Chapter 371 The mantis catches the cicada, the oriole is behind
When he learned that the Second Battalion had rushed into the town of Tissaffeld, the troops in Zhennan stopped feinting attacks, and the infantry of the first battalion were all pressing on, and the opportunity to suppress the defenders of Zhennan was to approach the Soviet defense line.⊙,
After the shelling stopped, the first battalion of infantry and armored vehicles immediately launched the final charge before the Soviet army came to their senses.
The harsh sound of gunfire resounded across the south of the town, and the German soldiers in the charge covered the earth.
In the ruins, the Soviet soldiers were dizzy and covered in dust by fierce artillery bombardment. When they woke up, they found that the German army had attacked the town and rushed to their side.
The dense rain of bullets made the Soviet army unable to raise their heads. The m24 grenade then flew into the corner where the Soviet army was hiding, completely dismantling the Soviet army's courage to resist.
Among the intact houses in the town, some Soviet troops resisted stubbornly, and bullets from light and heavy machine guns and submachine guns blocked the streets, and bullet holes were everywhere on the streets.
The sniper hid behind the attic window of a house or hid in the bell tower of a church to fire a cold gun at the German soldiers on the street, but was then targeted by the belated grizzly assault gun.
The Grizzly Assault Cannon lived up to its title of "violent demolition worker". The 150mm short-barrel howitzer swung slightly to aim at the house hidden in the Soviet army, and then roared and smashed the Soviet army and the house.
Relying on the powerful demolition capabilities of the Grizzly Assault guns, the German army attacked the Soviet army in the town from both north and south. Wherever they passed, the cannons rumbling, smoke and dust rose, and the houses turned into graves.
A few tanks hid in the corner and attacked the German army, but were bombarded into scrap iron by the e-40 tanks that rushed into the town.
After about two hours of street fighting, the German army occupied the town of Tissaffeld.
The Soviet army in the town of Tisafeld was wiped out, and the battle in the town of Poroslo on the right bank of the Tisa River was coming to an end.
Nearly one-fifth of the houses in the town were razed to the ground. One-half of the houses were damaged to varying degrees. The Imperial Marshal Armored Division took the town with pure violence that was not inferior to the Great German Division.
Half an hour later, four SD251 armored vehicles opened the road in the front, and twenty-one e-40 tanks followed behind and rumbled across the railway bridge across the river, and drove into the town of Poroslo.
In addition to seven tanks that were damaged during combat or had mechanical failures, the Great German Division handed over all the e-40 tanks in their hands to the Imperial Marshal Armor Division.
After receiving the strengthening of twenty-one e-40 tanks, Mandofir was overjoyed when he learned the news.
The Imperial Marshal Armor Division served as the main attack in this counterattack. With the help of these big guys, the attack below will be much smoother.
After praising each other through radio, Major General Mandofir and Hallrene commanded their respective troops and continued to attack the north.
When the Imperial Marshal's Armored Division and the Great German Division ran arbitrarily on both sides of the Tisa River, a crisis hit the city of Solnok in the lower reaches of the Tisa River.
After a night of march, the main forces of the Soviet Forty-fifth Tank Division and the 216th Motorized Division were successfully transferred to the outside of Solnok City.
Kryakov's plan was very simple. He captured Solnok, a waterway transportation hub, which could open up a road to the rear and threaten the supply line behind the Italian Eighth Army.
For the safety of the Eighth Army's supply line, the German army would never allow Solnok to be occupied. Through the attack on Solnok, the German army could be mobilized. Let the German army turn back to Solnok and give up the plan to march to the north.
It can be said that Kryakov placed all his hopes on the battle to attack Solnok.
The sooner you capture Solnok, the sooner you can put pressure on the German army, forcing the German army to turn back and get enough time for the redeployment of the 12th Army.
Carrying all the hopes of Kryakov, the Forty-Fifteen Tank Division had just arrived in the north of Solnok and launched an attack without any rest.
Taking the two highways, the north and northwest as the offensive axis, the Forty-Fifteen Tank Division and the 216 Motorcycle Division were divided into two routes and launched an attack on Solnok City.
In the northwest, the 216 Motorized Division's troops sent a motorized infantry regiment and a tank regiment to launch an attack on the positions of the Litorio Armored Division.
Led by twenty KV-1 tanks, more than one hundred BT-5 fast tanks rushed towards the Italian military positions covered by artillery fire.
They could not defeat the KV-1 and T-34 tanks. Facing the "light cavalry" BT-5 fast tank, the M13-40 tanks equipped by the Litorio Armored Division were not ruthless. They bravely drove to the front line and fired at the BT-5 tank group with 47mm tank guns.
The thickest part of the bt-5 fast tank armor is only 13 mm. The armor-piercing bombs fired by the 47 mm tank gun easily tear their armor apart, just like chopsticks poking tofu.
Seeing that the Italian army's tanks were so brave, the kv-1 tank had to stop and stop. The huge and sturdy body of the car rushed one after another. The 76.2mm cannon on the turret kept spitting flames and firing against the Italian tanks.
The arrogant performance of the kv-1 tank on the battlefield quickly attracted the attention of a special force.
Chen Dao was uneasy about the combat power of the two divisions of the Italian army. In order to be on the safe side, he ordered the Imperial Marshal Armored Division to second the heavy anti-aircraft artillery company in the division's air defense battalion to the two divisions of the Italian army to make up for the lack of anti-tank firepower of these two divisions.
Among the 12 lak 36-type 88mm anti-aircraft guns, Litorio's armored division was divided into eight.
Lying behind the Italian infantry positions, the German gunners quickly found their targets, those large and slow-moving KV-1 tanks.
The predecessor of the Anti-Aircraft Battalion of the Imperial Marshal Division was Chen Daolai's seventh Anti-Aircraft Battalion. This battalion followed him to fight all over Poland, France and North Africa, and had rich combat experience.
Faced with these outrageously slow speeds, the KV-1s that compete with Matilda Type 2 "snail-type" tanks, the German gunners simply ignored the speed of the enemy tanks, and almost no shells shot out were lost, as accurate as shooting a fixed target.
Amid the sound of tooth-stricken metal impact, bullet holes were chiseled out of the tall body of the kv-1 tank, one after another, paralyzed on the battlefield.
The tanks of the Litorio Armored Division were also very experienced. They turned the muzzle and fired the tracks and load-bearing wheels of the KV-1 tank. The shells were jingled and hit the left and right sides of the KV-1. Either the load-bearing wheels were smashed or the tracks were broken. Six or seven kV-1s were beaten and slumped on the way of attack, and then destroyed by the flying 88mm armor-piercing bombs.
The real crisis occurred on the 52nd Turin Motorized Division north of Solnok.
Knowing the importance of capturing Solnok and knowing that the situation is urgent and urgent, the Forty-five Tank Division dispatched all the tanks that could be used almost at once.
On the two-kilometer-wide front, more than 200 tanks launched a charge with the momentum of leveling Solnok City.
Looking down at the earth. The square head and brain slowly t-1, the fast T-34 climbed all over the grass, and the rear and sides of the car were also following the infantry running like ants. The black smoke from the jet pipes at the rear of the car gathered in the sky to form a black cloud.
Faced with the Soviet tanks with an overwhelming numerical advantage, the two anti-tank companies of the Turin Motorized Division, a heavy anti-aircraft gun company, a total of twenty-four 75mm anti-tank guns and four 90mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as the four seconded 88mm anti-aircraft guns, although they were far inferior in number, they still opened fire on the Soviet tank clusters in a frantically.
Armor-piercing bombs fired from Italian positions and high-explosive bombs fired from Soviet tank clusters roared through the middle of the battlefield.
The tank was hit by armor-piercing bombs, and a ball of fire exploded. The explosive ammunition threw the tank turret into the air. The flames burned in the tank's power compartment, and the rolling black smoke rushed into the sky.
The shells of Soviet tanks revenge fell on the Italian position, and shrapnel flew everywhere. The Italian gunners were blown away from blood and flesh. Some artillery positions were hit by ammunition boxes, causing the ammunition to explode and set off deadly fireworks.
The battle between the two sides started with flames, which was extremely tragic.
For every 100 meters of advance, the Soviet army had to pay the price of seven or eight tanks being destroyed.
In each round of artillery attacks, one or two artillery positions behind the Italian military positions exposed their positions and were destroyed by high-explosive bombs flying towards them.
Seeing that the tank rushing in the front was less than one hundred meters away from the Italian trench, the Italian army in the position had already tightened the molten bottle and picked up anti-tank mines and cluster grenades.
At the critical moment, an overwhelming scream sounded in the sky.
At some point, a German fleet flew over the battlefield, and the me-110 and me-109 fighters flew across the battlefield. The machine guns and cannons swept through the Soviet infantry group, and countless demon egg bombs were also smashed down on their heads, shooting tens of thousands of shrapnel on the heads of the Soviet army.
Stuka also sounded the horn of Jericho, smashing aviation bombs into the ground, creating countless earthquake-like explosions.
With only one round of attacks, the fleet that arrived urgently successfully suppressed the Soviet infantry on the ground and restored six or seven tanks close to the explosion point to parts.
The Soviet infantry was suppressed and could not cover the tanks in time.
When the Italian soldiers saw the arrival of air support, their morale was immediately boosted.
Without the interference of Soviet infantry, their actions became bolder.
The track of a T-34 tank had just rolled over the Italian army's trench when flames flashed in the trench. A molten bottle fell on its power compartment with black smoke and smashed it. The viscous fuel was stained on the steel plate, and then a raging flame was ignited.
Less than fifty meters away, the T-34 tank suddenly braked and stopped. The tank pushed open the hatch and abandoned the car in a hurry and fled.
A KV-1 first used a tank gun to bombard a light machine gun position, and then used a machine gun to sweep down a gunner in an anti-tank gun position.
After pressing the Italian army trench unscrupulously, an Italian army soldier rushed up from the right side. As soon as the tank drove past, he stuck a magnetic cluster bomb to the steel plate at the rear of the vehicle, and then pulled the fuse.
With a loud bang, less than ten meters away, the rear of the kv-1 tank was surrounded by dazzling flames.
The soldiers of the Turin masters showed their strength to their German companions and enemies with their tenacious will and skillful combat skills, and were worthy of the title of Italian elite troops.
However, when the Soviet aircraft group arrived and the German fighter jets had to turn around to deal with the Soviet fighter jets and could not provide support to the ground, the Soviet offensive strength was immediately restored.
The infantry got up and rushed to the trenches with the tanks. Any figure moving in the trenches would be fired by the sam-sand submachine guns. Italian soldiers could no longer attack the tank from the side and back as easily as before.
Some infantry jumped directly into the trenches, fought with Italian soldiers, and seized control of the trenches.
After paying a heavy price, nearly a hundred tanks and thousands of infantry were sacrificed, the Soviet army finally broke through the first line of defense of the Turin army and rushed towards Solnok City.
During the battle outside the city, the Turin lost most of its anti-tank guns and first position, and the subsequent position was in danger.
The Soviet infantry and tanks pressed against the second position of the Turin army in groups, easily breaking through the obstacles of the Italian infantry.
At the critical moment, more than fifty tanks in the left wing position of the Turin Division suddenly rushed towards the right wing of the Soviet tank cluster. It was the reinforcements sent by the tank regiment of the Litorio Armored Division.
When he learned of the danger faced by the right-wing Turin master, Litorio's armored division did not care about the pressure he had to bear and sent the only reserve team to the Turin master, which promptly prevented the collapse of the Turin master's position.
The Soviet tank cluster had to turn the front of the car and fight a tank battle with the enemies from the right wing.
While Soviet tanks and friendly forces were in a tank battle, the Turin infantry took the opportunity to launch a small-scale counterattack.
Machine gun bullets, mortars and howitzers flew towards the Soviet infantry on various trajectories. The suppressed Soviet infantry could not move and could only hide behind tanks or simply escape to the Italian trenches they occupied to hide.
The Soviet infantry's dilemma did not last long. Although the 47mm tank gun of the M13-40 tank was extremely easy to deal with the BT-5 tank, it was extremely weak in the face of the T-34 and KV-1 tanks.
The off-road speed of up to 12 kilometers is also at an absolute disadvantage against the T-34, and it is impossible to use roundabout tactics to attack the sides of the T-34 tank.
During the tank battle of more than 20 minutes, more than 50 m13-40 tanks were destroyed by the Soviet army, and the rest of the tanks evacuated from the battlefield in a hurry.
The T-34 tanks that were divided into one battalion chased the defeated Italian troops to expand the results. The main force of the Soviet tanks turned around again and continued to attack the Turin position in depth.
Seeing the tank troops overwhelm the second line of defense of the Italian army, the division headquarters of the 45th Tank Division suddenly issued a strange order.
All troops turned around and retreated and returned to their starting positions.
After the order was issued, the Soviet tank troops lacked radio, and the disadvantages of inconvenient command were revealed again.
The battalion commander and company commanders of the tank regiment received orders and waved flags to signal the troops to retreat.
However, on the battlefield where artillery fire is endless, this behavior is extremely dangerous and has extremely poor results.
Soon, the Soviet tanks on the battlefield were divided into two groups, one continued to attack the Italian positions, while the other group was reversing and leaving the battlefield, and the infantry fell into chaos.
Chapter completed!