Chapter 94 The First Armored Division

Fear is normal, not to mention these recruits who have just entered the state of war from a peaceful society. Veterans, including Shulka, will feel a chill in their hearts after every battle... When it is really a critical moment, No one can face it calmly. If there is, it is basically because of the collapse that they chose to give up.

From this point of view, fighters actually don't care about the victory or defeat of the battle, or whether the battle situation is favorable or unfavorable to them. What they care more about is whether they can survive the next battle.

Shulka thought that he should say something at this time, such as improving morale, but he didn't have this opportunity, because there was only a loud "boom" at this time, followed by the sound of cannons outside.

"Get out of the car!" Shulka ordered loudly.

It's common sense to drive a car...the car has no defenses, even an enemy rifle can punch through the compartment, a single shell can blow up the whole car, and it's a good target.

Therefore, if you don't want to be blown into parts like a car, the fighters on the car must be ready to jump off the car and disperse at any time.

Shulka was in a half-broken state when he jumped out of the car.

Because he knew in his heart that a battle like this that broke out without any warning is likely to have entered the enemy's trap... As I said before, there were reconnaissance troops in front of the main force, and the reconnaissance troops did not find the enemy, which means The enemy is letting go of the reconnaissance troops.

Then, the result of falling into the enemy's trap is that the enemy may have blocked the rear compartment with a machine gun, and the moment the infantry jumped out of the compartment is likely to be the time when the machine gun harvested life.

Therefore, Shulka rolled over to the other side of the road before his feet landed on the ground... Shulka was not familiar with this movement, so that he flashed his arm during the roll, and in the next few days It hurts just to move.

Facts have proved that Shulka was a little overwhelmed. There was no sound of machine guns, and there was no large number of shells covering the car... Only two T26s were hit by shells and smoked, and one of them made a bang after a few seconds The whole becomes the parts state.

"Anti-tank guns!" Shulka heard Battalion Commander Venyakov shouting not far away: "First Battalion, come with me!"

Speaking of which, Venyakov waved his pistol and led the troops to cover up in the direction of the sound of flanking gunfire.

Although the quality of Soviet commanders is generally poor, Lieutenant Venyakov made the right choice.

The main target of anti-tank guns is tanks. Its advantages over tanks are that it has a wider field of vision and a thinner gun body, and it can also be hidden in trenches and supplemented by camouflage.

This allows the anti-tank gun to detect the tank first, but the tank has a hard time finding its position, especially in this rainy day.

So, a better way to deal with it is the infantry charge.

But soon Shulka and others discovered that this was not a good choice, because the enemy attacking from the flank was not an ambush anti-gram artillery but the Romanian 1st Armored Division...

Under the leadership of Lieutenant Venyakov, Shulka rushed forward with his bayonet upright. He felt something wrong when he rushed forward, and his speed gradually slowed down, because they heard the sound of the tank's "rumbling" motor.

"Stop!" Captain Venyakov ordered loudly, and then motioned everyone to get down...

After waiting for a while, I saw the blurred shadows of several tanks appearing in the rain, and then several more, followed by groups of enemies advancing forward.

"Damn!" Venyakov yelled, and then ordered: "Back, all back!"

The soldiers immediately got up from the ground and turned around and ran, including Shulka.

Shulka even thought that he and his comrades were doomed, because they were enemy tanks, and they could catch up with them with a few "rumbles" and then a few rows of machine gun bullets could knock them out... Although they couldn't Destroyed, but at least half of the first battalion can be killed.

But what is surprising is that the battle situation did not develop as Shulka imagined. Shulka and his party fled back to the road without any risk. The Soviet army even had time to bring up a few tanks and cooperate with anti-tank guns A line of defense was formed along the road.

Later Shulka learned that this was because the Romanian 1st Armored Division was attacking from the flank.

Romania is a "Little Entente" in Central Europe and the most important oil producing country in Europe, but this has also caused its industry to be very backward... This is the so-called "resource trap".

"Resource trap" does not refer to countries with few natural resources, but countries with more natural resources, especially oil.

These countries only need to dig a hole in the ground to sell the outflowing oil for money, so the people will not choose to work in other factories... After all, oil is easy to get money and workers' wages are higher.

As a result, no industry developed except oil.

The same is true for Romania, so it can only import equipment from other countries.

The tanks are mainly from France, originally Renault FT light tanks, but because they are too old, they are only used to maintain domestic security.

When participating in the war, its 1st Armored Division was equipped with R2 tanks (35T imported from the Czech Republic) in the 1st Tank Regiment and Renault R35 (imported from France) in the 2nd Tank Regiment.

This was no problem at first. There were more than 100 tanks in the two tanks, including 126 R2 tanks and 75 R35 tanks (34 of which were captured and handed over to Romania when the German army occupied Poland).

That is a total of 200 tanks. Even if their performance is poor, it is still very likely to succeed in raiding the 131st Motorized Division from the flank. After all, the 131st Motorized Division has only more than 100 tanks, and most of them are of poor performance. How about T26.

The problem was that the Romanian armor was too slow for them to be used in raids.

This is completely influenced by France... Of course, importing tanks from France has to accept French tactical thinking, so tanks, like the Soviet Union, are scattered among the troops and used by infantry.

What's more deadly is that at this time, Britain, France and other countries still believe that since tanks cooperate with infantry to fight, their speed is a waste, and higher speeds will only make infantry unable to keep up.

As a result, the top speed of the R35 tank on the road is only 20 kilometers per hour, and the top speed off-road is only 14 kilometers per hour.

The speed is 14 kilometers per hour, and it is still the highest... This is the level of a bicycle, not to mention that it is still in the mud on a rainy day.

This is also the reason why Shulka and others had time to escape when they met head-on.

"Ready to fight!" Shulka heard Captain Venyakov's loud order, and the soldiers raised their rifles relying on the small ditch beside the road, and the anti-tank guns stuffed shells into the barrels to prepare for firing.

The tank followers also conveyed the order to the tanks, and one after another, the tanks turned their black muzzles to the rain curtain on the side of the road.