One by one, tanks drove into the pocket formations set up by the Russian army.

Of course, this was not what the Germans saw. What they saw was that their tanks successfully broke through the enemy's defense line under the cover of the T34. In front of them was a wilderness where the tanks were allowed to gallop.

Just as Major General Funk ordered, the German infantry followed closely from behind, using their weapons to eliminate the remaining enemy infantry in trenches and bomb craters.

What makes the German soldiers a little strange is that this time the resistance they encountered seemed to be much weaker than before. For example, they did not see many Molotov cocktails. Even if they did, they would casually throw them in the direction of the tank and then escape... The Molotov cocktails thrown like this

Of course it won't do much damage to the tanks, but the German infantry should be careful to avoid it.

But this doesn't seem surprising, because this is the main force of the 7th Armored Division, not to mention there are several T34s opening the way ahead. Those Ivans obviously did not expect to face their own tanks.

Therefore, Colonel Ayden, commander of the 25th Armored Regiment, loudly ordered on the walkie-talkie: "Keep the formation and keep up with the T34 in front!"

At this time, Colonel Ayden seemed to have some understanding of what was going on with the Russian tank troops. Those tanks without communication equipment could almost be said to be units other than the offensive force... They did not consider the "three" behind them at all.

"No. 4", the "No. 4" tank had been left behind for a long distance by them.

(Note: The track of T34 is nearly 50 cm wide, which is wider than the 38 cm track of "No. 3" and the 40 cm track of "No. 4". Therefore, although the T34 is heavier than the "No. 3" and "No. 4", its off-road performance and passability are better.

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But this doesn't seem to matter much, Colonel Ayden thought, because the battle is over now, and what remains is the question of where the Russians can stop the 7th Armored Division.

However, at this moment, with a loud "boom", a "T34" stopped and started to smoke.

"Anti-tank gun!" Colonel Eden shouted: "Two hundred meters, one o'clock position!"

Colonel Aiden saw a cloud of smoke rising from that location.

Immediately, three tanks stopped, then adjusted their muzzles to aim at that position, and then fired a few rounds of grenades.

Then they realized how stupid they were. The camouflage was blown away after a flash of grenade... It was not an anti-tank gun at all, but the turret of a tank, and it was also the turret of a T34 tank.

They actually used grenades to shoot at the enemy T34 tank!

"Tank, that's a tank!" Colonel Ayden shouted: "Enemy T34, change to armor-piercing bullets, shoot at close range! Order Captain Daniel..."

Captain Daniel was the company commander who commanded the captured T34. Colonel Ayden hoped that they could go up and destroy the target.

However, as soon as Colonel Ayden shouted, he realized that he could not command, because Captain Daniel in T34 could not hear his orders at all.

However, what pleased Colonel Ayden was that Captain Daniel spontaneously led T34 towards the target.

This was one of the reasons why Colonel Aiden put a captain in charge of the five tanks... Daniel knew what to do in times of danger.

Then, the result left Colonel Ayden speechless.

Just hearing a "boom" of artillery, several T34s led by Captain Daniel were destroyed one after another.

Colonel Ayden originally thought that the enemy was on the front, but when he discovered that an armor-piercing projectile penetrated the T34 armor from the side and made a big hole in it, he realized that his troops had fallen into a carefully laid ambush by the enemy.

"General!" Colonel Ayden immediately reported to Major General Funk: "This is a trap, we are surrounded by the enemy..."

"How many tanks do they have?" Major General Funk asked.

"I don't know!" Major Aiden replied while nervously observing the outside with his periscope: "They are camouflaged with the same color as the snow, and we can hardly detect them!"

"Come forward!" Major General Funk ordered: "I will let the air force support you!"

Major General Funk did just that and asked the air force to support the tank regiment.

But the Air Force's answer disappointed Major General Funk.

"We found no enemy tanks!" the Air Force replied: "We only saw our tanks being destroyed one after another!"

"Find the enemy tanks and destroy them!" Major General Funk ordered without explanation: "You can search in the direction where our tanks are shooting!"

This seems to be a good idea. It is easier for ground tanks to find targets, but it is very difficult to operate in practice because the ground is full of tank wreckage, flames and black smoke rising, and even snowflakes floating in the sky will hinder the pilot.

Sight is one of the factors.

However, the Soviet tanks were painted white, and even the tanks were covered with snow and only a turret was exposed in the tank bunker... This made the German bombers circle in the sky but had no way to start, and occasionally dropped a few bombs.

The bomb was also aimless.

But the 25th Armored Regiment on the ground was suffering a catastrophe.

Colonel Ayden had the most profound experience among them. He didn't even find a few targets, or even if he found the targets, they were outside the attack range... The German tanks only entered the effective attack range after entering 100 meters. This was the 25th

One of the reasons why the armored regiment fell into total passivity.

Afterwards, the surviving Colonel Aiden said with lingering fear: "This is a battle that I don't know how to direct in history. Advance, outflank, retreat...it doesn't seem to work. All we can do seems to be to stay where we are and watch.

As our tanks were destroyed one after another!"

"Retreat!" Then Colonel Ayden finally couldn't hold on anymore and he loudly ordered: "Retreat! Repeat the order and withdraw from the battlefield immediately!"

Then all the tanks began to turn around and return along the way they came as quickly as possible.

Of course, tanks continued to be destroyed along the way, even when crossing the defense line... Some tanks were deployed at the mouth of the pocket, and the German tanks were already within their range when they came in, but they did not fire their guns.

In the end, only 13 of the fifty tanks managed to escape, and several of them returned injured.

This is mainly because the T34 tank cannot pursue it...if it wants to pursue it, it must come out of the tank bunker, which will expose itself to enemy bombers.

On the other hand, it is because the quality of the Soviet tank gunners is not very good... The tanks of the Fourth Tank Brigade suffered too many losses. After several battles, almost all the tanks were replaced, and only a few tanks were veterans left from the original training.

, most of the rest are new recruits who came in as reinforcements.
Chapter completed!