Steel Soviet Union

The cruelest and bloodiest close-quarters fighting began. Even though the German troops on the battlefield did not want to fight or face this kind of battle, the Red Army soldiers who vowed to defeat the enemy still held onto their weapons and rushed to the battlefield. .

"Attention all crews, fire the main gun with caution, and use machine gun covering fire to deal with the Germans first! Be careful of accidental injuries to our people!"

The 122 Heirloom with a thick tube is not a small and mini 85mm main gun. A high-explosive grenade with a full charge is a proper AOE for large-scale damage.

Worried about what might happen to the muscle-headed brats under his command, Kulbalov picked up the radio at hand and gave urgent final orders. Using the main gun with caution and using machine guns to deal with the enemy as much as possible is a tactic that has been arranged in advance. The Germans currently do not have an effective defensive position to rely on. Naturally, there is no need to blast the main gun too many times if there is no danger.

Using machine guns to deal with enemies is naturally a superior strategy that can effectively achieve tactical goals without causing too much risk.

If Kulbalov had not given these two final reminders, the Red Army gunners, almost all of whom were violent maniacs, would most likely have chosen to use 122 grenades to completely destroy the German army. After all, the feeling of killing them all with one shot was comparable. It's much more refreshing to use a machine gun to call everyone one by one.

In fact, just as Kulbalov had predicted earlier, the Red Army soldiers who rushed to the so-called "German position" did not encounter much stubborn resistance.

The so-called fortification bunkers that the vast majority of the German infantry relied on were just the craters blasted out by the Red Army's 152 Theosophy and Katyusha rocket launchers. The huge craters are already the best defensive position that the German army can find. Otherwise, they can only hide behind the wreckage of their own tanks and vehicles and keep firing.

There were no effective echelon defense positions, no cross-machine gun fire network arranged in advance, and no heavy fire cover sufficient to suppress the Red Army.

This battle, which basically determined the final outcome from the very beginning, was a miserable and extremely difficult battle for the German infantry.

"Fix bayonets! The Russians are coming!"

"Are you crazy? There are so many of them, they can kill us by just stabbing and fighting!"

"Otherwise, what will you do? Wait until you go to Siberia to suffer for the Russians."

Da da da da——

The two German infantrymen hiding in the Katyusha rocket crater didn't even finish their words. Suddenly, a Red Army soldier rushed up from the blind area of ​​vision, raised the Bobosha in his hand and shot without saying a word.

The bullets that hit instantly like water splashed directly took away the two German soldiers in a shuttle. The two German soldiers, whose faces, arms, shoulders, and chests were full of bullet holes, immediately fell into a pool of blood without saying a word. , the originally planned bayonet-mounted hand-to-hand combat opportunity never even came to pass.

For the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division, which had an astonishing level of automatic firepower, the era of facing down Germans with bayonets was already a thing of the past. Battles that can be resolved with guns will never involve bayonets and fists. This is a concept that the division commander, Comrade Chang Ma, has long instilled in all infantry commanders and combatants, including Varosha.

The influence of this top-down concept has been implemented to the grassroots level. Even those recruits who have just been deployed to the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division know that it is difficult to stay in such an elite team of the entire Red Army. In the tank army, you don't need to think about saving ammunition at all. As long as you still have ammunition, just pull the trigger on the Germans as hard as you can.

Of course, if you open your mouth and throw water when you are not equipped with enough ammunition, regardless of the situation, then you have misunderstood the words of comrade division commander and committed the error of rigid dogmatism. Dime relationship.

Time and again, the tank knight's combat mode was used to directly eliminate infantry firefights at long and medium to long distances. Whenever the infantry of the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division went into battle to engage in firefights, it was definitely at the final level of medium and close range firefights.

The shortcoming of the automatic weapon's lack of range is perfectly compensated, and the advantage of the fierce firepower of splashing water at the beginning of the attack is further amplified.

The ones who have the most say on whether the combat mode is ferocious enough are the German infantrymen who are currently being pushed to the ground and blasted with hammers.

"Bullets, machine gun bullets! The deputy shooter is killed. Someone help me load the bullets! Hurry!"

"These Russian guys are too strong! They are full of submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles. We don't have enough firepower!"

"Hold on, hold on! Don't retreat, reinforcements will be here soon! Hold on!"

Do the Germans really have reinforcements on the way?

The answer is yes, the German major who tried to stabilize the situation from collapse did not lie. Knowing that he was facing a wolf in front of him and a tiger behind him, the commander of the breakout German army had no choice but to split his most precious and final trump card: the SS Viking Armored Division into two parts.

The group with the strongest combat power and the largest number of troops continued to attack fiercely, striving to defeat the Russian tank army in front of them in the shortest possible time, and to open a breakthrough path to continue advancing at all costs.

As for the small part of the Viking division that was transferred to the rear, it was used to prevent this group of unknown but extremely powerful Russians from behind from catching up, and changing the entire situation from the situation beyond one's own expectations. The controllable range was completely destroyed.

That's right, the command post of the breakout German army still doesn't know what kind of enemy is chasing behind them. I don’t know the designation of the enemy’s troops, their strength, and what kind of tactical objectives they have received. I just know that these Russian guys are so anxious to catch up, and they are definitely not here to beat gongs and drums and give our side a happy farewell.

If you still want to successfully break out, taking action as soon as possible to stop the group of Russians who are about to start a quarrel behind them is undoubtedly the best choice under the premise that the intelligence information between the enemy and ourselves is unequal.

As the saying goes, a small thing can make a big difference, and the huge impact that the entire war situation completely collapsed and out of control had on the German army can already be seen from this.

In normal times, the Germans, who are good at attacking fiercely, destroying the enemy in the assault, and who have always understood that offense is the best defense, would not have been beaten to the point where their brains were about to leak out without knowing the name of their opponent. who.

An obvious counterexample is that the battle group in Kursk, which was composed of three elite SS armored divisions at that time, was fully aware that its opponent was the notorious "Iron Butcher" Malashenko. A highly targeted combat deployment was made in an attempt to pin down the ace tank unit of the Red Army, which had caused great trouble to the German army, in the encirclement.

Therefore, when the overall strategic situation goes downhill, this will not only be reflected in specific battles, but also in the degree of battlefield intelligence and information mastery.