Chapter 321 Lake surface
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"Anti-tank gun!" Captain Venyakov ordered.
Several light tanks of the German army led a group of soldiers to attack first.
This is the vanguard of the German army. Their main task is to explore the road ahead and clear obstacles.
Its main force was far behind, and of course it was impossible for the Soviet army to act at this time.
So, several anti-tank rifles were set up in front of the position.
"First vehicle to the left of the target!" Lieutenant Venyakov ordered, then waited a moment for the gunner to take aim, and then called: "Fire!"
After a few "bang bang" gunshots, the first 35T tank on the left stopped.
Anti-tank gun bullets are small, and sometimes they can’t cause fatal damage even if they penetrate the target, so usually several anti-tank rifles shoot at the same target to increase the chance of killing.
Then there is the second one on the right, which is a "No. 2" tank. It obviously sensed the threat of anti-tank rifles, so it stepped on the accelerator to speed up and charged forward. Army trench shooting.
This approach is correct. Because the tank is large and the target is obvious, and the speed is slow, it is useless to do evasive actions such as snake maneuvers, and it will even slow down its speed and make it easier to be hit.
The correct approach is to speed up and use firepower to interfere with the enemy, as it is now, so as to minimize the number of times the enemy can attack.
The German soldiers following the tank immediately covered it with firepower and fired mortar shells at the Soviet position. They tried to attract the firepower of the Soviet army to protect the tank.
But it was all in vain. Following the captain's order, the second tank was paralyzed in place after a few shots.
At the same time, the machine guns and mortars of the Soviet army also roared... Although the Soviet army has few equipment, they are better than having complete fortifications, while the German army is exposed in the flat wilderness, so the firepower is quickly suppressed by the Soviet army go down.
Actually, Shulka believes that this is more because the German army is delaying time and waiting for the main force in the rear.
This psychology is understandable. This is human nature. People are afraid, and they will try to avoid danger and casualties as much as possible.
At this time, if it is only the vanguard of the German army, they have two infantry companies and seven light tanks. This lineup is actually enough to take down the positions stationed by Shulka and others.
The problem is that…
The main force behind has a large number of "No. 3" and "No. 4" tanks. These tanks cannot be penetrated by anti-tank rifles. They can easily run over the enemy's trenches and break through their defense lines. So why do they have to attack desperately?
So, the German soldiers lay down on the spot and exchanged guns with the Soviet army... This seemed to be a fierce fight, but it was actually shooting at random.
The Soviet army also hoped this, so they acted very cooperatively with them.
Then, the follow-up tanks drove up to the lake in rows, and they stretched the formation far apart... This is the usual assault method of the German armored forces, so that they can surround the enemy from the flanks while attacking from the front.
"Get ready!" Venyakov looked at Davydov behind him.
Davydov hurriedly picked up the detonation device...it was an electric detonation device. Its advantage was that it detonated instantly after seeing the timing. It did not need to wait for a period of time like the fuse. More importantly, it was safer because the enemy did not respond at all. Time, then, cannot be discovered and destroyed halfway like a detonation of a fuse.
Two hundred meters.
The tank forwards were getting closer and closer to the Soviet defense line. They completely ignored the trees "planted" by the Soviet army on the lake and rolled them under the tracks one by one.
The German soldiers followed closely behind, maybe because they were all focused on the front, or maybe because they were blocked by the tanks. They didn't realize that the posture of the trees when they were knocked down by the tanks was abnormal...they were knocked down normally Because of its deep root system, the tree is more elastic and tough, but the tree "planted" in the ice and snow will fall down when it hits because of the unstable chassis.
These were clear to Shulka, but the German army did not notice.
One hundred meters.
The sun has slowly risen from behind the Soviet army, and the sky is gradually getting brighter.
It was like giving the German army a shot of stimulant. Shulka even heard a burst of cheers from the German army and a few shouts, which seemed to make the Soviet army surrender... The German army thought that dawn was their world, and this battle also There is no need to proceed.
Fifty meters.
At this time, a German infantryman discovered the problem. He first felt a strange vibration under his feet... He was sure that the vibration was not caused by the track, it was like a slight shaking when the glass was broken, and there was a faint "clack" , it's just that it's not so noticeable in the roar of the tank's motor.
The German soldier thought it was his delusion, so he continued to follow the tank, but he was stunned before taking a few steps, because he saw a tree section in the sunlight...it was obviously not something the tank could knock out , because its cut is as flat as a knife.
The doubtful German soldier ran forward a few steps, grabbed the engineering shovel and dug towards the root area of the tree... Then, his engineering shovel hit the ice.
"God!" The German soldier immediately realized that they had been fooled, especially when he scraped the snow with his hands and saw the translucent ice below.
The German soldiers looked around in panic, and then shouted:
"Get out of here, we've been duped!"
"We're on the lake!"
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"What?" His words successfully attracted the attention of several comrades in arms.
"We are on the lake!" The German soldier said: "This is not land!"
The other German soldiers couldn't help being stunned when they heard this.
The second lieutenant immediately shouted to the communications soldier: "Emergency, order the tank to speed up and get out of here!"
But it was too late.
Davikov pressed the detonator, only to hear a burst of "boom", and the explosives installed on the lake exploded one after another.
In order to ensure that the ice surface is fully shattered, the Soviet army installed an explosive package every 100 meters on the lake, and these explosive packages were wrapped with waterproof oil paper and buried in the middle and lower part of the ice layer... This can make the ice layer attract explosives as much as possible The energy of the pack explosion.
However, this does not seem to be necessary, because these tanks are already overwhelmed by rolling over the lake, and it only needs a few more explosive packages to explode to cause chain fragmentation.
Therefore, a considerable part of the explosive packs actually exploded after the ice layer cracked, and did not play much real role.
However, the same result for the Germans...
(end of this chapter)
