A leopard tank parked on the side of the road was burning, and its turret base had already broken away from the body of the vehicle. The entire turret was tilted like a broken head, twisting to the body of the vehicle. The slender gun barrel pointed weakly at the ground, as if it was silent for the deceased.

On the other side of the tank, a tiger tank was parked there, and the soldiers on it were eating what they were in their hands. Obviously, the charred corpses on the side of the tank did not affect their appetite.

While eating the cooked stuff, Renn looked at the map in his hand. Not far from his tank, a tiger-type tank in charge of alert was on the far side of the carriage. The captain was holding his telescope and looking into the distance. The map showed that they had penetrated into the interior of the Soviet defense line and stabbed into the depths of the skin like a steel knife.

Grenadiers have followed, and they are used to laying the German 10,000-word flag on the roofs of the occupied areas. This is one of the means to prevent the Air Force from accidentally bombing. Although the weather is bad now and there is no airplane support, these German soldiers still mechanically abide by some of the codes of conduct they need to abide by.

"The commander moved his mouth, and the soldiers ran and broke their legs." Bruce ate warm food in big mouthfuls, complaining loudly about this crazy offensive mission with oily mouth. The company they were in had been walking on the road ahead for a day, defeating dozens of Soviet Red Army troops in the village on the defensive road, fighting several large-scale battles, and destroying more than 30 Soviet tanks.

However, not many people had a look of joy on their faces, because the tanks they destroyed were basically pitiful T-26 tanks. These old equipment was outdated at the beginning of the Soviet-German War. Now these tanks are just targets and have almost no threat to German tanks.

Destroying these targets that cannot fight back lacks a sense of accomplishment. These German tank soldiers are very worried about the safety of friendly forces. The Soviet Red Army tanks they remember are much stronger than these garbage. Since those powerful tanks did not appear here, they will definitely appear somewhere else. This time, the heavy tanks concentrated by the Soviets were obviously very large. So huge that the Soviet Red Army tank troops near Kharkov had been drawn. This information is really uneasy.

Moreover, on the other hand, the German army lost too much on the way of attack. It was said that more than 3,000 people were killed, more than 5,000 were injured, and a total of 70 tanks were lost, so they reached their current position. This was related to the speed of propulsion. In order to achieve the effect of advancing, Guderian did not care too much about the casualties of the troops.

So Ren's armored company was pushed to the front of the entire attacking force. This morning, a recruit tank leading the front pressed an anti-tank mine. The huge shock wave broke the tank's tracks and injured two soldiers inside. Ren's attack speed was forced to slow down and wait for the engineers to come up to deal with the minefield issue.

Later, it turned out that there was no large-scale minefield from the Soviet Union nearby, and Rennes and the others were able to continue moving forward, but they were then resisted by the Soviet Red Army. When they occupied the town, a friendly Leopard tank was destroyed on the side of the road, showing how fierce the battle was at that time.

"The people from the Reconnaissance Company came back and said that there was a defensive position set up by the Soviets in front of them. I heard that there were anti-tank guns. They were not experienced enough and opened fire at the Reconnaissance Company, and the location of a gun was exposed." Renn did not raise his head, and while eating his warm can, he spoke to Andre, who had already eaten.

Andre nodded, then looked into the distance: "To be honest, I have a premonition that these Soviet soldiers are not stopping us from going to Kharkov. I think they are luring us there."

"You are right. This is not a carefully arranged defense system, and the soldiers we captured or defeated are not well-trained soldiers." Renne nodded, wiped the spoon clean, put it in his own personal supplies storage box, and then threw the empty can box into a woven bag for recycling. The Germans lack metal, so they will try their best to recycle some of the things they can recycle. Canned boxes are an important recycling item.

These recycling woven bags will be thrown at the assembly point, then taken away by the recycling department, and sent to other departments to return to the furnace before applying. Rennes wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and said to Andre: "Since I turned to the north, I asked about the smell of a trap. This is not a battle. I can feel that the defense line organized by the Soviets here can only be said to be bait, and it is a non-qualified bait."

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"There is only one flaw in this plan!" Zhukov narrowed his eyes and said, "We cannot train all soldiers to be good at fighting, so most of the soldiers deployed on the southern front are recruits, and the combat effectiveness of these troops is really undesirable."

"If the recruits fight, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and they will easily collapse or surrender on a large scale. Is there anything wrong with this?" The staff officer asked in confusion: "Will the Germans still think about it if they capture too many prisoners?"

"Don't underestimate those German professional soldiers. Their noses are very flexible. Sometimes the intuition of soldiers will make them feel dangerous. This is the quality that a senior commander should possess." Zhukov said with a smile: "The attack is too easy. We do not have extra troops to build defense lines on the periphery of Kharkov to show it for the Germans, so they will approach Kharkov at a very fast speed!"

He gently stroked the map with his fingers, and finally decided on the Kharkov, which had become the entrance to hell, and continued: "It's too fast! It's too fast, so it's easy to be suspicious! I'm afraid they will hesitate and not be fooled! If they don't attack Kharkov, then we will not be able to use the quagmire of war to trap the German armored forces, and the trouble will still exist at that time."

"Fortunately, they went north!" The staff member breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the map proudly, as if he was quite satisfied with the German being deceived. His eyes fell on Sheberingka and said proudly.

Just as he said this, Guderian issued an offensive order to continue to advance north. The 200,000 elite troops of the G Army were attacking north violently, and the straight-line distance from Sheberinka was only a few dozen kilometers.

Renn sat on the shaking tank and said helplessly to Andre beside him: "There is no way. Even if we feel that the enemy is not right, the commander of the army like Guderian would not think so. In a few days, we captured a total of 100,000 Soviet Red Army and broke through the eight enemy lines of defense. These contributions are enough to cover up some clues."

"Then we just bumped into the trap?" Andrey looked at Renn and asked.

"If the prey is strong enough, even a trap can be torn apart!" Renn narrowed his eyes and pressed the throat telephone and said: "All tanks in the 1st Company! Be careful! Get ready for battle! Enter the dangerous area ahead! The enemy has at least one anti-tank gun, be careful not to be killed!"

Andre got into his combat position on the side, then pressed the hatch cover above his head, and Bruce stuffed a high-explosive bomb into the barrel. For so many days, the German army rarely encountered Soviet tank troops, so they generally chose high-explosive bombs for combat. Further away, Marcus also pressed his hatch cover, and the thick gun barrel of the Tiger tank pointed forward, towards the Soviet Red Army position over there, and rushed towards the Soviet Red Army position.

"Machine gun cover! Let the grenadiers launch an attack formation! Marcus! The right wing belongs to you! The tanks in the second platoon attack on the left wing! Exclude anti-tank firepower! Be cautious!" Ren shouted loudly, and the opponent's bullets had already flown towards him, flying over his hat with a whistling sound.

"Boom!" Because the hidden location of an anti-tank gun had been detected in advance, Andre fired a shell into the dangerous area without any hesitation. Sure enough, a cannon was hidden there, and the artillery shield and several artillery soldiers around were blown away by grenades, which turned into a mess.

More than a dozen Soviet soldiers escaped from the foxglove and turned around to escape from the back. However, they were knocked down to the ground by machine gun bullets from all directions after running a few steps. The heading machine guns of German tanks opened fire violently, and some Soviet soldiers were pierced by bullets as soon as they showed up.

The grenadiers behind the tank have already spread out their offensive formations. These soldiers followed the tank carefully and then helped the tank clear out some missing Soviet anti-tank soldiers. These soldiers who used explosive packs to attack the tank basically rarely carry weapons, so infantry is very easy to deal with.

"Tutu! Tututu!" A German grenade took an assault rifle and fired his own bullet at a fish that escaped the net. The bullet made several holes in the opponent's body, and blood immediately surged out. The Soviet Red Army was still holding a fuse with an explosive pack in his hand, and it seemed that it was about to sound.

Before the German tanks and grenadiers captured the place, more Soviet soldiers rushed out of the woods in the distance, and they continued to take back the position they had just lost.

Of course, the German army would not give in. The two sides fought again, but the German army's own artillery fired a row of shells in the distance. When these shells exploded one hole after another in the Soviet crowd, the Soviets retreated. They left behind about 1,000 bodies, but did not achieve any results.
Chapter completed!