The 9th Mechanized Corps of the Soviet Red Army was an elite of the Warsaw Campaign, and it was very experienced in such a thing as being bombed.
Therefore, when the German and French fighters flew in groups, the trucks that had been lined up and ready to be launched and the ZI2 anti-tank guns and 85 anti-aircraft guns they towed were no longer visible on the site where the motorized anti-tank artillery regiment of the army had been assembled.
German and French pilots were hard to spot them, even if they had a keen eye Dzhugashvili and Makarenko also have their own bunkers, located in a forest next to the clearing, but they can't crouch in a pit, or a bomb will kill them both.
Dzhugashvili was given a bulletproof crater dug to a depth of more than two meters, the walls of which were reinforced with wooden strips, and the bottom was covered with muddy water that did not reach the surface of his feet.
However, Dzhugashvili is not a pampered second-generation eye, in fact, most of his generation of GCIST successors are quite able to endure hardships.
In addition to Dzhugashvili, many sons of proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation took part in the struggle for the liberation of mankind, and in fact, the struggle for the liberation of mankind was the ideal of their generation from childhood to adulthood.
As long as the ideal is not extinguished, they are GC supermen made of special materials.
Dzhugashvili found a place free of muddy water and sat down.
Staying in the pit with him were some officers and men of the 9th Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, most of whom were GC fighters who had experienced the test of life and death in Warsaw.
So when hordes of enemy planes flew, everyone looked up at the sky as if nothing had happened, and almost no one had a look of fear on their faces.
Sent to bomb the assembly of the anti-tank artillery regiment where Dzhugashvili was located were a dozen single-wing, twin-engine attack planes, which Dzhugashvili recognized at a glance as the French Breguet plane.
The bomb load of this chubby catfish-like plane is not large, as if it were only four or five hundred kilograms, and in fact it is not that much, this kind of bregai The means of attack of the 703 attack aircraft was to hit the tank with a 47 cannon.
However, the cannon is housed in a detachable pod.
After dismantling the pod, the aircraft could carry 6 50-kilogram bombs, more than its base model Brecover The 690 is also missing two pieces.
But a dozen In just a few minutes, the Type 703 attack aircraft still dropped several tons of bombs in the woods where the 9th Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment was hiding.
One after another, the black bombs exploded, turning into huge fireballs in an instant, devouring all trees, vehicles, and artillery within their reach.
However, because the pilots could not see the hidden trucks and artillery, they could only drop bombs based on some clues on the ground and the information obtained from previous aerial reconnaissance, so the bombing effect was not ideal.
Amid the sound of dense bomb explosions, the sound of 37 anti-aircraft guns and DSHK anti-aircraft machine guns firing was heard from time to time.
This is the anti-aircraft fire of the anti-aircraft battery attached to the 9th motorized anti-tank artillery regiment.
In the vicinity of the bomb crater where Dzhugashvili stayed, near the edge of the woods, there was a 37 anti-aircraft artillery position camouflaged with a large number of branches.
Anti-aircraft guns were firing into the air at a rate of tens of rounds per minute, and farther away, several DSHK machine guns were also firing non-stop.
Although nothing fell, it interfered with the bombing of the French planes.
The pilots of these French planes were not as desperate as the Germans, and when they saw that the anti-aircraft fire on the ground was quite scary, they pulled the planes up, and the accuracy of the bombs was even worse.
However, the situation that worried Dzhugashvili was still very worried, from the appearance of the French plane to the end of the air raid, not a single Soviet fighter was visible in the sky.
Until these French Breguet planes pulled up to altitude and returned.
A group of silver-gray painted 51 fighters appeared in the southern sky, swooping from a high altitude to pounce on the returning Breguet 703。
However, the French were not unprepared, a large number of people circled in the nearby airspace, and the fighters responsible for covering the bombers were D-type derivatives D550 and immediately flew over to block 51.
Against the sun, Dzhugashvili squinted his eyes and observed for a while, and was dismayed to find that the 51 piloted by the American internationalist fighters could not defeat the unknown enemy plane.
In the blink of an eye, 2 aircraft were shot down, while the losses of the opposing side were only 1.
This is mainly because the low-altitude type 51 aided by the United States was exhausted in the Polish campaign, and it was too late to replenish it for a while, and now the high-altitude type 51 sent is used for the opponent's JU288 high-altitude type 51 During World War II, there are special low-altitude and high-altitude types in the same large series of aircraft, and the engines used and the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft are different, and the Frenchman's D550 is a reference to the low-altitude model of the D series developed by the Fokker Zero, in fact, this aircraft is based on the Fokker Zero as an imaginary enemy.
Therefore, in low-altitude combat, it is completely possible to overwhelm the high-altitude 51, and as for the Soviet Yak-1, it is even less of an opponent.
As soon as the Franco-German planes left, the 9th Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment received the order to go to the "Red May" reserve positions to deploy.
Dzhugashvili knew that it was an anti-tank gun position behind the main position of the second line of defense of the 9th Mechanized Corps.
The 9th Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment was going to deploy there, which meant that the first line of defense of the 9th Mechanized Corps near Rakov had been or would be broken through by the enemy.
The steel tracks ran over the bodies of the fallen GC warriors and the red flags stained with gunsmoke, and continued to rumble forward.
Gustav Schwarzenegger sat in a half-track armored command vehicle and followed a huge "Rhino" tank destroyer through a broken position that had just been captured by the Germans.
Positions had changed hands after heavy fighting, where the Soviets had deployed considerable anti-tank fire, and had used a rather tricky tactic to ambush T3476 and KV1 tanks behind a high mound of earth, revealing only a camouflaged turret.
If it weren't for the fact that the 102 nickel-chromium-manganese-molybdenum rolled steel plate with a 45-degree angle to the front of the Tiger tank was strong enough, the 501st Battalion would have suffered heavy casualties this time.
But even though the Tiger was strong enough, the tracks of 8 vehicles were destroyed, and now only 30 Tiger tanks are operable, and 2 of them broke themselves.
However, the "Rhinoceros" tank destroyer that followed the butt of the Tiger tank was intact.
They were the heroes of the breakthrough of the Soviet positions just now, the Tiger tank was playing the role of a target to pull hatred, attracting Soviet tanks and anti-tank guns to open fire one after another, while the "Rhino" was "named" with 88 guns in the rear of the Tiger.
In a short time, most of the exposed Soviet firepower points and tanks were smashed, and the remaining targets were completely wiped out by the Tiger tank and the No. 4F tank accompanying the Tiger tank, whose short-barreled 75 guns were used to fire high-explosive shells against infantry and anti-tank gun positions.
While passing through the newly captured Soviet positions, Gustav Schwarzenegger saw the results of the "Rhino" cannons, several T3476 and KV1 tanks with their turrets removed, and their once huge and mighty bodies were now turned into a pile of twisted and deformed steel.
The corpses of Soviet tank crews can sometimes be seen lying on their backs around them.
They were supposed to have crawled out of the hit tanks and then killed by grenadiers who were following the tank cluster with BK42 automatic carbines or mortars.
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At this time, the rumbling of artillery began again, and it was the German artillery group that was bombarding an open area behind the first line of Soviet defense.
It was the only way to the second line of defense of the Soviet army, and most of them were mined.
When the German tank group rumbled through the first line of defense of the Soviet army and completed the regrouping, the rear artillery group also began to extend the fire, and the two coincided and connected very tacitly.
By this time, Yakov Zhugashvili and the 9th Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment of the Soviet Army had also arrived at the preset positions.
The guns were placed in place, and the shells of the Germans fell.
Yakov, who had long been accustomed to the "lightning and thunder" on the battlefield, jumped into a crater with great agility.
Covering his head, he waited until the short shelling by the Germans was over, and then craned his neck to look at the place where the vehicles had been concentrated.
Fortunately, most of the trucks loaded with ammunition are still there.
Anti-aircraft guns Ford trucks of U.S. aid were blown to pieces by German shells, and all 7 85 anti-aircraft guns were blown to the ground.
The cannon is still intact, 2 more guns were lost in the previous bombardment, and there are already members of the artillery crew who have rushed out of the bunkers or craters to avoid the guns, and they are scrambling to unload the cannons from the vehicles and push them into the designated positions, these guys all look a little panicked, and they can't compare with the soldiers who use the ZI2 anti-tank guns.
Because these anti-aircraft artillery officers were all transferred from the cities in the rear, it was the first time to fight tanks on the front line.
However, under the supervision of officers and political cadres, 7 powerful 85 guns were still in place.
At this moment, the roar of a huge motor suddenly came from behind Yakov.
He turned his head to see the T3457 tanks he was familiar with, in a loose formation, flanked by combat infantry, along an improvised road full of craters. t1706231537: