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At dawn on the 13th of June, the pale dawn had just appeared in the distant sky, and on the right bank of the Tisza River, around the city of Mezekveshd, the sound of the originally sparse guns suddenly became extremely fierce.

No sooner had than the overnight truce had passed, and the Imperial Marshal's Panzer Division had launched a general assault on the city.

Two east-west highways run north and south of the city, and the identity of the main transportation route doomed the small city with a population of only about 10,000 to suffer from the ravages of war.

The evening before, the Reichsmarshal Panzer Division, with two companies of E-40 tanks, opened the way, and the Panzer Group was invincible, crushing all the Soviet troops in its way, and encircling the final destination, Mezekweshid, before nightfall.

Occupy the city, and the cuffs of Chen Dao's carefully woven pockets will be tightened.

In one night, the Soviet troops in the east launched three attacks in a row, trying to repel the troops of the Imperial Marshal's Panzer Division and relieve the encircled Soviet troops, but to no avail.

By daybreak, when the German tank units were no longer constrained by the light and could fully exert their combat effectiveness, the Soviet troops in the city of Myzekweshd were gone.

Imperial Marshal's 1st Regiment - sent two battalions of infantry, supported by two companies of Grizzly assault guns, to launch a counter-attack from both north and south directions of the city.

The initial resistance of the Soviets was stubborn, and they occupied the houses of the city and hastily constructed a crude defensive line overnight.

However, Mezekwesed is too small, and there are few high-rise buildings in the city, except for the municipal building and two schools, which are almost entirely made up of two- and three-storey houses.

In front of the 150 howitzers of the Grizzly assault gun, the houses, whether they were on the second or third floors, made almost no difference to the German gunners. Two or three grenades can completely destroy a house and the Soviet troops inside.

A building was razed to the ground. It will cause panic among the surrounding Soviet troops. Shake their will to fight.

Two buildings were destroyed, and the fingers of the Soviet soldiers who watched the buildings fall into ruins would be weak when they pulled the trigger.

When the Grizzly Assault Gun turned its fat body and turned to point the muzzle of the black hole at itself, no Soviet soldier had the courage to shoot at it.

Either rush out of the house and flee in a hurry, or surrender before the Grizzly assault guns open fire, where the Grizzly assault guns passed, the Soviet defense line kept crumbling, and the encirclement of the German troops in the north and south was shrinking smaller and smaller.

The battle continued until eleven o'clock in the afternoon. The battle came to an end.

In the center of the city, in the four-storey municipal building, the Soviets put up their last standing.

The doors and windows on the first floor of the building were blocked by all kinds of debris, and in the four-story building, behind the windows on each floor, the figures of Soviet soldiers were flashing.

The 7.62 mm bullets rained down into the street on the outskirts of the building, driving the German infantry into the houses on both sides of the street.

Five Soviet artillery groups even set up mortars on the rooftops of the building and fired frantically at the Germans.

German infantry stormed buildings on both sides of the street and set up machine guns in the windows of buildings.

Soon, the MG-42 machine gun emitted a distinctive snorting sound and fired bullets like water into the window of the municipal building. Suppressing the Soviet troops inside, the riflemen also took advantage of the rate of fire of the semi-automatic rifles in their hands. The windows of the buildings were covered with fire and dust, and the Soviet soldiers were blocked in the walls behind the windows and did not dare to show their heads.

The GRW34 mortar was hiding in the corner, and 80mm shells flew to the roof one after another, and the fire and smoke from the explosion instantly engulfed the Soviet troops on the roof.

The creaking sound of metal grinding reached the ears of the soldiers on both sides of the war, and the ground seemed to tremble, and four Grizzly assault guns shook their bulky bodies around the corner, ignoring Soviet bullets and facing the building.

Each 150-millimeter shell was like a battering ram smashed into a building, smashing a strangely shaped hole in the building.

Each explosion echoed through the city, ringing in the ears of soldiers on both sides.

The difference was that the morale of the German soldiers rose a little bit at the sound of a cannon, and they involuntarily stopped firing and quietly admired the violent aesthetics of the Grizzly assault guns.

The shelling lasted five minutes, and the left half of the building was gone, leaving only a pile of rubble a full two stories high.

After demonstrating the power of the Grizzly assault gun, the German infantry commander duly sent his men to shout.

The slogan "Put down your arms, surrender your guns or don't kill" had just been shouted twice, and an arm stretched out from the window on the far right of the third floor of the building, shaking the white cloth in his hand up and down vigorously

In the battle of Mezekveshd, the Panzer Division of the Reichsal captured more than 2,400 Soviet troops, and the number of killed and buried alive cannot be counted, and there is no time to count.

The liberation of Mezekveshd by the Germans not only represented the doom of the Soviet troops in the city, but also meant that the Soviet offensive in Hungary was completely thwarted.

Except for a small number of logistics units left in the rear, all of the 216 Infantry Division and the 45th Tank Division of the Soviet Army, and one part of the 213 Motorized Infantry Division were completely encircled in the encirclement.

Together with the 49th Tank Division, which was routed by the Großdeutschesg Division, the Soviet 12th Army lost almost all of its armored forces and its most powerful offensive force.

Without the cover of armored forces, how to resist the German counteroffensive has become the first difficult problem facing the 12th Army.

As for the offense, that has become a fantasy and exists only in legends.

To the east of the city, the infantry corps of the 12th Army immediately stopped advancing to the Hungarian hinterland and turned to the defensive, building positions on the spot to deal with a possible German counterattack.

To the west of the city, the Italian Litorio Panzer Division and the Turin Division moved from south to north, and the German 67th Infantry Corps sent two infantry divisions from west to east to jointly round up the Soviet troops in the encirclement.

In one day, under the encirclement and interception of the German army, the remnants of the Soviet 45th Tank Division and the 213th and 216th Tank Divisions were squeezed to the Tisza River, and then surrendered collectively under the command of the division headquarters.

War reports were sent one after another to the town of Kaurchog.

"Three divisional headquarters were captured at one time, more than 34,000 people, and the remnants of the Soviet army were completely wiped out of the pockets, and our first stage of the task was successfully completed. It is a pity that the two Italian divisions suffered heavy losses and could no longer afford to fight a tough battle, and the following battles could only be fought by the Reichsmarshal and the Great German Division. ”

Chen Dao looked at the telegram in his hand, his face full of smiles.

"What's next for us?" Major Lorenz asked.

"Attack, continue the offensive, take advantage of the heavy losses of the armored forces of the Soviets, attack without stopping."

"I will immediately send a telegram and ask the Reichsmarshal Division and the Großdeutsche Division to attack as originally planned."

As soon as Major Lorenz turned around, he heard Chen Dao's voice.

"Wait a minute, send a telegram to the Italians, send me the three division commanders who have been captured, and I will talk to them. We will soon launch an attack on the Soviet mainland, and I must have a good understanding of the tactics of the Soviets before I can be qualified to direct the war on the Eastern Front, after all, there is no right to speak without investigation. (To be continued......)