Chapter 543

The abnormality on the ground of the Hungarian Army was noticed not only by me and chejerikov, but also by the commander of the attacking company. Running in the front of the team, he suddenly slowed down and raised his right hand high to stop. When the soldiers stopped, the company commander took the lead to lie on the ground, and his subordinates also fell down on the spot and fired their guns, pointing directly at the enemy's trenches.

The tank moved forward for more than ten meters and stopped. The turret was slowly turning. Suddenly, the body of the tank was stunned, and our tankers launched a demonstration. The shell landed in the trench without bias. The blast raised a Hungarian soldier high. After a beautiful somersault, he fell heavily. After landing, he rolled several times and then did not move. Seeing what happened to his companions, the rest of the Hungarian officers and soldiers were scared into the trenches.

Seeing that the enemy in the trench was frightened by the shelling of our tanks, the company commander who had been lying on the ground got up again, waved his rifle and took the lead to rush forward. Lying on the ground, the soldiers got up and rushed forward.

Seeing our soldiers rushing forward, shejerikov, who was watching with a telescope, couldn't help cheering: "great, our soldiers are rushing up. It's great! Sir, you see, our troops are about to rush into the enemy's trenches. At that time, the Hungarians will have to raise their hands and surrender obediently. " He said that he would return the telescope to me. Just when I reached for the telescope, he took it back and raised it in front of me again. He said in surprise, "hell, where the hell is this thing coming from?"

"What's the matter? Captain chejerikov. " This is because it is hundreds of meters away from the enemy's position. Without the help of telescopes, many things can't be seen clearly. That's why I asked. Shejerikov's nerves were so intense that he didn't even notice that I called him by the wrong rank.

"It's a 20 mm anti tank rifle for anti tank hands. Damn, how could Hungarians have this equipment?" His voice did not fall, in front of a sudden burst of beans like dense gunfire.

I grabbed the telescope and looked forward. The Hungarian soldiers looked up from the trench and were shooting at our attacking troops. In the dense fire of the enemy, our soldiers were knocked down in pieces. The rest of them fell down and fell on the ground to fight back.

The company commander seemed to have been shot. His rifle was held high and his hand fell down. He took two steps, and his side softened and his gun was thrown aside. Seeing the company commander fall down, I was so nervous that I couldn't breathe. I didn't dare to move my eyes away from him for a moment. I seemed to want to know whether he had sacrificed. A moment later, the company commander sat up with difficulty and reached for the rifle beside him. Without waiting for his hand to touch the gun, his head jerked back. After holding this position for a few seconds, he fell on his back and stopped moving.

In order to cover the retreat of the heavily wounded infantry, our tanks stopped and fired, the tank guns were firing, the machine guns on the turrets were also firing, and the soil in front of the Hungarian positions was splashed.

Seeing that our infantry began to retreat, Hungarian soldiers were in a hurry and jumped out of the trench in an attempt to take advantage of the victory. Unexpectedly, they were immediately bombarded by our tanks and fired by machine guns, so they had to withdraw into the trench obediently. But they didn't seem to give up. A few soldiers, each with a bundle of things, jumped out of the trench and rushed to our tank. Before they got close, the machine guns on the tank knocked them down.

At this time, our infantry almost all retreated to 200 meters away. At such a distance, it is difficult for Hungarian firepower to cause any effective damage to our infantry. Seeing that his cover task was completed, the tank soldiers also backed the tank down the slope.

Five or six Hungarian soldiers who were not afraid of death jumped out of the trench, but they were all veterans and had much more experience than the soldiers just now. As soon as they left the trench, they fell down on the spot and crawled towards the tank. From time to time, they made one or two rollovers to avoid the machine gun fire from the tank.

Even so, after they left the trench for 100 meters, there was only one soldier left. At this time, our tanks began to speed up, ready to leave the battlefield quickly. The soldier suddenly raised his hand and threw out a hand grenade. The hand grenade exploded in front of the tank body and sent up a cloud of black smoke. The soldier jumped up from the ground and rushed into the black smoke and approached our tank.

At the moment when the soldier rushed into the black smoke, I saw that he was holding a bundle of cluster grenades in his hand. It seemed that he wanted to blow up the tank of our army. I couldn't help shouting out: "Oh, no!" As soon as the words came to an end, there was a loud "boom", and our tanks were shrouded in smoke and fire. When the smoke is gone, we can see that our tank has been destroyed.

He also saw the scene clearly. He asked nervously, "how are you, sir? See any survivors in the tank? "

I held up my telescope and looked at the burning tank, praying for a miracle. Maybe my prayer came true. A man came out from the bottom of the tank. Instead of leaving immediately, he helped another man come out and put out the fire on him. Then the two men helped each other and ran towards us stumbling. The infantry who fell behind quickly came forward and helped the two tank soldiers to us.

When two tank soldiers approached, I saw that they were sergeants and sergeants chatting on the tank in the morning. The sergeant's injury was much more serious. He could walk a few steps when he left the tank. Now almost four soldiers are carrying him. I went forward and asked the slightly injured sergeant with concern, "Comrade sergeant, are there any survivors in the tank?"

Hearing my question, the sergeant's face blackened by the smoke had no expression at all, and his voice said painfully, "no, sir, the rest of the members have died."

I took his hand and said sincerely, "Comrade sergeant, it is because of your bravery that so many of our soldiers have successfully retreated from the enemy's position. Thank you! You go back to heal yourself, and let us do the rest. "

While I was talking to the tank sergeant, shejerikov went to count the casualties without waiting for my orders. After the tank soldiers were helped away, xiejerikov came back to me and said with some frustration: "report to the division commander, the casualties are counted out. There are 59 dead infantry, 2 tank soldiers and 25 wounded. There are only 16 remaining combat personnel in the company."

At this time, the third echelon of perersian and Morozov also arrived. Seeing the tragedy of our army, they were shocked and asked, "what's the matter? Why have our troops suffered so many casualties that they haven't taken down the enemy's camp?"

Shejerikov blushed with shame and did not know how to answer their questions. The morale of the troops will inevitably be affected after they have just lost the battle. In this case, it is up to me to take the responsibility. I waved my hand and said, "it's my fault, because yesterday's victory was too easy, so I was paralyzed, and the enemy will be as vulnerable as the Italians. Just before the attack, we were not prepared at all, so we launched the attack rashly. " At this point, I turned my head to express my thanks to pelsjian: "thank you, comrade captain!"

"Thank you?! Why? " Peregrine was confused by what I said.

"If your tank soldiers had not decisively left behind just now, it is estimated that none of the infantry participating in the attack would have survived and all of them would have to be accounted for in front of the enemy's positions."

"What are we going to do next?" Asked chejerikov.

I looked in the direction of the enemy's position and said indignantly, "first use tank guns and cannons to bombard the enemy's position, and then send out infantry to charge." At this point, I asked shijerikov with some puzzlement: "major, what did you just say about the 20 mm anti tank rifle? What's the matter?"

Xiejerikov quickly replied: "report, comrade division commander, I just saw a Hungarian soldier with a telescope holding an anti tank gun in the trench, aiming at our tank." At this point, he shrugged and went on to say: "maybe our tank soldiers are quick to respond, and they are the first to blow them off without waiting for the enemy to shoot."

I looked at a group of commanders around me, clapped my hands, and announced loudly, "OK, all commanders, pay attention. I'll start to assign the task now. Lieutenant Morozov

"Here it is Morozov agreed, stood upright in front of me and said in a loud voice, "please give me an order."“ Immediately find a suitable place to set up artillery positions and bombard enemy positions. "

Then I called out the name of the next Commander: "Captain perskin!"

"Here it is The tank captain stepped forward, looked at me without squinting, and said, "I'm at your command!"

I pointed to an open space ahead and said, "Comrade captain, line up your tank units there. When the artillery company's shelling is over, it will immediately attack forward to cover the infantry's attack on the enemy's camp. "

The commander of the artillery company and the commander of the tank unit turned to do the preparatory work. Looking at the three remaining company commanders in front of me, I solemnly asked, "who would like to lead the troops?"

As soon as I said that, a captain came out of the crowd, saluted me and said, "report to Mr. division commander, the eighth company of the second regiment is willing to accept this task."

I think the captain in front of me looks familiar, but I can't remember where I met him for a moment, so I can only ask: "Comrade captain, do you want to accept this task?"

"I don't know! Comrade division, last time you said that my company should be the first force to rush into the buildings occupied by the enemy in the battle of liberating the residential areas. However, in the battle, our company captured only two buildings that were almost unattended, and our achievements were far from comparable with those of other companies. I don't know how to explain to the soldiers if we don't take the lead and make more contributions in this battle. "

The captain's eyes were red when he said that. Seeing that his attitude was so firm, I didn't object to it, so I waved my hand and said carelessly, "OK, I'll give you the task of leading the way."

The captain saluted me excitedly and said in a loud voice, "Comrade division, please rest assured that our company will never let you down. We will certainly break through the enemy positions in front of us."

Morozov's cannon company soon established artillery positions and began shelling Hungarian camps“ Boom... Boom... "The shells roared and flew past, raising smoke columns in the position.

From the beginning of the shelling, I was staring at the Hungarian position. At the beginning of the shelling, they retreated into the trenches one after another to avoid our intensive shelling.

Seeing that the enemy's trenches were hollowed out by our shells, I nodded with satisfaction, and told sergeant shijerikov: "Comrade major, let Lieutenant Morozov stop shelling, and then send a signal to captain perskin to let their tanks attack." Then I went up to the infantry captain, patted him on the shoulder and said, "it's up to you next. Do well, comrade captain. Go

After saluting me, the captain ran back to his company, pulled out his pistol, raised it above his head, and yelled to his men, "brothers, follow me!"

The infantry were seen standing in a loose formation behind the four tanks, bending forward and striding forward. I turned the observation lens to the enemy's trench again, only to see that the Hungarian officers and soldiers who had retreated into the trench had come out again, put their guns on the edge of the trench, and were ready to launch another attack on our attacking troops.

Pelsjian had rich experience in fighting. When he saw the enemy coming out, the tanks didn't slow down and fired at the enemy's trenches while driving. The enemy may not have thought that our tanks would fire when they were on the move, so they were caught off guard. At least more than 30 people were killed in the first two rounds of shelling.

The commander of the camp seemed to know that his troops holding the trench suffered heavy casualties and immediately sent reinforcements. There are dozens of officers and soldiers are bending over with guns running towards the trench side.

I quickly ran to Morozov's side, pointed to the soldiers who were approaching the trench, and said to him in a loud voice: "Comrade lieutenant, order your men to fire directly at the enemy who are coming to reinforce. They must not be allowed to enter the trench."

Morozov agreed, immediately gave orders to his gunners, and reported a series of parameters. With little effort, the cannons company opened fire, and the shells accurately landed in the middle of the enemy line and exploded, causing the enemy to flee.

Our attacking troops approached the enemy again, and the enemy began to shoot at our troops regardless of the bombardment of our tanks. Seeing one soldier after another knocked down by the enemy's bullets, my heart went up to my throat. Especially when I saw that pelsjian's tank had to slow down when it bypassed the destroyed tank, I gave them a cold sweat.

Fortunately, there was no danger. After the tank bypassed the obstacle, it continued to rush forward. And the play of the eighth company of the second regiment is also remarkable. The soldiers shot and rushed forward. The experienced soldiers also threw grenades from time to time. With the help of the smoke of grenade explosion, they covered the enemy's sight and continued to rush forward.

Almost as the tanks crossed the trench and marched towards the camp, the infantry also rushed into the trench and started a hand-to-hand battle with the Hungarian soldiers who were staying inside. Although their weapons are almost all rifles, they have knives, shovel and axe for assault structures. These are close weapons.

The Hungarian soldiers who fought hard and were beaten by our shovel and axe, and the rest of them lost the courage to continue to fight. In a few moments, some hands surrendered. One person took the lead and others followed suit. As a result, more than 30 soldiers left in the trench raised their hands one after another.

As early as the eighth company rushed into the enemy's trench, shejerikov lost no time in sending another infantry company to reinforce. Seeing that the enemy in the trench had surrendered at the moment, he said to me, "Comrade division, it seems that the enemy can't stand it. You stay here. I'll go ahead and have a look."

"Let's go together!" I finished, and without waiting for his objection, I strode forward. Shejerikov knew that he couldn't stop me, so he called the rest of the infantry company to join us.

The battle moved from the trench to the enemy's camp. However, judging from the strength of the gunfire, the enemy's resistance in the camp was not very tenacious. It was estimated that it would take less than half an hour to clear up the enemy.

I went to the trench and picked up a Hungarian soldier's rifle from the ground. I looked over and over for a long time, but no matter how I looked at it, I felt very uncomfortable. This rifle added a long straight clip under the magazine, which seemed a little nondescript. I handed the gun to shijerikov and said with a smile, "Comrade major, look at this rifle. It looks really weird."

Unexpectedly, shejerikov took a look at it, and then replied, "Comrade division, this is not a rifle, it's a Hungarian M39 submachine gun." Maybe I was afraid I couldn't understand it, so I specially introduced that "M39 submachine gun adopts integrated wooden butt, and its gearbox is cylindrical. The length of the gun is 1048mm, the length of the barrel is 500mm, and the weight of the gun is 4.6kg, which is larger and heavier than our submachine gun.

In addition, the mechanical sight of M39 is composed of a V-shaped notch illumination door with an arc-shaped base and a cylindrical collimator, with a range of 50-600 M. At the end of the casing is a knob shaped fast and slow machine, in front of which are engraved the letters "e", "s" and "Z", representing three shooting modes respectively: "e" represents single shot shooting‘ S' stands for continuous fire‘ Z 'is insurance. M39 is also equipped with bayonet base. After adding double blade long bayonet, the whole gun length can reach 1378mm.

M39 uses the relatively powerful 9 × 25 mm Mauser bullet. The mass of the warhead is 8.1G, the average muzzle velocity is 455ms, and the muzzle kinetic energy is 838j, which is 9 × The kinetic energy of the 19mm balabellum pistol is about 40%.

M39 adopts double row double entry magazine with capacity of 40 rounds. The design of the magazine seat is quite unique. When it is carried or not in use, the magazine seat can be folded forward to make the magazine stuck in the groove under the armguard. When the magazine is stuck in the armguard, the mouth of the magazine will be exposed, and the elastic dust cover will cover the mouth of the magazine, so as to prevent dust from entering the magazine and causing ammunition feeding failure. " After listening to the introduction of xiejerikov, I nodded and praised him: "Comrade major, I didn't expect that you know a lot about guns." Xiejerikov said with a shy smile: "Comrade division, before the war, I was a gun Engineer in the military factory, so I have a certain understanding of the guns of various countries."“ Are all the letters you just said in English? " Although I know that it is not possible to use English letters on Hungarian weapons, I still point to the letters on the guns and ask clearly. "It's not because of the alphabet, it's the abbreviation of the Hungarian alphabet," he said, shaking his head Just then, the gunfire in the camp had stopped completely. Xiejerikov said pleasantly: "Sir, listen, the gunfire in the camp has stopped. It seems that the enemy has either been eliminated or surrendered by us." Although I couldn't see the situation in the camp from the position of the trench, I instinctively looked in that direction, then nodded and said, "come on, let's go to the camp and have a look." As soon as we got to the top of the slope, we saw the commander of the eighth company and his soldiers, escorting about ten officers in round barrels, flat caps and boots. I don't know the rank of Hungary, so I don't know who is the top commander of the camp. Seeing me and shejerikov appear, the eighth company commander's face showed a happy expression. He hurriedly asked the soldiers to stop, ran to me alone, raised his hand to salute me, and reported: "Comrade division commander, all the remaining enemies in the camp have surrendered to us. These are their commanders at all levels."“ Good job, comrade captain. You have done a good job After praising the eighth company commander, I asked, "among them, who is the highest commander of the camp?" The captain turned his head to his men and said in a loud voice, "come on, bring their commander here!" With his command, two soldiers pulled a slightly older officer from among the officers and pushed him in front of me. I looked the officer up and down in front of me and asked, "do you know Russian?" Originally, I just asked casually, because in the German army, there are many people who know German, but few who know Russian. I didn't expect that when he heard me ask, he nodded without hesitation and then said in standard fluent Russian, "yes, I know Russian." It's easy to understand Russian, so I don't have to find a Hungarian translator. So I asked, "please tell me your name, rank and position!" My use of "you" here is not honorific, but represents alienation and vigilance“ My name is Nagy Sandor. You can call me Nagy. My rank is major. I am the commander of the Hungarian battalion. I belong to the Hungarian second army. "“ Why did you see us appear and organize resistance instead of surrendering? You know, the Italian camp, which we captured yesterday, gave up Asked chejerikov angrily. Nagy took a look at chejerikov and said, "Sir major, I don't want to make any comment on Italian soldiers. But what I want to tell you is that as a soldier, even though he knows the great disparity between the two sides, he will not surrender to his enemy without fighting. In that case, it's a shame for a soldier. I'm a soldier. I want to defend my honor by fighting. " With a sneer, I said in a sarcastic tone, "Mr. Nagy, for your ridiculous theory, for your so-called honor, hundreds of soldiers have lost their lives in vain." Speaking of this, I turned my eyes to the eighth company commander and said to him, "I don't want to see this hypocrite again. Take him and his subordinates away." Just then, shejerikov suddenly pointed to the air and cried, "look, enemy plane!" I looked up in the direction of his fingers and saw two black spots in the air. I was a little nervous. I haven't seen enemy planes in the air for a long time. How could they suddenly appear today? As we were about to call our troops to pay attention to air defense, the enemy plane was approaching, passing over us and heading east. I just breathed a sigh of relief, and heard someone exclaim: "my God, how can there be so many enemy planes? What do they want to do?" I looked up again, looking at the dark clouds in the sky, my body began to shake. Because I understand that it's not speechless, it's a German fleet. Dense enemy planes flew over our sky, and someone suddenly exclaimed, "I see. The enemy planes are flying eastward. Their target is Stalingrad!"