Chapter 180 Katukov

That's all for today, continue tomorrow...

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This problem must not have been discovered by Shulka first, because it has happened time and time again on the battlefield.

The reason why no one brought it up... On the one hand, it is normal to have casualties on the battlefield, and on the other hand, the Soviet Army emphasized "combat spirit" and "bravery", so they didn't think it was a "problem" .

If it is regarded as a "problem", it is a cowardly performance to deliberately avoid the enemy's blow.

But the colonel didn't seem to have such an idea.

"Do you have a solution to this problem, Comrade Sisoy?" said the colonel.

Hisoi thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "This is difficult to do, Comrade Colonel, maybe... we can shorten the length of the antenna to make it less conspicuous, or shift its position so that the enemy cannot easily find it. But It is impossible to completely cover it, otherwise it cannot receive the signal!"

The Colonel frowned and nodded in agreement.

Shulka couldn't help rolling his eyes, and said, "The solution to this problem is very simple, Colonel, we only need to install an antenna for the other tanks!"

Hisoy couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, then looked at Shulka with surprise on his face: "Good way, second lieutenant! And it's really simple..."

Of course it is very simple, because you only need to install a dummy antenna for other tanks. It's like a brain teaser.

However, it was not thought up by Shulka himself. The modern 59 tank command vehicle of our army has two antennas, one to communicate with the superior and the other to communicate with the subordinate.

So the Vietnamese looked for tanks with two antennas to fight.

After knowing this, all 59s are equipped with two antennas, of course one of them is fake... If the antennas cannot be reduced and hidden, then let other tanks be like it, which is also a kind of concealment.

The same is true for the antenna of the T34 command vehicle.

"It is indeed a good idea, Comrade Shulka!" The colonel smiled and nodded.

"Comrade Colonel!" Shulka was a little surprised that the colonel knew his name.

"I've seen your picture!" The colonel shook hands with Shulka and explained, "In the newspaper, 'Breakout Hero' Shulka..."

Hisoy looked at Shulka in surprise: "Colonel, you mean... he is the one who thought of installing a telephone on the tank!"

"Yes!" the colonel replied, "I knew he would join the Fourth Brigade, but I didn't expect him to solve a problem as soon as he came! My name is Katukov, it's an honor to meet you..."

"It's an honor for me too, Colonel!" Shulka replied.

But the next second he was stunned. The seemingly ordinary and humorous colonel in front of him was actually Katukov... Katukov, known as the first tank soldier in the Soviet Union, was the newly formed Commander of the 4th Tank Brigade? !

However, this does not seem to be unexpected. To form a mobile force capable of fighting the German army, of course, a commander with strong organizational skills and excellent military qualities is required.

Katukov certainly fit the bill.

Due to the urgent military situation, the Fourth Tank Brigade started training the next day.

"We only have one week!" Katukov made it clear to everyone from the very beginning: "You know why, we don't have much time to train, otherwise the enemy will hit Moscow! So, with All the time you have available, you are familiar with tanks, comrades-in-arms, and everything! Only in this way can you defeat the Germans and become the backbone of Moscow defense!"

Katukov did what he said. During this week, the tank soldiers and mechanized infantrymen trained almost non-stop except for a few hours of sleep.

Practice tactics, practice coordination, plus repair bridges, pave roads, mine clearance, design routes for tanks, etc.

Practice during the day and practice at night.

The veterans therefore complained: "These should be the work of sappers, and we are infantry!"

"That's right!" The actor also expressed his dissatisfaction: "If we are half dead because of road repairs on the road, how can we still hold up guns and fight the enemy on the battlefield?"

"This guy is simply a spy sent by the Germans, he just wants to exhaust us to death!"

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So "Spy" became Katukov's nickname in private.

This nickname is not pleasant, and it may even be misleading, especially those of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are always staring at their own people.

But Katukov didn't mind when he heard the nickname.

"If they hate me that much!" said Katukov, "that means I've trained enough!"

One day Leonyev complained to Shulka: "Comrade commander! Why don't you report to your superiors?"

"Report what?" Shulka asked back.

"I think such training is pointless!" Leonyev said. "As they say, we are going to be regarded as sappers!"

"I don't think there's anything wrong with that!" Shulka said.

"What?" The soldiers couldn't help being stunned when they heard the answer.

"It's like a tank guy learning how to fix a tank!" Shulka said. "That's what maintenance guys do, too."

"But it's not about us..." said the actor.

"The war has something to do with each of us, Okunev!" Shulka interrupted Okunev: "We are an army, and if we have to face the same enemy, it has something to do with us!"

After a pause, Shulka went on to say: "The fourth brigade is a fast-moving force, comrades! The purpose of forming this force is to reach the destination in the shortest possible time and make up for the gap... If What if we don't have engineers or not enough engineers? Shouldn't we just go ahead and wait for the engineers to arrive?"

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help being silent, so the training continued.

But Katukov's training is really a bit ruthless: what he often does is to drive a few T34s into the mud pile and get stuck in it so that the soldiers can find a way to get them out.

It's still a trivial matter to toss people so much, but those T34s are precious... Before that, the T34s that were produced and immediately shipped to the front line to rescue the field could not be exchanged for gold.

Just because the fourth tank brigade was to be formed, all the T34s transported to the front line were cut off during this period, and even some of the T34s fighting on the front line were withdrawn.

The price of doing so is a sudden increase in front-line casualties.

With the firepower and defenses on the front line down, it is natural to use human lives to stop the German attack, and sometimes even the use of human lives will not produce it... tanks, there are certain occasions where no matter how many human lives are used to pile them up It's useless.

Therefore, it is not too much to say that these T34s were bought with blood and lives.

If the soldiers on the front line knew that some tanks were driven into the mud by Katukov, they might really regard Katukov as a spy.