Chapter 153:


    Chapter 153


    The generals must have a headache. Dont you think so?


    I suppose so.


    What good is Model as a great general?


    No, being a great general itself is an honor for a soldier, but a misfortune for amander.


    He fought bravely with inferior forces and resources, and achieved tactical victories, but hecked the ability to turn the tide of the war.


    He was pitiful, struggling to dy the inevitable doom in a hopeless situation.


    Hitler had lost almost all his allies by making diplomatic blunders one after another.


    I dont know if hes sane Well, there was no other way. Its a shame about Italy, though.


    Hahaha Even without that, our Red Army will fly the red g over Berlin by the end of this year!


    Well, thats possible.


    What would be the best way to break the alliance if the allies knew the situation was reversed?


    Germany had shown its weakness since the Prussian era, winning in tactics but losing in strategy and diplomacy.


    Hitler, or rather Bittler, where did he go wrong? It was good that he subdued Britain and France in a sh. But it was the worst mistake to start a two-front war with the Soviet Union without dering war on the United States.


    He didnt try to appease the allies who were leaving, but instead set up puppet governments with execution operations. That was pathetic.


    Of course, Germany did the same in real history.


    Then well cross out Italy from our options Whats left is Operation Bagration?


    Yes! We will annihte the fascists Central Army Group, and trap the Northern Army Group in Cound and the Baltic!


    We had nned to cross the Adriatic Sea and move our troops to France or southern Germany if Italy came over to our side.


    But Hitler got angry and sent troops to Italy, upying part of the north and building a defensive line, so we gave up the n.


    Well, that was a mistake too. Germany was forced to defend strategically, and had to block the many ces where the Soviet Union could push in. Brus, Ukraine, the Hungarian in, and now Italy.


    He split and sent his troops to plug all those holes, and the rest became vulnerable.


    Even now, Germany had withdrawn some troops from the Central Army Group and detached the Balkan Field Army to block Italy. He didnt even know that an offensive was nned against the Central Army Group.


    Vasilevsky was unusually confident.


    As soon as the spring rain stops well crush the fascists.


    Yes! Comrade Chief of Staff!


    ***


    With the liberation of Minsk, the road ahead was wide open for the Soviet Army. There were tempting targets lined up in front of them.


    Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, Knigsberg, the central city of East Prussia, Warsaw, the capital of Pnd, and Krakow and Katowice, major cities of Pnd.


    Operation Bagration was the name of the operation to liberate these cities from the fascists.


    The Soviet Army, which was constantly reinforced, trampled over the weakening German Army and advanced.


    The destination was the Vist River. A huge river that flows between Warsaw and Danzig.


    Attack! Attack!


    Ura! Ura! Ura!


    A huge tank roared and sprinted through the gaps in the front line. In the sky, the Vultee fighters, which began to overwhelm the German Air Force in numbers, responded with a loud engine sound.


    The elite of the Defense Army, the Panzerjger Division Grossdeutd, was deployed to stop the Soviet tanks that were pouring in over the horizon.


    The Grossdeutd Division is thest reserve of the Army Group.


    I understand. Your Excellency.


    Knigsberg, the city they already called Fortress Grad, was being besieged by hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops who wereing to capture it.


    While 2 million from the 1st to the 3rd Brusian Fronts wereing this way, the Grossdeutd Division, the strongest armored unit of the Army Group, was ordered to fight desperately to fill the gaps in the front line.


    You know well, if Knigsberg is surrounded, the allies in the Baltic region will be isted in the north.


    Knigsberg, the capital of Prussia, which was the origin of the current German Third Reich, was a historic city.


    It also symbolized the German expansion and colonization in the east, whichsted for nearly a thousand years.


    If this ce was also taken by the inferior vs, the construction of the Lebensraum for the Germanic people would disappear like a midday dream.


    Model, themander, did not like Nazism, so he only talked about the mission of the Defense Army to protect Germany. But many soldiers, regardless of the Defense Army or the Armed SS, were intoxicated by Nazism and said they would defend this ce with their lives.


    But will alone was not enough.


    ***


    Bulge! Prepare for air raid!


    Disperse the tank toon! Zigzag maneuver!


    The Soviet Army had learned and used the tactics that Germany had used.


    Cluster bombs are falling!


    Shit! 102nd tank! 102nd tank! Respond!


    The German Armys armored unit, which was deployed to face the Soviet armored unit, was at a loss for what to do in the face of the Vultee fighters ground attack.


    Just as the German Army had used the Stuka as a close air support and wrote the legend of Blitzkrieg, the Soviet Army also used the ground attack aircraft as a kind of aerial artillery.


    When the spring rain stopped and the sky cleared up, dozens of Vultee fighters bent their noses and dropped anti-tank cluster bombs PTAB. The German tanks tried to avoid them by maneuvering here and there, but one hand could not beat ten.


    Company-level Fortress and, ah


    [The 601st Battalion encountered the enemy armored unit. T-34-85, the size of a regiment!]


    On one side, there were at least a battalion-sized group of Fortress tanks, and on the other, a regiment-sized group of T-34s.


    The German tankers, who had trained hard and fought their way through the tank battles, were confident in their own skills, but there was not much they could do alone against the enemys air and artillery support.


    Wow, the fascist bastards fighters areing!


    [Im out of ammo!]


    [Lets just go back and let the second wave deal with them!]


    The American-made engines provided more power than any of the fighters that the Soviet pilots had used before. The aces who had survived by adapting to low power and low speed were rather unable to cope.


    The German interceptors wereing over the horizon, but the Soviet pilots just coolly turned their noses and fled to the east.


    The Vultee, a multi-purpose fighter and attack aircraft, could be equipped with either ground attack or airbat weapons, but now it was deployed for ground attack.


    They had sent a radio message, so the waiting squadrons would take off with airbat weapons.


    They didnt need to desperately block the bullets that would fall on their allies heads like before.


    Hahahaha! Farewell, fascist bastards!


    As if to say goodbye, the anti-aircraft guns on the ground began to spit fire. To bury the fascist bastards who had crawled into the fire to protect their allies, in the mothends soil.


    From the first to the sixth battery, fire all!


    Fire!


    The anti-aircraft batterymander shouted Fire! repeatedly, as if he was in a good mood.


    The German fighters that were caught by the fireworks made by the anti-aircraft shells fell to the ground in a matter of seconds, spewing smoke.


    Now the Soviet anti-aircraft guns had started to use proximity fuses, which were developed through technological cooperation with the United States, inrge quantities.


    Of course, they were still expensive and limited torge-caliber anti-aircraft guns, but they were enough to be used by the front-line units.


    The fragments scattered by the 15kg shells tore through the increasingly poor armor of the German aircraft.


    Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! One shot every four seconds, dozens of batteries fired at the sky where the German aircraft had retreated.


    No matter how brave the German pilots were, they couldnt stand it.


    [Retreat! Damn it, retreat!]


    The Soviet anti-aircraft gunners, who had been shooting at the tails of the German nes flying away, began tough.


    Get lost! You dog-like bastards!


    Have some of this!


    The gunners, who had given the enemy a fistful of potatoes, now sneered with an evil grin.


    Anti-aircraft guns didnt have to be fired only at the sky.


    The Germans had used the 88mm gun to shoot down nes and tanks, why couldnt the Soviets do the same?


    Well lets sprinkle some on their heads now.


    ***


    The medium tank battalions equipped with Tiger and Panther tanks boasted a power of a hundred to one.


    It was an impossible feat for any other armored unit that had been equipped with Panzer IV or Panzer III, or various assault guns or half-tracks, to dy and stop the Soviet armys corps-level offensive with just a battalion.


    Damn it


    The Soviet armored units that had been pouring over the horizon were retreating again, preparing for the next attack.


    The wide field was still filled with Soviet tanks that had been destroyed, spewing thick smoke.


    With just 16 tanks in onepany, they had stopped a hundred-strong attack and destroyed dozens of them.


    But the Tigerpany was not without damage.


    [Retreat, 1stpany, retreat.]


    Themander ordered them to continue retreating, ordering a dying action. The Tiger tank, which boasted a magnificent weight of 70 tons, twice that of other tanks, was impossible to tow.


    They had to abandon this powerful tank just because the tracks were broken, the drivetrain was torn, or the fuel was exhausted!


    Thepanymander muttered a low curse. Damn Soviet bastards.


    It seems that these nonbat losses are bigger than the ones we lose in battle.


    It seems so.


    Thepanymander nodded bitterly as the toon leader spoke his opinion.


    Out of the 16 tanks, only three were destroyed by the enemy. But they had to leave four behind. The recovery tanks didnt know where they were, and the soldiers were nervous about when the Soviet army would attack again.


    Blow them up. If we split the fuel, none of us will make it back.


    Companymander!


    Theres no choice.


    How many of our allies lives could we save if we took just one more of these?


    How many Soviet tanks could we stop? We had to stop the vicious Soviet army, who would rape our wives and sisters and loot our cities, for at least one more day, one more step.


    Bang! They put a few shells in and detonated them, and the Tiger tank shook once and bent its barrel down, spewing dark smoke.


    Thepany members sobbed, and some stared nkly at the sky.


    Why do we have to lose!


    The Germans screamed.


    Why, why do we have to lose!