The decisive battle against the Third Reich

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After several "chirp" whistles, rockets exploded in front of the bunker.

These rockets are used for anti-tank, with a range of 1 thick steel plate, and the bunkers in front of the airport are only 150MM thick... The Soviets built these fortifications near the airport to a large extent to prevent infantry or provide some protection for the airport. Buffer time.

The reason is very simple. This is an airport, and the combat radius of a fighter plane is at least several hundred kilometers. Generally speaking, there will be no situation where the enemy is in front of you while the plane is still in the airport. Even if there is, it is the enemy's troops that penetrated into the rear, such as paratroopers, or the famous German Brandenburg detachment.

Therefore, these bunkers are only positioned to block attacks by light equipment. Even if the "No. 4" tank drives here, it may be able to knock down these bunkers with a few more shots from its 75MM caliber artillery.

Of course, there was absolutely no need to use the No. 4 tank at this time. A few rockets passed by and a pitiful scream erupted from the bunker... Being penetrated by high-temperature metal jets is not a pleasant thing, at least the wound is roasted. The smell of meat is unbearable.

However, their pain did not last long, because soon several German soldiers rushed forward and threw several smoking grenades into the bunker.

After a few "boom boom" sounds, there was a muffled sound in the bunker, just like the sound of lighting firecrackers in a closed space. You can feel the vibration but the sound is not very loud, but as you can imagine... the sound outside is not very loud. This meant that the Soviet soldiers had to endure even the suppressed voices.

The tanks continued to "rumble" forward. After the German soldiers eliminated another bunker, no Soviet soldiers dared to hide in the bunker and shoot, because they all realized that these bunkers would not only fail to protect them in the face of German rockets, but would It became a tomb for their burial.

This caused the 1st Infantry Regiment to rush into the airport as if it was in no one's land, and then fired a burst of fire at the backs of the Soviet troops who were fleeing in front of them.

Qin Chuan followed the troops into the airport, and the space suddenly opened up. More than a hundred meters away, on the upper right side, was the fighter runway. There were five runways from left to right, which meant that five fighter planes could take off at a time. At this time, the lights on the other side of the airport Someone was vaguely busy in the middle, obviously trying to scramble a fighter plane.

"Block the runway!" Qin Chuan shouted.

The soldiers immediately set up machine guns and mortars in front of the runway, and fired at the other end of the runway regardless of the situation. However, they were 500 meters apart. It was difficult to see whether they hit the target at night. Qinchuan only heard a blast. The "rumbling" engine noise was obviously a fighter plane taking off urgently.

After a closer look, there were indeed two fighter planes speeding along the runway in a hail of bullets. The German soldiers picked up their MP43s and fired at the two fighters, but only one of them was shot until black smoke erupted and it lost its balance and turned over. Falling beside the runway, the other one was getting faster and faster and was about to take off and escape in front of everyone.

Soon after, a 38T tank rotated the turret, and then fired a shell with a "boom". After the loud noise, a bright flame burst out in front of everyone. The entire aircraft disintegrated into pieces and then disappeared piece by piece. It fell from the air... This is probably one of the few cases where tanks masturbate.

Following Slaine's order, the three 38T tanks each drove into a gun lane... The tanks themselves can become obstacles to prevent fighter planes from taking off. Tanks may not be able to defeat fighter planes on the battlefield, but if they are playing a similar game If you hit the game, the tank will definitely not lose to the fighter plane.

"Surround them!" Colonel Slain ordered loudly: "Don't let anyone escape from here!"

The German soldiers responded and quickly launched attacks in all directions to block all exits.

Colonel Slaine's order is of course correct, because Soviet pilots are more valuable than fighter planes... In fact, Soviet fighter planes are not of great use to the German army, especially those with such backward performance Low-speed biplane fighters, if pilots are arranged to fly these fighters into air combat, it can be said to be a waste of German pilots.

But it turns out that they are not scrap metal, because the German army can hand over these fighters to slave countries, such as Latvia, Romania, etc.

But the effect of this is still limited. If it can have any effect, it is that the Soviet army instantly reduced more than two hundred fighters, which greatly affected the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Air Force in the Caucasus... The Soviet 4th Air Force Group There were only more than 900 fighters in total, which caused the Soviet army to lose a quarter of its strength.

The more important role is actually that of the Soviet pilots in Soglione.

As mentioned before, Soglione's strategic location is very important, and fighter planes are damaged very quickly... This results in as many as 500 pilots stationed here, as well as mechanics, airport managers, etc. All are important strategic resources for the Soviet army.

If the aircraft is damaged, it can be built in the factory, but if the pilot who takes several years to train is lost, it cannot be recovered in a short time.

Therefore, the goal of the 1st Infantry Regiment was clear from the beginning. The focus was not on aircraft but on pilots.

It is not difficult to do this because there is a wall built around the airport. The Germans only need to occupy each exit and then guard the wall, and then everyone inside will become a turtle in the jar.

The Soviet pilots originally planned to occupy several buildings and resist... In the words of Colonel Khrizov, as long as they held on for half an hour, reinforcements would soon arrive to relieve them.

This should be correct. There is also the 86th Infantry Brigade of the Soviet 47th Army to the north of Soglione, with a strength of 9,000. They sent reinforcements to the airport as soon as they received the distress telegram from the airport, and they were indeed there. Will be there in half an hour.

but……

After the German soldiers fired a few rockets at the building, the Soviet pilots realized that it was almost impossible to hold on to the building for half an hour...The pilots were not infantry. Many of them even only had pistols in their hands. At the same time, they may be good at flying airplanes. They swooped down and fired wildly at the target, dropping bombs, but they were good at ground combat.

As a result, heavy casualties soon occurred under the German attack.

The German army does not want to capture alive pilots. Living pilots are of no benefit to the German army at all, because they cannot become German pilots. What they want is that these pilots cannot return to the Soviet army and fly into the sky again, so the mortars , machine guns, etc. were fired at them desperately, causing the Soviet pilots to scream in agony.

Finally, after fifteen minutes of stubborn resistance, the pilots chose to surrender, including Colonel Khrizov.