Chapter 648

After the defeat, the German army adjusted its formation a little further away from the highland and returned to attack again. Twelve tanks opened the way for infantry in front of them. After they rushed to the tank that had just hit the mine, they stopped and used tank guns and machine guns to suppress our troops on the hillside. Behind them, there was about a multi company infantry who was rushing to the high ground quickly by using the terrain. The remaining 30 or so tanks stopped in the distance and shelled the anti tank artillery position of the 39th regiment on the hillside.

Although the northern slope was hit by German artillery fire, because the German infantry charged to the high ground under the cover of the artillery fire, Colonel Yelin did not retreat to the tunnel on the southern slope to avoid the artillery fire as he had just done, but continued to stay in the position to meet the enemy.

Seeing the enemy's fighting style, I couldn't help worrying and said to kirilov beside me: "Comrade political commissar, the Germans are very cunning. They want to compete with colonel Yelin and them. I'm afraid that if we continue to fight like this, the 39th regiment will not be enough even if all of them are filled in. "

Kirilov listened to me and asked anxiously, "do we need to reinforce them then?"

When I was hesitating whether to let the third regiment transfer troops to reinforce, I was surprised to see a force of several hundred people running out of the family dormitory area of the state consumer cooperative association behind the highland. I waved to kirilov and said decisively, "not for the time being. If we make a mistake, colonel Yelin has transferred his second battalion."

As soon as the reinforcements reached the south slope, the second German attack was repulsed. They abandoned dozens of bodies and two burning tanks and retreated to the assembly site in ashes.

However, the enemy seemed to be sure of 107.5 high terrain, so as soon as their troops withdrew from the highland, eight German bombers appeared in the sky. They circled around the highland for several times, and then began to dive down one after another, dropping bombs one after another. The whole highland was turned over by the bomb and shrouded in smoke.

Because of the smoke, we couldn't see the friendly troops clearly in the observation post. I sighed, picked up the phone on the table, called ahlomeyev and asked him, "chief of staff, do you have the latest war report?" I ask this because the main force of the 13th division of the guards will fight back against the German army after dawn and those forces of yesterday. From the enemy's inevitable posture against highland 107.5, I surmised that the counterattack ended in failure.

My guess was confirmed by akhromeyev's words: "Comrade division commander, I just received the war report from the headquarters of the group army: many commanders of the troops carrying out the anti shock mission have died, and the counter attack troops are in a state of no command at present. The enemy's troops rushed into the city and rushed directly at the headquarters of the group army. "

I was startled by what he said and asked, "what, the enemy pounced on the headquarters of our group army? Chief of staff, what's the situation now? "

Kirilov also came up to me and asked with concern, "did the enemy troops pounce on the headquarters? The commander and the military commissar, are they OK? "

I raised my hand to stop him, and continued to listen attentively to akhromeyev's report: "in the early hours of the morning, the headquarters issued an order to the heavy tank brigade that held the granary in the south of the city, and deployed a tank battalion with nine tanks to defend the headquarters. When he found that the enemy was rushing at the headquarters, general Krylov dispatched personnel from the staff and guard company of the headquarters to form two combat teams. The first group, under the command of the chief of operations, Colonel zalijuk, was equipped with six tanks to block all the streets from the station to the headquarters; The second group is under the command of lieutenant commander Wei yinlubu, with the other three tanks to attack the enemy who occupied the expert building. "

"Where is general rodimzev's main force?" Kirilov heard ahlomeyev's report and asked in a loud voice to the microphone.

"Comrade political commissar, according to the latest war report, the 13th division of Jinwei has successively returned to the city after the defeat of the counterattack. At present, the main force of the Division has received orders to assist Lieutenant Colonel Wei yinlubu in clearing the center of the city, the expert building and the vicinity of the central railway station, and to keep an infantry battalion as a reserve at the headquarters of the group army. "

When I learned that the headquarters was safe, I felt at ease. If the German army really carried out the beheading operation and took away trakov's headquarters, the defenders in the city would lose their unified command, and would fall into chaos, leading to the situation of being defeated by the German army.

Seeing that I put down the phone, kirilov nervously asked me, "Comrade oshanina, what shall we do next?"

I looked out from the observation port. Although there was a hot fight on the other side of 107.5 highland, it was still calm here. I'm confused by the German army's unusual behavior. I don't know what the German commander wants to do. However, judging from the current situation, we can only use static braking. If the enemy does not move, I will have to compare my patience with the German commander.

Thinking of this, I just said to kirilov, "Comrade political commissar, since I can't figure out the enemy's intentions now, I can only hold still for the time being."

"What, hold still?" When kirilov heard my decision, he was surprised and said, "at present, there is fierce fighting in the city, and the friendly highlands on the left have also been fiercely attacked by the enemy. Is it appropriate for us to just watch the excitement?" At this point, he hesitated for a moment, and then suggested to me, "why don't we send three regiments to reinforce Colonel Yelin?"

I gave him a strange look and asked, "Comrade political commissar, is this necessary? Colonel Yelin did not ask us for reinforcements to prove that they are fully capable of blocking the enemy's attack. If we rashly send our troops there, we may disrupt his deployment. "

When I said that, kirilov stopped talking and went to the observation port again. He raised his telescope to observe the situation on the 107.5 high ground. As the smoke of gunpowder dispersed, the position of the 39th regiment was already scorched. The anti tank gun position on the top of the mountain had been completely destroyed by the bomb, and the broken parts of the artillery were everywhere on the top of the slope. It seems that the newly reinforced troops also lost a lot after being bombed. From my position, the only one who entered the position was No. 100.

I raised my hand and looked at my watch. It has been less than two hours since the first German attack. However, the loss of the 39th regiment has reached more than one battalion. If the attack of such intensity is repeated twice, the regiment can directly cancel its organizational structure.

The 39 regiment, which has lost all its anti tank guns, can only stare at the tanks rushing to the foot of the hillside again. The attacking German infantry, under the cover of their own powerful tank fire, launched a company scale charge again. In only ten minutes, half of the positions on the north slope fell to the enemy.

Seeing this, I almost couldn't help calling akhromeyev and asking him to order the third regiment to attack. Here, I saw another army of several hundred people rushing out of the family dormitory area and running towards the highland.

"This should be the last battalion of the 39th regiment." Kirilov, who was standing beside me, first said this sentence after seeing this army.

I nodded in agreement and said, "yes, after only two hours of fighting, the 39th regiment lost more than half of its personnel. It is estimated that the regiment's organizational structure will not exist before noon."

Kirilov, perhaps worried about the total annihilation of the 39th regiment as I said, pleaded with me again: "Comrade division, anyway, the third regiment is idle now, otherwise a battalion will be deployed to reinforce the 39th regiment. Do you think that's ok?"

"No way!" I decisively denied his proposal and said firmly: "Comrade political commissar, you don't see that the front of our position is calm, even there is no enemy plane coming over the wharf. But precisely because of this, we should be more vigilant, maybe the enemy has any plot."

"Conspiracy?! Sir, are you worried too much? I don't think there is any conspiracy. I think the reason why the enemy didn't dare to attack us may be that they were afraid of being beaten by our division these two days. "

The German troops in the front did not move, but the friendly positions were in danger. If we are really lost because we can't help each other, I may be sent to the military court. I hesitated for a while, raised my hand, looked at my watch again, gritted my teeth for the last time, and said to kirilov, "Comrade political commissar, we'll wait another hour. If the German army doesn't move, I'll send all the three regiments to 107.5 Highlands for reinforcement."

Looking at the highland again, we can see that it has been in a state of panic. All over the mountains and fields, there are officers and men from both sides who are engaged in a white-edged battle, fighting repeatedly for a trench and a fortification.

As the German infantry got closer and closer to the top of the hillside, the new army finally rushed to the top of the hillside. First, it fired down at the German soldiers below, and then rushed into the battlefield with weapons. The German army and our army had a close fight, but now a new force suddenly appeared, which immediately reversed the pattern of the battlefield.

After another period of resistance, the German army fought and retreated down the hill. The newly arrived troops followed, shooting and dropping bombs at the same time, causing the enemy to flee in confusion and gradually recovering the positions they had just lost.

Seeing that the soldiers of the guards beat back the enemy's attack again, chief kirilov sighed and said to himself, "the soldiers of the guards are really wonderful. They beat back the enemy's attack again."

However, I can see that the soldiers of the 39th regiment are at the end of their rope. In the absence of heavy weapons, they are at a loss what to do with those unscrupulous artillery tanks at the foot of the mountain. I quickly went to the telephone, rang through the artillery battalion's telephone, and directly ordered Morozov: "Comrade captain, I now give you a task, immediately pull three anti tank guns from the fortification, find a suitable place to build artillery positions, and destroy as many tanks as possible at the foot of 107.5 mountain."

"I understand. I'll pass on your order right away."

"Wait a minute, comrade captain." When I heard that he wanted to hang up, I quickly stopped him, because I knew in my heart that it was a mission to die, so I specially stressed: "tell the artillery soldiers that if the position is found by the German army and attacked by their artillery, they should hide in time. If the gun is broken, we have new additions; If the well-trained artillery soldiers die, it's very difficult to replenish them. Do you understand what I mean? "

Morozov obviously thought the same as me. He knew that this was a mission of a lifetime. Hearing my advice, he replied excitedly: "I see, sir. I will tell the soldiers exactly what you said

When I put down the phone, kirilov nodded to me with a smile and said, "Comrade oshanina, I believe our artillery can take German tanks by surprise."

I stood in front of the observation port, holding binoculars in both hands, looking at the flaming 107.5 highland, and I was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle: whether to continue to watch the change or to resolutely send troops to detour back to the enemy's rear and beat them hard. Let's wait and see what happens. Once the highland is lost, I will inevitably be implicated. But if we send troops to attack, although we can achieve success, due to the differences in weapons and equipment, our troops will certainly suffer heavy losses. In this way, the troops defending mamayev post will be weakened. When I hesitated, kirilov suddenly gave a "Gee". I quickly put down my telescope, turned to look at kirilov and asked strangely, "what's the matter, comrade political commissar?" Kirilov pointed to the direction of the family dormitory of the state consumer cooperative association and said in surprise, "Comrade oshanina, look, there is another army coming out of the dormitory area. There are still a lot of people." I quickly turned my telescope to the direction of his finger. Sure enough, another army of four or five hundred people came out of the dormitory area. Judging from their equipment, nearly one third of them were equipped with submachine guns. In the middle of the queue, there were even people carrying anti tank guns and rotary machine guns, and a few Maxim heavy machine guns at the back“ What's going on? " When I saw this unit, I was also curious to know that there were only three battalions in the 39th regiment. Now the whole regiment is on the high ground. Where did this unit come from? However, without waiting for me to think about it, the German army launched a company scale attack on the Highlands under the cover of tank fire. Seeing that the enemy rushed to the high ground, rushed into the trench and started a white-edged battle with our soldiers, kirilov couldn't help getting impatient and swearing, "what's the matter with this Morozov? Why hasn't the anti tank gun position been established up to now?" As soon as his voice fell, there was the sound of cannons firing at the foot of the hillside. I looked down and found that three anti tank guns were firing in the hollow at the foot of the mountain. As the German tank formation was dense, our Gunners achieved success in the first round of firing. Two of the three cannons hit the target, and a tank was hit, even the turret was tilted. The second round of shooting, the effect is poor, only destroyed a tank. Our artillery had just finished the second round when they were found by the enemy's tanks. For those tanks providing artillery support in the distance, several of them immediately turned around and fired at our anti tank gun positions. Seeing the shell fall near our anti tank gun position and explode, my heart became nervous again. However, after a while, I found that although the enemy's shelling was intensive, because the artillery position was in a depression, it could not be destroyed as long as it was not directly hit. The enemy's shells fell around the Gunners and exploded, raising large and small pieces of soil, which fell on the Gunners. They didn't even bend their waist. They just shook the soil and continued to fire towards the enemy's tanks. Although our anti tank guns continue to destroy the enemy's tanks, those tanks that are blocked by the burning tank debris and hiding in the dead corner of our anti tank guns are still suppressing the firepower of our army and covering their infantry to charge upward. When kirilov saw the enemy's infantry charging towards the friendly positions, he could not help but get anxious. He said in a loud voice, "no, comrade division commander, we can no longer stand by like this. Let the troops of the third regiment attack." Without waiting for my reply, he went to the telephone, dialed the third regiment, and ordered Godunov: "Captain Godunov, I'm political commissar kirilov. I now order you to send two companies to pass through the open space between the two highlands and detour back to the enemy attacking highland 107.5 to teach them a lesson. Is there any difficulty? " When I heard kirilov's order, I just wanted to say a word, but I heard Godunov's loud voice from the receiver: "please don't worry, my teacher and political commissar. I immediately sent two companies to attack, detour to the side of the German, and hit them hard." Then the other party hung up. When kirilov came back to me, I sighed and said with regret, "Comrade political commissar, if your order had been given two days ago, it would have played an important role. Today's order is to let the soldiers die in vain. " Kirilov was at a loss when I said this. He asked, "why?" Seeing that he didn't understand, I had to explain to him: "in the battle a few days ago, we sent troops several times to attack the flanks of the German army from the open field in the middle. Do you think the German commanders are all idiots who will turn a blind eye to the open space between our two highlands after several losses? You see, maybe the troops of the third regiment will be attacked by the enemy's artillery in the open field. As for how many people can withdraw alive, it is not known My words soon became a reality. Soon after the troops of the third regiment entered the open area, they were found by the German army, and then the dense artillery fire came. The artillery fire did not come from the German tanks at the foot of the mountain, but from the German artillery positions we could not see. It seems that this area has long been the target of their artillery.