Chapter 460

"Boom!" The cannon on the tank turret roared again, spraying a very ugly spring camouflage. This German Tiger tank even has some numbers on the turret that people can't see clearly. However, if someone carefully identifies it at close range, he can still see the number 113.

This tank was once the trump card of the German army's number one tank. The number of enemy tanks destroyed was almost enough to equip a tank reinforced battalion. The commander of this tank was a ruthless killing machine. At this moment, he was carrying a telescope to confirm his gunner's achievements.

"About 910 meters! A KV-1 heavy tank! Hit! Destroy the target completely He yelled, "armor piercing, load. Alice... Watch out for the infantry in the front! They are firing at me

Just as he was directing the tank to continue firing, a bullet hit the tank canopy behind him, splashing a piece of Mars. The Soviet troops in the front were firing in his direction, and some Soviet soldiers were holding up their guns and aiming at him.

"I'm changing bullets! Wait a minute! " Alice pressed the chain into the gun, pulled the bolt with a crash, and then aimed at the Soviet infantry in front of her again: "OK! Give it to me straight ahead! " As she spoke, she rang the machine gun, and the bullets rained out, knocking down the Soviet infantry more than 200 meters away from the front.

Then Alice began to press the machine gun to swing horizontally, and the dense G42 machine gun bullets swept into a fan. Dozens of Soviet soldiers in the fan were knocked over on the ground, and the fire of the other side was immediately suppressed.

Raine showed his head to continue to observe the movement of the Soviet army in the distance. The encirclement of the two wings of the Soviet Red Army had obviously failed. In three directions, about 20 Soviet tanks were paralyzed by the woods and on the road. No Soviet tank could cross the road and drive down the road. Of course, the Soviet infantry did cross the road, but they were overwhelmed by the machine guns of several tanks and lost nearly 200 people.

This little tarmac road, which the German army called Route 9, became a graveyard for Soviet tanks. These Soviet tank wrecks were smoking and burning, making it look like hell. If we add the bodies of Soviet Red Army Infantry lying on the ground, the Soviet army has paid a heavy price in order to advance only two kilometers.

"Marcus! Turn on the smoke, both wings retreat first. Bauman! Keep reversing, turn away from the battle! 115 and 114 first. " Ryan estimated the time while directing the battle. He felt that with the last experience, this time the Soviet artillery attack should come ahead of time, so he decisively gave the order to retreat.

Marcus didn't joke this time. The smoke generator on his tank immediately spewed thick white smoke. It took only ten seconds to submerge his tanks in the smoke. Several German tanks started their retreat again. Only after two successive sniping attacks, they got the record of about 45 enemy tanks belonging to their company.

"Boom!" Not long after their tanks began to retreat, the first artillery shell from the Soviet Union landed on the position of the original German tank, only a few tens of meters away from the last 111 tank that began to retreat. However, the Soviet artillery obviously did not carry out extended fire, shells fell close to the German ambush positions.

"Ryan! You feel so right now. " The commander of tank 114 looked at the enemy shells falling one after another from a distance of 100 meters behind him. He couldn't help exclaiming: "I admire you more and more."

"So I quit working for a long time and came to work for him." Marcus was happy, as if he was being praised.

"Bowman. Check the remaining oil. " Ignoring everyone's jokes and flattery, Ryan suddenly opened his mouth on the shaking tank.

"Half way to go." Soon, the driver Bauman replied.

"Turn around and we'll fight back!" Ryan grinned, pressed the mouthpiece and said, "see that grove? Go there and rest for 15 minutes. Add the spare barrel of oil to the tank and start fighting back."

"I knew it! It's absolutely exciting to follow you Marcus was afraid that things would be less, and he laughed loudly: "fight back! counterattack! Beat those son of a bitch Soviets

Soon, with the roar of the engine, five German Tiger tanks returned to the road near the road, where they collided with the rest of the Soviet bodyguard tank 1st regiment.

When the sleepy Soviet soldiers watched in horror as five German tanks crossed the fence and the low wall, rushed out of the paddy field, and entered the Soviet tank station where they had just stopped to rest, they finally knew how naive they were in the eyes of German tanks.

Without sending scouts and reconnaissance sentries, the Soviet offensive forces did not expect the German tanks to return. Most of the Soviet tankers left the tanks and were going to the toilet and cooking. The army did not even arrange a tank for the guard, and everyone, including the commander, was unprepared.

So a massacre of German tanks began. When Ryan received a call from the radio station, ordering him to leave the battlefield and give the front to the strengthened German grenadiers, he and his five tanks had returned to the road and destroyed 29 Soviet tanks.

In this battle known as the battle of Road 9, five German Tiger tanks destroyed 74 tanks of the Soviet offensive troops with the most classic tactical arrangement, and the whole teaching company 1 destroyed almost 15 tanks on average. In this battle, the German armored forces set up ambush in the forest area first, ambushed the Soviet armored forces successfully, then quickly retreated, and laid an ambush again near the No. 9 highway. The Soviet Red Army, due to lack of battlefield experience, once again bumped into the German ambush position and lost a lot of troops. Then Ryan retreated decisively. Unexpectedly, he led only five Tiger tanks to make a bold counterattack, which caught the Soviet troops who thought the German army was retreating again and ambushed them off guard. Unexpectedly, he was repulsed by the German armored forces who had been in a disadvantageous state. The losses were heavy. Not to mention, he gave up the roads and nearby areas that had been occupied. It can be seen from this battle that the experience gap between 502 heavy tank annihilation battalion and the Soviet Union guard tank 1st regiment, the most elite troops of both sides, is still very huge. Although the Soviet troops suffered heavy losses in the battle, they still did not rout, showing a very high fighting determination, but in front of the experienced German troops, they only increased the casualties. This battle was reported to the top command of the front line by the Soviet Union's elite close guard 1st tank group army. Khrushchev was excited for a long time because he finally found the position of the German elite armored force. He ordered the 1st tank group army and the 3rd tank group army of the guards nearby to rush into the rear of the German position and search for the driver of the main German force. On the evening of April 6, after a day of fierce fighting, there was still no sense of calm in the position. When the German air force was unable to send out at night, the Soviet troops launched an attack again. Hundreds of them swarmed into the broken German positions, hoping to expand these breakthroughs. However, they found that the German troops on the two wings seemed to have been prepared for the war for a few hours, The Red Army of the Soviet Union did not even expand the breakthrough. At this moment, on the battle map of the Soviet front command, Khrushchev's German defense positions are more and more regular and frightening. It was only then that Khrushchev realized that the German position he had broken through might have been given to him by his opponent“ How could their defensive positions be in this shape? " Khrushchev looked at the map and muttered to himself“ Political commissar... If we enter the other side's positions, if the other side begins to encircle from the two wings. " A general admonished“ This... "Khrushchev clenched his fist and seemed to be struggling. He didn't want to give up the position he had captured, and he didn't want to admit that his attack would fail. But after all, he was afraid that his wrong decision would cause fatal losses to the main force of the Red Army. You should know that the troops in his hand were the elite troops that the Soviet Union had painstakingly accumulated for many years. If he lost in the front line, he would be eaten alive by Stalin when he went back to Moscow. So Khrushchev sent a telegram to Stalin overnight, hoping that Stalin could give him some advice and shirk part of his responsibilities, so that he would not be too passive when problems arise in the future. Of course, Khrushchev also issued an order. In the early morning of tomorrow, the troops will begin to retreat and build fortifications on both sides of the existing occupied area to ensure that their troops will not be encircled and annihilated by the German army. In the long latter half of the night, Khrushchev decided to keep on attacking. What if he could make some progress and prove that the strange shape of the defensive position was just a coincidence? Then, in the dark night, the Soviet soldiers and front-line commanders were waiting for the early morning, because they could make a limited retreat as soon as the morning arrived, making their dangerous flanks safer; The German troops are also waiting for the dawn, because according to the planned counterattack plan, the dawn of the dawn is their clarion call to counterattack the aggressors. On the long night of April 6, everyone was waiting for the first light of the morning and the moment to decide their fate.