1944, night of April 28. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fighting was already raging on the Trvuvo front. On the 27th and 28th, the German 48th Panzer Corps invested hundreds of Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns, as well as tens of thousands of well-equipped paratroopers, panzergrenadiers and infantry, with the support of artillery and air force fighters, launched round after round of fierce attacks on the Soviet Red Banner 1st Army in front of Trvevo.

And the 1st Red Banner Army of the Soviet Army also showed the greatest determination to hold on, and at all costs it was necessary to consume the German troops in front of them.

The sound of artillery and explosions echoed across the muddy Russian land, and the battle line had shifted to the small town of Trvevo, a small Soviet city surrounded by columns of smoke rising high and low. German self-propelled guns, Rhino tank destroyers, and Grizzly assault guns all drove out of the city, desperately tilting shells at the Soviet defensive positions in the small city. This small town happens to be guarded by a high-grade highway that is rarely seen in the current Soviet Union (this is the Moscow Oblast, and the road conditions are naturally much better than in other places). As long as you take it, the German tanks/assault guns will be able to get rid of the nasty muddy ground and drive on roads with hard surfaces.

The Soviet 1st Red Banner Army also knew the importance of this small city, so it took out an elite divisional battle group and put it here to defend it. The battle lasted from the early morning of the 28th until late at night, and the German infantry, supported by tanks and assault guns, stormed the town several times, but each time they could not gain a foothold and were beaten out by the enemy who did not care about the dead and wounded. At the junction of the small town and the surrounding countryside, there are traces of fierce battles everywhere. The fortifications and buildings on which the defenders rested had been almost leveled. The Red Army soldiers put up their most stubborn resistance almost exclusively on the craters and piles of rubble and ruins!

Amid the explosion of the shells, Major General Marx, who has the same surname as the god of the Red Army, was standing on the chair of an armored command vehicle, holding an FG-1250 night vision binocular, observing another attack by his subordinates.

And on the dirt floor not far from the command car in which Major General Marx was riding, there was a strange-looking half-track armored car, on which was mounted a stubby cylinder with a diameter of 60 centimeters, as if it were a searchlight, but there was not a trace of visible light.

It turned out that this was the weapon of the German army in night warfare - a powerful infrared searchlight! The infrared rays emitted by it can reach targets up to 1,500 meters away, but they are invisible to the naked eye, and only the FG-1250 night vision telescope in the hands of Major General Marx can see people or objects "illuminated" by infrared rays.

And this set of infrared night vision equipment is the biggest killer weapon of the German army in the upcoming tank battle!

Because everyone knows that the Soviet army does not dare to attack the German tank cluster during the day. Otherwise, there was no need for the E-50 tanks, and the Luftwaffe Fw-190F/G and Hs-129 alone would have been able to knock down the Soviets' JS-2 and T-34/85.

And in night battles, night vision devices are undoubtedly a huge golden finger!

However, this golden finger was not opened by Hersman, but the "black technology" that already exists. In fact, it is not unique to Germany, and the opponents of the Germans, the United States and the Soviet Union, actually had similar equipment. However, the night vision equipment of the Americans has not yet been equipped with troops, while the night vision equipment of the Soviet Union is still in the stage of exploration and research, and no really useful equipment has been come up with until the end of World War II in history.

All E-50A and Cheetah vehicles that participated in the "Triangle Tank Battle" (which was later called) were equipped with infrared searchlights of small power and size (each vehicle had two searchlights) and two FG-1250 night vision binoculars. The Tiger H tank, the No. 4 H tank (one No. 4 tank company in both the Heavy Armored Battalion and the Heavy Tan Battalion), the Rhino Tank Destroyer, the Hunter Tank Destroyer and the Grizzly Assault Gun are equipped with an FG-1250 night vision binocular, which can use the infrared rays emitted by the large infrared searchlight (called the "Owl" night combat searchlight on the half-track armored vehicle to find targets).

According to the original plan, these "black technology" equipment were to be used in the most critical tank battle.

However, the resistance of the Soviet army was surprisingly stubborn, and in order to advance to the outside of Kling as soon as possible, Herman . Admiral Hult had no choice but to give an order to Admiral Balk of the 48th Panzer Corps: start using night vision equipment and E-50 tanks and Cheetah tank destroyers on the night of April 28!

The effect of using "black technology" is still satisfactory. The Soviet Red Army, not knowing that Germany had a "high-tech cat's eye", as usual, wanted to fight close combat with the Germans at night. The SU-57s, which had been hiding to shoot black artillery, all drove out, and together with a large group of Red Army daredevils armed with RPG-43 anti-tank grenades, "Red Iron Fist" anti-tank grenade launchers and Bazooka rockets, launched a counterattack against the German armored clusters attacking in the dark!

As a result, the men and vehicles did not get within 1,000 meters of the German tanks and assault guns, and the 75mm, 88mm, 105mm and 150mm guns equipped with muzzle extinguishers were fired at the same time.

Before the Red Army soldiers could understand what was going on, they were swept down by shells flying from the darkness, and more than a dozen SU-57 tank destroyers were smashed to pieces. The Red Army in front died heroically, but the Red Army behind did not know what was going on, and still rushed out of the darkness in droves according to the original order, and all of them crashed into the German guns! Under the flash of artillery fire, the corpses of the Soviet army were stacked on top of each other, and they were shocked!

The heroic Soviet Red Army, in this night attack that they were good at, was systematically defeated by the incomparably accurate artillery fire of the German army!

By the early morning of the next day, the tricolor flag of the Russian Empire and the German red flag were already flying over the small town of Trvivo.

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The same defeat in the night battle did not occur only in the small town of Trvevo, but on all fronts where the reserve front was stationed.

All the night counterattacks were like hitting a steel plate headlong, and nothing was gained except the terrible casualty figures.

After a night of hard fighting, just a rough count, the casualties and missing of the Red Army Reserve Front amounted to 21,000 people. In the early morning of the next day, the Germans took advantage of the fact that the Soviets had not yet recovered from the huge casualties and launched another strong attack.

This time they threw in the legendary E-50A tank and a previously unknown large tank destroyer with a 105mm cannon!

As a result, under a fierce attack, the reserve front of the Red Army, which had fought well on the 27th and 28th, almost collapsed. In one day, the Germans advanced 30 kilometers to the outside of Vysokovsk, which was only 11 kilometers from Klin.

However, the battle on the 29th was not all bad news for the Soviet army, and the commander of the 1st Red Banner Army, General Beloborodov, who had lost the battle in Tarvivo, personally commanded a dozen A-19 122mm cannons and thousands of Red Army soldiers to fight an ambush on the way to retreat. Although he was unable to repel the Germans, he witnessed an A-19 cannon destroy a German E-50A tank at a distance of 800 meters.

And it was wrecked from the front!

"Are you sure it's an E-50 tank?"

On the night of the 29th, Zhukov called General Beloborodov, who had just lost the battle, to the bunker of the General Staff in Moscow.

For the fiasco of the 1st Red Banner Army, Zhukov did not seem to take it to heart. After all, this group army, which came from the east, had been fighting the front line in the fighting on the Western Front that began on the 20th, and the losses of the troops were very large. It is not surprising that there was a collapse in this situation, so Zhukov did not criticize Admiral Beloborodov, but asked about the destruction of the E-50A tank.

His biggest concern now is that the armor of the E-50A tank is too strong for the JS-2's 122mm cannon to penetrate (the JS-2's cannon is the same as the A-19).

"It was the E-50, and I saw with my own eyes, an A-19 cannon that destroyed it at 800 meters under the front of the hull." Admiral Beloborodov replied.

He didn't look away, the E-50A tank, of course, can be destroyed, after all, this tank weighs only 55 tons, and even in the front, it is impossible to be without weaknesses. Although the thickness of its frontal lower hull armor is also 130mm, the inclination angle is not large, only 30 degrees, which is equivalent to only 150mm when converted into vertical armor. Even taking into account the super ballistic resistance of nickel-chromium-manganese-molybdenum rolled steel, it could not withstand the power of the BR800B armor-piercing projectile at a distance of 471 meters.

"800 meters...... Enough is enough! Zhukov smiled confidently, "It may not work in the daytime, but the distance of the night battle is usually within 300 meters." It is believed that the frontal hull of the E-50 tank could not stop the JS-2's 122mm cannon. Now we've won! ”

He was right, at a distance of 300 meters, the E-50 and JS-2 are "cross-piercing", and each can get rid of each other with one shot. Even the T-34/85 was able to penetrate the frontal lower hull of the E-50A tank with a single shot at a distance of up to 250 meters.

And the number of tanks concentrated by the Soviet army must be much more than the German army can invest, and the Soviet army also has more infantry, and it is completely possible to defeat the Germans at night with the tactics of a sea of people and a sea of tanks.

It seems that the national fortunes of the Soviet Union have not yet come to an end!