Chapter 429: Transitional State
Just when Trod and they were focusing on attacking the Soviet army's minesweeping tanks, the follow-up troops of the Soviet army had already pressed up, but in order to prevent the mines from being detonated, Trod still had to destroy these hard bones first. However, this section of the journey cleared of mines can be said to be quite safe for the follow-up troops, and the speed of advance is naturally not much slower, but what about ......
"Boom!"
Just when these data thought they were safe, an explosion trap still plunged them into chaos, and this explosion trap turned out to be still in the place where these BT-7s drove through, and even some distance before the explosion of the previous one, this explosion point made the Soviets completely unexpected, of course, because this was one of Hans's plans, and it was also a rare way for him to deal with enemy changes for this explosion trap.
The last explosion only blew up a Soviet tank, which seemed to be the strategy used by the German army to break the net when they thought that the explosives were going to be destroyed anyway, but in fact it was not. Generally speaking, it is estimated that the first explosives are all the first ones, and the later ones can be hidden, and Hans used this very much. Although several of the first few explosive traps were destroyed, under Trood's orders, the infantry did not activate them in the end, and then when these Soviet tanks advanced to the middle part, they randomly detonated a group of explosives, which should cause as little damage to the enemy as possible, because this would create more illusions for the enemy. After that, the enemy will think that there should be no traps in this section, and Trod will also focus on attacking these minesweepers at this time, so that the follow-up troops can charge unscrupulously, and finally, give the enemy who has strayed into this trap a hard blow to complete the whole plan.
This ruined plan is actually not too strong in practice. The effect of the application is actually not very large, although it is not to be a fish to the death, but the sacrifice is still a bit large, if someone else thinks of this tactic is not worthy of praise, but this is Hans came up with this plan, this kind of scheme is far from the field he is good at. I have to say that this is a breakthrough thinking.
But to be honest, Hans didn't expect his plan to have such a good effect, after that detonation, there were several successive explosions, giving a hard blow to the Soviet army that was not ready for defense, and then this opportunity, Trood also carried out the final blow to the minesweeper tank that was interfered with by the explosion, and after a dignified shell blocked by Nattel, the last minesweeper tank was also scrapped. And because of the violent explosions. The assault of the follow-up troops also ended in failure. Although Trood they lost a lot of mines and explosive traps under the Soviet attack, but the Soviet army was not comfortable, not to mention the loss of all the minesweeping tanks, the follow-up troops were also heavily damaged by Hans, and they didn't want to continue the offensive for the time being, this round was a draw, but it was still Trood they took advantage of a little.
And while Trode and the others successfully resisted the Soviet attack again, Vincent's side was not very happy. They were able to move the front with ease, but now they have to retreat and completely switch to a defensive posture because the Soviets have stepped up their offensive. But even so. Their improvised armoured units were not scattered into various positions, but were concentrated in one key position to fend off a possible massive tank assault by the Soviets.
Due to the lack of the necessary heavy weapons, the Germans were forced to use tanks to fill some key positions with their hulls in order to prevent Soviet tanks from tearing gaps out of their lines. Vincent's group was now holding out on a large flat ground, with only two lines of infantry trenches in front of them. And they, on the other hand, don't have any cover, so they can only engage in a head-on fight with the enemy. Although the IV tank in the previous operation was able to use the advantage of speed to carry out assaults, now it is holding a position. But it is not as useful as the IV. Annihilation, not only in terms of the disadvantage of the main gun, but also in terms of armor can not be compared with the IV.
Although Vincent is the leader of the group, there is actually no order that needs to be given, now all the tanks are relatively concentrated, it can be said that there is no room for any group to move freely, the only thing the team leader can do is to indicate a target for the team to gather fire, but Vincent is really not strong in this aspect. Agile tactics are what he is good at, and there is no room for a very rigid defense like this one to use the tactics he usually uses.
Moreover, looking at the offensive of the Soviet army, the tank units are mainly based on the two series of T-26 and BT-7, which are even mixed with some tank destroyers and self-propelled anti-tank guns with weaker armor. If it is said that Vincent can pose a threat, it is the BT-7A equipped with 76.2mm howitzers, but as a howitzer, its accuracy is still quite worrying, even in a dense formation like these German troops, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. However, every time a shell hits the IV tank, it can almost injure a tank, negatively affecting its members, destroying equipment such as artillery or seriously injuring its insiders.
Vincent's group standing on the flat ground of course did not suffer less shells, just when they just stood in this position, there was an IV. was blown up by the Soviet howitzer and broke the track, although it will not directly affect the combat effectiveness, but it is a fool's dream to want to repair the track at this time, no matter what, this car crew will also survive this battle, if it really can't work, it can only choose to abandon the car This next step.
However, the problems are not all in the defensive aspect, in order to adapt to this battle, Vincent They carry ammunition is actually mainly HE, AP only brought more than 30 rounds, because part of it has been consumed in the initial position before, and now when facing the Soviet tank cluster, these versions of the small ammunition are even more stretched, which makes Vincent have to cherish every AP like when he uses the bullets of a sniper rifle.
However, what is not related to Vincent's gradually decreasing AP is that the number of tanks of the Soviet army has not decreased too much, but still maintains a terrifying number, continuing to strike at them and trying to break through. (To be continued.) )