"These cunning and despicable Russians!" Admiral Schweppenburg cursed through gritted teeth.

In his opinion, it was dishonorable for these Russians not to fight his troops face to face.

But Admiral Schwebenburg, of course, would not have thought that if such logic were used...... Then the penetration and encirclement of the German army, and even a sneak attack with the Brownenburg troops were equally dishonorable.

"What are we going to do, General?" The adjutant asked.

"Keep attacking!" Admiral Schwebenburg said: "Clearing out those tanks, their anti-tank gun positions have been destroyed by us, which means that they have no more tricks to use!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Admiral Schwebenburg was right in his thinking, tank ambushes could only be used once on a certain section of the road, and after the destruction of the anti-tank gun positions, it would be difficult to lay anti-tank gun positions in front of the enemy where they did not know the location.

Unless the enemy has no artillery, these anti-tank gun positions will be blown up into the sky without incident.

But......

"The enemy has retreated, General!" More than half an hour later, the adjutant reported to Admiral Schwebenburg: "After we have cleared the wreckage of those tanks!" ”

Admiral Schwebenburg, who was looking at the map, couldn't help but raise his head in surprise when he heard this: "What? Fall back? ”

"Yes, they retreated three hundred meters back!" The adjutant replied: "In order to clean up those wreckage, we lost more than two hundred soldiers and five tanks!" ”

Cleaning up the wreckage is not something that can be done by sending a few people up to toss around, those are all "No. 3" and "No. 4" tanks, which are more than a dozen tons at every turn.

So it had to have the infantry cover on both flanks, and then send sappers to advance with steel ropes braving bullets and shells, tying steel ropes to the wreckage of the tanks and dragging them away one by one...... Sometimes it was also necessary to have tanks cover the infantry advance for clearance, because the wreckage was already deep in the enemy line and difficult to enter.

As a result, more than 200 soldiers and five tanks were lost.

This left Admiral Schwedgeburg with nowhere to go.

He originally thought that he only needed to clean up the wreckage of these tanks and then teach these Russians a hard lesson...... But unexpectedly, they only needed to retreat 300 meters.

Yes, it is true that the Soviet troops only need to retreat.

Because retreating means that there is a new position next, that is, a position in which there are anti-tank guns hidden, so the German tanks still can't safely let the tanks run along the railway, otherwise the same result will appear before.

That's when Admiral Schwebenburg really understood the strategy of the Russians in front of him: it was an infinite loop of ambushes, and the Germans had to pay a staggering price for every few hundred meters they advanced, whether it was tanks or soldiers.

Therefore, as long as you are not a fool, you can calculate this account: although the German army has an absolute advantage in equipment and troops, it does not mean that they can defeat the Russian army in front of them.

Although this Russian army is retreating layer by layer.

However...... If this fight continues, when the German army reaches the city of Tula, I am afraid that the entire mechanized army will be finished!

After thinking about it, Admiral Schweppenburg gave an order to the adjutant: "This time...... We're going to blow up both sides of the rails with artillery fire! ”

"Yes, General!"

The Germans did exactly that, and shells fell on both sides of the tracks within 200 to 1,000 meters, plowing them as if they were plowing a field.

200 to 1,000 meters is exactly the range of anti-tank gun fire.

The deployment of anti-tank guns is also exquisite, too close is easy to be detected by enemy tanks and become the target of their strikes, far away the hit rate is reduced, and it is difficult to find the target even in this rain curtain, although the target is a bulky tank.

This method seemed to work, as the Soviets put up a little resistance and retreated two hundred meters.

Admiral Schwepengburg, of course, did not know that this time the positions were empty, that is, there was not a single anti-tank gun.

In this regard, Major Gavrilov was simply shocked by Shulka.

"Comrade Shulka, I know why there are always people who suspect that you are a spy?"

"Why?" Shulka asked.

He was really scared of this.

"Because you feel like you know what they're thinking!" Major Gavrilov said: "How do you know that they will bombard it again with artillery fire? ”

Shulka didn't answer, he asked with a bitter face: "Comrade Major, you won't report me for this!" ”

Major Gavrilov was amused and laughed.

In fact, it is not difficult to guess that Sun Tzu's Art of War "the virtual is real, the real is virtual", which is a gadget for the Chinese.

What's more, even if the Germans were not fooled, there would be no loss to the Soviet army, and it would be enough to retreat a certain distance from the same distance.

That's when Admiral Schwebenburg was in trouble.

If the Germans had enough shells, this would not be a problem.

The problem was that the Germans were interspersed with troops, and the logistics were strained by the Kiev partisans......

This can be said to be a slap in the face to Hitler.

When he decided to attack Moscow, he said impassionedly in a speech on the radio to mobilize the soldiers on the front line: "Since the beginning of the war, our troops have built 2,000 road bridges, more than 400 railway bridges, and repaired 29,000 kilometers of railways, all of which are now open to traffic." Now I can tell all the soldiers who are fighting on the front line that our difficulties in Russian transportation are gone! We're going to wipe out the enemy before winter sets in! ”

Hitler's statement is partly true, the Germans did build many roads, railways and bridges, many of which were built by the local people on their own initiative and on a voluntary basis.

The problem was that after the guerrilla war in Kiev, these railways, roads, and bridges were targeted, and German logistics were not, as Hitler said, "the difficulties no longer exist."

This also prevented Admiral Schwebenburg from pushing all the way with shells.

In fact, even if, as Hitler put it, "the supply difficulties no longer exist", no army on the battlefield would have the luxury of pushing forward with shells...... Except for the U.S. military.

So, after hesitating for a while, Admiral Schweppenburg gave the order to the adjutant: "Let the artillery observers come up, observe the sides of the tracks, bomb the suspicious area, and then be ready to suppress at any time!" ”

This is a way to save artillery shells, and it is also a very clever method: let an experienced artillery observer look for it first, and if you find it, you will blow it up.

Others were not found, and they were suppressed as soon as they fired shells at the tank.