On the other hand, the German army had not guarded against Soviet tanks in previous battles...

This was mainly determined by the fact that the 4th Tank Brigade withdrew quickly after capturing Klin, and the 251st Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came up with almost no tanks.

On the other hand, the German army has tanks and is mainly attacking, so there are not many tank obstacles on the German defense line, otherwise these obstacles will also block its own tank attack.

Therefore, there were no anti-tank trenches, no anti-tank mines, only a few anti-tank guns and a dozen "Pärzer III" tanks that were urgently pulled up by the Germans to fight.

But these anti-tank guns and "Plank III" tanks can almost be ignored by the T34... They cannot pose much of a threat to the Soviet T34.

As a result, one German tank after another was destroyed by T34, and the soldiers of the 333rd Infantry Regiment fired mortar shells towards the German defense line... These mortars were the Soviet shovel-type 37mm mortars. They were used in night battles.

The reason is that large-caliber long-range mortars require the guidance of artillery observers, which also require communication equipment, while 37mm mortars can directly explode wherever they see on the front line.

where.

At this time, the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs following behind them could no longer hold back. An officer shouted: "Comrades, for the sake of the motherland and Moscow, charge!"

"Come on!"

…

The soldiers of the 251st Division shouted and rushed over the tank.

It was still too early to charge at this time. If the German army started to cover it with artillery fire, it would be a different matter.

But of course, it is also very difficult to cover it with artillery fire at night, especially when the two sides are already firing. The reason is that it is difficult for the artillery observer to judge the distance or even complete the test firing and guide, because he does not know which shell is his.

Artillery fire.

What's more important is that the distance between the enemy and ourselves is very close at this time, and the tank has advanced to a distance of more than 100 meters. If it is covered with artillery fire, the artillery shells will accidentally explode into our own positions.

Therefore, the Soviet army with T34 tanks does not need to be so anxious. They can calmly knock out the Soviet machine gun positions and mortar positions one by one and then continue to advance or charge.

However, the troops of the 251st Division were not commanded by the Fourth Tank Brigade, and Shurka could not stop them no matter how much he shouted, so he had no choice but to let them charge forward.

In fact, this charge disrupted the entire rhythm. The tanks that were still looking for the target had to stop shooting...if the shells exploded, they would undoubtedly accidentally injure their own people.

The tank's machine gun also stopped.

The soldiers of the 251st Division had no training in infantry-tank coordination. They did not know how to get out of the way for the tank machine guns. Group after group of soldiers blocked the machine gun firing holes with their backs.

In this regard, the 251st Division should not have been coordinated from the beginning.

Then, not surprisingly, the charge of the 251st Division was once again suppressed by the resurgent German firepower.

What Shulka didn't know was that this was actually Colonel Chernetsev's pride.

Colonel Chernetsev is the commander of the 801st Regiment of the 251st Division, the commander of the Ministry of Internal Affairs troops that assisted the 1st Tank Battalion in the attack.

Colonel Chernetsev's education has always been that "as long as you are brave enough, you can defeat the enemy." He also requires and even supervises the operations of other troops. Before this, many officers were afraid of fighting because of "the fear of death."

"He was punished and even executed by Colonel Chernetsev and the colonel.

Under these circumstances, Colonel Chernetsev felt that the fighting situation was an insult to the 251st Division:

How can the 251st Division, which has been emphasizing and supervising the brave fighting of other troops, fight under the protection of other troops, especially when it still huddles behind friendly tanks and slowly advances. How can the 251st Division supervise other troops in the future?

More importantly, Colonel Chernetsev is one of them. He has always shown a brave and fearless posture in front of his subordinates, but now he is hiding behind the tank with his subordinates...

No, we must not let this situation continue!

Colonel Chernetsev said to himself: They should show the Fourth Tank Brigade that the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the best. They do not need protection from others or tanks. They can do it with their own courage and courage.

Break through enemy defenses.

Thinking of this, Colonel Chernetsev shouted and ordered the soldiers to rush forward, including himself.

But the battlefield is a battlefield after all, and it will not be transferred by human subjective will. The charge commanded by Colonel Chernetsev was completely unstructured and chaotic. The German army's resurrected firepower quickly knocked down the charging soldiers row by row.

They pressed firmly in front of the position.

The tanks rumbled up, and Colonel Chernetsev looked at the 4th Tank Brigade with incredible eyes as he once again suppressed the German firepower.

The scene at that moment gave Colonel Chernetsev a subversive feeling, almost overturning what he had always believed, which even made him a little unable to accept it.

After the war, Colonel Chernetsev wrote this passage in his diary:

"I don't know what happened, why the battlefield was like this, it was completely different from what I imagined... Our courage and charge seemed to have no effect at all. In fact, these were vulnerable to enemy fire.

When I charged, I felt like what was in front of me was a steel wall, and I could never cross the line of defense.

This doesn't seem to mean anything, because I can definitely assume that other troops are in the same situation when charging.

However, this is not the case, because the Fourth Tank Brigade is right next to us. In front of them, the enemies who are blocking us are like children who have made mistakes, waiting to be punished. They are killed, blown up to the sky, and even raise their guns.

Come and surrender...

At that moment, all I could think about was: ‘Why is this happening? How did this happen?’!”

Colonel Chernetsev, who was on the battlefield, was still unwilling. He got up from the ground, waved his pistol and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Get up, follow me..."

But a bullet came and hit Colonel Chernetsev's left arm. Colonel Chernetsev knelt on the ground, helplessly dodging the exploding mortar shells nearby. He even felt a little

Hopefully these shells will blow him to pieces.

At this time, a man jumped out from the hail of bullets and pushed him to the ground. A shell exploded not far away, and the colonel's military cap was even blown off by the shock wave.

The man dragged Colonel Chernetsev forward for a certain distance, then threw Colonel Chernetsev behind the sandbag and shouted an order in an unquestionable tone: "Stay here!"

Colonel Chernetsev kept breathing heavily and looked at the brave soldier in front of him with horrified eyes. At this time, a flare shot up into the sky. Colonel Chernetsev discovered that he was a second lieutenant.
Chapter completed!