After the intentions of the Ming army gradually became apparent, the Germans also began to mobilize reserves to the Prague area for reinforcements. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, because of the aviation superiority of the Ming Dynasty, the Germans' rail and road transportation were constantly bombed, and it was difficult to move. In this case, the German General Staff could only order the Prague defenders to hold their positions.

The German troops stationed in the Prague area were led by Fedor. Feng. Army Ninth Infantry Army under the command of Army General Bock. It has the 42nd, 20th, 8th, 5th and 6th Infantry Corps. With the addition of local defense units, units directly under the group army, and various auxiliary units, the total strength is about 200,000.

The 9th Infantry Army had been fighting fierce battles with the Ming troops stationed on the Apennine Peninsula on the Alps, and suffered considerable losses. After the Ming army invaded Poland, the German high command began to remobilize troops to adjust the theater of operations and prepare for the defense of the homeland.

The Ninth Infantry Army, which had gained combat experience in previous battles with the Ming army, was transferred back to the German mainland and subsequently placed in the Prague area for defensive work.

Due to the considerable losses suffered in the previous battles in Italy, and although it was replenished with some new troops after returning to the mainland, the 9th Infantry Army was still unable to regain its full strength.

When the Ming army entered the Prague area, the division was defeated one after another and had to withdraw to the west bank of the Vltava River. At the same time, important bridges were lost, which led to the Ming army gaining a vital bridgehead on the west bank.

After receiving information from the General Staff that the Ming army might change the main target of the attack to his side, General Bock was shocked and immediately ordered his troops to launch a fierce attack on the Ming army's bridgehead on the west bank of the Vltava River. An attempt was made to recapture this important position before the arrival of the main attacking force of the Ming army.

At this time, the Ming army unit that confronted the German Ninth Infantry Army was the 33rd Infantry Army, which was an unknown force in the large Ming army. Since the beginning of their formation, they have not had any outstanding achievements, and for many years they have served as local guards or flank cover for armored units.

There are many such troops in the Ming army, after all, the size of the Ming army is so huge, such an obscure army as the 33rd Infantry Army basically can't escape the fate of being revoked after the war.

Because they didn't have a great reputation in the war. Without the support of the army, it is difficult for that unit to hold on to its name.

Because the 33rd Infantry Army did not have any outstanding features in the previous battles, the General Staff of the Ming Army did not have too high expectations for this unit. The order given was to hold on to the present position, and to expand the starting position as far as possible and as appropriate, to create the conditions for an offensive after the arrival of the follow-up troops.

Such an order can only be described as very general, and the General Staff did not have the idea of using the 33rd Infantry Army as the main force. The fact that they had previously defeated the Germans and captured a bridgehead on the west bank of the Vltava River was nothing to the General Staff.

The side of the people did not attach much importance to it, and the Germans were also thinking about how to recapture the bridgehead from the hands of the Ming army. No one paid too much attention to the previously unknown 33rd Infantry Army.

However, many people may have overlooked one thing, that is, the 33rd Infantry Army was also the regular army of the Ming army, they had a well-established establishment and strong support, and all the officers and soldiers were well-trained professional soldiers. Their true fighting power is not as obscure as their reputation.

The commander of the 33rd Infantry Group Army was Army General Lu Mo, a traditional soldier who was a large number of soldiers in the Ming Army, who graduated from the military academy and entered the Army University for further study along the regular route of the Ming Army, and then graduated with excellent grades and went to serve in the General Staff, and then was transferred to the troops, starting step by step from the grassroots level and finally promoted to the post of commander of the group army.

After the new military reform and the rise of armored units promoted and advocated by Zhang Cheng, traditional soldiers like Lu Mo basically began to ******** because of their age. Most of them were in the infantry unit, doing things in obscurity to fill in the gaps and wipe the ass of the armored troops.

The fame and benefits are all from the armored forces, after all, Zhang Cheng himself started with the armored forces. The infantry has always been unknown, but army generals like Lu Mo also have the blood of being a soldier in their hearts, and no one is unwilling to make a name for themselves in the war and firmly engrave their names in the records of the army.

After receiving the order from the General Staff, Lu Mo immediately began to dispatch troops to prepare for an attack on the Prague area.

That's right, Lu Mo already knew his opponent very well after fighting the German army on the opposite side during this time. Although the German Ninth Army on the opposite side was quite numerous, its real strength was inferior to that of the 33rd Army. Therefore, after receiving the order to attack, Lu Mo began his long-prepared plan to capture Prague.

The 33rd Infantry Army of the Ming Army had four infantry corps and a large number of units directly under the group army. These units are basically at full strength. Moreover, the Ming army, whether it was a regular army or a supplementary army, was an elite who had received strict training from the training camp, which was different from the German army on the other side that hurriedly sent the recruits to the battlefield after a simple training due to time constraints. They are very capable of fighting and do not differ from the front-line troops except for combat experience.

The Ming army was assigned some armored units to all infantry divisions, and the main task of these battalion-based armored units in the infantry divisions was to strengthen the resistance of the infantry divisions in the event of an attack by enemy armored units.

And now, in order to be able to complete his battle plan to capture Prague, Lü Mo ordered all the armored units in each army to be assembled and ready to launch an attack.

According to the battlefield situation in the Prague area at the moment, the best place for the Ming army to attack was the bridgehead in the city of Prague. After all, its location was very good, it was simply inserted directly in the center of the German defensive position. However, Lu Mo knew very well in his heart that the Germans also had the strongest defense here.

During the previous confrontation with the Germans, Lu Mo had already sent people to carefully reconnoiter all the nearby terrain. He chose to set the breakthrough in the town of Roztoki, about ten kilometers north of the city of Prague.

The town of Roztoki is a satellite city of Prague on the west bank of the Vltava River, which originally had a bridge across the river, but the Germans had completely destroyed it when the Ming army approached the Prague area. And there is a sandbar on the Vltava River near the town of Rodstoki, which is very suitable for pontoon fighting. The breakthrough point chosen by Lu Mo is here.

After gathering all the armored forces in his hands, Lü Mo formed a combat armored group, and they secretly moved to the Husinez area on the opposite bank of Rodstoki to assemble and stand by. As soon as the main forces of the German 9th Infantry Army on the opposite bank began to attack the Ming bridgehead, this force would quickly cross the pontoon bridge erected by the sappers at night and kill the Vltava River.

Although he is an old infantryman, Lu Mo is very interested in accepting new combat methods, and he has also been promoted to study. He gathered his armored forces and used flank assault to attack the main supply lines of the enemy's rear and cooperate with the frontal troops to encircle the enemy's army.

And General Bock, who is also an old infantryman, did not think about a large-scale counterattack because he did not have any large-scale armored troops in his hands. What he still thinks about is to hold his position, at most, to take the bridgehead of the Ming army. Bock was waiting for his reinforcements to arrive quickly. With sufficient troops, Bock believed that the Vltava River would be used as a defensive position for the moats.

On the evening of 7 June, the Germans intensified their artillery bombardment of the Ming bridgehead on the west bank of the Vltava River. The ferocious artillery bombardment like a meteor continued to fly down on the bridgehead position of the Ming army, plowing the Ming army's position, which had been reduced to ruins in the previous battle, again and again.

The Germans also sent death squads from the upper reaches of the river in kayaks loaded with explosives to blow up the Ming pontoon bridge. But it is clear that their move failed. The Ming army's garrison of its bridgehead position was very strong. If the important pontoon bridge is destroyed, it is very likely that the Ming army will lose the important pontoon bridge in its own hands.

The official German offensive began the following day, on the morning of June 8. Tens of thousands of officers and men of the German Fifth Infantry Corps, under the cover of dozens of armored vehicles, launched a fierce attack on the bridgehead positions of the Ming army. On this day, it rained heavily in the Prague area, and most of the warplanes between the two sides could not rise into the air.

As for the all-weather combat aircraft that the Ming army has begun to officially equip its troops with in batches, they are basically fighters, and they have nothing to do when the Allied air force on the opposite side cannot take off. Neither side is supported by air power.

The German artillery was strong, but the Ming artillery was even stronger. Shells from both sides flew back and forth, blowing up the entire bridgehead position into a pot of boiling porridge.

The Ming army held the bridgehead position was the 251st Infantry Division, an ordinary and ordinary unit. Nearly 17,000 officers and men of the division were stationed in their positions and engaged in fierce exchanges of fire with the surging German troops.

Because the tall buildings everywhere have basically been blown up, the Ming army can only hide in the ruins to fight. They used all kinds of weapons in their hands, especially the lethal general-purpose machine guns, and used a dense rain of bullets to knock the charging German officers and soldiers to the ground. (To be continued.) )