On the north side of the road, on the position of the 243rd Regiment of the 60th Motorized Infantry Division, a PAK40 anti-tank gun was hidden on the edge of the bush more than half a person high, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed at a T-34 tank more than 300 meters away. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The turret of the T-34 tank turned to the left front at 11 o'clock, and two puffs of gray-black gunpowder smoke erupted from the muzzle of the gun.

Two shells fell one after another next to an MG42 machine gun position, the machine gun was thrown out by the air wave, and the bodies of the two machine gunners lay in the position.

After successfully taking out the target, the T-34 tank re-rotated its tracks and was about to leave, when a cloud of smoke rose from the bushes, and the 75-mm armor-piercing shell instantly hit the T-34 tank, and the T-34 tank driver's hatch had an extra round black hole.

Seeing the turret hatch on the top of the tank wide open, a tankman hurriedly escaped to the rear, and a cheer from the German gunners could be heard in the bushes.

"Hit, we're going to kill it." The gunner, looking up from behind the scope, shouted excitedly.

The two gunners behind him raised their hands in unison and slapped at each other.

The four palms collided, snapping and making two crunch sounds.

Before the two gunners could put down their hands, a ball of fire suddenly erupted on the ground more than two meters behind the left side of the tank gun, and the two gunners who were high-fived and celebrated were thrown out, and their bodies were torn apart in the air.

The surging air wave slapped the gun's broad back, and the gunner hit the gun's shield headlong, and his body slid limply to the ground, blood flowed from the wound on his back, staining a large area of his military uniform・・・・・・

Almost at the same time, more than eighty meters behind the left of this anti-tank gun, a huge black shadow fell on the shield of an 88-mm anti-aircraft gun, which was also sitting in the bushes.

The shadow tore a roughly circular slit in the basin of the cannon shield and slammed into the barrel of the cannon shield.

"Boom ・・・・・・"

The flames and smoke instantly engulfed the 88mm anti-aircraft gun, and broken parts such as steel pipes and running bolts scattered in all directions, and the two M35 steel helmets also spun and flew into the sky.

After the smoke cleared, only the base and the mutilated gun body remained in the gun position where the anti-aircraft guns were located, leaving only six corpses of the twelve gunners, and the other six gunners were evaporated from the world.

On the south side of the road, the smoke from the muzzle of a No. 3 assault gun did not wait to dissipate, and was about to turn around and lock on to a new target, when the right front of the car body, close to the ground of the guide wheels, rose up to the sky, and instantly swallowed the body of the No. 3 assault gun.

The smoke cleared, and there was an extra crater on the ground in front of the right side of the No. 3 assault gun, the right front guide wheel and the first two load wheels disappeared, broken track fragments were scattered on the ground, and the steel plate on the right front side of the body was stained with a layer of flame-scorched black.

Similar scenes were played out one after another on the German positions, and a salvo of more than twenty KV-30 KV-2s created a hellish scene on the line of the 60 motorized infantry division.

"Ula ・・・・・・" came out of the Soviet infantry group with a strange cry of excitement.

The violent explosion quickly attracted the attention of the German officers in the rear of the position.

It's just that their eyes are also attracted by the T-34 tanks and Soviet infantry clusters in front of the position, and they think that the blow they have just suffered comes from the Soviet artillery positions in the distance.

It was not until the second and third rounds of shelling fell on the German positions that experienced German officers noticed that the Soviet heavy artillery was fired with extraordinary accuracy.

With each salvo fired by the KV-2 tank group, the anti-tank fire on the German positions weakened by a point.

It seemed to see the predicament of the German army, and behind the KV-2 tank group, a group of smaller and faster figures than the T-34 rushed out.

Two battalions of BT-5 light tanks, scattered on both sides of the road, rushed through the open space between the KV-2 tanks and rushed towards the German positions.

Their mission was twofold, to continue to act as a meat shield to attract German firepower, to buy time for the KV-2 to open fire, and also to serve as the final blow to the Germans.

When the Soviet light tank group rushed towards and was about to launch a fatal blow, a group of tall figures flashed behind the position of the 60th Motorized Infantry Division.

Knowing that the position of the 60th Motorized Infantry Division was in an emergency, the 501st Heavy Armored Battalion arrived in time.

Under the sharp 88 guns of the E-40 tanks, the Soviet tank cluster offensive was stopped by rushing in front of the German positions.

After being reminded by the officers of the 60th Motorized Infantry Division, the 1st and 2nd companies of the 501st Heavy Armored Battalion continued to hunt the Soviet tanks in front of the position, while the guns of the E-40 tanks of the 3rd Company turned into the distance and pointed directly at the KV-2 that was acting as a mobile battery.

"Use APCR to get rid of those mobile public toilets as soon as possible." The battalion commander's order came over the radio.

In the tanks of the third company, the loaders immediately put down the steel-core armor-piercing bullets in their hands and pulled out the extremely precious tungsten armor-piercing bullets that they were reluctant to use in ordinary times.

The tungsten core armor-piercing projectile, officially known as the PzGr.40 armor-piercing projectile, can penetrate 138 mm of standard armor plates placed at a 30-degree inclination angle of 138 mm at a distance of one kilometer, while the PzGr.39 steel-core armor-piercing projectile can only penetrate 99 mm of armor plates at the same distance.

The gunners locked onto the KV-2 in the distance, and then heard the loader's shouts.

"Reload ・・・・・・"

The farthest KV-2 tank is only about a kilometer away from the tanks of the 501st Heavy Armored Battalion.

At a distance of 1,000 meters, the E-40 tankers had a 93 percent hit rate on the battlefield and 100 percent on the training ground.

When the gunners pressed the firing pedal, the doom of the KV-2 tank group befell them・・・・・・

There was more than one road connecting Alexandria with Kirovgrad, and Sokolov, of course, would not have crammed the entire army into one road.

The 60th Motorized Infantry Division and the 501st Heavy Armored Battalion were operating in the north of the place, about twenty-five kilometers north, in the town of Kaduha.

Units of the 39 Tank Division under the XVI Mechanized Corps were passing through the town and rushing towards Kirovgrad.

Ten kilometers southwest of the town of Kaduha, on both sides of the same road, in the town of Supotis, the 8th Machine Gun Battalion and the 39th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the 21st Panzer Division of the German Army were already in full position.

On the vast plains of Ukraine, the actions of the 39th Tank Division of the Soviet Army did not escape the detection of the Luftwaffe.

Sensing the movement of this Soviet army, the 21st Panzer Division left one motorized infantry regiment to attack Kirovgrad in coordination, while the rest of the troops immediately turned around and turned northeast to intercept the Soviet 39th Tank Division, with Supotis at the forefront of the defensive line.

The distance between the town of Supotis and the town of Kaduha is only ten kilometers, which can almost be said to be a foot of gas for the armored forces, and the battle between the two sides is on the verge of breaking out.

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In the city of Alexandria, Major General Kalanin, after listening to the chief of staff Negelin's report on the pace of the troops' advance, patted the map and shouted: "There is Kafbas, the Germans have also moved?" ”

"Yes, it's still their old tactic, pincer offensive, and the battle report of the Seventeenth Army has been delivered." Nederin said.

"Now that the Germans have already moved, tell the 15th Mechanized Corps that the vacation is over, let them go to support the 17th Army." (To be continued.) )