Judging from the records of the battles between the Chinese and German armies, the Chinese army gives people the impression that it is strong in tactics, and lacks in overall planning. The Germans' plan is actually higher than that of China, but the plan on paper cannot be implemented in practice, and the place where the battle should be won cannot be won, and no matter how superb the command art can play, for example, Guderian found the opportunity to insert the weakness of Huaxia, but the weakness broke the sword, which is no way!

However, this time, when the Germans' Monsoon Operation ground offensive was launched, Huaxia found that the Germans' front-line tactical ability was also very strong, at least it was quite shocking to integrate some equipment that was not particularly first-class into first-class combat effectiveness! Kruger's bold planning and sophisticated layout really made Huaxia very passive in the beginning of the defensive operation.

If the previous German offensive was an awl, then this time the Germans showed a much more round and blunt attack formation, and if someone looked from the air, then the German front was more like a trapezoid than the original wedge! The short side of the trapezoid is made up of groups of tanks arranged in parallel. The Germans arranged their limited armored forces in linear formations that were good at using firepower. The number of tanks they put in is not much, and there is a large distance between them and the infantry behind, how to say it, it is a bit like the hollow phalanx of the Spaniards in history, the deployment of the entire armored force lacks depth, such a layout does not seem to conform to the combat arrangement of the armored troops, but only Zhou Xuan knows that such a deployment is definitely arranged by people who are familiar with the principles of the use of Chinese armored forces and the deployment of battle defense artillery!

According to the general understanding, the deployment of heavy firepower on the defensive line is mainly linear, and the attacker should try to reduce the front of the attack so that the troops can be attacked with as few heavy weapons as possible. But the situation is constantly changing. Purely linear deployment has long been abandoned by various countries, and this kind of deployment, which breaks through a point and collapses on the entire front, has too many problems in actual combat. Therefore, Huaxia adopts a linear deployment supplemented by a support point-based deployment method, a small number of heavy weapons are distributed on the long defense line just to play a role of temptation and obstruction, the real killer move is the support point behind, even if your attack is not directly facing the support point, but the support point is deployed in a ring The firepower can still hit your side! Support points can directly support each other, and only by pulling out several consecutive support points on a front can you get a stable gap. So in this case, it doesn't really make much sense to put too much emphasis on the narrowness of the attack surface. After all, the head of the wedge is relatively small, but the back is large!

According to the previous deployment habits of the German army, they would discharge multiple wedge-shaped attack lines on the attack surface to attack several support points at the same time to solve this problem, such a tactic was useful at first, but later as the Chinese began to emphasize the mobile defense of armored forces, such an offensive was greatly reduced. The Huaxia armored forces, especially Xu Huaide's troops, are very good at concentrating tank destroyers and tanks to use, since you have concentrated your armored forces to break through, then well, when you have just broken through the defense line and suffered heavy losses, the armored forces I have gathered can cripple the attacking troops that are already inferior in quality with a counterattack. Your original intention is very good, you plan to divide the various support points and break them down, but in fact, your steps cannot be at the same time, there is always a sequence, and even if necessary, I can let you in first, and then clean up one by one. This layout cost the German armored forces heavy losses.

This time, the linear layout adopted by the Germans would have taken more damage on the surface, but in reality, the No. 4 tanks at the front were only used as a mobile point of fire. The Germans, realizing that their tanks were not very powerful, had given up the rapid assault and used tanks to attract the opponent's attack, and then concentrated all kinds of flat and curved fire from the rear to destroy the exposed local targets one by one. The opposing tanks are very cautious, quickly retreating or releasing smoke when attacked, and depleting the defender's strength in repeated probing and strikes.

The Germans' fire preparation lasted almost an hour, and long-range artillery and howitzers of various calibers turned almost the entire defense line over, and the mixed mixture of the blown up earth and the gray particles after the explosion seemed to change the color of the earth. The tanks of the more than one battalion spread out in a polygonal line, and the tanks directly covered each other and cautiously rushed towards the opposite position, while behind them, the dust raised could not cover the large number of infantry fighting vehicles, half-tracks and various self-propelled guns behind them. JU90 bombers hovered at low altitude unscrupulously, and the various bombs hanging under the wings made people shudder.

The SFH18 howitzers are already deployed in the rear, and they are more than 8 kilometers away from the position, which can fully cover the first line of defense and the buffer belt behind. Further down is a second artillery position consisting of anti-aircraft guns and heavy mortars, which are mostly deployed at distances of 3,500 to 1,500 meters. THE GERMANS WERE VERY CONFIDENT IN THEIR AIR FORCE AND COUNTER-BATTERY FIREPOWER, AND THE MASSIVE 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS WERE ALMOST FIXED TO THE OPPONENT'S HEAD. Further ahead was Tank 4, and after they had reached 800 meters, some of the tanks stopped to suppress the design, while the rest of the tanks cautiously moved forward to attract fire.

The initial contact battle was not fierce, the Germans advanced slowly, and the Huaxia defenders were also very patient, although the 75MM battle defense gun could already penetrate the opponent's armor at 600 meters, but Huaxia still put it at a distance of 400 meters. The German tanks continued to advance, and the infantry did not quickly follow. This seems like an opportunity! Rumble! With the sound of armor-piercing shells flying out of the barrel at high speed, a No. 4 tank was instantly smashed into a burning iron box! In a matter of seconds, the otherwise calm battlefield erupted like a volcano. Anti-tank guns and mortars deployed in various support points began to fire wildly at the German tanks approaching! The accuracy of the hit at a distance of 400 meters is very high!

Unlike the previous German army, this time the Germans did not quickly launch a counterattack, but began to release smoke to the rear to evacuate, the direct distance between the infantry and the tank is relatively large, and the tank retreats without considering the "traffic accident" that may result, and at the same time as the tank withdraws, the mortar-based curved fire quickly strikes the exposed support points, and this time the Germans also took out their rocket artillery, a half-track car with 3 launch barrels hanging on each side, This guy, who was turned into a land dive bomber by the Germans, finally showed their hideous face on the battlefield! Rocket after rocket flew into the air with slender flames and landed on a defensive position thousands of meters away. The Germans had more firepower than they could have imagined, and they even attacked these vulnerable bunkers with infantry guns loaded with specialized concrete-piercing shells, knocking out their opponents one by one under the cover of suppressive artillery.

The defender's firepower was quickly completely suppressed, and Huaxia's long-range cannons tried to support the front line, but after a few shots, the JU90 bombers entering from a low altitude made these self-propelled "long-legged Toms" instantly lose the idea of continuing to fight, and under the cover of self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, they hastily packed up and withdrew to the rear. The defensive posture of China this time was not as good as that of the German army at the time of Operation Babylon, after all, the latter still had enough time to build a defensive position. Huge columns of smoke rose from the battlefield, and rolling barrages roamed the entire defensive line, blasting bunkers to smithereens, reducing artillery pieces to parts, and the Germans made up for the lack of assault force with superior firepower.

After more than an hour of attack, the German infantry attacked under the cover of tanks, and by this time there were very few remaining Chinese defenders on the position, most of whom were killed in heavy shelling. The rest relied on the remnants of the trenches to resist. However, soon, under the attack of the superior forces of the German army, the first cordon and defense line in China fell. The tracks of tank No. 4 ran over the trenches, and the Germans continued to advance under the cover of infantry and infantry fighting vehicles. In the defensive area between the lines, Huaxia tried to prevent an armored force from making a short and stubby assault, but all failed under the heavy artillery of the Germans and the blows of the air force.

"We couldn't even concentrate the armored forces together, and when the tanks drove out of the concealed area, they were quickly spotted by the German attack aircraft and artillery planes. They are as difficult as a school of sharks that smell blood. Tanks and other heavy vehicles are better, lightly armored vehicles and trucks can barely walk, and the alphabet bombs carried by German attack aircraft also use shaped warheads, and the bullets fired from a single bomb can cover a considerable area, and we can't even march normally, let alone assemble and fight, if it weren't for the good performance of our self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, we would have even become a luxury to retreat. Zhou Xuan's report truthfully reflected the situation on the battlefield, and the Germans' steady tactics coupled with complete firepower deployment and air force suppression separated the Chinese defense line section by section, and then broke through each one. And if you don't take action, then the whole battle situation will be completely passive.

The Germans went very well, and they easily crushed both lines of defense in a day's fighting, but the advance was not fast, because the attacking force had too many infantry and artillery, and it was not easy for these troops to cross the ravines and lay mines everywhere. The Germans seem to have forgotten to have enough sappers and logistical forces, so the result is that the attack is very aggressive but slows down. However, the Germans don't seem to mind this, they are convinced that their iron fist can slowly crush all the lines of defense that lie in front of them!

In the face of the aggressive German ** regiment, Peng Yi did not seem to be in a hurry on the surface. He simply ordered the mobile units that had remained on the front line to be ready to support at any time, in addition to the necessary defensive forces, to withdraw at night or under the cover of limited air force. The German offensive was a seamless success, and neither a short assault from the front nor a flank attack seemed to be effective against the Germans, who had a large number of anti-aircraft guns, long-range artillery, and air force. This continued for two days, and it was only after the last cordon in front of the main line of defense was broken through that the situation changed.

"The opponent's main defense line is very distinctive, in general, the two wings are protruding, the layout of the middle depression, the depth of the two wings seems to be larger, and it is not far from the last cordon. If we choose to attack from both flanks, then the intricate trenches and fortifications of the opponent will isolate a large number of support troops in the rear, and although we can break through the opponent's defenses, we will not be able to fill these trenches and build enough gun emplacements overnight, and if we attack towards the middle of the position, we will be flanked by the opponent's two flanks. I suspect that such a layout is a trap. An officer pointed to the main Huaxia position on the sand table and said.

"In fact, the problem is not so serious, although the positions on the two flanks of the other side are prominent, but there are not many fortifications built on the front of the position, at least there will not be many artillery deployed, and it is difficult to hide aerial reconnaissance by building artillery and other bunkers on a large scale. And even the protruding part is about 8 kilometers away from the two wings of our army. According to the cross-country speed of the Huaxia tank, it would take them about half an hour to complete this section, and from the intelligence point of view, there were no Huaxia armored units within a radius of 20 kilometers around. Since there are not too many artillery units on the flanks of the opposing side, and there are not too many heavily armored units nearby, it is impossible to talk about either flanking with fire or launching an armored assault. So what else do we have to worry about? Another officer objected. The premise of outflanking the two flanks is that you have to deploy enough mobile forces and vitality on both flanks, but from the intelligence point of view, Huaxia does not seem to have deployed much. Then this assumption is not true!

For the argument between the two subordinates, Kruger did not express his opinion, because at this time he himself was a little uncertain, the middle of the opponent's position was concave, it seemed that he wanted a trap, but the other party's arrangement made this trap a little nondescript, this is Huaxia's main position, no matter what, Huaxia can not give up easily. The Germans had a trapezoidal attack formation with fierce firepower, but there was a premise that there had to be enough space to spread the formation, and this place was only available in the depression directly in the middle of the opposing position. If you attack on both flanks, the second half of the trapezoid will be cut off by the trench system of the previous line. After all, nearly half of the firepower in the attack is provided by units such as self-propelled infantry guns and heavy mortars, and these weapons have a relatively close range, and it is not easy to find a flat firing position in a place where the opponent's ravines are made up or even covered with mines.

Although it is not so easy for Huaxia to attack during the day, but people can also attack at night, Huaxia must have left some passages directly in the position, if they come to the front-line troops at night, then the situation is not good, the length of the hypotenuse on both sides of the trapezoid is a bit large, and it may be difficult to fully defend. At present, the safest way is to lay down the two wings first, and then hit the middle, but unfortunately, if it drags on in this way, it will be more beneficial to Huaxia, because the offensive on the southern front has made no progress, and the Huaxia Air Force is also recovering rapidly.

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