimental command headquarters of the Tsarist Russia.
Even if it is just a company-level tank headquarters, once it is located, there will be at least a dozen tanks waiting to be bombed.
Therefore, the role of the EB-66 electronic warfare aircraft is not only to seize electromagnetic control, but also to locate the location of enemy radio stations.
The electronic warfare aircraft sends the positioning information to the information processing center on the ground, which then assigns the nearest fighter jets to carry out bombing.
General Zaralevsky's orders could not be delivered, and their messages could not be sent out.
H-29KD bombers were once again active in the skies over the Kansk front.
The KD-1 radio-guided bombs it was equipped with became an important means of accurately striking enemy headquarters.
Less than an hour after the war broke out, not only were the Russian ground forces bombarded, but the command system also suffered a devastating blow.
Not to mention the regimental command headquarters, five division-level command headquarters were destroyed and two army-level command headquarters were destroyed.
The Tsarist Russian troops lost their command, and coupled with the intensive air strikes by the Air Force, hundreds of thousands of people fell into chaos.
At this time they only have three choices.
Resist, surrender, hide in the woods.
Few people choose the third option.
After all, the primitive jungles of Siberia are no joke.
Not to mention the various threats lurking in the primitive jungle.
Once you get lost in there, there is almost no chance of survival.
Only a small number of soldiers chose to resist. Most of the Tsarist Russian soldiers had lost their will to fight, and the morale of the army fell to the bottom.
But now there is no way for them to surrender, there is only endless bombing.
一架架F-86K、F-100、F-105、B-45、B-66、TU-16等战机不断的穿梭在战场上空。
When the pilots found the ground target, they dived down and dropped bombs.
In fact, at this time, the Renaissance Army's air force and ground forces were out of touch.
If the main force of the Restoration Army could appear near Kansk at this time, it would only take one assault to wipe out these hundreds of thousands of Tsarist Russian troops.
Unfortunately, Zhao Qi's actions were still a little slow.
The next day, the main force of the Renaissance Army had arrived at the Kansk front.
During the night, more than 100,000 people had successfully broken through to the Kansk Line.
In the next few days, the Renaissance Army annihilated and captured more than 300,000 Tsarist Russian soldiers.
It was a beautiful counter-encirclement battle and directly shattered the confidence of Tsarist Russia.
In just three or five days, more than 300,000 people were gone.
At this time, General Zaralevsky had only one idea, which was to defend Kansk and stop the Renaissance Army from continuing to advance westward.
There is currently no hope of regaining the Far East east of Irkutsk.
Through this contact, Zhao Qi also figured out the level of the Tsarist Russian troops.
Compared with the Japanese, the Tsarist Russians were inferior in every way except that they were better equipped.
However, the situation is better than that of the warlords in the SAARC region in China.
After all, it is one of the top powers, and its soldiers have all undergone systematic military training.
This war could have ended at this point.
As long as the Renaissance Army proposed peace talks, even if the Tsar was unwilling, they would have no choice but to negotiate peace.
Jiang Hua could also wait with peace of mind for the troops from the two provinces to recapture the last province.
But he knew very well the thinking of these Westerners.
If we don't defeat them all at once, there will be endless troubles.
All troops will continue to fight, and the war will end when Tsarist Russia voluntarily bows its head and asks for peace.
Kansk became a roadblock for the Far Eastern Military District.
"Blow up! Blow up the entire Kansk.
It's wishful thinking for them to try to stop us at Kansk."
Kansk is the barrier guarding Krasnoyarsk. Once this barrier is broken, the entire Krasnoyarsk will be exposed to the offensive of the Restoration Army.
Krasnoyarsk is not only the capital of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, but also one of the transportation hubs of the Far East Railway and the core of the Yenisei River defense line.
As Zhao Qi's order was issued, the Air Force also began to spend its money.
The B-52 strategic bomber group attacked again.
This time the target is the Kansk region.
Cities, train stations, railway bridges, ammunition depots, troop assembly areas, positions and all other valuable targets are among the bombing targets of the B-52 strategic bomber group.
At the same time, the Far Eastern Army and the Ninth Army also concentrated thousands of artillery pieces to launch a large-scale artillery attack on the anti-tank piles and minefields blocking the front.
The concrete anti-tank pile was also vulnerable in front of the 155mm caliber heavy artillery.
The barrier, which the Tsarist Russia had spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build, was quickly and intensively demolished in the face of artillery.
They don't have the energy to take care of this barrier now.
The air strikes by the Renaissance Army were extremely deadly to them.
During the day, they could only hide in the air-raid fortifications and shiver, not daring to show their heads at all.
And when they heard the roar of the jet engine, they couldn't help but show a look of fear on their faces.
In just one day of bombing, the Restoration Army Air Force dispatched more than 2000 sorties of fighter jets and bombers, turning the entire Kansk area upside down.
Kansk, a city with a population of only tens of thousands, was razed to the ground.
This is the advantage of fighting on foreign territory, there is no need to worry about so-called civilian casualties.
There is no such thing as humanitarianism in this era.
This is an era full of the law of the dark forest, where whoever has the stronger fist has the final say.
One day was enough to clear a path through the Kansk barrier for the main force to advance.
This barrier only stopped the Renaissance Army for one day.
Less than 10 kilometers after passing this barrier, they encountered an ambush from Tsarist Russia.
This was their second line of defense behind the blocking belt and the last line of defense leading to the city of Kansk.
As for the first line of defense, it had to be abandoned under bombing and artillery fire.
This line of defense contained an entire Russian army of more than 50,000 troops.
Yesterday they still had more than 70,000 people, but in just a few days, more than 10,000 people were killed or wounded.
This also forced them to abandon their first line of defense.
But if we can’t even hold the first line of defense, how can we hold the second?
A new round of shelling began again.
This time, a newly arrived artillery division joined the large-scale bombardment.
There were three division-level artillery units concentrated there, and each division was equipped with a total of 223 howitzers, cannons, and rocket launchers.
The total number of artillery pieces in these three divisions is as high as 675.
On average, each of the 12 artillery regiments is equipped with 78 howitzers and rocket launchers, for a total of 936.
The total number of artillery pieces here alone reaches 1611.
As these more than a thousand artillery pieces poured shells onto Kansk's second line of defense.
Only then did Tsarist Russia realize what artilleryism was.
The mountains collapsed and the earth cracked, the sun and the moon lost their light!
The shells fell on the positions one after another as if they were free.
The surface fortifications were quickly destroyed in such intensive attacks.
The artillery of Tsarist Russia had no way to launch a counterattack.
The reason is very simple, because the sky belongs to the Renaissance Army.
In the absence of artillery reconnaissance aircraft and artillery reconnaissance balloons, it was difficult for them to find the specific location of the Fuxing Army's artillery positions.
Secondly, the Renaissance Army controlled air superiority, and once their artillery opened fire, their positions would be easily exposed.
Unless it is a light and compact artillery such as a mortar, once discovered, you can only wait for death.
There were more than a hundred fighter planes in the sky over Kansk at all times to suppress the artillery of the Tsarist Russia.
Another crucial point is that the Tsarist Russian defenders in Kansk had lost their electromagnetic superiority. Their artillery units were extremely scattered and could not be commanded in a unified manner, so they could not form an organized large-scale counterattack.
However, this does not mean that Tsarist Russia has no ability to fight back.
They were simply suppressed.
The shelling lasted for half a day, and the Far Eastern Army concentrated troops from two main divisions to launch a full-scale attack on Kansk's second line of defense.
This time, the Far Eastern Army also sent out an ace killer.
At the forefront of the attacking force, huge vehicles with two 120mm smoothbore guns raised high rolled over the soft soil.
These tanks are the only heavy tanks of the Renaissance Army: the Apocalypse Heavy Tank.
When the twin-barreled 120mm smoothbore tank gun appeared on the battlefield, it immediately caused great panic among the Tsarist Russian soldiers.
They looked at these behemoths with fear in their eyes.
“Boom…Boom…”
The Apocalypse tank, equipped with a bidirectional stabilizer, fired its two 120mm smoothbore tank guns in succession.
Accompanied by the flash of gunfire, a group of Tsarist Russians who had just emerged flew into the sky along with their fortifications.
120mm caliber close-range shooting is no joke for them.