Chapter 1747: A Life-and-Death Fight

Since Lavrinenko could keenly detect the abnormality of the German army's movements, the German army could also quickly feel the abnormality of the fierce Russians from the battle. Read М

"Too many! There are Russian heavy tanks everywhere, and there are few medium tanks. How many Stalin tanks did they bring in?!"

"It's impossible to penetrate the frontal armor. The loss is too great! We are outnumbered!"

"The Russians' firepower is too strong! We need to retreat and reorganize!"

The radio was full of disturbing and terrible shouts and curses. If someone who didn't know heard it, they would probably think that only someone who had a nightmare could shout such ghost howling.

Although he knew nothing about the shouting on the radio, Colonel Klose, who had been holding a telescope to observe, saw the situation of the battle on the front line clearly and truly.

"This is not right. The Russians' offensive is too abnormal! We have put all the troops we can use on hand, but the Russians are still attacking frantically, with no intention of retreating.

Colonel Klose's voice was full of uneasiness, and a lieutenant colonel who was accompanying the observation behind the bunker immediately responded.

"Maybe maybe this is just the Russians' unwillingness to give up, or perhaps it is their last madness before failure. Maybe now is the time to see who can hold on to the end, Colonel."

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Colonel Klose, whose eyes were a little erratic, did not speak directly, but thought for several seconds before responding.

"I hope you are right, if so, it would be great. But my intuition tells me that the real situation may not be what we expected. At least the real strength of the Russians on the opposite side may be much stronger than we expected. This countless heavy tank cluster is at least the strength of a tank division, and the enemy is on par with us in terms of quantity. "

If compared with the regular organization of the Soviet Army, the regiment of tanks and the battalion of infantry led by Lavrinenko do look the same as the ordinary Soviet tank division, and there is basically no difference.

So it cannot be said that Colonel Klose's guess was seriously inaccurate. This is just a standard judgment based on normal circumstances. No one would have thought that the notorious Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division, the only one in the entire Soviet Army, would actually run into their own side in such a place.

As a battlefield commander, Colonel Klose still does not even know the number of the Soviet heavy armored force facing him.

The Red Army did a very good job of confidentiality and secret deployment of troops before the launch of Operation Bagration. The Germans had very little intelligence, which was of course the main reason. But on the other hand , the serious weakness of the German intelligence network is also an important reason that cannot be separated from the relationship.

Considering both sides and adding up the total, Colonel Claus still does not know that he has been targeted by the "Iron Butcher" Malashenko and his troops. This seems to be excusable and not too outrageous.

Time passed quickly for about two minutes in the fierce and crazy capture and repeated weighing and thinking.

When Colonel Claus raised the telescope again two minutes later and found that his armored forces still could not charge up, let alone penetrate the armor of the Russian heavy tanks that were stationary and shooting at a certain distance from him, the strong ominous premonition that had been lingering in his heart finally reached its peak at this moment.

"The loss is too great, we can't continue like this! Let the troops withdraw temporarily and prepare for defense based on favorable terrain. The self-propelled artillery should be almost ready, ready to fire interception barrages at the Russians to cover our troops' retreat!"

"Yes! "

The God of War did not completely abandon Colonel Claus and the German army. At least he left them some "geographical" conditions and favorable factors.

Compared to the terrain on Lavrinenko's side, the German position can indeed be described as "easy to defend and difficult to attack."

This is a "grassland hill array" composed of continuous and undulating hills. From a distance, it looks like a "pure natural washboard road" made by nature.

The German tanks have excellent main gun depression angles that are far superior to those of Soviet tanks. With these undulating and staggered hilly terrains, the German armored forces that have switched to a defensive state can still gain great advantages even without the support of effective positions built in advance.

The incoming Soviet artillery shells are likely to hit the hills that serve as bunkers, making it difficult to hit the German tank turrets, let alone penetrate the German tanks hiding behind the bunkers. The armor of the vehicle. And if the Russians really want to launch a tank cluster charge, they will inevitably have to enter and cross this undulating, winding hilly road.

The mobility of the Soviet tanks will be greatly affected, seriously slowing down the speed of attack, thus creating more opportunities for the Germans to fire, which can only be regarded as secondary.

Colonel Clauser is more concerned about whether the Soviet heavy tanks, whose armor defense angles are offset by the undulating terrain, can be penetrated from the front.

The Russian tanks are all good at using inclined armor defense, and the armor layout has a large angle. Colonel Clauser knows this very well. He understands even more how much firepower bonus advantage it will bring to his side when the enemy is in a terrain with ups and downs and twists and turns.

Perhaps attacking is not the best way to repel this group of powerful Russians, but defense is.

Colonel Claus, who was increasingly confident in his conjecture, decided to take a gamble and try to make a comeback based on the existing favorable terrain.

Even if he could not repel the Russians, if he succeeded, at least he could make them anchor in front of his defense and exhaust their remaining offensive energy so that they could not advance any further. He would be a tall wall that the Russians could not cross.

Furthermore, this was equivalent to defending the battle direction he was responsible for and fulfilling his due responsibilities, so that the Russians who suddenly attacked from this direction could not threaten the safety of the flanks of more large forces in the rear.

So there was no doubt that it was absolutely worthwhile and correct to do so. If such a large group of Russian tanks were allowed to go over, it would be really hard to tell how much trouble it would cause. It might really collapse completely or even be annihilated.

Soon, Colonel Claus's orders were fully executed by the participating troops below.

The German self-propelled artillery positions, which were part of the division's field artillery unit, had already raised their gun barrels. The huge breech block of the 150mm cannon had been pushed with shells in the open fighting room, ready to fire.