Moving forward, there were no more wounded Germans to clear.
The reason is that there was a period of time between battles, and even the wounded Germans froze to death in the cold snow.
Or commit suicide...
Those were some wounded German soldiers who did not want to freeze to death. They were abandoned in the ice and snow and lost hope of survival.
They really had no hope of survival, because even among the German prisoners with sound limbs, not many of them could return alive after the war, let alone the wounded who needed care.
So, they got together and set off a grenade.
This can be seen from their corpses dumped in a pile. Shulka can even imagine the scene of their last seconds: several people gathered in a circle, gathered their heads in the middle as if sharing dinner, and then ignited the grenade.
, watching it "" emitting green smoke, and then "boom"... everything was over.
As for the other wounded who still held on to a glimmer of hope or were unable to even commit suicide, they could only shiver in the cold wind, then gradually lose consciousness, and soon be frozen to death.
No one can lie in the snow for an hour at such low temperatures.
This also shows that the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade has been around for some time.
"Guess where the 2nd Brigade went?" Antipunov, carrying a sniper rifle, followed from behind.
He was originally in the second echelon, and as mentioned before, the sniper should follow behind.
But because the vanguard was so slow, the second echelon could catch up on foot.
Shulka looked at his watch and replied: "If nothing else happens, we will be 20 kilometers ahead of us!"
"Twenty kilometers?!"
The surrounding soldiers cast doubtful glances at Shulka.
"This is not true, is it!"
"We were left behind by them for twenty kilometers?"
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"Almost!" the veteran replied: "We have been marching for more than an hour!"
This distance is easy to calculate:
Because the T34 uses wide tracks, and most of the tracks are equipped with anti-skid teeth... Such anti-skid teeth are very convenient to install. When the T34 tank's tracks were produced, there were small holes on the track plates without guide teeth.
All the engineers have to do is to install tines like mountaineering shoe soles on these track shoes with small holes, and then the tank can drive smoothly on snow or even ice.
Therefore, the average speed of t34 cross-country can reach 25 kilometers per hour.
On the contrary, the "Matilda" tank cannot be equipped with anti-skid teeth because there are no small holes reserved on the track, which makes it can only barely reach a speed of 10 kilometers per hour.
It has been more than an hour since the war started. Calculated this way, the distance between the two is at least 20 kilometers.
"In other words, they are already attacking Tver?" the instructor asked.
Shulka nodded.
Tver is only 20 kilometers from Klin.
But of course, the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade will not simply attack Tver from the front... The advantage of winter is that the rivers and swamps around Tver are frozen into hard ice and snow, and infantry and even tanks can attack from any direction.
"The attack seems to be going too well!" the instructor said.
The requirement given by the superiors was to capture Tver within three days, but now they have reached Tver in just over an hour... At this rate, it may only take half a day to achieve this goal.
"Comrade Captain!"
At this time, the actor walking in front called Shulka.
Shulka and the instructor stepped forward and saw the body of a frozen German soldier.
It wouldn't be surprising if it was just a frozen corpse, since there were them everywhere along the way.
The strange thing is that these corpses were inserted into the snow by the Soviet soldiers in front to make road signs: it even carried a rifle on its back, holding one hand with the other and pointing in the direction of progress.
Hanging on it was a white cloth with blood written on it: "Go this way, comrades of the 1st Brigade!"
The soldiers suddenly laughed:
"I never knew the comrades of the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade were so humorous!"
"They came up with a great idea, using Fasis to lead the way for us!"
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"Hey!" the veteran said: "Don't you think this is a mockery of us? This road sign... they mean that we are walking too slowly and they are worried that we will get lost!"
The soldiers were silent for a while, but they couldn't help laughing.
Shulka did not smile. He raised his head and asked several guards to lower the body and remove the white cloth.
In any case, the soldiers are innocent. They are more just executing orders, so they should not be treated like this, especially corpses.
On the other side, just as Shulka and others estimated, the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade had indeed reached Tver.
As soon as they arrived in Tver, the commander of the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade, Colonel Lavrentin, couldn't wait to issue the order to attack.
"They are finished!" Lavrentin shouted to his men through the walkie-talkie: "Destroy them before the 1st Guards Tank Brigade arrives!"
The reason why Colonel Lavrentin emphasized "before the 1st Guards Tank Brigade" arrives is because he hopes to surpass the 1st Guards Tank Brigade through this battle... This can be said to be Lavrentin's wish, or it can
It is said to be the target of the entire brigade officers and soldiers.
The reason why they are the "2nd Brigade" is because their military exploits are not as good as those of the "1st Brigade".
And not only is it inferior, it can even be said to be far behind.
The military exploits of the 2nd Guards Tank Brigade, or to be precise, the military exploits of all other tank units, were that they firmly blocked the German attack on the defensive line.
But the 1st Guards Tank Brigade... they were godlike in this battle. Not only did they defeat the German armored forces one after another, they even sank nearly a hundred tanks to the bottom of the lake in Volokolamsk.
Originally, Colonel Lavrentin thought that he would never be able to catch up with the 1st Guards Tank Brigade, so he gave up the idea.
But luck suddenly fell on the 2nd Brigade: the 1st Brigade was equipped with British and American tanks, and the 2nd Brigade was equipped with T34.
Lavrentin knew what happened to those British and American tanks. This was no secret to the Soviet army, because their data had been transferred to the commanders of other tank units.
"This is our chance!" Lavrentin said to his men: "A chance to surpass the 1st Brigade!"
"Comrade Colonel!" the staff officer handed the phone to Lavrentin: "Comrade Rokossovsky's phone number!"
"Colonel!" Rokossovsky's slightly worried voice came from the other end of the phone: "You are advancing too fast, you should wait for the 1st Brigade! Comrade Katukov is worried that there will be some problems, he