In this battle, Spanek made the mistake of thinking that his strategy could deceive the Soviet army.

This idea may be normal, because the Soviet army usually fights in a straight-forward manner, and even the attack time and tactics are very regular.

In this case, the Soviet army suddenly became flexible and even thought of Spanneck's front, which caught Spanneck by surprise and made a series of mistakes.

For example, he asked the "Tiger" to immediately reinforce the east side.

At this time, Spanneck should have been able to judge that it was too late to reinforce the east side. The result of hasty reinforcements would only cause the "Tiger" to malfunction or be submerged in the torrent of T34.

The correct approach should be to pull all the "Tiger" back to the defense of Zhankoi.

If you do this, first of all, because you have enough time to prepare without going into combat directly, you can still use the rails to maneuver.

Secondly, you can rely on building cover to block the streets, and you can even fight and retreat. It is not difficult to hold on for five hours until reinforcements arrive at dawn.

But Sponneck didn't do that.

Under his order, four "Tiger" vehicles went to reinforce the east side... Since the east side was reinforced and the east side was fighting, of course they could no longer be towed by flatbed trucks to the battlefield.

Otherwise, if the crawler vehicle used for traction is destroyed, the "Tiger" will be unable to move, and it will not even be able to get off the flatbed truck. At the same time, the accuracy of the "Tiger" will also be affected, because the chassis is fired on a moving flatbed truck.

Unstable, which is similar to the reason why warships shoot with poor accuracy on swaying seas.

Therefore, it is reasonable for a "Tiger" to be unable to function due to malfunction. The German "Tiger" troops lost 25% of their combat effectiveness before the battle began.

Another mistake was that these "Tiger" vehicles did not coordinate enough.

In fact, the German "Tiger" reinforcements had a chance of victory.

If the "Tiger" did not rush to the battlefield in two groups but three appeared together... one could be in the middle and the other two would cover the flanks.

Therefore, even if there are more than a dozen T34s swarming towards them at the same time, and they are defeated by these three "Tiger" vehicles, and each "Tiger" can deal with four to five targets, it is still possible to win.

You can imagine the situation. Waves of T34s came up one after another. They were killed before they could reach the distance that threatened the "Tiger" or when they stopped to take aim. In the end, more than a dozen T34s would be destroyed on the way to attack.

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If coupled with a few more "Type III" and "Type IV" tanks, the cover would be even more ideal.

Then the other T34s that came up were no exception. Even at this time, the Soviet army should have retreated or even collapsed... This was not a question of how many tanks were lost, but a question of thinking that the attack was just meaningless casualties.

However, these three German "Tiger" vehicles did not come up in one batch, but one came up first.

This car can almost be said to give the Soviet army a chance to practice, although it has already given the Soviet army enough shock.

Then, after the Soviet army knew that this monster could be destroyed from the front within two hundred meters, the two "Tiger" vehicles that the German army came up with could not achieve the previous effect.

All factors combined caused the German army to lose the initiative in this battle.

Without the "tiger" cover, the German army was like a tiger without teeth. It was chased by the Soviet army and hid in the city, hoping to rely on street fighting to resist the Soviet army.

But this is obviously wishful thinking.

The Soviet army has powerful T34s. Those buildings are like paper in front of them. They can easily break through walls and then lead the Soviet army to clear out buildings one after another.

On the other hand, the 1st Guards Brigade is equipped with "Bobosa" and rocket launchers... They are powerful weapons in street fighting.

So Shulka wasn't worried about this at all. He didn't even follow his men into Zhankoy. He stopped the Cossacks and commanded his platoon to surround the "Tiger" tank and even organized a defense.

"Don't let anyone get close to it!" Shulka ordered: "Including our own people, anyone who disobeys is allowed to be shot!"

"Yes, Captain!" replied the Cossack.

This is one of the second batch of two "Tiger" vehicles.

All other "Tiger"s were blown up.

The first one was destroyed by the Soviet army. The Soviet tanks were worried after destroying it. Then two more T34s approached its wreckage from the flanks and fired two shots... If the T34 attacked from the side, it could penetrate it at a distance of 800 meters.

One of the rounds hit the engine, and the tank quickly burst into flames.

Shulka was too late to stop it.

The two vehicles in the second batch were paralyzed by Soviet tanks from the side. One of the tanks was detonated from the inside by the surviving German tank crew who climbed out and used explosive bags... It is not surprising at all that they would bring explosive bags with them.

, Shulka thought, they should have received the order on the first day of training. Once hit, they should make every effort to blow it up and prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy.

The third car emitted a plume of black smoke, but no one climbed out.

Sometimes this does happen. For example, after an armor-piercing projectile penetrates the armor, it brings up steel debris and flies around inside, killing the crew, or the crew is knocked unconscious by the huge momentum.

Shulka was not sure whether it was the latter, and immediately ordered the Cossacks: "Go in and kill the people inside!"

"Yes, Captain!" said the Cossack and pulled out the grenade.

"You're crazy!" Shulka quickly stopped him: "Don't play it with your hands!"

"Yes, Captain!" The Cossack looked stunned, because the best choice to deal with the enemies inside the tank was grenades.

Otherwise, if you enter the tank cabin to fight the enemy, you are almost seeking death... unless the enemy has no ability to resist.

What the Cossacks didn't know was that taking such a risk for the "Tiger" was completely worth it.

The Cossack even took off his submachine gun because it was difficult to climb into the tank cabin with the submachine gun on his back.

He chose to use a flashlight and a pistol.

Then, after his subordinates opened the hatch cover, he quickly popped up and fired two shots inside. After retracting his head and waiting for a while, he plucked up the courage to jump in.

After a while, two "bang bang" gunshots were heard inside. Everyone pointed their guns at the hatch of the tank and nervously pressed their fingers on the trigger.

Then, the Cossack's voice rang out: "I killed them, Captain! The others are dead. Only the driver was injured and stuck and unable to move. I asked him to accompany his companions!"

Hearing this, Shulka couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that they had captured a "Tiger" and it was basically complete.

The effect it can play is probably no less than that of the Soviet army's occupation of Zhankoy.

If he had to choose one of the two, Shulka would even choose the "Tiger".
Chapter completed!