The Soviet tanks opened their formation and approached the German second line of defense. The speed was not fast, but they steadily destroyed one room after another, cleared it, or pushed it down directly with the tank, and then continued to move forward.

Qin Chuan led a battalion of German soldiers to station on the second line of defense.

Strictly speaking, this plan to lure the enemy into depth is quite risky, because the German army is seriously insufficient... The elite First Infantry Regiment is used to defend the Eastern Front, while the temporary scattered regiment is used to defend the Western Front. These two defense lines roughly pieced together the defense zone like beans on the east bank of the Lovati River.

Now, just the Soviet army put in, there was a regiment and a tank battalion.

There is only one regiment of the German army in this direction.

Qin Chuan divided the group into three parts:

The First Battalion was led by Gerhard to maneuver from the tunnel to the Lovati River defense line again occupied and guarded it.

This task seems dangerous but is not difficult to do.

The reason was that the Soviets did not know the German fortifications, and at the same time, the Soviets would concentrate their main forces on the vanguard and advance in depth to the German defense zone, so they could catch the Soviets off guard.

As Qin Chuan thought, Gerhard easily occupied the Luowadi River defense line and cut the Soviet army into two pieces.

The Second Battalion, led by Qin Chuan, set up a second line of defense two miles deep in the Defence Zone.

There are buildings everywhere that were destroyed by Soviet artillery shells, which gave the German army good cover... Broken walls, ruins, windows, etc. can be used as trenches for cover.

Of course, these trenches could not block the Soviet tanks.

Qin Chuan knew this, and the Soviet army also knew this.

Therefore, Colonel Yefimxi, the commander of the 164th Regiment of the Soviet Army, was very confident in the attack, even though he received information that the rear defense line was re-occupied by the German army.

"Andrevich!" Colonel Yefimhi ordered a battalion commander of himself: "Take your troops in front of the tank!"

"Yes, comrade Colonel!" Andrevich responded and asked his troops to rush forward with his waist and cross the tank.

Although this is a common style of play in the Soviet army, it is undoubtedly correct.

The reason is that the tank has poor external perception ability, especially at this time, and it is still dark, especially the building debris and ruins are everywhere here. Colonel Yefimshi also knew that the Germans had a single weapon, the bazooka, which could easily penetrate the front armor of the T34... Hitler used the bazooka for the Eastern Front a few months ago, so the Soviets were no strangers to its performance.

In this case, if the tank is still in front, it is basically letting the tank die.

Therefore, Colonel Yefimhi believed that he should let the infantry walk in front and launch a raid. After these infantry discovered the enemy's firepower points and hiding places, they could suppress them with the firepower of the tank, and at the same time, they could keep the tank outside the range of the enemy's rocket launcher.

This approach was quite effective. With the cooperation of infantry, flares and tanks, the Soviet army successfully advanced several hundred meters.

"Keep going, boys!" said Colonel Yefimushi: "A little further forward, we can meet with the comrades of the 82nd Regiment!"

If we continue to fight like this, Qin Chuan and others will indeed have no choice but to deal with the Soviet army.

But at this moment, with a "chubby" roar, a T26 tank was blown into a ball of flame in a line of fire... The T26 light tank has only 15MM armor, and of course it cannot withstand the attack of the bazooka, especially this bazooka still hit its side armor.

"Find that guy right away!" Colonel Yefeimxi roared at the infantry beside him: "Because of your negligence, our tanks and comrades are bearing the price!"

Colonel Yefimhi thought it was the infantry who had not searched clearly and left several German bazooka shooters.

"Yes, comrade Colonel!"

A team of infantry responded, grabbed the gun and ran towards the bazooka launch site... When the bazooka launch was launched, a long trajectory was left, which was particularly obvious in the darkness, so the Soviet soldiers immediately determined the location of the German army.

But soon Colonel Ye Feimuxi discovered that he was wrong, because immediately afterwards, there was a sound of a rocket launcher, and Soviet tanks were destroyed one after another into a pile of scrap iron. At the same time, gunfire sounded in the Soviet camp, including rifles and machine guns, and from time to time, several grenades were also added.

"What's going on?" asked Colonel Yefimushi.

"I don't know, comrade Colonel!" the guard replied: "The Germans were suddenly in our army!"

"Flats, flares..." Colonel Yefeimxi shouted.

The flares rose slowly, illuminating the Soviet army that was already in chaos and running around. Then Colonel Yefimhi saw clearly that there were indeed many German soldiers hiding behind the ruins and broken walls shooting at the Soviet army, and there were still quite a few people.

Obviously, this is not because the Soviet army did not search clearly, because so many German troops could not have been deceived.

Then, when Colonel Yefimushi discovered a hole hidden in the corner of the wall, he realized what the problem was.

"Damn Germans, they are hiding underground!" Colonel Yefimhi cursed hatefully.

But it's too late to understand now.

These German troops were the third battalion of the German army. They hid in the dark and shot at the Soviet army from all directions. Some of them crawled out of the tunnel to fight, some opened the tunnel entrance into the ruins and poked out the rifles to shoot out, and some were made up to the Soviet people to confuse the Soviet army.

What's worse is that it was dark at this time. The Soviet army could not tell the difference between enemies and us in the chaos. When random shootings were made, they continued to cause "friendly casualties" and further increased the chaos.

Colonel Yefeimxi wanted to control the troops, but no matter how he shouted, it would be useless... This was related to the low quality of the Soviet army. Once the poorly qualified troops became in chaos, it would be difficult to reorganize them.

Originally, Colonel Yefeimxi should have ordered a retreat at this time.

But the next second he remembered that the retreat had been blocked by the German army, so the 164th Regiment had no way to survive.

With a "boom", a grenade exploded not far from Colonel Yefimushi and threw him to the ground.

After a while, Colonel Yefeimxi, who woke up, struggled to get up from the ground, looked at the blood on his face and stared blankly at the fireballs of another tank, watched the rows of soldiers being knocked down by machine guns in a pool of blood, and watched the Soviet soldiers surrender in groups of hands...
Chapter completed!