At about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the 11th Guards Heavy Tank Brigade of the Red Army finally waited for the first opponent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoA reconnaissance company equipped with half-tracks of the Viking Division came to the village of Mazarari, and everyone was exhausted by the high-intensity combat and continuous advancement for several days, and when he saw this village, the company commander decided to go inside and rest on the spot. Perhaps the fugitive villages had given him too much of a first impression over the past few days, and he only hastily tested the fire with a machine gun, and broke in without following the standard reconnaissance procedures.

Such a test of fire would only be useful for the easily frightened novice units, who would instinctively return fire, but could not alarm the elite Guards tank brigade at all, and the Ivan chose to remain silent. But after the German vehicles and personnel entered the village, the Red Army suddenly attacked, and in less than 10 minutes, this reconnaissance company was beaten into a sieve, 70% of the troops were knocked down at the first time after the exchange of fire, and the rest of the people could only rely on the terrain cover, hard support, and, of course, there was still time to send a distress signal.

The German panzers, who received the distress signal, immediately arrived, but a shocking situation arose, the panzer company equipped with tank No. 4 could not gnaw at the enemy positions in front of them, and the fire from tanks, anti-tank guns, mortars and Stalin organ rocket launchers became constant and completely prevailed. The Viking division hastily mobilized the strength of an armored battalion, an artillery battalion and an infantry battalion, and at great cost, fought for two hours, but still could not expel the enemy from the village, and could not even fully relieve the reconnaissance company that had been encircled at the beginning, and the dense and blazing fire of the Red Army completely prevailed.

The No. 4 tanks fought against the newly put into the Russian KV-3 tank, and as a result, this new tank with the KV series of heavy defensive armor and equipped with 85mm caliber guns was difficult to deal with, because it got rid of the clumsy and slow image of the KV tank, the No. 4 tank was not an opponent at all, at a distance of more than 1000 meters, the No. 4 75mm caliber tank gun was very effective in penetrating the opponent, but the opponent's tank gun could easily tear the thickest part of the No. 4 head was only 80mm armor, The contest soon ended with the defeat of the German panzers. The wreckage of more than 10 No. 4 tanks was scattered around the village, and the loss of KV-3 tanks was only a mere four.

"The Tiger Heavy Armored Battalion must be notified as soon as possible so that they can come and clean up these guys." This was the first reaction that came to everyone's mind, and the other thing was to call for air support. The planes arrived at the battlefield faster than the heavy armored battalion, but the Red Army had carefully arranged and covered up the battlefield in advance, and the air raid effect was very poor, except for two 250-kilogram bombs that directly hit the KV-3 tank and completely destroyed it, the rest of the air raid effect was very unsatisfactory.

However, the commander of the Red Army, Colonel Bubunov, commander of the 11th Guards Heavy Tank Brigade, was very vigilant, and after seeing the relevant units of the German army retreating and leaving room for air strikes, he was considering a strategy to get out. His order was simple: the battle for the day was sufficient, and as soon as night fell, he would immediately disengage and retreat.

This victory in the resistance battle was clearly a rare glimpse in the ranks of the Red Army, which was everywhere losing ground, but Colonel Bubnov was clearly not carried away, he instinctively sensed the danger of staying where he was, but unfortunately his wish was not fulfilled. At 5:15 p.m., about half an hour before dark, the 506th Tiger Heavy Armored Battalion, assigned to the Middle East Army, arrived at the scene, and the second company was the first to enter the battle......

"Ensign Otto-Karius?"

"Yes." In a slow-moving Tiger tank, Karius, who was the platoon commander of the first platoon of the second company of the 506th Heavy Armored Battalion, was tasked with it.

"You lead a few tanks on a fire reconnaissance to see what the enemy is and where...... Try to judge how much the enemy has troops and equipment. "The company commander's instructions were transmitted through the throat microphone into the headset, which was clearly heard even inside the noisy tank.

"Understood."

Although Second Lieutenant Karius had just recently completed the Reserve Officer Training Course and became a second lieutenant, he was also a veteran with nearly two years of war experience, and he skillfully used the cover of the terrain to begin a reconnaissance of the enemy in front of him - the battle had been fought for more than three hours, and the Germans had not yet figured out the number of Red Army troops in front of him and what level of troops they were roughly in. At first, the reconnaissance company was judged to be a Red Army battalion, but after the battle became stalemate and white-hot, the judgment of its strength suddenly rose to 1-2 divisions equipped with more than 50 tanks and an independent heavy artillery regiment.

Karius calmly observed the surrounding terrain, a huge, flat-bottomed, clay-covered depression provided good cover for the Red Army infantry, and the woods around the depression provided good shelter for Russian tanks, and the woods were so concentrated that one had to go through the village either by going around the woods in a large circle or by walking through the unique avenue at the entrance of the village. It's perfectly fine for the Tiger tanks to get through, but once the swagger is over, the side-fire from all sides will quickly educate you on how to behave.

The careful Karius even found the ablation marks on the ground after the Katyusha rocket launcher (Stalin's organ) was fired in a glade in the woods, and he quickly concluded that this was not an ordinary Red Army unit, this was probably the Russian heavy tank unit that his superiors had been repeatedly emphasizing in the past two days, judging from the statements and firefights of other brother units, plus some other evidence, the mystery was quickly revealed - this should be the 11th Guards Tank Brigade of the Red Army reinforced by infantry and heavy artillery.

"Are you saying that the enemy has about 2,000 infantry, 50-60 heavy tanks, and at the same time a considerable number of Stalin's organs?"

"Yes!" "This is not a simple opponent, it is likely to be the recently missing Russian heavy tank brigade, they are covered by a large number of infantry and artillery at the same time, it is impossible to attack directly alone, unless we use an armored division to crush it." ”

The voice in the headphones was silent for half a minute, and then spoke again: "What do you want to do?" ”

"First use all means to force the Russians to abandon this position, and we must drive the rats out of the rat nest." Karius thought for a moment, "You must not be stupid enough to rush in and fight, that is undoubtedly an act of death." (To be continued.) )