"Come back here ya coward, it's only a flesh wound..." SFS Round 2 Sitrep Thread!!

[Hammer44(FGM)]

West of Noyva Zhite USSR:

After 72 minutes of action, things look grim for the fatherland here; despite the fact that only two locations vital to the Russians have been taken Noyva Zhite and the second rail bridge, the casualities are frightful.

Screams of 152mm and 76mm rounds down the road toward Oberst Lucht and myself, along with our platoons of Engineers send one group of the landsers to the rear some 250 meters. Five fall before me in a mangled heap of humanity not easily recognizable as living beings, because they no longer are.

Luckily Herr Oberst and I along with the remants of troops beat a hasty retreat amid a hail of heavy 50 cal MG rounds from a Half track.

Into the woods we go and I ask for the radio, I marvel that the battered set is still usable, as I hear frantic reports from all over the front. One Bn. HQ ceases to exist as a Russian platoon enters the center rear and slams the HQ with 76mm shells, forcing it into a woods already under deadly fire and the death that awaits it.

More panzers smoulder under the dealy but accurate fire of General KK's forces; We learn of his exit from the battlefield to visit "The Boss" at his Dacha just east of here; no doubt to recieve his latest Hero of the Soviet Union star, adding to his collection of fruit salad.

A Russian Tank is dispatched from our rear, but such is a small victory when scores of our troops fall under the blades of the red banner this day. I turn to the Oberst and look for some sign in his face that this day will somehow be rescued, but no such look can be found on his dirty face full of Russian soil and German sweat.

"Even if we are able to recover the village and rail bridge, our losses are such that we will not prevail here I fear" he said as he looked down at his map, while reports contiunued to pour in across the radio waves.

" I'll not go quietly" grumbles one NCO in our crowd. "Nor will I" others mumble. " The odds don't look good Herr Oberst" I respond.

" WE must try" Oberst Lucht responds, answering the call of the spirit shown him by the men around us. " These woods will be warm, but such is the Flames of War" he said with grim but firm determination.

And so we are moving...Moving East..Heil Und Seig