Shulka took the map out of his pocket and found the firepower deployment serial number on the map in the light of a flashlight...... This was yet another piece of evidence of the incompetence of Shulka as a squad leader, who should have memorized the adjacent serial numbers instead of looking at them until wartime.

But this is actually not to blame Shulka, from the preparation for the battle to the present total of less than ten hours, and during this time there are all kinds of training, rest, the point is that Shulka is thinking about the strategy to solve the problems in the general direction, and the problems in the command of the squad leader will inevitably be somewhat negligent.

Shulka then observed the situation in the periscope again, and then called the regimental headquarters.

"No. 137 requests fire support No. 121, No. 137 requests fire support No. 121!"

This is to facilitate command and communication by numbering, the fortified area is a two-digit number, and the pillboxes and machine-gun bunkers are represented by a three-digit number.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, presumably also looking for the bunker serial number that Shulka had reported...... This can't be blamed on the command, there are hundreds of pillboxes under their command, and it is impossible for them to carry them down one by one.

Soon, the phone came in response: "Request passed, one minute!" ”

"Yes, a minute!" Shulka replied.

This method of operation and coordination is obviously extremely clumsy and inefficient, and once the telephone line is blown up, it cannot even coordinate with other bunkers, but the current conditions can only do this.

"37MM ARTILLERY READY!" Shulka shouted forward: "One minute! ”

"Roger, one minute!" Matvey, who was in charge of directing the artillery, responded loudly.

The German tanks continued to cover the soldiers' slow advance, completely unaware that they had fallen into the enemy's encirclement, and were advancing step by step towards the enemy's guns and muzzles.

Shulka's eyes looked at the periscope and at the watch, and the hands turned tremblingly, like a heartbeat, like breathing, and then suddenly...... Several holes in the No. 121 machine gun bunker on the right were pushed open, and the holes were filled with bullets, and the dense bullets carried hot vapor back and forth on the position, like an invisible sword slashing in the void.

The Germans were caught off guard by this flank fire, and in an instant they fell in a regular pattern like harvested wheat, some died on the spot, others fell to the ground and screamed like pigs.

But the Germans were a well-trained unit, and they immediately lay on the ground to cover themselves, and then radioed the tanks to turn to suppress the machine guns on the right...... And that's exactly what Shulka needs.

Due to communications, the tank stopped after a while, first turning the turret to aim at the machine-gun hole, one of the tanks fired a shell in that direction, and then clumsily turning to expose the side armor to Shulka.

"Fire!" Shulka shouted: "Move fast! ”

Without saying a word, the veteran pushed away the camouflage before the hole, then manipulated the gun to make some fine-tuning, and then only listened to the sound of "boom...... The target was less than a hundred meters away from the pillbox, and a large area of side armor was exposed, so it was not surprising that the first shot hit.

Shulka saw only an abnormal tremor of the tank in the periscope, and after driving a little further, it stopped.

TALKING ABOUT THIS 37MM ANTI-TANK GUN, IT CAN ALSO BE SAID TO BE IRONIC, BECAUSE IT IS AN IMITATION OF THE GERMAN PAK36 ANTI-TANK GUN......

At the end of World War I, the Soviet Union had a weak military industry and was in dire need of assistance from modern ordnance manufacturing countries, while the United States, Britain and other countries would certainly not help them for ideological reasons, but Germany was not allowed to produce under the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty, so the two countries soon hit it off: Germany developed and produced anti-tank guns in the name of providing aid to the Soviet Union.

HENCE THIS 36MM ANTI-TANK, WHICH GERMAN CALLED PAK1930 AND THE SOVIET Union called the M37MM 37 ANTI-TANK.

But now, the Soviet Union is using this anti-tank gun to hit German tanks, which can be described as impermanent.

Another German tank noticed the danger and hurriedly turned its gun...... But it was already too late, two more guns were ejected, and the tank soon rose up a puff of black smoke and paralyzed in place.

Shulka shouted: "Machine gun fire!" ”

Immediately, the gunfire was loud, and the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time pulled the trigger and poured bullets on the enemy's head as soon as they pushed open the shot hole cover, splashing mud and water and flying flesh and blood, only to beat the Germans everywhere and collapsed.

But of course, the Soviet machine-gun positions formed crossfire at the Germans from several directions, and it was difficult for the Germans to escape back.

In just ten minutes, the position was full of corpses, in various postures, looking at the past, it was bright red, and even a pool of blood and water had gathered in the low-lying ground.

People are sometimes so fragile and look majestic, but if they lose cover, it only takes a few minutes...... It's the difference between life and death.

The situation in the other defense areas of the 333rd Regiment was basically the same, the Germans who broke into their encirclement were easily beaten back, and they suffered heavy losses, and the defense line was immediately filled with the wreckage of tanks that were smoking and even blazing.

But the other districts were not so lucky.

Because the pillboxes were not camouflaged in the other defense areas, the Germans could observe the location of the Soviet pillboxes from afar.

Even they could identify through binoculars whether those perforations were artillery or machine guns...... The guns will have a larger perforation than the machine gun, which can be said to be a mistake in design.

Of course, because the caliber of the artillery is larger and the barrel is longer, it needs a wider and larger perforation, and the problem is that the Soviet army can artificially expand the machine gun perforation and design the two to the same size, so as to at least avoid the enemy only need to use a telescope to know the position of the artillery and then formulate an attack plan in a very targeted manner.

To make matters worse, the Germans developed the tactic of using assault units to attack the enemy's fortifications during World War I...... The First World War was mainly trench warfare, in which both sides built strong trenches and pillboxes to confront each other, and the German army began to study how to break through these fortifications with infantry.

By now, this tactic of the German army has been developed and perfected.

They used tanks to cover the advance of infantry and engineers, and when they reached the shot hole, they let the infantry and sappers approach from the dead end under the cover of tank fire, and then threw explosives and grenades into the pillbox from the perforation or sprayed fire into the perforation with flamethrowers.

The Soviet pillbox fortifications were helpless under this tactic, and they could only watch the Germans blow up their bunkers one by one: to continue to stay in the bunker was to wait for death, and to get out of the bunker defense was to seek death.