The Ming army's army aviation quickly rushed to the vicinity of the battlefield, and the self-propelled artillery battalion equipped with the 22nd Armored Division also quickly entered the combat state, leaving a large number of shells and bombs on the heads of the Russian troops. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As long as the weather conditions permit, a certain amount of air power will be maintained over each theater of operations, and it will take turns to ensure that the ground troops can arrive at the battlefield within five minutes of calling for support. This is already the ground support tactics of the air force in modern time and space. The Ming Army Army did this with great strength.

And the self-propelled artillery battalions, which were equipped with all divisional armored units of the Ming army, were even more famous for their speed. The well-trained Ming armoured men were able to fire the shells in as little as five minutes. Moreover, this 155 mm caliber long-barreled howitzer is not only extremely accurate, but also has a very long range. They were able to provide accurate artillery support to the search force at a distance of almost ten kilometers from Pushkino.

However, although the Ming army reacted quickly, its powerful search battalion could not survive thousands of officers and soldiers, dozens of armored vehicles and a small number of tank trucks, and the tanks were still light and fast tanks specially built for reconnaissance troops. This kind of force is impossible to stop the strong counteroffensive of tens of thousands of Russian troops. Before dark, the Russian counteroffensive forces engaged in a fierce battle with the officers and men of the Ming army's power search battalion in Pushkino and soon surrounded the Ming army.

In the face of the superior Russian army, although the Ming scouts resisted desperately, the difference in strength between the two sides was too large, causing the Ming army to soon fall into a crisis. At this time, the main forces of the 22nd Panzer Division of the Ming Army had already set off after scolding Niang and came to the Pushkino area to rescue their troops.

Because the situation on the battlefield was chaotic and the time was close to dark. The commander of the 22nd Panzer Division of the Ming Army, who had no useful information, was unwilling to stay in this place after using his armored forces to relieve the scouts in the village of Pushkino, and he chose to retreat before dark. Retreating about three to five kilometers from the Pushkino area, they took up positions and waited for dawn to launch another offensive. This is the truth that Tivinov's counterattack repelled the Ming army.

The so-called main force of the Ming army is nothing more than a battalion-level reconnaissance force, and the so-called repulsion of the Ming army for several kilometers is just the Ming army's initiative to retreat. The Russian army, which has been repeatedly defeated in a short period of time, has lost its elite at this time, and it has long been without a strong combat force.

The joy of the Russians lasted only one night. On the night of September 2, the Ming army command had already learned the truth about this counterattack of the Russian army. When it was learned that the Russians' counterattack force had less than 200 tanks and a group of infantry, the expression on the face of the commander of the 22nd Armored Division of the Ming Army was very wonderful. Where is the whole synthetic army and a large number of support troops?

The officers and men of the 22nd Panzer Division of the Ming Army were furious. This is what they are most ashamed of since the start of the attack on Moscow. The mighty 22nd Panzer Division, with more than 300 tanks of various types and nearly 20,000 officers and men, was repulsed by a group of infantry. If they can't get back on the field, then they will be a laughing stock among the armored forces.

In the early morning of 3 September, when the horizon in the distance was just white, a deafening roar of engines sounded on the positions of the 22nd Armored Division of the Ming Army. More than 300 tanks of various types, with the cooperation of many armored vehicles, rumbled out of the starting position with the roaring shelling.

Under normal circumstances, if the Russian army wants to fight against the full armored division of the Ming army, it must have a full mechanized army. And under normal circumstances, the units of the Russian army are not satisfied. So usually the Russian army uses group armies to deal with the armored divisions of the Ming army. This is still an armored unit, and if you change it to infantry, it will be useless, mainly depending on how many heavy weapons the infantry has.

At this time, Tivinov's counterattack troops were still basking in the joy of yesterday's defeat of the Ming army and the advance of the front for several kilometers. They were even preparing to continue their attacks after dawn to crush the Ming army. Then, the dream woke up.

The 22nd Armored Division of the Ming Army didn't even make any artillery preparations, and their tank clusters just stepped on the artillery point and entered the battlefield. At this time, even many units of the Russian army were resting, and when the Ming armored cluster was killed with ferocious artillery killing, the Russian army immediately collapsed.

It took only half an hour for the 22nd Panzer Division of the Ming Army to advance the front to Pushkino, and then it was dawn. On September 3, it was another sunny day, and groups of Ming Army and Army Air Force fighters appeared on time above the battlefields like office workers from 9 to 5 in the morning, and then they dominated the sky.

With the support of powerful artillery fire and air power, the tank group of the 22nd Panzer Division of the Ming Army completely crushed the 27th Synthetic Army under Tivinov in a few hours, and it was only stopped when it had to be refueled.

In this day's fighting, the 22nd Panzer Division killed and captured more than 100,000 Russian officers and soldiers, and even the commander of the Russian army, Tivinov, became a prisoner of the Ming army. At that time, the lieutenant general was leading a convoy trying to retreat in the direction of Tver in the north, but they were surrounded by the tank units of the Ming army due to lack of fuel and were forced to surrender.

Many of these Russian troops were units of the 27th Composite Army, which rushed to the front line last night. These troops did not have a good time to defeat the Ming army, and when the Ming army counterattacked, they just fell into the pot.

By the afternoon of 5 September, the forward troops of the 22nd Panzer Division of the Ming Army, who had erupted into anger, had reached the village of Oparino on the banks of the Oka River. This ordinary village is only five kilometers from the city of Tver, an important node in the entire Moscow campaign. The important Tver railway station was already within the range of the Ming artillery.

At this time, the advance of the strategic reserve of the Russian army, which was moving south from St. Petersburg, was still more than 200 kilometers away from Tver. Although the distance of more than 200 kilometers on the railway may only be a few hours or more than a dozen hours. However, it is now a time of war, and the long-range bomber units of the Ming army and the special operations units operating at night in helicopters have already destroyed the railway lines of the Russian army, and the closer they get to the Moscow railway line, the more seriously damaged.

Seeing that the Ming army could no longer stop the Ming army from cutting off the last land passage between Moscow and the outside world, the angry Zhukov issued a sternly worded order, demanding that all Russian troops who had fled to the vicinity of Tver should not leave, and that this extremely important city should be held no matter what.

At this time, the Russian troops gathered near Tver had two army groups, seven mechanized corps and infantry corps, as well as dozens of divisions and brigades. But in reality, most of these troops were left with an empty shelf, and the total strength of the total number of troops was less than 100,000. And they basically lost heavy weapons such as artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, and even many infantry did not even have rifles. Most of them fled here from all over the route, they wanted to escape from the Ming encirclement from Tver north, and there were not many people who thought of staying to resist the Ming army's offensive.

The main forces of the Russian army stationed in Tver were two infantry divisions and a tank brigade of the Tver cluster. The other two infantry divisions of the group were supposed to take part in Tivinov's counterattack, but halfway through they received Zhukov's order to go to Klin to defend against the offensive of the Ming Sixth Panzer Army.

Now the total strength of the entire Tver cluster is less than 30,000 officers and soldiers, and there are only a pitiful number of more than 50 tanks. This strength is impossible to say that it is impossible to withstand the onslaught of the Ming army.

The commander of the Tver cluster, Major General Sonikov, immediately after receiving Zhukov's order, personally rushed to the Tver railway station with a large number of officers and soldiers, and at the same time ordered to block all roads to the north. Sonikov braved the heavy bombardment of the Ming army above his head, personally blocked all roads out of the city, and temporarily organized all the routs into troops and put them into battle.

At the same time, Sonikov also withheld all the supplies from the railway station that were scheduled to be sent to Moscow. But tanks, artillery, and butter bread were all left in the Tver region to be used for resistance operations. Through Sonikov's tireless efforts, he had assembled a force of tens of thousands of horses in Tver before the Ming army attacked.

But it was all in vain. Beginning on the morning of 6 September, hundreds of Ming bombers began the attack on Tver. Heavy bombardment and a prolonged shelling that seemed to never stop completely destroyed the entire city, killing large numbers of defenders and local citizens in the shelling and bombardment.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, a Ming army unit that crossed the Oka River from the village of Oparino raided and captured the most important railway bridge on the banks of the Oka River outside Tver, blocking the retreat of the Russian army at once. Subsequently, the Ming troops who came from all directions drove the Russian army back to the city from outside the city step by step, and then pushed and crushed all the way into Tver City.

The Ming army also knew the importance of time at this moment, and they did not relax their attack on Tver even at night. In fact, it was not that the Ming army would not fight at night or was afraid of night battles. The Ming army adopted a conscription system, and all the soldiers were all professional soldiers, even during the war mobilization period, the Ming officers and soldiers were still elite troops who had received strict training. Naturally, their training also included night fighting.

The reason why they have always been reluctant to fight at night is mainly because the Ming army is in an advantageous position. It's far easier for them to crush the enemy with superior firepower at dawn than to mix at night. Night battles meant chaos and increased casualties, and the Ming army, which followed the technical stream, would not go to night battles most of the time. It's just that nothing is absolute. (To be continued.) )