The Rise of the Third Reich

The brutal battle went on as expected. "Red Iron Fist", missiles and grenades rained down on the "Grizzly Bear" assault gun. Light and heavy firearms were also firing desperately, but except for the two "Red Iron Fist" which had no effect. The other weapons are useless against the "Grizzly Bear" with excellent frontal protection. Those big guys with the Iron Cross mark rushed mercilessly to a few dozen meters in front of the Soviet position, fired wildly with 150mm cannons and three 7G42 machine guns, and instantly turned the first Soviet trench into a sea of ​​​​fire. Solzhenitsyn's current location is in a carefully camouflaged artillery observation post less than 30 meters away from the first trench.

An anti-tank team with a "Red Iron Fist" had entered Solzhenitsyn's bunker along the traffic trench. Their arrival means that Solzhenitsyn and several of his men can retreat - this place will soon be crushed by the "Grizzly" assault gun and No. 4 tanks, and artillery observers should not stay here. Die or wait for betrayal (capture).

And for these young men carrying the "red iron fist", the battle that will take place in a few minutes or ten minutes will be their last battle! Then... either he died for the cause of communism, or he betrayed the great motherland - and became a prisoner of war!

Looking at several Red Army death squads with extremely serious expressions, Solzhenitsyn had nothing to say. He just picked up his backpack and a submachine gun, and moved towards his men who had already packed away their sighting tools. He raised his hand, then lowered his head and walked along the traffic trench towards another trench more than a hundred meters away.

"Banglang..."

Solzhenitsyn had only reached halfway when a loud noise came from behind him. This was the unique sound made by the "Red Iron Fist" when it hit an enemy tank. Solzhenitsyn looked back to the place where the sound came from, and saw only a "No. 4 assault gun" located about 20 meters in front of the bunker where he was originally located. It turned into a ball of fire, and the raging fire illuminated it. A large area.

"Run quickly, quickly, quickly..."

Solzhenitsyn had no intention of cheering. Instead, he turned around and ran away, telling his subordinates to flee quickly. After a few people ran more than ten meters, the sound of exploding shells came one after another, and the heat wave came in an instant. Solzhenitsyn quickly threw himself at the bottom of the traffic trench that was full of muddy water and the smell of corpses, and did not dare to stay. He rolled and crawled forward, and finally climbed into another trench.

Having gained temporary safety, before Solzhenitsyn could feel any joy in his heart, he heard the rumbling sound of the motor. He turned around and saw that the bunker he was in had collapsed, and the tracks of a "No. 4 assault gun" were rolling over it. The majestic reactionary arrogance made the Red Army soldiers on the battlefield afraid of them - how many tanks and assault guns did the Germans have? Why can't I finish the fight?

When the machine guns on the front and top of the vehicle burst out with orange tongues of flame, Solzhenitsyn's heart was already full of fear and despair: This won't work at all, the Germans are simply unstoppable!

Amidst the deafening roar, a "No. 4 assault gun" had stopped less than 80 meters away from the Soviet trenches, and the terrifying close-range shelling was about to begin. Solzhenitsyn sat helplessly in the trench, looking at the sky in horror, as if waiting for shells to fall from the sky.

At this moment, a familiar slogan sounded in his ears: "Bolshevik Party members, Youth League members, come against me!"

"Ula! Ula..." Countless Red Army soldiers jumped out of the trenches, holding rifles, submachine guns, grenades, rifles and red iron fists, and rushed towards the German armored vehicles like a tide.

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"Ula! Ula! Ula..."

Pavlyuchenko's ears once again heard a horrifying cry, which meant that the Soviet Red Army had once again invaded Collective Farm No. 13!

The Red Army's offensive began in the afternoon of May 8. It first bombarded with 122mm guns and heavy mortars as well as the regiment's 76.2mm guns, and then charged with infantry. Of course, such an offensive would not be able to defeat the officers and soldiers of the 17th SS Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion who had fought long battles in Lviv and Kiev.

But this is just an “appetizer”!

After dusk, when it was too dark for the pilots of Breguet attack aircraft and Hs129 attack aircraft in the sky to see the ground targets clearly, the SU-122, which was originally just hiding in the woods and providing fire support with a 122mm gun, took the first place. line, leading the Red Army infantry to launch an attack.

Although the armor of the SU-122 assault gun assembled from the chassis of a T-34 tank and a 122mm howitzer is not as good as the German "Grizzly" assault gun, it is effective against troops such as the 17th SS Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion. But it is already strong enough.

The 50mm cannon of the "Puma" armored vehicle could not hit its front at all, so there was no way to keep the attacking Soviet Red Army from the living area of ​​Collective Farm No. 13. They can only be put into Zhuangzi and use brutal street fighting to fight against the Soviet SU-122 assault guns.

Pavlyuchenko is now sitting cross-legged in a newly dug hole in a house that was half destroyed by shells - the tactic of digging a hole on the ground floor of a house (referring to the lowest floor, which can also be the basement) is Appeared in the street fighting in Kiev, this method can be used to avoid direct artillery fire or various explosives thrown into the house.

Everyone can't hide in the pit. Pavlyuchenko's assistant Tymoshenko is looking out of a window that has long been gone. His task is to protect the sniper, and at the same time, he also needs to prepare for the sniper. Hand finds target.

It was already night, so we could only observe by moonlight and occasional flares. However, Tymoshenko soon saw the Red Army, led by SU-122, rushing into the farm shouting "Ula, Ula".

"Lyudmila, they are coming!" Tymoshenko shouted.

Pavlyuchenko took a breath, crawled out of the bomb shelter where two people could hide (when the Soviet artillery was preparing, two people would be squeezed into the same hole), and walked to the window while ducking.

It was so dark outside that I couldn't see the target clearly. I could only hear the shouts of "Ula, Ula" and the roar of the SU-122 assault gun motor.

Pavlyuchenko calmly set up his G43 semi-automatic rifle and pointed it at the enemy who was gradually approaching in the darkness. However, she was not in a hurry to fire, but waited quietly.

She was waiting for the ambushed "Puma" tanks and "Doll" recoilless rifles to fire. As long as she could hit the SU-122 and explode the ammunition at the same time, the fire would illuminate a large area. When the time came, she would fire first. If there are red soldiers with beards, then kill the ones with no hair on their mouths - this is also the experience summed up on the battlefields of Lviv and Kiev. Most of the beards are older and have a high probability of being officers. The beardless ones are Most of them are soldiers.

Boom boom boom...

Pavlyuchenko didn't wait too long. Several firelights suddenly flashed in the darkness, and then he saw two large black figures burning into fireballs. A dozen earth-brown figures were illuminated by the two fireballs. But it's still unclear whether he has a beard or not. Pavlyuchenko didn't care so much, he immediately aimed the semi-automatic rifle in his hand at a Red Army soldier and pulled the trigger!

Snapped! Snapped! Snapped……

Deadly bullets were fired one after another, and the targets fell to the ground one after another. As a female sniper even rarer than a marshal in the German Wehrmacht, Pavlyuchenko certainly had special skills. In the blink of an eye, she knocked down four Soviet soldiers. Just when she pointed the muzzle at the fifth enemy, a violent explosion suddenly came.

"It's a Cougar tank!" Tymoshenko, who had been observing the battlefield, shouted, "Our Cougar tank was destroyed..."

It was the "Puma" that ambush the SU-122 just now. It turned out that there were not only SU-122s on the battlefield, but also the T-34/57 tanks covering the SU-122! The "Puma" exposed its target after firing, and naturally became the prey of the T-34/57.

I don’t know if the destruction of the German armored vehicles boosted the morale of the Soviet army. The shouts of "Ula, Ula" that had been depressed once again rose high. Under the night, countless figures launched an attack on the No. 13 collective farm where the Germans were entrenched. Onslaught.

Go forward one after another and regard death as home!

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"Ula! Ula! Ula..."

Admiral Lukin's ears were also filled with cheers of "Ula" at this time - he was now on the battlefield about 5 kilometers south of the No. 13 Collective Farm, where the troops under his command had been fighting hard all afternoon. , to block the breakthrough of a German "armored corps".

During the day, because the Germans had overwhelming air superiority, the Soviet casualties were very huge. Almost half of the tanks/assault artillery were lost, and the casualties exceeded 2,000.

However, the situation quickly reversed after dark, and the SU-85 tank destroyer began to exert its power. This weapon is said to be able to destroy the Tiger at a distance of 800 meters. However, due to the consistent lack of accuracy of Soviet artillery, it is actually difficult to destroy the Tiger at a distance of 800 meters. Hit the target. But at night, when the combat distance between the two sides is shortened due to insufficient visibility, the SU-85 becomes a formidable weapon. In defensive operations, it repelled several waves of offensives from German armored groups, leaving dozens of burning German tanks and armored vehicles on the battlefield, while its own losses were less than ten.

This kind of exchange ratio is absolutely unprecedented since the outbreak of the Patriotic War!

Therefore, the originally low morale of the Red Army soldiers was gradually boosted. After repelling another wave of German attacks, earth-shaking cheers rang out on the battlefield.