"... Some people now say that the Battle of Hures in the Second Middle East was a battle to destroy the hegemony of the United States, as if those of us who once fought hard with the Soviet tanks on the Hures battlefield were all sinners of the United States! In fact, those who hold this view had no way to imagine how brave the beauty and the British on the Hures battlefield were. We braved the powerful firepower of the Soviets to launch wave after wave of offensives. No one was afraid or retreated. Every time the British and American soldiers who came down on the Hures battlefield were the best and heroes.

Some people may say, "But you still defeated, and 1,200 tanks were defeated by 200 tanks!" Such accusation has troubled me for 10 years. Now I have decided not to remain silent. I want to use facts to refute this ignorant view, not for me, a dying person, but for all the British and American soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country on Hurryce's battlefield.

Yes, our 1,200 tanks were defeated by 200 tanks from the Soviets. But those who raised this view ignored a key issue. Our enemies did not use ordinary tanks, but a special tank called the "tank destroyer". This tank, as the name suggests, was used to deal with ordinary tanks. In fact, the US Army at that time also had the same weapon. We had 500 hunter tank destroyers imported from Germany. In addition, we also purchased drawings and production licenses from the Germans, and could manufacture 2,000 such tank destroyers.

.But the Trailer Tank Destroyers also have obvious shortcomings, such as their mobility is very poor, the working environment in the carriage is extremely poor, and tall American soldiers are difficult to move and work in it... It is precisely for these reasons that we did not use this weapon on the Middle East battlefield where road traffic is very bad. Now it seems that this is a serious mistake and is the main reason why we lost the Battle of Hurry, but this mistake has nothing to do with us American front-line soldiers fighting on the Battle of Hurry." - The above is excerpted from Lieutenant General Stilwell's memoir "War of Wrong".

In the book "Wrong War", which later became the bestseller, Lieutenant General Stilwell blamed the failure of Hurrys in the battle to the unbenefit of the tanks of Britain and the United States. This is a very simple way to look at major events related to the direction of world history. However, if we look at the facts, it is indeed a fact.

When the British and American Allied Forces' artillery attack stopped abruptly at 2:30 pm on May 17, Lieutenant General Okinlek, who served as the commander-in-chief of the armored assault cluster, sent an assault signal to all the assault troops: "Crusaders, Crusaders, Crusaders!"! The sound of artillery that had just calmed was soon replaced by the rumbling roar of British and American tank engines.

The commanders of the 39th Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army had predicted in advance that the British and American troops would launch a wave of tank cluster assaults that were super-large-scale tank clusters on the Middle East battlefield. Therefore, as soon as the British and American artillery bombardment ended, they ordered Soviet engineers to risk their lives to lay anti-tank mines in front of the Soviet tank cluster. Since the decisive battle location was temporarily selected, the Soviet army did not build a solid anti-tank position in advance, nor did they dig anti-tank trenches, and could only rely on the temporarily buried anti-tank mines to protect their own tanks. However, the British and American tank clusters did not give them much time. Soon a large area of ​​high dust appeared in front of the Soviet tank cluster positions, which meant that the close contact between the two sides was about to begin.

The British tanks charged very quickly, almost 20 kilometers per hour. Soon, the tank soldiers of the Soviet Red Army could see the opponent and looked nervously at the tanks that kept gushing out from the top of the sand dunes and on both sides in the distance, with almost no end! Many years later, the famous Soviet general of the army, Cui Kov, who was commanding the Battle of Hureis, also mentioned in his memoirs, "Their tanks surged like a tide, as if there were 1,000 vehicles, and so many tanks spread out on the front less than 20 kilometers. It was so dense that even I was shocked."

The British invested 600 tanks, 180 self-propelled artillery and 255 tracked armored vehicles at one time, and arranged a dense wedge array, dragging the battlefield all over the sky, roaring like mercury! The 39th Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army had 181 Su-75s to fight at this time. Cuikov arranged these tanks in a row and pulled out a long snake formation of more than 10,000 meters. On both sides of these Su-75s were cover positions composed of Indian Red Army infantry and anti-tank guns. In addition, two divisions of Indian Red Army infantry were also deployed with Soviet tanks, and their mission was to protect Su.

-75 is not destroyed by the anti-tank grenade launcher of British and American infantry - In fact, the "Iron Fist" anti-tank grenade launcher in the hands of British and American infantry as Cui Kov imagined does not exist. Neither of these countries is equipped with this weapon. The only anti-tank weapon in the hands of American infantry is the anti-tank grenade, which is a 1.6 kilogram anti-tank grenade weighing 1.6 kilograms and uses conical charge. Because it is too heavy, it is not far away. The British infantry are in a slightly better situation. In addition to having anti-tank grenades, they are also equipped with a caliber Bostan anti-tank rifle, but they also have no effect on the battlefield.

At 2:45 pm, 1,000 tanks (181 Soviet troops; 600 British troops) between the two sides began the first round of steel collision in the desert outside Hurrys Town!

The one who rushed in front was the British Matilda 2 tank. Their mission was to "attract the attention of the Soviet Su-75" - this was Lieutenant General Stilwell's original words, but Okinlek could not understand correctly. The order he gave these Matilda 2 tanks was to charge forward! Get close to the Soviet Su-75, and then use 40mm guns to solve the opponent. But the reality in front of the British tank gunners was that their 40mm guns could only penetrate 51mm armor at a distance of 545 meters, while the Soviet Su-75 had 60mm armor. If the 60-degree bevel angle was taken into consideration, the actual protection ability of this armor was equivalent to 90mm! The 40mm gun of the Matilda 2 could not penetrate this thickness of armor at all. So such a charge was actually a death sentence!

Because in the previous fight, we already knew the reality of the British tanks, Cui Kov did not adopt the tank defense tactics of fighting and retreating to maintain an "ideal distance". Instead, he let all the su-75s act as fixed fire points in place. He used the powerful 75mm gun to carry out precise shooting on the British tanks rushing over. The British tanks in the advancing were shot one after another, without any power to fight back, but they still rushed forward one after another. It really seemed like they were committing suicide, which made Lin Zuoda and Patton watching the game feel unbelievable.

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"All su-75 attention, free shooting! Free shooting!"

"The gun group opened fire!"

"Excuse me, get on, get on!"

On this side, British tanks continued to die, while the Soviet Su-75s and various other anti-tank weapons and suppression artillery were also fully fired. The Indian infantry, who cooperated with the Soviet 39th Tank Army, also carried anti-tank grenade launchers, anti-tank grenades and mooring bottles, launched an assault. In an instant, the two armies on the battlefield fought fiercely into a regiment.

"At 1 o'clock, 520 meters away, Matilda Type 2, armor-piercing bombs, fire!" Yermakov, the commander of the su-75 self-propelled cannon number 569, poked half of his body from the open car roof, holding a telescope to look for the target on the chaotic battlefield. Because the su-75's cabin was too stuffy and the viewing angle was not good, the Soviet tank soldiers liked to stick out to find the target. According to the coordinates and distance reported by Yermakov, the muzzle of the 48-caliber 75mm cannon immediately flashed with orange-red flames. While the distance of the car was vibrating, the Matilda Type 2 that was aimed at suddenly turned into a huge fireball and suddenly exploded.

When the 46-caliber 75mm anti-tank gun equipped by the Chinese Defense Forces uses ordinary steel core armor-piercing shells, it can penetrate 116mm homogeneous armored steel at a distance of 1,000 meters. It is easy to imagine how powerful this 48-caliber 75mm tank gun has at a distance of 520 meters! Although the British armored steel plate has good technology, it adopts the most advanced surface hardening process at the time, and has stronger bulletproof capabilities than ordinary steel plates. However, the 78mm frontal armor still cannot withstand the attack of the su-75 at a distance of 520 meters. At the same time, the projectiles of Matilda's 40mm anti-tank gun hit the frontal armor of the su-75 and is no different from tickling it. Therefore, British tanks, which have several times the advantage in quantity, have become the targets of slaughter!

"At 11 o'clock, 660 meters away, Matilda Type 2, armor-piercing projectile, shooting!" Under Yermakov's order, another 75mm armor-piercing projectile was shot out from the muzzle of the su-75.

Another hit, a Matilda Type 2 exploded and turned into a pile of burning scrap iron. There were more and more scrap iron, and in less than half an hour, it filled the entire battlefield.

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"God! The loss is too great! The loss is too great! We were defeated..." Weiville, who was watching the game in the rear, putting down the telescope in his hand, his voice trembling a little.

Stilwell shook his head and said, "No, General, as long as the Crusader tanks surrounded by two wings can succeed, we can still win!"

"General, Your Excellency General!" At this time, a staff officer ran over from behind with an anxious face, holding a telegram he had just received: "General, Navy! Navy's telegram, they are troubled!"

"What's the matter?" Stilwell's face froze, and he quickly took the telegram from the staff officer, took a look, took a breath, and gritted his teeth and said, "The two naval aircraft carriers were severely damaged! Admiral Ernest King has decided to withdraw from the Persian Gulf and prepare for a second landing near Muscat."

"Two, two aircraft carriers are severely damaged? How is that possible?" Weiville almost suspected that something was wrong with his ear.

"The Soviets invested at least 500 aircraft to launch raids on the fleet, and 200 of them were suicide planes!"

"Suicide plane? What is it?"

"It's just to hit our aircraft carrier with the bomb-filled Il-16!"

"Impact? So how can the pilot escape? Is it a parachuting?"

"No, the pilots do not escape. They want to die with our warships!" Stilwell gritted his teeth and said, "General, Lieutenant General Fredendor asked us to cross the Rubhali Desert to Muscat, and our landing forces are ready to occupy there."

"Muscat!" Weiville thought for a while and said, "It's almost 1,200 kilometers, how should we get there?"

"I don't know either." Stilwell smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Let's talk about it first."

"All Crusaders tanks are careful, I am Lieutenant General Okinlek. The outcome of the battle now depends on your performance! Charge with all your strength and attack the enemy's wings! God bless my king, charge!" Okinlek, who was commanding the battle on the front line, was already a little furious. Judging from the location of his armored command vehicle, the entire battlefield was full of Matilda Type 2 tanks that were burning or turning into wreckage! There were at least 300 vehicles! Due to the failure of the tank assault, the infantry and armored vehicles that were attacking with the tanks, the self-propelled artillery had lost their backbone and began to retreat. After only a few dozen minutes of fire exchange, the center of the British front had collapsed. However, Okinlek was not willing to fail. Not only did he order the crusaders on both wings to retreat, they instead allowed them to speed up the attack.

At the same time, he shouted to the staff around him: "Order the reserve team to attack, so that Major General Patton's reserve team can attack immediately and stabilize the center of the front line!"

"General, we should let the Crusader tanks retreat first, and then launch the third charge with the American and Arab armored divisions." Major General Holbart of the British First Armored Army hurriedly reminded.

"No, the Crusader tanks cannot give up. We paid 300 Matilda Type 2 to give them a chance to attack the Chaser (referring to the Su-75) which is a flank, and we cannot give up now!"

At this moment, seeing that the center of the British armored cluster had collapsed, Cui Kov quickly adjusted his deployment and ordered the su-75 cluster to change the formation, from a long snake formation to two independent square formations, and at the same time faced the two wings. However, before the Soviet su-75 completed the formation transformation, fierce fire broke out on the two wings!

"Hurry, load and aim!" Two anti-tank guns commanded by Sherka, the company commander of the 3rd Company of the Anti-tank Artillery Battalion of the Artillery Regiment of the 18th Army of the Indian Red Army, were ambushed on the top of a sand dune. At this moment, at least 120 Crusader tanks appeared in front of him. However, these tanks were not found covering the anti-tank guns with earthy camouflage cloth, and are now turning to the side of the Soviet su-75 and attacking.

"At 12 o'clock, Crusader tank, 680 meters, fire!" With Sherka's command, two anti-tank guns fired at the same time. "Boom! Boom!" One of the cannons hit the target, and with a loud bang, the entire tank burned and turned into a fireball.

"Recharge! At 11 o'clock, enemy tanks, 660 meters, fire!" Two more roars, and a British crusade tank turned into a fire group again. "Boom boom boom..." More roars sounded. On this seemingly ordinary dune, the Indian army ambushed at least anti-tank guns, 42 45mm anti-tank guns. In the artillery preparations of the British and American troops just now, three 45mm anti-tank guns were lost, and the rest of the cannons were all safe and sound. This would take advantage of the opportunity when the British tanks turned to expose their flange and fired desperately. Using anti-tank guns to attack tanks is a head, but don't do a fury work on the belt. The British and American gun groups are not vegetarians. Once these anti-tank guns are exposed, they will attract artillery fire to cover them for at most two or three minutes, so they can only use this precious two or three minutes to eliminate as many opponents' tanks as possible.

However, these two or three minutes were longer than two or three years for the British tank soldiers!

Their Crusader cruiser tanks are a piece of cake. The weight of more than 19 tons is two or three tons heavier than the famous Scholar Tank Destroyer. However, their armor is thin and the firepower is weak. Apart from the faster speed, it has no advantages. It is also large and easy to aim! Even Indian artillery can shoot perfectly at a distance of hundreds of meters! And 45 anti-tank guns can fire at least 400 to 500 shells in two or three minutes. Even if they have a hit rate of one-third, they can destroy all 120 Crusaders here!

This battle is really defeated!

"Order the artillery group to bombard the enemy's frontiers, order the armored cluster and infantry to start counterattacking, and fight me hard! We must let these imperialists experience the power of the Soviet Red Army!"

Cui Koff had realized that he had achieved a huge victory! However, he did not intend to stop when he was good, but decisively issued a counterattack order. The offensive and defensive situation on the battlefield suddenly reversed. The su-75 self-propelled artillery that had not yet completed the formation change immediately gave up the formation change and launched a counterattack on the spot. The Soviet and Indian infantry responsible for covering them also charged together. The panicked British and American infantry were pressed toward their departure position, but the three or four hundred cannons of the Soviet and Indian armies opened fire again and set off a wall of fire in front of the British and American allied forces. The retreating British and American infantry were driven by the su-75 and rushed into the sea of ​​fire. They were either killed by piles of shrapnel flying everywhere, or shot by the tanks and infantry firepower of the Su-Iranian army. At most, only one-third of the lucky ones retreated back to their own positions.

"Fire the artillery! Fire the artillery! Block the frontier!" Seeing that the armored cluster of the Soviet-Indian coalition forces was about to attack their frontiers, Stilwell no longer cared about the fact that some infantry had not retreated, so he quickly ordered the artillery to open fire. At the same time, he ordered the reserve team commanded by General Patton to quickly come up to block the gap.

At this moment, another unexpected disaster came to the British and American coalition forces! (To be continued. Please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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