Chapter 539

Hearing the shouts of Xie jierikov, the captains of the support units quickly restrained their subordinates from shooting blindly. With the order, the gunfire on the ground of our army became sparse.

Although the enemy's tanks are still shooting at our army's positions, their infantry have been scared to stop by our shooting just now, and they lie on the ground to shoot back. The combat effectiveness of the German soldiers is far stronger than that of our troops. Although they shot in a hurry, the bullets they fired still caused certain casualties to our troops. From time to time, some officers and soldiers were hit by bullets and turned over in the trenches.

The short pause of the enemy in the process of attack gave me precious time to adjust my deployment. Risking the bullets whizzing over my head and around me, I raised my body and yelled at sjerykov: "Comrade captain, our soldiers are so bad at shooting that they can no longer waste ammunition blindly. When the enemy comes near, let them shoot with a platoon gun. "

Shejerikov agreed, and then gave an order to the left and right soldiers: "pass it down, no one can shoot without my order. When the enemy comes near, we will shoot with a platoon gun and blow up with hand grenades. "

The soldiers around him immediately communicated his orders to his comrades in arms word by word, one by one. Soon the gunfire from the trench stopped. I saw many officers and men take off their backpacks, take out grenades from them and put them in front of them.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, I looked around, but did not see the shadow of our tank unit. I can't help being anonymous. What's captain Gaidar doing? It's been an hour since he left, and there's no trace of tank units. Can't several tanks go around a small residential area in such a long time? Looking back, we can see that in the residential area hundreds of meters away, there are several places with thick smoke. Needless to say, the buildings just bombarded by gunfire are burning. The exit of the settlement was quiet, not to mention the light cannon company, not even the commandos led by Oleg. It seems that we will fight alone in a certain period of time.

Seeing that our position had stopped shooting, the German army climbed up with fear, and then charged forward with guns. Seeing that the soldiers who ran fast were less than 30 meters away from our position, they could rush to our position with only one sprint. At this moment, they only heard Xie jielikou roar: "shoot!" Then he raised his pistol and fired first.

The sound of gunfire was an order. The commanders and fighters in the position opened fire together and fired a neat line of guns. Although our army still fired the line of guns as before, it could not pose too much threat to the German army. One of the soldiers who came out of the residential area with me was firing a platoon of guns. Unfortunately, he was shot. As soon as he tilted his head, he lay on the side of the trench and did not move. I grabbed a grenade from his side, pulled the string, raised my hand and threw it out.

The smoky grenade, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, landed next to a German combat team and exploded. Although the fire and smoke did not kill them, they were so scared that the German soldiers who wanted to charge forward fell on the ground. The grenades I threw seemed to wake everyone up. They roared from the trench and smashed into the enemy's attack line. A moment later, the grenades exploded in the middle of the German army. One after another, the sound of explosion was deafening. Shrapnel with the smell of death flew everywhere, harvesting the lives of the German army recklessly.

At this time, shejerikov jumped out of the trench, holding a rifle picked up from the hands of the dead soldiers, waving and calling out to his subordinates: "come on, brothers." With his shouts, dozens of soldiers jumped out of the trench, overtaking sjerykov and rushing forward.

Not resigned to playing second fiddle, the rest of the soldiers jumped out of the trench, and rushed to the front with a sharp bayonet or a shovel and axe. The German soldier who had seen the ground rise up did not go forward and stab a knife, but a shovel and axe slashed.

Another soldier I brought out was a little eager to give a try when he saw that the fighting ahead was in full swing. He asked me anxiously: "Comrade division commander, shall we stay here and watch our commanders and fighters fight with the enemy?"

I looked at him displeased and said, "Comrade soldier, you are my guard now. You must stay where I am. The division commander's duty is to stay in the rear and command the battle. It's not to rush into the front like an ordinary soldier. If I die, the troops that lose command may be defeated or destroyed by the enemy. If that happens, will you insist that I take you to the charge? "

After I taught the soldier a few words, he squatted in the trench honestly and continued to carry out the responsibility of protecting my safety. Seeing this temporary guest guard, I can't help regretting that I knew I should bring Vera's guard class. At least, as my guards, they knew what their responsibilities were and wouldn't give me any advice.

The German soldiers who had long been dazed by grenades were few left. If their tank fire had not killed our army from time to time, they would have been completely annihilated under the encirclement and annihilation of our superior forces. I didn't expect another German army to emerge from behind the German tanks. It made me shiver to see the sudden emergence of this army. No wonder the German army stopped advancing just now and did not launch an attack on our position. It turned out that they had been waiting for the arrival of this army.

The German soldiers roared and rushed to the battlefield where the enemy and us were entangled. Their submachine guns were frantically spitting out their tongues of fire. Under the fierce firepower attack, the people who were covered by the firepower network in the area without shelter fell one by one regardless of the enemy or us.

As soon as I looked at it, I was in a hurry. According to this way of playing, all my people would die soon. But in the trench, there was only me and another soldier left. Even if we both rushed up, we would die in vain.

Just when I was very anxious, a German tank was suddenly shrouded by a stream of black smoke. The black smoke just dispersed, and then a dark red flame of more than ten meters was suddenly ejected from the open hatch. The whole tank burned like a burning torch. As the flame got smaller, the barrel of the tank sagged.

"Is it the German tank that got its barrel pierced when it was firing?" I couldn't help thinking.

Before I knew it, there was another explosion between the tank and the German soldiers, which lifted several German soldiers who were shooting wildly into the air. Just then, I heard the sound of shells whistling over my head, and then there were successive explosions in the same area, which made the German soldiers cry.

"Is it the cannons company?" I thought so. Looking back, I did not expect that the ten cannons of the artillery company were lining up at the exit of the residential area and were firing again and again. And captain Oleg, with a gun and hundreds of soldiers, bent over and ran quickly to me.

When I saw my reinforcements coming up, I couldn't take care of the stray bullets flying across the battlefield. I stood out from the trench, waved my submachine gun and yelled, "good job! Oleg, you are good! Hurry up with the soldiers! Go ahead, brothers, beat them hard, beat those German bastards! Come on, brothers

The gunfire of cannon company and the arrival of the support troops led by Oleg declared the destruction of the German army. After Oleg's soldiers merged with the troops of shejerikov, there was no organized resistance in the German army, only sporadic soldiers were still fighting. Of course, their tenacious resistance was futile. Under the condition that their troops and firepower were not dominant, the remaining German troops were quickly wiped out by them.

The remaining tank and armored vehicle, after our cannon company started shooting, may find that the situation is not good for them and have turned around and fled. The cannon company chased the tank for several more rounds, but failed to hit the target. At last, they could only watch them flee the battlefield.

Half an hour later, the battle was over. While the soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield, shejerikov, Oleg and the commander of the cannon company came to me.

I didn't care to ask about the casualties of the army of shejerikov. Instead, I asked Oleg with a straight face, "tell me, comrade captain, why did your army take so long to come to the battlefield to support us?"

Oleg straightened his back and said, "report to Mr. division commander, it will take time to clean up the remnant enemy in the residential area, gather the troops, help the artillery company to pull the artillery and leave the troops on guard, so we are late."

After listening to him explain why he was late, I knew he was telling the truth. Even if I had to deal with these things, I would not be able to finish them faster than him. However, he finally arrived before the collapse of our army and joined in the battle of encircling and annihilating the German army.

I turned my eyes to shijerikov. His face was black and his uniform was full of dust and blood. I asked him with concern, "Comrade captain, how are you? Are you not hurt?"

For my concern, Xie jerikov's face showed a happy smile. He grinned and said, "thank you for your concern. I'm fine. I didn't even scratch my skin."

Next, I went to the commander of the artillery company, reached for his hand, shook his hand, and said gratefully, "thank you, comrade commander. If your artillery company hadn't arrived in time, we would have been completely annihilated by the German army at this time."

"Comrade commander, this is what I should do. I'm at your command at any time." Said the artillery company commander.

After saying hello to all three people, I suddenly thought of Gaidar, who had never seen anyone. I was furious and said, "who knows the whereabouts of captain Gaidar? I asked him to bring a tank unit to destroy the German tanks here, but I haven't seen him for several hours now."

"Can't he just run away?" The artillery company commander said tentatively.

"No," said shijerikov in a positive tone, blocking the words behind the artillery company commander in time. "Although I haven't been with captain Gaidar for a long time, he is definitely not a man who is afraid of death from my understanding of him. He hasn't appeared up to now. There must be some other reason. "

"Where is the operator?" Now I am more and more dissatisfied with my performance in this battle. First of all, I took part in such a battle and left the guard class in the station; Secondly, from the beginning of the battle, if the two operators who followed me didn't take the initiative to find me, I almost ignored their existence. Just like now, when the war is over, if I want to contact Gaidar, I think of asking where the operator is.

No. 4 operator ran over from a distance, saluted me and politely asked, "Sir, I'm here. Do you have any instructions?"

"Get in touch with captain Gaidar immediately and ask where he is." After biting my back teeth and saying this, I came back to them again.

While talking to them, I was listening to the call of operator No. 4 not far away: "No. 3, No. 3, this is No. 4. Please answer if you hear me! Three, three... "

Oleg took the initiative to report to me and said, "Comrade division, the results of the war in the residential areas have been counted. We killed 147 defenders and captured 11 prisoners. We destroyed two armored vehicles and captured 56 submachine guns and 129 rifles. 183 people were killed and 213 wounded in our army. After interrogation, the prisoners learned that in the early stage of our attack, most of the enemies were still sleeping, and they had not had time to figure out what had happened, so our progress would be particularly smooth. When the enemy recovered, he retreated to the last few buildings and resisted. But our army's early attack was so smooth that we relaxed our vigilance, which led to the emergence of heavy casualties. "

After listening to Oleg's words, I nodded silently, ready to call you to discuss the problems in these battles when I go back to the summing up meeting. I looked at shejerikov and asked, "Comrade captain, what are the casualties of your troops?"

Shejerikov did not answer me immediately. Instead, he turned and looked in the direction of the battlefield. I also looked in the direction he was looking at, and saw a lieutenant running towards us, pressing his cornice cap with his forehand. It seemed that he was reporting the results to sjerykov.

The lieutenant came to sergeikov and whispered a few words in his ear. After listening to the Lieutenant's report, Sergey reekov waved his hand and asked the lieutenant to leave. In a heavy tone, he reported to me, "Comrade division, the results of the battle have been counted. In the battle just now, we killed 311 German soldiers and captured 27. We destroyed a tank and captured 114 submachine guns, 21 machine guns and 138 rifles. More than 500 people were killed and injured in our army, of whom 377 were killed and 135 were injured. "

When I heard the summary of the casualty data, I couldn't help sighing. I thought that there would be no heavy casualties in a sneak attack. Who knows that the sneak attack turned into a strong attack, and there was an unexpected blocking battle, which resulted in more than half of the casualties of the participating troops.

When I heard that No. 4 operator was still calling Gaidar, I said to him impatiently, "Comrade operator, what's the matter? Why can't I get in touch with No. 3 walkie talkie?"

Maybe my attitude is too severe, the operator was scared, his face suddenly rose red, bowed his head, did not dare to return my words.

Seeing him like this, I was more impatient and asked, "come on, what's the matter? Even if I'm wrong, I won't blame you. "

When the operator heard what I said, he summoned up the courage to reply, "maybe no. 3 telephone was broken in the battle, so he couldn't get in touch."

When I heard his reason, I couldn't blame him any more, so I waved my hand and said, "since I can't get in touch with captain Gaidar, please help me to get in touch with Captain Ruskin, and I'll report to him the results we have achieved."

Raskin was easily contacted. As soon as he opened his mouth, he asked, "Hello, comrade oshanina, do you have any good news for me?"

Raskin's words made me feel very ashamed. I said with some embarrassment: "Comrade chief of staff, I may disappoint you..."

Before I finished, Raskin exclaimed in surprise, "what, comrade oshanina, you're not telling me that you didn't take the settlements back from the Germans, are you?"

"No, comrade chief of staff." I heard some misunderstanding from him and quickly explained: "the residential area has been attacked by us, but then we had another fight with the enemy reinforcements. The Germans were killed 458, captured 38, and destroyed a tank and two armored vehicles. Our army suffered nearly a thousand casualties, which is only a small victory. " It's not hypocritical of me to say so, but I have won every battle with small casualties. This time I paid such a high price to win. I really feel that I have no light on the surface.

"Killed 458 German soldiers and captured 38?" Ruskin asked.

"Yes, comrade colonel."

Raskin's voice changed a little when he heard my firm answer. He repeatedly said, "we have recovered the occupied residential areas and eliminated nearly 500 Germans. This is not a small victory, this is a big victory, this is a great achievement! Comrade oshanina, I congratulate you After a pause, he added, "I'll report the good news to commander shumilov right away. Remember to report the name list of your meritorious commanders and fighters as soon as possible. I think the commander may personally honor them. "

At the end of the conversation with Ruskin, I said with a smile to shejerikov, Oleg and the artillery company commander in front of me: "three commanders, I congratulate you. Because of your brave and indomitable fighting spirit in today's battle, the commander of the group army may personally honor you. "

"Comrade commander personally honored us." The three of them were excited when I said this. They asked incredulously, "is this true, sir? Are you kidding us? "“ That's great. That's great. " Hearing my affirmative answer, the three were as excited as children, shouting and hugging each other. Just as everyone was overjoyed, the operator behind me suddenly pointed to the distance and called out, "Comrade division, look, there is dust rising in that direction. Is it the German reinforcements coming again?" When we heard the operator say this, we all calmed down and nervously looked in the direction where the dust was rising. Chejerikov was even observing with my telescope. After watching for a while, the artillery grew up and called out: "no, it's tanks. I'll go back to the company and command the artillery to kill these German tanks that are not afraid of death. " Not long after he ran out, he was stopped by xiejerikov. The captain said lightly, "comrade company commander, don't be nervous. It's our T-34 tank. It's our own." After a pause, he continued, "there are a lot of infantry in the car. Is it captain gedar or not?"