Gunfire rang out, and the Soviets rushed into the Romanian army like a tiger into a flock of sheep, slashing and killing.

The Romanian army collapsed at the very moment of the Soviet charge...... Although some of them had fled before that, a significant number of them remained where they were to fight with the German sappers.

However, when they saw the Soviet troops coming like a tidal wave over the tanks, they could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts and turned around and ran.

In this way, the battle became simpler, and all the Soviets had to do was follow them and stab their bayonets in their backs again and again.

The clever Romanian soldier would have fallen to his knees early and raised his hands.

The problem of the Romanian army, on the one hand, was that it was poorly equipped, and on the other hand, it did not have much will to fight.

The poor equipment is mainly due to the lack of its own military industry.

Not having its own military industry means, first of all, that weapons and equipment are not tailored to one's own army, so there will always be problems of one kind or another.

For example, Romania is equipped with tanks from the Czech Republic and France.

FOR EXAMPLE, THERE ARE TWO CALIBRES OF RIFLES: THE VZ24 RIFLE AND THE MANLICEL 1895 RIFLE, THE FORMER IS A 7.92MM CALIBER AND THE LATTER IS AN 8MM CALIBER.

Another example is howitzers, which are Czech, French, and German......

The result of equipping weapons made in the world is that the equipment is chaotic and the supply is difficult, and the wrong ammunition rationing is common when fighting on the front lines.

THERE ARE ALSO SHORTCOMINGS IN ANTI-TANK EQUIPMENT, AND WHEN GERMANY AND SOVIETS ELIMINATED 37MM ANTI-TANK GUNS, THE LUO ARMY WAS STILL USING 25MM ANTI-TANK GUNS.

More importantly...... It seems that the Romanian army did not have a great reason to fight.

Romania was not invaded, the people were not slaughtered, they attacked the USSR with Germany only because Hitler promised to give them the land west of the Dnieper, that is, the land they were now attacking.

Upon hearing this promise, Prime Minister Antonescu happily jumped from his position and swore to Hitler: "I will support you from day one, and if you want to fight the Slavs, you can always count on Romania!" ”

Antonescu's choice seemed natural at the time, given that the German army had swept across the continent, and even France, which claimed to have the strongest army in the world, had only been able to withstand its tanks for more than a month.

So, this is a battle to stand on the side of the strong and get a piece of the pie, and they are naturally not willing to pay too many casualties.

Historically, after the 4th Army suffered heavy casualties in the attack on Odessa, the domestic demand for the withdrawal of troops has not stopped, but it is just that it is tied to the chariot by Germany and cannot get off.

(Note: The battle in Odessa is usually seen on the Internet as proof that the Romanian army is not a weak army, but after a deeper understanding of this battle, it will be found that the Romanian army fought with a group army several times the strength of the Soviet army, and as a result, more than 80,000 casualties, this is still when the Soviet Air Force was basically disabled, and the Romanian 4th Army was even retreated a few kilometers by the Soviet counteroffensive)

The battle lasted more than five hours.

Or it should not be called a battle, because the Soviets were taking advantage of the rout of the Romanian army to accelerate the march.

"This is a great opportunity!" Shulka reported to Major Gavrilov: "Comrade Ensign, the Romanians are fleeing along this road, if we follow them......"

"That means they can't lay mines!"

"Yes!" Shulka said: "It will save us a lot of trouble! ”

"That's right!" Major Gavrilov replied, and then without hesitation gave the order to pursue.

It is surprising that there were even many Romanian troops on the road who were completely unprepared for the Soviet army's overwhelming frontier...... They were the Romanian troops who had entered the retreat process before, and they had not received any news due to poor communication and the fact that the radio was not turned on during the march.

In other words, the minefields in the rear have been broken through and the Soviets are overwhelmed, but they are still marching unhurriedly on the road, occasionally complaining about the damn weather and the bad road.

It wasn't until there were bursts of gunfire from the rear that they realized something was wrong...... But by this time it was too late.

What the Soviet 9th Army got was patches of prisoners and equipment on the road.

However, this did not mean much to the Soviets, who cared more about the bread and canned food carried by the Romanian logistics troops.

Romania is an agrarian country, and with an oil-backed economy that is relatively affluent, their bread is not comparable to the black bread of the Soviet Union, especially canned beef...... This is also the reason why the pursuit of the Soviet army finally stopped in the end.

The pursuit lasted more than five hours into the night, and the Soviets were still in hot pursuit behind the Romanian troops, with several light tanks in front...... There is no modification of the kind, and at this time there is no need to modify the tank for demining at all.

Then under the headlights of the tank appeared a row of cars and carriages.

The Soviets knew how to deal with the situation.

The infantry will go up and take away the wagon, and the car will drive away, if there is one who can't pull it and can't drive away...... It is very common for them to get stuck in a mud puddle and cannot move.

At this point, the tanks will drive up and push them to the side of the road, which will allow the troops to pursue them as quickly as possible.

This push went wrong: as soon as the carriage overturned, cylindrical iron boxes rolled out of the covered canvas.

"What is this?" Longleg curiously picked up an iron box and asked.

"Be careful, it could be a mine!" The actor said.

This guess was reasonable, because the Germans had been laying mines all the time, and it looked a bit like a mine, so Long Legs hurriedly put it back.

The veteran walked up calmly, picked one up, thrust it up with a military thorn, and lifted the lid again...... The red and black juicy canned beef appeared in the light.

"It's canned!"

"Canned beef!"

……

This was a mess, and the soldiers in the rear rushed up to scramble, and then they soon found that dozens of truckloads of supplies in front of them were all bread and canned food, as well as bees, jams, and the like.

Presumably, this was supposed to be the logistics unit of the German army transporting supplies, and they abandoned these supplies and ran away when they learned that the Soviets were catching up.

They certainly didn't think about the wisdom of what they were doing, because the Soviet soldiers scrambling for the supplies blocked the road, and Major Gavrilov even fired a gun into the air to stop the chaos.

From this point of view, the Soviet 9th Army cannot be called an elite soldier.

But...... How could hungry warriors resist the temptation of these foods? Especially the ones that are still the best beef.

If the Germans knew this, they should not have used mines to block the advance of the Soviet troops, but even more so with Waterga.