It's just that what the Russian army didn't expect was that only one of the officers and soldiers of the power search battalion and part of the tank battalion captured the village of Kremenki last night, but in just one night and half a morning, almost the entire 29th Panzer Division had already arrived here. By the time the Russian army launched www.biquge.info attack, the 29th Panzer Division had already gathered all its strength. This is one of the great advantages of armored forces, they are very maneuverable.

The anti-tank battalion of the armored forces of the Ming Army differed from the infantry in that they did not use towed anti-tank guns, but anti-tank destroyers using tank chassis. This destroyer, which is designed to fight tanks, is very maneuverable enough to keep up with the speed of armored troops. Moreover, it is uniformly equipped with an 88 mm caliber long-barreled gun, which is amazingly powerful.

Similarly, the 12 88 mm caliber high-level dual-purpose guns equipped with the air defense battalion are powerful enough to destroy any tank of the Russian army when the barrel is leveled and the entire gun emplacement is placed on a gun emplacement more than one meter deep.

The commander of the 32nd Tank Division of the Russian army did not know that the main forces of the Ming army had arrived nearby, and believed that the troops of the Ming army had shrunk to the village of Kremenki and waited for reinforcements. He quickly gave the order to attack with all his might.

This kind of thing is normal on the battlefield, after all, the information communication capability and intelligence transmission capability of this era are far from being comparable to the satellite era in later generations. Just think about the fact that the tank forces of many countries are still using flags as a means of communication, and you can know that it is definitely not a simple matter to correctly judge the situation on the battlefield without the support of accurate intelligence.

In the history of modern time and space, why the German army has always been admired. One of the most important reasons was that the German front-line commanders were able to make the most correct judgment based on all the information at their disposal, and the German army was the best in this regard.

Arguments like the kind of aftermath don't work at all. There is no exact person on the battlefield, and no one knows what will happen. No one knows if their orders are correct!

The commander of the 32nd Tank Division of the Russian army sent his own light tanks out and made a detour behind the village of Kremenki to cut off the retreat of the Ming army. Other tanks and armored vehicles, supported by large groups of infantry, rushed towards the village of Kremenki.

The experienced officers and men of the Ming Dynasty made full use of their various advantages, skillfully used the forces and weapons between various arms, and carried out close coordinated operations. The skillful coordination that has been trained over time is breathtaking. At least the officers and men of the 32nd Tank Division of the Russian Army are deeply touched by this.

Under Zhang Cheng's instigation, all units equipped with 88-mm guns received professional anti-tank training. The officers and men of these motorized heavy antiaircraft artillery battalions operate anti-aircraft guns with a muzzle velocity of nearly 900 meters per second, which will weigh up to 9 kilograms, and can penetrate 90 millimeters of armor at a distance of 500 meters and 80 millimeters of armor at a distance of 1,000 meters.

The Russian commander was very shocked, he had fought with the Ming army before, but at this time the Ming army showed a superb level of technology and tactics, and he was shocked. His troops lost dozens of tanks and thousands of soldiers in just over half an hour.

The Ming tank destroyers stationed in the village of Kremenki hid behind various buildings and hit the Russian troops with ferocious shelling. And the anti-aircraft artillery units did not show weakness, they also killed and damaged the forces of the Russian army in large numbers. The Ming infantry used a large number of equipped machine guns to bring down patches of Russian officers and soldiers to the ground with a rain of bullets.

But these are not what make the Russian army desperate, what makes them desperate is that when the Russian army threw its main forces into the attack on the village of Kremenki, a powerful armored cluster suddenly appeared in their flank and rear. The main force of the 29th Armored Division of the Ming Army came out of the hidden woods. More than 100 tanks, numerous armored vehicles and a large number of infantry rushed directly to the rear of the Russian army. Suddenly, the Russian army was frightened.

The two sides have been fighting each other for several years, and they both know each other well. The Russian army knows that the No. 4 tank equipped by the Ming army is of good quality, but the T34 and TV tanks in their hands are capable of fighting.

But when the Russian tanks meet the Ming army's Leopard, although the Leopard is very strong, the Russian armored soldiers are still confident that they will fight at a tragic price, but if they encounter the Tiger tank, then the Russian army will feel that it is going to collapse. The Tiger tank, with almost invincible frontal armor, is a nightmare for any enemy.

None of the tanks in the hands of the Russian army can confront the Tiger head-on, and they can only hope victory by using their mobility to attack around the Tiger's flank. But when the Tiger is still surrounded by a large number of Leopards and No. 4 tanks, it is better to turn around and run away.

The 29th Panzer Division was able to serve as the forward force of the Ming Army, so naturally it could not be an ordinary force. Although the number of this armored division is relatively low, its strength is first-class.

The 29th Panzer Division was supported by the 6th Panzer Army during the sortie, not only with Leopard tanks, but also with a Tiger tank battalion from the direct units of the army. This powerful armored force surged all the way through, breaking through one Russian defense line after another. The sheer armor power is daunting.

The main force was trapped in the village of Kremenki, and the armored corps of the Ming army appeared on the back road, and the Russian army immediately fell into a difficult situation of being exposed to the enemy on its back. The desperate Russian commander asked his superiors for reinforcements, and on the other hand, he quickly adjusted his deployment and retreated quickly. It's just that it's easy to come here, but it's hard to leave.

After receiving the order, the Allied air forces fully supported the battlefield in Kremenki, while the Russian 32nd Tank Division desperately broke through. But in the face of the Ming army, which had the advantage on the battlefield, they had nothing to do. Although Zhukov urgently sent reinforcements, it was too late.

The 32nd Tank Division of the Russian Army, which was originally full of confidence and wanted to pick up the bargain, was finally surrounded and ambushed by the Ming army. Nearly 200 tanks were damaged in battle, and thousands of officers and men were killed and wounded and captured. The fields near the village of Kremenki were littered with the wreckage of destroyed and burning Russian tanks, and the commander of the 32nd Tank Division, Major General Shirokov, was killed in the battle.

Nearly 70 KV tanks in the 32nd Tank Division of the Russian Army were eventually destroyed because they were too slow and located in the core of the battlefield. The more than 120 T34 tanks fought fiercely with the Ming army for a long time, but because of the lack of support, and the enemy was cut off from retreating, and finally almost lost, only a few T34s were able to escape.

In addition to the rearguard troops, there were only more than 40 fast tanks with extremely high mobility that escaped in the Russian army, and when they made a detour to outflank the rear road of the Ming army in Kremenki Village, they received news that their troops had been counter-surrounded. In desperation, these light tanks continued to circle and use their high speed to escape from the periphery of the battlefield.

With such great results, the Ming army, which had a rational use of tactics and was superior in strength, suffered minor losses. The total number of tanks of various types destroyed by the Ming army during the battle was only about 30, and many of them could be repaired and reused.

The losses of the anti-aircraft battalion were not small, after all, they did not have armor protection. Five 88-mm anti-aircraft guns were destroyed, while 40-mm and 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as many officers and men, were killed in the Russian shelling of the village of Kremenki. In the end, the Ming officers and soldiers suffered less than 1,000 casualties, but they almost completely destroyed the 32nd Armored Division of the Russian army.

After stealing chickens and rice, Zhukov immediately ordered his troops to retreat to strong defensive positions and wait for the attack of the Ming army. And the Ming army also chose to temporarily stop because of the strong counterattack of the Russian army in the village of Kremenki, waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops.

In the early morning of 5 July, the headquarters of the 29th Armored Division of the Ming Army had cleared all the Russian bridgeheads on the east bank of the Sato River and completely controlled the entire east bank. During this offensive operation, the troops of the 29th Panzer Division were heavily bombarded by the superior artillery fire of the Russian army on the other side of the river, and the losses were not small.

After dawn, the follow-up units of the Sixth Panzer Army of the Ming Army arrived one after another. The entire eastern bank of the Sato River was soon covered by the boundless Ming army. The sheer size of the aircraft terrified the pilots of the Allied reconnaissance planes.

When Zhang Cheng was the director of the armored forces, he always emphasized concentrating superior forces and choosing a little assault. In order to concentrate their forces on the tip of the knife, the Ming armored forces have always concentrated their superior forces on the main attack point as much as possible. Therefore, the Sixth Armored Group Army, which was the sharp knife of the Ming army's offensive, was continuously strengthened and strengthened by Zhang Cheng, and its real strength had completely exceeded the scale of a group army.

The Sixth Armored Group Army of the Ming Army is subordinate to three armored corps, a mechanized infantry corps, a mechanized heavy artillery division, and numerous directly subordinate units and logistics support units. There are up to twelve armored divisions and seven mechanized infantry divisions. In total, there are nearly five thousand tanks and armored vehicles of various types. There are tens of thousands of support vehicles of various kinds, more than 1,200 artillery pieces of various types, and a total strength of about 450,000 people!

With such a large mechanized force, hardly anyone could withstand their offensive. Neither did Zhukov and his troops. His only advantage now is that the 6th Panzer Army has not all arrived. After all, after a long march, such a large army will inevitably arrive in order. But just now the Ming army approaching the vicinity of Sarova was enough for him to drink a pot. (To be continued.) )