Further on, there were not even the German wounded that needed to be removed.

The reason was that there was a gap between the battles, and even the wounded German soldiers froze to death in the cold snow.

Or commit suicide......

It was the wounded German soldiers who did not want to freeze to death, who were abandoned in this ice and snow and lost hope of survival.

There was no hope of survival, because not many of the able-bodied German prisoners survived the war, let alone the wounded who needed to be cared for.

So, they got together and lit a grenade.

This can be seen in the corpses they have poured into piles, and Shulka can even imagine their last second scene: several people gather their heads in the middle as if they were sharing dinner, and then pull off the grenade, watch it "sizzle" and smoke, and then "boom...... It's over.

As for the others, who still had a glimmer of hope or could not even commit suicide, they could only shiver in the cold wind, and then gradually lost consciousness, and soon froze.

With such low temperatures, no one can lie in the snow for an hour.

This also illustrates the fact that the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade has been in the past for some time.

"Where do you guess the 2nd Brigade has gone?" Antipunov, with a sniper rifle on his back, followed from behind.

He was originally in the second echelon, and as it was said before, the snipers should have followed.

But because the vanguard is so slow, the second echelon can catch up when walking.

Shulka looked at his watch and replied, "If nothing else, it's twenty kilometers ahead of us!" ”

"Twenty kilometers?!"

The surrounding soldiers threw puzzled glances at Shulka.

"That's not true, is it?"

"We were left twenty kilometers behind by them?"

……

"Almost!" The veteran replied: "We have been marching for more than an hour!" ”

This distance is easy to calculate:

The T34 uses wide tracks, and most of them are equipped with non-slip teeth...... This kind of anti-slip teeth is very easy to install, when the track of the T34 tank is produced, there are small holes left on the track shoes without guide teeth, and all the engineers have to do is to install the track shoes with small holes like the teeth like the sole of the mountaineering shoes, and then the tank can smoothly drive on the snow or even ice.

As a result, the T34 can reach an average off-road speed of 25 kilometers per hour.

On the other hand, the Matilda tank was temporarily unable to install anti-slip teeth because there were no small holes in the tracks, which made it barely reach a speed of 10 kilometers per hour.

Now it has been more than an hour since the start of the war, and the distance between the two is 20 kilometers, to say the least.

"That is, they are already attacking Tver?" The instructor asked.

Shulka nodded.

Tver is only 20 km from Kling.

But of course, the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade will not attack Tver simply from the front...... The good thing about winter is that the rivers and swamps around Tver are frozen into hard ice and snow, and infantry and even tanks can attack from any direction.

"The offense seems to be going too well!" Said the instructor.

The request given by the superiors was to take Tver within three days, and now it has hit Tver in just over an hour...... At this rate, it may only take half a day to achieve this goal.

"Comrade Captain!"

At this time, the actor who was walking in front called at Shulka.

Shulka and the instructor stepped forward to see the frozen corpse of a German soldier.

If it's just a frozen corpse, it's nothing strange, it's everywhere along the way.

The strange thing is that these corpses were made into road signs by the Soviet soldiers in front of them in the snow: they even had a decent rifle on their backs, holding one hand and the other pointing in the direction of their advance, and a white cloth hanging from their arms that read in blood: "Go here, comrades of the 1st Brigade!" ”

The fighters suddenly laughed:

"I never knew that the comrades of the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade were so humorous!"

"They came up with a great idea to use Fahis to show us the way!"

……

"Hey!" The veteran said, "Don't you think this is a mockery of us?" This road signpost...... What they mean is that we are walking too slowly, fearing that we will get lost! ”

The soldiers were silent for a moment, but they couldn't help but laugh.

Shulka didn't laugh, he raised his head and asked a few guards to put the body down and remove the white cloth.

Anyway, the soldiers are innocent, they are more just carrying out orders, so they should not be treated like this, especially the corpses.

On the other side, as Shulka and others estimated, the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade had indeed hit Tver.

As soon as he arrived in Tver, the commander of the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade, Colonel Lavrentin, could not wait to give the order to attack.

"They're finished!" Lavrentin shouted to his subordinates via walkie-talkie: "Destroy them, before the 1st Guards Tank Brigade arrives!" ”

The reason why Colonel Lavrenchin wanted to emphasize "before the arrival of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade" was because he hoped to surpass the 1st Guards Tank Brigade through this battle...... This can be said to be Lavrentin's wish, and it can also be said to be the goal of the officers and men of the entire brigade.

The reason why they are the "2nd Brigade" is because their combat exploits are inferior to the "1st Brigade".

And it's not just inferior, it can even be said to be far behind.

The exploits of the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade, and all other tank units to be exact, were to the death of the Germans on the defensive line.

But the 1st Guards Tank Brigade ...... They were god-like beings in this battle, not only did they defeat the German armored forces one after another, but they even sank nearly 100 tanks to the bottom of the lake in Volokolamsk.

Originally, Colonel Ravlengin thought that he would not be able to catch up with the 1st Guards Tank Brigade, so he abandoned this idea.

But luck suddenly befell the 2nd Brigade: the 1st Brigade was equipped with British and American tanks, and the 2nd Brigade was equipped with T34s.

It was no secret to the Soviets that Lavrentin knew what was going on with the British and American tanks, because their data had been transferred to the commanders of other tank units.

"This is our chance!" Lavrenin said to his subordinates: "A chance to surpass the 1st brigade!" ”

"Comrade Colonel!" The staff officer handed the phone to Lavlentin: "Comrade Rokossovsky phone! ”

"Colonel!" Rokossovsky's slightly worried voice came from the other end of the phone: "You guys are advancing too fast, you should wait for the 1st Brigade!" Comrade Katukov was worried about what could go wrong in this, he thought that the enemy might be prepared! ”