Chapter 181: card

Chapter 181 Cards

Even so, Major Gavrilov still meticulously built fortifications with the second-line troops.

The 333rd regiment was ordered to build a defense line along the railway.

The railway can be said to be the weakness of the Soviet army.

On the one hand, this is because a large amount of strategic materials and soldiers of the Soviet army need to be transported to the front line by rail. This prevented the Soviet army from blowing up the railway or laying mines and roadblocks.

On the other hand, the railway has a relatively solid roadbed. It is not full of mud like the road, and cars and tanks get stuck and cannot move.

So it has become the main object of contention between the enemy and us.

The superior's order to the 333rd regiment was to build two lines of defense with an anti-tank firepower density of 20 units per kilometer on the front of the railway.

The anti-tank firepower mentioned here refers not only to anti-tank guns, but also more than two dozen KV1 and T28 tanks that cannot be used in front-line operations due to their high failure rate.

This tank unit is also mixed, with various units, including the Fifth Tank Division, the 21st Mechanized Army, and so on.

Before the arrival of the 333rd regiment, they hadn't even been organized together. Instead, they fought independently... The organization of the Soviet army has always been chaotic, and to some extent, quite a few of them Belonging to the optimist, that is to say, the enemy usually won't get nervous until they get close.

As Shulka saw, some tank soldiers were still gathering on the rear armor of the tank and playing cards under the poncho.

Another word to describe this is "nervous".

Major Gavrilov immediately organized them into one unit and used the designation of one of them: the 3rd Tank Battalion.

Twenty tanks are certainly not enough for a tank battalion, but it is better to use the battalion to command, because the first company is KV1 tanks, the second company is T28 tanks, and the third company is seven T26 tanks.

"How are these tanks?" Major Gavrilov asked Captain Akimchik, the commander of the tank battalion.

"Major!" Captain Akimchik laughed: "If they are in good condition, then we won't stay here!"

Major Gavrilov was a little helpless, which meant that most of these tanks could only be used as turrets.

"Don't worry too much, Major!" The captain comforted Major Gavrilov: "The enemy advances an average of 5 kilometers a day, which means they need at least five days to get here!"

What the captain said may be correct, because judging from the battle situation on the front line, it is indeed the case. The Soviet army has built one after another anti-tank trenches in the front, and deployed anti-tank guns and tanks, which have made the attacking German army stand firm. .

Among them, the Soviet army also invested in T34 tanks... Of course, it is the T34/76 of the 1940 model, which is quite good in terms of armor, firepower and maneuverability.

This even caused a "T34 crisis" in the German army, that is, all types of tanks owned by the German army were unable to penetrate the T34 head-on, which even caused a certain degree of panic in the German army.

It is said that when Hitler knew this, he couldn't help being furious. He yelled at Canaris, the director of his military intelligence bureau: "It is now more and more clear that we not only underestimated the huge economic power and transportation power of the Soviet Union, but most importantly we also underestimated the Soviet Union. We thought that the Russians had only 200 divisions, but now they have 360 ​​divisions whose numbers have been identified. We thought that the Russian tanks were vulnerable, but they have a high level that none of our tanks can match. Performance tank! All the…”

The problem is that there are not many T34s equipped by the Soviet army at this time, and there are also shortcomings such as radio communication and the turret space is too small to accommodate two people, so the gunner must also be the commander of the vehicle.

In fact, the most important thing is that the tactics of the Soviet army using tanks are wrong, so they are still losing ground on the battlefield.

However, it turns out that the offense and defense on the battlefield can never be estimated by the average attack speed like Captain Akimchik, especially for the German army who is good at penetrating and encircling.

This is the second night, Shulka and his subordinates are resting in the tent after a busy day... The tents on the front line are really unflattering, because there are rain and mud everywhere, and there are people who crawl in from nowhere Bugs and even poisonous snakes and the like.

Since the weather is getting cold, these snakes like to hide in warmer boots or even under the covers, and then when you tuck your feet into the boots in the morning, it will give you a hard bite... a recruit from Shulka appears this situation.

He screamed in horror when he was bitten, but soon he laughed: "I can go back! I can get out of this **** place!"

This is because he knows that kind of snake, which is venomous but not lethal.

"Keep your voice down!" Shulka reminded him: "Otherwise others will think you were bitten on purpose!"

"Yes, Comrade Company Commander!" The recruit immediately shut his mouth.

Before he left, the instructor gave him some ideological work: "Don't talk nonsense when you go back, understand?"

"Understood, Comrade Instructor!"

Shulka knew what the instructor was worried about. He was worried that the news that the 333rd regiment was on the second line instead of the first line would not be conducive to their propaganda.

But in fact, the instructor's worry was completely unnecessary, because soon Tula became the real front line, and it was a must-have for the German army.

"K hearts!"

"A pair of ace clubs!"

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This time Shulka also joined the card game, using the standard cards from Leonev's belt.

This guy is a bit annoying, he has to make everyone wash their hands, otherwise he will not take out the cards even if Shulka ordered.

But this seems to be right, otherwise the cards will be full of mud after a few hits and there will be no end.

The bet is Ma Heyan, and Shulka is not used to the Soviets' calling... They call the face of the card before the suit, for example, the Chinese are the K of spades, and they call the K of spades.

This made Shulka a little unaccustomed, so he was fined several times for playing wrong cards, and his Ma Heyan was about to lose.

The others were very excited, and even cheered whenever Shulka lost a round, as if they had won a battle... They were happy to see Shulka make a fool of himself. Erka has been robbed, the casino can't make a lot of money, right?

Thinking of this, Shulka wanted to get up and beat them up... They all forgot that they saved their lives by showing off on the battlefield.

This time, Shulka caught another bad card in his hand, and the onlookers booed and waited to see Shulka's joke, when the actor who was on guard outside ran in.

"Comrade company commander, there seems to be a situation!"

Shuerka secretly thought that this guy was enlightened this time, knowing to save him in this difficult time...but soon Shurka realized that this was not the case.

Because there were loud footsteps and shouts outside.

(end of this chapter)