As the early morning fog completely dissipated, the Anjiajun air force fleets, like flies that smelled rotten eggs, joined in the strangulation of the German tanks.
Compared with the advancing army tank troops on the ground, aircraft, with their absolute advantage in speed, became another killer of the German armored combat group.
By this time, the commanders of the German 3rd and 4th Armored Divisions and the 10th Motorized Division had discovered that something was wrong. Continuous failures forced them to recognize the reality and quickly build temporary defensive positions with tanks as the core, while organizing
The towed 88mm anti-aircraft artillery and various self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery vehicles sprayed barrage desperately into the sky.
"Attention all units, the German anti-aircraft firepower is very powerful and very threatening to us. All aircraft give priority to clearing the enemy's anti-aircraft positions."
After viewing the entire battlefield situation, Major General Wang Hua, commander of the Eighth Division of the Air Force, who was at the air combat command post on the early warning I aircraft, decisively issued the combat order.
Soon, six fighter squadrons equipped with Q1 and Q2 attack aircraft, as well as eight B2 bomber squadrons, each pounced on the assigned strike targets, causing great pressure on the German air defense firepower operators on the ground.
Amidst the shrill roar, the B2 bombers made a large-angle dive attack from high altitude to the ground, while the attack aircraft launched a small-angle level flight attack. The two attacks from different directions caught the German air defense personnel unprepared, and they often chased this.
Hitting another person and attacking from another direction is extremely difficult to defend against.
Captain Beikang, leader of the Second Attack Squadron of the 36th Flying Group of the Anjia Army Air Force, had just concluded a raid on a German anti-aircraft artillery field. The cluster bomb exploded in the air, causing the German army to consist of an 88mm anti-aircraft gun and two vehicles.
The reinforced air defense position composed of 20mm anti-aircraft artillery vehicles was in a mess. The wreckage of the two anti-aircraft artillery vehicles was still burning in the area cleaned by pre-installed fragments. The surrounding ground was covered with black marks after the explosion and overflowing blood.
During this bombing, Captain Becon saw the tenacity of the Germans. Their gunners ignored their own attacks and used all their firepower to chase down a diving B2 bomber, risking the entire position to be wiped out in exchange for
The result of hitting Anjiajun fighter plane.
When he saw the German air defense positions destroyed by the cluster bombs he dropped, and then saw the fire splashing into the sky when the dive attack aircraft that could not be pulled up due to being hit by the barrage hit the ground, Captain Becon's expression changed from relaxed to
For seriousness.
"Captain, what's the record?" A Q2 attack plane appeared on the right side of the fighter plane piloted by Beikang. This pilot named Quangui came from the Northern Sichuan Jiange as well as Beikang. He had the rank of lieutenant and was a squad leader of the second attack aircraft squadron.
.
"Two 88mm anti-aircraft guns and four anti-aircraft gun trucks."
There was a trace of unspeakable sadness in Beikang's words. Just now he witnessed with his own eyes the whole process of Paoze from the same flying group falling to the ground and dying. You have to know that the dive speed was so fast, he was so close to the ground, and he was hit by anti-aircraft artillery fire.
After the hit, the plane spun rapidly and uncontrollably. In this case, there was no chance to escape by parachute.
"I knocked down two 37mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns... Damn it, the Germans are very tenacious. Two attack aircraft in our squadron have been shot down."
Quan Gui's tone was equally heavy. Although as an attack aircraft pilot, he was destined to attack his opponents in a hail of bullets and casualties were unavoidable, but he still inevitably felt sad when he saw his comrades killed in action.
"Forget it. Don't think about these things. We are attack aircraft pilots. The more ruthless the enemy is, the stronger we will be! Break through and attack with force!"
After saying that, Bekan pressed the nose of the aircraft and roared away towards another German anti-aircraft firepower point. The German gunner of the Flak 38 four-barrel 20mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun vehicle discovered his attack intention almost at the same time and quickly moved the muzzle.
The attack aircraft facing Bei Kang continuously fired interceptor shells.
Bekang calmly drove the plane, firmly placed the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun vehicle in the center of the cross of the sight, and pressed the button on the joystick head. Four 76mm flechettes were launched from the rocket launcher nest under the wing.
It roared out, jetting away with a faint smoke and orange tail flames.
It is a pity that the ground attack effect of rockets launched at high speed is really poor. The accuracy of hitting a single target can be described as terrible. It did not directly hit the flak38 self-propelled high-speed sports car. Fortunately, it exploded nearby.
The smoke obscured the sight of the German gunners. At the same time, the shell fragments and shock waves splashed by the rockets also seriously interfered with them, and the barrage of anti-aircraft fire was obviously sparse.
What Beikang needed was this brief pause. In the flash of lightning, the Q2 attack plane approached smoothly. Beikang calmly pulled the trigger. The dense shells fired by the two 37mm aerial cannons shattered the German Flak38 self-propelled sports car into pieces.
, caught fire and burned.
Seeing the German self-propelled artillery truck riddled with holes after the ammunition exploded, Beacon pulled up the plane again, circled in the air, and yelled "Fuck your mother" to vent his excitement.
In just over half an hour, the 24th Motorized Corps, which suffered continuous air and ground attacks, had lost more than 400 tanks, and most of the other tanks were injured. General von Schwepenburg was so worried that he quickly sent a correspondent.
, asked Marshal Bloomberg for help, and at the same time ordered the armored grenadiers to block the attack of the Anjia Army tank troops.
After the Battle of Stalingrad on the Soviet-German battlefield in 1942, the German armored divisions were reorganized. A standard armored division had two armored grenadier regiments, two armored regiments and an artillery force with five armored artillery battalions.
The regiment is also equipped with an armored reconnaissance battalion, an armored engineer battalion and an anti-aircraft artillery battalion.
The armored grenadiers in the German army are actually the armored infantry of the Anjia Army. The firepower of an ordinary armored grenadier company includes six 20mm self-propelled cannons, two 88mm towed anti-aircraft guns, and two 80mm towed anti-aircraft guns.
mm medium mortar, two 75mm howitzers, and one
37 mm anti-aircraft artillery, forty mg34 or mg42 light and heavy machine guns and 25 various armored personnel carriers. The air and ground firepower is extremely powerful. Therefore, when the tanks are defeated as an assault force, the armored grenadiers will
Act urgently and use all means to stop the enemy.
"boom--"
A loud noise was heard, and the chassis of a Leopard II tank was severely damaged. The huge impact caused the tank body to lift upwards by almost forty to fifty millimeters. After the tank fell back to the ground, it continued to rush forward two or three times due to the strong inertia.
Meters away, the track on the right side fell softly at this time, and the tank, which had lost its left and right balance, quickly stopped in place.
"The Germans have deployed anti-tank mines!" The tank commander following behind quickly noticed the attack on the tank ahead and accurately judged the danger he faced.
"Deploy mine sweepers and anti-tank rockets to clear mines. The remaining tanks continue to fire at the opposite side. Pay attention to the German anti-tank firepower and annihilate them first!" Lieutenant Shangguan Cheng, commander of the first battalion of the 11th Tank Regiment of the 3rd Tank Division, called to follow the tanks.
Offensive auxiliary support vehicles come to support.
Soon, three Leopard II deformed tanks with huge ground-piercing teeth like harvesters on the front followed from behind. These minesweeper tanks crushed the ground through the huge ground-piercing teeth, constantly touching the German mines.
anti-tank mines and detonate them.
Huge explosions sounded one after another, and the sound was quite alarming. However, for the solid iron specially used to resist explosions, its effect was extremely limited. The shock wave generated by the explosion was resisted by the hard solid iron surface and directed back to the iron teeth.
The slots were shunted out, and the dense shrapnel and huge potential energy only caused the minesweeper to stop in place and bounce for a moment, and then continued to move forward under the powerful thrust given by the Leopard II tank.
In a short period of time, Anjiajun's mine-clearing tanks have been upgraded to generation II products. When he was commanding the Northeast War, An Yi saw the power of mine-clearing tanks with his own eyes. The current mine-clearing tanks are more scientific and reasonable in shooting. They have become the first batch of the battalion.
Level standard equipment is equipped to the troops.
The appearance of mine-sweeping tanks stunned the Germans. They originally thought that in order to reduce losses, the Anjia Army would need to spend at least several hours clearing mines. However, with the emergence of mine-sweeping trucks, it was estimated that they would not be able to withstand even half an hour. The German Panzer Grenadier units hurriedly
The anti-tank artillery was concentrated and fired at the mine-sweeping tanks. For a time, three Leopard II deformed tanks with front armor thickened to 200 mm became the focus of the German anti-tank firepower. Anti-tank shells of various calibers flew towards them one after another.
"Cover fire, move faster with minesweeping rockets!"
Lieutenant Shangguan Cheng looked anxiously into the microphone and said that although the front armor of the minesweeper tank was thickened to 200 mm, no matter how thick the armor was, it could not withstand continuous shelling. You must know that the German 88 mm anti-aircraft gun is known as a tank killer. Even if
The tank can withstand it. The people inside can't withstand the continuous explosion shock waves and concussions.
At this time, several semi-convertible and half-track armored vehicles drove up from behind. They were smaller than other armored fighting vehicles and personnel carriers, with a semi-defensive tank behind them. After these armored vehicles drove to the edge of the minefield, they stopped.
Behind the constantly bombarded Leopard II tank, the officers and soldiers on the vehicle quickly set up two guide rails on the tank body and the top of the front. After the two guide rails were set up, several soldiers loaded two relatively stubby rockets onto the two guide rails.
bomb.
As the launcher pressed the rocket igniter, a piercing scream sounded, and the rockets roared into the sky. Unlike ordinary rockets that always trailed a long tail flame, the propulsion of these rockets only lasted
It ended in just one or two seconds. Relying on the huge inertia, the rocket continued to draw arcs, carrying a long tail, and landed not far from the German temporary position a few hundred meters away.
Soon, with these white thumb-thick ropes as the center, the powerful shock wave generated by the explosion of special high-explosive weapons in the ropes detonated all the mines within five meters to the left and right, and the roads leading to the German defensive positions were like this.
Got through easily.
The first line of defense temporarily constructed by the German Panzergrenadiers soon fell under the attack of the Anjia Army tank group. The German commander decisively ordered the troops to retreat to the second line of defense to block the enemy. This staged defense
, under normal circumstances, it can effectively slow down the opponent's attack momentum and weaken the attack intensity.
It is a pity that the German army is facing the Anjia Army who adopts three-dimensional attack methods. In addition to the Air Force bombers, attack aircraft and Army tanks that can attack, armed helicopters are also a powerful strike force.
When all the German anti-aircraft firepower went to deal with the fighter planes, the armed helicopters that had been hovering at low altitude suddenly pounced over and violently fired rocket nests on both sides of the fuselage at the German tanks and anti-tank guns that were the core of the defense line.
Rockets in.
Since the distance is not far away and the armed helicopter is in a hovering state, the accuracy of the rocket hit is very high. Although the 107mm unguided air-to-ground rocket is not very powerful, these rockets are fired from top to bottom, attacking the tank.
The roof armor of the turret.
After losing thirty or forty tanks in just a few minutes, the German defense line shrank back again, but at this time the Anjia Army's tank cluster was approaching. The tanks, armored fighting vehicles, assault gun vehicles and armored personnel carriers seemed to be running loose.
Like wild horses, they pounced on the chaotic German front line.
"when--"
As soon as Staff Sergeant Wen Hao jumped off the armored personnel carrier, he was bitten by a bullet fired by the Germans - a ricochet that first hit the body of the armored vehicle and then bounced back. It hit his helmet. Since the bullet had already
A large amount of kinetic energy was consumed during the first impact, and it only made a crisp impact on his helmet.
Sergeant Wen Hao subconsciously turned around and turned to the superior soldier Guan Lin who was guarding and covering the remaining comrades leaving the warehouse. He was on guard with his gun and suppressed the German firepower points ahead.
"Squad leader, good luck!" Dao Chen, a private soldier from the Dai ethnic group who was newly recruited last year, witnessed this dangerous situation with his own eyes. He carefully knelt down and picked up the bullets on the ground.
"Can this be called good luck? Why don't you come and give it a try?" Wen Hao glared at the new recruit. Dao Chen is from Kanchanaburi City, Shannan Province. Now the Siam people in the former Siam are collectively called the Dai people. Due to the popularization of literacy education,
All the Dai people have become proficient in Mandarin, and now there is no obstacle to communicating with each other.
"Haha, thank you for being insensitive!" Dao Chen smiled and threw away the warhead. Seeing that the whole class had got off the bus safely, he immediately followed squad leader Wen Hao and charged forward.
Due to too much haste, the temporary positions set up by the German army were very simple and crude. With tanks and armored fighting vehicles attracting most of the firepower, the German army's firepower did not pay too much attention to the armored infantry at first, but when the infantry advanced to the position
In the first three to four hundred meters, the German army finally discovered that it would be difficult to fight back the tide without first eliminating the infantry accompanying the tank attack.
Tanks were pouring in, so machine guns and rifle bullets were fired at the armored infantry. Unfortunately, the infantry hid behind the tanks and armored vehicles when they saw something was wrong. They were safe and sound, but soon these firepower points were attacked by tanks and armored vehicles.
The attack fell into silence. At the same time, Anjiajun's snipers were looking for obvious targets to hit, and the German defense line collapsed again.
The continuous battle started at 8 o'clock in the morning and lasted until about 11 o'clock at noon. The remnants of the German 24th Motorized Army merged with the 5th Army of the German 9th Group Army that had crossed the river to join them, along the east bank of the Selsa River.
Defenses were hastily deployed in a depth of about five kilometers.
However, at this time, the heavy artillery and rocket launchers of the First and Second Tank Groups had already arrived at the front line. At exactly 12 noon, thousands of artillery pieces and thousands of rocket launchers fired fiercely at the German positions, shaking the earth and the mountains with continuous shelling.
, quickly destroyed the temporary German positions.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, under the fierce attack of the conquering troops, several German defense lines were razed to the ground, and the entire east bank of the Selsa River fell into the control of the Anjia Army. The once-famous 24th Motorized Army was fighting
During the retreat of the remnants of the Fifth Army to the West Bank, they encountered intensive bombing by the Anjia Army Air Force, but not a single tank retreated to the West Bank.
At this point, the 24th Motorized Corps, which the German army was proud of, was almost completely wiped out.
In the early morning of the 24th, General Paulus, the commander of the German Southern Combat Group, received a report on the battle situation delivered by a personal letter from a correspondent assigned by Field Marshal Bloomberg, and asked him to make every effort to find out whether the Southeast Group was in danger.
After the order, he was shocked and hurriedly led his troops to evacuate Malhai and Umfettur and other Gadisi.
However, in the early morning, they encountered a surprise attack by three tank divisions from the 3rd and 4th Tank Groups deployed across the river by the West Asia Theater Command of the Anjia Army. After a melee, the armored units under their command suffered heavy losses.
Luce had to lead his troops to withdraw to the north shore of Lake Gadisiya, and another huge encirclement was formed again.
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