Chapter 529: Ironclad Hurricane

The artillery battle between the two sides lasted for a full hour, and after an hour, as the terrible explosions around him gradually subsided, the terrible whistles in the German trenches sounded, accompanied by the roars of the officers, the surviving soldiers shook off the dirt on their bodies, climbed to the ladder with their rifles in their hands, and poked their guns out, waiting for the Russian charge on the opposite side.

At that moment, the ground beneath them began to tremble slightly.

"Chariots!" The soldiers, who were already very familiar, let out one after another exclamations, and at the same time, in those battle defense artillery bunkers, a two-five-or even three-seven-millimeter battle defense gun was launched, aiming the muzzles of the guns at the buffer zone between the two armies, and the gunners stared nervously at the thick smoke and fog, feeling the ground trembling more and more clearly.

A looming dark shadow appeared.

"Fire!" The officer shouted next to the nearest anti-aircraft gun.

The muzzle flame erupted instantly, and a twenty-five-millimeter tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullet flew out with a whistling whistle, and the front of the black shadow flashed in an instant, but then it was still slowly advancing.

At this moment, another black shadow appeared next to it, and then more and more black shadows gradually became clear like a legendary monster, and the front one even showed its true face, the semicircular turret slowly rotated, and at the same time as the opposite battle defense gun fired for the second time, the muzzle of the combat vehicle flashed, and then a grenade exploded in front of the battle defense gun bunker.

At this time, the German soldiers lying in the trenches were already stunned, and they suddenly found that the chariots that were gradually driving out of the smoke seemed to be endless, and one after another drove out of the dense fog, and on a front about two kilometers wide, a whole three hundred chariots appeared in front of the Germans like a wall of steel.

Seeing this scene, even many battle defense gunners forgot to shoot, on the previous battlefield, there were usually dozens or even a few chariots to provide support for the infantry, and the group charge of hundreds of chariots was unheard of, but they didn't even think about it, when they saw this chariot corps like ancient heavy armored knights appear. The German division commander in charge of this position already understood that it would be difficult for him to hold it today.

However, as a veteran who had experienced three years of war, he still quickly calmed down, while ordering the frightened soldiers in the trenches to stick to their posts, while notifying the rear heavy artillery to reopen fire, and even asking the headquarters to transfer airship support, but unfortunately these all take time, even those heavy artillery that has just finished the artillery battle want to readjust the coordinates It takes a little time, but Denikin, who rushed to the German defense line at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, could not give him time.

At this time, on the German position, with the appearance of the Russian tank regiment, those soldiers also understood the danger they were facing. All the anti-aircraft guns fired frantically, armor-piercing shells whistled towards the enemy one after another, and even the nearby mortar pao and small-caliber rifle guns joined the ranks of the blockade, but unfortunately compared to the number of tanks, the Germans had too few anti-aircraft guns. In fact, the regular establishment of the German army was one anti-aircraft artillery company of each infantry regiment with six three-seven, or two-five-millimeter anti-aircraft guns, and the defensive front of a division was at most twenty or thirty anti-aircraft guns. This thing is basically a one-time battle vehicle, and if you can't defeat the opponent, you will be finished, and you will be charged in the face of a group of three hundred chariots at this point. He was drowned almost as soon as he saw it.

As for the effect of those mortar PAO and infantry artillery, it is needless to say that even if the 82-mm mortar PAO shell is less than one kilogram of charge, it is impossible to cause substantial damage to a combat vehicle weighing more than ten tons.

After losing only ten tanks, Denikin's Panzer Division had completely cleared all German anti-aircraft guns. Immediately afterwards, the steel beasts rushed into the German trenches under the cover of the infantry behind them, and at the same time, the German infantry with zha medicine bags, cluster grenades, and even Molotov cocktails began to charge up heroically. But immediately after that, it was cleared by the accompanying infantry and machine guns on combat vehicles.

In fact, by now, the trench had been breached, and the German soldiers guarding it were passing by one by one as the Russian tanks passed by. While fighting with the Russian infantry that followed, they retreated to the second line of defense, while the German heavy artillery also began to fire, trying to block the Russian army with artillery fire and then launch a counterattack to recapture the trenches.

Originally, this was indeed a normal tactic, and it was not surprising that the two sides occasionally broke through with each other, and the rest was nothing more than a tug-of-war, which was also just a chariot to support the infantry, and in this case it would stop and continue to mix among the infantry, but the German commander who was organizing his subordinates to retreat to the second line of defense today found that the Russian chariots did not stop, and even these chariots did not care about the infantry that was entanglement with the Germans, but drove at full speed with a small number of infantry riding chariots, and rushed towards the second line of defense of the German army at high speed.

Compared to their speed, the German infantry moved like turtles, and before the second line of defense could be organized, the Panzer Division led by Denikin had already rushed over, and then just like when the first line of trenches were breached, the huge steel army did not pause in the slightest, and the front turned to the rear of another nearby German army.

At this time, after the artillery fire was prepared, nearly 8 million Russian troops on the entire Eastern Front from Latvia to Odessa on the Black Sea had launched an attack on the German army opposite them at the same time, and Denikin's Panzer Group charge was only an experimental node in this large-scale battle, at this time more than 10 million troops on both sides of the entire front were fighting to the death, which of course also included the German army near the breakthrough.

This is the tactic developed by Denikin, concentrating all the armored forces to break through at one point, and then using the speed advantage to go around the rear of the German army and attack the infantry in front of the frontal attack, like gnawing on sugar cane, encroaching on the German defense line as much as possible, when the breakthrough is large enough and the influx of Russian troops is enough, the entire front will be completely broken, and the vast plains of Ukraine provide the best stage for his tactics.

Nearly three hundred tanks of an entire panzer division with a regiment of infantry plunged directly into the rear of the German lines like an oversized shit-stirring stick, and then began to wreak havoc in a frenzy.

His trick directly stunned the German commander in the Ukrainian battlefield, Field Marshal Hazel, this veteran from the Prussian era was already a little unable to keep up with the pace of the times, not to mention that Denikin was still playing so fashionably, and he felt helpless for a while, fortunately, at this time, the German army was also a real talent, and soon those staff officers came up with ideas for him, didn't Denikin play the chariot group? Then quickly mobilize all the combat vehicles that can be mobilized nearby to block him, and at the same time transfer the airship troops that were originally preparing to bomb the Russian army to also pass, the ground combat vehicles to block the attack, the airships in the sky to bombard, and at the same time to dispatch some infantry to carry combat defense guns to urgently deploy on his attack route.

But it's a pity that they still underestimated the speed of the chariot raid, less than an hour after breaking through the German defensive line, Denikin launched an attack from the rear against the German Eighth Army, which was almost sweeping the entire Eastern Europe from the beginning of the war to the present, for the first time tasted the taste of defeat, hastily organized more than 40 chariots to meet the battle, instantly drowned in the huge Russian chariot group, and the German army was completely chaotic in the case of the enemy.

On the long defense line of dozens of kilometers, these steel beasts that emerged from behind were like a huge battle axe, splitting one gap after another in the German defense line, and then the Russian infantry who was charging on the opposite side would easily break through this gap, cutting the originally dense defense line into small sections, and after cutting off a section, Denikin did not hesitate to turn again and rush to the next target, and the entire German defense line collapsed one by one.

On the battlefield in Ukraine, the Allies are not without tanks, on the contrary, they still have many tanks, and the three countries of Deoro have deployed more than two thousand tanks of various types on at least this vast plain, and the number of armored vehicles is even more if you count them, but just because they are distributed on a front of hundreds of kilometers, they have to watch Denikin and his more than two hundred tanks destroy their defense lines there with impunity.

Nothing can stop these steel beasts, on their attack surface, no German army can gather enough anti-tank forces, those divisional and brigade-level combat units have at most a dozen or so battle defense guns in their hands, and only in the hands of the group army level are directly subordinate tank units, and then these tanks are evenly distributed among the armies to cover the infantry battle, and the Eighth Army was initially able to assemble forty tanks only because the division that Denikin was about to attack was supported by a tank battalion of the army headquarters and was ready to launch a counterattack.

Such an arrangement is like a mantis arm as a vehicle in the face of a group charge of hundreds of chariots, although they have also destroyed a lot of Russian chariots, but the impact of these chariots on the battle situation is almost negligible.

"Quick, quicker, go stab the Germans in the ass!" Standing on the turret of his command vehicle, Major General Denikin triumphantly shouted that in just two hours he had broken the lines of three entire German divisions and tore a ten-kilometer-long breach. Now millions of Russian troops are pouring in from this miracle created by him like a flood that bursts the embankment, and the defeat of the entire Allies in Ukraine is almost a foregone conclusion, although he has also lost more than fifty tanks, but compared to the unprecedented victory, this is really insignificant.

He was there to be proud, when he suddenly heard a soldier exclaiming, "Airship, German airship!" (To be continued......)