Chapter Ninety-Nine: Ansk
After the familiar teleportation ended, Chen Mo finally understood the map that he was going to fight today.
About eighty percent of the map is covered by buildings and railways that form a labyrinth of towns, with only lines 9 and 0 on the far right of the map being a slightly undulating open field.
In the middle of the battlefield is a three-month railway station, full of trains, and a long train makes the train station form an unobstructed strip of passages. On the west side of the train station, which occupies half of the entire battlefield, is a town composed of square blocks, among which the small roads and avenues are crisscrossed, making the entire town area like a natural labyrinth.
At the north and south ends of the battlefield, there is a small flat open space in the birthplace of both tanks, which is considered one of the flattest areas in the entire map.
Ansk!
That's right, it's the map of Ansk, which is known as the 'meat grinder of tanks'.
This small city of Ansk in space, in the real world, is the capital of the Soviet Union's Bryansk region in the historical Vyazma-Briansk (other transliteration: Bryansk) battle, and the Vyazma-Briansk battle is the great battle of Moscow.
Historically, in order to invade the Soviet Union during World War II, Germany was drafted and guided by Paulus, then the 1st Quartermaster of the General Staff of the German Army, and formulated the "Otto" plan in August 1940, which was later changed to the "Barbarossa" plan in December 1940.
On June 22, 1941, the "Barbarossa" plan was implemented. The German army at that time, with its superior armored forces, with the fire support of aviation and artillery, suddenly launched an attack on the Brest fortress, and the Soviet army was forced to rush into battle, and the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, which took 1418 days, began.
The Germans quickly penetrated deep into Soviet territory with blitzkrieg tactics, and armored forces advanced in a pincer fashion, first isolating and then completely destroying the Soviet Red Army. The German Army Group North advanced rapidly towards Leningrad, Army Group South conquered Ukraine and the Caucasus Highlands, and Army Group Center advanced towards Moscow.
In the face of the superior armor strength of the German army, the Soviet Red Army's defensive line soon collapsed, and the dead and wounded were piled down. In early August 1941, the Germans captured Smolensk, an important stronghold on the road to Moscow, but the battle for Smolensk hampered the German offensive until mid-September, effectively dismantling the blitzkrieg tactics.
The stubborn resistance of the Soviet army in Smolensk caused the German army's "Barbarossa" plan to fail, so the German army formulated a plan in September 1941 to capture Moscow within ten days of the "typhoon" plan, and at the end of September, the German army gathered a large number of troops to prepare to implement the "typhoon" plan.
On 30 September, General Guderian, then commander of the German Second Group, was the first to act and began the prelude to the Battle of Vyazma-Briansk, from Novgorod-Shifelsky, to surprise the ill-prepared Soviet troops.
By 1 October, Guderian's Panzer Corps had penetrated eighty-five miles. On 2 October, the main German forces of the "Typhoon" plan launched an attack from both the north and south sides of Smolensk, and the powerful German panzer group had a huge impact, and by dusk on 3 October, the slower infantry had penetrated to a depth of twenty-five miles, while the panzers advanced another thirty miles, and on this day, Guderian captured Orel.
On 4 October, the German Hoth Corps began to rotate and approach the north of Vyazma; The Hoppler Corps advanced to the northeast of Roslaval before advancing from the south. At the same time, Guderian commanded part of his forces to move north, attacking Briansk, and the other to Mitsensk, which was immediately captured. On 7 October, Vyazma was already surrounded by Hoth and Hopler; The next day, Guderian and Weix also besieged Briansk.
The battlefield in the space called 'Ansk' was part of the battlefield where Guderian and Weix commanded the German Panzer Group and the Soviet Red Army.
The battlefield map is a small town map, and the town is basically the same size as Chen Mo in the qualifying tournament in Simmelsdorf in terms of area.
This kind of town map is the most test of the command skills of a tank commander. Because the town map is very small, it is possible to gouge through the entire battlefield in a very short period of time, so it is important to fight in the town map and take advantage of the terrain to lay out the defensive line.
Because the map is small, and most of the buildings inside can be used as tank bunkers, it is doomed that many tactics with large depth and large intersperses cannot be implemented, and similarly, self-propelled guns with fire deterrence are difficult to do in this kind of town map full of buildings.
And this map has a very obvious difference from other town maps, that is, other town maps, more or less have a few that can be used as tank sniper points, but in this map, such locations are very few, so fighting on this map, what to shoot a gun, what squatting and other tactics are not very useful, because although some locations can be reluctantly called sniper points, but they are very easy to be lit up, and once they are lit, The so-called sniper point also doesn't have any cover to cover, so fighting on this map relies more on the tank's own ability to resist hits.
In other words, the frontal battlefield of this map is in the town on the left side of the map!
Of course, the open space on the east side of the railway can also be used as a flank battlefield, and after the fast tank crosses the railway, it goes to the flank battlefield on the east side of the railway to fight, and effectively supports or involves the frontal battlefield.
The thirty-second countdown to the battle began, and Chen Mo immediately asked on the radio, "Has anyone ever played this diagram?" ”
The reason why Chen Mo asked this is because this map is a small map, and the frontal confrontation will be very intense, at this time, it is necessary to have a strong commander to effectively command, order your own tanks to cross the position, and rely on buildings to form cross-fire in the front and back, left and right, in order to occupy the advantage of the frontal confrontation in the town!
Why is this picture called a 'tank meat grinder'? It's not just because the towns in this map are alive and well as a tank graveyard! The criss-crossing roads between cities and towns will give every tank in the town a chance to face more than three enemy tanks, so once your tanks do not cooperate well and cannot form an effective crossfire, and cannot form an effective running position involving the enemy's gun line, then the town will immediately become a huge grinding disc, and the tanks entering the town will be polished alive, and the time must not be too fast!
As soon as Chen Mo's question came out, a lot of "I haven't seen this picture" answers suddenly sounded on the radio.
Chen Mo didn't grind, and said loudly: "Please pay attention, please pay attention, I have played this picture, and I am very familiar with this picture!" This map is a small town map, there are no key tank sniper points, artillery is difficult to support, and the role of reconnaissance vehicles in this map is not very large! Therefore, this graph is a hard-hitting diagram! Therefore, we must make our tanks have a good cooperation, and to have a good cooperation, we need to listen to orders! ”
"So, I hope to be able to get the support of my brothers and hand over the command of this battle to me! I'm going to lead you to victory in this battle! ”
Chen Mo's tone was very affirmative, because he had the confidence to do this. This is a second-level room, not a top-level room, maybe in the top-level room, relying on the advantages of the tank itself can play some beautiful tactical cooperation, but in this kind of second-level room, relying on life for life!
"I agree!"
"I agree!"
Tian Peng and Big Dog and their brothers said their choice at the first time, and at the same time, they also gave some hesitant teammates a psychological hint!
But even so, the response sound on the radio was sparse, which made Chen Mo feel a little lost. But now that the words have been spoken, Chen Mo still wants to try again.
Seeing his own extremely fast T2 light at a glance, Chen Mo smiled bitterly, if that guy hadn't accidentally obtained a system reward, then Jiucheng was a pretending 'slaughtering party'! But fortunately, this guy is on his side, otherwise in such a small map, a high-speed reconnaissance vehicle like this would definitely be able to turn the entire battlefield into a pulp!
Regardless of whether it is the old fritter pretending to be a young slaughterer, Chen Mo decided to try it to see if he can command the moving people!
"Our T2 is light, you are the fastest, I hope you can immediately cross the railway to the east at the beginning of the game, and then follow the east side of the row of buildings on the 8th line of the East Road, quickly rush to the D8 position, there is a building, there is a wall outside, you need to get stuck on the south side of that building, that position needs you to light the lights, you don't have to worry about the back, someone will support you! If you are attacked by an enemy, you can use the wall and debris on your west side as cover to retreat, depending on the situation. ”
"Yin Dan (Chen Tao), you also cross the railway, go to the south corner of the building in the H8 position, and support the T2 that lights up in front, in addition, the first-level T1 Cunningham and the early test car, if you two believe me, then my suggestion is that you two had better follow the flank battlefield on the east side of the railroad to fight, the town is really not suitable for you. Also, you have to pay attention to the railroad in the middle to prevent any enemies from coming directly to us through the railway platform. ”
"Also, the second-level Type I assault gun, I hope to be able to lie down in our base and see if there is a gap between the two houses in the northwest corner of the base? You'd better telescopic from that position, mainly to watch the 5 lines on the west side of the middle railway, this line is the middle line, and there is no obstruction, you can easily find the enemy on the opposite side, of course, the enemy can also easily find you, so you need to play telescopic from this position. At the same time, you two have to take care of the railroad between you to prevent enemies from sneaking up on it! ”