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    "Creak!" The tank's tracks crushed the ground, making a sound that made people's teeth ache.  The Maritime Province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has a Mediterranean climate, with hot and dry summers and warm and rainy winters.  At this moment, the ground in Astor looked a little muddy because of the light rain that had just fallen.  But for the 'Leopard' tank, the wide tracks can fully cope with such road conditions.  In fact, tracked chariots are indeed much more powerful than wheeled chariots in off-road use.  Previously, the mechanized infantry of the Chinese Army was equipped with wheeled armored vehicles. As a result, many problems occurred during the last world war.  Now they have all been converted into tracked armored vehicles!

    ?? 180 Leopard tanks of the 19th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army formed an assault formation and rushed towards the German position.  The black tank shines with an icy light in the early morning sun.  So many tanks formed a torrent of steel, sweeping towards the German positions.  The rumbling sounds of motors gathered together, like muffled thunder.

    The dispatch of the Chinese Army's armored forces immediately attracted the attention of the German army.  The area attacked by the 19th Armored Brigade belongs to the defense area of ??the 65th Infantry Division of the German Army.  The defense zone of this infantry division is five kilometers long.  For an infantry division with a strength of more than 16,000 people, it is not difficult to defend a five-kilometer-long defense line.  However, facing the attack of the Chinese Army's armored forces, the German infantry division was still under great pressure.  A German Army division usually consists of 16,600 combat and non-combat personnel, divided into 6 infantry regiments, 3-4 reconnaissance/security cavalry companies, and 12 artillery companies. Each regiment has 2-3 infantry battalions and a regimental artillery company.  , the remaining artillery is allocated to division headquarters and regiment headquarters as needed. Each division usually has 120 artillery pieces of various types and a number of reconnaissance/school-launching balloons.  in addition.  In order to deal with the enemy, especially the armored forces of the Chinese Army, each German infantry division is also assigned a divisional anti-tank battalion, equipped with 24 anti-tank guns.  The anti-tank gun used by the German Army was originally a 37mm gun.  But as the defenses of tanks between China and Germany become more and more powerful.  Tank guns are becoming more and more powerful!  The anti-tank gun currently equipped by the German Army is a 75 mm anti-tank gun with an effective range of 1,000 meters. At this distance, armor-piercing projectiles can penetrate steel plates up to 30 mm thick.  At a distance of 500 meters, it can penetrate steel plates up to 80 mm thick.  It is very powerful and can pose a great threat to the Chinese Army's Leopard tanks.

    Of course, this is just theoretical data.  In a real battlefield, this still requires some discounts.  Among other things, the Chinese Army's Leopard tanks use the latest armor.  An alloy made of a variety of metals is much stronger than ordinary steel plates.  As far as the anti-tank guns equipped by the German army are concerned, they are unable to penetrate the frontal armor of the Panther tank at a distance of 500 meters.  Of course, if it was hit from the side or back, or it was at a closer distance, that would be another matter!

    After the 19th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army launched the attack.  Seeing the black torrent of tanks rushing toward his position, Major General Lane, commander of the German 65th Infantry Division, felt his scalp numb. While he ordered all units to prepare for battle, the anti-tank battalion entered the position, and at the same time contacted the rear and asked Karl  .Admiral von Einem gave him reinforcements, especially in terms of anti-tank equipment!

    At 8:22 in the morning, the tank unit of the 19th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army was less than one kilometer away from the German defense line.  The German heavy artillery units have all stopped firing under the threat of the Chinese Air Force and Naval Aviation.  The artillery of the 19th Group Army of the Chinese Army also began to launch artillery bombardments deep into the German army.  So as not to accidentally hurt your own people!

    "Boom! Boom!" The Chinese Army's 'Leopard' tank began to fire, firing at the suspected anti-tank gun target, destroying the enemy's anti-tank firepower points as far as possible from a long distance to reduce its own threat.

    Clouds of smoke rose from the German positions. These were the effects of Chinese Army tanks shooting.  At a distance of one thousand meters.  The shooting level of the Chinese Army's armored units is pretty passable.  German anti-tank firepower points were continuously hit, and the anti-tank guns were directly blown into the sky.  The defense of the German anti-tank firepower points is not high. They are basically made of sandbags. They have been severely damaged in the previous shelling by Chinese heavy artillery units. Now they are facing the shelling of Chinese Army tanks, and they are even more unbearable.

    The distance between the 19th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army and the German positions continues to shorten.  When the distance between the two sides narrowed to about 600 meters, the German anti-tank firepower began to fire violently.  Groups of firelight shone on the German positions, and dull shelling sounded.  The German anti-tank troops aimed at those huge Chinese tanks and opened fire fiercely!

    "Dang!" A clear voice sounded, and an advancing 'Leopard' tank suddenly shook, and thenCome down.  A fist-sized dent appeared on the front armor of the tank. Fortunately, the armor's defense was strong and it was not penetrated.  But the huge impact also caused the tank soldiers inside to fall to pieces. Many of them had their heads bruised and bloody because they hit something hard. After more than a minute, the tank soldiers inside were knocked upside down.  The tank started to move again.  The turret on the tank began to rotate, searching for the target. After discovering the German anti-tank firepower point, it quickly opened fire!  Only a loud explosion was heard, and the German anti-tank firepower point had been blown into the sky!

    "Boom!" A moving Leopard tank suddenly burst into flames. The tank's side armor was penetrated by a German anti-tank gun.  The top cover of the tank was opened, and the tank crew crawled out covered in fire.  However, as soon as they jumped off the tank, they were hit by machine gun bullets fired from the German position. They fell to the ground and did not move any more. Finally, they were burned into a pile of coke!

    As the distance continues to get closer, the 19th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army also begins to suffer casualties, and the casualties are getting bigger and bigger!  However, the German anti-tank firepower points were also blown into the sky one by one.  These anti-tank firepower points are often exposed by fire and will be destroyed by the tanks of the Chinese Army's 19th Armored Brigade the next moment.

    When the 19th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army lost 6 tanks, all the anti-tank guns of the 64th Infantry Division of the German Army were destroyed!  The tanks of the Chinese Army began to accelerate toward the German positions!

    After the German anti-tank guns were destroyed, the German army had no way to deal with Chinese tanks.  The rest of the weapons, whether they are machine guns or rifles, have no lethality against rough-skinned and fleshy tanks.

    Although the German infantry fought bravely, they still seemed a little powerless when facing the tanks of the Chinese Army.  The Chinese Army's "Panther" tanks attacked the German position and began to hunt down the German troops on the position.  The subsequent infantry also caught up in time, and with the assistance of tanks, cleared the German troops on the position!  Although Major General Lane, commander of the German 65th Infantry Division, organized several counterattacks, they were unsuccessful. Instead, they suffered heavy losses under the attack of the Chinese Army's 19th Armored Brigade.

    General Carl von Einem had no choice but to order the 65th Infantry Division to temporarily retreat, and the two surrounding infantry divisions also began to shrink their defense lines to avoid being attacked by the Chinese Army!  At the same time, in order to counterattack the Chinese Army, General Carl von Einem ordered the German 11th Armored Division to dispatch to prepare to contain the attack of the 19th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army!

    The 11th Armored Division of the German Army has two tank regiments. The two tank regiments are divided into three tank battalions. Each battalion is equipped with 36 Panzer IV tanks. The entire armored division has a total of 216 tanks, and there is also a mechanized infantry unit.  The corps, as well as division-affiliated artillery battalions, reconnaissance battalions and other units, have a total strength of more than 20,000 people.  The commander of the German 11th Armored Division is 31-year-old Major General Guderian.  After China took the lead in using tanks on the battlefield, Germany also began research in this area. A large number of young generals were reused as a result, and Major General Guderian was one of them!  The 11th German Armored Division he led was also one of the most elite units of the German army!

    After receiving the order from General Carl von Enem, Major General Guderian immediately ordered the already prepared troops to enter the battlefield!  Major General Guderian was well aware of the power of the Chinese Army's armored forces, so he put two tank regiments into them at once, trying to defeat the Chinese Army's 19th Armored Brigade at once, and then win this battle!  Although China invented the tank first, Major General Guderian does not believe that China will be stronger than Germany in the use of armored forces.  On the contrary, Major General Guderian believes that Germany is more powerful than the Chinese Army in the use of armored forces!  And this battle is a good opportunity to test his point of view!  An armored division of the German Army has twice the strength of an armored brigade of the Chinese Army, and has more tanks than an armored brigade of the Chinese Army.  But considering the performance gap between the tanks on both sides, the strengths of both sides are actually about the same!

    The current main tank of the German Army is the Panzer IV, a new tank developed based on the T5 ¡®Cheetah¡¯ medium tank that China originally sold to Germany!  The Panzer IV weighs 32 tons, is 7.02 meters long, 2.88 meters wide, and 2.68 meters high. It is equipped with a 75 mm 42-caliber tank gun. The front armor is 75 mm thick. The maximum road speed is 40 kilometers per hour. The maximum off-road speed is 40 kilometers per hour.  The speed is 20 kilometers per hour and the maximum range is two hundred kilometers.  Judging from several major data, the German Army's Panzer IV tank is slightly worse than the Chinese Army's 'Leopard' tank, but the gap is very limited!
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