Chapter 1179 Minsk Join Forces

At this time, on the opposite side, inside the tank, the tank crews were also surprised. Tanks, the Soviets have tanks? Also, that tank seems to be able to breathe fire?

"Attention, three hundred meters ahead, there's a tank loaded with armor-piercing bullets," the commander shouted.

Along the way, they almost used grenades, and basically they didn't encounter any targets that required armor-piercing bombs. I didn't expect that they would encounter a hard stubble here.

"Yes, armor-piercing projectile loading." The loader took out an armor-piercing projectile, stuffed it into the gun chamber, and shouted loudly, "Filled."

The gunner had already started to aim at the target. As the magnification of his sight gradually enlarged, he could see it gradually, and suddenly he was agitated. Why did he look so familiar?

"Report, the target tank is suspected to be a Panther 3." the gunner shouted.

Black Panther 3? Isn't that the same as your own tank? When I saw the target just now, no wonder it looked so familiar. The commander quickly observed it carefully, but no, the Panther 3 tank is his own!

They rushed in from the south road, and the opposite side rushed in from the north road. Before they knew it, they had already joined forces in Minsk, which also marked that they had occupied the city!

At this time, the tanker on the Spitfire also recognized the other's model, and the two sides hugged each other, quite excited.

I really didn't expect that there would be a victory meeting here! They almost made a mistake just now.

In this case, a misfire is possible. This is also in the history of later generations. In the face of the Soviet T-34 crisis, German tank designers came up with a quick implementation plan, which is the German version. The T-34 was almost an exact copy of the T-34, and Hitler was very dissatisfied as a result.

One of the big reasons is the misfire on the battlefield.

In the absence of an advanced identification system, it is very important to see each other clearly and identify the model. If the enemy and foe are the same, it will bring a lot of inconvenience.

With the reunion of the two armies, the city of Minsk was captured by the German army within a day. At this time, the huge German Central Corps, the two armies had already achieved the encirclement, and in their encirclement, there were some Hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops.

This encirclement is quite huge, so there will still be large gaps in the encirclement. After all, it is impossible for the German army to make the encirclement airtight. If people are next to each other on the field and organize the encirclement, then Germany The Central Corps of five million troops is not enough.

You only need to control strategic points, you can construct an encirclement, and then use the mobility of tanks to block possible openings at any time. put.

This large encirclement will be divided into several smaller encirclements, and the Soviet troops will be eaten in one bite.

New Gruddock.

The soil on the field has been trampled softly. On such a road, groups of soldiers are running all the way to the east.

They have rifles on their backs, grenades dangling on their hips, and they're exhausted all the way, but they have no other way, if they don't want to be eaten by the Germans, that's all they can do run away.

Riding a warhorse, the army commander Kuznetsov looked at his infantry with impatience.

The Third Army Group, an army group belonging to the Western Special Military Region, originally had good strength, but the 11th Mechanized Army under the establishment has been defeated. Now they only have the Fourth Infantry Army, and they still have some of them. car, but last night when the last drop of gasoline was used up, they had to blow up their car and become pure infantry.

The order came too late. If it had been two days earlier, they would have all gone to Minsk by now. If they were not so determined to carry out the counterattack mission, they could still save their strength.

Just as he looked at his exhausted subordinates, his telegraph operator took this opportunity to set up his radio and received a telegram.

"Minsk is occupied by the Germans," the telegraph operator told him.

Minsk is occupied? Kuznetsov immediately frowned. They originally planned to return to Minsk, but now, the back road is actually blocked?

Eagerly unfolding his marching map, he looked at the route map drawn in pencil. All around were occupied by the Germans. Do you want to go to the Nariboke Forest in the south?

No, it is not suitable there. It will take longer to travel through the forest, and there is no hope of breaking through. During this time, I don’t know where the Germans will hit, maybe they will hit Smolensk.

"Order troops, speed up," he continued. "Order our forwards to take the Neman River Ferry."

He could only continue to retreat eastward, hoping to find a weak spot where the enemy's defense was weak, clear a road, and retreat. Now, in front of their army is the Neman River, which is a bottleneck.

The Neman River, the western river of the Eastern European Plain. It originates 50 kilometers southwest of Minsk, Belarus, and flows through Lithuania and the northern part of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, into the Kursky Gulf of the Baltic Sea. The total length is 937 kilometers. The river has many shoals and sandbars.

Back then, Napoleon crossed the Neman River and entered Russia all the way. After that, Emperor Napoleon and Alexander met on a tented raft in the middle of the Neman River. After some quarrel, the treaty was finally signed. .

Now, this river has become the biggest threat to the 3rd Army. Because of the obstruction of this river, they will slow down their actions. Now they urgently need to seize the ferry on the river as soon as possible and cross the river.

Walking in front was the 172nd Infantry Division. The division commander Romanov urged his troops to move forward quickly. They could already see the ferry over there.

"Quick, look for boats nearby and find everything that can cross the river." Romanov was also extremely anxious. If he wanted to retreat, he had to pass through here, and cross the river before the Germans discovered it.

Just after he finished speaking, there was a rumbling voice above his head.

"Stealth, covert, here comes the German bombers!"

The soldiers on the march panicked. They looked for cover on the spot, and before they could hide, the roar of the god of death came from above their heads.

The Stuka bomber lowered its height, the machine guns in the nose were firing violently, and where they swept, Soviet soldiers fell in pieces.

Hiding under a dirt slope, Romanov's telescope, looking at the ferry in the distance, his heart was extremely anxious.

There were constant explosions, machine gun fire, and there were no troops there for the time being, only local boats. It seems that the Germans destroyed all the ships on the ferry here.

How can we cross the river without a boat?