"Forward troops, report! How is the situation on the German defense line!?"
Although Malashenko personally led the troops and directly directed the first wave of attacks, he did not rush to the front and lead the troops to attack the position first.
Although he has become a major general and division commander, the actual power in his hands is no worse than that of a military commander, or even more than that, so he should really restrain himself and change in some aspects. He can no longer do whatever he wants as he did in the past.
Charge into battle recklessly.
However, the reply sent to Malashenko via the radio a moment later was not what Malashenko expected. In other words, the reply itself was describing another situation completely, and some of the answers were not what was asked.
"There are no Germans, everything here has been destroyed! There are only weapon fragments, flesh and blood remains, and big pits one after another! There is no other valuable thing at all, everything is completely destroyed!"
Holding the radio transmitter in his hand, savoring the word "destroy" that was still echoing in his ears, being repeated twice in a row, Malashenko finally gave a quick reply after a brief thought.
"Understood, continue searching, remember to maintain formation, and report any situation immediately."
It's not that Malashenko didn't believe the reports from his soldiers, he just felt that the scene in that description was a bit too difficult to imagine. He simply couldn't imagine the number of troops deployed on such an important blocking defense line.
, what kind of scene will remain after it is completely cleared.
Everything can only be known after Malashenko goes up there and sees it with his own eyes.
Malashenko took a deep breath and firmly held the commander's periscope in front of him, already prepared for this, until a moment later, the No. 177 IS7 command heavy tank, surrounded by a large group of IS6 and a small number of IS7 escorts,
Surrounded by another group of infantrymen who followed closely behind them, they finally charged into the enemy position that had been trampled by their comrades in front.
It was only then that Malashenko realized what kind of scene the description of "everything was destroyed" was referring to, and that this description was indeed true.
"Damn it! Picasso couldn't even paint this kind of abstract painting, absolutely"
At this moment, Malashenko, who was sitting in the commander's seat, still remembered a photo he had seen in the relevant information on the Zero Highlands.
That photo was taken about a month ago. It was copied by a Soviet agent lurking behind the scenes from the Germans' combat readiness report at the risk of death. The core content of the photo is only one: the defense line halfway up the slopes of the Zero Highlands.
Condition.
Several German generals are pointing and inspecting in the photo, while the surrounding German soldiers are busy reinforcing bunkers and building fortifications. It can be seen that the German defense line in the photo has basically taken shape at that time, and only later reinforcements are left.
The bunker and half-buried fortifications are clearly visible in the photo, and even the surrounding unobtrusive trees and vegetation that have not been cleared away are also included in the photo.
The staff officers and intelligence analysts of the Red Army believed that the German resistance at the second line of defense halfway up the slope would be predictably tenacious. Otherwise, they would not have worked so hard to prepare defenses in advance and build reinforcements.
, and in the compilation of the combat plan, it was emphasized that the attack on the second line of defense halfway up the slope especially required strengthening heavy firepower.
Facts have proved that the Red Army's offensive troops carried out the previously compiled and prepared combat plan very well in the subsequent combat stage, and indeed strengthened the heavy firepower projection to a considerable extent. However, this increased intensity seemed to be "a bit excessive."
Why did Malashenko remember that photo?
Because the scene recorded in that photo is basically two completely different worlds from the scene in front of you, and they are completely different from each other.
If Malashenko was not very sure that the position he was in now was basically the location where the photo was taken, almost exactly the same, Malashenko would have almost thought that he had gone the wrong way. Because of that in his memory.
All the iconic features in the photo have nothing to do with the decadent scene in front of you!
There are no bunkers, no half-buried bunker fortifications, no German soldiers busy digging pits and trenches, and no pointing German generals. Even those innocent plants and trees have completely disappeared without a trace.
Desolation, the scene before Malashenko was nothing but desolation.
There are countless huge craters, one after another, dotted all over the place. There are so many craters that they spread from the nearest point in front of your eyes to a position that can no longer be seen in the distance, turning into a dense mass of small dots and disappearing.
If you take a live photo of the completely identical scene that is connected into a large area, and add some filters without using PS, it can be used as a textbook photo of the lunar surface.
There were no crawling German soldiers in those craters of different sizes, only the remains of their weapons and scraps of flesh and blood. They were mixed together with the clods of soil that were raised high by the explosion and then crashed down, and were piled randomly in the craters.
It's so erratic that people can't even recognize what it was supposed to be like.
Sitting in the car, Malashenko could see the soldiers who followed him towards the enemy's position. One or two of them were watching the surroundings cautiously, moving forward with vigilance, but it was very difficult.
Not only did the soldiers have to avoid craters of different sizes, but the thick floating soil under their feet that had been bombarded by shelling to the point where there was no intact piece of land was even more annoying.
As soon as you step on a military boot, the entire foot will be covered with soil in an instant. You have to use a little effort to pull the boot out of the soil pit and change the direction before you can continue forward.
Encountered the floating soil pit that had been dug up by the first shelling, but was immediately raised by the second, third, and countless times of shelling. The soil debris was refilled and buried, but it was not compacted.
Sometimes, a soldier who is not careful may even get half of his legs stuck in it, especially those combat engineers who carry a lot of equipment and are called "heavy infantry" by their comrades.
He sank deeper and almost fell.
Fortunately, those tracked armored vehicles with strong off-road capabilities will not sink their legs. The wide tracks will compact and flatten the floating soil while running over the floating soil pit. This is equivalent to giving the infantry behind them who "don't know the depth of the floating soil" an early warning.
The road has been opened.
The soldiers who quickly got used to this situation discovered the trick, and immediately began to flexibly follow the tracks that the tracks had run over, quickly avoiding many situations where they would be trapped in the floating soil pit.
Holding the periscope in his hand and saying nothing, he kept observing. As the car continued to move forward, Malashenko, who clearly saw everything he saw in the surrounding positions, quickly noticed a man sitting far away from him.
The infantry soldier who was very close to the car bent down, reached out and grabbed a handful from the floating soil at his feet, and placed it in front of him, as if he was trying to see clearly what he was looking for.
I saw that after slightly exposing the cracks between my fingers and shaking them off, there was almost no dirt left on what was left in the palm of my hand.
Malashenko's eyesight has always been very good and he can see clearly through the commander's periscope.
The soldier who was crouching down not far from his car seemed to have more than one shell left in his hand. He estimated that there must be at least four or five, and even more shell fragments were exuding metal under the refraction of the sun.
luster.
A handful of dirt and half a handful of cannon shell skins. If you just walk around on the battlefield, you will kick someone who is not careful enough with a deep kick or a shallow kick.
The situation is clear before our eyes, and there is only one real answer.
This is the dotted crater in front of Malashenko, as dense as the surface of the moon. It is unknown how many craters were blasted out by one shot and then filled up with floating soil.
The crater was finally filled up with floating soil.
In other words, all the seemingly exaggerated things you see in front of you are just the craters created when the last wave of shells fell.
Don't think that the hour-long Guards Army, coupled with an additional leader's division-level artillery preparation, only produced "this little" effect that you saw in front of you.
Those previous craters that were severely saturated and far beyond the bearing limit of the land have been filled in countless times.
But the real "after the destruction", this is only half displayed, or less than half of the appetizer.
What is really scary and sensational are the super-large craters that Malashenko will soon encounter some distance further.