The militiamen had all rushed into Himki, and the dense gunfire and smoke from time to time showed that fierce fighting was going on inside. In terms of time, it is time for major malafeyev's troops to enter the settlement from the flank. Today, the battle was quite smooth. Originally, we only planned to make a feint attack in the front. Unexpectedly, with the cooperation of the tank troops, we attacked immediately, and the feint attack became the main attack.
After a while, I heard the sound of guns from the residential area gradually thinning down. I think the battle is coming to an end. After all, there are only dozens of houses here, which are evenly distributed on both sides of the road. Even if the soldiers fight house by house, they should destroy the enemy.
I moved the camera to the middle of the forest and residential areas, and found that there were still wounded people struggling in the open field. Put down the telescope immediately and looked left and right. Captain bukov, standing on the right, was watching the battle with a telescope, while captain Yushchenko, the commander of the guard company at the left rear, stood upright and looked ahead. I quickly told him: "Comrade captain, you immediately take people to the front to carry down the wounded!"
"Yes He agreed very simply, turned and rushed behind, shouting, "come with me." Forty or fifty soldiers, originally hidden in the simple fortifications, stood up and ran to the open after Yushchenko. And grissa and the other two soldiers stayed by my side, as a guard.
Seeing Yushchenko commanding the soldiers to treat the wounded, bukov put down his telescope and carefully asked for my advice: "Comrade division commander, we have almost taken Himki down. You see, shall we go to the front as well? "
I turned around and looked at the place where kashevsky was lying just now. There was only a pool of frozen black blood on the ground. My heart said that I would not follow his footsteps, right? I listened to the gunfire coming from the residential area. It seemed that it was mainly the gunfire of our army. The German submachine gun occasionally rang twice, which was immediately suppressed by the gunfire of our army. It seems that the German army was almost wiped out at this time. There should be no danger in the past. So I nodded and said, "OK!"
When I just came out of the fortification, I was still a little hesitant. I was afraid that a bullet would bring me down. But after a long walk, I was close to Yushchenko, where they were treating the wounded, and it was still safe. My heart stone fell to the ground. I could not help but quicken my pace and walk quickly to the residential area.
By the time we walked into Himki, the battle was over. Along the way, we saw soldiers cleaning the battlefield, some moving the corpses to the roadside, some escorting the German troops with hands up to the settlement.
Seeing that Himki was recaptured, Captain bukov was relieved and said with emotion, "Comrade division commander, we have finally recaptured the residential area!"
"Yes, it is!" I said faintly: "if there is no tank division's support today, it is not easy to recapture here." At this point, I looked around. Except for the two tanks left outside the residential area, I didn't see any of the other tanks, and I didn't know where they were going.
When I was looking east and West, I suddenly heard someone yelling at me. Looking in the direction of the voice, it was bunyachenko and two tank soldiers coming towards me. The commander's arm was bandaged in front of his chest. It seemed that he was injured again.
I met him, touched his arm gently, and asked with concern, "chief of staff, are you injured?"
Bunyachenko said with a wry smile: "originally, the battle was about to end, but unexpectedly, an enemy anti tank man burst out from a house on the side of the road and broke the track of the tank. One of the tank soldiers died on the spot, and my hand was injured. But it doesn't matter. When the tank is repaired, I can still fight the enemy. "
Just as he was talking, suddenly a militiamen came running from the West intersection, shouting: "Captain bukov, Captain bukov! Something's wrong
"What's the matter?" Asked bukov nervously.
”When the militiamen ran up to us, they did not even care to salute. They panted and said, "tanks, enemy tanks, there are enemy tanks in the west forest!"
"What?" We were all startled by the news. Only after Himki got back, the enemy reinforcements appeared. We don't know if we can stop them with our current strength?
I immediately told buniachenko: "chief of staff, please quickly transfer the remaining tanks and try to block them out of the residential area." Then he said to bukov, "Comrade captain, organize the militia, enter the residential buildings, and choose favorable terrain to stop the enemy. Now we have to defend Himki at all costs and never let the enemy fight in again. "
Just as I was giving orders, another soldier came. From his uniform, we can tell that this time it was not the militia, but the soldiers of 389 tank division. He ran in front of us, took a few breaths, excitedly reported: "report commander Comrade! There are our troops beyond the forest
We are completely confused by this news. Just now we said it was German tanks, but this time it was our troops. Who is right? I pondered a little, then waved and said, "go and see what's going on!"
We came to the northwest intersection and saw an armored force approaching in the distance. Six T34 tanks opened the road in front of us, followed by armored vehicles and trucks full of soldiers. Because the distance is only 200 meters, even if you don't use a telescope, you can clearly see that it's our army. Seeing that it was his own army, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Buniachenko gave the order to the soldiers around him: "bring the flag of our division quickly and insert it at the intersection, so as to avoid misunderstanding with the opposite army."