Chapter 1031 Photo Shock

Hearing Vatutin's words, Malashenko, who had been mentally prepared for his butterfly effect, was shocked on the spot.

"Damn, did Nan Ge and Leopard come early?"

Vatutin's next move quickly confirmed Malashenko's terrible guess. A stack of battlefield photos that had been developed not long ago was thrown on the table in front of Malashenko.

"Take a look. With your eyes, you are an expert in this area. These are precious photos taken by our soldiers at the risk of their lives."

Malashenko looked at Vatutin's expression and realized that he was not joking. He looked a little solemn, and then reached out to pick up the stack of black and white photos on the table and looked at them carefully.

The first photo seemed to be taken in the trench, and half of the photos were meaningless trench soil.

But in the upper half of the photo, Malashenko could see a blurred steel outline about 300 meters away.

The pixel quality of this era was very poor, and it was still a black and white photo with only two colors visible.

Malashenko stared at the distant black outline in the photo with his glasses wide open. He could probably tell that it was a German tank with a mid-turret, a very tall body, and a larger body than his own T34.

Moreover, judging from the details presented by the few pixels in the photo, Malashenko estimated that the barrel length of this car was not that of a Tiger. A Tiger carrying a sturdy 88 gun did not have such a slender toothpick gun.

What kind of car could it be?

Malashenko was still a little uncertain. He could not get a definite answer based on such a blurry photo.

In the next second photo, the content presented was a tank, which was more like a coffin than a tank. The huge body and the integrated fighting room were at most less than a hundred meters away from the photographer. Malashenko really wanted to know whether the soldier who risked his life to take this photo was alive now.

"Gan! It's the scrap iron man, the German's Nan brother! This thing actually came in handy in Kharkov!"

Because the photo was taken at a very close distance, the content presented in the picture was relatively clear.

The iconic body and fighting compartment are combined into one, and the shape is very characteristic. The entire rear-mounted big head looks like a small coffin stacked on a big coffin, and the coffins are square.

A scary slender gun barrel with a high caliber ratio is carried on the fighting compartment. From the perspective presented in the photo, it has even extended out of the front of the body. This terrible steel behemoth is the abandoned and reused tank of Dr. Porsche, the anti-German hero: the "Ferdinand" heavy tank destroyer.

Malashenko, who couldn't help but complain strongly in his heart, shook his head and forced himself to accept it all. It was only a matter of time before the scrap iron man came. Since he wanted to enjoy the benefits of the butterfly effect, he had to pay a corresponding price.

Faced with the increasingly powerful armored forces of the Soviet army, the Germans, whose heads were not filled with shit, would definitely make some corresponding changes. These changes were caused by their own butterfly effect. It was impossible to judge and predict in advance with the existing historical trend. The early appearance of the scrap iron man was the best justification.

"Well, the scrap iron man has come out, nothing is worse than this, let's see what's next."

Malachenko's finger slid gently again and received the next photo, which showed a completely different scene from the previous one.

"Fuck you, you really let the leopard out in advance!?"

If the battles shown in the first two photos were not so fierce, the picture shown in the third photo could be described as shocking.

The photographer of the photo should be leaning on the back of a T34 medium tank. Malachenko recognized that this was his own T34 from the iconic tilted butt armor and engine exhaust pipe that showed a corner.

In the rest of the photo, seven or eight tanks were fighting desperately at different positions and distances in the long and short distances.

The tanks were both Soviet and German, and the models were also very complicated.

Malashenko saw not only the T34 and KV1, but also the German assault guns No. 3, No. 4, and No. 3. However, the most eye-catching thing was, of course, the tall German tank perched on the top of the earth slope, with a ball of hot flames spurting out of the gun barrel.

The tilted upper front armor of the vehicle, the iconic German-style road wheels interlaced with each other, the three-sided tilted turret that looked a bit "small-headed" compared to the huge vehicle body, and the 70-caliber 75mm main gun barrel that was a bit too long.

The Black Panther, which was praised as one of the strongest and most excellent medium tanks in the entire World War II, was clearly placed in the photo in front of him.

Although Malashenko was a little annoyed, even a little complaining and confused, the facts in front of him were always beyond human will.

Even if Malashenko didn't want to face it, the fierce German Black Panther had already been released in advance, which was the truth that could not be refuted in front of him.

And judging from the time when the Panther appeared in Kharkov in the photo, the Panther medium tank had joined Manstein's Army Group South in March 1943, four months earlier than the first appearance in the Battle of Kursk in early July in existing history.

Considering that they were confident in putting it into battle, the Germans must have accumulated a certain number of Panthers.

Based on this, Malashenko estimated that the acceleration of the entire Panther tank project due to his butterfly effect would be at least no later than half a year, or six months!

The Germans had gathered enough Panthers to fight in the third Kharkov battle, and in the first round of actual combat, they dealt heavy casualties to Vatutin, who only had KV and T34, and a bunch of small light tanks available.

In addition, the air force of the Southern Army Group was also absolutely strong, enough to overwhelm the Soviet fighter aviation units that provided support to Vatutin, ensuring absolute air supremacy at the most critical point of the battle.

Malashenko shook his head slowly and felt that Vatutin was not wronged in Kharkov. You used T3476 and KV1 to fight the Panther and the scrap iron man head-on. This battle is for you.

This is no longer a massacre of the young, this is a direct ablation of the palace! The only thing left is to collect heads, and the German tanks probably stopped there without moving and started killing.

Not to mention that Vatutin lost many troops and was beaten badly by Manstein in Kharkov.

In this kind of battle where the air-to-ground technical equipment was not superior and the enemy's strategic trap was set, even if the Red Army's god of war Comrade Lao Zhu was in charge, it would only be another disastrous defeat after the Mars Operation, which could not be reversed by the art of command.