The Soviets went on a massive offensive on the Rzhev-Sychovka front, and the Germans had to withstand in this direction. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In January 1942, Moder took command of the Ninth Army, and he was ordered to stop the Soviet offensive.

He was an expert in defensive warfare, and unlike other units, he immediately adjusted his forces after taking over the Ninth Army. This offensive force is transformed into a defensive force.

The tank army group was broken up, and the tank returned to its original purpose of supporting infantry operations. And a steady stream of new troops came to report to him, and he also decisively dismantled these recruits into battalion-level troops, and flexibly threw them to weak defensive places.

The so-called principle of disobeying the orders of foreign kings, Moder did not carry out Hitler's orders, so he disobeyed the order and set up a number of defensive lines. As a result, the Soviets attacked wave after wave, and after some battles, they became the end of the crossbow, and the German reserve army added to the holes, and the front line was still not torn.

However, to complete such a defensive battle, logistics must be done well. Only by providing substantial military assistance to Moder could the battle line be like an iron bucket.

This requires that the long road route, including the Mozili-Gomel, must be kept in order.

When the war was going on, the Nazi supreme leader of Belarus, William Kubet, gave the 715th Division an order to get new equipment, strengthen the defense of the road, use brutal means, clean up the guerrillas, and ensure that the transport convoy was not attacked by the guerrillas.

Now that the new equipment and new troops had arrived, Schultz changed into his uniform and hurried to inspect his recruits.

In the town of Ironfort, unlike the logistics troops, the newly arrived troops showed good spirit. These were a group of young men in their early twenties, tall and strong, in the prime of life.

Historically, Nazi Germany did not switch to a wartime system until 1944, and at the end of that year, the Nazis planned to turn the war into a national war. In 1942, the German army still adopted the conscription system, and these new young arrivals, all of whom were high-spirited, responded to the Führer's call to establish Greater Germany in Russia, and joined the army.

To win a big battle, fighting spirit is very important. Schultz saw that two battalions of infantry, came here.

This batch of reinforcements, in addition to a large number of weapons and equipment, is as strong as three battalions, that is, two infantry battalions and one armored battalion.

Schultz is more interested in the armored battalion, the so-called tank battalion. These No. 3 tanks are all long-barreled, and the glimpse just now is impressive.

But this armored battalion is still severely reduced, and the normal armored battalion is divided into three armored companies, each of which generally has sixty tanks. But this battalion has only twenty vehicles, and it seems that Nicklaus's battalion also counts the number three assault guns.

At the unloading yard in the town of Ironfort, fifty assault guns, twenty armored vehicles were on display. More than a thousand infantry stood in front of these preparations, carrying their rifles and general-purpose machine guns.

Schultz and Swagger put their hands behind their backs and examined with interest the young troops.

"They are young, I'm afraid that such a warrior has the enthusiasm to fight, but the technical and tactical level is too poor. They haven't even been to a real battlefield. Schultz shook his head, worried.

"Division commander, you don't have to worry, we have incorporated these recruits into the infantry regiments of Hoffman and Floyd, who have suffered a lot of losses, and they can naturally learn battlefield skills quickly under the leadership of veterans." Swagger said.

The two of them continued to walk, and these warriors wearing new steel helmets, wearing new winter military uniforms, and holding the latest weapons off the production line, were indeed very powerful.

Suddenly, Scholz stopped, because he saw that there was a soldier who was carrying a very strange weapon.

Seeing that this weapon seemed to be a round weapon, it was carried on his shoulder, and the conical weapon at the rear end made him immediately think of this weapon. Could it be that this is the legendary rocket weapon?

"Soldiers! Take a step forward! Dequeue! ”

The soldier took a mechanical stride and stood in front of Schultz.

"Tell me, soldier, what kind of weapon are you carrying?"

"It's a rocket-propelled grenade, sir!"

"Oh? Is this our latest weapon? ”

"Yes, sir, this weapon can destroy the Russian tank within a hundred meters."

The soldier's answer couldn't help but make people reverie. Scholz remembers what happened during the Minsk offensive, when the 7th Panzer Division was hit by a special weapon used by the Soviets, and a tank regiment was wiped out almost instantly, which turned out to be a special rocket weapon encountered by the Russians. Later, this weapon also appeared on the front line in Moscow, and since it was captured, the Germans also began to copy it.

Schultz was interested, he waved his hand to call all the officers accompanying him, and ordered the soldier: "You show me this weapon now, I will see how you can operate it." ”

The soldier paused for a moment, and hurriedly said, "Sir! This is a dangerous weapon. If I had to demonstrate, I needed an area that was large enough. ”

"Demonstrate right here, and I'll have someone quickly clear a space for you." Schultz didn't want to grind, he just wanted to see how powerful the new equipment was.

Therefore, he ordered the logistics soldier to immediately clean up the useless debris in the empty field and make room for the soldier to demonstrate.

Just twenty minutes later, an area large enough for a hundred meters cleared out, and a carriage became a target.

According to the soldier, this weapon is divided into two types of warheads, one is a tungsten core armor-piercing projectile, which is specially used for anti-tank, and the other is a high-explosive projectile with only explosives, which is used for anti-infantry. In this demonstration, high-explosive bombs were used.

Under the watchful eyes of the officers, the soldier knelt and shouldered the weapon. Because this is a German imitation version, their great industrial power has made some improvements to this.

The missile had been loaded into the launcher, the soldier aimed at the target and pulled the trigger, and suddenly, flames erupted from the nozzle, and the missile ejected its tail fin, hitting the target at high speed, and the carriage was shattered instantly.

Schultz was taken aback.

"The wagon and the man who were the target were about sixty meters away, and the target was completely shattered. If the target is the enemy tank, and we are also using armor-piercing shells, then the enemy tank will not be directly destroyed. Schultz was so impressed by the amazing performance that he saw the new arrivals, each infantry company had several of these weapons, and also stockpiled a number of these special grenades, which looked like a kind of rocket. The launcher was loaded with such rocket-boosted grenades, and the firepower of the troops was greatly increased.

Compared to him, Swagge was more sensible. Until he saw such a performance, he couldn't help but ask Nicklaus: "If, such a weapon hits our tanks, what will be the result?" ”

"Wrecked, of course!" Nicklaus told the truth, "This new weapon has a penetration depth of 100 millimeters if it uses armor-piercing shells. And our tanks, the No. 3 tank had only 57 mm of frontal armor, and the Soviets' T34 frontal armor ended up with only 60 mm. That is, our own spears are enough to easily pierce their shields, but also our own. (To be continued.) )