When the Tang Dynasty broke through the fourth line of defense of the German army, the remaining Tang army continued to break through. However www.biquge.info the Germans are obviously prepared, and defensive counterattack has always been the tactic that the Tang Army is best at, and when the Germans tried to attack the Tang Army's defense line on the Maas River, they had already thought about how the Tang Army would respond if it counterattacked.

In addition to the fact that the Germans were able to quickly fill the gaps that had been broken through in their own ability, the Tang Army soon met the second great gift from the Germans.

"The Rhine is in front of us, and on the other side is the German city of Duisburg, and we occupy the river today and shell Duisburg at night." The commander of the armored regiment of the Tang Army, Liu Xunkai, was full of confidence.

In the battle just now, his troops destroyed more than 40 German tanks and more than 20 armored vehicles, and in cooperation with the Tang infantry, Liu Xunkai's armored regiment broke a German brigade, eliminated more than 2,000 people, and captured nearly 3,000 people. As a young officer who is fighting a real battle for the first time, this is obviously a strong stroke, and it is worth being proud of.

Liu Xunkai ordered the assault troops to continue to advance, which was only four or five kilometers away from the Rhine, and the Tang army completed the results of shelling and covering the four German defense lines in a few hours, and progressing more than 30 kilometers deep. The Germans had hastily retreated from the west bank of the Rhine to the east bank, and there was no one on this side to organize a resistance against the Tang army, and Liu Xunkai's task was to lead his troops to completely secure control of the west bank and sweep away the remnants of the German army.

When the tanks of the armored regiment drove into a farmland that looked a little empty, Liu Xunkai joked with his staff officers: "If this is a domestic war, we will inevitably have to pay a sum of money to others, and now it is the farmland of the Germans, so we don't have to worry about it." ”

Not long after he finished speaking, a sudden explosion came, and he saw that the tank that drove into the farmland was suddenly shocked and jumped up from the ground, but the weight of the Type 12 tank was more than 40 tons, so it would not be overturned, and thick smoke and fire came out from the bottom of the car, it was obvious that the chassis of the car had been blown up, and the occupants inside were also very lucky.

"Report, the 7th Company's 22015 car group has been attacked by mines!"

Liu Xunkai heard the explosion, and after grasping the situation, his expression became serious. A number of tanks had already been hit by mines, many of the vehicles had been blown up, and the few lucky crew members had jumped out of their vehicles and were also dizzy and bleeding.

"Damn, the Germans actually set up a large minefield on the way to the bridge!" Liu Xunkai's eyes were shattered, his troops were not damaged in the previous direct firefight, but instead broke into a minefield while pursuing the enemy, blowing up several tanks in succession.

The Tang Army did not know the density of German mines and the specific extent of minefields, so the entire army did not dare to continue to move forward rashly.

Liu Xunkai reported the situation in the minefield and called the mine-clearing engineer unit to come and carry out the mine-clearing operation. After that, the demining sappers raised a sample in the minefield, and everyone who had seen the anti-tank mine could not help but curse: "The Germans are really cheap." ”

This type of mine is obviously an anti-armor mine developed by the Germans themselves, and Datang did not pass on the technology of anti-armor mines to Germany, because this thing is obviously a weapon that the Tang people hate. However, the Germans still developed their own anti-armor mines through channels. The Don Army is also equipped with some anti-armor mines, and the performance is not bad. The mines of the Germans were magnetic mines, and metal tanks detonated when they passed. And the most perverted thing is that the volume of this mine can catch up with a bucket of pure water, and the Germans did not know the protective capabilities of the tanks of the Tang Army, so they made the anti-armor mines as powerful as possible, and filled them with a large amount of explosives, which could not only blow up the tracks of the tank, but also seriously damage the chassis machinery of the tank.

Liu Xunkai felt unlucky, the Germans couldn't fight head-on, so they used this asymmetrical means, although the price of building an anti-tank mine would not be low, but it was much cheaper than Datang's very sophisticated Type 12 tank.

The Germans were not only vicious in the use of mines, the Germans learned that the Datang sappers carried out demining operations through metal detectors, so the Germans directly sprinkled a large number of metal debris in the minefield, which increased the difficulty of demining the minesweepers, and even affected the original offensive fluency of the Datang Dynasty.

There was a Rhine River as a barrier, and the Germans temporarily avoided greater damage, and even in Duisburg, the Germans quickly arranged artillery positions and began to fire at the Tang army, and for a time Liu Xunkai's troops were not only attacked by mines, but also suffered from shelling, and the sappers had no choice but to temporarily withdraw from this area.

Obviously, the Tang Army could not let the German army continue to be so rampant, and the bombers and attack planes of the Tang Air Force soon received orders and dispatched to bomb the German artillery positions in Duisburg. The artillery of the Germans attacked directly in the city, so the range of attack of the Don Army, in fact, was the entire city of Duisburg.

The Tang army, which was in a very bad mood, dropped a large number of thermobaric bombs and incendiary bombs this time, and its purpose was very simple, that is, to destroy the city of Duisburg and consume the living force of the German army, so as to reduce the pressure of the subsequent military operations. The artillery of the Don Army also soon launched an artillery bombardment of Duisburg on the west bank of the Rhine.

The Germans lost a total of more than 800 artillery pieces in positions along the four lines of defense, and Duisburg was an important center for German logistics and replenishment, so there was still a large number of artillery. Annoyed, the Don army launched hundreds of sorties of bombardment of Duisburg in two days, turning the city into a sea of fire. And the direct consequence is that this city, which is still a bit of scale in Germany, was basically destroyed in the hands of the Tang people. Tens of thousands of Germans were killed, and the Germans were also seriously damaged.

Düsseldorf, which is dozens of kilometers to the south, was also devastated, and the Tang Army's blows were merciless, and the German military and civilians were attacked indiscriminately. In the German areas on the west bank of the Rhine, the Don army continued to clear the participating German forces and occupied cities such as Mönchengladbach.

Liu Sanhui's revolving door tactic could only be regarded as a partial success so far, the Tang army through a rapid and fierce offensive, wiped out about 60,000 German troops, especially the previous German army's war preparations were completely destroyed, and a large number of artillery and other military supplies fell into the hands of the Tang people or were directly destroyed.

The Germans were heavily defeated, but not as well as expected, but Liu Sanhui could no longer entangle with the Tang army, because to his west, the French troops had arrived. (To be continued.) )