Hearing Liao Lei's tone, Wu Shi waved his hand and said: "Yan Nong, the Battle of Moscow is already the last battle we will fight in this world war, and we are fighting side by side with the Germans, we can't lose to them in front of the whole world!" We must display the prestige of our national defense forces, which is of extraordinary significance to our country's future international status. In addition, if the black panther/cheetah in our hands is not ruthless, it will be useless in the future! ”

Liao Lei nodded, although he was still a little reluctant to throw the expensive "Leopard" into the assault, and was willing to flood the Russians' positions with cheap pursuers. But he also knew that the Stalker's armor was already a little thin on the battlefield right now. A large number of Soviet troops equipped with 76.2mm anti-tank guns can destroy the frontal protection of the pursuer at a long distance, and the power of the pursuer's 48 times the caliber of the 75mm gun is far less than the Cheetah's 71 times the caliber 88mm gun, the latter has a decisive effect on the battlefield, whether it is the Soviet army's armored combat vehicle or a reinforced concrete stronghold, it can't help but shoot 88mm tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells from 1000 meters away, this kind of shell is enough to penetrate 193mm homogeneous steel plate at a distance of 1000 meters! Converted to concrete fortifications, it is also close to 2 meters!

"Yan Nong, how are you going to fight this battle?" Wu Shi naturally knew about the Second Panzer Army's battle plan for a long time, and now it was just a final confirmation.

"The main direction of breakthrough is here, in the area of Losino-Petrovsky, Kupavna, Elekt, in the middle of the Soviet line. The terrain here is relatively open, which is conducive to the deployment and assault of armored troops, and I plan to invest nearly 1,200 tanks and 60,000 offensive troops here......" Liao Lei quickly pointed out the location of the main attack. Since the Chinese armored forces are very fond of using tank destroyers, such sacrificial decisiveness and artillery perspectives. In exchange for high-power artillery and high-strength armor "special tanks", so in this era, the tactical formation of the Chinese armored forces is a bit like the line infantry tactics of the 18th and first half of the 19th century. That is, the "Tan Annihilation" is regarded as a line of infantry, placed in the middle of the whole shape, and a relatively thin horizontal formation will be pulled. In order to maximize the use of large-caliber artillery to deal fatal blows to the opponent at long distances. On the flanks of the Tan Destroyer formation, more mobile tanks will be deployed, mainly C-type tanks and Panthers. They were used like cavalry in the era of line infantry, covering the flanks on the one hand and looking for opportunities to pursue the enemy on the other. Once Tan Annihilation uses a cannon to crush the opponent. It was the tank's turn to chase after him. This style of play can be said to have been tried and tested on the Sino-Soviet battlefield, and it can beat the Soviet opponent every time.

However, this tactic actually has obvious shortcomings, first of all, it has high requirements for the terrain, and it is difficult to deploy the formation if there is no open plain.

The second is that the thin Tan Annihilation Horizontal Brigade is actually very easy to break through - as long as the Soviet army can sacrifice its blood. Take out a sufficient number of tanks and charge the cross. And once a breakthrough is formed. You can cut the entire horizontal formation into two or even several sections, and then I am afraid that it will be a one-sided slaughter!

Third, the Soviet tank troops can also adopt the "diagonal battle formation" invented by Frederick the Great in history, and use one to attract the firepower of the Tan Annihilation Horizontal Formation in the front, and the main force can quickly penetrate into the flank of the Chinese Army's horizontal formation. After breaking through the Chinese tanks that served as cover, and then attacking the Tan Annihilation horizontal formation, the Chinese Tan Annihilation, which had poor mobility and was too long in formation, would definitely be a big defeat and a loss.

However, these tactics against the armored forces of the Chinese army. Although it has long been designed by the genius staff officers of the Soviet army, it has never been used on the battlefield. Because the performance of the T-28, which the Soviet army put into operation at the beginning, was too poor. With slow speed, weak firepower, thin armor, and large targets, the whole thing is a moving iron coffin, and it is not easy to use any tactics. As for the T-26, a light tank is no match for the C-type tank for flank cover duties, and even the Chinese infantry, armed with a 45mm anti-tank gun and anti-tank grenade launcher, can easily pack them away. Later, when the Soviet Union had the Su-76 and T-28/1932 with superior performance, the Soviet army had already fallen behind on the Eastern Front, not only the number of tanks was far less than that of the Chinese army, but also the Chinese army's aircraft began to play the role of tank killers, so there was no chance to use good tactics. After the defeat of the Nizhne-Uginsk counterattack, the Soviet tank units simply disappeared from the Eastern Front. It was not until the Chinese army fought all the way through the Ural Mountains and under the city of Moscow that they once again encountered the Soviet Red Army, which had a large number of tanks and armored vehicles.

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Eastern outskirts of Moscow, the city of Balahash, headquarters of the Eastern Front cluster of the Moscow Front.

"Here, Losino-Petrovsky to Elekt, about 20 kilometers wide front, the Chinese are expected to attack there with tank clusters after dawn tomorrow. They should put in a horizontal formation of 10 to 12 kilometers, put in 1000 to 1200 tanks or tanks, almost 100 tanks or tanks per kilometer, with tanks in the middle and tanks on the wings...... I can imagine their style of play with my eyes closed. ”

Speaking was General Baranov, the old rival of the Chinese Defense Forces in the Central Asian theater, who was now ordered to command a tank cluster deployed on the Eastern Front in Moscow, but this tank cluster was not subordinate to the Eastern Front cluster, but was under the direct jurisdiction of the Moscow Front, and was the general reserve for the entire campaign. But now, the communication between this tank group and the entire Eastern Front cluster and the Moscow Front command has been largely cut off. Because the location of the headquarters of the Moscow Front has just been bombed by nuclear bombs, all the communication equipment has not been able to contact them, and the signal corps has already been dispatched, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to establish contact for a while and a half - if Commander Yakir and they are still alive, the dugout where they are located must have been damaged, and maybe they will be buried temporarily......

Therefore, now the Eastern Front cluster and tank cluster can only fight without the command of their superiors.

"Comrade Baranov, what do you think? Do you want to use your tank cluster to compete with the Chinese? "The commander of the Eastern Front cluster was Marshal Frunze, the former commander of the Soviet Central Asian Army, who deserved to be the commander who rose up in the era of the revolutionary war, and at this time he was still not discouraged and was still actively looking for fighters.

"Yes, Comrade Frunze, we still have up to 27 tank armies in the tank cluster! In total, there are more than 3,000 tanks and guns! And an armored army of the Chinese has a maximum of 3 armored corps, including 3 armored divisions and 6 armored grenadier divisions, and the total number of tanks and strong artillery will not exceed 1,800 even at full strength. And we know their tactics well, and we have long worked out corresponding countermeasures, so it is entirely possible to make a comeback battle under the city of Moscow! ”

Baranov's so-called "turnaround battle" is nothing more than a desperate fight. The little tank in his hand may be able to defeat Liao Lei's 2nd Panzer Army, but there are still 5 German Panzer armies outside Moscow! The tanks and assault artillery owned by this group of German Panzer Army are far stronger than China's Panzer Army in terms of quantity and quality, and any one of them can completely crush Baranov's tank cluster! Therefore, the Baranov tank cluster is, at most, before the reinforcements of the German Panzer Army come up, and fiercely export evil anger on the Chinese - even if it loses to an old European military power like Germany, but losing to China, the "sick man of East Asia" who has only risen for many years, really disgraces the face of the eighteenth generation of ancestors. And the culprit of the collapse of the USSR (Russia) this time is actually not Germany, but China! If China had not swallowed up most of the Soviet Union's Asian territory, the Soviet Union would at most have taken on the Russian brand and retreated to the east of the Ural Mountains as an Asian country. So this bad breath is going to come out anyway!

"Comrade Commander, Comrade Baranov, are we waiting for the command of the Front Army to be consulted before making arrangements for a counterattack?" The chief of staff of the cluster on the Eastern Front in Moscow, Colonel-General Vasilevsky, hesitated for a moment and reminded. The tank cluster is subordinate to the headquarters of the Front, and Frunze has no right to mobilize it at all, and the counterattack operation now discussed with Baranov is simply an act of ultra vires. But now, who knows if the headquarters of the Moscow Front is still there? Maybe you've already blown up the nuclear bomb to smithereens!

Frunze waved his hand and said with a smile: "This is our last battle, and the mission of our generation has been completed!" He looked at Vasilevsky: "Comrade Vasilevsky, the responsibility for this time is borne by me and Comrade Baranov, you let us have a good fight at the end!" ”

Vasilevsky opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to persuade Frunze and Baranov, Frunze was right, their generation, including Vasilevsky himself, had completed its historical mission, and all they could do now was to inspire generation after generation of revolutionary latecomers with fearless battles and sacrifices.

Thinking of this, he also nodded heavily: "Well, Comrade Frunze, Comrade Baranov, I want to take on this responsibility with you, and I hope that the last battle of our red tank troops will become an epic in the mouths of future revolutionaries." (To be continued......)