"Kill!" Following Shulka's command, the soldiers rushed forward with bayonets drawn.
At that moment, it was not just Shulka and his platoon who rushed forward, but at least one battalion.
This was mainly because the entire Soviet front was compressed into an overly dense state... The German tank counterattack caught the Soviet army off guard. The people and tanks in front retreated while the follow-up troops continued to advance. As a result, the soldiers on the entire defense line
and tanks were pressed together.
It can also be seen from this that there is still a big gap between the Soviet army's reaction speed and the command ability of its officers compared with the German army. These cannot be solved through short-term training.
Now, a breakthrough has opened in Shulka, and the overly dense troops that were originally like squeezed balloons have found their way out... The nearby Soviet soldiers did not even need orders, and naturally followed Shulka
The rear of this platoon rushed forward.
For the Germans, Shurka's explosive pack was like opening a hole in the embankment, and the enemy poured out of the gap like a flood.
Screams, blood and death soon filled the entire battlefield. The German offensive line and morale collapsed almost at that moment. The infantry abandoned their tanks and retreated. It was organized at first, but soon turned into a disorderly escape.
The tanks seemed to be rushing out of the battlefield, but they were quickly blown up by the Soviet soldiers who caught up with grenades, incendiary bombs, etc.
The battle ended after ten minutes. The German armored battalion was almost completely wiped out. Except for a few who slipped through the net and more than two hundred people who raised their hands to surrender, the others all lay on the battlefield and turned into corpses.
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"Comrade General! We have won!" Major General Tolichka, commander of the 9th Army, reported in an excited tone: "We annihilated the German armored force, an armored regiment, at a very small cost! We have won!"
The front headquarters was instantly filled with joy, and General Kilponos also breathed a sigh of relief.
One army beat the enemy's regiment, more than 500 tanks against 100 German tanks... There seems to be nothing exciting about winning with such a comparison of forces.
However, this can be said to be the only decent victory achieved by the Soviet army since the outbreak of the war. In other directions, whether it was Leningrad in the north, Minsk in the middle, or Kiev in the south, they were all defeated.
The Soviet army was overwhelmed, especially in tank battles. The Soviet army was even more vulnerable.
This caused many Soviet officers and soldiers to have such a mentality. They believed that the Soviet army could not stop the German advance. They believed that there was something wrong with the Soviet tanks and that it was impossible to win on the battlefield against the German army. Even if the Soviet army had a numerical advantage...
It was only then that the 9th Army used facts to prove that this was not the case.
"Very good!" Kilponos ordered: "Continue to move forward as planned!"
"Yes, Comrade General!" Major General Tolichka couldn't help but sigh with emotion when he put down the microphone.
At first, he did not agree with the so-called training of the "escape hero" and the series of plans he proposed.
Of course, Major General Tolichka admitted that there were subjective factors involved... As a major general and the commander of the 9th Mechanized Corps, he certainly didn't want to believe that he was inferior to a staff sergeant who didn't even have a beard.
But this is only one of the reasons.
Major General Tolichka thought: If the Germans can be defeated so easily, then are the millions of Soviet officers and soldiers who are retreating along the entire front fools? Don't they know how to try retraining or new tactics?
But the facts proved that Major General Tolichka was wrong. They did use this "escape hero" tactic to defeat the Germans, and it was the German armored forces.
"Keep moving forward!" Major General Tolichka ordered with great enthusiasm. This victory gave him confidence.
On the other hand, General Kleist, who was commanding the main force of the 1st Armored Group to penetrate at full speed, also received relevant intelligence.
A three-wheeled motorcycle advanced at high speed from behind and overtook the "bucket truck" that Kleist was riding on... The so-called "bucket truck" refers to a military car used by the German army. In order to reduce costs and reduce processes, the design
The corners of the car were smoothed to make it look like a square "bucket".
"Your Excellency General!" The adjutant jumped off the passenger seat of the motorcycle in the rain, ran to the "bucket truck", bent down and handed a folder wrapped in a tarpaulin to General Kleist who opened the window.
: "Information just received, the Russians broke through the encirclement of Kiev!"
General Kleist raised his head and looked at the adjutant in confusion, and asked: "Where is the 11th Armored Regiment?"
"They were all wiped out!" the adjutant replied.
"No, this is impossible!" Admiral Kleist looked at the adjutant in shock.
After a pause, he suddenly realized something and asked: "The Russian 9th Army?"
"Yes, the 9th Army!" the adjutant nodded: "They suddenly appeared in Kiev and launched a breakout. Colonel Eberhard launched a counterattack according to your order, and the result..."
Needless to say, the result was, of course, the entire army was annihilated.
But that was not what General Kleist was most worried about. Victory and defeat were commonplace in military affairs. Compared with the victory achieved by the 1st Armored Group, one armored regiment was nothing at all.
Admiral Kleist took out the map from his pocket, unfolded it, put on his glasses and looked at it for a while, and then asked: "Where are they now?"
"White Tserkovi!" the adjutant replied: "They are divided into two parts, one part goes along the railway, and the other part goes south along the road!"
Admiral Kleist looked down along the railways and roads, and then couldn't help but gasp.
"They are going to launch a counter-siege against us!" Admiral Kleist ordered the adjutant: "Immediately forward the information to General Fern and ask him to deploy troops to stop them!"
"Yes, General!" the adjutant responded and turned around and ran towards the motorcycle.
The "barrel truck" continued to advance with the troops, but Admiral Kleist, who had been confident just now, was now worried and had even completely lost the joy of winning and encircling Kiev.
Because he suddenly realized that he had been fooled, completely fooled.
The Russian Mechanized 9th Army has never left Kiev. This is false.
Therefore, the Kiev Bridge was blown up, and the 1st Armored Group successfully crossed the river in Kremenchug... These were actually done by the Russians intentionally, and their purpose was to allow the 1st Armored Group to cross the river.
Move the 1st Armored Group back again?
It is easy to cross the river but difficult to turn back. The Russians only need to set up a few cannons or use shallow water heavy gunships to bombard the 1st Armored Group.
Therefore, the 1st Armored Group cannot go back.
Thinking of this, a chill arose in General Kleist's heart. He could not imagine that the enemy had figured out his thoughts.
"Escape hero?" Admiral Kleist spat out a name through his teeth.