Chapter 53

The first German attack was repulsed by us, but less than an hour later, they launched a new attack.

Kroshkov and I were talking about the battle in the shelter. He asked me modestly: "Comrade commander, I didn't expect that the individual bunker you asked the soldiers to dig was a trap for catching prisoners. But I have a question. How many prisoners can we catch with these dozens of traps? "

"In fact, I asked the soldiers to dig such traps, not to capture the prisoners, but to destroy the enemy more."

"Ah?" My answer made him puzzled. "How could you be so sure that the enemy would jump into the bunker we dug?"

"When the enemy attacks, in order to avoid our intensive firepower, we must find a place to escape. Seeing so many empty bunkers, it's natural to jump in and hide bullets. But what they didn't expect was that the cover was dug so deep that once they jumped in, it became a turtle in a jar, and we had to cut it off. "

At this point, the phone on the desk rang, and kroshkov picked up the phone. After listening to a few words, he said to each other, "I see. Let the soldiers get ready for battle." Put down the phone and told me, "the German devils are attacking again."

I quickly came to the lookout hole and raised my telescope to observe the situation on the battlefield outside.

In this attack, the German army was much more cautious than before. The tanks rushed in front and the infantry fell far behind. It seems that they are still using the same tactics. First, they use tanks to attack and tear a gap in our defense line. Then the infantry follow up and occupy the position to expand the breakthrough. However, it should not be admitted that this kind of attack was very effective, because the Soviet defense positions were usually linear, lacking or no depth configuration, so the German army often broke through one point, and then the whole defense line collapsed.

In the face of the rumbling German tanks, kroshkov was extremely calm. After all, the 316 division had fought several battles since it arrived here. With rich combat experience, kroshkov would not be as helpless as he was at the beginning of the war. Each company is equipped with ten anti tank guns, which are specially used to deal with tanks.

He said to me: "I go to the position to command the soldiers to fight tanks." Then he lifted the curtain and ran out.

"Wait a minute." I quickly stopped him and told him, "the German infantry are far away. Let the soldiers fight the tanks first. If the enemy's tanks advance too fast, let them pass through our line of defense, and then stop the infantry behind with intensive fire. Do you understand? "

"What about the German tanks coming to our rear?" Asked kroshkov, puzzled.

"Those tanks without infantry cover, you just send a few soldiers to throw a few burning bottles from the back, those big guys will become piles of burning scrap iron."

"I see, comrade commander. I know what to do With that, he trotted out of the shelter.

I was in the telescope, looking at the front of a tank, suddenly a meal, and then suddenly stopped, and then the whole body of smoke. Seeing all this, I know that the soldiers hit the target with anti tank guns.

Seeing that one of the tanks was shot, the rest of the tanks slowed down one after another and fired at our army in the process of moving. I counted out the tanks outside. In addition to those destroyed, there were 13 other tanks. It's estimated that they can't hold up with dozens of anti tank guns. So I picked up the phone on the desk, shook the handle a few times, and said loudly to the operator, "connect me with the artillery company." As soon as I got on the phone, I said in a loud voice, "is that gonchazin? I'm lieutenant commander oshanina. The artillery company is ready to fire. Attack the German tanks with armor piercing bullets. Move fast. " With that, I hung up and went to the lookout hole to observe the war outside.

In a short time, the shells of the antiaircraft artillery company roared and fell into the attack queue of the German tanks. Some of them directly hit the target, deflected the turret of the tank or broke the track. But more shells fell on the open space, and the earth rose to the sky.

There were too many German tanks. Although seven or eight of them were destroyed by successive attacks, the remaining tanks still crossed our trenches and rushed back. One of them rushed through the trench only ten meters away from my shelter. Seeing this, I quickly put down my telescope and ran out with a submachine gun.

As soon as the tank ran through the trench, a soldier jumped out of the trench and ran after him, throwing two flasks. The first one missed and landed on the left side of the tank, smashing the bottle and spilling the liquid all over the floor. The second bottle was ready to hit the turret of the tank, and the body was immediately surrounded by a fire. The soldier was stunned for a moment. He saw clearly that the enemy's tank was burning, and then he turned around and ran back.

I'm glad to see this young soldier who just killed a German tank rush towards me. I'm going to wait for him to enter the trench and praise him. He had two steps left before he could jump into the trench. Suddenly he leaned back and fell straight in front of me. First I was startled and looked up to find that it was the gun fired by a tank man climbing out of the destroyed tank. I quickly picked up the submachine gun in my hand and swept at him. The tank man first lost his submachine gun, then covered his chest and fell down from the tank head on and heavily on the ground.

"The German devil's infantry is coming up." I suddenly heard someone nearby shouting so loudly. I turned around and saw that when we were trying our best to deal with the tanks, the enemy infantry had unconsciously approached our position. I aimed at a few German soldiers who were coming up, pulled the trigger, and a row of bullets went out. Seeing that I opened fire, the soldiers around me opened fire one after another and fired at the enemy. We are shooting and the attacking German soldiers are fighting back. A bullet whistled and wiped my scalp, then I felt cool on my head. I stretched out my hand and touched it. It turned out that the bullet had knocked the cotton hat off, which scared me out of a cold sweat. How dangerous! If the bullet was lower, I would have to fantasize if I wanted to survive. I took the submachine gun and fired again until all the bullets in the magazine were gone. Then he squatted down, picked up the hat with a hole, bent over and trotted back to the shelter. As soon as I entered the room, I grabbed the phone on my desk and asked to get through to the antiaircraft artillery company. I ordered gonchazin to exchange high explosive bombs to bombard the German infantry immediately. With the support of artillery, we beat back the German attack again. In addition to destroying 14 tanks, nearly 200 infantry were killed and wounded. However, the casualties of our army were not small. There were only 200 people left in the original camp of 500 people. If I want to defend such an important position, I can't defend it only by 200 people. So while reporting the war situation to division commander Panfilov, I made a very direct request to him for reinforcements. He hesitated for a long time on the other end of the phone, and then reluctantly answered me, saying that if the group army or the front army sent him a reserve team, he would give priority to our battalion. Although I didn't get a satisfactory reply, I also know that Panfilov was powerless. In order to regain this position, he even used the most elite guard camp. Now, in addition to a group of staff officers and political workers, there are only a few security guards around him. Kroshkov stood by and watched me finish the call. Then he asked with concern, "how is it, can the division send reinforcements to my battalion?" I shook my head and said, "without reinforcements, it's all up to us."“ Do you have any good plans? " He asked me again, and unconsciously he changed my address to "you". I went to the lookout hole and looked at the battlefield where there was still smoke outside. I was thinking about how to use this effective force to hold this important position for as long as possible“ Do you have any good ideas? " Kroshkov asked me again. When he asked, I suddenly thought of several real-time strategy games that later generations had played. In the war against computers, if we just keep on defending, then the computer troops will keep on attacking, as if their forces are inexhaustible; If it launches an attack on its rear, even if it's just a sneak attack by a small force, it will stop the attack foolishly, and then transfer all its forces back to guard its base. Think of here, my train of thought suddenly enlightened: right! We can't attack all the time. We should defend. It's time for us to attack. So I said to kroshkov, "Comrade instructor I have come up with a way. If we want to hold the position, we should not always stay in the trenches and simply defend. We should take the initiative to attack the enemy." He was startled by my words. He quickly retorted: "Comrade commander, your idea is not appropriate. How many German troops are there and how many of us are there? Moreover, the German army has aircraft and artillery, while we have only one company of anti-aircraft artillery. If it is purely defensive, it's OK. If we attack with such forces, it's no different from death. " With a smile, I said, "did I talk about a frontal attack on the German army? My plan is to use the night to launch a night attack on the German army. "“ Night attack? " He asked uneasily, "how many troops do you need to invest?"“ We're not going to attack the fortified positions, we're just going to attack secretly, so we don't need too many troops. Thirty people are enough. "“ Who do you think is suitable to direct the operation? "“ I put forward this plan, so I will personally direct the night attack. "“ No, you're the top commander of the battalion. You can't take the risk. I'd better lead the team. " Kroshkov was afraid that I would be in danger, so he wanted to direct the operation for me“ I am the supreme commander of the battalion. If I has the final say, you won't argue with me. In order to prevent kroshkov from blocking my action, I raised my identity to suppress him“ Yes He agreed helplessly. Therefore, the plan for the German night attack was determined in a few words.