On the morning of July 8th at eight o'clock, Wang Zhong commanded Vehicle 422 to enter the preset positions.
The other vehicles were already in the shelters, covered tightly with camouflage nets draped with leaves.
The surviving crews of the two BT-7s from yesterday were split up and assigned to two understrength T34 crews.
As for the recovered Mark III tank, it was operated by gunners from the 31st Guards Regiment and used as a fixed artillery emplacement.
Among the military academy students who had joined the 31st Guards, there was a platoon of artillery school trainees; these young people had a strong capacity for learning and quickly mastered the manual turret operation of the Mark III.
After all, the Mark III had decent armor, which should afford these trainees a higher survival rate than if they were directly manning the 45mm anti-tank guns.
