The heavily armored battalions of the German army during World War II, both in terms of equipment and combat achievements; It's definitely super eye-catching, and it's shocking. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The general establishment of the heavy armored battalion of the German army during World War II, according to the online information of later generations, is: the battalion headquarters company is equipped with 3 command tanks, the battalion has a total of 3 armored companies, each company has a company headquarters (2 tanks) and 3 armored platoons (4 tanks per platoon), 2+4+4+4, the whole company has a total of 14 tanks, and the battalion has a total of 45 tanks.

The German army in World War II had about 10 heavy armored battalions, they were the 501st Heavy Armored Battalion, the 502nd Heavy Armored Battalion, the 503rd Heavy Armored Battalion, the 504th Heavy Armored Battalion, and the 505th Heavy Armored Battalion; 506th Heavy Armored Battalion, 507th Heavy Armored Battalion, 508th Heavy Armored Battalion, and 509th Heavy Armored Battalion, and 510th Heavy Armored Battalion.

But now, whether these 10 heavy armored battalions have been disabled, severely damaged, intact, or still in the process of being formed, they have all been reorganized into three armored divisions by Chen Yanlong.

According to the information on the Internet in later times, Guderian envisioned that the ideal armored division should have an armored brigade, each brigade has 2 tank regiments (armored regiments), each regiment has 2 tank battalions (armored battalions), and each battalion has 4 tank companies, including 3 light tank companies (equipped with No. 3 tanks) and 1 medium tank company (equipped with No. 4 tanks). Each company had 21 tanks, so that the German Panzer Division had a total of 336 tanks (330 tanks according to Sidon).

However, in order to make these new armored divisions reorganized from the famous heavy armored battalions in history have stronger combat capabilities, Chen Yanlong provided these new armored divisions with T-54 medium tanks, except for one company of Leopard tanks and one company of Tiger tanks.

This means that a newly created heavy armored division has 400 tanks, of which 340 are of the type T-54 medium tanks.

Moreover, these tanks are equipped with an R-112 radio, AB-1-P/30 fuel battery, and TPN-1-22-11 night vision devices.

And their main armament is still 1 100 mm tank gun, 1 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun, 3 7.62 mm parallel machine guns and 1 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun. The front armor of the cast turret was 190 mm thick, and the front inclined armor plate of the hull was 100 mm thick.

Increased firepower and armor protection led to an increase in vehicle weight, and in order not to affect the tank's mobility, these T-54 tanks were also equipped with a high-horsepower diesel engine (V-54).

In addition, in the event of a nuclear explosion of 2-15 thousand tons, these T-54 tanks can still survive at a distance of 300 meters from the center of the explosion, and when the distance is increased to 700 meters, the crew will also have a chance to survive.

Overall, the combat performance of this converted T-54 medium tank is comparable to that of the T-55 tank.

July 10, 8 a.m., on the Eastern Front.

Kharkiv is the second largest city and the largest industrial and transportation center of Soviet Ukraine, the capital of Kharkiv Oblast. It is located at the confluence of the Kharkiv River, the Lopan River and the Uda River, tributaries of the Severodonets River.

Not long after dawn, the Voronezh Front, with the strength of the 5th and 6th Guards Armies, the 5th Guards Tank Army, and the 1st Tank Army, cooperated with the 53rd, 69th, and 7th Guards Armies of the Steppe Front, as well as the 1st Mechanized Army, took the lead in attacking Kharkov, and in just half an hour, completely occupied the entire Kharkov.

The Bryansk Front, with its 3rd and 63rd Army Groups, as well as the 61st Army Group and the 1st Guards Tank Army and the 20th Tank Army, went in pursuit of the hastily evacuated remnants of the German army from Kharkov.

At the same time, the Soviet army's long-range aviation and night bombing aviation were also carrying out full-time motor-scale carpet aviation raids on the German-occupied areas near Kharkov day and night, as well as indiscriminately bombarding the German artillery positions, defensive positions, and troop concentration areas all night long.

Each of these Soviet planes made more than 1,500 sorties, and the weight of the bombs dropped was more than 1,600 tons.

In the face of round after round of Soviet attacks, Moder, who had already withdrawn to the rear, did not pay much attention to the bombing and surprise attacks of these Soviet aviation units.

Because every bombing operation of the Soviet aviation unit will be resisted by the German aviation unit dispatched by Chen Yanlong.

That is, when Moder and Manstein took the initiative to evacuate Kharkov and let the Soviet army successfully occupy it according to Chen Yanlong's intentions, all the aviation units stationed on the Eastern Front were no longer hiding all the time, but making all-out sorties to resist and counterattack.

And what he is most concerned about now is the tank units of those heavy armored divisions reorganized by Chen Yanlong, so when he was happily occupying Kharkov by the Soviet army, he also came to the 503rd Heavy Armored Division, the first heavy armored division that had just been reorganized.

The division was formed by merging and re-replenishing the 501st, 502nd, 503rd, and 504th heavy armoured battalions.

Originally, Moder wanted to change another new name, but Chen Yanlong liked the name of the 503 Heavy Armored Battalion and the achievements of this armored battalion unit, so he directly changed the name of the original 503 Heavy Armored Battalion to the 503 Heavy Armored Division.

When Moder saw the state and personnel of this new heavy armored division, he turned to Ehrlich next to him? Division Commander Hoheiser spoke.

This person is the former lieutenant colonel of the 503rd Heavy Armored Battalion, and is now promoted by Chen Yanlong to be the new commander of the 503rd Heavy Armored Division.

"Hey! General Ehrlich! The infantry of these new armored divisions you trained coordinated and trained very well, and I am very satisfied! And I also believe that the Führer is also very satisfied after reading it! The Führer really didn't see the wrong person! ”

Modell smiled at each other with friendly eyes.

"You praise me so much! Marshal Moder! In fact, the original team of my 503rd Heavy Armored Division was all personnel of the most elite heavy armored battalion in the empire, and they were merged together, so it is appropriate that they have good combat capabilities, and there is nothing remarkable at all! ”

But the division commander Ehrlich shook his head and said with a wry smile.

"Perhaps! At least stronger than my tank army group! However, I believe that when my tank army group cooperates with you, then your strength will be stronger and better! ”

Modell said with a slight smile.

"Hmmm! I agree with you, Marshal, but we don't have a chance to fight yet! Actually, I don't understand why we now have so many new, advanced tank groups, and aviation units! The Führer did not allow us to carry out a large-scale counterattack against the Soviet troops who were pressing forward step by step! ”

Division Commander Ehrlich replied with a little disappointment.

"Because the battle of Sicily has already begun, the Führer does not want the two fronts to be fought together, and now the Prime Minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini, has also been imprisoned by the King of Italy, and Serbia has hundreds of thousands of troops in the nest of Tieto and his hateful guerrillas and members of the People's Army!"

Modell explained, smiling deeply.

"I know all these situations, but I am just unwilling, fleeing without a fight, and letting the Soviet army make us hard; The occupied territories that were captured with heavy casualties were all handed over, and they were given to our enemy Soviet troops! ”

Division Commander Ehrlich shook his head and responded in a sad and unwilling tone.

"I know your mood very well! But don't worry about not having a chance to attack the Soviets, because your battle will soon come! ”

Modell smiled uneagerly.

"Really?"

Hearing this, the division commander Ehrlich looked at Moder with blazing eyes and hurriedly asked.

"Of course it's true, I came to you today not only to check your strength and state after reorganization, but also to send you to the front line battlefield and prepare for battle!"

Modell replied very calmly and calmly.

"Send us there to fight?"

Division Commander Ehrlich suddenly exclaimed excitedly and excitedly.

"You say that the Soviets have now fully occupied Kharkov, so where do they want to occupy next?"

Modell asked with a smile.

"Do you need to talk about that? Of course, the Dnieper, and Issim-Taganrog, as well as Kyiv and other theaters of war! ”

Division Commander Ehrlich replied without thinking.