Qin Chuan did not guess wrong, the Soviet army did not take this anti-tank trench seriously from beginning to end.

Engineers and transporters did report the anti-tank trench.

But this piece of information was only reported to the rank of captain...... The officer thought to himself, this is an anti-tank trench made up by transporters and sappers, can it be called an anti-tank trench? Perhaps it was just a small ditch, and the Germans crossed the anti-tank trench without difficulty.

So simply think that this has no reporting value at all and throw it aside.

Unexpectedly, this anti-tank trench was quite standard, because there were also sappers among them, and they knew what to dig the anti-tank to be able to trap the enemy tank...... At this time, the Soviet anti-tank trench was aimed at the cross-trench capability of the German tank, which was generally 3.5 meters wide and 4 meters deep.

Even more lethal was the fact that the anti-tank trench was built on the other side of the heights.

This was not a problem in the first place, as almost all anti-tank trenches were constructed in this way, and the advantage of this was that your troops could be deployed on high ground to suppress the enemy with firepower.

But in turn, this anti-tank trench was on the anti-cline in the direction of the Soviet troops, and the Soviets could not see this anti-tank trench.

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

Then a new round of the Soviet offensive began.

The Soviet offensive was basically the same as the last time, with the change being that the tanks were more dense...... Rotmistrov lost patience, or it could be said that he judged that the German army had little combat strength left, so he planned to uproot the German army in one go.

The German army has changed a lot, and this time, from the very beginning, the German tanks have been firing and retreating.

Seeing this scene, Rotmistrov happily ordered the staff officer: "The Germans are timid, they want to retreat as far as possible from us, don't let them succeed, speed up, and pay attention to their counteroffensive!" ”

"Yes!" The staff officer answered and passed on the order.

Hundreds of tanks roared towards the German lines, like a rising tide, rushing forward in waves...... The first wave was paralyzed by artillery fire, and the second wave followed and rushed forward.

Among them, the German anti-tank guns have an advantage, because the condescending fire of the anti-tank guns deployed on the high ground will make the inclined armor of the Soviet tank turret lose the inclination advantage, which will not only reduce ricochets but also increase the penetration depth of armor-piercing shells.

The disadvantage is that the anti-tank guns on the high ground are difficult to transfer, and after firing a few shells, they are quickly locked by the Soviet troops, and they are either returned by tanks with artillery fire or knocked out by Soviet artillery fire.

In this respect, 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 frantically, the German tanks were highly nervous and fought back while retreating, and some tank crews shouted on walkie-talkies: "We can't stand it, they will never finish fighting, there are ...... everywhere"

Then there was no sound, and Colonel Albridge knew that he might never see the brave tank commander who was still fending off the enemy attack at the last moment.

Colonel Albridge was inevitably a little sorry, because the tanks did not even know the German plan, and they were ordered to fight and retreat until they retreated to the anti-tank trenches.

As for what to do after retreating to the anti-tank trenches...... Everyone knew in their hearts that there was no way back for them.

Strictly speaking, they had a way out, because there were several sections of the anti-tank trenches that were inclined by German sappers, and it was from here that the German tanks crossed the anti-tank trenches to get out of position.

But......

The German tanks, which were tightly bitten by the Soviet tanks, did not have time to pass through these slopes at all, and only a few that were located directly in front of the slopes could pass.

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

There will inevitably be casualties on the battlefield, the difference is only who bears those casualties.

Albridge didn't dare to think about it anymore, for many of them were his old men...... He deployed the 2nd Panzer Battalion to the north of the anti-tank trench to lure the enemy, and the rest of his troops to the south.

The whole force looks like a unit, but in fact there is an anti-tank trench in the middle that tanks cannot cross.

In other words, it was the 2nd Panzer Battalion that was "sacrificed" under his command.

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

Both the enemy and the enemy were red-eyed, and the Soviet army saw the hope of victory, so they stepped on the accelerator to the end without reservation, and the track "gurgle" was raised high from the ridge line of the high ground, and the towering barrel seemed to point to the sky, and then fell heavily along the inclined plane, and the body rushed down the inclined plane at a higher speed due to the heavy ups and downs of the sinking a few times.

However, at this moment, it suddenly went dark in front of me...... The Soviet driver lost control of the tank before he could figure out what was going on, and then there was a "bang", the tank hit the bottom and got stuck in it and couldn't move, the cabin was full of screams, the tank crew hit their heads and bled out, and the driver was even knocked unconscious.

"What's going on?" The commander clutched his injured head and shouted.

"I don't know, second lieutenant!" The loader replied.

The tank has a very poor perception of the outside world, and it is not uncommon for this situation to arise without knowing what is happening.

The commander, Second Lieutenant Jakov, initially judged that he had fallen into a crater or a trap dug by the Germans, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to open the hatch to see what was happening.

However, when he opened the hatch and poked his head out, he realized that the situation was much worse than he had imagined...... They didn't fall into craters or traps.

Second Lieutenant Jakov found them falling into an anti-tank trench, because the same thing was happening one after the other on both sides...... One by one, Soviet tanks "rumbled" up, and then fell into the bottom of the four-meter-deep trench with a "boom" without warning.

Ensign Jakov stood up from the turret in horror and waved his hand and shouted, hoping that this would serve as a warning to the tank behind him.

But he ignored one point: the people inside the tank could not hear his shouts at all, let alone see a waving man in the four-meter-deep anti-tank trench.

So, before Ensign Yakov could shout, the tracks of another tank suddenly appeared above him, and with the roar of the engine, the tank suddenly lost its balance and fell from the air with dirt and branches rolled up at the edges......