"Battalion commander, this, this is the equipment of our 3rd company." Seeing Battalion Commander Mark asking, Lieutenant Zwedi suddenly became nervous.

During this time, he hurriedly loaded the Tiger tank into the car, and at the same time covered it with a thick camouflage net, but he didn't expect that Battalion Commander Mark would recognize it in the dark.

As long as he fooled around and set off, when it was time to unload the equipment, the battalion commander couldn't say anything, and now that he hadn't driven yet, the battalion commander found out that Lieutenant Zwedi was quite nervous, and it was not easy to do it now.

The men of the 3rd Company all looked at this side, and each of them was very nervous, this batch of tanks was not coming from the right way, should they be taken away? I haven't got it hot yet! The smell of fresh leather inside makes you feel intoxicated by the smell and I really want to be with the tank every day.

Just when they were anxious, the telegraph operator hurriedly ran over: "Battalion commander, battalion commander, superiors have called, and a batch of equipment has been allocated to us. ”

Holding the telegram, Battalion Commander Mark was overjoyed: "Tiger tanks, give us six?" That's great! Send someone to pick it up and catch the train immediately. ”

"Battalion commander, you go on, we have received the tank." The telegraph operator continued.

Already received back? Mark looked at the tank on the board car in front of him, and his mind had already reacted, and he couldn't help but nod to Lieutenant Zwiddy again and again: "Okay, you can bear it, Hans is also involved in this matter, right?" ”

By this time, Hans had already jumped out of the cart, strapped up the rat tank, and came to see the excitement.

Hearing the battalion commander praising himself, Hans touched his head and said: "Battalion commander, our tank battalion has six more Tiger tanks at once, and when we charge, we can finally perfectly protect our flanks, and we can take the initiative to attack at any time, I have made a great contribution." ”

"Good luck, bad luck, you kid, wait for a court-martial." Mark's words were very harsh, but there was a smile on his face that could not be concealed, no one did not like the increase in the weapons under his hands, especially now, he only had a total of fourteen tanks, and he was absolutely overjoyed to have six more at once.

Almost at dawn, the cars were finally loaded, and the entire tank battalion, began to take the train, heading towards Romania, passing through Romania, where they would get off in the border area of Romania and the USSR, organize their troops, and go straight to Osad.

The battle, which belonged to the 502 Heavy Tank Battalion, appeared in this way.

At this time, the war situation in the entire Ukraine has also deteriorated to the point of no return.

In the case that both the north and the center were broken through by the Germans, Ukraine in the south was already the only salient of the Soviet Union now, and now, in order to protect the war situation in Ukraine, after transferring Zhukov to the north, Stalin transferred the fierce generals around him.

Semyon-Budyonny, with a big beard, was looking at his men.

The Soviets loved to have a big beard, but it was only a few to keep it to the size of Budyonny, and now, Budyonny's hand habitually touched his beard and asked his men: "In other words, we can't stop the rapid attack of the Germans at all?" ”

"Yes, marshal, we can only place our troops along the Dnieper, relying on this trench to guard against the Germans." The commander of the Southwestern Front frowned at Admiral Kirponos and said: "The tank forces of the Germans are advancing very quickly, fortunately we have this mother river. ”

The Dnieper River is the second largest river in eastern Europe and the third largest river in Europe, originating in the southern foothills of the Valdai Hills in Russia.

Its first section is 483 km, first south and then west, passing through the Smolensk region of Russia; In the vicinity of Orsha, again to the south; This is followed by a 595-kilometre section that flows through Belarus and finally, through the territory of Ukraine, south to Kiev, from Kiev to the southeast to Nepropetrovsk, and then to the Black Sea in a south-southwest direction.

This river runs through the whole of Ukraine, it can be said that it is the mother river of Ukraine, and now, it is precisely this river that gives them some psychological comfort.

The wide river, as long as these bridges are guarded, half of Ukraine can be protected, since Order No. 270 was issued, even generals like Pavlov have been shot, and the rest of them are trembling, for fear that the next one will be their turn.

It would be even better now that Budyonny is in charge, a veteran from the civil war who can lead his side to victory.

Budyonny was born in cavalry, and in this era, cavalry seems to be playing less and less, although he is a veteran, he will still look at the current war with new eyes.

He knew that the Germans' armored forces were the greatest threat to their own side, and in Minsk, the Germans vividly demonstrated the mobility of their armored forces, relying on this terrible mobility, to complete the encirclement of the Minsk army.

And now, the situation in Ukraine is different from that of Belarus, the territory of Ukraine is larger, so that the Germans in the charge, from time to time find that their shock force is not strong enough, as for Kiev, there is no need to worry about being surrounded by the Germans, the Germans cannot cross this trench, they cannot complete the encirclement of Kyiv.

"Positions were formed on the west bank of the Dnieper, and we relied on positions to hinder the German offensive." Budyonny said: "Let our fighters write their loyalty to the Soviets with their blood and lives." ”

He turned his head back and glanced at Khrushchev: "Comrade Khrushchev, you also have to seize the discipline of the army, and if anyone dares to retreat, then shoot him without hesitation." ”

Khrushchev nodded.

Actually, Khrushchev preferred to stay in Moscow, he was already aware of the danger of a direct confrontation with the Germans, it seems that his side has never won, whoever goes up loses, moreover, Order No. 270 was proposed by Khrushchev, and now that Khrushchev is on the front, is there any time for him to retreat?

Khrushchev did not know, and now he only hoped that his side would be able to hold on, leaning on this Nieper River.

Khrushchev came here as a political commissar, and he wanted to strictly enforce military discipline and strictly prevent the troops from retreating, and when Petersburg was bombed by the Germans, the Soviet military spirit seemed to be a little unstable.

For the sake of his own career, this battle cannot be lost, Khrushchev thought in his heart, by the way, now I can compile some newspaper content, play up how the Germans raped women in the occupied areas, how they slaughtered the people, and aroused their own will to fight!

He looked at Budyonny, old marshal, don't hurt me, we can't lose this battle.