Chapter 219(1/2)
Ben-Gurion and Rothschild Jr. were worrying about the future of Israel. A hungry wolf on the battlefield had already set its sights on the Israeli and Austro-Hungarian coalition forces on the central front.
The 1st Cavalry Division last attacked the French army on the Donetsk River and encountered an unprecedented setback.
Although they finally defeated the French army and caused huge casualties to the French army.
But the losses of the 1st Cavalry Division were not small. This was the first time since entering Russia.
The 1st Cavalry Division did not participate in the summer counteroffensive and had been resting behind the front for three months.
Not only were the personnel replenished, but the tanks were also replaced with the latest Type IV tanks.
The round tank head is like a turtle shell, and the thick gun barrel reflects black light in the sun.
The 105mm tank gun can tear apart all obstacles within a kilometer.
The small reinforced concrete bunker can be overturned with one shot.
The round turtle shell can withstand the bombardment of the Eight-Eight Cannon at a distance of one thousand meters.
The angle is very important. A round turret is more likely to cause ricochet. This is also advocated by Li Xiao. The angle is the concept of protection.
Although within a thousand meters, the turret is still in danger of being penetrated by the 88-gun, the 105-gun can suppress the 88-gun very well from a thousand meters away.
After all, Li Xiao also has a saying, that is, the caliber is just.
Not only tanks were refitted, but artillery pieces at all levels also began to be refitted.
The first is the vehicle-mounted mortar. The chassis of an armored vehicle uses an open design.
You can actually install two mortars front and rear!
One hundred rounds of artillery shells can be stored in the magazines on both sides.
Sixty mm mortars are completely a thing of the past, now the caliber of mortars is 80 mm.
The caliber is increased and the power is much greater.
Under the pouring attack, it can penetrate half a meter of reinforced concrete.
This would be a nightmare for all bunkers and bunkers!
However, the Ming army did not intend to use this thing to attack the bunker. It was just infantry support firepower.
The real weapon for attacking bunkers is the self-propelled artillery.
Each regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division includes an artillery battalion equipped with nine 120mm howitzers.
Although it is a howitzer, it can also perform well in flat fire.
A bunker with a thickness of 800 millimeters can be overturned with one shot, just like opening a can.
This is not even a big killer. The real big killer is an artillery battalion directly commanded by Mr. Man.
With twenty-seven 155mm howitzers, one shell would turn even one meter thick reinforced concrete into slag.
During the test firing, the violent explosion directly transformed the sheep in the bunker.
Finally, after searching for a long time, I found the remains of a sheep hoof.
Not only were the tank groups charging extremely fiercely, but even the infantry were equipped with the latest infantry fighting vehicles.
Each infantry fighting vehicle is equipped with a 25mm rapid-fire cannon.
It is still not powerful enough to deal with large bunker fortifications, but if it is to deal with small bunker fortifications or infantry exposed in the wilderness, it is a waste of time.
Within 1,200 meters, people can be beaten into balls of minced meat.
This is just a combat force. Behind Man Ye, there is a battlefield supply system composed of fifty large airships.
No matter how much ammunition Man Ye consumes, the airship will be able to supply Man Ye as soon as possible.
Of course, the premise is that Man Ye has cleared the ground and there are no coalition anti-aircraft guns.
In the sky, there are even more support from hundreds of Stuka bombers.
Man Ye now has six fully equipped tank regiments, plus six armored infantry regiments.
In addition, the divisional troops in his hands also have two heavy rocket launcher battalions, with fifty-four groups of 270mm rocket launchers.
There are three light rocket launcher battalions, with eighty-one 133mm rocket launch groups.
There is also a 155mm howitzer battalion mentioned above.
The division headquarters is guarded by a tank company and three armored infantry companies.
This is an army truly made of steel. A single salvo can drop more than a hundred tons of ammunition onto the enemy's position, truly turning that area into scorched earth.
The German troops on the northern front and the Nordic Allied Forces were all huddled in solid and dense positions.
They no longer attacked the Ming army's positions as ferociously as they did at the beginning of the summer offensive.
Instead, he stayed in the trench obediently and waited for the Ming army to attack.
However, the Ming army and the Russian army obviously had no interest in attacking.
The two sides were facing each other in the air, separated by a vacuum zone of fifty or sixty kilometers.
The battlefield was so quiet that there were not even a few sporadic exchanges of fire.
Not to mention the southern front, the front composed of Italians and Spaniards simply could not withstand the attack of the Ming army.
Many times, after a heavy artillery attack by the Ming army, there would be no one on the position.
Those who were killed were killed, and those who were not killed ran away.
This group of people has no fighting spirit at all. They come to the front line to serve as soldiers, firstly to make a living, and secondly for the hefty stipends.
Anyway, the domestic economies of Italy and Spain are in recession right now, and jobs are hard to find.
If you serve as a soldier on the front line, you will not only receive generous allowances, but you will also receive many love letters from young girls.
On such a good day, everyone is willing to come and have fun!
But if you ask me to work hard, then I'm sorry. I have never thought of working hard for no reason.
As for the small number of British troops, they had to be forced to retreat by these two pig teammates.
Those damn Ming army planes in the sky specifically selected British troops for bombing.
The British troops who left the trenches suffered heavy losses in the air raids.
Some companies have even lost more than 30% of their personnel.
The battle lines retreated again and again. The Sumy area was lost, Kharkov was lost, and the entire Donetsk map was lost.
If this continues, it is estimated that the Ming army will have to drink from the Dnieper River and set its eyes on Kiev again.
With no other choice, Napoleon had no choice but to bite the bullet and release the French First Army led by Marshal Ney, who was known for his toughness.
The First Army barely withstood the Ming army's attack with heavy casualties.
The northern and southern fronts retreated one after another, and the Israeli and Austro-Hungarian armies fighting near Kursk formed a huge salient.
In this salient, there are 200,000 Israeli troops and more than 250,000 Austro-Hungarian troops.
There are still 50,000 Swiss troops left. The Swiss have always been brave and good at fighting. However, the Swiss claim to be neutral. This time they are willing to send troops because of the influence of the Pope.
These 50,000 Swiss troops also participated in the war in the name of a religious army and did not represent the Swiss government.
But everyone who knows about this kind of thing understands it, and it’s just a fig leaf.
At any rate, with these 50,000 Swiss troops, we were able to withstand the attacks of the Ming and Russian armies.
But it only withstood the attack. It was impossible to counterattack.
Moreover, the battlefield situation has changed now.
Around Kursk, in addition to the 20,000 Ming troops, there were more than 500,000 Russian troops.
It can be said that the Russian army's combat effectiveness is not very good, but in terms of numbers, the Ming and Russian allies have surpassed the opposing coalition forces.
Li Xiao, who was in Crete, saw this huge protrusion on the map at a glance.
The Israeli army in this encirclement must be killed, thereby cutting off the connection between the northern and southern lines of the coalition forces.
The most important thing is to kill the main force of the Israeli army.
Now the Israeli troops are stretched thin, and Sevastopol has been reduced to a scorched earth.
It was like a meat grinder, with the lives of Ottoman soldiers and Israelis being filled in every day.
If in the Kursk area, the main Israeli force can be annihilated.
In that case, the surrender of the Israelis would be a certainty.
Perhaps the Austro-Hungarian Empire would also surrender.
This is a shocking thing for the whole of Europe.
It can also help Axi make up his mind and agree to all Ming's conditions.
Therefore, Li Dingguo's troops and the First Cavalry Division, which had been resting for many days, were sent to Kursk by Li Xiao.
Their mission is to advance from the north to the south, seal the entire Kursk salient, and then catch turtles in a urn.
To be continued...