Chapter 1549 Crossing the Dnieper River II
Chapter 1549 Crossing the Dnieper River 2
Everything was doomed after the tank's tracks set foot on the river bank. The Russians still didn't know how to learn. They only arranged minefields on the outer positions, but they didn't arrange anti-tank obstacles (such as pyramids) small concrete cones) and even the barbed wire is just the most common, not the specialized viper barbed wire. Even if the latter is blown off, it is still possible to jam the track when the tank walks over, although it is impossible to really block the armor. The advance of the troops, but after all, it can delay time.
The troops and artillery deployed in the frontier position at the beginning were completely destroyed, and along the passage opened by the artillery, groups of soldiers rushed toward the depth under the cover of tanks.
However, there are always some bunkers stuck in positions that make the Germans very uncomfortable. The artillery in the distance cannot hit them, and the 75MM artillery nearby is not powerful enough. At this time, a temporarily modified tank came to the foreground. The cricket tank variant known as the fire-breathing beast is designed for taking out solid bunkers and clearing stretches of trenches.
After removing the turret, a flamethrower was installed on the front of the tank, and the ammunition was replaced with fuel tanks and compressed air bottles. In order to ensure survivability, this tank uses the saved weight to increase the defense of the front and side front. After losing a large number of flat-firing artillery, the Russians could only watch these fire-breathing behemoths comfortably walk to a place less than 100 meters away from the target, and then use a fire dragon to take away all the lives in the entire bunker!
Although there is a division of about 16,000 Russian troops on the opposite side, and although they have obtained the best equipment that the Russians can gather at this stage, after repeated losses, the Russian Army is obviously exhausted. It can't last more than 2 hours under the attack!
Within 2 hours, the troops that had landed had broken through to the opponent's deep position 5 kilometers under the guidance of the tank. And at ten o'clock in the morning, that is, 4 hours after the attack began, a pontoon bridge that can pass heavy equipment has almost been established, assault boats are used as piers, and the prefabricated bridge slabs prepared in advance are used as bridge decks , the entire bridge deck is spreading across the river. But for this pontoon bridge like a noose around the neck of the Russian army, the Russians have nothing to do.
And when it was twelve noon, tens of thousands of German soldiers on the other side were already eating their lunch. In the front, the armored troops have penetrated the Russian defenses, and began to cut their positions, and then eat them little by little with the cooperation of the infantry!
Other landing points also launched operations at the same time. The multi-point attack made the Russians who already had a small number of troops feel unable to cope, and the few remaining reserves were quickly filled on the battered front. However, before they arrive at the position, they must first pass the Bavarian Air Force!
Hundreds of bombers and attack planes were as deadly as the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the Russians. They searched for all the Russian regiments moving in the wilderness, and then fell like dragons from the sky,
The Russian marching ranks were torn apart with hot bullets and powerful bombs. Masses of carriages were thrown straight onto the road, making perfect targets for machine-gun fire and bombing. Accompanied by a series of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bomb attacks, a convoy hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters long was turned into a pile of ashes amidst bursts of loud noises and explosions.
The large-scale cavalry units that the Russians are proud of are even more vulnerable to the threat of roaring down from the sky. Even specialized military horses may be able to remain calm in the face of machine guns spewing bullets frantically, but when they fall from the sky These beasts are far from human tough when the bombers send piles of bombs and flames over their heads! According to the previous Air Force pilot's description, a few single-shot fighter jets carrying machine guns and anti-infantry fragmentation bombs can easily smash a regiment of cavalry to pieces. Even after the bombing is over, it will take a long time for these frightened livestock In order to calm down, and if you are unlucky, maybe after a few times of control, these cavalry will become infantry... (The horses all ran away, or died...) So, when the Air Force air strikes started, the first reaction for the Russian cavalry was to get on the horses.
"The number of Russian troops is very small, even less than we expected. Among the first five landing points we set up, two of them have almost no defense. We can now take a bigger step. The troops It would be better to send them all over as soon as possible, and then penetrate as deep as possible." On the night after the attack began, after reading the battle report, Prince Leopold put forward a new request.
And just three days after the Bavarian Legion started the battle of crossing the river, the Austrian Legion in central Ukraine also began to cross the river. Although they faced relatively strong resistance from the Russian army, the German army on the northern front drew some troops and quickly marched south. When outflanking the flank of the Russian Army in the middle, the enemy of the Austrian Army finally wavered. In the case of insufficient troops, the Russian Army, which squeezed the potential and forcibly deployed troops to launch an attack on the southern line, finally suffered the consequences. They no longer had enough The forces stopped the German and Austrian armies on the vast Ukrainian plain.
While the German-Austrian Army was marching forward in Northern Ukraine, Borusinov in Southern Ukraine also received battle reports from the Northern Front. According to the memories of the staff around Borusinov at that time, when he heard the news that the entire Northern Dnieper River defense line had been breached, this Russian who had always maintained a high fighting spirit, never gave up at any time, and was always trying to reverse the situation of the war. The general seemed to be ten years old suddenly, and he kept whispering something to himself. We even suspect that he can no longer hold his position.
What Borusinov had been most worried about finally happened. The German-Austrian army did not save the Hungarian Legion, which was on the verge of collapse, as he had imagined. Instead, it still launched an attack on the most vulnerable and deadly part of Russia. It can be expected that in another month, the main grain-producing areas in northeastern Ukraine will fall into the hands of the Germans, and then they will divide their troops into two groups, cutting off the railway line between the north and the south of Russia on the one hand, while the other road will go to the Germans. Donetsk and even the Transcaucasus region launched an attack, and the most important industrial base in southern Russia will face catastrophe!
At this moment, Borusinov knew that he had lost everything! Even if he mobilizes troops east of the Dnieper River immediately, it may not be too late. Even if some of the troops returned to the east bank, he would definitely not be able to stop the German and Austrian soldiers in the field environment without fortification areas!
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