Chapter 14

In the next few days, the defense deployment of the Soviet army was greatly adjusted: the first was to defend the south of Leningrad A roaring shell landed on the south slope of the Nameless Highland, which interrupted my interest in seeing the scenery. It seemed that the enemy's attack, which had been silent for several days, would start again. I immediately put down my telescope and turned around to run back. When the sound of the guns rumbled, I had already run to the air defense position, and the soldiers of the company had been waiting here.

"Lieutenant sapchenko! Sergeant Karenina. "I called out to my deputy company commander and platoon commander.

"Here we are." Lieutenant sapchenko and sergeant Karenina heard me and trotted up to me, stopping to salute me.

"Lieutenant sapchenko, take five antiaircraft guns and one antiaircraft machine gun to the new defensive position." I took Karenina's helmet and issued instructions to them: "Karenina, the remaining one anti-aircraft gun and two anti-aircraft machine guns stay here under your command. Make sure the air defense in the highlands."

"Yes." They agreed to turn around and command each other to carry out my orders.

After the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns entered the new position, the second lieutenant and I stood in the bunker and watched the battle with binoculars under the hillside. The minefield in front of the highland defense line was also heavily shelled, and the buried mines were detonated one after another. The continuous explosion of Mines made the damaged tanks and armored vehicles re ignite, and then they were immediately put out by the overwhelming soil.

The shells rained down on the high ground. Although the nearest impact point was about 50 meters away from me, I still felt the violent explosion as if it was around me. The earth was shaking violently and my ears were buzzing.

The shelling stopped suddenly after 45 minutes, just as suddenly as it started. First, two red and white flares flew up on the other side of the German position, and a dozen or so tanks crossed the trench in a wedge-shaped line. Then, the German soldiers in grey green uniforms who were lying in the trench immediately jumped up and charged towards the high ground behind the tanks.

There was a violent explosion, and the leading German tank stopped abruptly, followed by an explosion of flame coming out through the tank. And then there was a second explosion, and then there was a third - it was the other two tanks that came up, and they hit the mines and exploded again.

At this time, there was a lot of gunfire. First, the machine guns roared, and then the whole battalion opened fire. The tankers who jumped out of the tank cockpit fled backward one after another. Without exception, they were knocked down by the Soviet firepower.

At first, only the sound of intensive gunfire and machine gun fire could be heard from the Soviet positions, but a few minutes later, the sound was overwhelmed by the explosion of shells. After the artillery attack just now, there were few mines that didn't explode. Several tanks behind had passed the minefield successfully, stopped moving near the trench, and opened fire fiercely with guns and machine guns.

The shells landed directly on the defensive positions, and the most dangerous machine gun fire points were destroyed one by one by German artillery fire. The soldiers in grey green uniforms behind, carrying submachine guns, made a short leap and gradually approached the trench.

"It's our turn." I finished this sentence to myself, turned around and told the second lieutenant next to me: "attack tanks with anti-aircraft guns, and infantry with anti-aircraft machine guns. Go ahead and carry it out."

The German attack was very fast. As soon as the infantry approached the trench, the tanks that had stopped began to move forward. The soldiers who lack anti tank weapons have nothing to do with this kind of giant. Some of them jumped out of the trench and ran to the rear. As a result, they were knocked down before they ran far away. Two tanks crossed the first trench and came quickly towards us. Some of the German soldiers rushed into the trench and fought fiercely with the soldiers inside.

Just then, I heard the sound of guns behind me, and a blast of mud burst up beside the two approaching tanks“ It's the antiaircraft gun firing. "I had this idea in my head.

For these well-trained antiaircraft artillery, it is much easier to fight a tank moving on the ground than a plane moving at high speed in the air. There were several more explosions, this time something inside a tank exploded. Smoke came out of the tank's observation hole, and the body shook and stopped.

The second tank drove forward as usual, several shells fell on the side and exploded, which did not affect its moving speed at all. The distance between the tank and the second bunker was only about ten meters. Suddenly, I saw a man jump out of the bunker and throw a flask at the tank. Maybe the soldier was too nervous and didn't hit the target. The burning bottle fell on the ground and rolled. Before he made any remedial action, he was immediately knocked down by the machine gun on the tank. Just then, another man jumped out of the trench, rushed over, grabbed the burning bottle on the ground and smashed it at the tank. The surface of the hit tank immediately burst into flames. It seemed that the fire stuck to the armor plate, trapped the tank tightly and engulfed the whole tank. Several fire covered tankers screamed and jumped out, rolling wildly on the ground, their shouts actually covered the roar of the tank engine.

The man who threw the flasks at the tank had turned his head and ran quickly to the hidden trench. I saw him through the telescope. It was captain helopov, a political instructor. He was one or two steps short of rushing into the trench. All of a sudden, he fell to the ground with convulsions“ "Helopov", watching the captain sacrifice in front of my eyes, immediately made me red. I rushed to the anti-aircraft machine gun, drove the shooter down, and sat down on the seat of the machine gun. At the same time, I yelled angrily at the Second Lieutenant: "continue to fire at the German Army, don't save ammunition." Then he slammed on the firing button. The four barreled anti-aircraft machine gun fired a lot of fire at the German infantry in front of the position. As I cried, I stepped on the gun button. The machine gun trembled, the bullet shot out of the muzzle, and the cartridge case jumped to the ground. Watching the German army falling at my gunpoint, I began to calm down. It turns out that death is so simple. In the fierce battlefield, it only takes a moment to dedicate many lives to the God of death. This is war!