Artillery fire is roaring, steel is **. Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles of various types on both sides of the German and Ming armies collided fiercely on the narrow battlefield, which was only about two kilometers wide, www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion.

The German tanks advanced quickly, trying to quickly approach the Tiger, which was not very maneuverable. Attack from the flanks and rear of the Tiger. The Ming Leopard tanks held on to both sides of the road and kept firing, destroying one German tank after another trying to get closer. As the backbone of the Tiger Tank, it stood like a solid rock on Route 18, constantly destroying the German tanks that slapped at it.

"Aim and hit!" Lin Shuo raised his hand and looked at the time, it was still early at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the consumption of shells after the battle began was very terrifying. If you don't aim to fight, it will quickly be consumed. Once the shells were lost, the only option left for the Ming chariots was to ram.

"Boom!" A dull sound echoed in the Tiger tank, and Lin Shuo, who was lying on the periscope, collided with the periscope, his nose suddenly flowed blood, and there was a buzzing sound in his ears. He knew that his tank had been hit again.

Side-attacks are very effective when the Tiger tank is actively attacking and maneuvering in a wide area. This is due to the heavy Tiger's maneuverability and turret rotation speed. However, when the Tiger chooses to stay where it is and uses itself as a fixed turret, it will be difficult to rush through tight terrain. Especially if there is also tank support on both sides.

"Report the loss!" Lin Shuo struggled to regain his balance, shook his head vigorously and shouted loudly.

"The turret rotation is damaged, but it still works."

"The external periscope is damaged."

"The headlights are gone!"

"The turret outer gun shield is loose!"

"It's fine." Knowing that the chariot had not lost its combat effectiveness, Lin Shuo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. No one wants to withdraw from the fierce battlefield at such a time. The loss of the tank armored corps is the saddest.

"Hit the ones who run fast!" After raising his hand to wipe his nose, Lin Shuo pressed the throat intercom and shouted loudly, "Don't let them get close!" ”

A distance of more than a kilometer is not an insurmountable distance for a tank at high speed. Especially those light tanks that are very fast. Lin Shuo, who didn't want to be disrupted in formation, was naturally unwilling to let the German tanks rush into his formation to make trouble. However, this kind of thing is not just a matter of what you want to do.

The heroic German armorers stepped on the tank accelerator to the end, and the speeding tanks braved huge casualties to rush through the Ming army's resistance and crash into the Ming army's formation. The originally relatively stable front was suddenly stirred into a pot of porridge.

"The first two rows and the flank support tanks don't move!" The red-eyed Lin Shuo watched the German tanks rush through his battle line, gritted his teeth and shouted loudly, "The rear chariots are reversed, kill those bastards who rush in!" ”

No one is going to line up their tanks on the battlefield, and staggered deployment is a regular tactic. The first two rows of more than 20 Tiger and flanking Leopard tanks were not attracted by the German assault, and still focused their main attacks on the frontal armored clusters of the German army. The Tiger in the back began to reverse, attacking the German tanks that rushed into the battle line while reversing.

Between the two sides, you come and go, bullets and rain. The German fierce attack succeeded in breaking through the Ming tank line after paying heavy casualties. However, when they turned the head of the car and began to attack the Ming tanks, a battalion of Leopard tanks as a reserve quickly drove up and protected the tiger's buttocks.

By ten o'clock in the morning, the German 26th Panzer Division suffered heavy losses and had to choose to withdraw from the battlefield.

In this fierce battle, which lasted more than an hour, the Germans lost at least 100 tanks. And the Ming side also had about twenty or so battle damage. This is the main reason why the Allies are always difficult to resist in the face of Ming attacks.

The tanks of the Ming Dynasty were superior to those of the Allies in terms of offensive and defensive capabilities and the quality of the armored troops. The gap in the main equipment of ground warfare is so large that even if the Allies want to fill it with people, they may not be able to fill it up.

"Three battalions come up to take over the position, and let the first battalion withdraw." After the German tanks withdrew from the effective attack range, Lin Shuo climbed out of the turret hatch and rearranged the deployment.

He asked the three battalions of the armored regiment, which had been used as reserves, to take the place of the first battalion, and at the same time ordered the three battalions that had withdrawn to unload all the shells on their own combat vehicles and hand them over to other vehicle crews.

Lin Shuo didn't think that the Germans would not continue to attack after being repulsed once, and the battle would be extremely brutal and fierce all day today. Lin Shuo was not worried about the battle, he was only worried about the consumption of ammunition. In previous battles, most of the crews had consumed ammunition below the cordon.

"Sir!" The telegraph officer at the battalion headquarters hurriedly ran over: "I just received a telegram from the division headquarters, and the division commander has already contacted the commander. The front-line command has already arranged for priority to let the transport ships carrying the ammunition of our division dock and unload their cargo. ”

Although the situation is chaotic after landing, there will be a time when it will calm down. Now that the battle on the front line is fierce, the front-line commanders of the Ming army know very well what is the most important thing now.

After a telephone conversation with the commander of the 2nd Panzer Division, the Ming front commander directly ordered all ships to get out of the way, and priority was given to transport ships loaded with vital ammunition to dock and unload.

In order to protect the safety of this mobile arsenal, the front-line commander of the Ming army even directly contacted the aircraft carriers on the sea, so that the fighters of the Navy could give priority to protecting the port in addition to protecting the warships.

Both the ships carrying artillery and the warplanes that were going to use the Montecovino airport were forcibly ordered to leave the dock and give way. Even halfway through unloading, you have to walk away immediately.

After the munitions docked, in order to quickly unload the ammunition, the front-line commander of the Ming army even directly ordered that all the materials that were piled up on the dock for the time being but occupied a lot of positions were still in the sea.

Numerous military uniform tents, canned spare parts, and even canned drinks were pushed directly into the harbor by the Ming army to make room. Watching those extremely popular canned fruits and beer thrown into the sea like garbage, the hearts of the Ming soldiers were reluctant.

After an emergency operation, ammunition, vital for the campaign, was finally delivered to the port.

"Great!" After reading the telegram, Lin Shuo slapped his thigh hard: "Finally there is ammunition!" ”

After a pause, Lin Shuo shouted loudly, "Hurry up!" Let the first battalion go to the port with trucks and get all the ammunition back as soon as possible! ”

The German offensive did not give up after being temporarily repulsed, and they could not give it up. South of the line between Salerno and Foggia, more than 300,000 German troops were deployed in southern Italy. Once the Ming army had gained a foothold in Salerno, they would be able to besiege 300,000 German troops by crossing the narrow Italian peninsula and capturing Foggia laterally. The armies of any country are not willing to bear such large-scale losses.

As for transporting the 300,000 troops from southern Italy back to the north by ship or air, this kind of thing can only be imagined when the Ming sea and air forces are superior.

When the time came to twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the German 14th Panzer Corps reorganized itself and launched another onslaught towards the Zionz Pass.

This time, the 14th Panzer Army did its best, and the two Panzer Divisions, the 16th and 26th Panzer Divisions, which had suffered heavy losses, formed a wave attack queue. At the same time, they also sent a large number of grenadiers not only to pin down the mountains around the Zionz Pass, but also to launch a fierce attack on Highway 18 under the Zionz Pass with tank troops.

"All ready!" Looking at the dense attack queue of German tanks and grenadiers rolling in the distance, the red-eyed Lin Shuo bit his tongue and shouted loudly, "Prepare for a round of high-explosive bombs, long-range attack!" ”

Lin Shuo saw that a large number of accompanying infantry appeared near the German tanks, and immediately understood that this fierce battle must be fought to the end.

At this time, there was no need to save ammunition, and high-explosive shells were directly fired at long distances to kill and injure German infantry units. In any case, the explosion radius of high-explosive shells is large, and the flying shrapnel is extremely lethal to infantry in armored vehicles and trucks. As for the machine guns on the tanks after the infantry approached.

The armored forces of the Ming Dynasty generally did not carry many high-explosive shells. Because when Zhang Cheng was the director of the armored forces, he had already set a clear combat mission for the armored forces, that is, to destroy the enemy's armored forces on the battlefield. The carrying capacity of high-explosive bombs is generally only about 15 to 20 percent of the total carrying capacity.

"Change armor-piercing bullets!" After the German attack force rushed into a distance of 1,500 meters, Lin Shuo decisively ordered the replacement of armor-piercing shells to attack the German tank troops.

The vicinity of the Zionz Pass has become a sea of hellfire that is boiling and bursting with flames. Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers on both sides and a large amount of various equipment fought fiercely in this small area.

Shells flew sideways, bullets rained down. Countless lives are passing away at every moment. The battlefield is the largest life harvester on the planet.

"Back off, back off!" Looking at the approaching German troops, Lin Shuo, who felt the pressure, began to arrange for the Ming army's tank cluster to constantly retreat to widen the distance. But the German attack came like an endless tide, and no matter how many were eliminated, it would be quickly replenished.

"The last ten armor-piercing rounds!" The shouts of the loader made the beads of sweat on Lin Shuo's head drip down immediately. When the shells run out, it's really a complete end.

"Bastard!" Lin Shuo, who was furious in his heart, gritted his teeth and stood up, pushed open the hatch with force, and operated the on-board machine gun to shoot at the German armored vehicles and trucks that were already very close.

A long chain of tracer bullets smashed a truck full of German grenadiers into a sieve, and after losing its driver, the truck quickly fell crookedly and crashed into a nearby German tank, before tipping to the ground. (To be continued.) )