"Comrades! The time has come for the Bolshevik Party members and youth league members, all the commanders and combatants of the glorious 1st Tank Army, to dedicate themselves to the cause of GCISM and the liberation of mankind! I command you to fight resolutely to the end, not to hesitate to die with the murderous Nazi enemy, and to stain the banner of the revolution of time red with our blood! Tankmen, drive your vehicles against the tanks of Nazi Germany, Ula! Ulla! Ula ......"

Voloch, commander of the 1st Tank Army, knew that the time had come for him to dedicate himself to the cause of GCISM, he picked up the intercom and made a final pre-battle speech through the radio station of American aid in the command vehicle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Then he boarded a majestic KV-2 heavy tank, and together with the other T-34, KV-1 and KV-2 tanks of the 1st Tank Army, which were capable of moving and at the same time in place, he faced the onslaught of the surging German armored clusters.

"Actually take the initiative to attack!" Admiral Steiner stood on the top of the armored command vehicle he was riding, holding a telescope and looking at the vast battlefield and the messy stormtrooper formation of Soviet tanks in front of him, and he unexpectedly showed an extremely solemn expression.

He didn't mean to look down on Mao Zi at all, although the opponent's formation was messy, all kinds of tanks were mixed together, and the speed of the impact was fast and slow, some tanks were full of infantry, others were empty.

But where could Steiner not see that the Soviets were making a decisive charge?

The German tank cluster now has 38 Panthers in the front row, and 40 Tiger tanks to protect the wings. The Panther tank's 80mm frontal armor mounted at an angle could not even match the 75mm main gun of the Type 4H, let alone the less powerful 76.2mm tank gun of the Soviets.

And the 75mm KWK42L/70 gun of the Panther tank can penetrate the frontal armor of the Soviet KV-1 tank at a distance of 1000 meters!

Therefore, it was hopeless to open up the formation and shoot at the German tanks, and if the Soviet tanks did not want to escape, launching a decisive assault was the only way to inflict losses on the Germans.

Boom......

The main gun of the Panther tank fired, not 1 Panther tank firing, but 38 Panther tanks in a salvo!

Gustav. Captain Schwarzenegger rode in a No. 4H tank, following behind the enviable Black Panther butts, holding a telescope and craning his neck to watch the battle. Before the sound of cannon fire in his ears died down, a ball of fire rose in the Soviet tank group charging on the opposite side, and at least 10 large tanks immediately burst into fireballs!

"That's amazing!"

Captain Schwarzenegger was a little sympathetic to the brave Bolsheviks, whose attack was simply sending them to their deaths, and there was no hope of victory at all! I really don't know what their commander thinks, how can he sacrifice the lives of his subordinates in vain?

"Captain, the Soviets' tanks are in effective range of our main guns!"

Captain Schwarzenegger's thoughts were interrupted by the voice of gunner Auger, and he looked ahead, and sure enough, some T-34s were rushing towards him.

"Alright, it's time for us to fire!" He didn't retract his body back into the turret, and began to look for the object of the shot, "Target, 12 o'clock direction, 900 meters, T-34 tank!" ”

"Understood!" Gunner Augur agreed, the turret turned slightly, and then the coaxial machine gun fired tracer rounds......

……

"Comrade Commander, Comrade Military Commissar, the 4th Army reports that they were defeated by a German corps armored cluster in the area of Legiono-Vovomin. More than 700 tank/assault guns, more than 200 towed guns, 18 rocket launchers, and nearly 30,000 commanders and fighters were killed, seriously wounded or missing. The commander of the 1st Tank Army, Comrade Voloch, was killed, the commander of the 16th Mechanized Army, Comrade Sokalov, and the Political Commissar of the 16th Mechanized Army, Comrade Fedulov, were missing, and the commander of the 1st Tank Brigade, Comrade Chukhin, died heroically......"

The voice of Major General Rimowsk, Chief of Staff of the Western Front, trembled a little, and the entire mechanized army group was crushed in this way! This is not an ordinary infantry cluster army, but a main army group consisting of tank armies, mechanized armies and motorized infantry corps!

Such a powerful army group was effortlessly routed by the armored clusters of the Germans in just 2 days!

This seems to indicate that the future of the world revolution will be very bumpy......

"Where is the German armored cluster now?" Pavlov asked with a grim face.

"They retreated," said Major General Limoskik, "perhaps the heroic resistance of the 1st Tank Army caused great losses to the Germans, so they had to abandon their plans to attack our flank......"

"!" Pavlov interrupted Major General Rimowsk, "The Germans launched a short assault!" ”

Originally, a short assault was a concept of positional warfare, that is, to take advantage of the fact that the enemy advancing and fortified was not firmly established to carry out a surprise, rapid, and short surprise attack to annihilate the enemy's vital forces.

This tactic is obviously also very effective in defensive operations in mechanized warfare! The German 6th Army launched a short assault in the area of Legionovo-Vovomin.

If the Germans really wanted to drive the Red Army out of Warsaw with this counterattack, they would not have withdrawn their forces when the 4th Army was almost routed.

Does this mean that the Germans were not in a hurry to drive the Red Army out of Warsaw? They deliberately wanted to draw the Red Army under the city of Warsaw?

Thinking of this, Pavlov's big bald head was already covered with beads of sweat.

"Comrade Pavlov, is the defeat of the 4th Army very serious? Will it affect the operation to liberate Poland? Ponomarenko, the military commissar of the Western Front, also had a very difficult face, and when he saw Pavlov sweating profusely, he asked in a calm voice.

"The loss of 30,000 people is not serious...... Pavlov frowned, "and the state of our offensive against Warsaw has not been broken." ”

After the start of the world revolution, a larger general mobilization began in the USSR. For the Soviet army, which went straight to 10 million in numbers, the loss of 30,000 people was really nothing. As for more than 700 tanks and more than 200 cannons, it is not a large number, and the Soviet industry can quickly produce more tanks and cannons.

"That's good," Ponomarenko breathed a sigh of relief, then glanced at Pavlov meaningfully, and said in an accentuated tone: "Because the attack on Warsaw can only be won, not defeated...... Even if the loss is huge, it must be won! ”

Where did Pavlov not understand what Ponomarenko meant. The Battle of Warsaw was at stake in his and Ponomarenko's political lives.

Having laid Warsaw, Pavlov and Ponomarenko were the heroes of the liberation of Poland! Even if the Red Army could not advance half a step further, Ponomarenko would be determined to enter the political bureau, and Pavlov would be able to make marshal and then promoted to the rank of First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense.

In the future, Ponomarenko inherited the unification of GCISM, and Pavlov took Voroshilov's seat......

If the battle of Warsaw could not be won, Ponomarenko would not be able to enter the political situation, and it would be lucky to be thrown into the idle position. And Pavlov is even worse, maybe he will lose his life and become a reactionary!

"Battle of Warsaw...... It's going to win! Pavlov gritted his teeth and nodded, "We have a lot of people and a lot of tanks, and we can take Warsaw by fighting numbers!" ”

"That's good!" Ponomarenko nodded, and then ordered, "Comrades Korobkov, Terekin, and Sandalov of the 4th Army are invited to Minsk and ask about the battle of Chionovo-Vovomin in Chiang Rai." ”

……

"Click......"

The sound of tracks crashing against the ground abruptly stopped, and Captain Schwarzenegger dizzily pushed open the roof of a T-34 tank and climbed out of it.

"How?" Admiral Steiner asked aloud.

"Report to the division commander, the interior of the T-34 tank is too crowded, it is inconvenient to move inside, and its turret does not yet have a hanging basket, and the gunner must follow the movement when the turret turns. In addition, there is no radio station in this T-34 tank, I don't know how the Russians commanded it? ”

Steiner looked back at Admiral Modell, who was crossing his arms and carefully examining the captured T-34 tank, and said with a smile: "There are a lot of small problems, but it's still a good tank...... It's like a shrunken Panther tank, the best alternative to the Type 4H tank. ”

"Actually, we have a similar scheme," said Moder with a smile, "Daimler-Benz's No. 5 and Skoda's T-25 are similar to the T-34...... However, the overall performance of these two tanks is not stronger than that of the No. 4H type, so the Panther was chosen above. How are our Panthers doing? ”

"Of course, the T-34 and KV-1 can be blown up at a distance of 1,000 meters," Steiner shrugged, "but there are too many failures, there are more than 20 lying in the nest, and the Tiger is lying down nearly 30." ”

"New products, they're all like this." "The breakdown cars are all being towed back? ”

"It's all dragged back." "I also brought back a lot of T-34s, KV-1s and KV-2s by the way." ”

Modell smiled and said, "Great, get a few T-34s, KV-1 and KV-2s to Berlin for the people above to refer to, maybe it will bring Mercedes-Benz's No. 5 and T-25 plans back to life." And also...... The armored forces are preparing to evacuate Legionovo, and the 50th Division will soon come to take over. ”

"The 50th Division? Commander, you're going to defend Legionovo? ”

Modell nodded and said, "Hold on, maybe there will be a second Legionover short assault...... There is a high probability that this place will become the focus of our contention with the Russians. (To be continued.) )