Four Hundred and Sixty-Seven to the End

The Guards Tank Regiment of 130 tanks was attacked by German tanks, covered by rockets, and bombed by the German Air Force. Only 41 tanks escaped. When they frantically retreated to the starting area, they found the German army The tank unit didn't chase after it at all, but disappeared long ago.

The size of the Soviet tank army is about the same as that of the German Panzer Army, but the army organization of the whole world was actually very chaotic during World War II (of course, it is also very chaotic now). According to the official establishment, a full-staffed division in Germany has about 16,000 soldiers, but now Germany has 470 division-level units, but only 5.5 million soldiers. You can imagine that the entire army is actually not full.

The establishment of a division in the United States is more than 30,000 people, which is almost the same as that of a German infantry army, so don't be serious about why a German division can't beat an American division. In Japan, a division is actually an army organization, which is similar to that of the United States, but most of the time the division organization in Japan is more chaotic.

Sometimes there are 30,000 Japanese divisions, and sometimes there are only 10,000 Japanese divisions, so you can’t say how strong a Japanese division is, because some Japanese divisions have extremely belligerent slogans The slogan of some divisions is "Come back alive", which is a bit embarrassing.

Wren led his troops and was now blocking the front of the 1st Soviet Guards Tank Army. The 502nd Battalion has 45 Tiger tanks. If you count the battalion command vehicle and 4 self-propelled artillery equipped directly under the artillery, it has about 60 combat vehicles. At this moment, 6 tanks cannot participate in operations due to failure; while the Soviet Union The 1st Guards Tank Army has 2 tank divisions, each of which has two tank regiments, and each regiment has more than 150 tanks.

In fact, the Soviets lost almost one-third of their tanks and vehicles in the previous offensive. Now the Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army has only about 450 tanks. , Soviet tanks are about 7 times more than the combat vehicles of the German 502 Battalion.

Logically speaking, it is obviously very unwise to use a battalion of troops to stop a Soviet tank army, but the back of the 502nd Battalion is the 3rd Armored Division of the SS, which is the key to fighting the Soviet breakout forces.

On the other hand, due to the lack of fuel and ammunition, it was impossible for the Soviet troops to attack the German army with all their strength. According to the calculations of the German generals, the nearly 800 tanks (including the 3rd Tank Army) in the Soviet besieged troops full force), less than half of them are active now. Therefore, the strength of the two sides is not as disparate as it seems, at least it can be said to be evenly matched.

Now, as the main force to break out, the Soviet 2nd Guards Tank Division, barely maintaining the number of tanks, lost almost one-third of its troops in one breath. Accepted, and the colonel himself is probably the best candidate for the scapegoat. As long as he returns to the headquarters, he will be shot.

"Where's my tank? Gather the troops! Attack again! Attack again!" The husband struggled,

He wanted to save his defeat, but was held down by his gunner.

The gunner sighed, pointed to Highway 9 not far away, and said helplessly: "Sir, the 1st Regiment was even worse. They were ambushed by the 3rd Armored Division of the German SS. A total of 110 tanks , None of them came back. I heard that the 1st Regiment Commander was captured, and the last 50 tanks surrendered without a fight. Let’s retreat quickly. If it’s too late, the other party will fight over after cleaning the battlefield.”

"One regiment... is it over?" The husband was stunned, not knowing how many strange things happened during the short hour he was in a coma.

"Yes, it's over. Several prisoners were released to our side. They came to send a message to us to surrender. Here are leaflets from the Germans. They claim that as long as they surrender, they will treat the prisoners according to international conventions..." The gunner obviously said Tempted, after all, if the fight continues like this, it is very likely that I will lose my old life here.

"Bastard! How can we surrender? We will fight to the death!" The husband yelled loudly, his tone full of righteousness.

"Colonel Husband! When we were just retreating, the political commissar of our regiment was shot dead by the Germans." A tank commander whispered.

"Killed? Go and see how much fuel we have left, and let the officers in charge of logistics come to me!" The husband froze for a moment, and then began to give his orders.

Soon, the remaining officers of the regiment's logistics department came to this temporary regiment headquarters, and some tanks were parked nearby, which was regarded as a simple wall.

"Sir, the rest of our fuel is stockpiled here. There are about 40 barrels. This is all we can find...We are better here, and most of the fuel in the rear is about to bottom out." A logistician The officer reported.

"Let everyone fetch it! We brought these oils with us and fought with the Germans!" The husband gritted his teeth and said, "It is said to the outside world that we are fighting with the Germans! We must always leave a way for our wives and children in our hometown! "

He stood up, looked at the few tanks around, and finally added with a sigh: "Then let's surrender... Now that it's like this, there is only one way to think about it."

Soon, the logistics personnel sent out to search for fuel came back, bringing back part of the fuel from the troops behind, as well as their original supplies. The husband took a closer look. There were about 50 barrels of gasoline and some ammunition, delivered by truck, and a political commissar followed.

It seemed that the political commissar didn't have any great skills. He just looked at it and couldn't wait to go back. While looking at a bullet-ridden tank with his hands behind his back, he pursed his lips and said, "You must continue to attack! I will report to my superiors about your bravery and loyalty to the Soviet Union."

As a result, he didn't have a chance to go back and report his loyalty, because the tankers following the *fu had already smashed a hole in the back of his fragile head with a wrench for repairing the tank.

Under the current circumstances, these Soviet soldiers had no way out if they wanted to surrender, so everyone waved the white flag, walked out of the temporary position, raised their hands, shouted the German word for surrender, and walked towards the German defense position.

On the opposite side of them, two German grenadiers were aiming at them with machine guns. The deputy shooter with the belt in his hand narrowed his eyes and saw the white flags waving in the hands of the Soviet soldiers, and asked, "Hey! I said, are they here to surrender?"

"It should be. These people are dressed as Soviet tank soldiers. They should be members of the 2nd Guards Tank Division 2nd Regiment who retreated behind the bushes." The machine gunner still didn't take his eyes off the sight. The front sight was pressed on the body of a Soviet soldier, and the trigger would be pulled just waiting for an order.

The imagined firefight did not happen, as a German tank crossed the makeshift German line and came in front of the Soviets holding the white flag. These Soviets were frightened by the sight before them, because they saw the number 113, which they fear most, painted on the turret of this tank.

Lifting the canopy, Ren leaned his upper body out of the turret, habitually, still holding the MP-44 assault rifle in his hand. The Russian he had learned so hard these days finally came in handy, and a sentence of Russian that was not fluent but fairly standard came out of his mouth: "Are you here to surrender?"

"Yes, sir!" The leading gunman raised his hands and said helplessly: "Our tanks are parked behind the bushes, and there are 40 of them that can still be driven. Most of them are KV-1 improved tanks."

On Ren's neck was a leaf-like Knight's Iron Cross, which seemed to make him, the oil-stained captain, much more energetic. And on his chest, there are more medals hanging, and his legendary experience can be seen from one side: the graduation medal of the German Armored Forces Command Academy, the Polish Battle Commemorative Medal, the French Battle Commemorative Medal—except for the ongoing England He is almost a living history of the German war.

"Bowman! Start the tanks, let's go and see those tanks! Marcus, you are covering the flanks, tank 114, the right wing is handed over to you." He grasped the throat communicator and gave an order. Following his command, the huge tiger tank shook and moved forward slowly. And on the German position behind this Tiger tank, two more Tiger tanks ran over the bushes and rushed out of their hideout.

Soon, the 502 heavy tank destroyer battalion in Rennes sent technicians and maintenance personnel. They classified and took over these Soviet tanks. This was the first time that the German army captured Soviet tanks on a large scale. It must be handed over to the technical department to analyze the design features and technical parameters of Soviet tanks.

Rennes' line of defense was soon taken over by troops from the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd SS Panzer Division. He was ordered to follow his battalion headquarters towards the original Soviet-German border. In the afternoon, the battalion headquarters of the 502nd Battalion had already Crossed the Soviet-German border and became the first German armored force to enter the Soviet Union for a counterattack.

In the early morning of April 8, the German army began to counterattack the Soviet border troops. After the Soviet-German War began, the situation of the Soviet Union attacking the German defense was reversed, and the German army began to launch a counterattack on the long border.

No one expected that the German army would start a crazy counterattack before completely digesting the Soviet troops in the encirclement. From the moment the German army crossed the border, Khrushchev hurriedly issued "No retreat, Immediately start counterattack" supreme order.