Chapter 650 Asymmetry

May 7th, morning.

Three blue and white beautiful relay command communication command airships slowly rose into the blue sky under the protection of six Mustang fighters.

This is a new type of equipment modified from a hippo-class large airship. It is equipped with 11 short- and medium-wave radio stations, which can carry 16 people at a time to coordinate the communication between the troops and guide the air force to support the ground forces.

Only when you sit in the cabin and look at the dense troops below can you understand why the emperor attaches so much attention to it, and also invited Mr. Trus to help solve the problem of radio interference, and use the winter truce to modify six such airships, because this time everyone is not facing the Tomsk fortress. A small-scale battlefield, but between the Yenisei River and the Ob River, with a width of 370 kilometers and a length of 580 kilometers, a super-large battlefield with many rivers, dense jungles and undulating mountains.

If the area is only vast, there may be no need for relay airships, but in this battle alone, the second air division invested 100 Mustang fighters, 660 hurricane attack aircraft and 180 Kunpeng bombers.

The Northwest Theater Command has taken out almost all the ground troops that can be used for attack, with 1 mechute division, 8 reading armored regiments, a total of 1,170 M3 cheetah tanks, 810 wildcat armored vehicles as arrows, followed by a total of 65 infantry divisions with 1.3 million infantry, more than 10,000 cannon machine guns, 60 More than 00 trucks, 50,000 war horses and 78,000 bicycles.

For anyone, it is dumbfounded enough to command, coordinate and manage such a huge combat force. Especially after studying the large-scale combat process of the German Western Front, the General Staff found that the confusion of command and communication was one of the main factors causing the lack of coordination ability and the final failure of European forces, especially at the key. In combat missions such as support and assault division and encirclement, they often fail because of these problems.

Radio stations are already basic equipment for the domestic army, but because of the ground environment, forests, mountains and other factors, it is not possible to contact anytime and anywhere, so it is very important to have a large transit station that can be in the sky all the time to help contact.

Originally, Li Mo wanted to use a transport plane as a platform, but considering that the transport plane has high logistics requirements for the airport, and the stagnation time is shorter than that of the airship. In addition, the advance speed of the troops in this era is not so abnormal, so the airship is used.

An arrow rushed forward like a tide, especially the armored regiments and steppeers, which became sharp knives on the battlefield and rushed forward with the help of the engine.

One by one, the heavy firepower points of the Russian army, which finally woke up, had not roared for a long time. Under the guidance of the relay airship, they were rotated by the already itchy silver wings.

The second battle of Western Siberia, which is large-scale but far from fierce, has entered the stage of rapid depth penetration without crazy artillery preparation or large-scale tactical bombing.

If a military fan in later generations sees this, they will definitely shout the commander idiot, because there are still nearly two million Russian troops in the encirclement, but in fact, it has been three hours since the early morning, and the fastest four armored regiments have been penetrated 100 kilometers deep before encountering some sporadic resistance.

Sitting in the ricke "Sand Fox" tracked command car and looking at the relay airship in the distance, Zhang Zuolin smiled. In fact, in the eyes of the emperor and the general, the Battle of Western Siberia is more like a large regiment combat exercise with new equipment and conditions. Make good use of this actual combat opportunity for the future. The key is to accumulate experience in large-scale campaigns.

Like the relay airship, Sand Fox is also the second generation of the successor wheeled command car. It uses the chassis of the M3 cheetah, but the internal space is larger. It not only has three radio stations, but also can accommodate 7 people working at the same time.

It's not the first time for Zhang Zuolin to see "Sand Fox". He knows much more about his position than Sun Jiugong, so he admires that there are some strange things in the emperor's head.

"What? After staying in the staff for a long time, I'm not used to marching?

Sun Jiugong threw a cigarette to Zhang Zuolin and said with a smile, "I think it's uncomfortable for you to stay in the staff department all the time. It's better to report it to our northwest army."

"I think so, but it's a pity that the Chief of Staff and the emperor didn't agree." Zhang Zuolin looked at his old classmate angrily and asked, "Jiu Gong, did you just pull out the attack like this?" The width of the whole battlefield is nearly 330 kilometers, and there is no artillery preparation? Isn't it too bold?"

"Bold bullshit!"

Sun Jiugong curled his lips and seemed to have no interest in this battle. He said, "Did you read the report I sent you in the past? More than 90% of the Russian army lacked food supplies, and no less than 500,000 people froze to death. At least this number of people were injured with illness, not to mention that they generally lacked heavy firepower last year.

I asked someone to do an experiment. I wrapped a Maxim machine gun in cotton and put it in the wind and snow for the winter. As a result, I took it out a few days ago and couldn't use it. Now the Russian army has not been able to get supplies in a winter, and even if the heavy equipment can be preserved, there are not many left. In this case, you still let me prepare for gunfire. I'm not afraid of Minister Tang. Did you point to your nose and curse later?"

Thinking of the scene where Tang Fatty trembled with anger after countless shells were aimed at the Russian army with no power to fight back, Zhang Zuolin immediately laughed. War is a monster that only swallows gold. A good general can control the degree of consumption of this monster on the country and the economy in a measured manner. Only reckless people will be in the opponent. When he was dying, he continued to use the traditional artillery preparation methods.

What's more, even if I give up artillery preparation, I can still have a strong enough armored assault force. In this case, it's really not worth spending hundreds of thousands of shells.

The explosion came from the right. Zhang Zuolin raised his telescope and saw that a few kilometers away, several hurricane attack aircraft that had dropped bombs were climbing. Under the abdomen was a huge mushroom cloud that was still rising. As for the Russian position, which was still wrapped in gunpowder smoke, it began to face another The attack of thousands of infantry led by the armored company.

In order to let him see it more clearly, the sand fox slowly stopped, and the dense red rain-like bullets swept through the Russian position. The infantry began to quickly set up mortars. After the shells roared, the small position gradually began to give up resistance.

"Let's go and have a look."

Under the protection of the armored battalion, the command vehicle quickly arrived at the position. In the salute of the soldiers, Sun Jiugong and Zhang Zuolin took the position.

Looking at it, the position was dilapidated. The small command station built of logs collapsed in the explosion. Hundreds of bodies were lying in the trenches, and the soldiers had begun to clean up and clean up.

Outside the trench, nearly a thousand Russian troops with yellow muscles and numb eyes have put down their weapons and waited in line like sheep to wait for the soldiers' arrangement. With the arrival of a prisoner transport team of 20 trucks and several wild cat armored vehicles, these Russian troops were quickly transported to the prisoner of war camp along the railway line at gunpoint. Repair the railways destroyed by themselves for the urgently needed labor force.

The prisoner of war transport team has become the busiest group of people on the whole battlefield. If it is not for the coordination of commanding the airship, it is a big trouble to transport these hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war to the nearest camp, and finally transporting them to the prisoner of war camp, and as the troops continue to deepen, this job The scale will be even larger.

"Report, General Shoushan, the first infantryman, reported that they were resisted by the Russian 15th Army in Achinsk, 40 kilometers southwest of us."

"Oh? How many people?"

"There are about 150,000 people."

"Great, let's go!"

Hearing the news, Sun Jiugong got into the sand fox like pepper under his buttocks. Even Zhang Zuolin was a little excited and finally ended this walking attack.

"Order the 7th and 11th Armored Regiments to support the infantry."

"The 56th Infantry Division is too slow. Speed up and tell the division commander that they must fight within three hours." Quickly rushing to the sand fox in Achinsk, Sun Jiugong kept issuing orders. Thanks to his strong communication and coordination ability, sitting in a small command armored vehicle, he could get the whole battlefield, the propulsion speed and direction of dozens of divisions.

Three Kunpeng quickly lowered their height. The moment the door of the magazine was opened, 12 250 kg high-explosive incendiary bombs fell like eggs in the Russian 21st Army base in Achinsk.

After the base built with wooden materials encountered incendiary bombs, it simply became hell. Countless soldiers ran around, but their nightmare was not over yet, because another wave of three Kunpeng had flown over.

Kunpengs carried out even some boring bombing operations. After as many as 42 bombers finished bombing and returned to load, a wave of hurricanes under the call of commanding the airship began to rage again.

When Zhang Zuolin and Sun Jiugong arrived in Achinsk, the rolling smoke almost completely wrapped the small town. Under the repeated bombing of 120 105mm howitzers and nearly 100 warplanes, the Russian 21st Army could hardly get a chance to breathe.

This scene made Zhang Zuolin, who came to the Northwest Army for inspection, shake his head with a wry smile and use absolutely superior planes, tanks and cannons to hit enemies with only rifles and dozens of cannons. This is not a symmetrical battle at all!

"Boom."

A powerful bomb landed in front of the stone house, and the wooden buildings outside were almost burned out. Countless soldiers who finally survived the winter and waved the cold were swallowed up by terrible flames that no one knew what it was before they could celebrate.

Lieutenant General Yarich was speechless. Although he had long known that the other party would carry out a general attack recently and had been fully prepared, it was not until he faced with the crazy rush of aircraft cannons that he realized that he and his opponent were not of the same order of magnitude at all.

It's like a boxing ring, allowing a child who has just learned a few basic movements to face a boxing champion who is armed to the teeth and knocks down countless super opponents.

I'm aggrieved, and I'm a coward to the extreme!

"We surrender."

(to be continued)