Chapter 42

A shell roared down on the Soviet position. After the earth shaking explosion, smoke rolled up.

In the observation post of the group army, I stood in front of the observation hole and looked at the position shrouded by gunfire with a telescope. I couldn't help worrying about the soldiers on the position. You should know that the soldiers of the 230th preparatory training regiment on the front were factory workers not long ago. Although many of them had participated in the domestic revolutionary war and fought against foreign intervention forces and bandits, most of them only had shooting training, and knew how to shoot bullets out of the guns. As for what they could hit after shooting them out, Then only God knows. There is no skill in the offensive and defensive battle of the position. What the two sides are competing with each other is the number of troops, as well as the equipment and morale of the soldiers. In the face of the German crazy attack, let such a lack of training troops to defend such an important position, I think of here, my heart is raised to the throat.

The German artillery stopped. After a short silence, the huge roar of tank engines came from the front of the position. It seems that the German infantry is starting a new round of attack.

In a short time, the sound of our artillery counterattack rang out on the smoke filled position. Listening to the sporadic gunfire, my heart suddenly cool half, the position of more than a dozen artillery company of hundreds of guns, is there only so few guns left?

A few hours before the battle, when general lelushenka and I went to the front to inspect, I found that several artillery companies of the army were directly deployed behind the trench, and the guns were placed one by one on the open ground. Seeing this situation, I directly pointed out to him this wrong deployment at that time: "major general, this arrangement of artillery is not good! You can see that the guns are so densely arranged that if even one shell falls into the artillery line when the German army is shelling, the whole artillery company will be reimbursed by the shells killed. Without the support of the artillery company, the poorly equipped and untrained militia will not be able to withstand the German tank attack. "

After hearing this, he shrugged his shoulders and answered in a helpless tone, "Dear major oshanina, my comrade Commissioner! I admit that there are many unsatisfactory aspects in the deployment you have seen, but they are all implemented in full accordance with the provisions of the military regulations. At present, the general regulations were specially formulated by Marshal Shaposhnikov on the basis of his experience during the civil war, and were also included in the teaching materials of the Military Academy of vorongze. We don't have permission to modify this. "

After hearing what he said, I was completely speechless. Shaposhnikov was a great militarist and had a high prestige in the Soviet army. However, he always adhered to the concept of World War I, believing that organizing strong defensive positions with artillery and machine guns would break the enemy's head and blood. I have no idea how untimely such a deployment is in the current situation. Artillery positions are so densely arranged in open areas without cover that they are the living targets of the enemy's artillery and aircraft.

The cold wind dispersed the smoke, and I could see clearly the situation on the battlefield. The German tanks, which were huge in scale, formed a formation and pressed fiercely towards our formation. Behind them were dense infantry in loose formation. Occasionally, one or two tanks were hit by sporadic fire on the ground of our army and stopped in smoke, but more enemies continued to push our position.

Seeing that the tank was approaching the first trench, the position was still quiet and there was no movement. Next came general lelushenka's anxious voice: "what's the matter? The infantry didn't fire yet. Did they all die in the shelling just now? "

A German tank crossed the trench, just a short distance away, with a huge explosion, the swaggering giant suddenly turned into a fireball. With the explosion, the originally silent light and heavy weapons suddenly opened fire, and dense bullets were fired from the trench towards the enemy. The German army was caught unprepared. More than a dozen infantry rushed in front of them suddenly settled down. Then they fell on the ground straightly, and those behind them quickly fell on the ground.

A few more tanks crossed the trench, not far away, without exception. The follow-up of the tank just now became several piles of burning scrap iron. I finally saw how the tanks were destroyed this time. It turned out that the soldiers in the position came out of the hiding place one after another after the German tanks crossed the trench, blocked the enemy infantry with intensive fire, and then threw flasks and anti tank mines at the tanks from behind. However, this method was really effective. In a short time, more than ten German tanks were bombed in succession.

However, there were too many German tanks. The front tanks were destroyed and the rear tanks swarmed in. Finally, several tanks safely crossed the trench and drove towards the headquarters of the group army. Along the way, several artillery of our army were crushed into scrap iron.

Looking at the tank getting closer and closer to us, not only I was worried, but also leliushenka was flustered. He grabbed the phone on the table and yelled: "ornianko! Orniaco!! where are you? Where are you? " Without waiting for an answer, he continued to shout: "attack the observation post of the group army immediately and fire at me! Fire at me

Soon, the shells roared down around the observation post, shaking the roof of the earth down one after another. As soon as leliushenka threw the phone in his hand, he pulled me to lie on the ground of the observation post. When the gunfire stopped, he got up from the ground, bent over the observation hole and looked out. Then he picked up the bobosha submachine gun I had put on the table and rushed out.

I got up from the ground and looked outside. I found that all the tanks that had just rushed over had been destroyed and were burning not far away from the observation post. The submachine gun was taken away by the major general. I had to pull out my pistol and rush out of the observation post. I rushed out of the door and saw that lelushenka had jumped out of the trench and was running towards a burning German tank. Two tankers covered with fire escaped from the cockpit and were knocked down by his random gun. On the right side came the rumble of guns, and I turned back to see some tanks flying over, firing while driving. I recognized at a glance that it was a Soviet tank, small but flexible“ Т－－ 34 "tank. He was still standing in front of the blazing German tank, waving his hand with a submachine gun and yelling, "orniaco! Olnenko The hatch of the leading tank was open, and olnenko, the commander of the tank brigade, stood there with half of his body exposed, waved to lelushenka, and promised in a loud voice, "look at me, I'll go ahead and beat those bastards myself!" General lelushenka continued to wave his weapon, leaning over to ornianko's tank and shouting, "forward, forward! Give them something to see! " The situation is developing to our advantage. It seems that I don't need to do my best, so I put my pistol back in the holster and walked slowly along the trench to them. Just then, a shell roared down between them. Olnenko fell on the tank's canopy without saying a word. General lelushenka covered his forehead, slowly turned around and fell to the ground. His submachine gun was thrown to one side“ Comrade major general I was surprised by the unexpected change. I yelled and quickly climbed out of the trench with my hands and feet and ran to him.