"Get ready to fight! Allied tanks come from the left and take out the first one! At the sound of Buckman's order, the Leopard-like 88-mm armor-piercing projectile immediately burst out of the chamber and directly penetrated Sherman's side armor, and the Allied tank immediately burst into flames and exploded, and shards of steel were everywhere. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Immediately after that, the second car was also paralyzed to the ground, and the Allies were immediately in chaos, and Buckman took advantage of the situation to destroy the other two Shermans who were blocking the intersection. The Allies instinctively began to retreat when they saw that it was a Leopard tank, and even a few tanks that had rushed through the intersection retreated.

The Leopard tank took advantage of the chaos to rush onto the road, and the accurate 88mm tank guns destroyed the Allied half-tracks and jeeps along the way. An artillery shell hit the ammunition delivery truck, and the whole vehicle ammunition was instantly detonated, and the road suddenly became a fire field.

The two Shermans drove off the road and made a detour to the Leopard from the left field in an attempt to attack the weak flanks of the Leopard, and although Sherman's 75 mm gun could not cope with the Leopard's 120 mm equivalent of positive armor, it was easy to penetrate the 57 mm thick side armor at such a distance.

The face-to-face tank battle began, the gunner Bogodorf quickly and calmly turned the muzzle to destroy one, and destroyed the other before the opponent entered the position, during which the Leopard was hit twice, although it did not cause a penetration, but the power compartment burned again, but the automatic fire extinguishing device acted in time to extinguish the fire.

Allied bombers appeared, and several near-misses violently shook the Leopard tank, the shock wave ripped off some of the track shoes draped over the turret, and the flying shrapnel rattled the tank, and the crew was also stunned.

Several Shermans took the opportunity to outflank them in formation, and the Leopard was hit one after another, one shot was welded on the hull, the other broke the track, and the driving wheel was also damaged.

Due to the failure of the ventilation system, the gunpowder smoke emitted after the fire could not be extracted in time, and a large amount of toxic gases were filled with the car.

The German armored corps' excellent combat qualities and superb skills were demonstrated at this critical moment, and the crew continued to fight while using the time to repair the vehicles, and the two Shermans took the opportunity to attack the Leopard with broken tracks, but were destroyed by the opponent who could not move.

The Buckman crew used the woods as cover to fight and retreat, and although they were hit several times, they did not cause serious damage, after all, the three performance of the Leopard were better than Sherman's.

After destroying the nearest Allied tank, Leopard 324 finally disengaged with the Allied forces and drove to the safety of the village of Negev for repairs.

Buckman's ambush succeeded in disrupting the Allied plans to capture Ludance first, and bought valuable time for the Germans to reach Libra.

After the Allies retreated to the village, the Allies did not attack in time, but consulted their superiors, and by the time their superiors conveyed the order, it was already three hours later, and a German infantry battalion in the village had already built a simple defensive position during this time, and two anti-tank guns were also in place.

This is a 75-millimeter anti-tank gun, and the Germans have put some thought into protecting these two anti-tank guns, they have built a semicircular defensive platform in front of the anti-tank guns, and some steel plates have been removed from some blown up armored vehicles and reinforced on the baffles of the anti-tank guns. At the same time they also have a Leopard tank that has been repaired.

When the Allied forces continued to attack in the afternoon, one Allied tank came in and one was destroyed, and the infantry rushed to the continuous rain of bullets of MG42.

The usual tactics of the Allies began to be used again, calling in the air force to bomb, as if they would not fight without the support of the air force.

Allied air raids were the main source of casualties in the defense of the German army, but the Luftwaffe was not a vegetarian, and the Allied aircraft group would also be detected from the radar, and the Luftwaffe would quickly react, and the machine would send the corresponding aircraft group to fight.

Normally, the Allies were bombing for a while, and the German planes arrived, and the Allies had to throw bombs indiscriminately and fight with the Luftwaffe, and these bombs could also be thrown on the Allied positions.

Just such a German infantry battalion, two anti-tank guns, and a Leopard tank, blocked the US 3rd Army for three full days. More than 50,000 U.S. troops attacked such a village, and they actually took it under the condition of desperate attrition.

Buckman, however, withdrew from the village with a few wounded men when the infantry suffered all the casualties. Three days, three precious days, were delayed by the US military's fear of death, which is really stupid.

Even if Eisenhower's three-way attack on the Ardennes Forest at this time made a breakthrough, the three wasted days were destined to have little success.

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The emblem of the 11th Panzer Division (the title of the division of the "Devil's Sword" must have come from this sword-wielding ghost!) ）

In the summer of 1941, after being heavily defeated by the Soviets on the Soviet-German battlefield, the 11th Panzer Division was withdrawn to the town of Celicia in southern France for repair and reconstruction.

The reconstructed 11th Panzer Division consists of 1 Panzer Regiment (i.e., the 15th Panzer Regiment, with two Panther-type medium tank battalions), 2 Panzergrenadier Regiments (i.e., the 110th and 111th Panzergrenadier Regiments, each regiment with 2 Panzergrenadier Battalions), 1 Panzer Artillery Regiment (with 3 artillery battalions, equipped with self-propelled guns), and other combat support forces, with a total of 15 battalions, 13,726 men, about 100 tanks and self-propelled guns, and is subordinate to the 19th Army of German Army Group B.

On October 6, 1941, the German 336th Infantry Division took up positions at Loklen-on-Sheld. On the same day, General Steiner, commander of the German 11th Panzer Division, came to the Shelder River to survey the section where the division had crossed the Shelder in order to coordinate with Hoth's 4th Tank Army. But the Germans played little role in relieving Dilant's troops.

On 7 October, the Allied 1st Tank Army forced its way across the Skshide River on the left flank of the German 336th Infantry Division and advanced into residential areas far behind the German defensive positions on the riverbank. Units of the German 11th Panzer Division were still advancing from Abo.

They were ordered to move immediately to Abo Farm in order to restore their original position. On the afternoon of 7 October, the 15th Panzer Regiment encountered a large number of Allied tank units near Abo Farm and halted the Allied advance.

Obviously, the Germans could not allow the Allies to stop at the Abbo farm, so Steiner was ordered to drive them away. As a first step, he set up his command post next to the command post of the 336th Division, on Verkhny Solonovsky, so that the two divisions could work closely together.

The commander of the German 336th Infantry Division asked Steiner to launch a frontal assault on Abo's farm so that they could be relieved of their critical situation as soon as possible.

Steiner believed that the terrain was not suitable for tank movements, and that a frontal attack in any case could only push the enemy back, but not annihilate it.

He decided to carry out the main assault along the heights to the west and north of Abo's farm, which was easily accessible to tanks; The tanks were then ordered to penetrate into the rear of the Allied forces and cut off the enemy's retreat.

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