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In the dead of night, the lights were bright in the former enemy headquarters, four kilometers east of the Selsal River. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Commander-in-Chief Yang Jiuxiao and Chief of Staff Huang Hanqian, Peng Wanjun, commander of the First Tank Group Army, and Li Yuewu, commander of the Second Tank Group Army, are holding a meeting.

Yang Jiuxiao paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and said with some concern: "Although the German Ninth Army on the other side of the river has lost the 24th Motorized Army and the Fifth Army, it still has the 6th, 8th, 30th, and 42nd Armies, plus the three divisions under the group army, the total strength still has 12 divisions.

"If it's on the plains, we're naturally not afraid, and we've experienced a lot of tough battles, so we just need to push all the way through. But now the problem is that the river is blocked, and the three forced crossing operations we launched under the cover of the air force during the day have all failed, and I am afraid that if this continues, it will turn into a headache war of attrition! ”

Peng Wanjun nodded approvingly: "You really have to use your brain to think more." According to the report of the theater, the commander of German Army Group B, Manstein, had personally led his troops to the rescue, so that even if we crossed the Sersar River with great sacrifices, we would still be surrounded by superior German forces in the future.

"After all, we no longer have any advantage in the depth and width of the battlefield...... Tanks are used to break through in depth, not to cover infantry to attack trenches one by one! ”

Huang Hanqian said: "The overall situation of the southeast battlefield has been decided, the encirclement of the Kleist cluster is constantly shrinking, and the German army there will be wiped out in a few days at most, and the theater has begun to lay out other battlefields. Early this morning, the three tank divisions of the 3rd and 4th tank groups were already interspersed in place, blocking the path of Paulus's retreat north. Until 4 p.m. Two more armored infantry divisions and the Seventh and Eighth Armies marched into the battlefield.

"To the southwest, the Fifty-second Army led by Weix, sensing that the wind was wrong, retreated in great stride, and was expected to converge with Bloomberg's central cluster tomorrow. Now we need to think carefully, whether to stay here and storm the West Bank, or to turn south and participate in the annihilation of Paulus's troops. ”

Li Yuewu stood up and came to the map. Observing carefully, he shook his head and said:

"It's definitely not going west now...... The two armies of the Seventeenth Army of Ruf on the Northern Front were originally specially set up to prevent and contain our army on the northern route, and they have been grinding and grinding for half a month, taking two steps and taking one step back, and there have only been a few small-scale engagements in the area south of Taylor Afe before. With the strength of our two tank armies, it is simply not enough to break through this thick barrier.

"As for going south, it's a train of thought, after all, Bloomberg couldn't have watched Paulus fall into a desperate situation. Reinforcements will definitely be sent, in which case our troops at the junction will be in danger of being flanked by the two counter-fronts. However, in the current situation, I always feel that going south may not be a good choice......

"Now the whole chess game has been completely laid out, and the whole body is moved. If we eat Paulus, it is difficult to guarantee that the German army in the center will not retreat in great stride, in which case our attempt to concentrate and destroy the majority of the German army and destroy its main combat forces will be frustrated. ”

Yang Jiuxiao's brows furrowed, he got up and came to the map, slowly looking at it. After a long silence, he suddenly pointed to the line from Telekochek to Tigris in the northwest:

"You see, after Manstein led his troops south, will the German defenses on this line suddenly become empty? Although it can be expected that the Germans here will not be much smaller in numbers, the quality will be a big problem...... Even though Manstein is a legendary general, he can't always conjure up many elite troops out of nothing.

"In this way, we can completely seek the initiative on this front and turn defense into attack. Once we break through the German defense line, we can even follow the railway all the way to the Mediterranean coast, thus cutting off the retreat of the German army in the Middle East! ”

Huang Hanqian and Peng Wanjun, who had gathered around, were blinded, and several staff officers were ordered to quickly investigate the situation of the German troops now deployed on this line, and finally confirmed that they should be the three mountain divisions of the 49th Mountain Army of the Second Army, the four infantry divisions of the First Army of Western Europe composed of France and Belgium, and the three infantry divisions of the Spanish Volunteer Army.

Huang Hanqian said confidently: "With the help of the air force, it is completely possible for us to defeat the German troops defending there...... However, it is a bit risky to kill directly to the Mediterranean coast, and this circle is inevitably too big! I think it is entirely possible to take Qamishra and go south along the railroad to the north bank of the Euphrates, so that we can open up an encirclement of moderate width and depth along the railway and the Boer River......

"If it goes well, we have a good chance of destroying all the German forces in this large circle...... Obediently, this must not leave three or four million German troops here? ”

Yang Jiuxiao's spirit was greatly lifted, and his thinking suddenly became extremely clear: "Now that Xiaozonghua's 30th Group Army has moved to Mosul, plus the 18th and 24th Group Armies that have been replaced by four mountain clusters, we can completely gather the strength of six group armies in a short period of time, and with the cooperation of the Air Force, it is enough to launch a large-scale strategic decisive battle."

"Once we successfully take Kamyshra, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor, the Germans will have all the supplies in the front and rear, plus we have air supremacy, we can control every move of the enemy, and we can completely destroy the enemy in the movement, without having to attack the positions held by the Germans as we do now. In this way, the whole plate is alive. ”

Just as a few people were analyzing the situation, the theater command called to inform them that the 13th and 14th armies had arrived in Baghdad, and for the first time, the number of troops gathered in West Asia exceeded 20 group armies, accounting for almost half of the total strength of the Anjia army.

As a result, more mobile units can be put into operation.

Yang Jiuxiao immediately made a decision and immediately instructed the staff officers to draw up a battle plan, which was reported to the theater command half an hour later.

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The Seventh and Eighth Armies of the Anjia Army marched into the battlefield and quickly began to build defensive positions with a depth of 20 kilometers from north to south and mainly facing the northern front. Because judging by the quest taken from the war zone. This line was mainly to defend the north and attack the south, and after consolidating the defense in the north, actively move south, and make every effort to destroy the German army blocked on the north bank of Lake Gadisiye.

Discovering that he had lost contact with the Paulus Division, Bloomberg was shocked by the sudden appearance of the Southern Anjia Army, and this situation corroborated with the intelligence detected by the six S3 high-altitude reconnaissance planes sent by the Air Force during the day to penetrate deep into the west bank of the Tigris River, and Bloomberg could already very clearly judge the conclusion that the eastern cluster was collapsing and the southeast cluster was in danger.

In the reasonable, in the public and private. Bloomberg did not dare to put such a large number of troops in danger, so while holding the defense line of the Cersar River, he quickly sent his troops south, striving to first open the passage with Paulus's department, and then try to attack and advance east to relieve the Kleist group.

The first wave of the German offensive began at two o'clock in the morning of the 25th, the Germans dispatched tanks and armored vehicles, and the loud roar of engines came from the silent wilderness.

I don't know if it was the effect of the night, but from a very long distance, the German tankers couldn't wait to use the tank guns. Bombarded the defense line of the An Jia Army.

The German tank guns can easily reach the range of infantry guns when using grenades, and more importantly, these tanks can resist the shrapnel of ordinary guns, so they don't have to worry about their own safety.

"Boom-"

The light of the fire that went out. The constant appearance of the positions that the Anjia army had spent hours building greatly boosted the morale of the Germans, and there were loud cheers in the wilderness.

The An Jiajun did not return fire, because in the conditions of night fighting, no gunner could guarantee to hit the tanks that were constantly moving forward with howitzers and recoilless guns at a distance of more than two kilometers. Hence the rumbling of artillery from German tanks. Becoming the sole master of the current battlefield, and at a distance far beyond the range of machine guns and rifles, all the weapons on the Anjia Army's position chose to remain silent.

On the position held by the 3rd Battalion of the 86th Regiment of the 22nd Division of Sun Desheng's Eighth Army, the battalion commander, Captain Lian Ruohan, ordered the mountain grenades, recoilless gun gunners, and bazooka gunners to be ready to shoot head-on when the Germans entered the firing range.

At this time, three kilometers behind the position, three heavy artillery brigades and two rocket artillery were already in motion, and in the event that the situation at the front was not good. A fierce fire suppression will be launched.

Of course, if the front line can be supported, then the artillery will be silent, saving the shells for the most needed ones.

"Bang bang bang-"

Three flares flew out of the mortar muzzle, flying towards the center of the battlefield in a zigzag shape, constantly flickering and dragging the bright spots of the faint tail flame and climbing, and soon reached a height of more than 100 meters, and when the three flares bloomed the most brilliant flowers, the battlefield within a radius of five or six kilometers was illuminated, and everything in the line of sight was invisible.

I saw eight black German tanks like old turtles crawling on the beach, moving slowly, but their speed was much faster than that of the old turtles, and the armored fighting vehicles and German infantry advancing with them were surprisingly numerous, densely surging over, like wriggling ant colonies.

When the German tanks entered a kilometer in front of the position, both the Anjia positions and the German columns erupted violently in silence.

Within the firing range, the lethality of the Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns of the Anjia Army was extremely astonishing, and the 60 mm and 82 mm caliber small and medium-sized mortars equipped by the company and platoon of the An Jia Army were like rain, and the shells continued to fall on the heads of the attacking German officers and soldiers.

The Germans quickly returned fire, capturing heavy machine guns with shields and wheels from the Soviets, roaring heavily, and 105 mm grenades fired from several Wasp-type self-propelled guns, posing a greater threat to the officers and men of Anjia who were firing from the trenches.

Under the urging of the fierce gunfire, the German tank, which was spraying puffs of green smoke, accelerated its advance, and saw that it had rushed to a distance of more than 500 meters from the position of the Anjia army, and suddenly, a No. 3 tank suddenly exploded without warning, and as the flames dissipated, gunpowder smoke came out from under the car, although the turret and body were unharmed, the tank stopped after the forward momentum was exhausted.

Immediately after that, a similar situation occurred with another tank.

"Anti-tank mines!"

Through radio contact, the other German tanks quickly knew what was happening in front of them, and even the armored vehicles immediately stopped and began to stop in place to shoot, and the German infantry who followed the tank advance were a little dumbfounded in the face of the mine array in front of them, and the explosions sounded one after another, and many infantry in the German army were killed and injured by anti-infantry mines, wailing, and suffering considerable losses.

Taking advantage of the great opportunity of the German army to stop in front of the minefield, the Gaoping dual-purpose machine guns and general-purpose machine guns on the defensive positions of the Anjia Army roared with joy, and the snipers were also wantonly hunting down those who were not decisive enough and did not lie down in time.

"Boom-"

The 105-mm mountain howitzer behind the Anjia army's position suddenly opened fire, this kind of howitzer with a total weight of only 1.3 tons, with a range of up to 10 kilometers, because the ballistic computer accurately grasped the position of the German artillery in the dark, at a rate of four rounds per minute, the German artillery was quickly dumbfounded.

At the juncture of the artillery battle between the two sides, the German sappers began to clear the mines, but in front of the dense fire of the Anjia army from the forward position, it was difficult for the sappers to operate normally, and many of the mines were made of plastic, and the metal detectors equipped by the sappers could not accurately identify the mines, but continued to detonate the mines, and the sputtering fire was mixed with the stumps and broken arms of the sappers, which made many sappers change their faces and their scalps numb.

However, the Germans in the south, apparently experienced in battle, then under the cover of tank fire, intensively shelled minefields with mortars, and then the infantry howled and charged, regardless of the remaining mines.

The German rank-and-file officers led their soldiers forward, but they soon became the target of snipers, and the mortarmen on the positions of the Anjia Army were specially aimed at the places where the crowds gathered, and the Germans were unwilling to fall in rows.

When the German army advanced to more than 400 meters, the automatic rifles of the Anjia army were also put into battle, and the firepower network was more dense, and the German offensive queue was already difficult to advance to the Anjia army's position, if it were not for the eight tanks and more than ten armored vehicles still suppressing the Anjia army's position with artillery fire and machine guns, the German army's offensive would have collapsed!

It was at this time that the Germans were terrified: anti-tank guns and recoilless guns deployed behind the positions of the Anjia Army opened fire one after another.

The 105mm mountain howitzer can be used as an anti-tank weapon when it is in a low-rifled position, and the recoilless gun is also a good anti-tank weapon, and if the German tanks and armored vehicles advance a little further at this time, they will be attacked by the rocket launchers of the Anjia infantry.

At this time, the German tanks and armored vehicles had already driven to a distance of 400 meters, and only to hear the continuous sound of artillery, the flashes of fire when the shells exploded constantly appeared on the front armor of the German tanks and armored vehicles, and after only three rounds of shelling, eight German tanks and more than 10 armored vehicles were smashed into coffins.

Faced with such a terrible scene, the German infantry finally could not bear the fear in their hearts and retreated like a tide.

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