Knowing that enemy forces were approaching, Captain Michelle Wittmann immediately made adjustments to his troops.

The fourth armored company left the road and dispersed to meet the frontal line on both sides of the road, while a tank company No. 4 and four Dongfeng self-propelled anti-aircraft guns turned around and drove off the road to the fields to the northwest, each with two panzergrenadier companies operating behind an armored company.

The Fourth Panzer Company had almost just formed a battle formation, and Captain Weitmann, half of his body was exposed to the turret, and through the telescope he could already clearly see that a large cloud of smoke and dust was rising from the road in the distance.

The ground on the plains was also undulating, and soon, Captain Weitmann saw a figure on the top of the first high slope, followed by a turret, and then a body.

Half of his body was also exposed, and the commander on the opposite side was completely defenseless against the danger in the distance.

Captain Weitmann's Tiger No. 401 did not leave the road, but was parked on the right side of the road, and the glowing 105mm tank gun was already aimed at the high slope of the road.

The first one was spared, and the second was spared, and the third T-34 tank had just come out of the turret, and Captain Wittmann shouted: "Fire." ”

The already loaded tank gun roared, the shells spun and flew out, and the third T-34 tank on the opposite side was just exposed.

The oncoming 105-mm armor-piercing bullet easily penetrated the driver's hatch and into the car, and with a resounding explosion that resounded across the battlefield, the turret of the T-34 tank flew into the sky along with the figure on the turret.

The two T-34 tanks, which had crossed the slope first, had already discovered the enemy's presence at this time, and in a panic they wanted to fire back, but they were destroyed by the German tanks that took the lead.

After waiting for about five minutes, no T-34 tank crossed the high slope, and just after five minutes, the other side of the high slope suddenly made a loud engine noise, and a puff of black smoke rose from the air visible to the naked eye.

On both sides of the road, two T-34 tanks suddenly rushed out, followed by the third, fourth and fifth······

The T-34 tanks on the opposite side of the slope were in formation, and through the FI-382 helicopter, Captain Wittmann knew the other side's movements well.

After moving from a marching formation to a battle formation, the T-34 tank group charged across the high slopes and mountains.

Ten E-50 Tiger tanks stopped in place, turned their turrets, and began target drills.

Under the 105-mm armor-piercing projectile, the T-34 tank's armor was like fragile cardboard, and it had little defense, so it could only rely on high-speed movement to dodge.

More than 40 T-34 tanks rushed in, trying to rely on their numerical superiority to break through the German tank lines for hand-to-hand combat.

More than a dozen T-34 tanks were destroyed on the battlefield in an instant, and with overwhelming numerical superiority, the remaining T-34 tanks managed to approach the German tank line.

On the high slope behind him, Major General Pushkin jumped out of the jeep, bent down and walked up the high slope, squatted on the slope to watch the battle, and saw that the fastest T-34 tank was already less than 300 meters away from the German tank, and he clenched his fists excitedly.

On the way back to Voroshilovgrad, Major General Pushkin was confronted by the belated 6th Tank Brigade, hurriedly joined the team, and then led the team back to the battlefield.

Unexpectedly, he ran head-on into the battle group led by Captain Weitmann, sacrificed the three T-34 tanks in the lead, and sent scouts to lie on the high slope and peep, and confirmed that the number of enemy tanks on the opposite side was very small, and Major General Pushkin immediately decided to use the numerical advantage to eat this German force.

Seeing that his fierce tactics were about to take effect, Major General Pushkin glared angrily and shouted through gritted teeth: "Germans, you are finished." ”

At this moment, a staff officer beside him suddenly patted him on the shoulder, pointed to the right rear and said, "Comrade commander, look there." ”

Major General Pushkin impatiently turned his head to look in the direction pointed by the staff officer, because he was standing on a slope with a very wide field of vision, and he clearly saw that a tank group was approaching from the field in the right rear.

Seeing the square hull of the tank in the distance, Major General Pushkin immediately recognized that it was the enemy's No. 4 tank, the German tank with the highest frequency on the battlefield.

"How did this group of bitches end up here? Come on. Major General Pushkin did not hesitate at all, turned around and ran to the Gas-64 jeep behind, jumped into the passenger seat, and the jeep then turned around and ran all the way in the direction of Voroshilovgrad.

Ignoring the fleeing jeep, the No. 4 Tank Company, which had been ordered to outflank the attack, went straight to the high slope that Rear Admiral Pushkin had just fled.

Condescendingly, at the exposed tail of the T-34 tank group, the No. 4 H tank launched a relentless "**" type of fire.

On the four "Dongfeng" self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, Bofors 40mm armor-piercing shells were even sharper, and they carried out the killing with the vigor of infantry-like strafing with machine guns.

The steel plates above the engine compartment, or behind the turret, or the rear armor, the bullet holes are located in a variety of locations, but they are just as deadly.

After being attacked from both sides, the T-34 tank group, which was still fierce and attacked like a wolf pack, instantly turned into a pack of dogs, "whimpering" and being slaughtered.

After the last moving T-34 tank stopped with black smoke rising from its hull, Captain Weitmann carefully opened the turret hatch and let out a long sigh.

It was so dangerous that when the nearest T-34 tank rushed to a distance of about 50 meters from him, he opened fire, and after hitting the tank, the opponent rushed out about ten meters with inertia before stopping, almost hitting his own tank.

The Ivan still can't get rid of their old problems, and they will only rush head-on in battle, which is really a tendon.

Panzergrenadiers entered the battlefield and carefully searched for the surviving tankmen in the corpses of the T-34 tanks.

The 4th Heavy Panzer Company did not linger on the battlefield, rumbled past the corpses of T-34 tanks, climbed the slope and, following the direction of Major General Pushkin's escape, rushed to Voroshilovgrad.

When Major General Pushkin and Captain Wittmann rushed to Voroshilovgrad one after the other, in Artyomovsk, in the headquarters of the First Panzer Army, Chen Dao and Senior General Kleist were in a daze at a piece of information that had just been delivered.

The muscles on Chen Dao's face twitched a few times, and he couldn't help but sneer: "The Russians have learned badly, and they know how to use this kind of trick, it's really too much." ”

What Chen Dao and Senior General Kleist saw was a trophy airlifted back by helicopter from the front line, the establishment table of the 23rd Tank Corps that had just been captured.

The establishment table shows that the 23rd Tank Corps has three tank brigades and one motorized rifle brigade, as well as other subsidiary units.

The number of tanks in each of the three tank brigades is 53, and the total number of tanks in the three brigades is only 159, plus 31 tanks in the KV-85 heavy tank regiment and 17 units in the SU-122 self-propelled artillery regiment, the number of tanks in a tank corps is only in the early 200s, which is not as large as the number of a fully armored division in Germany.

Just last year, the Russians had a mechanized army, but the number of tanks at full strength reached 1,024.

When they first heard that there was a 23rd Tank Army on the opposite side, Chen Dao and General Kleist naturally regarded the 23rd Tank Army as a behemoth like a mechanized army, so they cautiously put on a defensive and counterattack posture.

I was actually frightened by a bluffing paper tiger, which is really empiricism.

I knew that the opposite side was a kind of goods, and I could just run over it, so what kind of defensive counterattack did I play?

The Russians are really bad at learning and even know how to play such a little trick in the establishment to scare people.

Chen Dao did not know that after a year's fighting, the Russians found that the mechanized corps with thousands of tanks was beyond their command ability, and the commanders of the mechanized corps generally did not know how to control so many tanks.

With the elimination of a large number of tanks, as well as the reduction in production brought about by the relocation of factories, the Soviet army was forced to reduce the size of the tank force.

Roughly speaking, a tank corps (mechanized corps) in the USSR was equivalent to an armored division in Germany, and sometimes even worse.

A tank army is equivalent to the Panzer Corps of the German army, and the Panzer Army of this size owned by Germany does not exist in the Soviet army, unless such an establishment as a tank front appears in the army of the Soviets.

Because of the existence of the fog of war, the German army was not clear about the changes in the Soviet establishment, so the two units of the SS 104th Heavy Panzer Brigade and the Groy German Panzergrenadier Division were scared out of the defensive counterattack formation by a 23rd Tank Army.

General Kleist also couldn't cry or laugh, and there was a rare smile on his face.

"Since the forces of the enemy on the opposite side are so weak, we will act according to the original plan and let the Großdeutsche Division and the SS 104th Heavy Armored Brigade continue the offensive and completely tear the breakthrough. Early tomorrow morning, the 1st Panzer Army entered the battlefield as originally planned. ”