After contacting Lieutenant Jackman, who was trapped in the city of Idrica and confirming that the assault team was safe and sound, Colonel Max was relieved and began to arrange the attack.

In Colonel Max's battle group, some tanks and armored vehicles have been covered with bright red swastika flags, which are used to serve as identification targets for Air Force bombers to avoid accidental damage by the Air Force.

When the last bomber finished dropping bombs and turned the fuselage to leave the battlefield, Colonel Max gave the order in time.

"Tank, attack."

Ten E-40 heavy tanks rushed forward, guiding the Type Four G behind them.

All the tanks formed a standard wedge-shaped attack formation and rushed towards the city of Iditsa.

Above their heads, the sound of shells flying at high speed tearing through the sky sounded, and the outlying positions of the Soviet army, on the outskirts of the city, exposed on the ground, were instantly surrounded by patches of gunsmoke.

Before the Soviets could recover from the horror of the air raids, they were suddenly bombarded, and the Soviets outside the city fell into panic again, and chaos ensued.

The infantry simply cowered in trenches and foxholes to hide from the shells, allowing the dirt kicked up by the shells to lap on them.

After an unknown time, when the explosion of the shells faded away, the Soviet soldiers carefully looked up from their hiding places, only to see a group of steel monsters almost rushing in front of them.

The firing of the Makqin machine gun and the Deggarev light machine gun was the first to be heard, as was the popping sound of the ZIS-376.2 mm cannon firing.

The Soviets' stubborn resistance was met with a return fire from the German tanks, and the E-40 heavy tanks halted their advance, using their proud armor as a cover to act as a shield for the charging group, firing at the recalcitrant Soviets.

7.92 and 7.62 mm shells shuttled through the battlefield, as did 88 mm shells, 75 mm and 76.2 mm shells. smashed into the opponent's tanks and fire points, setting off a bloody storm on the battlefield.

In the violent explosions, the Soviet machine-gun positions were hit by tank guns and mortars, and the blood of the machine-gun shooters stained one position after another.

Behind them, the bodies of the anti-tank gunners also lay sideways next to the anti-tank guns.

As the firepower on the Soviet positions became weaker and weaker, the German offensive aircraft groups gradually approached the Soviet positions. The remaining Soviet troops were suppressed by the stormy machine-gun bullets of German tanks, lying in the trenches and not daring to raise their heads.

The infantry, following behind the tanks, took the opportunity to charge and rushed into the Soviet positions in one go.

The recalcitrant Soviet troops were immediately beaten into a honeycomb and fell to death in the trenches, and the remaining Soviet troops raised their hands one after another.

The E-40 tank's wide tracks ran through the trenches, guiding the infantry towards the city.

The Type 4G turned around and tore at the Soviet positions along the edge of the city to the west, and a fresh force that had just arrived joined the battle, an armored battalion that had just arrived from the city of Pustoshka.

Flanked by Type 4G tanks and armored vehicles. One by one, the outlying positions of the Soviet army collapsed, and the surviving Soviet troops fled back into the city.

After sweeping the outlying positions of the city of Iditsa, the 4th G Tank and Armoured Battalion turned around and charged into the city from the southwest of the city, forming a pincer offensive with the troops attacking from the southeast corner, aiming at the northwest corner of the city.

Like other similar small cities in the Soviet Union, Idritsa is mostly populated by two- to three-story residential buildings, with very few buildings above three floors.

Facing a patch of small buildings. Grizzly assault guns find the battlefield that best suits their play.

Twisting its heavy body, the Grizzly assault gun was summoned by the infantrymen. Rush to the area where the fighting is stalemate.

Where the 150-mm grenade fell, the buildings on which the Soviet army relied for stubborn resistance collapsed one after another, turning them into the graves of the Soviet infantry.

Beyond the morgue, where the bodies of Soviet soldiers were buried, the assault group of German tanks, infantry and armored vehicles advanced deeper and deeper into the city of Idrisa.

After crossing Highway 563, which crosses the city of Idrisa, the two units were united.

Dense gunfire was getting closer and closer to the northwest corner of the city, and gunfire was heard. The faces of Lieutenant Jackman's captives, Lelyushchenko and others were gray, and from a distance, they were as terrible as the walking dead.

Lieutenant Jackman's subordinates looked beaming, in their opinion. In the end, victory is already within reach, and the Iron Cross is beckoning to them.

Lieutenant Jackman, who was in a different mood than everyone else, stood by the radio, and Lieutenant Jackman had to ask the correspondent every few minutes.

"They haven't replied yet?"

With every inquiry, Lieutenant Jackman got a communicator's shake.

Smoking a cigarette depressed, Lieutenant Jackman kept wondering if Captain Merck and his men had suffered misfortune?

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, Lieutenant Jackman shook his head and dispelled the ominous thought.

In that kind of complex forest terrain, even if the Russians can't defeat the encirclement and suppression forces, Captain Merck can lead his subordinates to get out safely, and the possibility of the Russians trying to annihilate them is zero.

A corporal ran into the basement, he was sent out to observe the observation post of the battlefield.

"Lieutenant, our men are here and are expected to arrive in ten minutes."

Lieutenant Jackman casually handed a white tablecloth to the corporal.

"Signal to them that we're here."

Seeing the corporal leave, Lieutenant Jackman turned around and walked to the compartment where the prisoners were held, and said to the leader Lelyuschenko: "Mr. Major General, this battle is nearing the end, please prepare, General Schell and General Rosen of the 46th Panzer Corps want to see you, General Rosen has told us to ensure your safety." ”

From Leryushenko downwards, all the captives had a look of indignation and shame on their faces.

Without saying a word, Lelyuschenko stood up and looked at Lieutenant Jackman, anger burning in his eyes.

"You're not going to get away with it, don't try to get any information from me."

After Lelyuschenko finished speaking, he rushed to the wall on his right, lowered his head and slammed into the wall.

"Stop him." Lieutenant Jackman shouted.

A group of figures pounced on Lelyushchenko, who wanted to commit suicide, and at least three pairs of hands grabbed Lelyushchenko's military uniform, but still could not stop Lelyushchenko's movements, only slowed down the speed at which he hit the wall.

Lelyushchenko with a broken head. The body fell limply to the ground.

It was Lelyushenko who committed suicide by hitting the wall, but Lieutenant Jackman felt the same pain in his head as Lelyushchenko.

Five minutes later, in the middle of another room, Lelyushchenko, with a white bandage on his head, sat in a chair with his hands tied behind his back. The feet were also tied to the legs of the two chairs.

Walking around Lelyushenko, Lieutenant Jackman confirmed that Lelyushchenko's life was not in danger for the time being.

After thinking about it, he asked for a handkerchief and stuffed it into Lelyushenko's mouth, dispelling the possibility that he would bite his tongue and kill himself.

Met with Lelyuschenko's angry gaze, Lieutenant Jackman said: "Mr. Major General, you can't die under any circumstances until you meet with General Scheer and General Rosen. ”

After about twenty minutes, stand next to the ruins of the villa. Lieutenant Jackman waited for a squad of five Type SDKFZ251 armored vehicles.

Seeing a colonel jump out of one of the armored vehicles in the middle, Lieutenant Jackman stepped forward and saluted the other party with a standard military salute.

"Hello, Colonel Max."

Colonel Max looked Lieutenant Jackman's standard Soviet lieutenant uniform up and down suspiciously, first returned a military salute, and joked with a smile: "Hello, Lieutenant Jackman, I didn't expect it at all." You will appear to me in this image. ”

Two hours later, mixed in the convoy at the headquarters of the 10th Panzer Division. "Chen Dao" arrived in the city of Idritsa with three adjutants in an armored car.

In the basement, listening to Lieutenant Jackman's description of what happened, "Chen Dao" nodded again and again.

"You've done a good job, Lieutenant, and be bold on your mission. Be careful when making a plan, and you can't have one without the other. And that Captain Merck, who is also a rare talent. This spirit of sacrificing oneself in exchange for victory in battle must be greatly encouraged. When I get back home. I will recommend you to Minister Goebbels that your glorious deeds appear in military magazines. ”

"Thank you, Your Excellency, for your kindness, but I have lost contact with Captain Merck, and I am worried about him, and I think he is the biggest contributor to this operation, and I want to go to him." Lieutenant Jackman said.

"The situation outside the city is complicated, the forest is full of Soviet routs, it is dangerous for you to go out at this time, you better stay here, continue to call Captain Merck by radio, and then wait for my order, and I will take care of the rest."

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At the top of the hill where Arsenal Nine was located, Colonel Dietrich was lying in a foxhole, holding binoculars to check the battle at the foot of the hill.

In the dense jungle and thicket, at least twenty T-34 tanks were present, and the number of infantry behind them exceeded a thousand.

In the depths of the woods, which cannot be seen through telescopes, it is not known how many enemies are hidden.

A gust of wind fell from the sky, and Colonel Dietrich's adjutant and guards grabbed him by the shoulders and retracted into the foxhole.

The earth shook and the earth shook with explosions, and a large expanse of loess flew over Colonel Dietrich's head.

The loess rolled up with countless green blades of grass flew into the foxhole and landed on Colonel Dietrich.

Patting the loess off his face and spitting out the dust from his mouth, Colonel Dietrich raised his head, waited for the shelling to stop, and looked at the foot of the hill again.

The Waffen-SS soldiers, taking advantage of the terrain, condescendedly dropped shells and bullets at the Soviet troops, and the Soviet infantry was swept to the ground one by one, and the surviving Soviet infantry could only hide behind the tanks and slowly advance in the direction of the hills.

The T-34 tank stopped and stopped, its muzzle spewing flames and clouds of smoke on the German positions.

With each time the T-34 tank fired, the fire on the German positions was weakened by a point, and if it were not for the limitations of the complex jungle terrain, Colonel Dietrich had no doubt that the Soviets could break through their positions with a single charge.

Seeing that the Soviet tanks had advanced to a distance of about two or three hundred meters from the forward positions, Colonel Dietrich shouted: "Northwest direction, six hundred meters, five rapid fire." ”

On the anti-slope of the hillside, all eighteen mortar groups at the disposal of Colonel Dietrich were ordered to point their guns in the northwest direction of the hillside.

In less than half a minute, 90 mortar shells landed on the northwest side of the hillside, harvesting the lives of countless Soviet infantrymen, and when the smoke cleared, the jungle was littered with the wounded and corpses of Soviet soldiers, and the branches and leaves of trees and shrubs were stained with red blood.

After a dense artillery bombardment crushed the Soviet infantry in the northwest, Colonel Dietrich immediately turned his gaze to the northeast of the hill.

Just as he was about to fire another salvo to crush the Soviet infantry group, Dietrich heard shouts ringing in his ears.

"Enemy aircraft, hidden."

A fleet of four Il-2 attack planes flew almost past the top of the hill, and the wind almost lifted Colonel Dietrich's military cap.

Sixteen 100-kilogram aerial bombs fell on the top of the hill, and the entire hill shook in a series of explosions.

Large and small pieces of rubble flew up, fell to the ground, and rolled down the hillside like a landslide.

Almost all the summits were surrounded by smoke and dust, and Colonel Dietrich's plans for shelling were interrupted in an instant.

As soon as the smoke cleared from the summit, four Il-2 attacks swept over the summit again, firing rows of machine-gun shells at the German gunners at the summit.

The fragile bodies of the German gunners who were hit by the shells were shattered, and the gun emplacements were littered with broken human organs.

Although there were only four Il-2 attack aircraft, Dietrich lacked anti-aircraft weapons and could only watch as four enemy aircraft wreaked havoc on the top of the hill.

After the four Il-2 attack planes had left, Colonel Dietrich shouted: "Let the air force be called by radio, and then Colonel Max." Let him speed up. ”

After giving the order, Colonel Dietrich picked up the binoculars and turned to look down the hill and saw that the T-34 tank had broken through the minefield and rushed to the infantry position.

A T-34 tank ignored the bullets fired by the German machine gunners and rushed to the foxhole where the machine guns were.

As the body spun, dirt, machine gun parts, and the Heavy's flesh flew out together, and the Heavy's dull screams were heard from underground.

After the atrocity, the T-34 stopped spinning and continued to move forward. It was then hit by an ironfist anti-tank rocket from the right and turned into a pile of scrap steel.

Seeing that the Soviet infantry was about to rush into the German positions after the tanks rushed through the minefield, Colonel Dietrich shouted that the eight surviving mortar crews on the top of the hill adjusted their direction and fired a round of rapid fire down the hill to the northeast.

"Don't stop, keep shooting." Colonel Dietrich shouted.

Shells rained down on the Soviet infantry group, and each explosion sent flesh and blood flying in the dense formation of the Soviet troops.

Just as Colonel Dietrich was shouting anxiously about the situation at the foot of the mountain, a series of violent explosions suddenly broke out in the Soviet infantry group on the battlefield below the mountain.

After hesitating for a while, Colonel Dietrich excitedly shouted: "It's a 105-mm howitzer, our reinforcements have arrived." (To be continued.) )