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Having just climbed the hill, the movements of the five IS-2s were a little sluggish, as if the fat man had walked a long way and the old man had gone up the stairs, and the bursts of white smoke rising from the tail seemed to be overburdened by the engine. However, this is only a superficial phenomenon, and after adjustment, they quickly return to their normal state of travel. The thick muzzle of the cannon is raised high, like an aggressive and fearless "horned fairy", and the surrounding T-34 is like a little brother in front of the saddle and behind the horse, both the turret and the barrel appear smaller and slender.

There were more than these two types of combat vehicles in the aggressive Soviet armored group, and several assault guns and self-propelled guns without reading turrets were mixed in the T-34 in the back. One of the gun shields is extremely unique, with eyeball-like shapes and socket-like edges, which is simply a strange one-eyed beast, and the other is like placing a large flat iron box at the front of the tank chassis, and then welding the front half of the tank turret to the left of the front of the box - the same tank body cannons, they look much more rugged than the German No. 3 or No. 4 assault guns.

With a light breath, Lynn suddenly felt that this battle was far less optimistic than he had imagined. The ugly and aesthetically pleasing Soviet tanks and assault guns were selected and tempered on the battlefield and were the strongest equipment of the Soviet Army during World War II. It's hard to stop them in their tracks!

Lynn, not knowing if the rest of the line had been shaken by the enemy's strength as he was, he retracted his head, lay sideways in the crater, pulled out the brown paper bag containing bullets from his pocket, and tore it open, and the shiny 10 rows of bullets made him feel a little lighter. After calculating, there should be 4 rounds left in the rifle's magazine, so he pulled the bolt and directly pushed the bolt forward to reset so that the bullet bridge clip would automatically eject, and a round from another row of bullets should be pulled out and manually filled and reset. The missing one of the rows of bullets was placed at the edge of the crater along with the other four, and the remaining five rows were put back into their pockets along with the vellum paper. Leaning the Mauser rifle to the side, he took out the "** sand" and the drum bag, this Soviet-made submachine gun uses a round drum with 71 rounds, so the drum bag is also close to round, containing a complete spare single drum and some scattered bullets. Lynn unloaded the drum that was originally installed in the "** sand", feeling that it was obviously lighter than the spare drum, and after a few fiddling and dismantling, he suddenly felt lucky: there were less than 10 rounds left in it, which was enough to hit a shuttle. If you unknowingly take it into battle, you may drop the chain at a critical moment, and you won't be so lucky to be rescued by your companions every time!

Hurriedly replaced with a spare drum, and wanted to load the scattered bullets into the old drums, but the rumbling cannon had already kicked off the battle, and he turned his head to see that this time it was the Su-152 that fired first with "a flat box on the tank chassis". This self-propelled gun is equipped with a powerful 152-mm cannon howitzer with a maximum range of 9 km, which is highly lethal to both positional fortifications and armored targets. At a distance of 3 kilometers, the grenades they fired flew across the battlefield in a relatively low arc, and the moment they landed on the German positions, the ground shook by the huge explosion could be seen with the naked eye, and the gray-white smoke rushed around and above, eventually forming a huge mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke.

In the front-line trenches, Lynn had endured a larger-caliber shell bombardment, but this was the first time he had seen a heavy shell bombarding a position. In addition to being deeply shocked, he could only silently pray for his brothers who were stationed on the frontal position. Of course, he also had to pray for himself, because with the power of this cannonball, a single shot would be enough to flatten the hill they were on.

Under the name of the shelling of the Su-152, dozens of Soviet combat vehicles - Su-76, Su-100 and T-34 - swept in and opened fire. Although medium- and long-range artillery fire had combed the village along with the German positions, direct fire still had its value. Seemingly still functioning forward gun emplacements, machine-gun bunkers, and what appeared to be headquarters positions were shelled, and German soldiers rushing from reserve positions to the front-line trenches were also blocked in the communication trenches, where they had to huddle at the bottom of the trenches to avoid shelling, and in this case the front-line positions were defended by only a few vigilant soldiers.

Soviet tanks, assault guns, and self-propelled guns continued to suppress the battlefield with stop-and-go fire, but only the five IS-2s moved forward silently without firing a single shot. These heavy tanks are equipped with the Model 1943L/43 122mm tank gun, which ranks first in the main battle tanks of World War II in terms of caliber, and its power is so powerful that it can give most German tanks a fatal blow at a distance of 1,500 meters, and the maximum range of a blasting grenade reaches an astonishing 14 kilometers. The guns were heavy and had only 28 rounds of ammunition per IS-2, and this time they were coming at old opponents in the German camp, and it seemed that they intended to save their ammunition for critical moments.

In a position with a panoramic view of the battlefield, Lynn realized that if the German tank or anti-tank gun opened fire at this time, it would immediately be counterattacked by the superior Soviet artillery fire, and the Tiger tank did not dare to take it lightly in the face of such a strong opponent as the IS-2 and Su-100. As the Soviet armoured clusters advanced step by step, the situation on the battlefield gradually developed in a direction that was extremely unfavorable to the defenders, and even though he had decades of knowledge and knowledge of historical developments ahead of this era, Lynn could only do it in a hurry. Seeing that the Soviet T-34 at the head of the platoon was only more than a thousand meters away from the trenches of the first line of the German army, and the on-board machine guns were about to play a close-range suppressive role, one of the T-34s suddenly exploded. At this time, although there is some gunsmoke on the battlefield, but in general, the line of sight is relatively good, since there are no shells or rockets coming, and the slightest self-fault explosion is ruled out, then there is only one possibility: mines!

An ordinary anti-tank mine is usually not enough to blow up a medium tank like the T-34, and in the case of the Teller, which is the most heavily equipped in the German army, although this disc mine is loaded with a full 5 kg of ** explosives, it is difficult to directly penetrate the bottom armor of a Soviet tank, or cause serious shock damage to the internal members of the tank.

The smoke cleared slightly, and the T-34 with the middle mine lost its left track and the front induction wheel on the same side, and since it was still out of range of the German machine guns, the tank crew soon escaped through the open hatch. These men did not join the accompanying combat infantry, but did not withdraw directly to the rear, but waited from afar, as if they felt that the battle would soon end in victory for their side, and that they would be able to repair their tanks calmly.

Although one of our tanks was solidly crushed by a mine, the Soviet armored battle group did not stop and wait for the infantry to clear the mine. In fact, once the Soviets sent infantry to clear mines in front, such a distance was exactly what allowed mortars or heavy machine guns on German positions to work. In order to reduce the chance of hitting mines, Soviet combat vehicles have chosen to drive on roads with more craters, so that although the overall advance speed has been slowed down, the front tank may also expose its own side, but it is also the most time-saving and effective method in previous battles.

Lynn couldn't help but sweat again for the safety of his own defense, and to his surprise, about 5 kilometers behind the village, several German soldiers pushed a Type 41 150mm smoke launcher out of the concealment position. This weapon is basically the same as the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher in terms of operating principle, it consists of six circular launch tubes bundled together in a star shape and the artillery mount of the PAK36 37mm anti-tank gun, which can launch six smoke rockets or high-explosive rockets in 10 seconds, with an effective range of between 6 and 7 kilometers. Although this equipment was developed in 1938, and it was easy to use, and a little improvement could greatly increase the firepower density of the front-line troops, it never received the attention of the German side - there were many opportunities to change the outcome of World War II, Dunkirk in 1940, Moscow in 1941, Stalingrad in 1942, Kursk in 1943, and even Normandy in 1944, but by the time Lynn arrived, the Reich was not far from its end. What can one person do?

In the strange roar, the German smoke launchers fired, and the rockets flew over the village with a long tail flame, but they did not seem to have a long range and landed in front of the Soviet tank clusters one by one, some of them were only a few tens of meters away from the German trenches, but the question in Lynn's mind was quickly answered. I saw that these rockets made a muffled bang after they landed, and a large amount of white smoke poured out of the body of the bombs, and in the blink of an eye, a large area in front of the German position was filled with smoke that was difficult to penetrate.

Hindered by the smoke, the Soviet artillery fire suddenly became ineffective. Lynn turned his head to look, only to see those German soldiers quickly reload the smoke launchers, in just two minutes, this unsightly equipment opened fire again, six smoke rockets still flew in a crooked trajectory to the front of the village, and soon, the entire German position was shrouded in this white smoke, it was like a terrible monster, gradually swallowing the twenty or thirty tanks in the front of the Soviet army, and slowly spread to the east.

At that moment, Lynn saw the "bushes" hidden at the edge of the woods move, avoiding the enemy's sharp fronts and quietly detouring towards the opponent's flank. Taking advantage of the weakening of the enemy's firepower, the German soldiers who had been blocked in the communication trenches and second-line positions also quickly entered the forward trenches, and the anti-tank combat groups using "tank killers" and "dolls" used the foxholes and large craters in front of the trenches to jump forward, while the defenders sounded the battle horn with large-caliber anti-tank guns ambushed in the woods around the village!