Chapter 562

Kosga's phone call was similar, saying that the positive 94th division of the German army launched five successive company level charges against the third regiment positions, and all of them were defeated without exception.

When I heard that even the 94 th German division, which had always been slow, was moving, I asked nervously, "Lieutenant Colonel kosga, did the Germans bombard your positions before they attacked? Also, are the German infantry charging you under the cover of tanks? "

After waiting for my question, kosja remained silent for a moment, and then replied, "before the attack, the Germans usually bombard our positions for five to ten minutes, and then use five tanks to cover the infantry and charge our regiment's positions."

"How do you deal with German tanks?"

"At the end of each bombardment, I would send several soldiers to sneak out of the position and hide in the crater. When the German tanks came near, I would kill them all with flasks."

"Well done! Lieutenant kosga, your play can be promoted in the whole division. " As for the way he used to fight tanks, I sincerely praised it, and then asked, "are there many casualties in the army?"

"Not much. Only about one company was injured."

"Very good," I said to him when I heard that the casualties of the third regiment were not great. I had a new idea at the moment, so I told him, "commander kosga, you should quickly transfer three companies to form a special battalion and send it to the second regiment's defense area. If the second regiment's line of defense is safe, the battalion will not move. If the German offensive is too fierce, the second regiment suffers too much casualties, and the position is too soon to be held, you should send this battalion up and resolutely block the breach. Do you understand? "

"I see, sir." "I'm going to transfer the troops," kosga replied unambiguously

After calling the second and third regiments, I contacted Gaidar, the fourth regiment leader: "commander Gaidar, how about the casualties of your regiment in the battle just now?"

Gaidar sighed and replied, "report to division commander, our regiment has suffered quite a lot of casualties. In today's battle alone, there were 700 casualties. At the moment, there are only less than 300 people left in the position."

"Where are your other troops?"

"Five companies were set up on the right side of our regiment's defence area to prevent the German army from attacking from the West. There are still two companies in the village where the headquarters of the regiment are located. If it's really not possible, I'll send these two companies to the positions first. "

"The two companies in the village will not move," I said immediately after he finished his report. "Pull back the five companies on the right side of the defense area and prepare to supplement them to the front forces when necessary."

"But, comrade division commander, if all the five companies are transferred away, if the enemy comes from the west, our regiment will have no defensive force at all?" Asked Gaidar, somewhat worried.

"Colonel gedar, you don't have to worry about your right side. There are two regiments and three regiments on guard. They will block the Germans who try to rush to your regiment's position from west to East. Your task is to hold your position firmly. "

After a loud promise, Gaidar tentatively asked, "Sir, please allow me to ask, how long will our regiment hold on?"

I frowned and just wanted to get angry with him, but after putting myself in Gaidar's shoes and thinking about it, I understood the purpose of his question. So I said mildly, "Colonel gedar, the German army is attacking our position constantly. If we don't hold fast and retreat rashly, the following German army can easily defeat our troops with artillery fire. So no matter how difficult it is, your regiment must keep this line of defense in front of you. "

"But if the German troops play the same way as before twice, our regiment will be finished."

"Don't worry, the troops have run out. When we retreat to the preset position, I will give priority to the battlefield repair of your regiment." I was afraid that he was worried that I would write him a blank check. I specially stressed: "I will immediately let a regiment transfer four companies to form a special battalion to strengthen your regiment."

When I said this, Gaidar was slightly relieved. He assured me, "please rest assured, sir. As long as there is one soldier in our regiment, we will firmly hold the position. When a man is in the position, he vows to live or die together with the position. "

I then dialed Sergey reekov, where I sternly ordered him: "Sergeant Sergeant Sergey reekov, I ordered you to immediately transfer four companies to form a special battalion, and immediately move to my observation post to stand by."

After hearing my order, Xie jerikov was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Comrade division, may I ask what the task of this temporary special battalion is?"

"Gedar's four regiments have played very hard, and so far they have lost nearly half of their staff. In order to cope with the new German offensive, I think it is necessary to draw infantry from your regiment to form a reserve, prepare to supplement the fourth regiment when necessary, and continue to hold the position. "

I made the truth clear to shijerikov, and he understood it in his heart, so he agreed very readily: "it's the order given by the teacher himself, so I'll carry it out. Is four companies enough? If it's not enough, I'll take another two companies, and all of them are excellent soldiers with rich combat experience. "

"No, we can't weaken the strength of the first regiment in order to supplement the fourth regiment. I've kept your regiment as a reserve team of the division in preparation for a big use at a critical moment. Tell the soldiers to take time to rest. When your regiment is really put into battle, there will be no time to rest. "

The enemy's shelling started again. It seems that this time they wanted to take our army's position at one time, so the shelling time was ten minutes longer than the previous two times. The dense shells landed in the front and back of the first trench and exploded, which seemed to turn this narrow area over.

At the end of the bombardment, the German infantry came forward before the smoke of the gunfire was gone. They ran very fast. They didn't wait for the officers and men in the first trench to climb out of the clay covering their bodies. They had already rushed into the trench and started shooting our soldiers with weapons.

Although many of the officers and men fell under their guns, the surviving officers and men in the trench rushed to them with their weapons in hand regardless. After nearly ten minutes of fierce hand to hand combat with our soldiers, the German soldiers who rushed into the trench occupied the position.

Seeing that the first line of defense was lost, about one of the company's soldiers jumped out of the fortification and charged the German army with weapons, trying to recapture the first line of defense when the enemy's foothold was not stable.

Unexpectedly, after seizing the first line of defense, they did not rush to charge the second line of defense. Instead, they consolidated their position on the spot and fired machine guns and submachine guns at the counterattack troops of the fourth regiment.

Under the fierce fire of the enemy, the soldiers in front of them all fell down, and the rest of them fell down, hiding in the trenches and fighting back.

After a while of shooting, the difference between the well-trained German army and the poor training of our army was obvious. Although our soldiers kept shooting, the German soldiers in the opposite trench were seldom knocked down. And look at the soldiers hiding in the trenches, some of whom were hit by German bullets as soon as they rose. In a short time, the soldiers hiding in the trenches were killed and wounded by 20 or 30 people, while the German army was killed and killed by only five or six people.

Seeing that the counterattack did not work, the soldiers had to retreat while fighting and returned to the second trench. When they entered the trench, I roughly counted that a company attacked, and under the enemy's fire, less than 20 people withdrew.

As soon as the German army saw that our counterattack had been defeated, some of the soldiers jumped out of the trench, covered by the wreckage of the damaged tanks, armored vehicles and cars, and rushed forward while shooting.

Looking at the German soldiers approaching the second line of defense, I can't help but feel itchy with hatred. I secretly scold those firepower points hiding under the tanks and Morozov's mortar company. I don't see that the Germans are coming. Why don't they fire?

Seeing that they had run half the way, several fire points and mortar companies under the tank finally opened fire. The roaring shells disrupted the formation of the German soldiers, and then the intensive machine gun fire swept down the running German soldiers. As the artillery of our army came to power, the soldiers in the trench jumped out of the fortification again and pounced on the German army.

But the German soldiers didn't quit immediately. Instead, they hid behind craters or debris and fought back desperately. The German soldiers even set up a machine gun in the crater, shooting wildly. The intensive fire forced our soldiers to hide in the trenches.

Just as the machine gun was roaring wildly, a soldier of ours stood up from behind the German soldier. Judging from his staggering body and faltering steps, I could guess that he must have been seriously injured. Maybe he just fainted after being injured, and then he came to his senses. He blundered toward the enemy's machine gun, but was soon found by other German soldiers, and immediately turned the muzzle to shoot at him. The soldier's body shook a few times and fell into the crater.

I was regretting that the soldier had not had time to kill the enemy's machine gun when he died in vain. There was a fire and smoke in the crater, and the German machine gunner was blown out of the crater. It seems that the soldier has long been determined to die. Maybe when he got up, he had already pulled the grenade and planned to die with the enemy.

The heroic performance of the unknown soldier aroused the courage of the commanders and fighters, who jumped from the crater and rushed to the enemy regardless of casualties. Because the mortar fire suppressed the German troops in the trench, they were unable to provide firepower support for the soldiers who were fighting with our soldiers, and watched their companions be killed one after another.

After a hard battle, the first line of defense was taken back by our army, while only about 20 German soldiers escaped by chance.

Seeing that the enemy's attack was defeated again, I called Gaidar again and said to him frankly, "commander Gaidar, you can't fight like this."

Gaidar was stunned and asked: "what's wrong, sir?"

I didn't beat him around the Bush and said directly, "the forward commanders of your regiment didn't use their troops properly. They put so many troops in the first line of defense. Under the heavy artillery attack of the German army, they soon suffered huge casualties that even the German army could not stop them. In addition, the first counterattack launched by the second line of defense was too hasty, and the officers and men charged the enemy bravely without artillery cover. As a result, they were killed by German superior firepower on the way and forced to retreat. In this way, the counterattack of the second line positions not only failed, but also lost more than half of the troops. I think it is very difficult for the remaining troops to defend the second line of defense.

Once the first two lines of defense are lost, the Germans will take advantage of the victory to break through your third line of defense, and then the Germans can easily rush to your headquarters

"Comrade division commander, please give us instructions on how to fight the next battle?" Gaidar asked me modestly.

"The enemy's artillery fire is extremely fierce. The more troops we put into the position, the more casualties we will have. So I suggest you put only one platoon in the first line of defense, and the rest are hidden in the gun holes in the traffic trenches. After the casualties exceed one class, another class will be added through the traffic ditch. "

After hearing this, Gaidar thought for a moment, and then replied, "Sir, this is a good way. I'll arrange it like this."

After the call with Gaidar, I thought to myself that it's not a good way to always be beaten passively. I have to find a way to take the initiative in the battlefield in my own hands. When I think about this, I begin to calculate the forces that can be used: the tank unit has five tanks. Although they can take advantage of infantry, they are vulnerable to the German heavy artillery. Therefore, they can not use them until the German heavy artillery is destroyed. Another combat force is the artillery battalion of yegonovych. If they can destroy the German artillery position in the shortest time, they can reduce the defensive pressure of the fourth regiment.

When I thought about it, I picked up the phone and called sjerykov, intending to ask him to pass on my idea to captain yegonovic and let the artillery battalion move as soon as possible.

As soon as the call was made, Xie jerikov could not wait to say, "report to Mr. commander, the special battalion has been assembled and can start at any time."

When I heard him mention the special battalion, I remembered that I asked him to deploy troops to strengthen the fourth regiment, so I said casually, "well, since the special battalion has been assembled, you should immediately command a commander to take the troops to the fourth regiment and report to commander Gaidar. The German offensive was very fierce, and his troops suffered too many casualties, which urgently needed to be supplemented. "

"Yes, sir." "I'll immediately appoint a battalion commander to report to lieutenant colonel gedar with his troops," he promised

"Commander, I have another important thing. Is captain yegonovich with you

"Yes, sir. Do you have any instructions?"

"Give him the microphone. I have something to tell him."

Soon, Captain yegonovich's voice came from the receiver, and I quickly said, "Comrade captain, I'm going to give you a chance to repay me. I don't know if you want to take it or not?"

"Comrade Colonel, if you have any orders, please let me know. I will do it for you."

I was very satisfied with yegonovic's attitude, so I said impolitely, "since you are so straightforward, comrade captain, I will not beat around the Bush, and I will tell you the truth."

"Go ahead, please." "I'm listening," he replied politely

"Well, comrade captain." I organized the words in my head, and then said, "the Germans launched four crazy attacks on the positions of the fourth regiment today. Before each attack, they would carry out 20 minutes or even half an hour of shelling, and the soldiers of the fourth regiment suffered heavy casualties under the heavy shelling. In order to hold the position, the German artillery position must be destroyed. Now I want to give you this arduous task. Do you have the confidence to complete it? "

After listening to what I said, yegonovic actually laughed. He so a smile, make me smile Leng, I don't understand ground ask a way back: "Captain comrade, you smile what?"

After laughing a little louder, yegonovich replied, "Comrade Colonel, before the first round of German artillery bombardment, I had thought about destroying German artillery positions. So I sent out the artillery observers early to let them confirm the position of the German artillery positions and prepare to take them by surprise at the right time. "

"That's great, that's great!" It seems that there were a lot of smart people in the Soviet army, but the reason why they were not found by bole and were promoted and reused was probably due to some rigid superiors who didn't like their subordinates to be too smart. But here I am, I can make the best use of people and things. I asked curiously, "Comrade captain, how do you think about it?"

Yegonovic replied respectfully, "I've seen it carefully when I came here. Our artillery position can be built on the edge of the forest. Because the German artillery is more than five times that of us, if we shoot at each other, we will suffer. Even if we all die, we will not see any artillery positions that can destroy the German army. So I think that after the first artillery position was established, only five shells were fired from each artillery, and then quickly moved to other places to establish new artillery positions and continue to bombard the German artillery positions. "

"Very well, comrade captain." I am very much in favor of his one shot to another way of playing, so I agreed without hesitation: "just do as you say." Having said that, I was still a little uneasy. I specially told him, "remember, comrade captain, we must completely destroy the German artillery positions, otherwise they will continue to bombard the 4th regiment positions."

"Please rest assured, comrade Colonel, that I will complete the task." Yegonovic answered me with all his heart“ How's it going with you, commander gedar? " From the observation port, we can see that the officers and men of the fourth regiment in the trench are treating the wounded and repairing the fortifications. I specially called Gaidar to inquire“ Report to division commander, I have sent all the troops except the two companies of the guard regiment. " At this point, he also stressed, "in accordance with your order, I asked the soldiers to dig several gun holes in the traffic trench connecting the two trenches. When the German Army started shelling, the first line of defense was only one platoon, and the rest was hidden in the new blast holes, ready to make up for the loss of the front at any time. "“ Don't cry, comrade Gaidar. "I know Gaidar must be in a bad mood when he saw that his troops were injured and killed so much, so he comforted him and said," I asked shijerikov to transfer four companies from his regiment to form a special battalion, which will be strengthened for you immediately. Before your regiment is supplemented by the superior, this special battalion will be returned to you. "“ Really? Comrade teachers. " After hearing the news, Gaidar got excited and said to himself, "it's great. There are four companies. In this way, I don't think it's a big problem to hold the position."“ Get me commander Oleg When I put down the phone, I quickly ordered razumeyeva. When the phone got through to Oleg, I asked as quietly as I could, "what's the situation there, commander Oleg?"“ The German infantry, under the cover of their tanks, had twice rushed into the positions of our regiment. Our soldiers fought with them and drove them out of our fortifications. At present, our positions are covered with corpses, including German corpses and the remains of our soldiers. The land has been dyed red with blood. " As he said this, Oleg was a little too excited to breathe“ Commander Oleg, don't worry. I asked kosga to deploy three companies to form a special battalion, which is right behind your regimental defense area. If you are short of troops, I authorize you to use this special battalion. Fight hard, comrade commander. Don't worry. You are not fighting alone. We will support you. " After the end of the call, I nervously thought about the situation in my eyes. It seems that it is unrealistic to stick to it for a few more days. For the sake of today's plan, we can only find a way to get through the day and let the regiments retreat after dark. I was thinking about it, and a new round of German shelling began. It seems that they are not reconciled to their defeat and have to take down the positions of the fourth regiment, so the German shells rain down on the first position as if they don't want money and explode around. The shelling lasted about ten minutes, and razumeyeva called me: "Comrade division commander, Captain yegonovich wants to speak to you." I put on my headphones and yelled at the transmitter, "Hello, Captain yegonovich, this is colonel oshanina. How are you doing over there?"“ Report to the captain, everything is ready and ready to fire. "“ I see, "I interrupted." now that we're ready, let's fire now. Further hesitation, the German shells will blow up our position. "“ Please allow me not to ask for your instructions at any time in my next action, OK? "“ I agree. Comrade captain, I want to remind you that we should kill the German artillery as soon as possible, and move quickly! " I threw the earphone and transmitter to razumeyeva, and then grabbed the phone to call Gaidar: "Comrade commander, I have good news for you. I have ordered captain yegonovic's artillery battalion to fire at the German artillery position, so that you will not be harassed by German shells any more." Just then, the German artillery suddenly stopped. I looked at the position where there was no shell falling down, though the smoke of gunpowder was full, and excitedly said to the microphone, "gedar, do you hear me? The German artillery has stopped. It must have been our artillery battalion that attacked their artillery positions. " Two or three minutes later, the German shelling started again, but their target was no longer the forward position of the fourth regiment, but turned to the forest on the east side. From the telescope, I saw German shells fall in the forest and explode. With the rising of fire and smoke, trees fell down. However, I didn't see the human limbs and artillery parts that were lifted into the air by the shell waves, so I felt a lot more at ease. It seems that they have moved safely. After less than five minutes, the German artillery was dumb again. It seems that the artillery battalion of yegonovych has completed the establishment of a new position and started shelling them again.