Chapter 1771 Desperate Madness
"Keep attacking! Yes, I repeat! Lavri, keep attacking!"
"The offensive cannot stop. There are only two hours left before dark. We cannot let these Germans linger until tomorrow! You don't know how deep and complicated the positions they will dig out overnight. Giving them time is a joke on our own lives. If we delay any longer, even the German reinforcements will come to mess up!"
"Kurbarov, step up the offensive! The Germans' broken cars are almost gone, and only the infantry is left, which is not worth mentioning at all! Let your tanks send the infantry up and into the German defense line so that we can completely crush them! Withstand the anti-tank firepower and rush forward. We are now racing against time! Yes, attack is the only order!"
Malachenko not only had to command the battle on his side, but also had to give orders to Lavrinenko and Kurbarov at the same time, and even coordinate and command his own crew to give orders. This made Malachenko, who had never experienced this kind of "four-line command", "very excited and happy" for a while. Read М
But no matter how complicated the battle command is, what Malashenko cares about most is not this, but the unexpected and somewhat abnormal changes in the current German army.
If we let Comrade Ma say it himself, he had been beaten so badly before, dragged his family and a bunch of tired soldiers and was chased behind for so long, and his armor and armor were thrown away everywhere. There were equipment and wreckage of destroyed vehicles thrown away at random. Such a German army, even if it was elite, should have no fighting will and combat effectiveness.
The imminent collapse of morale is predictable, which can be seen from the feedback from Kurbalov when he just fought with the remnants of the Great German Division.
Kurbalov directly described the enemy in front of him on the radio as "panicked and slow to react". Every move revealed exhaustion and low morale, as if they could be eaten up in less than an hour after a bombardment.
This is indeed normal. Malashenko also thinks that this is normal for the German stick. It is outrageous if you are beaten to this point and still smelly and hard like a stone in the toilet. Even the elite of the SS crazy guys are almost at this limit.
But I don’t know why, it’s like a person who was about to die was suddenly injected with chicken blood.
When Malashenko led his troops to the battlefield, Kurbarov was like Lavrinenko not long ago, and fell into a state of "I can continue to attack, but I suffer a lot of hardships" in front of the German army.
The tenacious resistance of the Great German Division was so crazy that even Malashenko felt like "returning to the old days of Stalingrad".
With the cover of their own tanks, they broke into the German defense line with standard infantry and tanks and just stabilized their position.
The infantrymen of the Great German Division, who were probably full of chicken blood, could launch a counterattack immediately, either in platoons or in whole companies, but they did not rush forward all at once, but were divided into multiple combat groups as usual to provide coordinated cover.
Even with its powerful direct firepower, the bulky IS6 heavy tanks could not cover everything. At most, they could only focus on the German attack in one direction and prevent it from moving closer. The other scattered German combat groups were like fearless groundhogs. Even though their comrades were constantly being shot down, they still continued to attack in an orderly manner, closing the distance at the cost of their lives.
The German troops in the defense line accounted for the majority, while the Soviet troops who had just gained a foothold were relatively few.
It was hard not to see a tilted variable when the battle lasted for a long time. The crazy German infantry rushed to a very close position, with long guns, short guns, various light weapons and anti-tank equipment in their hands. The crackling gunfire and continuous rumbles caused huge casualties visible to the naked eye to the Red Army troops that broke into the defense line.
The heavy tanks were destroyed one by one or paralyzed by the weak points of close shooting. Without the cover of the tanks, the bodies of the Red Army soldiers behind the steel wreckage were even more like harvesting wheat.
It was also at this time that Kulbarov finally experienced why the deputy division commander said that he felt that this group of Germans was too difficult to bite off quickly even if he used all his tricks.
I am not afraid of madmen who are not willing to die, but I am afraid that the madmen who are not willing to die still have quality and keep a clear mind.
For some reason, this group of German sticks who are still so excited and eager to fight until now really understand the meaning of "battlefield cost" too well.
As long as he can hold the line, he can throw in infantry companies one after another to fill this bottomless pit that swallows lives.
A simple human wave charge is easy to deal with. The key to the problem is that this group of "elite Nazi bandits" does not play this trick, but uses technical tactics to coordinate and attack high-end routines.
The tacit cooperation between the anti-infantry combat team and the anti-tank combat team is annoying. When one team is destroyed, another team will immediately fill it up, leaving you no time to breathe.
The tanks can be saved but the people cannot be saved, and the people can be saved but the tanks cannot be saved.
This is the most realistic portrayal of the battle situation that the regiment led by Kurbalov personally encountered in the first stage of the battle to break into the German defense line.
"Crazy, comrade division commander! I don't know why these Germans suddenly went crazy! I even wonder if they are a group of SS scum in the skin of the Wehrmacht! They rushed us with three or even four times the casualties, just to drive out the troops that broke into the defense line, regardless of the cost."
"But after driving them out, they immediately stopped and took back the lost defense line area and stopped moving forward. It was obviously a good opportunity for us to be repelled, but they just didn't move. It was as if..."
Kurbalov, who was exhausted from the cruel and unexpected final battle, was interrupted by Malashenko's words while reporting on the battlefield.
"It's like the land under their feet is absolutely inviolable, and they will defend it with their lives even if they die? These Germans must have received some great news, and it is probably a promise that is infinitely close to a blank check. During Stalingrad, the Germans repeatedly fought back madly when they were on the verge of death because of this, and it is still the same now. They can't change their nature."
Malachenko could not forget the battle experience at the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. The German army was still fighting desperately and fighting with their own side street by street until the last day of the battle. Every time they captured a house, it felt like the climax of the previous battle.
Malachenko only found out the reason for this later. It turned out that the old bastard Paulus was talking nonsense and making up nonsense until the last day before surrendering.
The German soldiers, who were almost crazy about war, were deceived by saying that reinforcements were just outside the city and would arrive soon. They were constantly indoctrinated with brainwashing nonsense and encouraged by full force. This led to the battle being so difficult and no different from before when it was almost over.
The scene in front of him was indeed familiar. After listening to Kurbarov's report, Malashenko felt that the German command might be repeating the old tricks, making up lies and lying without cost, which led to the "extreme madness" that Lavrinenko experienced personally.
No matter who was lying or what the specific reason was, Malashenko was very sure that the Germans' desperate madness would not last too long.
How could you withstand the counterattack casualties that were three or four times higher than those of the Soviet army that broke into the defense line? Now the main forces of the three regiments are all here. I want to see how long you can stay here and act crazy!