The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Qinchuan's guess was not wrong. The Soviet army never took this anti-tank trench seriously from beginning to end.

The engineers and transport troops indeed reported this anti-tank trench.

But the information reported only reached the rank of captain... The officer thought to himself, this is an anti-tank trench created randomly by transport troops and engineers. Can it be called an anti-tank trench? Perhaps it was just a small ditch, and the Germans had no difficulty crossing this anti-tank trench.

So I simply thought it had no reporting value and threw it aside.

Unexpectedly, this anti-tank trench is quite standard. The reason is that there are engineers in it. They know how to dig the anti-tank trench in order to trap enemy tanks... At this time, the Soviet anti-tank trench is In view of the trench crossing ability of German tanks, it is generally 3.5 meters wide and 4 meters deep.

What's even more fatal is that this anti-tank trench was built on the other side of the high ground.

This was originally not a problem, because almost all anti-tank trenches are constructed in this way. The advantage of this is that our own troops can be deployed on high ground to suppress the enemy with firepower.

But conversely, this anti-tank trench was on the opposite slope in the direction of the Soviet army, and the Soviet army could not see this anti-tank trench.

From the German point of view, of course they could not rely on this alone, so they covered the anti-tank trenches with some camouflage with branches and other objects to make the anti-tank trenches more secretive.

Then a new round of Soviet offensive began again.

The Soviet attack was basically the same as the last time. The only change was that the tanks were more densely packed... Rotmistrov lost his patience, or it could be said that he judged that the German army's combat effectiveness was running low, so It was planned to uproot the German army in one fell swoop.

The German army has undergone major changes. This time, from the beginning, the German tanks were firing while retreating.

Seeing this scene, Rotmistrov happily ordered to his staff: "The Germans are timid. They hope to retreat as far as possible from us. Don't let them succeed. Speed ​​up and pay attention to their attacks." Counterattack!"

"Yes!" the staff officer responded and passed on the order.

Hundreds of tanks roared towards the German defense line, like a rising tide, rushing forward in waves... The front wave was hit by artillery fire and paralyzed in place, and the rear wave rushed forward after them.

Among them, the German anti-tank guns have an advantage. The reason is that the anti-tank guns deployed on high ground shoot from a high position, which will cause the tilted armor of the Soviet tank turret to lose its inclination advantage. This will not only reduce the ricochet but also increase the risk of armor-piercing projectiles. Penetrate deeply.

The disadvantage is that it is difficult to move the anti-tank guns on the high ground. After firing a few rounds, they were quickly locked by the Soviet army. They were either fired back by tanks or knocked out by Soviet artillery fire.

From this aspect, the best infantry anti-tank equipment is actually an anti-tank weapon like the ME63 that is easy to carry and transfer.

The Soviet tanks rushed forward crazily, and the German tanks retreated nervously while fighting back. Some tank soldiers shouted on the walkie-talkie: "We can't hold it anymore, they will never finish fighting, they are everywhere..."

Then there was silence, and Colonel Olbridge knew that he might never see again the brave tank commander who had fended off the enemy attack at the last moment.

Colonel Olbridge could not help but feel a little guilty, because these tanks did not even know the German plan. They were ordered to fight and retreat until they retreated to the anti-tank ditch.

As for what to do after retreating to the anti-tank trench... everyone knew very well that they had no way out.

Strictly speaking, they still had a way to retreat, because several sections of the anti-tank trench were slopes laid by German engineers, and it was from here that the German tanks crossed the anti-tank trench and took out their positions.

but……

The German tanks that were tightly clamped by the Soviet tanks had no time to pass through these slopes. Only a few tanks directly in front of the slope could pass.

In fact, Olbridge and other officers had already thought of this situation, but they had to acquiesce.

There are bound to be casualties on the battlefield, the only difference is who bears these casualties.

Olbridge did not dare to think about it anymore, because many of them were his old subordinates... He deployed the 2nd Armored Battalion to the north of the anti-tank trench to lure the enemy, while other troops were deployed to the south.

The entire army looks like a whole, but in fact there is an anti-tank trench in the middle that cannot be crossed by tanks.

In other words, the 2nd Armored Battalion was "sacrificed" under his order.

The Soviet tanks did not realize this at all. They continued to rush forward like crazy, firing randomly as they advanced, and the machine guns were also firing "click-click".

Both the enemy and ourselves were red-eyed, and the Soviet army saw the hope of victory, so they pressed the accelerator to the bottom without reservation. The tracks "clucked" and lifted high from the ridge of the high ground. The towering gun barrel seemed to be about to Pointing to the sky, it then suddenly fell heavily along the slope. The car body undulated a few times due to the heavy descent, and then rushed down the slope at a higher speed.

However, at this moment, everything suddenly went dark... The Soviet driver lost control of the tank before he could figure out what was going on. Then there was a "bang" sound. The tank hit the bottom and got stuck in it, unable to move. Inside the cabin There was a scream, the tank crew members all had their heads bruised and bloody, and the driver was even knocked unconscious.

"What's going on?" the driver yelled, covering his injured head.

"I don't know, Lieutenant!" replied the loader.

Tanks have very poor perception of the outside world, and it is not uncommon for them to not know what is going on.

The commander, Lieutenant Yakov, initially judged that he had fallen into a bomb crater or a trap dug by the Germans. After thinking for a while, he decided to open the hatch to see what happened.

However, when he opened the hatch and stuck his head out, he discovered that the situation was much worse than he imagined... What they fell into was not a crater or a trap.

Second Lieutenant Yakov found that they fell into an anti-tank trench, because the same thing happened one after another on both sides... Soviet tanks drove up "rumble" one after another, and then fell with a "bang" without warning. Go into the trench four meters deep.

Second Lieutenant Yakov stood up from the turret in horror, waved and shouted, hoping that this would warn the tanks behind him.

But he overlooked one thing: the people in the tank could not hear his shouts at all, let alone a waving person in the four-meter-deep anti-tank trench.

So, before Lieutenant Yakov could shout a few times, the tracks of another tank suddenly appeared above his head. Amidst the roar of the engine, the tank suddenly lost its balance and fell heavily from the air with the dirt and branches rolled up on its edges. fall……