"Mahaus, 11 o'clock! See that big guy? It should be a Stalin tank, hit it with a pointed bullet! ”

Ribbentrop, who saw the Soviet tank through the night vision binoculars, did not dare to be careless at all, and hurried to his gunner, Mahaus. Scholz gave the order to open fire. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He felt the turret of his tank turn gently at his command, and the cannon in front of the turret pointed at a battlefield in front of him that was constantly emitting flashes of light and large hazy black shadows.

But through the night market telescope, Mahaus. Sergeant Scholz could still clearly see his prey, a tank with a huge turret, which was supposed to be the Soviet Stalin 2.

"Reloaded!"

A pointed tungsten core armor-piercing shell has been loaded into the breech. Sergeant Schultz did not first shoot with a coaxial machine gun, as he did during daytime combat (this was to aid aiming), because tracer bullets fired from a coaxial machine gun would have exposed the position of the E-50A tank.

"Boom!" Captain Ribbentrop, who was half outside the turret, felt his tank shake violently. He knew that it was the tank's main gun firing shells, and quickly looked up in the direction of 11 o'clock.

Before the sound of the cannon fire had completely subsided, a huge fireball ignited in the darkness, and the fireball rolled forward for a short distance before it stopped moving, like a beast hit by a shotgun.

Ribbentrop looked through his night market binoculars and saw that it was a JS-2 tank that had been hit.

At this moment, fireballs of similar size were already appearing on the battlefield one after another. Most of the hits were JS-2 and T-34/85 tanks, while it was the E-50A that was lurking in the darkness that fired.

None of the E-50As used coaxial machine guns to assist aiming, although they were still accurate. After the first round of fire from the 20 tanks, eleven of the eighteen JS-2s and T-34/85s that rushed to the front were smashed into a pile of burning and twisted metal.

However, the other Soviet tanks did not seem to react, and they were still attacking.

"At 10 o'clock, a T-34!" Captain Ribbentrop quickly found another target, "hard-core armor-piercing bullets!" Reload! Hurry up, hurry up! ”

"Boom!" The E-50A tank he was riding in fired again, but this time the shell missed the target and missed the T-34/85. Before Captain Ribbentrop could give the order to open fire again, the sound of cannon fire came from his left and right. Two 88mm armor-piercing shells burst through the air, and in an instant, one of them crashed into the hapless T-34/85, turning the 30-ton tank into a burning fire.

"Well done!" Ribbentrop shouted, "Keep fighting, kill them all!" ”

Before he could finish his words, dozens of flares suddenly rose in the sky, all of which flew in the direction of his company, exposing the 20 E-50A tanks hidden in the darkness to a bleak white light.

Exposed to the target, Ribbentrop's company immediately became a magnet for Soviet tanks, and at least a hundred JS-2s and T-34/85s rumbled up under the cover of countless infantry.

"Brothers, don't bother with the infantry and the T-34 yet, concentrate your fire on the Stalin tank!" Captain Ribbentrop immediately made a decision to concentrate his fire on the Soviet JS-2 tanks, which were the ones that could really threaten the E-50A, and knocked them out, leaving the T-34/85 as a stack of small pieces of cake on the plate of the E-50A tank.

As for the Soviet infantry that is pouring in like a tide, let the nearby paratroopers and the artillery behind them deal with it first - because the Soviets only want a quick breakthrough this evening, and they have no intention or time to uproot the strong German strongholds that are walking on the battle line and do not know how many strongholds, and these strongholds are the eyes of the rear artillery, which can guide the artillery to fire accurately and drown the Soviet army with a sea of fire!

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On the same night, on the Rhodes Snow front, the tank night battle had also reached its climax.

Flares rose into the air one after the other, illuminating the night sky, illuminating the battlefield, the Soviet tanks and infantry that had gone on the offensive, and the German lines.

Similar to the situation on the Osheichino front, the Soviets were ambushed by German E-50A tanks equipped with night vision equipment on the Rod Snow front. The powerful 88mm gun and the night vision equipment that can be regarded as "black technology" gave the attacking Soviet tanks a blow to the head.

However, the Soviets were also prepared, and countless flares and mortar shells bombarded the sky, and soon most of the E-50A tanks were prototyped. And the Germans also fired flares, illuminating the attacking Soviet troops.

The battle between the two sides soon turned into a traditional night battle, with cannons roaring and machine guns roaring under flares. Dark red shells weave back and forth across the battlefield, and the sound of explosions of various sound qualities fills people's ears.

Major Schwarzenegger led his heavy tank battalion to the front line just as a new Soviet offensive began.

Although the Soviets suffered heavy losses in the last offensive, now this tank battle can be said to be the last roar of the Soviets!

It's no longer time to count the casualties!

Therefore, Admiral Katukov, who is good at fighting skillfully, still threw a large number of tanks and infantry into the attack. In addition to the big JS-2 and T-34/85, there were many little guys in the attacking ranks, BT-7 tanks and SU-57 tank destroyers, which could not be used against the German armored vehicles and infantry, although they could not beat the strong frontal armor of the E-50A.

In particular, the ZIS-57 type 57mm gun mounted on the SU-2 tank destroyer is very accurate, and can accurately hit various armored vehicles operating with the E-50A at a distance of 1,500 meters. Sometimes they would go around the flanks of the German lines under the cover of BT-7 tanks, trying to hit the side armor of the E-50 with ZIS-2 guns. Although it cost a lot of money, it achieved some results and broke several E-50As.

And this almost suicidal sneak attack also served another purpose, which was to disperse the fire of the E-50A tank. The E-50A tanks, which were not too numerous, were now unable to resist both the T-34 and JS-2 that were flooding in frontal waves, and the SU-57 and BT-7, which were constantly flanking off.

Major General Marx, commander of the German 1st Panzer Division, who was responsible for guarding the Rod Snow-Osche Ikino line, saw that the front line was somewhat shaken, so he could only put several battalions of heavy tank destroyers that had been prepared for the daytime counterattack on May 7 into the battlefield in advance.

The Cheetah, which was huge in size and had a 105mm cannon, quickly stabilized the battle line after it was put into battle. Major General Marx threw these "Cheetahs" into the front, and at the same time drew a part of the E-50A to strengthen the defense on both flanks, blocking the almost frantic attack of the Soviet army. On the battlefield around Rod Snow, the Soviet army suffered tens of thousands of casualties and more than 200 tanks in about 10 hours of fierce fighting from the night of May 6 to the early morning of May 7! Because the battlefield was completely controlled by the Germans after dawn on May 7, all the tanks lost by the Soviet army were actually "lost", and there was no possibility of repair.

In Oshejkino, the Soviet offensive was also thwarted, and all five of their attacks were defeated, and after a night of hard fighting, the front of the German line was littered with burning steel wreckage and the corpses of Soviet soldiers. The losses of the Soviet troops here were in no way inferior to those at Rod Snow.

On the southern front of the battlefield, the Soviet troops, who were a little dazed by the rapid artillery attack launched by the Germans, only reacted at about 1 a.m. on May 7 and reorganized the attack. However, after all, the opportunity was lost, and there was no way to form an effective joint force with the Soviet army on the northern front. After two rounds of hastily launched offensives, the sky gradually brightened, and the Soviet Southern Front Cluster Command had to order to stop the offensive.

However, it was these two offensives that cost the Soviets more than 20,000 casualties (killed or seriously wounded), missing, and the loss of more than 200 tanks.

After a night of hard fighting, the truly knowledgeable Soviet military top brass understood that the idea of annihilating the German armored group that had broken through to the north of Moscow Oblast might not be realized.

The combat effectiveness of the German armored cluster was simply unshakable by the Soviet Red Army! But no one, including Zhukov and Pavlov, dared to propose to Stalin to stop the offensive. And, they don't know what to do now?

Now on the ground in the Moscow and Kalinin regions there are almost 3 million Soviet Red Army troops (in fact, there are not so many), but also most of the mechanized equipment of the Soviet Red Army. If this counterattack in the north of the Moscow region is lost, the 3 million troops will soon be split into two large parts...... And Moscow will also be under siege!

But the war has been fought so far, apart from this unwinnable counterattack, what else can the Soviet Red Army do? Abandon Moscow and run away? Or do you want to gather all your troops into Moscow and hold on?

Not to mention whether it can run away, whether it can take the troops into Moscow. And even if it could be done, so what? The loss of Moscow and the siege of 3 million troops in Moscow were both equally fatal for the Soviet Union.

Because of the concentration of troops to defend Moscow, it will not take long for the west of the Ural Mountains to become the territory of the Russian Empire, and when the time comes, Moscow will be an isolated city, how long can it be defended?

And abandon Moscow to guarantee troops...... Without Leningrad and Moscow, the hearts of the people will be scattered, and without the hearts of the people, how can the troops be saved?

The red country of the Soviet Union has now reached the most dangerous moment!