Chapter 322

The miracle didn't happen!

Captain Ignatov returned to his camp and soon organized a second charge.

Both the commander and the soldiers showed great bravery, but under the intensive German fire, they fell in front of the position in batches. Even captain Ignatov, who had dozens of machine gun bullets in his body, fell to the ground after several rounds.

The hasty second attack failed again.

Back in front of Colonel Anqiu feyev, Lieutenant Colonel yevgeni bitterly reported: "report, comrade division commander, the first battalion's attack failed again, and the battalion commander, Captain Ignatov, was killed. Of the 700 men in the battalion, less than 20 were evacuated, and all of them were wounded. "

Under such circumstances, if another commander is replaced, he may consider suspending the attack and calling on everyone to discuss what kind of fighting method should be adopted to reverse the unfavorable situation. But Colonel anchufiev, even though he saw the heavy casualties of the yevgeni regiment with his own eyes, did not blink an eye, but said coldly, "Comrade yevgeni, I need to remind you. Our task now is to open a breakthrough in the German encirclement and to cover the main force of the group army to stand out of the encirclement. In order to achieve this goal, it is worth the sacrifice. Go back to the regiment immediately and organize the third attack as soon as possible. " Lieutenant Colonel Eugene sighed helplessly. After saluting, he turned around and was about to go back to the regiment to set up a new attack. However, he was stopped by the colonel. "Lieutenant Colonel Eugene, wait a minute."

I thought the division commander had changed his mind and stopped Eugene to adjust his deployment. Unexpectedly, he said coldly, "I don't want any casualties. I just want the opposite position. Even if you have finished the whole regiment, you will be captured by me. "

After hearing the death order from the division commander, habi and the other regiment leader were not good enough to persuade him, so they could only keep silent. Seeing that the matter was irreparable, Eugene went back to the team with his shoulders collapsed to organize a new round of futile and deadly attack.

When I saw this scene, I couldn't laugh or cry. What time is it? I still imagined that in the first World War, we would use the sea of people tactics to break through the enemy's positions. Didn't we let the soldiers die in vain? However, since the two commanders did not advise the division commander, why should I, the battalion commander, do anything to make trouble for myself.

Anyway, being idle is also idle. I waved to wugad, who was not far away, to signal him to come.

Wugad trotted all the way to me, looked at the dark faced teacher and embarrassed commander, and asked me in a low voice: "Comrade major, what's your instruction?"

I pointed to the side with my hand and ordered, "gather the soldiers of the eighth company and let them dig trenches."

"Dig trenches?" Wugad a little puzzled to ask: "but now we are attacking, why dig trenches."

With a sneer, I said slowly, "be prepared. In case the attack is frustrated and the German counterattack, at least we have positions to resist for a while." Although there is a certain element of anger in what I said, if we can't provide firepower cover for the attacking troops during the attack, no matter how many times we attack again, the result will be the same.

At the command, the soldiers of the eighth company immediately started to take action, took out their tools and dug up the foxhole. As early as a few months ago, I asked them to have a long-term civil engineering major in the field. Now I'm really familiar with this job. In less than ten minutes, most of the soldiers' personal bunkers had been completed and were trying to connect them together.

The attack organized by yevgeni was beaten back again. Watching the troops with heavy casualties hastily retreat back to the starting position, anchufiev jumped and cursed there. He grabbed commander habi, who was standing beside him, and loudly ordered: "commander habi, take your regiment up immediately and help yevgeni. They must take down the enemy's position."

Hearing the order that we should die, my heart suddenly cooled. Just as he was thinking about how to deal with this order, a soldier came with several armed men in civilian clothes. He went up to anchufiev and reported aloud, "Comrade division commander, comrade sotnikov, commander of the guerrillas, is here."

Anchufiev shook hands with a stout middle-aged man and began to talk intimately.

Seeing the speculation between them, an idea suddenly flashed into my mind: since they are guerrillas, they must be very familiar with the terrain. If they can be our guide, maybe we can go around to the back of the Germans and attack them back and forth to completely annihilate the enemy blocking the way.

Determined, I went up to anchufiev and sotnikov and interrupted their conversation. First of all, he said to the colonel, "Sir, I'm sorry to disturb you. Can I have a word with Comrade sotnikov? " Seeing the Colonel nodding his head, he turned his head and asked, "Comrade sotnikov, are there any fighters in your guerrillas who are familiar with the terrain here?"

Sotnikov was stunned by my question and then replied, "yes. Many of the fighters in the guerrillas are local people. They are as familiar with the terrain as they are with their own homes. "

Anchufiev may not be satisfied. I interrupted the conversation between him and the guerrilla leader and asked rigidly, "major oshanina, what do you want to know?"

"Comrade division commander," I quickly explained, "I think that since we have to make a great sacrifice to attack from the front, why don't we send an army to quietly bypass the German positions, sneak to their rear and take them by surprise." My suggestion brightened Colonel anchufiev's eyes. Although he repeatedly stressed that he would open a breakthrough at all costs, he would be willing to try if there was a way to make less sacrifice. Unexpectedly, after listening to me, sotnikov shook his head and said, "this task is very difficult to carry out. You know, there are swamps on both sides of the highland, and the troops can't get through. If you want to go around to the back of the Germans, you have to walk five or six kilometers to the South first, and then turn to the East. Although there are marshes there, as long as you have experienced people to lead the way, you can still pass through the middle. "