It's normal to be afraid, not to mention these new recruits who have just entered a state of war from a peaceful society, and veterans, including Shulka, will feel a chill in their hearts after every battle...... When it comes to life and death, no one can face it calmly, and if there is, it is basically because of the collapse and chooses to give up.

In this respect, the warriors are not really concerned with winning or losing the battle, or whether the battle is in their favor or not, they are more concerned about whether they can survive the next battle.

Shulka thought that he should say something at this time, such as raising morale, but he didn't have the opportunity, because all he heard was a loud "boom", followed by the sound of cannonballs outside.

"Get out of the car!" Shulka ordered loudly.

This is common sense in a car...... The car is defenseless, even an enemy rifle can pierce the compartment, a single shell can blow the entire car into the sky, and it is a good target.

Therefore, if you don't want to be blown into a state of parts like a car, the fighters in the car must be ready to jump out of the car and scatter at any time.

Shulka was in a semi-devastated state of mind when he jumped out of the car.

Because he knew in his heart that a battle like this, which broke out without warning, was most likely a trap for the enemy...... As mentioned before, there are reconnaissance units in front of the main forces, and the reconnaissance units do not detect the enemy, which means that the enemy has spared the reconnaissance units.

Well, the result of falling into the enemy's trap is that the enemy may have blocked the rear compartment with a machine gun, and the moment the infantry jumps out of the compartment is likely to be the time when the machine gun harvests lives.

As a result, Shulka rolled on the ground to the other side of the road before his feet could hit the ground...... Shulka was so unfamiliar with this movement that he flashed to his arm while rolling, and for the next few days, he was in pain as soon as he moved.

It turned out that Shulka was a little too worried, the machine guns did not sound, and there was no large number of shells to cover the car...... Only two T26s were hit by shells and smoked, and one of them made a detonation a few seconds later, and the whole thing turned into a part state.

"Anti-tank guns!" Shulka listened to the battalion commander Venyakov shouting not far away: "First battalion, follow me!" ”

With that, with a wave of his pistol, Venyakov led his troops to cover in the direction from which the flank artillery came from.

Although the quality of the Soviet commanders was generally poor, Captain Venyakov made the right choice.

The main target of the anti-tank gun is the tank, which has the advantage of having a better field of view and a more delicate gun body, and can also hide in the trenches and camouflage.

This allows the anti-tank gun to spot the tank first, which can be difficult for the tank to find its location, especially on rainy days.

So, a better way to deal with it is to charge the infantry.

But it soon became clear that Shulka and others were not a good choice, because the enemy attacking from the flanks was not an ambush of anti-gram artillery, but the Romanian 1st Panzer Division......

Shulka rushed forward with bayonets, led by Captain Venyakov, and when they rushed, something was wrong, and their speed gradually slowed down, because they heard the "rumbling" of the tank's motors.

"Stop!" Captain Venyakov commanded loudly, and then motioned for everyone to get down......

After waiting for a while, I saw the vague shadows of several tanks in the rain, followed by several more tanks, followed by groups of enemies advancing forward.

"Hell!" Venyakov scolded, and then ordered: "Retreat, all retreat"

The soldiers immediately got up from the ground and turned around and ran, including Shulka.

Shulka even thought that he and his comrades were going to be finished, because it was an enemy tank, and a few "rumbles" could catch up with them and a few rows of machine-gun bullets would throw them into chaos...... Although they could not be routed, at least half of the battalion could be killed.

But what is surprising is that the battle situation did not develop as Shulka imagined, Shulka and his party fled back to the road without danger, and the Soviets even had time to transfer a few tanks up and cooperate with anti-tank guns to form a defensive line along the road.

Later Shulka learned that this was because it was the Romanian 1st Panzer Division that launched the attack from the flank.

Romania is a "Little Entente" in Central Europe, the most important oil extractor in Europe, but this has also led to its industrial backwardness...... This is known as the "resource trap".

The "resource trap" does not refer to countries with fewer natural resources, but to countries with more natural resources, especially oil.

These countries only need to dig a pit in the ground to sell the outgoing oil, so that people will not choose to work in other factories...... After all, oil is easy to come by, and it also makes workers' wages higher.

As a result, no industry can develop other than oil.

The same is true for Romania, which has to import equipment from other countries.

The tanks were mainly from France, originally Renault FT light tanks, but because they were too old, they were only used to maintain internal security.

At the time of the war, the 1st Tank Regiment was equipped with R2 tanks (imported from the Czech 35T) and the 2nd Tank Regiment was equipped with Renault R35s (imported from France).

There were more than 100 tanks in the two tanks, including 126 R2 tanks and 75 R35 tanks (34 of which were captured by the Germans during the occupation of Poland and handed over to Romania).

That is, a total of 200 tanks, even if its performance is poor, but it is still very likely to succeed in raiding the 131st Motorized Division from the flank, after all, the 131st Motorized Division only has more than 100 tanks, and most of them are T26s with poor performance.

The problem was that the Romanian armored forces were too slow and they were not suitable for raids.

This is entirely influenced by France...... Importing tanks from France naturally required the acceptance of French tactical ideas, so tanks, like the Soviet Union, were scattered among the troops and used by the infantry.

What's even more fatal is that Britain, France and other countries at this time still believe that since the tank is fighting with the infantry, then the speed is a waste, and the higher speed will only make the infantry unable to keep up.

As a result, the maximum speed of the R35 tank on the road is only 20 kilometers per hour, and the maximum speed off-road is only 14 kilometers per hour.

The speed is 14 kilometers per hour, and it is also the highest ...... That's the level of the bike, not to mention that it's still in the mud on a rainy day.

This is also the reason why Shulka and the others met head-on and had time to escape.

"Prepare for battle!" Shulka heard Captain Venyakov's loud order, and the fighters raised their rifles against the ditch next to the road, and the anti-tank guns stuffed shells into the chambers of the guns to prepare for firing.

The tank followers also conveyed orders to the tanks, and one by one the tanks turned their black holes into the rain curtain on the flanks of the road.