Behind a collapsing wall, a Soviet T-34 tank was moving forward. It aimed its most heavily armored front at the German position, then increased its horsepower and knocked down the broken façade of the building in front of it. The shattered walls collapsed, some stones fell on the fenders of this T-34 tank, and some fell on the inclined front armor plates, falling.

After the T-34 tank knocked down the wall, it suddenly opened fire in the direction of the German position, and a shell hit the position in the distance, exploding and raising a cloud of black smoke, and the German attack was suppressed by the sudden appearance of the tank.

"One of the enemy's tanks is counterattacking our position! Request for reinforcements!" shouted a German grenadier company commander over the radio. He himself felt very aggrieved, because if he was in the original army, this situation was generally solved by himself. But now that he was ordered to be transferred to Army Group N to bring a company of recruits, then this situation in the face of enemy tanks was not something that his company could solve.

"Boom!" This Soviet tank also seemed to find that the German army on the opposite side was not the same as the German army it encountered before, and its combat effectiveness was much worse, so it showed off its strength even more, not to mention that behind this tank, the second Soviet T-34 tank rushed out, and the scene began to be beneficial to the Soviet defenders for a while.

"Hell, tell the soldiers of the 1st platoon! Retreat! Retreat!" The company commander hurriedly shouted to the signal soldiers beside him: "Shrink the defensive line! Be careful of the flanks of the troops! Let the 2nd platoon hold their positions, and wait for the men of the 1st platoon to retreat before they can retreat!"

While he was desperately organizing his troops to hold their positions, the Soviet troops on the opposite side were also depressed and facing their own problems. Before the planned attack began, they were attacked by German artillery, and 4 shells fell on the positions from which they had started, and a prepared attack was easily routed by the Germans.

Although the Germans had already killed three or four soldiers by two T-34 tanks, the Soviets had killed about 20 people in a round of shelling, and the positions were littered with corpses, and the rest were cowering in improvised trenches, not daring to continue the attack.

When two German soldiers escaped from the trenches and were knocked to the ground by the machine guns on the T-34 tank, the German infantry finally collapsed under pressure, and the casualty count began to climb, and more than a dozen German soldiers lost their lives on the way to escape in defeat.

No matter how the infantry company commander, who was previously the grenadier platoon leader, stopped these German soldiers from Ukraine and other messy places from retreating, all he could do was to lead the entire company of more than 20 real German grenadiers and try his best to cover the withdrawal of these recruits from their positions.

The rout of the German army finally stopped after the three Leopard tanks arrived on the battlefield, and an armor-piercing bullet flew over the heads of the defeated German troops with a roar, hitting the T-34 tank in the distance, and turning the Soviet tank, which seemed to be invincible in the world just now, into a burst of flames, which suddenly made the German soldiers who had lost their armor regain their courage, and after everyone was reinforced by a new infantry company, they rushed back to the position they had just lost.

Compared with the veterans, the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is indeed very limited, but even after a whole platoon is killed and more than 30 soldiers are killed, this company still does not need to be replaced, which is very rare. At least the higher-ranking German commanders didn't have to worry about losing too many of their troops, because it was very easy to replenish them.

Army Group N has received at least 100,000 additional troops, and until these 100,000 supplementary troops are used up, Qu Hillel does not have to worry about excessive attrition that will cause his army group to lose its combat capability. He was more concerned about when his army group would be able to cut into the city of Stalingrad than about the attrition of the troops on the front line, because he knew that only by cutting into the city of Stalingrad would the real test come.

Still in the same chaotic and potholed position, the second T-34 tank finally did not withstand the combined ravages of the three Leopard tanks, and finally turned into a burning mass of scrap metal. And by this burning scrap metal, a newly established machine-gun position of the German army was covering its infantry and launching a new round of attacks on the positions of the Soviet troops.

German tanks would not have entered the city without the necessary situation, and engaged the Soviets in places where their line of sight was restricted. So the three Leopard tanks left the theater of operations after taking out the two T-34 tanks that the Soviets had rushed out of their positions.

This is a tactic now used by the German armored forces, splitting their units into several support detachments to support the infantry in anti-tank operations on the perimeter. The main thing was to help the infantry, who lacked training for armored combat, to take out the tanks of the Soviet army that participated in the counterattack.

The Leopard tank adopted the method of leaving after the fight, avoiding participation in street battles, and thus avoiding unnecessary losses. These German crew members were also not elite, and in doing so, they effectively accumulated combat experience and effectively annihilated the Soviet armored forces.

The Soviets on the opposite side did not firmly defend their positions because they were worried that the German tanks would suddenly attack, and when the Germans attacked, they chose to retreat into nearby houses and temporarily cede their positions to the Germans.

A German veteran jumped into the trench abandoned by the Soviets, aimed his weapon at the retreating Soviet troops, pulled the trigger in his hand, and the bullets flew towards the enemy, easily knocking down two Soviet soldiers.

Just like the rout of the German army just now, it is a reason that the Soviet tanks took the opportunity to cover up and kill, and often there will not be too many casualties if they hold their positions, and after the rout, the number of casualties will begin to increase rapidly. The Soviets abandoned their positions, and now it was the turn of the Germans, who counterattacked, to begin their slaughter.

As more Germans jumped into the trenches and were ready to shoot, the Soviets fleeing into the city were knocked down with more soldiers, and in just a few moments, the Germans may have killed at least 50 Soviets. This can be regarded as avenging the friendly troops who died just now, and making the enemy pay a heavier price.

But the good times don't last long, especially in the brutal street fighting, no one can guarantee that they will not be killed in the next second, and no one can guarantee when their luck will end.

A German recruit also jumped into the trench vacated by the Soviets after the retreat with his comrades, only to step on a Soviet-arranged mine as soon as he landed, which exploded and knocked him and his comrades to the ground.

Two poor unfortunate bastards were wounded, one lost his right foot from stepping on a mine, the other was hit by shrapnel, and two fell to the ground crying for their fathers and mothers, no matter how comforted the medics were.

"Let them stop shouting! Use painkillers! Use morphine!" At this time, the company headquarters also advanced, and the company commander of the grenadiers frowned and looked at the soldiers lying on the ground who were moaning, and said with some irritation. This battle had just begun, and his company had lost a platoon of troops, and if the battle continued like this, he could be demoted to a platoon commander in two more days.

However, he did not receive the order for the battalion headquarters to retreat, and he did not dare to order the retreat without authorization, so the battle had to continue. What he didn't understand was that there seemed to be some obvious differences between the offensive strategy of Army Group N and the previous tactics of the German army, for example, in the echelon arrangement of the attacking troops, the two were completely different.

In his old unit, when attacking, the emphasis was on spreading the troops as much as possible, giving full play to the advantages of the German army's dense firepower, and encircling and annihilating the enemy as much as possible. What he knew now was that his battalion had no intention of spreading out at all, but that one company after another, piling up together to attack.

At least he personally believed that such a fight was completely a fight with the Soviet army, and as a German soldier who had always avoided such a situation, the grenadier company commander could not understand why this battle had to be started in this way, so urgently, at this inopportune time. According to his previous experience, the Germans should have crossed here, encircled and trapped the Soviet army, and waited for the Soviet army to run out of ammunition and food and collapse on its own.

For a long time, this tactic was the standard procedure for the German army to avoid urban street fighting, but now the entire German army is doing the opposite, fighting the Soviet army head-on with the once most feared urban siege.

Although he also knew that it was impossible for a little minion like him to know what the big people above his head were thinking, the little man also had a reason to live, and he felt that he should not die in a daze here.

"Company commander! Battalion headquarters calls!" The signal soldier next to him glanced at the two wounded soldiers lying at the bottom of the trench with blank expressions from the tranquilizer, and handed the headset to his superior.

The company commander took the headset, and the battalion commander's command voice came from it: "Your troops transfer the position to the 2nd company, retreat from the position and rest, I will replenish you with 30 soldiers, and your company will rest behind my battalion headquarters and wait for new orders!"

"Replenishment?" the grenadier company commander could not believe his ears, it was quite difficult for the German troops to replenish their battle losses, and the troops with excessive losses often had to wait for ten or even dozens of days to be replenished accordingly, and often lost ten to replenish five. A situation like today's in which the losses were replenished almost immediately had never been seen in his one-year combat experience.

"Yes! Battalion Commander!" he replied as if he was afraid that the battalion commander would change his mind. This time, maybe it's really different.