On the night of June 30, Major General Kamkov walked around the headquarters like a crazy lion with his hands on his back, stopping to inquire every few minutes.

"Where did the 15th Tank Brigade and the 140th Tank Brigade go?"

It was not until midnight that Major General Kamkov received a satisfactory reply, and the two tank brigades transferred from the Front Command had already met with the 216th Infantry Division of the General Reserve of the Army.

Without letting the troops wait passively, Major General Kamkov made a quick decision and asked the troops to deploy overnight, and launched an attack as soon as the sky was dawn.

A large number of enemy troops have already entered the rear of the front line. After a night, I don’t know where they will run to? But one thing is certain, the transportation hub of Weasley Town is the logistics transit station for those enemies. As long as Weasley Town is recaptured, the enemy’s logistics line will be cut off.

The troops must seize the time to defeat the Weasley town's enemies before they stand firm.

In the next more than an hour, Major General Kamkov frequently made phone calls to communicate with the air force behind him, so that the air force could provide air support in time after dawn.

Without the support of the air force, the two tank brigades faced the mysterious and powerful tanks that fought against the Germans, and the prospects were not optimistic.

After confirming the tasks of the 216th Infantry Division and the two tank brigades, reaching a consensus with the air force behind them, and after all the tasks before the counterattack were ready, Major General Kamkov looked at his watch and it was almost two o'clock in the morning.

Sitting at the map table with his arms in his arms, Major General Kamkov picked up the hot coffee brought by his adjutant.

In about an hour and a half, visibility will be enough for the tank troops to launch an attack. The outcome of the battle depends on the tank battle in an hour and a half.

If the 15th and 140th Tank Brigades cannot contain the German tanks, the defense line of the 18th Army will collapse.

Drinking hot coffee, Major General Kamkov was worried about the upcoming counterattack, but he didn't know that it was July 1st, and the day was the day for the German army opposite to launch a general attack.

In the long dark night, a greater crisis is quietly taking shape on the left wing of the 18th Army and opposite the defense line of the 353rd Infantry Division.

The 353rd Infantry Division's troops were built along the Kagalnik River with a village called Popov as the support point.

But this is the birthplace of the Kagarnik River. Only half of the positions of the 353rd Infantry Division can be used as obstacles. Half of the positions on the right wing are built on a flat wilderness and have no danger to defend. The commander of the Third "Skeleton" Armored Division under the Third Armored Army, Major General Irving von Stermorman (played by the reader "The Fallen God's Sharp Teeth") placed the attack zone of the troops here, and the target was the fragile right wing of the 353rd Infantry Division.

On the night of June 30, the troops of the Third Ss "Skeleton" armored division left their respective hidden places, used the cover of night to advance to the front line overnight, entered the rear of the positions of the 14th Romanian Infantry Division in batches, and quietly waited for the arrival of dawn.

While waiting patiently, the east was covered in white.

When the watch's pointer pointed to three to twenty, dazzling flames and harsh shelling broke the tranquility of dawn.

The 150mm rocket flew into the sky first, drew an arc with its fiery red tail flames, and flew to the position of the 353rd Infantry Division of the Soviet Army.

The 105mm high-explosive bomb and the 150mm high-explosive bomb flew out immediately, instantly creating countless gray-black mushroom clouds on the Soviet position.

Me-110 ground attack aircraft and Ju-87 "Stuka" dive bombers followed one after another, smashing heavy aviation bombs onto Soviet positions. The flames and shock waves swept everything around them with the bomb landing location as the center.

As the earth was shaking, the originally orderly Soviet positions were beyond recognition, the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder, broken military uniforms were scattered around the craters, and mottled blood stained one piece of land after another.

The powerful firepower coverage lasted for nearly half an hour. With the harsh sound of metal friction, a group of strange-shaped tanks drove out of the position of the Romanian 14th Infantry Division.

The one driving at the front is a modified minesweeper tank equipped with a drum-type minesweeper.

The roller rotates, causing the metal chains to swing, hitting the ground, and lifting up large tracts of dust and soil.

With the slapping of metal chains, the mines hidden under the ground were nowhere to hide and were detonated one after another, opening up roads to the Soviet positions.

The e-40 "Black Panther" tank of the armored regiment under the Skeleton Division followed behind the minesweeping tank, using 88mm tank guns and machine guns to suppress the firepower of the Soviet positions on the opposite side, providing security for the minesweeping tanks.

The engineers followed the tank and boldly poured into the minefield to manually remove mines from the mine-clearing tanks.

Behind the tank cluster, four fi-382 helicopters were suspended in the sky. The artillery observation posters held telescopes and closely monitored the every move of the Soviet positions, guiding the artillery in the rear at any time to provide fire support.

As the attack was proceeding in an orderly manner, four Il-2 attack aircraft flew from the south, searched in the sky and found their location, quickly lowered the altitude, and rushed straight to the advancing German tanks.

Seeing the malicious "Black Death" descending from the sky, following the "Tornado" 20mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns behind the e-40 tank group, the gunners pointed the muzzles of the six-barrel anti-aircraft guns in the direction of the enemy plane flying in. The barrel rotated at high speed, sprinkled countless shells into the sky, and blocked the flying enemy planes head-on.

Caught off guard, the first Il-2 attack aircraft that rushed down had no time to drop bombs. It burst out from the propeller at the nose to the abdomen of the aircraft, and countless bullet holes were instantly released, disintegrating in the air, turning into a pile of metal fragments and falling to the ground.

Then the two attack aircraft that rushed down hurriedly dropped the bomb and turned around and fled the fire net.

The fourth Il-2 attack aircraft was lucky enough to cut into the battlefield outside the air defense fire network and successfully dropped bombs.

The 250 kilogram aviation bomb landed in the open space between two e-40 Black Panther tanks. The hot flames instantly wrapped around a tank nearer and knocked it to its original position.

The Il-2 attack aircraft had just raised its height and was about to escape from the battlefield. A me-109 fighter rushed down from a high place and shot at a point, leaving a bullet hole on the tail of the Il-2 attack aircraft, breaking the right wing of the tail.

The plane lost its balance and crashed into the ground with irregular routes all the way.

From time to time, enemy planes flew in and launched attacks under the blocking of the Luftwaffe and ground air defense forces, but could not cause a fatal blow.

The armored regiment of the Skeleton Division continued to advance tenaciously until it broke through the minefield and attacked the infantry position.

Seeing that the German armored troops in front made progress, the infantry of the 14th Romanian Infantry Division stepped up and rushed into the Soviet infantry position behind the German tank cluster, attacking and advancing all the way to the rear of the Soviet position.

The bad news that the position was attacked by German armored troops was soon issued from the position of the 353rd Infantry Division, first sent to the 18th Army Command, and then forwarded to the Southern Front Command.

"Damn it, where did these German armored troops come out, why didn't we find them before?" Lieutenant General Malinowski roared angrily.

Marshal Budonnie also lost the optimistic expression brought by the calm atmosphere on the battlefield a few days ago, and said melancholy: "We can now confirm that the enemy's attack is premeditated, and they are going south in large numbers. Comrade Malinovsky, we must recognize our current situation. We must use our sacrifice to drag down the Germans as much as possible. We can restrain more German troops here, and the pressure on Moscow will be reduced by one point. We must realize that we are shouldering a sacred and arduous mission."

"My reserve team has been sent out, and no other troops have been to reinforce the 18th Army. What should we do? Watch them break through the positions of the 18th Army?" said Lieutenant General Malinovsky.

"Send the news here to Moscow first, and strive to get the Fourth Tank Army, which is being adapted later, to come for reinforcements. You first formulate a retreat plan. We cannot stop them in such a flat place, so we can only retreat to the south and use the complex terrain of the Caucasus mountains to block them." Marshal Budoni said.

"Well, I have a premonition that the enemy only launches an attack from the east, probably to drive us towards the Azov Sea, and we cannot fall into their trap. I will now make a retreat plan and wait for Moscow to approve the retreat. The Germans will actually divide their troops to attack the south. What do they want to do?" Lieutenant General Malinovsky said.
Chapter completed!