Chapter 2178: There Is Equipment, but It Cannot Be Used

Chapter 2183 I have equipment, but I can’t use it

The further reply telegram from the front army headquarters came quickly, and just as Malashenko expected, Vatutin did give Malashenko a more proactive order in tactics.

March to the rear of the enemy's 41st Armored Corps on the southern front, use the currently established salient as the starting point for the attack, and penetrate deep into the enemy in a roundabout way. The goal is to cut off the retreat of the enemy's 41st Armored Corps to form an encirclement situation, and then eat up this part of the Prussian Eastern Front. The enemy's main armored group on the battlefield.

Of course, such a large combat task as consuming an entire German armored force that still has combat effectiveness cannot be accomplished solely by the leader division.

In addition to the friendly force of the 267th Infantry Division, which will serve as an infantry supplement and continue to be assigned to Malashenko's command and the leadership division's combat organization for unified command operations, Vatutin is also actively coordinating the main frontal forces.

Prepare to exploit the weak points in the enemy's defense line found in this evening's exploratory attack, gather offensive energy overnight, and prepare for a larger offensive, hoping to directly penetrate and tear open the enemy's 41st Armored Corps' southern defense in tomorrow's battle. Cooperating with the roundabout insertion of the leader's division to complete the encirclement operation further to the southern defense line, it can be said to be a two-pronged left and right outflanking roundabout.

From this point alone, it can actually be seen that Vatutin is determined to win the remaining units of the 41st Armored Corps. After all, after Malashenko removed a strengthened main armored division, the strength of the 41st Armored Corps has been severely weakened, at least the mobile armored force has been greatly damaged and the offensive energy has been greatly reduced.

This also means that when the 41st Armored Corps attempts a possible breakout operation, it will cause much less trouble to the Red Army, and the possibility of a successful breakout is also much lower. Coupled with the protrusion and ready-made attack springboard created by Malashenko, this can be said to be a god-given opportunity to engage in an encirclement and annihilation war.

If Vatutin fails to take any action in the face of this situation, just lets the Germans run away, and misses such a good opportunity to kill the enemy's vital forces and reduce his troop strength, then this is really not the person Malashenko has always been familiar with. Vatutin.

After all, Comrade Laowa, who was born as a staff officer, has always been second to none in his keen grasp of fighter aircraft. Even Malashenko, who has worked with many big bosses, has to admit this.

"It's still the same as before. It only gave us a general direction of combat. The specific tactical arrangement and deployment were drawn up by our division. The authority was very liberal. This time, we can do something bigger. "

Vatutin trusts Malashenko and believes that Malashenko has the ability to formulate the most suitable combat plan based on the actual battlefield conditions, which is far better than the front army headquarters issuing orders from a distance and remotely commanding detailed deployments.

And Malashenko has never let Vatutin down. On the premise of following the general combat direction and completing the combat orders issued by the front army headquarters with quality and quantity, Malashenko can always make some extraordinary moves according to local conditions. The expected results of beautiful battles always surprise Vatutin every time the battle situation is reported, and sometimes it even helps Vatutin open a better situation and reduce the pressure on the battlefield.

This level of good cooperation and tacit understanding between superiors and subordinates is really rare. This is why Malashenko always said, "We are the best friends to pee in the same pot as Vatutin." Just talking about this tacit understanding and the extremely high degree of freedom on the battlefield, it was not something that I could enjoy when I worked under certain people before.

Similarly, since we are starting from the current protrusion and continuing to attack the enemy in depth, more follow-up troops will be invested in the current direction where Malashenko is located tomorrow. The leader division is only responsible for acting as a sharp knife and opening up attack channels. The follow-up work of filling the encirclement with troops can be left to the friendly forces.

This also means that Malashenko can always twist the troops into a rope and fight with a fist, without being forced to disperse the troops and stretch the line, thereby reducing the power of the assault.

Vatutin has tried his best to set up the stage for Malashenko as well as possible. Such a good space for performance is not something that can be encountered, it is really rare.

As for whether it is necessary to fight back to eliminate the main force of the 41st Armored Corps after arriving at the predetermined target point, cutting off the enemy's retreat, and waiting for the friendly forces to arrive and complete the encirclement, this is something that Vatutin did not explicitly mention, and of course it was not Mara. Shenke immediately had to figure out a specific reason for the result.

It is obviously more important to get the things in front of you done first, and you have to eat your meals one bite at a time.

"Although the troops are basically here, including the newly added technical equipment and some supplementary troops dispatched, our current military strength is also stronger on the basis of restoration to integrity. After all, the 267th Infantry Division has joined, The situation is much better.”

"But those new equipment, I mean TOS-1 and the newly arrived IS7, both of which are very important heavy assault equipment, but we currently do not have time to wait until they form reliable combat effectiveness. What good things do you have? The solution? I want to make this equipment actually work as soon as possible.”

Even in 1944, when the strategic situation was completely reversed, Malashenko and the leadership division, who seemed to have everything, still had to face the most troublesome and difficult opponent from the past to this day: time.

In the past, there was not enough time to put out fires everywhere on the battlefield, suffered huge losses, and replenish troops. Now, with the reversal of the strategic situation, the above problems basically do not exist, but new troubles are faced: the time required for the running-in training of new equipment and the formation of combat effectiveness.

TOS-1 and IS7 are both very strong, at least in terms of design function and paper performance. Once they are put into the battlefield, they will surely play a very brilliant and eye-catching battle. But the problem is that no one can use these two things at present, which is literally "no one can use them".

TOS-1 can only be considered as a barely able to drive, after all, it is a modified chassis of IS2, but it is hard to say whether the combat vehicle crew can master it. The entire combat module of that thing is a brand new design, and no one dares to pat their chest and say that they can take it down in one go. You have to find the feel and test the performance before unlocking a new car in a tank game, not to mention that this is a real battlefield.

As for IS7, it is even more daunting. The complexity of this thing is completely incomparable to any previous generation of Stalin tanks.

As the most luxurious, top-of-the-line, most powerful and outstanding tank in the entire Stalin tank series, the IS7 is completely new from the driving system to the power system, from the firepower system to the loading system.

Although the equipment itself is mostly mature and reliable existing shelf products, the problem is that the tank soldiers of the leader division have never been exposed to these things before. There is really no difference between the existing shelf products and the new products.

Even the "absolute ace" like Malashenko's crew, it was Malashenko who brought the IS7 prototype back from Leningrad and practiced for half a month before entering the Polish battlefield. After driving on the battlefield, it was finally able to keep the chain and slowly found the feeling and used it more smoothly.

Now, among the extra experienced crews who have neither time for training nor have driven IS7, the only crew in the entire leader division that can really play IS7 is the crew of the division commander Malashenko. It is like "My character at level 50 got an epic equipment that can only be used by level 80, but I can't use it now. I have to upgrade and practice first. I can only watch with envy." Malashenko must feel very uncomfortable looking at the treasure but not being able to use it.