Even so, Major Gavrilov continued to meticulously build fortifications with the second-line troops.

The 333rd Regiment was ordered to build a defensive line along the railway.

Railways can be said to be the soft underbelly of the Soviet army.

On the one hand, this is due to the fact that a large number of strategic materials and soldiers of the Soviet army need to be transported to the front line by rail. This prevented the Soviets from blowing up the railroad or laying mines, barricades, etc.

On the other hand, the railway has a relatively solid roadbed, and it is not full of mud like the road, and cars and tanks are stuck and unable to move.

As a result, it has become the main object of contention between the enemy and the enemy.

The order from the higher authorities to the 333rd Regiment was to build two lines of defense with an anti-tank fire density of 20 units per kilometer on the front of the railway.

The anti-tank fire here refers not only to anti-tank guns, but also to more than two dozen KV1 and T28 tanks that cannot be used in front-line operations due to their high failure rate.

This tank unit is also mixed, with all units, including the 5th Tank Division, the 21st Mechanized Army, and so on.

Before the arrival of the 333rd regiment, they were not even organized together, but fought separately in the east and west...... The organization of the Soviet army has always been chaotic, and to some extent they are quite part of the optimists, that is, the enemy usually does not get nervous if he does not reach him.

As Shulka saw, some of the tankmen were still playing cards on the back armor of the tanks and hiding under the ponchos.

This is described in another word, which is "nerve bar".

Major Gavrilov immediately organized them into a unit and used the name of one of them: the 3rd Tank Battalion.

Of course, more than two dozen tanks are not enough for a tank battalion, but it will be better to command with the battalion formation, because the first company is KV1 tanks, the second company is T28, and the third company is seven T26s.

"What about these tanks?" Major Gavrilov asked the commander of the tank battalion, Captain Akimchik.

"Major!" Captain Akimchik laughed: "If they were in good condition, then we wouldn't be here anymore!" ”

Major Gavrilov was a little helpless, which meant that most of these tanks could only be used as batteries.

"Don't worry too much, Major!" The lieutenant comforted Major Gavrilov: "The enemy advances an average of 5 kilometers per day, which means that it will take them at least five days to hit this!" ”

The captain may be right, because judging from the battle situation on the front line, the Soviet army has built one anti-tank trench after another in the front, and laid down one anti-tank gun and one tank after another, which has made the attacking German army strong.

Among them, in particular, the Soviets also invested T34 tanks...... Of course, the 1940 T34/76 is quite good in terms of armor, firepower and maneuverability.

This even caused a "T34 crisis" in the German army, that is, the German army had all types of tanks could not penetrate the T34 head-on, which even caused a certain panic in the German army.

It is said that Hitler could not help but be furious when he learned this, and he shouted at the head of his military intelligence, Canaris: "It is now becoming more and more clear that we are underestimating not only the enormous economic and transport power of the Soviet Union, but above all our military power!" We thought the Russians had only 200 divisions, but now we have 360 divisions, we thought the Russians were vulnerable to tanks, but they had high-performance tanks that none of our tanks could match! All ......"

The problem is that at this time, the Soviet army was not equipped with many T34s, and there were also shortcomings such as radio communication and the turret space was too small to accommodate two people, so the gunner had to be the commander of the vehicle.

In fact, the most important thing is that the Soviet army's tactics of using tanks are wrong, so it is still losing ground on the battlefield.

However, it turned out that the offensive and defensive forces on the battlefield could not be estimated by the average attack speed as Captain Akimchik did, especially for the German troops, who were good at interspersing encirclement.

It was the second night, and Shulka and his men were resting in the tent after a busy day...... The tents on the front line are really flattering, because there is rain and mud everywhere, and there are bugs and even poisonous snakes that crawl in from nowhere.

Because the weather gets cold, these snakes like to hide in warmer boots or even under the covers, and then when you put your feet in the boots in the morning, it will give you a hard bite...... This was the case with one of Shulka's recruits.

He screamed in fright when he was bitten, but soon he laughed: "I can go back!" I can get out of this hellish place! ”

This is because he knows the kind of snake, which is venomous but not fatal.

"Be quiet!" Shulka reminded him: "Otherwise, people will think that you were bitten on purpose!" ”

"Yes, Comrade Company Commander!" The recruit immediately shut his mouth.

Before he left, the instructor also gave him a moment of ideological work: "Don't talk nonsense when you go back, understand?" ”

"Understood, Comrade Instructor!"

Shulka knew what the instructors were worried about, and he was worried that the news that the 333rd regiment was on the second line and not on the first line would not be conducive to their propaganda.

But in fact, this concern of the instructors was completely unnecessary, because it was not long before Tula became a real front-line and a battleground for the German army.

"K hearts!"

"A pair of A clubs!"

……

This time, Shulka was also added to the card game, using Leonev's standard solitaire cards.

This guy was a bit annoying, and he had to get everyone to wash their hands, otherwise he wouldn't have taken out his cards even if Shulka ordered him to.

But it seems to be right, otherwise the cards would be full of mud in a few strokes.

The bet was on Ma Heyan, and Shulka was somewhat unaccustomed to the Soviets' name...... They call the card the front suit the queen, for example, the Chinese call the K of spades, and they call it the K spades.

This made Shulka a little unaccustomed, so he was penalized several times for playing the wrong cards, and his horse was about to lose.

The others were so excited that they cheered every time Shulka lost, as if they had won...... They would love to see Shulka make a fool of himself, in the words of a veteran, Shulka has been robbed of the limelight on the battlefield, and the casino can't be a million profits!

The thought of Shulka made him want to get up and beat them...... They all forgot that they were saving their lives by being in the limelight on the battlefield.

This time, Shulka grabbed another bad deck in his hand, and the onlookers waited for Shulka to laugh at it, when the actors who were guarding outside ran in.

"Comrade company commander, there seems to be a situation!"

Shulka secretly said that this guy was enlightened this time, and knew to save him at this difficult time...... But it didn't take long for Shulka to realize that this was not the case.

Because there was a noise of footsteps and shouting outside.