"Is it the No. 2 tank?"

Rotmistrov, the commander of the 7th Army of the Soviet Red Army Tank, held up a telescope and, with the bright moonlight, carefully observed dozens of small suspected light tanks scattered in the wheat fields ahead over and over again.

"Comrade Commander, those tanks do not look like No. 2, but look a bit like Swedish L-60 tanks." Colonel Kattening, the brigade commander of the 8th Tank Brigade, who was the pioneer of the entire 3rd Army, participated in the Soviet-Finnish War and fought with the Swedish L-60 tanks equipped by the Finnish army.

"Is it Swedes?" Rotmistrov asked with a frown, "Are they also participating in the war?"

He knew that Sweden was an industrial power with advanced technology in the fields of metallurgy and machinery, able to produce the best ball bearings and artillery, and the aviation and shipbuilding industries also had a good foundation. If this country abandoned neutrality and turned to Germany completely, the strength of the Nazi reactionaries would be much stronger.

"So what?" Army Political Commissar Okjabrisky interjected, "The Swedish people always want to liberate. Eliminating the reactionary army of Sweden in Poland now will also help the future liberation of Sweden!"

"Yes! Sweden is also going to be liberated!" Rotmistrov nodded. Like political commissar Okjabrisky, he was also a person who believed that GCism would soon be realized.

"Comrade Commander, let the 8th Tank Brigade go on." Colonel Kattening, the brigade commander of the 8th Tank Brigade, knew that the battle was about to start, so he took the initiative to ask for the battle.

"No, the 8th Tank Brigade cannot move now..." Rotmistrov thought for a while and denied Kattening's intention. He also said: "These Swedish tanks are probably bait set up by the Germans and want to bring us into their ambush circle."

"What should we do?" asked the military political commissar Okjabrisky.

"Let the t34 of the 11th Tank Brigade go up," said Rotmistrov. "The t-34/57 of the 8th Tank Brigade and the anti-tank battalion directly under the Army set up an ambush."

The anti-tank battalion directly under the army was equipped with 16 zis-2 57mm anti-tank guns. This anti-tank gun, which was originally positioned as regiment-level artillery, became a treasure directly under the army because it was too rare. Rotmistrov handed over the battalion assigned to the 3rd Army to the 8th Tank Brigade, and together with 55 (now only 48 can be activated) t-34/57 tanks, it was enough to become a tank destroyer group.

According to his vision, the tactic adopted by this tank destroyer group was not attack, but ambush. The large number of t-34s were used to lure the enemy, and the German tank cluster was introduced into the ambush circle, and then the t-34/57 and zis-2 were fired to "name".

His tactic was thought of with Mandofir on the opposite side. However, it was not the first time that they two generals had practiced this "tank temptation to entice the enemy's fight tactic" in the Soviet-German War. The first person to use the "tank temptation to entice the enemy's fight tactic" was Major General Popov, the commander of the 10th Army of the Soviet Army.

This major general of the Red Army is now standing at the three-way intersection of fate. To the right, he becomes a traitor, a traitor, a thief, and to the left, he becomes a revolutionary martyr who everyone admires!

Major General Popov is now leaning against a big tree, trying to breathe the air filled with the breath of death and the smell of smoke, and looks around. Around him is a forest of several just bombed by rocket launchers and planes, with broken trees everywhere, and the bodies of the Red Army martyrs and broken weapons are scattered among the trees. Baharov, the commander of the 22nd Tank Army, was leaning against a broken KV-1 tank. He put a DP-27 light machine gun on the baffle of the tank wheels, preparing to engage in a final battle with the attacking SS grenadiers like a soldier.

Baharov was not demoted and removed from office. He was still the leader of the army, but his 22nd Army had been disbanded by the German armored cluster. Although the 22nd Army launched a very good ambush 10 hours ago and destroyed six Tiger tanks (it was not impossible to repair), their good luck ended here. The German tanks quickly retreated, and at the same time they fired 105mm grenades with an assault gun with ugly appearance but very considerable firepower. Next is the charge of the SS grenadiers. All 16 zis-2 57mm anti-tank guns were lost, and the 22nd Tank Army also completely lost its killer weapon against German heavy tanks.

But the 22nd Tank Army could not leave it alone, because they needed to win the retreat time for the 99th Army and the 8th Cavalry Army under the 10th Army. At the same time, they had to buy enough time for the 11th Army (one of the three armies in the North Road Cluster of the Warsaw Battle) to allow them to deploy defenses on the Marki-Vowoming line, so as not to let the German armored cluster rush behind the middle road cluster all at once.

The price of the 10-hour bloody battle was that more than 20,000 officers and fighters from the 22nd Tank Army and the 330th Infantry Division were completely lost. Now there are only a few hundred troops left that Popov and Baharov can control, huddling in a forest close to Razimin to carry out their final resistance.

However, their resistance now has no meaning, because 30 minutes ago, the cheers in Polish were transmitted from Lazimin to the woods guarded by the Red Army. After capturing Lazimin, the road to Vovomim was opened.

That must be the lurking Polish reactionary! Popov pressed the bullet into the magazine of Tokarev's pistol, and thought angrily. Listening to the cheers from Raziming, it was obviously much louder than the cheers when people were welcomed when his 10th Army entered.

This shows that more people in Laziming City need to be shot and transformed labor than those in need of liberation! The 10% "reactionary indicator" is too low, and it must be increased to at least 60% to be considered appropriate!

Boom! Boom...

The sound of shell explosions interrupted Popov's thoughts. He was about to get up to find a crater to avoid the cannon when he heard someone shouting: "Don't pick it up, don't look."

It turns out that the Germans are shooting propaganda bullets!

A white leaflet was blown to Popov by the wind. He grabbed it and held the reactionary leaflet in his hand.

"No picking up, no looking..." I don't know which political cadre was shouting, but Popov ignored it. At the moment when he was about to become a revolutionary martyr, he really wanted to see what the fallacies of Nazi imperialism were like.

...

"A armored division! Comrade Commander, my 11th Tank Brigade encountered a German armored division near Zachrochum! Our unit suffered heavy losses and was retreating!"

At this time, Rotmistrov, commander of the 7th Soviet Tank Army, and political commissar Okjabrisky, did not know that their retreat had been cut off by the German army (just part, because the east bank of the Reinav River is almost liberated). The two of them were surrounding a military radio station supported by the United States, listening to the unlucky brigade commander of the 11th Tank brigade, Colonel Mikhalihin, reported his tragic experience.

Colonel Harryhin was ordered to lead two T-34 tank battalions under the 11th Tank Brigade and one battalion of the 7th Motorized Infantry Brigade to pursue dozens of light tanks suspected to be "Swedish tanks".

Those "Swedes" were very cunning, fighting and retreating all the way, always maintaining a distance of 500-800 meters from the chasing T-34 tank. This distance is not the same as at night, even during the day, and it is difficult to hit the 76.2mm main gun of the t-34 is difficult to hit.

The pursuit between the two sides lasted for about an hour. At around 9:30 pm, the troops of the 11th Tank Brigade approached Zachrochim, a small town on the Vistula. Then dozens of flares hit the heads of the Soviet tank group, illuminating the battlefield pale.

The No. 3 assault gun and 75mm anti-tank gun, which were ambushing in the surrounding woods and wheat fields, opened fire at the same time, and more than 40 T-34 tanks were immediately fired!

"Is there an armored division? Can you be sure?" Rotmistrov took the communicator from the correspondent and asked in detail.

"Absolutely! There are at least 200 tanks 4 and assault guns of No. 3..."

Rotmistrov and political commissar Okjabrisky looked at each other, 200 tanks No. 4 and assault guns No. 3! This is really an armored division!

"Are there any heavy tanks from the Germans?" Rotmistrov asked again.

"I didn't find it... like the ones we fired were all 75mm guns... Oh, there are many No. 3 tanks, about 100!"

100 tanks No. 3? Didn’t the Germans have eliminated tank No. 3? Rotmistrov frowned. It seemed that this was an armored division that was urgently formed after the war between the Soviet and Germany. Without enough No. 4 H tanks, he used the tank No. 3 to make up the numbers.

"I know, Comrade Mikhalihin, you must find ways to attract this armored division!" Rotmistrov took a breath and gave an order, "This is a key battle related to whether Warsaw can be liberated successfully. The working people all over the world are watching the proletarian soldiers of the 11th Tank Brigade!"

"I understand, Mihalihin understands that the 11th Brigade will complete the mission at all costs!"

Rotmistrov returned the phone to the communications corps and then told Okjabrisky: "Comrade Mikhalihin is an excellent tank commander and a loyal Bolshevik party member. The 11th Tank Brigade will definitely complete the mission successfully under his leadership. However... the German Armored Division is very powerful, and our 7th Tank Army may not be able to wipe it out."
Chapter completed!