Just like the scene during the military parade in Moscow's Red Square, Malashenko once again personally took the lead in the Eastern Order.
All 25 IS7 heavy tank commanders, including himself, stood half-length outside the turret, raised their legs in salute, and uniformly paid solemn respect to Zhukov in the direction of the viewing platform.
This is not a custom unique to the Red Army military parade, but was simply invented by Malashenko himself during the recent Red Square military parade.
For example, during the Red Square military parade, the T3485 formation of the tank four that drove in front of the IS7 formation of the leading army could not pass through the parade with their turret roofs tightly buckled. They could just drive through the parade.
There are no other elements.
Does Mr. Malashenko think that just accepting the parade in such a dry manner lacks the external flavor? It is necessary to make the parade more energetic.
I was thinking about how to be more impressive, and after numerous rehearsals and trials at the training ground, I finally settled on the model where the leg commander leads the team to shout slogans, and all the train commanders salute in unison.
As for the effect.
Just look at the kind-hearted comrades present at the military parade in Red Square, and you will know that Zhukov is standing in the viewing platform right now.
Could it be that there was no trace of falsehood in the satisfied expressions of those two people, especially if Zhukov, who was de Gaulle, was standing next to him now? How could it be that his face was so bright that he could hardly close his mouth when he smiled?
"I have to admit, Marshal Zhukov, you have a strong general at your command who will make any military commander feel envious and jealous, even General Malashenko. He thought only such an outstanding general can
You deserve to be in that heroic unit with the name of leader, and I would like to sincerely congratulate you once again."
Being honored by Zhukov and enjoying the solemn salute from a total of 25 IS7 commanders led by Malashenko, even if you are not a Soviet person, you can truly feel the indescribable excitement.
To be honest, de Gaulle even began to feel a little envious at that time, wondering how long it would take for France to rebuild before we could have such good soldiers, such good domestic equipment and troops again.
I don't know what de Gaulle was thinking in his heart, but whether he could hear the enthusiastic applause and emotion so close at hand.
Zhukov, who was also smiling, nodded when he heard this. After returning the salute to the reviewing troops of Taitung's leading army, he also began to applaud and spoke with a smile again.
"Look, General de Gaulle, what you are about to see is the most powerful assault and self-propelled artillery in the world, the latest top masterpiece of the Soviet war industry - the ISU-203 self-propelled artillery."
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Huge, majestic, ferocious and terrifying, it has great visual impact and is enough to shock the whole audience. The huge gun barrel and the even bigger muzzle brake are really unforgettable.
With that machine in front of them, just lining up on the road in Taitung, it was enough for people to truly understand how terrifyingly destructive that thing was.
"To be honest, this is more cutting-edge and latest equipment than the IS7. Its first actual combat was not until the last battle of the Battle of Berlin - the Battle of the Reichstag, but it was proved by this battle alone.
Without knowing its value, nothing of that devastating destructive power can escape punishment, and only ashes remain after the earth-shaking explosion."
Listening to Zhukov's personal introduction ringing in my ears, I was paired with the live scene in Taitung composed of steel behemoths that were taller and more powerful than the IS7 that had just passed.
Did de Gaulle understand the meaning of this sentence? Or did he once stay in a battlefield on the Eastern Front, fight for a long time, and finally fled to the Western Front where the German Wehrmacht Major General led his troops to surrender to the French army?
What he said was not what he said when de Gaulle personally met him.
"Those Russians have no sense at all. Fighting against the elite troops among them, all he can feel is artillery fire, a lot of artillery fire, more artillery fire, and countless explosions surrounding him and his
Troops, at that moment the whole world was shaking, and the world seemed to be turned upside down."
"At that moment, he felt that it would be a miracle if he could survive from such a world. And the most capable unit among them was led by a man named Malashenko.
"People say that he is Stalin's most valued guard captain and that he leads the Kremlin's most elite guard force. I don't know if that's true or not."
"He only had sex with him once, just once, but that was in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. He would never want to have that experience a second time."
"That day, they watched helplessly as the most elite field division of the Wehrmacht was reorganized on the outskirts of Warsaw, right under the eyes of the army, and was annihilated by him in less than a day. Even if it was completely wiped out,
Across the Vistula River, they could smell the smell of blood coming from the other side."
"Oh my God, they are division-level troops. Shouldn't the divisions be equally matched, or even give the Germans an advantage? I can't imagine what kind of battle it will be. Everyone heard that "Steel"
"The Butcher" is here, he did it, and fear and rumors swept through all the Warsaw defenders like a plague. Until they first fled Warsaw, they were still in the east of it, thinking about leaving here quickly, away from the place called "The Butcher".
Stay away from Malashenko’s plague, and stay further away.”
"Maybe someone will defeat him, but that person will never deny him, nor him and his troops. He would rather hear the news of someone annihilating him in a safer place. Although it is cowardly to say that, but
He must admit that this would not be the same idea as many division commanders and even corps commanders including him."
If you just listen with your ears, your understanding of those words will be very thorough and profound.
There was someone really standing there, standing in Ruming's position, watching the "Steel Butcher" who was rumored to have killed the Nazis in rivers of blood, passing there with his "Elite Crusher" troops.
When Malashenko's true appearance appeared in a fighting posture, and when his troops appeared, it meant destruction.
Is de Gaulle famous? Why did the trembling and shut-up Major General of the Wehrmacht behave in such a frightened manner? Are some of the rumors at the end of the war really so "unpalatable", at least to the Nazis?
"He can't stay in Berlin. No, he doesn't even want to go near that place. That lunatic-like steel butcher will mince any German soldier he comes into contact with. If you meet him in Berlin, you will definitely die.
"
"He has a wife and children at home. He doesn't want to be buried with the Nazis, let alone be caught by the steel butcher! We must not send him to the Russians, please us! He is willing to cooperate with us in anything, just beg us
Don’t give him to the Russians, that Iron Butcher will definitely kill him! All Germans who mess with him will definitely die!"
The more defeated the Germans are, the more outrageous the various horrific rumors about our Germans become.
German soldiers on the front line who keep losing for unknown reasons always like to find out the reasons privately, or even invent the reasons. As a popular figure, the "Iron Butcher" naturally becomes a good illusion, because of that name
There are many outrageous and even evil legends.
There is a saying in the Internet era of the distant 21st century: if a lie is repeated too many times, it is like chanting a sutra, and I don’t know how many times it is said, countless times, then it is probably that the lie will not be told until the beginning, even by the person who originally invented it.
People will involuntarily choose to believe that telling too much will really turn lies into "truth".
Fortunately, the German frontline troops from the end of 1944 to the beginning of 1945 used themselves as an example to prove this point.
I lied, he lied, and all kinds of rumors about the "Iron Butcher" spread.
The German leadership, exhausted and numb by the defeat and retreat, had no time to take care of it. As a result, the rumors and legends in the east, after being repeated thousands of times, had become something that even if they were to look back on it soon.
No matter what, it’s too late for the “truth”.
As long as the German army cannot turn the offensive and turn defeat into victory, then on the front line you can subjectively feel that "they keep losing". Those German soldiers who are very smart and can think independently will naturally be more willing to go to the East in an increasingly pessimistic environment.
Believe the negative news.
Because the negative news can really explain why "they keep losing", instead of believing the nonsense in the German base camp battle reports.
Now that the Germans have been completely defeated, the Nazis have become the dust of history and cease to exist.
But one thing needs to be noted. Countless former members of the Nazi armed forces are still alive, and the "terrible truth" spread from those people still exists.
Anyone who regards the "Iron Butcher" as an enemy will be affected by those "truths". The difference lies in the size of the influence and how to view it subjectively. But the influence spread by former members of the Nazi armed forces is indeed real.
exists and cannot be ignored.
"The Iron Butcher" - that terrifying nickname stained by the blood of the Nazis will not disappear with the demise of the Nazis.
On the contrary, that nickname will probably continue to deepen the stereotype and continue to exist eastward for a long time, until one day in the future it will be as famous as the more stereotyped nickname "East Kaiser".
But that will be in the future, not now.
Now
When the ISU-203 formation, which was so powerful and powerful that it surpassed IS7, was rumbling, when Patton had a dark face and said nothing for 5 minutes.
The third heavy equipment review formation of the Leading Army has finally arrived. It consists of a leading vehicle and a formation of 24 vehicles in a 4X6 layout, for a total of 25 TOS-1A heavy rocket assault tanks.
The IS6 body carries a huge and heavy 310 mm
He shocked everyone with his appearance no less than that of the two previous brothers.
"Then what the hell is that? Wait, he remembers that thing being mentioned in the report from Moscow!"
"No, there's nothing wrong with it. Then it's the thing called the "rocket assault tank" sent in the Moscow report. Just like the British took the lead in inventing the tank, then the invention created by the Russians is
It only exists because of them.”
"The Russians had disclosed that thing to the outside world before during the Battle of Berlin. He remembered very well that there was a photo taken at a press conference at that time. Now that they have seen the real thing, the thing is far worse than what they saw in the film.
It's more threatening."
Limited by the "one vehicle, three needs" of the IS6 chassis, we want to build both the heavy tank of the IS6 body and the ISU-152A derived from the deformation. In the end, we have to consider whether the demand is particularly large, and the priority is not considered.
High, but it must be included in the TOS-1A that must be maintained in mass production.
The production capacity started to climb in 1943, and it has climbed all the way to the IS6 chassis that is now inoperable, which indeed limits the number of TOS-1A delivered into service.
In addition to the large-scale leadership division that uses terrifying heavy-duty special armored vehicles in clusters, the other guards divisions can be divided into a company. A few smaller vehicles are good, and they are all treasured, and they are basically used as weapons.
The safest artillery used.
Almost no division commander dared to use that treasure to go to the front line to attack the city, except Malashenko.
The commander and comrade who called Han Xuan "that thing is not as valuable as the lives of his soldiers" would kill the TOS-1A after catching it and use it for nothing.
Otherwise, I, the German guy, will be bombed to pieces, or I will knock down the TOS-1A and destroy it. There will be no third reason. It depends on whether I have that ability.
That's why even though Malashenko has long disclosed the existence of TOS-1A as active combat equipment, the US military still misunderstands him because he knows little about it.
As long as the Germans who could have close contact with that thing were basically unable to come east from the battlefield. It turned out that the "Iron Butcher" was not recorded in the head account, so he obediently entered the Red Army's prisoner of war camp.
The Germans didn't look like that when they were beaten. It was normal for Americans who relied on digging information from the Germans to understand the Red Army. They didn't know more about the TOS-1A than the Germans.
If you can see its true appearance up close, you really have to look forward to the four-nation joint military parade tomorrow.
On the one hand, are you worried about the destructive power that can be seen at a glance? On the other hand, are you relieved because you can finally see its true appearance?
The US military officers, who were in conflicting and tangled moods, looked the same on the outside. They looked at the steel monsters called TOS-1A with complex and indescribable expressions, roaring and roaring as the diesel engines came out of Taitung.
Things were not over there, as the leader's mechanized infantry formation followed closely behind.
A fully loaded BMP-43 infantry fighting vehicle leaned out of the vehicle. The mechanized infantrymen with AK assault rifles hanging on their chests rumbled again, ending with a collective shout of "Ula". Is it finally over?
The military parade that dazzled the representatives of the other three countries except the Soviet Union was a successful conclusion to the Red Army's final appearance.
"Huh-is it over? Finally???"
I don’t know why, but I can’t even explain the reason myself.
Looking at the mechanized infantry formation with no other heavy equipment approaching, de Gaulle felt that his eyes had finally blinked a few more times and that he could rest for a while, and suddenly felt a sense of relief.
De Gaulle was convinced that that feeling was not unique to him, but was a general situation in the entire viewing gallery.
Except for at least one person, Zhukov, who was closest to him, kept smiling from the time the Red Army came on stage to the end of the review, and he spoke slowly again.
"The high morale of the French army left a deep impression on him. Seeing that your country has restored the production capacity of heavy equipment in such a short period of time, he would like to express his sincere admiration and congratulations to you.
General de Gaulle."
Is Zhukov telling the truth? Of course not.
But de Gaulle always felt that those words sounded somewhat like "comfort from a champion."