The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1168

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: 0.059s Scan: 6.274sWith no way out, the Soviet army, which was forced into a desperate situation, burst out with powerful fighting power.

In the south of Mins, on the German defense line, the Soviet army launched an overwhelming attack on them. In just one day, the battalion-based attack was launched no less than a hundred times. After the battle, the entire battlefield was bloody.

The battlefield was full of corpses of soldiers from both sides, especially in front of the German positions. There were more than 50,000 Soviet corpses piled up less than 100 meters away from the German positions.

This is a veritable death zone. Those Soviet troops who broke through the German artillery interception and avoided the most dangerous area, looked at the German positions in front of them, and rushed up like crazy.

As a result, they were fiercely shot by German machine gunners.

A large number of MG-42 and MG-34 general-purpose rifles sprayed flames at the attacking Soviet army.

The MG-42, known as the Führer’s electric saw, had a maximum rate of fire of more than 1,200 rounds per minute!

Such a terrible rate of fire allowed it to pour a large number of bullets on the enemy in a very short time.

These bullets densely formed a steel saw that looked like a real steel saw, which could cut off all the enemies that ran into them, and it got its name from this.

Because the Soviet offensive was too fierce, the German artillery interception was almost ineffective.

Faced with the Soviet army that was not afraid of sacrifice and bravely advanced, the German army could only strengthen the infantry firepower of the front-line positions, with infantry as the main body, to resist the Soviet attack.

In this case, the role of various machine guns was fully demonstrated.

Compared with the MG09 and Maxim heavy machine guns, the two general-purpose machine guns, MG42 and MG34, are lighter and more convenient to transfer and disassemble.

So after determining the main attack direction of the Soviet army, General Bock waved his hand and fired general-purpose machine guns in other areas to support the German army in the southern battlefield.

After receiving a large number of machine gun support from friendly forces, the density of German machine guns on the southern front reached a terrifying level.

At first, the Soviet army’s cluster charge could still pose some threat to the German defense line. Some lucky Soviet soldiers even avoided the machine gun fire and rushed to the German position, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Germans in the trenches.

Although they were outnumbered and quickly resolved due to the number of people, the few Soviet troops who rushed into the German position still caused a lot of trouble for the German army.

However, when a large number of general-purpose machine guns from friendly forces were in place, this situation never happened again.

The Soviet attack was completely intercepted more than 100 meters away from the German position. Facing the fire interception network formed by tens of thousands of heavy machine guns, light machine guns and general machine guns, no matter how brave the Soviet army is, it is impossible to break out of this death zone.

At the end of the day’s battle, the Soviet army lost more than 80,000 soldiers in the battle that day, and more than 150,000 were injured!

On the German side, their casualties added up to less than 10,000, most of which were caused by the Soviet artillery bombing.

Such tragic casualties and such dense firepower made General Bock and Budyonny on the opposite side feel like time and space were flowing backwards.

Both of them seemed to have returned to the trench battlefields of the Western Front and the Eastern Front during World War I more than a decade ago!

At that time, the Allies and the Allies used this method to drag the war down.

Facing the enemy hiding in the trenches, neither the enemy nor us had any good solutions.

If you want to conquer the enemy’s trenches, you must pay an extremely painful price.

In the Battle of the Somme, the Allied forces lost more than 60,000 men in just one day, which directly shocked Gaul and the British Empire.

Now, more than 80,000 Soviet soldiers were killed in one day, a figure that was even more exaggerated than that of the Somme!

Bock took a deep breath. He was very familiar with this way of fighting.

However, if he had to choose, he would rather end the battle in another way than to decide the outcome in such a tragic way.

After all, looking at the piles of corpses on the battlefield, even though he was used to big scenes, he couldn’t help but feel nauseous.

This scene would probably leave a very deep psychological shadow on the soldiers on both sides!

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Guderian, who was watching the battle from behind, took the opportunity to attack the Soviet army’s flanks and rear when the Soviet army attacked the German positions.

This caused a lot of trouble for the Soviet army, making it impossible for them to concentrate their forces to attack the German army in Mins………

Although the Soviet army has an advantage in manpower, their advantage has been reduced a lot after a large number of troops were tied up.

At this time, the number of troops that Budyonny can deploy to the front battlefield to be responsible for the attack is probably only about 600,000.

Most of the remaining 300,000 troops have to stay in the rear to keep an eye on Guderian’s First Army, and a small number have to undertake the task of transporting ammunition and supplies and the wounded on the front line and cannot participate in the battle.

In this case, more than 200,000 people were lost in the first day of fighting, which directly caused Budyonny to lose nearly half of the troops that could be used for attack!

How can he continue to attack after losing half of his main force?

Therefore, when he saw the battle report statistics sent from the front, Budyonny was extremely annoyed.

How did this battle turn out like this, what is going on?

Not to mention that he didn’t understand, Guderian in the rear was also a little confused.

“How did Bock’s Eighth Army fight? The casualty ratio in positional warfare was 1:23? Did I hear correctly?”

Guderian found it incredible. Isn’t trench warfare the most brutal war of attrition?

In this kind of battle, killing one thousand enemies means losing eight hundred of your own.

Even if the Soviet army’s combat effectiveness is not as good as the German army, it shouldn’t have such an exaggerated casualty ratio, right?

This casualty ratio is even more terrible than the casualties of the German 0.2 field army, which used armored forces to annihilate the enemy outside the field!

Therefore, he couldn’t understand why trench warfare could be fought like this. Was it because the Soviet army was too useless, or was it because Bock’s trench warfare ability was too strong?

“All of them! The Soviet army was pressed for time, was not fully prepared, and was forced to attack hastily.

Bock was well prepared, equipped with powerful artillery and machine gun firepower, and built three interception networks, which made the Soviet attack more like a suicide mission.”

On Berlin’s side, the staff officers and generals were also very curious about this battle.

Everyone was studying Bock’s tactics and style of play in this battle, so someone found Führer Mainz, hoping to use his professional vision to analyze it.

Mainz couldn’t refuse, so he had to give a brief explanation._To read the ununderlined version of the novel, please download the Faloo Novel APP!