THE SIBERIAN WAR-OPERATION: ARCTIC STORM
By Red Star
NOTE: I do not own any real or anime characters in this story.
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KHABAROVSK PROVINCE, EASTERN SIBERIA, ARCTIC STORM-1
Children stared in wonder at the fantastic sight before them. Trucks carrying rocket launchers had sped through their tiny village all yesterday, and now tanks were rumbling through the streets. They looked on in admiration as soldiers emerged from their tanks to get a drink of water. The tall tankers smiled at them and told them some little things about their tanks, their weight, speed, that sort of thing.
By 11:30, the troops were back in their steel monsters and moved on. The children then saw men coming in with strange machines that resembled the tanks from before but had huge flat things on top. They stopped outside of town and, to the children's amazement, the flat thing rose up and turned in a direction. More tank like machines followed, these ones had turrets with strange looking thinner guns on either side of them. They also had wires that they connected with the first vehicle. The children of the village watched this in both amazement and amusement. What could be going on?
UDA RIVER VALLEY, EASTERN SIBERIA, ARCTIC STORM+0
The Japanese Colonel woke up to the call of Nature.
He made his way out of his tent and over to the latrine and slammed the door. He clicked on a flashlight he had brought and felt around for the loose panel that his soldiers thought he didn't know about. Success brought him a pile of dirty magazines that one of his troops had bought in Tokyo before shipping out to Siberia. The Colonel placed his flashlight carefully so, opened the magazine, and sat down to do his business.
That was when he felt the Earth tremble.
5,000 guns roared to life at once. Shells soared into the sky to land into Japanese lines eight miles away. Overhead, Tupolev-22M supersonic bombers soared further into the Japanese lines, letting loose a volley of cluster and anti-tank bombs into Japanese supply and command camps. The result was chaos. The sleeping Japanese troops arose from their beds earlier than they had for the past three weeks. Things had been going that well.
From the hills surrounding the valley sprung the 42nd Guards Tank Division of the 2nd Shock Army. Japanese tankers rushed to what tanks remained after the bombardment in that early morning and raced to meet the Russian tanks. The light was beginning to dawn and with the light came the Russian helicopters. Mil-28s hovered over the Japanese tanks and shot at least 23 of them out of commission with anti-tank missiles. Japanese Phantom-II fighters were sent from their base outside of Shevli but were intercepted by MiG-33 fighters. An air battle ensued in which a certain elder brother took part…
Mil-24s and Ka-50s appeared, along with massive swarms of Russian infantry. The helicopters flew ahead to find machine-gun nests. These deadly machines then either fired their own machine guns into the nests or fired some rockets from the pods that hung beneath their wings. The Russian foot troopers arrived to mop up the enemy infantry while the helicopters went back to reload. Meanwhile, Su-25's flew into battle. Being mainly ground attack planes, they went down to a low level to strafe Japanese camps and armored vehicles rushing to try and help their comrades, tank drivers stopped, causing the tankers behind them to crash into each other. Road Rage flared up, and it was spiced with the tension of the battle. The Japanese's fighting was stripping away time for them to react, and that would cause their defeat.
Tory cursed as he saw the MiG coming toward him. He turned the throttle of his F-4 Phantom to avoid the plane. He had been lucky so far; 5 kills were printed on the side of his plane. But that would end today as another jet with the red star emblazoned on it's wings fired a R-73E missile that smashed into his left wing. His weapons systems operator was insanely calm as he said, "That's it, we're going down."
The plane went into a nosedive as Tory and his WSO ejected.
The Russians achieved air superiority that day, the Japanese had lost 215 fighters assigned to that front. Now there were only 25 fighters left to attack the advancing 2nd Shock Army.
Two Tu-22Ms appeared in the skies over Mil'kan, Japan's 4th Army headquarters. One sent cluster bombs crashing into an airstrip while the other let loose a tornado of leaflets. General Sihimo picked up one of these papers.
THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS ADVANCING! SURRENDER NOW! THERE IS NO HOPE!
He crumpled it up and went back to his command post.
SAKHA AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE, SIBERIA
That night, General Hishika cursed as he regarded his maps. The 4th Army was being destroyed by Russian forces. A two pronged force closed around the unfortunate Army, what remained of the 4th's tank forces collapsed before the advance of an entire Tank Corps made up of T-80 and T-90 tanks. Helicopters were turning gun nests into pools of blood with automatic weapons sticking out. What really angered him was that now he would have to stop his drive so that he could protect his southern flank, or the Russians would be able to attack the 5th Army like someone sticking a knife into a crocodile's belly.
"Transfer the 18th Tank Division to the south so we can help Sihimo. The Russians won't have time to prepare an attack in Sakha. We can be back to our offensive within three days."
To the north, the 38th and 39th Tank Divisions had joined the 4th Independent Rifle Corps and 32nd Tank Division in a single entity called the 2nd Combined Arms Army. Coming alongside was the 4th Independent Tank Corps. The commander of these two forces was Colonel General Igor Sivoyev.
Sivoyev sat in his Mobile Command Post. His eyes were on the radiophone before him. He was dressed in camouflage, and clutched his cap in his left hand.
The phone rang and he picked it up.
"The Arctic Storm is rising."
He set down the phone. General Sivoyev planted his cap on his head and stepped out of his command post.
"It's time! Fire the guns!" he ordered his artillery officer.
Hishika had settled into bed at 11:35. He was awakened at 5:12 by the Earth's rumbling.
His Aide-de-Camp rushed in to his tent. "Russians, sir!" he shouted, "they're coming in from the north!"
ARCTIC STORM+1
Things went from bad to worse. Another Russian Tank Division appeared in the Uda Valley, giving the 2nd Shock Army enough power to crush what remained of the 4th Army.
Out of 250,000 troops, the 4th Army surrendered with 53,000 men, and that included the commanding General. The Russian Shock troops turned their attention northward, as the newly proclaimed North Siberian Front smashed into the 5th Army from the North. The 3rd Tank Army also arrived at the 5th Army's spear-point into Sakha. They overwhelmed the single Armored Division left at the front and rolled into the Japanese infantry like a steamroller over peanut shells. The 2nd Shock Army slashed into the coastline Japanese troops. The Russians were encircling the 5th Army, getting ready to strangle it through a combination of starvation, air strikes, artillery fire, and continued armored advances.
AMUR PROVINCE, SIBERIA
Nohitomo was silent as he read the report that was received from Japanese Central Command. The Russian's tank forces were once again legendary, their glory had begun in World War II against the Nazi Panzers in the fields of Ukraine, Byelorussia and Russia and now the tanks were carrying the Russians to a victory again. However, the Russians had adopted Blitzkrieg tactics: combining air power with tanks to roll over the enemy before they had a chance to organize defenses. At least 500 T-80 and T-90 tanks had swarmed into the Uda Valley. The 5th Army was now being attacked by these same forces and a new force called the North Siberian Front had stabbed deep into the army, their intentions were probably to slice the 5th in half.
Darien sat quietly at his desk. He was writing a letter to his Serena. Ever since the Russian offensive started, letters had flooded the Army's post office.
These letters were to these men's own girlfriends; in some cases their wives.
Darien couldn't help but smile at the irony of what might be. His secret identity, Tuxedo Mask, had nimbly avoided death many times. Would this brave hero, who had faced some of the most wretched creatures ever imaginable, die before a simple Russian Rifleman?
He shoved aside that thought. "I made a promise," he whispered to himself, "to Serena."
He would get through this. He had to!
For Serena.
CNN: BREAKING NEWS
"Good evening. Last night the Russian Army launched a massive attack on Japanese forces with what U.S. Intelligence says to be four Field Armies and a Mechanized Corps.
This morning the Russian Government asked once again for Tokyo to withdraw all forces from Siberia. However, the Japanese Government says it will keep on fighting."
"Losses are reported to be high. Some analysts say perhaps 230,000 Japanese troops have died in this attack. On another note, this morning the U.S.S John Adams, a Continental Navy Destroyer on patrol near the International Date Line, witnessed the sudden sinking of a Japanese Navy cruiser. The John Adams saw no aircraft and detected no submarines in the area."