Just catching these German fish through simple positional defense is not enough in Malashenko's opinion.
What Malashenko really wants is to maximize the damage to the Germans, whether it is personnel or technical equipment. In short, he must do everything possible to use any means that can kill the Germans, so that the Germans can
The goal is achieved when the number of corpses and wreckage forced to remain is maximized.
To this end, Malashenko not only carefully prepared such a sumptuous meal in front of the position, but also used all the self-propelled artillery and TOS-1 that have been transported to the high ground and deployed in shooting positions. Only stay in the appropriate position.
With a single command at any time, those damn fascist bastards can be blasted back into their mother's womb.
"I said, should we chase them out? If this continues, these Germans will soon run out of our effective shooting range, I mean the effective direct-aiming range."
Seeing the German guys smearing the soles of their feet with oil, Iushkin was a little anxious and couldn't wait to hope that Malashenko would give the order to pursue him, but he didn't expect that Malashenko would be killed without even thinking about it.
He refused flatly.
"It's not necessary. Our formation is based on a defensive posture. It's too risky to rush out without switching to an attacking formation. Besides."
He stopped abruptly in the middle of his words and stretched out his hand to adjust the radio channel next to him to prepare for another order, and the words that followed immediately blurted out.
"Do you really think that those Germans didn't have any backup plans, so they just let us catch the fish and then take the bait and rush out? Don't think too stupid of the enemy."
Malashenko has always felt that those who are accustomed to treating their enemies as fools are probably not very smart themselves.
Malashenko has never regarded the German guy opposite him as a fool. He was like this in 1941, and it is still like this in 45 years. It has not changed from the beginning to the end.
Similarly, Malashenko also firmly believed that the German guy on the opposite side had a high probability of knowing his plan, or at least guessing part of it, and yet he was so hasty that he put together a team that looked very patchwork.
The troops with the flavor of time came to attack our own position.
This is enough to prove that the Germans can judge how critical the situation is and how anxious they are. In addition, it is also enough to prove that these Germans at least have some foundation.
Rather than taking out the last of his troops and taking a big gamble with nothing, Malashenko felt that this style of sending troops to conduct tactical attempts when he had a solid foundation was more suitable for the Germans.
What? You ask the former?
The former is Showa style, not German style.
It's that simple.
War itself is a gamble like a wonderful game. Every party participating in the war is a gambler sitting on this gambling table. Analyzing and judging the enemy's strategies and tactics is like guessing the suit and number of the opponent's trump card.
Malashenko chose the tactical strategy of maximizing returns in the safest possible situation and implemented it. The reason for this was because the leader of the division could not afford to lose in the battle at Zelo Heights.
The losses were too great to be able to fight the Battle of Berlin that followed, but we had to win it as soon as possible without being too ink, otherwise we would not be able to explain it to Comrade Lao Zhu.
Between "controlling losses" and "winning as quickly as possible", we must find the most appropriate balance point to implement. Going too far either way will not work. The diode theory does not apply here.
Leaning too far to either side may lead to situations and results that are not what you want. Malashenko, who is well aware of this, feels like he is playing a tightrope game now and cannot help but make the slightest mistake.
"Let me see what kind of trump cards you bastards have up their sleeves, so that you can organize a quick counterattack with such confidence and get people killed."
The retreat of the German troops, who were shrouded in fierce firepower like a gust of wind and rain, did not go smoothly at all. It even reached the point where the further they retreated, the greater the losses.
It didn't take long for the German troops who desperately retreated to find in despair that they were getting farther and farther away from the positions occupied by the Russians. Although it was indeed possible to avoid most direct fire from small weapons, the terrible thing was that the heavy firepower bombardment by the Russians began to become worse.
They are becoming more and more unscrupulous, and less and less concerned about the possibility of accidentally hitting friendly forces due to being too close, especially the artillery fire from the curved trajectories.
Woo——
Boom——
A 152mm righteous artillery shell fired from nowhere, landed directly next to several German infantrymen and exploded with a loud bang. The huge explosion was accompanied by an orange-red ball of fire and flames, and the sound was terrifying.
Several German infantrymen who had no time to dodge were immediately hit. Those closest to the center of the explosion were without exception instantly swept into the violent flames of the storm and disappeared completely without a trace in the blink of an eye.
The two unlucky guys who were a little far away from the explosion center were quite "lucky". At least they didn't die without leaving any traces. They could leave some evidence that they had lived in this world.
The fragmented and bloody limbs were blown backwards like rag dolls. The completely fragmented human tissue was completely unable to tell which part of the human body it was. The splashing and splashing in the distance by the passive energy impact did not count.
On the German vehicles in the distance, the graffiti was as eye-catching as a hip-hop street prank, but it was also particularly ferocious and terrifying, with scarlet red oozing out.
"Keep running! Don't stop! We're almost there!"
The strong desire to survive drove these German soldiers, shrouded in the shadow of death, to run away. Even though heavy artillery shells whizzed past them one after another and continued to fall and explode around them, they still could not stop them from escaping.
footsteps.
The Russian steel monsters in the position behind them did not catch up. They just continued to fire and bombard from their original shooting positions, using heavy machine guns and tank cannons with a far enough range to shoot directly, constantly killing and injuring the fleeing German troops.
But this is good enough news for the fleeing German army. I'm afraid there is nothing else happening here at this moment. It can be more exciting than "The Russians didn't catch up, this is great!"
Get excited and speed up your escape.
Even though they did not directly see the enemy's pursuit troops, the German troops on the other side of the defense line still sent a certain amount of support troops to come for reinforcements. They stood still within the fire support range of their own defense line. It can be seen that they received what they received.
His orders were limited to responding to his own fleeing troops and preventing possible pursuit by the Soviet army, and that was all.
But this is exactly what Malashenko wants.
Watching the Germans' fleeing troops and supporting troops rendezvous in front of the defense line, the troop density has reached the maximum level that can be expected in the situation. Malashenko, who has been waiting for this moment to come, finally raised his hand and held it tightly.
Holding the microphone in his hand, he pressed the call button, and orders filled with the aura of destruction and death were immediately blurted out.
"TOS-1 starts bombing, destroy them!"
Brothers, there is another power outage in the community. I used the remaining power of my laptop to type the first chapter. I was sweating like rain and it was already so hot. The remaining power is not enough to type the second chapter. I can only wait for it.
I'll make it up tomorrow if the power doesn't go out.