Chapter 659 Thunderstorm Twenty-three
.They will first form a counterattack cluster with the 3 SS Armored Grenadier Regiments, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Smoke Launchers Regiments, and be commanded by General Steinna himself, and go forward to the Vowomin line to carry out a sudden strike against the vanguard of the Soviet North Line Cluster - use 162 SWR40 self-propelled rocket launchers from three smoke generator regiments to carry out two rounds of volley strikes, and then guide the armored grenades to counterattack with 88 No. 4 and 30 No. 3 assault guns (2 SS Armored Grenadier Regiments and 12 No. 3 assault guns) to guide the armored grenades into the counterattack.
After severely attacking the Soviet vanguard, this "counterattack cluster" immediately retracted back to Legionovo, and five heavy armored battalions blocked the following Soviet tank cluster. After the blocking victory, the 5th SS Tank Battalion must join the pursuit again, striving to cause an annihilation blow to the invading Soviet tank cluster!
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It is very comfortable to get on the train to march, but it is a bit troublesome to get on and get off. After getting off the train, you have to drive the tank out of the station to gather in a designated location outside the city of Legionovo, which makes you even more busy.
The whole process lasted for three or four hours. It was not until dawn that Captain Gustav Schwarzenegger let 22 No. 4 tanks drive behind a forest. When he was commanding his subordinates to hang a camouflage net for these treasure tanks, the roar of the motor came, which was a more shocking sound than the sounds made by the 22 No. 4 tanks when they drove. It sounded as if hundreds of tanks had arrived.
"Tank! Heavy tank!"
"What kind of tank is this?"
"Oh my God, look at its cannon, this is an 88-caliber cannon, right?"
"Company Commander, when can we change into this kind of tank?"
Hearing the roar of 22 Tiger tank motors, everyone stopped their work and turned their heads to look around. After seeing the mighty body and thick gun barrel of the Tiger tank, every tank soldier had a way to drive it.
This is the land warfare king in the dream of tank soldiers! Compared with it, tank No. 4 is simply insignificant.
"This is a Tiger tank! The most powerful tank in the world!" Gustav Schwarzenegger said loudly.
He knew the existence of Tiger tanks, and in a meeting attended by the tank company/assault gun company commander yesterday afternoon, he knew about the situation of Tiger tanks and Black Panther tanks. He was also told that Tiger tanks and Black Panther tanks have no longer been "secret weapons" since June 10.
"But our SS 5th Tank Battalion will not be equipped with Tigers for the time being," said Gustav Schwarzenegger, "because our No. 4 tank is the real master of the land battle field! The No. 4 tank is very excellent and reliable. It can defeat all the tanks in the world with it, except for the Tiger tank and another new type of tank Black Panther tank from our Germany.
OK, comrades (also known as comrades within the Nazi Party), now do your work and disguise our No. 4 tank. This afternoon, at the latest tomorrow, they will show their skills and give the Russians an unforgettable lesson!"
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"Comrade Commander, the Air Force discovered a German mechanized unit and was heading south from Legionovo!"
Major General Alexander Korobkov, the commander of the 4th Army, was in the Gas 61 car and slowly heading north along the bumpy road, was shocked by the sudden news.
Major General Korobkov, who had a little gray face, and his old partner sitting next to him, Colonel Sundalov, the chief of staff of the army, looked at each other.
The German mechanized troops also headed south from Legionovo. Needless to say, they must have come to the decisive battle with their own 4th Army!
Colonel Sundalov took the report thrown from the staff officer (put it in an iron can) from an Il-2 attack aircraft that was a guest reconnaissance aircraft. After careful reading, his frown had already loosened.
"It is a brigade-level column with about one hundred tanks. The 16th Mechanized Army should be able to deal with them."
"Okay, let the 16th Mechanized Army defeat this enemy going south." Major General Korobkov did not expect how much bad luck this enemy going south would bring to him. Without thinking too much, he decided to let the powerful 16th Mechanized Army deal with it.
The 16th Mechanized Army was one of the six mechanized armies of the Soviet Union. Like the 9th Mechanized Army, it has one tank brigade and three motorized infantry brigades. The commander is very old and has participated in World War I and attended the Tsarist Russian Military Academy. Major General Alexander Dmitrievich Sokarov.
"What? A brigade-level armored cluster?" Major General Sokarov suddenly had an ominous premonition when he learned the order from his superiors.
"Comrade Commander, we should launch our troops immediately." Sokarov's chief of staff was a lieutenant colonel, named Kurbsky, very young, and a figure promoted after the Great Purge. The enthusiasm for revolution was high, but he had never experienced the power of the Germans.
Sokarov was experienced and fought with the Germans during World War I. He knew that they rarely showed flaws on the battlefield. Those who can become the commander of the Warsaw Army must have made great achievements in the wars of the past three years, and would not be a good role to deal with. How could he send a brigade-level cluster to deal with a Soviet army?
However, the opinions were also good. No matter whether the opponent came to a brigade or an army, the 16th Mechanized Army could not turn around and escape.
"Okay, let's unfold on the spot, and we will compete with the Germans in Vovoming." Major General Sokarov thought for a while and began to make a mistake carefully. "But we should not take the initiative to attack, develop defense, build positions around Vovoming, and let the Germans break their heads and make them bloody."
"Comrade Commander, are we really going to defend at Vovoming?" Lieutenant Colonel Kurbsky felt that his immediate boss was really timid. He had an advantageous force and should attack.
"Of course," said Major General Sokarov, "the enemy must be more than one brigade, and it is likely to be an armored division. We must first ensure that we are not defeated. There is no reason to lose only when the main force of the army comes up."
The 4th Army has 1 tank army, 1 infantry army and 1 mechanized army, with a population of up to 100,000, hundreds of tanks and thousands of cannons. If it is really necessary to set up a fight, Admiral Steinna's cluster is probably not an opponent.
However, General Steinna's German Superman would not give the 4th Army a chance to get all the troops. When the Soviet 16th Army drove to the town of Vowoming and was about to launch a defensive battle, the armored cluster commanded by General Steinna was already lined up on the plain less than 6 kilometers away from Vowoming and was already preparing to attack.
This attack will first be launched by the German rocket launcher!
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Chapter completed!