After understanding and realizing the importance and preciousness of his synthetic commanders, Malashenko began to impose stricter requirements on commanders at all levels of the division.
Including but not limited to unless the battlefield situation is extremely critical and necessary, commanders at company level and above must not lead a charge, especially a combat engineer who has more muscle in his skull than his brain.
Shenke pointed out that "it is strictly forbidden to take the lead in charging". Allowing him to follow the soldiers and lead the team was already giving the maximum face.
This order is mainly aimed at infantry commanders. After all, the fragility of flesh and blood is much higher than that of steel. In the leader division where heavy armor units crawl on the ground, the death rate of infantry has always been higher than that of tank soldiers.
Many of the tank crews of the Leader Division protected by strong and heavy armor were able to escape unscathed after the tanks were disabled, and received the friendly cover that high-value technical units should enjoy in a timely manner.
But those infantrymen can't. If a flesh and blood body is hit by a bullet, it will be a real and real injury. The bullet will hurt and bleed, and if the bleeding is too much, it will die. Everyone carries one head on two shoulders, it is no different, even if
The casualty rate of armored combat engineers known as "human tanks" is not good either.
You have to say that the Leading Division fought battles of hell-level difficulty, chewing the hardest bones of the Germans. Then what the combat engineers of the two battalions of the Leading Division faced was undoubtedly the hell level of hell, the hardest of all.
Bone stubble, no matter how sophisticated the equipment is, casualties are inevitable.
In the past few times, Malashenko ordered the combat engineers to retreat or suspend their participation in front-line assaults. Without exception, the casualties were too high and any further fighting would shake the core.
For those mid-level and senior tank commanders under his command who like to charge into battle, and whose combat style from top to bottom is almost the same as that of his division commander, they are carved from the same mold. Malashenko chose not to impose mandatory orders but to directly change their equipment.
Use the IS7, which is almost impossible for the Germans to destroy from the front, to arm the mid- to high-level tank commanders who protect themselves.
There is of course a price for doing this.
The IS7, which was dispersed to various lower-level units and placed in the position of the command vehicle, not only lost the condensed combat effectiveness and strong breakthrough power that could be unleashed through concentrated use, but also because the command vehicle usually had less contact with the enemy.
The situation passively reduces the engagement rate.
All in all, if we consider the maximization of the performance of the IS7 equipment, it is very inappropriate to disperse it to lower-level units and use it as company-level and above command vehicles. The blessing it can bring to the overall combat effectiveness
The effect is pitiful.
But just as Malashenko realizes the core problem, the method of focusing on the main contradiction first and then discussing the secondary contradictions is applicable.
Without solving the problem of the survival rate of mid-level and senior commanders, it is useless to talk about how much combat effectiveness IS7 can exert through centralized use.
Equipment is for people to use and display. If you don’t have all the people, what’s the use of the equipment? The IS7 can kill the German stick by itself just by parking it? What are you thinking? This is a real 70 tons
A heavy tank is not a 5-star SSR that can run, jump and fight on its own.
As long as the survival rate of mid-level and senior tank commanders can be ensured, and the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction of the IS7's combat effectiveness being affected can be solved, Malashenko will tolerate it. If you think about it carefully, it's not a big deal. The leader of the division's heavy tanks
The equipment level of the troops does not lack such a bit of combat power, and the overall strength is still enough to chase down any German field troops in 45 years.
The artillery fire prepared from below the high ground gradually subsided in the violent landslides and subsidences, and the destructive force on the German positions in front of them in depth extending from the first line to the second line was quite large, which was visible to the naked eye.
In this way, another cutting zone of artillery fire was drawn out, just like what Malashenko did just now when he took down the first edge position on the top of the Zelo Highlands and successfully established a landing site for the leader's division to gather follow-up troops.
The cutting strip of artillery fire produced by the army-level artillery firepower was much more powerful than the cutting strip of artillery fire of Malashenko's leader division.
After all, the self-propelled 152 is not as powerful as the towed 203, and a battalion of TOS-1 is not as numerous as the number of Andlyusas in Chuikov's hands.
The final result was that an area less than two kilometers in depth in front of them was almost turned into a death zone by concentrated army-level artillery fire.
Not to mention that all the Germans on the scorched earth will die, which is a bit unrealistic, but the casualties are not small. If the defense line is severely damaged, there will definitely be no escape. This is enough to achieve Malashenko's goal: step on the accelerator and rush.
Go up and penetrate the weak outermost defense of the Germans, then rush forward with all your strength, and then clean up the remaining German soldiers who were blown to pieces along with the artillery fire.
The key to the problem is to end the battle before the German reinforcements from the rear arrive. If the German reinforcements wait too long to make up for the losses along the artillery cutting belt, it will be too late by then.
Malashenko, who knew that his troops were extremely fast, seized the time and arrived at the position where he should be when the artillery fire was about to end: the commander of the IS7 command heavy tank with turret call sign 177, holding a radio to send messages.
The microphone shouted orders to the troops who were ready to go.
"Forward, leader division! Start attacking!"
"Ula!"
"Crush those fascists! Charge!"
"for Motherland!"
There was no Ula-like charge with huge crowds of people shouting loudly, but only steel chariots one after another with no one hanging outside. They sprayed black smoke, stepped on the accelerator, and rushed out of the position at maximum cross-country speed.
Although the momentum is much smaller, and the sound of the urrah is limited to the radio channel, the formation of hundreds of steel chariots of the new era prairie cavalry galloping forward is better than any form of traditional troop charge.
and.
No flesh and blood is exposed, just a cavalry legion covered in steel armor.
The tanks were in the front, the infantry fighting vehicles followed closely, and the self-propelled artillery was at the back.
How could the German soldiers who had just witnessed the sea of flames roaring overhead and burning the friendly positions in the rear to a crisp see this battle? A pure steel charge without a human being? Sorry, I have never seen it in my dreams.
Okay? Are you making some Herman Meyer joke?
Witnessing this huge swarm of Russian steel monsters rushing toward them, the German infantrymen who had never experienced such a battle were lying if they said they were not afraid. Their hearts were beating at a rate that was almost as strong as the earth beneath their feet.
The frequency is just as fast.
But at this point, they have no retreat. Behind them is the Heart of the Empire that they all swore allegiance to. The position under their feet is the last shield to protect the Heart of the Empire. All the German soldiers guarding this highland
They can all be called the Praetorian Guards.
The will to die that was trembling in the violence supported them to fight against the steel with their flesh and blood. The high ground that had been riddled with holes by artillery fire was destined to become a river of blood.
The real bloody battle is not in progress, but has just begun.