"It's really attacked!"

In just a few hours, the Soviet defense line on the front of Uritsk was torn a wide hole! The German infantry, which was constantly rushing like a tide, stepped on the smoke of heavy artillery bombardment and continued to throw themselves into the trench battle. They fought hard to make a bloody road by fighting in close combat. The casualties paid by tens of thousands, but the results achieved were a height that they had not reached for several months!

Manstein was extremely shocked. He heard the latest news reported by the observers in front, and directly ignored the casualties. He stared at the military map. The thick curve marked with red lines represented the Soviet army's stubborn bunker fortifications, but now, piles of black differences are continuously stamped!

All the fortresses were removed, all the enemy troops were eliminated, all obstacles were cleared, and the infantry rolling forward kept gathering with armored sharp edges led by dozens of heavy tiger tanks, and they kept advancing forward bravely!

Excited! Surprise! Joy! All the long-lost emotions lingered in the German command center, and their faces that had been dark for half a year cleared up one after another. Many people couldn't help but come up to congratulate: "General! We finally won!"

Manstein waved his hand reservedly, without showing any disobedience, and even reminded calmly: "It's too early to say victory now! We just opened up the situation, so we can't relax at all! Tell the generals in front to keep in their current state and continue fighting until we completely capture Leningrad!"

"Hi Hitler!"

The officer from the SS gave a very powerful greeting, then ran out excitedly and rushed forward to observe and coordinate the battle on the spot.

This battle was the first to open the defense line in their SS. This contribution was fully affirmed the rationality and necessity of their existence and the superiority of the organization. I believe that after the head of state knew about it, he would be happy to make a wonderful speech for four or five hours in a row, and call on the whole country and the entire army to study.

Merit! Everything is for merit and glory!

Of course, these guys will never thank them for reminding them. It is just that the Chinese Observation Team that provides certain tactical support. It is better to make a fortune in this way than to make a fortune in a quiet voice.

Manstein is different. He is a general who pays great attention to honor. In his heart, he always maintains the chivalrous spirit of the German Junker nobles, and is proud, but he will never do such a thing as selling fraud for the sake of vanity. It is not embarrassing enough!

Therefore, he solemnly expressed his gratitude to Luo Zhendong and other representatives of the Chinese observation delegation. Luo Zhendong smiled simply: "This is nothing. In addition, I must remind the general that the sudden tactics in the early stage worked because the Soviet army was not mentally prepared. Once they recovered, they would definitely fight back with all their might! That was the most intense and dangerous moment of the battle! The key was whether your soldiers could continue this active attack and continue to maintain their advantages and decisiveness in the subsequent street fighting!"

Manstein nodded vigorously: "Please believe that German soldiers are the bravest and most professional. The situations you are worried about will never happen!"

This is actually a bit too full. It is really what he said. When the attack was launched last year, the Soviet army had no reaction at all, and it was very likely to break the defense with its counterparts. However, most of the Germans were rigid in tactics and had reached the city defense war, and they still stubbornly insisted on the main attack of the armored cluster.

If it is replaced by the Chinese heavy armored troops, it is no problem to play like this. The powerful and irresistible "Tianqing Warrior" as the main attacker and assist a group of tiger main battle tanks is enough to tear a crack several kilometers wide. The attack aircraft and heavy rocket launchers, missiles and precision artillery are used as suppression forces to seal the opponent's blocking heavy weapons, and the rest is to directly destroy the city with tanks.

That made the opponent's artillery completely useless. The attacking armored soldiers did not care about combat artillery and anti-tank weapons, and the tactics of joint cleaning of streets were mostly made by tanks, and most of them directly broke the building and opened the road. After the battle, there were basically only a pile of ruins left.

Does the Germans have that ability? In fact, there are. Joining Hitlerken to send two p1,000 giant rats, six E-types, plus a bunch of tiger-types and assault guns. The efficiency may be low when demolishing the building, but with air supremacy, the chance of winning is extremely high.

The problem is that Hitler's ambitions and appetites are too big, and his heavy weapons are too scattered. When attacking such a huge city, his troops are almost the same as those of the other party! What's even more terrible is that the Russian soldiers fought with their backs, and they were home behind them. If they didn't fight hard, they would be swept to death by the machine gun behind them. There was no way out except to fight to the death!

In modern warfare, you are not afraid of sacrifice and the practice of rushing gold in the sand. Through actual combat, you can directly train veterans with new recruits. After hundreds of thousands of casualties, those who survive can fight with guns. This is a big trouble for the attacking side!

The German army's tactics were too rough, and the primary and secondary were not clear enough, so it was not surprising that they were blocked step by step!

Manstein also knew that this was a great opportunity for him to turn around. If he could not seize it, he would determine the second half of his life. Therefore, no matter how calm he said, he did not dare to relax at all when he was concerned about the battle!

He first stared at the navy and asked them to nail it in the bay no matter what, and not to waver it. Once the enemy was cleared, they immediately rushed towards the shore and bombarded the Soviet army's traffic lines and key targets with heavy artillery. For this reason, they did not hesitate to lose some light ships to sweep mines!

The Air Force, Goren's fat man still had no power. He just twisted his nose and put in more under the pressure of Hitler. The key is to determine the battle situation and the attack cannot be done by them. Otherwise, these bastards would probably look down from the sky, and a fog rose, thinking that they had destroyed the enemy's key targets, and the scattered in the middle of the road, slaying the infantry and destroying the entire attack plan. That is the most deadly thing!

Manstein knew how the generals of the Chinese Observatory Mission evaluated the German Air Force. One word - clumsy! The tactics are so clumsy! You can even say that the Luftwaffe did not learn how to exert air power, nor did he truly realize that in modern warfare, the importance of the air force is at the forefront! Only with air supremacy can there be victory guarantees!

The air force of a country is controlled by a greedy fat man, and the flexibility of front-line combat is not guaranteed. The use of fighter jets must also be randomly mobilized by a bastard in the rear, completely ignoring whether the battle is needed or not. This kind of thing sounds like a fucking sound.

Having personally experienced the sharpness of the integrated air-ground attack, Manstein sincerely envied his Chinese counterparts. All the main attacking troops can call for air support at any time and destroy them accurately. They continuously remove obstacles for the infantry and provide artillery guidance to the artillery, forming an organic combination of light and heavy combinations, rather than throwing bombs randomly to create panic. This gap is really indescribable!

In the front, the Soviet army with scattered defenses could not withstand such a crazy attack! The trenches were concentrated in the tactics of integrated air-ground advancement and strangled the resistance. Facing the German elite soldiers armed to the teeth, they used the life-changing tactics to block. They watched them flatten the trenches one by one, pushed the obstacles away, and went straight to the city!

At this time, after half a year of brutal battles, the surrounding towns and buildings basically collapsed, forming large tracts of rubble and ruins, submerged in the snow. The Soviet army relied on the spot to transform into countless hidden fortifications, and millions of defensive troops were hiding there. War defense artillery, direct-fired cannons, heavy machine gun positions, and sniper positions were scattered everywhere, and it was difficult to destroy them at one time with concentrated artillery fire!

They followed Zhukov's careful deployment and turned the entire city into a terrible jungle of death. From any angle, if you want to rush through any road, you have to face ubiquitous obstacles. It can be said that for attackers who cannot launch a large number of infantry, it is enough to form heavy mental pressure! It is more cruel and more difficult to deal with than face-to-face attacks!

Last year, during the three months when the attack was most intense, the German army actually rushed here many times, but after being restricted by the terrain, they were stubbornly blocked and repelled by the Soviet army. The German heavy artillery and air bombing were useless to them. Such a successful tactic was also applied to the Moscow front, and the effect was as obvious!

But today, things have become completely different!

The German army gathered thousands of aircraft and thousands of heavy artillery like crazy, but they were used to destroy ten kilometers of front lines. They patiently used bombs to destroy buildings higher than two floors one by one. At least 500 pounds and at least 100 kilograms of terrible big guys who were loaded with at least 100 kilograms of medicine, hitting any place would be enough to kill and injured the defenders in the entire building!

When the German infantry broke through the first line of defense, air bombing and long-range precision artillery fire completed the destruction of the first line of buildings. At first, the Soviet commanders did not agree. They thought it was a boring repetition. The soldiers in the fortifications were even optimistic about slaughtering German fascist soldiers. The slogans were shouting, but the falling bombs swept them away!

When the fireworks wall that shot straight into the sky was lifted up in the front and the entire defense building was damaged, the Russians realized something was wrong! There was no such attack! Especially when it was confirmed that other places around Leningrad were not subjected to large-scale attacks, General Konev first realized that the German tactics had changed!

In terms of level, he was second only to Zhukov among the Soviet army, or almost the same. He judged the situation of the war very sharp and precisely. He immediately ordered the defense lines on the east and south sides to be drawn to the southwest, and allowed the soldiers scattered behind to advance immediately, thickening the thickness of the troops in front and preventing the German army from attacking wildly!

But it was still too late to wake up! The Baltic fleet was destroyed first, and the heavy firepower on the flanks was paralyzed! The remaining artillery soldiers were killed as soon as they appeared, and an unprecedented terrible attack was quickly forcing in!

Flank impact, failure! Frontal blockade, failure! Heavy artillery covers the rear, failure! He even dispatched the precious Katyusha rocket launcher group to launch a carpet-style cover bombing on the German attack array, hoping to intimidate and destroy the attack, but after the explosion, the German soldiers still rushed forward on a large scale like ants!

It was too late for Konev to take action! He did not expect that the wavy attacks adopted by the German army were well maintained at a good distance, with a clear division of labor, and the key was to properly control! And the tactical changes of Manstein's original mechanized armor group actually used infantry as the main attacker, which made his previous series of deployments lose their effectiveness!

The originally stalemate twenty-kilometer position was broken through one after another, and German tanks and heavy engineering vehicles surrounded by tens of thousands of infantrymen to the edge of the city!

The large buildings that appeared in front of them all collapsed, and rolled up smoke - the flammable material was burned out in the bombing of half a year. The tenacious Soviet soldiers were scattered on the collapsed walls, piles of gravel, temporary machine gun nests, and behind the war defense artillery fortress, continued to fire and intercept.

The thick-skinned tiger tank, carrying a large shovel, was crossing the front side, stumbled and crushed the ground all over the craters. The front armor and composite armor were slammed and exploded by bullets, and sparks were splashed everywhere, but they could not be hurt at all. The thick muzzle slowly turned, and every place where flames were sprayed, they were mercilessly bombarded and killed them all!

There are too many infantry accompanying them! Moreover, the weapon combination is very precise. The 10 consecutive shots of the semi-automatic rifle form a non-stop line of fire, quickly blocking every fire point. Sniper assists in suppression, heavy machine guns and "Iron Fist" rockets boost grenades at least one thrust, or two at most, and hedgehogs stab each enemy hard!

What worries the Soviet army the most was that after the German artillery pushed the fire line to the building complex, it did not continue to bomb forward in disorder. The self-propelled artillery immediately accelerated and followed up and joined the ranks of direct fire. It surrounded the tanks and acted as a barrier cleaning assistant. For any building that was not completely destroyed, it was spared no expense to use large-caliber artillery to blow it into pieces!

If you don’t see it, there are hundreds of self-propelled cannons, the smallest is 88mm caliber, and the large one is 128mm, and they are lined up on a position of just ten kilometers wide. They can almost block every inch of space. After pushing forward, the remaining heavy cannons will join the ranks of precisely eliminating key targets discovered in the city, neatly and orderly, and the bullets will be shot without slaughter!

Enter the streets and alleys to fight!

The streets outside Leningrad were actually almost blocked by the garbage in collapsed buildings. Apart from cleaning up, it was barely accessible to the bending passage of small trucks, you could not find a place where a large number of armed forces could drive in parallel. On the contrary, there were barricades everywhere, positions were stacked, and any window or pile of stones might be distributed with Soviet firepower points.

However, most of the losses were lost under the attack of the bombshell. Without waiting for a breath of relief, the German army had already rushed up!

Konev was thinking in his mind that if the German army still attacked like that, the trouble would not be too great. The street fighting was not once, and they would definitely not succeed!

What is more worrying is that after entering the streets, the powerful Soviet artillery fire could not work, and could only extend the rear route of intercepting the German army to prevent it from forming continuous military input and replenishing ammunition and medicine. As long as it can be dragged to the recovery of the firepower of the Baltic Fleet, a successful blocking battle is expected!

But his calculations lasted for only a short while and were smashed by reality!

The German army attacked not only a small number of infantry scattered, but a total of 300,000 infantry, almost filling every trench fortification that belonged to them before! The scattered on the front line were 300,000 to 50,000 people! It was enough to form an absolutely thick and lasting military input!

Not only that! Shortly after hundreds of self-propelled artillery joined the demolition, the Tiger tank groups guarding the two wings gathered together, and the two horn-like arc trajectories slashed over the front of the Soviet wings and surrounded the counterattack forces, gathered towards the center line, closely following the first wave of offensive forces behind the rear, and immediately turned the first joint attack into the triple!

This means that the German army's potentially weak armored heavy shield turned into a third layer. It was useless to break the first layer by simply relying on tenacious obstacles!

The ten-kilometer front not only did not expand, but instead showed a tendency to shrink! Along the collapsed city on the bay side, more than 200 tanks followed dozens of guides, and with the assistance of clearing obstacles from heavy engineering vehicles, they advanced slowly and steadily! They resisted the intercepting firepower of the Soviet army and continuously pulled out every nail. The infantry immediately carried out a mercury cleaning work on each collapsed ruin.

The armored companion area they took off was immediately filled with infantry pouring in from behind. They rushed in and then scattered and disappeared between the collapsed building fortifications that originally belonged to the Soviet army!

This move is simply a way to get rid of the firewood from the bottom of a pot!

Before, the Soviet army relied on its ubiquitous forces to exhaust the German forces, forcing them to continue the attack. The German army's previous attack was as sharp, but it was disconnected from front to back. When they broke into front, they immediately became besieged by the detoured or lurking Soviet army. They were exhausted, their ammunition was exhausted, their armor was continuously broken, and they had to retreat after serious injuries. This was the case again and again.

But this time it was completely different! After being destroyed, the heavy weapons were not waiting for the Soviet army to look up, the German soldiers carried a water-like automatic and semi-automatic weapons, grenades and bazooka opened the way, close-range strafing, covered with bulletproof vests, not afraid of bayonets, obvious firepower advantages, and never lag behind in the army. They cleaned up every building!
Chapter completed!