The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

On the night of July 7th, on the front line of Kiev, Commander Semyon Budyonny suddenly received a secret order directly from Stalin. Immediately afterwards, a strange force came to the front from the direction of Moscow through the heavy defenses. The leader saw He looked about forty years old, with the rank of major general, and he looked rigid. He didn't have a little awe in front of the commander of the entire western army, and even had a hint of arrogance and disdain on his face.

Commander Budyonny was in a state of desperation at this time, and his heart was full of fire. He really didn't have the energy to get angry with a guy with a different background. He looked up and down with a cold face, and then looked back at the group of strangely dressed people Clothes, a guy with a strange armor shape wrapped around his body, and a fully enclosed helmet, asked coldly: "What's the matter with you? I don't remember such a number!"

The warrant brought by the arrogant major general coincided with the code name in Stalin's telegram, and it was called "X Regiment".Their cap badges and armbands are a red Roman letter x on a black background. The vehicles they ride are obviously high-end military-grade off-road vehicles smuggled from China. Everyone, even more luxuriously, rides in armored vehicles, even large trucks. , are also wrapped airtight, from the outside, even the situation inside the driver's cab can't be seen clearly---it's clearly a single-transparent glass!

Such a group of strange guys, if they hadn't had the correct password, their ethnicity was distinct, and their origins were clear, it would be doubtful whether they were the Red Army of the great Soviet Russia.

Major General Anthony Romanov replied coldly: "Comrade Commander! We are an armed force under the direct leadership of Comrade Stalin, and we are the most powerful fighting army in the great Soviet Russia! This time, we are ordered to come to help you To guard Kiev and prevent fascist Germany from invading Moscow, next, we will have a large number of secret weapons entering one after another. Comrade Commander, please cooperate as much as possible and do a good job of keeping secrets!"

The veins on Budyonny's forehead were throbbing, and he almost pulled out his pistol and shot this rude guy.The situation is bad enough, and there are still people who come out to make trouble for themselves. Don't they know that the current situation is total chaos.Isn't it possible to solve it with one or two so-called special weapons? !

However, this guy has a secret order written by Comrade Stalin in his hand!Thinking of the cruelty of the Great Cleansing and the tragic end of the other three marshals, Comrade Commander immediately lost his temper, sighed secretly, and said, "Okay! I also want to take a look at the troops trusted and relied on by Comrade Stalin , What a powerful combat power it can exert!"

Knowing too much is of no benefit, fighting Stalin is courting death.Budyonny longed for someone to help him resist the thunder.The German army on the opposite side was besieging menacingly from three sides. Even with a huge army of as many as 150 million people under him, he didn't have the slightest confidence. The previous battle was so bad that he couldn't think of anything better. The way to stop the torrent of German tanks.

Major General Anthony Romanov just gave a military salute as if he was on an errand, he was unwilling to say a word, and immediately turned back and entered his troops.quickly.At the request of Commander-in-Chief Budyonny, a defense zone was vacated at the front of the Uman battlefield.All the troops withdrew quickly, and then the X Regiment flooded in like a flood.

It is a regiment in name, but in fact, no matter how many people look at it, it has a force as large as a division. It replaces the defense area of ​​an entire army, except for a batch of 122mm howitzers, the rest of the heavy and heavy weapons.None, including tanks.Under the weird eyes of the rest of the troops, this group of weird guys with their heads covered and faces shoved their piles of equipment into fortifications and positions everywhere.

A large number of heavy-duty towing trucks rumbled in, dragging behind them.The vehicle wrapped tightly in camouflage canvas opened up, and there were a bunch of bazookas with thick tubes, which were bigger and longer than the common Katyusha, and the warhead was thicker!

A series of heavy artillery appeared, at least a 203mm tracked self-propelled artillery, which is an astonishingly powerful b4 howitzer!The big guys who are rarely equipped in the frontline troops are here with basic equipment. Once they come out, there are as many as 12 doors!

Then, the BR-5 mortar with a larger caliber, a terrifying caliber of 280mm, and a terrible guy with a thick and short big tube that can stuff a child into it, clumsy, heavy, mixed with it, raised silently, Unleash the murderous intent!

When these guys finished displaying, a group of armored combat vehicles drove up from behind the scattered troops. The leader seemed to be two circles larger than the t-34 tanks they had installed in a small number, and it was larger than the kv-1 and 2 tanks used in the front line. The model is larger, and the upright gun barrel is a 73.5mm gun with 107 times the size!

This is the kv-4 heavy tank that has just been mass-produced!A monster of up to 180 tons, with an armor thickness of 47mm, a [-]mm secondary gun on top of the terrifying main gun, and three heavy machine guns. When you move, the ground will collapse!

Commander Budyonny watched their formation coldly from the side. He didn't seem to be making any fuss, but he was secretly surprised. Such an army turned out to be all super heavy weapons. What kind of establishment are they?I'm afraid that only Stalin himself intervened to gather so many treasures together. Heh heh, it seems that the Germans might really want to hit their heads hard to get them out!

But that's not all!Behind the channel specially opened for the X Regiment, more equipment is still moving in quickly. Just after a round of the best fighter planes crazily counterattacked and temporarily forced the overwhelming Luftwaffe back, they slowly drove over from the rear Four airships, more than 200 meters long, were flying forward almost grazing the ground. The end of the thick steel cable hanging below was impressively carrying a large mass of things. Moving forward quickly on the huge and bulky cushioned crawler chassis is like sailing on dry land.

When approaching the front line of Uman, the steel cables of the airship were unhooked one after another. Amidst a rumbling roar, two steel monsters as big as three or four stories high slowly drove from the stretched chassis to the ground, with a width of one and a half meters. The moment the tracks collided and crushed, people nearby could feel the shock like an earthquake!

Those were two unprecedentedly huge and strange chariots!The flat and stable body seemed to be about 20 meters in length and nearly ten meters in width, with hideous and upright thick armor on the edge, and guns of various calibers as dense as branches.The huge turret on the top is impressively two spiral spikes protruding forward.There are faint blue electric arcs buzzing and flashing between each other. Behind the left and right, the standing secondary guns shake the 76.2mm tube tremblingly. When they move, they look like prehistoric mammoths!

Ordinary low-ranking officers and soldiers are not qualified to come forward, but Budyonny is there.He stared dumbfounded at the huge monster rolling past his eyes, his shocking heart almost stopped beating!

What a dreadful fellow!I really don't know, what kind of person can make this weird thing, the body must weigh at least [-] tons?He can still run!I don't know what a spectacular sight it was when it was launched!

It's not over yet!Not long after, four airships dragged two trailers over. The big guy finally had a familiar appearance, but Commander Budyonny saw that under the camouflage net that was lifted, there were two 305mm guns standing upright. thick barrel.It was messy at once... Damn it, when will the main guns of the battleship be removed and used by the army!

He knew that the Soviet Army had a few heavy train guns, but they were all used to defend the rear and did not come to the front line. Moreover, the air supremacy was almost impossible to seize in the current situation, and they were only sent to the Germans. Just provide a bigger target.It's too late in time.

But the big guy in front of him is completely different!It seems that it can move forward freely on the flat ground.It can still maneuver, and if it can withstand the terrible recoil, it is conceivable how shocking it will be when the 305mm shells blast into the enemy army!

Sure enough... it is worthy of the power that Comrade Stalin personally mastered!If such a group of monsters drove onto the battlefield, they could still run.Not only is the attack power super strong, but also the ability to resist blows is absolutely good.The key is, how did they drive it?You must know that the land in Ukraine is fertile enough. Once it rains or it is muddy in spring, it will definitely sink!

It must be a secret.Budyonny didn't have to think about it.If it weren't for the inside story that he didn't even know, there would be no need to set up a special number for such a bunch of guys.

So just wait and see how far they can perform!I hope that it can really play a positive role and give those arrogant Germans a hard blow!

The battle will come soon!

The German army responsible for the offensive mission here is the 1st Armored Group led by General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist. As the forward, there are three full armored divisions, each with one A super "giant mouse" chariot led the way, and it was equipped with a few second-level guys with 150mm cannons, crushing them all the way, invincible!

After advancing here, they formed a pressure on the northern part of Uman and threatened the direction of Kiev along the way. It can be said that they are a force that must be stopped.Otherwise, not only will the main force of the Soviet army in Uman be encircled, cut apart, or even wiped out, but whether Kiev can keep it depends on how it is fought here.

With the smoothness of the breakthrough these days, the morale of the German army is high. For the incompetence and weakness exposed by the Soviet army, there is a kind of complete contempt from top to bottom. General Paul von Kleist didn't feel the slightest bit of anxiety, he firmly believed that under his own attack, nothing could stand up.

Dawn had just arrived, and the Soviet front, which had been bombed continuously by the air for many days, was silent. The German armored groups who had taken a break poured out like a tide, stretching out a sparse front tens of kilometers wide all over the mountains and plains, rushing towards the front. !

In the rear, thousands of heavy artillery fired loudly, spanning more than ten kilometers densely like a violent storm, smashing shells at the front of the Soviet defense line, and the shells sprayed by self-propelled artillery were mixed in, forming a continuous erosion of deep killing , constantly swaying the terrifying killing power, the suppressed Soviet army couldn't even raise its head!

Just half an hour later, hundreds of Leopard-1 tanks rushed forward, fired alternately, and smoothly ran over the shattered barbed wire, collapsed trenches, and anti-tank positions, rushing in and out. The eye-catching market town is ready to destroy this fortress lying on the road in one fell swoop!

Suddenly, there was a piercing howling in the air ahead!The hissing like a train passing through a tunnel at high speed makes the scalp tense and the heart numb, and a huge and irresistible force is contained in it, followed closely.A thunderous bang suddenly approached, a series of thick shells fiercely smashed into the scattered defense lines, and exploded gorgeously!

"Boom---!"

The deafening loud noise spread for more than ten kilometers, and the astonishing pillars of fireworks set off dozens of tons of soft soil soaring into the sky.It is tens of meters high, and it can be seen clearly from a long distance!The German chariot caught off guard by the nearby explosion raged, and the impacted car body trembled violently, and even turned over completely. The powerful armor could not withstand the terrible explosive force, and it was crushed, squeezed and deformed, and the track armor The pieces flew together, and collapsed in a hula-la!

wave.More than a dozen rounds, another wave, another explosion with less power, one after another, at least twenty explosions mixed together, each of which can blast out a crater more than ten meters wide, and the shock wave will destroy a forest as large as half a village. It fell down and collapsed to the bang.Tree fragments and branches were splashed in the air, one after another.How spectacular!

The German division commander who led the onslaught of the troops seemed to have been hit with a sap head-on. He watched dozens of tanks in front of him being submerged in the earth-shattering explosion. judged.There are at least 203mm grenades, and even larger caliber shells!

Is it the 254mm heavy artillery of the Soviet army?Or a 280mm mortar? !Or, both models? !Damn, didn't the Air Force say that they were all destroyed?When will they ship it up again!Just one night's work? !

It wasn't enough to make him unhinged, though.for possible resistance.The German army was fully prepared.The scattered follow-up tanks immediately evaded at high speed, and the Leopard-1 tank, which was concentrated on the crystallization of advanced technology from China and Germany, weighed only 35-42 tons, had strong power, high flexibility, and fast cross-country speed. If something was wrong, it immediately evaded to the side , The horse galloped out of the strike area.

Experienced officers know very well that the larger the caliber of the artillery, the slower the firing speed and the extremely poor accuracy.In order to prevent the Soviet army from being destroyed by air strikes, the Soviet army must be set up scattered and rearward. After firing, it is difficult to change the shooting of various elements. However, it only takes one or two minutes for the tank group to easily avoid a distance of one or two kilometers. If you want to aim, that is impossible!

rush!Rush up and kill them all!

The Leopard-1 tanks rushing out of the gunpowder in front of them crossed the trench one after another, and rushed to the unknown rear of the enemy without fear. They believed that it only took ten minutes to find out those guys who were avoiding like mice, and then use The sharp main gun can crush easily!

But at this moment, between the collapsed buildings and the burning woods, there was an astonishing roar, and the ground trembled. Then, a dozen scary big guys rushed out like ghosts. Sternly pointing forward, the crunching brake stayed on top of a piece of building debris, condescending, and fired at the German assault tank!

"collapse!"

The muffled sound from the bombardment of the 107mm long-barreled artillery made people feel a shock of cardiac arrest. The air wave scattered in a circle reopened the diffuse smoke. It ruthlessly smashed into the front armor of the Leopard-1 tank, and knocked open the defense that the Germans thought was strong. The huge kinetic energy collided and shattered the solid steel, and the fragments swept inward, smashing the crew into meat paste!

The sound of firing was loud enough to immediately attract the attention of the intruding German army. Immediately, several times the Leopard-1 tanks rushed over boldly, surrounded by three sides, and aimed at strikes from different distances.

But their 75mm long-barreled tank gun, which has always been invincible, unexpectedly failed. Even if the shell accurately hit the front face of the kv-4 heavy tank, it could not penetrate the 180mm steel plate. After the explosion left a ball of dazzling flames, then everyone The guys are still making steady progress, fire!

Fortunately, they are not fighting alone!The Leopard-88 equipped with an 2mm main gun was in the middle, and immediately responded, aiming the main gun with strong penetrating ability at the huge target and firing continuously. After a few shots, it finally had an effect, but in the end, it couldn't do it at all. People are optimistic---they still can't break through the front armor smoothly, but because of their superiority in numbers, they can hit the other weak parts from the side, and the powerful steel monsters will not be paralyzed immediately, they are still stable and continue to fire!

"Damn! Are the Soviets going to make a final struggle?"

The leaders of the German armored divisions who discovered the problem from the rear were very upset about this, and decisively ordered the Tiger tanks equipped with 105mm guns to rush up to attack, and let the e-150 tanks with 100mm heavy guns follow up from behind to provide long-range fire support. The army's artillery suppressed the launch.

The heavy tanks of the Soviet army were not limited to the dozen or so. In the fierce fighting, more and more big guys poured out from the depths of the position, increasing to fifty or sixty. It seemed that there was no end in sight. of!

And, among them, there are some equally strong guys joining the strike array, the muzzle is thicker, the body is as heavy, the range is longer, the trajectory is tortuous, and the lethal power is stronger---it is equipped with a 122mm howitzer is-2 heavy tank!

Under repeated persecution by the Japanese Army and the Chinese Armored Forces, the Soviet Army's armored weapons manufacturing continued to upgrade, and those impractical old multi-turret varieties were constantly eliminated. Those with weak armor such as the T-35 simply retired and became more and more popular. The thicker muzzle and thicker armor forced the old man to continuously improve the overall strength. After all the old gadgets on the front line were destroyed, the t34 became the weakest thing.

The approaching bombardment of the 122mm howitzer is enough to open up the penetration ability of the 160mm thick armor, and neither the Leopard nor the Tiger tank can withstand it.However, the Germans all use imitation composite armor, which has a considerable protective effect. Coupled with the large number, it seems that it does not have much impact. (to be continued..)