Chapter 582 The birds and beasts disperse

Although in the blink of an eye, the blasted bones flew away and no residue was left, the fate was barely fair to Major Edelman, at least it did not make this devoted armored major feel anything before his death. pain of.

Destroying the commander's car on the battlefield has proven to be a very effective means of attacking the enemy's combat effectiveness. As the saying goes, "shoot the man first, shoot the horse, and capture the thief first, capture the king." After losing the command of Major Edman, the remaining German troops The tank immediately looked a bit headless.

The German tanks that suddenly lost their commander suddenly lost the unified and efficient combat method just now. They were already under great pressure and suffered heavy casualties when facing the powerful First Guards Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment. Major Edman's sudden death in battle It was like the straw that broke the camel's back.

"Damn it! Edman is dead, he's dead! We need to get out of here right now!"

"How should we go!? The tank is now a target for the Russians!"

"Abandon the car! Abandon the car and get out of here, quickly!"

In this case, it cannot be said that the German armored soldiers who took the initiative to abandon their tanks were vulnerable. At least they finally chose to give up after making enough attempts.

The German armored soldiers who opened their overhead hatches fled in a hurry like frightened birds in the forest. The less than ten remaining German tanks turned into a pile of unattended in less than half a minute. of unmanned combat vehicles.

The German infantrymen who were pressed behind their own tanks and did not dare to move were instantly panicked when they saw this scene.

He was defeated again and again from the front, and he made a side attack and was slapped back, causing heavy casualties.

The German army, which had exhausted all means, really had no way to hold on. This group of Soviet heavy tanks lying in front of them was simply more terrifying than the devil! The collapse, like a bursting flood, began immediately and suddenly without warning.

From the gun scope in front of him, he clearly saw the German offensive troops fleeing. Iushkin, who was in a great mood, immediately slapped his thigh and shouted in surprise to Malashenko beside him.

"We did it! Comrade Commander! Those Germans were driven away by us! They retreated!"

The high-magnification narrow field of view of the gun scope cannot see anything that is too wide-angle in the distance, but Malashenko, who is holding the commander's periscope with properties that are completely opposite to the Iushkin gun scope, can see it extremely clearly.

"Don't be too happy, Iushkin! More Krauts are coming!"

The speeding and roaring steel tracks rolled over the Don River grassland that was exposed to the scorching sun. Lieutenant Colonel Doppler, who was sweating profusely from the heat as soon as he entered the tank, was so angry that his head almost boiled. Major Edman's sudden The sudden death and the disintegration of the troops under his command really made him furious.

"These bastards who abandoned their weapons!"

Due to the heavy casualties in last winter's Moscow offensive, Lieutenant Colonel Dubler, who was transferred from Army Group Center to Army Group South, received many new recruits from the country.

These recruits who have just graduated from the Armored Forces Academy are at best a group of kids who can drive a tank. They are not serious armored soldiers at all, at least that is what Lieutenant Colonel Dubler thinks.

Lieutenant Colonel Dubler expected that these new recruits might perform poorly, but he always felt that it should at least be no problem for these rookies to persist in fighting.

Lieutenant Colonel Dubler never expected that this group of picky little bastards would abandon the car and run away within a minute of Major Edelman's death.

Although they had sufficient reasons to defend themselves, even Lieutenant Colonel Dubler himself felt that the failure of the charge on Napo just now was closely related to his probing tactics, but they just threw away the precious tank. Sayazi's escape behavior, leaving his back to the enemy, is still intolerable.

Lieutenant Colonel Dubler, who became increasingly angry as he thought about it, glanced at the tanks hundreds of meters away that were still keeping their engines running after being abandoned.

The Soviet heavy tanks deployed behind the infantry trenches to serve as mobile anti-tank fortifications seemed to have no intention of wasting artillery shells to destroy these abandoned tanks. Watching this scene, Lieutenant Colonel Dubler immediately made a rather bold decision. decision.

"Walter! Tell those cowards to follow us and go back to drive their own tanks immediately. This is an order!"

Lieutenant Colonel Doppler, who pressed the throat intercom, seemed a little angry, but the captain who was called Walter on the other end of the radio seemed a little unexpected and particularly surprised.

"What? Just let them go back with us like this, right now?"

"That's right! Now! Drive them all back, immediately!"

As a traditional Prussian-style soldier who comes from an old Junker aristocratic family, with three generations of his ancestors all fighting for the Kaiser, Major Dubler is full of those old-era style pursuits of supreme glory, even more rigid than those of the Wehrmacht. The officer corps will become even more intense and unbearable.

It is precisely for this reason that Doubler, who is almost fifty years old, is still just a small armored lieutenant colonel until now.

Those who were with him in the Battle of the Somme and squatted in the same trench are still in the Wehrmacht today. They are all generals and have already prospered. They are upright and upright. Doppler, who didn't know how to adapt and was even a bit rigid, was the most frustrated.

If it weren't for the support of his immediate superior, the division commander, who was three years younger than him, he might not even be able to keep his position as lieutenant colonel leader, and would even be sent to a military court for trial. However, Doubler himself seemed to be okay with all this. Don't care.

Just like last winter, those seriously injured people who were pleading and begging were abandoned just so that more people could survive.

In order to win the final victory in this battle, Lieutenant Colonel Dubler decided to do everything possible to regain the lost gambling chips.

For Lieutenant Colonel Dubler, who had participated in the Battle of the Somme, the life and death of these young armored soldiers was just a number at best. The scene of a mountain of corpses in a sea of ​​blood, where even a breath of air was filled with the smell of blood, was far more terrifying than it is now.

As long as this battle can be won, even if all these new recruits are killed, he is dismissed by his superiors, or even sent to a military court to settle old accounts and new accounts, Lieutenant Colonel Dubler will admit it, and he can almost change the Treaty of Versailles. Lieutenant Colonel Doppler, who knew everything by heart, would not want to go back to that dark and desperate time even if he died.

Lieutenant Colonel Dubler's order was cruel and merciless, and it was as if it would send someone to death.

Many German armored soldiers with bare hands and no self-defense weapons just followed their own offensive formation, panicking to avoid the bullets and artillery shells that kept flying in the direction. With their horrified eyes, they cursed in their hearts and issued this order. The Tao is equated with the person who ordered them to die.