Chapter 428: The SS Strikes Back
This is not over, after the SS shelling, a large number of incendiary bombs came over, originally the Soviet fortifications were built of logs, and now the entire position burned, and countless Soviet soldiers were splashed by the liquid after the explosion of the incendiary bombs, so that the whole body was on fire, in this case, even if his comrades wanted to save him, it was impossible to end his life with one shot, so as not to endure the boundless pain.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
The ground shook and the roar of tanks came again, it seemed that the German tanks had begun to attack, and now the Soviet positions were in a panic, and all the officers quickly gathered their soldiers, and at the same time found the anti-tank guns that had not been destroyed by the shelling, and those tanks that had not been destroyed also hurriedly started.
"Boom, boom...... Boom ......"
The Soviet artillery began to counterattack the German artillery positions, and the German artillery had already shifted their positions after the firing, and the Soviet artillery counterattack was doomed to be ineffective.
Wittmann's armored division charged to the side of the Soviet anti-tank trench after more than ten minutes, and behind it was the Soviet position, and the Soviet troops on the position could not see the situation on the side of the anti-tank trench clearly, so they could only shoot blindly, Wittmann knew that his armored division must act as soon as possible, otherwise it would be a live target for Soviet artillery fire, Wittman's method was very simple and rude, and he directly ordered the trucks transporting sandbags to rush directly into the anti-tank trenches, and dozens of sandbag trucks could definitely fill in the passage more than 1,000 meters wide.
"Snort...... Sneer......"
The Soviets finally reacted and began firing flares. But Wittmann had already begun to direct the tanks to cross the trench and charge at their positions.
“…… Click...... Click...... Boom ......"
Tucker, led by Wittmann, began to fire fiercely at the Soviet troops, and the Soviet troops, under the supervision of political commissars at all levels, also began to desperately counterattack, what anti-tank guns, "Bazooka" 60mm rocket launchers, machine guns, rifles, submachine guns, and German tanks were fired desperately.
Although Bazooka could not penetrate the front of the German Leopard tank, there was no pressure on the flanks, so some of the tanks in Wittmann's Panzer Division were concentrated by Bazooka. It's just that these "Bazookas" also just arrived in the hands of the Soviet troops. Many soldiers had just learned how to fire, and they didn't know how to hit German tanks or what to attack. As a result, ammunition was wasted.
Machine guns on armored vehicles that follow tanks and machine guns and cannons on tanks. Towards the Soviet position, it was a continuous rain of bullets thrown out. Many Soviet soldiers who desperately fought back were killed, but still no Soviet soldier dared to escape, and as soon as he fled, the political commissar immediately shot the person who fled.
"Boom...... Click......"
A Leopard tank at the front of the charge was hit by more than 20 rounds of armor in the front, and the "Bazooka" was still moving and counterattacking. At this time, the Soviet Union was dumbfounded, and the garbage weapons sent by the United States threw "Bazooka" to the ground, and the Soviet troops, who threw away the weapons in their hands, were ordered by the political commissar to pick up anti-tank grenades.
When Wittmann's tank group was thirty meters away from the Soviet trenches, hundreds of anti-tank grenades were suddenly thrown out of the trenches, and as a result, the members of the tanks in the front were stunned, and so many anti-tank grenades only blew up the tracks of a few tanks in the front row.
When the Soviet troops stuck their heads out of the trenches to check the situation, they ushered in another rain of bullets, and the Soviet troops in the trenches were desperate and collapsed directly, and even the political commissar had no way to prevent a comprehensive collapse, and the political commissar was of course also coerced by the collapsed crowd and fled together.
"Click...... Bang bang bang...... Boom...... Ahh!!!hhhhh ”
Wittmann's armored assault group stormed the Soviet positions and began a killing frenzy, at this time the armored vehicles and sandbag trucks played a better role, of course, there were always a few Soviet troops who were not afraid of death, and fired "bazooka" at the SS sandbag trucks.
The result was to blow up the zipper sandbag truck, of course, the final fate of the Soviet shooter was to be beaten into a sieve, in general, Wittman's assault was still very smooth, the Soviet army was not familiar with the performance of the advanced weapons of Britain, France and the United States in their hands, and did not know how to use these weapons reasonably.
Wittmann's Soviet positions were rampage, and Wittmann's final direction was to the southeast, of course, the previous assault of thirty kilometers was saying that the SS suddenly launched an attack, and the Soviets had no way to stop it, and Vasilevsky had no way to ......
"Click...... Boom ......"
The artillery group of the Soviet army was destroyed by Wittmann, and countless cannons turned into scrap metal.
"Boom...... Click......"
The Soviet tank group in the southeast was also quickly wiped out by Wittman, Sherman is really not an opponent of the Leopard, not to mention that the current Leopard uses a diesel engine.
Vasilevsky also received a telegram soon after the SS attack, it is now night and the situation is unknown, as for the SS armored units to break through their positions, Vasilevsky is not worried at all, the SS at most blew up some of their own artillery, and destroyed some of their own tanks, as for the infantry sacrificed for this, it is not Vasilevsky's scope of thinking, Vasilevsky is just thinking about whether these SS armored units are going to break through.
Vasilevsky stood alone in front of the huge sand table, thought for a long time, and judged that these SS armored units would not break through, because these were more than a thousand kilometers away from any front of the German army, no matter how advanced the SS tanks were, in the absence of air support, without supplies, it was absolutely impossible to rush far, and these SS armored units could only come to destroy the positions and personnel and equipment of the Soviet army.
Based on this judgment, Vasilevsky also made some arrangements, that is, to let the troops defend their own defense lines, that is, to fight until not a single soldier can escape, and Vasilevsky, who gave the order, did not send his own tank troops, and even let his artillery run out of the SS attack range as much as possible, Vasilevsky's plan was to use the sacrifice of his own infantry to consume the SS armored forces as much as possible, and the infantry was just a consumable in Vasilevsky's eyes.
Now the Soviet army is confined to death, and running away is definitely a death, surrender? The Italian SS had no way of containing the prisoners, and they did not shout about surrender at all, and there was a rain of bullets, then a run over by tanks and armored vehicles, and finally a sweep of sandbag trucks.
The sound of gunfire rang out all night in the south-east, and by five o'clock in the morning the SS panzers, having completely swept the Soviet positions in the southeast, began to return to Orsk, where, as Vasilevsky judged, they had only come to destroy the Soviet positions and equipment, and had no intention of breaking through.
…… (To be continued......)
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