Chapter 2834 Two Enemies, a Pair of Bastards
"Guards and Skulls? Well, flies and mosquitoes get together~ But it's okay, just slap them to death and save me from fighting twice, which is exactly what I want.
There are not many German troops that have fought with the Leader Division and can escape alive. After 1943, most of the Germans who fought the Leader Division head-on. Either the whole unit was reimbursed to meet the German emperor, or most of the people were reimbursed and a few were left to build socialism in Siberia.
But there are exceptions to everything. Even a field group as strong as the Leader Division can not swallow the German sticks whole and eliminate them in full every time. There are few German troops who can escape alive from Malashenko.
For example, the Guards and Skulls.
The last time he fought with the Guards Division, Malashenko recalled that it should be in Ku Prokhorovka area on the southern front of Volsk.
In that battle, the three elite armored divisions of the SS Reich, Skull and Guards Flag were all deployed, and the then brigade-level Malashenko's troops were beaten badly.
Three divisions surrounded a brigade. You really think highly of our old Ma.
Malashenko's troops, who fought to the end and never retreated, were almost wiped out. Even the brigade commander, comrade Malashenko, was shot in the abdomen and fell to the ground.
It was also thanks to Vatutin that he really treated Lao Ma as a brother and did not abandon his subordinates as a responsible leader.
In the end, the reinforcements arrived at the critical moment and quite timely, which finally saved Malashenko, who had been shot, from the brink of death. After a series of twists and turns in rescue and sent to Moscow for recuperation, Malashenko was finally saved. The price of saving a life was a bullet hole in the stomach and a scar that can never be erased.
Malashenko has not forgotten this account.
Although the Guards Division was the unit that suffered the most damage from Malashenko's troops and suffered the most casualties and equipment losses in the battle to encircle and suppress Malashenko's troops at that time.
It is true that the Guards Division, which almost killed Malashenko with the help of the other two SS divisions, also suffered heavy losses. After the defeat in Prokhorovka, it completely withdrew from the Battle of Kursk and never participated again. It took a full three months of recuperation before returning to the Eastern Front.
However, Malashenko does not care about the size of the losses of your Guards Division. Malashenko only remembers that this damn guy almost killed him. If he does not take revenge, he is not a gentleman!
Oh, right!
Speaking of this, that damn skeleton The division was also one of the ragtag troops that participated in the "three against one" at that time.
If it is true that Malashenko almost lost his life in Prokhorovka, then the Skull Division also had a share, and now revenge must be settled with this group of ragtag troops.
The only slight difference is that after the end of the Prokhorovka battle, Malashenko's troops, which were reborn as the Leader Division, actually fought with the Skull Division.
If Malashenko remembered correctly, the most recent one should be the train robbery.
Yes, it was the time when the Soviet treasure, the Amber Room, was taken back from the Nazis.
Otherwise, how can we say that enemies meet on a narrow road? The ragtag group of the Skull Division was resting by the train station at that time, preparing to receive the delivered equipment and personnel supplies transported from the railway line.
As a result, the equipment and supplies did not arrive, but the murderous Leader Division arrived.
At that time, Malashenko's troops were no longer comparable to the strength of the Prokhorovka tank battle.
The Leader Division, with nearly 300 tanks, rushed over in a mighty force. The full-speed, dust-raising formation was like a sandstorm, which was enough to scare the Totenkopf Division, which had suffered heavy losses after fighting for many days.
The commander of the Totenkopf Division was also a shrewd man, quite different from those crazy, fanatical and rigid SS leaders. At least he was a bastard who cherished his life very much.
Knowing that he couldn't beat the Leader Division, he simply chose to die with his friends.
Without even a word of notice, he ran away with his troops, using the Wehrmacht garrison troops originally stationed at the railway station as scapegoats and ran away on the spot.
The highly mechanized Totenkopf Division ran very fast, and Malashenko had other important tasks at the time. His main goal was to rob the train instead of keeping the Totenkopf Division.
As a result, they naturally lost the opportunity to take revenge, but they also received a batch of pretty good "compensation gifts".
That is the "Black Panther 2" medium tank battalion that has been used intensively until now and exists as an independent tank battalion under the leadership division.
Malashenko still remembers the scene when he seized this batch of treasures. They were all new and good cars, and even the muzzle brakes were new goods without smoke stains. This batch of equipment, which was supposed to be used to replenish the battle damage of the Skeleton Division, has become Malashenko's treasure and is the only unit under the leadership division that uses German equipment so far.
The reason is that the Black Panther 2 is really a good thing and really good.
Although the "medium tank" defined by the Germans is already at the same tonnage level as the "heavy tank" of our Red Army.
But there is a saying that goes, no matter whether it is medium or heavy, as long as it is a good car, it's fine.
The Black Panther 2 undoubtedly meets this feature very well. Not only does it inherit all the advantages of the previous generation Black Panther 1, but it also maximizes the shortcomings of insufficient armor protection.
Even the "tear-moving" reverse speed has been enhanced by replacing the new multi-speed gearbox. At least now it can reverse at a speed of two-digit kilometers per hour, which is a major breakthrough compared to the single-digit speed of the previous generation.
Comrade Oskin, who was specially recruited by Malashenko, was known as the "Slavic Superman" who drove the T3485 and retired after defeating three Tiger Kings. After being promoted to major and serving as battalion commander by Malashenko, he also had a very good evaluation of these German elite tanks, which was one level higher than the evaluation of the T3485 overall.
Now he can confront these two old enemies who had slipped away from him before and failed to be crushed by the straight ball in the last defense zone in the center of Berlin, the Z zone.
Malashenko feels that his luck is still very good, and he knows that this opportunity must not be missed. This area of the Z defense zone in the center of Berlin is the grave of these two Nazi scum divisions, and there will be no other result.
But first, Malashenko had to solve the thorny problem in front of him - taking the Moltke Bridge, and then he could put the plan of destroying these two gangs of bastards into practice.
As for how to take this broken bridge that seemed to be too hot to eat, Malashenko thought that some of the successful tactics that had been used before might be used again now.
After all, the German sticks who had seen such tactics in the past were either sent to Siberia for labor reform. So it stands to reason that the SS bastards on the opposite side could not guess what Malashenko wanted to do in advance.
It just so happened that Malashenko had people and equipment on hand, and the environment in which he could display his skills seemed to be better than before, which inevitably made Malashenko, who thought the plan was highly feasible, start to "dream".