Six hundred and seventy-seven. Armored and infantry
War can be so unpredictable at times.
A war that was originally evenly matched will change the course of the entire war because of the sudden appearance of something that was not foreseen before the war.
Malinovsky wanted to change the Soviet army's unchanged offensive mode, and Vasilevsky wanted to change, and they were ready to start changing the Soviet army's offensive mode during the war.
But the appearance of Voroshilov changed all that.
Although Vasilevsky was the commander-in-chief of the Stalingrad Front, the commander-in-chief on the battlefield, in some ways Voroshilov wielded more power than he did......
This enormous power comes from Moscow!
On March 17, 1943, a huge Soviet unit rushed to the Terek River, and before the preparations were completed, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, Voroshilov, could not wait to give the order to attack.
He had to use one victory to tell Comrade Stalin that he could be trusted.
The 56th Army and the 81st Panzer Army acted as assault forces.
And when these two forces were tasked with the main attack, even the German generals were a little unbelievable. Although the 56th Army did not suffer any heavy losses, the 81st Panzer Army had been crippled at Tenkral, they had lost more than two-thirds of their tanks, and had already lost the strength of the assault.
The German officers simply could not understand why such a unit should be used for the main offensive mission......
At the same time as these two Soviet units were attacking, the Terek Army under the command of Malinovsky also launched an offensive at the same time.
Voroshilov's idea was actually quite simple. Give full play to the numerical superiority of the Soviet army and use multi-way assault to win the war.
But it was clear that the battle was not what he had imagined. When the Soviets were massing, the Luftwaffe appeared in the sky. Those bombs and dive bombing. constantly disrupting the deployment of the Russians.
The bombs exploded among the Russians, and the German fighters swooped down viciously, and the strings of bullets made the Russians have to dodge in confusion......
The Soviet Air Force was belatedly appearing on the battlefield, but it was clear that the old Soviet aircraft were no match for the Luftwaffe with the new ones.
However, the Soviets finally had a chance to gather forces......
Voroshilov's phone calls continued to reach the front, asking in the most stern tone what the troops had not yet attacked. Such a harsh order finally forced Davamirsky to make up his mind to attack.
The black-pressed Russians appeared!
Support artillery fire began to cover the German positions, and the getting. It was the most stubborn counterattack of the German artillery. After a sloppy artillery battle, the Soviets, under strong orders, resumed a new round of attacks.
Vasilevsky believed that Voroshilov's ability was only to command an army group, while Wang Weiyi simply believed that he could only command one regiment at most.
No one can deny Voroshilov's bravery. But it is simply not enough to command such a large army by virtue of bravery......
The Soviet army roared with a tsunami. When it came to range, it was immediately hit by the Germans who were waiting for it. Those terrible and dense firepower are simply a nightmare for the Russians. Countless tongues of fire flew everywhere in the air, and in their place a large number of corpses appeared.
The Pyro organized a sea of fire in front of the position, quietly waiting for the prey to throw themselves into the net.
The Russians are like moths now, and even though the road is full of dangers, there is no possibility for them to stop......
For the Soviets - Forward!
Inspired by this slogan, the tragic offensive battle of the Soviet army began!
There's no denying it. These Russians are some very good soldiers, if they are rigorously trained. Combined with perfect tactics, they have become a very formidable force on the battlefield.
Unfortunately, this is all hypothetical.
Now the Russians continue to launch frenzied assaults on the enemy's positions in a suicidal way, wave after wave.
Mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, mountains and rivers mourn.
The German machine gunners, expressionless, kept pulling the trigger and watched the Russians fall under their guns.
The German recruits who had entered the battlefield before the Battle of Stalingrad had become veterans of one war after another. When facing the most brutal battlefield for the first time, the bloody scenes made them want to gag. But now they have seen too much death, too much blood, and have long since become insensitive.
No matter how many enemies fall under their own guns, they are just accustomed to it......
War is enough to turn even the kindest person into a demon.
The most tragic is about the 81st Panzer Army. The tankmen, who had lost most of their tanks, had to use themselves as infantry when attacking.
They didn't even have a single Bobosha submachine gun.
Armed with rifles, they stepped into the graveyard of death without hesitation. They greeted the baptism of German bullets, hoarse screams from their mouths, and then they would see a stream of blood rushing out of their bodies......
This is a helpless war......
The Ike battle group and the Guo Yunfeng battle group blocked the Russian assault, and Wang Weiyi was by their side.
Looking at the layers of Russians pouring up, Wang Weiyi sighed softly. He will not have any mercy for the death on the battlefield, he is just for those ordinary Soviet soldiers who do not deserve it.
Their spirit is respectable, but the way they attack is incredibly stupid!
The responsibility for all this is not on these ordinary soldiers, but on the senior commanders......
Any officer who does not spare the lives of soldiers, they do not deserve to be real soldiers!
"Mr. Weidmann." Wang Weiyi said coldly: "Are you ready to lead your tank to move your body?" ”
"Yes, Your Excellency. I fully agree with you. Weidmann suddenly became excited.
Wang Weiyi smiled faintly: "Then, please attack." ”
A large number of German tanks, including the 115th Waffen-SS Panzer Assault Company, appeared.
The appearance of these steel monsters was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Russians who were on the offensive.
The Germans began a counter-assault!
A large number of tanks roared into the battlefield. They were accompanied by groups of German commandos.
The Soviets, having suffered heavy losses in the offensive, lacked the necessary armor and quickly fell into passivity under the sudden German counterattack.
They had to meet the powerful onslaught of the German tank forces with their own flesh and blood......
The force of steel was unstoppable, and the tanks fiercely tore the attacking enemy into pieces, and the well-trained German commandos. You can be relatively easy to devote yourself to annihilation operations.
The most painful are undoubtedly the tankmen of the 81st Panzer Army of the Soviet Army.
If they still have tanks now, even if the T-34 is no match for German tanks. They will also be able to fight them without hesitation - for the honor of the armorers!
However, they could only watch the German tanks wreak havoc on the battlefield to their heart's content......
Major Lyonkov is now fully capable of feeling such pain!
His family was a Russian nobleman, and his grandfather was one of the founders of the Russian tank forces, from a very young age. Lyakov had a fanaticism about tanks.
When the revolution in Russia took place. Lykov's life was turned upside down overnight. The grandfather was shot, and the father, mother, and entire family were exiled to Siberia.
Lyakov was not reconciled to the misery of his fate from then on, and he tried his best to show himself in the labor reform, trying his best to please the officers who were watching over them, and finally, he won the favor of a colonel. With the help of the colonel, he finally became a Soviet Red Army.
In the army, he repeats the same thing. No amount of torture and humiliation could stop him from regaining his family's glory.
At the time of the Great Purge. He actively testified to his peers, and he did whatever his superiors told him to do...... And all his actions finally gave him a second chance.
After the end of the purge, the Soviet army, which was seriously short of officers, had to be re-selected in large numbers. And Lykov, who performed exceptionally well in the Great Purge, surprisingly joined the ranks of Soviet officers as a descendant of the old Russian aristocracy.
Lykov endured so humiliation for only one purpose: to restore the glory of the Chikachev family!
Despite his despicable character, his talent for the use of armoured troops was most fully demonstrated. In the Soviet-Finnish War, only his troops managed to break through and annihilate a large number of Finnish troops in the face of the defeat of friendly forces, which also earned him a reputation on the battlefield.
When the German-Soviet War broke out, Lyonkov continued his heroic performance on the battlefield, allowing him to step into the position of major step by step......
Little by little, the prestige of the Chikachev family was restored in his hands...... But at this time, a terrible change appeared without warning......
Tenkral was a place he would never forget...... In his opinion, the 81st Panzer Corps, which was extremely powerful, was powerless to fight back under the onslaught of the German armored forces, and an armored battalion under his command completely collapsed under the first onslaught of the Germans.
When he approached his superior, Colonel Prov, and pointed out that the tank crew was simply not competent for infantry work, Colonel Prokov coldly told him: "No tanks, no!" Even I will charge like the infantry......"
Villa is desperate...... It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be ...... It takes far more effort to train a qualified tank crew than it takes to train an infantryman...... A rifle can turn an ordinary person into an infantryman, but this is definitely not the case with armored soldiers......
They are a valuable asset in the army!
But no one paid attention to the opinion of a small major, after the outbreak of the Battle of the Terek River. Lyakov and his companions were assigned a rifle, and they were thrown into battle like ducks.
Lyakov looked at his companions with his own eyes. One by one, they fell on the way of the charge...... Even, these Qian armored soldiers don't know how to charge!
Crime, this is a crime!
Lyakov's heart was bleeding...... It took him countless hours to grovel and curry favor with everyone who could please him, and he finally climbed to his current position, but now he lost it all at once.
When the German tanks appeared. Lykov closed his eyes in despair, he wished that a bullet would be able to pierce his body now, so that he would never have to endure such torture again!
But when he opened his eyes again. He found out that he was not dead. And beside him, there were a dense number of corpses......
Under the counterattack of the German army, the Soviet army lacked effective means of resistance, and they should have attacked, but instead invested in passive defense.
Patches of Soviet troops were attacked as if they were slaughtered. When the tide rushed up, they went down like the tide......
Lyakov was so passively and mechanically wrapped up in the defeated army and returned to his starting position.
The wounded wailed in the positions. The medics simply couldn't keep it busy. Those who survived by luck sat numbly and motionless.
"After 20 minutes, put in the second attack!" At this time, Colonel Plov appeared, loudly announcing a new order to attack.
"Comrade Colonel, can you give me a few minutes?" Lykov boldly stood up and said.
Prov glanced at him: "Major Lyakov, do you have anything to say?" ”
Born into a working-class family, Plov took command of the force before the Battle of Stalingrad. He was very unaccustomed to the descendants of these old Russian aristocrats, no matter how Lykov usually curried himself to him. None of them could change Plov's dislike for him, and he never used the word "comrade" in his salutation.
Lykov also knew this, and he said cautiously: "Comrade Colonel, in the battle just now, our comrades almost committed suicide there...... I know that the word is not used well, so please forgive me for my rudeness...... However, the armor is really our precious treasure, and they should not be sacrificed so much, I think ......"
"You're not qualified to think!" Prov coldly interrupted him: "The new tanks will not arrive in a short time, and Comrade Marshal Voroshilov has given an order that when attacking, every artilleryman, every tankman, when he loses his own artillery or tank, should treat himself as an ordinary infantryman and launch the most courageous attack against the German fascists." Remember, this is an order from Comrade Marshal! ”
"But ......"
Lyakov was still a little unwilling, but he met Plov's head-on blow: "Major Lyakov, I have heard that you have performed well in the war against the Finnish aggression, but I remind you that you must keep in mind your identity, and I find that you still have not completely drawn a line with the reactionary family ideologically, which is very dangerous!" ”
Lyukov was hit with a huge blow at once.
For so many years, he has always been an honest man, holding his tail to please his superiors, but no matter how hard he tries, in the eyes of people like Colonel Plov, he still comes from a reactionary family.
I will never be able to fit into them...... I will never be able to get rid of that disgraceful identity...... All the efforts are nothing more than wishful thinking on your own......
"Prepare for the offense—prepare for the offense—"
Plov no longer bothered him, but gave such an order loudly.
A new offensive began, but, as before, the Russians suffered the heaviest blow from the Germans. Those impermeable nets of fire are terrible blocking the way of the Russians. The dense corpses in front of the position looked so shocking.
Lyakov watched his companions die, watching them groan in pain in a pool of blood...... But there was nothing he could do......
Die, die—maybe death will get rid of such pain!
Lyonkov, with a rifle in his hand, roared and rushed forward in desperation.
He saw a Tiger rushing towards him, and Lyakov did not dodge it at all, but instead went up against the tank. He is an armored commander, and if he can die under the enemy's tank, he can be regarded as finding the best home for himself.
But at this time, a shell exploded near him, and the huge shock wave overturned Lykov at once, and he fell unconscious......
When he opened his eyes tiredly, the vision in front of him was foggy. He saw the Soviet army charging and dying, and he saw the German army counterattacking and slaughtering.
Faith often collapses in this instant.
Lykov now knows that the Soviet army will not win the war by attacking in this way, and that this way will only make everyone die here.
He suddenly saw a German soldier appear beside him with a submachine gun, and probably found that the Russian was not dead, and the German soldier raised his submachine gun.
At this moment, Lykov made one of the most important choices of his life, he shouted in very fluent German: "Don't shoot, I surrender, I belong to the Chikachev family!" ”
His fate was decided in a matter of seconds.
He saw the German soldier hesitate, then lowered the muzzle of the gun and shouted: "Stand up, don't resist, or I will kill you!" ”
Lykov let out a long sigh of relief, then slowly stood up, knowing that his life would change again from now on! (To be continued......)