Chapter 1166: Strategic Intent

At this time, the Russian army has been made into a frightened bird by the tank, and when the tank has not yet approached, it has been bombarded with heavy artillery, whether it hits or not, anyway, it is a non-stop bombardment, when the shells of a base number are exhausted, but no trace of the tank is found, which makes the front-line Russian army startled, the magic of the tank itself is beyond their imagination, the black devil, the slaughter of demons These titles are really well deserved, it is difficult to grow wings, some superstitious Russian troops even took out a cross, up and down to pray to God, Punish this terrible demon.

Compared with ordinary soldiers, officer ranks, especially senior officers, they know very well that the tank is just a man-made creation, is a war weapon produced by science and technology, although he is invulnerable, powerful, but it is impossible to transcend the objective law, especially some of the more close contact with the tank, they know very well how heavy the tank is, if they can send the tank into the air, I am afraid that a house can also go to the sky, they followed the trajectory of the artillery, with a telescope to look around, and finally found the trajectory of the tank, it turned out, The tanks did not rush directly to their positions, but were at the edge of the range of the artillery, made a large circle, and ran to the other side, in the direction behind them.

At the beginning, Wu Yunheng didn't plan to directly impact the opponent's camp, it was just a feint, hundreds of heavy artillery bombarded together, no matter how confident Wu Yunheng was, he didn't dare to step forward. That's a joke about tank troops, more than 120 mm artillery, under such a density, there will definitely be hits, once it hits an important part or the chassis, it can cause a lot of damage, no matter what. There are still nearly 600,000 troops entrenched here, and there are fixed camps. A relatively strong position was constructed, in front of the barracks. There are also huge pits. These deep pits are not as deep as the tank trenches specially dug by the armored division during training, but one pit is enough to sink three or four tanks, and they are dug almost 2 meters deep.

In the four directions of the entire Russian army's camp, the tank trenches are dense, counted. There are at least thousands, and it's really thanks to the Russian army, which has so much effort and digs so many pits, not to mention anything else, just these pits are enough to resist the tank, so that the tank can't get close, plus heavy artillery as a backing. It's really airtight defensively.

This morning, the tank used 120 smoothbore guns to annihilate the heavy artillery unit of the central cluster, which can be said to have laid the foundation for the annihilation of the entire heavy artillery unit. Without artillery as a backing, tanks have no opponents, and they can gallop through the dense camp of the Russian army without any scruples. Even if a few are destroyed, it is a very small minority. So. It is impossible to replicate the results of the morning. At this time, the impact is much more difficult than before, the other side is ready, the heavy artillery is in the core position, at least the height is dozens of meters higher than the flat ground, it is not easy to let the tank close, 120 mm tank gun, because of the limitation of angle, compared with the general 120 mm artillery is much closer, not to mention compared with more than 150 mm heavy artillery, in this case, forced attack, the gains outweigh the losses, will be heavy losses.

As a qualified armored commander, Wu Yunheng is very clear about the direction of the use of armored forces, the tank does not look at it with heavy armor, it is never a strong force, field battles, large-scale detours and encirclement, is his real role, hard attack fixed positions, or cities, that is not the purpose of tanks, it is equivalent to putting tanks in danger, unless it is with the help of a large number of artillery fire and infantry, relying only on tanks, it is still too thin, even a heavy tank like the northwest is not good, Not to mention light tanks as a lead.

Actual combat is the best classroom, this morning's results, for Wu Yunheng and a great encouragement, but also a vigilance, when one side of the death is home, a person with a bomb, in the tank does not mention the situation, can produce a huge threat to the tank, the tank with its own strength, one against thousands, even ten thousand, only under the premise of the advantage of the tank cluster, can be useful, once a tank into the vast sea of infantry, just rely on the current weapon, the infantry can deal with.

The attack at 5 o'clock was just a feint, when the tank was close to the maximum range of the Russian artillery, suddenly a large-scale turn, turned a nice turn, and then accelerated through one side, moved to the rear of the Brusinov regiment, and then dispersed, 10 kilometers away, outside the range of heavy artillery, faintly monitoring the Russian army, completely cutting off the back road for the Russian army to escape, on the other side, with the help of a third of the tanks, a division from the copper mine also built a position on the spot, as long as it took time, In about three or five days, with the help of reinforcements, a simple encirclement can be constructed, and then the remaining Russian troops will be completely encircled under the condition of continuing to deepen and strengthen the position.

The tank has shown strong combat effectiveness, which has been proved in the exercises again and again, but Yan Xishan knows very well that it is a fantasy to use tanks to completely eliminate the Brusinov department, or rather, it is okay to be ruthless, but this tank unit may have to be reimbursed here.

He has been in the northwest for many years, Yan Xishan admires Yang Yuanzhao, the ruler of the northwest, very much, but some of Yang Yuanzhao's small problems are familiar to senior officers, and he knows nothing about military affairs, and sometimes he will inexplicably give orders that make people laugh and cry, but he is quite proficient in military development and weapons and equipment, and has an inexplicable protection for the specially set troops, which is like this for special forces, and the same is true for armored divisions. showed a strong ability, if Yan Xishan buried an entire armored division here, even if he captured Chita, the loss of the capture of Chita and the loss of the armored division would be recorded on his head, even if he was the commander of the Northern Mongolian Military Region, he could not bear it.

Besides, the storming of Brusinov's department and annihilating them all may not be able to achieve strategic intentions, through the collection of Russian intelligence over the years, the northwest also knows Russia's virtues, and the title of European steamroller is not self-appointed by Russia, it is determined by ironclad facts, even at the beginning of the 20th century, Russia lost to Japan and China, but the Entente still accepted him as a very important member, the reason is very simple, among the Entente, No one has the ability to mobilize more than 10 million at any time.

Yes, the United States, which joined the Entente later, is okay, but the United States is a democratic society, and it takes a long time to mobilize 10 million soldiers, which requires a long period of political momentum and preparation, which is no longer possible under the influence of the United States when Germany detonates the media offensive and gives the United States influence from time to time, and only Russia, under the rule of the tsar, the people at the bottom are still treated as semi-serfs, as long as they are shot, they can go to the battlefield.

Annihilation of 1 million, 2 million troops, for Russia, there is not much difference, only temporary, as long as they are given time, given weapons, you can pull out the team, so, seize the opportunity, use the premise of Brusinov's corps to go south, conquer Chita, is the best choice, the location of Chita, not far from the border of China, hold the Trans-Siberian Railway

Therefore, the task assigned to the armored division is to drag Brusinov's cluster, and now, it has been reached, more than one-third of the losses, directly knocked out Brusinov's courage to fight with him head-on, the attack power and speed of the tank, so that he can only hold on to the formation, as long as the time drags on, and when the surrounding infantry are in place, surround the fortifications around them, completely encircle them, and wait for them in the Mongolian steppes where there is no danger to defend, waiting for them There is only one result, or be annihilated, Either surrender, in this case, why fight with them?

On the premise of achieving the mission and protecting their forces as much as possible, the tank group stopped after making a feint, did not enter the artillery area but turned a corner, and guarded the surroundings, some fast tanks stepped forward and retreated from time to time, like a lone wolf in the grassland, looking for opportunities.

This kind of combat method makes the Russian army very unaccustomed, the tank stays outside the range of the artillery, maintains a certain degree of contact, and makes temptations from time to time to become the camp of the attack, but when the Russian artillery sounds, it retreats again, the other party's approach is obvious, it is to consume the Russian army's artillery fire, but at this moment, the Russian army has to launch continuously, God knows whether the other party is a feint, if the feint becomes a real attack, it will be caught off guard.

The artillery rang out one after another, and just when the Russian army was a little unable to resist, the opponent's tank finally stopped, withdrew from the state of battle, and when the artillery could not hit, it stopped there, faintly monitoring here, keeping a considerable distance, and not giving the Russian army any chance to leave.

Brusinov felt bitter in his heart, saying that for the southern expedition, they carried enough military supplies for 2 months, but what about after 2 months? However, just lost the central cluster, the remaining troops are threatened by tanks all the time, at this moment, Brusinov, can't care about what will happen in two months, he only knows that he can't fight with tanks in the field, and before the tanks are not solved, he can only increase the defense as much as possible. The Russian army is building positions faster and faster, although they are very safe, but Wu Yunheng knows very well that his goal has been achieved, as long as there is a tank cluster here, plus the help of some infantry, the Russian army of almost 600,000 will be firmly contained here, and there will be no movement. (To be continued.) )