Otto? Carly Woods took part in the second phase of the offensive operation against Ukraine with his car No. 231, along with the Armored Teaching Brigade.

The meaning of the tactical number of his hull is the third platoon of the No. 1 car of the 2nd Panzer Company.

In fact, the entire Tiger Heavy Armament Teaching Brigade was only one company, but in order to confuse the Russian army, it deliberately played some tricks on the tactical number. Such a method of confusion has been used by the Germans, but it is not clear how effective it will be.

The task assigned to the armored instruction brigade was a frontal assault on the town of Novovorinsky, where, according to pre-war reconnaissance, there may be armored units of the Russian army.

However, before attacking the somewhat awkward Russian towns, the armored instruction brigade had to follow the infantry through the Russian defense zone for 70 kilometers.

Joining the Armored Instruction Brigade was the Armageddon Division, an armoured hunter with more than 30,000 combat troops, all mechanized.

Due to the rapid expansion of the production capacity of domestic armored vehicles could not meet the requirements for the time being, the mechanization of the German army showed a downward trend compared with the same period last year, and the lack of infantry combat increased the proportion of light infantry divisions equipped only with vehicles, and some infantry divisions intended for rear defensive operations even began to use mules and horses as the main means of transportation.

In the second phase of the Xingyi operation, it is planned to use this kind of combat unit that is more inclined to traditional infantry to fill the battlefield vacancy left by the impact of mechanized troops.

Of course all these are with Otto? Callie Woods had nothing to do with it, he was just listening to the other officers at the officers' gathering talk about it.

Everywhere Otto could see now, there were all advancing infantry and trucks, and there were almost no troops advancing on foot, except for the occasional sight of a few scattered Russian infantry in charge of directing traffic and guarding against scattered Russian troops.

The loader, the cook, and the gunner, Kosher, were also outside the vehicle: the cook stood on the back cover of the engine, while Kosher leaned out of the hatch next to Otto and ate spicy strips against the open hatch.

"I say!" The infantry lieutenant, sitting in front of the chariot, suddenly asked, "Do you like to eat dust outside?" I mean, if it were me, I'd definitely get out of the car. ”

"I bet you wouldn't say that if you were in the car for a few hours, Mr. Lieutenant." The cook said as he stuffed the compressed biscuits into his mouth, "It's true that the ventilation system of the new car is better than ours, but the smell in the fighting room is not very good, and it is good that it is not hot now, and after a while, the car will be full of unpleasant sweat." We have to smoke in the car and use the smell of smoke to cover up the smell of sweat, otherwise we can't stand it at all. ”

"So you prefer to fight in the winter?" The lieutenant asked.

"No, it's worse in winter, it's terrible, isn't it Kosher."

The gunner nodded: "It sucks. ”

The lieutenant had an inexplicable expression on his face.

"In order to keep warm, we would make a fire in the chariot, so there was always a strong smell of burning kerosene in the chariot," Otto explained to the lieutenant, "and besides, when it was very cold, we were reluctant to come out and take over, so we usually used urinals to solve the problem." That smells pretty big. ”

The lieutenant of the infantry immediately had an expression on his face that he should not have mentioned something.

After a brief silence, the sound of cannon could be heard in the sky.

"Sounds like a chariot cannon." Otto took off the headphones from his head and listened carefully to the rumbling sound with the others, "And 120 mortars like." ”

"Yes, it seems that there are brother troops in the vicinity who have encountered hard stubble."

"No, no, there will be an air force for hard stubble." Kosher said as he took the headset from Otto's hand and put it on his ear, "Well, I didn't hear the brother troops asking for air support. ”

"Maybe it's just that the commander doesn't feel like he needs air support for the time being."

"The firefight sounds very close to us." The cook looked in the direction the voice came from, "Why don't we go over and have a look?" ”

"No kidding," Otto shook his head, "our casual movement will disrupt the entire march, and the staff has set a deadline for us to reach our targets, so they don't give us a lot of time to deal with contingencies." ”

"The old men of the staff have always made plans like this," the infantry lieutenant who looked like a veteran oil shrugged, "not to mention that now our commander is still known as the wolf of the wind, and of course the old men of the staff wish we could all fly in order to please Your Excellency the commander." ”

"Be content with your infantry," said Koscher, smiling, "and now you still have chariots, for in the last great war the infantry had traveled all over Belgium on one leg and then marched towards Paris." In the end, he could no longer walk, so he retreated from the Marne. ”

The infantry lieutenant laughed, and it seemed that he liked this kind of joke that secretly satirized the inability of the British and French troops to resist negligible.

While they were laughing, a sharp whistling suddenly pierced everyone's eardrums.

The vehicle of the Armageddon Division's Panzer Regiment, which was driving in front of Otto's car No. 231, was hit in the side armor, and the ammunition exploded and the turret was thrown high.

"Holy!" Otto jerked his head to look in the direction the shell was coming.

Kosher put the headphones on Otto's head and slid into the turret, and the cook followed suit.

"Infantry get off!" The infantry lieutenant on the front armor yelled as he jumped out of the car, "Get out of the tank!" Fast! Stay away from them! Otherwise, if you are hit by an armor-piercing bullet or pressed by a vehicle when maneuvering, you will consider yourself unlucky! ”

And at this time, Otto's headphones were full of hurried shouts: "Who saw the shells from which side?" ”

Otto picked up the microphone: "After the infantry get out of the car, turn to the right!" The shells were from ......"

The second shell flashed through Otto's sight and hit one of the infantry.

"Turn right! Turn right! The enemy is near the farmhouse on the right! ”

At this time, white smoke began to rise in the corner of Otto's field of vision.

"Damn, who put the smoke? It's going to interfere with the line of sight! ”

However, the infantry battle was not under Otto's command, in fact, he could only command his own platoon, and theoretically he was not even under his control of the other platoons of the teaching brigade, but everyone knew that he was a popular man that Mr. Lin was optimistic about, so they all acted according to his instructions.

The infantry continued to release smoke, and the white mist soon blocked the view on the right side of the road.

"Damn it!" Otto cursed under his breath, realizing that the action of releasing the smoke was actually the right one, given that there were so many trucks and foot battles that the vehicles would not have enough defense against the incoming artillery fire even if they turned to the right.

The enemy's artillery was still firing blindly, and judging by the frequency of fire, there should have been at least four anti-aircraft guns or something.

At the same time, grenades constantly fell on the sides of the road.

"Mortars," Otto said into the microphone, "the enemy has infantry. ”

After thinking for a while, he said into the microphone: "This is a sonorous rose, calling blue life and death love." ”

Blue Life and Death Love is the radio call sign that teaches the brigade headquarters.

"This is life and death love, please tell me."

"I am ready to lead my platoon to rush through the smoke to annihilate the enemy, and ask the other platoons to hold the road and eliminate enemy targets that may emerge from the smoke."

"Shouldn't we all rush over with the whole teaching team, and leave the defense of the road to the armoured units of the Armageddon Division."

"This is a reconnaissance attack, if the enemy is strong, the loss is only us, after the fight you can tow the broken Tiger Style, if we go together, no one can drag the Tiger after suffering heavy losses, the chasessers' chariots do not have enough power."

"Well, grant your request, and good luck, second lieutenant."

"Thank you." After Otto finished speaking, he turned the radio back to the platoon-level command frequency, "Attention to the third platoon, the two cars cover each other and advance, and the second car (232) follows me, okay, move forward!" After passing through the smoke, fire on any target we find. ”

The Tiger's 900-horsepower engine roared, propelling the vehicle down the roadbed and toward the wall of smoke.

The smoke was drifting in the wind, and it looked like a cloud that had lost its way and run to the ground.

Otto habitually craned his neck, exposing only his head with a boat-shaped cap and headphones a little bit out of the conning tower, his eyes fixed on the mist that was slowly drifting in front of him.

Upon entering the smoke, Otto found that he could see nothing, and that as far as the eye could see, there was a rolling white mist.

Suddenly, a dark figure appeared in front of him, which looked like a chariot.

"Kosher! One o'clock direction! ”

"See!"

As Kosher answered, the turret swung to the side - it seemed that Kosher had overdone the pedals in a hurry.

Immediately after that, the Tiger's 90mm gun roared.

Otto watched as pillars of fire rose from the top of the turret of the chariot driving opposite, and the wails of Russian armorers could be faintly heard.

At this time, there was also a black shadow in the smoke on the left, and Otto didn't have time to give the order to turn the turret, and the black shadow passed not far from the Tiger Style, without the slightest intention of stopping to deal with the Tiger Style. Otto could clearly see the slogans painted on the side of the turret and the tightly closed turret hatch - the Russian commander clearly did not want to put himself in danger and chose to command from inside the vehicle.

"We met the enemy's tank troops." Otto gave the order to proceed and reported to the brigade headquarters by radio, "They are heading towards the road through the smoke!" ”

"Got it, we'll take care of the Russian tanks that rush through the smoke, and you'll be in charge of your platoon."

"I'll continue the reconnaissance mission, over!"

As soon as Otto finished speaking, his car burst out of smoke.

The moment the smoke cleared, he found himself facing three Russian tanks.

At the same time as the machine-gun bullets rang in, Otto retracted into the turret and dropped the handle that automatically closed the hatch.