Chapter 727: Is there still half an hour left for our battle to start?
At this time, the commander of the 1st SS Panzer Corps, Pres, ordered the 1st SS Panzer Division to launch an attack half an hour later, targeting the 6th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Army.
Of course, the SS 1st Panzer Corps, which assisted in the first round of assault battles, also deployed the SS 2nd Panzer Division and the SS 9th Panzer Division to assist in the sneak attack through the 3rd Panzer Corps and the 44th Imperial Grenadier Division.
The SS 1st Panzer Corps was assisted by Chen Yanlong from the Waffen-SS 101st Heavy Panzer Battalion, the 1st SS Panzer Division, and the 2nd Panzer Division
, the Waffen-SS "Iron Hand Knight" division, the Panzer Instructor and other SS divisions were formed by extracting one-third of the elite officers and soldiers, and also adding a lot of recruits, using the old to lead the new to fight.
The first round of fighting was fought with the attack forces of the 1st and 2nd SS Armored Divisions, which were organized under the 1st SS Armored Division, the 1st Panzer Grenadier Regiment, the 1st Armored Corps, the 1st Assault Artillery Battalion, the 1st Armored Light Infantry Battalion, the 1st Engineer Battalion, the 1st Logistics Battalion, the 1st Armored Artillery Regiment, the 1st Armored Scout Battalion, the 1st Air Defense Battalion, and the 1st Rocket Artillery Battalion.
and the 2nd SS Panzer Division (Imperial Division) 3rd, 4th Panzergrenadier Regiment, 4th Panzer Regiment, 2nd Panzer Corps; 2nd Armored Artillery Regiment, 2nd Armored Scout Battalion, 2nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Logistics Battalion; 2nd Anti-aircraft Battalion, 2nd Rocket Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Light Infantry Battalion.
The units of these armoured divisions were all equipped with T-54 tanks, and each panzer division was equipped with 350 tanks, and their formation was based on the establishment of two tank regiments in 1939.
That is to say, a group has at least more than 20 tanks for operation, and the surplus tanks are used as supplements, or given to reserves to attack.
In fact, Chen Yanlong originally wanted to imitate the establishment of an armored division like the Soviet Army in the early 80s, because the establishment of the Soviet Army's armored division at that time was under the jurisdiction of 3 tank regiments, 1 motorized infantry regiment, 1 artillery regiment, 1 surface-to-air missile regiment, 1 surface-to-surface missile battalion, and the directly subordinate units included a helicopter brigade and a reconnaissance battalion......
However, due to the lack of a large number of new weapons and equipment, and elite tank personnel and missile launchers, Yanlong did not organize his armored division and armored corps in this way.
Of course, there is another very important reason, that is, because Chen Yanlong is worried that if he worked hard and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to form such a unit that only existed in the 80s, but one day in the future because the mobile phone system cannot exchange these new weapons and equipment, then the team of such advanced weapons and equipment he established will be paralyzed and wasted.
When the time had not yet reached the designated point for a sneak attack, the 1st SS Panzer Division, which was already ready to go, was softly singing their battle song:
"Whether it's a storm or a snowfall,
Whether it's the sun smiling kindly at us;
It's still a hot day,
It's still a snowy winter night,
The battlefield filled with gunpowder,
We all want to be happy,
We all have to fight bravely until victory.
Our torrent of steel is unstoppably attacking,
Until the victory over the enemy army,
It is our life and glory to fight for the glory of the empire and our army!
It is the highest honor to die for Germany!
......
"Do we have half an hour left before we can start fighting?"
Tank Commander Bill suddenly stopped singing the battle song, and said a little anxiously to another tank commander named Yarman next to him.
"Yes! I just looked at the time, and I also hope that I can fight the Soviet army as soon as possible, and kill them as soon as possible so that our lives can be guaranteed and survive! ”
Captain Yarman nodded.