Chapter 284 Panfilov

Before reaching the front line, the sky passed German planes with roars.

The soldiers habitually lay down to hide, and even the tanks stopped moving... Moving tanks are easier to be spotted by the enemy than stationary ones.

Fortunately, these Germans had the opportunity to miss the advancing 4th Tank Brigade, and their goal was the artillery position one kilometer away.

Shulka believed that German pilots would be happy to change targets if they found dozens of T34 tanks marching right under their noses.

But obviously, the artillery position attracted their attention, so the "Stuka" bombers swooped down from the sky one after another.

The military quality of the German pilots is very good. They drove the "Stuka" to dive almost vertically, and then quickly pulled up after throwing the bomb... This action itself is very dangerous, and it will fall if you are not careful. The plane crashed on the ground and died.

But these German pilots still completed these actions perfectly, which made the bomb almost have eyes and hit the howitzers of the Soviet artillery and the cars equipped with bombs.

The artillery shells exploded quickly, and the artillery positions were instantly surrounded by clouds of fire and black smoke. The vibrations from the artillery positions even knocked down half of the snow walls piled up on both sides of the road.

Then several German fighter jets swooped down and fired frantically at the surviving Soviet artillery.

After a while, the howling in the air gradually faded away. Everyone in Shulka got up from the ground and looked at the artillery position. The artillery position that was still firing shells in the direction of the German army before was only a pile of crumbling scrap iron. There were corpses scattered all over the place, and the red blood was very obvious in the white snow.

"Go on!" Major Gavrilov ordered.

The 4th Tank Brigade continued to advance along the road. The soldiers seldom spoke, and the atmosphere was very depressed for a while.

If they hadn't realized the "particularity" of this battle before, then they would understand after witnessing an artillery position disappear in an instant... All combat units under air dominance are actually very fragile. What was discovered was not the artillery position but the fourth tank brigade, so the fourth tank brigade could not escape the fate of being destroyed in an instant.

For the German "Stuka", there is not much difference between tanks and artillery, the target is about the same size, and they are unable to fight against it and can only wait on the ground to be bombed.

If there is any difference, it is that the tank has a little mobility, but the speed of the tank at tens of kilometers per hour is not worth mentioning when the enemy's mobile speed is hundreds of kilometers per hour.

"Shuerka!" The actor couldn't help asking: "This time, we won't be able to go back, right?"

Shulka knew that the actor was nervous, otherwise he should have been called "comrade company commander" instead of "Shulka".

But this seems to be normal, the 4th Tank Brigade has not shown up in daylight for quite a while.

To be precise, after the temperature dropped and the rain turned to snow... This was the first time that the 4th Tank Brigade fought in daylight.

"Relax, Okunev!" Shulka replied: "We will defeat the enemy and return alive!"

Although Shulka said so in his mouth, he didn't think so in his heart.

For this battle, Shulka has no idea at all... Volokolamsk, this place that should have been lost long ago, is still in the hands of the Soviet army because of the appearance of Shulka.

Now, fate made Shulka and others come back again, and he had no way of knowing the result of this battle.

But that doesn't seem to make much sense.

Because no matter whether this battle is won or lost, both Shulka and his subordinates may die, but there are some differences in the rate.

Going forward, there will be a round of shells exploding around you, and occasionally a few shells will hit a big hole in the middle of the road, but this can't stop the tank troops from advancing. go around.

It took more than an hour to reach Volokolamsk. At this time, it is already different from the Volokolamsk that Shulka knew before. Although it has only been a few days, Shulka hardly knows it. ...There are bullet craters everywhere, stacked one after another in front of the position. Corpses, tank wreckage, armored vehicles, assault guns, etc., all fell sideways in front of the position, making this place like a large tank cemetery.

As soon as the fourth tank brigade came up, it immediately added to the defense line: the infantry fought in the front, and the tanks were hidden in the rear, ready to attack at any time.

"Shulka!" cried Major Gavrilov as he passed by.

Shulka understood and ran along the traffic trench behind Major Gavrilov with a gun in hand.

After a while, they came to a temporary command post, where Major General Panfilov and Major Zakhakovic were already waiting.

"We don't know the exact number of the enemy!" Major General Panfilov didn't talk nonsense. He pointed to the map and said, "It is preliminarily estimated that the enemy has an armored division, a motorized division, and an infantry division!"

This strength made everyone present gasp. With so many troops concentrated on attacking Volokolamsk, where only one infantry division was stationed, it is no wonder that the fourth tank brigade came up urgently for reinforcements.

"They launched a violent attack on our defenses this morning!" said Major General Panfilov. The groves and bushes, which we cannot see, moved forward, massed in front of our defenses and then launched a sudden attack to break through. They attacked under the cover of powerful artillery and mortar fire, while dive bombers assaulted from the air. ..."

At this time, Major Zhakavic asked with some doubts: "How did you stop them?"

"We just blocked them!" Major General Panfilov replied: "With grenades, anti-tank guns, Molotov cocktails..."

Shulka and the others couldn't help but glanced at each other.

They knew that Major General Panfilov might sound easy on the face of it, but it wasn't like that in the real fight.

"We lack anti-tank equipment!" Major General Panfilov continued: "We only have fifteen anti-tank guns left, and they are still decreasing. Fortunately, you came to reinforce..."

Major Zahakavic shook his head with embarrassment: "I don't think you can have too much hope for us, Comrade General! Although we have tanks, they are very capable of playing a role when the enemy has air supremacy, especially It's daytime!"