Chapter 1759: Bloody Battle Returns (Part 1)

A crazy fighting scene was actually happening in front of him. Lavrinenko, who insisted on commanding the battle in the position of the commander, saw the scene clearly. Read М

It was not until this time that Lavrinenko finally confirmed one thing. He might have underestimated the opponents in front of him and underestimated the fighting will of the Great German Division, which was known as the elite of the Wehrmacht.

Fighting many favorable battles will inevitably make people have some illusions. For example, none of the trash in the Wehrmacht can cause trouble to their side, which is far worse than the group of scum in the SS who don't care about their lives.

But judging from the real situation encountered at present, Lavrinenko knew very well that he must be wrong, and he was wrong quite outrageously and thoroughly.

Even in 1944, there are still enough people in the Wehrmacht to make him feel troublesome and difficult. All the Wehrmacht must not be treated equally. The bastards in front of him still have the courage to fight to the death and the will to fight to death.

The Great German Division is very capable, but this does not mean that the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division, which is also an elite division, cannot defeat it. Otherwise, Colonel Klose would not have to lead the large force to run away in such a hurry.

To put it bluntly, this was scared away by the offensive posture of the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division, which was divided into three routes and advanced in parallel. It’s just that Colonel Klose didn’t know that the enemy he was facing was the famous and notorious "Iron Butcher" Malashenko.

If he knew, he would probably be scared away faster and earlier.

But the key to the problem lies precisely in time.

Lavrinenko was sure that the offensive force he led, even without the assistance of Malashenko and Kurbarov, could easily lie down in front of the group of Nazi scum who were left behind to die, but this would obviously take longer than expected.

The frantic escape and evacuation of the German army continued, and what Lavrinenko lacked most now was time.

The enemy had mobility that was not inferior to his own, or even better. The Great German Division, which had abandoned all the burdensome baggage and supplies, had already taken the fastest escape speed. The highly mechanized wheeled vehicles and armored vehicles made its escape speed extremely fast.

Lavrinenko could hardly see the traces of the German army now, and could only see the dust rising far away on the horizon.

If the current stalemate continued and no new breakthroughs were made, Lavrinenko knew very well that this would inevitably lead to his inevitable failure in the next battle. At least the task goal of "delaying the enemy" assigned to him by Malashenko could not be completed.

Being anxious and furious was the most true interpretation of Lavrinenko's state of mind at this moment, but some things were indeed not something you could solve by getting anxious.

The desperate resistance of the rear guard of the Great German Division continued. No matter how hard the Third Battalion, which was assigned the task of expedited breakthrough, tried, it could not break through the damn defense.

Facing the Soviet heavy tanks that had already roared onto the battlefield, the infantry of the Great German Division, which was almost in a frenzy, did their best and blocked everything they had.

The weapons used to carry out anti-tank attacks were no longer limited to the two types of iron fists and tank killers.

The armored grenadiers with sufficient anti-tank combat experience were divided into multiple combat teams, cooperating tacitly and dividing the work.

The support team, which was responsible for suppressing the Soviet infantry and used machine guns as the core firepower pillar, stopped and walked, and almost changed places after firing a round, like a groundhog running around in the field, scattering guerrillas, and forcibly turned this defensive blocking battle into a regional guerrilla war.

The Red Army soldiers following closely behind their tanks were unable to cope with the Germans' firing from all directions, which was almost like shooting from behind.

It's not that the Red Army infantry's firepower was inferior to that of the German infantry, but the German infantry's tactics of using various bunkers and newly dug shallow trenches, running around in blind spots with their heads down, and sneaking cold guns made the Red Army soldiers too passive, giving people a feeling of frustration and powerlessness that they had firepower advantages but could not use them.

You just concentrated your firepower to kill a German machine gunner, and two more German machine gun teams appeared at the same time on the left and right sides, far away from each other. The Red Army soldiers who leaned out of the cover of the tank and fired did not even have time to dodge back, and the barrage of bullets from the extremely fast-firing MG42 machine guns would knock them down on the spot and kill them in a pool of blood.

As a result, the Soviet army, which launched the attack and had an absolute advantage, suffered heavy losses, while the German army, which was the passive and disadvantaged defender, suffered even greater losses.

To put it bluntly, the close combat was a pure battle of attrition.

Whichever side died first or lost morale and lost combat power first would be the first to withdraw from the battle as the loser.

The light weapons fighting between infantry was so cruel and bloody, let alone the German armored grenadiers who specialized in anti-tank. The collision between flesh and steel would be even more tragic, without exception.

A German infantryman holding a magnetic anti-tank grenade was waiting for an opportunity. The huge, bulky, conical heavy anti-tank grenade looked extremely huge compared to his thin and short body, at least much bigger than his head with a dung shovel on top.

But even so, this armored grenadier who faced the gunfire and steel body still showed extraordinary calmness, fully understood the current situation and tried to analyze the best time to attack.

When the roaring IS6 heavy tank was about to run over the crater where he was, the already short and thin armored grenadier did not dodge immediately, but instantly crawled his body completely and pressed tightly to the ground as if the bombardment was coming.

The driver of the IS6 heavy tank, whose vision was not very good, did not realize that there was a person hiding in the blind spot of the crater in front of him. This crater, which was caused by the long-range bombardment of the Soviet field artillery cluster earlier, was most likely blasted out by a 203mm heavy howitzer. The cross-section of the crater was so large that it was not the power of an ordinary howitzer.

But it was precisely this huge crater that showed how powerful the Soviet field artillery cluster was that became the German accomplice in the funeral of the IS6 heavy tank.

The thin armored grenadiers who were crawling and hiding on the slope of the crater found the right time, and when the IS6 heavy tank roared over their heads, they jumped up and raised the anti-tank magnetic mines in their hands and smashed them quickly.

The Red Army soldiers who followed closely behind the IS6 heavy tank reacted quickly after a brief moment of shock.

The long guns and short guns in their hands were aimed at this "suddenly resurrected corpse" at the fastest speed, but everything was too late after all.