After receiving a call from Balk, the 15th German Armored Regiment immediately divided into two groups.
The route was all the way eastward, hidden on the only way for the Soviet army to retreat, and was caught off guard by preparing to attack the Soviet tank troops.
On the other side, the infantry guarded the Soviet army to attack the original defense area. The direction they attacked was exactly the location of the 19th Brigade of the Soviet Independent Tanks.
Twenty Soviet tanks were hidden in the woods, and behind the tanks, there were two companies of infantry, who were hiding in the grass to prepare for battle.
Luhrey showed half of his body from the turret, raised his telescope and looked into the distance. He saw about twenty tanks rushing towards the Soviet army's original position. Behind the tank, followed by the same number of armored personnel carriers, full of German soldiers. He silently timed in his heart, and according to the current German propulsion speed, he would pass by the forest where he was hiding in another five minutes. He quickly passed through the meshes of his throat and conveyed combat orders to his subordinates.
"People are careful. No one is allowed to fire without my orders. I will repeat it again. No one is allowed to fire without my orders." Because he was worried that there would be no tanks to hear, he specially repeated this order several times.
Five minutes later, the German tanks and armored vehicles tried more than 200 meters in front of the forest. Seeing that the shooting was ripe, Ruhle decisively issued an order to fire. With the order issued, the tanks hidden in the forest fired in succession. The whistling shells fell between the German tanks and armored vehicles and exploded, bursting with flames and smoke. Unfortunately, no shell hit the target in the first round of shooting.
Seeing that the first round of shooting did not work, Ruhlei quickly issued a new order to his tank soldiers through his throat: "Don't worry, aim for it. It may take some time before the Germans cannon to find our hiding position. We must kill them all before the Germans fire."
The second round of shooting did not disappoint Ruhlei. Two tanks and three armored vehicles were blown into fireballs. Ruhlei clearly saw that none of the tank soldiers inside the two destroyed tanks could escape. On the contrary, after the armored vehicle full of soldiers was shot and caught fire, the soldiers covered in fire immediately jumped out of the car and ran around dancing. They ran wildly, and then rolled in the snow, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.
"Good, brothers." Seeing the second round of shooting, Ruhlei was overjoyed and said repeatedly, "I will ask for merit for you and for every comrade who participated in the battle. Continue shooting and shoot out all the shells, and be sure to destroy this fast column of the German army."
After being bombarded by two rounds of artillery, the German tanks and armored vehicles immediately realized that there was an Soviet anti-tank position nearby, and immediately turned around and fired in the forest. Because they were shooting aimlessly, they covered the infantry from the armored vehicles and seized the advantageous terrain.
The German soldiers who jumped out of the armored vehicles thought that there were only Soviet artillery in the forest, so they formed a scattered formation, bent over, put the butt on their abdomen, and trotted forward.
"The Germans are coming." Seeing that the German infantry rushed to a place more than 100 meters away from the ambush, Ruhlei hurriedly shouted at the throat: "Machine gun, use machine guns to suppress the enemy fire immediately. Also, Chief of Staff, immediately let the infantry stop sleeping, prepare for battle quickly, come and fight bayonets with the Germans."
The Chief of Staff was originally staying in the tank. When he heard Ruchlei's order, he immediately came out of the tank and ran to find the infantry who were still resting behind, so that they could deal with the German infantry and anti-tank soldiers.
After the German tanks fired two guns, they discovered the hiding position of the Soviet tanks. Their shooting accuracy was getting higher and higher. Many tanks were jingled by the flying shrapnel. Although they did not pose any threat to the tank soldiers in the car, they also made them frightened. Therefore, at some point, a German shell flew over and could directly hit their tanks and blow the tanks into a ball of fire.
As the German tank guns became more and more accurate, Ruhlei could no longer stay outside. He quickly retreated into the car and closed the cap of the turret. He still ordered his subordinates: "Shoot, shoot at the fastest speed, and be sure to knock out the tanks that pose the greatest threat to us."
As soon as he finished speaking, a nearby tank was directly hit by the German tank gun, and it was blown into a fireball. Among the four tankers in the car, only one of the fire-covered drivers escaped. When the infantry who received the order came over, they saw that their comrades were full of fire and were running around, and quickly stepped forward to help him extinguish the fire.
As soon as the German infantry rushed into the forest, the Soviet infantry who were waiting for it rushed towards the front. The German infantry, who originally thought there were only tanks in the forest, was caught off guard. The battle lasted only a few minutes, then retreated in shame. The Soviet infantry followed closely behind the German infantry and rushed towards the place where armored vehicles and tanks were parked.
Seeing the infantry defeated, the German tanks and armored vehicles threw themselves into rats and were afraid of hurting their own people by chance, so they did not dare to open fire. They could only see two or three hundred Soviet commanders and fighters rushing towards them with weapons.
But why did the German tank soldiers sit and wait for death? They quickly locked the target of the attack and the Soviet tanks in the forest. The enemy tanks were shooting desperately, destroying the Soviet tanks hiding in the forest from time to time. And they were not much better, and they had more tanks destroyed.
After the battle lasted for a quarter of an hour, the German commander realized that if he continued to fight, his small fast column would be in danger of being destroyed, so he quickly ordered the troops to withdraw from the battle.
At the end of the battle, the Soviet army lost six tanks and three were injured. However, it destroyed the excellent results of fifteen German tanks and nine armored vehicles, and killed more than one hundred German soldiers.
After the battle, the Chief of Staff came over to report to Ruhlei and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, we have all our ammunition. What should we do next? Should we continue to stay or will we move on foot after the tank is blown up?"
Ruhle knew very well that if the ammunition was not exhausted, I was afraid that any of the German tanks would not be able to escape. After he hesitating for a moment, he said to the chief of staff: "Tell the soldiers, blow up all the tanks and transfer them immediately."
Chapter completed!