Chapter 2217: Firepower Attack

Chapter 2222: Sudden Fire Attack

The ultimate goal of a round of artillery fire preparation is not to kill or injure a certain number of German soldiers or destroy a certain number of German technical equipment, but to disrupt the offensive deployment of the vanguard of the German attack wave and destroy its offensive formation, so as to gain the upper hand for the Red Army in the subsequent offensive-offensive battle. Google search reading

This is what Malashenko planned, and of course the actual effect is not much different from the plan.

The German army, which thought it was the attacking party, did not seem to be well prepared for the sudden fire attack on the offensive, so there was no need to brag about its efficient response.

Although the artillery units of the Leader Division, which were equipped with ISU152\A self-propelled artillery and Katyusha rocket launchers, were forced to give up firepower continuity for high mobility, they were seriously insufficient in firepower continuity compared to the Red Army field artillery of the same level. Whether it was the Katyusha that needed a long reload after firing a round, or the ISU152\A whose vehicle-mounted ammunition was far less than that of the towed 152 howitzer, there was nothing outstanding in terms of firepower continuity.

But the poor firepower continuity was poor firepower continuity, and there was still no problem with the short-term burst of firepower. In a flash, a large amount of artillery shells and rockets were poured on the heads of the German army, which was still easy for the highly mobile artillery of the Leader Division.

The overwhelming heavy artillery shells and rockets exploded in the German offensive queue, and the death bombing that fell like raindrops instantly blew these German troops who had no prior preparation into a mess, and they were so miserable.

"Hide! Hide quickly!!! Hide under artillery fire!"

"Where to hide? There's not even a trench in this damn place, where do you think we should hide!?"

"Bomb craters, bomb craters! Find the Russian bomb craters and jump in, quick!"

Frontline soldiers in many countries have a superstitious or metaphysical saying: "A second shell cannot fall into a bomb crater", which roughly means that a bomb crater created by artillery fire is very safe, and you can assume that there will not be a second incoming shell that will fall into the bomb crater with the same accuracy and explode, which is indeed a good place to hide.

But this saying is really a bit like "benevolence has its own opinions", and whether you believe it or not depends on your personal understanding. Especially when facing the enemy, the Russians, who had the most powerful field artillery in the world at the same time, many German soldiers who had personally experienced what it was like to be bombarded by the Russians and what it was like to be in the doomsday, actually did not believe in this battlefield metaphysics.

But sometimes the facts are so ironic. Believe it or not, the fact is that except for the crater created by the Russian heavy artillery, there is no decent shelter to avoid bombardment on the entire battlefield.

If you don't get into this crater, you will just stand outside and get bombed. After a few seconds or more than ten seconds, or if you are lucky, maybe tens of seconds or a minute, you will follow the footsteps of other unlucky people around you and become a pool of minced meat or even be crushed to ashes.

So when this situation really came, those panicked German soldiers who had nowhere to hide followed suit and rushed into the crater one by one, fearing that they would jump in too late or be left outside to die because the crater was full.

The infantrymen who were blown to pieces in the open space were very uncomfortable. On the other hand, the German armored forces were also in a bad situation.

Although most of the incoming shells and rockets posed no threat to the German fully enclosed tracked armored combat vehicles. As long as the German armored vehicles above the Panzer IV were not directly hit by large-caliber shells or rockets, generally speaking, at most the near misses would damage the running gear and shatter the sights and sights, making them lose their combat effectiveness, but the crew could at least abandon the vehicle and escape.

But the current situation is different. Even if the German armored soldiers were not directly hit by large-caliber heavy firepower, but were only paralyzed and lost the ability to maneuver and continue fighting, they still could not abandon the vehicle and escape immediately.

The reason is not difficult to understand. Even if the paralyzed tanks, assault guns, and tank destroyers are in a bad situation, at least they can provide a fully enclosed armored protection to protect the crew. But if you abandon the vehicle and escape, the heavy artillery shells and rockets that are still falling outside can instantly tear any unlucky person with flesh and blood into pieces.

The fate of armored soldiers who left their vehicles in such situations will not be any better than that of ordinary infantry just because they have the word "armored" in their name. Being blown into pieces will not give you an extra intact bone. The fate of the unlucky ones is the same.

So you can see a very strange but understandable reality on the battlefield at the moment.

Those German armored soldiers whose vehicles were paralyzed and unable to move almost dared to abandon their vehicles and escape.

The in-vehicle sighting system with a very limited field of view could not fully perceive what was happening outside. The terrified German armored soldiers could only rely on the huge explosions that covered one another and continued to resound, and roughly guessed that they were ambushed by the Russians and covered by heavy artillery barrages, and the fierce Russian artillery bombardment has not stopped yet and is still continuing.

The vehicle is already unable to move, but abandoning the vehicle and escaping now is even more like complaining that you are not dying fast enough.

The German armored soldiers had no choice but to hide in their vehicles, praying that they could escape the disaster under the protection of the vehicle's armor and survive the Russian artillery fire.

It is true that there are lucky people among the Germans, but there are also unlucky people who will never let people down.

A late-model Panther G with broken tracks and lost mobility was paralyzed on the snow. This last generation of improved mass-produced sub-model of the Panther I medium tank had a very low number of units in this timeline tampered by Malashenko.

The real continuous mass production work lasted less than three months, and then it was completely replaced by the "Panther II" which was strengthened and upgraded on the basis of the next-generation sub-model "Panther F".

So when the Panther F did not go into large-scale mass production, but directly jumped to the enhanced Panther II, the Panther G undoubtedly became the generation of the sub-model with the least "population" in the entire Panther family.

Even the Panther D, which performed poorly in the Battle of Kursk and was the most useless first-generation car in the entire Panther series, which was raced to the point of catching fire and self-igniting, had a higher production than it, and was indeed the miserable one in the Panther family.

For this reason, the collection value of the Panther G will definitely be high after the war. After all, things are valuable because they are rare, not to mention that it is a war antique.

But on the battlefield with artillery fire flying everywhere, no one cares about your future. The paralyzed Panther G and her five unlucky armored soldiers soon met a death that was almost like winning the lottery.