76 kilometers west of the Ukrainian-Polish border, a convoy of Russian combat vehicles stopped on the road next to a small patch of bushes. The soldiers operating the chariot were gathering around the chariot in twos and threes, waiting for the vehicle carrying fuel to appear.

The battalion commander Denikin saw his subordinate Vasily climb into the chariot and got up from the fire.

"Hey, Vasily! What are you doing! ”

"Lube on, sir!" Vasily said and shook the tin can in his hand at Denikin, "Give these damn iron lumps something awesome!" ”

At this time, Vasily's crew coaxed: "Go on, Vasily! ”

"Get some vodka! Let these sissy machines become gentlemen! ”

Denikin suddenly realized what Vasily had in his hand, and he strode up, shouting as he ran: "Vasily! You come down for me! Do not add vodka to the lube tank! ”

At this time, a rough voice said: "Battalion commander, let him mess around, anyway, we have broken so many cars, it doesn't matter if there are more broken ones." ”

Denikin thought for a moment, stopped, and let out a long sigh with his hands on his hips.

Denikin's battalion was the vanguard of the entire Cossack Panzer Cavalry Corps, and the entire battalion was completely modeled after Lin Youde's Panzer Division, with 60 American-aided Grants? Li medium tank, but since crossing the border between Poland and Ukraine, the Denikin battalion has lost twenty-five tanks, except for five lost in the battle with the Russian army and the Polish army, the other twenty are all lost due to mechanical problems during the march.

This high loss forced Denikin to abandon some of the infantry and let them "stand in place to strengthen the defense" - there were no more people sitting on the roof of the remaining chariots.

By the way, in this world, it seems that infantry sitting on the outer armor of the tank to accompany the vehicle in battle has become the default configuration of armored troops.

Denikin didn't know why there was such a high failure rate, and his education in commanding the Accelerated Armored Corps didn't mention it.

In fact, this is not surprising, because the Russian army's current armored combat theory is all from Lin Youde's copycat, but when they were in the cottage, they only paid attention to the tactical part and did not pay attention to Lin Youde's logistics support theory.

Lin Youde was a pseudo-military fan before the crossing, but he loves to read so he still understands a lot of things, unlike other pseudo-military fans, one is a variety of fantasies that were actually completely unrealizable during World War II. Lin Youde knows very well how much the tank needs to be carefully cared for during World War II, and in the autobiography "Tiger in the Mud" by "Tiger King" Karius, he mentioned how delicate the Tiger tank needs to be maintained and maintained, and the Tiger King even laughed that the tankers spent most of their time repairing tanks, and combat was just a side job.

The Tiger King also praised the dedication of the maintenance team assigned to the heavy regiment, saying that without these brave maintenance soldiers, there would be no glory of the heavy regiment.

It is precisely because of this that when designing tanks, Lin Youde repeatedly emphasized "reliable" and "easy to maintain", and when the armored troops were being organized, the scale of the armored repair units was set to be quite large. In Turkey, in the famous sniper battle, Erwyn Rommel of this time and space was the Russian warrior who led a repair detachment and its armed team to meet the Russians.

After experiencing the battle in Turkey, Lin Youde felt that his armored force maintenance capability still did not meet expectations, so he further increased the scale of the emergency repair force, so when the German armored troops fought in France and Belgium, the non-combat loss rate was successfully controlled to 25 percent.

Most of the mechanically faulty vehicles were later repaired and re-entered into battle, and some of the destroyed vehicles were dismantled at an alarming rate, and serviceable parts were replaced with other vehicles.

In the last part of his doctrine of armored attack, Lin Youde specifically emphasized that the armored troops need a lot of logistical support, and if there is no strong logistics, the combat effectiveness of the armored troops will be greatly reduced.

But all of this has not received enough attention, either in the United States or in Russia. The Americans' Lee chariot gave up the suspension system of five pairs of load-bearing wheels that Lin Youde personally finalized and adopted their own original T-shaped suspension, mainly because they found that the suspension of five pairs of load-bearing wheels was not as adaptable to the terrain as their T-shaped suspension, and the chariot was unusually bumpy when it was moving. But the Americans didn't notice that Lin Youde's suspension was simple, although the performance was not good, but it was durable, and the armored soldiers in the car were turned into **** when driving, but the car was not easy to break down.

Now, the Americans' T-suspension has made Maozi suffer, more than half of the combat losses of Camp Denikin's combat vehicles are due to suspension problems, and the other half is because the engine fuel injectors produced in the United States cannot adapt to Maozi's more impurities of oil. What's worse is that in Maozi's newly formed armored cavalry corps, the repair detachment is deployed at the army level, and there is no armored repair vehicle produced by the German army that is matched with combat vehicles, and there are not even a few heavy repair machinery such as cranes, so there is no way to provide protection for the entire cavalry army.

The sad thing is that Maozi's armored troops have only received combat training and simple maintenance training, unlike Lin Youde's armored troops, everyone must be able to repair tanks. If the Germans were replaced, the simple problem of the engine injector being blocked would have been solved by the crew themselves, and the vehicle would have been repaired quickly.

But Mao Zi didn't even understand what the problem was, the only soldier with experience in auto repair was all left to repair the tank in place when the first three tanks broke down, and then the seventeen that broke down could only be thrown in place, and then left a mark on the map and waited for the maintenance team under the Panzer Corps to recover it.

In this way, although Maozi's armored troops were not much slower than the Germans, the loss of combat effectiveness was really severe, which made Denikin have to stop - he explained to his superiors that he had stopped advancing because of a lack of fuel, but the real reason was that he found that the town in front of him was fortified by Polish troops, and he felt that he might not be able to defeat it with the remaining thirty tanks.

He himself led a company to try to attack the village, but as soon as he showed up, he was fired indiscriminately by the village's anti-armor weapons. Denikin himself was good, leaving his head exposed outside the chariot when the machine gun bullets were flying all over the sky, and carefully observed the enemy's gun positions with binoculars, and he believed that the enemy had at least ten artillery pieces that could be used for anti-armor.

This indicates that there were quite a few Polish troops stationed in that city. According to the instructions obtained before the start of the war, at least one division of the Polish army would have this kind of anti-armor firepower.

If Denikin still had enough troops, he wouldn't mind a storm, but now his chariot was only a little over thirty, and who knows how many of them would be able to rush into the village.

And his infantry is only about a hundred people, and it is simply unimaginable to fight a division.

So Denikin could only stop in this bush and wait for the follow-up troops to follow.

He had been waiting here for almost a morning, and neither the follow-up troops nor the trucks carrying fuel were nowhere to be found.

Denikin did not know that the command of the Ukrainian Front of the Russian army, which had never organized such an armored assault, had become a mess, and even the staff officers did not know whether there was a fuel transport detachment moving in the direction of Denikin.

Not only that, but the Front also lost radio contact with many units, and the American radio stations did not seem to be well adapted to the rough Russian-style maintenance, and many of them were out of order.

So Denikin can only wait here, he is about to lose patience.

If it were the usual Denikin, he would definitely stop Vasily from messing around with the support of the veterans, but now Denikin just watched Vasily pour vodka into the lube storage tank and clumsily climb into the cab of the chariot.

The chariot kicked up, bypassed the chariot in front of it, and slowly moved along the road.

The veterans screamed and cheered, almost like they were celebrating something.

Suddenly, tongues of fire erupted from the vehicle's engine cooling cover, and the entire vehicle burst into flames. The veterans laughed and watched as Vasily hurriedly crawled out of the cab and rolled on the ground.

In fact, Vasily did not have fire on him, but the young soldier who was overly nervous still rolled all the way and rolled out of the distance to calm down.

By this time the chariot was completely on fire.

Denikin couldn't help but sigh, this American's chariot is so squeamish, a bottle of vodka is on fire, no wonder when he fought against the Polish chariots with the Poles before, those chariots that were hit by the Poles immediately turned into torches.

Don't call them Robert or Grant, call them lighters.

Unbeknownst to Denikin, the American tank in another time and space, nicknamed Lighter, was also a lighter, and had been carrying the blame for many years, until a game called Water Tank World forcibly shoved the reputation of lighters into German tanks.

Vasily stood up, looked at himself and found that he was okay, and decisively laughed along with the veterans.

Denikin shook his head and smiled wryly.

Originally, he had two imaginaries of this attack in his mind, one was that they fought with the Polish army, and they were happy; The other is that they and the Germans face each other head-on, and they have a tough confrontation of steel, and they are full of anger. But now, there was neither a joy nor a reluctance, which made Denikin wonder whether he was leading his troops in an offensive or an outing.

In southern Poland in March, it was still quite chilly, and Denikin tugged at the collar of his military uniform, which was open for running, while his soldiers had gathered around the burning chariot and began to share the liquor they had illegally carried.

At this time, someone shouted: "There are cars driving towards us, from the direction of Ukraine!" ”

Denikin was immediately in the mood again, and he trotted all the way to the rear of the group, and sure enough, he saw a group of cars approaching. Denikin waved his hat and stepped forward.

The truck leading the way did not stop until it was only a few steps away from Denikin, and the ensign who was driving jumped out of the car and grinned at Denikin: "Have you been waiting for us for a long time?" ”

"yes, the oil is coming."

The second lieutenant raised his eyebrows: "Oil? ”

"You're not shipping oil?" Denikin already didn't think it was good when he asked. His troops didn't consume much except fuel.

"We're shipping supplies, ammunition." The second lieutenant smiled mysteriously, "And a little vodka." ”