"Comrade Commander, Marshal Voroshilov has ordered us to completely wipe out the German 88th Armored Division!" reported Major General Rebalco, chief of staff of the Russian 3rd Tank Army Corps.
"We're to completely wipe out the German 88th Armored Division? How is that possible?" Lieutenant General Romanenko, commander of the Russian 3rd Tank Army Corps, was stunned.
After its reconstruction, the Russian 3rd Tank Army Corps commanded the 12th Tank Army Corps, the 15th Army, the 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Division, the 154th Infantry Division, the 264th Infantry Division, and the 179th Tank Brigade. It possessed more than six hundred tanks in total, already twice as many as the German 88th Armored Division.
But Lieutenant General Romanenko had no confidence whatsoever in wiping out the German 88th Armored Division. He knew that if they fought the German 88th Armored Division, they would undoubtedly be the ones defeated in the end. The German Mighty Tiger tanks and Panther tanks were not something their tanks could handle. Even though the 3rd Tank Army Corps had been reequipped with one brigade of T-34 tanks, one battalion of KV-2 tanks, and one battalion of KV-1 tanks.
"Comrade Commander, besides us, the 4th Tank Army Corps will also participate in the attack. Once we pin down the German 88th Armored Division, the 4th Tank Army Corps will launch an attack from the flank and cooperate with us in completely wiping out the German 88th Armored Division," Major General Rebalco reported.
Lieutenant General Romanenko considered it. If that was the case, then they could give it a try. After all, the two tank army corps combined had more than twelve hundred tanks, over four times as many as the German 88th Armored Division possessed. Even if the German tanks had more advanced capabilities, they could still