Chapter 831 Night Attack

"General!" Qin Chuan said, "Perhaps it would be a better choice for us to attack at night!"

After thinking for a while, General Stryker nodded and said, "That's right, this 'fire pocket' is completely aimed at our tanks. If we don't use tanks but pure infantry to attack, then their tactics will be useless!"

"But General!" General Olbrich said, "If there are no tanks, how can we suppress the Soviet firepower... Their tanks will cause devastating damage to our infantry!"

"We have ME63, Colonel!" Qin Chuan said.

"Can ME63 be launched at night?" General Olbrich looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.

Qin Chuan nodded: "We have received relevant training, we need to cooperate with flares, and the hit rate will be relatively low!"

"That's no problem!" General Olbrich nodded in agreement.

The attack time was set at three o'clock in the morning again.

The reason is that the Germans hope to freeze the Soviets in the defense line for a while longer, especially the Soviets in the anti-tank gun fortifications. In order to prevent the enemy from discovering their positions, they must stay in the fortifications and cannot move out.

Then the Germans received an unexpected effect... They could easily find the Soviet anti-tank fortifications in the dark, even though these anti-tank fortifications were disguised in the snow without any flaws.

On the other hand, these anti-tank gunners were also very dedicated, and almost no one climbed out of the fortifications to make any moves.

This is related to the Soviets' anti-tank needs... The Germans' attacks always rely on tanks, and the blitzkrieg launched by German tanks always makes the Soviets exhausted.

In view of this, the Soviets attach great importance to the training of anti-tank gunners. They select soldiers with excellent quality and strong fighting will from the artillery units to serve as anti-tank gunners.

This is also one of the reasons why they were able to successfully set up "fire pockets" on the front line... If they did not have a strong psychological quality, ordinary soldiers would not dare to ambush in front of the position and watch the enemy tanks "rumble" up and remain motionless until they enter the firing range of their anti-tank guns.

Their quality was once again demonstrated on the battlefield.

These Soviet anti-tank gunners were not afraid of hardships and difficulties. They completely put their lives and deaths aside for the last line of defense and stood firm in their posts in the ice and snow without wavering for a moment...

The only regret is that they cannot live without vodka!

So, from time to time, a wisp of wine aroma could be wafted from the position, and the German commandos only needed to follow the aroma of wine to find the positions of the Soviet anti-tank guns one by one.

This can really only be done at night, because during the day, there is too much gunpowder and blood on the position.

So the situation was much smoother than expected. After more than an hour, the Soviet anti-tanks distributed in front of the position were almost cleared one by one.

Then it was time for the ME63 to perform again.

The reason why the ME63 is still needed is that this tactic of the Soviet tanks can play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses... German tanks can penetrate the Soviet T34 at a long distance, but the T34 cannot.

But at a closer position, they can penetrate each other.

(Note: This position is about 500 meters. The 76.2MM gun of the T34 can penetrate 69MM of vertical armor at this position. At this time, the front armor of the "No. 4" F type is thickened to 50MM inclined)

This is also another advantage of the Soviet "firepower pocket"... The front part below the tank turret is buried in the soil to make the target more difficult and force the enemy tank to fight with it.

In this way, the T34 at least has a chance to fight with the "No. 4".

But if it is the ME63, it is different. Although the ME63 is also difficult to hit the target, especially in the dark, the advantage of the ME63 is that it can lurk at a closer distance to shoot to increase the hit rate.

The German commandos dug up the Soviet anti-tank gun positions, and the combat group of the 1st Infantry Regiment carrying the ME63 climbed towards the high ground under the guidance of the engineers.

This is another advantage of the ME63, which is easy to carry and can be set up in secret.

When they advanced to a similar position, a flare was fired in the direction of the enemy... The Soviet position was as bright as day.

Until the flare slowly fell on the other side of the high ground, the ME63 was not fired... The observers and shooters needed to find the target and prepare to fire.

They had plenty of time to observe, because they were wearing white windbreakers, helmets with camouflage cloth, various equipment such as telescopes were wrapped with white cloth, and even the traces left when climbing the high ground were carefully wiped off.

The Soviets also responded with flares, and even randomly fired machine guns and artillery shells.

The Soviets obviously knew that the anti-tank guns they deployed in front of the position were blown up one by one... The movement was not small, and they were also familiar with the location of the explosion.

But the Soviets did not dare to send reinforcements to the anti-tank gun positions.

Because this would not only expose the reinforcements to the enemy's firepower, but also make the anti-tank gun positions lose their concealment.

So they could only stare in the trenches and watch the gun positions being taken down one by one by the Germans.

Sometimes the Soviets would complain: "How did the Germans find them? We can't even see where they are!"

No one would think that there was something wrong with the vodka, just like a drinker would not find that he smells of alcohol all over his body... They have become accustomed to this smell, and it would be abnormal without this smell.

Then, the second flare rose into the air.

Soon, the third one came.

Suddenly, with a "chirp", a rocket flew out... In a way, it is not suitable for ME63 to launch at night, because the flame and long tail of the rocket will immediately expose the position of the shooter.

However, the German cover personnel had been prepared for this.

Almost at the moment when the rocket was launched, the machine guns and STG44s distributed in several nearby positions fired a large number of bullets towards the Soviet army like crazy, and several mortar shells hit the Soviet positions, pressing the Soviet soldiers into the trenches.

This can indeed suppress the enemy, but it will also cause a series of adverse effects on the ME63 operator, such as gunshots, explosions, and the flames and smoke produced by the explosion, which will either affect the operator's attention or his vision.

Therefore, this also requires the operator to have not only superb skills but also good psychological qualities. In particular, he must stare at the target through the telescope for more than ten seconds while operating. Even if there are bullets or shells flying towards this side, he cannot dodge, otherwise all efforts will fail.

But fortunately, all this did not happen.

With a "boom" explosion, the ME63 accurately hit the tank turret, and a wisp of black smoke immediately rose from the tank.