Before they reached the front line, the sky swept over German planes with a whistling sound.

The fighters habitually lay down to dodge, and even the tanks stopped advancing...... A moving tank is easier to detect by the enemy than a stationary one.

Fortunately, the Germans did not spot the advancing 4th Tank Brigade, which was targeting an artillery position a kilometer away.

Shulka believed that German pilots would be happy to change their goals if they found dozens of T34 tanks marching under their noses.

However, it was clear that the artillery positions attracted their attention, and the "Stuka" bombers swooped down from the sky one after another.

The German pilots were very militarily good, they flew the "Stuka" almost vertically downward, and then quickly pulled up after dropping the bombs...... This action itself is very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will be planted on the ground and the machine will be destroyed.

But the German pilots still performed these maneuvers perfectly, so that the bombs almost like eyes fell on the howitzers of the Soviet artillery and the cars loaded with bombs.

The shells were soon detonated, and the artillery positions were instantly surrounded by rags of fire and black smoke, and the tremors from the artillery positions even knocked down half of the snow walls piled up on both sides of the road.

Then several German fighters swooped down and fired wildly at the surviving Soviet artillery.

After a long while, the whistling in the air gradually faded away, and Shulka got up from the ground to look at the artillery position, where the artillery position that had been firing shells in the direction of the Germans was only a pile of scrap metal, and a corpse with red blood in the white snow.

"Keep going!" Major Gavrilov ordered.

The 4th Tank Brigade continued to advance along the road, and the soldiers rarely spoke, and the atmosphere was very depressing for a while.

If they did not recognize the "peculiarities" of this battle before, then they understood it after witnessing the instant destruction of an artillery position...... Under air supremacy, all combat units are actually very fragile, and if it was discovered just now that it was not an artillery position but the 4th Tank Brigade, then the 4th Tank Brigade would not be able to escape the fate of being destroyed in an instant.

For the German "Stuka", there was not much difference between tanks and artillery, the targets were about the same size, and none of them had the ability to fight them and could only wait on the ground to be bombed.

If there is any difference, it is that the tank has some maneuverability, but the speed of the tank in tens of kilometers per hour is simply not worth mentioning for the enemy's mobility is hundreds of kilometers per hour.

"Shulka!" The actor couldn't help but ask: "This time, we can't go back, can we?" ”

Shulka knew that the actor was nervous, otherwise he should have been called "Comrade Company Commander" instead of "Shulka".

However, this seems to be normal, and the 4th Tank Brigade has not been seen during the day for quite some time.

To be exact, after the temperature drops and the rain turns to snow...... This was the first time that the 4th Tank Brigade fought during the day.

"Don't worry, Okunev!" Shulka replied: "We will defeat the enemy and return alive!" ”

Shulka said so in his mouth, but he didn't think so in his heart.

For this battle, Shulka is not at all...... Volokolamsk, which should have been lost a long time ago, was still in the hands of the Soviets because of the appearance of Shulka.

Now, fate has sent Shulka and the others back again, and he has no way of knowing what the outcome of this battle will be.

But that doesn't seem to make much sense.

Because this battle is not won or lost, Shulka and his men are likely to die, but there is a difference in the odds.

Further on, there will be shells exploding around you, and occasionally a few shells will blow up a large crater in the middle of the road, but this will not stop the advance of the tank troops, and the tanks can easily bypass the frozen ground next to them.

It took more than an hour to reach Volokolamsk, which was no longer the same as the Volokolamsk that Shulka had known before, and although it had only been a few days, Shulka barely knew the place...... There were craters everywhere, stacked in front of the position, corpses, tank wreckage, armored vehicles, assault guns, etc., staggered in front of the position, making this place like a large tank cemetery.

As soon as the 4th Tank Brigade came up, it was immediately replenished into the defensive line: the infantry fought in front, and the tanks were concealed in the rear and ready to attack.

"Shulka!" Major Gavrilov shouted as he passed by.

Shulka understood, and ran along the traffic trench with a gun after Major Gavrilov.

In a few moments came a temporary command headquarters, where Major General Panfilov and Major Commander Zakhakavich were already waiting.

"We don't know the exact number of the enemy!" Major General Panfilov did not say much nonsense, he pointed to the map and said: "The preliminary estimate is that the enemy has an armored division, a motorized division and an infantry division!" ”

This force couldn't help but make everyone present gasp, so many troops concentrated on attacking Volokolamsk, which was garrisoned by only one infantry division, it was no wonder that the 4th Tank Brigade had to come up urgently to reinforce it.

"They launched a fierce attack on our defense this morning!" "We all know that the muddy ground was already frozen, and the German command began to order the tanks to cross the road, their tanks to go around the settlements, along the groves and bushes, which we cannot see, to assemble in front of our lines and then suddenly attack to break through, they carried out the assault under the cover of powerful artillery and mortar fire, and at the same time dive bombers attacked from the air......"

At this time, Major Zakhakavich couldn't help but ask with some confusion: "How did you stop them?" ”

"We're just blocking them!" Major General Panfilov replied: "...... with grenades, anti-tank guns, Molotov cocktails"

Shulka and the others couldn't help but glance at each other.

They knew that Major General Panfilov seemed to be easy to say, but it was not like that when it came to fighting.

"We lack anti-tank equipment!" Major General Panfilov continued: "We have only fifteen anti-tank guns left, and they are still decreasing, thanks to your reinforcements......"

Major Zahakavich shook his head with a sad face: "I don't think you can hope too much for us, Comrade General!" Although we have tanks, they are very useful when the enemy has air supremacy, especially during the day! ”