"Comrade Company Commander!" Shulka raised his head ahead as he followed the tank, and said, "See that anti-tank trench?" ”

"Yes!" Davydov asked: "Is that any use?" ”

"Smoke bombs!" Shulka said: "And then hide inside and play dead when the enemy is shelling, I mean our company, including the tanks......"

"Comrade Shulka!" The deputy instructor angrily interrupted Shulka's words: "You, as a sergeant, actually said such a thing and pretended to be dead? And let the whole company play dead? This will harm other comrades and lead to the failure of the entire attack! ”

The deputy instructor had some truth in what he said, because the attack was an infantry battalion plus two tank companies with 29 tanks. (Note: Full number of 32 vehicles)

If Davydov is also where Shulka is in the desertion, it is likely to mean the whole attack.

The deputy instructor then threatened Davydov with this threat: "Comrade company commander, you cannot agree to do this, this is surrender, it is a mutiny, it is disobedience to orders, this is to be responsible for the possible defeat!" ”

As for what kind of responsibility he bears, Shulka knows it, and Davydov knows it too.

Davydov hesitated, and then asked Shulka: "Play dead, and then what?" ”

"And then attack when Germany thinks we're going back and let's relax!" Shulka replied.

Davydov nodded, and then asked the deputy instructor: "This is not a surrender, right?" ”

"But Comrade Company Commander!" "This is still disobedience to orders, it will have serious consequences, and no one can afford to take this responsibility," said the deputy instructor......

"Enough, Comrade Olga!" At this time, Pukarev squeezed up and said: "Our purpose is to defeat the enemy alive, not to obey orders for the sake of obeying them!" ”

"Yes!" A sergeant next to him agreed: "This is not to be greedy for life and fear of death, but to change tactics!" ”

The deputy instructor was about to say something, but was interrupted by Davydov.

"If there's a problem, I'm responsible!" Davydov said: "Because I gave the order!" ”

Saying that, Davydov no longer hesitated, and ordered: "Pass the order, target anti-tank trenches, lurk!" ”

"Target anti-tank trenches, lurking!

……

In fact, everyone knows what "lurking" means, and it is still in front of the enemy's position.

But Davydov was not at ease, and added: "After reaching the anti-tank trench, you are not allowed to charge with other troops, play dead!" ”

This command was a bit unusual, but I learned later that it was necessary, because many recruits didn't even know what it meant to be "lurking".

The tank continued to advance, closing in on the enemy line step by step.

Because of the rain, Shulka could not see the enemy, only a trench a few hundred meters away.

Shulka could almost imagine the German soldiers lying in the trenches, aiming their rifles at the growing tanks, motionless as the raindrops the size of beans hit their steel helmets with a soft sound.

And, of course, machine guns, anti-tank guns.

Although the Germans were ill-prepared, they believed that they could repel the Russian army in front of them, because ...... They fought all the way from Poland to here, and they barely encountered the Russian army that could stop them for hundreds of kilometers, which gave them strong confidence, or it can also be said to underestimate the enemy.

Shulka was right.

Garrisoned here was a German regiment, commanded by Colonel Marcus.

Colonel Marcus did not think that the Russians would be able to break through his own lines, as he found that the Russians were using light tanks......

"These light tanks won't do much!" Colonel Marcus said to the adjutant: "Our artillery will blow them to pieces!" So, if the Russians are smart enough, they should take a detour! ”

"Of course!" The adjutant replied: "But the detour is not a very good option either, because we will still appear in front of them to block them before they can go around!" ”

Then the two of them laughed.

This may be called arrogant, because the German army has only one infantry division, while the Soviet army has two armored divisions and one motorized division.

But if you look at the previous example, it is not arrogant, because the German army has been winning more with less since the beginning of the war, as for the Soviet armored forces...... They are usually vulnerable, except for the heavy armor of the heavy tanks, which is a bit of a headache.

But of course, in this case, it was impossible for the Soviet army to bring heavy tanks.

But what Marcus and the rest of the Germans didn't expect was that they were not facing the Soviet army they thought they were.

In fact, Colonel Marcus had already noticed it, because in the previous attacks the Russians were already using tanks to cover the infantry to launch charges...... In the past, it was usually the infantry and the tanks that rushed forward in a swarm, and the tanks and infantry were almost fighting separately and there was no coordination at all.

But after repelling two Soviet attacks, Marcus's hanging heart was put down again.

"But that's it!" Colonel Marcus said: "I can't believe that they broke through the encirclement of the 6th Army with this tank!" ”

"They threw in heavy tanks when they broke through!" The adjutant replied.

Colonel Marcus let out an "oh".

Looking at the approaching Soviet tanks, Colonel Marcus put down his binoculars and coldly ordered the adjutant beside him: "Order the artillery to fire!" ”

"Yes, artillery fire!"

"Fire!"

……

The cannonballs whistled with a disgusting sound, which Shulka did not like, like two trains staggering with their whistles, first with a "woo", then louder and louder, and soon into a "wow" scream.

The difference is that the trains will stagger, but the cannonballs will explode around in pieces, like trains crashing together......

Soon there was a mess around, soldiers who were thrown into the air by shells, tanks that were stuck in mud puddles because of panic, and people who were nervous to avoid recruits.

More men, on the orders of the officers, increased their speed and launched a charge towards the enemy lines.

It was common sense that just rushing close enough to the German lines would render their artillery useless.

The problem was that the Germans were prepared for this, and one by one anti-tank guns quickly destroyed the tanks that broke through the blockade...... THE ARMOR OF THE T26 IS ONLY 15MM THICK, AND EVEN THE PAK36 ANTI-TANK GUN (THAT IS, THE SOVIET TYPE 1930 37MM ANTI-TANK GUN) CAN EASILY PENETRATE IT.

And this is when the high rate of fire of the PAK36 is manifested: 13 shells per minute, more than one round per 4 seconds.

That is, in the few minutes that Soviet tanks rushed to the German lines, the German PAK36 anti-tanks had enough time to fill the ammunition reserves, if necessary.

As a result, Soviet tanks were destroyed one after another in front of their positions.

What the Germans didn't know was that these were really only part of the ......