"Boom!" The roar of the tank engine was like a muffled thunder on the horizon. Hundreds of blackened tanks, forming a torrent of steel, rushed towards the German armored forces. At this moment, the German 10th Panzer Division and the 12th Panzer Division were fighting against the 1st Panzer Brigade of the Imperial Army. After being beaten up by the tank guns of the 1st Panzer Brigade and the battle defense artillery of the infantry, the two Panzer Divisions of the Germans had already suffered heavy losses. The air force fighters that arrived later made the two armored divisions pay a heavy price again.

Now, the remaining tanks of the two armored divisions, in the face of the counterattack of the 1st Armored Brigade of the Imperial Army, are actually a little overwhelmed. So much so that when the hundreds of tanks of the 1st Panzer Army arrived, they had no way to send troops to intercept them. Although, the German 11th Panzer Division also arrived. However, in the face of hundreds of tanks of the 1st Panzer Army of the Imperial Army, the German 11th Panzer Division is obviously not enough to see!

The 1st Panzer Corps of the Imperial Army divided two brigades to outflank the German rear, preparing to encircle and annihilate them in one fell swoop. Another armored brigade launched a frontal attack on the German 11th Panzer Division. A battalion of 'Leopard' medium tanks rushed to the front, and more than seventy 'Leopard' medium tanks began to slaughter the German No. 2 tank from a long distance. The No. 1 tank of the German army is just garbage, and the only tank that can pose a certain threat to the tanks of the Imperial Army is these No. 2 tanks.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Several Leopard tanks stopped firing and flew at high speed towards the German No. 2 tank as the shells of the tank guns flew at high speed. Almost in the blink of an eye, the German tanks were on fire.

After getting rid of the German tanks, these 'Leopard' tanks moved on. Albeit. The German tank counterattack was also sharp. But at long range, their tank guns were no threat to the thick front armor of the Leopard medium tank. As for the German army's huge number of No. 1 tanks. In the face of the tanks of the Imperial Army, they were even more helpless. They are armed with heavy machine guns. For thick tank armor, it's just an itch. At best, it can only leave a small white mark on the tank's armor.

In the face of the fierce attack of the 1st Panzer Corps of the Imperial Army, the German armored forces could not resist at all. The German 11th Panzer Division collapsed after only half an hour of resistance. Half of their more than three hundred tanks have been destroyed. The remaining tanks also retreated in disarray. However, the No. 1 and No. 2 tanks of the German army were not only inferior to the tanks of the Reichsburgh Army in terms of firepower and defense, but also could not compare with the tanks of the Reichs. So much so that it was pursued by the Imperial Army. The German tanks were constantly being caught up and then destroyed. The tank units of the Imperial Army completely regarded this battle as an easy battle to hunt for heads. The armored forces of the German army posed no threat to the armored forces of the Imperial Army.

"Commander, the German panzers have been defeated by us, and now they are retreating towards Stupino in disarray. In the city of Stupino there was also an infantry corps of the Germans and an infantry corps of the Russian army. A staff officer reported to Admiral Zhang Wei.

"Order all the troops to march to Stupino and encircle and annihilate this Russian army!" Admiral Zhang Wei gave the order. An infantry corps of the German army and an infantry corps of the Russian army. That's only 100,000 people combined. Even with the addition of three German armored divisions, it is not more than tens of thousands of people. With the strength of the 1st Army of the Imperial Army, it is not a problem at all to eat more than 100,000 German troops in one bite.

"Yes. Commander. The staff officer immediately went to give the order. 1st Infantry Corps, 3rd Infantry Corps, 20th Infantry Corps and 26th Infantry Corps of the Imperial Army. As well as a large number of troops directly under the army group, all of them went to Stupino.

On the battlefield at the moment. Three German panzer divisions had already been defeated. Especially the 12th Panzer Division, which was the first to be put into battle, has already lost all its tanks. The remaining tanks of the 10th Panzer Division. There are only a few dozen of them. As for the 11th Panzer Division, because it retreated relatively quickly when it saw the opportunity, there were still more than 100 tanks left. The total number of German tanks was only more than two hundred.

You must know that the three armored divisions of the original German army combined, there were thousands of tanks. In this battle, they have lost nearly 800 tanks. Moreover, the remaining two hundred tanks were clearly facing the siege of the armored forces of the Imperial Army, and it was clear that there was nowhere to escape.

"Retreat, retreat to Stupino." The German commander of the panzer forces gave the order, and the German tanks retreated to Stupino in disarray.

However, it was at this time that fighters of the Chinese Air Force appeared in the sky again. A group of forty 'Haidongqing' 2 fighters and a group of forty 'Falcon' dive bombers launched an attack on the retreating German armored forces. When the planes finished dropping their bombs and returned home satisfied, only a fleet of burning tank wreckage was left on the ground. The air smells choking, the smell of burning gasoline, and the smell of your body being roasted.

The tanks of the German armored forces, which were finally withdrawn to Stupino, were less than a hundred. The rest of the tanks have been destroyed in the battle. The defenders of Stupino are also facing the enemy. Originally, their mission was to assist the armored forces in the elimination of the 1st Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army. However, because the German armored forces failed too quickly. So much so that before they could react, the battle was over. They wanted to evacuate Stupino, and it was no longer possible. Hundreds of Chinese Army tanks outside the city are eyeing them, and if they leave the city, they will be targeted, and then they may be crushed to pieces by the tanks.

It's just that even if these German-Russian troops hide in the city of Stupino, they will not have the slightest effect. This small city, which covers an area of less than five square kilometers, is undoubtedly too crowded after the influx of more than 100,000 troops. A large-scale artillery bombardment and bombardment of the city by the Chinese* army would have been enough to inflict a heavy price on the German-Russian forces in the small city.

In the afternoon of the same day, hundreds of artillery pieces of the 1st Army of the Imperial Army began firing on Stupino. The dense artillery fire destroyed the buildings in the city, and the soldiers of the German-Russian army hiding inside were either killed or buried alive in the rubble.

The artillery of the Chinese army, as if the shells did not need money, kept pouring shells into the city. That's not all, the planes of the Chinese Air Force also came to join in the fun. Hundreds of fighters and bombers flew over the town and then bombed the German-Russian forces hiding inside with aerial bombs. The 25 kg bombs carried by the battle were enough to destroy those buildings, not to mention the 50 kg aerial bombs that the bombers specifically wrote about. Each bomber was capable of carrying more than a dozen such aerial bombs. Dozens of planes can drop hundreds of bombs into the city at once.

Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Imperial Army and Air Force, the German-Russian forces hiding in the city of Stupino suffered heavy losses. The proposed fortifications they had built were destroyed by shelling and bombardment, and the casualties were even heavier.

Although, Russians have the habit of digging cellars at home. Almost every household had cellars, which became a good hiding place for the German-Russian army. However, after the house above the cellar was blown up, the people hiding in the cellar could no longer come out and were buried alive inside. The German-Russian soldiers who were killed in this way were at least tens of thousands in this battle.

After intensive fire strikes, the 1st Army of the Imperial Army began an attack on Stupino. The remaining 100 tanks of the 1st Armored Brigade covered the infantry to launch an attack on the city of Stupino. Under the fire of the Imperial Army and Air Force, the defenders of the city had suffered heavy losses. So much so that when the 1st Army of the Imperial Army launched an offensive, it basically did not encounter much resistance.

Although the tank faces many threats in urban street fighting, the tank's thick armor can undoubtedly withstand enemy bullets for the infantry following behind. At the same time, tank guns are also capable of destroying those points of fire of the enemy for the infantry, etc. In the absence of effective anti-tank weapons in the German-Russian army, the tanks of the Imperial Army provided great help to the infantry offensive.

Under the fierce attack of the 1st Army of the Imperial Army, the German-Russian forces in Stupino were simply unable to resist. So much so that a large number of coalition soldiers surrendered to the Imperial Army. Among them, there are especially many Russian soldiers. The combat effectiveness of the Russian army was already relatively weak, and after being hit hard by the Imperial Army, they suffered heavy casualties. The rest of the people were also frightened. In addition, at this moment, the elite units of the Russian army have been killed and wounded in the Battle of Volgograd and the Battle of the Volga, and the remaining troops are almost all composed of new soldiers, and the will to fight is even weaker. In a critical situation, it is understandable to surrender to the Chinese Army.

In contrast, the German army had a much stronger will to fight. However, in the face of the attack of the superior forces of the Imperial Army, even if they resisted resolutely, they could not stop the advance of the Imperial Army.

By the time the sun went down, Stupino had already fallen into the hands of the Imperial Army's 1st Army. The German-Russian forces defending it either surrendered and were captured, or were killed in the battle or buried alive in the rubble. The three armored divisions of the German army were all annihilated. As a result, the German armored forces on the Eastern Front were completely lost. (To be continued......)

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