Chapter 485: Zhukov's Great Doubts in Their Hearts
The combat characteristics of the armored forces of the Soviet army on the Dniepo River were generally to form a rapid assault corps with tank units to break through the enemy's strong defenses; Or it can be used as an advance detachment to detour, encircle, and intercept the enemy's retreat, and pursue and annihilate the retreating enemy.
2. Give full play to the rapid mobility of the tank crews, reach the crossing site before the enemy, rush across the Dnieper River from the march, and seize the landing field.
3. With tank troops as the main assault force, consolidate and expand the landing ground, and create conditions for infantry to cross the river.
4. Or use the tank corps to carry out a night attack, achieve success, and accumulate experience in night battles.
Of course, the above Baidu information can be known by searching on the Internet in later generations, but the German army faced by the Soviet army this time was not very strong in the original history, and the tank equipment was about to be caught up by the Soviet army from September to October 1943.
The current German army has not only eliminated all the backward tanks No. 3 and No. 4, but also not too many Tiger tanks, and uses Leopard tanks and T-54 tanks as the main battle tanks.
And these tanks are full of fuel and fast warranty.
And the tank members who drove these tank groups were morale-boosting and brave in battle.
Therefore, the rapid assault tank battles adopted by the Soviet army were all resisted by the advanced tanks of the German army, and one tank after another was annihilated.
In addition, the Germans also deployed a large number of aviation units, as well as Scud and other missiles to attack.
Therefore, the Soviet army's tactics of consolidating and expanding the landing ground and creating conditions for the infantry to cross the river with tank crews as the main assault force ended in complete failure.
Especially when 50 AH-1 "Cobra" helicopters, more than 60 F-86 Sabre fighters, and 60 MiG-15 fighters and anti-tank missiles arrived on the battlefield of the Dniepo River, the Soviet tank and armored units suffered heavy losses, and were destroyed by the armored forces and tank groups under the command of Moder and Manstein.
Therefore, when the Soviet tank forces were suppressed by the German army, the remnants of the Southwestern Front led by General Malinovsky had also been annihilated.
Although General Malinovsky and his remnants of the army had already resorted to the most frantic counterattacks and the most desperate fighting methods to fight to the death against the Germans.
But because Manstein was clever enough to use the Ukrainian army, which had just joined their camp, as well as the troops of other Central Powers, to fend off several of the most ferocious Soviet counterattacks.
In order to reduce the casualties of the elite German troops to a minimum, and then when the Soviets began to feel tired, the elite main forces of the German army, including the elite of the SS, began to launch the deadliest attack with General Malinovsky and his remnants of the defeated army.
Therefore, after the most white-hot last two hours of fighting, the Southwestern Front of the Soviet Union finally died with less than 30,000 troops, and was rescued by Zhukov's army.
As for the rescued General Malinovsky, his face was like ashes, and his whole person was like an empty shell, and his eyes were stunned.
For General Malinovsky's such a deplorable performance, Zhukov also ignored him; Because now they still have to deal with the arrival of the army commanded by Manstein and Moder.
In the face of the fierce attacks of these elite German troops, Zhukov and them were also full of worries.
Originally, they also envisaged that the first phase of the battle plan was for the Southwestern Front to go out to the Dnieper River by late September and force the river crossing in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye sections; Breaking through the strong defenses of the Germans in front of the Mius River, they went out to the Molochnaya River. Then, in cooperation with the Soviet Central Front, launched a general offensive to liberate Chernihiv and advance to the Dnieper, and within two days captured all the German-occupied areas between the Dnieper and Pripyat rivers, and expanded their landing grounds.
The Voronezh Front, on the other hand, had to find a way to liberate Sumy and quickly reach the Dnieper, as well as land sites in places such as Veliko Buklin and Lyutezh, north of Kiev.
Then cooperate with the steppe front, which has already liberated Kharkov, and together seize and drive all German troops away from the Dnieper.
It's a pity that this time Zhukov and the others dreamed that Chen Yanlong not only had so many new weapons and equipment, but also was able to be deployed to the frontline position in such a short period of time, so that the combat power of the German army could be raised to a higher level.
Zhukov also gritted their teeth and hated it.
But now they are powerless, but there has always been a big doubt in their hearts, that is, where did Chen Yanlong get so many advanced weapons and equipment, and ammunition supplements.
In particular, where is the factory where Chen Yanlong will develop and produce these advanced weapons and equipment?