The soldiers of the rookie battalion suddenly came out and fired fiercely at the Soviet troops a hundred meters away, and the Soviet troops were blinded at that time, as for the Sherman tank of the Soviet army, it was not an opponent of the iron fist at all, and it penetrated directly from the front, the sherman hull inclined armor was only 54 mm, and the turret vertical armor was only 110 mm.

"Click...... Click...... Sneer...... Boom ......"

More than 30 Sherman medium tanks running in front of the position were destroyed in front of the position and ignited a fire, because the Sherman is also a gasoline tank, and the early model of the Sherman uses a gasoline engine, and it is easy to catch fire if it is hit, so it gets the nickname of "lighter", and this situation will soon be reflected to the United States, and the United States will soon install a diesel engine for Sherman.

As soon as the Soviet troops saw that the SS firepower was still so fierce, the Soviet commander who commanded in the rear ordered all the charging troops to retreat first, and then rotate the next wave of troops to continue the charge. The Soviets were of this character, the artillery was over, the infantry rushed, and if they did not succeed in occupying the position, they followed.

Piper watched the Soviets retreat like a tide, and Piper didn't dare to call his soldiers to repair the fortifications now, and the Soviets couldn't attack only this once......

There was definitely another attack, and Piper ordered all his soldiers to go into the artillery holes, and then sent the wounded to the field hospital in Orsk City for treatment, and at the same time Piper also asked the companies to count the casualties, and the results were quickly reported, and Piper's troops lost more than 30 people. More than 10 people were seriously injured, these 50 people were basically killed by Soviet artillery, and there were also two anti-tank gun personnel, this is the first battle, Piper's command did not make any mistakes, and still killed so many people, which made Piper's heart ache.

Shortly after Piper ordered his men to retreat into the fortified batteries, the Soviets began shelling again, stopping after more than ten minutes of shelling each time, followed by a series of attacks by tanks and infantry. Piper's rookie camp has little time to rest. Each attack lasted about an hour, with a gap between them, and from morning to night, the rookie battalion had already lost a third. A full eighteen hours of attack. The people who are still alive in the rookie camp are all exhausted. He fell asleep in the trenches.

Piper had no choice but to ask the division headquarters to immediately replenish the troops and ammunition, and these men came to repair and strengthen the fortifications, and now the SS ammunition was not lacking. It's just that people are too tired.

On the first day of the large-scale offensive, all the defensive lines were attacked by the Soviet army in turn, and Vasilevsky, relying on his advantage of being large in numbers and unrestricted in supply, was to fight a war of attrition and fatigue with the well-equipped SS troops in Orsk, and Vincent really had nothing good to think of.

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The casualty statistics were quickly sent to Vincent, and on the first day of the attack, the defenders of Orsk lost more than 3,000 dead and more than 2,000 seriously wounded, not counting minor injuries, and the first astronomical cents were reduced to more than 5,000 men, according to which Vincent could only hold out for twenty days at most.

The first astronomical cent did not use his three panzer divisions, and all the artillery, Vincent was observing the other side's command and tactical methods, although the casualties were heavy today, but without the support of tanks and large-caliber artillery, the SS still held the line, and let Vincent know the opponent's methods thoroughly.

The Soviet army attacked from 6 o'clock in the morning to 24 o'clock in the evening, a full eighteen hours, Vincent knew that his defensive infantry had reached the limit of physical fitness, during the day the Soviet army had air superiority, Vincent's tanks and artillery could not move, they could only hide, now that the Soviet army has collected its troops and returned to the camp, how can Vincent only be beaten and not fight back!

It is not Vincent's character to only be beaten and not to return the hand, during the day the Soviet army has aircraft support, and its own tanks cannot move, but at night you always have no aircraft support, right, and it is more difficult for the Soviet artillery to cover the charging armored cluster at night.

"Order, the first division of the 1st Panzer Corps of the Italian SS will attack from the east, the second division will attack from the southeast, and the third division will attack from the south, after breaking through the Soviet defense line, they will converge in the southeast direction, the purpose of this operation is to completely destroy the Soviet army in the southeast direction, the maximum distance of the assault cannot exceed 50 kilometers, each armored division is equipped with 1,000 sandbag trucks, a reminder, carry more sandbags, and prepare to fill the anti-tank trenches of the Soviet army."

From 24 o'clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the morning, Vincent's attack time was only six hours, and the total strength of the Italian armored division was more than 30,000 people.

The 1st Panzer Corps of the Italian SS always watched other troops fight this day, and his hands were already itchy, and now the commander-in-chief ordered the battle, which was full of morale, at this time Weitmann was already the commander of the 1st Division of the Italian SS, and Weitmann, who received the order, immediately began to deploy combat missions, and Weitmann, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, had already made all these preparations, and now that the order came, Weitmann only needed to mobilize those hidden tanks and sandbag trucks.

The 1st Panzer of the Italian SS Army was assembling, and Vincent gave them time to launch an attack in an hour, in fact, it didn't take long, and after half an hour everyone was basically in place, Vincent began to order his artillery units to bombard the positions of the Soviet southern defense line fiercely.

The entire position of the Soviet army suddenly turned red, Vincent's ammunition was consumed, there was no place to supply, only a short ten minutes of shelling, and then all the artillery was replaced with incendiary bombs, the Soviet position was on fire, Vincent fired incendiary bombs, of course, he also wanted his armored assault group to see clearly the situation of the Soviet position without turning on the lights.

"Offensive ......"

Weitmann's order was very brief, the 1st Panzer Division of the Italian SS, which could be said to have been trained by Weitmann, contained 2,000 German veterans, who were the core and backbone of this force, and Weitmann could proudly announce to everyone that his Panzer Division was no worse than the Panzer Division of the German SS, and now was the time to test the unit that Weitmann had trained.

All the troops of the Soviet army attacked all day, and they were also very tired, but they were attacking in turns, and had plenty of time to rest, in fact, once people went to the battlefield, they were highly nervous, very tired, and the continuous sound of guns and artillery also made it difficult for the Soviet army to sleep, and finally the battle stopped, and suddenly the Germans' shells fell down like a storm, and there were countless Soviet troops who were blown to pieces in their sleep, and the Soviet army's fortifications were also very rough, which was the character of Lao Maozi, and now he finally suffered the bitter fruit. (To be continued......)