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Volume 1 The Setting Sun of the Empire Chapter 77 Claw Bloodstains (Part 2)

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    On a summer evening, outside a German village that was too ordinary to attract the attention of passers-by, rumbling sounds came from far and near, setting off the eerie silence inside and outside the village.  On the fork road at the entrance of the village, several large potholes were blasted out on the asphalt road, and vehicles could only go around it. The fields around the fork road were full of potholes, as if someone had just plowed them intentionally.  The simple wooden sign at the fork is written in German with white paint: "This is 57 kilometers to Rostock."

    To the east of the village, tracked combat vehicles painted with gray and brown camouflage are the source of mechanical noise. They have formed a V-shaped battle formation early, and the combat infantry on the sides of the turret and the rear body are  He used his own eyes to make up for the lack of observation angle of the tank. The bicycles carrying the artillery had already pointed the muzzle at the village. Just waiting for the ambushers to show up, they could bombard their hiding places with ferocious artillery fire.  On the road, vehicles carrying infantry and ammunition equipment formed a long and loose queue. A large number of security teams had occupied the hills and forks around the road, and were keeping a close eye on the woods, rivers, farmland, and mountains with the highest level of security.  In the sky, groups of fighter jets and attack aircraft roared past in a hurry, providing support to the ground troops who were trapped in a bitter battle.

    Whoosh!  Whizzing!  Whoosh whoosh!

    Without any warning, a sharp sound like a cold arrow shot through the air, and the sound instantly changed from thin to dense.  Rockets flew over the village trailing clear plumes of smoke, and the scene was spectacular.  The party under attack had no way to resist or escape, and the ensuing explosions enveloped the highway area east of the village.  Through the flames and smoke, I could see those gray-brown painted tanks moving forward, trying to use their brutal impact to defeat the despicable attackers.  In the blink of an eye, they rushed out of the explosion area with unstoppable momentum, and some brave combat infantry were able to continue to fight with their own tanks.  As a result of battlefield experience and lessons, the Soviet tank crews driving these tanks gave up the seemingly most direct route and drove their tanks off the main road into the open fields. The powerful steel tanks galloped on the dirt ground with their tracks raised.  The mud blocks drew a harmonious arc in the air - the traces of these tanks formed another beautiful arc.  The fronts of their vehicles and the muzzles of their guns eventually pointed at the village: since the rockets came from the west of the village, as long as the buildings in the village were captured or destroyed, the enemy would inevitably escape where they were.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Boom!  The thunderous roar overwhelmed all the noise on the battlefield, at the edge of the area where explosions occurred one after another.  Several Soviet tanks equipped with 152 mm heavy guns opened fire through the smoke and dust gaps.  The powerful cannonball accurately landed in the village, and the wooden and stone farmhouse collapsed instantly. Smoke rose and the earth trembled, demonstrating the majesty of the undefeated lion!  Such shelling was like a war drum, urging the soldiers to move forward bravely. The advancing tanks quickly crossed the ditches irrigating the farmland, and the rapidly rotating tracks could run over the village in the blink of an eye.  As the distance continues to approach.  The tank crews noticed many pits in the fields near the village. Judging from the shallow piles of soil on their edges, these pits were neither large nor deep. They were somewhat similar to the craters caused by carrier aircraft bombs, but they were scattered.  The area and location of the attack were really suspicious, and the Soviet tank command vehicle used the radio to issue detour orders to each vehicle.  Although it seemed that the short distance was far away on the road, for safety reasons, the Soviet tank crews still carried out the order to the letter.  The T-34/85 tank, which has been tested for a long time in war, maintains a relatively fast speed.  Some vehicle commanders were leaning outside, holding 12.7mm heavy machine guns, ready to fire at any time, and the combat infantrymen were also holding on to the submachine guns in their hands.  In order to hit the gopher with a hammer as soon as it comes out of the hole.

    Since these pits almost surrounded the east side of the village, the Soviet tanks could only try to avoid them but could not completely avoid them.  When passing by some earthen pits, tankers and combat infantrymen curiously observed these shallow pits that did not look like they were dug by hand. They were obviously far away from the specifications of foxholes and could basically only accommodate adults in a huddled position.  Lying on his side, he could see no one in the hundreds of pits, and none of the tanks passing by had been attacked or hit a mine.  Judging from the situation, the German troops inserted into this area have not yet had time to build complete combat fortifications. The Soviet self-propelled artillery launched in the counterattack is gradually taking control of the situation, and the enemy's rocket attacks have also tended to subside.  Maybe those German vehicles equipped with rocket launchers were already running wildly.

    A dull buzzing sound came from the sky. Dozens of Il-2 attack aircraft flew from the east under the cover of four fighter jets. However, the reinforcement call they responded to was not the Soviet troops that were shelled here.  As the officers and soldiers looked up, these war eagles, which most of the time rarely encountered opponents, flew directly above their heads, flying away without any hesitation.

    The Soviet Air Force had no time to take care of this battlefield.  The Germans had no intention of giving up.  Just as a few and a half tanks crossed the branch road to the east of the village and approached the edge of the village, a gopher wearing a camouflage helmet with large ears came out of the hole.  For this long-planned ambush, they had obviously made careful arrangements, and the elaborate camouflage in the pit was able to hide everything.?Even the Soviet soldiers passing by did not notice anything unusual.  As the battle started, German soldiers took off their camouflage and went into battle, launching anti-tank rockets at Soviet tanks from dozens or even more than ten meters away. "Iron Fist", "Tank Killer" and even "Bazooka" came into battle one after another.  Other soldiers used assault rifles and submachine guns to hunt down combat infantry on Soviet tanks.  The dense sound of gunfire, explosions and the screams of various rocket launchers converged into a sound that was difficult to distinguish with ordinary people's hearing. Although the Soviet tanks trapped in the battle formation had thick armor and were strengthened as much as possible.  However, they are like warriors who have fallen into a snake's den. The sharp sword cannot exert its power, and the bright armor cannot protect every part of the body from the poisonous snake's fangs and venom.  In just a few minutes, the high-spirited Soviet tank group turned into piles of immovable steel and even flaming fireballs. No one among the crew members and accompanying combat infantry who left the tanks in order to survive survived!

    For the fighting outside the village, the Soviet self-propelled artillery group in the distance could not help at all. The infantry were still cleaning up the mess from the previous shelling. The deteriorating traffic conditions made them unable to deal with the massacre that happened to the tank troops.  Not enough, they could only watch through binoculars the German infantry who had succeeded in the ambush withdrew into the village.  In the face of the enemy's sudden shelling and ambushes, the Soviet army lost more than 30 tanks and a considerable number of transport vehicles and combat soldiers. It can be said that their edge was frustrated, but this could not completely stop their advancement to the west.  More than twenty minutes later, a group of tanks replaced the previously destroyed friendly forces and became the front line of this column. Several groups of fighter jets and attack aircraft were also called in to carry out successive bombings on the German villages adjacent to the road forks.  More than half an hour later, Soviet tanks rumbled past the ruins of the village, and combat alert units were deployed to protect the combat and transport vehicles of the mechanized troops as they continued to complete this difficult and extremely difficult journey. However, they failed to get out smoothly.  10 kilometers away, a similar scene appeared again at the next fork in the road, and this time the German ambush relied on a canal to irrigate farmland, and used multiple X-7D guided anti-tank rockets with a long effective range

    The Soviet army's rescue troops stopped and marched slowly along the way. The Soviet troops in the encirclement had been bombarded by German artillery for several hours.  In the central part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Soviet Air Force had the advantage, but the frequent attacks of German jet fighters prevented them from erecting an airtight protective umbrella over the encirclement. Soviet attack aircraft were sent to bomb the German artillery.  It was repeatedly attacked by old German fighter jets and surface-to-air rockets, and more than 40 of them were shot down in less than a day. The heavy losses forced the Soviet command to redirect fighter jets to fly out, but such air strikes were not enough.  Combat operations to contain German mobile firepower.  On the outskirts of the encirclement, the German army has quietly assembled more than 300,000 heavy troops. In addition to blocking and delaying the strength of the Soviet support troops, about 200,000 offensive troops have recuperated during the day and are ready for the next night battle.  Very well prepared.  As night falls slowly, the battlefield situation is undergoing irreversible changes.  In many battles of the Eastern and Western Camps and even World War II, the Soviet army performed better in night battles than its opponents. Over the years, their officers and soldiers have not deteriorated in terms of combat quality or weapons and equipment. The reason why they have become a weak side in night battles here is because  Just because they have their feet on German territory!

    After the night battle began, the German armed forces used the elite tank battalions of the Imperial Guard as sharp knives to attack relatively weak parts of the Soviet defense line.  The fierce SS-style offensive soon tore two holes in the Soviet army's temporarily formed defense line. After the infantry invaded the Soviet army's entrenched area, it was once counterattacked by the Soviet tank mobile unit. The heavy casualties did not shake the German army.  The soldiers' determination to fight, they bravely used their quantitative advantage to make up for their qualitative disadvantage, and relied on a large number of individual anti-tank weapons to damage Soviet tanks. As the battle progressed, the combat effectiveness of the besieged Soviet troops declined due to the supply of fuel and ammunition, and was teetering on the edge.  The defense line is full of holes.  In order to avoid the entire army being annihilated, the besieged Soviet army concentrated some tank troops to break out eastward. In the area east of Tribuses, they were only more than ten kilometers away from the reinforcements, but this mere ten thousand meters became the turning point in the decline of the Red Empire.  In the decisive blocking battle, the ace tank destroyer battalion of the Imperial Guard used the No. 3 assault gun and Stalker equipped with infrared night vision devices to defeat the Soviet elite tank unit and cover its own infantry to complete a hearty night battle.  The massacre caused hundreds of Soviet soldiers to shed blood in a foreign land.

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