There's a reason why Bremani was able to survive hundreds of battles, if he was just a tanker at the beginning, then after so many battles, he can already think about things from the perspective of a commander! Attack and defense are not absolute, this is the most important point he has learned, and it is the best strategy to make the troops into a tin can waiting for the other side to gnaw! Because as long as the other party is willing to pay enough price, then it will definitely succeed! The winner of a defensive battle is not that the defense itself is strong, but that the opponent cannot attack with peace of mind!

With this in mind, Bremani handed over his Tiger tank and a small company of armored vehicles to his deputy, who would swim around the perimeter to fight, while the remaining tank destroyers formed a wedge-shaped defensive line based on the terrain, with the Tiger tank destroyers at the top of the line, flanked by anti-aircraft guns and other tank destroyers, accompanied by anti-tank men and mines. At this time, Bremanny's troops were stuck in a choke point, and the Americans had no choice but to penetrate head-on!

"What's that?" Soon the Americans also discovered the German armored forces opposite, under the cover of the terrain, a huge figure moved in the smoke, if a commander of the Chinese armored forces who participated in the Middle East battle was here, then he might also recognize the identity of the other party - Germany's most powerful Tiger Hunter armored destroyer, but this powerful weapon only appeared in the fight with Huaxia, which left a deep impression on the Huaxia armored forces! It's so strong that even the Dragon tank is quite feared! And when this weapon first appeared on the Eastern Front, before the battle, it made a great impression on the Americans!

"These horrible creatures look like dinosaurs! Even if it stops at a distance. It can also give people a rather threatening feeling! Looking at those steel behemoths in the distance, the American armored soldiers were also sweating! After all, the psychological shadow of the past is not so easy to erase!

"Let the Pershing tank take the lead. Sherman tanks outflanked from both flanks, expanding the attack surface! "Accompanied by the order. The marching American armored forces gradually unfolded, pulling into a wide attack surface, and Pershing tanks with big heads charged ahead, and the thick 90MML50 guns pointed at the target in the distance! Before leaving, the Pershing tank was promised to be enough to face all the German tanks, and when these huge beasts appeared, the Americans were a little worried!

1500 meters! A series of loud noises suddenly sounded on the German position, and dazzling fireballs erupted from the muzzle of the Tiger Hunter's 105MML63 heavy gun! NEW-TYPE ARTILLERY WAS REPLACED, AND THE MUZZLE VELOCITY OF 105MM ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS WITH A LARGE CHARGE WAS CLOSE TO 1000 METERS PER SECOND! At this time. These guys on the Eastern Front are more deadly and more terrifying than they were in the Middle East!

WITH THE WHISTLING SOUND OF SHELLS, ONE SHELL AFTER ANOTHER FELL ON THE CHARGING AMERICAN FORMATIONS AND EXPLODED COLUMNS OF SMOKE, THE AMERICANS DID NOT HESITATE AND CONTINUED TO ACCELERATE UNDER THE COVER OF SMOKE BOMBS, AND AT THE SAME TIME COUNTERATTACKED WITH 90MM GUNS, AND THE FIRST UNLUCKY GUY WAS HIT AT A DISTANCE OF 1200 METERS! THE HEAVY 105MM ARMOR-PIERCING BULLET EASILY TORE THROUGH THE 4-INCH INCLINED ARMOR ON THE FRONT OF THE PERSHING TANK! A huge hole was smashed directly in the front of the tank, and the fragments of the explosion ignited the shells around the gun ring with a loud bang. The huge turret was blown off the turret!

At a distance of 1,200 meters, the Germans easily destroyed the elite armor that the Americans were proud of! The precise and dense rain of bullets made a gap in the Americans' assault formation. Stimulated by fear and adrenaline, the Americans rushed to the target like crazy and fired fiercely at a distance of 800 meters! Shells rained down on the heavily armored front of the Tiger Hunter tank destroyer. The fire from the explosion of the shells obscured the entire vehicle, and craters appeared in the inclined armor, but the Tiger hunters withstood the blow. And fight back with ferocious firepower. Beat Pershing tanks into burning iron coffins!

"Go around to the side!" A small number of Pershing and Sherman tanks continued to maintain pressure on the front, while many more tried to outflank from the flanks. And what awaits them on the side are anti-tank mines and anti-aircraft guns! However, these outdated 75MML48 anti-tank guns could not pose a threat to the frontal armor of the Pershing tank, except for dealing with the Sherman tank. The Pershing tank finally experienced the feeling of being "invincible"! The Americans began to stretch their wings, intending to completely destroy the enemy in front of them!

The sound of heavy artillery fire from the bushes on both flanks of the main position shattered the dreams of the Americans, and the slender 88MML71 shells tore apart the weak side armor of the Pershing tank like sharp arrows! In just a few minutes of rapid fire, nearly a hundred shells were fired. A few hundred meters away, the charging US armored unit was temporarily beaten on his back!

As the smoke cleared, the Americans noticed the low hulls that suddenly appeared on the sides, which were very similar in appearance to the Type 29 tank destroyers, but larger and longer. Although the new vehicles are smaller than the Tiger Hunters, they are also formidable hunters thanks to their good mobility and larger guns! The American troops, who had been hit from many sides, seemed to be wilted, but soon, relying on good radio communications and huge numerical superiority, the Americans once again readjusted their offensive, and the engagement of armored units on both sides soon entered a close fight, and the two sides fought at a distance of about 700 meters or even 200 to 300 meters! And the Leopard tank destroyer has no turret and fragile side armor, and the disadvantage is magnified by the opponent's strong numerical superiority!

"These guys are just harder on the front, and the sides are as brittle as paper." A U.S. TANKER HAS JUST DESTROYED AN ATTEMPTING CHEETAH TANK WITH A 76MM HIGH-SPEED ARMOR-PIERCING PROJECTILE. The number of tanks of the Americans exceeded the estimates of the Germans, and behind the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army, there were still a large number of armored troops coming in a steady stream, and the ratio of armored forces on both sides of the front line was as high as 1 to 4! A German tank or tank destroyer has to deal with 4 American armored targets! It would have been better if all of them were large beasts like tigers or leopards, but the Germans also had a lot of tanks mixed in with their armored forces!

The Americans' courage in this engagement was admired by their opponents, and German heavy tank destroyers destroyed wave after wave of American tanks. But there are always countless chariots rushing out from behind the ruins! They did not hesitate to re-target their targets, firing deadly shells at their opponents at a distance of 500 meters or even 200 meters! The entire battlefield is like a huge meat grinder, constantly devouring the forces of both sides. The Americans' line of station gradually advanced, except when the Tiger Hunter tank destroyer unit located in front of the wedge formation could barely support it with better overall defense and protection from other units. The leopards on both wings are starting to lose their breath!

"With a little more effort, we can completely eat the two wings of the Germans, and then encircle the German troops in the center!" At this last moment, the Americans decisively threw five more companies of tanks and tank destroyers into battle. And it was at this time that Bremani's Tiger tank also entered from the side! Packed with hordes of Shermans and M10 tank destroyers!

When the huge Tiger tanks appeared in front of a group of round-headed and round-headed Shermans, the veterans who had participated in the French battle and were beaten by the Tiger called Dad fell into fear again, not because they were timid, but because it was difficult for their tanks to cause damage to the Tiger, more than 2 years have passed. Sherman is still the original Sherman, the promotion is limited, and the one-to-ten exchange ratio on the French battlefield makes the Americans desperate! But fortunately, a small number of Pershing tanks bravely stood on the front line, and they blocked the first wave of ferocious onslaught from the Germans!

What is the result of more than 40 tons of Dongdong and nearly 60 tons of Dongdong to steel? As long as the gap in the design concept is not too big, you can think of it with your knees! THE GERMAN'S 88MM GUNS AND THE AMERICANS' 90MM TANK GUNS ROARED ANGRILY, VENTING A DEADLY RAIN OF BULLETS AT THE ENEMY! IN FACT, TO BE HONEST, THE AMERICANS' 90MML50 GUNS ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE TIGER'S 88MM GUNS WHEN EQUIPPED WITH HIGH-QUALITY ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS, BUT THE ARMOR PROTECTION OF THE TIGER TANK IS MUCH STRONGER THAN THAT OF THE PERSHING, AND THE ARMOR THICKNESS IS ABOUT THE SAME. But in terms of inclination angle, the Tiger style head is more than ten degrees larger than the opponent! Don't look at the difference of more than ten degrees, it is the distance between life and death!

Ten Pershing tanks were destroyed in this fierce fire, while two Tiger tanks and three No. 4 tanks were also wrecked. But Pershing's sacrifice was not worthless. At least give the other U.S. tanks time to evacuate! That's right, it was the evacuation, and the Americans suddenly found that they couldn't figure out each other's routines. The Americans' estimate of the strength of the German Army has seriously deviated, even more so than the estimate of Germany! Part of the reason for the reinforcement of the Luftwaffe can be attributed to the temporary reinforcement of the German army. And the mobilization of armored forces is much slower! This can only be said that the Germans were well prepared! The Americans need to adjust their deployment to deal with the sudden change!

"What we need now is to consolidate the line first, and if we continue to make a wild progress, we will only be hit on the head. The Germans have carved out a line of defense before our eyes. We must concentrate our forces to break through, and I suggest that we coordinate with the air force before launching a general offensive! The outcome of the battle was a lose-lose situation, and although the Americans' losses were far greater than their opponents', the Germans had few troops to defend themselves. The loss of this battle was also very painful for Manstein! But the Americans were first afraid, they decided to postpone the attack and wait for the support of the Air Force and follow-up units, which gave the Germans time to strengthen the front!

Both sides are in a race against time. It also took time for the Germans to strengthen the front, on the one hand, and to assemble a counterattack force on the flank. A large number of leopards, under the cover of the air force, rushed to the flank of the American army. They will break the backbone of the Americans with one blow! And the US army has also begun to deploy, the Dnieper River is in sight, and whether the German army in the southeast of Ukraine can be encircled depends on the outcome of this battle. And the U.S. Air Force is also making a final effort, and Li Mei did her best this time to throw all the planes that could be put into it!

Once again, the thunder and lightning of the Americans obscured the sky! When the battle line was pushed 200 to 300 kilometers to the east, the Luftwaffe, which could still fight with the US Air Force over the Dnieper, immediately felt quite struggling, and after increasing the combat radius of 200+ kilometers, this round trip was a range of about 500 kilometers! Such a distance directly excludes most of the Storm Birds from air combat! As for the FW190? The pressure became even greater, and as a result, the Luftwaffe's cover capability continued to decline, but fortunately, the Germans deployed a large number of BF109K fighters at the forward temporary airfield, barely supporting a not very tight air defense net! The thunder on the horizon is gathering, and the storm on the ground is brewing!

The collision in the air preceded the confrontation on the ground, and Richthofen Jr. soon realized that when the battlefield moved eastward, the first to be unable to hold out in the air war of attrition must be the Germans! The Americans have P47 and P38 in the air, and there are Skua fighters at medium and low altitudes, which have an advantage in performance, and the number of aircraft available and the time they can stay in the air are even more advantageous, and the P47D can accompany the bomber force to fly from London to Berlin! The Germans soon encountered the same problems as the United States and Britain began, and they had to do it as soon as possible, otherwise once the air force collapsed first, the logistics and various units on the ground would face an attack by the American and British air forces like scraping the ground!

Both sides were making a pot of raw rice, and the situation was not very good, but a big battle was inevitable, and the battle between Bremanny's troops and the American 1st Cavalry Division was only a prelude, and only a prelude to the German defense of the Dnieper, and at the same time that the Americans launched a storm-like attack, the German knives were also ready to pierce the weakened flanks of the Americans!

The depth of the Germans' defense along the Dnieper River is not large, and the quantity cannot be compared with the attacking American and British troops, but the gap in quality is really huge, and the Dnieper region is still within the cover range of the Luftwaffe, and the effect of air support is very average! After investing a lot of troops on both sides, the entire station line was riddled with holes, but the Germans still drove several nails into the front!

"It seems that the road to the Dnieper has been opened, but there is always the possibility that the Germans will close this door in several key places. The Germans' defenses were like dikes, and the tide of our armor could have overflowed the crests of the dams, but it could not finally destroy them! In this battle, we saw the legendary Tiger Hunter, the long-lost Tiger tank, and the new two tank destroyers of the Germans. According to the intelligence provided by Huaxia, in the future, the Leopard tank will replace No. 4 as the standard equipment in the German Army, and on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, this kind of combat vehicle did not appear in large numbers, which is very abnormal! At this time, Bradley, who was in charge of the front-line command, had already found a lot of problems.

The high proportion of heavy units in the German defense forces was somewhat scary! But the equivalent number of tanks and medium tanks was not found! So now the question arises, where is the main force of the tank forces of the Germans?

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