Imperial Overlord

"What! The unit that was just named the 1st Guards Tank Division was routed near Kaluga?" Khrushchev held the phone in his hand and couldn't believe his ears.

Stalin had just given 5 units of the Guards title, and the first Guard unit was beaten to a crippled state by the Germans...

Not to mention whether the word "guard" is valuable or not, it is enough to make Khrushchev feel distressed just by saying how much equipment the 1st armored division of the guard has.

In order to be worthy of the name of the 1st Guards Tank Division given by Stalin himself, this tank division has strengthened the main force of the main force of at least 50 tanks!

Originally, this tank division only had more than 150 tanks, just a make-up tank unit. However, because too many main forces were annihilated and routed by the Germans, this division became a rare main force in the direction of Moscow!

As a result, more than 100 T-26 tanks that were temporarily deployed were reinforced to this division, and then 30 KV-1s and 20 valuable T-34 tanks were adjusted.

This time, let the whole division go up and down, and have a total of 300 tanks, which is almost the same as a German armored division!

It is precisely because of this that during the reorganization of the Kaluga generation, this division encountered the German armored units that came to attack. Instead of retreating, it launched a counterattack.

As a result, the more than 300 tanks of various types that were finally accumulated were destroyed by the German army in one go, and the remaining troops retreated to a place 10 kilometers away in a hurry.

As soon as they retreated, Kaluga's flanks were vacated, and the German armored forces directly occupied these areas, opening a gap in the Soviet defense line.

"That's the 1st Tank Division of the Guards! It didn't stop for a day and lost its position?" If it weren't for the phone, Khrushchev really wanted to personally press the division commander to the ground and open the door. The gun shattered his head.

Unfortunately, he was unable to do so - the commander of the 1st Guards Tank Division had already died on the battlefield when he led the army to counterattack the German army.

"You temporarily replace him and command the 1st Guards Tank Division!" Khrushchev, who gritted his teeth, gave an order, and then hung up the phone.

He saw soldiers pass by the hallway outside his office, holding stacks of documents and dropping them around the corner of the stairs, waiting to be burned.

Now Moscow has completely become a front-line city. Many government agencies have been relocated to Chelyabinsk, and more and more soldiers have begun to appear in the urban area.

The citizens were so nervous that they didn't know how far the Germans were from their homes or when their own troops would take them to build new trenches and lines of defense.

Many old people have already died in the previous recruitment, and the two long lines of defense have caused the death of too many Soviet laborers.

Many elderly people died in the process of recruiting them to build the defense line, and many children began to serve as supplementary soldiers on the spot after they were recruited to build the defense line.

In most cases, such soldiers are not trained, they don't even have basic combat skills, and they can only be cannon fodder wasting the enemy's bullets on the battlefield.

But even so, with too many cannon fodder, it is definitely a headache. The Soviet army's strength near Moscow suddenly swelled to the one million level, which caught all the senior German commanders by surprise.

"Order the 2nd Guards Tank Division to assemble south! We must support the friendly forces near Kaluga! Otherwise, the southern gate of Moscow will change hands!" Khrushchev was not a professional commander, he thought It's very simple - don't lose anything!

But wasting a lot of troops in the wilderness is really not a good way for the Soviet army to deal with the German attack.

At least, the Germans were more willing to fight a battle with the main Soviet army on the way to Soviet reinforcements in Kaluga.

And not in the ruins of Moscow, to deal with the veterans and tanks of these tough Soviet main forces!

Compared with the hastily established 1st Guards Tank Division, the 2nd Guards Tank Division is more powerful - this unit is the absolute main force of the Soviet army near Moscow. Looking at the entire Soviet Union, it is also a first-class strong army. .

This tank division has 100 brand-new T-34 tanks. This number alone is enough to make this tank division stand out from the crowd.

If you don't count the difference in the command level of the commander and the difference in the technical and tactical qualities of the members, these 100 T-34 tanks can even compete with a German tank battalion!

Add in the division's 50 KV-1 tanks, 10 KV-2 tanks, and at least 200 T-26 and T-27 tanks, and that's even more powerful.

In order to deal with the advantage of the German Panther tank, the -27 tank is an improved version of the T-26 tank, which has strengthened the frontal armor and installed a 76.2 mm caliber artillery!

The improved T-27 tank is not so much a tank as it is something similar to the Stalker tank destroyer.

It uses a box-type turret fixed to the body, not to mention the speed reduction, other performance has also dropped a lot.

The only thing worth boasting is that this tank destroyer now has the ability to threaten the No. 4 tank.

It is a pity that this T-27 tank has the same type of artillery as the T-34 tank, and there is a contradiction in production capacity, so the number is not large.

The 2nd Guards Tank Division has 20 T-27s, and the remaining 180 or so are old T-26 tanks.

Even so~www.wuxiaspot.com~ this is by far the most powerful tank division that the Soviet Union has put together. It has about half of the tanks, all of which can pose a certain degree of threat to German tanks.

In fact, from the time when the T-34 tank was put into battle, the era when German tanks ran rampant on the battlefield and rarely met an enemy has ended.

At this moment, any tank commander must face his enemy carefully and carefully plan the details of every battle.

"Comrade Khrushchev... I suggest you don't let the 2nd Guards Tank Division move." Standing at the door of Khrushchev's office, a Soviet general persuaded.

He had just passed there, and after hearing Khrushchev's order, he stopped to speak.

When Khrushchev heard the advice, he was stunned for a moment, and then he said to the telephone receiver: "Don't execute my order, wait until I call you!"

After hanging up his phone, Khrushchev looked at the person who came and said, "General Rokossovsky, you'd better give me an explanation!"