The Germans, on the other hand, had not been able to defend themselves against Soviet tanks in previous battles......

This was mainly determined by the fact that the 4th Tank Brigade withdrew soon after the capture of Klin, and the 251st Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came up with almost no tanks.

On the other hand, the Germans had tanks and were attacking, so there were not too many tank obstacles on the German line, otherwise these obstacles would also block their tank attacks.

Therefore, there were no anti-tank trenches, no anti-tank mines, only a few anti-tank guns and a dozen "No. 3" tanks, which were urgently pulled up by the Germans.

But these anti-tank guns and the "three" tank can almost be ignored by the T34...... They could not pose much of a threat to the Soviet T34.

As a result, the German tanks were destroyed by the T34, and the fighters of the 333rd Infantry Regiment fired mortar shells at the German lines...... THESE MORTAR GUNS ARE THE SOVIET ARMY'S SHOVEL 37MM MORTARS, THEY ARE EVEN BETTER THAN LONG-RANGE MORTARS IN NIGHT BATTLES, BECAUSE LARGE-CALIBER LONG-RANGE MORTARS NEED ARTILLERY OBSERVER GUIDANCE, WHICH ALSO REQUIRES COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT, AND 37MM MORTARS CAN BE BLOWN UP DIRECTLY ON THE FRONT LINE.

At this time, the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were following behind, could not hold back, and one of the officers shouted: "Comrades, for the sake of the motherland and for Moscow, rush!" ”

"Rush!"

……

The soldiers of the 251st Division shouted and rushed over the tanks.

At this time, the charge was still premature, and it would be a different matter if the Germans began to cover it with artillery fire.

But of course, it is also very difficult to cover with artillery fire at night, especially when the two sides have already exchanged artillery, because it is difficult for the artillery observer to judge the distance or even complete the test firing and guide, because he does not know which shell was fired by his own artillery.

What's more, at this time, the distance between us and the enemy is very close, and the tanks have advanced to a distance of more than 100 meters, and if they are covered by artillery fire, they will accidentally blow up the shells to their own positions.

Therefore, the Soviet army with T34 tanks does not need to be in such a hurry, they can calmly knock out the Soviet machine gun positions and mortar positions one by one and then continue to advance or charge.

But the troops of the 251st Division were not under the command of the 4th Tank Brigade, and Shulka could not scream, so he could only let them charge forward.

In fact, this charge disrupted the whole rhythm, and the tank, which was still looking for a target, had to stop firing...... If the shell explodes, there is no doubt that it will injure one's own people.

Tank machine guns also stopped.

The soldiers of the 251st Division were not trained in infantry and tank coordination, and they did not know how to give way to the tank machine guns, and one group after another blocked the machine gun holes with their backs.

In this respect, the 251st Division should not have been allowed to coordinate from the beginning.

Then, unsurprisingly, the charge of the 251st Division was again suppressed by the fire of the German resurrection.

What Shulka didn't know was that it was actually Colonel Chernetsev's pride that was at work.

Colonel Chernetsev was the commander of the 251st Regiment of the 801st Division, that is, the commander of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who assisted in the offensive of the 1st Tank Battalion.

Colonel Chernetsev had always been taught that "if you are brave enough, you can defeat the enemy", and he also demanded and even supervised the operations of other troops, and before that, many officers were punished and even executed by Colonel Chernetsev because of "greed for life and fear of death".

In this case, Colonel Chernetsev felt that the situation in this battle was an insult to the 251st Division:

How can the 251st Division, which has been emphasizing and supervising the brave fighting of other units, fight under the protection of other troops, especially if it still retreats behind friendly tanks and slowly advances, so how can the 251st Division supervise other units in the future?

What's more, Colonel Chernetsev was one of them, and he had always put on a brave and fearless posture in front of his subordinates, but now he hid behind a tank with his subordinates......

No, this must not be allowed to continue!

Colonel Chernetsev said to himself in his heart: they should show the 4th Tank Brigade that the units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the best, they do not need protection from others, they do not need tanks, they can break through the enemy's lines by themselves and courage.

Thinking of this, Colonel Chernetsev shouted and directed the soldiers to rush forward, including himself.

But the battlefield is a battlefield after all, it will not be transferred by the subjective will of man, and the charge commanded by Colonel Chernetsev was completely chaotic, and the resurrection fire of the German army quickly knocked down the charging soldiers in rows and pressed them to death in front of the position.

The tank "rumbled" up, and Colonel Chernetsev watched with incredible eyes as the 4th Tank Brigade once again pressed down the German fire.

The scene at that moment brought Colonel Chernetsev a subversive feeling, almost overturning what he had always believed, which even made him a little unacceptable.

After the war, Colonel Chernetsev wrote this passage in his diary:

"I don't know what's going on, why the battlefield is like this, it's completely different from what I imagined...... Our courage and charge seemed to have no effect at all, in fact, they were vulnerable to enemy fire, and I felt like I was standing in front of me as I was surrounded by a wall of steel that could never be crossed.

That doesn't seem to mean anything, for I can fully assume that the same is true for other units when they charge.

However, this was not the case, because the 4th Tank Brigade was close by, and in front of them, the enemies who stood in our way were waiting to be punished like children who had made mistakes, they were killed, they were blown into the sky, and they even raised their guns and surrendered......

At that moment, all I could think of was one sentence: 'Why is this happening, how did all this happen?' ’！ ”

Colonel Chernetsev, who was on the battlefield, was not reconciled, he got up from the ground, waved his pistol and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Get up, follow me ......"

But a bullet hit Colonel Chernetsev's left arm, and Colonel Chernetsev fell to his knees, helplessly dodging the nearby bursts of mortar shells, which he even hoped would blow him to pieces.

At this moment, a man sprang out of the hail of bullets and pushed him to the ground, and a shell exploded not far away, and the colonel's military cap was even blown away by the shock wave.

The man dragged Colonel Chernetsev forward for some distance, then threw Colonel Chernetsev behind a sandbag and ordered loudly in an unquestionable tone: "Stay here!" ”

Colonel Chernetsev, panting for breath, looked at the brave soldier in front of him with frightened eyes, when a flare rose into the sky, and Colonel Chernetsev found that he was a second lieutenant with a Red Star medal on his chest.