Chapter 255: Bloody Orsk (7)

"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 Tiger, not to mention that the current Tiger 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.

The next morning, the two sides called a truce, each counted the losses, Vincent's SS was wounded last night more than a dozen tanks, five destroyed, those tanks are impossible to repair, and there is no way to tow back to Orsk, the last retreating SS had to blow it up completely, Vincent is still more satisfied, his own tank losses are not large, the losses of the infantry and armored vehicles that follow are also not very large, no more than twenty, this is still in the case of the Soviet army has "Bazooka".

Although Vasilevsky did not care much about the consumption of infantry, he lost more than 30,000 people last night, and with the number of casualties during the day, the total number of Soviet casualties reached 50,000, and the total number of casualties of the Soviet army reached 50,000, with the loss of more than 300 tanks, more than 100 aircraft, and more than 500 artillery pieces.

Vasilevsky was not a stupid pig, so he hurriedly stopped the war temporarily, first repaired the defense line in the southeast, and at the same time wrote a detailed report on the advantages and disadvantages of these weapons aided by Britain, France, and the United States, and sent it by telegram, the two weapons that Vasilevsky valued the most were the "Bazooka" and the jet aircraft, and as for the tank, Vasilevsky could be regarded as having understood that the tanks of Britain, France, and the United States were just as garbage in front of German tanks. Now that he has produced a medium tank called T34 and a heavy tank of the KV series, Vasilevsky is convinced that these tanks of his own are not better than the German heavy tanks, but these tanks can definitely fight with the German tanks.

The T34 tank can be said to be the best medium tank in World War II, and even the German No. 4 tank can only have its own advantages and disadvantages, but the T34 uses cast armor, which is cheap, easy to manufacture, and has strong mobility, and the inclined armor also increases the defense of the T34, of course, the T34 of the Soviet Army also has shortcomings, first of all, because the Soviet radio industry has not kept up, so most of the T34 is not equipped with radio, and the T34 in the early and middle period still has a lot of problems, and it was not perfected until the later stage of the war.

Of course, Germany's No. 4 tank is better than T34, but No. 4 tank is too precisely built, and it still uses a gasoline engine, which is expensive and not easy to build, and it is also the main reason why No. 4 tank is not as good as the Soviet T34 tank, and the total production of T34 in history is 80,000 units.

Vasilevsky is confident, of course, for a reason, because the Soviet T34 tank has begun mass production, of course, this is an early model of the T34 tank, to be exact, it should be called T34/76, this 76 refers to the caliber of the T34 tank gun, the Soviet army will soon find that the 76 mm anti-tank gun does not pose much threat to the German copycat Type 99 frontal, and will soon produce another model - T34/85, which is equipped with 85 mm T34, It is the biggest threat to the German No. 4 tank, and of course there is also a great threat to the side of the Tiger.

Later, the full-scale T-34/85 tank was equipped with the ZIS-S-53 85mm main gun, which almost doubled the penetration of the earlier F-3476mm main gun, and the power of firing high-explosive shells was greatly increased. When confronting the German Tank IV, it can easily penetrate the frontal 80mm vertical armor of the Tank IV from a distance of 1,500 meters, and can penetrate the Tiger armor at a distance of 500 meters. Although tank battles on the Eastern Front generally took place at a distance of 1.2 km, the Tiger could destroy the T-34-85 before it entered the effective breakdown range.

The Soviet Union's tank manufacturing capacity is very strong, although there are German planes to bomb now, but the Ural industrial region and Moscow's factories, can hide and scatter as much as possible, can be relocated, the method is all thought up by people, the Soviet Union's tank production and research and development has not stopped for a moment, in recent days hundreds of T34s have been transported to the front, when the time comes, Vasilevsky can start to fight with the SS in Orsk.

Vincent couldn't have imagined that his surprise attack actually made the Soviet army stop attacking, which was really an unexpected surprise, and every night in the future, Vincent would send his own tanks out to get the Soviet army, and Vasilevsky's solution was to let his army retreat twenty kilometers and continue to surround Orsk, and at the same time dig more anti-tank trenches, which made Vincent stop.

Although Vincent's trucks have more than 10,000, they have been blown up by Soviet air raids, although Vincent is trying his best to hide his trucks, but Orsk is only so big after all, and the Tiger tank is Vincent's top priority to hide, Vincent's materials, of course, are all hidden underground, because each house of the Soviets has a cellar, just enough for Vincent to store supplies, so scattered and hidden underground, the Soviet bombardment of the SS material losses are negligible.

Vincent, who had no way to attack at night, began to build a large number of fortifications like the Soviet army, although the strong fortifications could not withstand the continuous and fierce artillery attack, but it could not be repaired because it would be destroyed, and it was also very important to provide some defense for his infantry as much as possible.

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Orsk was temporarily calm, but the Stalingrad front was full of war clouds, and with the arrival of various arms and supplies, Zhang Jun had deployed nearly one million of his troops in front of Stalingrad, preparing to launch an attack on Stalingrad.

Himmler, because he did not understand military affairs, snatched the commander-in-chief of Army Group South, and it turned out to be a trap for the Wehrmacht, which Himmler jumped into, and Himmler, in order to make up for his mistakes, once again recruited SS troops in Germany and the European Union.

If the SS was defeated or the whole army was destroyed, Himmler who had lost the SS was nothing but a piece of, and how could Himmler not do his best in such a situation, and he would not be soft on the equipment he should have wrought, even in the recruitment of the SS.

When Himmler was waiting for arms and weapons in Zhang Jun, one million new SS troops had been hunted, and Zhang Jun's total strength was two million, even tanks and planes, Himmler was desperate to be stabbed again, and grabbed the equipment of an armored army for Zhang Jun, including two No. 4 tank divisions, a Tiger and a copycat 99 tank division, and an aviation army for aircraft. But the million-strong new SS troops were still being trained in Germany, and even if the German soldiers were of good quality, it would take at least a month to train.

For the sake of these two armies, Himmler almost worked with the Wehrmacht's grandson in the high command, and Hitler was also the same as the Wehrmacht, and did not want to give Himmler the equipment of these two armies, but when Hitler received a telegram from Zhang Jun, he immediately changed his mind. It turned out that Zhang Jun sent a telegram asking Hitler to appoint Blyukhel and Egorov as SS generals.

This telegram made Hitler feel that his "little radish head" still respected him the same, and his own children would not become other people's children if they were beaten casually, which made Hitler feel very cordial, and he quickly allocated the equipment that Himmler fished to Zhang Jun. The tactfulness of the Chinese could not have been fully understood by Hitler.

After the Battle of Kiev, more than 4 million people of the Wehrmacht immediately captured the north and south gates of Moscow, which is only more than 300 kilometers away from Moscow, and the Wehrmacht urgently formulated the "Typhoon Plan", that is, the Moscow Campaign Plan, which can only be regarded as a branch of the "Barbarossa" Plan.

The Wehrmacht drew up this plan without telling Zhang Jun at all, and directly reported it to the Führer for approval, and the Wehrmacht of course also knew that the actual strength of the SS was 2 million, which was basically not much different from the strength of one of their army groups...... (To be continued.) )