Chapter 1138 Bell-Shaped Battle Formation

The eastern sun gradually revealed the horizon, dyeing the entire horizon red.

The cold wind blew across the Stry, over the grass on its banks, and over the steel chariots.

General Felix, the commander of the Viking Division, sat on his Tiger tank, showing half of his body, looking to the east of his side, where the Soviet tank troops were located.

The scouts have been sent out, and through the radio, the battle situation is gradually being summarized to him. The Soviet tank soldiers have already started the tank engines and are ready to attack themselves!

"Attention, form a bell-shaped battle formation and prepare to fight." Felix issued a combat mission to his tank unit on the radio: "On the opposite side of us is the Soviet tank division that has been attacked by our air force many times. , now let's sound the death knell for this Soviet tank division!"

In tank battles, you can't charge in a swarm, you must pay attention to tactics. Especially the impact formation.

In later generations, the American tank troops charged in swarms, because the U.S. Army was already invincible, and the opponents they wanted to fight were all very weak. Moreover, the American tanks have popularized GPS, so it is clear at a glance where the friendly forces are.

But in this era, it will not work. In the battle, they must form a targeted formation according to the different combat objectives. In fact, as early as more than ten years ago, in the desert, Guderian led a group of people. Started researching tank tactics.

The latest armored teaching materials, "Advance, Tanks! ", has carried out a detailed discussion and research, an absolute internal reference.

Generally speaking, the battle formation of the German armored troops can be divided into armored formations and mixed formations according to the size of the reinforced troops, the terrain of the battlefield, the current enemy situation and the higher-level tasks.

Among them, the armored formation refers to the combat formation composed of vehicles with roughly equal mobility and defense power, such as tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery, motorcycles, and engineering vehicles; the mixed formation refers to the combat formation composed of the above-mentioned vehicles and foot infantry. formation.

At the same time, tank units do not fight alone, and must also pay attention to the support of aviation above them.

The main principles followed by the classification of battle formations are: flexibility and ease of maneuvering, and advantages to facilitate the development of firepower.

The first half of the sentence is that the battle formation should make the whole formation as simple and easy to use as possible, and can cope with different unexpected situations on the battlefield. The second half of the sentence is to require that at the same time, the same place, and the same opponent, the overall firepower formed by the battle formation has an advantage, that is, the concentration of firepower.

To be more specific, the most basic unit of the German armored combat formation is based on tank platoons, which can be roughly divided into these types: column formation, echelon formation, linear formation, echelon formation, triangle formation , "wedge" formation and "prism" formation and "bell" formation.

Among them, the final "bell"-shaped battle formation is the ultimate in the development of tank troops.

In the German tank force, there are already heavy tanks such as the Tiger Tank, and there are also medium tanks such as the Panther 3 Tank. Mixing them can play a better role.

For example, now, the tank soldiers of the Viking Division are quickly arranged according to this formation.

Two Tiger tanks, in the center of the formation, each four Panther 3 tanks form a "figure-eight" behind the left and right sides, and the space left in the middle is supplemented by wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, ready to carry out pursuit at any time.

From the sky, it looks like an upside-down bell, so it is called a "bell"-shaped battle formation.

Modlin's Tiger tanks were lined up in the most central formation. A total of 12 tanks had their radios adjusted to one frequency band. Only Modlin's command tank had two sets of radios. You can communicate with the upper level.

In the east, in the direction of the rising sun, there is an evil country. They want to invade the German Third Reich. Now, they will continue to move eastward and eastward. The mission that Napoleon did not complete at the beginning depends on them to complete it!

"Start the engine," Magdalen shouted. "Warm up the engine and prepare to attack!"

The sound of the electric motor was everywhere, and the engine at the rear of the tank emitted a stream of black smoke. In the black smoke, the tank was successfully started, and the sound of the diesel engine resounded throughout the plain.

At this time, on the horizon over there, the shadow of the Soviet tank force has appeared, there are about two hundred vehicles!

The Soviet tank division lost some tanks because of several German air raids, and the Viking division had to set aside some tanks to guard the Soviet infantry divisions in the encirclement to prevent them from breaking through. There are only hundreds of cars.

Even, the number of tanks in the Viking Division was even less, less than 150, forming 15 formations, lined up, but, from a quality point of view, it was different.

Soviet tanks are dominated by T-34. They charge at the forefront. Behind the T-34, they are followed by fast tanks such as T-26 and BT7. Their tank force has no heavy tanks.

On the German side, the Panther 3 tank is the main body, and the Tiger tank is the elite. Such a force has a very powerful impact, not in quantity, but in quality!

The Soviet tanks formed the most direct line, coming from all over the mountains and plains, while the German tanks formed a bell-shaped formation one by one, rushing towards the opposite side!

The collision of steel and steel is coming!

Looking at the Soviet tanks all over the mountains and plains, a trace of disdain flashed in Modlin's eyes.

The bell-shaped formation is advancing rapidly, and the Panther 3 tanks with eight figures on both sides at the back have enough forward shooting circles. At this time, the commanders of each vehicle are looking at the Soviet tanks rushing in the distance. , as a hunter looks at his prey.

The distance between the two sides, in the rapid approach, was about five kilometers when they first discovered each other, but soon, the distance was shortened to one kilometer.

"Stop advancing, fire!" Modlin shouted in the radio, and now he is not only commanding this tank, but the entire formation, the 88mm tank gun, at a distance of one thousand meters, It already has a good hit accuracy!

(Explain, taking advantage of the range and firing outside the opponent’s range to kill the opponent should be the first consideration, right? In the Gulf War, the Yankees abused the Iraqi tank troops like this, and even the Yankees actually still Hanging the reverse gear to increase the distance is to prevent the Iraqi tanks from getting close. In World War II, the German tanks were precisely machined, and they could shoot farther and more accurately than the Soviet tanks. Regarding the issue of always hitting the first shot, the hero of East China will not To describe it again, a fifty percent hit rate shouldn’t be much, right?)