About half an hour after the capture of the town of Mere, it advanced along the road leading to the city of Buzeu, and the 2nd Panzer Battalion, which was responsible for covering the right flank, also made progress and successfully occupied the town of Lipe, on the west side of the road, less than four kilometers from the town of Buzeu.

The defense of the town of Lipe was transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the 26th Motorized Rifle Regiment, and the battle group immediately regrouped and launched an attack northwest of the city of Buzeu.

The two battle groups marched side by side, and more than 150 tanks guided nearly 300 SD and KFZ251 armored vehicles, which ran over large areas of grass and cultivated land, spewing smoke and making a piercing sound of metal rubbing, and it took less than half an hour to cross the eight-kilometer field and arrive at the battlefield where the sound of gunfire had already boiled.

Forty or fifty ME-109 fighters and Soviet MiG-3 and Yak-1 fighters of the Soviet Union were in the air, chasing each other and shooting at each other, sprinkling deadly bullets on each other.

On the ground, the anti-aircraft guns of the defenders were not far behind, and the Stuka and ME-110 fighters that swooped down were in full swing.

From a distance, the sky over the town of Vale was full of warplanes flying like locusts.

In the town of Vale, there were deafening explosions from time to time, and black earth fountains flew into the sky like a fountain, and more than a dozen black plumes of smoke shot straight into the sky.

With each earth-shattering explosion, a black plume of smoke appeared.

The troops of the 24th Panzer Regiment and the 21st Regiment were about to attack, when they saw four in one and three teams of fighters rushing towards them in the northern sky.

Seeing those snitches with bad intentions, accompanied by battle groups, air defense units that had nothing to do in the previous battles joined the battle with surprise.

On the twelve Dongfeng self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, the muzzles of the 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns were raised high, pointing at the air killers painted in pure black paint and painted with red five-pointed stars on the fuselage and tail, and sprayed shells at them at a rate of nearly two rounds per second.

Less than a minute later, twenty-four towed 20-mm anti-aircraft guns of the divisional anti-aircraft battalion also joined the battle.

German anti-aircraft guns on the ground just sounded. In the distant sky, six more four-plane formations rushed into the battlefield close to the ground, walking in the fire net of antiaircraft shells.

250 kg bombs, 100 kg bombs, drawn in a terrifying arc and smashed to the ground. 20 mm guns and 7.62 mm machine gun shells rained down on German convoys.

The madness of the Black Death Il-2 did not last long, as sixteen ME-109 fighters emerged from the clouds one after another, each of them locked onto an Il-2 attack plane, biting their tails and swooping down, scopes sheath the swarthy villains who seemed to have just returned from Africa. Pull the trigger.

In one dive of the sixteen fighters, seven Il-2s did not have the same arrogance as before, plunging to the ground with bullet holes all over their bodies, and the other four staggered north with bullet holes and black smoke on their buttocks.

Sixteen ME-109 fighters quickly pulled up, then dived again to attack, whether they hit or not, turned around again and pulled up,

Dive after dive. Pulling up again and again, 16 German fighters drew "sine waves" in the air.

Sixteen fighters joined forces with anti-aircraft artillery units on the ground to take out the Soviet Il-2 group, and without a chance to breathe, they were targeted by the group of aircraft reinforced by the Soviet Air Force and dragged into a new round of fighting.

The 24th Panzer Regiment and the 21st Mechanized Infantry Regiment did not slow down by the harassment of the Il-2 and resolutely launched an attack on the town of Ville.

MAJOR GENERAL HAUSENFELD RUSHED UP A RAISED SLOPE IN AN SD.KFZ251 ARMORED COMMAND VEHICLE.

Without waiting for the armored car to stop, Hausenfeld reached out and pressed the adjutant's shoulder, and with the assistance of the adjutant, he stepped on the roof of the cab, picked up the telescope and looked at the town of Vale.

A little more than a minute later. Hausenfeld turned back and shouted a few times into the cabin, and the radio man in the compartment immediately sent his orders to the charging troops.

FOUR COMPANIES OF THE SECOND BATTALION AND IN ONE COMPANY OF ARMORED VEHICLES OF THE SD.KFZ 251 TYPE, LEFT THE BRIGADE AND HEADED EAST OF THE TOWN OF VILLE. A kilometre away, a small village with less than fifty houses rushed to it.

Artillery is the god of war, and after some radio contact, this battle group made contact with the FI-282 Hummingbird helicopter behind it.

Two minutes later, not only the battle group, but also Hausenfeld on the dirt slope behind could see a continuous cloud of smoke rising from the small village.

After firing a round of three rapid fires, the twelve Wild Bee 150-mm howitzers of the 4th Battalion of the 89th Artillery Regiment used pure violence. Demolition of one-third of the houses in the village.

Before the smoke from the 150-mm howitzer shells had cleared, Hausenfeld saw the sturdy figures of the infantry passing through the gap between the armored vehicles and the tanks and charging into the village.

About twenty minutes later, Hausenfeld received a report that the village and the road leading from it had been occupied, that the overland access between the town of Ville and the city of Buzeu had been severed, and that the defenders of the town were left alone.

With the size of no more than three hundred houses in the town of Ville, the defenders in the town had only one battalion at most, and no more than two battalions, which absolutely could not stop a single charge of their own troops.

Hausenfeld was no longer concerned with the battle at Ville, but with the next troop move.

According to the original plan, after the 24th Armored Division cut the road northwest of Buzeu City, the 74th Infantry Division following behind would send people to take over the position.

Hausenfeld was hesitating, and the battle for the town of Vale had begun.

Unlike the town of Merley, the Soviet defenders in the town of Ville had been prepared for the arrival of the German army, and unlike the defenders in the town of Mason, who were suddenly attacked, they were more stubborn in their will to resist.

Moreover, it was the station of the 2nd Battalion of the Tank Regiment of the 7th Motorized Division, and the presence of eleven BT-5 tanks contributed to the courage of the Soviet infantry.

Eleven BT-5s hid in the shadows next to the houses, behind the bushes and other shady corners, and 45-mm tank guns were pointed at the German tank clusters, firing insidious shells.

Four Type 4G tanks were hit in the side, two of them caught fire and burned, and the other two crew members were injured and temporarily withdrew from the battle.

A number of other tanks were hit in the front by shells, and although the shells were bounced off, the invisible shells really scared the German tankers into a cold sweat.

In the bushes, in the corner, the BT-5 hiding in the dark corner was discovered by the German tanks one after another, and the advantages brought by the popularization of radio were clearly visible, and the BT-5 tank was discovered by a No. 4G tank, and after a while, the whole platoon or even the whole company of tanks would know the location of the BT-5, followed by several 75mm tank guns pointed at the BT-5, ending its shameful black artillery career with the baptism of shells.

The eleven BT-5 tanks were only eleven stumbling blocks in the offensive path of the 24th Armored Division, and they did not play any role in blocking them, except for making the 24th Armored Division feel a little "awkward".

After the No. 4G tank cluster drove the Soviet infantry back into the town with high-explosive shells and machine guns, the German infantry rushed into the town with a shout, sweeping away the remnants of the town and finishing up the battle.

Without much resistance in the town, the Soviet infantry turned around and crossed the town of Ville, through the meadows northeast of the town, fled to the banks of the Buzeu River, and jumped into the river to swim to the opposite bank.

Before they could swim to the other side, fourteen or fifteen armored vehicles had already pursued to the river, and the German infantry condescended and fired at the Soviet infantry swimming in the river.

The muzzle of the MG-42 machine gun swept across the river, and large clouds of blood appeared in the river, and the floating corpses were half hidden and half in the water, and they rushed down with the river and drifted downstream to the city of Buzeu.

Fifty or sixty unlucky ones, who had escaped by hiding by the river because they could not swim, tremblingly raised their hands and surrendered to the Germans

At 11:20 p.m., in the city of Buzeu, the chief of staff of the 8th Mechanized Corps said to Ryabeschev: "The troops in the north-west direction have been wiped out by the Germans, the towns of Lipe, Mere and Ville have been occupied, Petrosu Peak, which is defended by the 34th Tank Division, is being attacked, and we have only one passage left to the southeast to communicate with friendly forces." ”

"The Germans are advancing faster than I thought, so it's fine, the faster they march, the faster the right flank will be elongated, it should be about fifteen kilometers, enough for the fifteenth mechanized corps to deploy a tank division, tell the fifteenth mechanized corps, it's better to attack now, don't wait for the Germans to stabilize their right flank before starting." Ryabishev said. (To be continued.) )