The ultimate goal of a brief but powerful artillery fire preparation is not to kill so many German soldiers or destroy so many German technical equipment, but to disrupt the vanguard of the German attack wave.
Deploy the offensive, destroy its offensive formation, and gain the upper hand for the Red Army in the subsequent offensive-to-offensive battle.
Malashenko planned it this way, and of course the actual effect was not much different from the planned one.
The Germans, who thought they were the attackers, did not seem to have much preparation for the sudden fire attack they would encounter on the offensive, and naturally there was no efficient response worth bragging about.
Although the leader division's artillery unit, equipped with isu152\a self-propelled artillery and Katyusha rocket launchers, was forced to give up firepower continuity for the sake of high mobility, it was seriously inadequate in terms of firepower continuity compared to the Red Army field artillery of the same level.
Whether it is the Katyusha, which needs a long reload after one round of firing, or the isu152\a, which has far less ammunition than the towed 152 howitzer, there is nothing outstanding in terms of firepower sustainability.
However, the firepower is not sustained well. There is still no problem with the short-term burst of firepower. In a fleeting moment, a massive amount of artillery shells and rockets are poured onto the heads of the German troops. This is very difficult for the high mobility of the leading division.
It is still easy for the artillerymen.
The overwhelming rain of heavy artillery shells and rockets exploded in the German offensive line. The death bombardment that fell like raindrops knocked these unprepared German troops into a state of misery.
"Hide! Hurry and hide!!! Shelling and cover!"
"Where can we hide? This damn place doesn't even have a trench. Where do you think we can hide!?"
"Crate, crater! Find the Russian's crater and jump into it, quick!"
Frontline soldiers in many countries have a rather superstitious or metaphysical saying: "It is impossible for a second artillery shell to fall in a crater." This roughly means that a crater created by artillery fire is very safe. You can think that it is not
There will be a second incoming artillery shell that will fall into this crater with the same accuracy and explode. It is indeed a good place to hide.
But this statement is really a bit like "benevolence is in the eye of the beholder." Whether you believe it or not depends on your personal understanding. Especially when the enemy you are facing is the Russian Maozi, who has the most powerful field artillery in the world at the same time.
Many German soldiers who have personally experienced the apocalyptic feeling of being enveloped by Russian shelling actually do not believe in this kind of battlefield metaphysics.
But sometimes the truth is so ironic. Whether you believe it or not, the current fact is that except for the crater blasted by the Russian heavy artillery, there is no decent shelter to avoid shelling on the entire battlefield.
If you don’t dig into this pit, you will just stand outside and get bombed for a few seconds or ten seconds. If you are lucky, maybe tens of seconds or a minute later, you will follow in the footsteps of other unlucky people around you and become the same.
It was turned into a puddle of minced meat, and even its bones were smashed into ashes.
So when this situation really came, those German soldiers who were panicking and had nowhere to hide, followed the same example and rushed to jump into the crater one by two, for fear that they would jump in too late and there would be no room for them.
Instead of leaving himself outside to die.
The infantrymen who were bombed to pieces in the open space were very uncomfortable. On the other hand, the German armored forces were also in a bad situation.
Although most of the incoming artillery shells and rockets pose little threat to the German fully enclosed tracked armored combat vehicles. The German armored combat vehicles above the Panzer IV, as long as they are not directly hit by large-caliber artillery shells or rockets, will
Generally speaking, the running gear will be damaged by a near-missile bomb, and the sight will be shattered and the combat effectiveness will be lost. However, the crew can at least abandon the vehicle and escape.
But the current situation is different. Even if the German armored soldiers were not directly hit by large-caliber heavy firepower, but were simply paralyzed and lost the ability to maneuver and continue fighting, they still could not abandon their vehicles and escape immediately.
The reason is not difficult to understand. Even if a paralyzed tank, assault gun, or tank destroyer is in trouble again, at least it can provide fully enclosed armor protection to protect the crew. But if you abandon the vehicle and escape, there will still be a lot of noise outside.
The constant falling heavy artillery shells and rockets can tear any unlucky flesh and blood creature into pieces in an instant.
The fate of armored soldiers who left their vehicles in this situation will not be any better than ordinary infantry just because of the word "armor". Being blown into a puddle of minced meat will not leave you with one more intact bone, unlucky man.
Their fate is the same.
So you can see a very strange, but not difficult to understand, real situation on the current battlefield.
Those vehicles were paralyzed and unable to move. Almost none of the German armored soldiers dared to abandon the vehicles and escape.
The in-vehicle sighting system with a very limited field of vision could not fully perceive what was happening outside. The frightened German armored soldiers could only guess that they had been hit by the continuous and continuous huge explosions.
The Russian ambush was covered by heavy artillery barrages, and the Russians' ferocious bombardment has not stopped and continues.
The car was immobilized, but abandoning the car and escaping now was like saying you didn't die quickly enough.
The German armored soldiers had no other choice but to hide in the vehicle, praying that they could escape under the protection of the vehicle's armor and survive the Russian shelling.
It is indeed undeniable that there are lucky ones among the Germans, but there are also unlucky ones who will never disappoint.
A late-model Panther G, whose tracks were blown off and unable to move, was paralyzed on the snow. The last generation of improved mass-produced sub-models of this Panther-1 medium tank was tampered with by Malashenko on this line.
In the previous timeline, the inventory was already very low.
The actual continuous mass production work only lasted less than three months, and then it was completely replaced by the enhanced and upgraded "Panther II" based on the next-generation sub-model "Panther F".
Therefore, when Black Panther F did not carry out large-scale mass production, but jumped directly to the enhanced Black Panther II, Black Panther G undoubtedly became the rarest generation in the entire Black Panther family.
submodel.
Even the Black Panther D, which was the most useless first-generation car in the entire Black Panther series due to its crotchless performance in the Battle of Kursk, and the Black Panther D that caught fire and spontaneously combusted during drag racing, has a higher production volume than it. It is truly a responsible person in the Black Panther family.
From this point of view, the collection value of Black Panther G is definitely not low at least after the war. After all, things are rare and valuable, not to mention that this is a war antique cultural relic.
But on a battlefield filled with artillery fire, you won’t care about your future. The paralyzed Black Panther G, together with her unlucky quintuplets of armored soldiers, soon ushered in a kind of
It's almost the same way to die if you win the lottery.