Chapter 1177: Minsk Division

At this time, on the opposite side, inside the tank, the tankers were also surprised, tanks, the Soviets have tanks? Moreover, that tank seems to be able to breathe fire?

"Note, three hundred meters ahead, a tank, armor-piercing shell loading." The commander shouted.

Along the way, almost all of them used grenades, and basically they didn't encounter any targets that needed armor-piercing bullets.

"Yes, armor-piercing reloading." The loader removed an armor-piercing projectile, stuffed it into the chamber of the gun, and shouted loudly: "Reloaded." ”

The gun commander had already begun to aim at the target, and as the magnification of his sights gradually increased, he could see it gradually clearly, and suddenly he was a spirit in his heart, why did it look so familiar?

"Report, the target tank is suspected to be a Panther 3." The gun commander shouted.

Black Panther 3? Isn't that the same as your own tank? When he saw the target just now, no wonder it looked so familiar, the commander quickly took a closer look, but no, the Black Panther 3 tank, his own!

They rushed in from the south, and the opposite from the north, and before they knew it, they had already joined forces inside Minsk, which also marked that they had taken the city!

At this time, the tankmen on the Spitfire also recognized each other's models, and the two sides hugged each other, quite excited.

I really didn't expect that I would win here! They almost missed the shot.

In this case, a mishit is possible, and this is also in the history of later generations, in the face of the T-34 crisis of the Soviets, German tank designers came up with a quickly implemented plan, that is, the German version of the T-34, almost the exact copy of the T-34, and Hitler was very dissatisfied.

One of the big reasons for this is the mistaken attack on the battlefield.

In the absence of an advanced identification system for friend or foe, it is very important to visually see each other clearly and identify the model, and if both sides are the same, it will bring a lot of inconvenience.

With the meeting of the two armies, the city of Minsk, in one day, even if it was captured by the German army, at this time, the huge German Central Army, the two forces had achieved a siege, in their encirclement, there were hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops.

This encirclement is quite huge, so there will be a big gap in the encirclement, after all, it is impossible for the German army to make the encirclement impenetrable, if it is in the field next to each other and organize an encirclement, then the German Central Army has five million troops is not enough.

It is only necessary to control strategic points to be able to construct an encirclement, and then with the help of the mobility of tanks, it can block possible openings at any time, and at the same time, there are troops that are tightly bitten in the rear of the Soviet army.

This large encirclement will be divided into several smaller encirclements, and the Soviet army will be eaten in one bite.

New Grudoc.

The dirt on the field has been trampled softly, and on such a road, groups of soldiers are running all the way to the east.

They had rifles on their backs, grenades bouncing on their buttocks, and they were exhausted all the way, but they had no other way but to run and walk if they didn't want to be eaten by the Germans.

Riding a war horse, the army commander Kuznetsov looked at his infantry with a burning heart.

The Third Army, which belongs to a group army of the Western Special Military District, originally their strength was good, but the 11th Mechanized Army, which was established, had been defeated, and now they only had the Fourth Infantry Army left, and they originally had some cars, but last night, the last drop of gasoline ran out, and they could only blow up their own cars and become pure infantry.

The order came too late, and if it had been two days earlier, they would have already gone to Minsk, and if they had not been so determined in the counterattack mission, they would have been able to save their strength.

Just as he looked at his exhausted subordinates, his telegraph operator took the opportunity to set up a radio and receive a telegram.

"Minsk was occupied by the Germans." The telegraph operator said to him.

Minsk is occupied? Kuznetsov immediately frowned, they were going to return to Minsk, and now, the back road is actually blocked?

Eagerly spreading out his map of the march, he looked at the road map drawn with a pencil on it, all occupied by the Germans, should he take the Nari Burke Forest to the south?

No, it's not suitable there, it will take longer to cross the forest, and there will be no hope of breaking through to the side, and during this time, I don't know where the Germans will hit, maybe they will go to Smolensk.

"Order the troops, speed up." He continued: "Order our forwards, take the crossing of the Neman River. ”

He could only continue to retreat to the east, hoping to find a weak point in the enemy's defense, break through a road, and retreat, and now, in front of their army, was the Neman River, which was a bottleneck.

The Neman River, a river in the western part of the Eastern European Plain. It originates 50 kilometers southwest of Minsk, Belarus, and meanders through Lithuania and the northern part of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, emptying into the Kursky Bay of the Baltic Sea. The total length is 937 km. There are many shallows and sandbars in the river.

Napoleon crossed the Neman River and made his way to Russia, after which the Emperor Napoleon and Alexander met on a raft with a tent in the middle of the Neman River, and after some quarrels, the treaty was finally signed.

Now, this river has become one of the biggest threats to the 3rd Army, because of the blockage of this river, they will slow down their movements, and now they urgently need to seize the crossing on the river as soon as possible and cross this river.

At the front was the 172nd Infantry Division, whose commander Romanov urged his troops to move quickly, and they could already see the crossing in the distance.

"Quick, look for boats in the neighborhood and find anything that can cross the river." The Romanovs were also extremely anxious, and if they wanted to retreat, they had to cross the river, before the Germans found out.

Just as he had finished speaking, there was a rumbling sound overhead.

"Hidden, hidden, the bombers of the Germans are coming!"

The soldiers on the march were in a panic, they looked for cover on the spot, and before they could dodge, the roar of death was heard overhead.

The Stuka bombers lowered their altitude, the machine guns in the nose were firing fiercely, and the Soviet soldiers fell in pieces wherever they swept.

Hiding under a dirt slope, Romanov's telescope, looking at the ferry in the distance, his heart was extremely anxious.

There were constant explosions, machine-gun fire, and for the time being there were no more of their troops, only the ships of the locals. It seems that the Germans destroyed all the boats on the ferry here.

Without boats, how can you cross the river?