On the night of April 28, 1944.

The war has become more and more intense on the Telvevo front line. On the 27th and 28th, the 48th German Panzer Army invested hundreds of Tiger tanks and Grizzly assault guns, and tens of thousands of well-equipped paratroopers, armored grenadiers and infantry. With the support of cannons and air force fighters, the 48th German Panzer Army launched round after round of fierce attacks on the 1st Soviet Red Flag Army in front of Telvevo.

The Soviet Army's 1st Red Flag Army also showed its greatest determination to persevere and consumed the German army in front of them at all costs.

The sound of artillery and explosion echoed on the muddy Russian land. The front had moved to the small town of Telvivo. This small Soviet city was now full of smoke columns rising high and low. The German self-propelled artillery, rhino tank destroyer, and grizzly assault guns were all driven outside the city, desperately tilting shells towards the Soviet defensive positions in the small city. This small city just guards a high-level highway that is rare in the current Soviet Union (it is Moscow Prefecture, and the road conditions are naturally much better than other places). As long as you take this, the German tanks/assault artillery can get rid of the annoying mud and drive on roads with hard roads.

The Soviet Army's 1st Red Flag Army also knew the importance of this small city, so they took out an elite division-level battle group to defend the city. The battle started from the early morning of the 28th until late at night. With the support of tanks and assault guns, German infantry rushed into the small city several times, but every time they could not gain a foothold, they were attacked by the opponents who ignored the casualties and injuries. In the junction of the small town and the surrounding rural areas, there were traces of fierce fighting everywhere. The fortifications and buildings that the defenders rely on were almost tied. The Red Army soldiers were almost fighting the most tenacious resistance based on bullet craters and piles of gravel and ruins!

Amid the explosion of the shells, Major General Marx, who had the same surname as the great god of the Red Army, was standing on the chair of an armored command vehicle, holding a g-1250 night vision telescope and launching another attack under the observation department.

On the muddy ground not far from the command car that Major General Marx was riding, a strange-looking half-track armored vehicle was parked. The carriage of the armored vehicle was equipped with a thick cylinder of 60 cm in diameter, as if it was a searchlight, but there was no visible light.

It turns out that this is the powerful infrared searchlight, a powerful weapon for the German night battle! The infrared rays emitted by it can search for targets 1,500 meters away, but they are invisible to human eyes. Only by using the g-1250 night vision telescope in Major General Marx's hand can people or objects "illuminated" by infrared rays.

This set of infrared night vision equipment is the German army's biggest killer in the upcoming tank battle!

Because everyone knows that the Soviet army dare not attack the German tank cluster during the day. Otherwise, there would be no need for the e-50 tank to take action. The Luftwaffe's -190/g and hs-129 alone could defeat the Soviets' js-2 and t-34/85.

And in night battles, the night vision device is undoubtedly a huge gold finger!

However, this gold finger was not opened by Hessman, but the "black technology" that already existed. In fact, it is not unique to Germany. The United States and the Soviet Union, the German opponents, actually had similar equipment. However, the American night vision equipment has not yet equipped troops, and the Soviet Union's night vision equipment is still in the stage of exploration and research. In history, no truly useful equipment was produced until the end of World War II.

All the e-50a and "cheetah" cars participating in the "Triangle Zone Tank Battle" (which was later named) are equipped with infrared searchlights with smaller power and size (2 searchlights on each vehicle) and 2 g-1250 night vision telescopes. The Tiger H-type tanks, No. 4 H-type tanks (1 No. 4 tank company in the Heavy Armored Battalion and the Heavy Tank Killing Battalion), Rhino Tank Destroyer, Staker Tank Destroyer and Grizzly Assault Cannon, are equipped with a G-1250 night vision telescope, which can use infrared rays emitted by the large infrared searchlights on the semi-tracked armored vehicles (called the "Owl" night battle searchlights) to find targets.

These "black technology" equipment were only used in the most critical tank decisive battle according to the original plan.

However, the Soviet army's resistance was unexpectedly tenacious. In order to advance outside Clint as soon as possible, General Herman Hot had to order General Balk of the 48th Armored Army: On the evening of April 28, night vision equipment and e-50 tanks, cheetah tank destroyers will be started!

The effect of using "black technology" is still satisfactory. I don't know that the Soviet Red Army, which had "high-tech cat eyes", wanted to fight close combat with the Germans at night as usual. The Su-57, which had hidden black guns, all launched a counterattack with large groups of RPG-43 anti-tank grenades, "Red Iron Fist" anti-tank grenade launchers and the Red Army suicide squadrons of Bazukka rockets, launched a counterattack against the German armored cluster attacking in the dark!

As a result, the group of people and cars were installed with guns of 75mm, 88mm, 105mm and 150mm guns fired at the same time before they got close to the German tanks and assault guns.

Before the Red Army soldiers understood what was going on, they were swept down by artillery shells flying from the darkness, and more than a dozen Su-57 tank destroyers were also smashed into pieces. The Red Army in front died heroically, but the Red Army behind did not know what was going on. They rushed out of the darkness in groups like tides according to the original orders, and all of them hit the German guns! Under the flash of artillery fire, the Soviet army's corpses were stacked layer by layer, and they were shocked!

The brave Soviet Red Army was defeated by the German army's extremely precise artillery fire in this night attack they were originally good at!

By the early morning of the next day, the three-colored Russian Empire flags and the ten thousand-character red flags of Germany were already flying over the small town of Telvivo.

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The same night battle failure did not only appear in the small town of Telvivo, but on various fronts that the Preparatory Front Army garrisoned.

All night counterattacks seemed to hit the steel plate head-on, and nothing was obtained except for the terrible number of casualties.

After a night of hard fighting, just a rough count, the casualties and disappearances of the Red Army's Preparatory Front reached as many as 21,000. The next morning, the German army took advantage of the opportunity that the Soviet army had not yet recovered from the huge casualties and launched a strong attack again.

This time they invested in the legendary e-50a tank and a previously unknown large tank destroyer with 105mm cannon!

As a result, after a fierce attack, the Red Army's reserve front, which had been fighting well on both days on the 27th and 28th, almost collapsed. In one day, the German army advanced 30 kilometers and attacked outside the city of Visokovsk, which was only 11 kilometers away from Klin.

However, the battle on the 29th was not all bad news for the Soviet army. General Beloborodov, commander of the 1st Army of the Red Flag, who had been defeated in Telvivo City, personally commanded more than a dozen A-19 122mm cannons and thousands of Red Army soldiers to an ambush while the troops were retreating. Although he could not repel the German army, he witnessed an A-19 cannon destroying a German e-50a tank at a distance of 800 meters.

And it was destroyed from the front!

"Are you sure it's an e-50 tank?"

On the night of the 29th, Zhukov called General Beloborodov, who had just lost the battle, to the bunker of the General Staff in Moscow City.

Zhukov seemed not to care about the disastrous defeat of the 1st Red Flag Army. After all, this army from the east had been fighting hard on the front line in the Western Front battle starting on the 20th, and the troops suffered a lot of losses. It was not surprising that the collapse was made in this situation, so Zhukov did not criticize General Loborodov, but asked about the destruction of the e-50a tank.

What he is most worried about now is that the armor of the e-50a tank is too strong, and the 122mm cannon of the js-2 cannot be penetrated (the js-2 cannon is the same as the a-19).

"It's the e-50, as I saw with my own eyes, an A-19 cannon destroyed the body below the front of its body on 800 meters." General Beloborodov replied.

He didn't miss it. The e-50a tank can of course be destroyed. After all, this tank weighs only 55 tons, and it is impossible to have no weaknesses even on the front. Although the armor thickness of the body of the vehicle body is 130mm, the inclination angle is not large, only 30 degrees, which is only equivalent to 150mm in vertical armor. Even considering the super bulletproof ability of nickel-chromium manganese-molybdenum rolled steel, it cannot withstand the power of the bb-type armor-piercing projectile at a distance of 800 meters.

"800 meters... is enough!" Zhukov smiled confidently, "If it was daytime, it might not work, but the distance between night battles is usually within 300 meters. I believe that the body on the front of the e-50 tank cannot block the 122mm cannon of the js-2. Now we will win!"

He was right. At a distance of 300 meters, e-50 and js-2 are "match-to-pass" and anyone can get the opponent in one shot. Even t-34/85 can penetrate the frontal body of the e-50a tank with one shot.

The Soviet army concentrated a lot more tanks than the German army could invest, and the Soviet army also had more infantry, so it was possible to defeat the Germans at night with tactics of the sea of ​​people and sea of ​​tanks.
Chapter completed!