The decisive battle against the Third Reich

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In the end, this fierce battle ended under Rotmistrov's unwilling orders.

Rotmistrov did not dare to continue sending tank troops up because he was worried that if he continued to invest troops, he would fall into such chaos.

He's right, it's a bit like infiltration warfare... the side with superior numbers always suffers.

This ending was beyond everyone's expectation.

Because the Soviet army seemed to have achieved their wish...a close battle with German tanks, but they failed to win.

But it’s also expected.

Because this close battle was not a close battle that the Soviet army imagined would cause chaos to the German army within the German defense line, but a close battle that would cause chaos to the Soviet army within the Soviet army's formation.

After the Soviet army retreated, the German tanks also withdrew to their positions, because they knew that once the two sides broke contact, Soviet artillery fire would be effective again.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for artillery shells to pour in from the direction of the Soviet army. The artillery shells blew all the tank wreckage into pieces, as well as the Soviet infantry who had no time to withdraw from the battlefield.

General Strike took advantage of this break in the battle to convene an emergency meeting with several officers.

"Gentlemen!" General Strike said with a serious expression: "Although we won this battle, there is nothing to celebrate, because despite this, the gap in strength between us and the enemy has become even greater! "

General Strike was right. The Germans destroyed a large number of 300 Soviet tanks in this battle... The reason why I say "a large number" is because the battle was too chaotic to make accurate statistics.

The German army itself lost more than a hundred tanks.

Among them, the 3rd Armored Division suffered the most serious losses...perhaps because the 3rd Armored Division did not have ME63 cover. They lost 65 tanks in the previous battle. Including the 36 vehicles lost by the 21st Armored Division and the 15 vehicles bombed by the Infantry Division on the south bank of the Pushor River, a total of 116 vehicles were lost.

As a result, the 48th Armored Corps, including the infantry division, has only more than 100 light tanks.

Originally, the comparison with Soviet tanks could barely reach one to three, but now it has reached one to four.

No one spoke up because it was an inevitable outcome.

After a moment of silence, General Strike asked Qin Chuan: "What happened to ME63?"

Qin Chuan replied helplessly: "They discovered its weakness, that is, they knew that ME63 needs to be controlled for a period of time. As a result, our operators suffered heavy casualties under their machine gun fire!"

"Can we continue to fight?" General Strike asked.

Qin Chuan nodded and replied: "Yes, but there will be a vacancy in the control hand, which will further reduce the hit rate of ME63!"

General Strike nodded heavily. Although he didn't want to hear this, it was reality, an unavoidable reality.

"The performance of ME63 is already very good!" said Olbridge: "In fact, it is a miracle that we can hit reality and achieve the results we have now!"

"Colonel!" General Strike said, "Why do you sound like you are leaving a last message?"

"Shouldn't we do this?" Colonel Olbridge raised his hands.

Everyone was silent because they all believed that Colonel Olbridge was right. If the war situation continued like this... the destruction of the 48th Armored Division was inevitable.

"How is the situation over there with the 2nd SS Panzer Army?" Colonel Slain asked.

"It's still the same!" General Strike shook his head: "Although they are approaching us, their speed is very slow!"

"Do we have reinforcements?" Colonel Sline asked again.

General Strike shook his head again: "General Kirchner originally planned to arrange a helicopter formation to provide us with reinforcements...but you know the situation!"

Of course the officers knew what was going on.

Helicopters must be used under control of the air or in the dark.

It's daytime, and the sky is full of Soviet planes, and using helicopters in this situation... is pretty much sending them up to die.

"It seems that we can only rely on ourselves!" Colonel Slaine concluded helplessly.

"Can we retreat to the south of the Pushor River?" Colonel Olbridge asked: "As we discussed before!"

"Of course!" said General Strike. "The question is how much can we withdraw?"

"Yes!" Colonel Slain added: "The enemy will use air power and artillery to bombard the pontoon bridge. Unless we abandon all the tanks and cars on the north bank of the Pushor River, it will be difficult for us to withdraw anything!"

"Go to hell!" said Albridge. "I'd rather stay here with those Russians!"

At this time, there was a roar of fighter planes in the sky, and then a bomb exploded nearby. A layer of broken soil leaked from the command post, and the kerosene lamp hanging from the top kept shaking. The officers unconsciously He bent down to avoid it.

General Strike said while sweeping the dust on the map: "What we need is more aircraft to drive away all these annoying Soviet aircraft, so that we can win this battle!"

Qin Chuan looked at the top of the fortification, which was still leaking soil, and said, "No, General, maybe we don't need more planes to win this battle!"

"You mean... with what we have now?"

"Yes!"

"What can we do, Lieutenant Colonel?" General Strike said: "Maybe we will inflict heavy losses on the Soviets. In the end, they may not even have a hundred tanks left, but we will be wiped out. Do you understand? ?completely annihilated!"

Qin Chuan did not answer. He just looked at the top of the fortification and asked: "General, do you think... if the tank drives over it, it will still be safe?"

"What do you mean?" General Strike looked at Qin Chuan with confusion.

"I bet that the Soviets don't know that there is such an anti-tank trench in our position!" Qin Chuan said: "Or... they know that there is this anti-tank trench, but they don't take it to heart, let alone know the details. "

"You are right, Lieutenant Colonel!" Colonel Olbridge said: "This anti-tank trench was dug by the Soviet engineers and transport troops themselves. The Soviets probably will not take it seriously. But What does this have to do with whether we can win this battle?"

Qin Chuan didn't answer.

General Strike seemed to understand something and suddenly raised his head and cast a surprised look at Qin Chuan.