Chapter 660 Thunderstorm twenty-four
.Then nearly 2,000 rockets will not cause much loss. This is nothing more than 2,000 high-explosive shells. What is it for the army holding positions?
Moreover, this high-explosive bomb has limited lethality to armored targets. Unless it is directly hit, tanks of t-34, kv-1 and kv-2 are not afraid of rocket coverage and attacks.
However, for the current 16th Mechanized Army of the Soviet Union, nearly 2,000 rockets suddenly appeared quite deadly. On the one hand, because the 16th Mechanized Army had not yet had time to deploy, a large number of vehicles were concentrated around Vovoming.
On the other hand, while attaching great importance to tanks, the Soviet mechanized troops ignored the equipment of armored vehicles such as self-propelled artillery, armored personnel carriers, and semi-tracked armored vehicles (this is also determined by the Soviet Union's national strength, and the current Soviet Union cannot mechanize most of the army). Therefore, the Soviet mechanized troops are actually a combination of tanks and trucks, and there are a large number of soft targets that can be killed by rocket launchers.
"Rocket launcher! Damn, the German guy has concentrated a lot of rocket launchers!"
When the strange scream of "swish swish swish swish swish" appeared, Major General Sokarov, who was still on the road south of Vowoming Town, knew the bad things. Of course, senior Red Army officers of this level had seen them. There was a rocket launcher battalion in the direct team of the 4th Army, but the scene of the flooding of the rockets in the Vowoming Town in front of him was not something that could be shot by a rocket launcher battalion.
"At least one rocket artillery brigade!" Major General Sokarov was even more convinced of his judgment. "The enemy cannot have only one brigade, they are at least one army-level armored cluster!"
What? Army-level armored cluster? At least two armored divisions! Lieutenant Colonel Kurbsky, the chief of staff of the 16th Mechanized Army, was also a little confused now.
"Comrade Commander, what should we do?" The brigade-level political commissar of the 16th Mechanized Army also walked over with anxiety. When the German rocket launcher came just now, he had just left the town of Vowoming (he went to do political mobilization). If he was half a step late, he would have become a martyr of the world revolution.
But saving your life temporarily is not necessarily a good thing. If the 16th Mechanized Army is defeated in Vovoming, he, as a political commissar, may become a reactionary and go to labor reform.
"Comrade Political Commissar, the enemy will attack soon!" Major General Sokarov made a accurate judgment this time, "Now I order all troops to be prepared for combat, and we will fight the imperialist German army!
Order the 46th Tank Brigade and the 18th Motorized Infantry Brigade to immediately unfold on the wheat field 1 km south of the town of Vovoming to prepare for the German tanks!
Order the 255th Artillery Regiment and the 256th Artillery Regiment to carry out artillery counterattacks. The German rocket launcher must not launch a second volley!"
The two motorized infantry brigades belonging to the 16th Mechanized Brigade were just bombed in the town of Wowoming. According to the plan, they will get off at Wowoming Town and then unfold two anti-tank defense positions with Zis-3 cannons (this is a very good anti-tank gun) and zi anti-tank guns on the north side of the town.
However, the Soviet anti-tank guns have not been motorized or armored at present. The Soviet army has a large number of tanks, but there are very few self-propelled artillery, and there are almost no self-propelled anti-tank guns (only a few R&D projects have been carried out, but none of them have been put into production). Therefore, the anti-tank guns assigned to the motorized infantry brigade are also towed and take a long time to complete the deployment. As a result, these anti-tank guns were not deployed several times, and the trucks concentrated around the town of Vowoming were covered by rocket launchers.
"SS 5th Tank Battalion, advance! Go!"
The command of the 5th Tank Battalion commander came from the headphones Gustav Schwarzenegger was on his head. At this time, less than a minute before the rocket launcher was fired, and the surroundings of the town of Vowoming were still surrounded by a thick light of fire.
However, the 22 No. 4 H tanks commanded by Gustav Schwarzenegger had already started to attack. As soon as they received the order, they immediately started to rush toward the Soviet positions five or six kilometers away. Behind these tanks, there were a large number of grenades (actually infantry) who followed up in half-track armored vehicles and wheeled armored vehicles, and some infantry simply held automatic carbines (assault rifles) and 42 machine guns and sat on the body of the No. 4 tank.
The tall and strong Gustav Schwarzenegger opened the top hatch of his command vehicle, poked out half of his body, held the turret with one hand and the telescope with the other.
This area is the most typical large plain terrain, with no limits of farmland, and there are only small woods near the highway. There are also some villages and farms nearby. Although the city of Warsaw, which is inhabited, the people in other parts of Poland are not treated so well. Moreover, the population of Western European countries is very dense, so it is impossible to accept too many Polish refugees. However, there are enemies who can resettle these European refugees in the empty North Africa and the Middle East. Perhaps Syria is a good place to go...
Gustav Schwarzenegger took his eyes from a Polish village and turned to the town of Vowoming ahead. It was also a small town that was inhabited. The rocket launcher just now must have killed many Poles. Now the town is in flames soaring into the sky, and the smoke is rising, as if it is a hell on earth.
Captain Schwarzenegger didn't care about the life or death of the Poles. He just wanted to find the traces of Soviet tanks as soon as possible. He only saw many infantry soldiers holding rifles and machine guns rushing out of the town covered by flames and smoke, and was busy deploying defenses.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
Then Captain Schwarzenegger heard the roar of cannons, which came from behind him. The ones who fired were "Hornets" self-propelled howitzers and No. 3 assault guns. They were all artillery organizations, which not only could direct fire against enemy armored vehicles, but also used grenades to kill enemy infantry under the command of artillery observers.
Seeing that the Soviet Red Army was covered by high-explosive bombs fired by self-propelled artillery and assault guns, Captain Schwarzenegger quickly ordered the tanks under his command to slow down and let the infantry riding on them get off the car and follow the tanks.
Because he knew that since the Soviet infantry could not withstand it, their tanks would rush up. The rocket strike just now should have a very limited effect on big guys like T-34 and KV-1.
To deal with them, you have to rely on the 48-caliber 75 tank gun of the No. 4 tank!
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Chapter completed!