Australian Storm 1876 - Chapter 1099

Chapter 1099 Local Tyrant

Kyiv

The 2nd Army Headquarters building was brightly lit, and the officers of the staff were busy, conveying orders to the front-line troops by telephone, telegram or signal force.

In the large conference room on the third floor, senior officers of the army group are holding an emergency meeting to deploy the overall plan for the next stage of operations.

11 am late at night

The senior officers who participated in the meeting then disbanded, and went out in twos and threes along the stairs. The entrance of the headquarters building immediately became lively, and the senior officers of each division and brigade got into their cars and followed the trucks full of guards to leave.

The square of the headquarters building, which was originally full of cars, soon became empty again after the cars dispersed.

In the Office of the Commander of the Army Group on the third floor

Admiral Duan Qixiang still had two other guests, Lieutenant General Wu Baoli, Deputy Commander of the Group Army, and Major General Xu Moxuan, Deputy Commander of the Royal Air Force and Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Front.

The orderlies served strong tea, and General Duan Qixiang greeted in a gentle tone; “Two brothers, drink some hot tea to refresh yourself. If we want to contribute to the overall situation on the Eastern Front, the focus is on the German fifth and third The Ninth Army, I mean eating one and dragging the other, must not let the main German army move westward and strengthen the strength of the German army on the frontal battlefield on the western front. If one more German division is left, the battlefield on the western front will be easier.”

Lieutenant General Wu Baoli took a few sips of hot tea, frowned and said nothing.

He has a mountain of heavy responsibility on his shoulders. He plans to lead the armored assault corps as Arrow. Some of the main divisions of the 2nd Army of the Imperial Expedition will be interspersed in depth and detours, cutting 127 kilometers deep in the German northwest front, cutting off Lithuania in the north, the German army in Minsk, and Warsaw in the west. Possibility of directing German support to the Ukrainian battlefield.

A large encirclement with an area of ​​more than 20,000 square kilometers was formed, and the German 5th and 9th Army Groups were loaded into it, and concentrated troops to carry out encirclement and annihilation.

from start to finish

In the Battle of Western Ukraine, the 2nd Expeditionary Army did not take the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s million-strong army on the western front into consideration, and deployed 620,000 Belarusian troops to defend the western front, in order to prevent the Austro-Hungarian Empire from breaking through the defense line.

On the German-dominated northwest and northern fronts, almost all of the 2nd Army’s main force plus the elite 400,000 Belarusian army, totaling more than 800,000 people, planned to encircle and wipe out 630,000 German troops.

To be honest, it was a bold plan.

Even if an encirclement is formed, it is a thin skin and a big stuffing, and it is easy to be broken by a stab, which will lead to a strong counterattack by the German and Austrian allied forces.

If you don’t do it well, you will take it all on yourself.

in a moment

Lieutenant General Wu Baoli said with a solemn expression; “Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, I have no doubts about the assault power of the armored corps. The implementation of large-depth assault tactics has been perfectly practiced on the North American battlefield. But we should see the difficulty, the German army is different from The U.S. military with low combat effectiveness has a very tenacious will to fight, and I doubt whether it has such a good appetite to swallow the two heavy German military groups.”

“This battle is only for defeat, not for complete annihilation.” Admiral Duan Qixiang turned around and walked to the large map hanging on the wall, pointed at Belarus and Lithuania, which were due north, and said;

“I ask the assault corps to cut off the main road for the German army to flee northward, and some swampy forests and remote areas can be left alone, those are all minor details.

Secondly, the assault corps should cut off the main passage in the northwest direction and prevent the German reinforcements from the direction of Warsaw.

At that time, my army from the north and the south will launch together…”

Admiral Duan Qixiang pressed his hands to the middle and continued: “Combined with the power of modern air-ground combat, these two German heavy troops will be crushed and eaten.

My bottom line is to eat the Ninth Army in the north and hit the 5th Army in the west.

throughout the battle plan

The role of the air force led by Brother Mo Xuan is very important. I ask you to destroy all German artillery positions that can be found, destroy any moving German tanks and armored vehicles, bombard areas where German troops are concentrated, blow up bridges, and destroy logistics assembly points. All bombs dropped. ”

Major General Wu Moxuan was originally the commander of the Army Air Corps. After the establishment of the Royal Air Force, he became a senior general of the independent military service and a key force in the implementation of air-land combat.

He put down the teacup in his hand, walked to the map, pointed to the clearly divided northern and western fronts and said;

“Your Excellency the Commander;

Our Air Force shot down 322 German aircraft in two consecutive days of fierce fighting, and lost 69 of its own, which undoubtedly occupied the air superiority.

But see

The rapid progress of the German aviation industry has produced more than 3,600 aircraft in the first half of 2018. The technical level has been greatly improved compared to the beginning of the war. They have strong supplementary capabilities, and this is not all of their eastern air power. .

Comparison

Our Eastern Air Force currently has 462 fighter jets and 337 bombers. Recently, a batch of aircraft has just arrived in Crimea, with a total of about 80 aircraft, which have not yet been installed.

With fighter performance and pilot technical advantages, the Royal Air Force is confident of gaining air supremacy over the Western Ukraine battlefield, but this is not absolute, and it is necessary to prevent the surprise attack of German reserve aviation forces.

Many German rear airfields are located in Warsaw, Lithuania, Minsk, etc. We should find these places and destroy them to prevent the Germans from transferring fighter jets from the western front.

Otherwise, we are fighting the entire Luftwaffe. ”

Admiral Duan Qixiang agreed, and said with his hand on the map in the direction of Germany;

“Starting from tomorrow, the air forces of the Allied nations, such as Oceania, Britain, France, Italy and other countries, will launch a joint air battle, continue to bomb the Derby border, the German-French border, and cross the border area to penetrate into the skies of Germany, looking for opportunities to annihilate the enemy and respond. Eastern Front.

The    Expeditionary Force’s Marshal Department plans to carry out thousands of bombings on Germany’s important industrial centers, military bases and areas where heavy troops are assembled, kicking off a grand-scale air campaign.

If the Germans don’t want to be bombed, they have to use the accumulated air force to consume them, and they don’t have much energy to support the Eastern Front battlefield.

I demand that from tomorrow, the bomber group will launch a full-scale attack on the artillery groups belonging to the German Fifth and Ninth Army Groups, and carry out large-scale and high-intensity bombing in the areas where heavy troops are assembled, in order to reduce the pressure on the frontal battlefield.

Waiting for the enemy’s attack momentum to weaken…”

Admiral Duan Qixiang looked at Lieutenant General Wu Baoli with a stern look. Lieutenant General Wu Baoli immediately put his legs together and replied in a solemn voice; “Please give instructions from the commander.”

“Lead our army’s armored assault group, with an unstoppable and rapid offensive, break through the German flank in one fell swoop, give me a big hole and then break in.” Admiral Duan Qixiang punched hard at the position of the German rear front and said. ; “Give me the material hub area in the rear of the German army to occupy here, cut off traffic and all connections, and gather and annihilate them.”

“As ordered, Your Excellency Commander.” Lieutenant General Wu Baoli and Major General Wu Moxuan put their legs together, gave a standard military salute, and answered in a loud voice.

In terms of boldness, the 2nd Army can be said to be unrivaled. This should be placed on the British and the French, and they would not dare to fight the idea of ​​two German armies if they were scared to death.

Facts have proved

Since the outbreak of the World War, France has experienced a tragedy in which the entire army was severely damaged and almost wiped out. There was a dark scene in the UK in which more than 60,000 people were killed or injured in one day. The torture by the Germans was unnecessary, leaving a deep psychological shadow.

On the other hand, the Ocean Empire army did not have this kind of ideological burden. In the late stage of the Battle of the Somme, the 1st Expeditionary Army took up the big killer of “air-land battle” and carried out a devastating blow to the German Second Army, which was severely damaged in World War I.

The Royal Army of the Ocean Empire, with an army force, severely damaged a German army, was the first of its kind, won the victory with a brilliant record, and was known as the lofty honor of “French Liberator”.

Compared with the 1st Army, the 2nd Expeditionary Army lacked nothing. It was equipped with an extremely powerful armored dragoon division. The division was equipped with more than 420 medium and heavy tanks of various types, which was twice that of the American armored division and the British style. Three times the armored division, the combat effectiveness can be worth a German army.

The battle for more than a year is illustrated by iron-like facts;

The combat power of one imperial division can be equal to that of two German divisions. With the cooperation of the air force and artillery, the defensive state can withstand 3 to 4 German divisions. It is so powerful.

This is not because the combat effectiveness of the imperial soldiers is higher than that of the Germans, but the advantages of equipment, firepower, combat concepts and the advantages of squad and platoon tactics, which are the overall advantages of the combination.

A squad of soldiers sitting in an armored truck, equipped with a heavy machine gun, can completely compete with a platoon of German soldiers without falling behind.

There are grenades at close range, and heavy machine guns and mortars at a distance. You can take armored trucks to pursue combat, or you can abandon armored trucks and get off to fight, which is very flexible.

There is no way, the Ocean Empire is a local tyrant, and the guns and ammunition are completely ahead of the generation.

The soldiers of the German army are generally equipped with 98K rifles, while the soldiers of the Ocean Empire are equipped with zero-type semi-automatic rifles, which can be single shot, three bursts, or continuous shooting. The battlefield performance is much stronger than 98K.

In the establishment of the company-level army of the Ocean Empire, there is a fire platoon equipped with four No. 60 mortars and four heavy machine guns to provide fire support when the entire company is attacking.

One   Zero semi-automatic rifle is provided for each soldier, and each soldier is equipped with four grenades, 100 rounds of ammunition, and one Type 03 light machine gun for each infantry squad.

And the German company has only heavy machine guns, no mortars, and soldiers are equipped with 98k single-action rifles.

The local tyrants are completely unreasonable. The advanced planes of the Wu Yangyang attack the Luftwaffe. As long as the sky is a mission, the life expectancy of the German pilots does not exceed 4 flights on average. Most of them are shot down on new mobile phones. room to grow.

What followed was the indiscriminate bombardment of the aircraft, and the artillery, the magic weapon of the German army, was shattered, and it was unable to launch a counterattack.

Then relying on the bombing of the air force and the ground artillery to vent their firepower frantically, the German army who fought had no temper.

This is a dead end. Without everyone realizing the importance of air superiority, the Royal Air Force of the Ocean Empire firmly controls the sky, which establishes an unshakable advantage.

In addition, the local tyrants are rich and rich in wars, and they have prepared a large amount of aviation bombs and artillery shells. No matter how strong and skilled the German soldiers are, they will be annihilated by the flying ashes of the artillery shells, and they will have to suffer defeat against the Royal Army of the Ocean Empire.

When    assaulted, the armor was rolling and the shells were bombarding. How to fight this battle?

(end of this chapter)