.At a forest near the highway, six armored communication vehicles and two field tents form a very simple temporary command center. On various fronts where the German armored troops are rushing forward, such temporary command centers are simply everywhere. In less than an hour, the staff officer will follow the troops forward again. This speed makes the opponent feel at a loss.

At noon on June 14, 37-year-old Rommel stood in such a temporary command center with confidence. On the sandy road not far away, tanks, armored vehicles and trucks loaded with soldiers drove east one after another. Every few minutes in the sky, you could see a fleet of more than a dozen or twenty aircraft flying by in a formation at a low altitude.

As the fighters deployed by the Russian army on the southern line were exhausted in the previous week of battle, the fighters of the Luftwaffe even hung up aviation bombs for ground support, and the dive bombers were roaring down from high altitudes again and again. It has to be admitted that these seemingly stupid guys had unparalleled power and deterrent power when attacking ground targets. More than 1,000 Russian soldiers once defended a small town and blocked the attack of the German ground troops. However, only one squadron of vultures ii carried out a round of bombing, the Russians surrendered obediently.

"General, the 1st Advance Armored Battalion sent a telegram, and they had already advanced to the eastern suburbs of Kishinau!

There is no new report on the 2nd Advance Armored Battalion, and it is expected to move eastward in the northern suburbs of Kishinau!”

A captain communications officer who was not much younger than Rommel came to report with a telegram, and Rommel made decisive instructions without even taking a glance at the map:

"Very good! Tell Major Sander, stop advancing when he sees the Dubosarre Bridge and start defending on the spot! In addition, send a message to Lieutenant Colonel Roger of the Northern Assault Group, and let his regiment reach the Transnistr River as soon as possible, and Lieutenant Colonel Schchemit of the Southern Assault Group. His regiment must meet Major Sander within an hour. We must lock the retreat of the Russian army in the city of Kishinau. This is our first big fish!"

"Abide by the order!"

After a while, the communications officer turned back.

"General, General Marcus sent a telegram that his local division had already broken through the first line of defense of the Russian army in Chishinau with the assistance of the 51st African colonial division!"

"Well! Those Africans are indeed brave and good at fighting! Your Majesty is so wise. Use the Poles as cannon fodder and our local army and African colonial army as the main force. In this way, even if we fight continuously, our losses will not be too great!"

This time Rommel walked back to the map spread out on a simple table made of empty ammunition boxes, and patrolled between the lines and circles for half a minute, "sent to General Marcus.

Let him not wait for our flank friendly forces to come up and launch an attack on the second line of defense of the Russian army! Call the commander of the 48th Air Force Regiment and ask them to draw at least 5 squadrons of vultures ii to assist us in the attack!"

"As for order!" The communication officer ran away quickly again.

Listening to the dense and sparse rumbling sounds in the distance, Rommel couldn't help feeling itchy. He turned around and glanced at the busy staff officers and shouted: "Adminton!"

In a blink of an eye, a second lieutenant who looked only in his early 20s appeared in front of him, "Come!"

"Gather my direct armored battalion, I'm going to the front line to check it out! As for the command center..."

Rommel looked on the map, pointed to a small blue dot and said. "Move to Saku Village for the time being!"

"Abide by the order!"

Just ten minutes later, Rommel's direct troops - 5 medium-sized assault tanks, 4 IV tanks, 6 Type 1926 assault guns, 3 Type 1925 infantry fighting vehicles, 7 Type 1920 infantry fighting vehicles, 19 semi-track armored personnel carriers and a whole motorized infantry company were ready to set off next to the command center.

Given that Operation Barbarossa began in the summer, German local tanks and armored vehicles were still in the most common yellow-green camouflage paint during the German-American War, the tankers were naturally all in black uniforms. Most armored soldiers and motorcyclists wore three-color field camouflage uniforms for the Army troops in the middle and late stages of the German-American War.

Before leaving, Rommel did not choose to continue sitting on his armored communication vehicle, but instead boarded an iv-type tank with agility. This tank is the safest one among the currently active weapons of the German Army. Although the 65mm frontal armor is not really as impeccable, both the US and the Russian army lack effective weapons that can penetrate such thick armor at long distances. Most of the time, the combat operations of the IV tanks have infantry fighting vehicles and armored vehicles to implement close-range protection. The advantages of technology and tactics make this tank known as the German Royal Knight rarely completely destroyed on the battlefield.

The captain of the IV tank then gave Rommel the observation position on the upper part of the turret, the earphones and throat communicator to Rommel, and then retracted into the tank to act as a machine gunner or correspondent. After skillfully taking over the captain's position, Rommel looked at the armored vehicle behind him. Turned his head, raised his right arm, and slowly lowered it forward, "Go forward!"

"go ahead!"

On the grassland with explosions one after another, a group of German infantry bent and holding Mauser rifles, gg semi-automatic rifles and mp26 submachine guns were closely following a Type 1925 infantry fighting vehicle. This new generation of infantry fighting vehicle developed based on Type 1920 infantry fighting vehicle still uses 20mm machine guns as its main weapon, but the new dual-mounted 20mm machine guns are significantly higher than their predecessors in terms of rate of fire, range and fire density. Because the engine with a larger horsepower and the armor defense is strengthened, the weight of this tank has been increased to 18 tons, and the speed of the road and off-road speed is maintained at 30/16 kilometers per hour. A 7.92mm machine gun is also installed at the front.

A shell suddenly fell and exploded less than 5 meters away from the infantry fighting vehicle. Two German infantry were immediately shot down. However, looking around, the corpses scattered on the grass were still in the yellow military uniforms. Near the bushes, hundreds of corpses around the winding trenches still maintained various postures of death. On the machine gun battle positions made of sandbags, the Russian Maxim, American Lewis and even German Firebird Light Machine Guns were drooping helplessly.

At this time, a Via tank that was marching more than 10 meters ahead stopped. After adjusting its muzzle slightly, it fired a shot towards the direction of the Russian artillery shells. In the blink of an eye, a Russian artillery position located between two big trees and covered with a large number of branches and leaves was bombarded into the sky.

After completing the shooting, the iv continued to advance smoothly. Along the way, with the sound of Gala Gala breaking, trees were ruthlessly pushed down by German steel beasts. On the Russian position about 2 kilometers in front of the woods, many Russian soldiers were leaving the trenches and running backwards in fear, and some were even empty-handed.

Two minutes later, the German tanks were still showing their power, and a group of war eagles flew over the woods, and then shot at the Russian positions. In just over a dozen minutes, a large number of round and black bombs fell on the heads of the Russians one after another, and the last trace of morale of the defenders finally collapsed.

"Don't stop, keep moving forward!"

On an IV tank, the blonde major wearing a black tank suit shouted his soldiers. Not far from the east of the position, a large river was vaguely visible. The war eagles just now only took half a minute to fly over the river called Transniest, and you can also see the Dubosar Railway Bridge, which had been blown into three sections in a German air raid.

The Transniest River originates from the Eastern Carpa liver mountain range. It flows to the southeast and eventually flows into the Black Sea. It is more than 1,300 kilometers long and flows in the narrow valleys in Moldova. The water flows calmly but the valley is very deep. It is almost impossible to wading through a boat and build a bridge to pass through.

As several bridges on the Transnistria River were blown up by the German Air Force within one day, more than 100,000 Russian officers and soldiers stationed in the Moldova section of the Sokolov defense line wanted to retreat, they had no choice but to force the Transnistria River and retreat to the Black Sea. However, after the war began, the relatively weak Russian Black Sea Fleet had retreated into the Azov Sea to avoid war. Retreating to the Black Sea would only make the exhausted Russian army face the powerful German-Turkish fleet.

The war eagles of the German Air Force roared past again, using bombs and bullets to clear a Russian artillery position across the river. So when the German advance armored unit arrived at the west side of the bridge, it did not encounter strong resistance from the woods just now.

It was still the blonde major, who shouted loudly after his tank stopped not far from the bridge:

"Tank 1 Company, scatter on the spot to find their own guard and defense positions! Tank 2 Company. Go to the small village in front, clean up there and hide it! Armored 3 Company, clean up the bridgehead! Armored chains, enter the position west of the bridgehead to prepare for defense! Communications officer, send it to the military headquarters, we have arrived at the Dubosare Bridge smoothly!"

After the troops took action, the major picked up the telescope and observed it. A blown-upper bridge could be seen about 6 or 7 kilometers above the river. There were some Russian soldiers on it that seemed to be working hard to repair the floating bridge. The downstream could only see the empty river surface extending to the end of the sight. There were more than a dozen small wooden boats under the bridge head on the east side of the blown-up bridge.

"Car No. 4! Do you see the boats on the other side of the river?" The major pressed the throat communicator, "Kill them!"

A slash tank that was just moving towards the bridgehead quickly stopped. Its turret slowly turned, and its muzzle quickly aimed at the other end of the bridge, and the pitch angle of the gun barrel also dropped below level.

With a bang, the IV tank made a sudden burst, and a 75mm high-explosive howitzer shell flew out instantly. After a little more than a second, a pair of broken wood and mud were lifted under the bridge piers on the other side.

"Very good, kill every boat that can float!"

The blonde major said as he knocked on the turret of his tank again, "Go forward! Go behind the broken wall!"

After a scent of smoke from the rear exhaust outlet was squirting out of the smell, the tank slowly started. The broken wall the major pointed to seemed to be a small brick-wood bunker originally used by the Russian army to defend against the bridgehead. There was a huge bomb crater on the right, which should have been left by the aviation bomb of the Vulture II. The broken brick-breaking wood and the soil were vaguely corpses of several Russian soldiers.

Shortly after his tank stopped, the major got information from the Air Force support force: a large number of Russian defeated soldiers were rushing towards this side!

"Be ready for combat, the enemy infantry is moving here!"

The major calmly issued a combat order. Since it was an armored battle, it was no surprise that there were fewer enemies and more battles. Although the number may be very different, the strong firepower, defense and maneuverability of the armored troops gave them unique ability to penetrate the battle - in contrast, although the airborne troops could penetrate further, they did not have independent attacks or high-intensity defensive combat capabilities.

The infantrymen who were riding on armored vehicles and motorcycles had already prepared defense in the Russian bridgehead positions. Only one driver and two mortar gunners were left on the semi-track armored vehicles. The tanks of the iii and iv scattered on the positions and assault guns hidden in various obstacles were also raised one by one. The infantry fighting vehicles known as the "infantry killer" were ready to use their two machine guns to ruthlessly shoot the enemy infantry who dared to be exposed to the wilderness.

"Tank 2nd Company waits for my order to open fire! Others, wait until the enemy approaches 1,000 meters before firing! The enemy ceases to retreat. Do you understand?"

After giving orders to his troops, the major adjusted the communication frequency to the one used by the air cover troops. "Eagle 9, Eagle 9, are you still there? After we open fire, you will fire at low altitudes! Wait for us to open fire!"

After everything was deployed, the major focused on observing the situation ahead with a telescope. The Russian army's figure became clearer and clearer. The first thing they were to be hit were several trucks loaded with soldiers. There were actually many cavalry holding spears next to them, and there were large groups of infantrymen. The scene was not too chaotic, but looking around, there was no heavy artillery, which made the major feel much more at ease.

As the distance from the bridge head gradually narrowed, the Russian army finally discovered that the bridge head position had changed hands and the bridge was bombed into three sections. After that, the Russian vanguard slowed down, and the rifle soldiers jumped out of the truck, leaving behind light and heavy machine guns and machine gun soldiers. The cavalry also gathered in the fields on both sides of the road. It seemed that the officers were deploying tactics for their cavalry. After a while, the chaotic queue revealed a fairly desirable attack formation.

The major waited calmly, waiting for the opponent's cavalry and trucks to start accelerating, waiting for the opponent's infantry to start trotting in a strait formation, waiting for the opponent's distance to be close enough. He gently placed his finger on the throat communicator, waiting, waiting, and shouted violently: "Fire!"

This loud sound could hardly be heard by the German officers and soldiers who were waiting silently. In an instant, all kinds of firearms were firing at the Russian army in front of the position. At a distance of 1,000 meters, the lethality of tank guns, machine guns and light and heavy machine guns made the Russian cavalry unable to advance even 20 meters! The first time German tanks and assault guns fired, they hung the trucks in front of the Russian army. They were either burning helplessly or were lifted upwards, and some wheels were blown away...
Chapter completed!