Chapter 2489: The Conservatives and the Time of Destruction

Although not much, the effective artillery preparation smashed many of the Germans' technical weapons and fortifications, laying a certain foundation for the deep assault commanded by Malashenko.

It's not that the Germans don't want to escape, so they just stand there and get bombed, and their IQ is low.

It's just that the Germans now don't have enough depth to display flexible defense, especially in front of the leader division that attacks at an extremely fast speed and strikes like lightning.

You said that leaving a certain amount of garrison troops on the position, the main force retreats slightly to avoid artillery preparation and then comes back to defend, which is a feasible defensive tactic in principle.

But the reality is that if you leave too few garrison troops on the position, then before the main force can come back to support after the artillery fire ends, it will be eaten up and completely destroyed by the leader division with a lightning-fast attack speed. The main force can only watch all this happen, and it is impossible to even save people. It may even be destroyed by the leader division because it fails to fully enter the position to deploy.

The Germans have suffered this loss once. They failed to play a good elastic defense, but Malashenko seized the opportunity to eat them up completely, leaving no bones or residue. They failed to show off and were fucked.

The garrison of the position and the main force of the defense were stripped of skin and bones and swallowed up cleanly, and the position was lost. In the end, they got nothing. They lost both the wife and the soldiers. In Malashenko's words, "It's a good death to go on the road together, and there is more or less care on the road."

But if you leave more garrisons on the position, it still can't solve this problem, and it goes against the original intention of elastic defense.

Your elastic defense is to reduce casualties of living forces and losses of mobile technical equipment. You don't withdraw the main force as much as possible to avoid artillery preparation, but try to keep as many troops as possible to try to resist the enemy's attack under the artillery fire. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse? Have you ever thought that doing this may not only fail to defend the position but also suffer extremely huge losses, and finally get nothing?

Maybe it can be called performance art, anyway, that's what it is.

But in short, the Germans were really in a mess, and they couldn't do anything right.

In the end, they simply gave up the elastic defense, and fought to the death on the already few remaining defensive positions, and fought to the end. This could at least theoretically meet the leader's attack with the strongest defensive posture, and maybe create a miracle. This was completely a solution for the German commander.

But this happened to be what Malashenko wanted, and it was the best battlefield situation that Malashenko could think of.

Those Katyusha and Andryusha rocket launchers that came quickly and left even faster, and finished their work with just one full salvo, did cause great damage to the German garrison troops on the position with full strength defense.

The mechanized infantrymen who rushed into the German position defense zone did not realize until they entered that there were too many German artillery, tracked and wheeled vehicle wreckage, and various broken or segmented bodies everywhere on the position. You can say that it was a resonance of steel and flesh and blood corpse party, which is not wrong, and it may even be worse than this.

The Germans were attracted by the Seelow Heights outside Berlin, and they desperately reinforced this place with huge garrison forces, but they failed to expand the defense area outward with the increase of troops. Instead, the defense area was severely compressed, resulting in excessive density of troops.

The excessive density of defensive forces was so miserable after being bombed. You Germans, because of your greed and unrealistic fantasies, invested a huge amount of reinforcements but only engaged in conservative defense. This is the situation in front of you. Of course, you can't blame others, and it has nothing to do with Malashenko and the leadership division. It's purely your own fault.

The Germans are seriously ill with conservatism in defense, with unrealistic delusion syndrome, but this does not mean that the leader division will be compassionate and give the opponent a chance to breathe or a fair duel.

On the contrary, Malashenko, who is trying to kill you while you are ill, will only add insult to injury, and forget about the bullshit chivalry. Since you have come to me with such a high head, what the hell am I waiting for with this mace in my hand? Just wash your neck and wait for death.

"Don River calls the sturgeon, the assault artillery needs to replenish ammunition, and request alternate support firepower reinforcement."

For this situation that greatly affects the continuity of the offensive and the continuity of firepower, Malashenko, who has foreseen and prepared it, will not suffer twice on the same issue. He responded to the request on the other end of the radio, and the order that had been prepared long ago was immediately picked up and blurted out by the transmitter.

"Big Sturgeon received, the alternate support firepower will arrive soon, maintain the intensity of the attack! The existing artillery firepower is enough to hold on until the rotation, don't give the enemy a chance to breathe! Continue the assault!"

"Don River understands, continue the assault! Never give the enemy a chance to breathe! Over!"

When Malashenko's order was issued, the rocket assault battalion, which arrived on time according to the offensive schedule, had already spewed thick black smoke and drove its heavy body to the front line of the battlefield.

This is the most powerful frontal direct firepower projection equipment currently in the Leader Division, or in the entire Red Army: the TOS-1 rocket assault tank. Its powerful firepower is enough to make any local ground unit that dares to stand in front of it turn into ashes in a blink of an eye, leaving no trace of struggle. The amazing destructive power has given it the reputation of "land bomber" by the soldiers of the Leader Division.

As the name suggests, once this thing fires, it is not artillery fire. In terms of unit firepower projection, it is an absolute air force bombing-level firepower, but the firepower projection platform has been transferred from the sky to the land.

The vehicle-mounted ammunition reserves have penetrated the cordon. A small number of ISU-152\A clusters, which have completely emptied a small number of them and only have a few rounds left, are reversing at full speed and retreating rapidly. The originally dense mechanized cluster assault formation at least looks like a large piece is missing immediately. This naturally cannot escape the eyes of the German commanders who are closely observing the changes on the battlefield and waiting for the right time in the telescopes.

"General! The Russians are starting to retreat. As we analyzed, their firepower is not enough to penetrate our defense in one breath and they are starting to retreat!"

The young staff officer shouted excitedly, but the old and steady general just said nothing and continued to hold the telescope parallel to his eyes.

ISU-152\A needs to rely on a heavier defense than IS6 to close bombardment and improve the accuracy and strike efficiency as much as possible, but TOS-1 does not need to.

Or the fragility of TOS-1's combat module structure and its range killing firepower that is several times stronger than 152 make it easy to inflict more powerful destruction even if it is one kilometer away and almost immune to the threat of enemy direct anti-tank firepower.

And this is exactly what the young German staff officer who was in high spirits and the German general who was on the sidelines did not expect. They did not expect that the Russians could actually drive the terrifying artillery equipment with such powerful firepower that they did not know what it was, so close to the line of fire, and carry out direct fire strikes within the field of vision.

"The target is at exactly one o'clock, 3 kilometers away, with the dead tree as a reference, the target is the bunker group on its right."

"One and a half boxes of salvo, mark the shooting scale, aim and prepare!"

The German lieutenant general in the semi-buried command post could not hear what the enemy was talking about on the radio, let alone detect this huge crisis in advance and react.

Until he saw the Russian "iron precious objects" that were parked and loaded with boxes, far away, and did not seem to be engaged in close-range assault operations, just passing by the retreating self-propelled artillery group, a strong sense of uneasiness, even fear at a glance, poured into his body from the telescope and surged into his heart in an instant.

"Shasen! Notify the frontline troops to hide urgently, beware of artillery coverage!"

When the words came out, it was too late. A destruction that was doomed to be unavoidable had already come before the next second when the staff officer reacted.

"Fire!!!"