Three kilometers east of the city of Priti, in the village of Vysok, the headquarters of the 2nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Greater German Division was stationed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Colonel Jurgen Gaski clasped his chest in his left hand and chin in his right hand, staring at the map spread out on the table.

Last night, he arrived in the city of Priti almost at the same time as Rommel.

After getting in touch with the four battalion commanders under his command and confirming the respective positions of the four battalions, Colonel Gaski had a simple dinner and was about to fall asleep when he was suddenly called by the division commander, Major General Holrain.

At the division headquarters, Colonel Gaski met not only with the division commander Holren, but also with Rommel.

The content of this summons was very simple: the troops turned around, did not go to Priluki in the north, but changed their route to the east and attacked Lokhvica, which was more than 60 kilometers to the east.

Colonel Gaski also learned that Lochvica was the target not only of the Großdeutsche Division, but also of the 24th Panzer Corps in the Lubne area, and that he was trying to meet in the city within forty-eight hours.

After identifying the target, a battle group was quickly formed with the main force of the 2nd Motorized Rifle Regiment under the command of Colonel Gaski.

A No. 4 tank company, two reconnaissance companies, and a light howitzer battalion were reinforced to Colonel Gaski, and Holren also promised that there would be an E-40 heavy tank company and engineering units and air defense units to be reinforced to him one after another.

Accepting a new assignment, Colonel Gaski knew that sleeping would become a luxury, and working overtime would be the main theme of nightlife.

After making contact with friendly forces overnight, at about 6 a.m., just after dawn, the reconnaissance company of armored vehicles of the 1st company of the reconnaissance battalion took the lead and rushed to the east.

The 5th Motorized Rifle Battalion under Colonel Gaski, joined up with the reinforced 4th Tank Company and followed behind the reconnaissance company.

At about 8:40 a.m., the 8th Heavy Equipment Battalion passed through the village of Vysok, and Colonel Gasky led the regimental headquarters to join the battalion and march east together.

Leaning on the back seat of the car, half-asleep, Colonel Gaski's convoy drove thirty kilometers.

Two smoky, smoky villages swept by the vanguard flashed by the side of the road, a commonplace sight on the vast plains of Ukraine.

The convoy passed through the two villages, and Colonel Gaski's hard-won rest came to an end.

"Colonel, it's time for Covally."

The adjutant shook up the dazed Colonel Gaski.

Colonel Gaski jumped out of the car, and with the cooperation of the adjutant, hurriedly washed his face with cold water from the military kettle, and under the stimulation of the cold water, Colonel Gaski's mind was awakened from the invasion of the sleeping demon.

Soon, the company commander of the reconnaissance company of armored vehicles, Captain Remer, approached Colonel Gasky and handed him a sketch.

"The infantry of the fifth battalion tried to launch an attack, but unfortunately their attack was thwarted by enemy artillery."

Colonel Gaski nodded, looking at the sketch handed by Captain Remer.

On the sketch, an east-west highway divides the battlefield into two parts, north and south.

More than 90 percent of the town of Covalli is on the north side of the road.

On the north side of the road, there is also a large forest in the western part of the town of Covally.

The terrain on the south side of the road is relatively open, with large areas of arable land.

In the southwest and southeast corners of the town of Covalli, across the road from the town of Covalli, there is a village in each.

About four kilometres south of the road sits a larger village.

Between the three villages on the south side of the road, small patches of woods are dotted.

It took half a cosmic cigarette to draw up a battle plan, first south and then north, through the attack.

Under Gaski's orders, the battle group rumbled like a machine.

The 5th Motorized Rifle Battalion has three motorized infantry companies, an armored infantry company, and a heavy firepower company, as well as a reinforced No. 4 Tank Company.

A company of motorized infantry left the road and walked into the forest on the north side of the road, adjacent to the west side of the town of Covalli, to search for possible enemies in the forest.

The other two companies of motorized infantry also left the road and walked south, bypassing the villages southwest of the town of Kohauli and attacking the villages directly south of the town of Kohuali.

When the reinforced 1st Artillery Battalion arrived on the battlefield, the battle began.

After twelve 105-mm howitzers fired three rapid shots, Tank Company No. 4 guided two platoons of infantry to attack the village from the front.

Another platoon of infantry made a detour to the south of the village and made a feint to attract the attention of the Soviet troops in the village.

By the time the battle began, Colonel Gaski had moved to the woods by the roadside, where the regimental headquarters had set up several tents to serve as temporary accommodation.

Standing in front of a tent, Colonel Gaski looked up overhead, and a hummingbird helicopter roared overhead.

Accompanying the artillery battalion were two Hummingbird helicopters, which were slowly approaching the battlefield at an altitude of thirty or fifty meters on the north and south sides of the road.

Whether you can take out the artillery positions of the Russians or not, it's up to you.

Colonel Gaski silently blessed the hummingbird helicopter overhead, then turned and walked into the tent.

For some unknown reason, the Soviet artillery mentioned by Captain Reimer did not appear, allowing the Germans to capture the village in the southwest corner of the town of Covalli in one fell swoop with both firepower and numerical superiority.

After occupying the village, which was less than 100 households, Tank Company No. 4 passed through the village and turned south along the dirt road in the countryside.

In the southern part of the battlefield, two companies of German infantry approached the village called Nosvka on foot and did not immediately attack.

The infantry hid outside the village, taking advantage of crops and undulating terrain as cover, erecting machine guns and mortars, and then began to wait patiently until the roar of Tank Four was heard behind them.

After the artillery fired a five-shot rapid fire, the second attack began, and two companies of infantry jumped out of hiding, followed behind Tank No. 4, and rushed to Nosevka.

Mortar shells flew out of the village and fell into the German attacking ranks with a strange roar.

Dense machine-gun bullets flew from all corners of the village, trying to ruthlessly harvest the lives of the German infantry, but most of them were blocked by tank four.

The Germans also responded with mortars and machine guns, and Tank No. 4 shook its turret, sending high-explosive shells into exposed Soviet firing points.

For a time, the fight outside the village of Nosvka was in full swing.

Shortly after the battle began, a sudden change occurred in the southeast corner of the town of Corvolly.

Accompanied by the characteristic noise of diesel engines running at high speeds, puffs of black smoke rose from the village in the southeast corner of the town of Covalli, as well as in several nearby groves, and enveloped the village and the woods.

More than two dozen tanks consisting of T-34 and BT-7 light tanks, as well as two KV-1 mixed tanks, swarmed out.

The larger T-34 and KV-1 tanks carried an unequal number of infantry, and many more trotted behind the tanks with weapons in their hands and rushed to the warring village of Nosvka.

Behind them, in the woods farther away, there was a thunderous sound, and 122 mm caliber shells whistled over the heads of the Soviet infantry clusters and flew towards the battlefield in the distance.

The shells that fell on the head instantly suppressed the offensive of the German troops outside the village of Nosvka, whether it was tanks or infantry.

The infantry halted their attack and looked for shelter from the shelling, and the fourth tanker could only pray that the shells would not fall too close to them.

The panicked Germans only knew that they were being shelled, but they did not know that Soviet reinforcements were rapidly approaching.

The actions of the Soviet army failed to win the eyes of the hummingbird in the sky.

The Soviets rushed through the middle of less than three kilometers, and the Soviet infantry jumped out of the tanks and charged after them.

Under the summoning of the observer on the hummingbird helicopter, the German artillery changed the target and also smashed the shells on the heads of the Soviet troops, and the momentum of the originally menacing Soviet infantry instantly withered.

With a few radio waves, the No. 4 Tank Company, which was originally attacking Nosevka, quickly changed its formation and turned to the north to meet the Soviet tanks.

Outside the town of Nosivka, about 50 tanks and 1,000 infantry on both sides, supported by artillery, fought in the wilderness.

In the fierce battle, a large yellow-green figure poured out of the city of Covally, which was the focus of the battlefield.

The grass green is the tank, and the earth yellow is the infantry.

This sudden attack to break the stalemate on the battlefield did not work at all, because at the last moment, a new force was also killed in the villages southwest of the town of Covalli, which were controlled by the Germans.

The E-40 heavy tank was long overdue, but it appeared at the moment when the battlefield needed it most.

With its strong armor and sharp guns, the E-40 tank company turned the tide of the battlefield in one fell swoop, destroying the Soviet tanks one by one and turning them into steel graves on the battlefield.

In the sky, after a careful search, the observer hand on the hummingbird helicopter lived up to expectations, using the conspicuous gray-black gunpowder smoke on the ground in the distance to determine the approximate location of the Soviet artillery.

As the howitzer target was switched again, explosions and flames covered the Soviet artillery positions・・・・・・

Without the courage of the tanks and the suppression of the fire of the artillery behind them, the Soviet infantry was quickly crushed by the No. 4 tank and the E-40 tank, and the rout was hastily defeated.

The rout of the Soviet counterattack troops doomed the focus of the battlefield, the fall of the village of Nosvka.

After confirming the occupation of the village of Nosvka, Colonel Gaski regrouped his troops, first sending reconnaissance units to guard the east and southeast of the battlefield, then to the E-40 tank company, and then the 6th Motorized Rifle Battalion, which arrived later, to launch an attack on the town of Covalli from south to north.

In the southeastern corner of the town of Covalli, the 4th Tank Company and two companies of the 5th Motorized Battalion launched a simultaneous attack, targeting villages to the southeast.

In the hour that followed, the good news kept coming.

First, the infantry of the 6th Motorized Battalion crossed the road in one fell swoop and rushed into the town of Covalli, north of the road, where they were engaged in street battles with the Soviet troops in the town.

In the village in the southeast corner of the battlefield, the No. 4 Tank Company also supported the infantry to successfully attack, and the work of clearing the Soviet infantry in the village was underway.

Colonel Gaski looked at his watch, and it was already 4:20 p.m.

About thirty minutes later, another piece of good news came, and the village in the southeast corner had been cleared.

As time passed, the sun set and the light dimmed, and Colonel Gasky decisively gave the order.

The time has come for the through-action to begin.

Following Colonel Gaski's orders, the long convoy rolled forward, passing south of the war-torn town of Covalli, heading for Lochvica.

As Colonel Gaski's car drove past the town of Covalli, there was a dull sound of artillery in the town, which was the characteristic of the Grizzly assault gun, a demolition weapon.

At this time, the buildings on the side of the road in the town of Covalli were already under the control of the Germans, and there was no need to worry about the Soviet troops in the town threatening the convoy on the road.

Colonel Gaski, not wanting to get tangled up with the doomed Soviet troops in the town, boldly chose to pass through the town of Covalli before the battle was over.

There are still twenty-five kilometers to Lokhvica, and there are no large-scale settlements in the middle for the Soviet troops to use.

If there are no accidents, the next battle, should be Lochvica.

Colonel Gasky thought silently.