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Although the Allied forces still declared war on Germany as a warring force, on the surface, a fascist alliance had been formed on a global scale, and the four major powers in the world, Soviet Russia, Britain and the United States, and China, all declared war on Germany and waged war.

On the day of the declaration of war, Roosevelt made a speech declaring that world peace was within reach, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill greatly praised Chen Jingyun, saying that Chen Jingyun's move would provide powerful help to the anti-fascist cause of the people of the world.

These external reactions were expected, and in fact, China's declaration of war on Germany had already been decided in the secret talks between China and the United States in March. In March, China and the United States had already divided their post-war interests in advance, and now they are only being put into practice.

As if seeing the imminent total defeat of Nazi Germany, Roosevelt could no longer support it and died of cerebral thrombosis shortly after his speech.

A few people such as Hitler even applauded Roosevelt's death, and many people believed that Roosevelt's death would rupture the anti-fascist coalition and cause other uncontrollable variables, but the impact of Roosevelt's death was actually very small.

For the United States, although Roosevelt was important, there were many people who could replace him, and as soon as he died, Vice President Truman would succeed him as president, and he would say that he would continue to unswervingly fight the war against fascism.

Even if the entire political axe is dead, those conglomerates in the United States can re-establish a political axe in one day, and then continue the war.

This is seriously different from China, Chen Jingyun's important surname for China is incomparable to other countries, if Chen Jingyun suddenly dies now, I am afraid that China will immediately have high-level civil strife, although Chen Huatian has been cultivated by Chen Jingyun for many years, but now his prestige and qualifications are still seriously insufficient, it is quite difficult to successfully take over Chen Jingyun's position, not only a large number of high-level military and political officials, but even Chen Jingyun's other sons are not staring at the position under Chen Jingyun's buttocks, Therefore, if Chen Jingyun suddenly dies now, let alone continue the world war, it would be good if China did not mutiny.

Roosevelt's death did not bring much change to the world situation in 1945, and China and the United States continued to carry out their respective actions in accordance with the agreement of the Sino-American Joint Pact, with China preparing to march into the Balkans and American troops preparing to land in Italy.

This made Hitler white happy for several days!

Leaving aside these general situations, let's talk about the specific war, after China declared war on the Axis powers on April 12, Song Junpeng, commander-in-chief of the Allied Army, ordered the ground troops to cross the Turkish border, but divided the troops into two routes, one to the west to attack Greece, and the other to the north to attack Bulgaria.

Due to the mountainous territory of Bulgaria, which was not conducive to the rapid offensive of the heavy mechanized corps of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force, the ground operations in the Bulgarian direction were mainly undertaken by the Turkish army, while the Chinese army was mainly responsible for attacking the Greek direction.

In fact, only two divisions participated in the first batch of the war, namely the Second Armored Division, the 67th Infantry Division, and a large number of auxiliary units to form the Fourth Armored Army. The remaining 16th Panzer Division and 3rd Infantry Division of the European Expeditionary Force were incorporated into the 12th Panzer Corps. The other 2nd Infantry Division and the 16th Artillery Brigade are under the direct jurisdiction of the Expeditionary Force Command.

In addition to the ground forces, the navy and air force also sent a large number of combat planes to compete for air supremacy and provide ground attack support.

On April 13, the 2nd Panzer Division and the 67th Infantry Division broke through the Italian army's defensive line on the Turkish border, and then attacked westward into Komotini.

This time not only did the Germans see what a real heavy mechanized corps could do, but also let the Chinese Army see the strong combat effectiveness of the German army.

On April 14, in the northwest of the small city of Xanthi, several officers, naturally officers of the 2nd Panzer Division, stood in the courtyard of a small house outside the city.

Among them, wearing the rank of major was Major Fan Qiongyuan, the deputy commander of the 5th Tank Battalion, and standing beside him were Captain Yin Fangyuan of the 3rd Infantry Company of the 8th Armored Infantry Battalion and Captain Gao Yanyang, the company commander of the 1st Tank Company of the 5th Tank Battalion. The 1st Tank Company of the 5th Tank Battalion and the 3rd Company of the 8th Armored Infantry Battalion led by them belonged to the 2nd Armored Division A Battle Group, which was the advance force of the entire battle group to quickly advance and carry out tasks such as fire reconnaissance and opening the way for the army.

In the tentative attack an hour ago, this small mixed force encountered resistance from at least 3,000 German troops, and was counterattacked by at least ten medium and large caliber anti-tank guns, although the presence of German tanks was not found in the attack, but these anti-tank firepower alone seriously hindered this advance force of only more than 300 people. A T18 tank in order to avoid the German 75 mm caliber anti-tank gun fire, the driver made a mistake and drove the tank into a small trench, although the T18 tank's mobile surname can be considered strong, but in the face of a vertical ramp up to nearly two meters deep, there is no way to read and climb out, and the German army obviously also found the dilemma of this T18 tank, several anti-tank guns aimed at it, this out of the trench those anti-tank gun lanes whistling, The frontal armor and turret armor of the T18 tank can be said to be not afraid of any tank gun under 100 mm, but its sides are still very fragile, and German anti-tank guns can easily penetrate its side armor.

"It can't be dragged down in a hurry, now car No. 57 has been besieged there for forty minutes, although it is still okay for the time being, but the Germans are definitely mobilizing large-caliber weapons to try to destroy it completely, we must rescue it as soon as possible!" Gao Yanyang's face showed anxiety, it was the tank under his hand.

And don't look at the large number of tanks in the Chinese Army, but every tank is precious in actual combat, not to mention the latest T18 tank, a tank company under his command has a total of seventeen T18 tanks, if you lose a tank just after the war, then the combat effectiveness will have to lose even more, and it is estimated that you will have to ask your superiors for tank supplies in a few months.

"But the current situation is really not good, the German army on the opposite side is at least more than 3,000 people, and we are only more than 300 people, not only have a ratio of ten to one forces, but also their anti-tank firepower is not weak. It is not appropriate to force an attack. And the position of car No. 57 is not easy to save, its way back is blocked, and if you want it to keep it head-on and reverse and withdraw, you have to help it smooth the ramp behind it. Captain Yi Fangyuan of the 3rd Infantry Company said.

"What if we let the bulldozer go up? Can this trench be filled? Fan Qiongyuan said: "If you send a few tanks to protect it, it is enough for the bulldozer to carry out the operation!" ”

As a standard heavy mechanized unit, in addition to the well-known tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, the Second Armored Division actually has a large number of special operations vehicles, including battlefield maintenance vehicles, battlefield tractors, bulldozers, and boat and bridge vehicles.

These special vehicles are also tracked self-propelled vehicles, and most of the chassis used are old tank chassis. A large number of old tanks in the Chinese Army have been retired and mothballed, and in addition to a small amount for military aid, many of them have actually been converted into various tracked self-propelled vehicles. Otherwise, not to mention the above-mentioned various special vehicles, in addition, a large number of self-propelled guns of the Chinese Army actually make extensive use of the chassis of old tanks, rather than using a completely new chassis like other countries.

The specific reason is related to China's relatively low participation in the war. The years of war in other countries have caused them to consume tens of thousands of tanks and tens of thousands of aircraft on the battlefield, basically consuming all the old equipment on the battlefield, and now they keep the latest equipment. But China is different, due to China's short participation in the war, a large number of pre-war equipment in service in the early stage of World War II still exists, but the equipment update speed during World War II is very fast, the most obvious example is the tank, in the early days of World War II, China's T9 \ 12 series of tanks in the world can be compared, it is not an exaggeration to call it the world's first, but with the passage of time, when the T34 of Soviet Russia and the Tiger of Germany were put into service one after another, T9 \ 12 This tank, which had been used as the Chinese Army since 1930, finally went downhill, and it was difficult for the surname Neng to meet the needs of the Chinese Army, so there was a large-scale decommissioning and mothballing, and was replaced by the T15 and T18.