The Romanian army, which was responsible for reinforcing the Imperial Division, was in the vanguard of the motorized division, which had an armored regiment temporarily installed.

Romanian Marshal Antonescu arranged this in order to show off his strength in front of the Germans, but he never thought that the German army had already fought a battle with the Soviet army that rushed out of the forest, and achieved very important results.

The armored regiment came from the Romanian 1st Panzer Division, which was a very elite unit of the country. A Romanian armored regiment had two battalions, each with three tank companies and a maintenance company, each with fifteen tanks. Therefore, the entire regiment had only ninety tanks, which was indeed very much less than the one hundred and fifty-two tanks of the German armored regiment.

This is also the report of the scouts, this attacking enemy, they are not equipped with many tanks.

The Soviets still treat these guys as No. 3 or No. 4 tanks, and in fact, the Renault R35 tank they will face is on par with the Te-26, or even inferior to it. In this regard, the Soviets seem to have given too much face to the Romanians.

Of course, we must treat our opponents with strategic contempt and tactical attention.

The Soviets could no longer stand the losses on a larger scale, and Kuznetsov decided to take a gamble and try to delay or crush the enemy and provide enough time for the withdrawal of large forces. He himself knew that Mozyri was a material transfer point for the German army, and when the Germans found that a node in the logistics line was broken, they would inevitably take it back. Therefore, not much time was given to the Soviet army, and even the defeat of the Romanians had to be done quickly.

Preparations for the war were carried out intensively, the soldiers quickly dug trenches, and the foxholes gradually became one. More than a dozen "stragglers" detachments from their positions were ambushed and waited for an opportunity to attack the infantry array of the Romanian army on the march.

Yang Mingzhi led his troops to dig trenches, and he ordered his soldiers to be mentally prepared. "Our anti-tank weapons are already very limited, and the last secret weapon is a drop in the bucket that we cannot use. Now all we can count on is anti-tank guns and grenades. ”

The soldiers did not complain, the weapons of the troops were replenished, and the guns were not worried. Moreover, they are standing here today to protect the evacuated troops, as well as a large number of civilians and wounded soldiers.

The army organized a huge ring defense system, and the trenches did not have time to dig deep. The soldiers lay on the ground, with thatch wrapped around their helmets, and waited for the enemy to appear.

Kuznetsov was also interested in captured mortars, and he heard Yang Mingzhi's suggestion to concentrate on the use of such weapons, and in the face of pressure from enemy forces, it was indeed correct to concentrate on them.

In this way, the Romanians marched towards Mozili in a neat procession, not even knowing that the city had been recaptured by the Soviets.

The commander of the Luo army was not convinced by the newly incorporated armored regiment, and the first armored division thought very highly of itself, and they were incorporated into such a motorized division to recruit the remnants of the Soviet army, which they considered to be a serious bargain. Discord has become a foregone conclusion, and Division Commander Luo Jun is very helpless. Maybe this group of very arrogant guys can still maintain their courage when they are in a tough confrontation with the Soviet army.

The Panzer Regiment with Renault tanks was at the forefront of the ranks, and the tanks weighed more than ten tons, and the speed of this light tank could only reach twenty yards at the fastest. After all, they ran faster than a pair of human feet, and tanks were the first to appear in the telescopes of the Soviet army.

"They're coming! Comrades get ready to fight! Yang Mingzhi shouted.

He himself was on the front lines of the battlefield, and his wife undoubtedly followed him. The special anti-tank battalion was to maintain the glorious traditions, the troops were replenished with new fighters, and the morale was high. Some militias joined, eager for war to avenge the families who died.

Yang Mingzhi naturally didn't have much hope for these novices, and only gave one key piece of advice: "I forbid you to stay in one place and shoot more than five times. Once you've run out of magazines, you'll have to change positions, or you'll be targeted. ”

He was more concerned about the situation of the anti-tank rush, and at the same time called on all the soldiers, aiming at the enemy's armored targets and giving priority to the enemy's driver's window. In this way, if the blind cat encounters a dead mouse, the enemy tank will become "blind" because the driver is injured in the eye.

Obviously, Yang Mingzhi overestimated the Romanians, their tanks were well armored on the front, but the sides were simply unsightly. Its firepower, a 37 gun, was very limited. These French tanks were hindered by the French concept of warfare, and they were more like auxiliaries for infantry attacks. Used as an armored cluster to break through positions, it is simply an insult to blitzkrieg.

The armored regiment marched along the road with great swagger, ninety tanks lined up at one time, and behind them there were quite a few trucks and armored vehicles tailing, which were maintenance troops.

Kuznetsov sat in the city, listening to reports from scouts from all walks of life.

"The enemy's tank units have broken away from their large forces, and at a distance of a kilometer, they are about to enter the positions of our troops."

A large force of the enemy was approaching, and Kuznetsov and the officers' staff urgently gathered in the map artillery. A confident smile appeared on his face, "It seems that I am also overestimating our enemies, who are marching along the road, and so far have no idea that the city has been taken by us. ”

"So we have to strike quickly, and if we defeat the enemy's tank forces, our biggest threat will cease to exist." An officer said.

Kuznetsov looked left and right, "You guys each command the troops." The battle was about to begin, and I ordered the artillery to shoot flat at the enemy tanks, striving for reimbursement of one artillery piece. ”

The German 88 gun, which later served as a tank gun for the Tiger tank, was sometimes not converted into an anti-aircraft gun or an anti-tank gun. This kind of howitzer is very lethal, the Tiger tank can also destroy a Te-3485 with one shot, and now use his cannon to bombard the light tank, and the next second is slaughter.

The commander of the Romanian tank regiment did not send a reconnaissance unit at all, and he ordered his subordinates to send a radio signal to Moziri, saying that friendly troops had arrived and asked to refuel the tanks. As a result, there was no news of the birds, and the commander of the tank regiment hated it, "The Germans were too arrogant, and as a result, they suffered a defeat and asked us to go for reinforcements." They are not good people to deal with allies so stingily. ”

The tank units were advancing along the road, which was said to be a dirt road. The autumn rainy season had not yet arrived, the roads were crushed enough porcelain, and the tank units were advancing at a speed of ten kilometers per hour.

They walked through some woods, unaware that there were Soviet soldiers in ambush. The ambushers were ordered to spare this armored force, and after the battle their follow-up troops would move in quickly, and when the enemy's large force was halfway through, they would open wild fire on their marching columns.

The commander of the tank regiment of the Romanian army stood on the commander's command platform, and he looked at Mozyri in the distance with a telescope. It's just a little strange, the city seems to be quiet, where are the German troops?

Suddenly, he saw a bright light, and the next second there was a roar, and then there was no more.

Suddenly! Very suddenly! The commander of this armored regiment, who even wanted to see the enemy's face clearly, was hit by a sudden shell.

Yang Mingzhi held the binoculars and cocked, the ambushed artillery had already opened fire, and the first shot hit directly. He would never have imagined that the commander of the Luo army would turn into a pile of fragments along with his "mount".

The Romanians were shocked, they were stunned.

Then, all the artillery opened fire heavily, and the enemy's tank column was completely targeted. In the first round of shelling, the Romanian army lost five tanks.

It should be mentioned that an 88 gun was hidden in the woods, it was concealed enough and out of position enough.

The relieved tank troops, they prioritized solving the immediate troubles, so many tanks were ready to turn around. It was at this moment that Yang Mingzhi found that the opportunity had arrived. "The enemy is starting to turn! Anti-tank rushes, attack their side armor! ”

Anti-tank guns attacked the soft underbelly of the Romanian army, and the side armor of many tanks was shot through, and even one tank was killed.

The Romanian army began to shoot at the somewhat isolated artillery position, the power of the 37 guns was very limited, and the Soviet soldiers were still loading the guns under pressure.

Kuznetsov only wanted a quick victory, and the Romanian tank units were only 400 meters away from the position. A single charge at such a distance can quickly contain the Luo army, and then blow up these tanks with grenades, but it will also pay a great price.

He had an idea, "Order the mortars, fire now." The target enemy has already begun to disperse the tank columns. ”

Among the mortars captured by the Soviet troops were more than a dozen large-caliber, Gr.W.34 80-mm mortars. This thing is relatively heavy, but the range is two kilometers away, and it is powerful enough to inflict great damage on the Luo army. And this shell hitting the top of the tank is bound to cause a devastating blow.

Ammunition was sufficient, the mortar positions quickly adjusted the angle of fire, and the various elements were ordered to fire ten shells at a rapid pace.

At the same time, other artillery positions were still firing at the Romanian army, and any hit by the 88 artillery would be a crushing explosion. The actual battle has proved that the Romanians are not about to collapse at the touch of a finger as Yang Mingzhi feels, and their will to fight is not bad, but now they are still trapped in the beast.

A large number of mortar shells are already flying towards them, and a "feast" of four hundred projectiles gives an area of intensive bombardment. Many Romanian tanks suffered from this catastrophe, some of the tracks were broken, some were really attacked and killed, and some tank members were stunned.

After the smoke of gunfire, the tank units of the Romanian army were in disarray, and even then the artillery fire of the Soviet army did not stop. The surviving tanks were named one by one by the artillery, and only a few tankmen fled from the tanks and retreated in a frenzied direction towards the larger forces.

Two kilometers is not far away, and the motorized division of the Luo Army has already seen what is happening in front of it!

"The Soviets have apparently taken the supply depot Moziri, and we must take the city. The battle is inevitable! Soldiers, attack! The division commander gave the order, and the infantry line quickly turned into a skirmish.