USSR 1941

   Chapter 115 1st Armored Division

It is normal to be afraid, let alone these recruits who have just entered the state of war from a peaceful society. Veterans, including Shulka, will feel chills in their hearts after every battle... When it is really a critical moment, there is no People can face it calmly, if there is, it is basically because of the collapse that they chose to give up.

  From this point of view, soldiers don’t really care about winning or losing a battle, or whether the situation is favorable or unfavorable to them. What they care more about is whether they can survive the next battle.

  Shuerka thought that he should say something at this time, such as improving morale, but he didn't have this opportunity, because there was only a loud "boom" at this time, and then there was a burst of gunfire outside.

   "Get out of the car!" Shulka ordered loudly.

  It's common sense to drive a car...the car has no defenses, even an enemy rifle can punch through the interior of the car, a single shell can blow up the entire car, and it's a good target.

  So, if you don’t want to be blown into parts like a car, the fighters on the car must be ready to jump off the car and disperse at any time.

   Shulka was in a half-broken state when he jumped out of the car.

Because he knew in his heart that a battle like this that broke out without any warning is likely to have entered the enemy's trap... As I said before, there was a reconnaissance force in front of the main force, and the reconnaissance force did not find the enemy, which means that the enemy The reconnaissance team was spared.

   Then, the result of falling into the enemy's trap is that the enemy may have blocked the rear compartment with a machine gun, and the moment the infantry jumped out of the compartment is likely to be the time when the machine gun harvested life.

Therefore, Shulka rolled on the ground and rolled to the other side of the road before his feet hit the ground... Shulka was so unfamiliar with this action that he even flashed his arm during the roll. In the next few days, as long as It hurts to move.

Facts have proved that Shulka was a little overwhelmed. There was no sound of machine guns, and there was no large number of shells covering the car... Only two T26s were hit by shells and smoked, and one of them made a loud bang after a few seconds. It becomes the parts state.

   "Anti-tank gun!" Shulka heard Battalion Commander Venyakov shouting not far away: "First Battalion, come with me!"

   As he said that, Venyakov waved his pistol and led the troops to cover up in the direction of the sound of the flanking guns.

  Although the quality of Soviet commanders is generally poor, Lieutenant Venyakov made the right choice.

  The main target of the anti-tank gun is the tank. Compared with the tank, its advantage is that it has a wider field of view and a thinner gun body, and it can also be hidden in the trench and supplemented by camouflage.

   This allows the anti-tank guns to spot tanks first and tanks have a hard time finding its position, especially in this rainy day.

  So, the better way to deal with it is infantry charge.

  But soon Shulka and others discovered that this was not a good choice, because the enemy attacking from the flank was not an ambush anti-gram artillery but the Romanian 1st Armored Division...

  Shuerka rushed forward with a bayonet under the leadership of Captain Venyakov. He felt something was wrong when he rushed forward, and his speed gradually slowed down because they heard the sound of the tank's "rumbling" motor.

   "Stop!" Captain Venyakov ordered loudly, and then motioned for everyone to get down...

   After waiting for a while, I saw the blurred shadows of several tanks appearing in the rain, and then several more, followed by groups of enemies advancing forward.

   "Damn!" Venyakov cursed, and then ordered: "Retreat, all retreat"

  The soldiers immediately got up from the ground and turned around and ran, including Shulka.

Shulka even thought that he and his comrades were doomed, because they were enemy tanks, "rumbling" could catch up to them and then a few rows of machine gun bullets could knock them out...although they couldn't break them , but at least half of the first battalion can be killed.

But what is surprising is that the battle situation did not develop as Shulka imagined. Shulka and his party fled back to the road without any risk. The Soviet army even had time to bring up a few tanks and cooperate with anti-tank guns A line of defense was formed along the road.

   Later Shulka learned that this was because the Romanian 1st Armored Division was attacking from the flank.

  Romania is a "Little Entente" in Central Europe and the most important oil producing country in Europe, but this also makes its industry very backward... This is the so-called "resource trap".

  "Resource trap" does not refer to countries with few natural resources, but countries with more natural resources, especially oil.

  These countries only need to dig a hole in the ground to sell the outflowing oil for money, so the people will not choose to work in other factories... After all, oil is easy to get money and workers' wages are higher.

   As a result, no industry can develop except oil.

  Romania is the same, so it can only import equipment from other countries.

  The tanks are mainly from France, originally Renault FT light tanks, but because they are too old, they are only used to maintain domestic security.

  When the 1st Armored Division entered the war, the 1st Tank Regiment was equipped with R2 tanks (35T imported from the Czech Republic), and the 2nd Tank Regiment was equipped with Renault R35 (imported from France).

   This was no problem at first. There are more than 100 tanks in the two tanks, including 126 R2 tanks and 75 R35 tanks (34 of which were captured and handed over to Romania when the German army occupied Poland).

That is a total of 200 tanks. Even if their performance is poor, it is still very likely to succeed in raiding the 131st Motorized Division from the flank. After all, the 131st Motorized Division has only more than 100 tanks, and most of them are of poor performance. How about T26.

  The problem is that the Romanian armor is too slow, they are not suitable for raids.

  This is completely influenced by France... Importing tanks from France of course has to accept French tactical thinking, so tanks are scattered among the troops and used with infantry just like the Soviet Union.

   What's more deadly is that at this time, Britain, France and other countries still believed that since tanks cooperated with infantry in combat, speed was a waste, and higher speed would only make infantry unable to keep up.

  So, the top speed of the R35 tank on the road is only 20 kilometers per hour, and the top speed off-road is only 14 kilometers per hour.

   The speed is 14 kilometers per hour, and it is still the highest... This is the level of a bicycle, not to mention that it is still in the mud on a rainy day.

  This is also the reason why Shulka and others had time to escape when they met head-on.

   "Ready to fight!" Shulka heard Captain Venyakov's loud order, and the soldiers raised their rifles relying on the small ditch beside the road, and the anti-tank guns stuffed shells into the barrels to prepare for firing.

  The tank followers also conveyed the order to the tanks, and one after another, the tanks turned their black muzzles to the rain curtain on the side of the road.