In the middle of the night, the last round of the Soviet counterattack was mainly a large-scale air attack.

And it was also supplemented by heavy artillery shelling and dense tank units, as well as mechanized units for the offensive.

For the Soviet troops, who suddenly counterattacked menacingly with overwhelming superior forces, the 1st Grenadier Regiment and the 133rd Reconnaissance Battalion, the 182nd Engineer Battalion, and the 356th Grenadier Regiment, which were at the forefront of the frontline battle, were all defeated and retreated, and the casualties continued.

As a result, the two grenadier regiments were quickly reduced by half, and Manstein decisively withdrew to the rear for rest.

But while they were retreating, the Soviet air forces did not slow down the intensity and scale of the bombing; In the middle of the night, the troops who came up after them were bombed by the powerful anti-personnel bombs of the Soviet army, and even encountered the annihilation of the airborne strafing weapons and equipment of the Soviet attack planes, and suffered many casualties.

In particular, those German units that had been crippled for a long time, or the crippled units of the German client state units, were the first to suffer a retaliatory strike from the Soviet army.

In response to the sudden large-scale air and land counterattack of the Soviet army, the troops of the German army and the client state on the front line were killed by surprise, which was also completely unexpected by Manstein.

The German troops who were able to evacuate to the rear for rest and recuperation were also urgently rescuing the wounded, or bandaging their wounds, as well as replenishing ammunition and weapons and equipment.

As for the rumbling of the T-34 and T-44 of the Soviet army, it was like a mountain of mountains, roaring, roaring, and rushing towards the German infantry positions.

Because many of the German T-54 tank groups are replenishing ammunition and gasoline, as well as repairing; Therefore, there was no way to deploy enough T-54 tank groups to intercept the attack of the Soviet army's army of thousands of tanks.

In addition, the large-scale artillery support of the Soviet army is also becoming more and more dense and huge.

and also cooperated with the large-scale air raids of the Soviet army, so the German army, which was stunned for a while, did not have time to organize an effective counterattack immediately.

At the very least, it will be possible to carry out an effective counterattack only when the German air force has returned to the defense to replenish ammunition and oil, and to attack again to help.

It's just that all this will take time, and the Soviets have also sent another group of aviation to the airspace around the Luftwaffe airfield to intercept it.

Regarding Vasilevsky's ability to dispatch troops and command operations, Manstein can be regarded as having seen the strength of the other side.

Although Manstein gained a great advantage in weaponry, in the short time when the Germans ran out of ammunition, Vasilevsky's strategy and tactics were still slightly superior.

In the face of this unexpected assault battle, in bombed potholes, snowflake forests, steppes Soviet troops and swamps; The Soviet army continued to launch ferocious counterattacks with the superiority of company, battalion, regiment, and even group armies, and the German army and the German servant army, which had just won the victory, without the power to counterattack, and could only continue to retreat.

Even those soldiers who just wanted to take a nap in the ice pit were also completely sleepy, and they were nervous and engaged in a desperate fierce battle with the Soviet army.

Although the German MLRS were also constantly firing, screaming and bombarding the Soviet positions; But the Soviet Katyusha rocket artillery, the Stalin organ, also counterattacked with several times more rocket artillery.

For a time, the rocket artillery of Germany and the Soviet Union were fighting each other, shaking the ground and shaking the mountains, thrilling, destructive, and lethal.

Many officers and men on both sides were bombarded by these inhumane rocket artillery and turned into corpses or scum.

Moreover, the machine gunners of the Soviet and German armies were also quickly checking the situation of the machine guns and ammunition magazines they had just finished attacking, so as to ensure that the golden bullet chains were not blocked, or that they were stuck with the mud and sand and could not shoot.

"The Soviets suddenly went mad, and their counterattack became more and more violent; Marshal Manstein is ready to send all of our SS Führer Grenadier divisions to the front for battle! ”

When the Soviets were attacking more and more aggressively, the commander of the SS Führer's grenadier regiment, Colonel Otto Coombe, also hurriedly shouted at his officers and men.

"I have seen the commander of the 102nd Panzer Regiment, Major Erich Schmidt, and our Major General Helmut Mader commanding the SS Führer Grenadier Division; along the way with the Führer Guards Division, and the SS 10th Panzer Division; As well as the 344th Infantry Division, as well as the SS Imperial Panzergrenadier Division and other units met the fierce Soviet positions! ”

As soon as the words fell, the battalion commander Stadley beside him also hurriedly followed with his troops.

At this moment, the battalion commander Stadley also suffered a slight gunshot wound, but he simply bandaged and dealt with it, and continued to insist on leading the troops into battle, without any intention of withdrawing to the medical team in the rear for better treatment.

"Boom!"

It's just that the battalion commander Stadley and his grenadier battalion have not advanced much before they are locked on to the target by the Soviet tank group and are shelling.

Fortunately, the SS Führer Grenadier Division also had more than 100 T-54 tanks and hundreds of self-propelled guns, just like the SS Imperial Panzergrenadier Division and the Führer's Guards Division.

So even in the face of a surprise attack by the Soviet tank group, they can have tanks and self-propelled guns to counterattack immediately.

Moreover, their anti-tank guns and anti-tank rocket launchers are not weak, so when the battalion commander Stadley and his grenadier battalion had just been killed and wounded a small number of soldiers, the anti-tank attack of the SS Führer's grenadier division was also carried out immediately.