. "Cheetah 1, Cheetah 1, we are going back. There are still many Russians behind. Good luck!"

The headset came from the voice of the air squadron leader who had been providing air support to him. Major Sandr raised his head and watched the German fighter planes climb up, formation and then go away.

“Guys, we might have to fight alone before the next batch of air forces arrive!

But don’t worry, we have enough strength to make the Russians suffer all the hardships here! Okay, hurry up and count the ammunition, and give priority to replenishment if it is less than 40% of the standard configuration!"

After the major issued the order, the tanks and assault artillery crews became busy again. Anyone who meets the conditions can use a small flag to summon the ammunition truck in the advance battalion - a Type 1924 semi-track armored conveyor truck specially equipped with shells, bullets and oil. However, this kind of supply is very limited. Usually, even a reinforced battalion like the advance armored battalion only has 5-6 armored vehicles with a load of 4.5 tons, which means that it can supplement more than 20 tons of ammunition and oil for the armored battalion. Usually, the weight of shells, bullets and oil is balanced by 2:1:2, that is, about 1,200 shells, 200,000 rounds and 10,000 liters of gasoline. Judging from the numbers alone, these supplies seem to be a lot, and in fact, they can only provide a standard ammunition base for such armored battalion. Logistics mainly rely on the transportation troops above the regiment level to maintain it.

Before the German battlefield ammunition supply was completed, the Russian army, facing life and death, launched another attack. This time they learned a little, and did not use cavalry and trucks to take the lead. Instead, thousands of infantry bent and lowered their heads, and quickly advanced to the German positions at a distance of 1 or 2 meters. From a distance, they looked like a large group of ants lured by food. The scene could be said to be full of mountains and fields and crowded. Although the defensive war at the beginning of the war was quite good, at the critical moment, the Russians could not help but use their human-season tactics. Unfortunately, at this time, regardless of the total population, the population of their service was not as good as that of the German Empire. The population of German Africa alone was four times that of Russia. This did not include Germany with a population of nearly 90 million and German India with a population of over 100 million!

"The 2nd Company is here to pay attention. After we open the fire, we will launch all the tanks. I will order you to rush to the Russians. Do you understand?"

Due to the assistance of the air force, Major Sander did not even need to use the tank company hidden in the village during the previous Russian attack. In the current German Army organization, the standard configuration of a tank company is the iii, the iv tank and assault gun in total. The reason why assault guns are incorporated into ordinary tank companies is that on the one hand, this fully tracked tank without turrets can fully keep up with the tanks when fighting, and the cost is much cheaper. On the other hand, its powerful firepower has significant lethality for the Russian army, which is still mainly infantry in this era.

The second company commanded by Major Sander currently has the Liii tank, 4 IV tanks and 4 assault guns. Another iii tank and an assault gun were damaged and withdrawn from the battle. For many times after the end of the German-US war, the German Army did not put new tanks into service, but focused on updating and maintaining existing equipment and upgrading components. For example, the more than 1,000 iii tanks in service in the German Army were between 1925 and 1926.

All of them have replaced the new Daimler diesel engines. In terms of volume and weight, the diesel engine has the characteristics of high horsepower, low fuel consumption, not easy to catch fire, and safer startup system. Especially when attacked by enemy infantry close-range incendiary bombs, tanks using diesel engines obviously have better survivability. Although the diesel engines also have high noise and black smoke, these are easily exposed to the shortcomings of the target site, the German Command, which is preparing to fight the Russians, is still determined to replace the previous gasoline engine.

After replacing the engine, the iii tank has improved slightly in its speed and travel. Its road speed has been increased to 37 kilometers per hour, off-road speed is close to 20 kilometers per hour, and road trip has increased to 200 kilometers. The off-road trip has reached 150 kilometers.

After the Iii tank, the German army's current IV tank also completed the replacement of diesel engines in early 1927, and the IV tanks produced thereafter also used Daimler's 350-horsepower diesel engine, which increased the performance of this steel tank by a small level. In addition, the German Army also installed auxiliary devices for the winter start-up of the diesel engine on its Iiii tanks, and developed and stored a large amount of fuel antifreeze suitable for use in severe cold conditions.

Although he was ready to spend the winter in Russia, Germany hoped to end the war before winter from top to bottom. When a large number of Russian infantry rushed to about 1,000 meters again, Major Sandor, the commander of the 1st advance battalion of the Armored Army of the German Royal Combat Army, decisively issued an order to open fire. Once again, fierce artillery fire and bullets broke out in an instant. In the battle between the "sea of ​​people" and the "metal storm", metal quickly gained an overwhelming advantage. Flying shrapnel and shuttle bullets ruthlessly and efficiently plundered the lives of the Russians. In just half a minute, the number of casualties of the Russian army quickly rose to four digits!

Major Sander only poked his head out of his turret, holding a telescope in his right hand and gently placed his left hand on the communicator position at his throat. In the telescope, the Russian soldiers fell down, but driven by some wonderful force, more Russian soldiers holding rifles ran forward with great force. The shaky rifle at the front of the rifle reflected dazzling sunlight from time to time. Such a scene appeared more than once from 1914 to 1924. Are they barbaric or brave, and as their opponents, were the powerful German troops advanced or cruel?

Sander no longer cared about these issues. When the German machine gunners had to suspend shooting and replace the overheated barrel, the firepower on the German positions suddenly weakened a lot, and the Russian army also took advantage of this to keep narrowing the distance between themselves and the German positions.

"2nd Company, attack!"

The fierce artillery fire covered the sound of the German tanks hiding in the small villages. When they pushed down the remaining walls there and rumbling forward, the Russians were obviously surprised. Their vanguard troops were less than 500 meters away from the German positions, and the sudden appearance of German tanks was more than 100 meters from their left wing! At this distance, the Russian soldiers could even see the black hole of the machine gun on the German IIII tank and the front of the body used to prevent infantry thrusts!

Lower the muzzle, without being aimed or stopping to shoot. The three iii tanks that were moving in the front shot out their 50mm shells in a few seconds. At the same time, the machine guns located in the front of the vehicle also opened fire. At such a close distance, their red flames scared every Russian soldier.

Behind the iii tank in the sudden front, German tanks drove out majestic from the village in a half-ruins. The larger and hideous body and muzzle of the iv tank seemed more shocking, and before they could fire, some Russian soldiers were already feeling distressed. When everyone was rushing to escape here, who would risk the huge danger to fight for a thousandth chance to destroy a German tank?

While advancing at high speed, Lian's nine tanks turned back and forth with turrets equipped with thick straight gun barrels. The black holes swept back and forth at these humble lives. The machine guns kept firing before changing the ammunition belt. The pressure these tanks brought to the Russian officers and soldiers who were charging forward was far more powerful than theirs!

The Russian army was still hesitating, but in just a blink of an eye, the iii tanks in the front had already rushed into the Russian army's formation over a hundred meters. The Russian soldiers were completely panicked. In desperation, some people picked up rifles and fired at the tanks. But how could a few grams of bullets pose a threat to a medium-sized German tank with thick armor? Some people also used pistols, sabers, grenades, bayonets, engineer shovels, and all kinds of weapons. However, German tanks did not eat their sets. The steel beasts did not slow down their speed and did not change their direction. They pierced the Russian storm queues like an extremely sharp sword. When the tracks rolled over the corpses of living or dead people, the screams and the sound of crushing bones made everyone present frightened!

Although the armor of the four assault guns is not thick, it is still a difficult bone for the Russian infantry. They are closely following the tanks in front. Two rows of serrated infantry anti-infantry piercings on their oblique front armor look like the sharp angle of a rhino at this time. Anyone who dares to block the road will be dismantled without exception.

While moving, the two IV tanks also discovered several field artillery behind the Russian infantry. It was obviously a secretly brought by the Russians when the German army was focusing on the charge infantry. After a short stop, the commanders of the IV tank felt uneasy, and then turned around and rushed towards the cannons at full speed. The Russian artillery had just been killed and injured by the sudden shelling bombardment. When they looked up, they saw two camouflaged steel beasts approaching quickly. It was obviously unrealistic to bombard the tanks in front of them with high muzzles. Moreover, several cannons had been overturned to the ground, so the officers ran away, and the artillery did not show any weakness. Before the German tanks came up to flatten the remaining cannons, these people had already escaped.

Taking advantage of this chaos, the German machine gunners quickly replaced the spare barrel. In order to avoid accidental attacks, the German guns above 20 mm temporarily stopped firing and also let the heated barrel rest. So in these few minutes, there were only relatively simple rifle sounds on the German positions, but at this time the gg semi-automatic rifles of the Browning Company and Gigi's arms had become a standard weapon for equality with the Mauser's manual rifles in the German infantry squad. While increasing the ammunition consumption speed, the fire density of the German infantry squad was greatly improved, so here 2

More than 00 riflemen fired together than in the wars between Germany, France, Germany, Britain, Germany and the United States. When 10 rounds of bullets from a side-by-side magazine were placed into this semi-automatic rifle, all the gunmen had to do was to continuously pull the trigger, which made those partners who were still equipped with Mauser 1898 envious. Sometimes the infantry even competed to use the gg semi-automatic rifle, but before conducting a certain actual combat inspection, the German Army Department set the ratio of semi-automatic rifles to manual rifles in front-line troops to be cautious.

The tanks of the 2nd Company rushed into the Russian army for a long time. It was not until the Russian infantry who had abandoned their armor retreated that they drove back to their positions calmly. Although there were not many shells, each of their machine guns and bullets were almost consumed.

In the next hour, the Russian army did not launch another offensive. Major Sander's troops not only took this opportunity to supplement and rest, but also looked forward to two squadrons of vultures ii. In the middle of the afternoon, the ground support troops arrived one after another. What surprised Sander was that General Rommel, the commander of the armored army, also arrived here in person. Unfortunately, the most exciting battle had ended. Under the oppression of the Luftwaffe, when the Russian army appeared again, they were wearing white flags and holding weapons high!

After the iron wall encirclement, the 3rd Infantry Army of the Russian 6th Army, the 26th Cavalry Division and the 4th Infantry Army, which were stationed in Kishnau and the surrounding defense line, collectively surrendered to the German army without hope of breaking through. This battle lasted for two days and one night and killed more than 47,000 Russian troops, captured 85,000 people below the Russian Lieutenant General Vachesav, and few escaped by chance.

On the same day, the German ground troops attacking from East Prussia, Bohemia and Hungary also successfully completed the encirclement of the enemy in front of them. Under the powerful air-ground offensive of the German army, the Russian army's combat operation to rescue the besieged troops not only did not achieve any results, but many troops were annihilated or severely damaged by the German army. On the night of June 15, the German North Cluster 4, commanded by the 1st Army under Orge and the 1st Armored Army under Guderian, was the main force.

More than 00,000 officers and soldiers launched a resolute and fierce encirclement and annihilation battle in the Riga region. During the battle, the battle also received artillery support from the Baltic Sea. By the end of the next morning, the Russian army lost more than 140,000 people in this area, of which 89,000 were captured. On June 16, Rondestede's German 2nd Army, Fleming's German 2nd Armored Army, Polish 1,2nd Army, and 17 African colonial divisions.

The people launched the largest encirclement and annihilation war since the war started, and nearly 200,000 Russian troops surrounded in Brest and Koveli areas eventually gave up their resistance. On the same day, General Baier's German 3rd Armored Army, the German 3rd Army, the Bohemia 1st Army, the Hungarian 2nd Army and a large number of African colonial forces jointly launched a total of Russian troops in the Liwf region, a major city in southwestern Ukraine. By the morning of June 17, with the Russian 6th Army
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