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Volume 1: The Setting Sun of the Empire Chapter 76: Bloody Claws (Part 2)

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    At three o'clock in the morning, the armored soldiers belonging to the 6th Guards Tank Corps of the Soviet Army received orders to organize defense on the spot.  After an unbearable early morning battle, this elite tank force has lost more than 120 tanks. At full strength, they have 211 tanks and self-propelled artillery. After this battle, their vitality can be said to be severely damaged.  , but it will not completely lose combat effectiveness.  The Soviet tank corps usually consists of 3 tank brigades and 1 mechanized brigade. In addition to tank self-propelled artillery, it is also equipped with 70-80 tracked and wheeled armored vehicles, more than 200 transport trucks, and more than 150 artillery pieces of various types.  , the number of combatants is more than 7,000, and the elite Guards Tank Corps can obtain an actual configuration close to full strength in most cases. Even if more than half of the tanks are lost, the static defense capability cannot be underestimated.

    Under the scorching sun, the Soviet mechanized infantry struggled to wield engineer shovels, and the armored troops evacuated from the damaged tanks temporarily strengthened the artillery batteries.  Based on previous battlefield experience, the Soviet commanders divided the remaining tanks into two parts, one part was deployed on the defense line as a fire support point, and the other part was concentrated and used as a mobile assault team.  A simple combat defense line was quickly formed. In the process of building fortifications, the Soviet officers and soldiers gradually adjusted their emotions and recovered from the previous panic and loss. When the road ahead was filled with billowing sand and dust, the soldiers were already ready.  Preparations for a desperate battle, but the attackers are not the German army that used surprise to control the battle situation before, but another unit that fell into the encirclement, the 69th and 70th Mechanized Brigades of the 9th Mechanized Army.  In the morning battle, this mechanized force, which was only 15 kilometers away from Tribuses, was firmly contained by the Germans and was unable to provide any help to the fierce battle of the friendly tank forces.  However, these two mechanized brigades have arrived at the right time. Their infantry and artillery have greatly enriched the defense line of the 6th Guards Tank Corps. Even if the Soviet aviation can only gain a relative advantage on this battlefield, once the main force of the German army is invested,  Even if they attack with heavy troops, they can hold on here and buy valuable time for the mobilization of their own peripheral troops.

    The strength disparity between the Soviet and German armies in 1950 was not the greatest in history, but it was far from what it was during World War II.  Except that the navy is still so incompetent.  The Soviet army had an overwhelming advantage in every aspect, even if the frontline aviation force was obviously "sloped south" due to the impact of the Battle of Luckenwalde. After a brief humiliation, the Soviet fighter planes realized their shame and bravely launched a counterattack, and the German jet fighters  Although it can be combined with guided rockets to create a record of one enemy with many, it cannot shake the dominance of the Soviet aviation.  Under the effective deterrent of Soviet fighter jets, the German bombers and helicopters that had previously ravaged the Soviet armored forces went into hiding, and the ground forces also slowed down their pace.  Let the besieged Soviet troops gather their remaining troops and adjust their deployment, instead of defeating and annihilating them in one go!

    Under the bright sunshine, two Yak-9s sprayed with gray-brown striped camouflage were hovering over the fields west of Greifswald.  It is not far from the coastline, and you can see the charming deep blue from a few hundred meters in the air to the northeast.  But when the battlefield situation is confusing, who is in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery?  If it were not for combat mission restrictions, these two excellent Soviet fighter pilots would like to be on the battlefield, using cannons and machine guns to severely repair those stubborn Germans.

    With a monotonous roar, two Yak-9s once again flew over the road from Greifswald to Rostock. On this road built to highway standards, hundreds of vehicles and people marching on foot  The soldiers formed a spectacular war torrent. They were rushing to Tribuses as fast as possible to break the siege of the 6th Guards Tank Corps and the 9th Guards Mechanized Corps.  if possible.  Then start a decisive battle with the enemy forces in northern Germany.  The Soviet pilots, who did not have to experience the hard work of traveling long distances, looked around. Although the combat range of German jet fighters was limited, the cunning Germans used high-quality roads to deploy a large number of wartime airports in advance. In a simple wooden house on the roadside  It may be that fuel ammunition for jet aircraft is stored. The Me-262 that took off from the rear airport landed on a road close to the battlefield. With the help of the reception staff, it only took a short time to refill the fuel and take off again.  The tactics of just running caused a lot of trouble for the Soviet army.

    Cross the highway and continue flying west.  When they were about to exceed the combat cruising range, the Soviet pilots captured a group of invisible flying objects. They were painted with yellow-green block camouflage and almost blended into the background when they were close to the woods.  The two Yak-9s turned to the target in tacit agreement. Judging from their appearance, they were not the Me-262 that caused headaches for Soviet pilots, nor the mysterious saucer-shaped aircraft that made all countries curious and coveted, but ordinary twin-engine propeller aircraft.  .  Although the painting is different from common Soviet bombers and transport aircraft.  But they have eye-catching white lines and red five-stars on their tails, and their shape also matches the Lisunov Li-2 transport aircraft heavily equipped by the Soviet army (imitation of the American C-47 transport aircraft. A total of 4,863 aircraft were produced by the armistice in 1945, and during World War II  There are still about 710 C-47s on the list of materials provided by the allies to assist the Soviet Union. Given the limited production of Soviet-made transport aircraft, these imitated U.S-made transport aircraft?American-made transport aircraft played a very important role in the Soviet airlift and airborne operations).

    Just before taking off to perform the combat mission, the two Soviet pilots were informed that their own aviation forces would dispatch transport aircraft to airdrop ammunition, medicine and other important supplies to the surrounded ground troops. If conditions permitted, they would also take off and land in the Tribuses area.  , so they were not hostile to the "li-2" ahead, and were even worried that they might be attacked by German fighter jets while flying unescorted.  In order to confirm the identity of the other party and also escort them for a certain distance, two Yak-9s flew over gracefully.  When the two sides were less than a kilometer apart, the two "li-2"s in the flight formation turned sideways. When they turned their noses toward themselves, the Soviet pilots were surprised to see two enlarged missiles mounted under their bellies.  The rockets of the No. 1 - flames flashed with black smoke, and the rockets with four-bladed tail fins flew towards them, with a long thin line attached to the back.  The Soviet pilots who had recently fought against the German Air Force were shocked. They knew very well that this was a combat weapon that the other side dared to challenge the Soviet Air Force - as long as the detonation button was pressed when the rocket was close to the target, a pilot would  A trained operator has a high chance of killing an ace pilot who is doing an all-out roll in the air.

    The two Yak-9s evaded hastily. Except for the two "li-2"s that launched the attack, the other transport aircraft quickly climbed up. When they flew to an altitude of more than 200 meters, paratroopers wearing Soviet uniforms began to parachute.  What they use is the traditional German fast round parachute, which is characterized by its fast landing speed and the ability to reach the ground before the enemy's anti-aircraft weapons react. The disadvantage is that the load is small. Paratroopers can only carry short guns and grenades, and heavy equipment needs to be carried separately.  Put on the battlefield.

    After using guided rockets to shoot down and damage one enemy aircraft each, the two alternative "li-2" aircraft returned to the parachute area. The crew on board pushed out the bladder-like containers from the hatch, and the parachutes attached to them were pushed out.  It was nearly twice the size of a paratrooper's rz round umbrella, and it slowly lowered in the air.  By the time they landed on the ground, the paratroopers who had previously parachuted had roughly gathered together. They quickly found the bladder-like container and took out their respective combat firearms and light mortars.  These weapons are available in all models, suitable for a hundred-man paratrooper commando to exert their combat power. However, the amount of ammunition in the airborne container is not large. Each paratrooper is only allocated a standard base amount of ammunition, which allows them to leave the airborne relatively easily.  Rush to the reserved battle position.

    There was only a gap of twenty minutes between the landing of the German paratroopers disguised as Soviet troops and the counterattack of Soviet fighter planes. In this fleeting moment, two fi-282 helicopters quietly flew to the paratroopers' base.  Reserve your position.  In order to ensure speed, each of them only carries a load of 600 kilograms, which is enough to bring multiple sets of X-7D wire-guided anti-tank rocket launchers and supporting ammunition to paratroopers.  As one of the leading military inventions of the Third Reich, the X-7, nicknamed "Little Red Riding Hood", is the only ancestor of the first generation of guided anti-tank missiles, ushering in a new era in the field of anti-tank technology.  Its complete set of equipment consists of guided rockets and control devices. The streamlined projectile is short and thick. The nose cone is a hollow charge warhead. The internal content is 2.5 kg. It is equipped with a trigger fuze. The maximum armor-piercing thickness can reach 200 mm.  ; The missile is equipped with a gyroscope and dual thrust engines. The acceleration engine provides initial power, allowing the missile to gain a faster speed in a short time; the endurance engine provides continuous and stable thrust to the missile, allowing it to fly to a target thousands of meters away.  Target.  The take-off stage is equipped with an electric flash cap ignition powder box, and the endurance stage uses a single powder column with a coating layer, which is ignited by the gas in the take-off stage.  There is a wing on each side of the missile body, and there are flaps on the trailing edges of the wings, so that the missile body can generate two rotations per second during flight to maintain flight stability.  The wing tip is equipped with a wire tube, and there is a fairing outside the wire tube. The wire tube is wrapped with enameled wire to transmit instructions.  When the missile is flying, the shooter visually tracks the missile and the enemy tank, and issues control instructions by manipulating the two joysticks of the control box to control the course of the missile so that the tail tracer of the engine is above the line of sight.  Since the missile rotates slowly during flight, when the missile wing is in a horizontal state, the shooter controls the height handle and gives a height correction instruction; when the missile wing is in a vertical state, the shooter controls the azimuth handle and gives a direction correction instruction until the missile hits.  Target.  Since the missile body rotates during flight, the two 0.18 mm command wires are twisted into one and placed on the ground. Its effective combat range reaches 1,500 meters, far exceeding conventional individual anti-tank weapons, and the total combat weight is also  Only 24 kg, suitable for infantry carrying and combat use.

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