Robinstell, February 7, 1966.

The Germans wore similar black uniforms to the Russian tank crews, and it was difficult to distinguish them in the dark, and the Russian infantry hurried past the Germans, and some even shouted at the Germans who were lying on the ground, presumably to say, "Coward, rush!" "Something like that, treat the Germans as their own. The Germans also waved at the Russians and nodded, and the fools left without further rambling.

Three Germans followed the Russians with guns in hand. After running for a while, suddenly there was a burst of gunfire in the direction of the city, and the German defenders finally fired. The sound of gunfire beckoned to the Russians, who began to speed up.

"Sir, tank!" Corporal Steiner's excited voice rang in Hewitt's ears.

Hewitt followed his finger and looked: a Russian "SS6" was parked not far ahead, apparently damaged by a mine. Two Russian tankmen were lying under the car repairing, and the other tankman was watching or handing a wrench or something. At this moment, a Russian officer leaned out of the turret, anxiously banged his fist on the iron armor, and shouted loudly, presumably urging the tankers to repair the car.

Don't miss the time! Hewitt waved his pistol: "Go!" ”

The Germans rushed towards the "SS6" in a fan shape. Corporal Ziegler opened fire first, and the "Da Da Da ......" bullet swept down the Russian officer on the turret, and the body was dumped back into the car.

Hewitt rushed forward quickly, firing his pistol at a distance of about three meters, killing the standing tankman with a "bang" and "bang". Then another shot killed the tankman under the car. With a gun in hand, killing someone is really easy!

The remaining Russian tanker under the car rolled up, grabbed his submachine gun and fired at the Germans. Maybe he was too panicked, or maybe he didn't have eyes at all, and he didn't hit any of his shots anyway.

"Bang" the resistance of the Russian tank crews put an end to Corporal Steiner.

Just when the Germans thought they had done everything, suddenly a Russian tankman with a machine gun in his hand sprang out from the other side of the tank, out of sight. The poor Russian was knocked out without even firing a shot when the quick-eyed Corporal Ziegler fired first.

Corporal Steiner picked up the machine gun to keep guard, and Hewitt and Ziegler examined the tank's damage. Finding that the two Russian tankmen had actually basically repaired the tank, Ziegler fiddled with it twice more and was completely done.

Corporal Steiner pulled out a pack of cigarettes from the Russian soldier's coat pocket, and he first gave Hewitt a "filial tribute".

"All on board!" At the sound of Hewitt's command. All boarded the newly captured tanks.

As he sat down in the turret and was about to put it on, Hewitt suddenly thought of something, climbed out of the car, and took out the Nazi swastika from his arms. Hang it on the antenna of the tank.

It was 4:20 minutes. With just over an hour to go, the Germans continued their journey back to Robinstall in the SS6.

Hewitt had moved the dead body of the Russian officer aside, and there was no longer time to throw him out of the car, and the battle was fierce as gunfire rang out in the direction of the city.

"Sir, there is a convoy of armored vehicles approaching the Germans!" Turret Steiner, nervously reporting to Hewitt, moved to the machine-gun position.

Before Hewitt could say anything, the corporal took advantage of the light of distant artillery fire. Nervously and carefully observed through the observation hole, then he sighed: "Oh. Sir, it's your own people......"

Before he could finish his words, the iron armor of the tank "clanged", and they were strafed by machine guns from the armored vehicles on the opposite side.

"Slavic pigs! Dare to lie to me?! Corporal Steiner impulsively raised his machine gun and prepared to return fire.

"Wait...... Let's not forget that we are now in Russian tanks, so it is very likely that it will be the Germans who attack us! Hewitt hurriedly stopped him, and Hewitt himself looked at the situation on the other side through the observation hole, "Perhaps, they are...... Treat us like Russians......"

Thankfully, this misunderstanding came to an end with the appearance of the real Russians, and the Germans duly opened fire to cause the Russians to retreat. It's just that two armored vehicles were damaged, and ten precious minutes of precious time were wasted. Hewitt immediately asked Steiner to liaise with the German armored infantry, and it soon became clear that it was a brother unit of the 2nd Motorized Rifle Company of the 40th "Ludwil" Reconnaissance Battalion. An armored assault platoon led by Lieutenant Gutman. Their position was occupied by the Russians, the rest of the company had been scattered, and Lieutenant Gutmann was preparing to lead the remnants of his retreat into Robinstall when he encountered the Germans in a minefield.

Hewitt called Lieutenant Gutmann to the tank, and the lieutenant saluted Hewitt: "Sir, Lieutenant Gutmann, platoon commander of the 40th platoon of the 2nd Company of the 2nd 'Ludwell' reconnaissance battalion, report to you!" ”

"Very well, from now on,...... Lieutenant Gutman, I command your platoon! Because Robinster's battle situation was extremely critical, Hewitt couldn't care about being polite, "Let's go into the city together......"

"Yes, sir!"

"The Russians are coming up again!" The scout on guard reports to Hewitt.

"Don't rush to fire yet, get them closer and ......" Hewitt stood on the tank and looked farther away, following the direction indicated by the scout, and spotted a small group of infantry and an armored vehicle coming towards Leo. Although it was not very real because it was dark, Hewitt could tell at a glance that the car was a German-made armored car.

"Don't shoot! That should be your own person! ”

Hewitt motioned for Lieutenant Gutmann to send someone over to inquire, and sure enough, the infantry was also a broken soldier from the reconnaissance battalion. I just didn't expect the injured Captain Carmen to be among them! Carmen's "Destroyer 3" tank, which had been abandoned due to mechanical problems, was approached only when they heard the gunshots. Hesky's repair vehicle, which was accompanied by Captain Carmen's squad, was also there, just in time to repair the damaged armored vehicles numbered 2205 and 2208 of the reconnaissance battalion. The radio communication command system of the new "SS6" was quickly debugged and modified.

Hewitt kept looking at his watch, every second and every minute of time was precious, and if he couldn't retreat to the city after dawn. They're dead! Taking advantage of this time to repair the car, Lieutenant Gutmann brought a new loader for Hewitt's "SS6", a sergeant in his thirties from the banks of the Rhine named Heinze, who had been a seasoned armored car commander. Car No. 2205 had to give up because it was too badly damaged and time did not allow it.

At 5:05 a.m., the Germans approached Robinstertown without danger. The sky over the city has been lit up by flares. The Russians are attacking the city's business district with all their might.

Although the business district is also surrounded by a tributary of a river, this tributary is narrow and the water is shallow. The infantry could have crossed the river directly, and the Russian sappers had erected six pontoon bridges over the river. Hewitt saw through the lookout hole that four Russian "SS6s" had broken through the German lines in the commercial area at high speed......

Suddenly, there was a flash of fire in front of them, and in an instant it turned into a sea of fire, and the four "SS6s" were engulfed in flames in an instant. This was done by the death squad of the demolition team of the 1st Company hidden in the bunker. They were covered in explosives and the enemy's tanks were wiped out. Hewitt felt a heart-wrenching pain. Five more Russian tanks, unwilling to fail, rushed into the fire again, and a series of explosions were heard, and the fire became even more intense. The five tanks were similarly blown to pieces, and fragments of steel plates flew through the air. Such a victory was bought with the lives and blood of German soldiers!

Tears flowed silently down Hewitt's face, but Hewitt did not lose the composure that a commander should have. Pushing open the turret cover and peeking out of the car, Hewitt used the binoculars to check the situation on the battlefield, looking for the best breakthrough, and choosing the route to attack and enter the city.

The Russians, having suffered a setback in their offensive, began to change their offensive tactics. The infantry was in front, and the tanks were behind to start a new round of the offensive. The commander of the attack was an estimated regimental field command of the former enemy on the dry riverbed less than a kilometer from the Germans. It consisted of three command vehicles and five SS6s. There was about a platoon or so of infantry guarding the perimeter. The most feasible way to succinctly break up the enemy's offensive is to knock out this field command of the Russians.

Hewitt called Lieutenant Gutmann and Squad Leader Carmen to the tank and briefly consulted it. Hewitt decided to divide his forces into two routes: one consisting of two tanks, four S-armored vehicles, and half-track armored personnel carriers from an armored assault platoon led by Hewitt and Lieutenant Gutmann. The Germans were to attack the enemy's field headquarters, and after clearing the headquarters, they would make a bloody way back to the city.

The other route was led by Captain Carmen, an armored car, and Hesky's repair vehicle consisted of ten wounded. They would take advantage of the fact that the Germans had attracted the attention of the enemy and retreated to the city on the side of the border between the commercial and residential areas, where the fighting was less intense.

It's already 5:30 and there's no time to waste!

"Let's act!" Hewitt watched the Captain's squad sail into the pre-dawn darkness and could only wish them good luck. Hewitt boarded his "SS6", sat in the tank compartment, and covered the turret.

The Germans were at the forefront of the team, and tactically designed to deal with the five most difficult SS6s.

"Corporal, can you find the lead tank in these five vehicles?" Hewitt asked the German artillery commander Steiner softly.

"Sir, it should be...... The barrel of that gun had seven circles painted on it...... The chords are 9, 4, 4, 0,...... Tank ...... of 8,1 "

"Excellent! Knock it out with the first shot! Hewitt agreed with the gunner's judgment from the three-fold magnified lens, "Corporal, how many of the tanks you have killed are SS6s?" ”

"I'm not sure either! Maybe ten, maybe twenty...... Who remembers it...... Sir! Steiner's tone was lighthearted.

Hewitt's concern was not his answer, but the calm, composed state of mind of the gun commander, Hewitt was so confident of success that he began to think about the next target to destroy.

The gun commander signaled to Hewitt that the tank was in the best firing position, and Hewitt gave the order to open fire.

The tank shook with a dull thud, and through the lookout glass, I saw that the turret of the SS6 that was leading the team had been blown away.

"Armor-piercing shells! Ten o'clock. Aim! ＳＳ６！ Destroy! Hewitt immediately ordered to aim at the next target that posed the greatest threat to the Germans.

The Russians were clearly at a loss, they didn't know where the blow was coming from. It wasn't until the second SS6 became a casualty of the Germans that the Russian infantry figured out what was going on. Hurriedly opened fire on the Germans.

At this time, Lieutenant Gutman's armored assault platoon suddenly opened fire on the Russian infantry without cover, because the Gutmann platoon's combat vehicles were equipped with more advanced night vision equipment, and it was a massacre!

A grenade smashed into the German turret shield, causing a vibration, and the Germans did not have time to pay attention to the non-threatening bullets fired at them and continued to hunt the next SS6. Before the remaining three tanks had completely turned the turrets. Two more were piles of scrap iron. The remaining SS6 with a black hole pointed at Hewitt's tank, and Hewitt's tank was also aimed at it.

"Shoot! Shoot!!! Sweat trickled down Hewitt's forehead, and Hewitt cried out in despair. Because Hewitt knew that no one can always be so lucky.

The tank slammed and thumped so beautifully that Hewitt was willing to praise it in any beautiful word. At the same time that German shells hit SS6. Its muzzle also flashed with fire. An armor-piercing shell flew towards the German tank, but it was clear that it had already been affected by being hit by the Germans, and the shell grazed the turret of Hewitt's tank.

"Oh God!" Hewitt sighed as he looked up to the sky, his whole body was already drenched in sweat.

"Sir, the command car of the Russians is going to run!" The driver's eyes are six ways.

"Lieutenant, catch up! Kill them! Hewitt commanded Gutmann with the on-board radio.

The two tanks of the Gutmann platoon outflanked from the flanks, and the Germans worked together to pack up the three armored command vehicles, and the Russians' former enemy field command was thus wiped out by the Germans.

The blows of the Germans plunged the Russians into temporary confusion. It must have been the cry for help before the destruction of the command vehicle, which made the battalion command of the Russians feel the blow from behind. The danger of being encircled. The Germans took advantage of this short gap and quickly reorganized their troops, and immediately marched towards the city without stopping.

The front section was lit by flares as if it were daylight, and strangely there seemed to be no Russian planes in the air, and it was only later that Hewitt learned that the position of the commercial area on the left side of the German strategic highway had been broken by another regiment of the Russians. In order to expand the success of the battle, the Russians moved all their planes to the commercial area on the left side of the road to intensify the assault.

The Germans still rushed to the front, with armored vehicles of the Gutmann platoon on the left and right, and two tanks coming to the rear of the hall. The Russians didn't pay much attention to Hewitt's "SS6" at first, until Hewitt's tank suddenly stopped, the turret turned and began to aim, and the Russian tank suddenly realized that Hewitt had achieved another Hewitt result - an SS6 command tank leading the team.

Under the light of the white flares, the German troops looming under the smoke of war were simply possessed by the Russians, and in the panic, they did not know how many men and horses there were in the Ludao Army, only that the Ludao Army had killed the German tank unit in the regimental headquarters. After nightmarish battles in the middle of the night, with heavy casualties and inconsecutiveness, the Russians' military spirit had long since been dispersed. They moved on both sides of the German army like plague gods, or you could interpret it as they wanted to encircle and annihilate the small German army in a roundabout way. The Germans will not give them any chance!

"Go fast! Enter the city! Hewitt gave the order to the convoy to enter the city via a telecom. At that time, the momentum had the flavor of "those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die", like opening waves and splitting the sea, the Russian troops who were attacked before and after the enemy scattered and fled, and those who ran slowly were crushed into pulp by tanks or killed by machine guns.

During the entire process of entering the city, the Germans only paused two or three times to blow up a few SS6s that were trying to stop the Germans. When entering the German position, Hewitt again ordered the whole team to regroup, only to find that Gutmann's platoon had lost a tank and an armored vehicle in the assault battle.

In order to avoid misunderstanding, this time it was replaced by two half-track armored personnel carriers, which were guarded by half-track armored personnel carriers on the left and right, with Hewitt's "SS6" in the center, and the turret reversed and the other tank behind. The German convoy successfully withdrew to the city of Robinster.

The armored column drove into the Hewitt army position in the business district, Hewitt couldn't help but push open the iron cover of the turret, leaned out of the car, greedily breathed a few mouthfuls of air full of gunsmoke, looked back at the swastika flag fluttering in the night wind on the antenna, Hewitt shouted indulgently: "Robinster, I'm back!" ”

"Sir, come in! Beware of the snipers of the Russians! Sergeant Heinze was also shouting.

"Thank you!" Hewitt smiled and looked at the new Sergeant Ding Heinze in the crew, sat back in the car, picked up the microphone and ordered: "All drive into the tank bunker and rest and standby!" ”

"Toot toot to Hewitt looked through the tank's scope and saw that Adjutant Hoffman had arrived to meet Hewitt in a medium-sized soldier transporter with an open ceiling at the battalion headquarters. Also arriving in the same car was Captain Dickman, the commander of the 1st Company, who must have had an urgent military situation to report.

Hewitt appointed Sergeant Heinze, the highest-ranking sergeant, as the acting commander of Hewitt's new car, and ordered him to immediately drive the vehicle to the repair detachment in the factory area to paint the tank and make the necessary modifications.

He told him to put a huge party flag on the tank, so as not to injure his own people before spraying paint! (To be continued......)