"What? You can make it clear! What do you mean you've been attacked?" a Soviet officer shouted loudly while holding his microphone: "Bombed by enemy planes? What about your air defense camouflage?"

Zhukov stared coldly at the dozen or so telephones in front of him, and every officer who answered the phone seemed busy. From the beginning of the offensive, German planes were constantly interfering with the advance of the Soviet army. These planes blew up bridges and road nodes, bombed villages, destroyed Soviet supply depots, and lingered like flies.

The Luftwaffe fought with all its strength in support of the German ground forces. The fighters who took off were all hung with bombs, and they took advantage of the opportunity to carry out air superiority patrols to destroy as many Soviet armored units as possible.

Along the route of the Soviet army to the south, you can see smoke and corpses lined up on both sides of the road, and these poor soldiers were killed by enemy planes before they could see the enemy they were supposed to destroy. Although the Soviet Air Force also used its strength to interfere with the Luftwaffe, they rarely succeeded in their battles other than at the cost of blood.

Hartmann traveled to the southern front with his flying troops, ruling the skies as if he were an emperor flying in his own realm, patrolling his territory. The black tulip has become a legend, a legend that belongs entirely to the Eastern Front, in which the plane is the king of the entire Eastern Front, using magical flying skills to cut down those who challenge him.

The Soviet pilots set up countless full sets of attempts to take out the black Grim Reaper, which inspired the entire German flying force, but they often could only add a few iron crosses to the fuselage of the terrible Ta-152 fighter.

Later, because the fuselage of the fighter with black tulips painted on the nose of the fighter had so many battles painted on it, the Luftwaffe had to rearrange the position of the record marker, moving the record from the lower part of the fighter's cabin to a wider position on the tail.

Of course, Hartmann is not the most mythical man in this ground-based battle. Because the trump card of the Luftwaffe ground attack aircraft was a genius named Rudel -- in more than ten days of combat effectiveness, he piloted his three new Stuka 2 attack planes, took off 400 sorties in one go, and destroyed more than 900 targets.

The reason why there are 3 Stuka 2 planes is because this guy was shot down twice, and miraculously escaped back both times, and continues to be active in the front line of attacking ground targets. The legendary man claimed to take out all the targets he saw, including trucks, anti-aircraft guns, and even a motorcycle.

These crazy German pilots inflicted huge losses on the Soviet Union, and after the war, almost one-fifth of the Soviet tanks were destroyed by the Luftwaffe, and without the efforts of these German pilots, Guderian's Army Group G would have faced at least a quarter more enemies.

To accomplish this, the Luftwaffe lost 106 pilots to 210 planes shot down or malfunction. These young lives disappeared into the sky and became the cold names of the Luftwaffe monuments.

But they were lucky, because as long as they were Air Force pilots, they could at least find their names. And many of the soldiers who gave their lives for the sake of the motherland did not even leave their own names - no matter how huge the monument was, it was impossible to engrave the names of millions of infantrymen.

In the command headquarters of the front, Zhukov got first-hand information that the German army had begun to counterattack in some parts, and he was not sure whether it was because the German army had begun a full-scale counterattack, or because of the "temporary initiative" of some German troops here.

In continuous battles, his troops lost a large amount of armored forces, thousands of tanks of various types became scrap metal, and more than 90,000 soldiers died in the advancing positions. For the first time in the past three months, the Soviet army has lost such a huge number of troops, and these forces are still the most valuable main armored forces of the Soviet army.

The commander of Army G, his old opponent Guderian suffered equally heavy losses, but the mood of the two sides was absolutely different, even if the German Army was completely annihilated, it would only lose one Panzer Army, at least Army A also had a large number of armored forces. And he, Zhukov, is different, the troops in his hands are the only main armored forces accumulated by the USSR, and if they are completely lost here, they can only wait to lose the war.

However, he also has his own advantages, that is, no matter how heavy his losses are, once he thwarts the German Army Group G moving north, he can regain the initiative on the battlefield and completely thwart Germany's strategic attempt to move south to seize the Caucasus. From this point of view, no matter how heavy the losses of the Soviet army are, they are bearable, which is the main reason why Zhukov gritted his teeth and insisted on not stopping the attack.

"Are you saying that we encountered a new tank unit of the German army near here, you destroyed 3 new tanks, suffered heavy losses and finally captured the position, and then the Germans immediately put their troops into a counterattack?" Zhukov frowned and asked the division commander who came to report, the other party looked depressed, and it seemed that he had really lost too many troops, which made the division commander feel distressed.

"Yes, they threw in a huge number of Tiger tanks, there should be more than 30 of them. Our troops had already suffered heavy losses in previous offsets, so it was simply impossible to organize an effective defense. The division commander bowed his head and answered Zhukov's question.

Hearing the division commander's "confession of true feelings", Zhukov felt that his heart was twitching, and he came to another translated version of the truth: attacking the German positions garrisoned by five tanks, the Soviets lost dozens of tanks, and now that dozens of tanks have counterattacked, he has lost dozens of tanks -- his troops retreated to the starting position, not an inch of land was taken, but hundreds of tanks were missing.

This kind of loss is also unacceptable for the wealthy Zhukov, you must know that although he has thousands of tanks as capital, but can really put them on the table against the German armored forces, there are definitely no more than 3,000 vehicles. There were KV-1B tanks with improvised artillery modifications, T-34 tanks, and a small number of Stalin tanks - but these tanks accounted for less than half of his total tanks.

The rest of the goods are some T-26 "reconnaissance tanks" that no one likes to want, and the name suggests that this type of tank is similar to the German armored reconnaissance vehicle, and some old KV-1 tanks, and KV-1 tanks that have been repaired for reliability and finally make do with them...... As for the big-headed doll like the KV-2, now the Soviets themselves quite consciously stopped producing it.

However, even so, these tanks are being consumed at a rate that is visible to the naked eye, and under the double ravages of the Luftwaffe and German armored forces, the Soviets have lost almost 1,000 tanks, although most of them are T-26s and KV-1 tanks used for reconnaissance, but this loss is undoubtedly distressing.

Moreover, just now, one of the main forces of the Soviet Union was annihilated in a freshly gnawed salient, and these tanks were not the bullshit T-26 and the obsolete KV-1 tank. Rather, there were brand-new T-34s and Stalin tanks, as well as some "super KVs" of the KV-1B type with improved artillery.

It is a pity that as the supreme commander of the Soviet army, Marshal Zhukov did not know that the 5 tanks in front of his troops were the troops of the 502 heavy tank destroyer battalion, the most elite of the German army, and he did not know that the weakest rookie in this unit was also the trump card that destroyed more than 10 Soviet tanks. Of course, he didn't know that he almost killed the No. 113 car group, which was firmly in second place in the German armored forces ace list, and he didn't know that the No. 112 tank was also a regular on this list.

At least he had a chance to take out a German Super Ace with superior forces. But now he didn't know this, and he was lamenting the gap between his troops and the Germans.

"The losses of your troops are too great, and I will arrange for your division to be transferred to the rear to rest and recuperate. Zhukov waved his hand, then turned to his chief of staff and asked: "Comrade Chief of Staff, has the tank battle ace named Wolf, who applied for transfer from Stalingrad, arrived at the front?"

His words made the eyes of the chief of staff standing on the side light up, as the chief of staff, of course, he knew what his boss meant by asking this, and it can be said that Zhukov's asking this sentence meant that he was ready to invest in elite armored forces and fight well with the German tanks.

It will be known in the next few days who will kill the deer. How could this not make him excited, how could he not be excited? The victory and defeat of the Soviet Union finally kicked off with its own participation!

Thinking of this, the chief of staff immediately opened his mouth and replied: "Comrade Marshal, a few hours ago, he was already here, and we handed him and his crew a brand new Stalin tank with an American-imported scope. Listen to the commander of the 1st Guards Assault Detachment, they are ready to fight for the Motherland!"

"Very good!" Zhukov smiled and nodded, he looked at the map hanging on the wall, and a voice in his heart shouted: Guderian, now that I am on the attack, what about you?

He pointed to the salient that had been recaptured by the Germans, and gave a solemn order: "Let them retake this position! Destroy the German tanks as much as possible!"

"Yes!" replied the Chief of Staff, standing up and saluting.

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