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

Piper's rookie battalion is southeast of Orsk, when the Soviets began to shell, Piper had already called his soldiers into a variety of solid anti-artillery holes, in order to build these anti-artillery holes, Piper did not spend less effort, fortunately, the Soviet Union did not lack trees, everywhere, Piper cut down a lot of large logs in the first few days, and then dug a relatively deep anti-artillery hole in the trench, looking for cement or building stones, each anti-artillery hole was laid with several layers, and the thickness reached more than three meters, Piper's anti-artillery holes are large enough to withstand five rounds of 155mm howitzers, and the chances of five 155-caliber shells hitting the same position are slim.

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

Soviet artillery of various calibers tilted the shells against Piper's position, and the violent explosion kicked up an overwhelming amount of dirt, and Piper also squatted in the anti-artillery hole, and the people were in the anti-artillery hole, and the soil on the anti-artillery hole fell down, and the people were constantly being crushed 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.

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

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

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

Piper was the first to run out of the gun hole, and the other soldiers also ran out quickly, rushing to their combat posts, and as soon as Piper came out of the gun hole, he looked at his battalion command post. It had long since been shattered, and only a few large craters were left there, so Piper had to sit right by the bombardment and take out his binoculars to observe the front of his position.

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 kilometer away from Piper's position, and Piper's 75mm 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 many anti-tank guns in the "rookie battalion", there are only twelve in total, and one battalion has such anti-tank guns, which is already a very high equipment rate, and the Wehrmacht is only half of them! The two infantry squads used their strength to drag the 75mm anti-tank gun out of the anti-gun hole, and by the time Piper and the others set up the anti-tank gun, the Soviet tanks were already less than 500 meters away from Piper's position.

There are a lot of Soviet tanks to attack Piper's defensive line, about more than 100 of them, these tanks are the latest American medium tanks - Sherman, the early Sherman M4, M4A1, M4A2 early frontal armor thickness 51mm, 56 ° inclination, side 38mm vertical. The frontal armor of the turret is 76.2mm thick. In the later period, the Sherman M4A2, M4A3, and M4A3E8 tanks had frontal armor 63.5mm thick and a 47° inclination. Side 38mm vertical. The frontal armor of the turret is **mm. The early model is 2.74 meters tall and the later model is 2.97 meters high.

Now the SS uses the Iron Fist model called the Iron Fist 30 type, the firing range has reached 150 meters because of Zhang Jun's strong requirements, and the armor-piercing ability is 140 mm, this penetration is the same as in history, there is no change, but the range is increased by Zhang Jun's request, the original only a pitiful 30-meter range, the applicability is greatly reduced, and the current Iron Fist 30 range is 150 meters.

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, but the range is a bit tragic, it is not that Germany can't get an iron fist far away, but there is something wrong with the design idea.

The Iron Fist Type 60 and Type 100 were omitted by Zhang Jun, and the RPG developed directly, in fact, the RPG was developed by the Soviet Union on the basis of the Iron Fist, and the RPG now studied by Germany cannot, of course, be compared with the later generations, and the armor-piercing ability is only 250 mm, even if it is such an armor-piercing ability, it can completely blow up all the fronts of all tanks in World War II.

"Aim...... Fire...... Boom ......"

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

The Soviet infantry and tank coordinated operations, although not perfect, but also something like that:

"Ulla...... Ulla...... Boom...... Boom ......"

Soviet infantry followed the tanks like a tidal wave towards Piper's rookie battalion.

The Soviet tanks also began to counterattack violently, fortunately, the German anti-tank gun was equipped with thick steel plates, and it was tilted, and the 76 mm gun of the Sherman tank could not penetrate the front armor plate of the German anti-tank gun at all, this is the advantage of defense, although the 75 anti-tank gun with thick steel plates required two squads of people to move, but the survival effect was improved a lot.

"Four hundred meters...... Boom...... Boom ......"

Piper's mortars began to roar, dozens of various mortars were bombarded at the Soviet army, of course, these mortars could not destroy the Soviet Sherman tank, but they could hunt and kill the infantry that followed the Soviet tank charge, Piper's rookie battalion paid more attention to mortars, that was their famous battle, that is, it had an indissoluble relationship with mortars.

"Knock knock...... Boom...... Ulla, Ulla...... Boom...... Ahh!!hhhhh ”

Several Soviet soldiers were timid because the SS mortars were a bit fierce, and wanted to escape from the SS mortar firing range, "click...... Ahhhhh!!h The overseers behind them directly fired a fierce shot at these fleeing Soviet soldiers, and directly shot these Soviet deserters on the spot.

The combat style of the Soviet army is like this, not only in treating the enemy cruelly and cruelly to their own people, which is separated from the national character of the first son.

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

The Soviets, relying on the large number of their tanks, still charged at Piper's position, accompanied by no less than 3,000 infantry, which was almost a reinforced infantry regiment. Piper's 75mm anti-tank guns fired continuously, and as long as the Sherman tank was hit, it was definitely a single shell that would be sent to the western sky, but the Sherman's 76mm tank guns, when they drove two hundred meters before the position, these guns were already able to penetrate the thick steel plate of the 75mm gun.

Because this is the Soviet Army's Sherman tank has been about 500 meters away from the anti-tank gun, the 75mm anti-tank front armor can no longer block Sherman's armor-piercing shells, when Piper's anti-tank was destroyed two, Piper hurriedly ordered his anti-tank soldiers to pull the anti-tank gun to the anti-artillery hole, and now it is the iron fist of the rookie battalion that plays a role.

"150 meters."

When the Soviet tanks and infantry charged to 150 meters, Piper did not order the SS to stand up and counterattack, Piper waited for the Soviet tanks to drive a hundred meters before ordering his soldiers to get up and attack. This is mainly determined by the range of the Iron Fist.

"One hundred meters, all attack."

All the rookie battalion soldiers squatting in the trench stood up in an instant and fired fiercely at the Soviet army with the weapons in their hands, the weapons in the hands of the rookie battalion were copycat Type 56 submachine guns and Type 56 light machine guns, in addition to a large number of iron fists, and the infantry weapons of the Soviet army were not only rifles, but a large number of submachine guns, and these Soviet troops were equipped with British Stern submachine guns.

The British Stern submachine gun is the cheapest and easiest to produce submachine gun in the world, the Stern submachine gun is simple in design and low in cost, and is very suitable for mass production in wartime. It uses the internationally accepted 9mm "Pyrabrum" ammunition, and the magazine can be used with the German MP-40 submachine gun.

In order to cope with the German infantry firepower, the Stern submachine gun ordered by Churchill to be developed quickly finally came out in advance, and now Orsk has appeared, indicating that Britain is also vigorously supporting the Soviet Union.

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

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...... (To be continued.) )