The large-scale attack of the Germans did not make people wait too long, and did not even wait for the Russian anti-aircraft machine guns to arrive, on a long front of more than 1,000 kilometers from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, nearly four million Allied soldiers, including five German armies, eight Austro-Hungarian armies, and two Romanian armies, launched a tsunami-like attack on the Russian army opposite them almost simultaneously.

The first to appear was still a huge air fleet, under the cover of hundreds of new fighters, nearly a hundred airships poured 500 tons of solidified qiyou shells towards the Russian defense line in Kobrin, those gray cattle who had long been frightened by the hellfire did not hesitate to collapse when they saw the airship covering the sky and the sun appear overhead, even if their officers blocked it with leather whips and sabers or even machine guns, they could not stop them from escaping, and then when the flames on the defense line rose, Even the officers and overseers got up and fled.

With less than 5,000 casualties, the German Ninth Army tore a fatal gap in the Russian line, and then split into two lines with the subsequent influx of Seventh Army, the Seventh Army marched northeast along the railway to Minsk, and the Ninth Army aimed east along the Pripyat Valley to target Kiev.

However, they suffered a severe setback in Pinsk.

"Chariots!" A group of German troops occupying the perimeter of Pinsk suddenly heard numerous exclamations, and they saw that in a dense forest not far from them, more than fifty Russian tanks equipped with rotating turrets and three-seven guns were roaring out, but there was no infantry cover around them.

This is a lone Russian tank regiment, and it is also a unit without a commander, when it finds that its troops are inexplicably behind the rear of the battle line, the regiment commander drives a car and abandons his soldiers as fast as possible, and now the deputy commander of the regiment is Lieutenant Colonel Denikin.

"Quick, faster!" Denikin, lying on the turret of a Chinese-made tank, watched as the German soldiers were quickly dispersing and firing machine guns. Ignoring the bullets whizzing past him, he slapped the turret and yelled at the chariots around him, he must now lead his men to a bloody path.

Fifty-five chariots with a maximum cross-country speed of only twenty kilometers, spewing black smoke from the inadequate combustion of diesel fuel, lined up in a horizontal line, like a group of charging old knights, on a green field full of flowers, and launched an attack on a division of German troops opposite them.

"Prepare zha kits, cluster grenades. Battle defense artillery ready to shoot! Similarly, with a series of orders from the German commander, the German army, which was originally on the march, also turned to the defense in an instant, and in a very short time, the 12 Chinese-made 25-mm anti-aircraft guns of this division were unloaded from the towed truck. Immediately after that, the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the Russian combat vehicle that was rushing over, and with the flames spewing from the muzzle, twelve tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells flew towards the target with a sharp whistling, although the distance was relatively far, but there were still two direct hits. But alas, they were all bounced off by the sturdy front armor in an instant.

Lieutenant Colonel Denikin looked at the front of a combat vehicle in the rear of the side, the marks of armor-piercing shells, and then immediately gave the order: "Fire, target enemy anti-aircraft artillery." ”

Fifty-five chariots that were charging came to a halt one after another. Then the three-seven-millimeter main gun moved slowly, and at this time the opposing anti-aircraft guns continued to fire, although they hit the target one after another, but none of them penetrated the armor. However, a cannonball accidentally knocked the head of the commander in command of a combat vehicle.

As the first to erupt flames from the muzzle of Denikin's chariot, fifty-five chariots immediately began to counterattack, and the whistling pao shells went straight to the German anti-aircraft artillery positions. In the flames of the explosion, a battle defense gun was blown away at the same time, along with the gun crew.

"Keep firing and knock out all the anti-defense guns!" Denikin yelled, it was clear that he was a relatively smart commander, and since the German anti-aircraft artillery could not hurt his own chariots at this distance, then he would kill them first.

It's a pity that he is smart, and the Germans are not stupid, it is too convenient to transfer the small guns weighing only a few hundred kilograms, and at the same time that the hastily set up mortar PAO fired at the German combat vehicles with intensive fire, and even fired smoke bombs to provide cover for them, the soldiers of those artillery groups directly pulled up their battle defense guns and began to quickly shift positions.

"Mada, forward!" Denikin, who was wrapped in a smoke screen, scolded depressedly, and in the light of the mortar shell explosion, his tank immediately restarted and began to charge forward, because the transmission of information was more troublesome, and the other tanks dragged and dragged until he broke out of the smoke screen area before starting one after another to keep up. At this time, the firepower of the German army was denser, and the dense bullets hit the front of the chariot like hail, and soon the original green surface was pockmarked, and the small pits that exposed the metal background made people dizzy. However, such an attack had little effect on the vehicle, but another commander was killed by a machine-gun bullet, and soon his body was pushed out of it and still behind, and another crew member took his place.

At the same time, the heavy machine guns in the combat vehicle also began to aim at the German soldiers lying on the ground and fired wildly, beating the Germans so that they did not dare to raise their heads, but fortunately, the terrain in this area was relatively rugged and easy to find concealment, and the casualties of the German infantry were not very large.

Less than 500 meters from the Germans, a flash of fire flashed from behind a bush, followed by an armor-piercing projectile grazing the turret of a combat vehicle.

"The anti-aircraft artillery over there!" The sharp-eyed Denikin immediately found the target, and then the chariot stopped slightly, the muzzle of the cannon moved slightly, and a three-seven pao bullet smashed over, and at the same time the other two chariots also fired, and in the light of the explosion, it was obvious that a half-cut human body flew into the sky.

But before the Russian tank could be restarted, four sharp whistlings came one after another, and the front of a Russian tank suddenly burst into flames, and there was a fiery hole in an instant, and then there was a sudden explosion inside, and even the turret was blown up.

"Fire, fire!" Denikin shouted anxiously, the remaining fifty-four tanks simultaneously aimed at the discovered anti-aircraft guns and opened fire, and their opponents also fired deadly armor-piercing shells from hiding one after another, and even among the German infantry who were lying on the ground and firing machine guns at the tanks, some people began to approach with ZHA kits and cluster grenades under the cover of terrain and vegetation.

The duel between the tank and the anti-aircraft artillery did not last long, the number of anti-aircraft guns of the Germans was too small, and it was impossible to build a bunker in a hurry, so they could only cover the sneak attack by means of trees, and once the target was determined, there would be more than a dozen or even dozens of chariot pao shells flying over, although the bravery of those German anti-aircraft artillery also allowed them to harvest the results of four German chariots, but in the end they were still destroyed by the Russian chariots one by one.

After losing the resistance of the anti-aircraft guns, Denikin held his shoulder wounded by a mortar shell and ordered to charge at full speed, and the remaining fifty-one tanks immediately accelerated to the limit, and fifty-one steel beasts pounced viciously on the German infantry, at which time the German infantry had begun to retreat towards the nearby groves. The heavy machine guns on the tank were firing wildly, and a large number of German soldiers were beaten to the ground, while the German infantry who were lying in ambush on the ground bravely jumped out one by one, holding zha medicine bags and cluster grenades and pounced on the Russian tank. But their bravery did not pay much for themselves, as the Russian tankers standing on the turrets kept firing at the ground with the machine guns mounted there, and the vast majority of the German infantry who tried to blow up the tanks were killed by the barrage of bullets.

And in the same way, these guys with their heads exposed are also the main targets of the Germans' attacks, those machine guns and riflemen lying in the depressions and woods keep shooting at them, but these Germans have become the main targets of the tank guns, although the high-speed charge has been almost impossible for the tank guns to accurately hit any targets, but fortunately they do not need to aim too accurately at this time, experienced people have learned to fire at the target on the move, and the dense PAO shells keep exploding in the German army, And those German mortars PAO are also constantly moving, blocking the advance of Russian combat vehicles with densely falling PAO shells.

"Accelerate, accelerate! Don't get entangled with the Germans, just rush over! Denikin roared as he slapped the turret, a bullet grazed his head, and the guy quickly shrank his neck, his goal was simple, rush over a bridge over the Pina River behind the German army, and then turn around and blow up the bridge, and his lone army escaped.

The German commander on the opposite side also seemed to be enraged by this sudden defeat, and had to leave this chariot behind, and the German troops who retreated into the woods blocked both sides of the road leading to the Guò woods, blocking Denikin's chariots with dense fire.

However, Denikin finally used his steel tracks to run away from the German resistance, of course, at the cost of losing a third of his chariots, and the rumbling convoy, with bullet marks and even burning flames, rushed through the woods defended by the Germans, and then drove directly onto the bridge, and then aimed all the guns at a pier on the opposite bank, smashed it with an armor-piercing bombardment, and then flew away with the sound of the bridge deck collapsing.

Of course, this is just a very inconspicuous episode in this large-scale battle, although Lieutenant Colonel Denikin killed and wounded nearly 2,000 German troops with the loss of 17 tanks, but compared with the entire front, those tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of Russian troops who lost losses, his record can be said to be insignificant.

At the same time as the Ninth Army captured Pinsk, Baron Golz, who had just been awarded the rank of marshal on the Southern Front, also led the German 10th and 11th Armies, and the Romanian 1st and 2nd Armies to break through the Russian defense line on the Dniester River and directly to Odessa. (To be continued......)

PS: Hey, just finished reading Fury