"Boom!"

The power of the Panther tank's 75mm main gun of 70 times caliber was indeed satisfactory, even at a distance of 2,000 meters, the high-speed tungsten alloy armor-piercing shell still penetrated the front face of the T-28/1935 tank, and incidentally detonated the internal shells, blowing the tank into a pile of parts. Su Y put down the binoculars in his hand and sighed softly, not because of the battlefield table of the Black Panther tank, but because he found that the Soviet tank cluster was refueling tactics. Although he only has 67 Panther tanks in his hands, it is not less than 200 Soviet T-28 and Su-76 that can be fought against.

And he has at his disposal not only a battalion of Panthers, but also an Panzergrenadier Regiment equipped with tracked armored vehicles and 105mm recoilless guns. This recoilless gun was specially developed for anti-tank purposes, and the whole gun weighed 706 kilograms, and could not be carried by infantry, so it could only be mounted on tracked armored vehicles or military off-road vehicles. When using armor-piercing shells, the muzzle velocity of this recoilless gun can reach 503 m/s, which is no less than the 105mm howitzer currently equipped by the Chinese infantry! Therefore, the armor-piercing performance is quite superior, and a 150mm homogeneous steel plate can be easily penetrated at a distance of 1000 meters. Now used in conjunction with the Panther tank, it forms an anti-tank fire system with close and far coordination.

Of course, if the communication of the Soviet army is still unimpeded, then the Soviet artillery, under the guidance of artillery observers, will pour shells on the 105mm recoilless gun positions of the Chinese army, and those tracked armored vehicles without top armor may be difficult to withstand the dense shell cover. But now. The Soviet artillery group did not know where to shoot, so it could not pose any threat to the anti-tank fire points of the Chinese army.

With the sound of a tight cannon, the Soviet tanks were destroyed one by one. The way they charged was littered with burning steel wreckage and charred corpses of soldiers. However, Baranov and Konev turned a blind eye to this scene, and still vigorously fired signal flares to urge the tank cluster to assault. Because they knew that as the engagement lengthened, the Chinese armored clusters would have more time to adjust their formations, and once they turned the horizontal formations that could maximize their firepower into phalanxes or wedge-shaped formations for assault, they would be able to use the outstanding performance of the Cheetah Tanji and Panther tanks to smash the chaotic Soviet tank clusters!

"No, no, no. Don't take the tannihilation down now. "At a time when more than 100,000 officers and men of the Chinese and Soviet armies were engaged in fierce battles around Losino-Petrovsky, Liao Lei and Wu Shi had some different opinions in the headquarters of the Second Panzer Army of the Chinese Army. Liao Lei pointed to the line of fire between the two armies that had just been marked on the map and said: "The enemy's tank cluster is already in chaos, and we don't need to press all the armored forces on it, we only need to put the 7th Armored Army plus the Panther tank battalion on the left flank to form a wedge formation to attack east from the reserve position of the 22nd Army." So that an hour can be thrown into the counteroffensive. And because of the frontal annihilation horizontal formation, it did not move. It was possible to attract the attention of the enemy and cover the counterattack of the 7th Panzer Army. ”

"Can an armored corps do? However, there are more than 330 tanks and tanks, plus a Panther tank battalion, which is only a little more than 400, and the Soviets have invested nearly 2,000 tanks and tanks! Wu Shi counted with his fingers, but he still didn't think it was very reliable. At present, the armored corps of the Chinese army has a lot of armored combat vehicles if self-propelled artillery is counted, but now when it comes to tank warfare, self-propelled artillery is not of much use, and it all has to rely on tanks and tank annihilation to fight the world. This is a bit lacking.

"The soldiers are very fast, and now they must be put into the reserve for a counter-attack. If it's late, the Russians will be able to retreat! Liao Lei is now a battle-hardened armored force expert, and he knows the Soviet tank forces well, he said in an accentuated tone: "Lao Maozi's tank cluster is obviously chaotic, and there is not even a basic assault formation, so he attacks in a chaotic manner, this is the opportunity for us to counterattack, if they have time to adjust, this battle will be difficult to fight, so I still build yì immediately into the 7th Armored Army to fight back, and even don't have to wait for the Black Panther tank battalion on the right flank to be in place, this one can start the attack in 45 minutes." ”

"45 minutes?" Wu Shi was indeed a little moved: "Can it really be so fast?" Also, can Su Yu withstand it for 45 minutes? Do you want to throw in a battalion of cheetahs to support? ”

"I don't need to!" Liao Lei waved his hand and said: "Now it's just a matter of fighting fast and slow, looking at Lao Maozi's chaotic method, there must be something wrong with their communication...... The Russian tanks attacking Su Y were obviously fighting to add fuel to the tactics, and no matter how many of them could break through Su Y's defensive line. If they were to regroup, it would be impossible to do so without a handful of hours. ”

"Okay, just give the 7th Panzer Army an hour, and after an hour, let the Tan Annihilation Horizontal Formation withdraw and regroup." Wu Shi decisively gave the order.

At the same time, Baranov and Konev had begun to lose their breath, and from the binoculars in their hands, they could see that the Losino-Petrovsky battlefield was full of burning Soviet tanks and assault artillery. A thin horizontal formation of only sixty or seventy Panther tanks turned into an insurmountable moat, and the Soviet tank cluster could not even rush in front of them, and was beaten into a pile of scrap metal by accurate and ruthless firepower.

"This won't work!" Baranov put down the telescope in his hand and took a breath: "You must regroup and put into reserve, otherwise you will not be able to break through with more than a thousand tanks!" ”

"But it's going to take at least one, uh, at least two hours to regroup!" Konev said with some concern: "I'm afraid there won't be so much time!" Vasilevsky will not be able to hold out until 2 hours later, and the German planes in the sky will not watch us regroup......"

"So what to do? Was it ordered that the tank units be ordered to retreat? ”

"Directly into the reserves!" Baranov gritted his teeth and turned his head to look at Konev: "Comrade Konev, how many tanks are there that can be started now?" ”

"There are less than 500 of them." Konev replied. The Soviet tanks have never been in good condition, and they do not equip their armored units with reserve tanks in order to replenish battle losses in a timely manner, as is the case with China and the United States. Therefore, although the current Soviet tank cluster still has 35,600 tanks on the books, the most that can be driven is 2,7800, and now more than 2,100 have been put on the battlefield, and the remaining less than 500 are reserves.

"But there are no T-28/1935 tanks, they are all Su-76 and T-26, I'm afraid it will be ......" Konev paused, took a breath and said: "Comrade commander, please let me personally drive the tank to attack!" ”

Baranov nodded, patted Konev on the shoulder, and commanded in a low voice: "Put all the reserves into it...... Inserting from the northern front of the Losino-Petrovsky battlefield, they assaulted the second line of defense of the Chinese infantry, broke through it, and then turned back to the south, sweeping the rear of their armored clusters. ”

"Break through their infantry lines?" Konev was stunned.

Baranov smiled bitterly and sighed: "This is the only chance...... Judging from the current situation on the battlefield, there is no hope of success in attacking the flank of the Chinese armored cluster, because we have lost the first opportunity, and the Chinese commander must be mobilizing reserves to fill the right flank of their armored cluster, as long as we put in a few more battalions of Panthers or Cheetahs, we will have no hope at all. Therefore, they can only break through their infantry, and then come to a big outflanking, maybe the Chinese army can be shaken on all fronts. ”

"Alright, that's it!" Konev nodded. Baranov's analysis is good, the blow just now did not succeed, the flanks of the Chinese armored cluster must have been strengthened, look at the combat effectiveness of their Panther tanks, if there are two more battalions, even if they invest 500 Su-76s, it is in vain, it is better to attack their infantry, even if they can't win, they can kill a few more Chinese, right?

Just as the armored forces of both sides were adjusting and putting into reserve, Wei Lihuang was also reorganizing his 22nd Army. This army suffered a lot of losses in the fierce battle with the Soviet tank units just now, and even Wei Lihuang himself was wounded a little, and one arm was discounted, and now he was wrapped in gauze planks. However, he was not in the mood to think about his injury, because the 22nd Army's defense line was still extremely tight.

"The reserve position cannot be lost again! If you lose our 22nd Army again, you will be a sinner! We still have 3 infantry divisions and an armored cavalry division in our hands, a total of more than 50,000 brothers, even if they are all dead, they are not allowed to take a step back, do you know? Wei Lihuang glanced at the several division commanders under him and shouted loudly.

His military headquarters is now behind the original reserve position, and in the future it is where the headquarters of the 7th Group Army of the Chinese Army, the artillery group, and the baggage troops are located.

Li Zongren also sent him reinforcements just now, the 14th Armored Cavalry Division, although this armored cavalry division only has tanks and no war horses, but after all, it is not a real armored division, and in the Sino-Soviet battlefield after 1934, the task of this armored cavalry division is to pursue the fleeing enemy and bully the Soviet cavalry, highlighting mobility rather than tank combat capabilities. As a result, the tank destroyer battalion was abolished and replaced with more tank battalions equipped with C-type tanks. But now, Wei Lihuang had no choice but to grit his teeth and use the armored cavalry division as an armored division, and lined up all the tanks and vehicle-mounted 105mm recoilless guns of the 14th armored cavalry division behind his reserve position. (To be continued......)