The 21st Panzer Division was charged towards the rear of the Soviet 16th Tank Army.

The reason is simple, although the front of the 16th Tank Army is overwhelmingly T34, they are stuck in muddy water and cannot move or even aim, so they will not be a threat to the German army.

There are still more than 30 tanks and a large number of infantry in the rear, which is the unit that will pose a threat to the German army or will escape, and of course it will become the focus of the German attack.

As General Stryker gave the order, the tanks on both flanks rushed fiercely towards the rear of the Soviet army

Of course, the plot of the German tanks not directly rushing into the Soviet camp ♀ may only be seen on TV and movies, and the tank group will rush into the enemy's infantry group and then kill in all directions.

In fact, the tank should try to avoid such a situation, because generally speaking, the armor protection of the tank is only the strongest in the front, the flanks, the rear and the upper and lower are weak units, and the enemy infantry is equipped with a large number of grenades and explosives bags, these things can obviously blow up the tank, and even a Molotov cocktail can burn a bunch of fire in the engine unit to scrap a tank.

Therefore, the correct thing to do is to slow down when you are about 500 meters away from the enemy, and then let your infantry follow from the rear and advance towards the enemy.

At this time, the German army did this, and the soldiers jumped out of the car in groups and advanced towards the defensive line built by the Soviet army in a hurry, and it should be said that the quality of the Soviet army in front of them was quite good, because they could still use tanks to organize two lines of defense to confront the Germans in this situation, so that the other Soviet troops were afraid that they would have already become a mess or escaped.

Qin Chuan was right, this tank 16th Army is a force that came from the Soviet Russian Civil War and participated in the defense of Moscow, in fact, the focus is on the latter, and it can only be said that it has certain combat experience and command experience after participating in the Soviet Russian Civil War, and even so, these combat experience and command experience have died out later.

The Battle of Moscow was different, it was a battle that had just taken place, and it was also a battle in which the Soviet officers and men overcame all kinds of difficulties and persevered in the battle in adversity and finally won the victory.

The 16th Tank Army in front of you is such a unit.

But this could not change the fact that the Soviet 16th Army was about to be defeated, and the Soviet tanks that followed in the rear were all T60 and American-made M3 light tanks, and these tanks could not block the impact of the German "No. 3" and "No. 4" tanks at all.

Colonel Albridge ordered via walkie-talkie: "Free fire!" ”

"Boom" burst into a burst of artillery, and the German tanks, which had long been aiming at the target, spit out balls of flames at the Soviet defense line, and in an instant, the tank defense line that the Soviet army hastily built was in shambles, black smoke rose from the tank, the engine was hit and caught fire, and the entire tank was blown up into parts and shot in all directions.

"Forward!" Qin Chuan shouted: "Follow the tank!" ”

After advancing some distance, Qin Chuan ordered loudly again: "Mortar!" ”

THE 50MM CALIBER MORTAR WAS IMMEDIATELY ERECTED BEHIND THE TANK, AND THE LONGEST RANGE WAS ACTUALLY THE EASIEST TO SHOOT AT THE LONGEST RANGE, BECAUSE AS LONG AS THE MORTAR WAS ADJUSTED TO A 45-DEGREE ANGLE, THE GERMAN 50MM MORTAR EVEN HAD A SIGN AT 45 DEGREES TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR SOLDIERS TO FIND.

As a result, patches of mortar shells smashed in the direction of the Soviet troops, lifting the Soviet troops into the air in groups.

In principle, the Soviet army can also use mortars to return fire, but on the one hand, the range of the Soviet army's light mortars is far inferior to that of the German light mortars, and on the other hand, the German army has tank cover in front of the formation, so that the Soviet army has no power to fight back in this battle.

And that's not all, when the machine guns of the tanks and the MP43 in the hands of the German soldiers pressed the Soviet troops to immobilize, the anti-infantry rockets fired by the bazookas played a role again, and for a time the Soviet camp was full of blood and screams, and then they no longer cared about Order No. 227 and retreated to the rear like a tide.

However, objectively speaking, Order No. 227 should not work at this time, it refers more to the fact that the Soviet troops stationed on a certain line of defense cannot retreat, and the 16th Tank Army is charging towards the enemy's defense line, and it is still allowed to retreat in the case of failure of the charge and the order of the superior to invite retreat, but these commanders who have lost the battle will inevitably be removed from their posts.

Note: The commander of the 4th Tank Corps, Mishulin, who participated in the first attack, and the commander of the 16th Tank Corps, Pavelkin, were removed from their posts the next day)

Of course, the Germans would not let go of the Soviets so easily, and they were followed by a chase like a storm sweeping away leaves, and the corpses of the state-run peasants were scattered all over the field for a while, and even the wheat straw was dyed a dazzling bright red.

The 21st Panzer Division drove the Soviets back along with the 39th Guards Infantry Division stationed in the Konnaya Gorge until they stopped in front of Heights 139.7, and as mentioned earlier, there were several dangerous places where the traffic was inconvenient for mechanized troops to pass.

Then the 21st Panzer Division returned to the state farms to eat and pay those trapped in the farmland banner T34.

What is somewhat surprising is that several T34s broke free from the paddy fields and escaped to the rescue of a Soviet army in Stalingrad, and the commander of the 16th Tank Corps in Stalingrad, Pavelkin, was among them.

In this battle, the Soviet 16th Tank Army was almost disabled: 80 tanks were destroyed, 73 of them were destroyed, including 40 T34s, 16 T60s, and 17 Ms, and the infantry also lost a third of their lives.

Indeed, it is said that the 40 T34s were not all destroyed by the Germans, but were trapped in the paddy fields and could not move, and were blown up by the Soviets themselves in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Germans.

There are still 12 of them that have not had time to blow up, in fact, it is not too late to blow up, but the Soviet army hopes to use these usable tanks to fight with the Germans again, or hope that the tanks can still be used to fight a bloody way back to Stalingrad, so they do not dare to blow up the tanks easily until the last moment.

But the timing was hard to grasp, but the Germans rushed up and faked them, and they had no chance to do so.

Needless to say, this part of the captured tanks would soon be dragged out of the paddy fields by the Germans and sprayed with German symbols and incorporated into the panzer division.

The T34 tanks performed quite well, but not many German soldiers were willing to fly these tanks because they were unfamiliar, but because they were often mistaken for enemy tanks by German pilots, especially when they were in a melee between friend and foe.

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