Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

"Request reinforcements? The shelling is not over yet, and it's too fast......" Hitler said with a tone of surprise as he looked at Hersmann with suspicion. He was a little skeptical of the standards of Schleicher and Hersmann.

Hitler had heard of Manstein's name, he was born in a famous Prussian family, his father and adoptive father (also uncle) were both generals, his two grandfathers were also famous Prussian generals, and even the late President Field Marshal Hindenburg was a relative of him. This Manstein, shouldn't he become a general because of his good background?

"Prime Minister, war in the age of mechanization is faster than fast! Fast breakthrough and fast advancement...... Retreats and reinforcements must also be fast! Hersman was standing at the second-floor window of an older Orthodox church, looking at the tanks gathering in a large pasture not far away.

He and Hitler were at an observation post at the headquarters of the exercises, less than 6 kilometers from the front of the "Red Army". Next to it is Maximilian. Feng. The assembly ground of the 1st Panzer Division, of which Weicks served as division commander. Once the armored cluster has completed the formation here, it can drive directly to the battlefield.

Guderian chose the site of the breakthrough in a mix of woods and pastures, and Highway 6 passes through these farms, pastures, and woods. Lake Usma is less than 6 kilometers to the northeast of the breach, and several streams with low water flow pass through the "battlefield" and flow into the lake.

In addition, there are many buildings scattered around the "battlefield", including churches, storehouses, and residential houses. If it were on a real battlefield, these buildings would become a stronghold for both sides. In this exercise, though. These buildings are "non-existent". Except for a small number of public buildings that have been temporarily requisitioned, most of the private housing and treasury are not allowed to enter.

However, many of the barbed wire and stakes used to divide pastures and farms were uprooted by sappers. The pastures and wheat fields that were originally divided into small plots have now become a whole.

The entire assault force of the 1st Panzer Division of the German Army, including most of the officers and vehicles of the 1st and 2nd Panzer Regiments and the 1st Motorized Sniper Brigade, has been assembled in full formation.

Stand where Hersman is and look over. What I saw was quite a shocking scene. The 363 tanks No. 2 (388 plus a variable number of reserve vehicles) had formed a huge tank phalanx (rectangle), with an unfolded frontage of up to 2,000 meters. Next to each tank, the tank crew members stood straight, waiting for the order to start.

Hundreds of steel behemoths, just lying motionless on the empty field, already made people feel frightened. If you have witnessed them roaring, roaring, and spewing fire, it is not difficult to understand why Major General Manstein called for reinforcements in the first place - this is not at all a force that an infantry division can hold back with its traditional defensive positions!

These No. 2 tanks were followed by half-tracks of the Combat Engineer Battalion, to which the 1st Panzer Division belonged. A part of the combat engineers had now arrived at the front of the Red Army together with the 4th Reconnaissance Company of the 1st Panzer Division, and were clearing the way for the advance of the Panzer Corps - according to the rules of the exercise, they had 15 minutes to "move freely" after the end of the shelling (they had to move between the artillery fire in wartime).

And behind the half-track of the sappers. There's another, much larger car battle formation. This is a phalanx of motorized troops consisting of ADGZ-612M heavy wheeled armored vehicles and armored vehicles.

The ADGZ-612M heavy wheeled armored vehicle is a product of the Austrian-Daimler company, which was just finalized in 1934. What was originally sold to the Austrian police force in the original history has now been mass-produced by the German company Daimler-Benz and sold to the German Army -- thanks to the strength of the German automobile industry, the German Army now has a lot more wheeled vehicles than in the same period in history, and the development of wheeled armored vehicles is also very good.

For example, this 12-ton armored personnel carrier is equipped with the same 20mm caliber cannon as the No. 2 tank, and the armor protection is also good, and it can carry six heavily armed soldiers through the enemy's cannon fodder blockade line.

More than 100 ADGZ-612M heavy wheeled armored vehicles assigned to the 1st Motorized Sniper Battalion followed behind the phalanx of Tank No. 2. Behind these heavy armored bodies. It is an armored vehicle used by the two sniper battalions of the 1st Motorized Sniper Brigade (consisting of two sniper battalions and one motorized sniper battalion).

These armored cars are powered by the Opel brand (this space-time Opel company has more financial resources thanks to the Keynes Project. It was not sold to General Motors during the Great Depression) and BMW brand trucks were retrofitted. It is to cover the outside of the cabin and cab with a thin layer of steel plates, which can withstand the bullets of machine guns and the fragments of shells at a certain distance.

By this time, the shelling had ended, and the entire "battlefield" suddenly fell silent. An electromechanical man with a radio on his back came to Guderian, who was personally the commander of the Blues' armored assault group, on a motorcycle.

"Report to the commander, the general command of the exercise instructs: our side can launch an attack in 15 minutes!"

Because it was an exercise, no "Red Army" soldiers stayed in the trenches during the live firing just now. Therefore, the exercise command will be after the end of the live firing. Give the "Red Army" time to return to their positions.

At the same time, the referees of the exercise command had to enter the positions and determine the losses of the "Red Army" in this shelling according to the proportion of damage to the dummy artillery. Of course, during these 15 minutes, all military movements of the "Red Army" had to be suspended.

"Got it!" Guderian nodded. Then slowly raise your right hand, "All attention!" Start your vehicle now! ”

"Start the vehicle!" Get orders. Crews standing next to various armored vehicles also went into action. The drivers took out the joysticks and went to the car's engine and began to shake the joysticks desperately. "Boom, boom, boom......" The engines of tanks and armored vehicles let out a low roar one after another, and then spewed smoke from the exhaust pipe. Fifteen minutes later, the vast majority of the vehicles had successfully started (there were still a few lying nests).

Guderian exhaled heavily, picked up the headset on his command car, and commanded loudly: "All attention, all attention!" The goal is right ahead! Panzers! Assault!! ”

More than 750 combat vehicles, already with motors that had been started, began to slowly run on wheels or tracks. The pungent exhaust fumes emitted in an instant enveloped the entire assembly area, as if in a cloud of mist.

A loud roar alarmed Adolf. Hitler, he walked to the window, stood with Hersmann, and watched as the armored clusters of steel, slowly crushing over a verdant earth, raising dust and smoke, rolling forward.

"They're so dense! It's too dense! Hitler blurted out.

"Yes, very dense," Hersman said, "seven hundred dozens of armored vehicles, unfolded at a frontal distance of less than 2000 meters...... How many 37mm anti-tank guns can be on the opposite side of the platform? ”

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"I can't hold it!"

Before Manstein could wait for Falkenhausen to agree to the order for reinforcements, he knew that his division would not be able to hold its position. He thought that he knew quite well about the operations of armored forces, but he did not expect that so many tanks and armored vehicles would actually put up such a dense formation on the battlefield and concentrate their forces to assault a "point".

"Across from them, how many 37 guns do we have that we can use?" He asked the staff officer beside him.

"General, on the front of the phalanx of enemy tanks there were only 8 37mm guns, in addition to 10 infantry guns and dozens of anti-tank guns."

"No, not at all, this ......can't be held at all," Manstein put down his binoculars, turned around and walked towards his division, ordering as he went, "You must retreat!" ”

"Retreat? General, the ...... above will not agree"

"It doesn't matter, I can't hold it anyway, it's better to find some other way to delay the other party." "There are many forests along Route 6, northwest of Lake Usma, as well as a few small villages. We can fortify there so that we can always resist it. ”

At this moment, the sound of aircraft motors was heard in the sky again, and Manstein looked up and saw a group of twenty or thirty two-winged Hs-123 attack planes rushing towards the artillery positions of the 18th Division - after the Blues armored group began to advance, Manstein immediately ordered his artillery group to open fire (this time it was not live ammunition, just a few signal flares) to block it, thus exposing the target.

"The artillery will also suffer heavy losses this time," Manstein shook his head, "we must retreat, or we will go to Guderian's prisoner of war camp for lunch today." ”

"General, Lieutenant General Falkenhausen will not agree." A kind reminder from the staff officer.

"If he doesn't agree with me to withdraw," Manstein said with a smile, "it's a drill, and it's not a real war, and he can still send me to a court-martial?" Besides, what's the point of us staying here for an extra hour and a half? This will definitely not be able to hold on, and it is useless to be brave and tenacious, because the referee will soon sentence us all to death...... It's better to save some troops, as long as they can get into the blocking position before these steel monsters, they can drag out the exercise until tomorrow. ”

"So, General, what are we going to do?" As he walked, the staff officer pulled out his notebook, ready to record Manstein's orders.

"The 30th Regiment was ordered to hold its position on the spot until the entire army was annihilated. The 51st Regiment took over the reserve positions and held out until the entire army was destroyed. The rest of the troops began to retreat after 30 minutes...... Except for the 37 guns, there was no need to carry any other heavy weapons, and all the baggage was abandoned, just bring ammunition and two days' field rations. ”

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