[Hermit]

The situation hasn't changed much in terms of territory, but we're steadily eating into the enemy's superior number of armored units.

Down south, we knocked out three more enemy tanks, including another T-54-3, but had to abandon one of our own M45 Pershing CS tanks when it was immobilized in an open area, and two enemy tanks could easily get a bead on it. Two platoons of our infantry in a small wooded area to the south of the southern objective successfully ambushed two T-34's from the enemy's UNsuccessful flanking attack that were trying to maneuver around our armor and work their way north to the objective. The main force tanks in the south split up, with one section remaining in ambush behind the flank side of the hill, and the other section climbing up the face of the hill and remaining on the reverse slope to intercept enemy armor as it crested the hill after pushing through our infantry. Four enemy tanks fell prey to this manuever, three by our tank fire and one due to infantry assault.

The enemy's center has not yet collapsed, although we are continuing to apply heavy pressure. Things went bad for a moment when a juggernaut from the days of the last war rumbled out of the woods and pointed its big, ugly snout at us. A JSU-152 had somehow remained unobserved and caught the Bn A main force tanks in the open. They had stopped to take on more Sabot and HEAT ammo from supply vehicles behind a small rise before making the final plunge into the enemy's rear. The JSU was on the top of the hill to the SW of the re-supplying tanks and could see down over the rise. Six of our tanks were able to get rounds off, but none hit, even though they made deep furrows in the ground all around the beast. No one was really panicking since it was only one against ten after all. Besides, those huge smoothbore guns are notoriously inaccurate at long range, and it was about a kilometer away. But when the fire belched out of that gaping maw, you could almost see the huge shell arcing down towards us. Against all odds, it smacked right into the turret of Charlie 1. The force of the impact, and the huge blast that followed, tore the turret right off. Only two men climbed out of the smoking hull, very dazed. A squad of men standing nearby were knocked off their feet, and two of them didn't get up. With retribution on their minds, the other tankers let loose another volley, and JSU erupted in flames from several penetrations, despite its thick frontal armor. With renewed vigor, the crews revved up their machines to end the battle with a resounding crash into the enemy's exposed rear.