Red Moscow

The troops attacking the Soviet positions were repulsed in a short period of time, one of the tank companies was completely wiped out, and an infantry battalion suffered heavy casualties. Such a defeat made General Hornerdorf, the commander of the Sixth Armored Division, extremely embarrassed.

He called the two commanders of the 11th Panzer Regiment and the 114th Grenadier Regiment to his headquarters, and scolded them: "What did you do? Not only did you fail to break through the Russian defense line, but you Let the troops pay such a heavy price."

"Master Commander," the head of the 11th Armored Regiment waited for Hornerdorf to finish speaking, and said tremblingly, "Perhaps the Russians have received reinforcements, thus strengthening their combat effectiveness."

"Even if the Russians got reinforcements, wouldn't they beat you so badly?" Hornadorf said angrily: "The Russians replenish their troops basically with recruits, and their tactics are rigid and outdated. One of our battalions You can beat a division of them. Colonel, immediately draw another tank company and go to the front with me. I want to see how these Russians are different from the Russians I met before."

"Master Commander, you can't do it." Hearing Hornadorf said he wanted to go to the front in person, the chief of staff of the division quickly hugged him and tried to persuade him: "The front is too dangerous, you can't go."

"My subordinates have just lost a battle, and their morale must be very low." Hornerdorf said eloquently: "As long as they see me appearing on the front line, they will regain their morale and continue to fight the Russians."

Seeing that Hornerdorf had said everything to this point, the chief of staff of the division knew that what he said was useless. He could only watch Hornerdorf pick up a tank cap hanging on the wall. , and the head of the 11th Armored Regiment left the headquarters together.

Hornerdorf wanted to take a tank to the front, and the head of the tank would certainly not arrange for him an ordinary tank, but personally arranged for him a Panther tank. The head of the armored regiment said to Hornadorf: "Your Excellency, the Russians may have strong anti-tank firepower, and our Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks are easily destroyed by them. I think you should take this Panther tank Well, it is the nemesis of the Russian T-34."

Don't look at Hornerdorf's fearless look when he was in the headquarters, but think that the Soviet army can easily destroy one of its own tank companies in a short period of time. Since all the officers and soldiers of the tank company were killed, he could not figure out exactly what kind of anti-tank weapons the Soviet army used.

If the head of the tank really arranged ordinary tanks for him, maybe he would be happy. At this moment, when he saw that the tank he had arranged for him was actually the nemesis of the T-34—the Leopard tank, he had a smug smile on his face. He nodded, and with the assistance of two tank soldiers, got into the Leopard tank.

After closing the hatch, he radioed the other tanks: "Wedge formation, advance towards the Russian positions."

Although it took less than an hour for the attack to fail, launching an attack again at this moment seemed extraordinarily hasty. But at this time, the division commanders took the tanks and rushed to the Russian positions first. Then, can other German officers and soldiers stay in the fortifications and rest with peace of mind? As a result, groups of infantry followed the tanks far behind and advanced towards the Soviet positions.

Sokov, who was staying in the observation post, saw another group of German tanks appearing, and said to Koida with a smile: "Comrade Colonel, it seems that you haven't hurt the enemy just now. Otherwise, they There's no way it's going to strike again so soon."

"Then let's teach them a good lesson this time and beat them to tears." When Kuida just said this, he suddenly let out a cry of surprise, then raised the binoculars to his eyes, and stared intently at the approaching German tank.

"Comrade Colonel." Sokov felt that Keida's reaction was a bit strange, so he asked curiously, "What did you see?"

"Comrade Commander," Koyda pointed to the German tanks in the distance, and said to Sokov: "The tank at the front of the German wedge formation is a Panther tank specially used by the German army to deal with our T-34. .”

"I can see it." Sokov just nodded slightly, and said disapprovingly: "Don't talk about the Leopard tank, even if the Tiger tank appears, our bazooka can still smash them into a pile of scrap metal."

"No, Comrade Commander, you have misunderstood me." Koyda breathed a little and said, "I know the power of the bazooka that the anti-tank man said to use, I just want to tell you that the Panther tank There are two antennas on it, it must be a command tank, and there must be a relatively high-ranking officer sitting in it. Maybe the commander of the 11th Armored Regiment is in this tank."

Sokov felt that if the head of the 11th Armored Regiment was really sitting in the Panther tank, if he was killed, it would definitely hit the enemy's morale and morale severely. Then he ordered Koida: "Comrade Colonel, immediately notify the 562nd Regiment and ask them to send a few more anti-tank fighters to hide in the position where the German tanks will pass, and resolutely destroy the tank in front."

Seeing that Sokov had the same idea as his own, and also believed that there was a big man sitting in the Panther tank, Koida did not dare to neglect, and personally called the head of the 562nd regiment: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, you see the German Is there a human tank?... Very good, I didn't expect you to find that the first tank is not easy, so immediately send a few more anti-tank fighters to find a suitable place to ambush, and you must think about taking the tank in the shortest possible time. Kill this enemy tank."

Hornerdorf, who was sitting in the tank, didn't know that he had become the target of the Soviet army. He kept observing the situation outside through the lookout in front of the tank. While watching, he muttered, "The Russian position looks normal. Why did our first attack fail?"

The other tank soldiers sitting in the tank heard what Hornadorf was talking to himself, but because their rank was too low, no one dared to answer his words, so they could only choose to remain silent.

The German tanks came to a place more than 100 meters away from the position, and the trench was still silent. No one could be seen, nor was a gunshot heard. Hornerdorf was even muttering in his heart: Could it be that the Russians saw We re-attacked and got scared and ran away?

At this moment, he saw a Soviet soldier leaning out half of his body in the bomb crater not far away, carrying a chimney-like object on his shoulder, aiming towards his position. Before Hornerdorf gave the order to fire the machine gun, a long, white smoke tail flew out of the chimney and flew towards his tank.

Immediately afterwards, Hornerdorf heard a loud "boom", and he felt his body hit a sharp, hot object. This was the last feeling in Hornerdorf's life. The rocket hit him exactly where he was, blowing his chest to pieces on the spot. He threw his head back and completely left the place he was attached to. world.