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    The 19th Group Army of the Chinese Army is one of the 11 newly expanded group armies after the war. The commander of the group army is General Zhang Ruifeng, and the chief of staff is Lieutenant General He Xingde. It has the 118th Mechanized Infantry Division, the 119th Motorized Infantry Division, and the 19th Group Army.  The 120th Motorized Infantry Division, the 121st Infantry Division, the 122nd Infantry Division, the 123rd Infantry Division, the 19th Armored Brigade, the 19th Artillery Brigade and other major combat units, plus other units directly under the group army, the entire group army has a total of more than 220,000 people  .

    Although the 19th Group Army is a newly formed unit, from the officers to the ordinary soldiers below, they are all veterans who participated in the last world war.  During the last world war, the Chinese Army mobilized more than five million people.  Although after the war, most of the soldiers retired.  But the soldiers who performed well during the war were preserved as the backbone.  In addition, after the formation of the group army, it has undergone rigorous training. Even if the combat power of the entire group army is not as good as those of the old group armies, it is almost the same!

    With the help of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the 19th Army landed at Astre in just one day.  This is due to the complete port facilities in Astre. As the main military port of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, the port facilities are very complete. A series of heavy equipment of the Chinese Army can be transported off the transport ship through mechanical equipment.  Although taking a boat for a long time made the soldiers very tired.  But after a night's rest, everyone became more energetic the next day.

    That night, at the request of the 19th Group Army Commander General Zhang Ruifeng and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General He Xingde, the 19th Group Army Operations Department came up with an offensive plan.  Tomorrow is January 13th.  The 19th Army will launch an attack on the German army to break through the German blockade of Astre and completely contact the German threat to the Maritime Province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

    The plan proposed by the 19th Group Army Operations Department was very simple. It directly used the 19th Armored Brigade as a sharp knife to break through the German defense line.  Then the main force of the 19th Army attacked the German army!  If the German army does not take the initiative to retreat.  Then you can surround part of the German army and destroy it.  When the 19th Army launches an offensive, the carrier-based aircraft units of the Navy's 31st Task Force will provide them with air cover and artillery support.  There are currently no safe airports around Ast, and the Chinese Army's own aviation cannot enter.  Only after the German troops were driven out of Astre could the Army Aviation and Air Force be stationed here to ensure air superiority over the Maritime Province.  in addition.  In order to strengthen its air power, the Air Force will also dispatch heavy fighter units to ensure air security during the battle.  The Navy's Task Force 32 will also head to the Adriatic Sea.  As for the Italian battlefield, the army aviation departs from Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, and the range can cover southern Italy without the need for the navy's carrier-based aircraft units to be dispatched.  Task Force 32 can just be transferred to the Adriatic Sea.  only.  It will take time for the 32nd Task Force to reach Astor Bay, and we can¡¯t expect it in a short time!

    At 7 o'clock in the morning on January 13, when it was just getting dark, the artillery brigade of the 19th Group Army of the Chinese Army and the artillery battalions of the following divisions had a total of more than 400 heavy artillery with a caliber of 105 mm or above.  The artillery bombardment of German positions began.  The remaining two hundred heavy artillery pieces of the Austrian Army also joined in.  Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army was a little weaker in combat power, it was not weak in terms of artillery.  The artillery produced by their Skoda Arsenal is considered first-class in the world.

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The dense artillery shells exploded on the German position, turning the German position into a sea of ??flames almost instantly.  The fortifications that the Germans spent a day building were constantly destroyed during the shelling.  Before, the German army had been on the offensive. It was not until the 19th Chinese Army Group landed in Ast yesterday that they turned to defense.  The fortifications, hastily built without materials, were not strong.  There is simply no way to withstand the bombardment of large-caliber heavy artillery.  However, the quality of the German Army is indeed first-rate. Even if it only took one day, they had already dug a lot of bomb-proof holes and air-raid shelters when the shelling started.  All the German soldiers hid in the shell-proof holes.  Therefore, the casualties they suffered during the shelling were not large, at least many fixed firepower points were destroyed.

    The artillery of China and Austria opened fire fiercely, blinding the German army.  The German commander did not expect that the Chinese and Austrian armies would actually launch an attack at this time.  You know, the German intelligence department learned that the Chinese army that landed in Astre only had more than 200,000 people, and the remaining Austrian troops in Astre only had 300,000 people.  The German army has more than 600,000 troops. When there is a huge gap in the strength comparison between the two sides, they do not think that the Chinese Army will take the initiative to launch an attack.  However, the facts undoubtedly slapped them hard!

    "Damn yellow-skinned monkeys, they are so arrogant! Do they think they can defeat the great German Army with 200,000 men? Order our artillery to counterattack immediately"??Teach those yellow-skinned monkeys a lesson!  "The German commander General Carl von Einem issued the order angrily! As the senior general of the German Army, General Carl von Einem is very proud! Since the Prussian Army defeated the French army in the Franco-Prussian War  , the German Army is known as the world's most powerful army. Even though the Chinese Army subsequently rose, it has never been taken seriously by them! The current active offensive of the Chinese Army, in the view of General Carl von Einem, this  This is completely a provocation to them by the Chinese Army!

    The German army has always attached great importance to the construction of artillery. Their artillery firepower is also top-notch in the world!  There are now more than 600,000 German troops gathered east of Astre, equipped with more than a thousand large-caliber heavy artillery.

    After General Carl von Einem¡¯s order was issued, the German heavy artillery units launched a counterattack in less than ten minutes.

    However, the Chinese Army has been waiting for this moment for a long time.  After the German heavy artillery force opened fire, two groups of the Chinese Navy's 31st Task Force, a total of 48 H9C 'Canghu' dive bombers hovering over the Bay of Astor, immediately entered the battlefield aggressively and attacked the German heavy artillery force.  Bombing was carried out.

    "Jie Jie!" Accompanied by the sharp roar of the dive bomber when it dived, heavy aerial bombs were thrown on the German heavy artillery positions one after another!

    "Boom! Boom!" A 500-kilogram heavy aerial bomb is very powerful. When it explodes on the ground, it can often produce a small mushroom cloud and leave a large crater with a diameter of several meters on the ground.

    The heavy artillery was blown away one after another, and the barrels were twisted like twists in the explosion. The German artillerymen who controlled these heavy artillery had already been torn into pieces!

    "Dong dong dong dong!" Despite the fierce counterattack by the German air defense forces, the anti-aircraft guns fired crazily at the Chinese fighters in the sky.  However, these fighter planes are like light swallows, walking through the fire net formed by the bullets from anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. They may seem dangerous, but they can always avoid the attack by a hair.

    In the bombing by the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft force, the German heavy artillery force suffered heavy losses.  The bombs dropped by 48 H9C "Canghu" dive bombers from two groups destroyed at least hundreds of heavy artillery pieces.  The price paid by the Chinese Air Force was that two H9C Canghu dive bombers were shot down and one was damaged.  And the pilots struggled to parachute in areas controlled by the Austrian Army.

    The heavy artillery unit was bombed, which temporarily interrupted the German artillery fire.  This made General Carl von Einem furious, and he kept sending telegrams to the General Staff, asking the Air Force to provide them with cover.  Otherwise, amid the constant bombing by Chinese planes, this battle would be impossible to fight!

    The H9C ¡®Canghu¡¯ dive bombers of two groups of the Chinese Navy had just left, and the F10 ¡®Lightning¡¯ heavy bombers of a wing of the Air Force arrived again.  Each of these heavy bombers carried two 100 kilogram aerial bombs under the wings. However, when these heavy fighter jets dropped the bombs, their accuracy was very low, far less accurate than that of dive bombers.

    After dropping the bombs, these heavy fighter jets began to strafe the German positions with powerful cannon and machine gun fire, massacring the German artillery indiscriminately.  The counterattack of the German air defense positions even attracted the siege of these fighter planes, causing them to pay greater losses!

    Under the joint attack of the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft units and the Air Force, the German heavy artillery units suffered heavy losses and were unable to pose much of a threat to the Chinese Army's 19th Group Army.  On the contrary, the heavy artillery unit of the 19th Army plowed the German defense line several times like a field.

    Artillery preparations continued for a full hour, until the German position became a mess and no intact defenses could be seen. General Zhang Ruifeng, commander of the 19th Group Army of the Chinese Army, issued the order to attack.  !

    ?? 180 ¡®Panther¡¯ tanks from 5 tank battalions of the 19th Armored Brigade drove out of the starting position and launched an attack on the German defense line!  The Army's 118th Mechanized Infantry Division is following the weather, especially the division's 1182nd Mechanized Infantry Regiment, which is accompanying the 19th Armored Brigade in combat and will provide protection for the tanks.

    Just as the German Army looks down upon the Chinese Army, the Chinese Army does not look down upon the German Army.  Especially during the last World War, the German Army was unable to win victory on the Western Front in Europe for a long time. On the contrary, the Chinese Army almost swept the world.  Therefore, everyone in the Chinese Army generally believes that they are the most powerful army in the world!  Now, these two armies, which are also known as the most powerful armies in the world, will have a small-scale showdown on the plains east of Astre!
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