After Guderian finished speaking, he left Koivsk with all the German air forces, leaving seventy or eighty thousand troops to hold on to Kovsk, as a decoy to attract Soviet forces and firepower. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Rommel, of course, understood Guderian's strategic intention, which was to send a force into the heart of the Soviet Union, and at the same time cut the Soviet Union's Eurasian railway into two sections, which was really a stroke of genius.

On June 23, all of Steiner's defensive lines were facing indiscriminate bombardment by the Soviet Union, but fortunately, Steiner's various fortifications were still relatively well built, and there were more anti-aircraft artillery fires.

Throughout the day, more than fifty Soviet planes were shot down, while Steiner's infantry was killed and wounded more than a thousand, and the square in Ko�sk was completely blown up by Soviet planes.

Vasilevsky didn't know why the Germans suddenly retreated their air forces, and he didn't know what the Germans were playing, but these German troops had to be eliminated.

After the Soviets completely blew up the square in Kovsk, Vasilevsky launched a full-scale offensive the next day, and Vasilevsky mobilized more than 500 aircraft, 2,000 tanks, 3,000 artillery, and all the troops stormed on three sides.

Vasilevsky used the first battle, that is, the decisive battle, and as soon as he came up, he attacked with all his strength without reservation, because at this time Vasilevsky already had this confidence, not only the 300,000 troops mobilized earlier were in place, but the 200,000 troops that were reinforced later were basically in place.

Vasilevsky divided his troops into three parts, each of 300,000 men, and the remaining two parts rested, and after six hours they rotated the rest of the troops to attack, so that the time devoted to the attack could reach eighteen hours a day.

Steiner's 780,000 men each had to fight for 18 hours a day, a time and task that was completely beyond the limits of human beings.

Don't you know what method Steiner used to deal with the wheel tactics and divide his troops into three parts to resist? Steiner can't do that.

"Boom...... Boom...... Buzzing...... Click......"

The Soviet army began to prepare for fierce artillery fire, and there were a large number of Soviet planes in the air to help in the battle, and the German anti-aircraft artillery also fought back desperately.

Anderson's logistics battalion was southeast of Kovsk, and by the time the Soviets began shelling, Anderson had already called his soldiers into various fortified anti-artillery holes.

In order to build these anti-artillery holes, Anderson did not put much effort into it, but fortunately, there was no shortage of trees in the Soviet Union, and everywhere, Anderson cut down a lot of large logs in the first few days, and then dug deeper anti-artillery holes in the trenches, and found cement or stone bars for construction.

Each anti-artillery hole was covered with several layers and reached a thickness of more than two meters, and the anti-artillery hole built by Anderson was enough to withstand five rounds of 155-mm howitzers, and the chances of five 155-caliber shells hitting the same position were still very small.

"Boom, boom...... Boom...... Click......"

Soviet artillery of various calibers tilted shells at Anderson's position, and violent explosions kicked up a cloud of dirt.

Anderson, like ordinary soldiers, also squatted in the anti-artillery hole, and the earth on the anti-artillery hole fell down, and the people were constantly crumbled off the ground with the violent explosion, and the sound of the cannon was also deafening, and the chest cavity was as uncomfortable as a hammer blow, which was caused by the shock wave of the explosion.

Anderson is still very confident in the anti-artillery hole he built, the Germans have always been rigorous in their work, even small fortifications such as anti-artillery holes, the construction is not sloppy at all, and now its role is revealed.

Thirty minutes later, the shelling of the Soviets stopped, and as soon as Anderson heard that the shelling had stopped, he quickly stood up and shouted:

"Quick, everyone immediately go to their combat posts, hurry up...... Pedal"

Anderson was the first to run out of the gun hole, and the other soldiers also ran out as fast as they could, and then rushed to their combat posts.

Anderson, who ran out of the anti-artillery hole, saw that his battalion command post had long been in tatters, and only a few large pits were left, so Anderson had no choice but to take out his telescope to observe the front of his position by the anti-artillery hole.

The Soviets' way of attack, in general, was artillery bombardment on the infantry, and if they did not occupy positions, they continued to bombard with artillery, and the infantry continued to charge, and I don't know what would happen to these Soviet Unions.

"Buzz...... Buzz ......"

"Not good, it's the tanks of the Soviet army, prepare anti-tank guns and iron fists, fast, fast."

At this time, the Soviet tanks were at most a thousand meters away from Anderson's position, and Anderson's 75-mm anti-tank gun, because of the addition of a one-ton thick steel plate, required an artillery squad and an infantry squad to complete the movement and erection work.

There are not a lot of anti-tank guns in the "logistics battalion", there are only six in total, and one battalion has such anti-tank guns, which is already a very high rate of equipment.

The two infantry squads used their strength to drag the 75mm anti-tank gun out of the anti-gun hole, and by the time Anderson and the others set up the anti-tank gun, the Soviet tanks were already less than 500 meters away from Anderson's position.

There were quite a few Soviet tanks coming to attack Anderson's defensive line, about 100 or so, and these tanks were the latest American medium tank, the Sherman.

Early Sherman M4, M4A1, M4A2 early models had frontal armor 51mm thick, 56° inclination, 38mm vertical sides, and 76.2mm thick turret frontal armor.

In the later period, the Sherman M4A2, M4A3, and M4A3E8 tanks had frontal armor 63.5mm thick, 47° inclination, 38mm vertical sides, and 89mm thick turret frontal armor.

Now the German army uses the Iron Fist model called the Iron Fist 150, the firing range has reached 150 meters, and the armor-piercing ability is 140 mm, this penetration is the same as in history, there is no change, but the range has been increased by Rommel's requirements.

The iron-fist rockets in history have a range of only a pitiful range of 30 meters, and their applicability is greatly reduced, and they are unable to deal with the steel torrent of the Soviet army.

Iron Fist is the first individual anti-tank weapon, which can be said to be an epoch-making weapon, which allows the infantry to be helpless in the face of tanks, look at several iron fists in history, Iron Fist 30 has a range of 30m, an armor penetration depth of 140mm, an iron fist 60 range of 60m, an armor penetration depth of 200mm, an iron fist 100 range of 100m, and an armor penetration depth of 220mm.

These iron fists can completely destroy all the tanks of the allies at the same time, but the range is a bit tragic, it is not that Germany can't make an iron fist far away, but there is something wrong with the design idea.

"Anti-tank gun aiming...... Fire...... Boom ......"

The German anti-tank guns opened fire, and the 75-mm anti-tank guns directly blew up the six Shermans in front, and the Soviet infantry following behind was killed in a large area, and the Soviet commissar continued to drive the other Soviet soldiers to charge desperately.

Although the Soviet infantry and tank coordinated operations were not perfect, they were like something, at least the Soviet soldiers were not afraid of death under the antiques and coercion of the political commissar:

"Ulla...... Ula ......"

"Boom...... Boom ......"

…… (To be continued.) )