Hissing flares continued to rise into the night sky, seeing the snowflakes in the entire night sky, the Soviet army in the canyon, and its own troops.

"Let's fire! We must remove these fire points as soon as possible!"

"Start at 3 o'clock!"

The tankers of the eight T-54 tanks owned by the SS Head of Grenadier Regiment were constantly bombarding the Soviet army's dense firepower machine gun points under the roar of the regiment commander Colonel Otto Coom.

Some troops were even assigned to intersperse and encircle to crush the Soviet troops stationed in the villages.

While the battle started, the SS Imperial Grenadier Division and the SS Skeleton Grenadier Division on the other side also received orders from the SS Armored Army, giving orders to the two divisions immediately organize a battle group and conduct interspersed attacks on the left and right sides of the Soviet army that came to aid, allowing Hot's Fourth Army to concentrate superior forces to surround the rear of the Soviet army in the back and cooperate with Manstein's army to conduct front and back attacks to win.

However, even if the SS Head of Grenadiers knew about these orders, it had little to do with their combat missions.

Because their main combat mission is to explore the way forward for the SS Head of Grenadier Division, also known as Adolf Hitler Division.

The Head Grenadier Division has an armored grenade regiment, an artillery regiment, a 101st Armored Regiment and the 911th Assault Brigade; it was originally Hitler's guard force in East Prussia's "Wolf Knot", but it was expanded to a reinforced armored grenade division by Chen Yanlong, and two more infantry brigades were added to the original force.

It also allowed them to conduct actual combat training with the Fifth Armored Army and the 9th Armored Division.

In the original history, the division had fought with the Soviet army in Silesia and resisted the Soviet army's attack with the remnants of the 9th Armored Division in Vienna. However, after Germany surrendered, the remaining officers and soldiers of the division were ruthlessly transferred to the Soviet army from the surrender to the US army, and there is no detailed record of the outcome of the subsequent ending.

Therefore, in order to change the fate of the SS's defeat, Chen Yanlong has always tried his best to strengthen their combat effectiveness to fight against the Soviet troops.

When the tank group of the SS Head of Grenadier Regiment counterattacked the villages stationed by the Soviet army, many machine gun strongholds were instantly dropped.

However, various types of artillery and anti-tank guns were also unwilling to be outdone.

There were even three Soviet tanks emerging to counterattack the German tanks.

Moreover, these three tanks are the latest T-44 tanks developed by the Soviet army. This tank is the first time in the history of Soviet tank research and development to develop the first use of a mid-mounted turret, torsion rod suspension, engine transverse, transmission rear, and two-sided front tilt armor.

To put it simply, the T-44 is a tank research and development product that the Soviet army combined the advantages of the British and American Allied forces and German tanks to gather the best.

Their output was only about 200 after the German surrender, and they have not participated in any actual combat, including the historic major battles of the Soviet army in the attack on Berlin.

Although it was still in production after the war, almost 1,000 were produced in 1945, and by 1947, it had about 2,000, but it was later replaced by the Soviet T-54 tanks, the later T-10, T-62, and the latest T-14 Armata tanks that disintegrated Russia.

Despite this, in the original history, the Soviet army still equipped several guard tank brigades with 200 T-44 tanks, one of which had more than 70 T-44 tanks.

The crew of the T-44 medium tank is 4 people (car commander, gunman, driver and loader), equipped with 85mm tank guns. The types of shells used are: ordinary armor-piercing shells, capped armor-piercing shells and super-speed armor-piercing shells (also known as shell-exposed high-speed armor-piercing shells).

At a firing distance of 500 meters, launching ordinary armor-piercing bombs can penetrate more than 100 mm of armor; at a distance of 1,000 meters, it can penetrate about 100 mm of armor.

If it is hit by a cap armor-piercing projectile at a close range, the destructive power of the enemy tanks being penetrated will be even greater.

The attack power of the super-speed armor-piercing projectile is even greater, faster and has a long range, and can hit targets at least 1,500 meters. In addition, the T-44 tank is also equipped with 2 7.62mm machine guns, one is a side-by-side machine gun, and one is a front machine gun.

"What kind of tanks are that? What do they look like our T-54 tanks?"

When the Soviet army suddenly emerged from three T-44 tanks, the battalion commander Stadley said in surprise.

"It should be the latest tank of the Soviet army! I have never seen this type of tank before!"

"Everyone is careful to deal with it. In addition, we will prepare our anti-tank guns, rocket launchers, and all heavy weapons and equipment. We will destroy all the firepower points and tanks of the Soviet army that blocked our way!"

"Use our combat power to tell these Soviet troops that our strength and power are unstoppable!"

The regiment commander Colonel Otto Coom said with serious face and full of fighting spirit.

"Don't worry, leave it to me!"

"We still have 8 armored vehicles, 32 artillery pieces, 80 88mm anti-tank guns and 50 iron fist anti-tank rocket launchers, which are enough to kill these Soviet tanks!"

"Even if they are the latest Soviet tanks, we are not afraid of them!"

Battalion Commander Stadley immediately smiled confidently.

"Then go and do it!"

The regiment commander Colonel Otto Coom said loudly while commanding the tank group, assault gun group, anti-tank gun and rocket launcher group ready and aiming at the target direction.

As soon as he finished speaking, the battalion commander Stadley immediately responded and hurriedly went to command the battle.

If a tank wants to have strong combat power, then it needs to balance the three aspects of i-frame firepower, protection and mobility, so that the tank can exert its strong combat power.

Although the Soviet T-44 tanks and the German T-54 tanks are not the most perfect tanks, they are much better than the tanks of various countries in the same era.

"Aim at the German tanks at 5 o'clock, lock in the target and prepare to shoot!"

The turret of the T-44 tank can sit three people, and the chariot sitting on the left side of the cannon has been used for a hundred years to observe the German tank group outside the tank, while giving orders to the chariot and the loader sitting on the right side of the turret.

"receive!"

The gunner and the loader both spoke in unison.

Then they worked quickly, loading the bullets, and those who were about to launch were adjusting their sights to lock the German tanks they were about to bombard.
Chapter completed!