The sun in the east gradually revealed the horizon, dyeing the entire horizon red, the sun was like blood, the morning glow was like blood, and everywhere was red.

The cold wind blew across the Stry, across the meadows on the banks of the river, on the chariots of steel.

The commander of the Viking Division, General Felix, sat on his Tiger tank, half of his body exposed, and looked at the east of his side, where the Soviets' tank units were located.

The scouts have been dispatched, and the battle situation is gradually gathering to him through the radio, and the Soviet tank crews have begun to start the tank engines and are ready to attack their own side!

"Attention, line up in a bell-shaped battle formation, and get ready to fight." Felix issued a combat mission to his tank unit on the radio: "On the opposite side of us is the Soviet tank division that has been attacked by our air force many times, now let's sound the death knell for this tank division of the Soviets!" ”

In tank battles, you can't charge in a swarm, you must pay attention to tactics. Especially the formation of the impact.

In later generations, the US tank forces were charging in a swarm, and that was because the US Army was already invincible, and the opponents they were going to fight were all very weak, and moreover, the US tanks popularized GPS, and it was clear where the friendly forces were.

But in this era, it is not possible, in the battle, they must be based on the different combat objectives, targeted formation, in fact, as early as more than ten years ago, in the desert, Guderian led a group of people to begin to study the tactics of tanks.

The latest armored force textbook, "Forward, Tank! It is also a detailed discussion and research, and it is an absolute internal reference.

Generally speaking, the battle formation of the German armored corps can be divided into armored formation and mixed formation according to the size of the strengthened troops, the terrain of the battlefield, the current enemy situation and the tasks of the superiors.

Among them, the armored formation refers to the battle formation composed of tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled guns, motorcycles, engineering vehicles and other vehicles with roughly equal mobility and defensive power; A mixed formation is a battle formation consisting of the above-mentioned vehicles and foot infantry.

At the same time, tank units do not fight alone, and it is necessary to pay attention to the support of aviation above their heads.

The main principles followed in the classification of battle formations are: flexibility and maneuverability, and superiority in firepower.

The first half of the sentence is to say that the battle formation should be as simple and easy to use as a whole and be able to cope with different unexpected situations on the battlefield. The second half of the sentence requires that at the same time, in the same place, and when fighting with the same opponent, the overall firepower formed by the battle formation is superior, that is, the concentration of firepower.

To be more specific, the most basic unit of the German armored battle formation is based on the tank platoon, which is roughly divided into the following types: column formation, echelon formation, linear formation, echelon formation, triangle formation, "wedge" formation, "prism" formation, and "bell" formation.

Among them, the final "bell" shaped battle formation, at the extreme of the development of tank troops.

In Germany's tank forces, there are already heavy tanks such as the Tiger tank, and there are also medium tanks such as the Panther 3 tank, and mixing them can play a better role.

For example, now, the tank crews of the Viking division are rapidly arranged according to this formation.

Two Tiger tanks, in the center of the formation, each four Panther 3 tanks on the left and right sides in a "figure-eight", the space left in the middle is supplemented by wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, ready to carry out the pursuit at any time.

From the sky, it looks like an upside-down bell, so it is called a "bell" shaped battle formation.

Mordrin's Tiger tank is lined up in the most central formation, a total of twelve combat vehicles, all of their radios are adjusted to one frequency band, only Mordlin's command tank has two sets of radios, which can communicate with the higher level.

In the east, in the direction of the rising sun, there is an evil country that wants to invade the Third Reich, and now they are going to keep going east, east, and it is up to them to complete the mission that Napoleon did not complete at the beginning!

"Start the engine." Modlin shouted, "Warm up the engine, prepare to attack!" ”

The sound of electric motors was everywhere, and the engine at the tail of the tank emitted puffs of black smoke, and in the midst of the black smoke, the tank was successfully started, and the sound of the diesel engine resounded throughout the plain.

At this time, on the horizon over there, the shadow of the Soviet tank forces had already appeared, and the number was probably more than two hundred!

The Soviet tank division, because of several German air raids, lost some tanks, and the Viking division had to set aside a part of the tanks to guard the Soviet infantry division in the encirclement to prevent them from breaking through the chaos, so that the two sides could use only a few hundred vehicles.

Even, the number of tanks in the Viking division was even smaller, less than one and a half hundred, fifteen formations, lined up, but, qualitatively, it was different.

The Soviet tanks were mainly T-34, they charged at the front, behind the T-34, followed by fast tanks such as T-26 and BT7, their tank force, there were no heavy tanks.

On the German side, the Panther 3 tank is the main body, and the Tiger tank is the elite, such a force, the impact is very powerful, not in quantity, but in quality!

The Soviet tanks lined up in the most direct horizontal line, coming all over the mountains, while the German tanks lined up in a bell-shaped formation one by one, rushing towards the opposite side!

The collision of steel and steel, is coming!

Looking at the Soviet tanks all over the mountains, a trace of disdain flashed in Mordlin's eyes.

The bell-shaped formation was advancing rapidly, and the Panther 3 tanks on both sides of the back had enough forward firing range, and at this time, the commander of each vehicle was looking at the Soviet tanks rushing in the distance, as if a hunter looked at his prey.

The distance between the two sides, in the rapid approach, was about five kilometers when the other party was first discovered, and soon the distance was shortened to one kilometer.

"Stop moving forward and fire!" Modlin shouted on the radio, now he has to command, not only his tank, but the entire formation, 88 mm tank guns, at a distance of one thousand meters, already have a good hit accuracy!

(To explain, taking advantage of the range advantage and firing outside the enemy's range to take out the opponent should be the first thing to consider, right?) In the Gulf War that year, the Yankees abused the Iraqi tank troops in this way, and even the Yankees even hung up the reverse gear to widen the distance, just not allowing the Iraqi tanks to get close. In World War II, German tanks were precision-machined and shot farther and more accurately than shoddy Soviet tanks. Regarding the problem of always starting hits, East China Zhixiong will not describe it anymore, and the 50% hit rate should not be much, right? ）