It should be said that Hitler was right on this point. One of the purposes of the Soviet army's incorporation of the reserve team, the 5th Guards' Tank Army, was to rescue the Soviet army besieged in the middle, which was an elite guard and a tank brigade.

But this is not the most important thing. What is more important is that the Soviet army does not want the 48th German Armored Army to rush around in the rear of Kursk to destroy the entire Soviet counterattack plan.

General Hot knew this well, and knew that the facts were not as Hitler said... The 5th Tank Army of the Soviet Guards was not moving slowly, but was advancing towards Prokorovka at a very fast speed.

General Hot knew what it would mean if Hitler ordered this battle: the troops heading to Prokorovka would be quickly submerged by the Soviet army... The gap between the forces between the enemy and us was too huge, even if the German army had ME63.

Then, the 48th Armored Army was indeed able to meet with the 2nd Armored Army of the SS, but because the main force of the 48th Armored Force collapsed, they had actually become an isolated army, and there would be no encirclement at that time. Instead, the German army would be trapped in the enemy's encirclement and could not extricate themselves.

So, Hort did not hesitate and decided to disobey the order the moment he received Hitler's order.

General Hort even complained to the staff officer: "Yes, because the SS who was entangled was the head of the head of state. If the 48th Armored Army was entangled... I wonder if the head of state would give such an order regardless of everything!"

General Hott saw Hitler's selfishness in this: the head of state did not want the SS to be compared by the National Defense Forces on the battlefield. Even though both were troops under his command, the former was loyal to Hitler and the latter was loyal to Germany, and there was still a difference between the two.

The staff officer did not object to anything, he just said to General Hort: "Then, we need a reason!"

The meaning of reason is an excuse.

General Hot and his staff could not find a good excuse, so they could only send a telegram to Hitler: "Dear Head, I have issued an order to the 48th Armored Army. The 48th Armored Army is very fast. They will be able to reach Prokorovka in another half an hour. It seems inappropriate to draw one of the armored divisions back to the rescue!"

At this point, General Hot did not lie. The 48th Armored Army had arrived near Prokorovka. Even the 3rd Armored Division, who was walking in front, had already launched a fierce battle with the enemy... The 3rd Armored Division and the 21st Armored Division took turns to take the lead. Now is the time for the 3rd Armored Division to open the way.

This battle was to cross the Pushore River, and the Soviets blew up several bridges on the Pushore River, and then relied on the river bank to set up defenses across the opposite side.

Such defense is troublesome, because tanks cannot pass through the river to cover the attack of soldiers.

Colonel Slain couldn't help but say, "I miss the amphibious tank a little!"

This attack did not consider too much about crossing the river, so there was no enclosure needed to carry the amphibious tanks.

However, this seems unnecessary. On the one hand, it is because the amphibious tanks are too fragile. Once they are hit by bullets, the shells will sink in the water. On the other hand, the Soviet army stationed on the other side of the river is obviously just some logistics forces with weak combat power.

Qin Chuan was right... The Soviet army deployed its main force on the periphery of the defense line, and the troops stationed inside were engineers who repaired the roads and troops who guaranteed transportation.

The Soviet army on the other side of the Pushur River was no exception. It was a mixed force pieced together by the 691st engineers and the 28th transport team of the Soviet army, including temporary armed car soldiers and militias.

There were a lot of troops, with more than 3,000 people... The Soviets were always able to gather considerable troops in a short period of time, and they even organized the people to build an anti-tank trench on the other side.

But these obviously cannot stop the attack of the German regular army, especially the battle-prone army.

The 3rd Armored Division lined up the tanks on the shore, and used mortars and tank guns to blast the opposite side for a while, and then the infantry drove the rubber boat to attack the opposite side... It is unimaginable to use the rubber boat to force the crossing, because it has no protective effect on the soldiers, and even a few bullets can make it leak and sink into the water. Using it to force the crossing is undoubtedly very dangerous.

Therefore, the soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division suffered certain casualties, more than twenty soldiers were killed and more than fifty were injured.

However, in the end they crossed the Pshore River and opened a bridgehead opposite. Then the engineers rushed up to build a pontoon bridge on the river. Tanks "rumbled" across the pontoon bridge to protect the infantry to continue to expand their results... By this time the victory and defeat were decided.

When Qin Chuan and others passed through the pontoon bridge, they saw soldiers from the 3rd Armored Division salvaging the dead bodies in the river... They would pick up the bodies and buried them on the ground, and then nail a wooden cross to the grave. All they could do is this.

Werner couldn't help but say: "If we were to attack, I don't think there would be such a big casualty!"

"Oh, is that?" Dominic asked back, "What are you going to do?"

"I will choose to swim in an armed manner!" Werner replied.

Werner is right. The casualties of armed swimming will be much smaller than those of rubber boats. On the one hand, the target is smaller, and on the other hand, the water has a strong blocking effect on the bullet... The bullet rotates at high speed, and the water will cause its rotation and penetration to decrease in stages.

"But not every unit will swim in an armed manner!" said the baker.

"But we will!" Werner replied.

"We can't take care of all the battles, Werner!" Qin Chuan replied: "So don't feel guilty about it, this is war!"

Alphredo, who was walking in front, turned around and looked at Werner, smiled and shook his head, as if he could not imagine that there would be such a naive person until the war was fought.

But Qin Chuan knew that not only Werner, but many Germans would have this mentality. Their attitudes towards enemies and their own people are completely different, which may be the reason why they are more united.

After walking forward with the tank for more than ten minutes, I saw an anti-tank trench.

However, the anti-tank trenches were used as temporary prisoners camps. Teams of Soviet soldiers holding hands were squatting inside, looking at the German soldiers passing by them in horror. Several guards next to them were guarding with guns. There were also several corpses shot from their backs not far away. It is not difficult to guess that they were prisoners who wanted to escape indiscriminately.

German tanks and soldiers continued to advance from a slope paved by engineers, climbing to some jungle with a slightly higher terrain in the north.
Chapter completed!