The German 5th Panzer Battalion was transferred to the Morel fortification area after more than half an hour.

The commander, Major Müller, was a little puzzled by this order, his armored battalion had broken through the first line of defense of the Soviet army in the south, and should have continued to pursue the victory, but on the way forward, it was dragged back here and ready to attack.

This was rare in the German army, which had always been about speed.

However, after seeing the terrain here, Major Müller somewhat understood the reason why Admiral Kleist did this, and there was a road and railway not far to the north of this fortified area, and a swamp to the north, and another road to the south...... In other words, the Soviets in this fortified area would directly threaten the supply speed of the German army.

"Major!" The adjutant pointed to the map and said to Major Müller: "The Russians on the front are cunning, they disguise the pillboxes as wooden houses......"

"It's not going to do anything!" Major Mueller said.

"Yes, I believe that!" The adjutant replied: "But not so long ago, the attack of our two battalions has failed!" ”

"Yes, I saw it!" Mueller, of course, saw not the course of the battle, but the corpses and tank wreckage on the battlefield.

"They attacked the side armor of our tanks with anti-tank guns!" The adjutant said: "As you can see, we have suffered heavy losses!" ”

"This won't happen again!" Major Muller confidently said: "My assault gun will teach them a lesson!" ”

The adjutant nodded: "I will let the 5th Artillery Regiment and the 3rd Armored Battalion cooperate with your attack!" ”

So, after a burst of heavy artillery fire, the fifth armor, equipped with seven "No. 3" assault guns and thirty tanks, "rumbled" with the infantry.

Major Muller's tactics were simple, as usual, to protect the wings with the "three assault guns...... The flanks are more likely to be attacked by enemy side fire, and the tank in the middle is facing the enemy as long as it does not turn easily, so there is no theoretical need to worry about the enemy's side fire.

This tactic was very effective, and at this time when the "No. 3 assault gun" was not very well equipped, it repeatedly broke through the Soviet defenses.

Major Müller believed that the bunkers in front of him were no different...... They were nothing more than a few wooden camouflages, and the camouflage had been blown to pieces, and the Germans already knew which wooden houses were real and which were fake.

"Look!" Major Müller used a walkie-talkie in the tank to say to his subordinates: "The Ivan are trying to deceive us with these wooden houses, I don't think you will be fooled!" ”

A laugh from his subordinates came from the headphones:

"Yes, Major! Those that will collapse are wooden houses, and those that expose concrete blocks are pillboxes! ”

"We can still use a tank to ram it!"

……

Then there was another round of laughter.

But they soon discovered that the problem was not so simple.

Because while they were talking, there were perforations in the wooden house, densely packed, large and small......

"Damn it!" Someone got nervous: "Their bunkers are full of weapons!" ”

"No, Jonas! It is impossible for one bunker to be equipped with so many weapons! ”

"Some of the perforations are fake!"

"We can't find a real shot!"

……

The Germans guessed correctly, there were indeed many fake perforations, which were very simple to do, just sawing a hole the size of a perforation in the plank and painting the cement black...... Such a crudely camouflaged perforation could not deceive people at close range, but it was fatal to German tank crews who looked out with periscopes from a distance and inside the tank, especially when the battlefield was still full of smoke from burning wood.

You must know that the tactics of the German army attacking the pillboxes are to use tanks or assault guns to suppress the fire of the perforations, and then let the sappers touch and blast them.

But now, in front of them, there are all sorts of shooting holes everywhere, which makes it impossible for tanks and assault guns to know which one to suppress......

"Fire!" Major Müller ordered: "True or not, shoot freely!" ”

This order may be right, it is a bit like a wooden house, whether it is true or not, you can know it by bombarding it with a cannonball.

So the tanks "boomed" at the bunker group in front of them.

Only then did they discover the problem, even with the quality of the German tank crew, it was difficult to ensure that the shells could accurately hit the perforations and distinguish the real from the fake.

Seeing this, Major Muller couldn't help frowning, if he could not effectively suppress the enemy's pillbox fire, the infantry charge would undoubtedly be in danger.

What Major Müller did not know was that Major Gavrilov on the other side was also in difficulty.

This was the best time for the Soviet troops to implement artillery coverage, but when Major Gavrilov made a request to the command, it was refused.

"What's going on?" Political Commissar Fuming asked.

"They say there are not enough shells!" Major Gavrilov said.

"Running out of shells?" Political Commissar Fuming looked puzzled: "Not long after the battle started, they said that there were not enough shells? ”

"Yes!" Major Gavrilov said: "The staff officer's statement is that the fighting in other directions is fierce, and they must give priority to providing artillery support in other directions!" ”

"But we're here...... Did you tell them about it? ”

"Of course, Comrade Commissar!"

Commissar Fuming looked in disbelief at the German armored troops who were in a dilemma in front of the pillbox, where only one round of artillery fire was needed to inflict heavy losses on the German armored battalion, but the command easily let go of this opportunity.

At this time, Commissar Fomin and Major Gavrilov did not think much about it, thinking that the battle situation was indeed as the command said, because it was more necessary in other directions, so it was impossible to provide artillery support to the 333rd Regiment.

But the reality was that Colonel Ovich did not want to see the 333rd Regiment win again, because it would not only not benefit him, but might even put him in danger.

At this time, the battlefield had changed again, and the Germans had already sent sappers to leap over the tanks towards the pillbox group......

This is a bit of a fire reconnaissance nature: if it is not good to blow up with a shell, then let the sappers go up, and the real perforation will shoot bullets but the fake ones will not.

"We're on our own!" As he spoke, Major Gavrilov gave the order to the signal corps: "Prepare for battle, smoke bombs!" ”

"Yes, smoke bombs!"

Smoke grenades were fired with mortars from the second line of defense, and soon a cloud of smoke rose around the surrounding tanks.

Major Müller said to himself, "What are they going to do? Distracting from our vision? ”

As we all know, smoke grenades are a double-edged sword, and when we are so close to each other, they can interfere with the enemy's line of sight as well as our own, which is even worse for immobile pillboxes.

But at this moment, there was a sudden heavy machine-gun fire behind him, and Major Müller understood that they had fallen into an ambush by the Soviets again.