Chapter 1447: Close Combat

The cruelest and bloodiest close-quarters fighting began. Even though the German troops on the battlefield did not want to fight or face this kind of battle, the Red Army soldiers who vowed to defeat the enemy still held onto their weapons and rushed to the battlefield. .

"Attention, all crews, fire the main gun with caution, and use the machine gun cover to shoot against the Germans first! Be careful of accidental injuries to our people!"

The 122 Heirloom with a thick tube is not a small and mini 85mm main gun. A high-explosive grenade with a full charge is a proper AOE for large-scale damage.

Worried about what might happen to the muscle-headed brats under his command, Kulbalov picked up the radio at hand and gave urgent final orders. Using the main gun with caution and using machine guns to deal with the enemy as much as possible is a tactic that has been arranged in advance. The Germans currently do not have an effective defensive position to rely on. Naturally, there is no need to blast the main gun too many times if there is no danger.

Using machine guns to deal with enemies is naturally a superior strategy that can effectively achieve tactical goals without causing too much risk.

If Kulbalov had not given these two final reminders, the Red Army gunners, almost all of whom were violent maniacs, would most likely have chosen to use 122 grenades to completely destroy the German army. After all, the feeling of killing them all with one shot was comparable. It's much more refreshing to use a machine gun to call names one by one.

In fact, just as Kulbalov had predicted earlier, the Red Army soldiers who rushed to the so-called "German position" did not encounter much stubborn resistance.

The so-called fortification bunkers that the vast majority of the German infantry relied on were just the craters blasted out by the Red Army's 152 Theosophy and Katyusha rocket launchers. The huge craters are already the best defensive position that the German army can find. Otherwise, they can only hide behind the wreckage of their own tanks and vehicles and keep firing.

There were no effective echelon defense positions, no cross-machine gun fire network arranged in advance, and no heavy fire cover sufficient to suppress the Red Army.

This battle, which basically determined the final outcome from the very beginning, was a miserable and extremely difficult battle for the German infantry.

"Fix bayonets! The Russians are coming!"

"Are you crazy? There are so many of them, they can kill us by just stabbing and fighting!"

"Otherwise, what will you do? Wait until you go to Siberia to suffer for the Russians."

Da da da da——

The two German infantrymen hiding in the Katyusha rocket crater didn't even finish their words. Suddenly, a Red Army soldier rushed up from the blind area of ​​vision, raised the Bobosha in his hand and shot without saying a word.

The bullets that hit instantly like water splashed directly took away the two German soldiers in a shuttle. The two German soldiers, whose faces, arms, shoulders, and chests were full of bullet holes, immediately fell into a pool of blood without saying a word. , the originally planned bayonet-mounted hand-to-hand combat opportunity never even came to pass.

For the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division, which had an astonishing level of automatic firepower, the era of facing down Germans with bayonets was already a thing of the past. Battles that can be resolved with guns will never involve bayonets and fists. This is a concept that the division commander, Comrade Chang Ma, has long instilled in all infantry commanders and combatants, including Varosha.

The influence of this top-down concept has been implemented to the grassroots level. Even those recruits who have just been deployed to the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division know that it is difficult to stay in such an elite team of the entire Red Army. In the tank army, you don't need to think about saving ammunition at all. As long as you still have ammunition, just pull the trigger on the Germans as hard as you can.

Of course, if you open your mouth and throw water when you are not equipped with enough ammunition, regardless of the situation, then you have misunderstood the words of comrade division commander and committed the error of rigid dogmatism. Dime relationship.

Time and time again, the tank knight's combat mode was used to directly eliminate infantry firefights at long and medium to long distances. Whenever the infantry of the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division went into battle to engage in firefights, it was definitely at the final level of medium and close range firefights.

The shortcoming of the automatic weapon's lack of range is perfectly compensated, and the advantage of the fierce firepower of splashing water at the beginning of the attack is further amplified.

The ones who have the most say on whether the combat mode is ferocious enough are the German infantrymen who are currently being pushed to the ground and blasted with hammers.

"Bullets, machine gun bullets! The deputy shooter is killed. Someone help me load the bullets! Hurry!"

"These Russian guys are too strong! They are full of submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles. We don't have enough firepower!"

"Hold on, hold on! Don't retreat, reinforcements will be here soon! Hold on!"

Do the Germans really have reinforcements on the way?

The answer is yes, the German major who tried to stabilize the situation from collapse did not lie. Knowing that he was facing a wolf in front of him and a tiger behind him, the German breakout commander had no choice but to split his most precious and final trump card: the SS Viking Armored Division into two parts.

The group with the strongest combat power and the largest number of troops continued to attack fiercely, striving to defeat the Russian tank army in front of them in the shortest possible time, and to open a breakthrough path to continue advancing at all costs.

As for the small part of the Viking division that was transferred to the rear, it was used to prevent this group of unknown but extremely powerful Russians from behind from catching up from behind, and changing the entire situation from the situation beyond one's own expectations. The controllable range was completely destroyed.

That’s right, the headquarters of the German army that broke through the encirclement still didn’t know what kind of enemy was chasing them. They didn’t know what the enemy’s unit number was, how many troops they had, and what tactical goals they had received. They just knew that these Russians were so anxious to catch up, and they definitely didn’t come to beat drums and gongs to send them off happily.

If they still wanted to break out successfully, it would be the best choice to stop these Russians who were about to make a scene behind them as soon as possible under the premise of unequal intelligence information between the enemy and us.

As the saying goes, the big picture can be seen from the small. The huge impact of the complete collapse and loss of control of the entire battle situation on the German army can be seen from this.

If it were in normal times, the German army, which was good at fierce attacks, destroying the enemy in the assault, and implementing the truth that offense is the best defense to the end, would not be beaten to the point of having their brains almost flowing out without knowing the name of the opponent.

An obvious counter-example is that the battle group composed of three elite SS armored divisions in Kursk made a highly targeted combat deployment based on the premise that they knew that their opponent was the notorious "Iron Butcher" Malashenko, and they tried to pin down the Red Army's ace tank unit that caused great trouble to the German army in the encirclement.

Therefore, when the overall strategic situation goes downhill in comparison, this will not only be reflected in specific battles, but also in the degree of mastery of battlefield intelligence and information.