Fafnir's troops rushed all the way to their destination, and news came from the front that "it has joined forces with Army Group South and surrounded the Southwest Front in Kiev." However, Eckert remained taciturn and did not care about the SS and Nazi members he met.
More indifference and disgust.
After they joined the brigade, they joined in the encirclement and annihilation of the Soviet Red Army in the Kiev area. Fafnir drove the captured kv2 to crush its manufacturer and previous user. He was very happy, watching one 150 shot after another.
Grenades blossomed among the Soviet infantry, on the artillery positions, and on the tanks. It was a joyful act. The Soviet army, like the German army, had no good way to face the crushing KV2.
It is joyful on its own side, but it is really hated on the enemy's side.
In September, the Battle of Kiev ended. Fafnir met many old friends on the battlefield, Dick Clown. Karl still commanded his No. 4 tank, even with a few more death circles on the barrel; the big man
Yang was already a squad leader. Fafnir saw this guy in the field hospital. His arm was stabbed by a Soviet bayonet, but he used an engineer shovel to shovel off the heads of 3 to 4 Russians; Shutkehao
Jane, the combat engineer corporal, was also spitting fire very happily, and another cross was probably waving to him; Bellwegen was busy painting his car No. 3 with a new death circle, and was talking to Fafni
I generally received my tank assault badge; Juncker's No. 3 was crushed by the Soviet T34, I was injured, and half of the crew members died, but fortunately, I also destroyed several tanks, Iron Cross and battle wounds
The medal was obtained; Gunner O'Brien did not get much benefit. His 37-gun was now criticized as a stepping stone, and no one could defeat it. He was preparing to replace it with a 75mm anti-tank gun; Corporal Dornberger was still
The gunner only followed the commander and also caught a secondary, but the young man collected a lot of jewelry and tried to mail it to his girlfriend; as for Dirk, the guy who drove the No. 3 assault gun, he destroyed a lot of things along the way.
The artillery position is also a time of great success.
Fafnir knew very clearly that the hard battle had not yet come, and the difficult days were yet to come. Then he and his companions once again turned to fight in the direction of Moscow.
Along the way, many Soviet troops resisted them extremely resolutely. Even if there were only a few anti-tank guns, they would never retreat. They dared to set up positions to resist in front of the German steel torrent, even if it delayed the German attack for a few minutes. France
Funir and the others felt that the resistance of the Soviet army had obviously begun to increase. The Soviet army, which had been beaten into chaos at first, began to restore its organization. The cooperative combat capabilities of infantry, tanks, and artillery were obviously strengthened. It was no longer the German army.
The team was massacred unilaterally.
On the Belev-Mtsensk front line, Fafnir's tank unit encountered a hard-headed force - a mixed unit of Soviet Red Army Guards infantry and tanks.
"Shoot! Hurry! Reload armor-piercing bullets!" Both sides of the battle were shouting loudly in their own languages. The number of tanks of the Soviet Red Army was less than that of Germany, but they still had the courage to attack! The battle started at 1,500 meters, and the German tanks
Taking advantage of the optical sighting, they took the lead in launching an attack. However, the Soviet tanks were much more organized than a few weeks ago, approaching the German tanks at high speed and engaging in close combat. The tank guns on the German Panzer III and IV tanks failed again.
, both 50mm armor-piercing projectiles and 75mm grenades were bounced away by the Soviets' thick sloped armor, and the German tanks carried limited special armor-piercing projectiles, so the entire formation was knocked to pieces by the Soviet T34. Fortunately,
The T34 had not been in service for a long time, and the Soviet tank crews were not yet proficient in operation and the running-in was not enough, and malfunctions often occurred. Therefore, in the end, the German army successfully defeated the Soviet Red Army, but the loss of technical equipment was huge, and they had to stop and wait for the reserves.
Fafnir lost his heavy tank, the captured KV2. The slow tank attracted Soviet fire several times but was not broken. During the attack, the heavy tank suddenly burst into smoke.
——The engine exploded, and the gearbox was also damaged and required major repairs. Once again, they jumped out of the tank like marmots to escape. This time, their luck was not so good. Fafnir was fine, but his signal corpsman died.
, a loader was injured. After he returned to the position, he had no new cars to drive, and most of the vehicles in the army also had to be repaired and supplied with accessories, especially the wheels and tracks. The gearboxes were severely worn, and the suspension systems also had many problems.
, so for at least a week, their unit will not be able to use many tanks to continue the attack. And the biggest enemy is not only the desperate resistance of the Soviet Red Army. There is a lot of rain in Russia in the autumn, the ground is muddy, and the tanks often get stuck in the mire and have to be dragged out.
, and the infantry march also slowed down. "This damn rain! This damn quagmire!" was what the German soldiers said most.
A week later, Fafnir finally received a repaired Panzer IV Type E and launched the offensive again. He drove slowly in the mud, stopping from time to time to use the winch to drag his own or friendly tanks out of the mud. The speed
It is much slower than before, and the fatigue level has also risen sharply. Fortunately, the same is true for the Soviet army on the opposite side, and their supplies and technical weapons are not as good as the German army. They are resisting step by step based entirely on their strong morale. But in the end
Unable to withstand the German attack, the Battle of Bryansk ended on October 23, and most of the Soviet army was annihilated. On October 10, Fafnir's troops broke through the Soviet defense line after an arduous journey, and the entire army
It advanced rapidly, but the Soviet air force in the sky launched a concentrated attack. Fafnir kept driving the tank into the woods to avoid air attacks, while the German air force in the sky also desperately strangled the Soviet air force flying in groups like mosquitoes.
, shooting them down one after another. The Soviet Red Army's air force had little effect on the ground and suffered heavy losses, but they also succeeded in delaying the advance of the German ground tank forces - for one day.
On the 23rd, most of the Soviet troops on Wikiyama were annihilated. Two consecutive encirclement and annihilation battles wiped out 670,000 Soviet troops, but the German army was also exhausted. Fafnir was fine, but he
Seeing that their companions were exhausted, and that the logistics supplies and maintenance were beginning to fail to keep up. Although the morale of the few friends who were in high spirits a few weeks ago was still high, they could no longer conceal their deep mental and physical fatigue.
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At the end of October, due to the muddy ground and exhausted military strength, the Germans stopped attacking. At this time, Moscow was already in sight...
In early November, the weather turned cold overnight and the ground began to harden. All troops had also finished resting, and Fafnir and others were preparing to attack the Tula defensive position.