When the No. 4 tank drove up to the wreckage of the Type 1 tank, there was a clanging sound around the turret and near the bridge.

Zu Kuan, who was watching the battle behind him, could clearly see that sparks were rising on the turret of the tank.

Something must have hit the turret, but it didn't penetrate the turret and was ejected.

The commander inside the tank, when he heard the "bang", the whole tank trembled.

Immediately afterwards, a shell exploded at a distance of less than ten meters from the tank.

It turned out that an infantry artillery shell smashed on the tank, and it was bounced off by the tank like a pot lid.

Zu Kuan put his mind at ease, it seems that the power of the No. 4 tank is still good.

At least, much stronger than those thin-skinned Bunny One tanks.

Tank No. 4 kept firing, and the French troops hiding in foxholes reappeared.

But this time, they couldn't get it again.

Because behind the tank, followed by a large number of armored infantry.

As soon as the French anti-tank fighters escaped the foxhole, they were locked by the rifles behind them.

Soon, a swarm of bullets will greet them.

"Bazooka, bazooka!" The French battalion commander saw that the tanks were getting closer and closer, and hurriedly howled and beckoned his men to move the bazookas out.

So far, all anti-tank weapons, against such tanks with a turret like a shell, are useless.

The only thing that can be used now, and who has not been used, is the bazooka.

The French bazooka men were very heroic, they set up an ambush, and only fired the rockets in their hands more than fifty meters away from the tank.

"When! ......" was close enough that they could clearly hear the sound of rockets crashing against the turret of the tank.

The rocket exploded less than a meter from the tank turret, and numerous shrapnel slashed through the tank turret, scratching the paint on the tank.

That's all! ~

"Hit again, launch closer."

The Major roared.

In the army, the commander's order is the order.

If you don't do it, it's definitely worse than death.

The helpless shooters could only get closer to the tank.

The second launch was thirty meters away, and the rocket "banged" and was again hit by the turret tank.

When the third group tried to get within twenty meters, they were hit by a grenadier shell.

The tanks ran over the French positions, and the Ming infantry behind them fired at everything that could move.

Before the war, they had already received orders to fight this time, leaving no one alive.

While cleaning up the battlefield, Zu Kuan got a gun with a long tube and the major's head.

The head Zukuan was not very interested, and was kicked into the mud puddle by him.

However, this kind of gun with a long barrel aroused Zu Kuan's interest.

I took a ruler and measured it, and the caliber of this thing was sixteen millimeters.

Strictly speaking, it is still in the category of guns.

It's just that such a large-caliber gun, such a long barrel, ...... recoil!

"Divisional commander, the prisoners have been interrogated.

This is the latest anti-tank gun made by the French!

Our No. 1 tank, after being penetrated by this thing, killed the driver or broke the engine. ”

"This thing?" Zu Kuan looked at this thing in amazement, such a large caliber, it could penetrate the No. 1 tank.

"The recoil of this shot is so great that the shooters can only fire two shots a day, one in the left shoulder and one in the right shoulder.

And then, just lay down over there. ”

Following the direction of his hand, Zu Kuan glanced at it, and there were a large pile of corpses lying on the ground.

I guess this is the prisoner I just said!

No wonder the recoil of a firearm of this caliber is not covered.

If you hit this thing twice, your whole body will fall apart.

Zu Kuan felt that it was already a miracle to be able to fire a second shot.

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Kyiv! General Headquarters of the Southern Front of the Coalition Forces!

"What? The First Army was besieged by the Ming Army? Napoleon was taken aback when he got the news.

He didn't expect that there was actually a Ming army unit, which unknowingly touched the rear of his battle line.

Moreover, this army dared to launch an attack on the First Army, which had 230,000 people, which was enough to prove the strength of this Ming army.

Although the French said that they had won the attack on the Don River, Napoleon knew in his heart that the victorious side was actually the Ming Dynasty.

"Yes, when the First Army came from early in the morning, it was attacked by the Ming army.

There were a lot of tanks in this Ming army, and some tanks were destroyed on the front line of our army. But it still failed to stop the attack of the Ming army, and now General Ney is organizing forces to counterattack, hoping to defeat this part of the Ming army. ”

The intelligence staff officer cautiously reported to His Majesty the Emperor.

Recently, His Majesty the Emperor has not been in a good mood, so don't touch the mold.

Napoleon walked briskly to the map and looked at the map of the neighborhood of Belgorod.

After thinking for a moment, Napoleon gritted his teeth.

"Order the First Army to defend on the spot!

The Fourth Army and the Fifth Army went north to encircle this Ming army.

The Second Army advanced to the Kharkov and Belgorod borders as a strategic reserve.

Damn it!

Dare to be so arrogant, no matter what, you want to eat this part of the Ming army. ”

Napoleon was freed, and the First Army was the best equipped French unit.

In order to kill this Ming army, Napoleon was willing to use the most elite main force of the French army as bait.

In this battle, except for the French Third Army, which was devastated on the Don River front, the rest of the main forces were all dispatched.

Napoleon, this is going to be desperate!

And at the same time in Moscow!

Li Xiao opened the window of Xingyuan, and a cold wind with moisture came to his face. Although it was colder and more comfortable than in winter, Li Xiao still shivered.

It rained for four days in Ukraine, which was acceptable to a certain extent.

From Moscow, it rains not rain, but sleet.

The most annoying thing is this kind of weather, where snowflakes fall when it rains.

The snowflakes melt when they hit the ground, and freeze into ice in the middle of the night. Melt again at dawn!

The ground paved with stone is also convex and concave. Not to mention the main dirt land of Russia!

It's no longer called a road, it's just a pond of mud.

I really don't know, how are the Russians living these days, why don't they know how to build a road!

But the bad weather also had the advantage that the Prussian offensive stopped.

The Russian army no longer has to retreat one kilometer, two kilometers a day.

On the battlefield, the two sides tacitly stayed in the trenches. Enjoy the warmth of the fire!

Truth be told, no one wants to fight in icy muddy water.

This kind of weather is only suitable for sleeping.

"News came from the 1st Cavalry Division that the attack was not going well.

The enemy army has a lot of anti-tank weapons, there is an anti-tank gun. For tanks from Type 1 to Type 3, they are all lethal.

Samples should be delivered to Moscow in the evening!

On the first day of the offensive, we lost forty-eight tanks.

Fifteen of them can be repaired, the rest have been completely destroyed.

Man Ye ordered, and the destroyed tanks were blown up again by explosives.

Moreover, the engines inside were all removed and ...... by airships! ”

"It doesn't make sense!" Li Xiao shook his head helplessly.

Technical secrecy is important, but as long as the remains are found by the enemy, they will also get a lot of information.

At least, structurally it is known where the tank has the thinnest armor.

Moreover, even if the engine is removed, it will be a matter of time before the Europeans work out the engine.

After all, this thing only needs to be piled up with manpower and material resources, and it is only a matter of time.

Anti-tank guns are very low-tech.

At a distance of about two hundred meters, armor-piercing against tanks is also very strong.

It's just ......, a bit of a waste shooter.

But Napoleon should not have cared about this, he had more than two million men under his command.

Even if you take out one percent to fight with Da Ming, Da Ming will have to pay as pants.

Now, what the Ming army has to do is to win this war before the Europeans complete the technological catch-up.

But it is not easy to win the war, Napoleon is ready to fight hard.

Judging from yesterday's situation, Napoleon was preparing to fight with nearly 8.9 million troops in four armies this time, and he also wanted to take Manye's 1st Cavalry Division.

This is the rhythm of using people to pile up the man to death!

If Man Ye doesn't retreat now, maybe tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, he will have to change from a war of annihilation to a breakout battle.

Li Xiao walked back to the huge sand table and looked at the sand table made according to the Great Russian Plain.

There are no mountains in the Great Plain of Russia, but there are many rivers.

Belgorod is a place with the Sheim River to the north.

It is bordered by the Severodonetsk River to the south, the Oskol River to the east, and the Pshor River to the west.

To describe it as a river network, it is not too much.

At first, the Ming army took advantage of the night to smuggle across the Oskol River, but now the French Fourth Army is already thinking about moving the Oskol River.

It is difficult to say, going back now, whether it will be entangled by the Fourth Army of the French.

During the Battle of the Don River, the Ming army inflicted heavy losses on the French Third Army.

The Fourth Army, however, suffered no losses because of its holding position.

The French First Army blocked the north of the 1st Manchurian Division, and although it could force a breakthrough, the casualties were bound to be very large.

The French Fifth Army, advancing eastward from Sumy, formed a flanking attack on Manye.

Li Xiao's rapid judgment of the battlefield situation is indeed that his plan cannot catch up with the changes.

He didn't expect that Napoleon would be so crazy to mobilize 900,000 people to besiege Manye.

The only thing that can be relied on now is the communication ability and mobility of the Ming army.

The Ming army had radio cars, and already mechanized troops.

Moreover, the Ming army has another key advantage.

That is, the Ming army had air supremacy.

Because of aerial reconnaissance, the battlefield was one-way transparent to the Ming army.

And because of the blow of air power, it was also possible to delay the march of the French army.

Voronezh was the field airfield of the Ming army, one of the eight airfields urgently built by the Ming army last fall.

As a front-line airfield, there are smooth gravel asphalt runways.

At a distance of 200 kilometers, the aircraft can complete an attack every two hours if it attacks at full speed.

This includes time for reloading, refueling, and a simple mechanical check.

According to the calculation of ten hours of sunshine, it can attack five times.

"What will the weather be like in the next few days?" Li Xiao asked suddenly.

Weather prediction is still an unpopular subject, and basically no one studies it.

What everyone knows, that is, the experience passed down by word of mouth, for example: the morning glow does not go out, the evening glow travels thousands of miles and other old proverbs.

In meteorological research, historical data is very important.

In this regard, the historical data for Ukraine is almost zero.

The Ming army specially organized a team to visit local elderly people in various places and asked them to tell them about the climate of Ukraine according to their experience.

Now that some research has been obtained, it is possible to roughly extrapolate the weather conditions of each season.

"Spring in Ukraine is rainy, and between now and May, the probability of rain is very high.

However, I think that Ukraine has just had four days of heavy rain, and there should be a few days of sunny days. ”

"How many days?"

“……！” Li Lin had nothing to say at this time, how could he know that the sky would be sunny for a few days.

It's like Moscow, which just had sleet the other day.

It has only been sunny for two days, and if it starts to be gloomy again today, it seems that a heavy rainstorm will come at any time.

Or maybe it's just going to keep the sleet down!

"It can't be fought any longer, if it is delayed for two more days, it will rain again in Ukraine.

These rivers are going to skyrocket!

It will be more difficult for them to cross the river!

I thought it was simple, thinking that if the tank and infantry fought an encounter, it would be a smooth mess.

Now it seems that the combat effectiveness of the French army is increasing.

As the old saying goes, there is always a shield where there is a spear.

It's been so long since the tank was tinkered, and there should be something that fights tanks.

Anti-tank guns!

Hehe, I know that thing without looking at the sample.

Behind a thick iron pipe there is a firing pin with a spring!

Whether the bullet is fired one shot, one shot, one shot, or bolted.

The technical content is lower than that of his water beads.

Such a cheap and durable thing, which can equip the troops in large quantities, is the real nemesis of the tank.

I don't think it will be long.

There will be special anti-tank guns, the kind of artillery that can be dragged by three or five people, and is lighter than infantry guns.

This battle is not easy to fight! ”

"Then ......, we'll recruit a little more soldiers in the country.

Now we are suffering from a serious shortage of troops. ”

"Huh!

It is feasible to recruit more soldiers, but the front line needs so many guns and ammunition, so much money, food and materials, where do these things come from?

Those coalition soldiers who eat bran and eat bran vegetables boil with us, how long can they survive this kind of war?

And how long are the logistical supply lines of the Europeans, and how long are our supply lines?

Not to mention the railway from Beijing to Kashgar, there are more than 2,800 kilometers.

Kashgar to Moscow?

You have an army of three or five million people here, how can you guarantee supplies?

If nothing else, millions of people eat food every day in piles that are taller than mountains.

And ammunition, fuel......

How many of these things rely on a Central Asian railway? ”

“……！” Li Lin lowered his head, he really didn't think about it so much.

It can be said that the Ming army has crossed half the world to fight, and now so many troops are already the limit of the carrying capacity of the Central Asian Railway.

Blindly expanding the number of front-line soldiers can only make the front-line supplies scarce.

Da Ming has never let the soldiers go hungry to fight.