Chapter 2519 Nearly 300 Vehicles

The battle of Zelo Heights is over. The last shackles blocking Berlin have been smashed. The road to victory is now unobstructed. The only thing left is to go straight to Sandezi's heart and say something heartfelt to the last wave of Germans who are resisting stubbornly.

This should have been a long-awaited exciting moment, but at this moment, Malashenko couldn't be happy anyway.

Want to ask why?

The reason is actually very simple. Some of the numbers written on paper are not good-looking. Just putting them on the table is enough to make people frown.

"So how long will it take to repair these cars? Where are Karamov and others? Why don't you see him coming to the meeting?"

The division commander, whose face is as black as the bottom of a pot, sat upright at the head of the conference table. The night outside the fortifications has fallen. This is the first night after successfully capturing Zelo Heights.

The large-scale fortification of the underground command center left by the Germans is quite grand and generous. Not only is the area spacious enough, the infrastructure is complete, and even the bedding rolls and drinking water are ready. The Germans, who were defeated too quickly, had no time to withdraw or destroy these things. Now they have all been taken advantage of by Malashenko. Even the conference table in front of Malashenko was "generously donated" by the Germans.

"Karamov is leading people to make emergency repairs. All vehicles with non-permanent losses on the battlefield have been recovered and classified, and repaired according to different levels of damage. ׺°"˜˜`"°º×Karamov has formulated a detailed classified maintenance plan. Not only all the maintenance troops under his command, but also he himself has temporarily formed a maintenance team to personally go into battle."

"He received the meeting notice, but he said that completing the maintenance task is what he needs to do most now, and the on-site command cannot do without him. Ask someone to tell the division commander that he guarantees to complete the task and allows him to use the meeting time for work."

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Listening to the words of the political commissar, Malashenko frowned and his eyelids jumped up. He felt a headache and couldn't say anything about Karamov's pragmatic spirit.

"There are 89 tracked armored combat vehicles and 181 wheeled vehicles. In total, there are more than 200 vehicles, nearly 300 vehicles, which have been damaged, worn, etc. All of them need to be disassembled for parts replacement and repair."

"Tonight and tomorrow, the rest time is just over 24 hours, and even if we count the time to clean the battlefield, regroup the troops and rush on the road, the actual time available for repairing the vehicles is not even 24 hours."

"I don't doubt Karamov's ability, but the leader's division has never had the experience of repairing 300 vehicles in the field within 24 hours. I am really worried that this is beyond Karamov's tolerance. The time left for us is unprecedentedly tight. Time is probably a more powerful enemy than the Germans, especially for us now."

Every word Malashenko said was true. The loss of technical equipment in the bloody battle on the Zelo Heights was far greater than Malashenko had previously estimated.

Most of the losses of tracked armored combat vehicles were due to combat damage. The Germans who had equipment that was not very good, but who chose to surrender only when they could no longer hold out, did cause considerable trouble to the heavy armored combat vehicles of the Leader Division.

The tracks were broken, the engines were paralyzed, the sights were shattered, the barrels were blown up, and the basic armor was seriously damaged or penetrated, requiring reinforcement blocks to be welded on site for patching.

The various problems and combat damage that tanks may encounter on the battlefield were almost all encountered by the Leader Division after the Battle of Zelo Heights. These all took a lot of time to repair. The repair volume of a total of 89 damaged tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and self-propelled artillery was enough to make any maintenance unit chief scratch his head.

The fatal problems were not limited to this. The wear and tear of wheeled vehicles was not much better than that of tracked armored combat vehicles, and it could even be said to be worse.

The heavy armored field group of the leader division fought desperately on the Zelo Heights, using the maximum firepower output to smash all the Germans who dared to stand in their way. Using devastating artillery bombardment and heavy armor group charge, they ravaged the enemy's will and destroyed the enemy's flesh and blood again and again, until the German's shaky and riddled defense line was completely defeated and penetrated.

It sounds exciting, powerful, and extremely fierce. It is a fighting method that any young man would say "cool", but it comes at a price.

The price is that the logistics and baggage troops of the leader division even borrowed trucks from the combat troops, and their own trucks and even jeeps were used. Hundreds of wheeled vehicles transported ammunition and supplies from the Zelo Heights to the Zelo Heights day and night. Among them, large-caliber artillery shells and rockets accounted for the vast majority, which were the most consumed things in the battle.

Every time they went up, they were loaded with logistics vehicles. There were no paved roads in the Zelo Plateau, and the bad roads were completely off-road, which caused serious wear and tear.

The suspension, engine, brake pads, and even the tires that should have been durable.

The wheeled vehicles had no combat damage, which was good, but the wear and tear caused by going back and forth on the road up and down the Zelo Plateau was greater than the combat damage. Karamov counted that as many as 181 wheeled vehicles needed repairs, and they all had some problems. It was not recommended or simply impossible to force them into use.

The mechanized troops fought for logistics, and Malashenko certainly knew this, and thought he had made psychological preparations in advance.

However, the pressure on the logistics of the Battle of Zeluo Highlands was greater than previously thought. If it weren't for the strong foundation of the leader and the strong family background, it might have been completely destroyed in just one battle.

The problem now is that time waits for no one. Chuikov will have his troops to move out early tomorrow morning and press down on the city of Berlin. Or should they take into account that the leading division has just experienced a bloody battle and give Malashenko another day of grace? Let Malashenko then lead the team to follow.

But whether there is enough time in this day, Malashenko can only say "hanging", really hanging.

Even if that boy Karamov has extraordinary abilities, he is still at a loss this time, so much so that Malashenko, who has no confidence at all, has not yet replied to Chuikov, unsure of the accurate time for the troops to depart.

Looking at Malashenko's expression as if he had eaten a fly, Lavrinenko, who also knew the problem, thought for a moment and then tentatively spoke.

"How about you call Marshal Zhukov? Ask him to coordinate and give us one more day of grace, two days in total."

Lavrinenko's suggestion cannot be said to be unreasonable. In fact, it is somewhat feasible from the perspective of ordinary people. But the problem is that Malashenko, who has dealt with Comrade Lao Zhu more than anyone here, knows that now Talking about this possibility is simply impossible.

"Guess who gave Commander Chuikov the order to let the leading division rest for only one day? Do you really think this order was made at the level of the group army commander?"