Chapter 457

Lying on the bed, enjoying the leisurely vacation that I don't know when it will end, Ryan is almost moved by his wise decision to cry. He did not choose to go to war-torn England, nor did he apply to be transferred to North Africa, where there would be war. Instead, he chose the most peaceful east line at present.

At this moment, he is already the commander of No. 1 company of 502 heavy tank destroyer battalion, and even carries the rank of captain on his shoulder. You know, in some non main forces, they are already at the level of battalion commander.

So as a real officer, he had his own lounge and didn't have to be crowded with other soldiers. Of course, because Jiaolian is quite special, his rest room is not his own, but the rest room shared by five people in his crew. Unfortunately, the curtain bed for the conductor was occupied by Alice.

He is very happy to read a thick Russian dictionary. For a long time, Ryan's foreign language level has been very good. He has studied French and Spanish, but the members of the crew know that he once said that he spoke the best Russian. Unfortunately, no one has ever heard him talk in Russian.

The door was knocked, and the members of the lane crew who were sitting together playing cards all looked at the position of the door. There's a face that's not worth beating. Marcus seems to have made up his mind to report Ryan's thigh. He even refused to take the position of company commander, and wanted to stay in Ryan's army and be his wingman. According to Marcus himself, it's good luck to follow Ryan.

"The battalion had a meeting. I heard that the troops were going to leave." Marcus is a well-informed guy wherever he goes, and the logistics company of battalion 502 is the old man they've known for a long time.

Ryan got up from the bed, closed the dictionary, and carefully placed it on his bedside pillow. Then he stretched his arms, took out a notebook from the personal cabinet beside the wall, took out a pen, checked it, and accompanied Marcus out of his dormitory. One by one, two people walked to the camp not far away. On the way, they saw several familiar captains.

When they arrived at the battalion headquarters, the captains all found a seat to sit down. Ryan and Marcus were no exception. They casually found two adjacent seats to sit down, just like a group of primary school students waiting for the teacher to have a class. After a while, the battalion commander and deputy battalion commander arrived, and the meeting officially began.

"The intelligence submitted by the investigation force shows that the German team opposite us is moving frequently, and there seems to be signs of attack." The battalion commander lifted the curtain on the blackboard, revealed the map inside, pointed to the Soviet controlled area in the direction of the border with a pointer, and said: "the front of the 102nd division, which is where we were ordered to strengthen, the Soviets deployed about a regiment of tank troops..."

The information is very detailed. It can be seen how well the German Army knows the movements of the Soviet troops. Through the penetration of spies and the repeated confirmation of investigation forces, the German front-line forces knew the number and combat effectiveness of each of their opponents' troops, and even knew the name of their division commander.

"More than 50 KV-1 improved tanks? Haven't the Soviets suffered enough? " A two page document was handed to Ryan, which contained an analysis of the number and types of Soviet tanks, with detailed photos.

"This is more than one regiment of Soviet troops." Marcus took over the document, looked through it carefully for a few seconds, and then said to the battalion commander, "a total of 70 t-26s and more than 50 KV-1 improved ones, which are almost the strength of two Soviet armored regiments."

The battalion commander nodded and said with a smile: "like us, our opponent is also a main force, otherwise we would not be pushed up. They are one of the main forces of the first division of the Soviet Union's close guard tank. It is said that Khrushchev, the No.2 figure of the Soviet Union, once visited this unit. "

"I don't see it. It's still the main force. But what main force meets us, also must clamp the tail to be a man! Otherwise, we'll make him an adult. " Marcus sneered and handed the document to one of the captains below.

"It is expected that the front of the 102 Division will be broken through, and the first position here will be abandoned within an hour after the enemy attacks... Behind this is a small open area. We can ambush in the woods at the end, waiting for the enemy's armored forces to appear at the other end of the open area." The battalion commander pointed to several places on the map.

"How long will it take to retreat?" Not far away, a conductor raised his hand and asked.

"We have to retreat in about half an hour and give up the second line of defense for the Soviets." The battalion commander ordered a map of the Soviet rear: "they have an advantage in artillery. We must be careful of their artillery. The location of the forest is not safe. If we take advantage of it, we must retreat."

"The battalion set up a supply point here, and each vehicle group immediately returned to gather here after completing the mission. And then we have other missions. " Seeing that no one raised any questions, the battalion commander continued to introduce the task and said, "after returning to the dormitory, check the items and the status of the tanks. No one is allowed to leave the barracks and stand by in the barracks 24 hours."

"Yes Everyone stand up and answer.

SS Panzer Division 3 is the ambush unit on the right side of pocket 5, while IDF Panzer Division 1 is on the left side of pocket 6. In this way, the troops of the first armored force could be combined into a concentrated force after encircling the Soviet troops.

"Battalion commander! What if we fight too hard and run away from the Soviet tanks? " Marcus yelled at the end of the meeting, which made everyone in the meeting laugh“ There is a division of the close guard tank division behind the Soviet close guard tank regiment. There is a division of the close guard tank army behind the division of the close guard tank division. If you Marcus can defeat the first close guard tank army of the Soviet Union, our 502 battalion will ask you for credit to the head of state. " The battalion commander cracked his mouth and said with a smile“ Ha ha ha ha Everyone laughed. Everyone laughed recklessly, a little bit before the war to vent the flavor. I have to admit that with Marcus as a happy fruit, the atmosphere of the whole tank camp is much more active. Ryan laughed twice and regained his facial paralysis, because he suddenly thought of Clark and old company commander Carter. Marcus has been asked for credit. What about them? Who can remember those people who have left the world? Who would ask for credit for them? Who will put a wreath on the tombstone of these people many years later? The later things were relatively simple. The captains went to the logistics department to collect and distribute canned food and black bread, which were convenient for storage. They also went to the tank parking area to check the painting and equipment details. Then the crew members were assembled to start the test run and check the storage of shells and machine gun ammunition. Germany dug a total of 29 pockets for the Soviet Union on the broad front battlefield of the eastern front. These pockets were defense positions carefully arranged according to the terrain. As long as the Soviet army began to attack, these defensive positions would become bloody mouthfuls to strangle the Soviet Union's living forces and eat up the elite troops on the front line of the Soviet Union at one go. This line of defense was proposed by a not outstanding chief of staff on the eastern front. This chief of staff is well-known in the army. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, named Manstein, because he proposed the scythe strike against France. General Manstein's defensive position was called gear by the German army, and the head of state preferred to call it the Great Wall. This gear shaped defense line, which is similar to the crenel of the city wall, is not a permanent fortification set up for the purpose of defending, but a bloody quagmire simply designed for the purpose of massacre. From the day of its birth, this line of defense has only one purpose, that is, to kill the living forces of the Soviet Union and kill them efficiently and quickly. The commander in chief estimated that about half of the 29 pocket defense positions on the front Soviet German battlefield could function normally. However, as long as more than 15 pockets succeeded in strangling the Soviet offensive troops, the Soviet Red Army would lose more than 1 million elite soldiers. Manstein himself is also called the master of defense by brauchich because he proposed this defense line, and at the same time, he systematically put forward the theory of defense in depth and the theory of efficiency defense with the core idea of killing the opponent's living power. He boldly put forward the idea that defensive operations should focus on killing the opponent's forces, rather than sticking to one city and one place, which won the reputation of "German first tactical master". Only Manstein himself knows that the Fuehrer standing behind him is the real inventor of these military theories, and he is just a technician who is responsible for using his knowledge to modify and improve the Fuehrer's shocking tactical revolutions. Once the Soviet and German sides go to war, Germany's elite Eastern forces will use a nearly perfect defensive counterattack to destroy all the troops of the Soviet front-line combat forces. The German army will carry out numerous small encirclement and annihilation operations in the course of large encirclement and annihilation operations, which have reached the level of regiment or even battalion. For a large army of millions of people to fight, it's like embroidering small flowers with needles on a huge picture. Of course, if this plan can be completed, then this work can definitely be called a masterpiece. On the morning of March 25, US President Roosevelt announced economic sanctions against Japan to curb its expansion in the Far East. The Japanese government and the public were shocked, but they did not make any drastic moves. In the early hours of April 6, before the end of the negotiations on the surino menkan incident, the Soviet front supreme command issued a combat order to attack Germany in the whole line. At 7 am on April 6, the Soviet German war broke out in full swing.