Chapter 532 Shocked the German Army for a Whole Year

It is a bit far-fetched to laugh at the Chinese people in the future from the perspective of today. Malashenko, who also regarded Spam canned luncheon meat as a delicious meal, was embarrassed to say that it was junk food.

"Pick up the bowl to eat meat, put down the chopsticks to curse your mother" This kind of tasteless thing, let's forget it for now.

"Comrade Hiccup, those Americans did not lie. Those capitalists sell everything to make money, and they sell whatever sells well, and it is the same in the United States. This kind of thing can be eaten in the United States as long as you can afford it. It is an ordinary food without identity restrictions."

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Leonid was a little speechless about the answer given by Malashenko. In his bones, he is a staunch Communist Party member, and he sneers at the ugly face of capitalism in the Western world and is extremely disgusted.

But sometimes he was speechless about the superiority of the Western capitalist world. For example, the canned food in front of him could be easily obtained in the United States, which was almost a fantasy for the Soviet Union, where light industry was not well developed.

Leonid, the division commander, didn't know how to continue the conversation. In the end, Malashenko forced a change of topic and went back to rest and sleep. It was so awkward for two people who were not good at lying to discuss the matter in front of them.

The night that could not sleep well passed quickly after a hasty rest and greeted the dawn.

What surprised Malashenko a little was that the first artillery roar in the morning was not the German army that arrived near the village last night, but the deafening and overwhelming bombardment of the Soviet field artillery cluster from both sides of the east of the village.

Timoshenko's plan was very simple: using the village of Nibotrikaya, which was captured by Malashenko, as bait to attract and disrupt the German troop deployment on the front line, so that the German army misjudged the Soviet army's strategic intention of a full-scale offensive and could not figure out the main attack direction, and then caught the German army off guard in the full-line counterattack launched later.

The victory of capturing the entire village was used to the advantage of Malashenko to temporarily change the strategic deployment. The Soviet front-line troops, which launched a fierce artillery attack on the entire line early the next morning, rushed out of the trenches and shouted "Ura" and pounced on the German army group in the direction of Kharkov.

The Soviet aircraft group above the head roared and sprinkled death on the earth, blowing the sleepy German army to pieces. The Soviet tank cluster on the ground rolled forward like a steel torrent, and the Soviet infantry, like a vast ocean of shouting "Ura", almost scared the German soldiers who were shocked to death!

"Shouldn't we launch the attack? Why did Ivan rush over first?!"

Not only the ordinary German infantrymen on the front line thought so, but the German leaders in the front-line command post in the rear were also shocked.

A 250-kilogram aerial bomb that fell straight down from the dome almost collapsed the command post. Even the near miss that failed to hit the target caused considerable damage and was deafening.

The loose soil on the ceiling above my head fell like rain, and a crisp sound of someone pushing the door open followed by a series of footsteps.

"General Paulus! The Russians are coming! They launched a full-line counterattack. The command posts of various divisions on the front line sent emergency telegrams. The telephone lines were all occupied. Countless Russian tanks are rushing towards us!"

The German Wehrmacht general shook off the dust on his hat and shoulders and looked extremely embarrassed. Paulus never expected that the Soviet army, which he expected to be in a defensive position, would actually launch an attack first!

"Notify all troops on the front line not to retreat! If they do, everything will be in chaos! This is the order of the Führer! Hold the position and wait for support. We will soon be able to eat up all these daring Russians!"

Colonel Adam, the adjutant, did not know nor was qualified to know the specific deployment of the German army on the Kharkov front and seemed a little panicked, but General Paulus, the commander of the Sixth Army of the Wehrmacht, who remained calm, seemed unusually calm.

Paulus, who had participated in many pre-war meetings, knew clearly that in order to finalize the summer offensive, the German army had dispatched many elite troops from the Central Army Group and the Northern Army Group to the Southern Army Group to strengthen its strength.

At present, the German army in the Kharkov direction is hoarding a huge force of more than 100 divisions with a total of millions of people. Paulus did not believe that the German army, which had gathered such a huge offensive energy, could still be defeated by the Russians.

Even though he seemed a little panicked by the unexpected attack, Paulus was still confident that he could turn defeat into victory in the shortest possible time and eat up all these daring Soviet troops in one go!

"With this army, you can attack the sky!"

Recalling that when he was transferred from the General Staff to the front line to serve as the commander of the Sixth Army in January this year, the Führer gave him this farewell speech before leaving. He was confident that the Sixth Army, the most elite of the National Defense Forces, was absolutely capable of defeating the Russians. Paulus, with a haze in his eyes, almost gritted his teeth and said a harsh word.

"These stupid Russians will pay the price!"

Encountering a sudden onslaught by the Soviet army, the German army tried in embarrassment to block the surging torrent of steel. However, the Soviet army's counterattack on the German defense was completely reversed on the focused local battlefield, and they were ordered to hold on to Nibotrika. Malashenko from the sub-village was working with Division Commander Leonid to resist the powerful attack just launched by the German troops outside the village.

call out--

boom--

A roaring German 105mm howitzer shell landed directly in the yard, barely destroying Malashenko's temporary regiment headquarters command post.

Malashenko, who had just put the tank cap on his head, was unsteady on his feet and almost stumbled to the ground. Malashenko, who was annoyed by the fickle bombardment of his opponent, the German army, immediately faced the table in front of him. Commander Leonid, who was standing next to him, asked.

"Comrade division commander, where is your divisional artillery regiment!? Hurry up and get rid of those Germans who don't know how to live or die!"

The divisional artillery regiment assigned to Division Commander Leonid has a total of 12 152 howitzers and 12 122 howitzers as the main firepower. At the same time, it was also equipped with a miscellaneous mix of other small-caliber artillery, which was "better than nothing". It was considered a relatively abundant firepower among the artillery regiments of the Soviet infantry division in 1942, and was fully capable of suppressing German artillery of the same level.