Steel Soviet Union

Although not much, the effective artillery preparations smashed many of the Germans' technical weapons and defenses, laying a certain foundation for the deep assault commanded by Malashenko.

It's not that the Germans don't want to escape, so they just stay here and get bombed, and their IQ is overdue.

It's just that the Germans no longer have enough depth to deploy flexible defense, especially against the leader's division that attacks extremely fast and strikes like lightning.

You said leaving a certain amount of garrison troops on the position, retreating slightly to avoid artillery fire preparations, and then coming back to defend. In principle, this is a feasible defensive tactic.

But the real problem is that if you leave fewer garrison troops on the position, if you cannot support the large troops to return reinforcements after the artillery fire ends, they will be completely wiped out and completely wiped out by the lightning-fast leader's division. The large army could only watch all this happen. It was impossible to even save people. They might even be killed by the leader's division because they failed to fully enter the position.

The German had already suffered this kind of loss once. He failed to use a good elastic defense. Instead, Malashenko seized the opportunity and wiped it all out, leaving no bones or residue behind. He failed to show off and was fucked instead.

The position garrison and the main defensive force were skinned and devoured together with their bones, and the position was also lost. In the end, nothing was gained. They lost their wives and soldiers, which meant nothing. In Malashenko's words, "It's a worthy death if we go on the road together, and we have someone to take care of us on the road."

But if you want to leave more garrison troops on the position, it still won't solve the problem, and it will violate the original intention of flexible defense.

The purpose of flexible defense is to reduce the casualties of manpower and the loss of mobile technical equipment. Instead of withdrawing the main force as much as possible to avoid artillery fire preparations, you instead try to retain as many troops as possible to try to resist the enemy's attack under the bath of artillery fire. Then this is not putting the cart before the horse. Woolen cloth? Have you ever thought that if you do this, you may not be able to hold your position, you will suffer huge losses, and you will gain nothing in the end?

Maybe it’s okay to call it performance art, but that’s what it is.

But in short, the Germans really treated him like a human being inside and out during this time. He was unable to do anything and everything he did was wrong.

In the end, they simply gave up their flexible defense, fought to the death on the few remaining defensive positions, and held on until the bloody battle. This at least allowed them to use the strongest defensive posture in theory to withstand the impact of the leader's division. , maybe it can create a miracle, which is a completely hopeless solution for the German commander.

But this happened to be what Malashenko wanted, and it was the best battlefield situation Malashenko could think of.

Those Katyusha and Andlyusa rocket launchers that came and went faster and ended their work with just a full salvo of ammunition did inflict great damage to the German garrison on the position that was fully defended.

The mechanized infantry who rushed into the German defense area did not discover until they entered that German artillery, tracked and wheeled vehicle wreckage, and various corpses broken into pieces or pieces were everywhere on the position. Well, you wouldn't be wrong if you said it was a resonance corpse party of steel and flesh, it might even be more than that.

The Germans were attracted by the Zero Heights outside Berlin, and desperately invested a huge amount of garrison troops in reinforcements here. However, they failed to expand the area of ​​​​the defense zone outwards with the growth of troops. Instead, they were severely compressed due to the density of troops in the defense zone. The consequences of too much have already appeared.

The overly high defense force density is so miserable when bombed. Because of your own greed and unrealistic illusions, you Germans invested a huge amount of reinforcements but only engaged in conservative defense. This is the situation in front of you. , of course, it is no wonder that others have done it, and it has nothing to do with Malashenko or the leader, it is purely his own doing.

The Germans suffer from the serious disease of conservatism in defense, accompanied by unrealistic delusion syndrome, but this does not mean that the leader will take pity on the illness and give his opponent a chance to breathe or a fair duel.

On the contrary, Malashenko, who wants to kill you while you are sick, will only add insult to injury and play with nonsense about chivalry. Since you stretched the Tianling Gai so high and brought it to me, then what the hell are you waiting for with the mace in my hand? Just wash your neck and wait for death.

"The Don River is calling for the Great Sturgeon. The assault artillery needs to replenish ammunition. Requesting alternate support fire reinforcements."

Malashenko, who had foreseen and prepared for this situation that would extremely affect the continuity of the offensive and firepower. It was impossible for him to suffer twice on the same issue, responded to the request on the other end of the radio and was already prepared. Immediately, he picked up the microphone and blurted out the order.

"Big Sturgeon received, alternating support firepower will arrive soon, maintain offensive intensity! The existing artillery firepower is enough to last until the alternation, don't give the enemy a chance to breathe! Continue the assault!"

"Don He understands, continue the assault! Never give the enemy a chance to breathe! Over!"

When Malashenko's order was issued, the rocket assault battalion, which arrived on time according to the attack schedule, was already spraying thick black smoke and driving its heavy body to the front line of the battlefield.

This is the most powerful direct-aiming firepower projection equipment currently in service in the Leader Division or in the entire Red Army: the TOS-1 rocket assault tank. Its powerful firepower is enough to annihilate any local ground unit that dares to stand in front of it in a blink of an eye, leaving no trace of struggle. Its amazing destructive power has led the soldiers of the Leader Division to give it a "land bomber". reputation.

As the name suggests, once this thing fires, it is not an artillery strike. In terms of unit firepower projection, it is an out-and-out aviation bombing-level firepower. It just transfers the firepower projection platform from the sky to the land.

The vehicle-mounted ammunition reserve has penetrated the cordon. A few of the ISU-152\\A clusters were completely empty, and most of them had only a few rounds left. They were reversing at full speed and retreating rapidly. The originally dense mechanized cluster assault formation at least seemed to be destroyed immediately. A large piece was missing, which naturally could not escape the eyes of the German commanders on the opposite side who were closely observing the changes on the battlefield and waiting for the next move.

"General! The Russians have begun to retreat. As we analyzed, their firepower is not sustainable enough to penetrate our defenses in one go and have begun to retreat!"

The young staff officer was shouting excitedly, but the old and steady general just said nothing and continued to hold the telescope parallel to the line of sight of his eyes.

ISU-152\\A needs to rely on a defense that is thicker than IS6 to withstand close bombardment to improve hit accuracy and strike efficiency as much as possible, but TOS-1 does not.

In other words, the structural fragility of TOS-1's combat module and its range-to-kill firepower, which is several times more powerful than 152, make it almost immune to the threat of direct enemy anti-tank firepower even if it is one kilometer away. It can also easily inflict more powerful destruction.

And this was exactly what the cheerful young German staff officer and the German general who was waiting on the sidelines did not expect. They did not expect that the Russians could actually bring that terrifying artillery equipment with such powerful firepower that they did not know what it was, so close to the line of fire. distance and direct fire strikes within the field of view.

"Target, one o'clock direction, 3 kilometers away, using the dead tree as a reference, the target is the bunker group directly to the right."

"Fire a half-box salvo, calibrate the shooting scale, aim and prepare!"

The German lieutenant general in the half-buried command post could not hear what was being said on the enemy's radio, and he had no way of detecting and responding to this huge crisis in advance.

Until he saw a bunch of Russian "iron treasures" that had parked their cars to carry boxes and were far away. They didn't look like they were about to engage in close assault combat. They had just passed by the retreating self-propelled artillery group. A strong uneasiness, even fear at a glance, poured into his body from the telescope, and surged into his heart in an instant.

"Shasen! Inform the frontline troops to take cover urgently and be careful of artillery fire!"

It was too late when he said this. A destruction that was destined to be inevitable had already come a second before the staff on the side could react.

"Fire!!!"