In the distance, there were German troops who had come to change their defenses. They found the prisoners of war in the camp, running over the lodging barbed wire fence in a chaotic manner. The first tank in front opened fire without hesitation, so that the infantry on the truck behind could quickly take up a combat position.

As soon as the tanker at the barbed wire got up, he heard another scream in the air, but this time the shell passed over his head and landed in the crowd of fleeing geese. With a loud explosion, more than a dozen fighters close to the explosion site flew into the air with their hands in dance and fell down again.

The tanker hurriedly climbed onto the tank and got into the turret, and as he was about to close the top hatch, he saw several German tanks in the distance, standing motionless, firing at the running prisoners of war with tank guns and machine guns, while the infantry jumping from the trucks gradually gathered behind the tanks.

The German artillery bombardment and strafing made the prisoners of war running in the open field even more confused. A soldier jumped out of the sidecar of his motorcycle, and as soon as he shouted "Don't mess around", he was knocked down by prisoners of war running around, and then countless feet stepped over him. The soldiers next to him just wanted to save him, but they couldn't squeeze through the crowd, so they could only watch their comrades being trampled to death.

Kochetov stood on the body of a tank and saw the prisoners of war running around, and his heart was full of helplessness. If the prisoners of war were not so panicked and retreated in the direction guided by the soldiers, they could not only get out of danger as soon as possible, but also form a fighting force in the shortest possible time, even if the German army rushed up, they would have the strength to fight. Now they are like flies without heads, all that remains is instinctive running, and wherever there are many people, they run wherever they want.

Several more commanders climbed onto the tank, braving enemy fire and flying bullets, picking up their submachine guns and shooting into the sky, all the while shouting loudly trying to calm the chaotic crowd. But what they did didn't have much effect. Thousands of captives flooded over the commanders' tanks and motorcycles and continued to run into the distance.

After deliberation between the commander of the motorized battalion and the commander of the tank battalion, it was decided that the troops would be divided into two routes: the motorized battalion followed the prisoners of war and slowly gathered the troops on the road; The tank battalion, on the other hand, rushed up to meet the German troops.

When the tank battalion launched the charge, the situation seemed to be in favor of the mechanized army, after all, there were twenty-eight tanks in the battalion, while the Germans had only a pitiful four, and the infantry behind the tanks, too, did not have any anti-tank weapons.

But at the beginning of the battle, everything that happened was a big surprise. A volley of German fire hit the two tanks that the Soviets rushed to the front. The remaining tanks hurriedly stopped and fired a salvo at the German tanks in the distance. When the smoke cleared, it was found that the four German tanks were still parked there intact, and only some infantry were killed by more than two dozen shells. The German tanks saw the Soviet tanks coming towards them at high speed, and did not stop where they were, but bravely met them.

The tank battalion commander knew in his heart that the main reason for such a poor shooting effect was that the fighters were not yet fully familiar with the performance of the captured tanks, which led to a significant reduction in combat effectiveness. So, he gave orders to his men: "You go outside and send a signal for the other tanks to speed up the attack and engage the German tanks in close combat." We have more of them, even if it's two for one or three for one, we're a good deal! ”

Another tanker agreed, opened the top hatch, leaned out half of his body, and held the signal flag in both hands, conveying the tank battalion commander's orders to the other tanks.

The German tankmen were obviously much more skilled than the Soviets, and in the middle of a rapid charge, they stopped briefly to fire another round of fire, again turning two Soviet tanks into flaming flares, and the turret of one of them was lifted directly into the sky by the detonated ammunition.

Seeing this, the tank battalion commander couldn't help but hate itchy, and he decisively ordered the driver to stop, personally operate the tank gun, and fired a shot at a rapidly approaching German tank. The gun hit the tank impartially, blowing off the opponent's right track. The German tank, which had broken its tracks, spun rapidly in place, and finally stopped more than 50 meters away. Without waiting for the German turret to turn, the tank battalion commander quickly refilled the cannon and completely destroyed the tank.

At this time, the tanks of both sides were separated by no more than a hundred meters. Without any further orders from the battalion commander, the Soviet tankers skillfully used the method of four or five against one and pounced on their respective targets. When you are still twenty or thirty meters away from the target, you should decisively stop, aim, and shoot. Although the technical and tactical level of the Soviet tank corps was still a long way behind that of the German army, the numerical superiority was enough to offset this perception.

After a round of intensive fire, the remaining three German tanks were beaten so badly that one by one the turrets flew into the sky in the explosion, and the base of the body was turned into a flaming flare. The tankmen, who were not killed on the spot, escaped from the tank and did not run far before they were beaten into a sieve by the dense machine-gun bullets on the Soviet tank.

The German infantry, without the cover of tanks, did not collapse immediately in the face of the rushing Soviet tanks, and they used their machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles to shoot tenaciously at the tanks.

The bullet hit the tank's armor, splashing strings of sparks. The tank battalion stopped not far from the Germans and fired unhurriedly with tank guns and machine guns, just as the Germans had just dealt with escaped prisoners of war.

After only a few minutes, a company of Germans pointed out that there were more than a dozen people left. Seeing that there was no point in resisting, a surviving German corporal ordered the remaining soldiers to lay down their arms and surrender to the Soviets.

Although during the battle, the Soviets lost four tanks. But the tank battalion commander was quite happy, after all, the battle damage ratio was one to one, and the result was much better than he imagined that the results were two to one and three to one. Not to mention, more than a dozen trucks were seized, which could be used to transport the immobile wounded in the prisoner of war camps.

Seeing the death of the Germans and the surrender of the surrender, the motorized battalion commander who had escaped the prisoners of war had basically been collected, and some fighters were sent back to drive the captured trucks into the prisoner of war camp. The wounded who were lying on the ground and could not move were lifted onto the truck one by one. Then, under the cover of the tank battalion, it drove mightily in the direction of Lublin.