After receiving the order, Claes immediately had his men kick on the tank, and then ran over Chisinau, which was less than twenty kilometers away from Chisinau, and the northern sector was commanded by Guderian himself, and he gave an order to the armies in the northern sector that seemed a little absurd:

"The armies of the northern sector, after breaking through the third line of defense of the Soviet Union, took a short rest, waited for the follow-up troops to arrive, and then marched into Chisinau, and attacked on all sides, and the direct shipping brigade had already arrived to support. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Since the commander-in-chief is so confident, it is he who has let the armies in the northern sector let go of their hands and feet to rush, what else do you have to say, the tanks open the way, the armored vehicles follow, and the infantry follows. More than 400,000 elite German troops and 300,000 Axis troops in the northern sector were like ants coming out of their nests, crushing them against the border capital city of Chisinau of the Soviet Union.

Guderian dared to give such an order, of course, for a reason. First of all, Germany was a surprise attack, and the Soviet army was not prepared at all, and even if the Soviet Union had some troops stationed in Chisinau, it would definitely not be too many.

Because from the perspective of various intelligence analysis and battlefield reality, the Soviet army still has a World War I mentality, and they have deployed a large number of troops to the three lines of defense on the border, and the total strength of the entire Soviet Union's "Eastern Defense Line" is only more than 2.9 million, and it has to defend almost 1,500 kilometers, and it is three lines of defense, which is equivalent to the Soviet Union's 290 Army to establish a 4,500-kilometer defense line.

Only a few hundred people defend a kilometer, such a scattered and unconcentrated deployment of troops, the trench warfare of World War I is okay, but in the face of the German blitzkrieg and the torrent of armor, the Soviet army's defense line is a tofu scum defense line, which can be broken with a stab, once the Soviet army's long defense line is broken, the scattered forces of the Soviet army will not even have the opportunity to retreat collectively.

In this case, Guderian judged that there were definitely not many Soviet troops in Chisinau, and it was good to directly attack, and the German attack on the southern front was too long from Odessa, a full 280 kilometers! Guderian didn't want his troops to rush into attacking the fortified city so far away.

The order that Claes received from the commander of the 1st Armored Division of the 19th Panzer Army was to decide the way of attack independently, and the target was Chisinau, since the right was in the hands of the first-line commander, how could Claes not use it, and hurriedly ordered his armored assault group and the sandbag truck that followed him to rush towards Chisinau.

It is necessary to take advantage of the initial panic and confusion of the Soviet army to take the important town of Chisinau, the capital of the border province of Ukraine, and Claes estimates that there is absolutely no resistance to the city of Chisinau at this time.

The speed of the armored assault regiment was very fast, and Claes rushed to the city of Chisinau without his life, and the distance of more than 20 kilometers, Claes and them took less than half an hour. When Claes saw the beautiful city of Chisinau on the plains of Ukraine, he was as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

Such a beautiful and magnificent city was about to be conquered by himself at once, which was simply an honor within his reach, and just as he was about to give the order to the armored assault group to attack, there was a "buzzing" roar in the sky.

The radio inside the tank also heard the sound of a call:

"May I ask if this is the Thirteenth Armored Assault Group led by Colonel Claes? Do you need the support of our helicopter brigade. ”

When the charge to Claes was five kilometers away from Chisinau, a large group of helicopters flew into the sky, and these helicopters were sent by Guderian to support Claes in the war, and it was the right time to come.

"Hehe, welcome brothers from the Air Force to join our Mjolnir assault group and want to be the first to storm Chisinau? Then give us air cover. ”

"As you wish."

"Thanks, stay in formation, move forward at a steady pace, and dash through the street right in front of your target."

The addition of helicopters made Claes even more unscrupulous, and he commanded the entire air-ground three-dimensional assault group to roll over Chisinau.

In fact, the FA223 helicopter is just a transport plane, with two 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns for self-defense on it, and 12 rockets mounted under the wings of the transport helicopters to support the Claes operation.

The FA223 has many weak points, the first of which is the protective force, the FA223 helicopter is not equipped with any armor at all, and the 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun can beat it down at a distance of 500 meters.

At this time, the helicopter support group could only launch rockets to reinforce the ground operations at a long distance, and they definitely did not dare to reinforce Claes's ground operations at low altitudes, which was undoubtedly an act of death.

Rommel is also presiding over the development of an armored helicopter gunship -- the Hummingbird, but it is still in test flights, and if the German helicopter gunships are to be installed on a large scale, it will be at least 42 years later.

After receiving reinforcements from the direct shipping group, Claes immediately launched an attack on Chisinau, which can be said to be lightning fast, and he did not give the Soviets any time to react at all.

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Levsky was the commander of the 1st Guards Division, he participated in the October Revolution, participated in the Civil War after the Revolution, served in the 100th Infantry Division, and was awarded the honor of the 1st Guards Division on September 18, 1939 for his bravery.

Levsky was a division commander who was personally received and praised by Stalin, so he was not purged, although Levsky was a time-tested revolutionary fighter who did not know how to confront the Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs Beria, and as a result, he is still the commander of the 1st Guards Panzer Division.

Beria not only suppressed Levsky, but also put the 1st Guards Division, which was supposed to be used to defend Moscow, to Chisinau, the closest border city between Germany and the Soviet Union, which can be regarded as a disguised exile of Levsky!

The war broke out suddenly, German planes first bombed the large military airfield in Chisinau, and countless heavy bombs turned the Chisinau military airfield upside down, and the airfield in Chisinau was completely finished.

More than 200 planes on the Chisinau airfield were blown up on the ground before they could take off, and a regiment guarding the airfield also suffered heavy casualties, and Levsky saw the strength of the Luftwaffe.

Levsky is not one of those Soviet officers who have been raised like rockets, he is a Soviet officer who has been tested by war for a long time, he is not bad at all in terms of combat experience, he will not stick to the field fortifications outside the city without losing air supremacy, that is absolutely very stupid, Levsky is not a fool.

The Soviet troops defending in the field fortifications outside the city were quickly retreated to the city by Levsky, because the Soviet Union underestimated the German-Soviet war, so Chichnawucheng did not build any strong city defenses, and now it is impossible for Levsky to build strong city defenses.

But Levsky still came up with a solution, he divided his Guards Division into four parts, each part defending one direction, leaving one regiment of mobile forces at the division headquarters.

Then, using as much concrete as possible of the reinforced concrete houses in Chisinau, Levsky wanted to turn all the concrete buildings in Chisinau into temporary defensive fortresses, each of which was a battlefield, and Levsky vowed to let the German invaders shed their last drop of blood in front of these temporary fortresses.

[The brothers' monthly passes are more powerful, continue, the next chapter will be sent soon.] (To be continued.) )