Steel Soviet Union

After understanding and realizing the importance and preciousness of his synthetic commanders, Malashenko began to impose stricter requirements on commanders at all levels of the division.

Including but not limited to unless the battlefield situation is extremely critical and necessary, commanders at company level and above must not lead a charge, especially a combat engineer who has more muscle in his skull than his brain. Shenke pointed out that "it is strictly forbidden to take the lead in charging". Allowing him to follow the soldiers and command the team was already giving the maximum face.

This order is mainly directed at infantry commanders. After all, the fragility of flesh and blood is much higher than that of steel. In the Leader Division where heavy armored units crawl all over the ground, the infantry death rate has always been higher than that of tank soldiers. Many of the tank soldiers of the Leader Division who are protected by strong heavy armor are able to escape once the tanks are disabled and obtain high-value technology in a timely manner. Friendly cover that each troop type deserves.

But those infantry can't. If a flesh and blood body is hit by a bullet, it will be a real and real injury. The bullet will hurt and bleed, and if it bleeds too much, it will die. Everyone carries one head on two shoulders, it is no different, even if The casualty rate of armored combat engineers known as "human tanks" is not good either.

You have to say that the leader fought in hell-level battles, chewing the hardest bones of the Germans. What the combat engineers of the two battalions of the leadership division faced was undoubtedly the hell level among the hell levels, the stubble in the bones. No matter how sophisticated the equipment was, they would inevitably suffer casualties.

In the past few times, Malashenko ordered the combat engineers to retreat or suspend their participation in front-line assaults. Without exception, the casualties were too high and further fighting would shake the core.

For the mid- to high-level tank commanders under his command who like to charge into battle, their combat style from top to bottom is almost the same as that of his division commander. They are exactly the same mold. What Malashenko chose was not a mandatory order but a direct change of equipment. He used the IS7, which was almost impossible for the Germans to destroy from the front, to arm the mid-level and senior tank commanders who protected him.

There is of course a price to pay for this.

The IS7, which was dispersed to various lower-level units and placed in the position of the command vehicle, not only lost the condensed combat effectiveness and strong breakthrough power that could be unleashed through concentrated use, but also because the command vehicle usually had less contact with the enemy. The situation passively reduces the engagement rate.

All in all, if we consider the maximization of the performance of the IS7 equipment, it is very inappropriate to disperse it to lower-level units and use it as company-level and above command vehicles. The blessing it can bring to the overall combat effectiveness The effect is pitiful.

But just as Malashenko realizes the core problem, the method of focusing on the main contradictions first and then discussing the secondary contradictions is applicable.

Without solving the problem of the survival rate of mid-level and senior commanders, it is useless to talk about how strong the combat effectiveness of IS7 can be exerted by centralized use.

Equipment is for people to use and perform. If you don’t have any people, what’s the use of your equipment? Is the IS7 able to kill the German stick by itself if it is parked there? What are you thinking about? This is a real 70-ton tank, not a 5-star SSR that can run, jump and fight on its own.

As long as the survival rate of mid-level and senior tank commanders can be guaranteed and the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction of affecting the IS7's combat effectiveness can be resolved, Malashenko will tolerate it. If you think about it carefully, it's not a big deal. The equipment level of the heavy tank unit of the Leader Division does not lack such a little bit of combat power, and the overall strength is still enough to chase down any German field unit in 45 years.

The artillery fire from below the high ground gradually subsided in the violent landslides and subsidences. The destructive power on the depth of the German positions extending from the first line to the second line was quite large, which was visible to the naked eye.

In this way, another artillery fire cutting zone was pulled out, just like what Malashenko did when he gnawed down the first edge position on the top of the Zelo Highlands and successfully established a landing site for the leader division to gather follow-up troops.

The artillery cutting strip produced by the army-level artillery firepower is much more powerful than the artillery cutting strip of Malashenko's leader division.

After all, the self-propelled 152 is not as powerful as the towed 203, and a battalion of TOS-1 is not as numerous as the Andlyusas in Chuikov's hands.

The final result was that a section of less than two kilometers in depth in front of them was almost turned into a death zone by concentrated army-level artillery fire.

It is a bit unrealistic not to say that all the Germans on the scorched earth are dead, but the casualties are not small and the defense line is severely damaged, they will definitely not be able to escape. This is enough to achieve Malashenko's goal: step on the accelerator and rush. Go up and penetrate the weak outermost defense of the Germans, then rush forward in one go, and then clean up the remaining German soldiers who were blown to pieces along the artillery fire cutting belt.

The key to the problem is to end the battle before the German reinforcements from the rear arrive. If the German reinforcements wait too long to make up for the losses in the artillery cutting belt, it will be too late by then.

Malashenko, who knew that his troops were extremely fast, seized the time and arrived at the position where he should be when the artillery fire was about to end: the commander of the IS7 command heavy tank with turret call sign 177, holding a radio to send messages. The microphone shouted orders to the troops who were ready to go.

"Move forward, leader! Start attacking!"

"Ula!"

"Crush those fascists! Charge!"

"for Motherland!"

There was no Ula-like charge with huge crowds of people shouting and shouting, but only steel chariots one after another with no one hanging outside. They sprayed black smoke, stepped on the accelerator, and rushed out of the position at maximum cross-country speed.

Although the momentum is much smaller, and the sound of the urrah is limited to the radio channel, the formation of hundreds of steel chariots of the new era prairie cavalry galloping forward is better than any form of traditional troop charge. and.

No flesh and blood is exposed, just a cavalry legion covered in steel armor.

Tanks were in the front, infantry fighting vehicles followed closely, and self-propelled artillery was at the back.

The German soldiers who had just witnessed the soaring sea of ​​​​fire roaring overhead and burning the friendly positions in the rear had never seen this battle. Not seeing a pure steel charge from a living person? Sorry, I haven't seen it in my dreams, okay? What kind of Herman Meyer joke are you making?

Witnessing this huge swarm of Russian steel monsters rushing toward them, the German infantrymen who had never experienced such a battle were lying if they said they were not afraid. Their hearts were beating at a rate that was almost as strong as the earth beneath their feet. The frequency is as fast.

But at this point, they have no retreat. Behind them is the Heart of the Empire that they all swore allegiance to. The position under their feet is the last shield to protect the Heart of the Empire. All the German soldiers guarding this highland They can all be called the Imperial Guards.

The will to die that was trembling in the violent force supported them to fight the steel with their flesh and blood. This high ground that had been riddled with holes by artillery fire was destined to flow into a river of blood.

The real bloody battle is not in progress, but has just begun.