PS: Today's state is not very good.,There are only two chapters.,I'll continue to make up the update tomorrow.,Please forgive me.。

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In the early morning of May 22, the fiery morning sun leaped out of the horizon and cast its golden brilliance onto the earth.

On the eastern outskirts of Ayeyi, Highway 28 runs through the city from east to west.

The highway is lined with endless fields of cultivated land and meadows, and the vast expanse of green is dotted with countless flowers.

On a slightly raised soil slope, a white flower bone rushed out of the weeds, bathed in the baptism of the morning sun, shy and ready to bud, ready to show her peerless face to the world.

The squeaky noise shattered the silence of the early morning, and the hideous tracks mercilessly ran over the fragile body of the flower bones, leaving only a mottled track mark and scattered petals.

Mercedes on the chariot, Michelle. Lieutenant Thomas (played by book friend Niu Tianyu) was half exposed to the assault gun, staring intently at the reconnaissance plane in the eastern sky, not knowing that he had just staged a good scene of destroying flowers.

As the platoon leader of the first company and one platoon of the 686 assault gun battalion, Lieutenant Thomas at this time focused all his attention on how to complete the task assigned to him by the company commander, and then withdraw victoriously with his brothers.

The withdrawal of the 11th Army has been going on for two nights, starting on the day of the opening of the war on 20 May.

The two infantry divisions of the 54th Infantry Corps, marching at night and defending during the day, alternately covered the withdrawal of the Carpathians to the west with the army group.

Within two nights, the 54th Infantry Corps was evacuated to the city of Ayei, 22 kilometers west of Iasi.

The 686th Assault Gun Battalion, which belonged to the 54th Infantry Corps, served as a firefighting team in the withdrawal, and wherever there was danger, there was a short but formidable figure of the No. 3 assault gun.

Lieutenant Thomas saw an infantry position in front of him, which consisted mainly of two-man foxholes, with anti-tank and anti-aircraft gun positions behind it.

Stop, this is where we stand.

Lieutenant Thomas heard the company commander's order coming from the headset and hurriedly shouted to the driver.

The No. 3 assault gun came to an abrupt stop behind the position, and Thomas's body shook slightly under the effect of inertia. Then it stabilized again.

Looking at the FI-156 reconnaissance plane in the eastern sky, Lieutenant Thomas saw that the left and right wings of the plane were rocking up and down, as if the pilot was drunk and could not control the balance.

See this agreed action. Thomas knew that an enemy was approaching.

Looking back at the dirt slope about thirty meters later, Lieutenant Thomas shouted into the headset, "Listen to my orders, all reverse." ”

Thomas's platoon's four No. 3 assault guns slowly reversed backwards, and soon all of them were back down the dirt slope.

Two days of fighting down. Thomas and his men have managed to throw their rookie hats into the Black Sea and become battle-tested veterans.

As soon as Thomas gave the order, the other three commanders knew what Thomas was thinking, and after retreating over the dirt slope, they instructed the drivers to find suitable sniper positions.

The No. 3 assault guns were modified from the turret of the No. 3 tank, and the height of the vehicles was only two meters, and the earth slope covered their chassis, and from the east, the barrels of the four No. 3 assault guns were almost flat on the ground of the dirt slope.

A hazy black smoke appeared in the telescope, and it was a Soviet tank telling the Germans, "We are coming." ”

Black smoke is a masterpiece of Soviet tank diesels. And the white smoke emitted by the gasoline engines of German tanks can be said to be two extremes.

After two days of fighting, Thomas could already judge the number of Soviet tanks by the area of black smoke.

There are not many of them, only four or six, could it be a reconnaissance unit?

"Don't fire, let the infantry finish them off."

Thomas heard the company commander's voice again.

Four tanks of unknown model to Thomas sped along the road towards the city of Ayey.

It wasn't until he rushed to about four hundred meters from the infantry position in front that Thomas heard the sound of artillery.

The PAK38 anti-tank gun hit very accurately, the first round of artillery sounded, the first tank in front of the Soviet tank drove another fifty or sixty meters and then slowly stopped on the road, the second tank was unprepared and hit the first tank headlong and could not move.

The third and fourth tanks had limited good luck. Without blessing them from dodging the second round of shells from the anti-tank guns, they turned into a pile of scrap steel and stopped on the road.

There was a hiss, a sound of tearing tarpaulins sounded from the forward positions, and the four Soviet tankmen who had escaped from the tanks fell to the ground one after another with convulsions.

The vanguard was killed. The large forces of the Soviets will definitely arrive soon.

Five or six minutes later, Captain Thomas's face changed, and his body quickly retracted into the cabin, and the hatch was closed with a thud.

In the eastern sky, four black dots flew towards the city of Ayei with their backs to the sun.

The four fighters painted with the red star spotted the FI-156 reconnaissance plane halfway, and immediately separated two to chase and kill the German reconnaissance plane with weak firepower.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the FI-156 reconnaissance plane turned around and fled southwest. Two chased and one fled, and the three planes gradually moved away.

In the eastern sky, on the blue sky, sixteen black dots flashed.

In less than half a minute, Lieutenant Thomas heard the sound of cannon bang outside the cabin.

Sixteen Il-2s, ignoring the anti-aircraft fire of the German positions, made a sharp turn and swept past the German positions from south to north.

At almost treetop heights, sixteen Il-2s swept through the German infantry positions.

Machine guns and cannons opened the way in front of them, and the shells sneered into the ground, splashing countless dirt and verdant blades of grass.

250 kg of bombs fell to the ground immediately after.

Thomas felt his eardrums buzz through the lookout hole of the officer's tower, and through the lookout hole of the officer's tower, he saw gray-black gunpowder smoke hanging over the position, and the smoke was distorted and distorted with the morning wind, like the face of Satan, trying to choose someone to eat.

The sound of gunfire, the roar of planes, and explosions mixed with the rush into the cabin, although he could not see the whole battlefield clearly, Thomas could still feel the intensity of the battle.

Thomas first prayed that the grass on his chariot would serve as a camouflage to avoid being detected by enemy planes in the sky, and then he worried about his infantry brothers outside.

As if hearing Lieutenant Thomas's prayers, the tide of battle outside quickly turned around.

After an Il-2 arrogantly swept over the German positions on the ground, the nose of the aircraft had just been provoked, trying to pull up the height, when a string of 20-mm shells suddenly flew from the side and rear, and the shells chiseled through the cockpit canopy of the Il-2 and drilled into the cabin, the pilot's head hit the ground and burst, and the red and white liquid splashed everywhere. Stained with hatch cover glass.

The plane lost control and crashed headlong into the ground under the influence of gravity, reducing it to a pile of wreckage.

After taking out the Il-2, the HE-100D1 turned around and went after the other enemy planes.

The appearance of a dozen HE-100D1 fighters. Instantly reverse the role of the IL-2 on the battlefield and turn them from predator to prey.

In the pursuit and being hunted, the number of sixteen Il-2s was sharply reduced to seven, and the seven that were lucky enough to survive also hurriedly turned around and fled.

Watching the fighters outside chase away from the battlefield, the battlefield tends to be calm. Lieutenant Thomas opened the hatch and stepped out of the cabin, trying to get some air.

As soon as his head was out of the cabin, Lieutenant Thomas heard a gust of wind coming down from the sky.

Thomas's face changed drastically and he retracted his head with a pout.

The rumbling sound of explosions covered everything, the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke penetrated into the cabin, and the explosion was close at hand, both in density and intensity, far exceeding the previous air raids.

It was the shelling, and the main forces of the land forces of the Soviets arrived.

Ignoring the clanging sound from the cabin, Lieutenant Thomas peered through the lookout. Sure enough, I saw dozens of big guys appear on the ground in the east.

"The Soviets' tanks arrived, ready to fight."

The voice of the company commander came from the headset at the right time.

Taking advantage of the gap when the German infantry was suppressed by artillery fire, more than 20 KVs rushed to the front, T-34 followed, and at the end of the infantry, Soviet tanks rushed to the German positions in a mighty manner, and there was a great posture of flattening the German positions.

"Eleven o'clock direction, six hundred meters, KV-1, open fire." Thomas shouted to the gunner.

"Boom" The familiar sound of firing sounded. Smoke erupted from the muzzle of the No. 3 assault gun.

In the distance, the KV-1 was still moving, and the shells were ejected.

The second shell flew out in an instant, not disappointing Thomas, disabling the KV-1.

Hide behind dirt slopes. Four No. 3 assault guns of Thomas's platoon poured shells on Soviet tanks incessantly.

Anti-tank guns on infantry positions also opened fire one after another, and the Soviets began to shoot back.

After hiding behind a dirt slope and taking out a KV-1 and two T-34s, Thomas heard a muffled thud from the body of the assault gun, and his heart pounded a few times.

"We were shot." The driver shouted.

"Don't be afraid, the shells that can kill us haven't been produced yet." Thomas shouted.

Thomas finished shouting. The driver was then ordered to reverse the car and move to a new hiding point on the right side under the cover of the dirt slope to continue the hunt.

Despite the combined attack of assault guns and anti-tank guns, the Soviet infantry tanks still stubbornly rushed towards the German positions.

Their formation had long been scattered, and three or four T-34s, with their speed superiority, overtook the sluggish KV-1 and approached less than 200 meters of the German infantry position.

Having just opened fire and killed a T-34, Thomas saw the KV-1 in the left rear of the T-34 turn the turret with the muzzle pointed in his direction.

At a distance of less than three hundred meters, it is equivalent to the distance of a bayonet for a tank gun.

KV-1 was the first to fire, and the ground was bounced off by the front armor.

Thomas's assault gun then opened fire, and the KV-1 was unharmed.

The time has come to test the gunner and loader, and whoever fires the second shot first has the potential to become a survivor of the battle.

The STUK40 75mm gun let out a roar, and Thomas saw a puff of black smoke coming out of the KV opposite, and he didn't fire a second shot for a long time.

Although he took out the KV first, Thomas was still shocked into a cold sweat.

Looking around the battlefield, Thomas shouted, "Change to high-explosive bombs." ”

A little more than a minute later, high-explosive shells flew out of the muzzle and landed next to a Soviet mortar group.

When the smoke cleared, Thomas saw the mortar crew disappear into the periscope.

On the battlefield, there were fewer and fewer active Soviet tanks, the Soviet infantry in the charge fell in pieces, and the German machine-gun bullets were mercilessly harvesting their lives.

Seeing that another attack had failed, and without waiting for the officers to give the order to retreat, the Soviet infantry retreated eastward like a tide.

The battlefield calmed down again, and after confirming that there was no danger, Thomas leaned out to inspect the battlefield.

The battlefield was littered with the wreckage of sixty or seventy Soviet tanks, and the wreckage was littered with mutilated corpses.

The German positions were mostly craters, mostly the masterpieces of Soviet artillery and aviation.

In the distant sky, more than 20 warplanes kept circling, sometimes diving and bombing, and it was these Stuka from the 1st Aviation Division of the Naval Aviation who told the enemy artillery to "shut up", and I don't know when they came.

Seeing some infantry touching the wreckage of the Soviet tank in twos and threes, searching for hidden survivors inside, Thomas became curious, took out an MP40 submachine gun from the cabin, and also ran to the wreckage of the nearest T-34 tank to check.

After a series of searches of three or four tanks, Thomas finally found the wreckage of a KV-1 with a radio.

He received information that Soviet tanks only had radios in vehicles at the company level and above officers, and that the KV-1 had a radio, indicating that it was an officer's vehicle.

Enduring the smell of blood emitted by the corpse in the cabin, Thomas checked and finally found a military canvas satchel, flipped out the map inside and looked at it a few times, Thomas ran back to the car with the satchel excitedly.

The map captured by Thomas was roughly the same as the information obtained from the prisoners, and the Soviets pursuing the 54th Army head-on were units of the Ninth Mechanized Corps.

Three days and three battles, Thomas and his comrades had already figured out the routines of the Soviet army.

Radio was only spread to company commanders, and whether they could maintain their formation at the beginning of the offensive was chaotic after the start of the battle.

The infantry did not do well together, the infantry was not numerous, and they could not keep up with the speed of the tanks, which always allowed the tanks to rush into the German infantry positions without protection, and then were destroyed by the German infantry with weapons such as iron fists or tank killers.

Until dark, the Soviets did not launch a second attack, and there were only battles between the air forces of the two sides.

After nightfall, the infantry quietly left the trenches in groups and retreated to the west.

In the following two days, Thomas led his men to engage the pursuing Soviet army again, successfully repulsing the Soviet army.

In this engagement, Thomas clearly felt that the offensive momentum of the Soviet army was even weaker, and only dispatched more than 30 tanks, which can be described as suicidal.

Another day later, on May 25, Thomas had retreated to the city of Pashkane, only about forty kilometers from the Carpathians.

The morning after arriving in Pashkari City, Thomas woke up shortly when he received exciting news.

The new commander, General Manstein, ordered that the troops should not retreat further and that permanent fortifications should be built on the spot. (To be continued.) )