Chapter 1685: Eater, Eater Soul

The Wehrmacht major general, whose expression was uglier than his mother's death, was taken away. Malashenko, who suddenly felt refreshed, thought it was time to do something else, such as eating.

A person who eats, a soul who eats, a person who eats must use a bowl to eat.

Malashenko, who had been tired and running all day in the war, always opened his "bloody mouth" to eat dinner. The meal that Malashenko ate the most in a day was not breakfast or lunch, but dinner.

After a whole day of consuming thousands of calories, he still had to chew two bites of brick-like bread in the car at noon, and could barely swallow it with water. If Malashenko didn't have some decent hard dishes for dinner, I'm afraid it would be hard to say whether his empty stomach could sleep at night. ,

"It smells good! It's the kind of food you should eat after a war. You've been hungry all day. If you don't eat something decent, you'll be sorry for your country."

There were a few German ammunition boxes casually placed under his buttocks. The dining room was a German position command post that was half-collapsed by a 500-kilogram bomb. Even the bomb crater not far away was still smoking.

The political commissar was a little surprised that Malashenko could eat and drink like crazy in such a bad environment. Looking at that posture, he almost wanted to swallow the big basin that the kitchen team used to serve soup to everyone.

"The German bodies here haven't been cleaned up yet, and there's even a smell of roasted human flesh in the air. How can you eat so deliciously and eat it?"

The heartless Malashenko heard what the political commissar said, holding a piece of bread that had just been brought up and was far less hard than a brick in his mouth, and then turned his head to look at the German bodies lying on the ground not far away, which had not been completely cleaned up.

A few pieces of meat that could not be seen from which part of the human body were also scattered on the ground. Not far away, there was a German truck burning with only a black empty shell frame. There was also a piece of black charcoal in the front cab that had long been burned beyond recognition. The smell of "roasted human flesh" mentioned by the political commissar probably came from here.

"It's nothing, I'm serious. Even if you take the ammunition box from under my butt and replace it with a pile of German corpses, I can still sit on it and eat. If you don't believe me, I'll show you."

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The commissar just shook his head speechlessly, and waved his hand to indicate that Malashenko could continue eating and no longer care about him. It was really difficult to be in the same realm with such a fierce eater.

"Is there any news from the front headquarters? Are there any new instructions?"

That is, when the commissar was thinking about going to the battlefield to see how the cleaning was going, and when it was almost done, he would order the meal to start and let everyone fill their stomachs first. Malashenko, who was holding the big spoon for the soup in the kitchen squad and stuffing his mouth with potatoes and beef stew, suddenly asked a question. The commissar turned his head and didn't think much about it and spoke immediately.

"Commander Vatutin received a telegram half an hour ago, in which he already knew that we had taken the third defensive position, and he expressed his affirmation and encouragement for us for exceeding our combat mission."

Malachenko swallowed the beef stew with big mouthfuls of potatoes in his mouth, blinked his eyes, and then asked again.

"That's all? Nothing else?"

"Of course there's more to it. The commander asked us to guard this place and prevent the enemy from counterattacking or making small moves. The attack speed of other friendly forces is not as fast as ours. Just as you expected, our current position is a relatively salient part. The front and left and right can basically be regarded as the actual control area of ​​the Germans."

"It's just that the enemy suffered a fierce attack during the day and retreated quite a lot. There is no strong deployment of troops near the actual control area, and the overall situation is very weak. So our current situation is not bad, at least much better than that in Prokhorovka, but we still have to be alert and vigilant. You know what this means."

"Hmm"

Malachenko chewed the beef and sipped the broth in his mouth, and swallowed another big mouthful. He thought about it for a while, and his mind was actually thinking about how to fight tomorrow's battle.

"I think we beat the Germans hard in today's battle. Vasily just sent me the preliminary interrogation report. The German major general confessed very straightforwardly."

"Today we defeated three fully equipped German infantry divisions, with a total of nearly 50,000 people. Basically, none of them could escape. They were either killed or captured. The major general was in charge."

"Of course, the credit cannot be attributed to our division. I don't mean that. The brother infantry divisions that cooperated in the operation also fought very well. The position clearing battles on the side of Kurbarov and Lavrinenko were basically won by the brother troops. We Our division's tanks are responsible for tearing open the positions."

"According to the German major general, the main force of our division's offensive direction is their infantry unit, which has been basically wiped out after today's battle. This means that tomorrow's battle will not be more intense than today's, unless the Germans dispatch new troops to block us overnight."

"But I think that now all the gaps on the front line are tight, and the entire Central Army Group has been stabbed into a sieve by us, with holes everywhere. The Germans can't dispatch too strong a force to block us, and tomorrow's battle will most likely be much smoother than today. "

"If everything goes well, we may be able to reach the expected encirclement and assembly point tomorrow. At that time, we just need to wait for the brother troops in the other direction to come and meet up. It is easier than expected."

Malachenko's analysis is not unreasonable. The performance of the Central Army Group under such a powerful offensive is indeed unsatisfactory and full of loopholes. It can basically be said that it is at the end of its strength and it is difficult to turn things around.

But in line with the principle of safety, Political Commissar Petrov still gave Malachenko some different insights after a little thought.

"That's true, but we also need to consider an important factor: the German armored forces have not appeared yet."

"You also know some of the situations encountered by the Allies on the Western Front. I heard that the Germans invested a lot of new equipment and tested those Americans and British. The Allied rubbish tanks were full of wreckage and were no match at all."

"We still don't know what the enemy's new armored vehicles are like. This is an uncertain risk factor. It is also very abnormal that we didn't encounter German armored forces all day today. There is a possibility that the German armored forces may be brewing a large-scale counterattack. The armored forces of the Central Army Group are much stronger than those of the Southern Army Group. This is very likely."

"If tomorrow's battle really encounters such an emergency, you must be very careful, Malashenko. This is the same as the battle of Prokhorovka. It is a plain battle that is most suitable for large-scale tank cluster operations. Be careful of what conspiracy the German armored forces have prepared. Don't take it lightly."