Nine Hundred and Thirty Regain the Salient
"What? Tell me more clearly! What do you mean you have been attacked?" A Soviet officer held his microphone and shouted loudly: "Bombed by enemy planes? Where's your air defense camouflage? What?"
Zhukov stared coldly at the dozens of phones in front of him, and every officer who answered the phone seemed extremely busy. From the beginning of the offensive, German aircraft have been constantly interfering with the advance of the Soviet army. These planes blew up bridges and road nodes, bombed villages and destroyed Soviet supply depots, lingering like flies.
The German Air Force exhausted its strength to support the German ground forces in operations. The fighter jets that took off were all equipped with bombs, and took advantage of the opportunity to perform air patrols to destroy as many Soviet armored units as possible.
Along the route of the Soviet army going south, you can see Soviet vehicles emitting heavy smoke and corpses lined up on both sides of the road everywhere. These poor soldiers were killed by the enemy before they saw the enemy they were supposed to destroy. The plane was killed. Although the Soviet Air Force also tried its best to interfere with the Luftwaffe, they rarely achieved success except for paying the price of blood.
Hartman accompanied his flying troops to the southern front and was in charge of ruling the sky here. He was like an emperor flying in his own domain, patrolling his territory. The black tulip has become a legend, a legend that belongs entirely to the Eastern Front. In this story, this plane is the king of the entire Eastern Front, beheading those who challenged him with magical flying skills.
The pilots of the Soviet army set up countless complete sets of attempts to kill this black god of death who inspired the entire German air force, but they often could only add a few more marks representing their achievements to the fuselage of this terrifying TA-152 fighter jet. Iron Cross.
Later, because the fuselage of this fighter jet painted with black tulips had too many combat achievements, the Luftwaffe had to re-plan the location of the battle record marks, and transferred the combat achievements from the bottom of the fighter cabin to the wider tail. position.
Of course, Hartman is not the most mythical man in this ground attack-based battle. Because the ace of the ground attack aircraft in the German Air Force is a genius named Rudel - in more than ten days of combat effectiveness, he drove his three new Stuka 2 attack aircraft, took off 400 sorties in one go, and destroyed More than 900 goals have been recorded.
The reason why there are 3 Stuka 2 planes is because this guy was shot down twice, and miraculously escaped twice, and continued to be active on the front line of attacking ground targets. This legendary man claims to kill everything he sees, including trucks, anti-aircraft guns and even a motorcycle.
These crazy German pilots brought huge losses to the Soviet Union. According to post-war statistics, almost one-fifth of the Soviet tanks were destroyed by the Luftwaffe. Without the efforts of these German pilots, Guderian's G Group Army would face enemies, at least a quarter more.
In order to accomplish this feat,
The Luftwaffe had 210 aircraft shot down or crashed due to malfunctions, and 106 pilots were lost. These young lives just disappeared into the sky and became the cold names one after another on the Luftwaffe Memorial.
But they were lucky, because as long as they were Air Force pilots, at least their names could be found. And many soldiers who gave their lives for the motherland did not even leave their names—no matter how huge the monument is, there is no way to engrave the names of millions of infantrymen.
In the frontline headquarters, Zhukov got the first-hand information that the German army started to counterattack locally. He was not sure whether it was because the German army started a full-scale counterattack, or it was a "temporary intention" of some German troops here.
During the continuous battles, his troops lost a lot of armor power, thousands of tanks of various types became scrap iron, and more than 90,000 soldiers were killed on the advancing position. For the first time in the long period of the past three months, the Soviet army has lost such a huge force, and these forces are still the most valuable main armored force of the Soviet army.
The commander of the G Group Army, his old opponent Guderian also suffered heavy losses, but the mood of the two sides is absolutely different. Even if the G Group Army is completely wiped out by the German army, it will only lose an armored group army. At least the A Group Army also has A large number of armored units. But Zhukov is different. The troops in his hands are the only main armored troops accumulated by the Soviet Union. 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 defeats the German Army Group G going north, he can regain the initiative on the battlefield and completely defeat Germany's strategic attempt to go south to seize the Caucasus. From this point of view, no matter how much the Soviet army loses, it can be tolerated. This is the main reason why Zhukov gritted his teeth and insisted on not stopping the attack.
"You mean, we encountered a new German tank unit near here, and you destroyed three new tanks, took heavy losses and finally took the position, and then the German army immediately deployed troops to counterattack?" Zhukov frowned. He frowned and asked the division commander who came to report. The other party looked depressed. It seemed that he had lost too many troops, which made the division commander feel distressed.
"Yes, they have invested a large number of Tiger tanks, there should be more than 30. Our troops have suffered heavy losses in the previous offensive, so we cannot organize an effective defense at all." The division commander lowered his head and answered Zhukov The problem.
Hearing the teacher's "true confession", Zhukov felt his heart twitching, and he came up with another translated version of the truth: attacking the German positions stationed by 5 tanks, the Soviet army lost dozens of tanks , Now dozens of tanks counterattacked, and he lost dozens of tanks-his troops retreated to the starting position, did not take an inch of land, but lost hundreds of tanks.
This kind of loss is also unacceptable for Zhukov, who is rich and powerful. You must know that although he has thousands of tanks as his capital, the number of tanks that can really be put on the table to fight against the German armored forces is definitely not more than 3,000. There are kv-1b tanks with temporarily modified artillery, t-34 tanks, and a small number of Stalin tanks-but these tanks account for less than half of his total tanks.
The rest of the goods are some t-26 "reconnaissance tanks" that everyone doesn't like. You can tell from the name that this type of tank is similar to the armored reconnaissance vehicles of the German army; there are also some old-fashioned kv-1 tanks, and The reliability has been repaired, and the kv-1 tank can finally be used... As for the big-headed dolls like the kv-2, the Soviets themselves consciously no longer produce them.
However, even so, these tanks are being consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Under the double ravages of the Luftwaffe and the German armored forces, the Soviet army has lost almost 1,000 tanks, although most of them were used for reconnaissance The t-26 and recharged kv-1 tanks, but this loss is undoubtedly distressing.
What's more, just now, a main force of the Soviet Union was annihilated in a protrusion that had just been gnawed off. These tanks are not just shit t-26 and outdated kv-1 tanks. It's the brand new t-34 and Stalin tanks, and some kv-1b "super kv" with improved artillery.
It is a pity that, as the supreme commander of the Soviet army, Marshal Zhukov did not know that the five tanks in front of his troops were the most elite troops of the 502nd Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion in the German army, and he did not know that this The weakest rookie in the army is also the trump card that destroyed more than 10 Soviet tanks. Of course, he didn't even know that he almost killed the No. 113 tank, which was firmly ranked second in the German Armored Forces Ace Ranking, and he didn't know that the No. 112 tank was also a frequent visitor on this ranking.
If he knew this, he must be relieved, right? At least he had such a chance that he could kill a German super ace car group with a superior force. But now he doesn't know this, this is lamenting the gap between his troops and the Germans.
"The loss of your troops is too great. I will arrange for your division to go to the back to rest." Zhukov waved his hand, then turned to his chief of staff and asked: "Comrade chief of staff, the one who applied for transfer from Stalingrad Has the tank battle ace that came over, the commander named Wolfe, arrived at the front line?"
His words made the eyes of the chief of staff standing aside brighten. As the chief of staff, of course he knew what his boss’s question meant. It can be said that Zhukov’s question meant that he was going to invest in the elite armored forces and fight against the Germans. The tank had a good fight.
Who wins the game will be decided in the next few days. How can this make him not excited, how can this make him not excited? The victory and defeat of the Soviet Union finally kicked off with my own participation!
Thinking of this, the chief of staff immediately replied: "Comrade Marshal, he arrived here a few hours ago, and we handed over a brand new Stalin tank with a scope imported from the United States to him and his vehicle." Group. Listen to the commander of the 1st Guards Assault Unit saying that they are ready to fight for the motherland!"
"Very good!" Zhukov nodded with a smile. He looked at the map hanging on the wall, and a voice shouted in his heart: Guderian, now I'm starting the real attack, how about you? How will I face my onslaught this time?
He pointed to the protruding part that was recaptured by the German army, and solemnly ordered: "Let them take back this position! Destroy the German tanks as much as possible!"
"Yes!" The chief of staff replied, standing at attention and saluting.
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In the middle of the night, I am so cute and roll around, begging for a monthly ticket~~~
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