Chapter 2186 The Third Option

Chapter 2191 The Third Choice

"What's the battle plan?"

"Infiltrate, hurry, go around the Germans, and then put these fascist beasts in cages. If they refuse to be pets, kill them. It's that simple.

"Huh, I like to hear you say this. "

Just like any previous offensive, the leader division, which had formulated an action plan the night before, left the position and set out at dawn the next morning. Iushkin, who was in the gunner's position, was excited after getting an accurate answer about today's action from Malashenko.

What else could be more exciting than driving such a powerful 70-ton war machine to crush some Nazi rats? The answer is of course no, at least for Iushkin.

However, there was one thing that surprised Malashenko a little, which was about the follow-up actions and reactions of the German army.

In theory, the Germans suffered such a big loss yesterday. The junction of two army-level units was penetrated, and a main armored division and a group of supporting auxiliary troops were lost. In just one day, more than 10,000 people were killed or captured in such a junction, and more than 20,000 people were lost. There was not even time to mobilize troops for support, and the Red Army drove a salient wedge into the enemy before they were caught off guard.

With such a big commotion on the battlefield, the Germans should have taken some action, or at least responded.

But what surprised Malashenko was that the whole night was peaceful and there was no movement.

Malashenko originally expected that the Germans might take a huge risk to launch a night attack, desperately trying to remove the salient wedge before the situation was irreversible, and then stabilize their position and maintain the current battlefield situation so as not to be forced to retreat.

So after Malashenko and the political commissar agreed, not only did they set up enough front-line sentinels, both light and dark, Mobile patrols were also sent to patrol back and forth between the guard posts along the front line to prevent small groups of enemies from leaking in through the gaps of the guard posts to infiltrate and sabotage or other shameful activities.

In addition to these passive defense measures, Malashenko did not just sit and wait for the Germans to come to his door.

In order to find out the enemy's strengths and weaknesses and find out the specific movements of the Germans, Malashenko also sent more than one night reconnaissance team to go and find out the situation and understand the enemy.

If you can catch a live tongue and bring it back, you don't have to force it. Watching the Germans in the middle of the night and reporting back is also considered completing the mission.

After all, knowing the latest and timely intelligence, It must be the most beneficial to the action that will start the next day. This is always right.

But what Malashenko didn't expect was that the Germans didn't move all night. They didn't retreat, didn't launch a surprise attack, and didn't move at night. They didn't move at all.

According to the report of the scouts who returned in the early hours of the night, the Germans deployed more sentries and patrols outside their positions. It was too difficult and risky to catch the tongue. If they didn't do it well, they would be exposed. So they couldn't do it. Almost no other abnormal or valuable intelligence was found.

"It's strange. Are these fascists, as you said, just waiting for us to kill them? They didn't launch a surprise attack or retreat. They had no desire to win or survive. Did they get beaten stupid? Or am I just thinking too much?"

Lavrinenko felt something was wrong, and the political commissar also felt that there was an indescribable weirdness in it.

"You have to be careful, comrade commander. The Germans' behavior is a bit abnormal, and it is impossible to determine their reasons and real intentions for doing so. I am worried that there may be some tricks or unknown traps waiting for us. You must be careful and keep in touch with the division headquarters when you lead the team to set off later. Remember to communicate at any time if there is any situation. "

Comrade Political Commissar's concerns are not unreasonable. The Germans' abnormal behavior of neither seeking victory nor survival is indeed very strange. Even Malashenko can't quite understand why the Germans do this.

The situation is very clear, The two German army-level units whose joints were penetrated had no choice but to do something when faced with a strong enemy with both quality and quantity advantages and a central salient.

If they still wanted to fight, they should remove the central salient with the leader division as the main force as soon as possible, and force the leader division to retreat or defeat it. In short, they had to re-establish the land connection between the two army-level units as soon as possible.

Otherwise, when the Red Army's follow-up large forces continued to go deep along the central salient as an offensive springboard and invested more troops, the final fate of these two German army-level units would be miserable: being The Red Army divided and surrounded them and annihilated them one by one. They had no other choice but to die or surrender.

If the Germans didn't want to fight or felt that there was little hope or they couldn't fight, they should have packed up and left last night. When the next morning dawned, the Red Army's steel torrent was once again galloping across the land of East Prussia. The Germans couldn't run away and had no way to escape. They could only passively fight or surrender directly.

This was a double-choice question. You had to choose either A or B, but Malashenko didn't expect the Germans to choose neither A nor B. They chose C and put it here to shock people.

What? Could it be that you, San Dezi, still think that "the advantage is mine" at this point? Do you feel that you have a great advantage, and that you can defeat Vatutin's Third Belorussian Front by relying on these two first-level units separated by the salient?

To be honest, you can't rule out this possibility. God knows what the hell is going on in the minds of those crazy Germans.

But if that's the case, Malashenko, with a twisted mouth, secretly said "good thing" in his heart.

It is a very pleasing thing to annihilate the Nazis' active forces in large numbers. This is the most direct way to accelerate the demise of fascism, nothing else.

Malashenko really doesn't think that the Germans can make any big waves at this point. If they can, then just watch the show. Malashenko asked himself if he was ready to "watch", and so was his leader division.

The vanguard troops of the Leader Division, led by the Kurbalov Brigade, relied on high-speed fully mechanized marching and quickly advanced to the first designated relay node on the road: the outskirts of an unknown town called Oraqin.

This is the first place expected to be most likely to be resisted by the German army's organized defense forces, provided that the Germans are really willing to mobilize troops to such a remote town so far away from the combat area.