"Commander, this person is General Mackensen, commander of the enemy's First Armored Group Army's Third Motorized Corps and the armored general."

At 10:30 a.m. on June 5, Xiao Jiang officially entered the battlefield that had previously been a tank brigade.

The work of capturing prisoners and rescuing the wounded has basically ended. Maintenance personnel and technicians are inspecting the tanks left on the battlefield by both the enemy and ourselves, looking for tanks or parts that can be repaired.

The command tank the commander of the 105th Armored Division was riding in was hit by an enemy shell on its track. While the crew was repairing the tank, he got out of the turret and was shot with a Walther pistol by a German tank soldier in a disabled tank nearby.

One shot.

The bullet hit the shoulder blade, which was not a fatal injury, but it also caused him to retreat from the battlefield.

The commander of the 105th Division became the highest-ranking person injured on the Chinese side in this battle.

When Xiao Jiang came to the battlefield, he pointed at a few specially selected prisoners and said to them.

The first person to bear the brunt was General Mackensen, commander of the Third Motorized Corps, followed by the commanders of the 14th and 25th Armored Divisions.

There were also several school-level officers, and Xiao Jiang saw them one by one.

Finally he came to General Mackensen.

Because there was no deep hatred between the Germans and the Chinese soldiers like little devils, the captured officers and soldiers were naturally not beaten or kicked by the armored division soldiers, and the soldiers also gave the enemy a certain amount of respect.

Although he was already a prisoner of the Chinese soldiers, General Mackensen still held his head high. Although his military uniform was a little dirty, he had tidied it up very neatly.

Various military medals hang on the chest, shining in the sun.

Xiao Jiang's eyes were first attracted by the military medal on Markenson's chest.

The armies of the Third Reich attached great importance to honor, so you only need to know their performance in past battles from the military medals they received.

Xiao Jiang nodded while looking at it, with some appreciation in his expression.

General Mackensen looked ahead, but he could also see Xiao Jiang's performance from the corner of his eye.

Through the attitudes of the people around him, he had already guessed that Xiao Jiang was the supreme commander of the Chinese armored group.

Seeing Xiao Jiang looking and nodding, General Mackensen snorted coldly and turned his body in another direction.

This action angered the commander of the 105th Armored Division and some security personnel nearby. They glared and tried to deal with the ignorant Mackensen.

When the other captive officers around him saw this, they surrounded Mackensen. There was no fear on their faces, only anger and unwillingness.

Xiao Jiang raised his hand to acknowledge the guard's impulse, and then looked at Mackensen, who was surrounded by a smile.

"You look unconvinced. Why, do you still want to fight again?"

When the translator passed the words, Markenson stood up through the crowd and stiffened his neck and said:

"The Chinese use extremely advanced tanks to fight our army, and they pretend to be weak. You are invincible!"

"Of course we are not convinced. If the performance of the tanks on both sides is..."

Xiao Jiang laughed and shook his head, and Mackenson's subsequent words were stuck in his throat.

"War is never fair!"

"This is not the Middle Ages anymore. The fair duel between knights has long been outdated!"

As the victorious party, Xiao Jiang was full of confidence and arrogance.

"Back then when you blitzed Poland and the Polish people used cavalry to block your armored army, why didn't you think about the problem of victory without force?

War is always about victory or defeat, not fairness!"

After these words were spoken, the momentum of Mackensen and others was slightly relieved, but they still held their heads high, looking unwilling to give in.

Like the Tiger tank, only when the Chinese Flying Leopard tank actually entered the battlefield did the soldiers of the Third Reich realize the gap between the two sides.

Before that, no matter what kind of information they got, it was difficult to take it 100% seriously.

Moreover, the Flying Leopard tank was only active in the Eastern battlefield before and had never appeared in Europe.

The soldiers of the Third Reich could get some information about the Flying Leopard tank from the Japanese, but this information was sparse and outdated.

In the final battle against the Japanese invaders, the final design of the Flying Leopard tank had not yet been completely finalized.

After the war, the Academy of Military Science changed the main battle gun of the Feibao tank from a 100mm rifled gun to a 105mm rifled gun, and improved the high-low and horizontal two-way stabilizers to make the infrared night vision device clearer.

Aiming assistance is also added.

This series of changes brought the performance of the Flying Leopard tank to a new level, and even the Tiger tanks became defeated by the little Flying Leopard.

There is no doubt that the performance of the Flying Leopard tank is at the top of all tanks of the Fascist and Allied Powers. It is a medium tank with the most comprehensive performance and will dominate the entire Eastern Front battlefield.

Mackensen and others were not convinced at all. The gap between the tanks of the two sides was too great.

As a proud German, having lost an army in just a few hours, the Third Motorized Army will become a shame to all imperial armies.

But in the decisive battle of tanks, military technology sometimes plays a decisive role. They have to obey even if they don't want to, and now that they have become prisoners, not many people care whether they are convinced or not.

Xiao Jiang gave Markenson corresponding respect, but he did not want to waste any words on this person. Under the leadership of the commander of the 105th Armored Division, Xiao Jiang visited the entire prisoner of war camp.

"Commander, we have captured more than 20,000 people, most of whom are armored soldiers and most of whom are infantry." The commander of the 105th Armored Division said:

"Preliminary statistics show that 1,100 enemy tanks were destroyed, of which three to four hundred were destroyed by the air force!"

It took one morning to cripple an armored group army, but Xiao Jiang seemed not satisfied and asked:

"What are our losses?"

"More than 200 tanks were destroyed or injured in the battle with the enemy. The loss ratio between the enemy and ourselves was about 1:5."

Xiao Jiang's brows wrinkled visibly.

With the support of Air Force fighters and the Army Aviation Regiment, the battle loss ratio would actually reach 1:5.

Seeing Xiao Jiang's dissatisfaction, the 105th division commander hurriedly explained:

"This is the first large-scale tank battle between our group army and the enemy. Officers and ordinary soldiers are over-prepared mentally but lack experience."

"Some tank battalions were eager to make meritorious deeds and rushed too fast. They were inevitably injured by the attacks of enemy Panther tanks and Tiger tanks."

"About 50 tanks can be repaired and returned. After the battle, the troops involved in the attack will immediately sum up their experiences and lessons learned."

Several armored divisions are still charging forward. Under the cover and guidance of Air Force fighter planes, they are pursuing the 14th Motorized Corps.

Now is not the time to investigate responsibility, so Xiao Jiang did not dwell on this issue.

Before leaving, the commander of the 105th Division asked again:

"Lao Maozi hopes that we hand over these prisoners to them. Commander, what do you think?"

Xiao Jiang's plan in mind was to dispel the arrogance in the hearts of Mackensen and others and then invite these people to be instructors for the group army.

Although the situation of the war has changed, the officers of the Panzer Group Army of the Third Reich have rich combat experience in armored assault.

The army must learn from these experiences, combine them with advanced combat theories, and grow rapidly on the battlefield.

It is such a waste to hand over prisoners to old men, they will only let them dig potatoes.

"Why should we hand over the prisoners we captured to others!"

After saying that, he got into the specially developed command tank, walked through the fragmented battlefield, and headed forward.

On the other hand, under the coordinated attack of three army aviation regiments and two armored divisions, the 11th and 16th Armored Divisions commanded by General Kempf, commander of the 48th Motorized Corps of the Third Reich, quickly

Unable to resist, the formation was in chaos, and the tanks were destroyed in separate battles.

The positions of the 11th and 16th Armored Divisions were covered by firepower from above and below. Rockets and armor-piercing shells threatened the German tanks from all directions.

When the rockets from the armed helicopters were empty, only about 1/3 of the more than 500 tanks in the two armored divisions remained.

An hour and a half later, the large-scale encirclement and annihilation battles on the battlefield had stopped, and there were still some cat-and-mouse one-on-one battles left.

The German tanks wanted to take advantage of the terrain to escape and retreat, but the Panther tanks and Tiger tanks had already consumed a lot of fuel when they were weaving around, and they could not run fast or far at this time.

The armored troops will not surrender until the tanks are destroyed.

So the cat-and-mouse battle continued for more than half an hour.

At noon, the 11th and 16th Armored Divisions were almost completely wiped out.

Also suffering along with them was the 16th Motorized Infantry Division of the 48th Motorized Corps. The soldiers of one division were defeated by armed helicopters and tanks. Countless people lost their weapons and became prisoners.
Chapter completed!