Chapter XXXIII. Prokhorovka
On the way back, we met the Soviet army who met us, and the commissar was quite kind, and he was waiting there with the medical guards, and I finally learned his name - Wadesim. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Wadesim took good care of us and he was not as cold to us as others. It has always been his dream to go to China, and many of his military school classmates are from China.
Wang Li has been avoiding me since she came back from the woods, and when she met her, she would walk away with her blushing face and bowing her head, which made Zhao Xue often make fun of us.
I also think it's funny, it's rare to meet such a shallow girl in the world nowadays. I think of the girls I met when I used to work part-time, and the jokes with colors were more fierce than the boys, so that my junior brother often fled with a red face.
Wang Li and Zhao Xue were still arranged to help in the hospital, and Jiang Yitao and they took care of them very quickly. The last time we broke through, Jiang Yitao had already been injured, after all, the driver always had to focus on "taking care". He had two holes in his thigh and waist, and he carried us back to safety without saying a word.
When we didn't have time to spend in the wartime barracks, we didn't want to be broken up and join other companies, so with the help of Wadsim, we were able to find a job for me and Miji without having to leave the barracks.
"Vomit"
"It's so disgusting"
The chicken retched while dismantling the tank track with a wrench, and his stomach was long out of stock.
The Soviets seemed to be particularly fond of crushing the Germans with tanks, even if it was just the corpses of the Germans. Bloody fragments of German corpses can often be seen between the tank's wheels, gears, and tracks.
This job is a test of people's physical strength and mental endurance, and the advantage is that they do not have to go to the front line, which is relatively safe. In order to wait for Jiang Yitao and others to recover, Mi Ji and I worked hard in the post of tank mechanic repairer, and we worked hard for a month.
A month later, Jiang Yitao and Luo Chen were discharged from the hospital, and the most serious was Deng Tao, who injured his spine and paralyzed the lower half of his body, and was regrettably announced by the doctor that he could only use a wheelchair for the rest of his life. As long as you don't die, there will be a way to cure it when you return to space, and we don't worry too much about that.
Deng Tao was about to be sent to the rear to recuperate, and I begged Wadesim to transfer Wang Li and Zhao Xue as well. In addition to wanting Deng Tao to be better taken care of, he didn't want Wang Li and the two girls to be in danger.
We eventually returned to the Steppe Tank Division and regained a T-34-85 tank that had just come out of the tractor factory. This is an upgraded version of the T-34-76, and the biggest change is that the caliber of the gun has been changed to 85mm, which greatly enhances the firepower.
Within a few days, the situation on the battlefield changed, the focus of the German attack shifted, and the steppe tank division received a new task and headed for Prokhorovka.
Prokhorovka was a very important city in the Soviet Union, and after the defeat of the German army in the Oboyan offensive, the commander of the German 4th Panzer Army, General Hoss, ordered the 2nd SS Panzer Army to turn to Prokhorovka in the northeast.
I have long forgotten the details of this battle, I just feel that the name Prokhorovka is familiar, but I can't remember anything related to it. Unbeknownst to us, we were about to enter the flesh mill, and we excitedly followed the Soviet tanks all the way on the steppe.
To be honest, the ride on the tank was not comfortable. Lao Maozi has always disregarded the comfort and beauty of weapons and equipment, and you have to obey the idea of a fighting nation.
Crowded spaces, unpleasant smells, high engine temperatures, and almost no shock absorption, we can imagine what we encountered along the way.
The chicken is already a little motion sick, which will make it even more dizzy. In the closed tank compartment, the smell of rancid acid was so bad that I didn't even know how I managed to make it all the way.
After 3 whole days and nights on the road, we finally arrived in Prokhorovka.
As expected, it was already in ruins. The wheat fields outside the city have long been barren, and there are many craters of large and small, like the surface of the moon. Countless Soviet soldiers were busy, escorting prisoners, collecting supplies, and digging fortifications.
On the edge of a huge crater, Soviet soldiers threw down a German corpse, and the pit was blazing with fire, and the smell of burnt flesh could be smelled far away. The burnt ash, driven by the heat, fell in all directions, fell on the fields, on the shoulders of the Soviet troops, and the land here must be extraordinarily fertile in the future.
The Germans had already arrived in Prokhorovka and continued to launch several attacks on the Soviet troops in the past few days. Under the heroic resistance of the Soviet army, the German army never moved forward.
Our arrival greatly encouraged the Soviet defenders, and with the Tiger of the Steppe Tank Division, the Soviet Army finally had the strength to counterattack. The Germans were also very vigilant about our arrival, and from time to time planes in twos and threes reconnoitred over us, and then they were driven away by the incoming Soviet fighters.
Occasionally, one or two planes fell in smoke, both Soviet and German. Every time a German plane was shot down, the Soviet infantry would excitedly chase after the German pilot's parachute, and soon a German pilot with a blue nose and swollen face or a bloody German corpse was brought back.
Since our arrival, the Germans have not attacked again and seem to be waiting for reinforcements. The Soviets were also massing their forces, and every day there were formed infantry or armored units. The superiority of the Soviet army in the local operation was manifested, and the German army was far less rapid than the Soviet army. The initiative to launch an attack fell into the hands of the Soviet commanders.
At 6:30 a.m. on July 12, a piercing air raid siren sounded throughout the Soviet line. In order to take Prokhorovka, the Germans dispatched hundreds of fighters of various types, and the group of fighters approached the Soviet defense line and divided into dozens of attack formations. Fighters swooped down with a roar, clearing the Soviet anti-aircraft fire, while bombers hovered high in the air like vultures, looking for worthy targets.
"Tom Tom"
Soviet soldiers removed the camouflage from the anti-aircraft guns and opened fire on the German aircraft group.
The exploding shells bloomed in the air like festive flowers, and shrapnel weaved a huge net of death to envelop the German fighters.
"Woo" "Boom"
The unlucky German plane hit shrapnel head-on, and more than a dozen fighters lost control in the smoke and fell headlong to the ground, with a violent explosion like an earthquake.
"Da Da Da"
The German pilots were also not vegetarians, they lowered their altitude and flew almost close to the ground. The anti-aircraft fire exposed by the Soviet troops was dealt a fatal blow.
A 50-caliber machine gun hit the human body with the same effect as a sparrow with a rifle, and the Soviet troops who were hit exploded into pulp. Everywhere, Soviet soldiers who had lost their legs dragged their stumps to ask their comrades for help, leaving a bloody road.
This German air raid was completely unexpected by the Soviet army and achieved great success, and the Soviet counterattack that was scheduled for today was disrupted. The successive explosions made the Soviet soldiers unable to find their generals and generals, and the defense line fell into confusion.
The camp of the tank cluster was not near the line of defense, and this air attack did not reach us.
At 8:30, the German bombing ended, and the satisfied German fighters leisurely shook their wings and returned, leaving a messy battlefield.
No sooner had the air raid ended, the tank units received the order to attack, and we almost followed the German planes to the German lines.
The terrain of Prokhorovka was mostly hilly, and the superiority of German tanks in firing range was lost, which was extremely beneficial to Soviet tanks.
After crossing the top of a hill, the Soviet tankers were shocked to find that they had collided head-on with the German tank group. This was an inevitable accident, and the top brass on both sides wanted to go together, and both wanted to use the tank assault to break the deadlock.
The sudden situation made the tanks on both sides a little confused and stopped in place. Then they all fired the shells in the bore.
The battle broke out!