Although Trode's squad had fought a lot of defensive battles before, and there were many cases of dividing troops to fight and transferring to defense, the pressure was naturally needless to say. However, this time it is not the same as before, although there is no need to worry about the friendly forces around for the time being, and there are a lot more fortifications than before, but the number of enemy troops faced this time is not ordinary, it is completely an enemy at the level of a group army, if it is not for the German army with two divisions, it will definitely collapse at the touch of a button.

However, Trode's front-line soldiers don't care about this, this defensive battle, their heavy weapons are pitiful, and they can even compare with the original large-scale expansion of territory in North Africa, but unlike that time, it is the Anglo-French army opposite Trood only tank-based troops to counterattack, as long as you don't want to protect every position, the task is not too difficult. However, this mission did not allow them to lose any of their positions, and if they were penetrated, they would probably be divided into several small units by the enemy and eventually destroyed. However, in the absence of heavy weapons, how to successfully block the tsunami-like attack of the Soviet army is really a big problem.

But fortunately, Trod still has an 88 gun here, which Trode tried his best to grab when he redistributed the equipment - due to the lack of equipment, the number of equipment that a team can choose is quite limited, at that time there were Pak40 75mm anti-tank guns, FlaK36 88mm guns, "Nevelbelfa" 41 150mm multiple rocket launchers and other heavy weapons for each team to choose, but everyone knows that the 88 guns are good, Although the rocket launcher can exert super firepower in an instant, the ammunition must not be too much, and it can only be used as a killer weapon, and the Pak40 is lower than the 88 gun. Concealment and defense are also simpler, but the so-called 88 guns erected at high places can even complete 360-degree shooting without dead angles, which is much more useful than the Pak40 when meeting enemy attacks from multiple directions.

Trood swore he'd never squeezed through a crowd so hard in his life, and it required not only strength, but also darkness. Don't let people find out that they are cut in line. And there were people who wanted to stop Trode in the middle, but he didn't hear it directly, and desperately rushed to get this FlaK18 in front, which also reduced a lot of burden for his later battles.

Compared with ordinary tank guns, the FlaK36 has a depth of penetration, and its accuracy is also outrageous. Of course, the speed of reloading in an instant was too fast for all tank crews to react, and in North Africa, captured British and French soldiers repeatedly complained that the Germans had taken the initiative to advance to the front line to attack their positions with such entrenched weapons. In the eyes of many soldiers, this weapon was more ferocious than the German tanks.

Despite its high firepower, the FlaK36 is not badly stable, thanks to the reentry of the barrel, which effectively reduces recoil when firing. Other devices such as hydraulic buffers, hydropneumatic heat exchangers, and springs can enhance the balance of the gun, allowing it to complete high-speed bursts of fire without maintaining its amazing accuracy.

In order to be more widely used in the battlefield. The Germans not only installed bulletproof baffles on both sides of the FlaK36, but also had matching spare barrels. This allows it to be repaired quickly and with high reliability in the event of a failure. The only drawback may be that the gun body is too high, and it is likely to become a priority target for the enemy to destroy.

And in order to avoid this, Trodbel did not put the FlaK36 in the best place to shoot, because it was also dangerous there, but retreated to the next best. Choosing a safer place, in order to balance the defense of the entire position, he transferred the tanks that were originally located in this position to other positions, because the firepower of a FlaK36, if only from the tank side. But it was better than two tanks IV.

Although there were many enemy troops in the intelligence, Trood did not meet many enemy troops at the beginning, and it seemed that although the Soviet army was in a hurry, they still did not forget to do reconnaissance and testing work in advance. For these scout troops, Tlord didn't want to attack at all, because the more they attacked, the more their firepower points were exposed, and he had no choice but to let those obvious firepower points suppress the enemy's firepower, after all, his ammunition was not very sufficient, and this was a defensive battle, and if the ammunition ran out, it would really be dead.

Several MG-34s in front of the formation opened fire at the same time, and the Soviets who were tentatively attacking were immediately pressed back, and when they came back the next time, these MG-34s would appear in different positions, which was the advantage of the general-purpose machine gun, that is, it had the same firepower as a heavy machine gun, but it could move around like a light machine gun.

In addition to not wanting to expose his own points of fire, Trode had something he didn't want these infantry to discover, and that was mines and some explosive traps. Originally, the two divisions of the German army did not carry such a thing as mines, and because of the early target, the amount of explosives was not particularly large, Trod They were able to use this kind of thing in this way, mainly because the Germans captured a lot of weapons and ammunition after the capture of Pskov City, although there are many ammunition because of the specifications do not match and cannot be used, but things like mines will come in handy in this battle, they will become another force to block the enemy in addition to artillery fire, Trood didn't want them to be exposed to enemy scouts so early.

After initial reconnaissance efforts failed, the Soviets sent a small force to test the situation, including some tanks. Of course, both the German and Soviet armies knew that this was some cannon fodder, and their sacrifices were only to reduce the sacrifices of the follow-up troops. However, in order to prevent them from stepping on the mines and exposing this power in advance, Trood had to let the tanks fire at full speed to push them back, and he was careful not to let the mines and explosive traps detonate due to the shells they fired.

Maybe they lost their patience, or maybe they thought they had understood the German army, and the Soviets finally began a real offensive, and Trood and they were ready to fight to the death with the Soviets. (To be continued.) )