Chapter 724: The Great Encirclement - Trap

Hearing the words coming from the headphones, Major Schwarzenegger was stunned. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Hundreds or thousands of vehicles!? This is a tank Armageddon! Did the Soviet Red Army go crazy? There are "Tigers" and "Rhinoceros" on their side, and there are so many Type 4H, what do the Soviets fight? How many T-34/57 can they have? And even the T-34/57 can't beat the "Tiger", at most it and the No. 4H type will hurt each other.

Major Schwarzenegger was feeling strange when the order of Major General Kruger, commander of the 1st Panzer Division, came from the headset: "Tiger tanks and Rhino tank destroyers carry out long-range artillery strikes, and destroy the Russians from 1500 meters away T-34/57." The rest of the vehicles are suspended to move forward ......"

It's the turn of the "Rhino" again!

Major Schwarzenegger hurriedly picked up the intercom and gave the order to the 37 "rhinos" under his command to advance. Then he ordered the driver of the half-track he was riding in to drive the vehicle to the front.

When we got to the front, I found a slightly raised slope to park the car. Schwarzenegger once again raised his telescope and began to search for the target. Countless T-34s and KV-1s appeared in the eyepieces, perhaps literally in the hundreds, thousands. The tanks were scattered in formation, and there were quite a few Soviet infantry marching on foot between the tanks.

Quite a few of them were carrying a large-caliber rifle with a very long barrel, which was supposed to be some kind of anti-tank gun. Others carried on their shoulders a weapon that was very familiar to Major Schwarzenegger - the Iron Fist anti-tank grenade launcher!

Obviously, in the face of the great threat of German tanks, the Soviets copied the "Iron Fist" (this is a low-tech weapon, which is not at all difficult for the Soviet military industry), and they have already been sent to the troops, these Russians are really good at learning!

Pulling his eyes away from the Soviet infantry, Major Schwarzenegger began to carefully search for T-34/57 tanks in the rumbling Soviet tank cluster. This tank has a long, thin barrel that looks like a T-34 has a needle stuck in its turret, so it's easy to find. But Schwarzenegger searched for a long time, but he didn't find a shadow of a T-34/57.

There were no T-34/57 tanks, and all the tanks that appeared on the battlefield were T-34/76 and KV-1 tanks. Are the Soviets crazy? They want to use the T-34/76 and KV-1 against the Tiger tank?

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble......

By the time Major Schwarzenegger was wondering, there were already Tiger tanks firing. A volley of shells whizzed across the battlefield, hitting the Soviet tank cluster at a distance of 15,600 meters. In an instant, several T-34s were hit, and the huge explosion instantly engulfed the green-painted Soviet tanks.

Seeing the majestic attack of his own tanks, the suspicion in Major Schwarzenegger's heart suddenly dissipated without a trace. He also hurriedly ordered the Rhino tank destroyer under his command to join this battle as if it were a target.

On the battlefield, Tiger and Rhino tank destroyers opened fire. The 88mm cannon also showed great power at a distance of about 1,500 meters, hitting accurately and ruthlessly. Dozens of burning wreckage were immediately left on the battlefield. However, the remaining Soviet tanks did not flinch and began to accelerate their advance. At the same time, the Soviet infantry, which was followed by the tanks, also began to charge with a snort, and shouted: "Ula! Ulla! ”

The air on the battlefield suddenly became hot!

Despite the Red Army's bravery and tenacity, the Tiger and Rhino tank destroyers still dominated the battlefield. No matter how fast the charging Soviet tanks moved, they could not dodge the Germans' extremely accurate shells. Soon, the wreckage of tanks on the battlefield became more and more!

But the Soviet Red Army still fought to the death, regardless of casualties, and rushed forward like a tide.

Frontline "Ula! Ulla! The slogan was earth-shattering, but Yakov, who was in command of 16 ZIS-2 anti-tank guns (and 7 85mm anti-aircraft guns under the personal control of the commander of the 9th Motorized Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment Makarenko), was in command of 16 ZIS-2 anti-tank guns (and 7 85mm anti-aircraft guns). Dzhugashvili knew that the T-34/76, KV-1 and the accompanying infantry, who were fighting the enemy at the cost of their lives, were actually bait thrown by the commander of the Front, Vasilevsky!

And what was really used to fight the German armored clusters were more than 200 T-34/57 tanks and hundreds of ZIS-2 anti-tank guns and 85mm anti-aircraft guns that were ambushed!

As long as the GCIST fighters who were being beaten in front could lead them under the muzzles of the T-34/57 and ZIS-2 85mm anti-aircraft guns before they were eliminated by the Nazi enemy, then the German armored cluster would be seriously wounded, if not killed.

Thinking that the Germans' invincible Tiger tank was about to be unlucky, Yakov's heart not only relaxed, but also began to be eager to try, hoping that the time to beat the tiger would come soon.

"Shelling! Hide! ”

Just as Yakov craned his neck in anticipation of the Tiger tank's arrival, another shout was suddenly heard, followed by the shrill whistling of rockets breaking through the air.

It turned out that the Germans suddenly launched a rocket artillery attack! However, Yakov's mood was even more excited, because he, who had long been accustomed to smelling gunpowder smoke on the battlefield, could not detect that the landing points of the German rockets were very scattered this time! This indicates that the rocket artillery attacks of the Germans were of a harassing nature and were aimed at disrupting the rear of Soviet tank clusters fighting on the front line...... Perhaps the Soviet tank clusters on the front line are about to retreat, and the Germans are preparing to pursue!

"Comrade Chief of Artillery, look there, our men have withdrawn!"

After a while, someone shouted. Yakov hurriedly leaned out of the bomb crater where he was and raised his binoculars to look ahead. I only saw many T-34 tanks in a loose horizontal line, speeding towards their side, many vehicles with infantry on them, and I don't know how many people and how many vehicles.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

On the other side of the battlefield, Major Schwarzenegger was desperately urging his "rhinoceros" to pursue at full speed. The battle just now was really lively, with hundreds of tanks and tank destroyers firing at the same time! The Soviets' tanks were like targets, and they were shot and burned.

That was really overwhelming, the T-34 and KV-1 of the Soviets were not at all a match for the "Tiger", "Rhinoceros" and Tank No. 4. In less than one and a half hours, the menacing Soviet tank cluster could not withstand the huge losses and was defeated, leaving hundreds of burning tank wreckage on a front of more than ten kilometers!

But the Soviet tanks, especially their T-34 tanks, were really fast when it came to escaping. Not to mention the Tiger tanks, even the Type 4H can't catch up with them.

Although Major Schwarzenegger urged vigorously, the speed of the Rhino Destroyer tank was there. Now it is off-road driving, driving up to 20 km / h is the limit, and it is simply not able to catch up with the T-34, which can reach an off-road speed of 40 km / h. Moreover, when the Soviets' tanks retreated, there were still many Red Army infantry who desperately blocked them with "iron fists" and anti-tank guns.

The "Rhinoceros", which had very poor anti-infantry capabilities, did not dare to rush too fast, so in desperation it could only let the No. 4H type and the half-track carrying the panzergrenadier go ahead. As for the Tiger tank, it can only be left behind and eat the ashes -- the problem of the Tiger tank's lack of mobility has been undoubtedly revealed in today's tank battle.

However, slowness also has the benefit of being slow, at least it is not easy to be ambushed.

"Why isn't it a tiger pose?" Yakov. As soon as Dzhugashvili saw the German tank group pursuing the Soviet tank cluster through the telescope, he couldn't help but mutter.

All the tanks that came were Type 4H tanks and half-track armored personnel carriers, and there were always hundreds of them.

I don't know if it's because I found a lot of small woods in front of me (it turned out to be a large forest, and it was cut like this), and it was an easy place to ambush. All the Type 4H slowed down at the same time to about five or six kilometers per hour. The half-track armored vehicles that were following came to a halt, and the German grenadiers on top jumped off, armed with automatic carbines and MG42s, and scattered around the slowly moving No. 4 tank.

Was it discovered?

Yakov's heart sank, and he visually measured the distance again, and found that the front row of the German tank cluster was less than 1,000 meters away from him.

"Comrade Artillery Chief, Comrade Commander ordered to open fire!"

Just when Yakov was nervous, the order to open fire was given.

"Fire! Aim...... Fire! ”

With Yakov's order, the nearest ZIS-2 anti-tank gun fired first, and then with this cannon as an order, the rest of the dozen ZIS-2 anti-tank guns also fired. And almost at the same time, anti-tank anti-aircraft guns and T-34/57 tanks lurking all over the battlefield were also fired.

The entire battlefield was suddenly filled with gunsmoke. Dozens of No. 4 tanks rushed to the front row were hit by bullets and caught fire almost simultaneously, followed by a round of artillery fire, and more No. 4 tanks rose into smoke.

Vasilevsky's ambush seems to have had some success, but it is still too far from a big victory.

Because the hit tank No. 4 and the German grenadiers did not panic, some of the grenadiers began to throw smoke pipes in front of the tanks that were not hit, as if trying to protect the tanks with smoke. The tanks stopped in place, raised their barrels, turned their turrets, aimed at the woods where there might be an ambush ahead, and began to fire high-explosive shells. (To be continued.) )