The tank paving truck was actually invented by the Yankees, and they used it during the Normandy landings...... The beaches of Normandy were too soft to bear the weight of the tanks, so in order to allow the tanks to land smoothly and provide fire and cover for the infantry, the Americans invented this pavement tank that could advance while paving the road.

Its structure is very simple, that is, add a conveyor-like thing to the top and front of the tank, and constantly transfer the paving objects strung together with steel wires from the rear to the front and then compacted with tracks, and a passage can be laid for the tank in the blink of an eye.

The difference is just ...... The paving tanks tossed by the Yankees are taller, and the paving materials they use are steel plates.

Obviously, it was too difficult for the Germans to find the steel plates and string them together with wires, on the one hand, there were no materials and on the other hand, it was not necessary, the Germans had built a defensive line just over 700 meters from the Soviet troops, and the roads in between were indeed muddy, but much better than the soft sand.

In fact, these roads are not a problem of not being able to withstand the pressure of the tank, but because the mud is easy to slip, and once the tank falls into a certain pit, it will not be able to withstand the force and sink deeper and deeper, which is still fundamentally different from the beach, so it is enough to pave the road with logs.

In modern times, Chinese and Soviet tanks generally carry a log in the rear, in order to save themselves when the tank is stuck in a quagmire. (Note: This log is called a "self-rescue wood")

Logs and cables are readily available on the Kerch Peninsula...... The port of Kerch is an ancient port city in Crimea, with two large shipyards located in the north and one in the south. (Note: Ukraine was an important shipbuilding industrial base of the Soviet Union)

The reason why there are shipyards in the north and one in the south is that the Kerch Peninsula and the Taman Peninsula are divided into the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea across the sea, so that they can build ships on the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea respectively.

In these shipyards, there are logs of uniform thickness and hard material, and of course there are many steel cables left...... This was the effect of the blitzkrieg, when the USSR retreated, there was simply no time to move anything, and even the shipbuilding machines were intact.

Then it was time for the sappers to behave by making small holes in the thick logs with a machine at the ends and in the middle, then through the small holes with iron cables, and then wrapping them around the logs several times to make them stronger.

After strung one by one, they are piled up on the car with the rear compartment removed for later use.

Compared with these tasks, the modification of paving is simpler, that is, an external conveyor belt is erected on the top of the tank, and the motor is directly removed from the side three wheels, and the three tanks can be modified in more than an hour.

However, the results were very disheartening.

The reason for this was that the speed of the transfer log was not coordinated with the advance speed of the tank......

If the teleport speed is too slow, the tank will travel in the mud for a long time without getting a log to pave the road, which may cause the pave tank to get stuck in the mud and lose all its efforts.

If the teleportation speed is too fast, it will lead to logs piling up in front of the tank.

"Try again!" Major Edmund, commander of the engineer battalion, ordered: "The tank maintains a speed of 22 kilometers per hour!" ”

"Yes, Major!" The soldiers answered.

This time it went very well, the strings of logs were laid in front of the tanks, and the tracks rolled them on the ground, and the shipyard could not help but cheer.

"General!" Major Edmund reported to Manstein, who was watching, "This method is obviously possible, but there are some difficulties, such as the coordination of the tank with the log car, and I suggest that they do some necessary training first, and I think it is necessary to equip the tank crew and the car room with communication equipment!" ”

Manzu Tein nodded and said, "Whatever it is, just do what you think you need, all I need is that it can be used on the battlefield!" ”

"Yes, General!"

While the shipyard was busy, the German soldiers on the front line were not idle, they constantly fired a row of shells at the Soviet line, and from time to time launched a tentative attack on the Soviet line.

Of course, this offensive was no longer aimed at breaking through enemy lines, but for harassment and fire reconnaissance.

The purpose of the harassment was to increase the psychological pressure of the Soviet troops and deplete their physical strength...... This is especially useful for recruits, who are always very excited at the beginning of the battle and desperate to put all their energy into the battle, but this state of collapse obviously does not last long, and they will soon feel exhausted.

Most of the ranks of the Soviet army were new recruits, and this tactic was just right at this time, and even from time to time there were a few soldiers in the Soviet camp who could not stand this pressure and jumped out of the trenches to charge the German trenches...... This charge is purely a psychological breakdown and does not want to live.

Fire reconnaissance is mainly to find out the location of tanks from the enemy's trenches.

The Soviet tanks still have considerable deterrent power against the German army, because in addition to the KV tank, the Soviet army also has a T34 with quite excellent performance.

At other times, the German panzers were not afraid of the T34, because they had already found a way to deal with the T34...... Taking advantage of the weakness of the Soviet army's backward communication equipment and the inability to coordinate between tanks, we concentrated our forces to break through each one. Among them, the priority is to destroy the Soviet command tank, and when the command tank is destroyed, the Soviet tank will be in a mess and fight separately. (Note: The Soviet command tank had two antennas, one for sending and one for receiving.) Ordinary tanks have only one receiving antenna, that is, they can only passively receive commands. ）

But the situation is a little different now.

The Germans were going to fight a paving war, that is, the tanks were paving the road while advancing, which would have the disadvantage that the trajectory of the advance was easily estimated by the enemy, so the enemy could block it with tanks or artillery fire.

In order to avoid this as much as possible, the Germans needed to find out as much as possible the location of the Soviet tanks, and then let the air force blow them up one by one.

The Germans were very successful in this regard, and the fifty Soviet tanks were left with more than a dozen after a few hours of this German offensive, of which only one T34 tank was a threat to the Germans, and the rest were inconsequential light tanks.

On the other hand, it was the German reconnaissance planes that detected the location of the artillery positions hidden by the Soviet troops.

Manstein did not strike at this artillery position immediately, for he believed that if the bombardment were carried out now, the enemy would probably recover and regroup in a few hours.

However, if you wait until the attack is time to attack suddenly......