A strange scene occurred on the battlefield, and a large group of Polish cavalry ran away when they saw the Ming tanks turn around.

The last battle of Smolensk was too big a psychological shadow for the Polish cavalry.

They also know that no matter how sharp a saber is, it will not penetrate the armor of a tank.

Tank guns are actually not a big threat to them, and what they are most afraid of is the 12.7 mm machine gun used by the commander on top of the tank.

This firearm, which has a range of up to 1,000 meters, can form a powerful fire network.

At a distance of a thousand meters, the cavalry could not even have time to shoot before an entire company could be wiped out.

If they fight alone, the Polish cavalry will frantically approach the Ming tanks with casualties, and finally use explosives to deal with the Ming tanks.

But now the density of tanks in the Ming army has reached nearly fifty per kilometer.

With this density of firepower, it can absolutely tear apart any opponent.

Tanks chase horses in the field, and it is only a matter of time before they catch up. After all, the war horse will tire the tank will not.

However, there are people who are more anxious and faster than tanks.

That's the Ming Air Force!

No matter how fast the war horse runs, no matter how fast the tank drives, it is definitely not as fast as the airplane.

The Ming pilot, driving a plane in the air to chase the Polish army to kill.

In the end, it began to have fun.

They flew at ultra-low altitudes and then fired at the Polish troops below with machine guns from their planes.

This state, which had never been fought at the shooting range, made the Ming army pilots very excited. And it quickly became popular on the battlefield!

The tank crews behind could only angrily crush the dead men and horses in pursuit, and then pointed at the pilots in the sky and cursed.

At fourteen o'clock in the afternoon of the day of the attack, the three cavalry divisions that the Polish army had arrived to support were all annihilated, except for a small part that had fled into the mountains and forests.

Because of the information gap, until the evening of the attack day, the Polish army did not understand whether the Ming army was going to Kiev to fight the French to the death, or whether it was going to eat the Polish army of up to 600,000 people in front of the Ming army.

Taking advantage of the dark conditions of the night, the Ming army established an airborne field in the area of Vitkowski.

A large number of heavy airships of the Ming army, under the cover of the dark night sky, flew directly over the area controlled by the Polish army, and directly sent supplies to the Ming army on the front line.

An overnight supply not only replenishes the tank's combat consumption for a whole day. And even in the Vitkowski area, a solid field position was created.

It has been used as a logistics supply base for the Ming Dynasty, supplying the Ming army behind enemy lines.

In this attack, the Ming army calculated the date. There was not a single light in the sky, and the earth seemed to be covered with a black curtain, and in the wild conditions, it was really impossible to reach out and lose sight.

Darkness may be the only fair place in this battle.

Because the Polish army couldn't figure out what the Ming army was going to do, it was chaotic all night.

The previous order was to let them retreat, and the next order was to let them take advantage of the darkness of the night to attack the Ming army.

It is a pity that the sappers of the Ming army have long been throwing small trigger mines in various places.

These mines are not very lethal, but they are loud and can shine for a long time.

It's September, and the light and heat can easily ignite the surrounding vegetation.

As long as there is vegetation burning, shells will fall in almost less than a minute.

With the sound of "boom" incessantly, the night sneak attack of the Polish army was all wiped out by the shells.

The Polish command post often learned of the failure of the offensive an hour or two after its own troops had been shelled.

The night lasted just a few hours, and the time it took to mobilize troops, and the whole night was basically wasted by the Polish army.

At five o'clock in the morning, the sky was bright and the sun had not yet come out. The Ming tanks had already begun to roar, and they continued to advance.

But the direction of the advance changed somewhat, and Zukuan's 1st Tank Division began to cover the infantry and attack the Polish positions from behind.

At this time, the Russian army in front of the Polish army also began to attack with the support of Ming artillery.

The Russian army fought the Polish army as bravely as it attacked the Hebrews, and even before the war there was no need to mobilize, the soldiers "whooped" and "whooped" and charged.

Poland and Russia are feuding, and it is not clear to them themselves how many times they have killed each other.

Anyway, the grievances of the two countries have been entangled for almost a thousand years.

Stimulated by a thousand-year-old blood feud, the Russian soldiers were very brave.

In addition, the Ming army carried out an hour of artillery preparation before the Russian army attacked. The surface fortifications that the Polish army had built over the past few months were being lifted one by one like open cans.

This time, the Russian offensive forces were equipped with a new piece of equipment, the Daming version of the bazooka.

This bazooka had a long booster, and at the place of the entrance there was a warhead that exceeded the caliber of the bazooka.

The super-caliber warhead is so powerful that as long as it advances to a distance of 200 meters, it can penetrate the machine gun position with one shot.

Moreover, the Ming army also sent some mortars, carrying mortars to follow the Russian army for close fire support.

Mortars, although not very powerful, are the infantry's best friend.

When the Ming army discovered the opponent's mortar, it was able to call the forward self-propelled guns with signal flares.

Although the number of self-propelled guns was not large, it played a suppressive role in the mortar fire of the Polish army.

A lot of mortars hit only a dozen shells before they were locked by howitzers. And then there was a round of artillery covering!

The Ming army became more and more experienced in fighting mortars with howitzers, so much so that when the air force dispatched few troops, it helped the Russian army break through on all fronts.

By 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the Russian army had advanced five kilometers. In some sections, it has advanced as much as seven kilometers.

You know, this is an infantry shock, not a steel torrent of Ming armored troops.

Behind them, two provisional divisions of the Ming Army, one infantry division of the Ming Army, and fifteen Russian infantry divisions, behind the 1st Tank Division, launched an attack on the rear of the Polish army.

Soon, the Polish army, attacked on both sides, began to show signs of collapse.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Polish high command, which was aware of the hindsight, finally found that its troops were surrounded.

The Ming army, plus the Russian army, dispatched a total of 700,000 people, most of whom were still Russian troops with somewhat weak combat effectiveness.

In two days, the Polish army, totaling more than 600,000 people, was encircled.

This was unthinkable before, but ...... But it happened clearly in front of my eyes.

Many troops on the front line were attacked by the Ming and Russian coalition forces because of their backs, resulting in the destruction of a large amount of ammunition and grain and baggage.

It's easy to destroy the grain, after all, the battle has only been going on for two days, and the front-line troops are not hungry.

But the ammunition is destroyed, and this is going to be dead.

Ammunition for the front-line troops, it is impossible to have too much. At most, there are only two or three bases!

And these ammunition were basically used up in two days of fighting.

At a time when it was necessary to shoot frantically to survive, the Polish army commander had to conserve ammunition for the front-line troops.

The shells, especially the mortars that were of great consumption, were largely depleted before nightfall.

The second night after the start of the battle came, and as it was dark, the Ming army immediately began to defend in place.

One airship after another, under the cover of darkness, sent a huge amount of various supplies to Vitkowski.

Then, these materials were broken into pieces and transported to all corners of the battlefield by countless tractors.

At dawn, the armored units of the Ming army were again replenished. And this night, the flares on the positions of the Poles were never extinguished.

The Poles were left without shells, so the shells of the Ming army were somewhat unscrupulous.

The mortars even advanced a kilometer away from the front of the house, and as soon as the flares found the enemy's tracks, they would immediately bombard them with mortars.

The Poles were in disarray, and the Minsk General Command at the front had almost cut off contact with the front.

Communication with Warsaw was open, but the order from Warsaw was desperate.

They actually ordered the Polish army to crush the Ming army in front of them and regain the lost position.

This was clearly an order with water in the brain, but it was required to be strictly enforced, and if the night attack could not be launched this evening, the commander, Budoldowski, would be arrested and tried most harshly in a military court in Warsaw.

Budoldowski wanted to commit suicide because he was no longer able to contact the troops at the front.

The Polish army did not have many telegraphs, and each army had only one radio.

Although Budoldowski was able to contact the army headquarters at the front, the divisions had lost contact.

Scouts can only be sent to contact various divisions, but now it is dark like a curtain, and the Ming army is still firing cold guns and cold guns from time to time, and many division command posts have been forced to move.

How many troops will be able to contact before dawn, only God knows.

The anxious Budoldowski was jumping to his feet in the Minsk command post, when suddenly another bad news came.

In the Girausky region, just over a hundred kilometers from Minsk, a large number of Ming armored units were found.

"How did they get in!" Budoldowski roared angrily.

No one answered him, God knows where this tank unit came from.

"Commander, there is no way. We only have two divisions in our hands, and we can't resist this Ming army at all.

In fact, we found them at four o'clock in the afternoon.

The credible envoy brought the news back, and it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

Moreover, news came back from the front one after another that although it was dark, the Ming tank unit was still advancing. It's just that the pace of progress is a little slower.

I think they came to Minsk. ”

Chief of Staff Kravchuk looked at the map and cautiously reminded Commander Budoldovsky.

"You mean they came straight to us?" Budoldowski was taken aback, he didn't expect the Ming army to be so crazy, and he came to a trick to dig out the heart of the black tiger and directly sent the tank troops to Minsk.

You know, there are more than three hundred kilometers from the front-line positions to Minsk.

And north of Minsk, three divisions of German troops were stationed.

A detachment of troops, interspersed with three hundred kilometers, went straight to the enemy's general headquarters, which was nothing short of crazy suicidal.

Anyone with military common sense would not do that!

No one knows why the always fierce Ming army would make such a stupid move. However, it now looks like this seemingly stupid move will kill Budoldowski.

"Commander, I think we should retreat as soon as possible." Kravchuk cautiously suggested to Budoldowski.

The reason why he was careful was because a telegram had just arrived from Warsaw, telling Budoldowski to fight back. Now not only did they fail to fight back, but they destroyed the commander-in-chief command post.

If Warsaw had known about this, it would have been difficult to say whether Budoldowski would have been corrected on the spot.

And he, the chief of staff who is responsible for coming up with ideas, has absolutely no good fruit to eat.

"No, if we lose Minsk, we'll be finished. Not only were the front-line troops finished, but after the Ming army had rested, the next target was Warsaw.

Kravchuk, this suggestion of yours will cost you and me our lives, and our families will be exiled. Budoldowski shook his head helplessly.

The consequences of losing Minsk were too serious for him to make this decision.

"But if we don't retreat, we won't survive either. We had only two divisions at our disposal, plus a guard regiment all lightly armed.

These forces can't stop the tanks of the Ming army.

Besides...... Minsk is located on the plains, and there is simply no terrain advantage that can withstand the onslaught of tanks. ”

"No way!" Budoldowski shook his head.

"Hey......!

Then there's only one way! Kravchuk sighed helplessly.

"I know, you mean to ask the Germans for help? But there are a lot of rumors now......"

"Are you worried about ......, rumors that Germany has made peace with the Ming Dynasty?

But now, if we don't ask them for help, there is no way to stop the Ming army.

Since Minsk cannot be abandoned, there is still a glimmer of hope for help. If we don't ask for help, we can only wait to be killed or captured by the Ming army. ”

Kravchuk spread his hands helplessly, anyway, he told the commander the direction of the matter, and he was worthy of his duties as chief of staff.

After thinking about it for a while, Budoldowski decided to ask the Germans for help in order to make a last-ditch effort.

Minsk cannot be lost, and if it is lost, Minsk itself will not survive anyway.

"Well, you personally go to the commander of the German army, General Clark. Let them help us defend Minsk!

The Ming army came from afar, and the logistics supply would definitely not be able to keep up.

As long as we withstood the first wave of attack, we will be able to hold Minsk. And it is also possible to kill the Ming army that came from afar.

In addition, the front-line troops were ordered to retreat along all fronts. Withdraw to the Minsk front, as long as you can come back, you can give up heavy equipment. ”

Budoldowski slammed his fist on the desk, in fact, there was not much heavy equipment left in the Polish army on the front line.

A lot of divisions, and even a few mortars remained. And it's still a mortar with not many shells!

Now, it's a blessing in misfortune to be able to run back.