In the vast night, in the west and southwest of the city of Idricsa, on the two roads leading from Shebieri to the city, the roar of various diesel and gasoline engines was incessant, breaking the silence of the night.

Hearing that the city of Itrica was attacked by the Germans, Major General Lelyuschenko, commander of the 21st Mechanized Corps, was first taken aback.

Could it be that the Germans noticed the actions of their own troops and attacked in advance, disrupting their battle plans?

After discussing with his staff, Lelyushchenko rejected his previous judgment.

He could almost conclude that the German army's purpose was to attack the Stalin line from behind, and that it was only a chance encounter with his own troops in Idritsa .

Thinking of his battle plan to cooperate with the 10th Mechanized Army and flank Pustoshka, Lelyushchenko had a bold idea in his heart.

The staff officers were ordered to hastily draw up their own battle plan, which Lelyushchenko sent to the headquarters of the North-Western Front.

Immediately after the telegram was sent, Lelyushchenko gave an order to send more troops to Idricsa.

The 21st Mechanized Corps originally used only the subordinate 42 Tank Division, and after adopting the new plan, the 46 Tank Division and the 185 Motorized Division were transferred to the Idrica direction overnight.

In the quiet of the night, the noise of the engines, especially the diesel engines on the T34 tanks and KV series tanks, radiated far in all directions, and quickly attracted the attention of the scouts of the 10th Panzer Division.

Due to the presence of a large number of tanks in the 21st Mechanized Corps, the tentative attack of the 10th Panzer Division on the city of Itrica failed, and Lieutenant General Fisher withdrew his troops to regroup and sent reconnaissance units to investigate enemy movements.

It was learned that a large number of enemy armored units had been stationed in the city of Idritsa overnight. Lieutenant General Fisher felt the gravity of the matter.

If it's a field battle. With experience and excellent combat effectiveness of his subordinates. Even twice as many enemy tanks are confident of defeating each other themselves.

It's just that now the enemy relies on the defense of urban terrain, and the specific number of tanks is unknown, in this situation, the combination of the Type 4G tank and the tank destroyer No. 4 is difficult to cope with the KV series tanks, especially the KV-2 equipped with a 152-mm tank gun.

Lieutenant General Fisher finally made a sound move, sending the change in the situation on the battlefield to Pustoshka and proposing the need for E-40 tanks.

Admiral Scheer received a telegram. Although reluctant, he approached Chen Dao overnight and asked him to send the Polish governor's guard to assist in the battle.

"The armored forces of the Russians came so quickly, can't they wait to send us the results? I can't miss the results that have been delivered, and I'll send my Governor's Guard out at once. Chen Dao sat on the bed and said with sleepy eyes.

With Chen Dao's order, most of the officers and soldiers of the Polish Governor's Guard, who had been asleep, were pulled out of their sleep and drove all night, along the road taken by the 10th Panzer Division, to the city of Idritsia.

The huge and handsome body of the E-40 tank traverses the forest road. Their arrival boosted the morale of the soldiers of the 10th Panzer Division. Even the sapper shovel digging the foxhole in his hand felt much lighter.

At three o'clock in the morning, the sky was already bright, and with the first light of dawn came Kuznetsov's order.

It was agreed to carry out the combat plan proposed by the 21st Mechanized Army, and the 10th Mechanized Army will cooperate with your unit in synchronous action.

Since the outbreak of the war, Lelyushchenko led the 21st Mechanized Army and the 56th Panzer Army to fight for many days, and he had no fear of the German army.

"We can't win a war by defense alone, we have to attack. The attack was launched at four o'clock sharp, giving the German fascists a taste of Soviet wrath. ”

At four o'clock sharp, the artillery of the 21st Mechanized Corps once again broke the silence on the battlefield.

For a full fifteen minutes, on the three forest roads connecting the cities of Idritsa and Pustoska, 122-mm howitzers and 152-mm howitzers opened fire on the hastily constructed defensive line of the 10th Panzer Division.

Almost as soon as the Soviet artillery opened fire, the German infantrymen dozing with their weapons in the foxhole raised their heads as if they had been poured cold water on their heads.

The battlefield was filled with the sound of earth-shaking explosions, and both sides of the road, whether it was foxholes or innocent trees, were all drowned in gunpowder smoke and fire.

The tall trees were severed by sharp shrapnel and fell to the ground like giants, and the stumps covered the battlefield.

From time to time, foxholes were hit by shells, and gun parts and stumps flew into the sky before falling to the ground.

In the overwhelming artillery fire, the Germans were not passively beaten.

The Hummingbird helicopter avoided the Soviet artillery fire, skimmed over the dense forest, at a height close to the treetops, and quickly rushed towards the city of Iditsa.

Tank infantry poured out of the city and the surrounding forests in droves, and the tanks rushed along the road to the German positions, some of the infantry followed behind the tanks, while more quickly dispersed into the forests on both sides of the road, and rushed to the positions of the 10th Panzer Division under the cover of the forests.

The appearance of the Hummingbird helicopter quickly attracted the attention of the Soviet troops, and the rudimentary self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons of the XXI Mechanized Army came in handy.

On the hard-to-play Gaas AA truck, four Makqin heavy machine guns and 37-mm anti-aircraft guns turned their muzzles to create a dense fire net to hunt and kill the "hummingbirds" in the air.

The Hummingbird helicopter's defense capability is extremely fragile, and it can only flee in a hurry under the dense fire network, but it still sends a critical signal.

Dense artillery fire soon fell from the sky, smashing heads into the Soviet infantry clusters, and the momentum of the Soviet offensive was quickly contained.

Dense artillery fire stopped the Soviet troops on the road, but did not pose a threat to the Soviet infantry in the dense forests on both sides.

Under the cover of dense forests and bushes, neither hummingbird helicopters nor artillery observation posts could accurately detect the position and advance speed of the Soviet infantry, and even the artillery lost its deterrent effect.

After the hummingbird helicopters evaded the Soviet attack, the two helicopters took the depths of the forest, bypassed the interception of Soviet anti-aircraft fire, and quickly rushed towards Idrica to find the Soviet artillery position.

The infantry of the 10th Panzer Division rushed into the forest to intercept the swarm charge of Soviet infantry.

In the middle of summer, under the cover of lush bushes, soldiers on both sides often see each other only twenty or thirty meters apart.

The G42 semi-automatic rifle found the SVT40 is a semi-automatic rifle, and the STG42 is not far behind against the Bobosha submachine gun, the Deg Galev light machine gun and the MG42 general-purpose machine gun.

Soon, the crisp firing of P38 and Tokarev pistols in the hands of officers on both sides also shook the soldiers' eardrums.

German artillery fire only slowed down the Soviet offensive, but did not frighten the Soviet troops.

The attacking force led by the KV brothers slowly but surely rushed to the rudimentary German positions in the face of German artillery fire, but ran head-on into another group of steel monsters, Chen Dao's Governor's Guard.

When the KV tank and the E-40 tank shook the turret, pointed at each other, and prepared to harvest each other's lives, Chen Dao exclaimed in the eastern city of Pustoshka.

"Polar bears have evolved and learned to play with the sound of the east and the west, no, it is the sound of the west and the east!" (To be continued.) )