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895 The swan song of the red tank 6

"Enemy attack!"

When Wei Lihuang had just deployed his defense, a scream filled with horror suddenly rang in his ears. The smoke and dust covering the sky and the deafening engine roar, and the shouts of "Ula! Ula!" also followed one after another!

Wei Lihuang immediately rushed out of his command center with his staff and ran up the high slope not far away. Although it was only twenty or thirty meters high, it was enough to overlook the battlefield as flat as a table. When he raised his telescope and looked west, a layer of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead. The Soviet tank cluster appeared in front of his right wing position. At least 500 tanks formed a wedge formation, and there were no less than 30,000 to 40,000 infantry accompanying him. Some sat directly on the tanks, and some were walking forward, shouting slogans "Ula! Ula!" while moving forward. He was ready to fight desperately!

"Damn, I really thought our 22nd Army was easy to bully!" Wei Lihuang's anger suddenly came up, and now he was fighting Moscow! It has been the case that the Soviet Union's national demise has been in the past two months. There are more than 4 million Chinese and German troops around Moscow and more than 10,000 tanks. The Soviets' tanks are not enough to see at all. What can we do if we defeat the 22nd Army? Isn't it still crushed by the overwhelming armored forces of the Chinese and German armies? They are obviously trying to pull themselves to take the initiative!

"Air support! Call for air support!" Wei Lihuang knew that his thin line of defense could not withstand the impact of so many tanks no matter what. You must know that in the battle just now, the troops had lost a lot of anti-tank weapons! The only hope now is that the German air support was stronger.

However, the Germans cannot send too many aircraft now. Because their own troops are attacking west of Moscow and south of the two sides, with more than 2 million troops fighting fiercely on the battlefield in west of Moscow and south, and the Luftwaffe is also doing their best to provide air support. Of course, there is not much spare time to help the Chinese. However, this time they still sent 32 HS-129s and 16 Stukas equipped with 30mm anti-tank guns. These two aircraft are probably the most powerful anti-tank weapons in the hands of the Luftwaffe, but the total number of forty-eight is still not enough to suppress the Soviet tanks covering the entire battlefield.

"Attack! Attack! Don't stop!" Konev also boarded a su-76 attack cannon at this time. Half of his body poked out from the top cover of the attack cannon. He waved a red flag vigorously, and shouted. After losing radio communication, he could only use the original flag to command the troops. At this time, on the battlefield of Losino-Petrovsky, there were many Soviet tanks who were not sure where to attack. Seeing that the tank cluster commanded by Konev was attacking eastward, they also turned the front of the car to the east. The pressure on Su Y's end suddenly reduced a lot, but Wei Lihuang's end was a little dangerous. He could have drawn the left and middle forces to reinforce the right wing, but now it was almost tight.

"Military captain, Chief Li asked us to hold on for another 30 minutes. Our tank will come soon!" This was a staff officer who ran to Wei Lihuang quickly and made a loud report.

"I know, go and reply to Chief Li. He wants our 22nd Army to last as long as he wants!" Hearing that half an hour later, his own armored troops would come up to reinforce, Wei Lihuang immediately felt confident and ordered loudly: "Tell the tanks and anti-tank guns, and put the enemy closer. The 75mm anti-tank gun and 105mm recoilless gun could only fire until the target enters within 1,000 meters. The 75mm recoilless gun could only fire until the target enters 500 meters. The C-type tank retreated to lure the enemy."

The total combat weight is only 15 tons, and the main gun caliber is only 45mm. Although the thin-armored C-type tanks have room to fully display their power in India, Japan, and the Nanyang Islands battlefield, it is really not enough to be seen on the battlefield outside Moscow. The Soviet t-28 and su-76 cannot beat Black Panthers and Cheetahs, and it can be played against C-type tanks. Therefore, Wei Lihuang did not dare to really let the C-type tanks compete head-on with the enemy's tank clusters. They could only let them act like attracting the enemy's attention and create an opportunity to annihilate the enemy's encampment for the lurking anti-tank guns and recoilless guns.

"The C-type tank is a C-type tank. Sprint up, go up quickly, don't let them run away!" The commanders of the Soviet tanks rushing in the front saw these small C-type tanks slowly retreating. Their courage was immediately stimulated to the limit, and they all shouted to drive at full speed to rush towards the Chinese defense line in front of the Chinese army that had not even dug even the anti-tank trench. However, not far away, fire groups emerged one after another under the Soviet tank tracks. It turned out that Wei Lihuang's troops had buried many anti-tank mines in front of their positions while the Soviet tank cluster was attacking south just now.

"Fire, 75 anti-tank guns, 105 recoilless guns fire! Blow me hard!" Seeing that the Soviet tanks were trapped in the minefield, several defense division commanders who were personally commanding the line picked up phone calls and ordered fire. They all fought for several years of mechanized wars and knew how dangerous anti-tank guns were when facing enemy tank clusters. Unless there was a solid bunker, these guns would have to be fired several guns and changed places. However, for the 75mm anti-tank guns that could not be maneuvered, it was impossible to quickly transfer positions during combat, so they could only be used as disposable weapons, and they were determined to destroy Soviet tanks as much as possible before the opponent counterattacked.

"Recharge! Aim... Launch!" Although Hao Bowen, the gunman of the Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion of the 22nd Artillery Regiment, was only 19 years old, he had been fighting with the Soviets for two years on the Siberian battlefield. He was already familiar with the performance and corresponding tactics of the 75mm anti-tank artillery. After receiving the order to open fire, he immediately commanded his gun team to complete a series of tactical actions such as loading, aiming, and firing in the shortest time. After the first shell was fired, he and his brothers did not even have any trouble.

To see if the target hits, they quickly start another round of loading, aiming, and shooting. Because they all know that the two most important tricks for playing anti-tank guns are "fast" and "accurate". They must shoot the most shells in the shortest time, and also ensure accuracy. In daily training, the most basic requirement for each gun group is to shoot 6 shells in 2 minutes, and 5 shots hit the vehicle target 1,500 meters away. Hao Baicun's gun group can hit all 6 shots!

"Boom, boom, boom..." The Soviet tanks and infantry trapped in the minefield were soon suffered a devastating round of killing. The 75 anti-tank guns, 105 recoilless guns, machine guns and mortars on the Chinese positions were fired at the same time, smashing the steel plates of the Soviet tanks, and killing groups of infantry and engineers who came to eliminate anti-tank mines to fly across the flesh.

However, the one-sided massacre did not last for a few minutes. The Soviet tank cluster soon stopped advancing and started to counterattack with their 76.2mm, 45mm and 57mm cannons. When the first shell exploded near the Hao Bowen gun group, the order to withdraw the anti-tank gun was issued. For the current Greater China Federal Defense Force, a heavy anti-tank gun is far less valuable than an excellent anti-tank gun group, so when encountering enemy artillery fire attacks, there is no need for superiors to issue orders. The anti-tank gun group must abandon the anti-tank gun to transfer!

"Hurry, load it quickly! Another shot!" Hao Baiwen, who was probably addicted to the attack, refused to retreat in time, and asked the loader to load an armor-piercing bomb, aimed at a su-76 whose tracks were blown off by an anti-tank mine and shot it out.

With a "boom!", the Russian tank-killing machine created by the counterfeiter tank destroyer instantly turned into an orange-red fire ball. Seeing that he had made a contribution, Hao Baiwen reluctantly left the gun position, but before he could run far, a Russian 57mm grenade exploded less than 10 meters away from him. The flying fragments and shock waves immediately beat the 19-year-old man into a bloody man. Finally, he lay in the field hospital of the group army for half a month before he was out of danger of his life.

"Fight well! Fight well!" Konev, who was on the front line, saw the Chinese anti-tank guns being hoarse, was so excited that he danced with joy, and shouted: "Let the infantry and engineers rush up, remove the mines, and drive the Chinese devils away from the trenches!"

"Ula! Crush! For the motherland!"

Under the cover of Soviet tanks and powerful artillery, thousands of Soviet soldiers shouted slogans and rushed to the thin defense line of the Chinese army like a tide. At this time, they still didn't know what kind of bad luck their motherland was facing? And the Chinese people who came from more than 10,000 kilometers away were the enemies who had put the Soviet Union in desperate situation. Although it was impossible to drive them back to East Asia, it would be better to kill one more!

"Tank! Let the tank come up!" Seeing this scene in front of him, Wei Lihuang knew that his defense line was about to go through a life-and-death test, and it was very likely that he could not defend it! Now at least tens of thousands of Russians attacked with the support of seven or eight hundred tanks. So he didn't care about the fact that the C-type tank was not attacked, and repeatedly ordered the tank that had just retreated and lured the enemy to push it up and use 45mm cannons and machine guns to support the infantry in front.

The cruel melee battle started everywhere in the defense line of the 22nd Army of the Chinese Army. Soviet soldiers wearing yellow uniforms and holding bayonets quickly rushed to the front of the Chinese army's positions. "Get the bayonet!" As the officers roared, the Chinese infantry in the trenches pulled out the bayonets from the scabbards and inserted them into the muzzle, then climbed out of the trenches, and launched the bloodiest hand-to-hand combat with the Soviet army! (To be continued...)
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