A Leopard tank parked on the side of the road was blazing, and the detonation had detached its turret base from its hull, and the entire turret was attached to the hull like a broken head, twisting to one side. The slender barrel pointed weakly at the ground, as if mourning for the dead.

On the other side of the tank, a Tiger tank was parked there, and the soldiers on it were eating what they were doing, apparently the charred corpses on the side of the tank did not affect their appetite.

Wren was eating something cooked as he looked at the map in his hand, not far in front of his tank, on a Tiger tank in charge of guarding, the commander of the tank was holding his telescope and looking into the distance. The map shows that they have penetrated deep into the interior of the Soviet lines, piercing deep into the skin like a steel knife.

The grenadiers had followed, and it was their custom to spread the German flag on top of the houses in the occupied areas. This was one of the means to prevent the air force from bombing by mistake, and although the weather was bad and there was no aircraft to support them, the German soldiers still mechanically adhered to some of the rules of conduct they were required to follow.

The commander moved his mouth, and the soldier ran and broke his leg. Bruce gulped on warm food and complained loudly about the frenzied offensive mission, and their company walked along the road for a day, crushing dozens of Soviet Red Army units in the villages on the defensive road, fighting several large-scale battles, and destroying more than 30 Soviet tanks.

However, not many people had happy expressions on their faces, because the tanks they destroyed were basically poor T-26 tanks, these old equipment had been outdated at the beginning of the Soviet-German war, and now these tanks were only targets, and there was almost no threat to German tanks.

There is a lack of accomplishment in destroying these targets that cannot fight back, these German tank crews are very worried about the safety of friendly troops, they have the impression that the tanks of the Soviet Red Army are much more powerful than these garbage, since those powerful tanks do not appear here, they must appear somewhere else, and this time, the heavy tanks concentrated by the Soviets are obviously very large. The information that the tank units of the Soviet Red Army near Kharkov had been drawn were so large that they were unsettling.

And, on the other hand, the Germans lost too much on the way to the offensive. I heard that more than 3,000 people were killed, more than 5,000 were wounded, and a full 70 tanks were lost before they reached their current position, which was related to the speed of the advance, and Guderian did not care too much about the casualties of the troops in order to achieve the effect of the breakthrough.

Wren's panzer company was pushed straight in front of the attacking force, and this morning, a recruit tank with a front start crushed an anti-tank mine, and the huge shock wave blew off the tank's tracks and wounded two soldiers inside. Wren was forced to slow down their attack and wait for the sappers to come up and deal with the minefield.

As it turned out that there were no large Soviet minefields nearby, Rennes was able to move on, but then they were met with desperate resistance from the Soviet Red Army, and when they occupied the town, a friendly Leopard tank was destroyed on the side of the road, showing how fierce the fighting was at that time.

"The men of the reconnaissance company came back and said that there was a defensive position arranged by the Soviets in front, and they heard that there were anti-tank guns, and they were inexperienced and opened fire on the men of the reconnaissance company, as a result of which the location of one of the guns was exposed. Wren didn't raise his head, and while eating his warm can, he said to Andre, who had already eaten.

Andrei nodded, then looked into the distance: "To be honest, I have a hunch that these Soviet soldiers are not preventing us from going to Kharkov. I think they're luring us there. ”

"You're right, it's not an elaborate defense, and the soldiers we've captured or routed aren't well-trained soldiers. Wren nodded, wiped the spoon clean, and put it in his personal storage box, then tossed the empty canning box into a woven bag for recycling. Germans lack metal, so they will try their best to recycle what they can recycle, and canned boxes are one of the important recycling items.

These recycled woven bags are disposed of at the collection point and then picked up by the recycling department and sent to other departments for reuse. Wren wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said to Andrei: "From the moment I turned to attack the north, I asked about the smell of traps, this is not a battle, I can feel that the defense line organized by the Soviets here can only be described as bait, and it is not a very qualified bait." ”

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"There is only one flaw in this plan!" Zhukov squinted his eyes and said: "We can't train all our soldiers to be good at fighting, so most of the soldiers deployed on the southern front are new recruits, and the combat effectiveness of these troops is really impossible to count on. ”

"Is there anything wrong with the new recruits who will inevitably suffer heavy losses when they meet the battle, and they are also prone to collapse or surrender on a large scale?" asked the staff officer suspiciously: "The Germans have captured too many prisoners, will they still think about it?"

"Don't underestimate the German professional soldiers, their noses are very smart, and sometimes the intuition of the soldiers makes them feel dangerous, which is a quality that a senior commander should have. Zhukov said with a smile: "The attack is too easy, we don't have the extra forces to build a defensive line on the periphery of Kharkov to show the Germans, so they will approach Kharkov at a very fast pace!"

He swiped his finger lightly across the map, and finally settled on Kharkiv, which had become the entrance to hell, and continued: "It's too fast! It's too fast, so it's easy to arouse suspicion! I'm afraid they'll hesitate and not be fooled! If they don't attack Kharkiv, then we won't be able to trap the German armored forces in the quagmire of war, and the trouble will still exist." ”

"Fortunately, they still went north!" the staff officer breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the map triumphantly, as if quite satisfied with what the Germans had fooled. His eyes fell on Shebelinka, and he said triumphantly.

Just as he said this, Guderian gave the order to continue the offensive northward, and the 200,000 elite troops of Army Group G were fiercely attacking northward, and the straight-line distance from Sheberingka was already only a few dozen kilometers.

Wren sat on the shaking tank and said helplessly to Andrei beside him: "This is something that cannot be helped, even if we feel that the enemy is not quite right, but Guderian, an army commander like Guderian, will not think so." In a matter of days, we captured a full 100,000 Soviet Red Army and broke through 8 enemy lines, which was enough to cover up some clues. ”

"And we're just going to hit the trap headlong?" asked Andre, looking at Wren.

"If the prey is strong enough, then even if it is a trap, it can be torn apart!" Wren narrowed his eyes, pressed the throat intercom and said: "All tanks in the 1st Company! Attention! Prepare for battle! Enter the danger zone ahead! The enemy has at least one anti-tank gun, be careful not to be killed!"

Andrei got into his combat position, then fastened the hatch overhead, and Bruce stuffed a high-explosive shell into the chamber, and for so many days the Germans had rarely encountered Soviet tank units, so high-explosive shells were generally preferred for combat. Farther away, Marcus also fastened his hatch cover, and the Tiger tank's thick barrel pointed forward, accelerating towards the Soviet Red Army positions on that side.

"Machine gun cover!Let the grenadiers attack in formation!Marcus!The right flank is yours!The tanks in the second platoon attack the left flank!Eliminate anti-tank fire!!," Wren shouted, as bullets were already flying towards him, whistling past his hat.

"Boom!" because the hidden position of an anti-tank gun had been detected in advance, Andrei did not hesitate to fire a shell to the danger area, and sure enough, a cannon was hidden there, and the shield of the artillery and several artillery pieces around it were blown away by grenades, and it became a mess.

More than a dozen Soviet soldiers escaped from the foxhole, turned around and tried to run away, but they were knocked to the ground by machine gun bullets from all directions after they had not run a few steps, and the German tank's course machine guns opened fire fiercely, and some Soviet soldiers were shot through the head by bullets as soon as they showed their heads.

The grenadiers behind the tank had already spread out in formation, and these soldiers followed the tank cautiously and then helped the tank clear some of the missing Soviet anti-tank fighters, these soldiers who attacked the tank with explosives pack were rarely armed, so the infantry was very easy to deal with.

A German grenadier with an assault rifle fired his own bullet at a fish that had slipped through the net, and the bullet punched several holes in the opponent's body, and blood gushed out in an instant. The Soviet Red Army still had the fuse of the explosive bag in his hand, and it looked like it was about to go off.

Before German tanks and grenadiers could capture the area, more Soviet soldiers rushed out of the woods in the distance, trying to regain the positions they had just lost.

Of course, the Germans would not give up, and the two sides fought together again, but the German self-propelled guns in the distance fired a row of shells, and when these shells blew holes in the crowd of the Soviets, the Soviets retreated, leaving behind about 1,000 corpses without any success.

The gunfire was far away, Wren lifted the hatch of his tank, showed his head and looked around, and then jumped out of his tank with both hands, there were still several craters around him with light smoke, and where his feet landed, there was the body of a Soviet soldier lying quietly, they were enemies a few minutes ago, and now, they belong to different worlds.