That's all for today, and tomorrow for ......

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This problem was certainly not the first to be discovered by Shulka, as it had already happened again and again on the battlefield.

The reason why no one brought it up...... On the one hand, because casualties on the battlefield are normal in itself, and on the other hand, the Soviet army emphasizes "fighting spirit" and "bravery", so they do not consider this a "problem".

If it is taken as a kind of "problem", it is a cowardly performance of deliberately dodging the blows of the enemy.

However, the colonel did not seem to have such thoughts.

"Do you have a solution to this, Comrade Sisoy?" said the colonel.

Sisoi thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It's hard to do, Comrade Colonel, perhaps...... We can shorten the length of the antenna to make it less conspicuous, or shift its position so that it is not easily spotted by the enemy. But it is impossible to cover it completely, otherwise it will not be able to receive a signal! ”

The colonel frowned and nodded in agreement.

Shulka couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "The solution to this problem is simple, Colonel, we only need to install an antenna for all the other tanks!" ”

Sisoy couldn't help but be stunned, and then looked at Shulka with a surprised face: "Good way, second lieutenant!" And it's really simple......"

Of course, it's simple, because you only need to install a dummy antenna for the other tanks. It's like a brain teaser.

However, it was not Shulka himself who came up with it, the 59 tank command vehicle of our modern army has two antennas, one communicates with the superior and the other communicates with the subordinate.

So the Vietnamese specifically looked for tanks with two antennas to fight.

Knowing this, 59 installed two antennas on all of them, one of which was a fake, of course...... If you can't reduce the antenna to hide, then let the other tanks do the same, which is also a kind of concealment.

The same is true for the antenna of the T34 command vehicle.

"A good idea, Comrade Shulka!" The colonel smiled and nodded.

"Comrade Colonel!" Shulka was a little surprised that the colonel actually knew his name.

"I've seen your picture!" The colonel shook hands with Shulka and explained: "In the newspaper, the 'breakout hero' Shulka ......"

Sisoi looked at Shulka in surprise: "Colonel, you mean...... He's the one who came up with the idea of putting a phone on a tank! ”

"Yes!" The colonel replied: "I knew that he would join the 4th Brigade, but I didn't expect him to solve a problem as soon as he came!" My name is Katukov, and it's an honor to meet you......"

"I'm honored too, Colonel!" Shulka replied.

But the next second he was stunned, the seemingly ordinary and humorous colonel in front of him was actually Katukov...... Katukov, who is known as the first person in the Soviet tank crew, is he the commander of this newly formed 4th Tank Brigade ?!

However, this does not seem surprising, for in order to form a mobile force capable of fighting the German army, of course, a commander with strong organizational skills and excellent military qualities is needed.

Katukov, of course, meets this requirement.

Due to the urgency of the military situation, the 4th Tank Brigade began training the next day.

"We only have a week!" Katukov made this clear to everyone from the very beginning: "You know why, we don't have much time to train, otherwise the enemy will hit Moscow!" So, use all the time you have at your disposal to get acquainted with the tank, with your comrades, with everything! Only then will you be able to defeat the Germans and become the backbone of the defense of Moscow! ”

Katukov did what he said, and during the week, tank crews and mechanized infantry trained almost non-stop, except for a few hours of sleep.

Practice tactics and coordination, plus build bridges, pave roads, clear mines, design the forward route for the tank, and so on.

Practice during the day and at night.

The veteran therefore complained: "These should be the things that sappers do, and we are infantry!" ”

"That's right!" The actor also expressed his dissatisfaction: "If we are half exhausted on the road because of road construction, how can we still pick up a gun and fight the enemy on the battlefield?" ”

"This guy is a spy sent by the Germans, he just wants to exhaust us to death!"

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So "spy" privately became Katukov's nickname.

This nickname is not good, and it may even be misunderstood, especially for those who are always staring at their own people.

But Katukov didn't mind when he heard the nickname.

"If they hate me so much!" Katukov said: "That means that I have trained enough!" ”

One day Leonyev complained to Shulka: "Comrade company commander! Why don't you report it to your superiors? ”

"Report what?" Shulka asked rhetorically.

"I don't think there's any point in training like that!" Leonev said: "As they say, we are about to be used as sappers!" ”

"I don't think there's anything wrong with that!" Shulka said.

"What?" The warriors were stunned when they heard this answer.

"It's like a tankman learning how to fix a tank!" Shulka said, "That's what the maintenance soldiers do, too. ”

"But it's none ...... us," the actor said.

"The war has something to do with each of us, Okunev!" Shulka interrupted Okunev: "We are a unit, and to face the same enemy, then it is about us!" ”

After a pause, Shulka continued: "The Fourth Brigade is a rapid mobile unit, comrades! The purpose of this force is to be able to reach its destination in the shortest possible time and to fill the gap...... What if we don't have sappers or we don't have enough sappers? Don't you advance and wait for the sappers to arrive? ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be silent, so the training continued.

But Katukov's training was a bit harsh: what he often did was drive a few T34s into a pile of mud and get them in a mess for the fighters to figure them out.

It's still a trivial thing to toss people like this, but those are expensive T34 ...... Before that, as soon as it was produced, it was immediately transported to the front line to save the field, and it can be said that even gold could not be exchanged.

Just because of the formation of this fourth tank brigade, all the T34s that were transported to the front line during this time were broken, and even the T34s that were fighting on the front line were partially withdrawn.

The price of this is a sharp increase in casualties on the front lines.

The firepower and defense of the front line are down, so to block the German attack, it is natural to use human lives to pile up, and sometimes even human lives cannot be piled up...... Tanks, on some occasions, it is useless to pile up as many lives as they want.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that these T34s were bought with blood and life.

If the soldiers on the front line knew that some tanks were driven into the mud by Katukov, I am afraid that Katukov would really think of Katukov as a spy.