Chapter 1994 Backhand

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"Ten o'clock and two o'clock, two directions at the same time! Enemy tanks are approaching, coming towards us!"

Malachenko has been waiting, waiting for the time when the bastards of the Great German Division start to get serious, looking forward to this moment to come as soon as possible.

Yes, Malachenko has always been very clear that this seemingly one-sided battle is just a warm-up match and appetizer, and the time to really go all out has not yet come.

Passive defense is not the style of the Germans, especially the elite among the German army. It is the consistent style of these bastards to either carry out counterattacks or plan counterattacks.

If you see a group of elite German troops fighting desperately and defending defensive positions, then be careful. Unless they are exhausted and have run out of tricks, a powerful counterattack will inevitably come soon, which is also what Malachenko expects.

"Finally they are here, those bastards."

There were no German tanks on the battlefield, and the vanguard of the First Belorussian Front was indeed repelled by the irresistible German armored group.

Could it be that the Germans wanted to keep the tanks for breeding and were reluctant to use them?

Malachenko didn't believe it.

The attack of a large group of German tanks was completely within Malachenko's expectations, and the corresponding response plan had been prepared long ago.

"Kurbalov, take your men to continue the attack and break through the German defense! Don't stop until these bastards collapse and surrender."

"Varosha, prepare to block the German armored forces according to the predetermined plan. You take the 4th regiment to take charge of the right wing, and I will command the 3rd regiment to take charge of the left wing. The Germans want to attack, well, we will attack them! Let's see who is the king of the attack!"

The task of attacking the German defensive positions was undertaken by Kurbalov's First Heavy Combined Brigade. This did not mean that Malashenko deliberately let Valosha's Second Brigade sit on the bench and watch the show behind, but that the Second Brigade was to be used to deal with the German armored forces that were expected to counterattack.

A heavy combined brigade confronted the armored forces of an elite German Wehrmacht division. The numbers of troops seemed to be evenly matched, but Malashenko had an absolute advantage in armor quality. He was determined to defeat the German armored soldiers who wanted to repeat the old tricks to win the counterattack.

The Varosha Brigade had been waiting for Malashenko's order and had been ready to go. With Malashenko's order, more than a hundred tanks in the brigade immediately stepped on the accelerator and rushed out like an arrow from a bow. The flying dust and the black smoke from the exhaust pipe were so huge that they even blew up a black and gray storm, which instantly covered the ground.

The German armored forces, which also stepped on the accelerator all the way, were not much behind. Even though they saw the unstoppable movement of the Soviet armored forces, they still had no intention of stopping. They continued to attack the central waist of the leader division with a pincer attack from both wings. A cruel armored fight that would wrench out steel and flesh was inevitable.

The black iron stream and the red storm are about to collide. Lieutenant General Manteuffel, who has moved from the rear command post to the frontline command post and observed the battle situation in person, saw everything clearly and took it all in. There was an unspeakable worry in his eyes when he put down the telescope in his hand.

"The Russians were well prepared. They knew that we would definitely counterattack. The huge armored cluster attacking our defense line was only a part of their troops. This group of Russians could actually take out armored forces equal to the offensive forces to attack us."

"They are so powerful and so familiar with us. They can predict our every move in advance and arrange countermeasures, just waiting for us to act. What kind of troops are they?"

After fighting with the Soviet army for so long, it is not new that the enemy is familiar with and understands their own tactics. Lieutenant General Manteuffel is clear about this.

What really surprised him was that this unprecedentedly powerful enemy revealed indescribable weirdness in all aspects no matter from which angle you look at it.

In terms of troop formation, the equipment of this group of Russians is outrageous.

IS6 heavy tanks, which are considered rare in ordinary Soviet tank units, are everywhere here, and their number is even far more than medium tanks. On the contrary, medium tanks, which are used as the main force of ordinary Soviet tank units, have become rare goods here.

The Soviet commander on the opposite side is even extravagant enough to use medium tanks as infantry carriers and assault guns, which is equivalent to using the main tanks of ordinary Soviet tank units to do the work of the three bald men on the German side. This is the first time that Manteuffel has seen such a domineering and extravagant Soviet commander, and he has never even heard of it before.

There are also some unprecedented tanks that look like medium tanks but are not at all. As soon as Manteuffel arrived at the forward command post, he was firmly attracted by this group of outrageous things.

If you want to ask why, it is because the actual function of this group of things is unprecedented.

It can transport people, but more importantly, the single-barrel rapid-fire machine gun it carries may seem insignificant, but it can actually make all kinds of German infantry on the battlefield run away in panic. No matter if you are a rifleman, submachine gunner, machine gunner, or anti-tank soldier, as long as you are a flesh and blood person, you can kill them all.

The Russian 122mm main gun has a long reload time, and after roaring once, it still leaves a chance for the German soldiers to catch their breath, but this machine gun does not have that. It is a terrifying killing machine that will shoot until you are minced into pieces once it targets you.

If you have to use some appropriate metaphor to describe it, Manteuffel thinks that the process of the meat grinder in the slaughterhouse running at full speed and grinding lumps of pork into minced meat is probably similar to the scene in front of him? Anyway, the meat grinder will not stop until the whole piece of pork is ground into minced meat, which is exactly the same as the scene in front of him.

Physical destruction is secondary, and the heavy blow to morale and spirit is really fatal.

Manteuffel saw through the telescope more than once that too many German soldiers kept firing after being targeted by those damn machine guns. Their comrades were beaten into a pulp and cut in half on the spot. The scene of blood splattering and internal organs flying everywhere became the last straw that broke their nerves.

The only fate left for these collapsed German recruits was to be beaten into corpses by the Russians' random guns and artillery while dancing and running away like a madman who ran out of a mental hospital with a collapsed wall.

The Army High Command has done its best to dispatch experienced troops to rebuild the Great German Division, but such a large-scale unit still cannot avoid the same fate as other Wehrmacht units in the second "resurrection": forced to absorb a large number of inexperienced and urgently mobilized recruits, or even prisoners in custody who have served in the army.

After winning a battle, he encountered such a fierce battle against the wind. Manteuffel knew that if he continued like this, it would only be a matter of time before the defensive position collapsed completely, even if the reserve troops that had been put in and just put into battle were counted.

The only and last chance depends on the outcome of this counterattack.

If he could not win, Manteuffel was even a little afraid to think about what kind of bloody massacre would be waiting for the newly formed Great German Division after such a result in front of such a powerful enemy. At that time, it might be a luxury to retreat unscathed.

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