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"Anti-tank guns!" Captain Venyakov ordered.

Several German light tanks with a group of soldiers rushed to attack first.

This was the vanguard of the German army, and their main task was to find the way ahead, clear obstacles, etc.

Its main forces lagged far behind, and the Soviets, of course, could not have moved at this time.

So, several anti-tank rifles were erected in front of the position.

"The first car on the left side of the target!" Captain Venyakov ordered, then waited a while to give the gunners time to aim, and then shouted: "Fire!" ”

"Bang bang" a few shots, and the first 35T tank on the left stopped moving.

Anti-tank guns have small bullets and sometimes can't cause lethal damage even if they penetrate a target, so it's common for several anti-tank rifles to shoot at the same target to increase the chance of damage.

Then there was the second tank on the right, which was a "No. 2" tank, which clearly sensed the threat of anti-tank rifles, so it stepped on the accelerator and charged forward at a faster pace, while tank guns and machine guns "roared" at the Soviet trenches.

This approach is correct, because the tank is large and has obvious targets and slower driving speed, so it is useless to do evasive actions such as serpentine maneuvers, and it will even slow down its speed and be more likely to be hit.

The right thing to do is to rush forward and interfere with the enemy with fire, as you do now, so that you can minimize the number of times the enemy can attack.

The German soldiers who followed the tank immediately covered it with mortar shells and fired mortar shells at the Soviet positions, trying to attract Soviet fire to protect the tank.

But all this was in vain, and with the order of the captain, a few shots rang out and the second tank was paralyzed in place.

At the same time, Soviet machine guns and mortars roared...... Although the Soviets were few and less equipped, they were better than having complete fortifications, while the Germans were exposed to the flat wilderness, so the firepower was quickly suppressed by the Soviets.

In fact, Shulka believed that this was more of a delay in the waiting of the main forces of the German army in the rear.

This psychology is understandable, this is human nature, people will be afraid, and will try to avoid danger and casualties when possible.

At this time, if it was only the vanguard of the German army, they had two infantry companies and seven light tanks, which was actually enough to take the position where Shulka and others were stationed.

Here's the problem......

The main forces in the rear had a large number of "No. 3" and "No. 4" tanks, which could not be penetrated by anti-tank rifles, and they could easily run through the enemy's trenches to break through their lines, so why did they have to attack with their lives?

As a result, the German soldiers lay on the spot and exchanged guns with the Soviet troops...... This seems to be a fierce fight, but in fact, it is all indiscriminate shooting and grinding of foreign workers.

The Soviet army also hoped for this, so they also acted with them very cooperatively.

Then, the follow-up tanks drove up to the lake in rows, and they stretched their positions wide...... This was the usual method of assault by German armored units, so that they could attack head-on while also bypassing the enemy from the flanks.

"Ready!" Venyakov looked at Davydov behind him.

Davydov hurriedly picked up the detonating device...... It is an electric detonation device, and its advantage is that it can be detonated instantaneously after seeing the right time, and it does not need to wait for a while like a fuse, and more importantly, it is safer, because the enemy has no time to react at all, so it is impossible to be detected and destroyed in the middle of the fuse explosion.

Two hundred meters.

The tank forwards were getting closer and closer to the Soviet lines, completely ignoring the trees "planted" by the Soviets on the lake, rolling them one by one under the tracks.

The German soldiers followed, perhaps because they were so focused on the front or because they were blocked by the tanks, that they didn't even notice that the trees were in an unusual way when they were knocked down by the tanks...... Normally a tree that is knocked down is more resilient and resilient because of its deep root system, while a tree that is "planted" in the snow and ice is knocked down because of its unstable chassis.

This was clear to Shulka, but the Germans were not.

One hundred meters.

The sun had slowly risen behind the Soviets, and the sky was gradually getting brighter.

It was like giving the Germans a shot of stimulant, and Shulka even heard a burst of cheers from the Germans, as well as a few shouts, as if to get the Soviets to surrender...... The Germans believed that dawn was their world, and there was no need for the battle to continue.

Fifty meters.

At this time, a German infantryman noticed the problem, and he first felt a strange vibration under his feet...... He was sure that the vibration was not from the tracks, it was like a slight shake when glass shattered, and there was a faint "gurgling" sound, but it was not so noticeable in the roar of the tank motor.

Thinking that this was his delusion, the German soldier continued to follow the tank, and before he had taken a few steps he was stunned because he saw a section of a tree in the sunlight...... That was obviously not something that a tank could knock out, because its cut was as smooth as a knife.

Puzzled, the German soldiers ran forward in a few steps, grabbed the sapper shovels and dug into the root area of the tree...... Then his sapper shovel hit the ice.

"God!" The German soldier immediately realized that they had been fooled, especially when he used his hands to peel through the snow and see the translucent ice below.

The German soldiers looked around in alarm, and then shouted:

"Get out of here, we're fooled!"

"We're on the lake!"

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"What?" His words successfully attracted the attention of several comrades.

"We're on the lake!" The German soldier said: "This is not land!" ”

The other German soldiers were stunned when they heard this.

The second lieutenant immediately shouted to the signal corps: "Emergency, order the tank to speed up and get out of here!" ”

But it was already too late.

Davikov pressed down the detonating device, only to hear a "boom" explosion, and the explosives installed on the surface of the lake exploded one after another.

In order to ensure that the ice surface was fully fragmented, the Soviets installed explosive packs every 100 meters on the surface of the lake, and these explosives packets were wrapped with waterproof oil paper and buried in the middle and lower parts of the ice...... This will allow the ice to absorb as much energy as possible from the explosive packet's explosion.

However, it didn't seem to be very necessary, as the tanks themselves were already overwhelmed by the lake, and it only took a few more explosive packs to explode to cause it to chain to pieces.

As a result, a significant portion of the explosive packs actually exploded after the ice had cracked and had little real effect.

However, it was the same result for the Germans......