If you have military merits, look for the Air Force.

As the brother-in-law of the No. 1 boss in the Air Force, and as a general from the Luftwaffe, when he encountered a large number of enemies who took the initiative to send his military exploits, Chen Dao's first thought was the brother of the Air Force.

With Chen Dao's call, in less than half an hour, a group of about 60 planes flew to the left bank of the Tisza River, and soon found the Soviet marching column on the road under the guidance of a FI-156 reconnaissance plane, and the nightmare immediately befell the Soviet troops.

Scattered into several squads and circled the sky, the German fighters found their own target, and then dived down, firing the first shot of the Battle of the Tisza.

Under the education of the "brother-in-law" who straddled the two circles of the Air Force and the Army, the bomber pilots of the Air Force were very experienced in sparing the tanks of the "hard targets" of the Soviet army and looking for trouble with the "soft targets."

His brother-in-law once gave a lesson to the pilots of the Air Force, in which he divided the objectives of an armored unit into two categories: "soft and hard".

Tanks are hard targets, and vehicles and personnel outside tanks are soft targets.

Rather than wasting strength on tanks, it is better to let them go and concentrate firepower on those vulnerable soft targets.

The principle of this is very simple, a tank force can only play its role to the greatest extent under the coordination of multiple arms such as infantry, engineers and artillery, and without the coordinated operation of all arms, launching an attack with a single tank force is tantamount to sending the enemy's head, especially when the enemy is the master of tank warfare, the German armored corps.

Under the guidance of this concept, both fighters and bombers have chosen the tactic of "bullying the weak and fearing the hard."

Seeing the bombers rushing straight to the ground, the Gass trucks that had no time to wait for them to slow down, the Soviet infantry scrambled to jump out of the trucks and frantically fled to the cornfields and bushes on both sides of the road.

In the blink of an eye, the orderly convoy of convoys on the highway disappeared, and everywhere there were Soviet infantry fleeing like headless flies and various vehicles rushing left and right, running an S-shaped route.

Twelve ME-110E fighter-bombers skied over the road in turn. The bomb pylons clicked and released, and the "Demon Egg" spread its wings and rushed to the ground like a swarm of vampire bats, before exploding itself in the air.

Tens of thousands of shrapnel were fired into the ground, the flesh and blood of Soviet soldiers were pierced with holes, and some infantry who had not had time to jump out of the car howled, and their bodies were sprayed with blood to the point of convulsions in the truck compartment. Or fall off the truck and be crushed into a pulp by the truck behind that has no time to dodge.

Shrenchnel hit the roofs and bodies of armoured vehicles, cars and trucks. The clanging sound is terrifying.

With each crunch, a tiny scratch appeared on the body.

Some of the windows of trucks and cars were pierced by shrapnel, cobweb-like cracks crawled all over the windows, interspersed with punctures of various sizes, and the driver and passengers were covered in blood.

Cars and trucks lose control, crash into other vehicles, or crash headfirst off the highway and into a drainage canal next to the road, turning the whole road into a hellish scene.

The "Devil's Egg" is just an appetizer before a meal. After serving an appetizer to the Soviet infantry, the brothers JU-87 Stuka and JU-88 followed.

The two brothers swooped down and swooped down to the ground in a race-like manner, dropping waves of bombs that were bigger than ever.

Fifty kilograms, two hundred and fifty kilograms, five hundred kilograms, until the last model of 1,000 kilograms of aerial bombs rained down on the heads of the Soviet troops.

In the endless smoke and air waves, the Soviet infantry and vehicles rose off the ground like clouds and fog, and were thrown into the sky by the shock wave, staging a wonderful trapeze and aerial flying car.

Artillery tractors and howitzers towed behind them attracted great attention from German pilots. Airborne machine guns and cannons shone and swept over their heads.

The tractor and the driver inside were swept into a thousand holes, and blood and black smoke drilled out of the cracks in the compartment.

The aerial bomb fell on the head, and in the explosion, the trailer and the cannon behind it were overturned to the side of the road.

The Soviets did not sit still, and the muzzles of 12.7-mm anti-aircraft machine guns and 37-mm anti-aircraft guns spewed flames one after another. Shooting a rain of vengeful bullets at the German fighters, some Soviet officers ordered their subordinates, or directly grabbed the Dzhegalev light machine gun in their hands and pointed it into the sky, in an attempt to stop the wrath of the German fighters.

In the sky, countless large birds painted with iron crosses swooped and tumbled, shuttling through endless bullet rain and black-gray gunsmoke.

On the ground, trucks, trailers, armored vehicles are staggering. Flames and black smoke rose from both sides of the road, and several fuel trucks exploded with earth-shattering explosions, blowing the trucks carrying them to pieces.

On the road, in the bushes, in the fields, among the wreckage of vehicles, the corpses and wounded of Soviet officers and soldiers were laid.

More than twenty minutes later, at the cost of four downed planes and many damaged, the German fleet left, leaving a purgatory on the left bank of the Tiza River.

Seeing the German fighters far away, the surviving Soviet soldiers got out of the cornfields, jumped out of the gutters on both sides of the road, and climbed out of the bushes where they were hiding, their faces full of panic.

Before they could regain their spirits from the blow, the officers and commissars brandished their pistols and led them into another life-saving battle.

Either missing arms and legs, or wounded with countless bullet holes and blood stained on their bodies lying in every corner of "purgatory".

The Soviet soldiers carefully avoided vehicles that were spewing flames and smoke and occasionally exploding, saving their comrades from danger.

The 49th Tank Division's divisional headquarters was extremely lucky, and most of the divisional personnel survived, but they lost almost two-thirds of their trucks and cars, and they were instantly beaten from a motorized marching column to an all-foot unit.

The most heart-wrenching thing for the headquarters of the 49th Tank Division was that many trucks were destroyed along with the communications equipment inside.

Finally finding a working high-power radio, the 49th Tank Division reported its heavy losses to the military headquarters of the 24th Mechanized Army and requested air force support.

The request of the 49th Tank Division was quickly answered positively, and not only the 49th Tank Division, but also the 213th Motorized Rifle Division, which was advancing along the right bank of the Tisza River, was swept away by the Luftwaffe.

There were more light vehicles in the 213 Motorizer, and the losses were more severe.

As soon as two divisions were attacked by German air raids, the 24th Mechanized Corps really realized the horror of the air raids and did not hesitate to ask for help from its own air force.

When the 49th Tank Division sent out a battle report and received the promised air support from the military headquarters, it also received an order from the military headquarters to continue the offensive.

Leave part of the force to deal with the wounded. The 49th Tank Division once again embarked on the journey, but after suffering an almost one-sided bloodbath, all the officers and men of the 49th Tank Division lost the vigor they had when the offensive was launched, and it was more of a kind of confusion and fear from the heart.

Less than half an hour after departure, an anti-aircraft alert was raised at the anti-aircraft observation post of the 49th Tank Division.

The marching procession, which had just restored order, was again thrown into disarray.

At the last moment, a group of planes appeared in the eastern sky and rushed towards the German group.

In the telescope, I saw the red five stars spewed out on the fuselage of the group. The officers and men of the 49th Tank Division finally found solace in their hearts.

It's a little late, but it's better than never.

didn't wait for the curvature of the corners of their mouths to turn into a smile. Suddenly, they saw an astonishing scene.

In the heat of the air battle, the German bombers and fighter-bombers completely ignored the interception of the Soviet fighters, bravely handed over their backs to the fighters for protection, roared to the ground, and swept the Soviet troops on the ground again.

Seeing the air killers swooping down, the mood of the officers and men of the 49th Tank Division was like a roller coaster, and the good mood of the Air Force fighters just now fell back to the bottom in an instant.

For a whole morning, the forty-ninth tank division was spent in battles with the Luftwaffe, every kilometer walked. Countless corpses and the wreckage of light vehicles were left behind.

At 11 o'clock in the afternoon, the troops of the 49th Tank Division finished the fourth battle with the German aircraft group, cleaned up the mess on the spot, waited for an hour, and did not see any German aircraft group again.

They had to set off again, at the urging of the military department.

At this time, the 49th Tank Division suddenly discovered a painful reality, they could not even find a truck to tow anti-aircraft guns. Not to mention the trailers used to tow 122 and 152 mm caliber howitzers, and even the original motorized infantry regiment has almost turned into a pure infantry regiment.

Before the division headquarters of the 49th Tank Division could come up with a way to solve the problem of the troops' march, two bad news came one after another.

In the western sky, another dark cloud appeared, and a large number of German fighters were approaching.

To the south, a large German armored force was rushing towards him all over the mountains.

I heard that a large number of German tanks appeared. The division headquarters of the 49th Tank Division was in a panic with a hint of joy.

Finally seeing the German tank troops, finally no longer having to fight this kind of asymmetrical battle with the Luftwaffe, and finally having a real battle with the German Army.

The Luftwaffe air raids deliberately spared the Soviet tanks, and the tank units of the 49th Tank Division did not suffer too many losses, only no more than thirty tanks broke down due to bumps in the rough road.

Having learned that a large number of German tanks were rushing towards them and receiving orders to prepare for battle, the Soviet tankmen geared up.

They drove the tanks off the road. Battle formations were formed in the meadows and fields on both sides of the road, and the infantrymen followed the tanks with a variety of weapons under the supervision of the officers.

More than 200 tanks guided the infantry in a mighty rush in the direction of the German rush.

Unlike the 49th Tank Division, which was almost composed of tanks and infantry, the German tank battle formation was very layered.

Sensing that a large number of Soviet tank units were coming back to him, Chen Dao not only called on the air force to delay the Soviet army's marching speed, but also made some urgent adjustments to the tasks of the troops.

The Reichmarshal Panzer Division was reinforced by a heavy armored company and a tank destroyer battalion to the Großdeutsche Motorized Rifle Division.

Strengthened, the Großdeutsch Division was led by two heavily armored companies, followed by a tank battalion and a tank destroyer battalion, and covered by three infantry battalions in SDKFZ251 armored vehicles.

And further afield, the forty-eight self-propelled guns of the artillery regiment had already turned their muzzles and aimed in the direction where the battle was about to begin.

Overhead of the Großdeutsches Panzer Regiment, four FI-282 helicopters were suspended in the air, and a black cloud of smoke was seen walking on the ground in the north.

Dragging the black smoke from diesel engines, the red storm of KV-1, T-34 and BT-5 tanks rushed at the German tank unit.

The Soviet infantrymen took their weapons and trotted behind the tanks to charge, and before they could see the German tanks, they heard the sound of a howling wind in the sky, and shells rained down on the Soviet infantry clusters.

The tank relied on solid armor to resist shrapnel, but the ranks of the Soviet infantry set off a bloody storm, and countless Soviet infantry were killed by shrapnel on the road of the charge.

Under the guidance of the helicopter artillery observation posts, the German artillery shells were like eyes, and wherever the Soviet infantry gathered, they would be shrouded in gunpowder smoke and flames, and the surviving Soviet infantry could only lie on the ground to avoid the bombardment of the shells.

The German precision and heavy artillery fire successfully suppressed the Soviet infantry, and the Soviet tankmen did not know about it, or ignored it, and only focused on attacking the German armored clusters.

On the vast plain on the right bank of the Tisza River, nearly 500 tanks ran over the bushes, knocked down trees, climbed over undulating dirt slopes, and rushed at each other.

The moment the commanders of the E-40 tank saw each other in the observation glass, the gunners quickly turned the turret and pointed the muzzle in the direction of the enemy's attack, and the 88-mm armor-piercing shell was quickly pushed into the breech, and then flew out of the muzzle with a roar, and instantly flew over a distance of more than a thousand meters and fell into the Soviet tank cluster.

Through the large network woven by radio, the German tank group instantly learned that it had engaged the enemy, and all units quickly looked for favorable terrain in battalions, companies and even vehicles, and pointed their guns in the direction where the black smoke cloud was drifting.

As the Soviet tanks approached, first the E-40 tank fired, then the 75mm L60 gun of the No. 4 tank destroyer, and then the KWK40 tank gun on the No. 4 tank, more and more guns spewed flames.

The sound of artillery fire was like thunder in a thunderstorm, and the flames from the muzzles of the guns were like lightning, irritating the ears and hearts of every combatant soldier.

For the first time, the troops of the 49th Tank Division engaged the Germans, and suddenly found that almost all of their proud tanks and artillery were useless, and the tactics that had been tried and tested on the Hungarian army were all ineffective.

No matter how far they approached, the shells fired could not penetrate the tall, fierce tanks.

The KV-1 tank, on which they once relied immensely, was also vulnerable to German tanks.

One by one, platoon after platoon, countless Soviet tanks were forever parked in the path of the charge. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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