Chapter 670: German-Soviet War (24)

Commander Timoshenko was a little surprised to learn from Major Elton, the commander of the B-24 Squadron, that five of their bombers were shot down and seven or eight were injured by German ground anti-aircraft artillery during the airdrop operation last night. "Did your army encounter interception by German night fighters?"

Major Elton shook his head. "No, Commander, the operation last night went quite smoothly. Of course, the German ground anti-aircraft artillery should not be underestimated."

"..." Commander Timoshenko could not help but frown deeply. They had tried to send planes to airdrop supplies at night before, but they were all intercepted and shot down by German night fighters without exception. How come the Americans didn't encounter it? The first wave might be because the Germans were asleep and didn't have time to take off in time (this is of course impossible. If there was no combat readiness duty during the war, the commander would probably be shot), but there was still no movement in the second and third waves. Could it be that the German night fighter pilots were on vacation?

Just then a staff officer hurried in. "Comrade Commander, some pigeons brought back secret reports. The location we speculated before was wrong. Most of the supplies fell to the Germans."

Commander Timoshenko's face was a little ugly. If he had known, he would have airdropped these pigeons to determine the location. Because he was eager to save people, he directly dropped the supplies over there, but so many supplies actually fell to the Germans for nothing?

"Sort out the detailed location immediately. Major Elton, please make another trip tonight."

Berlin Palace.

When the radio broadcast the news that a magnitude 3 earthquake had occurred in the Braga area of ​​Portugal, Elizabeth felt her legs go weak and she almost fell to the ground. She stared at Yannick for a long time and muttered. "You, are you really an apostle of God?"

Yannick laughed in his heart. What an apostle of God? He was just fooling around with the knowledge of later generations. "I've said it, but you still don't believe it."

"Then can you perform miracles?"

"Miracles? Are you talking about turning stones into gold? Throwing beans into soldiers? Calling the wind and rain? Resurrecting the dead? I can't do any of those. God just instilled all kinds of knowledge into my brain."

"Why did God do this?"

Yannick shrugged. "Who knows? Maybe he thinks it's too stupid for humans to fight and kill each other on such a tiny planet for hundreds of years, and wants to use me to accelerate the development of mankind. It may also be that he just thinks it's fun, or it's just his unintentional act; his thoughts are not something that we mortals can understand."

Suddenly, Elizabeth's eyes lit up. "Then can we see God if we fly out of the solar system?! Or fly out of the Milky Way?"

"See God?" Yannick couldn't help laughing. "How do you say it? Do you know how many cells there are in the human body?"

Elizabeth's eyes widened. "Who knows?"

"As far as I know, there are about 500-600 trillion. If God is compared to a person, our universe, I mean the universe, not the earth, not the solar system, not the Milky Way, but our entire universe that has been exploding is just a cell in God. How do you say you will meet him?"

Elizabeth opened her mouth slightly in shock, and couldn't speak for a long time.

At night, the American B-24 squadron went out again and continued to drop supplies. This time, the Soviet bombers also joined in, and they were not intercepted by the German night fighters. More than a hundred bombers were busy until the next morning, dropping more than a thousand tons of supplies, and also formulated a breakout plan with internal and external cooperation.

"Tsk tsk, it's a beautiful idea." Seeing the Soviet battle plan sent over, Kruger sneered disdainfully. "Send another message to Commander Timoshenko, asking him to send more food."

Flocks of pigeons flew to Timoshenko's headquarters again, saying that the food they had looted was not enough for a breakout, and asked them to send more food so that they would have the strength to successfully break out.

Timoshenko did not suspect this. Although nearly 2,000 tons of supplies were airdropped, more than one-third of them were fuel, more than one-third were ammunition, and the remaining food was only 500 to 600 tons.

These 500 to 600 tons of food sounded like a lot, but on average each soldier was allocated less than 1 kilogram. As this secret report said, the troops in the encirclement had been hungry for several days, and this less than one kilogram of food was not enough to fill the gaps between their teeth.

Knowing that soldiers could not fight on an empty stomach, Timoshenko ordered to loot all the food that could be found and airdrop it into the encirclement again at night.

At 7 o'clock the next morning, Timoshenko ordered an all-out attack, and two American officers at the headquarters asked in surprise. "Commander Timoshenko, why not cover the German defense line with artillery fire first? "Sending people to attack directly like this, are you afraid that there are too many people and want to kill a few groups first?

Timoshenko sighed lightly and explained. "Once our artillery positions open fire, it will immediately attract German bombers." The implication is that it is useless to fire or not, and those artillery will be wasted.

The Soviet army launched an attack on the German defense line like a tide. Various firepower on the German positions fired fiercely, and Soviet soldiers were swept down in groups, but the latecomers ignored them and continued to shout and charge forward.

Finally, after suffering heavy casualties, they broke through the first line of defense of the German army.

Due to radio interference, the battle situation on the front line could only be transmitted back and forth by manpower. When Timoshenko learned that the news of breaking through the first line of defense of the German army had been learned, he was shocked. "What? ! Have you received the troops in the encirclement? ! "

After a while, new information came back. "No troops have been seen breaking through, and the attacking troops are rushing forward."

Timoshenko felt his hair stand on end, his shirt was instantly soaked with cold sweat, and he shouted. "Stupid! Order a retreat immediately!"

Are the commanders on the front line a bunch of idiots? ! They suffered such a big loss a few days ago, but they didn't learn their lesson? How could the German defense line be so easy to break through? Isn't this obviously another trap? Or is it the same trap as last time, it's simply a familiar formula, familiar taste.

When Timoshenko's order was passed to the front line, more than 100,000 Soviet troops had already rushed through the first line of defense of the German army in the hundreds of kilometers long battle line.

When the red flares of the Soviet army's retreat rose into the sky, the German strongholds that the Soviet army failed to conquer once again showed their power. The German soldiers in the strongholds came out in droves under the cover of artillery fire, recaptured the positions occupied by the Soviet army, and separated the Soviet army inside and outside the defense line.

This sudden change caused the frontline commanders to fall into a brief panic. The order to retreat had been issued, but their troops were trapped behind the German defense line; should they retreat first or continue to attack to rescue them?

Just as they were hesitating, dense German planes flew in the sky and launched carpet bombing, forcing the Soviet troops outside the encirclement to retreat more than ten kilometers.