69novels Chapter 991
Chapter 991
After another round of indiscriminate bombing, the not-so-large city of Riga was completely turned into ruins!
From a distance, the blazing flames, the black smoke columns rising into the sky, and the lingering dust of the explosions around the city all gave people the illusion that there were no living things in the city!
From the perspective of the bear soldiers, the previous round of bombing was earth-shattering!
The Soviet artillery cluster, which concentrated thousands of cannons, including more than 150 heavy cannons, did not spare its shells at all after receiving the death order. With the fastest speed and the most violent firepower, it poured more than 100,000 shells into the city of Riga!
Such dense shells turned the city of Riga inside and out. The deafening explosions were unbearable even for several kilometers away, not to mention the enemy soldiers hiding in the city!
Many Soviet soldiers couldn’t help swallowing their saliva when they saw this scene!
If they were the defenders, it would be a mystery whether they could survive such a fierce artillery attack!
Even if they survived by chance, they would probably have no fighting power, right?
“Prepare to attack!”
The Soviet commander seemed to be very satisfied with the effect of this round of shelling. In his opinion, even the tenacious cockroaches would have been reduced to ashes under such fierce artillery fire, let alone people! There are probably only a few of the tens of thousands of Latvian troops hiding in the city left at this time?
At this time, they sent troops into the city. They only needed to get rid of these scattered remaining enemies and they could take over the city!
Although they took over a city that had been bombed into ruins, Riga was the capital of Latvia. It was their spiritual sustenance. Taking it down would deal a serious blow to the morale of the Latvian army and civilians, and might even cause the other side to completely lose. Give up hope, then give up resistance and surrender to the Soviet army!
The Soviet army had encountered this kind of thing once before in Estonia. After they conquered the capital of Estonia, the remaining Estonian troops did not resist for long and soon surrendered to the Soviet army!
If they had not surrendered so quickly and so simply, the Soviet army would not have been able to launch an attack on Latvia in such a short time!
In his opinion, although the defenders in Riga were a little difficult and caused them some trouble, after killing this army, the rest of the things would be much simpler!
However, the situation seemed to be a little different from what he imagined!
The Soviet troops had already changed when they entered. After entering the city which was reduced to ruins, they did not walk far before they were hit hard by the defenders who were ambushing behind the ruins!
The entire city was reduced to ruins. Although it looked tragic, ruins were not necessarily a bad thing for street fighting.
This meant that they had a large number of bunkers to hide in and a large number of attack routes to launch unexpected attacks.
Moreover, by using the city’s sewer system and underground air-raid shelters, when the Soviet artillery fire began to cover the area, the Latvian State organized a group of soldiers and civilians to hide in the air-raid shelters and sewers. This reduced the Soviet artillery fire when it fell on them and failed to exert its maximum power.
And when After the Soviet bombardment ended, the defenders hiding in the sewers immediately came out and returned to their positions, ready to meet the attack of the Soviet infantry. The poor Soviet infantry, before they could figure out what was going on, were caught off guard by the sudden attack and suffered heavy losses!
Street fighting is a very cruel thing, and the casualty rate in street fighting is very high, especially the kind of repeated pulling, you occupy this place, I immediately launch a counterattack to take it back, here often breaks out a long tug-of-war, and such a battle is like a human meat grinder, quickly harvesting the lives of soldiers from various countries on the front line, causing the casualties on both sides to rise rapidly!
“What, the attack was repelled again, and the Third Regiment suffered more than half casualties and requested to come back for rest?”
Hearing the battle report from the front, the Soviet commander’s face turned livid!
He had no more tricks. Such fierce artillery attacks failed to destroy the enemy, nor could they defeat the enemy’s will to resist. This made him feel a little desperate!
If they can’t even defeat the enemy to this extent, and can’t force the enemy to abandon the city and surrender to them, I’m afraid the only choice before them is to invest more troops in it and fight a brutal street battle with the other side!
If it were normal times, even if they knew that doing so would cause a large number of casualties to the troops, the Russians might have gritted their teeth and agreed!
After all, from the sand Since the beginning of the Russian era, the lives of ordinary soldiers have been insignificant in the eyes of the senior generals of the bear army!
During the Tsarist Russia period, the Russian army was called the Tsar’s gray livestock. These low-level soldiers were not regarded as soldiers at all in the army, but as hardworking and diligent.
In order to get what the emperor wants, even if more soldiers’ lives are sacrificed, the commanders don’t care, after all, it’s not them who are dying.
In the Red Bear era, this situation has improved a little.
At that time, once encountered such a situation of receiving a death order from the superior, even if they didn’t want to see the soldiers sacrificed in vain, the bear still had to do it!
“Send the First and Second Divisions to the battlefield. If the other side wants to fight street battles with us, then we will fight with them!”
The commander of the Soviet army gritted his teeth and spoke heavily.
In order to take this key city in the shortest time, so as to report to his superiors and the Kremlin!
He felt that it was acceptable to sacrifice the lives of some low-level soldiers!
Just as the Soviet army launched a 360-degree, no-dead-angle attack on the capital of Latvia, reinforcements from Europe also arrived in Latvia smoothly.
The arrival of this army immediately alarmed the Soviet army that was conquering the city!
The Soviet army did not dare to be careless about this. After all, no one knew how powerful the European coalition forces were!
However, considering the more complete industrialization in Europe and the strong industrial strength of various countries, with such a foundation, their army’s equipment will definitely not be bad. As long as the morale is not bad, the combat effectiveness of this army will be considerable!