The biggest difference between Zhan Ji and Shen Ji is that Zhan Ji will live as an ordinary person for more than ten years before her bloodline is discovered, so Zhan Ji has the concept of hometown. Tonya? Tumanova is one of them.

As the daughter of a Ukrainian forest officer, Tonya spent most of her girlhood in her hometown and had a beautiful love.

She was then forcibly drafted to Moscow, the center of Russia's magic industry, to be trained as a war queen.

According to the tradition of the Russian Warrior Princesses, they had to be deployed outside of their birthplaces and could only return home on leave. Therefore, Tonya never thought that she would have a day to fight on Ukrainian soil, but now the Russian army's battle queen troops have suffered huge losses in the war against Germany for more than a year, and the formation has been disrupted in the process of reintegration, so Tonya, who is originally from Shepetovka, Ukraine, was deployed to Kyiv together with the newly formed battle queen troops.

What Tonya didn't expect was that her first mission in her hometown in Ukraine would be to suppress the Ukrainian uprising.

At that time, Tonya's troops were on the train to Kyiv, but not long after Chernihiv, the train received an order to stop, and all the war queens got off the train to prepare for the battle. It didn't take long for the order to "advance to Kyiv" was given, and at the same time a division of guards arrived to join Tonya's battle queen unit.

No one knew what was happening in Kyiv, and the upper echelons did not say anything, just urged this improvised force to move towards Kyiv as quickly as possible.

But soon, news of an insurrection in Kyiv spread among the troops.

On the morning of the third day, the troops came under sniper fire for the first time, and it was clear that the unit that opened fire on the Cossacks was not German - Tonya, who had fought in Poland, was sure of this. After the battle, the officers of the Guards interrogated the captured prisoners, and the results of the interrogation were tight-lipped by the officers, but the soldiers also had their own channels.

They asked for a lot of things from the dying enemy, and when they were collecting the spoils of war, they found objects of one kind or another that could tell the story.

The men fighting with the Guards were all Ukrainian workers and peasants, and it looked like Kyiv had indeed fallen into the hands of the insurgents.

At noon on the same day, the Guards troops blocked a group of deserters, who claimed that the Germans had reached Kiev and merged with the Ukrainian independence faction, that Kiev had been lost, and that the Zhan Ji troops originally stationed in Kyiv had also mutinied and turned to the Ukrainian independence faction.

When she heard the news, Tonya's heart was strongly shaken, and while she was marching, she quietly opened the small clip hanging on her necklace, looked at the slightly damp photo inside, and stared at the young man's energetic smile in the photo.

"Nikolai......" she murmured softly.

If Ukraine had been an independent country at that time, it would have been possible to see each other more often - the thought echoed irrepressibly in Tonya's mind.

That night, the commander of the battle queen unit, Daria, called Tonya to the headquarters of the counterinsurgency force, where the commander of the Guards unit, Kosov, was waiting for her. As soon as Tonya saluted the two leaders, Kosov asked bluntly: "Miss Tumanova, can you still shoot our enemy?" ”

Tonya forcibly suppressed the turmoil in her heart and replied in the coldest voice possible, "Of course I can, Your Excellency Commander. My loyalty to Russia is beyond doubt. ”

"That's good, remember, Miss Tumanova, the rebellion in front of you is only the result of a small group of careerists instigated by the Germans, and the Ukrainian people remain loyal to Russia."

Tonya hesitated for a moment before replying in a loud voice, "Yes, I understand. ”

Kosov nodded, motioning for Tonya to go.

Not long after Tonya left the headquarters, she ran into the leader of the squad she belonged to.

"Don't do anything stupid." The squad leader fought with Tonya when he was in Poland, and he can be said to be a brother, "I know what is in the necklace you have always carried, don't be stupid, if he was the same age as you, he would have been conscripted into the army at this time, and at this time it is likely that he will stay in Poland with other troops of the original Ukrainian First Front." Maybe ......"

In the end, the team leader didn't say anything to the end, just patted Tonya on the shoulder.

**

At this moment, Shepetovka.

After nearly three days of fierce fighting, the Russian 60th Army stationed in Shepetovka broke through to the east, and the German army did not have enough troops to block the Russian army because the large force was still halfway through, so it could only watch the more than 40,000 Russian troops with a complete structure and a high degree of organization retreat eastward.

Then the Germans began to launch a final offensive against the Russian troops remaining in Shepetovka.

Otto? The third platoon of the armored instruction brigade of Callie Woods was just in time for the last train of this siege.

Otto's Tiger drove into the factory area of Shepetovka, and a company of infantry was ordered to accompany his platoon in battle. Not long after entering the city, a young man dressed as a worker stood on the mainland, waving his hands at the Germans.

Otto gave the order to stop advancing.

"Who are you?" Otto asked in the Russian he had learned by surprise before the attack began, but he was not sure if the Russians in front of him could understand it, in fact, even if the Russians did, as long as he didn't know German, it would be useless, because Otto had only mastered a dozen or so Russian idioms by surprise.

"I speak German," the young man began, "I studied in Mr. Stockman's panhumanist group. I'm here to be your guide, and half of the troops left in the city are Ukrainian units preparing to surrender, and the other half are Russians and Cossacks. ”

Saying that, the young man pointed to the road behind him: "There is a group of Cossacks who ambush you at the intersection in front, they have anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns, and they have also planted mines. ”

Otto thought about it, climbed out of the chariot, and jumped in front of the chariot in three or two clicks. Then he took out a map of the city based on aerial photographs of the Luftwaffe and unfolded it in front of the young man: "You show me where the minefields are, where the gun emplacements are." ”

"Yes sir, we have been monitoring their movements since yesterday, and our workers and companions have seen them bured mines here, here, and here. It's a big anti-tank mine, and people don't blow it up when they step on it. The enemy's gun emplacements were here, and the machine guns were on the second and top floors of Ivan's mechanical shop. ”

Otto quickly marked the map, and then pointed to a diagonal alley on the side of the crossroads: "Can our chariots drive through this alley?" ”

"No, your chariot is too wide to drive into the alleyway, but it will get stuck inside. And I guess the sneak attack won't work, your engines are too loud. ”

Otto thought about it and completed the idea of the operation in his mind. He called the commanders of the other three vehicles and explained: "The second car and I will raid together, and the third and fourth will stop before entering the crossroads, and the crossroads should not be able to deploy four chariots." We're going to smoke these two places and get your smoke generators ready. ”

Otto then summoned the company commander of the infantry unit and explained to them the plan of the armored unit - as for how to cooperate, it was a matter for the infantry company commander to decide, and Otto never interfered, as long as the infantry relayed the final decision to him.

"It is necessary to maintain good communication with the infantry", this is one of the armored combat dogmas formulated by Lin Youde. Kali Woods moved it down in the memoirs of the alternate space-time isotope "Tiger King" Otto Karius.

After the coordination, Otto turned to the young man who came to report the news: "I'm sorry, but I think we have to imprison you until the end of the attack......"

"I want to go on offense, sir." "I know that you imprisoned me to execute me if I found out it was a trap," said the young man, "and I think it is necessary, and I would have done the same thing in the same situation." However, I still hoped that I would take part in the offensive, give me weapons, I would kill the Cossacks, and they hanged my father, because my father took part in the strike. They also killed Stockman, my most respected mentor! They also ......"

"Okay," Otto, although he was already the platoon commander of an elite armored platoon, was not much different in age from this young man, and the young man's words moved him somewhat, "You can participate in the attack, but we can only give you a pistol." ”

Otto made a gesture, and the infantry lieutenant beside him immediately untied his pistol and stuffed it to the young man.

"Thank you, Officer."

"Oh no, it's true that some of the officers are 'lords' (here an honorific title refers to nobles with titles), but my family is from a civilian background." With that, Otto smiled at the young man and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Nikolai, Nikolai? Alexievich. ”

"You Russians have long names." Link, the driver who poked his head out in front of the car, hurriedly complained, "And it seems like you both like to call each other by the part of your name that is the longest." ”

"The use of patronymic names is a sign of respect for others. Also, I'm Ukrainian, not of the same ethnicity as the tyrannical oppressor Russians. ”

Nikolai's words made Link shrug his shoulders.

"Alright, go behind my chariot and do whatever the infantry does."

Otto dropped such a sentence, climbed into the chariot, got into the turret and put on his headphones.

"Attention of the whole team, communication checks, prepare for the attack."

"The infantry is ready."

"Car No. 2 is ready."

"Number three is over."

"Four."

"Okay, fire the smoke grenade!" As soon as Otto's order was given, cars No. 3 and No. 4, equipped with smoke grenade projectors, began firing smoke grenades at the positions he had just indicated.

"Forward!"

With a command, Otto's tiger's idling engine suddenly roared, sending the sixty-ton behemoth rumbling forward.