Chapter 2903: The Whole Army Was Annihilated

Finally, the opera house was taken.

After the two siege teams of "Shilka River" and "Amur River" arrived quickly after the bridgehead was assembled and replaced, they joined forces to attack with all their strength; plus the assault artillery units of the leader division pushed their positions forward to the Berlin railway station yard and deployed them to bombard with all their strength.

Finally, we have to count the great help and close support from the Red Army Air Force fighters and attack aircraft units that broke in from the gap of the ruins of the zoo air defense tower at low altitude.

The air-to-ground joint assault operation that started just after lunch lasted until the evening. The opera house, which was riddled with holes in the roar of artillery fire and the entire building was smoking, was finally completely taken.

At this point, it must be said that destroying the zoo air defense tower was a very successful operation.

The "Unyielding God Tower" that was blown up by the Nazis and embodied the Nazi will was blown up to the sky. It not only severely hit the morale of all the German city defense forces in Berlin, whether they were the Wehrmacht or the SS, but also caused a serious political disaster to the Nazi regime, which was already in a precarious situation and about to fall.

On the military level, the collapse of the zoo air defense tower also meant the complete collapse of the "air defense iron triangle" in the core area of ​​Berlin.

The airtight air defense circle that used to launch heavy bombings from above and high-speed fighters from below said goodbye completely, and the stable triangular defense situation was missing a corner and disappeared. Whether it was the British heavy bombers or the Red Army's smaller tactical aircraft, they could enter the core area of ​​Berlin through this gap to carry out air strikes.

In addition, the world's first synthetic field cluster, the Leader Division, which did not exist in the original history but was extremely powerful in the current timeline, assembled superior mobile forces of multiple arms and multiple types of technical weapons, and launched a full-scale attack on the opera house in a land-air linkage posture.

This stronghold, which caused great casualties to the Red Army in the original history, was extremely difficult to attack, and the time for capturing the Capitol was hasty, so the Red Army took the "placement PLAY" approach. In this timeline, it took only one afternoon to successfully capture it.

The ceiling of the opera house was blown up and a gap was made with small aerial bombs. The Red Army's aviation fighters and ground attack tactical aircraft, which flew up and down and were agile and free, continuously poured rounds of large-caliber aircraft guns and small aerial bombs, and even air-launched rockets into the interior through the gap on the top of the opera house.

The roaring machine gun barrage was poured into the interior of the opera house from top to bottom, hitting the ground at a large angle of incidence and ricocheting and flying everywhere.

Large-caliber aircraft cannon shells that can penetrate tank armor bounced and hit people, basically leaving broken arms and legs and heads everywhere.

That's not all. What's even more terrifying are the aerial bombs and rockets thrown in through the gaps in the ceiling.

After the first round of air raids, it was realized that the tactic of pouring in from the ceiling was very effective, and that explosive weapons could exert extremely strong lethality when imploded inside large buildings.

The flexible Red Army attack aviation unit directly loaded the cluster aerial bombs originally used for anti-tank into the bomb bay of the Il-10 attack aircraft, and the delayed fuse was set to detonate at a fixed bombing height lower than the ceiling of the opera house.

The direct consequence of this was that in the subsequent second round of air raids, the Red Army aviation unit threw bombs into the large hole on the top of the opera house, and the overwhelming rain of death fell directly on the heads of the German troops guarding the opera house in the form of "internal bombing and internal implosion shower".

When the "mother bomb" approached the big hole on the top of the building, it immediately exploded at a height close to the ceiling, instantly projecting a large number of "bullets" that were originally used for anti-tank like a shower.

These aviation armor-piercing ammunition with 5 kg of warhead charge were originally designed for anti-infantry purposes, so not only did they have shaped-charge armor-piercing warheads, but they also used prefabricated fragmentation shells. When they exploded, they could shoot out a large number of fragments in one breath like high-explosive grenades to kill unprotected soft targets.

A wave of such small bombs, ranging from dozens to hundreds or even hundreds, exploded in the opera house.

It was almost predictable what kind of impact it could cause.

A considerable number of SS diehards stationed in the opera house did not die under the guns of the Red Army or fall under the guns of the Red Army, but were torn into warm meat sauce by high-explosive fragments in this overwhelming "death shower".

Hide? It sounds easy, but where to hide?

The Russians' attack was from the top down, "God's perspective". Unless you hide in the small room and give up the hall, don't even think about escaping.

But how many people can be stuffed into the small compartment with limited space? The SS deployed a whole regiment of troops to defend the defense zone of the opera house, and at least one battalion was deployed to defend the main building of the opera house. With this density of troops, it would be useless to hide anywhere.

If you deploy too few troops, you can't defend it. If you deploy too many troops, the Russians will help you reduce the density of troops physically. In this dilemma, you Germans can weigh your choice.

As for escaping, it's even more nonsense. The world outside is "even more terrifying" than inside the opera house.

Those monster-like Russian heavy tanks have already crawled all over the streets around the opera house. Russian soldiers and Russians are everywhere within the field of vision. Even a part of the nearby King's Square has become a battle position for these Russian steel behemoths.

Large-caliber machine guns and main guns aimed at the opera house from all directions and fired continuously. Like rats in a bellows, the SS madmen who were bullied from both ends and bombed from inside and outside, finally begged to die.

They were killed and smashed in their own fighting positions in various ways, which was truly a "death that was worthy of the name".

Until the end, when the two siege teams of the leader divisions who were carrying out the "finishing and collecting corpses" operation rushed into the opera house, which was bombed and smoking everywhere, under the cover of heavy ground fire support after the air raid.

There was a thick layer of meat paste spread out like a carpet under the feet, and the lower half of the body whose upper body had gone was still hanging on the collapsed opera house sculptures; the rows of seats that were originally for people to relax, entertain, and appreciate art were completely blown into wood chips and debris, piled up everywhere, and the wood chips were mixed with meat scraps, just like the mixture that was just minced out when wood and fresh meat were put into a meat grinder.

The remaining SS lunatics were still shouting and howling in resistance, and the fully armed Red Army soldiers responded to these scum with their guns and cannons, sending them to meet their Nazi accomplices who had just been sent and were still warm.

When the sun set in the evening, the one-sided battle of mincing meat ended with the victory of the leader division.

In the end, due to various reasons, various situations and occasions, the total number of SS prisoners captured by the leader division after the battle, including seriously injured soldiers who could not move, was only 78.

This also officially announced that the reinforced regiment of the SS Imperial Division stationed at the opera house was completely wiped out in its own "solid position bunker" in just one afternoon.