Chapter 2414: Survival First

It doesn’t matter who is fishing whose fish, the most important thing is who will win the next battle.

Malashenko’s leader division is ready, and the Germans on the opposite position who have shrunk their defenses are also waiting in full battle.

The time to verify whether the spear is sharp or the shield is solid has come. Malashenko, who has more powerful power than when he ambushed the Germans just now, finally gave the order.

“No need to wait any longer, start the action. Call for artillery support to blow all the Germans up to the sky. This time, we must twist their dog heads off! Fire!”

Malashenko certainly didn’t call for the artillery firepower in his hands. Our Master Ma still counted on his own artillery firepower to fight the next offensive. If the limited ammunition capacity of each self-propelled artillery is used up, it will take a lot of time to replenish ammunition, and the next offensive battle will be a headache.

Calling for the artillery firepower of the group army below the high ground is the only immediate support that Malashenko can count on now.

Fortunately, Chuikov, who was still counting on Malashenko to make a great contribution, did not hesitate. After receiving Malashenko's call for help, he approved the request for artillery support without saying a word.

The artillery firepower of the group army controlled by Chuikov is not just any cat or dog. It is a guard heavy field artillery with 203mm heavy howitzers and Andryusha rocket launchers. It is already the ceiling of the equipment level in the Red Army field artillery unit. The Andryusha rocket launcher is actually a truck-mounted version of Malashenko's TOS-1.

Except that it is not wearing heavy armor and cannot rush to the front line of the battlefield and provide close support like TOS-1, Andryusha is completely consistent with TOS-1 in terms of its core power and destructiveness. And in terms of magnitude, it is much more than the TOS-1 with only one battalion in Malashenko's hands, and the density and destructiveness of firepower projection are more guaranteed.

It was also because the occupied position of the leader division was too close to the defensive position of the German army opposite. After all, the land cut off from the Germans under Malashenko's feet was cut out by the isolation belt blown out by artillery barrage in the first wave of charge. Although the artillery firepower of the leader division was strong, it was far from being able to separate the German army to an extremely far extent.

The Germans were too close to their faces, and the large-caliber heavy firepower support at the army level had a large range and was too powerful. It was normal for the accuracy to be slightly worse and hit their own people. After all, the killing area was really ridiculous.

Due to the above realities and reasons, Malashenko chose to change his routine and go against his usual practice.

Since bombing the forefront of your Germans may accidentally hurt myself, can't I just push the coverage line of the artillery preparation back? If I can't bomb your forefront, I can't bomb your depth? Do you Germans want to avoid being covered by artillery fire by being close? No way!

Boom boom boom --

Swish swish swish --

Boom -- boom --

There was only a little time left before the attack was actually launched. Malashenko, who had rarely been on the bus in advance, was at the front observation post, admiring the sky-high flames and the great scene in front of him with Kurbalov beside him, while Lavrinenko had already led his men down to prepare for the attack.

"It's still the same as before. The commander and deputy commander are on the battlefield to command the battle together. I'm afraid it's hard to find such a situation in other guards."

Listening to Kurbalov's inexplicably sighing words, Malashenko, who was holding a telescope in his hand, just smiled casually.

"There is no problem. The fascists have not yet made a weapon that can destroy IS7 head-on. In other words, there is no armor-piercing or armor-piercing weapon in the world that can destroy IS7 head-on. If there is, it can only be a grenade with a large enough caliber."

"But as we all know, those Germans with not very smart brains are naturally incompatible with large caliber attributes. The largest caliber main gun on a tank is 88 mm. There are larger calibers on tank destroyers, 128 mm, but the Jagdtiger is so stupid that it can't even serve itself, let alone serve us. The Germans are lucky that the broken thing is not broken on the battlefield."

Although it has been a long time since the Jagdtiger came out, due to many reasons such as complex and time-consuming manufacturing and ridiculously low reliability, Malashenko has had only a few experiences of fighting with the Jagdtiger on the battlefield so far.

When was the last time you saw these German precious objects weighing more than 70 tons?

To be honest, Malashenko doesn't remember it very clearly, but it is enough to show how low the appearance rate of the precious Jagdtiger on the battlefield is. This kind of rag, which is troublesome and rare in number, has a very limited effect on the battle situation. The only 128mm large-caliber main gun is not enough to be afraid of.

Now the first batch of mass-produced IS7 heavy tanks of the leader division have been popularized. This time, it is estimated that it is the last replacement before the end of the Great Patriotic War. Malashenko decided to give priority to the commanders. As for why he did so, there is only one simple reason: survival rate.

Yes, it is the only reason of survival rate, nothing else.

With the completion of the synthetic reorganization, Malashenko feels that the importance and irreplaceability of the commanders under his command are increasing day by day.

The larger the synthetic force, the more theoretical knowledge reserves are needed, and the high enough practical experience level is added together, so that it can be called a qualified commander of synthetic forces.

But this kind of growth requires time to experience, and the higher the level of the commander, the longer it takes to reach maturity and qualification.

Once such a commander is lost on the battlefield, the vacant position will be very, very difficult to fill.

The reason is that the only unit in the entire Soviet Red Army that has truly completed the mechanized synthesis transformation is the Leader Division, and the only unit that has fully compiled the tactics and methods of synthetic forces and put them into practice is the Leader Division. Although several other Guards Divisions have also begun pilot transformations, they are just copying the experience explored by the Leader Division, and the progress is far behind the Leader Division.

It feels so embarrassing to have no place to fill after the death of people.

The only experienced synthetic commander in the entire Soviet Red Army is your Leader Division. Don’t say that you, Malashenko, asked others for it. I don’t know how many generals and comrades still want to ask you, Malashenko, for people. If you can get even one or two experienced commanders who understand synthesis from the Leader Division, it will be very useful.

If it weren't for a certain marshal comrade who holds great power and forbids the dismantling of the leader division, at least not in wartime, it is possible that some generals with higher ranks than Malashenko would have come to snatch it away.