The German tanks "rumbled" forward, each tank followed by a large number of soldiers...... It was the largest German offensive, with an estimated three companies, each with a tank covering the advance, apparently hoping to take the fort to end the battle.

"Demolition team!" At the command of Major Gavrilov, several groups of organized demolition teams jumped out of the trenches under the cover of fire and advanced in the direction of the German tanks.

The demolition team is generally composed of 5 people.

The three are demomen, and in addition to carrying rifles, they mainly carry a large amount of explosives, such as explosive packs, blasting canisters, cluster grenades, etc...... Some people don't even carry rifles to be able to move easily.

The other two were cover officers, carrying PPD submachine guns to provide fire cover for the Demoman, and if necessary, to take over the Demoman's explosives to continue the mission.

Of course, these members need extraordinary courage and military quality, otherwise they will have the courage to rush forward when they see the tank.

Shulka is known as a "coward...... Later, Shulka learned that at this time he had the nickname "Coward".

But this doesn't seem to be a bad thing, because then it will definitely not be his turn to blow up the tank.

Shulka observed the movements of the demolition team through the crosshairs, they were obviously veterans of the troops, one by one very nimble, with the help of the craters, sometimes lying down and hiding, sometimes leaping forward, the rows of bullets from the direction of the Germans did not make much difference...... Only three soldiers were hit in the leap, and the remaining thirty or so soldiers successfully advanced out of the trench and scattered and hid two hundred meters away.

This put a lot of pressure on the Germans, and the tanks immediately slowed down.

The German response was correct, this is not to say that the tanks are afraid of the infantry, but the tank's ability to perceive the outside world is very limited, the Soviet army sent demomen to carry a large number of explosives to scatter in front of the trenches like beans, they hide in the craters or blind spots, and some are even mixed with dead corpses to distinguish the authenticity of the fake, and it is difficult for the tanks to find these targets.

It is not difficult to imagine that if the tank had moved forward, it would not have been long before an explosive bag would be stuffed into the track or a cluster grenade would have been stuffed into the chassis and exploded......

The Germans didn't do that, they chose to play it steady, and they were good at it.

A "No. 3" tank adjusted the angle of its gun barrel, and then with a "bang" of the gun, it blew up a Soviet machine gun position on the ground.

Several Soviet machine gunners were covered in blood and lay on the side, and their lives were uncertain, while the machine guns were blown up into parts and scattered around.

The Soviet-made Maxim M1910 heavy machine gun had a barrel-like water-cooled sleeve on the barrel and a steel baffle at the rear of the barrel, which made it a prominent target on the battlefield, making it a natural target for German tanks.

The other two "No. 3" tanks also stopped aiming, and their targets were all machine-gun positions in Soviet positions.

This seems a bit counterintuitive...... When facing the Soviet demolition team, the tank actually turned its target to the machine gun position in the Soviet trench.

In fact, this was the genius of the German army: tank guns were better suited to targets that were relatively distant and clustered together than individual infantry scattered in front of them.

"Da Da Da!" A burst of gunfire passed, and several Soviet soldiers who ventured to the tank with explosive packs were quickly knocked down in pools of blood.

The German tanks advanced unhurriedly, and every time they advanced a distance, infantry would use bullets and grenades to test the obstacle forward, and every corpse and crater would not be missed, and even sometimes the tanks would turn to avoid the key defensive areas of the Soviet "demolition team".

At this moment, there was another scream in the air, and two German fighters swooped down from the air, and machine gun bullets rained down on the Soviet trenches, and the trenches immediately set off a bloody storm and screams.

Shulka hurriedly put away his rifle and rolled around the corner of the "Z" shaped trench, and several machine gun bullets flew past Shulka with a "whoosh" sound, and the stones stirred up by the bullets even hit Shulka in the face, causing pain.

Looking back, there were already a few more corpses in the place where Shulka had just been...... Or they can't be called corpses yet, because their hands and feet are still twitching.

Okunev was lucky not to be injured despite being in the middle of it, his face was pale and he was breathing, and Shulka noticed that his lips were even shaking.

"Are you alright?" Shulka asked.

"It's okay......!" Okunev replied with difficulty, and then looked at Shulka suspiciously, as if wondering how Shulka could react so quickly and knew where to hide.

It's not really hard to understand:

For enemy pilots, they usually keep the fuselage parallel to the target trench and fly in a straight line, so that when the dive fires, the bullets will strafe into the enemy trench in a row. The same goes for bombing, which multiplies the chance of a bomb being dropped into a trench.

Therefore, to avoid their attacks, you must choose a place with your back to the aircraft and cover...... Bullets travel in a straight line, and with a little imagination, it's easy to determine where the bullet will be fired in advance.

Of course, this is not a good time for Shulka to explain this to Okunev.

Shulka dragged Okunev out of the pile of dead men, then poked his head out to look out.

Under the almost perfect coordinated attack of the German infantry, tank and air, the situation of the Soviet army was very serious: the firepower in the trenches was completely suppressed by the German tanks and aircraft, which gave the German infantry an absolute advantage in firepower, so they leaned out to provide cover for the tanks, and then the tanks advanced forward......

The pattern of the offensive remained the same, but what changed was the increasing number of Soviet soldiers' corpses on the battlefield and the shorter and shorter distances...... The Soviet "demolition team" could not stop the German advance at all, and they were almost completely wiped out at this time.

The reason why I say "almost" is that there may still be members of the "demolition team" hiding in craters or dead bodies with cluster grenades or explosive packs, which is one of the reasons why German tanks did not dare to move forward at a faster pace.

However, it is conceivable that this will not last long, and the tracks of German tanks will soon run mercilessly over the Soviet trenches, followed by a large number of muzzles and cold bayonets.

What to do?

Shulka asked himself if he continued like this, and the Soviet defense line would soon collapse on all fronts.

Shulka thought about escaping, and in fact some Soviet soldiers had already done so, including Valery, who had mocked Shulka before...... Shulka saw him drop his rifle and stumble towards the rear.

However, at the thought of the instructor's indifferent eyes, Shulka gave up on the idea.

Running away is obviously not a good option, it will even cut off your own way of life, and then the German and Soviet armies and even the whole world will become your enemies, and you will have nowhere to go.