With the assistance of the 2nd Panzergrenadier Regiment and the 101st Special Air Service Regiment of the "Imperial Marshal", the 1st Infantry Division of the "Honorable Jews" turned the tide on the front line in the village of Zuravka, and then crossed the village of Zuravka and launched a counteroffensive in the direction of the city of Kandemirovka to the south.

Chen Dao handed over the command of the battlefield to Colonel Bourman of the 2nd Panzergrenadier Regiment of the "Imperial Marshal", and he and four adjutants remained in the village of Zuravka.

Walking in the village, Chen Dao looked at all the houses that could be seen on the left and right sides of the road, and none of the buildings in his sight were intact.

Bypassing a huge crater on the right side of the road, Chen Dao said with great experience: "This is made by a 152mm howitzer. ”

Walking on the road, seeing the craters and dead bodies everywhere in the village, Chen Dao muttered: "122mm howitzers, 120mm mortars, it seems that there are Katyusha rockets, the largest crater exceeds the power of the shells, it should be made by aerial bombs." ”

Major Bach stood beside Chen Dao, looked at the huge crater on the ground in front of everyone, and said, "It should be a 250-kilogram aerial bomb."

Chen Dao nodded, turned around and walked to the other side of the road, stood next to a destroyed KV-85 heavy tank, stared at the tank gun on the tank and said: "This should be an 85 mm caliber gun, but this turret is a little weird, and I have a very bad premonition." ”

Major Bach asked: "This turret is different from the turrets of the KV series tanks that we have seen before, is it a new design of theirs?" ”

Chen Dao said: "Yes, it should be a newly designed turret, and I seriously doubt that this turret should have been transplanted from their new heavy tank, and our intelligence department has received some information that they are designing and producing a heavy tank named after Stalin, and this turret should be copied from that new tank." This turret appeared, and the time for that tank to appear on the battlefield is not far off, and when the time comes, we will see that this turret is not equipped with an 85-mm gun, but a terrifying 122-mm tank gun. ”

"It's okay, we have the E-50." Major Bach said.

Chen Dao said: "Yes, we have the E-50, but in addition to the new heavy tank, the Russians will also make a lot of more evil tanks, and we must end the war before these new weapons are put into the battlefield in large quantities." At the same time, we need to intensify the development of our new weapons to deal with them. ”

Chen Dao turned away from the KV-85 tank and walked through the ruins of the village, where he saw many soldiers cleaning the battlefield and rescuing the wounded.

Walking to the northwest corner of the village, a 20-mm anti-aircraft gun with its muzzle pointed diagonally into the sky caught his attention.

There were several people standing next to the anti-aircraft guns, and Chen Dao recognized the style of these people's military uniforms, which should be from the Air Force Field Division, as well as from the 1st Infantry Division of the "Honorary Jews".

Chen Dao walked towards the anti-aircraft gun, and the soldiers next to the anti-aircraft gun gave way to him.

Chen Dao walked to the side of the anti-aircraft gun and saw a corpse sitting at the anti-aircraft gun firing position, which was a captain officer.

The body was leaning on its back in its seat, its head tilted to the left, and the right side of its body was strewn with blood-stained bullet holes in its chest, arms, and cheeks.

Chen Dao asked a captain officer standing beside him, "Captain, who is he?" ”

Chen Dao inquired about Captain Rabin, the supreme commander of the defenders of Zuravka Village, who landed on the ground with his gun and said to Chen Dao: "He is Captain Muller, and he led his men with 12 20-mm anti-aircraft guns to assist me in defending the village. And Captain Stein, who and his men brought 12 anti-tank guns, and the three of us were the three highest-ranking men in the village.

General, as you can see, Captain Muller died in battle on an anti-aircraft gun emplacement. Captain Stein's subordinates said they saw Captain Stein, along with an anti-tank gun, blown to pieces by a large-caliber shell, and that they were collecting his body. The two of them and I only met yesterday afternoon, and by now, barely more than twenty-four hours. ”

Chen Dao stretched out his hand and took off his military hat and said loudly: "Man is inherently dead, either heavier than the Alps or lighter than a feather." The deaths of Captain Müller and Captain Stein, as well as all the officers and men killed in this battle, were heavier than the Alps. Their sacrifice was exchanged for more blood and death of the Russians. ”

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When Chen Dao made a historic assessment of the sacrifice of the defenders in the village of Zuravka, in the eastern part of the village of Zuravka, in Rokossovsky's field headquarters, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky and his subordinates were hurriedly packing their bags and preparing to move in.

Last night, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky, in accordance with the plan previously formulated, began to act overnight, personally leading most of the 11th Tank Army, part of the 7th Tank Army, as well as a regiment of infantry reinforced by Marshal Timoshenko and two artillery regiments, starting from the Boguchar area, all the way west, preparing to first recapture Kandemirovka, and then turn to the northwest to attack the back of the German defense line on the Kalitva River.

Unexpectedly, the troops were discovered by the Luftwaffe at dawn, but fortunately, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky and Marshal Timoshenko had already prepared, and sent fighter planes to patrol the sky as soon as dawn, and at night they first sent air defense units to set up air defense positions on the roads along the way, so as to avoid heavy losses on the march.

However, after crashing headlong into the defensive line of the 1st Infantry Division of the "Honorable Jews", the powerful armored unit was like a spiky hedgehog.

Reinforced by the 37th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, the 1st Infantry Division of the "Honorable Jews" had a total of four 88-mm heavy anti-aircraft batteries and a total of 48 88-mm anti-aircraft guns.

Combined with the 36 PAK 40 anti-tank guns of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion of the upper battle, the 45 No. 3 assault guns of the assault artillery battalion, and the powerful anti-tank artillery firepower made the troops led by Lieutenant General Rokossovsky suffer enough, from the village of Zuravka in the north to the wilderness of the city of Kandemirovka in the south, swaying black smoke columns can be seen everywhere, and the wreckage of more than 200 Soviet tanks is scattered on the open fields.

As the Germans launched a counteroffensive from the front of the village of Zuravka, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky's troops were forced to stop the offensive and fully retreat in the direction of Boguchar, where they started.

When Lieutenant General Rokossovsky was packing his bags, he received another bad news: the Second Tank Army, which had outflanked the German line from the upper Kalitva River, had suffered heavy losses and lost contact with the military headquarters, which meant that the plan to encircle and annihilate the German troops on the Kalitva River was completely bankrupt.

Hopping into a Gas-64 jeep, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky kept a name flashing through his mind.

Heinz von Rosen, Heinz von Rosen······ When did this villain come? He's so vicious. ”

When Chen Dao called the 101st Special Air Service Regiment and the 2nd Panzergrenadier Regiment of the "Imperial Marshal" by radio, he did not use a password, but called by voice, without any secrecy effect, and the radio waves were quickly detected and monitored by the communications department of the Soviet army, and then known by Lieutenant General Rokossovsky.

Even if he knew this valuable information, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky could not react in time.

Chen Dao had previously contacted the troops and dispatched them, and he did a very good job of keeping secrets secret, and only used voice calls at the moment before the troops arrived at the battlefield, so that the enemy would know about them, causing a huge psychological panic to the enemy.

All the Soviet soldiers who listened to Chen Dao's shouting had a terrifying thought in their hearts.

Heinz von Rosen, the second-highest villain among the Germans, had arrived on the battlefield and was preparing to lead the charge himself and attack him.

Will he be the first target of his counteroffensive, panic immediately spread among the Soviet troops, and Lieutenant General Rokossovsky was no exception.

"Vicious, that guy is so vicious, first regardless of the life or death of the infantry division, let the infantry resist the attack of his own armored forces, and then personally lead the armored forces to counterattack, he is really vicious······ He also learned some new tactics, and in the future he must use the tactics he learned from him to educate the Germans fiercely. This time, if you win, I'll be back. ”

Lieutenant General Rokossovsky handed over command of the battlefield to the headquarters of the 11th Tank Army, and he himself led the staff of the Front Army to move in first, and hurried back to Boguchar along the road from which they came, planning the next stage of the battle.