readx;?“ Let's stop in moderation, we are the victors when we master the battlefield. "www.biquge.info Obviously, Xu Huaide's carefully prepared right hook failed to completely defeat the Germans this time, and the sudden appearance of the Tiger Hunter tank destroyer greatly reduced the advantage of the Huaxia heavy armored forces. Although the Type 35 tank can suppress the No. 4 tank in tank battles, the number is too small and it is not suitable for attacking the fortification, which leads to the lack of offensive power. Although not fully done. But Xu Huaide eventually expelled his opponent from the battlefield. The Huaxia could recover and repair the damaged tanks, while the Germans lost this valuable equipment forever.

After several hours of fighting, the Germans lost about 280 tanks of all kinds by two armored divisions plus two armored battalions of heavy Tiger tanks. Two of the heavy Tiger tank armored battalions lost about 70% of their combat vehicles, and it can be said that these two battalions were completely disabled, and both personnel and equipment were crushed by the other side in the ferocious armored war of attrition! The Tiger Hunter Tank Destroyer Battalion also lost a lot of these expensive heavy vehicles that were not completely destroyed, and some of them even had only broken tracks or damaged suspension devices, which could be repaired and reused if they were towed back. And these unrecoverable equipment became the bulk of the final battle damage.

As the victorious side, Huaxia also paid a heavy price, and after the end of the engagement, only 15 Dragon tanks remained in service, and another 14 Dragon tanks were completely destroyed. However, most of the remaining 30 Dragon tanks can be repaired in a field environment. That is to say, in about 3 days at most, the number of Huaxia Dragon tanks can be maintained at about 40!

Compared with the Dragon tank with rough skin and thick flesh, which can be used for repair after being beaten, the Type 35 tank is much worse, and in Meng Yan's last attack, about half of the Type 35 tanks were completely destroyed or lost their recovery value by the battle defense gun or the No. 4 tank destroyer. Although they likewise destroyed enemy tanks that were far outnumbered by themselves. But the fragile side protection also cost the newly debuted medium tank. In the end, the Huaxia armored forces finally won the battle after completely losing about 100 tanks.

While Xu Huaide and Guderian were fighting, the two partial divisions also fought a moderate armored battle. The battle raged in China with the strength of one armored division and one mechanized infantry division and one armored division and one heavy tank battalion of Guderian. If the main forces commanded by Guderian also had numerical superiority. Then the German division was completely suppressed by the other side both in terms of quantity and quality. Faced with an overwhelming attack by up to 400 tanks of various types, the German troops on the flank were completely crushed within a few hours.

When the frontal attacking Dragon tanks and the outflanking Type 35 tanks completely crushed the German 509 heavy tank battalion in front of them. The whole battle entered garbage time, and although there were more than 200 No. 4 tanks and No. 4 tank destroyers in the back, they were quickly crushed under the attack of 45 Dragon tanks and 60 Type 35 tanks! Hundreds of Huaxia tanks formed an indestructible torrent of steel, directly crushing the German army behind to death! Neither tanks nor anti-aircraft artillery could stop the opponent.

And the German commander in charge of the flank chose to give up a little later, and only remembered to evacuate when the situation could not be reversed, at this time the German armored forces had been beaten to pieces, the remaining forces were divided, and in the end it was impossible to even form a continuous line of defense! In the end, except for a small number of logistics troops who were spared because they were too far behind. After two days of continuous pursuit, an armored division and a heavy tank battalion were almost completely annihilated! This is also since the outbreak of World War II, when Germany lost a divisional unit and an independent heavy unit in a battle!

The annihilation of the flanks completely ruined Guderian's offensive plan! Originally, he also planned to retreat and wait for reinforcements and then fight back, after all, the frontal Huaxia troops also need time to recover and replenish. But now it was different, Guderian's remaining troops were completely exposed to the pincer offensive of the two Chinese armies! If you withdraw a little slower now, you may be trapped.

So Guderian could only withdraw with the remaining armored forces to the starting position, where there were at least 7 German mechanized infantry divisions and mule and horse divisions. At least in terms of numbers, it has an absolute advantage, although it is mobile, but the concentration of troops of such a size is not afraid of the opponent's strong attack.

Guderian, who finally returned to the starting position, began to calculate the losses of the German army on the Iranian battlefield in just a few days, and one panzer division was completely annihilated. Two armored divisions were severely damaged, and the 5 armored divisions assigned to them were half finished! Give yourself 4 separate heavy tank armored battalions and only one full armored battalion and 2 together are not enough for a crippled battalion of one battalion! More than half of the losses! The sharpest spear in his own hand made the other party beat half of it like this!

The remaining 11 infantry divisions are still in good condition, but what is the use? Once out of the fortified line of defense. These mistakes that lack armored units can easily be eaten little by little by the super-mobile Huaxia armored forces. You must know that Xu Huaide did not press all the chips at one time, he still has 2 divisions of troops in his hands, and Tian Yong, who is responsible for supporting the back, has no less troops than Xu Huaide!

Although the Germans' aerial reconnaissance could not completely understand the deployment of Huaxia, it was clear that Guderian knew very well that from the front line to Qom, the troops in the hands of the Huaxia Army were very strong, and even if he pressed all the remaining forces, he could not defeat the opponent.

So now the question arises. Operation Desert Storm has failed. Either the Germans completely abandoned the operation and built fortifications on the original demarcation line between the two sides. Either continue to increase the number of troops. Expand the scale of the war. This is not something for Guderian to decide, all he can do is report honestly. And then let the Supreme High Command decide on future actions! What Guderian didn't expect was that the scale of the war was not a nuclear bomb, and the impact of the campaign was far beyond most people's imagination, not only the strategy of the German Army was modified to a certain extent, but also affected the navy, air force, and even other countries that were originally out of the way!

"It seems that Manstein's caution is correct, Guderian has not obtained enough troops to defeat his opponents, and if we want to complete the reservation plan, we must at least double the number of troops!" Kruger said this to Bock after receiving Guderian's telegram.

"It depends on what you want to achieve, which is to solve the Iran problem once and for all. Or is it just about ensuring the safety of the traffic lines? If it is the former, we are afraid that we will need to transfer Manstein's troops back from India, if it is the latter. We only need to increase the limited number of troops, and the Isfahan salient is of little value to China. It's a deterrent in peacetime, but in wartime it's too expensive to maintain this salient! General Bock's answer was ambiguous. The question now is whether the Germans will abandon their seemingly easy South Asian colonies and China, or will they maintain a vigilant force in southern Iran and continue with the Indian strategy.

"Get Manstein back?" Rundstedt asked tentatively, looking at Germany's lines of communication in southern Iran, the German army general was inclined to clear the rear first and then attack India. Otherwise, China would have occupied the bridgehead in northern Iran, and it would have been entirely possible to completely cut off the supply lines of the German expeditionary force in India. An army of millions will die without a place to bury! Therefore, he tended to sweep away the Chinese garrison in the Middle East first.

"What about time? Do you plan to use it for 1 year or 2 years? If this goal could be easily achieved, we would have done it in the Iran war a few years ago! We beat the British, beat the Americans, but in the end we ended up in a draw with the Chinese! Kruger asked rhetorically.

"That was before! We limited the scale of the war, but now it is different, Europe has stabilized, and we have only one goal, and that is South Asia! We can concentrate two million or more troops to besiege Iran. Sooner or later, we can drive China out of the Middle East! Rundstedt retorted.

"China also did not do its best during the Iran war! Now there is only one battlefield in China, and that is Iran! Their troops could have transported millions of troops to Iran through the Central Asian transportation network, and we were actually fighting on our doorstep. Kruger paused, and then said, "If we only have one enemy. I don't mind a big fight with Huaxia in Iran. But there are too many enemies for us! ”

"The American industry can completely replenish the losses on the battlefield in France, according to the intelligence reality, the technical exchanges between the Chinese and the United States and Britain are very frequent, and it may not be long before the Chinese tanks we encounter today will appear in the combat sequence of the Americans. If the United States and Britain occupy the bridgehead of India, they will be able to regain the power to compete with us in a few months. We will then have to face the Entente on both sides. Bock's opinion was also in favor of Kruger.

"But in a few months, it will be difficult for us to occupy India. India is too big, and the transportation facilities are very backward, and our logistics are under great pressure, which directly affects the speed of the advance. Britain and the United States will be able to get a bridgehead anyway. Take a step back, even if we occupy India. If Huaxia can cut off our lines of communication, no matter how many troops there are, they will collapse. Kruger has a point. But it never answered the question that Rundstedt was most concerned about - logistical supply!

"It's a mistake to rely entirely on a land route for supplies! Even if we can hold off the opponent's offensive on the ground, Huaxia can still use their air force to threaten rail and road traffic! The safest logistical passage is not on land, but at sea! Crook said, pointing to a route on the map.

"As long as the navy can guarantee the sea supremacy in the coastal areas, then even if the troops are fifty percent more, they will not be subject to the problem of logistics supply, and a fleet can easily transport more than 200,000 tons of various materials from the Middle East to the South Asian battlefield.

"What's more, the transportation line on land is not so easy to lose, the eastern part of Isfahan is a desert area, and it is difficult for hundreds of thousands of troops to break through from there. And in the past few years, we have built a coherent line of defense along the border between the two river basins and Iran, and have turned all the way east to the Isfahan salient! As long as Huaxia withdraws from this area, we can immediately level the defensive line. If they have to attack our well-guarded lines, come on. Kruger said with a smile.

The Germans were not stupid, they knew very well the situation of the Chinese army entrenched in northern Iran, and this army hung high over the heads of millions of Allied troops like a sword of Damocles. But at the same time, the Germans knew very well that the cost of their uprooting was very high! And it is simply not allowed from the point of view of time. So after the end of the Iranian civil war, the German General Staff has been working on countermeasures.

In the end, the German military top brass made two preparations, the first preparation was to concentrate on a tentative attack after the end of the European theater, and if the other side felt weaker, then take advantage of the situation to push off northern Iran and solve the problem once and for all. On the other hand, the preparation was to build a defensive line, which seemed to be costly, but in fact there were not many routes that could support the Chinese offensive from northern Iran to the Allies, that is, the line from western Iran to Qom, and the transportation and infrastructure in other places did not support the rapid advance of large army groups.

And the current situation is that Guderian's tentative offensive kicked on the iron plate, and he lost nearly half of the armored force in just two days, and the technical superiority of the Chinese army shocked the Germans, but at the same time there was some helplessness, because the German industrial department had already told the German military top brass that the Tiger tank was almost the limit that the German industry and logistics department could guarantee at present, and if it was strengthened, I am afraid that the weight would reach the 70-ton mark! The transportation of such a behemoth from Europe to hot and humid South Asia, not to mention the combat effectiveness, how to make such a thing fight in a place lacking industry and basic transportation is a big problem! You know, now the overhaul of the Tiger tank has to be pulled back to Europe for processing!

Since they could not defeat their opponents, the only thing the Germans could do now was to defend, and at the same time make good contact with the navy, so that the navy and coastal land-based aviation could ensure the safety of the sea transportation routes. The German top brass has always believed that the German Navy cannot defeat the combined forces of the navies of the Chinese and the United States and Britain, but it is still possible to take advantage of the advantages of internal operations to deal with the US and British navies or the Chinese navy alone; after all, now that the navies of the three Allied countries are together, if they go to the Indian Ocean, the two aircraft carriers of the Turkish Navy will also join the Allied Navy, and in this way, the Allied Navy will have a huge advantage in the local battlefield.

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