When it was dark, finally, the roar of the engine broke the silence.

During these hours, the soldiers of the armored division were busy in the rear. They routinely maintained the tanks, adjusted the tracks, and cleaned the barrel. After all these were done, they also carried out some additional projects.

For example, the gaps on the tank were plugged tightly, and the gun barrel mouth was wrapped with a rain cloth. At the same time, the precious infrared night vision device on the turret was removed, wrapped tightly with a rain cloth, and placed inside the car body.

Now, they are just waiting for something.

In the Armored Division, the number of trucks was several thousand to supply the armored division's attack. This time, what the convoy transported was not ordinary oil and ammunition, but some special large pipes.

"Quick, I'm working!" Mo Delin, the leader of the 5th Armored Regiment of the Vikings, shouted loudly to his subordinates.

The big pipe on the truck was more than one meter thick and more than five meters long. Several people carried the pipe and slowly came to the next side of the tank.

Under the wild conditions, there are only a few cranes, and in order to quickly assemble these large pipes, they have to be manually operated.

There are four holes at the top of the pipe. Push four wires into it, and then pull it to hold the pipe up.

"Slow down, slower!" The captain of each tank was commanding, looking at the upright pipe, slowly lifting the tank's turret, and then accurately facing the position reserved on the top of the canopy cover above the turret.

Below the pipe, there are rubber partitions and a circle of screws on it. Now, everyone is twisting the screws quickly. With the constant crunch, the pipe has been installed in place.

Then, the four iron wires on the top were fixed to the four corners of the tank body, and the pipe could finally be securely fixed!

At this time, the tanks looked particularly strange. The thick pipes turned the tank queue into a forest composed of thick pipes.

"Our scouts have already conducted reconnaissance along the river bank. At a five-kilometer downstream, the river surface is wide, the water depth is not more than five meters, and the flow rate is not fast. Our tank troops can go there." Division Commander Felix came to the Fifth Armored Regiment and said to the regiment commander Modelin: "At nine o'clock in the evening, our tank troops rushed over and opened up a river bank position so that the wheeled infantry fighting vehicles behind us can cross the river. Then, tonight, we will defeat the Soviet army opposite!"

"Yes, division commander, please rest assured that we will not be afraid of this small river. Nothing can stop us from moving forward." Modelin said: "Although we are not Germanic, our will to fight is not worse than any army."

Felix nodded, his face extremely solemn: "The Empire will not forget any warriors who fought bravely for the Empire."

They were about to cross the river. Although they had similar training in the past, they still face great dangers now, and even when danger occurs, they have no time to escape.

But no one is afraid!

Tanks rumbled and headed downstream under the guidance of the scouts in front of them. After walking for twenty minutes on a ten-kilometer road, they saw the wide and calm river surface.

"Note that if danger occurs, start the escape operation immediately. It is not shameful to discard our tanks at this time." After Modelin issued this order in the radio, he began to crawl up from inside the turret.

The pipe was installed on the upper end of the hatch above the head of the vehicle, so when they entered the tank, they drilled into the turret from the hatch on the other side. Now, the captain of each tank opened the hatch on the top and then began to climb up.

The inside of this huge pipe is enough to accommodate a person. When climbing up, Modelin left his upper half of his body exposed outside, and then shouted loudly toward the bottom: "Go forward and enter the water!"

At this time, the driver in front checked the hatch cover above his head again, and the seal was well sealed. There was a dim light inside the tank. The driver stepped on the accelerator and hung up the gear. The tank was slowly moving towards the water.

Can a tank cross the river? The answer is yes, and the current device is said to have been developed at the suggestion of Head of Cialique. It refers to the principle of the snorkel of a submarine and uses this thick and large tube to allow the tank to obtain fresh air.

However, tanks are different from submarines after all. For example, tanks will not float up, they can only move forward at the bottom of the river.

This requires that the bottom of the river is very strong. If you encounter a soft place, once the tank falls into it, it will be completely stopped. At this time, the personnel on the tank can only survive by themselves.

At the same time, the depth of the river cannot exceed the height of the ventilator, otherwise the ventilator will be flooded by water and the people inside will not end up well.

Of course, another point is the sealing nature of the tank.

Tanks are land combat weapons and have no sealing properties. Even in later generations, in order to pass through nuclear and biochemical battlefield areas, the tanks are still not completely sealed.

In this era, tanks are even worse. For example, when the tank driver observes the front inside the tank, it passes through a slit in front. If you encounter the most unlucky time, the machine gun bullets fired by the other party can pass through the slit intact, and the driver behind may be killed.

Now, all the gaps around the tank are blocked. They use some of the devices at hand to seal them, and even drip wax on them. Even so, when the tank's body enters the water, there are still many gaps that slowly penetrate into the water.

It is impossible to completely seal it.

The driver was still driving the tank carefully. Now, the entire tank had completely submerged into the water and could not see anything, but he could still feel that if he suddenly heard the engine behind him starts to struggle and even risked being shut down, it means that the situation below is complicated and he is trapped in the car, so he must quickly adjust the direction and avoid it.

The rest of the people inside the tank were carefully observing and looking at the gaps around. If the water in the gap suddenly becomes more and even flows in, then you have to use everything at hand to block it!

At the top of the ventilator, Mo Delin was responsible for commanding the entire vehicle. It was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and the stars were shining well above his head. At the same time, he was holding a mp40 with a single night vision device in his hand. With the help of the night vision device, he looked at the river in front.

Soon, the surrounding river water flooded the vent pipe, which was less than one meter high. The entire tank seemed to be a turtle sinking into the river, leaving only Modelin, as if he was sitting in a bathtub moving forward on the river surface.

Advance, Vikings!
Chapter completed!