Just five days after the uppercut, the offensive on the southern front finally began, and Brauchitsch launched the offensive without even waiting for the air force to complete the continuous bombardment, which was one of the reasons why he was later criticized. However, judging from the situation at that time, the attack effect of the Luftwaffe was not good, the Huaxia Air Force had already restored its firepower, and air battles at the squadron and even brigade level had occurred repeatedly, and the already small air force on the southern front was simply not enough to suppress the opponent, on the contrary, if you waited for the air force, I am afraid that the opponent would be given more time to prepare, so Brauchitsch did not do two and immediately launched a ground offensive! The spearheads of the two armored battalions stabbed towards the rear of Huaxia, while the other flanks deployed to cooperate with the main attacking force.

Colonel Hubey, who had inflicted heavy losses on the U.S. military in the early days of the war, once again served as the commander of the vanguard of the campaign, this time with a fully optimized armored unit, two battalions of more than 120 heavy armored vehicles, including 50 No. 4 tanks, more than 30 No. 4 tank destroyers, and more than 20 Vespa tank destroyers, plus a certain number of Wild Bee self-propelled howitzers. At the same time, there are also some half-tracks equipped with rocket artillery, plus a certain number of wheeled combat vehicles, this unit is very synthesized, except for the absence of ultra-long-range artillery, both in terms of the strength of the armored forces and the intensity of the support fire from medium distances, the Hube battle group has the highest combat effectiveness among all the German participating units.

Behind the Hube battle group was a complete mechanized infantry regiment, although Brauchitsch had confidence in the Hube battle group, but considering that the Huaxia army was strong after all, in order to ensure the continuity of the attack and support for the Hube battle group, he still first ensured that the frontal attack was sufficient. "When your armored forces are lost, you can directly draw the weapons you need from the mechanized infantry regiment behind, you just need to ensure continuous attacks and breakthroughs, you don't have to worry about anything else!" Hube still has high hopes that he will be the sharpest spear of the Teutonic knights and pierce the opponent's defenses directly!

"Spot the opponent's target, 7 o'clock direction, scale regiment level, distance 10 kilometers! The two sides are expected to meet in 20 minutes! "A two-seater flying fox reconnaissance plane flew through the air, in the air of 4000 meters, he could clear the smoke and dust raised by the Hubei armored group in the distance, both sides are in the wilderness, the weather is good, both sides can find the opponent in the distance very accurately, just when the Chinese Air Force found the Germans at the same time, a BF110 reconnaissance aircraft also found Xu Huaide from the direction of the department, the two armored forces are like two dragons, after a short hesitation, the two sides changed direction, straight to each other!

"Let's get started!" Xu Huaide personally commanded this battle, because the two sides were fighting against each other, and the speed of contact between the two armies would be very fast when charging in the opposite direction, so the Type 29 tank destroyer and Type 29 assault gun, which were relatively sluggish, were not deployed in the front as before. This time the opponent's strength is very strong, and there is no qualitative difference between it and the Huaxia Army in all aspects, whether it is armored troops or medium-distance support firepower, so in order to be safe, Xu Huaide put away his heavy punches, and would rather suffer some losses in front of him, but also fight again!

With Xu Huaide's order, the Huaxia tank unit launched an attack formation, while the tank destroyers and assault guns in the rear were deployed in echelons, followed by rocket artillery and howitzers. Self-propelled anti-tank guns and various light combat vehicles are deployed on both sides, the purpose of which is to prevent the opponent's high-speed vehicles from outflanking from both sides. Compared with the conservatism of China, the Germans played more unrestrained this time. Hube tried his best to strengthen the first wave of troops, the No. 4 tank and the No. 4 tank destroyer together formed a dense attack front, followed by self-propelled artillery and support artillery, Hubei's purpose of this deployment on the one hand was not to know that he was facing the main force of Huaxia, although the size of the other party was somewhat beyond his expectations, but according to the wrong intelligence, it was estimated that this should be all the tanks that Huaxia could mobilize, as long as this wave was penetrated, then everything would not be a problem. So Hube was willing to take a gamble. What's more, he also has a mechanized infantry regiment behind him as his reinforcements, even if the offensive is in a stalemate, he is not without other options! Hubei, who thinks he has a lot of money, is naturally willing to fight.

"Colonel Long Yunshan of the General Reserve called that the General Reserve Division was in place and asked when the attack would be launched." Just before the two sides were about to collide, Xu Huaide received a report from his subordinates, and now the situation is very good, the forces in his hands are finally equal to the other party, and he can launch an attack at any time, and there is one more division, Xu Huaide can immediately start a detour from the flank, and then completely eat the opponent's forward, but he thinks that it is still a little early, his vision is longer-term, and his plan is greater, "Let Colonel Long wait first, we must let the Germans put in all the troops before we start." Xu Huaide said. In addition, I would like to talk to the Air Force that a ground attack can be omitted, but try to drive the German reconnaissance planes farther away. ”

Soon, the tanks of both sides appeared in each other's scopes, first a few looming black dots jumping on the horizon, and then slowly becoming clear, and the distance of the target was far greater than the effective range. In the absence of a preset position, the layout of the other side on the front can be described as clear at a glance, the two sides can be described as old enemies, and they are quite familiar with each other's tactics, the Huaxia Panzer Corps slowed down first, as if waiting for something, while the Germans used this time to further expand their attack front.

Hube took full advantage of the numerical advantage of the first wave of encounters by distributing his forces on the widest possible front, with tank units on the flanks and tank destroyer No. 4 in the middle. Further back were those self-propelled anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns. The strength of the Huaxia armored forces on the opposite side seems to be relatively limited, only about 60 units, and they are all tanks, lacking tank destroyers. Faced with this situation, Hube is very confident in his offensive, and the No. 4 tank destroyer, which has excellent hard indicators, can definitely crush his opponent in a head-to-head duel. After a brief hesitation, Huaxia also began to disperse their forces, they wanted to hold off all the Germans in front, and because of the lack of first-line armored troops, the gap between the companies became larger. This further weakened the defensive strength of the front, and looking at these areas that could be interspersed, the Hubes did not step into it, but decided to wait for the troops behind to arrive.

"1200 meters! Fire! "The Germans who got the new toy are very confident in this battle, which can be seen from their firing distance, often the Germans fire at a distance of about 800 meters, this wave of attacks is usually to correct the trajectory, the probability of a direct hit is not large, and the hit can not penetrate the thick armor of the Type 29 tank, but this time, the German No. 4 tank destroyer fired at a distance of 1200 meters, they thought very well, at a distance of 1200 meters to 900 meters, the Germans can make 3 corrections, When the Huaxia tank hits a distance of 900 meters, one shot will penetrate them! Believing in the 75MML60 gun, the Germans abandoned the original pig rush melee style of play, and instead tended to be more stable. In the words of a German tank destroyer commander: "Cover our flanks and we will bring you victory!" ”

This is the first time that the No. 4 tank destroyer has participated in a melee on the scale of an armored regiment, and the new long-barreled artillery with a 6x magnified scope has brought tremendous pressure to the Huaxia armored forces in a head-on engagement, Xu Huaide is not as lucky as Tao Zhenyu, and almost went around to the back of the opponent and kicked the opponent's ass fiercely. ONE OF 75MM ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS FLEW OUT OF THE SLENDER BARREL AND FLEW TOWARDS THE HUAXIA TANK IN THE DISTANCE, AND AT A DISTANCE OF 900 METERS, THE CONTINUOUS FIRING OF THE TYPE 29 TANK WAS DEFLECTED BY THE HEAVY INCLINED ARMOR OF THE TANK DESTROYER. And the opponent's armor-piercing shells can already knock on the front of the Type 29 tank if they are lucky, at a distance of less than 300 meters from 1200 meters to 900 meters, at least 9 Type 29 tanks were destroyed, a ball of fireball rose in the wreckage of the destroyed tank, the frontal assault was hindered, and the remaining Huaxia tanks had to avoid to the side, dodging the narrow firing range of the tank destroyer, at this time the distance between the Huaxia tank unit and the German No. 4 tank was only about 700 meters, which was the most suitable distance for engagement!

"Huaxia's tank forces are concentrated in large numbers on the two wings, they seem to be very afraid of our tank destroyers, this change has greatly increased the pressure on our two wings, and the tank destroyers can not provide effective support because of the small firing range, but fortunately, we also have a hand, equipped with 88MML45 artillery half-track vehicles to fill this gap, the powerful 88MM gun on the car has enough power and firing range!" Hube once wrote proudly in his combat record.

With the shock of the car body, a cannon continued to spit out a deadly metal bullet rain at a distance of several hundred meters, and in the hedging state, the two sides quickly entered the distance of tearing faces! The Chinese armored forces fought a fierce battle this time, they rushed into the opponent's line like a group of angry lions, 700 meters, 500 meters and even 300 meters away from the Germans to launch a crazy confrontation, this distance on the armor became meaningless, almost all of them saw the rhythm of light death, the battlefield sounded dense explosions, from time to time there were tanks pierced by powerful armor-piercing bullets, and even at the same time several shells hit a lot of cases.

"The situation on the battlefield is too chaotic, we have never experienced such a bloody battle, we are like ancient knights with their battle axes and heavy swords in their hands to slash and slash the enemies around us, the destruction of friendly vehicles after the explosion rained down on our vehicles, and the sound of metal clashing and tearing almost overwhelming. We mechanically search for targets and then reload and shoot. The tanks on both sides are moving fast, and whoever stops at this time will die! Both sides fire almost always on the move, and their accuracy can be imagined, but relying on the high rate of fire, there will still be many unlucky eggs destroyed. A German ** person described the situation at that time.

The almost brutal style of play of the Chinese tank troops made the two sides entangled, at this time there was no formation at all, and there was no discipline, the tankers fought completely by instinct, the two sides were huddled together, almost shooting at each other's heads with artillery, and even the tankmen still jumped out to fight with submachine guns, grenades and even daggers after losing their cars, and a German tanker had just crawled out of the burning tank, Before he could breathe a breath of air, which was full of gunsmoke and blood, he was beaten into a sieve by the submachine gun in the hand of a Chinese soldier opposite. And before the Huaxia soldier even had time to turn around, a grenade rolled down at his feet, and a cloud of black smoke rose up, leaving only a pile of minced flesh and blood. The German soldier who secretly threw the grenade had just taken out a second grenade, and a single shell hit the wreckage of the tank where he was hiding, and then the already shattered steel monster turned directly into a pile of fragments, and the high-speed debris flying in the sky killed the German soldier and his comrades. Life is so fragile in this kind of battle, there is no place to be safe!

The desperate charge of the Chinese armored forces made the Germans a little puzzled, what were they for? Break through the position? What do you think, Hube has invested more than 40% more troops on the front line than the other side, and this is not counting the half-track self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank guns that can go up at any time. Under the dual advantages of quantity and quality, no matter how brave the result is, nothing will change. However, as the wheeled armored vehicles that appeared behind the Chinese tank units came into the field of vision of the Germans, the Germans seemed to understand something! THESE VEHICLES ARE ARMED WITH 6-POUNDER GUNS AND 75MM CANNONS, WHICH ARE NOT COMPARABLE TO THOSE 30MM GUNS, AND THE HIGH-SPEED ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS FIRED BY THE 57MM GUNS AT A DISTANCE OF 500 METERS CAN PIERCE THE CHEEK OF TANK NO. 4, AND EVEN IF THEY ARE AT 800 METERS APART, THEY CAN STILL PENETRATE THE SIDE! THESE FAST AND FAST 57MM GUNS ARE DEFINITELY MASTERS OF CHAOS IN THE WILDERNESS! The Huaxia tank troops used their sacrifices to get these vehicles a chance to fire, which seems to be a relatively good deal!

Although he was unwilling, Hube had to admit that the other party seemed to take the initiative, and a large number of high-mobility wheeled vehicles rushed over the tank group in the melee, and even rushed towards Hubei's rear, and the half-track combat vehicles that had just come up to support were directly startled! The thin-skinned half-track starts in front of the slender 6-pounder gun and the 50 machine gun! THIS IS SIMPLY THE BEST TARGET, THE HUGE FIGURE OF THE HALF-TRACK BRINGS NOT TERROR BUT RESULTS, THE 6-POUNDER SHELL SOLVES THE PROBLEM OF INSUFFICIENT AFTER-EFFECT OF THE 30MM SHELL, AND AN 8-TON HALF-TRACK WORTH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MARKS AND THE EQUALLY EXPENSIVE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN ON IT ARE EASILY SOLVED BY A 6-POUNDER SHELL. THE TWO SIDES ENTERED THE TIME OF THE COMPETITION FOR THE RATE OF FIRE, AND IN THE CASE THAT A SINGLE SHOT CAN DESTROY THE OPPONENT, THE HIGH RATE OF FIRE OF THE 6-POUNDER GUN IS MORE PRACTICAL THAN THE POWER OF THE 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN!

Half-track self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and their crews were destroyed by a flurry of 6-pounder shells and armor-piercing incendiary shells from 50 machine guns. Wheeled vehicles equipped with electric turrets are exceptionally agile. Often after they have completed the first set of attacks, and just after the second shell has been taken out of the ammunition compartment, the turret has already been turned into place, and the gun is already pointing at the target. ALTHOUGH THESE CRISPY SKINS COULD NOT WITHSTAND THE ATTACKS OF THE 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, THE GERMANS CLEARLY SUFFERED GREATER LOSSES.

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