If an exhausted unit or less force than the opponent has a strong fighting spirit to fight to the end, and a resourceful and proficient in strategy and tactics, commanders decisively and boldly command these disadvantaged units to fight, there is still a great chance of creating miracles and winning the more with less.

When the Soviet army covered the trembling earth with fierce artillery fire, Model was also alarmed at the same time.

He also saw the Soviet army's artillery fire as if it was not worth money, desperately pouring down on the front line defense positions of his troops, blowing the earth up and rotting it.

However, for Model, who had been prepared to establish a defensive position, his artillery positions and armored forces were not seriously damaged. Even the frontline positions with the most severe coverage of artillery fire had strong fortifications to resist the bombing of artillery fire, so the German soldiers on the frontline did not suffer much casualties.

"Hey! I didn't expect these Soviet troops to be so anxious! I couldn't stand the sudden attack so quickly?"

When Model saw that his defensive positions he had carefully built for several weeks and the camouflage positions were successfully blocked by the Soviet army's first round of fierce artillery fire attacks from tigers ascended the mountain, he murmured with a smile.

If Model, Gothard Heinrich, and Mandofir and other famous generals agree with the tacit understanding and unity in the coordinated combat between infantry units, anti-aircraft guns, armored units, assault guns, and engineer units, they will be the foundation of the defense strategy.

The key element that plays a decisive role in defensive warfare, in addition to the assistance and support of infantry and artillery teams, is whether the armored troops can concentrate; concentrate all firepower to remove the enemy's attack incoming troops, or armored troops from the captured defensive front.

Of course, the main force of the German flexible defensive positions is still the infantry troops that fight tenaciously, and they are also key troops that cooperate with various arms to carry out effective counterattacks and defenses.

Although assault guns, armored troops, and other advanced weapons and equipment are the core counterattack forces in defensive warfare, if these troops are not used to assist in the war, then these armored troops will be dispersed by the enemy. As for assault guns and other advanced weapons and equipment, they will easily be completely destroyed by the enemy on the battlefield and turned into scrap iron.

For this reason, Model also attached great importance to the combat effectiveness of his infantry units. He not only required the division commanders of each division, as well as the armored commanders at the division level, to be at the front line, to keep abreast of the battle terrain and the first-hand changes in the battle situation at any time.

Although this is risky and can easily be given to the enemy's division headquarters and division commanders, the biggest advantage of this is that he needs to obtain first-hand information on the battlefield that is changing rapidly, so that these division commanders can make the most accurate strategic and tactical decisions at the critical moment of deciding the outcome of the war to win the war.

Model's approach is as brave and fearless as those of Rommel and the Balkans and other famous German generals.

However, because Model had evacuated to the Dnieper River many days in advance according to Chen Yanlong's order, the fact that neither Model nor Manstein implemented the infamous "scorched earth" policy, as well as the cars, tanks, cannons, and soldiers equipped by the German combat troops did not have to crowded by the river to cross the river. They lined up in chaos and waited for crossing the river in fear, and were worried about the Soviet army's pursuit, or dispatching bombers and fighters to carry out air strikes.

At the same time, Model's troops were also covered by a large number of German air forces, and not like the original history, when the defeated and fled German army headed to the Dnieper River, they did not see a German fighter jet.

Finally, what is even more different from the original history is that after crossing the Dnieper River, Model's troops not only received a large amount of ammunition and weapons and equipment in the rear, but also had a large amount of military supplies, medicines, and food to supplement them.

After crossing the river with the original history, I found that there was no supplementary weapons, equipment and ammunition, nor any supplementary food and military supplies in the rear, and there was no supplementary to food and military supplies, and there was not as happy as Model now. Not only was he adequately supplemented, but he also had a good defensive array to allow the troops to rest and resist Soviet pursuits, as well as large-scale sudden attacks.

Because these defensive positions were built before the start of the Kursk Battle, and after Model's troops evacuated here, they were fully reinforced under Model's personal supervisor, so the defensive strength of these defensive positions was very consolidated.

When the Soviet army's large-scale artillery fire was covered, the Soviet army's infantry immediately used rafts, boats, empty gasoline barrels, or various landing crafts, or even swimming to force cross the Dnieper River, and prepared to establish bridgehead positions at various ferries on the German defensive positions.

Model would not agree with the Soviet army's plan and would ignore it.

Because he had been fighting with the Soviet army for a long time, he knew very clearly that once the Soviet army established a beachhead or bridgehead, the Soviet army would quickly change a small group of troops into a force, or even an army group with its magical ability.

If this is the case, Model's solid defensive position will be quickly fully compromised and occupied by the Soviet army.

So he quickly ordered his artillery troops, along with heavy weapons and equipment with strong lethality such as the Himmler rocket launcher, and bombarded all the Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper River in a crazy manner.

At the same time, all troops were ordered to cooperate with the armored troops and assault artillery units to attack the Soviet army that successfully landed on the ferry at any time, wipe them out, or drive them down into the river.

While the Soviet army was sending a large number of landing crafts and infantry to cross the river in various ways, the Soviet army's tank troops and armored troops were also trying to survive the battle.

In addition to the classic T-34 tanks and I-2 Stalin tanks, the Soviet army also has a small number of US Sherman tanks.

At the same time, the Soviet army also dispatched a large number of fighter jets to bomb Model's defensive positions with bombers, assisting the Soviet troops in crossing and landing operations.

"Marson Model! The Soviet tank troops and aviation troops have already begun to attack. Should we also call our aviation troops to help?"

Lieutenant General Brian Horox, the commander of the 30th Army in the front line, said worriedly to Model, who was standing beside him and observing the Soviet army crossing the river.

"Yes! No matter what method we use, we must snipe and kill these Soviet troops who are desperately crossing the river and rushing to land on the beach. We will never allow them to occupy any ferry crossings of our defensive positions or establish their bridgehead positions."

Model nodded and agreed while using military telescopes to stare at the Soviet army, using the large LCP personnel landing craft provided by the US military to the Soviet army, and the (LCV) vehicle landing craft, LCI infantry landing gunboat, and tank landing craft LCT-MK4 type to rush to the beach.

These landing crafts were dispatched and transported to them for beach robbery after Roosevelt was killed by Chen Yanlong several times at the request of Stalin.

"Yes! Marshal Model!"

Lieutenant General Horox quickly replied.

"I really didn't expect that the Soviet army would have so many American landing crafts to cross the river and land! It seems that the United States' supply and support for the Soviet army under the leadership of Stalin is very powerful!"

When Lieutenant General Horox turned and left to ask the telegrapher to send a telegram and ask the German Air Force to come for support, Moder also frowned and murmured to himself.

"It seems that this battle is not easy to fight! The Soviet army's war potential cannot be underestimated! No wonder the head of state attaches so much importance to the Soviet army's combat capabilities!"

Model said more and more, seeing the situation of the Soviet army's fearless death, braved the German army's metal rain of bullets and the crazy artillery fire covering the beach and landing.

However, deep down, he was not very worried about the failure of the war, because Model's German troops not only arranged a large number of land bunkers, artillery positions, and turrets disguised as villas on the Dnieper River, as well as millions of anti-infantry S-type landmines. In addition to anti-tank T-type landmines, they even built various barbed wires, anti-tank horse-resisting, hollow triangular cones, anti-tank trenches, and "dragon teeth"-type obstacles, and wooden stakes on the beachhead were also equipped with obstacles and obstacles to defend against enemy troops for landing landing.

At the same time, in order to deal with the possible paratroopers of the Soviet army, Model's German army also inserted sharpened wooden piles and rails in the woodland and grasslands slightly far from the beach at various ferries, and also diverted water to low-lying areas to form artificial swamps to drown the Soviet army.

In short, every cave, every valley, every deep stream, every ridge, every mountain bunch, every road, and the front line of the defensive positions has been built with hidden artillery positions and machine gun positions, either transformed into deadly obstacle areas, or minefield positions with powerful explosions.
Chapter completed!