"All crews, move forward! Guard the intersection in front, don't let a German cross the street!"
To deal with this group of Germans who came to the rescue in a hurry, Malashenko had his own wishful thinking.
The goal of this group of Germans is obviously to attack these two key buildings at the intersection. The most direct way to stop this group of Germans is to block them all on the opposite side of the street, and block the buildings connecting the opposite side and your own street.
The main intersection turned into a firefight zone.
The wide crossroads is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The terrain is open and unobstructed. Apart from a few craters left by shelling and aerial bombs, there is nothing that can be called a bunker.
The Germans wanted to attack their own neighborhood, and this intersection was the only way.
When the total strength of the enemy and ours seemed to be evenly matched, Malashenko was sure that the Germans would be defeated after leaving a pile of wreckage and corpses at the intersection. The victory of the battle seemed to Malashenko almost
There is no suspense.
Malashenko led about a platoon of remaining Red Army soldiers to quickly move to the street intersection. The platoon leader who was ordered by Captain Varosha to stay and answer the phone received a complete call from the wired phone hanging on the back of the car.
According to Malashenko's order, guarding this street intersection until repelling the enemy's counterattack is the only task that must be completed.
The remaining German dug bunkers and foxholes before the street intersection became a favorable barrier for the Red Army soldiers. A total of six 1 heavy tanks commanded by Malashenko personally were parked steadily at the street intersection, acting as a barrier.
The function of the temporary fixed fort is to provide direct-aimed suppressive firepower for our own infantry.
"Quick! Get the German machine guns and bullets. Yes, put them right here! Set up the guns!"
The small group of German soldiers that were previously eliminated by Malashenko's team left behind many useful weapons.
Many of the Red Army soldiers, whose weapons were mainly automatic firepower such as sand submachine guns, did not carry long-range rifles. The Mauser 98 rifles picked up from the remains of German corpses could just play the role of medium and long-range firefights.
Several 34 general-purpose machine guns that were not destroyed by the explosion and were still barely usable had their muzzles turned and were instead aimed at the Germans themselves in the hands of the Red Army soldiers, ready to pour firepower at any time.
Basically, the Red Army soldiers with two guns each had either submachine gunners who picked up Mauser 98s to supplement their long-range firepower, or riflemen who picked up German 40 submachine guns for temporary use.
Anyway, it's just a positional defense battle that won't last long. When you run out of bullets, just throw away the German gun. It's a good choice to equip two main weapons without considering the trouble of carrying it.
boom
The first to open fire were not the infantry of both sides, but the six 1 heavy tanks led by Malashenko, who used static braking to gain the upper hand.
Iushkin's target was the leading German Panzer IV tank at the front. Among all the German vehicles within sight, this one had the highest armor-piercing firepower and the strongest anti-tank power.
, in line with the principle of catching the thief first, it is natural to knock out the target that poses the greatest threat to you first.
Aiming and firing at a distance of 600 meters is not too far, and a veteran like Iushkin can easily achieve a first hit on a tank-sized target.
The German Panzer IV tank, which was hit by an armor-piercing projectile and stuck in the upper armor of the vehicle body, had no other possible outcome other than being destroyed.
The spare track pads hung on the armored area on the front of the car body to temporarily enhance defense have no effect at all. At most, they are just a layer of toilet paper on the steamed buns. When faced with the 85mm 5 tank gun, which is enough to kill tigers and repel leopards. , cannot play any role that is sufficient to trigger qualitative change.
The 85mm full-caliber hooded armor-piercing projectile, which is known for its huge warhead charge, was penetrated into the body of the vehicle. The interior space of the vehicle was really not spacious, so it was no surprise that the unlucky Panzer IV tank was unlucky, and a strong ammunition explosion occurred immediately. Instantly. The spreading blazing fireball only took a moment to swallow up the surrounding German soldiers accompanying them.
Most of the German soldiers who were not killed on the spot were knocked to the ground by the shock wave of the ammunition explosion. The armored Panzer IV, which was not thick in the first place, disappeared after the flames of the explosion dissipated, leaving only A part of the twisted running gear and a small half of the chassis are still in their original shape.
original location.
Several other 1 heavy tanks either used high-explosive shells to directly hit the German infantry, or like Malashenko's command vehicle, fired armor-piercing shells to attack enemy armored targets. Six tank gun shells were fired from different angles. It almost made the German soldiers at the front feel unable to withstand the storm.
"Next shot, armor-piercing bullet, continue! Aim at the remaining Kraut tanks and smash them!"
"As you wish, Comrade Commander!"
"Armor-piercing bullets are good!"
"This is a greeting from Iushkin, fascist bastard!"
boom
The six 1 heavy tanks led by Malashenko were killing with unparalleled vigor. The Germans followed closely and launched a counterattack. None of the armor-piercing shells fired penetrated the main armor belt on the front of the tank. They were not defended by irregular tilts. The armor bounces off directly, and is directly blocked by the armor part which is quite physically thick.
The main gun fire, which had been shortened to a distance of 500 meters, was still continuing, but no matter how you looked at the scene in front of you, it looked like a one-sided massacre of German armored units by Soviet tank crews.
The 1st heavy tank, which was only slightly worse than the Tiger tank in terms of combat performance, was simply not something that the German small tanks of the 3rd and 4th tanks could deal with. And that was a heavy tank of the Tiger type that was originally supposed to be used to support operations in the city, but it was Malashenko, who was accidentally caught up in advance, was immediately dispatched outside Karachi town.
Malashenko, who witnessed the constant destruction of the German armored units in front of him like melons and vegetables, couldn't help but secretly thought, if the Tiger heavy tanks of that company were not killed by him in the town of Karachi, but were released into the city Assist the German army in defending the city.
I am afraid that if they are stationed at the intersection and serve as a fixed fort, the situation of mass killing will also happen to the German armored soldiers. The 76 small water pipes of 1 and 34 cannot gouge the Tiger, which is famous for its strong armor and sharp cannon, even if it rushes into the face It is useless to fire directly at zero distance. The famous scene in Pokaki Village may be staged in Stalingrad in a different way.
"Fortunately, these tigers were buried outside the city. If they drove into the city, who knows how much trouble they would cause! It would be really fucking difficult to deal with tigers stuck at the intersection during street fighting. , I can’t even use my superiority in military strength to hit him with a hammer.”