Chapter 707: Chaotic start

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Ren sighed in vain, stretched out his hand, watched a snowflake sway to his palm, and then disappeared instantly due to the heat, turning into a drop of water. The whole camp was unusually quiet, so you can clearly hear the sound of rumbling cannons coming from afar.
The fire shone on the distant burning city, and the thick smoke billowed into the sky, the sound pounding the earth deep in the horizon, as if a whimper from hell. This is the grave of human civilization. This is the place where all normal people become lunatics, but Ren is now somewhat happy because he feels that he can live better only in a place where humans cannot survive.
It ’s not because of the noisy artillery that made Ryan unable to sleep. In fact, he had slept in time after dinner early in the evening. Even Bruce and others did n’t explain the arrangements in detail. This is a veteran ’s battlefield quality— -Seize all time to rest.
When traveling in the afternoon, news came from the battalion. In the middle of the night, the entire 502 heavy tank battalion was to advance forward, reach the designated attack position before dawn, and then break through the enemy's defense line and launch an attack on the intended target. This time is the time to get up, and Ryan, like carrying an alarm clock, is only 10 minutes earlier than the specified time.
Someone was preparing to eat in the distance, there was a ray of blue smoke floating out, and it could be clearly seen by the light of the sky. The German army ’s such a large-scale operation stretched for dozens of kilometers, and it was impossible for it to be noticed by the Soviet Red Army. Therefore, the concealment work at night is not too strict, not to mention that they are at least 20 kilometers away from the fighting area, and it is not a place where strict battlefield discipline is required.
There are many veterans who have fought many battles, and these veterans have their own experience and practices on the battlefield. They are not as dogmatic as recruits, but they are not loved by commanders. These veterans often like to come according to their own ideas. Let some recruits follow the not good habits.
But the officers are generally not too harsh this night. After all, these soldiers will have to face the enemy ’s artillery directly in a few hours. They have already given their lives for this country and the head of state who is far away from Berlin. There is no reason not to let them enjoy their own life for the last time at this moment.
"Bauman! Launch the tank! Bruce! Finally check the ammunition position! Alice! Adjust the channel! Andre ... see what's wrong with the sight!" Before leaving, Rennes nagged again, after all they had to drive Entering the battlefield with the world's most powerful tens of tons of steel behemoths, it is absolutely irresponsible to not check it carefully.
In addition to the Tiger King tank that is not equipped with front-line troops, the Tiger tank is definitely the most sophisticated war machine on the entire battlefield. The powerful horsepower engine is equipped with an amazingly efficient gearbox, equipped with the most reliable and practical in the world. Long-range radio equipment, equipped with the most sophisticated optical sighting equipment, is used to target 88mm caliber cannons that can penetrate any opponent.
Such a complex machine requires very professional maintenance. Of course, through the efforts of German engineers, the reliability of this machine is already very high-but it still needs the driver ’s care and attention on weekdays in order to play on the battlefield. Out of the maximum power it should have.
As one tank after another was launched, the report of the completion of the inspection of the tank was also passed into Rennes ’s headphones. Some of the newly added 502 heavy tank destroyer battalions were very nervous because this was For them, it is really the first battle in life.
It was originally added that the soldiers in the elite troops such as 502 were all elites in other tank troops, but this method of selection and supplementation eventually came to an end because of the expansion of the German armored forces. On the one hand, because the excellent tank crew members are also very valuable "properties" in other troops, these troops have tried their best to keep these elites in their own troops, on the other hand, it is so supplementary that it really allows high-level commanders I feel that the semi-independent armored forces such as heavy tank destroyer camps are too "precious", which makes them reluctant to put them into battle.
Another important reason is the issue of promotion. Rennes is already a captain company commander. This is simply unimaginable for ordinary tank troops. In some other ordinary defense armored units, the company commander is only at the rank of second lieutenant. That's it. But in the heavy tank destroyer battalion, a company commander is probably a monster that destroyed 50 enemy tanks, how to promote those elites who were originally various troops? So these people are often reluctant to serve in such elite troops, because there is too little sense of accomplishment.
So I do n’t know when to start, or from which troops, and the new tanks that were added to the heavy tank destroyer battalion also started to use new supplementary troops. These are all trained from the rear of the campus "Pie", no actual combat experience but more disciplined.
The benefits are obvious. The expansion of the German armored forces has now been several times the original size. Now, the 10th armored army belonging to the D Group Army under Moder is included in the latest 14th armored division of the SS armored division. And the armored army in the M group army of Manstein has been assigned to the 13th armored army, and the entire armored force of the German army has been unprecedentedly strengthened.
According to the basic configuration of two armored divisions under one armored army, the Germans already have 26 armored divisions. Counting the number of independent armored divisions strengthened for the group army, the number of German armored divisions exceeds 35, although the level of eliteness has declined , But the quantity is enough to describe with amazing words.
A large number of recruits have been added to the armored division, so that the rear production line that has significantly accelerated the speed of industrial production has not wasted its own production capacity. Now the average tank retention of the German armored division is even higher than when it was first expanded, most of which are Can guarantee a base of about 300 vehicles. Generally speaking, as long as there is a tank, qualified crew members can use it. As for the level of combat, it can only be described by four words of well-trained.
Rennes ’s tank company has been in a state of dissatisfaction. The five tanks in the first row are still in order, and in most cases, only three tanks are sufficient in the second row. Before this battle came, they were all replenished, so he had 2 new tanks and 2 groups of recruits, which was considered as extra fighting power.
At 4 o'clock in the morning, the 502th Battalion finally entered the combat range. The sky was still dark. The rumbling artillery on the battlefield was no longer long. At this time, the speed of the entire battalion slowed down suddenly, not because of the rough road. It ’s because the road is full of soldiers.
Yes, it was packed with soldiers, and the sighted places were full of captured Soviet soldiers. These frustrated infantry soldiers watched the tanks of Battalion 502 slowly from their crowd with frightened eyes. Passing by, they had no weapons in their hands, dressed in worn military coats, watched and held by Germans with rifles around them, and walked back along the road.
"What's the matter? These troops are so vulnerable? There are too many surrenders?" Looking at the captives, Marcus was startled by its huge number. As if you can't see the end, it can be described by people.
"Hey! Hello! Excuse me, where are there so many prisoners?" Renn was also depressed by the slow travel speed. He had to ask a German officer passing by the tank, who was carrying a Mauser rifle. , Looking at the rank should be an infantry company commander.
Officer Nader raised his head and saw the rank of Captain Rennes, saluted a military salute and pointed to the distance: "This part is the junction of the two Soviet fronts. A tank regiment of the 10th Armored Corps cut through here. As a result, the division of two nearby Ukrainian locals immediately surrendered their weapons. They heard that we treated Ukrainian captives well, and they cooperated very well. We have counted one night, and we have not yet counted how many people have followed these two. The division surrendered ... about 20,000, maybe 30,000. "
It seems that the conversation box was opened, and the company commander of the infantry almost told what he knew to Rennes: "These troops don't have much combat power. Their rifles are equipped with very few bullets. Some people have already had because of the supply chaos. They have n’t eaten for about 10 hours, and they do n’t have many heavy weapons, and their fighting will is weak. "
The results of the German army ’s large-scale differentiation in Ukraine finally appeared on this day. The Ukrainian officers had no fighting spirit, and the Ukrainian soldiers were hostile to the Russian soldiers who monitored them. The German attack has just begun. The troops began to fight back, and the two poorly equipped Ukrainian divisions surrendered very simply, allowing the Germans to successfully capture their first strategic goal: the small village code-named n182.
So the combat mission of the 502 heavy tank destroyer battalion changed from occupying n182 to directly plugging into Pavlograd, occupying and controlling this small city with bridges. Once Pavlograd was captured, the Germans could easily take the initiative on the battlefield. Whether it was to attack Kharkiv north or sweep Donetsk south, it was a very fatal problem for the Soviet Union.
"Hey! Rennes! It seems that our offensive target has become Pavlograd, and it's farther away." Marcus's car followed Rennes's tank, and the entire company and the captives were crowded in a narrow There is little efficiency on the road. For the entire 502nd Battalion, their Eastern Front war began in such a chaotic situation.