The Third Reich in Desperation

The Soviet army was already exhausted, but was suddenly flanked by a powerful armored new force, and immediately lost its proper formation. These Russian infantry were defeated and lost their cover. Tanks wrecked.

In the first battle after the imperial division arrived, it defeated Timoshenko's recapture of the salient.

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(Sorry, I broke my promise... I experienced a lot of bad things during the day, and I may have been punished. The whole process can be compiled into an urban novel. There is no time at night, so I have to post a new one in a repetitive style Chapter. I try to upload the new chapter as early as possible, please understand.)

The super-caliber grenade was shot out, but only one KV1 stopped because the track was broken, and the others were still advancing.

A few more shells fell on the German positions, and this time more people died than last time.

Seeing the huge Soviet KV1 tank gradually approaching, Predic was furious. He grabbed a gunner and shouted: "You load it, and I will aim it myself!"

As the company commander, Predic personally manipulated the 37mm gun, which was obviously smaller in diameter, and fired a few more shells.Soon, another KV-1 tank collapsed on the road.

Seeing that the tanks of the Soviet army are getting more and more advanced, 50 meters, 30 meters, 20 meters...

KV1 is no longer firing, and is going to use dozens of tons of steel bodies to crush these 37mm anti-tank and Predici's desperate German artillery that can't help them.

The reloading gunner beside Predic was killed, but he still did not retreat.

Not only him, but in the entire artillery position, no living person was retreating.

The tankers of the Soviet Union saw the fanaticism and tenacity of the SS for the first time.

This is a desperate style of play. These Germans fought against tanks on the premise that they almost died together!

Only 10 meters away!

"Fire!"

Under Predic's order, the last few super-caliber grenades finally shredded the front armor of a KV1 tank at close range and shattered the track of another tank.

But another tank had already rolled over in the direction of Predic.

At this distance, not to mention flesh and blood, even the artillery next to Predici cannot withstand such a collision from the KV-1 tank.

"Damn!" Predic quickly jumped to the side, jumped into a trench, and escaped the Soviet tank that "deliberately hit people".

And when he looked back, the 37mm anti-tank gun he used just now had been crushed into a pile of scrap iron by the huge KV-1 tank.

Not only the anti-tank gun used by Predic, but the entire 37mm PAK35 gun position was destroyed by the charge of the Soviet tank.

About half of the Soviet tanks were destroyed or damaged, but most of them were thin-skinned light tanks like the t-26, only a few of them were heavy KV-1 tanks, and they were destroyed by damage at extremely close range .

The infantry on the other side of the position did not have the cover of the artillery position, and the group of Soviet tanks that immediately turned to bombarded the firepower points in the trenches and fortresses with impunity.

"Ula!"

Predic, who was attached to the trench wall, seemed to be able to hear the roar of the charge inside the Soviet tank.

Faced with such a situation, instead of panicking, Predic showed an intriguing smile: "I thought I could endure it, but I'm still not as good as you..."

At this moment, several 88mm anti-aircraft guns were pushed onto the flank highlands of the 37mm anti-tank artillery positions.It seemed that they had been lying in ambush on the reverse slope for a long time, waiting for an opportunity.

Predic just didn't expect that these colleagues who manipulated anti-aircraft guns could endure until their side was broken through before launching a surprise attack on the Soviet tank clusters concentrated on Predic's company position.

Thinking of this, Predic suddenly had a deeper understanding of the feelings of those front-line infantry just now—it was really tormented waiting for the arrival of artillery support.

The 88mm gun with a long range and a high rate of fire immediately exerted its power, and quickly destroyed several T-26s, and then began to attack the KV 1 that Predic and the others felt helpless just now.

This time, the KV-1 tank finally felt the threat.After the two KV-2 tanks were completely destroyed, the Soviet commander gave the order to retreat.

In the front-line division headquarters of the Imperial Division, the Soviet tank group lost its final impact only a few tens of meters away from the anti-aircraft position. Major General Paul Hausser, who was charging, finally felt a little more relaxed.

"Master, let me take the armored battalion and press it up, and destroy these Soviet heavy tanks."

The Head of the Führer Regiment, who had been suffocated for a long time and was ready to avenge the infantry and artillery, rushed to ask for his life when he saw this.

"Okay, I'll let you go..."

Major General Paul was about to give an order, but he suddenly felt that the retreat of the Soviet army was a bit strange.

"No..." Paul said to himself.

"What's wrong, Commander!" The head of the Führer's Regiment continued to ask: "The Soviet tanks are about to retreat, let me seize the opportunity and lead the troops to countercharge!"

Shaking his head, Paul explicitly refrained from countering the proposal this time.

Pointing to the battlefield in the distance, he analyzed: "Look, the Soviet tanks retreated completely without the cover of infantry and artillery fire, but retreated in a straight line. After fighting with us for so long, the Soviet commander should not be still there. I made such a low-level mistake in the early days of the war."

Sure enough, Master Paul and the head of the head of state regiment heard faint bangs from far away in the sky.

Until this voice appeared, Paul understood immediately—the Soviet army sent bombers!

"All troops enter the position! Hide, hide!" Paul roared wildly, giving his order.

Standing aside, the regiment leader suddenly felt very lucky that he did not lead the tank troops to pursue, otherwise it would be like sending a plate of "fat" to the Soviet bombers.

Soon, Soviet bombers flew over the positions of the Imperial Division. This medium-sized Soviet air force dropped high-explosive bombs on the German positions at the fastest speed.Because they knew that if they didn't move quickly, they would be annihilated by the German attack aircraft that was chasing immediately.

At this time, in the observation post of the Imperial Division's frontline headquarters, the nearby positions could not be seen at all, because there was dust and thick smoke everywhere.The soldiers huddled in the trenches, and screams continued to come from outside.

Although it was only less than 10 minutes, it seemed like a century had passed.Until the Soviet bombers finally dropped all the bombs, circled a few times and flew away.

Predic in the trench just showed his head, but he didn't expect the Soviet army to start the bombardment of ground artillery again.After a few minutes, the artillery fire gradually extended, and the Soviet infantry attacked under the cover of heavy artillery fire.Shouting "Ulla", the soldiers rushed towards the Imperial Division positions in groups.

I will update the chapter as soon as possible, and I will tell you in the book review area when I am done.

Text 774 Manstein's Personality

Just as the Central Army Group under the command of Marshal Bock encircled the main force of the Soviet Army time and time again in Belarus and sieged the city, the Southern Army Group under the command of Marshal Rundstedt was also sweeping the vast and fertile Ukrainian region.

Like Bock, Rundstede is also a famous German general who has been entrusted with the important task of commander-in-chief of the army group since the Polish campaign.

Among the commanders of the three major army groups in the north, south, and central armies in this battle, except for Lebu, Bock and Rundstede are all well-tested veterans.

The main goal of Rundstede's battle is to take Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and known as the "mother of Russian cities".

This can't help but remind people of Napoleon, the celebrity of the last Eastern Expedition.

He once said: "Occupying Kiev is tantamount to grabbing Russia's feet." It can be seen that Kiev has very important strategic significance in the Soviet Union.It can be said that Kiev is the third largest city in the Soviet Union after Moscow and Leningrad. It is an important political, technological, industrial and cultural center, and its surrounding area is also a famous big granary.

Kiev is located at the confluence of the Dnieper River and the Desna River, with land, water and air transportation extending in all directions. It is not only the transportation hub in the southwestern part of the Soviet Union, but also the only way for Germany to seize the Donets industrial zone and the Caucasus oil fields.

Manstein, who strongly advocated destroying the vital forces of the Soviet Union, proposed to use the Battle of Kiev to eliminate the Soviet Southwest Front Army entrenched in Ukraine, and then launch an attack on Moscow.

Having said that, there is an interesting thing that interested Reinhardt very much.