Chapter 219

Root. Gurion and Rothschild Jr. are worried about Israel's future, and a hungry wolf on the battlefield has set its sights on the combined forces of Israel and Austria-Hungary on the central front.

The last time the 1st Cavalry Division attacked the French at the Donetsk River, it suffered an unprecedented setback.

Although in the end, the French army was defeated, and the French army suffered heavy casualties.

But the losses of the 1st Cavalry Division were not small, and this was the first time after entering Russia.

The 1st Cavalry Division did not participate in the summer counteroffensive operations, and for three months the 1st Cavalry Division rested behind the battle line.

Not only was it replenished, but even the tanks were replaced with the latest No. 4 tanks.

The round head of the tank, like a turtle shell, had a thick barrel that reflected jet black light in the sunlight.

A 105-mm tank gun can shred through all obstacles within a kilometer.

Small reinforced concrete bunkers can be overturned with a single shot.

And the round tortoise shell can resist the bombardment of eight or eight artillery pieces at a distance of one thousand meters.

Angles matter, and a rounded turret is more capable of ricocheting. This is also what Li Xiao advocated, and the angle is the concept of protective power.

Although the turret is still in danger of being penetrated by the 88 cannon within 1,000 meters, the 105 cannon can suppress the 88 cannon well at a distance of 1,000 meters.

After all, Li Xiao still has one more sentence, that is, caliber is justice.

Not only tanks were reequipped, but also artillery at all levels began to be reequipped.

The first is a vehicle-mounted mortar, an armored car chassis with an open design.

It is possible to install two mortars in the front and rear!

Inside the magazines on both sides, a hundred shells can be stored.

Sixty-millimeter mortars are completely a thing of the past, and now mortars have a caliber of eighty millimeters.

The caliber has been increased, and the power has also increased a lot.

Under an empowerment attack, it is possible to penetrate half a meter thick reinforced concrete.

It will be a nightmare for all things bunkers and bunkers!

However, the Ming army did not plan to attack the pillbox with this thing, it was just infantry support fire.

The real weapon for fighting pillboxes is self-propelled guns.

Each regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division contained an artillery battalion, armed with nine 120-mm howitzers.

Although it is a howitzer, it can also perform well in flat fire.

A bunker up to 800 millimeters thick can be overturned with a single shot, just like opening a can.

This is not a big killing weapon, the real big killing weapon is an artillery battalion under the direct command of Man Ye.

With twenty-seven 155-mm howitzers, one shell will turn even a meter of reinforced concrete into slag.

During the test firing, the violent explosion directly vaporized the sheep inside the bunker.

In the end, after searching for a long time, I found the remains of a sheep's hoof.

Not only did the tank clusters charge fiercely, but even the infantry were all equipped with the latest infantry vehicles.

On each infantry chariot, there was a 25-mm rapid-fire gun.

It is still not powerful enough to deal with large bunker fortifications, but if you deal with those small bunker fortifications, or infantry exposed in the wilderness, it is a knife to kill chickens.

Within 1,200 meters, people can be beaten into clumps of minced meat.

This is just a combat unit, and behind Man Ye, there is a battlefield supply system composed of fifty large airships.

No matter how much ammunition Man Ye consumed, the airship was able to supply Man Ye as soon as possible.

Of course, the premise is that Man Ye has cleared the ground and there is no presence of coalition anti-aircraft guns.

In the sky, there are hundreds of Stuka bombers.

In his hands, he now has six tank regiments fully manned, plus six armored infantry regiments.

In addition to the divisional troops in his hands, there are two heavy rocket artillery battalions, with 54 groups of 270 mm rocket artillery.

Three light rocket artillery battalions with 133-mm rocket artillery firing groups and eighty-one teams.

There is also the one mentioned above, a 155-mm howitzer battalion.

The guards at the division headquarters were guarded by a tank company and three armored infantry companies.

This is a real army made of steel, and a single salvo can drop more than 100 tons of ammunition on enemy positions, truly turning that area into scorched earth.

The German and Nordic armies on the Northern Front were all cowering in fortified positions.

They were no longer as ferocious as they had been at the beginning of the summer offensive, attacking Ming positions.

Instead, they obediently stayed in the trenches, waiting for the Ming army to attack.

However, the Ming army and the Russian army obviously had no interest in attacking.

The two sides are facing each other apart from a vacuum zone of 50 or 60 kilometers.

The battlefield was so quiet that there were not even a few sporadic firefights.

Not to mention the southern front, the front composed of Italians and Spaniards could not withstand the attack of the Ming army at all.

Many times, the Ming army was attacked by saturated artillery fire, and there was no one on the position.

Those who are blown up are killed, and those who are not killed are gone.

These people have no fighting spirit at all, and they come to the front line to serve as soldiers, firstly, for a messy life, and secondly, for the expensive allowance.

In any case, the domestic economy in Italy and Spain is sluggish, and it is difficult to find a job.

When you go to the front line to be a soldier, you can not only have a generous allowance, but also receive many courtship letters from young girls.

This kind of good day, everyone is willing to come and mix!

But if Lao Tzu wants to work hard, then I'm sorry, Lao Tzu has never had the idea of working hard for those unreasonable reasons.

As for the small number of British troops, they also had to be coerced by these two pig teammates to retreat.

The damn Ming army plane in the sky also specially selected British troops to bomb it.

The British troops, who left the trenches, suffered heavy losses in air raids.

Some companies have even lost more than 30 percent of their personnel.

The front retreated again and again, the Sumy region was lost, Kharkov was lost, the entire map of Donetsk was lost.

If this continues, it is estimated that the Ming army will have to drink the Dnieper River and keep its eyes on Kiev again.

In a situation where there was no choice, Napoleon could only release the First Army of the French Army led by Marshal Ney, who was known for his fierceness.

With heavy casualties, the First Army barely withstood the attack of the Ming army.

The northern and southern fronts retreated, and the Israeli and Austro-Hungarian armies fighting near Kursk formed a huge salient.

In this salient there were 200,000 Israeli troops and more than 250,000 Austro-Hungarian troops.

There are still 50,000 Swiss troops left, and the Swiss have always been brave and good at fighting. But the Swiss claim to be neutral, and this time they were willing to send troops, also because of the influence of the pope.

These 50,000 Swiss troops also participated in the war in the name of religious armies and did not represent the Swiss government.

But this kind of thing, everyone who understands it, is just a fig leaf.

At best, with these 50,000 Swiss troops, it can be regarded as withstanding the attack of the Ming army and the Russian army.

However, it only withstood the attack, but it was impossible to counterattack

Moreover, the situation on the battlefield has changed.

Around Kursk, in addition to the 20,000 Ming troops, there are more than half a million Russian troops.

It is said that the combat effectiveness of the Russian army is not good, but in terms of numbers, the allied forces of Daming and Russia have surpassed the coalition forces on the opposite side.

In Crete, Li Xiao saw this huge salient on the map at a glance.

The Israeli forces in this encirclement must be eliminated, so as to cut off the connection between the northern and southern lines of the coalition forces.

The most important thing is to take out the main force of the Israeli army.

Now the Israelis are overstretched, and Sevastopol has been scorched.

It was like a meat grinder, with the lives of Ottoman soldiers and Israelis being filled every day.

If in the Kursk region, it will be possible to annihilate the main forces of the Israelis.

In that case, the surrender of the Israelis would be a foregone conclusion.

Perhaps, Austria-Hungary will also surrender.

This is a shock to the whole of Europe.

It can also promote Axi to make up his mind and agree to all the conditions of Daming.

As a result, Li Dingguo's department, which had rested for many days, and the 1st Cavalry Division were sent to Kursk by Li Xiao.

Their task is to advance north and south, seal off the Kursk salient entirely, and then catch turtles in the urn.

Although Li Dingguo's tank division only had more than 200 tanks, he had two Ming infantry divisions behind him and more than 100,000 Russian troops.

As for the First Cavalry Division, not to mention, the essence of the Ming Dynasty's armored strength is in the First Cavalry Division.

For the annihilation of the coalition forces in the Kursk salient, Li Xiao has full confidence.

Man Ye is also very confident, he didn't fight well last time, and this time he wants to get the field back.

Moreover, the opponent is still the Israelis who have always hated him.

In the early morning of 4 June, the front, which had been quiet for a long time, was still calm.

Insects chirped in the grass, and the river flowed down the small meandering river.

The Israeli army, with the exception of a few sentinels, all slept in the trenches.

There was a heavy rainstorm just yesterday, and the rain lasted for a full twelve hours.

The river swelled and the makeshift fortifications of the Israeli army were flooded.

The Israelis had no choice but to continue digging trenches to drain the water in the trenches.

The water in the trenches was almost drained, but the underground bunkers were still flooded.

If you want to drain it completely, you have to wait until the water level of the creek drops.

The Israeli soldiers, tired from the day, huddled together in raincoats and snuggled up to sleep soundly in the dirty mud.

It was just dawning, without warning.

Suddenly, there was a bright spot in the sky, and the sentry was still napping with his gun, but these bright spots smashed directly into the Israelites' positions like meteors that streaked across the sky.

In an instant, orange flames rose on the ground, and the Israelite position became a sea of fire.

This scene was simply too bad, and the entire Israeli position was half fire and half gunsmoke.

The whole land was burning, and not a single Israeli soldier was to be seen.

Because everyone was engulfed in the flames that rushed to the sky.

The roaring tank, with the sound of tracks running over the grass, drove forward.

Along the way, the tank's tracks crushed numerous small anti-infantry mines.

The tank crew was blown up in the tank and swayed from side to side, but not a single shrapnel injured the members of the tank, and even these small anti-infantry mines failed to break a single track.

Nowadays, all countries are following in the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty and miniaturizing landmines.

Not only does this effectively waste enemy manpower, but each soldier can carry more mines.

In battle, each additional mine has the potential to kill or damage an enemy soldier.

More importantly, these small mines are easier and cheaper to manufacture.

Even though small anti-infantry mines are good in a thousand ways, there is only one bad one.

This thing is a bomb, against a tank...... It's a little bit less powerful.

Those small pressure-type mines that are designed to blow up people's feet are actually just bullets that are padded to nails with a sleeve on the outside.

This kind of thing can only spark a little bit on the tracks or bottom armor.

And on the contrary, this thing was the most numerous, and it was almost covered fifty or sixty meters in front of the Israelite position.

When the tank ran over, it was as if it had been subjected to machine-gun fire.

Soon, though, the tank stopped advancing.

It wasn't that the Israelis resisted too hard, but that the Ming army's incendiary bombs set fire to almost the entire land.

The tank could not get through such a long fire, so it had to wait for the flames to go out before moving on.

At this time, the sky was already white, but the flames on the ground eclipsed the skylight.

There was a roar of engines in the sky, and Daming's plane was dispatched.

Stuka flew over the tank and swooped down like a goshawk.

Pounce on the artillery positions on the ground!

Bombs fell from the sky, the bombs detonated the shells, and the artillery positions that were being fired were also caught in a sea of fire.

An earth-shattering explosion sounded, and the column of smoke from the explosion instantly rose more than 100 meters high.

The people inside the tank even thought it was an earthquake!

The ammunition accumulation point of the Israeli army was blown up, and it is not known how many shells were detonated in an instant.

The Israeli soldiers who were discharging shells and taking them were blown up into the sky in an instant.

Man Ye was five kilometers away, and he could feel the tremors under his feet.

This is damn powerful.

No sooner had the fire narrowed than the tank rushed into the flames.

There was black smoke everywhere and visibility was very low.

The ground was so charred that even the corpses could not be seen clearly.

Sometimes the tank ran over a charred black mass, and with the sound of "click", a white bone came out of the charred black ball.

There was also some bright red minced meat attached to the bone, which was steaming constantly.

After half an hour of burning, everything on the ground was already scorched.

Even if you hide in the trenches and are not killed or burned in the first place, you will be suffocated to death in the ensuing fire.

Because the fire has depleted the oxygen on the ground, it will suffocate people to death.

Even if there is oxygen that does not suffocate, the heated air inhaled into the lungs is enough to burn the lungs.

No way, napalm with thermite is such a domineering.

The tank, armed with smoke of gunpowder, rushed out of the Israeli outpost.

Along the way, there was no obstruction at all.