Chapter 1994 Backhand

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"Ten o'clock and two o'clock directions, both directions at the same time! The enemy tanks are approaching and coming towards us!"

Malashenko has been waiting, waiting for the granddeutsche division to start taking serious action, looking forward to this moment coming as soon as possible.

Yes, Malashenko has always been clear that this seemingly one-sided battle is just a warm-up match and an appetizer, and the real moment of going all out has not yet come.

Passive defense is not the style of the Germans, especially the elites of the German army. They are either executing counter-assaults or planning counter-assaults. This is the consistent style of these bastards.

If you see an elite group of German troops resisting desperately and holding on to their defensive positions, be careful. Unless they are exhausted and their skills are exhausted, a powerful counterattack will inevitably come soon. This is what Malashenko is looking forward to. of.

"Finally here, these bastards."

There were no German tanks on the position, and the forward troops of the 1st Belorussian Front were indeed repelled by the overwhelmingly powerful German armored group.

Is it possible that the Germans want to keep the tanks and be reluctant to use them?

Malashenko didn’t believe it.

The arrival of a large group of German tanks was completely within Malashenko's expectation, and the corresponding response plan had already been prepared.

"Kurbalov, lead your men to continue the attack and penetrate the German defenses! Don't stop until these bastards collapse and surrender."

"Varosha, prepare to block the German armored forces as planned. You lead the fourth regiment to be responsible for the right wing, and I will command the third regiment to be responsible for the left wing. The Germans want to assault, okay, let's give them the assault! Let's see who is responsible for the assault. King of!"

The task of attacking the German defensive positions was taken over by Kulbalov's 1st Heavy Combined Brigade. This does not mean that Malashenko deliberately let Varosha's 2nd Brigade sit on the bench and wait for the show, but that he wanted to The Second Brigade was used to deal with this German armored force that was expected to counterattack.

A heavy combined brigade fought against an elite German armored division of the Wehrmacht. The strength of the troops seemed to be evenly matched, but Malashenko had an absolute superiority in armor quality, and the group wanted to repeat their same tricks to fight a counter-assault. The victorious German armored forces were a must-win for Comrade Lao Ma.

The Varosha brigade, which had been waiting for Malashenko's order for a long time, had been ready to go. With Malashenko's order, more than a hundred tanks in the whole brigade immediately flew away like a string. He stepped on the accelerator like an arrow and rushed out. The flying dust and the black exhaust smoke spurting out from the exhaust pipe were so huge that they even caused a black and gray storm to rise across the ground in an instant.

The German armored troops, who were also stepping on the accelerator to kill the enemy, did not give in. Even though they saw the unstoppable movement of the Soviet armored troops dispatching in groups, they still had no intention of stopping and continued to encircle them with two wings. The offensive was heading towards the central waist of the leader's division. A brutal armored battle that wrenched steel and flesh was inevitable.

The black iron flow and the red storm were about to collide. They had already moved from the rear command post to the forward command post. Lieutenant General Manteuffel, who was on the front line to observe the battle situation, saw everything clearly and panoramicly. He put down his telescope and put down his eyes. There was an unspeakable worry lingering around him.

"The Russians have been prepared for a long time. They know that we will definitely counterattack. The huge armored group attacking our defense line is only part of their force. This group of Russians can actually come up with an armored force equal to the attacking force to fight with us. Attack against attack."

"It has a strong force and is so familiar with us. It can predict our every move in advance and prepare a response, just waiting for us to take action. What kind of army is this?"

Having fought against the Soviet army for such a long time, it is not new for our own tactics and tactics to be familiar and understood by the enemy. Lieutenant General Manteuffel is aware of this.

What really surprised him was that this enemy was so powerful that he had never seen it before. No matter from which angle he looked at it, it revealed indescribable weirdness in every aspect.

In terms of troop formation, the equipment of this group of Russians is ridiculously good.

The IS6 heavy tanks, which are considered rare among the Soviet tank troops, are everywhere here. Their number even far exceeds that of medium tanks. On the contrary, the medium tanks used as the main force of the Soviet tank troops have become here. Rare items.

The Soviet commander on the opposite side was even extravagant enough to use medium tanks as infantry carriers and assault guns, which was equivalent to using the main tanks of the ordinary Soviet tank force to do the work of the three bald men on the German side. This was the first time Manteuffel had seen such a arrogant and extravagant Soviet commander, and had never even heard of him before.

There were also those never-before-seen tanks that looked like medium tanks but were not at all. As soon as Manteuffel arrived at the forward command post, his attention was firmly attracted by this group of outrageous things.

If you ask why, it’s just because the actual functions of these things are unprecedented.

It's just that it can transport people. What's more important is that the single-barreled rapid-fire machine gun carried by this thing may seem inconspicuous, but it can actually make all kinds of German infantry on the position fly like chickens and dogs. It doesn't matter whether you are a rifleman, submachine gunner, machine gunner, or anti-tank gunner, as long as you are flesh and blood, you will all be killed.

The terrifyingly powerful Russian 122mm main gun still has a long reloading time. After roaring once, there is still a chance for the German soldiers to take a breath, but this machine gun does not have that. Once it targets you, it will suddenly attack you. A terrifying killing machine that was beaten to pieces.

If I had to use an appropriate metaphor to describe it, Manteuffel felt that the meat grinder in the slaughterhouse that was running at full speed and grinding the lumps of pork into mince was probably similar to the scene in front of me. almost? Anyway, the meat grinder will not stop until it grinds the whole piece of pork into mince. This is completely consistent with the scene in front of you.

Physical destruction is secondary, but the heavy blow to morale and spirit is truly fatal.

Manteuffel saw through the telescope more than once that too many German soldiers kept jumping after being targeted by those damn machine cannons. The comrades beside him were beaten to a pulp, cut in half on the spot, and blood spattered. The scene of three feet and flying organs became the last straw that broke people's nerves.

The only fate left for these new recruits of the collapsed German army was to be like lunatics who ran out of a mental hospital when the wall collapsed. They danced and fled in all directions and were shot and beaten into corpses by the Russians.

The Army High Command has done its best to deploy experienced troops to rebuild the Grossdeutschland Division. However, such a large-scale unit will still inevitably suffer the same fate as other Wehrmacht units during the second formation "resurrection": being forced to absorb a large number of troops. Inexperienced and urgently recruited recruits, or even prisoners who have served as soldiers.

He had just won a victory and then encountered such a fierce battle against the wind. Manteuffel knew that if the situation continued like this, it would only be a matter of time before the defensive position collapsed completely, even if he filled in the preparations that had just been put into battle. It doesn't help if the team is included.

The only and last chance depends on the outcome of this counterattack.

If he couldn't win, Manteuffel didn't even dare to think about what kind of bloody massacre awaited the newly formed Grossdeutschland Division after such a result in the face of such a powerful enemy. And retreating is just a luxury.

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