When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! This was a resounding slogan shouted by Deputy Commander Plunyakov when he was in Spain, and it used to inspire the comrades of the international column to forge ahead in battle under difficult circumstances! Its influence is second only to "For Revolution and Freedom, Forward!" "Pol Matisovich Terteny has been educating the soldiers of his unit with that exciting slogan of the year, and the fact that the deputy commander is carrying a broadsword to fight the fascists in a white-knuckle war can make everyone's blood boil!

The army must have the courage to dare to engage in a final white-knuckle battle with the enemy! Such an army is an invincible army that will not bow its head in the face of any difficulties!

"Tanks fight bayonets!" The tanks of the two sides are intertwined, shelling each other at an extremely long distance, and there is no need to calculate the distance angle, and the cross in the optical sight mirror is aimed at and bombards, without fear or hesitation!

There was black smoke and explosions everywhere, and from the earbuds, you could hear the screams of the soldiers when their tanks were pierced by armor-piercing shells, Tertenny just gave orders mechanically, and couldn't care about the fate of others, and sending all the German tanks into the sky as soon as possible was the only right choice!

It's so close! At the moment when Peter's artillery shot through the turret of a tank No. 4 50 meters away, a German tank appeared on the left flank of tank No. 301 less than 30 meters!

"Thirty meters in front of the left!" As soon as the driver Ivan pulled the left joystick, stepped on the accelerator sharply, and the No. 301 tank made a quick left turn, accelerated sharply and rushed straight over!

"Prepare to ramble!"

It was too late to reload, the German turret was already turning, and everyone in the tank was subconsciously looking for a place to fix themselves - ramming tactics!

T34 hit tank No. 4 headlong at a speed of almost 30 kilometers per hour, and the German tank was knocked back five or six meters with a loud bang!

"Die! Germans! Ivan continued to slam the throttle, and Tank 301 rushed forward against Tank 4 into a gentle slope, and the friction of metal made a creepy sound! Lyulika took advantage of this effort and stuffed an armor-piercing round into the chamber. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The moment he heard the shell being loaded, Ivan hung up the reverse gear, and No. 301 disengaged, and before the stunned Germans could react, Peter had already turned the turret and aimed it at the target!

With a loud "boom", the armor-piercing shell penetrated the turret of tank No. 4, and the muzzle of the 76.2 mm tank gun was only 3 meters from the turret of the German tank! The German tank exploded immediately, and the collapsing armor fragments knocked the armor of tank No. 301 to a clang!

Only then did Terteney have time to look around through the periscope - there were burning tanks everywhere, both their own and Germans, but! The only tanks that can run are the heroic Red Army tanks! There are already anxious tank members who open the turret armor cover and use large-caliber machine guns to strafe the German tank members fleeing everywhere!

"Inform the division command that we have annihilated the vanguard tank units of the German army, probably destroyed 30 new German tanks, and lost a third of our own! Where is the Jibu Battalion? ”

"Yes, Captain!"

Grigory made contact with the division headquarters after a minute, "The division headquarters asked us to gather all the tanks that were still able to fight and move to the left of Pruzane, and the heavy tank regiment was facing the German tank group head-on, and was engaged in a fierce battle, and asked us to attack from the flank. The Jibu battalion is two kilometers behind, and they will follow us! ”

"Let the infantry battalion leave the sanitary platoon and anti-tank company to treat the wounded and prevent the Germans from attacking again, and the other tanks will follow me and outflank the Germans from the flank!" Terteney is bold enough, he wants to give the Germans a hard blow from behind the ass and intercept the Germans' retreat! -- No armored unit has yet been able to break through the steel defense line formed by the KV-1s in such a narrow area, and the lieutenant colonel is very confident in this! The follow-up units of the mechanized corps are behind, otherwise the division headquarters will not allow themselves to charge again, and soon there will be tanks that will continue to the west from their current positions!

Terteney didn't fully understand what he meant, but it didn't matter: the army's heavy artillery units were behind and were to set up positions in the area to bombard the German crossings on the Bug River. The military headquarters wanted to eliminate the German vanguard in front of the breakthrough as soon as possible, and after relieving themselves, tank clusters and mechanized infantry stormed the Bug River crossing under the cover of heavy artillery!

There were also 32 T34s with combat effectiveness at high speed to the south after integrating the attack formation, and Terteney did not command the troops to break through due south, but deviated a little westward, judging from the map and the situation said by the division headquarters, he was just able to insert himself between the German armored cluster and the German infantry.

Eight minutes later, Terteney saw the battlefield, and a tank bombardment was taking place: he went around behind the ass of the Germans, as he had estimated!

"The whole regiment of high-explosive shells, shelling three times at the infantry-tank junction site, disconnecting the German tanks and infantry!" Lyulika quickly withdrew the loaded armor-piercing shell from the chamber and stuffed it with a high-explosive grenade.

"Reloaded, high-explosive grenade!"

The roar of tank guns rang out one after another, and from the periscope it was clear that the shells exploded in the middle of the German troops, and the German infantry was suddenly blinded by the sudden artillery fire, and there were those who fled and those who lay down! After three rounds of shelling, Terteney gave the order to assault: "The whole regiment attack, beat these fascists hard!" ”

Tank No. 301 took the lead, and 32 T34s plunged into the German joint at high speed in an assault formation!

The Germans were engaged in a fierce battle with the Red Army's heavy tank regiment in front of them, and the situation was already unsettling the German commanders - the Soviet tanks were not in a hurry to rush forward, but were engaged in an artillery battle with themselves from a distance of 1,000 meters in three columns!

The tankmen of the "Reich" division were the best tankers in the SS, the shooting accuracy of each tank gunner was absolutely first-class in the German army, and the firepower of the new tank No. 4 equipped was also the most powerful in the German armored forces! But this time the Germans began to be a little less confident - the 75-mm armor-piercing shells had clearly hit the target, but the Soviets had not destroyed a single one since the shelling began at a distance of 1,500 meters! All Soviet tanks are still slowly approaching their own side!

Now the Germans finally understood why those Soviet tanks were "not in a hurry", and their own tank guns could not penetrate the opponent's armor at all! Just like last year in France with 37mm anti-tank guns against the infantry tanks of the British!

"The 75mm long-barreled tank gun became a stepping stone?!" Before the Germans could come up with a countermeasure, a battalion of No. 4 tanks was all laid down on the plain before they could get close, and when the follow-up main forces arrived to accelerate the assault, an explosion was heard from behind. The German commander thought it was Soviet artillery shelling, but when he saw it clearly, he was shocked - a group of Soviet tanks was rushing from the flanks and rear!

Quickly cut off the German infantry connection, the front machine gun and side-by-side machine gun on the T34 harvested the unsheltered German infantry like a ghost. Diagonally inserted behind the German tank cluster, and the heavy tanks in the distance formed a flanking situation against the German tanks in the middle zone!

The KV-1s accelerated, they had seen a favorable frontal formation, a tank encirclement was staged in front of the town, and the Germans, who were squeezed in the middle, could only retreat to the south, but after being beaten hard, the two dozen or so No. 4 tanks that survived the beating ran headlong into a T34 tank regiment that was attacking west on the southern flank—all of them were reimbursed in less than 20 minutes, and this would have been divided into two assault arrows with the heavy tank regiment to advance in detail.

"Regiment commander, the artillery has already begun to build positions, and in half an hour there will be an artillery bombardment of the ferry!" Gregory reported loudly.

"Got it, let the Jibu Battalion follow us closely. Gregory, how are your injuries?! ”

"There's no blood left, it's no big deal." The two fragments are not drilled deeply, they are stuck in the muscles, it is the pain of the tank as soon as it moves, this will not be taken care of, as long as it can hold on, it has to be held, as long as it can defeat the Germans, this leg is worth it!

Within half an hour of the outbreak of the fighting, the follow-up units of the 3rd Mechanized Corps had reached the Pruzhane-Kobrin line, the tank groups and mechanized infantry were advancing on the Bug River at a distance of less than 30 km, and the artillerymen began to build positions - the goal of the Mechanized Corps was to drive the Germans across the Bug River, and now its forces could only do that.

It is obvious that the strength of the 3rd Mechanized Army and Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group is not enough, and it smells of moths to the fire - but more than half of Guderian's main force will still be on the west side of the Bug River, and a close battle will be fought close to the east bank of the Bug River!

Along the way, the T34s crushed two groups of German mechanized infantry, ignoring the fleeing Germans, and the Red Army infantry behind them would let them know what happened to the invaders!

At a distance of 5 km from the Bug River, the 3rd Mechanized Corps and Guderian's tank troops, which had already crossed the river, collided head-on, and the whole area was a big melee! The commanders of both sides could not effectively command their own troops, and the tank and infantry companies could not find their superiors and fought with relatively independent units! There were explosions and intense strafing everywhere - the Germans knew that they had to destroy the Soviet tanks and infantry that were rushing in so that the crossing could be safe, and they were qualified to talk about advancing eastward; The goal of the commanders and fighters of the Red Army was clearer: to reach the Bug River at all costs and occupy the ferry, and drive the Germans into the river to feed the fish! (To be continued.) )