Chapter 1453 Out of Touch

Swoosh——

Boom——

Boom boom boom——

The German artillery bombardment continued to fall, and the loud explosions continued to sound around one after another. Kurbalov, who was commanding the tanks carrying the infantry to rush out desperately, was thinking about one thing at this moment while his nerves were tense.

The Germans had been surrounded for some time. Various heavy equipment and vehicles abandoned along the way were everywhere, and towed artillery could be seen everywhere on the roadside. There were anti-tank guns and large-caliber howitzers. Sometimes even the trucks responsible for towing these artillery were abandoned on the roadside, obviously due to mechanical failure or the fuel in the tank was used up.

Since the Germans had abandoned so many heavy equipment, where did these German artillery come from now?

Kurbalov was not a professional artilleryman, but he could judge some basic things by the sound of the artillery and the size of the explosion. For example, the caliber of the German shells that kept falling one after another at this moment would definitely not be less than 122 mm, because judging from the noise alone, they were far better than the Red Army's 122mm artillery, and even almost as good as the 152mm cult.

"How did these Germans escape with these heavy artillery? Could it be that the Germans who were supporting them from outside broke in and joined them?"

Thinking of this, Kurbalov immediately became suspicious and worried about the worst. A similar situation also occurred to Malashenko, who was also commanding his car to charge and was slightly behind Kurbalov's vanguard.

"Where did these Germans get such a big artillery? Shouldn't they have thrown it all away long ago?!"

Malashenko, who was also very puzzled, also noticed another detail: although the German artillery bombardment was fierce and kept falling, it seemed a bit sparse and the density of the bombardment was not high.

It seems that there may be at most one artillery company, which means that the Germans don't have many large-caliber heavy artillery.

"Damn it! The battle has come to this point and I can't care about so much. A few broken cannons are just that useless and can't make much waves. Let's rush up and kill these scum first!"

Malachenko, who has been forced to this point, doesn't intend to give up. A few small German cannons are not enough to stop the offensive that he has been preparing for a long time. Rushing up and killing these German bastards in front of him is what Malachenko wants to do most now.

"Kurbarov, keep going! The number of German cannons is not large enough to stop you! I will be there with a large force soon, hold on!"

The reaction speed of artillery in this year is far less than that of the 21st century. It takes a long time to calibrate one artillery coordinate and move to the next artillery coordinate. The artillery observers on the front line had to work for a long time to give accurate new artillery coordinates, and the artillery group behind them was not responsive enough and the firing rate was even more worrying.

If there were enough artillery, the shortcoming of the heavy artillery's low firing rate could be made up.

But now the Germans only have one company of artillery at most, and Malashenko, who has extremely high mobility, is not afraid of the interception of the artillery barrage. The situation of Kurbalov just now was obviously due to the Germans predicting the trajectory of the action and firing in advance. Now that the enemy situation has been determined, it is naturally impossible to continue to be bombed.

With the medium-tank-level mobility of the IS6 heavy tank, it only needs a little maneuvering to avoid the sparse follow-up correction artillery fire of the Germans.

As for the large force led by Malashenko, it is the same reason. Not going in a straight line and flanking from both sides is the most appropriate choice at the moment. Malashenko, relying on his large number of vehicles, wanted to see how fast the Germans' broken guns reacted.

What happened later was exactly as Malashenko expected. Kurbalov's troops quickly rushed out of the coverage of the artillery barrage and easily got rid of the subsequent artillery fire from the Germans. And because of the appropriate tactical maneuver under Kurbalov's command to change the route, the dozens of extended predicted artillery fire from the Germans that followed were all blown up.

Large-caliber long-range howitzers are not direct-aiming fire, but are set and calibrated through the feedback information of the front-line artillery observers. It is normal to have a delay of dozens of seconds from firing to the falling of the shells at a range of more than ten kilometers.

The projectiles that are constantly attenuated by air friction can't even reach twice the speed of sound at the end of the flight, but only fly at a subsonic curve. If it weren't for the large number of heavy artillery that were assembled for regional coverage in a short period of time, it would be impossible to stop the armored forces that are good at high-speed mobility, and it would be difficult to even hit them.

Moreover, when Malashenko bombed the German armored soldiers, the German tanks were motionless and in a combat state of firing. At the moment, the vanguard led by Kurbalov was in a completely opposite high-speed mobile state. It would take until the next life for the German guns to hit them.

This sudden wave of German artillery fire really caught Malashenko and Kurbalov off guard.

But now that they are temporarily out of danger, the actual casualties and losses caused by this wave of artillery fire are not great. They failed to hit a tank in the forward charging state, and only relied on the AOE damage of the explosion shock wave and fragments to sweep down some of the infantry hanging outside the tank, killing about dozens of people.

Considering the sudden attack of large-caliber heavy artillery, such a loss is small enough to be thankful for, but this does not mean that our old comrade Ma can play this tone in his heart.

The Germans who have fallen to this point still dare to use artillery to mess with themselves and play dirty tricks. This is simply showing off their skills in front of Guan Gong!

Malashenko, who was itching with hatred, thought it was necessary to give these Germans a wave of revenge, and then grabbed the radio transmitter at hand and pressed the button.

"Malashengko calls, comrade political commissar, can you hear it? How is the situation over there? We need artillery support here, immediately!"

Malashengko did not forget that he still had two battalions of mobile artillery in his hands. The powerful combination of Katyusha and ISU-152 was enough to send these Germans one by one to the sky, so that these ignorant idiots knew what heavy artillery firepower was.

However, the answer given by the political commissar immediately afterwards obviously disappointed our old comrade Ma.

"No, at least not now! The Katyusha Battalion has just finished loading its ammunition and is on its way. The ISU-152 Battalion has also been left behind by you and is also on its way. You are rushing forward too fast! Our artillery is out of touch!"