"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Several T-34 tanks that had been charging forward at full speed were turned into heaps of burning scrap metal. More than a hundred Panther tanks from the 881st Tank Regiment of the German 88th Armored Division, which had arrived at the battlefield in time, joined the fight.
At once, the Russian 179th Tank Brigade, which had been fiercely attacking the heavy tank battalion of the German 88th Armored Division, suffered grievous losses. More than a dozen tanks were destroyed in less than two minutes. The remaining tanks were terrified out of their wits, nearly scared into pissing themselves.
"Comrade Brigade Commander, this is bad! German reinforcements have arrived. Over a hundred Panther tanks are attacking us!" a staff officer reported to the commander of the Russian 179th Tank Brigade.
"What? How could this happen?" The commander of the Russian 179th Tank Brigade was dumbstruck. Victory had seemed within reach, yet such an unexpected development had occurred. Although the entire Russian 179th Tank Brigade was equipped with seventy T-34 tanks, as an officer in the Russian Armored Forces, he naturally knew that while the T-34 was fairly capable, it still lagged far behind the Panther tank. Not to mention the even more powerful Mighty Tiger tanks.
Facing an attack by more than a hundred German Panther tanks was unquestionably a calamity that would bury the Russian 179th Tank Brigade beneath a mountain of doom.
"Call for support immediately! We can't hold the Germans much longer!" the brigade commander ordered at once.
"Yes, Comrade Brigade Commander!"
However, the Russian 12th Tank Army Corps and 15th Army were likewise too busy saving their own skins. The 882nd Tank Regiment and the 883rd Mechanized Infantry Regiment under the German 88th Armored Division had also arrived on the battlefield. More than 150