The battle ended without warning. The Soviet tank troops retreated with abandoned armor and left the wreckage of hundreds of tanks on the battlefield.

The entire battlefield looked very quiet, as if there had never been a battle. Although a tragic tank battle broke out here more than ten minutes ago.

The Soviet Union launched a strong local counterattack, then dropped the wreckage of almost 170 tanks and began a long retreat.

This may be the largest tank battle that broke out in the border area. The two sides dispatched at least 500 tanks and launched a fierce battle in a small area.

There was still thick smoke on the ridges in the distance, and closer places were filled with various tank wreckage. Some tank turrets had been blown away, and some were abandoned just for failure.

Carlyus took off his headphones, climbed out of the hatch, walked around to the front of the tank, and looked at the place where the shell had just hit.

The outer layer of steel plate was penetrated, leaving a small trace on the main armor. There was also a shallow pit on the turret...

This is an exhausted battle, and it is also a battle that makes people transform. Carlyus likes this feeling of rebirth very much. He stands on the tank silently, staring quietly in a daze.

A leopard tank rumbling past, and the hatch on the turret was lifted open. The company commander of the 1st Company smiled and poked his head out and asked, "How many tanks have you killed?"

"Eight tanks, the gunner said. They retreated too quickly, otherwise we might be able to fight more." Carlyus raised his head and reported his achievements to his company commander.

The first time I participated in the battle, I achieved the results of destroying 8 enemy tanks, which can be said to be a very good record.

The company commander nodded with satisfaction and praised: "It is worthy of being a genius named by the head of state. Your record can be said to be the best in our company."

Carlyus likes this title, he likes the adjective of genius, and there is also a modification of the head of state before this word, which makes him feel very comfortable all over his body.

After all, Carlyus is still an 18-year-old child. He is not that calm yet, and he is not the warrior tempered by the cruel battlefield.

"Cleaning up, we will clean up the battlefield with friendly forces, check the total number of tanks that destroyed the enemy, and summarize the various problems that arose in this battle." The company commander mentioned the results of this battle, and the smile on his face became even worse.

Just now, his 1st Company destroyed almost 45 Soviet tanks of various models on the front.

This number is almost three times the number of tanks his company has. In addition to the eight tanks that Karyus destroyed, the fewest tank also destroyed one enemy tank.

Moreover, the newly formed 505th Heavy Tank Destroy Battalion destroyed 80 enemy tanks during the first battle with the enemy, twice the number of its own tanks.

With such a huge number of destroyed numbers, I have not lost a tank. It can be said that this battle was very perfect. As the army's first victory, it is simply impeccable.

The Leopard tanks made using the design concepts of later generations also developed terrifying combat power in the war.

The elite German tank crews used their equipment advantages to easily defeat their opponents and won the war.

"The 88mm caliber cannon is really easy to use, and it is easy to penetrate the opponent's tank." The gunman praised his cannon and drilled out of the turret and said to Carlyus.

"I saw that every time our shells fired, they could be destroyed as long as they hit the target." Karyus nodded in agreement.

The gunner looked a little embarrassed and shrugged his shoulders before explaining: "The opponent's tank is constantly moving forward, which is interfering with my aiming."

In the battle just now, he used 11 shells to destroy 8 Soviet tanks, including two thick armored kv-1 tanks.

"You've already fought well." After a glance at the same young gunman, Carlyus comforted: "I'm not blaming you for not hitting the target. The real battlefield is much more complicated than the situation we encountered during training."

What he said was not pure comfort, but also his feelings just now. The Soviet tanks on the battlefield fought desperately, which put a lot of pressure on the German tank crew.

For a while, Carlyus had even considered the feasibility of retreating. Because the other party was too close to him.

Of course, in the end, he withstood the pressure and persisted until the air force arrived without giving an order to retreat.

You know, at that time, the nearest Soviet tank was less than 300 meters away from the German tank.

In actual combat, the enemy's tanks are constantly moving, and the hit accuracy of the attacking opponent will naturally decrease.

In the era of World War II, there were no cross wind sensors or ballistic computers, and everything could only be judged by the experience of the shooter.

Without precision auxiliary instruments, attacks on static may not be able to hit every shot, let alone hit the target in the exercise.

The location of the Karyus tank is the best position facing the opponent's attack direction. The impact of enemy tank movement is much smaller for him.

The tank crew that fired out ten shells and only hit two Soviet tanks, and the position was obviously deviated, so it was so much worse.

"I know there may not be one now, but if we have the chance, we must celebrate today's victory." Carlyus said to his gunman with a smile.

"I heard you are really praising me, commander!" The gunner nodded and said to Carlyus with a smile: "Long live the head of state!"

"Long live the head of state!" Karyus nodded and looked at the Soviet tanks emitting thick smoke in the distance.

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In the Air Force Command, all the officers were busy in a group. This may be the largest aircraft take-off and landing command in the world so far, and everyone was very busy.

Within a limited time, Germany commanded more than 7,000 aircraft to take off at hundreds of field airports behind the defense line of hundreds of kilometers.

This achievement is almost equivalent to allowing all the flying planes on the German Eastern Front to fly over to the sky.

The entire airspace is chaotic, with attacking aircraft and landing aircraft moving back and forth at different altitudes, densely covering the sky and the sun.

There are so many targets to attack, so many that the Air Force commanders don’t know where they should attack.

What is the situation? The dozens of telephones that the Army contacted the Air Force were always on the phone, and still could not mark all areas that needed to be attacked on the map.

If the Air Force commander arranges a task a little slower, there will be more important tasks instead.

If the Air Force pilots exert their subjective initiative and attack when they see Soviet troops on the ground, they will soon use up all their ammunition.

What's even more exaggerated is that under the attack of thousands of aircraft, the Soviet Union's defeated troops did not tend to decrease at all.

Crowds of retreating Soviet troops can be seen everywhere on the ground, tanks and cars burning on the road, and discarded weapons and equipment can be seen everywhere on the ground.

Mosinnagan rifles were thrown everywhere, and there were also a large number of Soviet-made light machine guns and carriages.

Compared with the Army Logistics Forces, which Germany has always been dissatisfied with, the Soviet Union's logistics forces were even more backward, and almost two-thirds of their supplies were transported by carriages.

This was the Soviet Union in 1941, not the steel torrent under the iron curtain that made people shudder when they were mentioned in later generations. The current Soviet troops have not been mechanized, and there is still a long way to go before they can shudder.

At this moment, a large number of Soviet Red Army were still traditional light infantry, and often they could only rely on carriages and livestock to provide supplies and transportation to their troops.

Although there are 5 million troops so shockingly, this army has very poor combat quality due to the great purge.

Of course, the unsatisfactory road conditions in the Soviet Union were also one of the important reasons why the Soviet Union was unable to popularize mechanization.

The existence of millions of Soviet Red Army made the German Army Commander-in-Chief Marshal Blauchch and Marshal Keitel, the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command, very uneasy. They were worried that this was a trick by the Soviet Union to lure Germany into advancing in depth.

The result was that they ordered more than 40 reconnaissance aircraft from the Air Force and the Direct Army to take off and investigate continuously, and finally confirmed that the defeat of the Soviet troops was real.

On the second day of the war, on the morning of March 21, Lundstedt's Central Army Group entered the Soviet Union, like a steel knife, splitting the Soviet attacking troops from the middle.

Then just now, when German troops crossed the Soviet-occupied area of ​​Poland and entered Belarus, the most resolute and powerful counterattack broke out.

Unfortunately, this counterattack was defeated by the 1st Armored Division, the 505th Battalion, and the Air Force. The Germans entered the vicinity of Brest and threatened this important transportation hub.

Not only is there a large amount of military supplies stored there, but it also stocks up a large amount of diesel and gasoline supplying to the frontline.

The German army was already attacking there, and the surrounding Soviet troops were still busy retreating at this time and did not care about this important supply base.

As the commander of the Central Army Group, Marshal Lundstedt's next target is Brest right in front of him.
Chapter completed!