Steel Soviet Union

"Why not just blow up those two pontoon bridges and stop the idea of ​​coming here?"

"Because the mission goal does not include blowing up the bridge, boy, it is our mission to prevent the Nazis from getting through.

Machines can fight endlessly until the bad ones can no longer operate and are completely exhausted, but humans cannot.

After several rounds of charges, they failed to successfully break through and cross the river. Instead, a lot of troops were folded in, and several tanks were destroyed. The SS troops could not move forward.

The Russians cleverly made use of everything at hand, including terrain, bunkers, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and even German weapons and equipment captured by sweeping the battlefield in the form of trophies, such as those MG42 machine guns that fired wildly.

Through these things, a nearly perfect and impeccable killing chain was organized. Whether it was the SS trying to suppress direct artillery fire or the infantry forcibly crossing the river, it would not work after several rounds of attempts. At the cost of joining in, it would not work no matter what. Consider it a slight and rare loss.

The SS leader responsible for commanding this forced river crossing figured it out.

If you want to successfully cross over, you must destroy an important node in the Russian killing chain, so that it cannot be connected from end to end, and it is impossible to counterattack a certain tactic or a certain unit of arms. Targeting this missing important node and striking hard to expand the results, it would not be difficult to forcefully cross the river or even annihilate the enemy.

However, the leader of the SS, who saw the situation become clearer and more obvious the more we fought, also knew that this was exactly what his side was unable to do now.

The simpler the coordination of arms, the easier it is to be countered. This is a truth that any battlefield-experienced field commander understands.

Unfortunately, the SS cannot come up with a more effective offensive method other than infantry-tank coordination, especially the tactical air force and long-range artillery fire that are responsible for support are completely useless.

With one infantry and one armored force, it would not be easy for the leading division to deal with this group of SS troops who couldn't even get together three axes.

Although the Alsim Company on the other side of the river does not have an overly complicated coordination of arms. It is said that Podaitian is also an infantry-tank coordination of armored troops and infantry. At most, it is equipped with an infantry fighting vehicle that the German gun does not have.

But the problem is that they are the defender who occupies the advantageous terrain and is waiting for work. Not only that, the performance of their technical equipment is even better than your German stick.

There were just two IS7s. The SS armored forces gathered all kinds of firepower and smashed at least thirty or forty large-caliber artillery shells on them like copper peas. The number of shells that directly hit them was twenty if not thirty. Frequent.

But the result is that these attacks are useless without exception. Even if they are useful, they are far from useful enough to make the Russian steel monster lose its combat effectiveness and withdraw from the field. So what is the difference between rounding it off and being useless? Fighting in a tank game is not about grinding the health bar. As long as you don't destroy the enemy tank, no matter how many guns you fire, it will be useless.

The 88 and 105 armor-piercing bullets cannot penetrate at all, and hitting them is purely a useless exercise of scratching and listening to the sound.

The kinetic energy bullets can't be penetrated by the scraping sound, and the 105 high-explosive grenade has no effect either.

The explosive power of German high-explosive grenades converted into equivalent TNT equivalents is inherently less powerful than Soviet grenades of the same caliber. What's more, you German guy is still using a 105 small water pipe to blast pure steel monsters like the IS7, which have the most abnormal defense in the entire Stalin heavy tank family. If not the German guy, who else will be defeated?

The 128 high-explosive grenade is somewhat useful. After all, rounded down, this is the grenade power of the Red Army heavy tank 122 Heirloom. Back then, the Red Army could use 122 grenades to repeatedly bombard, paralyze and destroy the thick-skinned King Tiger, so today's hunting tigers should be able to repeat this operation to kill IS7.

It's a pity that firstly, the Jagdtigers in the hands of your SS are really pitiful and there aren't many Jagdtigers left. Of the total 4 Jagdtigers brought over by this round of attack, two have been knocked down and two are left. At this point in the war, it can be said that the Jagdtiger itself is the most important and most relied-upon ground core high-survivability fire support unit in the hands of the German army, and if it breaks down, there will be no place to replace it.

In order to save a group of Wehrmacht paratroopers, two Jagdtiger vehicles were killed by the Russians without even crossing the river or touching the edge of the enemy.

Such "heavy" losses are even now, when the two Jagdtigers fired by the IS7's 130mm cannon with sub-caliber sabots penetrated the main armor belt frontally, they have changed from emitting black smoke at the beginning to The steel torch burned for a while.

The SS leader who was responsible for leading the attack still felt his heart tremble and his heart ached when he thought about it.

The loss of two precious Jagdtiger vehicles cannot be replenished in this extremely difficult time. Is it really worth it just for such a bunch of cowardly Wehrmacht paratroopers who "cheat their teammates" in such a cowardly manner?

"Damn, damn it! If there is long-range artillery support at this time, even if it is just a barrage suppression against the Russians on the opposite side, the time will definitely be enough for us to rush over!"

Forced by desperation, they temporarily retreated to the offensive starting position in the small square behind the bridgehead to reorganize their forces and take a temporary rest. Whether to continue to launch the next round of attacks is another matter separately.

Anyway, the first round, which I tried several times without success, now seems to be indeed a failure.

"Wait a minute, what did you just say!? Repeat it again, what did you just say about support???"

Here, the SS major with his hands on his hips and his chest heaving and cursing was still pacing back and forth, and the spittle in his mouth was flying like a hail of bullets from the MG42 that had squeezed the trigger. The SS lieutenant colonel who was not far away from him and had been thinking about something suddenly turned around as if a switch had been pressed under his feet, and immediately spoke and asked him questions. .

"Uh what? What are you asking???"

The SS Major, who was still in high spirits, didn't come to his senses for a while, while the Lieutenant Colonel, who always felt that he was aware of some serious problem and just needed a simple reminder, looked impatient.

"Support! You just said that it would be great if there was any support, we could fight it! Think about it quickly and then say it!"

""

He does not mean that.

If you want an unintentional person to remember what he just said, it will obviously take a few seconds to slowly think about it.

"The artillery fire I just mentioned is the type of long-range artillery fire support. It should be."

"Yes! Artillery fire, why the hell did you forget this! It's artillery barrage!"

"ha?"

The major with a question mark on his face thought that the lieutenant colonel had some hidden trump card, such as a certain organic self-propelled artillery unit that could apply for deployment and support. The facial expression that he automatically imagined immediately changed to "a burst of "Ecstasy" and was about to say something.

Unexpectedly, the reaction from the lieutenant colonel was exactly the opposite. He looked extremely panicked and even jumped in haste. Without any explanation, he quickly turned around and shouted to all the SS soldiers who were resting in the starting position in the small square.

"Spread out! Spread out! Spread out immediately!!! Don't crowd together!!!"

"Did you see it? Those gangsters seemed to be running away and started to move."

On the rooftop of the twin apartment buildings on the other side of the ferry, Sulovchenko climbed up the ladder, together with the old squad leader and a few others, holding telescopes in their hands to see accurately from an excellent vantage point. Watching every move of the SS soldiers in the small square on the other side.

"It's useless. It's too late to run now. Let me check the time."

"Well, that's almost it."

"Three, two, one, that's it now! Blow it up for me!"