The German troops stationed in Gary pose the greatest threat to the soldiers is this heavy artillery group. In addition, they are the large number of war defense artillery they equipped. These things also pose great threat to the ground attacks that the 1st Army will launch...

In order to reduce casualties, we must take the lead in destroying this German heavy artillery group.

The German troops stationed in Gary never expected that the Chinese [***] team had already targeted their own heavy artillery group. If the two armies were facing each other and both sides had heavy artillery, no one was willing to take the lead in firing. Once they took the lead in firing, it would mean that the position was exposed.

Once the position is exposed, the opponent's heavy artillery group will retaliate against him. If not, his heavy artillery group will be destroyed immediately. You must know that the range of heavy artillery is far from comparable to small-caliber artillery. The range of heavy artillery can be more than ten kilometers at any time, and some are even more than twenty kilometers.

The only thing that can be done when heavy artillery has such a range is to keep the location of your heavy artillery group strictly confidential and prevent the other party from knowing their position. Once the other party knows their position, these bulky heavy artillery will be very troublesome to transfer and cannot be transferred in a short time. If you may still be transferring, the other party's artillery fire will be covered.

Of course, self-propelled howitzers are much better. They can be transferred within a short time after firing the cannon, while rocket launchers are more convenient. They can leave immediately after firing the cannon.

The Germans never expected that the reconnaissance aircraft of the Chinese team had been reconnaissance in the Gary area for several days, and their artillery positions had been discovered.

If we hadn't figured out the location of the German heavy artillery group, the 1st Army might have launched an attack long ago, and there was no need to wait there for five days to figure out the situation of the German army before taking action today.

As for the several heavy artillery positions of the 1st Group, it has always been a secret. The German army has not yet figured out where these heavy artillery groups are. In the past few days, the German army has sent a lot of reconnaissance teams to infiltrate the defense zone of the 1st Group Army, but none of them have been successful, and they have basically been shot dead or captured by the soldiers of the 1st Group Army.

In the past few days, the German troops stationed in Gary had limited intelligence, far less than the details of the 1st Army.

Without the Germans' knowledge, the 1st Army began to attack the German heavy artillery positions.

The mission is a mechanized infantry regiment and a rocket launcher regiment. The mission of the mechanized infantry regiment is to cover, and the real attack on the German heavy artillery group is this rocket launcher regiment.

This rocket launcher regiment belongs to the Heavy Artillery Brigade of the 1st Army. The Heavy Artillery Brigade has three regiments under its jurisdiction. In addition to two heavy artillery regiments, each regiment is equipped with 36 155mm howitzers, which is the rocket launcher regiment equipped with dozens of rocket launchers.

On the vast desert, a long convoy was driving.

Although this place is coastal, it has a drought and little rain, and the vegetation is not lush at all. The most common ones are deserts or next doors, as well as some drought-tolerant plants.

This long convoy is the rocket launcher regiment that went to the reservation location to perform missions. There were 60 rocket launchers, each launcher was filled with rockets, and each car was 40 200mm caliber rockets.

On the flanks of the convoy and in front, you can also see many Type 39 armored vehicles, new wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, and many armed off-road vehicles. This is the first mechanized infantry regiment of the 1st Army.

The ground where the rocket launcher regiment was carrying out the defense zone of the 1st Army, which was in the area where the two armies were about to fight. For safety, a very good mechanical infantry regiment was sent.

These two troops set off at dawn and had already traveled more than ten kilometers and were almost entering the predetermined location.

At the front of the convoy, many chariots were driving the road, and no sign of the German army was seen along the way. However, the soldiers were not careless and almost reached the scheduled location. The soldiers finally saw a small team of German army.

This is obviously a German patrol team, with a small scale, less than a hundred people, but they are driving either armored vehicles or off-road vehicles, and their equipment is also good.

These armored vehicles, about seven or eight, are all half-track armored transport vehicles, while there are fewer off-road vehicles, only two.

This German squad saw a large number of tanks coming, and through the telescope, you could also see many strange-shaped trucks coming. These trucks were naturally rocket launchers. The German army had never seen rocket launchers, so they naturally felt very strange.

A German officer hurriedly looked at it with a telescope and thought to himself, could the Zhong[***] team start attacking on the ground? With so many tanks, it must be that the Zhong[***] team started attacking.

The German officer reported to his command center and ordered his troops to retreat quickly. Just kidding that the Chinese chariots in the distance were at least several times that of his own. Fighting with this Chinese [***] team was completely seeking death.

The soldiers in front of the team couldn't help laughing when they saw the German troops fleeing in the distance. Unexpectedly, the German army ran away when they saw them.

However, several commanders of the mechanized infantry regiments thought to themselves when they saw this German army, and they thought to themselves that this area was indeed not safe. There was actually a German mechanized patrol squad. If they had not come with the rocket launcher regiment, these German patrol squads would not have run so fast with the rocket launcher regiment alone.

Maybe, many German mechanized patrol teams would come from all directions to encircle and annihilate the rocket launcher regiments. Thinking about this, these commanders were secretly worried. It seemed that the form was far from as simple as it seemed.

As this German patrol team ran into the distance and gradually disappeared from everyone's sight, many commanders knew that their position must have been exposed.

"Comrades, hurry up and get to the scheduled location immediately."

The colonel leader of the Rocket Array regiment did not dare to be careless and immediately ordered his soldiers to speed up and fire rockets to the scheduled location.

Now, we have to compete with the German army for time, and complete the task before the German troops arrive, then leave and return to the control area of ​​the 1st Army.

Fortunately, it was very close to the predetermined location here. A few minutes later, dozens of rocket launchers from the rocket launcher regiment reached the predetermined location. These rocket launchers stopped one after another, and the soldiers began to prepare for the launch in an orderly manner.

The launch site is about seven or eight kilometers away from the German heavy artillery group position, and is closer to the German defense zone, perhaps only five or six kilometers.

The soldiers of the Rocket Array Regiment were busy, while the mechanized infantry regiment responsible for safety was on the periphery, not far from the Rocket Array Regiment, and everyone was on the periphery.

Everyone was worried that the German army had already known that they had reached this area, and it might not take long before the German army would come. Many soldiers from the mechanized infantry regiment even held telescopes, looked into the distance, and the direction the German army might have come.

In just a few minutes, the soldiers discovered the abnormality. The German army came. At this time, the soldiers of the Rocket Array Regiment were just ready to proofread the launch parameters again.

A large-scale mechanized German army appeared in the eyes of the soldiers. In the distance, there were at least hundreds of semi-track armored vehicles, as well as a small number of off-road vehicles and tanks.

Yes, it is a tank, definitely not an armored vehicle. However, the number of these tanks is not large, and it may be less than ten, and the model is not a No. 4 tank. It seems to be some relatively old models, with a much smaller barrel caliber than a No. 4 tank.

The German tanks were mainly No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, as well as the latest Tiger tanks. In addition, there were some old-fashioned tanks from the early stages of World War II. However, on the North African battlefield, soldiers had never encountered Tiger tanks. The most advanced German tanks the soldiers encountered were Tank IV.

The soldiers already know that the surname Neng of the No. 4 tank is slightly worse than their Type 39 tanks. The German troops coming from afar should be less powerful than the number 4 tanks, but it is also a big threat to everyone. If there is a chance, the soldiers will definitely give priority to these German tanks.

In addition to these tanks, the most common ones are naturally the German half-tracked chariots. The soldiers are not familiar with this kind of chariot. Many soldiers thought to themselves that they don’t know what the surnames of these half-tracked chariots can be.

In fact, the German half-tracked combat chariot, also called the half-tracked armored transport vehicle, was developed by the German Borgwad Company and was mainly used to transport personnel. It began to serve in the German army as early as 1939.

The German army has a huge number of armored vehicles, including various variant vehicles. Currently, a total of 16,000 vehicles have been produced and equipped.

The vehicle has a combat weight of 8.5t and is listed as a medium-sized half-track armored conveyor. The vehicle is equipped with 2 passengers, namely the driver and the commander, and can also accommodate 10 passengers.

The front half of the car is wheeled and the rear is crawler type. There are 6 load-bearing wheels on each side of the car body, with the driving wheels in front and the induction wheels in the rear. The load-bearing wheels are arranged in an interlaced manner. The armor thickness is 7mm~12mm, which can prevent the attack of bullets and shell fragments. However, the top of the car body is also open, and people in the car are prone to guns and shells.

The main weapon is two 7.92mm machine guns. The maximum road trip is 320km, the maximum off-road trip is 180km, the height of the vertical wall is 0.3m, the maximum climbing slope is 24 degrees, the width of the trench is 2m, and the depth of the wading is 0.5m.

From the data, it can be seen that the 39 armored personnel carriers equipped by the Zhong[***] team are slightly worse than the wheeled combat vehicles equipped by the Zhong[***] team in the past two years, they are at least one level worse.

However, this German army has many armored transport vehicles equipped with at least one hundred. At present, it is in full force, raising dust in the sky and approaching the mechanized infantry regiment.

When the Mechanized Infantry Regiment saw the Germans coming, everyone came forward fearlessly. The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the war was about to break out.

As for the soldiers of the Rocket Armor regiment, seeing so many German troops coming, everyone was preparing faster and they wanted to launch rockets as soon as possible. Now, a German mechanized unit came. Who can guarantee whether a German tank unit will come later?
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