Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Chapter 670: The German-Soviet War (24)

I learned from Major Elton, the commander of the B-24 Group, that during last night's airdrop operation, their bomber group was shot down by German ground anti-aircraft fire. Five bombers were shot down and seven or eight were injured. Commander Timoshenko was a little surprised. "Did your army encounter any interception by German night fighters?"

Major Elton shook his head. "No, Mr. Commander, the operation last night was quite smooth. Of course, the German ground anti-aircraft fire cannot be underestimated."

"..." Commander Timoshenko couldn't help but frowned deeply. They had tried sending planes to airdrop supplies at night before, but without exception, they were all intercepted and shot down by German night fighters. Why didn't the Americans? meet? In the first wave, the Germans might not have had time to take off in time because they were asleep (of course this is also impossible. If there was no combat readiness duty during the war, the commander would have been shot), but there was still no movement in the second and third waves. Could it be that the Germans Are all the night fighter pilots on leave?

Just then a staff officer walked in hurriedly. "Comrade Commander, some carrier pigeons brought back secret reports. The place we speculated about being trapped was wrong, and most of the supplies fell to the Germans."

Commander Timoshenko's face looked a little ugly. If he had known earlier, he would have airdropped these carrier pigeons to determine the location. Because they were eager to save people, they directly put the supplies there, but the Germans ended up with so many supplies at a cost?

"Find out the detailed location immediately. Major Elton, please make another trip at night."

Berlin Palace.

When the news came on the radio that a magnitude 3 earthquake had occurred in the Braga area of ​​Portugal, Elizabeth felt her legs go weak and almost fell to the ground. She stared at Yannick for a long time and murmured. . "Are you really an apostle of God?"

Yannick secretly laughed in his heart, what an apostle of God, he was just using his knowledge of later generations to deceive him. "I said yes, but you still don't believe it."

"Then can you perform miracles?"

"Miracles? Are you talking about turning rocks into gold? Spreading beans and turning them into soldiers? Calling for wind and rain? Bringing the dead back to life? I don't know any of those things. God just poured all kinds of knowledge into my mind."

“Why did God do this?”

Yannick shrugged. "Who knows, maybe he thinks it's too stupid for human beings to fight and kill on such a small planet for hundreds of years, and wants to use me to accelerate the development of human beings. Or maybe he just thinks it's fun, or maybe it's just his It was just an unintentional act; his thoughts are beyond the reach of us mere mortals."

Suddenly, Elizabeth's eyes lit up. "Then can we see God when we fly out of the solar system?! Or fly out of the Milky Way?"

"Meet God?" Yannick couldn't help laughing. "How do you say this? Do you know how many cells there are in the human body?"

Elizabeth's eyes widened. "Who can know this?"

"As far as I know, there are about 500-600 trillion. If God is a metaphor for a human being, our universe, I am talking about the universe, not the earth, not the solar system, not the Milky Way, but our entire exploding universe. It’s just a cell in God’s body. How do you want to see Him?”

Elizabeth opened her mouth slightly in shock, and was speechless for a long time.

In the evening, the American B-24 brigade was dispatched again to continue airdropping supplies. This time the Soviet bombers also joined in, and as expected they were not intercepted by German night fighters. More than 100 bombers were busy until early the next morning, dropping more than 1,000 tons of supplies and formulating a breakout plan that combined internal and external forces.

"Tsk, tsk, that's a pretty idea." Kruger sneered disdainfully when he saw the Soviet combat plan sent over. "Send a message to Commander Timoshenko and ask him to send more food."

Flocks of homing pigeons once again flew to Timoshenko's headquarters. The message was that the food they collected was not enough to break out of the encirclement. Please send more food. Only when they are full can they have the strength to successfully break out of the encirclement.

Timoshenko did not doubt this. Although nearly two thousand tons of supplies were airdropped, fuel accounted for more than one-third, ammunition accounted for more than one-third, and the remaining food was only five or six hundred tons. .

Five to six hundred tons of food sounds like a lot, but on average each soldier is allocated less than 1 kilogram. As this secret report said, the troops in the encirclement have been hungry for several days, and this less than one kilogram of food can't even be There is not enough space between the teeth.

Knowing that soldiers cannot fight hungry, Timoshenko ordered that all the food he could find be scavenged and air-dropped into the encirclement again at night.

At seven o'clock the next morning, Timoshenko ordered a full-scale attack. Two US military officers from the headquarters asked with surprise. "Commander Timoshenko, why don't you cover the German defense lines with artillery fire first?" "If you just send people to attack like this, do you think there are too many people and do you want to kill a few batches first?"

Timoshenko sighed softly and explained. "Once our artillery position opens fire, it will immediately attract German bombers." The implication is that it is of no use whether or not the artillery is fired, and those cannons will be in vain.

A tidal wave of Soviet troops launched an attack on the German defense line. All kinds of firepower on the German positions opened fire fiercely. Soviet soldiers were mopped down in pieces, but the latecomers ignored them and continued to charge forward with shouts.

Finally, after paying heavy casualties, they broke through the first line of German defense.

Because of radio interference, the battle situation on the front line could only be relayed back and forth manually. Timoshenko was shocked when he learned that the German first line of defense had been breached. "What?! Have you received the troops in the encirclement?!"

After a while, new messages came back. "No breakout troops were seen, and the attacking troops were rushing forward."

Timoshenko felt a sudden chill on his back, his shirt was instantly soaked with cold sweat, and he yelled. "Stupid! Order the withdrawal immediately!"

Are frontline commanders a bunch of stupid pigs? ! I suffered such a big loss just a few days ago, so I don’t have a long memory? Is it so easy to break through the German defense line? Isn't this another trap? It's the same trap as last time, it's a familiar recipe and a familiar taste.

By the time Timoshenko's order reached the front line, hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops on a front line hundreds of kilometers long had already passed through the German first line of defense.

When the red signal flares of the Soviet army's retreat rose into the sky, the German strongholds that the Soviet army failed to conquer once again showed their power. The German soldiers in the strongholds rushed out under the cover of artillery fire, recaptured the positions occupied by the Soviet army, and moved the positions inside and outside the defense line. The Soviet army was divided.

This sudden change caused the frontline commanders to fall into a brief panic. The order to retreat had been issued, but their troops were trapped behind the German defense lines; should they retreat first or continue the attack to rescue them?

Just as they were hesitating, dense German aircraft flew into the sky and launched carpet bombing, forcing the Soviet troops outside the encirclement to retreat for more than ten kilometers.

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