While Lin Youde was giving his daughter a military lesson, Iron Ji was looking at her generals with a gloomy face.

"You said that Lin Youde would attack in mid-October, but now look at the calendar, and tell me, what day is October?"

The generals looked at each other and did not speak.

"And now, you can't even determine Lin Youde's combat target!"

Iron Ji wanted to continue, but at this time Natalia spoke: "Your Excellency, I think Lin Youde's combat goal is nothing more than two possibilities, one is to outflank our troops who are besieging Warsaw, and the other is to smash the Ukrainian Second Front Army and expose the flanks of our army, so as to contain our army and reduce the pressure on the front of Warsaw." ”

"So which do you think is his real goal?" Iron and Steel asked.

"Now I can only tell you and my personal conjecture, I think that Lin Youde wants to defeat the Ukrainian Second Front." Natalia turned her head to look at Iron Hime, "The rolling offensive tactics he used against the British on the Western Front last year are very suitable for this, while the armored assault tactics he used before are more suitable for outflanking our troops besieging Warsaw." According to what I know about Lin Youde, his rolling offensive on the Western Front is just testing the waters, and now he probably wants to test his new tactics on a larger battlefield. ”

Iron Ji nodded slightly.

Natalia stood up and continued to elaborate on her thoughts: "Now, we can say that we don't know anything about the situation on the front line, Lin Youde interfered with our radio communications, and our wired communications are now only smooth up to the military level, and the telephone lines below are all cut off. Aerial reconnaissance was also completely blocked, and we had no idea what the front line was really doing. All we know is that this morning the Germans prepared our front for more than two hours, and in the process of preparing for fire, our troops transferred all the front-line battle Ji troops to the defense area where the fire was prepared, and then we lost contact with most of the battle Ji troops. ”

At this time, Timoshenko added: "When contact is lost, we can be sure that they are engaged in a war with the enemy. ”

"Yes, thank you, Marshal." Natalia nodded to Timoshenko and continued, "I think there's a good chance that these warrior forces have been wiped out. By now, our communication with almost all the front-line troops has been cut off, and the entire line of defense has literally evaporated. However, the absence of intelligence in itself is also a kind of intelligence. If Lin Youde launched a rolling attack, then the situation is understandable now. ”

"Well, that makes sense, so how do we counter Lin Youde's attack?"

"For now, it is better to leave the task of resistance to the command of the Second Front of Ukraine, after all, they know better than we know the situation on the front line. And what we have to do is to mobilize troops in the rear of the defense zone of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, form a reserve assault group, and launch a large-scale counterattack when the German offensive is almost over. ”

"Shouldn't we directly transfer troops to support the Second Ukrainian Front?" One of the generals here asked.

Natalia didn't remember the voice, she glanced at the generals, and saw that the general who spoke had a face that she was not very impressed. She didn't take the time to think about who it was, but answered his question directly: "No, General. The German advance is very fast, and we may not have time to transfer our troops to the 2nd Ukrainian Front, which will not have enough time to deploy. Even if the deployment is completed in a hurry, there may not be time to build a defensive position. Even if they had time to build defensive positions, their flanks would not have been covered enough. They may be able to hold off some of the German forces, but other Germans will pass through its flanks and strike at their rear, and soon the newly transferred units will find themselves encircled, repeating the mistakes of the rest of the Second Front.

"And if we gather troops in the rear of the Second Front, we will be able to form a relatively complete line of defense to block the German army, and even launch a counterattack when the German army is exhausted, and recapture the lost area in one fell swoop."

The generals looked at each other, and then Timoshenko said: "That is, the 2nd Ukrainian Front was abandoned by us?" ”

"We didn't give up on anyone." Natalia stressed, "We are just letting the Second Ukrainian Front do what they are supposed to do." As long as they were able to hold off the German offensive, the troops that had been gathered behind them would advance and join the resistance to the Germans. ”

After Natalia finished speaking, Iron Ji immediately said: "Just do as Natalia said, and immediately start to revise the original transportation plan and send the general reserve front to the border between Ukraine and Poland." ”

**

At 11 o'clock on the night of the attack, the German D3 broke through.

Otto was woken up from his sleep and opened his eyes to see that it was Kosher.

"What's wrong?" Otto rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked in a voice that was still visibly sleepy.

"The repair unit finished repairing the combat vehicle, and they replaced us with a turret."

"So what?"

"Their radio heard that there were infantry nearby in need of combat vehicle support, just a dozen kilometers away from us. It seems that a lost group of Russian troops occupied a village and blocked the advance of our follow-up troops. ”

Otto yawned and said, "But we only have three men left, and we need at least four crew members to get the chariot into battle." ”

As soon as Otto finished speaking, Kosher stood up and said to the nearby armored soldiers who were eating and playing cards around the campfire: "Hey guys, we have a freshly repaired chariot here, we need two people, and then drive the chariot to support the infantry nearby, who will come?" ”

The armorers looked at each other, and then several people stood up at the same time.

"Oh no, it's too much, just the two of you." Fisher casually pointed to the two, and then he turned to Otto and said, "You see, now we have not only four men, but one more. ”

Lin Youde's armored army drill code stipulates that everyone in the tank crew must be familiar with the combat skills of other combat positions, so the armored troops are basically all-round, the driver can shoot the gun, the radio can drive the combat vehicle, so that in wartime, it is very convenient to put together the battle-damaged vehicle group to form a new vehicle group, plus the tank repaired by the emergency repair unit, a combat unit with combat effectiveness is formed.

Otto shrugged his shoulders and shook hands with the two who walked over: "Otto, Otto? Carly Woods. ”

"I'm Miller, and they usually call me a cook."

"Julian, there are no nicknames yet."

After the two men shook hands with Otto, Kosher held out his hand: "Koscher, gunner." What happened to the two of you cars? ”

"I'm in the same car with him, I'm the loader, he's the driver. We received a shot of 107, it was a grenade, and the blast wave directly killed the person sitting on the right side of the hull, and the two of us sat on the left side and survived. The cook pouted, "The shockwave shook something off the inside of the armor, and it stuck into the gunner's body like a cannonball, spurting blood in my face. ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sad for your crew." Otto patted the cook on the shoulder, turned to look at Kosher and said, "Now we have two loaders, so you go and be the commander, and I'll shoot the ......"

"I shot but got an A+," Kosher interrupted Otto, "what did you get?" Shorty? I actually want to snatch my gunner's throne, no, you obediently go to be the commander of the vehicle, and poke your head out of the chariot to be used as a target. ”

"Please, ...... by rank"

"You killed a warrior with your own hands, and you will immediately have a higher rank than me." Kosher interrupted Otto again, "And you're the one who said you're going to get a bazooka and hit that damn battle hime, and without you I'd just lie in the crater until the battle is over." Damn, you're a captain, get out of the captain's seat and take that funny big radio headset, that's it. ”

**

"Are you ready to go?" The commander of the maintenance unit looked at the armored soldiers who were climbing up the car.

"Uh, yes." Otto, who was about to be the last to board the car, nodded.

"You're the commander?"

"Uh," Otto looked back at Kosher, who had climbed to the top of the turret, who nodded to him, "yes, I'm the commander. ”

"Okay, look at the map. The infantry units we contacted were here, seventeen kilometers away from us, and at the moment our armored units had almost all broken through to the front, and the armored units in the rear would not arrive at us until about three o'clock in the morning, and you know, in offensive battles, they would usually arrive later than planned. In short, there are very few armored troops that can rush there at once, except for you. Of course, I don't know if an armored unit with only one tank counts as an armored unit. ”

"Of course, Lieutenant."

Otto's words made the lieutenant laugh, and he turned off the flashlight and patted Otto on the shoulder.

"We were going to fix another car so you could have a duo, but you know ......"

"I know that in times of war, reality is always one step slower than planned."

The lieutenant grinned again.

"Okay, you guys go, remember, by tomorrow daylight at the latest, the armored forces of the second echelon will come up, if the situation is not good, just wait for tomorrow, don't force it. The Air Force can also provide us with close support during the day, so there's no need to take any chances, kid. ”

Otto nodded.

The lieutenant saluted him, and he hastened to return the salute, then turned and climbed into the chariot quickly.

As soon as he got into the turret, he habitually drilled into the position of the loader on the left, but was pushed against his ass: "Hey, there's someone here." ”

"I'm sorry." Otto blushed slightly, and then he remembered that his place was here, the highest seat in the chariot, and he could easily poke his head out of the "throne" outside the car.

As soon as Otto put on the headphones, Link's voice came from the headphones: "Xiao Budian has become a boss all of a sudden, and he has been promoted quickly enough." ”

"Then I'll swap with you?"

"No, I still like combat posts where I can shrink my head in when I'm fighting."

Otto smiled, and then ordered: "Start the chariot and warm up the engine." ”

"It was already warmed up, and the engineers helped with this step after repairing the vehicle."

"Then let's go, and follow the road."

Link's response was heard, and the engines of the chariot roared, belching smoke, and the hull began to move slowly forward.

Otto, half of his body exposed outside the turret, looked at Qiē who began to move backwards.

The rest of the armoured soldiers all stood up and saluted the advancing chariots, and some shouted: "Beat them to the ground!" ”

Otto gave a thumbs up to his colleagues.

Then they drove through the entire chariot repair yard into the Polish night.