The "Red Guard" plan formulated by Zhukov and others is not complicated. It is to concentrate as much force as possible and JS-2 tanks and T-34/85 tanks to be used in the area of ​​the Lezhev, the junction of the two German armies. It uses overwhelming superior forces and firepower to force the German defense line.

Then, light mechanized troops that can quickly maneuver in muddy seasons and forests and swamp areas (largely equipped with BT-7 tanks) will break through to the depth of the German army. At the same time, a large number of camouflage infiltration forces will be invested in order to create greater chaos, threaten the German army's logistics supply line, and force the German army to step back in the muddy season.

If the light mechanized troops are progressing smoothly, it is not ruled out that they will detour to the rear of the German army on the north line, and they will encircle the main force of the German army on the north line, forcing the other side to maneuver and retreat on a larger scale.

While the German army began to retreat on the northern front, the main force of the Central Front of the Red Army would also launch a full-line pursuit from the Ugridge-Lerzev line, so as to make the German retreat process hastily and chaotic, which will cause a large amount of equipment to be worn out and abandoned during the muddy season.

At the same time, the Red Army that detoured and infiltrated the enemy's rear would also fully destroy the roads and bridges to achieve the goal of delaying the German counterattack to the greatest extent.

The troops used to carry out the most critical assault and intermittent missions in this "Red Guards" plan were four guard tank armies, including the 1st Guards Tank Army, the 2nd Guards Tank Army, the 7th Guards Tank Army and the 8th Guards Tank Army, which began to be formed after the muddy season in the autumn of 1943!

The tank army with the title of "Guard" is now the main strike force of the Soviet Red Army. There are 8 such army groups, with the number being the 1st Guard - the 8th Guard Tank Army.

Among them, the 1st and 6th Tank Army of Guards are all so-called "heavy tank army". Each army has 2 tank army, 1 mechanized army, 4 infantry divisions, and some auxiliary troops, with a total force of more than 100,000 people.

Of course, the tanks equipped by the "Heavy Tank Army" are also heavy. In addition to the T-60/t-70 tanks used for reconnaissance, there are more than 30 tons of T-34/85, more than 40 tons of JS-2, and the Su-85 and Su-152, which cannot be underestimated. Each "Heavy Tank Army has a number of tanks/strike artillery. The combat effectiveness is much stronger than the previous Soviet tank army!

The 7th Guards Tank Army and the 8th Guards Tank Army were sharp sword troops specially formed to carry out interspers and detours in the "Red Guards" plan. They are the so-called light tank army.

Each light tank army has 2 tank army, 2 mechanized army and 6 infantry divisions. The total strength is more than the tank army, reaching about 150,000. Moreover, the number of tanks/strike artillery it has is also much higher, exceeding 1,000!

However, the tanks owned by the Light Tank Army are all light, and the main models are BT-7 and Su-57 (modified with the BT-7 territory). Their ability to fight against German tank clusters is naturally not comparable to that of the Heavy Tank Army.

However, the anti-tank capabilities of these two light tank corpses are not weak, because the infantry equipped with them have undergone strict anti-tank war training and are equipped with a large number of Zis-2 anti-tank guns (57mm anti-tank guns), Bazuka rocket launchers, red iron fist anti-tank grenade launchers, and PT and PTRT anti-tank rifles. These are two types of 14.5mm caliber anti-tank rifles. In the shooting range test, they can penetrate the vertically placed 50mm homogeneous steel plates within 100 meters, and can penetrate the vertically placed 30mm homogeneous steel plates within 300 meters. Although it is not enough to pose a threat to the Tiger H tank and the E-5a tank, it is also enough to deal with the sides of the No. 4 H tank.

Therefore, once the two light tank armies rushed into the German side from the breakthrough of Lezhev, they could still be "invincible" as long as they did not fight against the German armored division equipped with a large number of Tiger H tanks and e-50a tanks.

Now let’s see if the assaults of the 1st Guard Tank Army and the 2nd Guard Tank Army can succeed?

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Captain Dmitry Mofievich Yazov, who is 21 years old and handsome, comes from a collective farm in Omsk Prefecture, Siberia. He joined the army in 1941 before the outbreak of the world revolution. Because of his bravery in combat and many injuries, he got many opportunities for promotion. He not only joined the Bolshevik Party, but also became an officer. After the mud season in autumn last year, he entered the crash class of the Tank Soldier School for training, and in early 1944 he became a heavy tank company commander equipped with 10 JS-2 heavy tanks.

Of course, Comrade Yazov is undoubtedly a loyal GCist fighter! No matter how difficult the Soviet motherland encountered, he is determined to defend it at all costs!

At 10 o'clock in the morning on April 5, 1944, the loyal GC warrior Yazov poked out half of his body from a very majestic JS-2 tank, looking at the enemy position that was being violently bombarded a few kilometers away.

At this time, there was drizzling rain and snow falling in the sky, and the ground was covered with white snow, but the temperature had risen above zero, so the snow had begun to melt. When the tank tracks pressed over, deep marks would appear.

Yazov, who lives in Siberia for many years, knows that if the temperature and rain and snow continue for a period of time, the entire land will "dissolve", mud everywhere, all rivers will rise sharply, and some areas will flood. In some places where the ground "dissolve" too violently, even the hard road surface will break, as if it has just experienced an earthquake. This situation is rare near Moscow, but it often occurs in the Siberian frozen soil areas, so the development cost of Siberian frozen soil areas is very high, and the cost of road maintenance alone is astronomical!

Just as Yazov was waiting a little anxiously, several red signal flares were suddenly shot into the light gray sky, which was a signal of the start of the assault.

Yazov half turned around and looked at the neatly arranged JS-1 tanks, T-34/85 tanks and the dense assault infantry belonging to the 15th Division of the Guard Infantry, and then picked up the communicator to issue an order: "Comrades from the 4th Company of Heavy Tanks, start attacking now! Long live the Bolshevik Party! Long live the Soviet Union! Long live the fatherly leader Stalin... Long live!"

With the orders from Yazov and other tank company commanders issued, the tank that had already been activated began to roar forward and spew thick black smoke.

"Ula!Ula!Ula..."

The cheering sound suddenly rang through the snowfield, even overshadowing the roar of tank motors. This was the cheer of 15,000 Red Army infantry!

Although equipped with powerful js-2 and t-34/85, the Red Army's assault tactics have not changed, and it is still a sea of ​​tanks + sea of ​​people.

In just the first wave of assaults, the Red Army invested more than 300 JS-2, T-34/85, Su-152 and more than 15,000 infantrymen from Siberia.

...

On April 5, it was not the German army that confronted the 1st Army of the Red Army's Guards Tanks, but the 8th Armored Grenadier Division of the Russian Imperial Army, with Major General Voscopponniko and Colonel Kaminsky as division commanders and deputy division commanders.

This division was composed mainly of the Red Army who surrendered in the Petrograd Restoration Operation. Most of the mechanized equipment used was sponsored by France (French armored troops were upgraded like Germany, but they did not have the Tiger H type, but directly used the combination of E-50a and No. 4 H type. In this process, a batch of French-made No. 4 H type tanks were eliminated, all given to the Russians), and had an armored battalion equipped with 33 No. 4 tanks. Each armored grenadier regiment was also equipped with an assault gun company with 6 No. 3 assault guns (also produced by France).

In addition, there are some T-50 light tanks and the "Oliga" tank destroyer vehicles assembled from the turret of the T-50 tank. The former is a reconnaissance tank, while the latter is equipped with a tank destroyer battalion (45 units in total).

The T-50 tanks in the Belarusian army were produced by the original Leningrad Kirov factory and Voroshilov factory. After Belarus "restoring" Petrograd, the German Defense Army Army Military Preparation Bureau sent experts to test various tanks and attack artillery produced by the Kirov factory and Voroshilov factory (now renamed Petrograd Arsenal). Finally, it was determined that the 14-ton T-50 tank was advanced in technology and excellent in performance and could continue to be produced.

At the same time, at the suggestion of Hessman, engineers at the Petrograd factory also installed the 57mm gun (a 50-times-caliber 6-pound gun from Britain) on the body of the T-50 tank, turning it into a tank destroyer, and named it after the Russian Queen. Later, this chariot was called "Origa's little hammer" by soldiers on both sides of the Soviet-German battlefield.

Because the car body is low and easy to hide, and the 6-pound cannon was equipped with shell-piercing shells produced by Britain, the "Origa's little hammer" quickly became the "Black Cannon Queen" on the Soviet-German battlefield and the Soviet-Russian battlefield.

The huge Stalin tank (js-2) is often overturned by this small and flexible "Oliga" tank destroyer...
Chapter completed!