731 A Song of Blood and Fire 3
When a large number of infantry began to attack Mike's Lancer combat group, the first thing they were greeted was the attack of long-range artillery! The self-propelled howitzers to which the battle group belonged and the long-range artillery shells shot from the rear began to fall one after another. Each shell would bloom from the dense crowd, with flowers mixed with blood and flames. Russian soldiers advanced numbly, stepping on the blood and the bodies of their companions in the incontinuous artillery fire.
The blocking shelling rounds of rounds of rounds are more just to delay the opponent's attack speed, rather than to completely erase it. After weighing the number of their shells, the battle group of the vanguard troops and the Russians' strength, the moderate shelling is enough, so it is better to hand it over to the frontline personnel to solve most of the enemies with machine guns and tanks.
This is a trap, a trap designed with an assault group as bait, and the Russian infantry surrounded from all directions, trying to eat the opponent with their flesh and blood. However, around them, above their heads, more German infantry and planes had arrived at the edge of the battlefield. When the Russians launched an attack, it was time to close the net!
The Russian soldiers finally saw some chariots like iron boxes with a long stick. The number of the other side seemed to be not large. The Russians saw hope for victory. Under the cover of the 3-inch artillery in the back, they launched a crazily attack. At the last distance of 800 to 200 meters, a more hot counterattack was waiting for them. The rain of bullets sprayed from the machine gun and submachine gun formed a series of hot halos that continued to spread from the center to the surroundings.
The soldiers of Chenglian and Chenglian were torn into pieces during the attack. The firepower like lava flow plowed in the Russian formation, except for the blood-red and black trenches mixed with blood, in less than 10 minutes, nearly a thousand people fell into pools of blood. Such a tragic short-term casualties completely defeated the already fragile nerves of the Russian officers and soldiers. When the German infantry behind came up, everything was destined.
The shouts of soldiers, the roar of machinery and the roar of guns and cannons completely overwhelmed the Russians' attacks. In a relatively narrow place, the Russians concentrated nearly 10,000 infantry, cavalry and artillery. After the integrated attack of artillery and air-ground in Bavaria, it came to an end after more than an hour. The Donetsk Division was finished, and the other two divisions were also beaten to blood.
"Replenish the ammunition, we will continue to move forward tomorrow!" When Armored Mike decided to stop today's attack, his troops had already penetrated the opponent's defense line 35 kilometers, which was better than during the exercise. In theory, he had already penetrated the opponent's heavy army cluster defense line, and the rest were interspersed and detoured.
In the area where the Bavarian Legion passed, the ground was covered with wreckage, blood and corpses, and piles of soldiers were lying on the ground in a row. The chaotic footprints and discarded weapons around them told the failure of the Russians. Like a huge steel spearhead, the 4th division of the Sixth Group and 1 division of the Fifth Group were smashed into pieces within a day. Schmidt's vanguard troops had penetrated their line. The infantry division behind them would also harvest the remaining enemies.
"All we have to do is advance, but shoot all the visible enemies with the weapons in our hands, that's all." Mike wrote that night in his battleground diary.
The Russians' reaction was still a little slow. When their loss reports and intelligence were delivered to Nikolayev, it was already the third day. At this time, Schmidt's assault legion had killed the heavy army cluster in front and penetrated into the fragile rear of the Russian Fifth Army. At the same time, Prince Leopold's Bohemia-Moravian legion also began to fight with the flank forces of the Fifth Leopold. The encirclement had already been unfolded, but the Russians did not know.
When the third day after the general attack was launched, armored Mike and firefighting captain Hart suddenly found that they had nothing to do. In front of him was the vast Pod Plain, with the Russians' troops and most of the logistics transportation lines concentrated 40 to 60 kilometers behind the army. On the third day, they had already penetrated 75 kilometers behind the other side, leaving most of the army-level supply stations behind.
"I'm calling from above, and I'll ask you to hit the Russian Fifth Army. I'll continue to stay here to clean up the Russian soldiers. If possible, I really want to change with you." Mike said to his old enemy.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Bohemia-Moravian Legion was relatively limited, they relied on two rapid divisions to form fists and their superior forces to the brink of collapse, and most of the support of the Fifth Army had been cut off. Schmidt's rapid combat group and Prince Leopold's legion clamped the opponent from the left and right like pliers. Kariput's rapid division and regular division were in the middle of the pliers, and a siege net had been formed.
Although the Russian Fifth Army still has 8 divisions of infantry forces, and although 5 of them still maintain strong combat power, they are already dead. Maybe it will take some time for the Bavarian Legion to completely eat them, but that is already a trivial problem.
"The Russians' Fifth Army is over. Even if we don't fight, they will collapse on their own in 7 days. The Russians' food and forage carried by the army will only be supported for up to 5 days. We have killed a lot of their logistics convoys and troop stations. The support has been completely cut off." A staff officer said to the prince.
"If an army is surrounded, what will the Russians do?" Ruprecht looked at the Sixth Army in the north. If the Russians wanted to rescue the siege, they could only rely on the Sixth Army. If Nikolayevich was a man who followed the rules, he would still concentrate his troops and we could still eat some of them. The prince thought to himself.
Facing a Russian army that was exhausted and had no support, it would be inappropriate to leave behind a large number of valuable mobile forces. As Prince Leopold's troops began to gradually head north to replace Schmidt's rapid assault group to complete the siege of the Fifth Army, more and more mobile forces would be drawn out, and this process would take about 3 to 4 days. Then the troops would replenish supplies and attack again.
The Russian Sixth Army in the north has also begun to concentrate, but it seems that Nikolaevich does not have a clear understanding of his situation now. He does not know much about the situation of the Fifth Army. Even in the continuous movement and war, the commander of the Fifth Army may not be able to grasp the exact situation of the entire army. When the prince was about to launch a thunder strike again, the Russians were hesitating.
Chapter completed!