With the roar of thousands of engines, the largest Kurgasson tank battle since the war broke out.

Baranov was indeed very cautious. Even though the troops turned and contracted to cross the river, they still laid defense lines in several directions. Although the defense on the north back was the worst, there was still a complete infantry regiment and 31 T26 tanks. In addition to 6 76mm anti-tank guns, there were four 122mm howitzers in the infantry regiment. When Zhao Dengyu's 510th Regiment rolled up mud and appeared ten kilometers away, the sentry discovered a sneak attack from the back in time. The infantry that had no time to dig the bunker immediately borrowed big trees and rocks to deploy anti-tank firepower, and also leveled the 122mm howitzer to stand up to withstand the impact of the tank by caliber.

Of course, Zhao Dengyu looked down on this firepower. The 36 main battle tank could withstand the attack of 122mm grenades within 500 meters on the front. But what made him depressed was that the first shot of this long-awaited tank battle was still snatched by the Air Force.

Fourteen Hongshi, who came from the second-tier airport, arrived at the battlefield first. Captain Luo Jun, who was in the long-range pilot, was scolding this new aircraft that had just been prepared. For pilots who were used to seeing elegant appearances, the Hongshi 10 was an ugly and difficult to operate. Its appearance was short and thick, its nose was large, and its wings were wide. The two engines were embedded in the inner side of the reinforced narrow wing. The weight-enhancing armor made its fastest speed only 470 kilometers per hour. In order to meet the large ammunition load and armor protection, it almost

All internal spaces are used to reinforce and increase ammunition loads, which leads to the four-person crew having to squeeze into a narrow space, with a maximum range of less than 1,600 kilometers and a maximum combat radius of only 380 kilometers. The reason why the Air Force is determined to purchase it is that the Army has a lot of criticisms about the Huashe B fighter attack aircraft, insufficient ammunition capacity, and cannot provide long-term air stagnation support, etc. When the Huashe fighter has no potential to improve, the Air Force has purchased this dual-engine short-range front-line support aircraft.

Although the H-10 is not valued by the Air Force, it meets the short-distance front-line support for the army and has long air stagnation and large ammunition load requirements. In particular, its dual composite pylon is considered to be the biggest technological innovation of the Air Force since the war began. After arriving in the war zone, Luo Jun received a guide signal from Fan Shaobo asking for the bridging of bridges and floating equipment first, so he stopped complaining, and after a big turn over the river, he lowered the height and rushed towards Kurgasen along the river.

"Fire the gun! Fire the gun!" The political commissar who personally supervised the bridge building rushed onto the air defense truck and directed the anti-aircraft guns to air shooting.

Before he could wake up from the shock of the enemy tanks suddenly appearing from his back, Major General Balanov had to deal with the air threat first. The vehicle-mounted 7.62mm air-resistant machine gun and 37mm anti-aircraft gun he carried immediately sprinkled a dense rain of bullets. But in addition to being careful of the 37mm anti-aircraft gun directly hitting, the bottom armor of the K10 was completely immune to the 7.62mm anti-aircraft machine gun. So Luo Jun quickly lowered to 800 meters and aimed at the first floating bridge being built. When the thin line-like floating bridge and entered the center of the center, he gently tapped his fingers.

Rockets in two groups were sprayed out from under the wings. Although the hit accuracy of the ground rockets was not very high, the H10, which reduced the height by relying on the rough skin and thick flesh, increased the probability of hitting the target. When Luo Jun pulled the trigger for the fifth time, several fireballs burst out from the pontoon bridge being set up, and the entire bridge body was broken into two pieces. After breaking the first pontoon bridge, Luo Jun had lost the height, so he did not continue to be greedy for me but pulled the plane first. After turning a corner, he went to deal with Kurgasen's main force and handed over the bombing mission behind to his comrades.

The Hong-10 Squadron took turns to pass the river low, and soon destroyed the three floating bridges that were being laid. They also repeatedly used rockets to strafuse the Soviet engineers on the shore. During the rumbling explosion, the Soviet engineers suffered heavy casualties, and a large number of trucks and bridge-building equipment were destroyed by rockets. The return Luo army had already arrived over Kurgasen at this time and began to attack the ground air defense and armor targets with the twin 40mm cannons at the nose. Even the T34, the top armor could not stop the armor-piercing shells fired by the 40mm cannon. If the aircraft had not been unable to obtain the best armor-piercing angle when attacking tanks, and its own speed was too fast, the hit rate was low, his squadron alone could kill half of the Fifth Tank Army.

"Manjaya Tiger. It's Manjaya Tiger! Retreat, retreat!" When the H-10 aircraft group repeatedly attacked Kurgasen's ground targets, Zhao Dengyu finally rushed to 15 kilometers north. Seeing the rushing 36 main battle tank, the "Manjaya Tiger" screamed again in the Soviet tank regiment. There was no way. In the entire Central Asian battlefield, the 36 main battle tank almost became synonymous with the god of death. In order to deal with it, the Soviet army used all the firepower except the newly prepared 57mm tank gun, and even the 152 howitzer was pulled.

When they came to shoot flat, they were still difficult to destroy the opponent, so the heavy losses made many front-line troops afraid to write the damage caused by the "Manchuria Tiger" into the report. This alone shows how deterrent the Type 36 main battle tanks have caused to the Soviet tank soldiers. Many front-line armored division commanders of the National Wehrmacht Army communicated privately. If it weren't for the poor road conditions and logistics in Central Asia, they would have changed the positions of China and Germany, relying on the six Type 36 and eight Type 31 armored divisions equipped before the war, they would have been 70% sure to advance to the city of Moscow.

The bigger problem with the Soviet army is that the National Wehrmacht has strictly kept confidentiality and completely destroyed the means after damage. Even the policy of concentrating superior forces to seize the corpses has made it impossible for the Soviet army to accurately obtain data on this tank. Based on the appearance, the Soviet General Staff analyzed the performance of all its artillery, and even concluded that the thickness of its front armor exceeds 130 mm and tilted by 40 degrees. This conclusion means that, except for the Navy's 130 naval gun with a wind-capped armor-piercing shell, the "Manja tiger" within 1,000 meters can be immune to all the firepower of the Soviet army! In view of this conclusion, the T26 tank regiment, who knew that the 45 mm tank gun was completely weak, immediately retreated and prepared to attack from both wings with speed. The front is 130 mm, and the side is not that strong, right?

Hearing the yelling of the tank soldiers with "jaguars", the infantry regiment became even more chaotic, and all the firepower was poured out regardless of thirty-one. "t26, 1700 meters, the first battalion of armor-breaking bombs! The second battalion of the third battalion, don't stop!" While the shells exploded beside the 510 armor-breaking regiment, Zhao Dengyu, who was in a hot temper but delicate manner, immediately realized that the Soviet tank was about to escape. He had no confidence to catch up with the strange speed of t26, so he picked up the microphone as soon as he entered 1700 meters and chose the armor-breaking bomb.

The National Defense Army Armored Division has a lot of room for ammunition selection. Not only are the ordinary wind-hood armor-piercing bombs, but there are all kinds of high-speed tungsten bombs, and the armor-piercing bombs and armor-piercing bombs are also equipped with complete armor-piercing bombs. However, I have to mention that in addition to the shell-piercing armor-piercing bombs under development, the armor-piercing bombs with the most powerful armor-piercing bombs with a diameter of three times the armor-piercing thickness of the piercing guns was not distributed to Central Asian troops. This is because the General Staff is very worried that this shell with low technical content, easy to manufacture but great damage effect will be reversely imitated by the Soviet Union after being seized. You should know that the armor-piercing bombs developed by various countries are currently

The bullet can only penetrate 1:1 gun caliber armor, which means that even if the 152mm howitzer breaks the armor shell, it cannot deal with the front of the 36 main battle tank. The armor-piercing bombs equipped by the National Defense Forces are post-war models with drawings to modify the loading and drug covers. The 85mm armor-piercing bombs pierce depth up to 250 mm! This power means that once it is seized, the Soviet Union can imitate it in batches, and the Soviet army likes large caliber. If it is equipped with a 122mm howitzer, it can directly disintegrate the technical advantages of the 36 main battle tank.

Although Zhao Dengyu usually looks like he is whispering with a big knife, he is actually very careful. He is actually very particular about choosing a broken armor projectile, because the armor-piercing projectile is light in weight, and the hit rate will decrease after 1,500 meters. Facing the fast t26, it cannot guarantee that it will be destroyed. However, the broken armor projectile is equivalent to the kill grenade, the shell is heavy, and the long-range hit rate is higher than the armor-piercing projectile. When the sound of the gunner filling is heard in the headphones, the rapid tank has stopped quickly. "Fire freely!" Zhao Dengyu shouted. His tank was the first to fire the first broken armor projectile.

The regiment commander's crew is of course the most elite. With thousands of hours of motorcycle experience, the number one gunner in the regiment accurately hit a t26 in the first round, which was reversing and preparing to hide behind the tree. The high-speed armor-breaking bomb hit the steel plate. The softer warhead was quickly squeezed and broken, and the plastic explosive filled inside instantly attached to the surface of the armor. Finally, under the action of the delay fuse, after the explosion, it hit the surface like a heavy hammer. A basin-sized damage spot formed on the surface. It seemed that the marks did not cause damage, but the shock wave had shattered the inner wall of the steel plate of the t26, and suddenly burst out dozens of sharp fragments like a celestial girl. The fragments splashed everywhere in the tank compartment. Not only did the three Soviet tank soldiers hang all the way, but they also wanted to destroy the internal equipment.

Although there is no internal performance, the sudden stop of the t26 undoubtedly tells outsiders that it is finished!

With the end of this t26, other tanks of the first battalion followed closely to aim at their respective targets and opened fire. Every time a damage spot appeared, it meant that a t26 was destroyed. In just ten minutes, a total of 23 t26s were destroyed continuously, and several of them even formed a secondary detonation due to internal fragments hitting shells. When the first battalion used armor-breaking shells to continuously destroy the Soviet tank regiment that blocked the road, the second and third battalions had already rushed to less than 1,200 meters. "Boom." Several Soviet armor-piercing bombs hit the front of the 36 main battle tank, but the Soviet infantry was desperate again. The 76mm anti-tank gun with the largest number of equipment was completely powerless. The shells kept jumping on the front of the tank. Even if the heavy 122mm grenade hit the surface, it could only make the opponent pause for a moment and restore the ability to move after a few minutes.

"Grenade!"

After the Second and Third Battalions joined and quickly killed all T26s, Zhao Dengyu issued a concise and clear order again. The 36 tank replaced with grenades became a mobile turret. More than 100 cannons were blown up in the future. The Soviet army, which was not in time to build a position, was broken. The anti-tank gun exposed to the surface could not block such strong firepower at all. "Machine gun is ready, rush over!"

After only four commands, Zhao Dengyu successfully interpreted the full abilities of a good regiment commander. From choosing ammunition to accelerating the two battalions into a clamp formation. From prioritizing the attack tanks to facing the firepower of infantry, to finally machine gun strafing, fully demonstrating the strength and command skills of the first-line armored troops. In just half an hour, he broke through the defender deployed by Balanov in the north at the cost of two tanks being hit on the side and causing damage to the transmission parts. When the half-tracked car behind us came up with the infantry, there were only a group of pure infantry who had lost all the heavy weapons and were dejected and depressed.

The speed of the 510th Regiment was too fast, completely beyond Balanov's expectations. When Luo Jun left with a shot down, destroying three pontoon bridges, 122 trucks, 21 tanks and more than a dozen air defense weapons, Zhao Dengyu had already appeared less than 8 kilometers north of Kurgasen. What made the Soviet army desperate was that Zhao Dengyu, who was advancing like a burning short knife inserted into butter, had not been blocked, and two armored regiments appeared in succession along the north bank of the river and northeastern directions.

Balanov had no choice, either cross the river or retreat! For Zhukov of Ullata Mountain, he decided to gamble and organize resistance first. Then he asked all the soldiers who could swim to go into the water to piece together the broken pontoon bridge parts. After it could barely be opened to traffic, he asked the political commissar to lead the 17th Tank Division, which consisted of T26 fast tanks, the Cossack Reconnaissance Cavalry Regiment and two infantry divisions to cross the river first, and he led two tank divisions and one infantry division to break the rear. It should be said that Balanov was very decisive and brave. In order to complete the task, he knew that he could not resist the impact of the 36 main battle tank, he still chose to break the rear himself.

But the general who participated in the Soviet-Finn War and personally led the tank regiment to launch an assault to destroy Finland ignored the southern bank that he thought was absolutely safe. When a battalion of the 17th Tank Division had just arrived ashore and along the northwest of the river, rolling dust appeared again. The 4th Armored Regiment and Kazakh Cavalry Division led by Zhou Yawei made Balanov and the soldiers of the Fifth Tank Army's eyes burst into tears. The tank battalion crossed the river was panicked and tried to return, but because the tank soldiers at the forefront were too nervous, they actually drove directly into the river, and the tracks and gun barrels broke the pontoon bridge that was not strong again.

The chaotic scene made Balanov know that it was impossible to complete the mission, so he immediately ordered the order to retreat eastward, and also concentrated the most elite t34/57 regiment in front, trying to use 44 armored regiments assembled by t34/57 to open the situation and break through to Uletao Mountain.

The t34/57 tank regiment was Balanov's last hope. All of these tank soldiers who participated in the Finnish isthmus assault battle with him were veterans with over 500 hours of motorization experience, but this time they met a group of red-eyed madmen! "For Katine! For Poland, young men, rush!" Major General Odzinsky, who had served in the Cavalry Division, just arrived at the pre-determined position and hit the t34/57 tank regiment head-on. Since everyone didn't know that the t34 defense strength after simplifying the process dropped sharply, the 31 tank could penetrate the opponent 1,000 meters away, and the Polish army did not issue expensive high-speed tungsten bombs and armor-breaking bombs, he immediately ordered a charge. He took the initiative to close to 700 meters before opening fire.

At this distance, t34/57 can also break through the main armor of 31.

The most tragic scene in the entire Kurgasen tank battle broke out between the two armies of Su and Poland. Major General Odzinski, who was determined to avenge, rushed around like a madman. In addition, many tank soldiers took over for a short time and were not familiar with the performance, so in order to ensure the destruction, they rushed until within 500 meters or even 300 meters before firing. There was a Type 31 tank numbered 70142, which even rushed to the opponent less than 30 meters! The two tanks with the muzzle facing the muzzle immediately died together!

"Roar in!"

Seeing that the Polish army, which was not familiar with equipment, was about to be dispersed, the 11th Independent Armored Regiment led by Wu Qiwen inserted it from the back of the T34/57th Regiment. Compared with the Polish armored soldiers who rushed to fight, although the 11th Independent Regiment was formed late, its weapons performance were more familiar than theirs, so it soon formed an encirclement of the Soviet tank regiment.

Under the bright red sunset, a total of 1,676 steel beasts were fighting against each other on the 300-square-kilometer plain centered on Kurgasson. The shells of various caliber rushed out of the muzzle frantically, and explosions and fireballs continued to rise and fall. The worst was that the Soviet infantry who had lost the protection of the tanks were constantly encircled and eliminated, making them live targets. Especially the Furious Anti-Air Battalion, which was ordered by Zhuo Fan, was the case that the Air Force always controlled air supremacy, and 64 35mm chain anti-aircraft guns with 230 rounds per minute became the nemesis of infantry chasing the death and soul. Not only were there countless infantry dead under the muzzle, but even the Soviet armored vehicles could not stop this crazy firepower.

The front was blocked by the crazy Major General Odzinski and the 11th Independent Armored Regiment. Behind were three armored regiments, plus the seven infantry regiments surrounded and the Kazakh Independent Cavalry Division. Balanov completely lost control of the troops before nightfall. The fleeing Soviet army was in a panic, and many tanks and soldiers fell into the river and drowned. However, this was not their biggest killer. The real cold-blooded were two Polish armored regiments! These crazy Polish tank soldiers completely ignored any surrender movements. After destroying the tank, they directly chased the Soviet infantry with dozens of tons of steel to crush them. In the end, Zhuo Fan stopped them and barely stopped them.

According to post-war statistics, the Soviet army, which Zhuo Fan believed to have reached 80,000, actually had only 46,000 entrants, of which 5,000 drowned while fleeing, 15,000 people were killed by the Polish army, and more than 3,200 people were missing. Zhukov sent the Fifth Tank Army and three infantry divisions to conquer the Fifth Tank Army and three infantry divisions, and as many as 574 tanks were directly destroyed, only 5 BT7 and less than 2,000 infantrymen escaped in the chaos, and they only met with Zhukov's main force two days later.

Zhuo Fan, who established the future throne of the star through this battle, paid only 77 tanks and 22 semi-tracked armored vehicles. Among them, Major General Odzinski's tank regiment alone had 37, and there were also a slight price of 3,300 casualties.

At noon on May 4, with Balanov being killed and the Soviet army's last position was broken, and the Kurgasen tank battle was announced to end.
Chapter completed!