Chapter 8 River Valley Battlefield (Central)

The torpedoes that appeared in Lake Constance did not scare away the Soviet army that was determined to win. On the New Year, more than 200 boats of various types arrived at the shore of the northern end of the Upper Rhine Valley with considerable Soviet troops. Under the attention of the whole world, they did not set foot on Switzerland's "holy and inviolable" territory, but concentrated in the five-kilometer lakeside area belonging to Austria to launch a landing attack.

Bregenz, which was previously stationed and reinforced by the Soviet army, is located at the eastmost point of the shore of this five-kilometer lake. Its terrain is an ideal observation point and command post on this battlefield. Lynn's military flag is planted on the highest tower in Bregenz, but he himself and the Corps Command are not here. Less than three kilometers southeast is a hill with an altitude of more than 700 meters. The mountains here are steep and lush vegetation. The Imperial Engineers, who are good at building solid fortifications, spent a week building an underground cover system here. The real communication command center, equipment ammunition depot and wounded soldiers' medical center are all arranged here, thus avoiding the waves of air strikes that the Soviet fighter jets stubbornly invested.

The sound of guns and cannons in front of him was endless. Lynn stood at the observation port of the underground command post and looked north. From here, the blue Constance Lake is as vast as the sea. The continuous falling shells make the originally calm lake with the waves of the sea. Stranded and sunken ships and various floating objects can be seen everywhere on the water near the lake. Explosives lifted up the silt in the lake, and together with the blood of the dead, formed a blocky, striped dark zone in the nearshore waters. The lake is used for carriers.

The Soviet ships of the soldiers were still approaching the lakeside with fierce guns and cannons. The Soviet officers and soldiers who were fortunate to land were suppressed in an open area less than fifty meters inward on the lakeside. There were neither trenches nor fortresses. The original trees were cut down and transported away. Slow slopes, mounds and any landscape buildings that might be used as shooting obstacles were all demolished. The Soviet soldiers who climbed the lakeshore could only use the wreckage of their companions to avoid oncoming bullets and flying shrapnel. The situation was quite unfavorable.

The defensive force composed of more than 600 Imperial Guards and more than 1,000 Free Regiment soldiers had more than 40 captured and recently arrived artillery and some large-caliber mortars. These supporting firepower were all deployed in pre-built fortifications with certain anti-aircraft and bombing capabilities. The abundant ammunition reserves made them cause major trouble for Soviet ships and landing troops from the beginning. Although the number of Soviet boats that were sunk before docking continued, most of the subsequent ships could still reach the shore. Although the Soviets had little experience in landing operations, they were still successful in the late stage of World War II.

Example: It is not difficult to draw some valuable experience from the landing experience of the allies and figure out an effective landing plan. Without strong naval gun fire support, the Soviet aviation forces launched their efforts regardless of the weather; it was difficult for landing infantry to open up the situation, and the boat carrying tanks came on the stage immediately. Without cross-ocean operations, the performance requirements of the landing ship carrying tanks were not strict. After the Soviet army initially captured the beachhead, the second lane of landing troops decisively invested several tank carriers. They were simple in appearance, moderate in speed, and were protected and supported by landing ships and gunboats.

When the Soviet army was still gathering attacks on the other side of Lake Constance, Lin En and his staff team obtained a lot of intelligence from the periphery and made targeted deployments. During the battle, a good viewing position helped them see through the Soviet army's intentions as soon as possible, and then directed their artillery fire to intercept and fire at the Soviet tank carrier. In this battle of wits and courage, the sudden fierce artillery fire suddenly accelerated the rhythm of offense and defense on the battlefield. At a distance of four or five thousand meters, the mountain cannons made by Switzerland showed good rapid shooting ability, and although the number of cannons seized by the Free Corps from the Soviet strongholds in this area was not large, the power was a little higher than that of the mountain cannons. Driven by clear combat commands, the field cannons of the defense and

The mountain cannons carried out strong rapid fire for nearly a quarter of an hour. As the Soviet second-level boats gradually approached the lakeside, the light and heavy mortars deployed by the defenders on the frontier and deep positions also began to show their power. In a short time, a spectacular scene of shells falling like raindrops appeared on the nearshore. Under such high-intensity strike, the number of Soviet ships injured in the Soviet army increased sharply, and most of them were civilian ships that did not have the ability to resist strikes. Once the bullet was lost, they could cause them to infiltrate a large amount of water and cause them to sink. The situation of small military ships transported by train was only slightly better. Thin armor could only resist the invasion of bullets and shrapnel. If they were directly hit by medium-caliber shells, the minority would be reduced, and the minority would be lost.

Intercepting shelling can only play a certain role in interception. Gradually, the second level of Soviet boats approached the lakeside area where the bullets swept across. The Soviet infantry who left the boat was facing a situation that was almost the same as a group of previous companions. Many people fell down before they even stepped onto the land. The soldiers who rushed to the lakeshore had to pay a huge price for every step forward. The forty or fifty meters of lakeside area were almost covered by the bodies of these brave soldiers. Anyone would be shocked to see this shocking scene. However, the operators of the mg-42 and the Soviet-made Deshka heavy machine gun seemed to come from hell. The bullet links were all wiped out one by one, and their feet were already full of bullet shells. However, they repeated the shooting movement tirelessly, pouring the rain of death onto every Soviet officer and soldier who dared to stand up and move forward.

Killing pushed the battle into the top again, and in Lynn's telescope, the Soviet landing ships with tank turrets in several cabins finally arrived at the shore of the lake. They were not like Allied tank landing ships, and the front baffle could be completely knocked down. The Soviet tanks inside slowly and heavily drove out the landing ship like climbing a hill. As soon as their figures appeared, the fierce artillery fire fell down. When the dust and smoke formed by the explosion of the shells spread out, the wide-sized tanks rolled over the wreckage with their hideous faces...

is-3, the Soviet heavy tanks that have been invincible on the European battlefield in the past two years are called "Soviet Tiger King Tanks" by the allied armor and infantry. They have extremely strong armor and super firepower, especially the comprehensive protection on the side and rear makes it a target that is more difficult to destroy than the German Tiger and Tiger King tanks. Because I had learned that the Soviet heavy tank regiment arrived at the northern shore of Lake Constant, Lynn was not surprised by the appearance of these Soviet heavy tanks. But even in the command post several thousand meters away, he could feel the psychological shock of the officers and soldiers in the front witnessing the appearance of the I-3. It is difficult for ordinary artillery and anti-tank rockets to penetrate these big guys' 110mm thick front inclined armor. If they only destroy the tracks, they are still a daunting fixed firepower point in the combat area less than a thousand meters!

With the direct support of three Is-3 and two T-3485s, the landing soldiers of the Soviet army, who had been suppressed, were able to advance in the inland direction. At this critical moment when the situation on the battlefield was turning sharply, the imperial mountain chariot that played a hero for the defense was not the imperial mountain chariot that showed its skills in the previous stage of the battle. In fact, the 75mm cannon of the Leopard tank could only penetrate the main armor of the Is-3 at a very short distance, and these two are quite representative

Sex tanks have never had a chance to confront the battlefield. With a strange howling sound, an object that was white all over, dragging bright tail flames and rolling dust smoke appeared behind the defending positions. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary anti-tank rocket, but witnesses quickly realized that it was larger than any known anti-tank rocket, even surpassing the Soviet large-caliber rocket. At the beginning, its speed was not very high.

Fast, the trajectory is not straight, and there is a significant shaking in the middle, but in a blink of an eye, its speed doubled and it is running towards a heavy Soviet tank accurately. Before the Soviet tank crew and the surrounding infantry could make any effective response, it hit the front of the tank directly, and the bursting fireball instantly swallowed the first half of the tank. The deafening explosion sound was stronger than any previous firearm launch.

The shells. Before people's thinking turned, two exactly the same "super-large rockets" appeared with the same sound and trails. They were like eyes flying from more than two thousand meters away and could accurately hit the marching Soviet tanks. When the flames and smoke dissipated one by one, the three IIS-3s had the same ending - the wreckage left in the place was like a chariot with internal ammunition exploded, with distorted limbs and unrecognizable.

Less than five minutes into the battlefield, the battlefield was destroyed by the mysterious enemy weapons. The morale of the Soviet landing troops was immediately hit, and the machine gun fire of the defensive side also exploded. Anti-tank players ambushed on the frontier positions took advantage of the situation to use individual anti-tank rockets to concentrate on attacking the remaining two T-34s. Their defense is actually not much worse than the I-3, but the situation of the battle is irreversible. One of them was quickly destroyed. More "Bazuka" rockets roared, and eventually turned it into a pile of scrap iron. The other one was unable to support it. They slowly retreated to the lake to cover the subsequent landing troops. Two eye-catching red blood marks were left under the track...

The transformation of ground-air guided rockets into anti-tank weapons is not Lynn's patent. Long before the Imperial team fully occupied Tromso, the Imperial Base Camp formulated a corresponding weapon development plan based on the strategic plan. The guided weapons were obviously in line with the current situation and ideas of the Imperial senior management with few enemies and weak enemies with strong enemies. After receiving secret help from the Allied forces, the Empire also dismantled and transported five sets of ground-air and air and anti-tank launchers while transporting combatants to the European continent, and equipped them with 30 ground-air guided rockets and 60 anti-tank guided rockets. These limited advanced weapons alone are obviously not enough to withstand the Soviet army's frontal attack, but combined with exquisite combat strategies, they can still play a role in a tremendous way at critical moments.

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