Although in the blink of an eye, the blasted bones flew away and no residue was left, the fate was barely fair to Major Edelman, at least it did not make this devoted armored major feel anything before his death.
pain of.
Destroying the commander's car on the battlefield has proven to be a very effective means of attacking the enemy's combat effectiveness. As the saying goes, "shoot the man first, shoot the horse, and capture the thief first, capture the king." After losing the command of Major Edman, the remaining German troops
The tank immediately looked like a headless fly.
The German tanks that suddenly lost their commander suddenly lost the unified and efficient combat method just now. They were already under great pressure when facing the powerful First Guards Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment and suffered heavy casualties. Major Edman's sudden death in battle
It's like the straw that breaks the camel's back.
"Damn it! Edman is dead, he's dead! We have to get out of here right now!"
"How should we go!? The tanks are now a target for the Russians!"
"Abandon the car! Abandon the car and get out of here, quickly!"
In this case, it cannot be said that the German armored soldiers who took the initiative to abandon their tanks were vulnerable. At least they finally chose to give up after making enough attempts.
The German armored soldiers who opened their overhead hatches fled in a hurry like frightened birds in the forest. The less than ten remaining German tanks turned into a pile of unattended in less than half a minute.
of unmanned combat vehicles.
The German infantrymen who were pressed behind their own tanks and did not dare to move were instantly panicked when they saw this scene.
He was defeated again and again from the front, and he made a side attack and was slapped back, causing heavy casualties.
The German army, which had exhausted all means, really had no way to hold on. The group of Soviet heavy tanks lying in front of them was more terrifying than the devil! The retreat, like a flood that broke a bank, immediately began to occur without warning.
From the gun scope in front of him, he clearly saw the German attacking troops fleeing. Iushkin, who was in a great mood, immediately slapped his thigh and shouted in surprise to Malashenko beside him.
"We did it! Comrade Commander! We drove those Germans away! They retreated!"
The high-magnification narrow field of view of the gun scope cannot see things in the distance that are too wide-angle, but Malashenko, who is holding the commander's periscope with properties that are completely opposite to the Iushkin gun scope, can see it extremely clearly.
"Don't be too happy, Iushkin! More Germans are coming!"
The speeding and roaring steel tracks rolled over the Don River grassland that was exposed to the scorching sun. Lieutenant Colonel Doppler, who was sweating profusely from the heat as soon as he entered the tank, was so angry that his head almost boiled. Major Edelman's sudden
The sudden death and the disintegration of the troops under his command really made him furious.
"These bastards who abandoned their weapons!"
Due to heavy casualties in the Moscow offensive last winter, Lieutenant Colonel Doppler, who was transferred from Army Group Center to Army Group South, received many new recruits from the country.
These recruits who have just graduated from the Armored Forces Academy are at best a group of kids who can drive a tank. They are not serious armored soldiers at all, at least that is what Lieutenant Colonel Doppler thinks.
Lieutenant Colonel Doppler expected that these new recruits might perform poorly, but he felt that it would at least be no problem for these rookies to persist in fighting.
Lieutenant Colonel Doppler never expected that these little bastards would abandon the car and run away within a minute of Major Edelman's death.
Although they had sufficient reasons to defend themselves, even Lieutenant Colonel Doppler himself felt that the failure of the charge on Napo just now was closely related to his probing tactics, but they just threw away the precious tank.
Sayazi's escape behavior, leaving his back to the enemy, is still intolerable.
Lieutenant Colonel Doppler, who grew more and more angry as he thought about it, glanced at the tanks a few hundred meters away that were still keeping their engines running after being abandoned.
The Soviet heavy tanks deployed behind the infantry trenches to serve as mobile anti-tank fortifications seemed to have no intention of wasting artillery shells to destroy these abandoned tanks. Watching this scene, Lieutenant Colonel Doppler immediately made a rather bold decision.
decision.
"Walter! Tell those cowards to follow us and go back to drive their own tanks immediately. This is an order!"
Lieutenant Colonel Doppler, who pressed the throat intercom, seemed a little angry, but the captain, who was called Walter on the other end of the radio, seemed a little unexpected and particularly surprised.
"What? Just let them go back with us like this, right now?"
"Yes! Right now! Drive them all back, immediately!"
As a traditional Prussian-style soldier who comes from an old Junker aristocratic family, Major Doppler's ancestors all fought for the Kaiser for three generations. He is full of the style of the old era that pursues supreme glory, even more rigid than those of the Wehrmacht.
The officer corps is going to be even more intense, and the lust is almost unbearable.
It is precisely for this reason that Doppler, who is almost fifty years old, is still just a small armored lieutenant colonel until now.
Those who were with him in the Battle of the Somme and squatted in the same trench were those who are still in the Wehrmacht today. They were all generals and had already prospered, and they were considered upright.
Dopplers who don't know how to adapt and are even somewhat rigid are the most frustrated.
If it weren't for the support of his immediate superior, the division commander, who was three years younger than him, he might not even be able to keep his position as lieutenant colonel leader, and would even be sent to a military court for trial. However, Doppler himself seems to have no idea about all this.
Don't care.
Just like last winter, we abandoned those seriously injured people who were pleading and begging just so that more people could survive.
In order to win the final victory in this battle, Lieutenant Colonel Doppler decided to do everything possible to regain the lost gambling chips.
To Lieutenant Colonel Doppler, who had participated in the Battle of the Somme, the life and death of these young armored soldiers was just a number at best. The scene of a mountain of corpses in a sea of blood, where even a breath of air was filled with the smell of blood, was far more terrifying than it is now.
As long as this battle can be won, even if all these new recruits are killed, he is dismissed by his superiors, and even sent to a military court to settle old scores and new scores, Lieutenant Colonel Doppler will admit it, and he can almost know the Treaty of Versailles by heart.
Even if he died, Lieutenant Colonel Doppler would not want to go back to that dark and desperate time.
Lieutenant Colonel Doppler's order was cruel and merciless, and it was as if it would send someone to death.
Many German armored soldiers with bare hands and no self-defense weapons just followed their own offensive formation, panicking to avoid the bullets and artillery shells that kept flying. With frightened eyes, they cursed fiercely in their hearts and issued this order.
Tao is equivalent to the person who ordered them to die.