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After the First World War in Pyrrhus on September 9, the Germans can boast that they destroyed thousands of tanks of the Soviet Red Army, but... the Russians can still send thousands of tanks.And the German victors have nothing—now they have less than a fraction of the tanks that the Russians can move. Although the Soviet Red Army lost many brave fighters and hundreds of tanks after the battle on the 12th, in terms of strength comparison—— The Germans are far behind in terms of continuous replenishment of troops.Now—it's time for the Soviet Red Army to prepare for an offensive...  

The German commander-in-chief admitted defeat and began to order the armored units to retreat, and the ministries began to stand on the spot - this is the order of the head of state...

Fafnir's No. 223 belongs to the category that can barely move after emergency repairs, so he received an order to retreat to the assembly point 12 kilometers away on the night of the [-]th. On the way, he met Dick Carr tiger.Karl's tiger is in good condition, he was mainly reinforced earlier in the day, the battle time is relatively short, so the condition of the tank and the tank is not bad, so he was ordered to defend the front line to buy time to fight the front line The troops pulled down while providing cover for the German Field Rescue Force to tow the wounded recovered tanks.Fafnir greeted Karl, and at this time he saw the big man Yang appearing in the broken army, Fafnir greeted Yang who hadn't seen him for a long time, and then had to leave.

The Russian offensive began at midnight.Heavy artillery plowed the German positions into a sea of ​​flames, and the roar of Russian tank engines could not even cover the explosion of shells... Thousands of Soviet Red Army tanks launched an attack on the salient front at the same time!

Fafnir's tank was towed away as soon as it reached the rear assembly point. He and his crew temporarily changed to an spared No. 4 tank. They were in a hurry, and the Ferdinand destroyer on the front line finally climbed up. Back to the rear.Dirk's Ferdinand benefited from the captain's obscene and shameless positioning and cowardly concealment and coquettish black gun, the main reason is the 200mm thick front - he returned to the assembly point unscathed, But the running mechanism is still almost finished.Ferdinand, who went to the battlefield, was abandoned by his own people because of mechanical failures, far more than those destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.

Karl was fighting ahead. He used the cover of darkness to keep maneuvering, and under the guidance of the grenadiers who came forward to defend, he kept calling the Soviet tanks with 88 guns in the distance.The battle situation was deteriorating hour by hour. The Soviet Red Army broke through the German defenses on almost all fronts. When the battle reached dusk, Karl also got an order to retreat, and Rong Rong who fought in the other direction Ke's Panther even used the speed to "turn in" early.Yang and his grenadier company were ordered to hold the Soviet advance in place for at least 4 hours. …

The torrent of steel from the Soviet Red Army was rolling in, and Yang's troops fought desperately.Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army jumped into the German trenches in groups and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the German soldiers.Yang fought arduously. Leaning on the bunker, he first used a machine gun to shoot at the flood of Soviet infantry. After the machine gun position was destroyed by the Red Army tanks, Yang used grenades and submachine guns to kill groups of Soviet infantry in the criss-cross trenches. The Soviet infantry, until the end he picked up the engineering shovel and fought with the Red Army soldiers hand-to-hand, and hacked to death dozens of Soviet soldiers. Then, under the cover of rifle fire from behind, the Soviet soldiers stabbed several bayonets into the wounded wounded by several bullets. In Yang's body...Jung Heinrich Yang fell down, ending his 23-year-old life, the day before his death he had just won the Silver Melee Medal and hung it proudly... He Ended up dead in a pile of cans he had collected.

Under the desperate resistance of soldiers like Yang, the German army finally stopped the initial retreat and began to resist and retreat in an organized and orderly manner.But at this moment, a thunderbolt-like news came-Americans and British landed in Sicily, Italy!The armored units that had been reorganized and ready to go into battle were withdrawn, and the troops that had been the backbone were also drawn out and sent to the Italian front.The entire Battle of Kursk can be said to have been a complete failure. The Germans began to retreat in large numbers, and at the same time burned everything in the road.

The 503 Independent Heavy Tank Battalion in Fafnir was also in the evacuation sequence, but Marshal Manstein withstood the pressure of the head of state and insisted on keeping the 503 for a few more days, and launched a limited attack against the isolated Soviet Red Army tanks. The flanking counterattack of the troops... Fafnir replaced a half-disabled Tiger to participate in the battle-today, his record can be confirmed to have exceeded 120 vehicles, and his troops successfully destroyed in this counterattack A Guards Tank Corps of the Red Army, but still powerless to stop more Red Army tanks - not even Manstein.

On October 10, the Soviet Red Army stopped its offensive after regaining Kharkov, and the entire Battle of Kursk came to an end.The Germans completely lost their strategic initiative, especially the armored forces, which can be said to have been interrupted. The cutting-edge tanks such as Tigers and Leopards suffered heavy losses. More than 23 Tigers and Panthers were destroyed, and half of the 200 Ferdinands were lost. , the cumulative loss of other No. 90 tanks and various assault guns exceeded 4 vehicles.

Fafnir is now going to the place he has long wanted to go—Italy. "Latin beauties are beautiful and passionate, passionate and unrestrained! No dragoon can compare!" Fafnir happily said to a group of bad friends . "And the Yankees and Brits are nothing compared to the Russians. Taking a step back, at least we are far away from the damned Russian battlefield, the damned mud and endlessly dying Russian tanks!"

Fafnir and Carl arrived in Italy in November, and they quickly melted into the local warbler circle...  

Throughout 1943 until the end of the year, Fafnir had no combat missions. They were guarding in northern Italy-to watch over weak Italians.At the beginning of 44, Fafnir and the others, who were drunk and dreaming in northern Italy, received another order to go to France.At this time, the strategic air strikes against Germany by the United States and the United Kingdom had already begun. Along the way, Fafnir saw the bombing wreckage left by American bombers many times at night. He also learned that a former pilot friend, Richter von Haber, is now A member of the Night Fighter Squadron, he complained in the letter about his damn duty, but also smug about his night record - he shot down 3 big guys.

As soon as they arrived in France, before Fafnir went out to look for women, another order dragged them to the mainland of Germany. Everyone complained all the way until they saw what was in the barracks...