It's four shifts today, ask for a monthly ticket, and continue to watch five shifts tomorrow! Five days a day is not slow, right, you have to kill it, you don't need to raise it every day to watch it!

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Guderian, of course, did not know that the 4th tank brigade at this time had returned to Moscow.

To be precise, the main forces returned to Moscow, and other tanks such as the T26 and KV1 remained in Volokolamsk to continue fighting.

It is gratifying that during this time, Stalingrad urgently produced 5 more tanks and transported them to Moscow to be handed over to the 4th Tank Brigade, and 3 more faulty tanks were repaired and joined the team, so that a total of 39 tanks were added.

At this time, in the lobby of the Mayakovsky metro station in Moscow, Stalin was solemnly celebrating the 24th anniversary of the victory of the October Revolution.

The speech of the entire meeting was broadcast on every radio in the streets and alleys: "Comrades! Twenty-four years have passed since our victory in the October Revolution. Today, our country is suffering from aggression from a foreign enemy who has occupied Ukraine, occupied Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia and other regions, which hangs over Leningrad like a dark cloud and threatens our glorious capital, Moscow......"

In the midst of this speech, Major Zakhakavich gave a loud order: "Forward! ”

Then the tank units "rumbled" and moved along the railways and roads in the direction of Tula.

At the front were ten demining tanks, and in the center were 39 T34s, which were divided into ten groups of three or four to follow behind the minesweeping tanks. And finally ten more demining tanks...... The next ten were for substitutions and reinforcements.

The snow is as white as the clouds.

The snow on the ground was a meter thick, the muddy ground had turned into frozen soil, and even the lake had frozen over...... Of course, the ice at this time was not enough to support the tank to move on it.

Such road conditions allowed the tanks to advance in an offensive formation, and the roaring of motors came and went, rolling south like a herd of horses running on the prairie.

On the other side, the 3rd Panzer Division was also heading north, and Major General Andreas kept urging the vanguard with his walkie-talkie: "Speed up, and if you don't want to freeze to death outside the city, get rid of those damn mines and obstacles right away!" ”

"Yes, General!" Second Lieutenant Hans, the commander of the engineer company at the front, replied, then turned to the soldier who was busy splashing gasoline under the trunks of trees across the road and setting it on fire: "Speed up, we will have a hot coffee in Moscow tomorrow!" ”

The German sappers couldn't help but laugh.

But the process is not easy, and landmines are a headache...... That's not to say how much harm it will do to personnel.

In fact, the wooden shell mines used by the Russian army may have cooled down rapidly due to moisture, which made many wooden shell mines insensitive, or even ineffective.

But this was not a good thing for the Germans, who could have detonated these mines with a slap mark...... Shoot forward on the road with a long pole, and anti-tank mines can be detected with metal detectors.

But now, long poles are often unable to detonate those frozen wooden-shell mines, but people will explode with a "boom" when they step on them.

Having a broken leg in the snow and ice is not something to be pleasant to look at, and this is one of the reasons why the 3rd Panzer Division is not moving fast.

Another problem is the trunk of a tree in the middle of the road.

Before that, these trunks were not worth mentioning to the Germans at all, since it only took a tank to step forward and push them away easily.

But now, the trunk is frozen tightly in the muddy road, and the tank is based on ice and snow, and the result of pushing the trunk with it is often that the tracks slip in place while the trunk does not move.

As a result, the Germans had to sprinkle precious gasoline on the trunks of trees and set them on fire, using these fires to melt the frozen ground between the trunks and the ground, and then pushing them with tanks.

Ensign Hans waved his signal lights and directed a bulldozer converted from a tank chassis to slowly move forward......

Just then, he heard a "rumbling" behind him.

Ensign Hans thought he had misheard at first, but when he stopped the bulldozer, he soon realized that this was not the case, because the "rumble" was mixed with the sound of explosions.

"What's going on?" Ensign Hans asked.

"I don't know!" The adjutant replied: "Probably an enemy tank!" ”

"If it's a tank, how do they get through a minefield?" Ensign Hans said: "Roll with a track?" ”

It's not impossible to use a track roll, but the track will be blown up as soon as the trip is long, so this is not realistic at all.

"Flares!" Second Lieutenant Hans ordered.

The flares rose into the air, and the scene left Ensign Hans and the others dumbfounded.

Dozens of T34 tanks flanked them from both flanks, and Hans found out why they were able to maneuver through minefields...... In front of them were T26 tanks with large drums, which pushed the drums through the snow as they moved forward, and then the mines exploded one by one under the drums.

"Enemy situation!" Second Lieutenant Hans shouted: "Inform ...... immediately"

The following words could not be spoken, because with a whistling sound, several shells exploded next to Ensign Hans, blowing up a bunch of German troops, including Ensign Hans, into the air.

Then, the bulldozer was also smashed into a ball of fire.

The battle at the front soon attracted the attention of the follow-up Germans.

When Major General Andreas was alerted, he sent an armored battalion up without thinking.

Major General Andreas took it for granted that it was an enemy guerrilla unit or civil defense unit blocking the front and engaging in an exchange of fire with the engineer units.

The commander of the armored battalion thought the same thing, so he led thirty tanks to advance along the road in a long snake formation under the cover of the infantry...... In fact, the Germans had to line up in such a formation because it was full of mines, and if the Germans were to move quickly, they would have to clear a passage in the minefield.

This passage is clearly a road.

German tanks could only advance along the road, otherwise they risked being blown up by mines.

This was no problem, because if the enemy's tanks met them, they would also have to clear a passage in the minefield, and they would also meet the enemy in a long snake formation, so no one could take advantage.

The problem is that the Soviets have mine-sweeping tanks, and they are high-speed and highly efficient mine-sweeping tanks...... At this time, the minesweeper tank was no longer the stone grinder that would shatter when it was blown up by an anti-tank mine, and a few mines would leak from time to time on both sides.

Led by such minesweeper tanks, the T34 tanks quickly moved forward from both sides.

By the time the German tank battalion found out, it was already surrounded.

"Organize defense!" The commander of the tank battalion commanded loudly, and then immediately contacted Major General Andreas: "General! The enemy surrounded us, and there were T34s everywhere...... I think it's 'T34 troops'! ”