81_81266 Driving at night is dangerous, and anyone who has driven a car knows it. But what if you drive to fight a battle at night? Isn't it even more dangerous? Tank No. 115 took the lead, followed by Lane Tank No. 113, and then Marcus's tank No. 112, and three tanks covered four armored personnel carriers and seven trucks, slowly moving towards their target.

Soon they were following a few kilometers along a bumpy road, to the outskirts of the town, which had become a ruin. The German infantry began to erect mortars next to the tanks, which were the support weapons in their hands.

After a short distribution, the German infantry began to spread out their battle formations, with two platoons of a company responsible for entering the town from one side and then sweeping nearby buildings to establish a support point for the attack. After this support point was established, the Germans in front of almost 100 men began to attack again.

When they were ready, the German soldiers began to approach the houses near the town, and these soldiers rushed over the fence and over the potholed lawn, running towards their target by the faint moonlight, bending over with their guns and occasionally moving two steps laterally.

Soon the soldiers approached the building, their backs leaning against the icy walls, gasping for breath from the violent running. However, it can be seen that the eyes of each of these soldiers are full of joy, because the process of approaching these goals is extremely simple for them.

The battles and assaults that had been prepared were useless, and the Soviet defenders here did not seem to have been strengthened, and these inexperienced opponents seemed to be sleeping at this moment, not realizing that the German soldiers had approached such a close distance.

A German soldier carrying his rifle walked around the house behind him, the building, apparently undestroyed by the bombardment, and was fairly well preserved. He cautiously approached the gate, and under the cover of his comrades next to him, rushed into the house that seemed to be empty.

An old man sat in the owner's seat in the living room, looking at the German soldiers who came in, and the two sides were stunned for about a few seconds, and after a stalemate for about a few seconds, the old man spoke first: "Those Russians have fled, and now they are all Ukrainians here." ”

"The Russians withdrew?" The German soldier who rushed into the room was stunned for a moment, then lowered his weapon: "When did they leave?"

The old man replied very simply, without the slightest concealment: "After your plane bombed, the original company of troops here withdrew, and they left in a hurry, and there was no explosives to destroy the bridge in the town. ”

The bridges were all saved, and it looked like luck was really good today, and everyone was visibly relieved. The first German soldier to enter the room took his rifle on his back, looked at the impoverished and barren house, which could be said to be a four-walled house, and did not continue to ask any questions.

The Ukrainians here are very desolate and oppressed by the Russians, no wonder they don't even hate the Germans who have just finished bombing here, because in their eyes, the Germans seem to have come to liberate them.

"Platoon commander! The old man said that the Soviet Red Army had retreated. Behind him, another German soldier turned back to the German officer who followed him.

"You still have you! You take a few soldiers and inspect every area here. "The platoon commander immediately arranged for soldiers to search the entire town. Then another soldier was found and told to go out to find the radio station he carried, and to tell the friendly forces outside who were waiting for the results that there was no enemy left.

Soon a dozen German soldiers entered the town from the front, and after deploying some cover along the road, several German soldiers approached the center of the town, and after confirming that there were no Soviet troops, German trucks and armored vehicles entered the square in the center of the town, stopping around the fountain in the middle.

It didn't take long for the Germans to thoroughly inspect the town and found that there were indeed no Soviet troops here. Then, in the middle of the night, the Germans arranged their own defensive positions, arranged ring-shaped fortifications around them, and they spent the middle of the night digging a few trenches, and then ushered in the morning sun the next day.

No one could have imagined that a well-prepared and risky attack would turn into a thrilling march. The next morning, the Germans began to prepare breakfast for themselves, and it was evident that everyone in both the tank units and the infantry was glad that there had been no fighting last night.

"Good morning!" Alice greeted Wren, rubbing her eyes as she came out of the tent.

Spit out mouthwash, Wren yawned and replied, "Morning!"

It wasn't that they didn't want to sleep in the building last night, but there were so many grenadiers without tents that the tank crews in relatively good condition had to give priority to the few empty houses vacated by the locals to the grenadiers who had been tired for most of the night.

Now they had only slept for more than two hours, so most of them were still asleep, and the early morning of April was still a little cold, and Alice felt the cold and shivered involuntarily.

Wren saw Alice hugging her arms and shivering, and wanted to walk over, but found that he really didn't have any coats or anything like that to hand Alice, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly and had to give up. Then he saw a motorbike coming from a distance, which seemed to be a reconnaissance unit directly under the battalion headquarters.

Soon the motorcycle in the distance gradually approached, and a German soldier came to Wren with the roar of the engine: "Sir, 5 kilometers away, there are about 300 Soviet troops, it should be a battalion, there may be other Soviet troops behind, we dare not get too close." ”

"Have you reported to the battalion headquarters?" Wren frowned and asked this comrade-in-arms who had come early in the morning to "report the funeral". For example, if you find a herd of pigs, or you find a mountain, or you find a truckload of gold coins, do you have to find hundreds of enemy troops?

"I've reported it to the battalion headquarters, but I'm worried that the nearby troops haven't turned on the radio, so I'm in charge of delivering this important news!" replied the soldier on a motorcycle.

Wren sighed, asked the soldier to mark the other party's route on the map, and roughly calculated the contact time, and let the soldier continue to remind the other troops to stay on guard, and he himself took Alice, who was already sleepy, to the two company commanders near the town, and told them the shocking news.

"It can't be a Soviet rout, is it? This kind of thing doesn't have to be the other side rushing to take back the town. A company commander said with a sense of luck. He just didn't want his troops to face a fierce battle, and certainly wasn't really naïve enough to think that the other side was just here to surrender.

Wren shook his head, pointed to the location on the map, and said, "The reconnaissance team found this unit here, they are in a neat formation, and there is no sign of collapse. And it is said that every soldier is equipped with a weapon, which is obviously not an ordinary army. ”

"Do you have tanks?" Another German company commander asked, staring at the area Wren was referring to on the map, "and they are coming straight from the west, where there is woodland and a small open space, and if they have tanks, we will be in trouble." ”

"The problem of tanks is left to us. Wren thought for a moment and said, "I'll snipe the other side's possible tank troops in the woods." But we also need cover, and arrange a squad of troops for us, which is the minimum requirement. ”

The two company commanders www.biquge.info their heads with a smile, and then reassured: "We will pick some good soldiers to send to you, two machine guns and an anti-tank team." ”

Wren was not ambiguous, and immediately returned to his tank with Alice, woke up Bruce and Bowman, who were still asleep, found Andre, who was walking by the river, and began to prepare for the tank battle.

It didn't take long for the town to get busy, and more than 50 German troops began to enter their defensive positions in the west, deepening some trenches, burying the few mines they were carrying in the open space ahead, firing two shells to adjust the angle and coordinates of the mortars.

These soldiers were all too familiar with the pre-war preparations, and the complex and trivial matters were clear and simple in their eyes. They wiped down the guns and lubed them in some places to keep the murderous weapons in good condition. They inspect the bayonet and put it in the most convenient position so that it can be used immediately in a crisis.

Ammunition boxes were distributed to the various units, which were opened and looted by the soldiers. The grenades were neatly stacked beside them, and in the open space not far away, a few smokers gathered together, cherishing the good times when the last cigarette was before the war.

Wren with his three tanks and a squad of infantry entered the edge of the woodland, where they chose a better position and set up their sniper positions. Three tanks were arranged in a triangle with three 88 mm caliber cannons aimed at where the Soviet tanks might have appeared.

They also found some camouflage, piled up some dirt and branches in front of the tank as cover. The German tanks themselves were painted in a simple camouflage, so they now blended in more with their surroundings.

The infantry squad was placed on a high slope behind the three tanks, responsible for dealing with the Soviet infantry and tanks that came around. Of course, they were only responsible for covering and reminding, and it was impossible to really block the Soviet tanks that were circling behind.

Soon Wren spotted the advancing Soviet troops with binoculars, the dense crowd of soldiers had begun to unfold slowly, and the reconnaissance force was obviously short of the number of enemy troops, and at a rough glance, they numbered at least 500 people