I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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This battle is completely hand-to-hand combat between infantry and tanks.

"Kill!" Lu Xinrong, who took the lead, ran wildly while erecting the iron fist on his shoulders with trembling hands, first pulled out the safety pin, then raised the sight, pushed in the hammer, and finally aimed at a ball in front of him. Behind the black smoke, a Soviet T-34 suddenly pressed the launch button, and a burst of heat burst out instantly. The tail and front of the iron fist sprayed out a flame. The tail flame was the black powder when the warhead was fired. The flame when the propellant burns violently, the front flame is the bullet fire of the warhead whizzing away.

Lu Xinrong opened his eyes eagerly and saw the warhead passing by the Soviet T-34. He probably was too excited just now and didn't aim properly, so the success fell short.

"Damn it!" Lu Xinrong couldn't help cursing, "Why didn't you hit it?" Nevertheless, the brigade commander's example inspired the officers and soldiers to fight one after another, and the iron fist began to show its power on the battlefield.

Although the German army had begun to use the iron fist, an unprecedented individual anti-tank weapon, on the Eastern European battlefield, most of the Soviet army had never heard of it and had never seen it.

The tank soldiers of the Soviet army were in disbelief when they saw groups of infantrymen of the Nanjing army calmly and calmly aiming at themselves with a weapon that looked like a bat, and the thing shot out a cloud of meteors. The raging fire rushed toward us like lightning.

The painful screams of steel beasts began to sound from the mechanical roar of the Soviet tanks. The Soviet tank soldiers did not understand this new anti-tank weapon of the Nanjing Army at all, and had no experience and measures to deal with it. The Iron Fist warhead is as unstoppable as a torpedo launched by a torpedo boat to a battleship. Thunderbolt fireballs exploded on the steel shell of the Soviet tank. The weakly armored BT tank was directly blown through the shell after being shot. , the tank soldiers were blown to death in the scrap iron tanks, the thicker armored T-34 tanks were blown through by iron fists, the holes sprayed flames, thick smoke billowed in the tanks, and the tank soldiers screamed and crawled out, the armor is the thickest Although the KV-1 will not be blown through the armor by the iron fist, the warhead also ignites a fireball on the tank shell, which quickly scorches the air in the tank cabin to the point where it is unbearable like boiling water, and the tank soldiers inside have to crawl Come out and escape.

Stuchenko looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief: the battle that was supposed to be a one-sided massacre by the Soviet tank group against the Nanjing infantry group was suddenly reversed, and the Nanjing infantry continued to hunt like primitive people hunting wild animals Rockets were fired at the Soviet tanks, and the Soviet tanks hit by the rockets howled and struggled like wounded beasts. The tanks with copper heads and iron arms were constantly turning into flesh and blood in front of the flesh and blood of the infantry of the Nanjing Army. Burning scrap iron.

Stuchenko couldn't believe that the infantry of the Nanjing Army destroyed the tank just by relying on the inconspicuous "gadgets" in their hands.

In the fighting area, there was raging fire and thick smoke, the roar of tank engines, the rolling of tank tracks, the bombardment of tank guns and the sound of machine gun fire, the explosion of shells, and the screams of Chinese and Russian mixed... Converging into a huge sound wave, the longer the battle lasts, the more favorable the situation is for the Nanjing Army, because there are more and more Soviet tank wrecks on the battlefield, and the black smoke is getting denser, providing more and more cover for the Nanjing Army and attack opportunities, but in order to destroy the Soviet tanks, the Nanjing Army also paid an extremely heavy price. The effective range of the Iron Fist is only 30 meters. At this distance, the Nanjing Army infantry using the Iron Fist to bombard the Soviet tanks is very dangerous. As we all know, a large number of infantrymen of the Nanjing Army fell into the firepower net of Soviet tank machine guns after firing the Iron Fist warheads. Blood, water and oil stains flowed across the battle area, and the wreckage of tanks and human corpses lay horizontally together, killing red eyes The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army roared and howled. After hitting the only warhead with Iron Fist, they continued to attack the Soviet tanks with grenades, explosives, and Molotov cocktails.

Compared with the power of the iron fist, what the Soviet tank soldiers couldn't figure out was the fearless courage of these Chinese soldiers. They still won’t back down, but go forward bravely. Some soldiers of the Nanjing Army climbed onto the Soviet tanks and stuffed grenades into the cabin of the tanks. Some soldiers of the Nanjing Army who were injured and fell to the ground climbed under the Soviet tanks with explosives and detonated them. open.

The fierce battle lasted for almost an hour, and more than 300 of the 250 Soviet tanks were destroyed by the Nanjing Army. The 42nd Tank Division suffered unprecedented heavy losses. The Nanjing Army also paid the price of more than 500 casualties. The blood and lives of the soldiers were exchanged for the result of destroying a Soviet tank.

If the Soviet military first knew about the new weapon of Iron Fist, the casualties of the Nanjing Army would definitely increase greatly.

After defeating the Soviet tank unit with flesh and blood, the [-]th Brigade rushed into the city of Baku.

Chapter 512 Surprise attack across the lake (5)

Attacking Baku was only the first phase of the [-]th Brigade's battle. The next phases were the occupation of Baku and the third phase of defense. The attack on Baku was successfully completed by the [-]th Brigade. But immediately, the difficulty of the battle increased greatly, because the occupation of Baku immediately plunged the [-]th Brigade into a bitter battle. Not only that, even if the [-]th Brigade occupied Baku, the more difficult defense of Baku was still behind.

The mission of the [-]th Brigade in this battle is: if Baku can be occupied or partially occupied, it will be done with all its strength; if Baku cannot be occupied or partially occupied, it will be destroyed or even destroyed with the greatest force.

For this large oil field with an annual output of 2000 million tons, if China cannot get it, it must be destroyed. Since it cannot serve China, it must also not serve the Soviet Union.

After defeating the Soviet tank unit on the beach by the lake, the officers and soldiers of the [-]th Brigade rushed towards the city of Baku, stepping on the bloody corpses and tank fragments everywhere.

Baku is a typical oil city. This city rose rapidly because of oil. The operation, construction and development of the city fully depend on oil.

The city is located on the Apsheron Peninsula on the west coast of the Caspian Sea, covering an area of ​​about 2200 square kilometers (twice the area of ​​Hong Kong). In fact, the urban area is not large, and most of the area is oil fields.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who rushed to Baku saw that the urban area was not a complete one, but fragmented, like dozens of villages and towns scattered in a dotted pattern, connected to each other by a dense railway road, "scattered Between the urban areas, there are iron frames like forests and chimneys like hemp. On the peninsula field by the Caspian Lake, there are rows, clumps, and patches of tall oil wells standing everywhere. There are hundreds of them, dense and orderly. Preface, the scene is spectacular and shocking. Hundreds of drilling machines and pumping units are working in an orderly manner. The roar of the machinery is like continuous thunder. Various factories related to the oil industry are blooming near the oil wells. The smoke is billowing and covering the sky. Block out the sun.

The Soviet oil workers at work stared blankly at the Chinese soldiers who came to kill them.

The Chinese soldiers who came over were all speechless, it was the first time they saw such a huge and spectacular oil field.

"Kill! Occupy this place!" Lu Xinrong shouted hoarsely. He was ecstatic. He knew that if his country could own this treasure land, the value and significance would be infinite.

Officers and soldiers poured into the Baku oil field overwhelmingly. However, occupying this oil field is not an easy task, because the oil field is spread over a large area, and one oil well is separated from another by hundreds of meters or even several kilometers. At that time, there were only more than 7000 combatable soldiers, and the occupation of thousands of square kilometers of oil fields must be insufficient.

Zhang Peng, chief of staff of the brigade, said to Lu Xinrong: "If we want to occupy this place, we must effectively control it, but this place is too big. In my opinion, we cannot occupy it alone before the follow-up troops arrive. It is better to destroy it with all our strength. How much is blown up!"

Lu Xinrong was reluctant: "No! Our country needs this place so much, it would be a pity to blow it up! Try to control it!"

When the Nanjing Army poured into the Baku oil field, the Soviet Army also came to protect the oil field. Although most of the tanks of the 42nd Division of the Soviet Army stationed here were destroyed by the Nanjing Army, there were still more than [-] infantry. There is also a militia division of the Soviet Army nearby, so its strength is more than two and a half times that of the Nanjing Army. Under the command of the division commander Stuchenko, the Soviet Army tried to expel the Nanjing Army from the oil field area, and the two sides immediately launched a thrilling battle in the oil field .

Since the battle area is an oil field, the battlefield is completely a group of volcanoes that may erupt at any time.

The Baku oil field is well-deserved. Oil is everywhere. There are oil pipelines, oil tanks, and oil barrels everywhere in the oil field. After the fierce battle broke out, the officers and soldiers of the two armies screamed and roared. It was whistling and dancing, and in an instant, earth-shattering fireballs exploded in the combat area.

Amidst roars in Chinese and howls in Russian, the officers and soldiers of the two armies fought desperately, and then fell into the fiery hell together. After the bullets rained down, blood spattered three feet, oil sprayed, and the oil pipe pierced by the bullets , oil tanks, and oil barrels flowed like jets of oil, and black oil or refined gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and asphalt sprayed all over the sky like a broken water pipe, and oil rain fell on the heads of the officers and soldiers in the battle. , The soldiers on both sides were drenched and black all over, and the leaked and sprayed oil or refined oil was quickly ignited by the fire of bullets and the flames from the explosion of shells. In an instant, the fire soared into the sky, and balls of fire rolled wildly and swept across. Roaring, black smoke billowing.

The entire oil field was quickly shrouded in flames, flames, and thick smoke. The sky was turned upside down, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and countless fire snakes and fire dragons danced wildly together.

The Nanjing Army and the Soviet Army who fought in the flames and black smoke suffered heavy casualties together. The casualties caused by the fire to both sides far exceeded the bullets and shells of the other side.

Shocking scenes are everywhere: the Soviet army fiercely attacked the Nanjing Army that had already controlled an oil well. After the bullets and shells flew away, sparks splashed on the steel machinery of the oil well, and the explosive shells immediately ignited and were being thrown from the mouth of the oil well. Extracting the oil being exploited, the oil well turned into an erupting volcano in the dazzling flames, the oil sprayed out and the pillar of fire soared into the sky, and the oil sprayed out of the oil well turned into a fire dragon that stood upright and went straight up to the sky, and a large amount of oil flowed from the sky. The fall caused a greasy rain of fire around the oil well, and countless small fireballs filled the air. The Nanjing army near the oil well was on fire amidst the screams, and the Soviet army attacking the oil well was also thrown down. The fire and rain burned ghosts and wolves howling; the Nanjing army that had penetrated into the oil field was struggling to attack the Soviet army that came to block it, and oil depots were detonated by mortar shells, grenadier shells, and iron fist warheads roaring away, and the explosion was huge. The noise almost shook the entire city and almost deafened the soldiers on both sides in the warring area. The oil depot turned into a terrifying fireball in the big explosion like a pile of explosives detonated. Burning, expanding, and boiling like a tsunami, the flames roared in all directions in the explosion shock wave. Wherever they went, they were all engulfed by the sea of ​​volcanic flames. A large number of Soviet troops had no time to run, and a small number of them were bloodied in the explosion. Then they were burned into barbecue charcoal, and more Soviet soldiers were engulfed by the roaring sea of ​​flames, and burned into human-shaped candles that were crazily rolling and struggling.

The battles in the Hell of Fire can be described as changing colors of mountains and rivers. Oil wells, oil racks, oil depots, oil pipelines, oil tanks, oil barrels... were disintegrated one after another in the big explosion. The fire dragon moved around along the oil river and oil stream, burning crazily. The high temperature even formed a flame hurricane, and tornadoes composed of raging fire danced wildly in the oil field.

Soldiers on both sides of the war suffered tremendous pain. A large number of soldiers were burned to death and injured. Some soldiers were covered in flames, screaming heart-piercingly, and running desperately. Compared with the fire, the smoke is even more lethal. The raging fire illuminates the oil field and the sky is red, and the black smoke envelopes the combat area like a sandstorm. It was scalding like boiling water, and the fire depleted the oxygen, forming hypoxic and anoxic zones. Soldiers from both sides in the fierce battle suffocated and collapsed in pain, and were then burned into coke by the burning fire. Some soldiers were covered by thick smoke while fighting fiercely. He coughed violently, stumbled, staggered, and fell dizzy.

The Baku oil field turned into a battlefield has become a crematorium and crematorium for soldiers from both sides. Burning corpses are everywhere. Rows of oil tanks exploded violently. The tall derrick was melted in the flames and then collapsed. .

The Baku oil field was trembling like hell. Soldiers from both sides danced wildly in the fire. The number of soldiers killed and injured by the fire was several times that of the bullets. Light.

Xu Zhenyu, the deputy chief of staff of the [-]th Brigade, watched the officers and soldiers fighting hard in the sea of ​​fire, and suggested to Lu Xinrong: "Let's evacuate the fighting area! The brothers have suffered too many casualties!"

Lu Xinrong was also heartbroken, but he said firmly: "Keep fighting!"

Xu Zhenyu couldn't bear it: "Why? Brothers are being burned to death!"

Lu Xinrong gritted his teeth: "The Soviets are even more unbearable than us!"

The facts were just as Lu Xinrong judged. After the fiery battle lasted for more than an hour, Stuchenko couldn't bear it anymore and had to give up the fight. Some officers were puzzled and asked him why.

Stuchenko was heartbroken: "Continue to fight, we lose more than we gain! Wherever the fighting takes place, it will be destroyed! When we wipe out these Chinese, the Baku oil field will also be turned into ruins! We cannot lose this oil field The Baku oil field cannot be destroyed! Order the troops to give up competing with the Chinese for the areas already controlled by them, retreat in an all-round way, and protect the areas not yet occupied by the Chinese!"

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who rushed into the Baku oil field were undoubtedly fighting in hell, and paid a huge price. However, the Soviet army was cautious and did not dare to fight the Nanjing army to the end. The army was forced to give up continuing to fight, and eagerly reduced its forces to protect the oil fields that had not been attacked by the Nanjing army.

Lu Xinrong quickly realized Stuchenko's intentions. Due to the heavy casualties of his troops, he did not dare to take advantage of the victory to pursue the victory easily, so he consolidated the occupied oil fields.

After counting the casualties, Lu Xinrong pierced his heart with ten thousand arrows. When the troops were fighting for the oil field, more than [-] officers and soldiers were killed or injured, two-thirds of which were burned to death. The [-]th Brigade had just crossed the Caspian Sea. More than half the casualties.

The Chinese and Russian shouts, gunfire, and explosions in the battle area began to fade away, and finally there were explosions, which were the frenzied fires constantly detonating oil tanks and barrels.

The Baku oil field presents a nightmarish scene. In the words of Gu Xunzhi, "tens of thousands of tons or even more than [-] tons of oil are burning. What kind of scene is that? It's like hell! The earth is red, the ground is full of fire, and the sky The sky is black, the sky is full of thick smoke, and the smoke is reflected by the fire on the ground to give off a sparkling red light. If this is not hell, then what is hell?"

The officers and soldiers of the [-]th Brigade, who had won the truce, tried their best to put out the fire while rescuing the wounded and collecting the remains of the fallen brothers.

At this moment, several Soviet officers came to the area controlled by the [-]th Brigade. On behalf of Stuchenko, they came to make a "good faith request". The Soviet army hoped to help the Nanjing Army put out the fire in the area controlled by the Nanjing Army.

Of course, the Soviet army did not have good intentions, but if the fire in the area controlled by the Nanjing army got out of control, sooner or later it would burn to the Soviet army, and even burn down the entire Baku oil field.

The Soviet army wished that the Nanjing Army would be burned to death, but they were absolutely reluctant to let the Baku Oil Field be buried with the Nanjing Army.

Lu Xinrong agreed to Stuchenko's "kind help".

Soon, tens of thousands of Baku local Soviet civilians came to the area controlled by the Nanjing Army to help the Nanjing Army put out the fire in the oil field.

After being busy until midnight, the fire was extinguished. After fierce fighting during the day, about one-sixth of the Baku oil field was destroyed by the fire (it can be repaired and resumed production, but it will take time), and one-sixth is under the control of the Nanjing Army , and the rest are under Soviet control.

Chapter 513 Surprise attack across the lake (6)

The Nanjing army's cross-lake attack on Baku immediately produced a major chain reaction like a stone stirring up a thousand layers of waves.

The German army desperately attacked Stalingrad, and the Soviet army desperately defended Stalingrad, for the sake of the industrial area, resource area, and grain production area behind the barrier of Stalingrad.

Stalingrad is an important port on the Volga River, the main inland shipping line of the Soviet Union, and a railway transportation hub in the southern part of the Eastern European region of the Soviet Union. There are many factories outside. The local Stalingrad Tractor Factory alone has established Stalingrad’s industrial status in the Soviet Union. , produces a large number of tanks; to the west and south of Stalingrad is the fertile and vast lower reaches of the Don River, the Kuban River, and the Caucasus region, which are rich in grain, oil, and coal. They are called "the granary of southern Russia"" Soviet oil depot".

North Asia and Central Asia of the Soviet Union did not produce much grain. The major grain-producing areas were Ukraine and the western and southern regions of Stalingrad. Ukraine is currently occupied by the German army. The remaining grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union are the western and southern regions of Stalingrad. Yes, and the Baku Oilfield produces more than [-]% of the Soviet Union's oil. It can be said that the rear of the Soviet Union is here.

Breaking through Stalingrad, and then occupying the western and southern areas of Stalingrad, the Soviet Union will lose most of the food, oil, and industrial base needed for the war, and Germany and the entire Allied Powers are in desperate need of these war resources.

When ordering the German Army Group South to attack Stalingrad, Hitler said to Marshal Rundstedt, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Fleet: "I can temporarily tolerate being unable to capture Moscow and Leningrad, but Stalingrad must be in the first place." Take it before the end of the battle phase, otherwise, we may be forced to make peace with the Soviet Union to end this war.

Stalingrad must be captured!This is the city that Stalin named after himself, so it has a strong symbolic meaning, if the German army occupies Stalingrad, I can completely defeat Stalin mentally!"

Hitler issued a death order to capture Stalingrad, and Stalin also issued a death order to defend Stalingrad. The two were like two gamblers, betting desperately on the big battlefield and casino of Stalingrad.

Because of this, the German and Soviet troops killed a mountain of blood and blood in Stalingrad, with huge casualties, and the city itself suffered unprecedented damage.

But at this moment, the Nanjing Army dispatched surprise troops across the Caspian Sea, stabbing precisely at Baku, which was protected by Stalingrad and located in the rear of the Soviet Union. Shocked together.

It was Vasilevsky who reported the bad news to Stalin.

Vasilevsky, who was informed of the information that "the Chinese army raided Baku and occupied a small part of Baku", recovered from the extreme shock and then fell into extreme pain and extreme panic. He was at a loss, because he really didn't know how to speak to Stalin. He had expected that Stalin would burst into unprecedented anger, but the facts were different from what he expected.

When Vasilevsky looked extremely painful, sweating profusely, with a trembling voice, and faltered to report the Baku battle report to Stalin, he saw the supreme leader's eyes widened, and unprecedented shock and anger surged to the highest level. The leader's face, however, quickly disappeared and was replaced by a greyish stiffness.

Stalin sat motionless as if struck by lightning, his face turned blue, but Vasilevsky keenly noticed that Stalin's right hand holding the pipe was shaking like a stroke in his head.

Huge worry and unbearable overwhelmed Vasilevsky's nervousness, and he suddenly discovered that the supreme leader had a full head of hair and gray temples at some point, as if he was old.

This made Vasilevsky unbelievable that Stalin was 62 years old this year. Although he was no longer young, he had always been healthy, energetic and ruddy, but now he looked old.

Obviously, even for the "Iron Giant", Stalin was almost mentally broken at this time.

"Comrade Stalin..." Vasilevsky was heartbroken and extremely sad, "Please take care of your health. The Soviet people and the Soviet Red Army still need your leadership. We need you to lead us to defeat the aggressors..."

Stalin's expression was a rare desolation, he moved his lips, and his voice was dry and hoarse: "Comrade Vasilevsky, we cannot lose Baku, even if we lose Moscow, we cannot lose Baku, you know, we will never lose Baku." Baku cannot be lost, whether it is occupied by the Chinese or destroyed by the Chinese, otherwise, we will really lose..."

Vasilevsky's eyes were moist: "I request to go to the Transcaucasus Military District immediately to command the battle to recover Baku!"

Stalin nodded gently: "Go, I believe you can turn the tide..."

Vasilevsky felt sad in his heart: "I will definitely complete the task!" He saluted Stalin with a respectful military salute, and then hurriedly turned away. He knew in his heart that Stalin's pressure had reached an unprecedented level, and Baku fell into The danger no longer made Stalin feel shocked and angry, but made him feel cold despair.

While trotting, Vasilevsky couldn't help feeling sad: "Is the Soviet Union really unable to survive?"

Ten minutes later, when Beria rushed to see Stalin, he was horrified to find that the desk was in a mess, almost everything that could be thrown was thrown on the ground, and Stalin stood In the mess, panting heavily, his eyes were red, and he looked ferocious as if he wanted to eat people.

Obviously, Stalin completely lost control of his emotions just now. Beria stood silently, not daring to speak. He knew that as a leader, Stalin would never lose his composure. On the one hand, a leader who is weak, showing fatigue and powerlessness loses his sense of mystery and majesty as a leader, and on the other hand, he also makes his subordinates unable to trust and rely on them (Hitler burst out the "Fuhrer's Wrath" when the moment of defeat was approaching) During the Sino-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek used to yell in the bathroom to vent his despair, powerlessness, and fear because of the deteriorating situation, and Stalin was no exception).

The only reason is that Stalin really couldn't stand it anymore.

In the next 5 minutes, Stalin "like a shrew kept yelling at Jiang Weiguo hysterically", Beria said to his confidant behind his back, "He asked me to kill Jiang Weiguo immediately, no matter if it was a secret assassination or a public assassination, as long as I could Just send Jiang Weiguo to hell.

I had to say yes, but I knew it was impossible.

I planned more than a dozen assassinations and assassinations of Jiang Weiguo, but all of them failed. How could Jiang Weiguo be killed so easily.

It is very important to note that he has been scolding Jiang Weiguo all the time, and he has not mentioned Hitler in a single word, so it can be seen that his hatred for Jiang Weiguo has surpassed that for Hitler."

As Beria described, Stalin hated Jiang Weiguo more than he hated Hitler, because Jiang Weiguo was "more hateful and more hated than Hitler." In this Soviet war, although Hitler's Germany was the Soviet Union's number one enemy, But China’s harm to the Soviet Union is not even inferior to that of Germany. Hitler forced Stalin almost to nowhere, while Jiang Weiguo stabbed Stalin again and again in the back. One destroyed the front of the Soviet Union, and the other destroyed the Soviet Union. Obviously, although Jiang Weiguo's results were not as good as Hitler's, Stalin hated Jiang Weiguo even more.

If we say that Hitler was a robber and a bad guy, Jiang Weiguo was a thief and a villain. A robber would rob with open fire, and a thief would take advantage of loopholes. As we all know, a villain is more hateful than a villain.

Stalin hated Jiang Weiguo to the core.

After learning the news of the Nanjing Army’s raid on Baku, Hitler was as shocked as Stalin was. However, Stalin’s shock was followed by extreme fear, Hitler’s shock was followed by extreme ecstasy, and the top German army cheered.