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

The engineers and transport soldiers did report this anti-tank trench.

But the information reported was only at the level of the captain... The officer thought to himself, this is an anti-tank trench made by the transport soldiers and engineers. Can it be called an anti-tank trench? Perhaps it was just a small ditch, and the Germans crossed this anti-tank trench without any 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 engineers among them. They knew what to dig the anti-tank into to trap enemy tanks... At this time, the Soviet anti-tank trench was targeting the German tank's cross-trench capability, generally 3.5 meters wide and 4 meters deep.

A more fatal point is that this anti-tank trench was built on the other side of the high ground.

There was no problem with this, because almost all anti-tank trenches were built in this way. The advantage of this was that your troops could be deployed on the high ground to suppress the enemy with firepower.

But on the other hand, this anti-tank trench was on the back slope in the direction of the Soviet army, and the Soviet army could not see this anti-tank trench.

From the perspective of the German army, of course they could not rely solely on this, so they covered some camouflage with branches and other objects on the anti-tank trench to make the anti-tank trench more secretive.

Then a new round of offensive of the Soviet army began again.

The Soviet army's offense was basically the same as the last time, and the change was that the tanks were more dense... Rotmistrov lost his patience, or it could be said that he judged that the German army had little combat power, so he planned to uproot the German army in one breath.

The German army changed a lot. This time, from the beginning, the German tanks fired and retreated while firing.

Looking at this scene, Rotmistrov happily ordered the staff: "The Germans are timid. They hope to retreat and try to distance themselves from us, not let them succeed, speed up, and pay attention to their counterattack!"

"Yes!" The staff officer responded and conveyed the order.

Hundreds of tanks roared towards the German defense line, like a rising tide, rushing forward one after another... The wave in front was hit by artillery fire and was sank in place, and the wave in the back followed closely and rushed forward.

Among them, the German anti-tank guns have great advantages. The reason is that the condescending shooting of anti-tank guns deployed on the high ground will cause the inclination armor of the Soviet tank turret to lose the advantage of inclination, which will not only reduce the jump, but also increase the depth of the armor-piercing bullets.

The disadvantage is that anti-tank guns on the high ground are difficult to transfer. After several shells, they are quickly locked by the Soviet army. They are either counterattacked by tanks with artillery fire or knocked off by Soviet artillery fire.

In this regard, the best infantry anti-tank equipment is actually an anti-tank weapon that is easy to carry and transfer like the ME63.

Soviet tanks rushed forward frantically, and German tanks were nervous and retreating while fighting back. Some tank soldiers shouted in the walkie-talkie: "We can't hold it anymore, they can never finish fighting, there are everywhere..."

There was no sound next, and Colonel Albridge knew that he might never see the brave tank captain who was still resisting the enemy's attack at the last moment.

Colonel Albridge couldn't help feeling a little guilty because these tanks didn't even know the German plan. The order they received was to fight and retreat until they retreated to the anti-tank trench.

As for what to do after retreating to the anti-tank trench... everyone knew very well that they had no way out.

Strictly speaking, they still have a way out, because there are several sections of the anti-tank trench that are paved by German engineers, and German tanks leave their positions from here before crossing the anti-tank trench.

but……

The German tanks, which were closely tied by Soviet tanks, had no time to pass through these inclined surfaces. The only ones that could pass through were a few that were located right in front of the inclined surface.

In fact, Albridge and other officers had long thought of this situation, but they had to accept it.

There will inevitably be casualties on the battlefield, and the difference is only who is the person who suffers these casualties.

Albridge dared not think about it anymore, because many of them were his old subordinates... He deployed the Second Armored Battalion in the north of the anti-tank trench to lure the enemy, while other troops were deployed in the south.

The entire army seemed to be a whole, but in fact there was an anti-tank trench that was insurmountable by tanks.

In other words, the Second Armored Battalion was "sacrificed" under his command.

The Soviet tanks did not realize this at all. They continued to rush forward like crazy, firing randomly while advancing, and machine guns were also "dada".

Both sides of the enemy and us were red, and the Soviet army saw hope for victory, so they stepped on the accelerator to the bottom without reservation. The tracks were raised high from the edge of the high ground. The towering gun barrel seemed to point to the sky, and then suddenly fell down the inclined surface. Due to the heavy ups and downs, the car body rushed down the inclined surface at a higher speed.

However, at this moment, the eyes suddenly became dark... The Soviet pilot lost control of the tank before he could figure out what was going on. Then there was a "bang". The tank hit the bottom and was stuck in it and could not move. There was a scream in the cabin. The tank crew members all broke their heads and were bleeding, and the driver was even knocked out.

"What's going on?" the captain shouted, covering his injured head.

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

Tanks have poor external perception, so it is not uncommon to have such situations that they don’t know what’s going on.

The commander Jacques initially determined that he had fallen into a crater or a trap dug by the Germans. After thinking for a while, he decided to open the hatch door and see what was going on.

However, when he opened the hatch door and poked his head out, he realized that the situation was much worse than he thought... They fell into either a crater or a trap.

Second Lieutenant Jakov found them falling into an anti-tank trench, because the same thing happened one after another on both sides... Soviet tanks rumbled up, and then fell into the bottom of the four-meter-deep trench without warning.

Second Lieutenant Jakov stood up from the turret in horror and waved his hand and shouted, hoping that this would warn the tanks behind him.

But he ignored one thing: the people in the tank could not hear his shouts at all, and he could not see a waving person in the four-meter-deep anti-tank trench.
Chapter completed!