In fact, for this battle, there was a considerable mistake behind the seemingly calm of the Soviet army, no, it should be a human error in it. First of all, when the two German divisions made a detour to attack, the Soviet army did not notice this action at the first time, and they estimated at the beginning that the German army just wanted to carry out some expansion on the south bank when the attack on the north bank of the lake was frustrated, and these two divisions should be just two ordinary or even weak combat units, after all, when the two armies are facing each other, it is almost unimaginable to transfer the most combat-effective troops.

However, this kind of initial mistake can be made by anyone, and in principle, even if such a situation occurs, it should not have a fatal effect. However, this mistake is far from the end of the mistakes made by the Soviet army, but the beginning!

At that time, the defenders of Pskov City did not know that they were facing the strength of two German divisions, not to mention the main division, and they also fought hard with the Germans on the periphery in a big battle, resulting in many unnecessary casualties. In the final siege phase, when the commander stationed here realized that he was facing two well-equipped divisions, he knew that even if he called for reinforcements, it would be too late, but it would be too quick to hand over Pskov to the Germans so quickly, so he and his men came up with this "clever plan" about "radio jamming devices". On the one hand, it can block the communication of the German army, and on the other hand, it can justifiably cut off contact with the rear troops.

After the Germans gained the upper hand, he did not make more useless resistance, but symbolically fought with the Germans, released them out of his defense area, and then occupied the city of Pskov with the remaining troops, and communicated to the rear that he had successfully defeated the German army and recaptured the city of Pskov. Of course. He could not have thought about being held accountable by his superiors, and he thought of an excuse that seemed rather stupid to outsiders - the defeated Germans divided into small units and bypassed his defenses while the positions outside the city were empty when he recaptured the city of Pskov. However, what he never expected was that the marshal did not give him another opportunity to find another excuse at all, but directly dismissed him from his position.

Let's talk about what happened later. When the two German divisions reached behind them, they were taken aback, and the large German forces in front began to storm as well. Realizing that they would be defeated by such a two-sided attack all the time, the Soviets planned to give priority to this "one" division that had "sneaked up" from Pskov, after all, with their poor strength, the battle should have ended in an instant.

But reality once again crushed them, and this is not at all an ordinary division, which was once routed by the Pskov side. Rather, it was two reinforced divisions with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and as soon as they looked at each other, they immediately separated from each other. Except for the blow that was supposed to decide the outcome of the battle barely made a gap. The offensive on other fronts was largely unsuccessful, and the Soviets paid a heavy price for miscalculating the strength of the German army.

Although they knew that the strength of these two divisions was not ordinary, they had already made a decision, and now they had to scold their front teeth, and they must also eat these two divisions before the German army could join them. And the fact that the marshal had questioned them and asked them to develop a quick strategy also showed that their fighters on the other side were already quite tight, to the point that they could no longer tolerate any more time on their side. However, before Anselm knew it, the Soviets had already developed and were implementing their 'sweeping tactics'. If this tactic had succeeded in the early stages, Anselm's German army would have had no chance of turning the tables at all. However, it is quite difficult to learn about this tactic and stifle it in the early stages.

But what the Soviets didn't know was that they had once again estimated the strength of the German army, and that the first gap they had created was not topped by what they thought was a reserve, but by a method of widely summoning scattered troops that they simply did not believe in to defuse their desperate offensive. As for the real reserves, they are still being hidden by Anselm. If it weren't for something really burning his eyebrows, it is estimated that he would not have mobilized this unit. Like Anselm, the other mixed infantry division did not actually fight with all its might, and their reserves were honestly hidden behind the front, waiting for the next move of the Soviet army.

Come back to Vincent here. Although the Soviets were not prepared to really open this gap, in order to cover and create a false impression for follow-up operations, the number of troops here was not reduced. Although under the heavy fire of the Soviet army, German tanks were penetrated from time to time, but the tanks that were really mortally wounded were mainly self-propelled anti-tanks with weak armor and some friendly tanks II and III, and the IV tanks of the 47th Division were rarely seriously mortally wounded.

Since they are in the midst of the chaos, Vincent naturally can't guarantee that they are okay. Not to mention the other two tanks in his group, that is, his and Leona's tanks, which had already been hit by several shells, including some HE. One HE shot fell directly on the upper armor of the Vincent's tank, directly destroying the machine gun on the hull, and the broken steel fragments also caused considerable damage to the communication soldiers in the vehicle. Fortunately, Vincent stopped the bleeding in time, and although some iron sheets were trapped in the flesh and could not be removed, they were not yet fatal. And Leona's side, it was not much better, after the main gun was hit, the three people in the turret were slightly injured, and after hastily dealing with it, several people could only continue to fight.

From the perspective of Trode's side, it can be said that this battle is really getting more and more boring, the Soviet army's offensive is not as good as one wave, and even a few waves seem to be perfunctory, and they withdraw after firing a few shots. Although it was a good thing to be able to hold the position, Trood vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say exactly what it was. In order not to let his troops slack off due to the weakening attacks of the enemy army, Trode also reminded them several times during this time.

However, when that moment came, Trode realized how inadequate he was doing...... (To be continued.) )