Steel Soviet Union

The Skeleton Division's attempt to break through in the direction of Oboyan failed, but this did not mean that the Skeleton Division would give up.

In other words, Huot, the commander of the Fourth Armored Group of the Wehrmacht, who still has a lot of troops on hand, will not give up. The small setback suffered by the Skeleton Division, as the leading sharp-sword force, is not worth mentioning at all, and its impact on the entire battle situation can be said to be minimal and expected.

"The Second SS Panzer Corps sent a telegram saying that their attack in the direction of Oboyan encountered a small setback. The Skeleton Armored Division, which had the fastest progress in the offensive, failed to complete the planned tactical objectives. The Russians mobilized a large number of heavy tanks. Withstanding their offensive, the Skeleton Division continued to attack for a day without achieving any decent results. The losses were not too great but still worthy of attention."

The chief of staff, holding a telegram, was reporting the situation according to the script. Holt, holding a pen and writing something on his desk, didn't even raise his head.

"One-third of the elite armored units of the Second SS Panzer Corps are in the Totenkopf Division. They are equipped with the latest heavy assault equipment, such as the Type VI Tiger heavy tank, the Type V Panther medium tank, and the Ferdinand Tank destroyers, everything.”

After writing the last paragraph, Holt temporarily closed the cap of his pen and put the pen aside. Then he raised his head and looked at the chief of staff in front of him with a serious look on his face.

"I want to know what kind of troops those Russians mobilized to allow the Skeleton Division to attack for a whole day with the support of air support. In the end, they only gained land that could bury our sacrificed soldiers."

"Pryce needs to give an explanation. Even if the thief is caught, he will have an excuse for why he stole things. He should also explain why the Russian tractor can block Germany's most cutting-edge war machine for a whole day."

Hermann Priess, SS Brigade Captain, equivalent to the rank of Major General in the Wehrmacht, is the current division commander of the 3rd SS Totenkopf Panzer Division.

Holt didn't like Pris very much, just like he didn't like most senior officials in the SS.

In Holt's impression, Preece was a cold man who allowed his soldiers to shoot at civilians without punishing them and just pretended not to have seen it.

Almost none of the SS troops he has managed has clean hands. As long as guerrillas appear somewhere and are bumped into by Preece's troops, the vicious SS soldiers will trample through the surrounding area. All villages that may have been guerrilla strongholds.

The first task is to find out the unscrupulous people who are suspected to be guerrillas or may be accomplices of the guerrillas, then summon the whole village to watch, and then hang them all, or kill them all. Shoot him to death as a warning to others.

If the guerrillas were too active in a certain area, Pris would also order the hanged corpses to be hung on the trees along the way to the village entrance, with a sign around their necks that read "I am the executioner." Stalin's accomplice", "I help the evil guerrillas", "This is what happens" and stuff like that.

Until the body stinks and rots and falls off on its own, or hangs for enough time, then randomly find some Russians who serve the Germans to dispose of it.

But as to whether those corpses hanging from the trees were guerrillas, who can be 100% sure?

Anyway, Pris believes that direct evidence is not needed, so there is really no need for direct evidence, or his subjective judgment and the words that come out of his mouth are evidence. If you say you are a guerrilla, you are a guerrilla. Sophistry cannot change the ironclad truth. General facts.

Holt had no time to take care of the dirty work done by the SS, not to mention that wherever these SS fanatics went, they could indeed drastically reduce the size of the local guerrillas or even eliminate them outright.

The benefits this brought to the German army on the entire front line were obvious. The logistics line that had been harassed for a long time was relieved of a lot of pressure. The Wehrmacht was finally free to take a good rest or do some business without worrying about it. He could be shot down by the Russian guerrillas at any time, and even Holt himself could feel the benefits of doing so.

Price has said more than once that evidence, reasons, and explanations are not needed to kill guerrillas. If we investigate clues and enforce the law impartially like the police do when catching thieves, more German soldiers will only be killed by black guns.

It takes three feet of blood to scare the Russian civilians so much that they give up the idea of ​​joining the guerrillas.

If there are still idiots who dare to continue to join the guerrillas, it means that they have not killed enough. Killing more points will have a qualitative change effect. It is best to kill twice as much every time.

Holt felt that Price's statement was very flamboyant, but now that his fierce SS troops had stumbled in front of the Russian's broken tractor, this was obviously not something that could be avoided "without a reason". Price needed it. Give an explanation for why Germany's cutting-edge war machine cannot defeat the Russian tractors.

Holt, who usually couldn't stand the SS killing innocent people indiscriminately, was obviously using the topic to make things difficult for the murderous leader of the Skeleton Division, but Pris had obviously already prepared an excuse for himself.

"The Skull Division reported to the Second SS Armored Corps that the Russians invested in the latest heavy tanks, basically models they had never seen before. They originally planned to capture some and then capture some prisoners to torture for information, but Unfortunately, the two large-scale offensives launched against the main frontal positions in one day all failed. The Skeleton Division did not capture the Russians' cutting-edge heavy tanks nor captured prisoners. On the contrary,"

The chief of staff was hesitant to speak mid-sentence, but Holt, who was looking forward to it, obviously didn't care about it.

"What's the opposite?"

"Instead, the Skeleton Division was captured by the Russians who were on the defensive. When they were defeated in the second large-scale attack, the Russians who launched a counterattack killed one of them less than 500 meters in front of the position. battalion troops.”

"The Russian heavy tanks rushed towards them at full power and tore apart the defenses. The defeated troops of the Skeleton Division could not organize an effective resistance. The report said that the number of Russian tanks was too many, with a total of five More than ten heavy tanks were rushing towards them, accompanied by a large number of infantry and even some new self-propelled artillery. The failure seemed to be just a matter of seconds."

Hearing this, Holt, who was originally joking and looking like he was waiting for a joke, looked serious.

Although the Skeleton Division is a typical mass-killing armed SS unit, its combat effectiveness is beyond words.

Whether they were killing guerrillas, civilians, or regular Russian troops, they were extremely ferocious and treated them equally. This is why since the Battle of Kursk, the Skeleton Division has been singing triumphant songs and winning consecutive battles, killing the Russians. The reason why defense rushes to the front.