Am I missing something / Beginners questions

[Dog Soldier]

In Gertsovka, use smoke to cover your fast approach to the railroad embankment the 1st turn. Move in your trucks right up the road. Engineers in the fore. One should be able to reach a minefield and begin clearing it.

2nd turn - Engineer companies continue to clear mines. Infantry goes 'on foot' and moves up behind the engineers to assault both bunkers on the railroad embankment next turn. Smoke covers the German forces from serious Russian fire. Recon M/C unit is already up on the RR embankment spotting any Soviet units moving up to support the bunkers on the railroad embankment. Rain artillery down on any Soviet unit not in a bunker. Begin air strikes on the railroad embankments or on Soviet units in the village to soften them up.

3rd turn. Begin assaults with engineers and infantry on both bunkers guarding the entrance to the village. Have one company of engineers continue to push up the main road through the cut in the railroad embankment. Remove mines you find. Other two engineer companies join in assaults on railroad embankment bunkers. Try to get as close to a full 250 men in each assault. You should be able to get 3-4 assaults in this turn. Of those at least one will drive the Soviets out of their hard positions. Once out of their shells, fire any units with MP left on the Soviet units in the open.
Stuff any railroad embankment bunker you take this turn with troops so you can advance next turn into the village.

From here you have seven turns against the AI. Work on a single bunker or if you can two per turn. Aim only for VP locations. Now you can use two reduced infantry companies to assault a single bunker together. Do not stack your reduced PzGr units but hit with a single assault as close to 250 men each time from multiple hexes. Stacking makes you more vulnerable to return fire.
Do not miss any opportunity to shoot up a Soviet unit outside of the bunkers. This includes direct fire and artillery.
Air strikes are best used to bust bunkers.

Good Luck!

Dog Soldier