At the same time, the German Army Group Center was making a pounce on Minsk. The panzer group commanded by Holt attacked north in the direction of Vilnius, and Guderian led his troops to outflank them to the south. The Germans were building a huge encirclement network, but Guderian was more eager for military success, and his goal was always only one - Moscow

So on the front of the 284 Infantry Division, they were not facing the most powerful armored divisions of the German army. Yang Mingzhi was very fortunate afterwards, fortunately, it was the German 14th Panzer Division that was responsible for breaking through the defensive line.

The earth roared, and the soldiers clung to the trenches. The soldiers opened the gun safety and looked at the horizon in the distance with solemn faces.

Mortars, howitzers and anti-aircraft artillery are ready for battle. Tank shells are loaded, and armor-piercing shells are waiting for an opportunity to fire. All that remains is anxiously waiting, waiting for the enemy tanks to appear and be blown to pieces.

But the Germans did not make the Soviets think so much better, first of all, a group of Stuka carrying aerial bombs, trying to destroy the positions of the 284 Infantry Division.

Luck often determines whether you can survive or not. Naturally, the German planes bombed the large targets they saw first, and the big heads of those KV2 tanks naturally became live targets.

The bombs exploded one after another, and many soldiers were blown to pieces.

Yang Mingzhi has always ordered his people to dig deep holes, and then dig small holes like rats. This slows down the effect a little bit, and the psychological comfort is greater.

The enemy's self-propelled guns and dive bombers were the first to attack the Soviet lines, and the fighters could only hide in the trenches and pray for shelter from the shelling.

This is the most terrifying thing that the girl star fruit has experienced, in order to relieve her fragile nerves, Yang Mingzhi opened his arms and hugged her in his arms.

"Little Peach, don't be afraid, we won't get hurt if we hide in the hole."

A kiss on the forehead can calm her down the most, that is, to implement the sentence "I am the backer you can rely on" in the posture of her husband.

The two of them curled up together, like many soldiers, curled up like balls of flesh. Waves of explosives devastated and rained down from the sky in a mess, including the corpses of soldiers who had been blown to shredded flesh. The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and burning. Large and small craters appeared in the originally well-leveled position.

The division's field hospital was also attacked, with serious casualties among wounded soldiers and doctors. This is a huge psychological blow to the fighters, the doctors are dead, and if they are wounded, then the slightest chance of survival will be a thing of the past.

The German artillery preparation lasted twenty minutes, there were huge casualties in the Soviet positions, and according to the tradition of the countries of the world, all that remained was the onslaught of the enemy.

Pugachev's division headquarters was also hit by a wave of bombs, and the entire tent was blown down. He was helped up by the guards, and the division headquarters was already in chaos at this moment. Pat the dust, and I saw that the telegraph operator was fine, and the radio station was very well protected by this man.

But the commissar Badzin was unfortunately injured, and his face was bloodied and he was still saying that he was out of the way.

"No more, the division headquarters must be transferred, we move to the front." Pugachev was on his own, he was still the commander of an infantry regiment, and at this moment he forgot that he still had more than 10,000 officers and soldiers under his command.

Yang Mingzhi and many other officers and soldiers were guarding the core part of the defense line, and he was surprised to see Pugachev with a face of soot actually staggering to the front line.

"Comrade division commander, were you blown up by the bombing just now? This is the front line, don't you want to die? ”

Pugachev just smiled wryly, "We're all dying." Many of our friendly forces are retreating towards the cities of Minsk, and even more are running madly towards Smolensk. Only we, the more than 10,000 madmen, had to fight the Nazis. “

When Yang Mingzhi heard this, he laughed stupidly.

Yes, it's just that I came to this era somehow. Now that the laborers and capitalists have run from the far side of Heilongjiang to the side of Eastern Europe, will they face the fate of being crushed into the ground by the enemy's tanks? Bah! He had to get rid of a few of Hitler's beards.

The behavior of the division commander as a pioneer was very dangerous, but it also inspired many soldiers.

Yang Mingzhi immediately imitated the rhetoric of Panfimov 28 warriors and shouted at the radio.

"Comrades, it was said that the USSR was vast and our population was huge. But we have no way back, behind us is Minsk, Smolensk, Stalin in Moscow. If we can't stop the enemy's pace, then the USSR will all cease to exist! ”

Pugachev was very satisfied, and it seemed that this young man could also do the position of political commissar.

The patriotism of the soldiers was thoroughly awakened, and everyone waited with full attention for the appearance of the enemy. Finally, on that horizon, after artillery preparations, the armoured armoured clusters began to storm.

14th Panzer Division of Nazi Germany, Commander Friedrich Kuhn. His troops were defeated in 1943 and he was killed in the Berlin bombing of February 1944, but he did not yet know that he was facing a strong enemy.

The three groups of the German Army Group Center, Hort, Windkrug and Guderian, the army of three men at once lined up south and stormed the Moss direction. Hoult detached his forces to try to block the bottleneck, and this coincidence dictated that Kuhn's army was directly in front of the 7th Panzer Division, and he would be the first to make contact with the Soviet 284th Infantry Division. He could never have imagined that he would be attacked with a weapon that had never been seen before.

He ordered the tank regiment to attack in accordance with the traditional column, the so-called German tradition, the tank to attack in a special V-column. This pattern is much like the formation of Hannibal against Rome 2,000 years ago. The two wings were in front, the cores lagged in turn, and on the attack surface up to a kilometer long, Soviet anti-tank weapons did not work very well.

Yang Mingzhi closely followed the progress of the situation, and saw that the enemy was still a kilometer away, and some restless anti-tank guns opened fire.

"Bastard, who let them fire!" Pugachev was furious, because the soldiers' unauthorized actions exposed their firing points in advance, and they were attacked by enemy tanks.

It was difficult for the Soviet 45 mm anti-aircraft guns to penetrate the frontal armor of the No. 3 tank at a distance of one kilometer, but due to temporary adjustments, five shells were fired from the "miniature anti-tank gun group" that fired without authorization, and one of them was a 76 mm grenade.

A German tank was destroyed, and the barrage shooting was justified in real combat. But the Germans did not slow down the attack, they continued to advance, and the infantry accompanying the attack began to run desperately.

"It's now! All artillery fired, aiming at the enemy's tanks. Wada Mouth! Pugachev gave the order, and the light and heavy fire of the positions opened fire one after another.

The Germans were not intimidated by this, and the vanguard tanks opened fire as they marched. But they forgot that the phantom of the KV2 tanks of the Soviet army was still there. Although this tank runs like a turtle, it has an exaggerated caliber gun and a perverted gun shield. Only self-propelled guns can destroy them at close range.

The 14th Panzer Division began to suffer losses, and Kuhn did not dare to stay, and behind his ass was a friendly army in pursuit of victory. Kuhn ordered his troops to break through the enemy's lines, and for this purpose the division of 152 tanks attacked in an all-out way, with motorized troops behind them.

The German infantry revolved around the MG34 general-purpose machine gun, and most of the soldiers were still holding the Mauser K98. Because of the difference in war concepts, the Soviet army's small arms firepower is relatively superior, but the firepower cannot break through the tank armor.

A large area of black pressure on the horizon, the pioneer of the road is considered a tank, followed by half-track armored vehicles, motorcycles, and a large number of soldiers running wildly. The German soldiers followed the armored vehicles more often, so the Soviet machine-gun fire was not very effective.

At too long distances, only a sniper rifle can accurately destroy the enemy.

Therefore, in order to reduce the casualties of their own troops, the two sides launched an artillery battle, and the enemy tanks did not care about the casualties and continued to advance, and the distance between the two armies was shortened little by little. They planned to tear through the defense line of the 284th Infantry Division with tanks, and then open bows left and right to completely wipe out the defending Soviet troops.

But their plan will not succeed, and the current actual combat has proved the superiority of temporary defense adjustments, with anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank guns in the miniature anti-tank stronghold, and even RPG bazooka players sent by Yang Mingzhi.

Yang Mingzhi ordered his men to wait until the enemy's tank was less than 400 meters away before they could aim and shoot. He even suggested that for the sake of accuracy, the enemy should be placed even a hundred meters away and open fire decisively, so that as long as the hit is bound to be a considerable result.

As a result, the Germans found themselves in a V-formation that was met with a brutal enemy attack. Soviet anti-aircraft artillery could guarantee the output of fifteen rounds per minute, and German tanks endured a large number of armor-piercing shells.

The front line was blocked, and Kuhn temporarily ordered the self-propelled guns to stop and provide artillery support to the tank assault group.

In this way, the infantry division endured the enemy's artillery fire and continued to counterattack, and Yang Mingzhi still stood still when this situation came. He ordered his three companies at hand to lock on to the target first until the enemy reached a reasonable position and fired decisively.

The appearance of German self-propelled guns interfered with the Soviet defense, and Pugachev urgently ordered the remaining heavy artillery to shoot at the enemy.

After all, Kuhn had just broken through the first direction of the Soviet army, and there were many losses in personnel and ordnance. He was urged by the commander of the 7th Panzer Division, Funk, to replenish his forces, so the self-propelled guns did not achieve decisive results.

In order to break through the Soviet army, it was still hoped that the infantry would coordinate with the tanks, for which the tanks had to provide cover for the infantry following closely, and the pace of the attack was forced to slow down a little.

The distance was shortening little by little, and Yang Mingzhi's nervous heart rose to his throat. He pulled the radio officer's phone, "Order one company and two companies, you will be the first to open fire and destroy the enemy's attempt to outflank our army!" ”

Suddenly, the two flanks of the huge V-shaped tank formation of the German army were attacked by an unprecedented weapon. Many tank commanders saw a large number of objects with long white tails attacking from the Soviet positions not far away. Then there was a violent explosion, and it was the tank crew that heard the last sound.