Chapter 402: The Fall of Molodizno

In order to deal with the anti-tank dogs who were scurrying around in search of various "conditional stimuli", Pavlov and his men were very busy for a while, and when they hurriedly killed their old subordinates, another man-to-man battle broke out.

The artillery of the 78th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment of the 7th Panzer Division again turned their guns to the outskirts, and countless shells fell on the positions of the Soviet troops on the outskirts of the city, and the smoke of explosions was everywhere.

Not to be outdone, the divisional artillery regiment of the 17th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army smashed shells into the cluster of German tanks in the charge to block the attack of German tanks.

The 45-mm anti-tank gun position next to Captain Pavlov was also full of gunfire, firing armor-piercing shells round after round at the German tanks on the opposite side.

Tank Group 4 stopped and went, its sturdy armor deflecting flying shells and shrapnel, the turret turned, and the muzzle fired high-explosive shells, killing the Soviet gunners who exposed their targets one by one.

The real threat to Tank 4 was the KV-1, with six KV-1 tanks crouching behind Soviet foxholes and firing at Tank 4 with their thick armor.

In addition to the KV-1 tank, four 85mm anti-tank guns were also leveled out and fired at the No. 4 tank, and shells of various types on both sides of the battle flew across the battlefield and fell on the enemy on the opposite side.

Tank No. 4 and KV-1 were destroyed one after another, their muzzles drooping and paralyzed on the battlefield, and the 85-mm anti-aircraft guns were also destroyed by high-explosive shells one after another because they exposed their targets, and the gunners were killed and wounded everywhere.

With an excellent radio communication network and skillful coordination, after paying the price of thirteen tanks being destroyed and damaged. The 25th Panzer Regiment destroyed the Soviet anti-tank gun positions, and the surviving Soviet infantry, seeing that the situation was not good, turned around and fled back to the city of Molodizno.

Pursuit to the outskirts of the city. The 25th Armored Regiment stopped, the infantry of the 7th Motorized Rifle Regiment crossed the tank queue and stormed into the city to engage in street fighting, and the Grizzly assault guns followed the infantry into the city to carry out violent demolition work.

Hearing Colonel Rosenburg's order, the tank cluster of the 25th Panzer Regiment turned around and drove to the south of the city to join the 7th Motorized Rifle Battalion.

The Butan cluster passes through the fields in the south of the city. Countless crops were crushed, leaving countless track marks, and it swept towards Route 56 to the south.

Both sides of the road. Five villages are nestled in endless fields.

The FI-282 helicopter followed over the Butan cluster, as if it were the commander of the army, and in the telescope of the artillery observer, every move of the Soviet troops in the village was exposed.

Received a call from an artillery observer. The artillery in the rear again turned the muzzle. Soviet troops bombing the village.

The cannonballs flew over the heads of the butan clusters, round after round, emitting a piercing whistling sound.

By the time the Butan group arrived at the outskirts of the village, the Soviet troops in the village had already been bombarded by heavy artillery bombardment. Their hastily arranged positions were also replaced by large and small craters, around which corpses and gun parts were scattered.

Butan clusters ran over abandoned villages, tracking the backs of Soviet deserters, and rushed onto Route 56 to cut off Molodizno from the south.

Fifteen minutes later. A battalion of the 6th Motorized Rifle Regiment arrived and launched an attack on the city from south to north along the road.

The 25th Panzer Regiment guided the 7th Motorized Battalion on its journey again. Rush to the east of the city of Molodizno.

After perceiving the movement of the 25th Panzer Regiment in the south of the city, the Soviet troops in the city suddenly lost the courage to resist.

It was clear that the German troops outside the city were trying to bypass the city and cut off the road link between the defenders of Molodizino and the rear.

The 17th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army was subordinate to the 21st Infantry Corps, and accepted the strange task of counterattacking the German 3rd Panzer Army, using the infantry division to take the initiative to attack the German Panzer Division.

Starting from Minsk, they were first discovered by Luftwaffe fighters, suffered round after round of air raids, lost a large number of heavy equipment, and then recklessly launched an attack on the 7th Panzer Division, which was beaten in the head and bloodied, losing a few T-26 tanks.

Although it was aware of the movement of the German troops, the 17th Infantry Division had only a bunch of infantry left to use to block the German attack, and in the face of the surging German tank group, the Soviet infantry group that had rushed to the battlefield and had not had time to build fortifications was about to collapse, and the 25th Panzer Regiment successfully controlled the road east of the city.

The battle outside the city is devastating, and the battle inside the city is inevitably affected.

Two companies of No. 4 tanks, supporting the 7th Motorized Infantry Battalion, stormed the city from the east of the city and engaged the defenders in street battles.

Wherever the Grizzly assault gun passed, 150mm grenades smashed one after another into the building where the Soviet troops were hiding, and in the earth-shattering explosion, the building and the Soviet troops inside were shattered.

When the Grizzly Assault Gun departed, it left behind only the ruins of buildings and the corpses looming in the rubble.

Compared with the Grizzly assault gun, the No. 4 tank behaved much more civilly, they just used the accurate firepower of the KWK40 tank gun to smash high-explosive shells into the hidden windows of the Soviet army, and blasted them into parts along with the weapons.

Caught by the German army in three directions, the defenders in the city could no longer hold on, and abandoned the buildings and streets they were stationed in, running around like flies without a head, but most of them crashed into the muzzles of the German soldiers surrounded on three sides, and raised their hands as prisoners.

Only a handful of Soviet soldiers, aware of the loopholes in the German encirclement, fled to the north of the city, through a meadow and into the forest outside the city.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the gunfire in the city gradually subsided, and the command tank of Colonel Rosenberg led the regimental headquarters into the city.

Passing by the outskirts of the city, Colonel Rosenberg's tank stopped next to a 45-mm anti-tank gun, and he jumped out of the car and walked over to two sappers.

The two sappers were holding a black canvas military dog vest and were carefully studying the structure of the explosives and triggers on the waistcoat.

Seeing that the sappers had removed the detonators and wooden wrenches on them, Rosenberg asked, "What about the new weapons of the Russians?" Do you have any comments for our Russian friends?"

"Sir, Colonel, inferior, cruel and useless, that's all I can say about the mad dog tactics unleashed by the Russians." A sapper said.

"Whimsical and shoddy, the explosive devices designed by the Russians for military dogs can only be described in these two words."

"Very well, these captured explosive devices and the corpses of military dogs on the battlefield will all be sent to the military reporters, and then tell them your comments, let them take pictures and record them, and send them back to the propaganda department in China. It was too much for the Russians to go so far as to launch a suicide attack with a dog. Rosenberg swept the dozen or so dog corpses piled up in front of the artillery position and said indignantly. (To be continued......)