"What 'T34' troops!" Major General Andreas retorted: "Are you frightened by the enemy? The 'T34' unit is in Volokolamsk! ”

"No, General!" The commander of the tank battalion replied loudly: "They are right in front of us, in fact, they are ...... on our flanks"

Before the words fell, there were several cannon shots, and only a murmur remained in the walkie-talkie.

Shulka and his men followed the tank.

A tank battalion of more than thirty tanks from the Germans was quickly annihilated.

This was not only a matter of protection and firepower, but also the fact that the German tanks were concentrated on the middle of the road and could not move.

It is not an exaggeration to use the word "immobilized", their front, left and right are all minefields, and this tank battalion should not have rushed up so recklessly.

However, this does not seem to make much difference, as the entire German 3rd Panzer Division is in a minefield.

Under the leadership of the demining tanks, the Soviets can outflank the roads and railways as they please, change direction, and shoot flares in the middle, and then adjust the muzzles to hit the enemy tank group in the middle......

And the German tanks, which were basically incapacitated, could only turn in confusion and anxiety on the road, and they wanted to face the enemy with their frontal armor...... This is the basic principle of tank warfare.

But this effort is obviously futile, because the T34 tank can easily penetrate its frontal armor at long distances, so it doesn't really make much difference whether it is frontal armor or side armor, if there is a difference, it is that the side armor surface is larger and easier to hit.

"Boom" sounded, and tank No. 239 fired a shell.

It uses grenades, which are not necessarily necessary for tank combat, such as when facing the back or side armor of an enemy tank, and it is often effective to use a grenade aimed at the position of the target engine.

German tanks use gasoline engines, which can easily ignite and explode if hit, which causes much more damage than an armor-piercing projectile.

As it is now, a grenade can ignite a tank "Three" as soon as it passes...... The Soviets outflanked the Germans from both sides of the road, and if the Germans wanted to face one of them, they would inevitably have to turn their rear armor towards the other side.

So, just listening to the sound of "boom", the tank instantly burst into a ball of flames, which burned more and more in a few seconds, and then turned into a ball of fire.

This flame instantly illuminated the other tanks, and even due to the problem of "darkness under the lamp", the crew of the German tank in the flames could not even see the T34 in the dark.

Needless to say, the tanks were destroyed by the Soviets one after another, as if they were waiting in line on the highway to be shot.

But that's just the beginning.

The T34 ignored the German soldiers who were hiding in a mess around the wreckage of the tank...... Their target was not the infantry, but the enemy tanks, and if the enemy was destroyed by the lazy attacking tanks, the German infantry would be easy to deal with like a tiger with its teeth pulled out.

What's more, this area is a minefield, densely covered with mines, and the German infantry can be said to be unable to move an inch.

It was only then that Major General Andreas realized that something was wrong, and although he still hadn't figured out the situation at this point, he had already realized the danger.

"The second battalion is covering, and the third battalion will retreat immediately!" Major General Andreas ordered.

The tank units of the 3rd Panzer Division advanced along the road in the order of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions, and if they wanted to retreat, they would of course have to reverse it.

The order for the three battalions to retreat was easy to execute, and the German sappers cleared the road fairly wide, and the tanks could make a U-turn on the road.

It was difficult for the second battalion to cover, the road was spacious for marching or turning around, and for combat it was just a narrow passage, and the tanks could not deploy at all.

The commander of the 2nd Battalion, Major Paul, was an experienced veteran, and when his subordinates were at a loss, he firmly ordered: "Spread out the battle formation, leave those mines alone!" ”

"But Major!" The subordinate replied: "We will be blown up by mines!" ”

"That's all anti-infantry mines!" Major Paul replied: "No, anti-tank mines will be buried on the side of the road...... At best, they only cause damage to the tracks! ”

"Yes, Major!" The men responded, and then drove the tanks off the road, forming a circle to cover each other.

Sure enough, most of the mines on both sides of the road were wooden-hull mines, and those mines made a "bang" explosion under the tank tracks, like firecrackers.

Soon, the tracks of several tanks were blown off...... This is related to the long march of German tanks, and the tank tracks have to be maintained every time they march a certain distance.

At this time, the German tank had not stopped for a whole day, and was blown up by several mines, and soon could not withstand the breakage and then could not move.

But even then, it was in much better condition than the previous armored battalion, which lined up in a back-to-back row waiting for the enemy to arrive.

Then there was silence all around, except for the sound of the tank's motors, only the sound of a loudspeaker on a telephone pole a few hundred meters away: "Hitler miscalculated, he thought that we were fragile and vulnerable, they wanted to destroy the Soviet Union in a month and a half to 2 months, but in the last 4 months of the war, our army has suffered heavy casualties, but it has blocked their attack......"

The Germans called the horns on the poles "Stalin's mouths," and they were ubiquitous and propaganda was carried out throughout the Soviet Union, and the first thing the Germans often did when they captured a place was to dismantle, destroy them, or take control of them.

Then the "rumbling" of the motor soon sounded out of the darkness.

"Flares!" Major Paul ordered.

Flares are fired in all directions centered on the German position, and then a light is released in the air to illuminate the surroundings......

A group of T34s soon appeared in front of them, led by strange tanks with rollers, which made a passage through the snow and led straight to the 2nd Panzer Battalion.

"Fire!" Major Paul ordered.

"Boom" German tanks successively adjusted their turrets and fired at the target.

But unfortunately, at a distance of more than two hundred meters, German tanks were simply not enough to penetrate the frontal armor of enemy tanks.

Major Paul wanted the enemy tanks to move on, but the T34s stopped one by one and then aimed at the German tanks behind the stabilized guns.

So Major Paul knew that his troops were coming to an end...... Unless it can penetrate the enemy's tank at a distance of 100 meters, it can only be used as a target by the T34.

However, it is basically impossible to rush into the enemy's 100-meter distance in this minefield.