Chapter 927 Blocking the Street

"All crews, move forward! Hold the intersection ahead, don't let a single German cross the street!"

Malachenko had his own plan for dealing with the Germans who rushed to support the rescue.

The goal of the Germans was obviously to rush to the two key buildings at the intersection. The most direct way to stop the Germans was to block them all across the intersection and turn the main intersection connecting the opposite intersection with their own intersection into a crossfire zone.

The wide intersection was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Not only was the terrain open, but there was no shelter, and there was nothing that could be called a bunker except for a few craters left by artillery and bombs.

The Germans wanted to attack the block where they were, and this intersection was the only way.

When the total strength of the enemy and our side seemed evenly matched, Malachenko was sure that the Germans would be defeated and return after leaving a pile of wreckage and corpses at the intersection. In Malachenko's view, the victory of the battle was almost without any suspense.

Malashenko led the remaining platoon of Red Army soldiers to move quickly to the intersection. The platoon leader who was ordered by Captain Varosha to stay and answer the phone received the full order from Malashenko from the wired phone hanging behind the car. Holding the intersection until the enemy's counterattack was repelled was the only and must-complete task.

The remaining German bunkers and foxholes dug by the Germans before the intersection became a favorable support barrier for the Red Army soldiers. A total of six IS1 heavy tanks commanded by Malashenko stopped steadily at the intersection, acting as a temporary fixed turret to provide direct aiming suppression firepower for their own infantry.

"Quick! Bring all the German machine guns and bullets, yes, put them here! Set up the guns!"

The small group of German soldiers who were eliminated by Malashenko's team before left behind a lot of weapons that could be used.

Many of the Red Army soldiers, who were equipped with automatic firepower such as PPSh submachine guns, did not carry long-range rifles. The Mauser 98K rifles picked up from the remains of the German corpses were just enough to play the role of medium and long-range firefights.

Several MG34 general-purpose machine guns that were not destroyed by the explosion and were barely usable were also turned around and aimed at the Germans in the hands of the Red Army soldiers, ready to pour fire at any time.

Basically, the Red Army soldiers who had two guns each either picked up the Mauser 98K to make up for the long-range firepower, or the riflemen picked up the German MP40 submachine guns to make do with it temporarily.

Anyway, it was just a positional defense battle that would not last too long. If the bullets were used up, the German guns could be thrown away. It was a good choice to equip two main weapons without having to consider the trouble of carrying.

Boom——

The first to open fire were not the infantry of both sides, but the six IS1 heavy tanks led by Malashenko, who used static braking and took the first-hand advantage.

Iushkin's target was the German Panzer IV tank that was in the front. Among all the German vehicles within his field of vision, this thing had the highest armor-piercing firepower and the strongest anti-tank power. Based on the principle of capturing the king first, he naturally had to knock down the target that posed the greatest threat to him first.

Aiming and firing at a distance of 600 meters was not too far. For an old bird like Iushkin, he could easily hit the tank-sized target with the first shot.

The German Panzer IV tank that was hit by an armor-piercing shell on the front armor of the vehicle had no other possible fate except being destroyed.

The spare track plate hung on the front armor area of ​​the vehicle to temporarily enhance defense had no effect at all. At most, it was the difference of covering a bun with a layer of toilet paper. When facing the 85mm D-5T tank gun that was enough to kill tigers and drive away leopards, it did not play any role that could cause qualitative changes.

The 85mm full-caliber wind-capped armor-piercing shell, which is known for its huge warhead charge, hit the body of the unfortunate Type 4 tank, whose interior space is not spacious. As expected, a strong ammunition explosion occurred immediately afterwards. The hot fireball that spread out instantly swallowed up the German soldiers accompanying it in just a moment.

Most of the German soldiers who were not killed on the spot were also knocked to the ground by the shock wave of the ammunition explosion. The Type 4 tank, whose armor was not thick to begin with, had disappeared after the explosion and flames dissipated. Only a part of the twisted and deformed running gear and a small part of the chassis remained in the original position.

Several other IS1 heavy tanks either used high-explosive shells to directly hit the German infantry, or fired armor-piercing shells to attack enemy armored targets like Malashenko's command vehicle. Six tank gun shells fired from different angles almost made the German soldiers rushing in the front feel unable to resist in the wind and rain.

"Next round, armor-piercing rounds, keep going! Aim at the remaining German tanks and smash them!"

"As you wish, comrade commander!"

"Good armor-piercing rounds!"

"This is a greeting from Ivushkin, fascist bastards!"

Boom--

The six IS1 heavy tanks led by Malashenko killed vigorously as if they were invincible. The Germans followed closely and launched a counterattack. None of the armor-piercing rounds hit the main armor belt on the front of the tank. They were either directly bounced off by the irregularly inclined defensive armor or directly swallowed and blocked by the armor part with a very thick physical thickness.

The main gun fire, which had been shortened to 500 meters, continued, but no matter how you looked at the scene in front of you, it looked like a one-sided massacre of the German armored units by the Soviet tank soldiers.

The IS1 heavy tank, which was only slightly inferior to the Tiger tank in combat performance, was not something that the German small tanks of Type 3 and Type 4 could deal with. The Tiger heavy tank company that was supposed to support the battle in the city was directly eliminated by Malashenko who happened to see it in advance.

Witnessing the continuous destruction of the German armored units in front of him like melons and vegetables, Malashenko couldn't help but think in his heart that if the Tiger heavy tank company had not been killed by him in Karachi, but was put into the city to assist the German army in defending the city.

I am afraid that the situation of guarding at the intersection as a fixed turret and killing people indiscriminately would also be repeated by the German armored soldiers. The 76 small water pipes of KV1 and T34 could not move the Tiger, which was famous for its strong armor and sharp guns. Even if they rushed to the face and fired directly at zero distance, it would be in vain. The famous scene of Bocage Village might be staged in advance in Stalingrad in a different way.

"Fortunately, we have buried these tigers outside the city. If they had really entered the city, who knows what kind of chaos they would have caused! It would have been really fucking difficult to deal with tigers blocking the street in a street fight. We wouldn't be able to use our superior numbers to defeat them."