.“ Cheetah 1, Cheetah 1, we're going to sail back, there are still a lot of Russians behind, good luck to you! ”

The headset came the voice of the air squadron leader who had been supporting him in the air, and Major Sander looked up as the German fighters climbed, formed and moved away.

"Guys, we may be fighting alone before the next batch of Air Force units arrives!

But don't worry, we have enough strength to make the Russians suffer here! Well, hurry up and take stock of your ammo, and replenish less than 40% of the standard ones! ”

After the major gave the order, the tanks and assault gun groups were busy again, but anyone who met the conditions could use a small flag to summon the ammunition vehicles in the advance battalion - the 1924 type half-track armored transport vehicle specially carrying shells, bullets and fuel, but this supply was very limited, usually even the advance armored battalion such a reinforced battalion only has 5-6 armored vehicles with a load of 4.5 tons, that is to say, it can replenish the armored battalion with more than 20 tons of ammunition and oil, usually shells, bullets, The weight ratio of fuel is a balanced ratio of 2:1:2, which is about 1,200 shells, 200,000 rounds of ammunition and 10,000 liters of gasoline. In terms of numbers alone, these supplies seem to be a lot, but in fact they can only be used to replenish one standard ammunition base for such an armored battalion, and logistics are mainly maintained by transport troops above the regimental level.

The German army's battlefield ammunition supply had not yet had time to be completed, and the Russian army, facing life and death, launched another attack. This time they learned a little better, and instead of cavalry and trucks, thousands of infantry bowed their waists, bowed their heads, and quickly advanced towards the German position at a distance of 1 or 2 meters from each other. Although the defensive war at the beginning of the war was fought in a good way, but at the critical moment, the Russians still couldn't help but use their crowd tactics, but unfortunately at this time they were not as good as the German Empire in terms of total population and service-age population, and the population of German Africa alone was 4 times that of Russia, not including Germany with a population of nearly 90 million and German India with a population of hundreds of millions!

"2 Company has taken notice. When we open fire, we will launch all the tanks, and as soon as I give you the order, we will rush to the Russians, understand? ”

Thanks to the air force's assistance, Major Sander didn't even need to use the tank company hidden in the village during the previous Russian attack. In the current establishment of the German Army, the standard configuration of a tank company is a total of 1,415 tanks III and IV and assault guns. The reason why the assault gun is incorporated into the general tank company is that, on the one hand, this kind of turretless full-tracked combat vehicle can completely keep up with the tank when fighting, and the cost is much cheaper, on the other hand, its powerful firepower has significant lethality for the Russian ** team, which is still dominated by infantry in this era.

The 2nd Company, commanded by Major Sander, currently has a Tank III, 4 Tank IV, and 4 assault guns. Another tank III and an assault gun were damaged in previous battles and withdrew from the battle. For example, more than 1,000 No. 3 tanks in service in the German Army were all replaced with new Daimler diesel engines between 1925 and 1926 - in the case of comparable volume and weight, diesel engines have the characteristics of high horsepower, low fuel consumption rate, not easy to catch fire, and safer starting system. Especially when attacked by enemy infantry incendiary bombs at close range, tanks using diesel engines obviously had better survivability, and although diesel engines also had the disadvantages of loud noise and black smoke, which were easy to expose the target, the German high command that was preparing to fight the Russians was still determined to replace the previous gasoline engine.

After the replacement of the engine, tank III except for a slight increase in weight. There are improvements in speed and stroke. The speed on the road has increased to 37 km/h, the off-road speed is close to 20 km/h, and the road journey has increased to 200 km/h. The off-road range reaches 150 km.

After the No. III tank, the German army's active No. IV tank also completed the replacement of diesel engines in early 1927, and the No. IV tanks produced since then also used Daimler's 350 horsepower diesel engines, which made the performance of this steel tank a small level. In addition, the German Army has also installed auxiliary devices on its tanks III and IV to facilitate the winter starting of diesel engines, and has developed and stockpiled a large number of fuel antifreeze suitable for use in severe cold conditions.

Despite a series of preparations for the winter in Russia, Germany wanted from top to bottom to end the war before winter. When a large number of Russian infantry rushed to a distance of about 1,000 meters again, the commander of the 1st Advance Battalion of the Panzer Corps of the Royal German Combat Army, Major Sander, decisively gave the order to open fire, and again, heavy artillery fire and bullet rain broke out in an instant. In the contest between the "sea of people" and the "metal storm", metal soon occupied an overwhelming advantage, and the flying shrapnel and shuttled bullets ruthlessly and efficiently plundered the lives of the Russians, and in just half a minute, the number of casualties of the Russian army quickly rose to 4 figures!

Major Sander poked only half of his head out of his turret, holding the telescope in his right hand and resting his left hand gently on the communicator in his throat. In the telescope, patches of Russian soldiers fell, but driven by some wonderful force. More Russian soldiers with rifles rushed forward, and the bright rifle at the front of the rifle reflected the dazzling sunlight from time to time, such a scene appeared more than once from 1914 to 1924, they were savage or brave, and as their opponents, the powerful German ** team was advanced or cruel?

Sander couldn't think about these problems anymore, and when the German machine gunners had to stop firing to replace the overheated barrels, the firepower on the German positions suddenly weakened a lot, and the Russians took advantage of this to keep closing the distance between themselves and the German positions.

"2 Company, attack!"

The Russians were visibly surprised when the heavy artillery fire drowned out the sound of the German tanks that were hidden in the hamlets and rumbled forward, their forward units were already less than 500 meters from the German positions, and the German tanks that suddenly appeared were more than 100 meters from their left flank! At this distance, the Russian soldiers were even able to see clearly the black hole on the German tank III with a machine gun muzzle and the front of the hull to defend against infantry thrusts!

Lower the muzzle, don't do much aiming, and don't have to stop to shoot. The three III tanks at the front of the line fired their 50mm shells in a matter of seconds, and at the same time, the machine guns at the front of the hull also opened fire, and their red tongues of fire at such a close distance made every Russian soldier panic.

Behind Tank III, German tanks burst out of the village in a state of half-ruin, and the larger and more hideous body and muzzle of Tank IV were even more intimidating, waiting for them to fire. Some Russian soldiers were already starting to get hairy in their hearts, and who was willing to risk that great danger to fight for a 1 in 1000 chance of destroying a German tank at a time when everyone was scrambling to flee here?

Lian's 9 tanks were moving forward at high speed, while turning back and forth with turrets with thick straight barrels, the black holes of the guns scanned back and forth at these humble lives, and the machine guns were constantly strafing before changing the belts, and the pressure brought by these tanks to the Russian officers and soldiers charging forward was far greater than their power!

The Russian army was still hesitating, but in a blink of an eye, the first few No. III tanks had already crossed a distance of 100 meters and rushed into the Russian formation, and the Russian soldiers were completely panicked. In desperation, someone picked up a rifle and fired at the tank. But how could a bullet weighing a few grams pose a threat to a German medium tank with thick armor? There were also people with pistols, sabers, grenades, bayonets, sapper shovels, in short, all kinds of weapons were used, but the German tanks did not eat them at all. The steel beasts did not slow down their speed or change their direction, piercing the Russian army's charging line diagonally like an incomparably sharp sword, and when the tracks ran over the corpses of the living or dead, the screams and the sound of bones being crushed made everyone present shudder!

Although the armor of the 4 assault guns is not thick, it is still a difficult bone for the Russian infantry, they are closely behind the tanks in front, and the two rows of serrated anti-infantry thorns on their oblique frontal armor look like the sharp horns of a rhinoceros at this time, but anyone who dares to stand in the way will be disemboweled without exception.

During the march, the two IV tanks also spotted several field guns that were still preparing for firing behind the Russian infantry. It was apparently something that the Russians had quietly obtained while the Germans were focused on the charging infantry, and after a brief pause in firing, the commanders of Tank IV were still uneasy, and then turned and charged at the guns at full speed. Those Russian artillery had just been killed and injured by the sudden shelling, and when they looked up, they saw two camouflage-colored steel beasts rapidly approaching, and it was obviously unrealistic to use high-muzzle field guns to bombard the tanks in front of them, not to mention that several guns had been overturned to the ground, so the officers ran away, and the artillerymen did not show weakness. Before the German tanks came up and flattened the remnants of the artillery, the men had already fled.

Taking advantage of this confusion, the German machine gunners quickly replaced the spare barrels, and in order to avoid accidental fire, the German guns above 20 mm temporarily stopped firing, and also let the hot barrels rest by the way. So in these few minutes, there was only a relatively simple rifle sound on the German position, but at this time, the GG semi-automatic rifle of Browning Company and Gigi Arms has become a standard weapon on an equal footing with Mauser manual rifles in the German infantry squad, and while increasing the rate of ammunition consumption, the firepower density of the German infantry squad has also been greatly improved, so the momentum of more than 200 riflemen here firing together is much greater than that of the same number of people in the German-French, German-British, and German-American wars. When placing 10 rounds of 10 rounds in a side-by-side magazine into this semi-automatic rifle, all the gunners had to do was to keep pulling the trigger, which was the envy of those who were still armed with the Mauser 1898, and sometimes the infantry even competed to use the GG semi-automatic rifle, but before a certain combat test, the German War Department set the ratio of semi-automatic rifles to manual rifles of the front-line troops at 1:2 for the sake of caution.

The tanks of the 2nd Company rampage through the Russian formation for a long time, and it was not until the Russian infantry, who had lost their armor, retreated, that they drove back to their positions in a hurry—although the shells did not hit much, but the machine gun ammunition of each of them was almost exhausted.

In the next 1 hour, the Russian army did not launch an offensive again, and Major Sander's troops not only took this opportunity to replenish and recuperate, but also looked forward to two full squadrons of Vulture II, and in the middle of the afternoon, ground reinforcements also arrived one after another. To Sander's surprise, the commander of the Panzer Corps, General Rommel, also arrived here in person, but unfortunately, the most exciting battle was over, and under the pressure of the Luftwaffe, the Russian army reappeared with a white flag and weapons held high!

After the siege was closed, the 3rd Infantry Corps, the 26th Cavalry Division and the 4th Infantry Corps of the Russian 6th Army stationed in Chisinau and the surrounding defense line surrendered to the Germans collectively when there was no hope of breaking through, and the battle, which lasted for two days and one night, killed and wounded more than 47,000 Russian troops, captured 85,000 people under Lieutenant General Vachesav of the Russian Army, and few escaped.

On the same day, the German ground troops attacking from East Prussia, Bohemia and Hungary also successfully completed the encirclement of the enemy in front of them, and under the powerful air-ground offensive of the German army, the Russian army's combat operation to rescue the besieged troops not only did not achieve any results, but many troops were annihilated or severely damaged by the German army, and on the night of June 15, more than 400,000 officers and soldiers of the German northern group with the 1st Army under the command of Org and the 1st Panzer Army commanded by Guderian as the main force launched a resolute and fierce encirclement and annihilation battle in the Riga area. By the end of the battle in the early morning of the next day, the Russian army had lost more than 140,000 people in this area, of which 89,000 were captured; on June 16, more than 800,000 people from the German 2nd Army of Rundested, Fleming's German 2nd Panzer Army, and the Polish 1st and 2nd armies plus 17 African colonial divisions launched the largest encirclement and annihilation battle since the beginning of the war, and nearly 200,000 Russian troops surrounded in the Brest and Kovelli areas finally gave up resistance; On the same day, General Bayer's German 3rd Panzer Army and the German 3rd Army, the Bohemian 1st Army, the Hungarian 2nd Army and a large number of African colonial troops jointly launched a total of Russian troops in the Lviv area, an important town in southwest Ukraine, by the morning of June 17, with the Russian 6th Army commander Ivan Denisevich was killed, and more than 110,000 of his subordinates surrendered, the first phase of the German army in the border area was declared over, and next, the German army will advance into the hinterland of Belarus and Ukraine with armored forces as the assault arrow, Due to the serious damage to railway traffic, the remaining more than 400,000 troops of the Russian southern cluster will either fight to the death on the spot, or use their own feet to fight with German tanks for speed and endurance, and there is no other choice!