Chapter 792

Almost at the same time that I had this idea, the grenades thrown from the earth slope exploded in the German army's crowded queue, splashing out a large amount of fire and smoke. Through the telescope, I could clearly see groups of German soldiers falling in the vicinity of the explosion point. Some people died on the spot, while others, wounded and still alive, were rolling on the ground.

The smoke of the explosion had not gone away. Before I called out, the officers and men on the hillside jumped up from their hiding places one after another, carrying guns, and rushed to the scattered German troops at the foot of the slope.

Compared with the new recruits who rushed down the hillside rashly, the German army was obviously much more well-trained. They knew that if they did not eliminate the enemy who rushed down, they would not be able to move forward, or even be eliminated. So after a short period of confusion, scattered soldiers spontaneously organized to meet our team in groups, and the two teams entangled at the foot of the slope.

When I saw this scene in the observation center, I was so angry that I secretly scolded the so-called company commander. Why didn't I know how to kill the enemy on the road with high firepower on the slope and rush out to do something? Originally, the Germans just ran for their lives along the road. When you rush down like this, the Germans will surely stop and fight. Moreover, the two troops are entangled. After their armored forces rush up, they will be afraid of hurting their own people and throw a rat into the trap. In this way, the defeated German may have a chance to escape.

Not only am I angry, but Bantai leiev, who also saw this scene, was furious. He jumped to the front and yelled: "how does the company commander command, why don't he let the troops stay on the slope and kill the German soldiers who are fleeing on the road with firepower, but rush down foolishly to fight with them for bayonets? Didn't he know that those recruits were all untrained, so they were not sent to death? "

"Comrade deputy division commander," although I was dissatisfied with the company commander who gave the order to attack without authorization, the enemy and our troops had been hanged together at the moment, and there was no way to punish the commander at all, so I had to persuade Bantai leiev: "don't be impatient. Although the German's technical and tactical level is higher than our soldiers, their present organizational system has been disrupted, As long as the two companies of shejerikov come up, the battle will be almost over. "

Under my persuasion, bandeleev closed his mouth and didn't curse any more, but the anger on his face was still frightening. I guess if the company commander appeared in front of us at this time, Bantai leiev might kill him directly.

In addition to the German soldiers who fought with our army near the slope, there were many German soldiers scurrying aimlessly on the road a little further away. Seeing the fierce fighting ahead, they seemed to see hope and rushed to this position one after another in an attempt to destroy our army under the slope.

As soon as they were assembled, several armored vehicles of our army rushed along the road, stopped more than 20 meters away from them, formed a battle formation, and then fired with vehicular machine guns. The long muzzle fire from several cars, if one by one whipped at the crowded Germans, would knock them down in pieces. Then, our soldiers behind the armored car, carrying weapons, quickly passed the armored car and rushed to the German army in front.

With the participation of this new force, the sky of victory will completely fall to our side. When I saw that the German soldiers, who still had some fighting capacity, were beaten to pieces by us and ran around in desperation, I knew in my heart that we had won this battle again.

As we were too far apart, and there was no communication equipment between us and lieutenant colonel shejerikov, bantailiev and I had to sit in the observation station waiting for shejerikov's report.

After a long silence, Bantai leiev lit a cigarette and asked thoughtfully, "Sir, what do you think is the reason why our ambush tonight can be so successful so easily?"

"It's because the enemy belittles the enemy." I didn't say it was because of the bravery and tenacity of our commanders and fighters, but I said directly: "it was because they despised the enemy that they didn't expect to be ambushed by our army. So in the next battle, the cooperation between their infantry and armored forces is out of the question. After our sudden attack, the German infantry who were caught unprepared were in a mess, unable to effectively cooperate with the armored forces. As a result, the armored forces without infantry cover were easily destroyed by our artillery fire. "

"And the lesson?" Bantai leiev then asked.

"If it's a lesson." I thought about it and said solemnly, "the soldiers of the third regiment gave up their defensive positions and rushed down the slope to fight with the Germans. Because of their unauthorized attack, the results of our ambush were greatly reduced. Just now I saw through the telescope that at least hundreds of German soldiers had successfully escaped. My personal opinion is that although we have won this battle, we must not lightly spare the company commander, and we must deal with it severely. "

Bantai leiev looked at me and asked briefly, "how to deal with it seriously?"

Although I verbally said that I would seriously deal with this company commander who is good at advocating, when Bantai leiev asked how to deal with it, I couldn't say it. I can't shoot that company commander just for this matter. After all, we are fighting a victory, not a defeat. After pondering for a moment, I said tentatively, "how about abolishing his post as company commander and making him the monitor of the class?"

After listening to my opinion, bantaileiev thought about it and nodded slowly: "well, I think this kind of result should be a lesson for him." Perhaps he was afraid that I would be oversensitive, and he specially stressed, "the reason why I asked him to be dealt with seriously is to prevent other commanders from following his example, patronizing heroes and ignoring military discipline. If we let it go, we will lose a lot in the future. "

As we were talking, shereblenny took shererikov to the observation post.

Shejerikov quickly came to us, raised his hand to salute, and excitedly reported: "division commander and deputy division commander, our department has successfully completed the ambush of the German army. I'm here to wait for your next order."

Bantaileiev stood up and went to shejerikov. He shook hands with him and patted his shoulder with his left hand. He said with approval, "good job, comrade commander. You did a very good job He turned his head and looked at it with a smile on his face and said, "the division commander and I have just seen clearly through the telescope. You have a good chance to attack. If it is not for the company of the third regiment, I believe you can achieve greater results."

I did not get up, but asked with a faint smile: "Comrade commander, how are the casualties in the army? How many enemies have been wiped out, and what about their capture? "

Shejerikov quickly and gently broke away from Bantai leiev, came to me, stood straight and said: "report to division commander, a regiment of 35 casualties, including 7 casualties, destroyed seven German tanks and two armored vehicles, captured an armored vehicle, killed 187 enemies, captured 61 prisoners, captured a large number of weapons and ammunition, and a briefcase." Then he took down the satchel and handed it to me.

I took the briefcase, opened it, took out a thick stack of documents from it, and looked at it at will. The documents were both handwritten and printed, but I didn't know a word, so I had to put them on the table with a bitter smile. Then I asked leiev, "Comrade Deputy teacher, are all documents in German, can you understand them?"

Bantai leiev also shook his head with a wry smile after hearing this. He turned around and asked shereblenny, "Comrade captain, do you know German?"

Xie liebolianei shook his head and replied, "Comrade Deputy teacher of the report, although I know a little German, I only stay on the basis of being able to speak and not be able to write."

Bantailiev went to the table, picked up the stack of documents, looked through them, and said regretfully, "it seems that we can only wait until we get back to mamayev post, and then find someone who understands German to translate these documents. It's a pity that we don't know what the German will do next. "

"Comrade deputy division commander, please don't worry." "We interrogated several prisoners and learned from them that after the German army learned that we had occupied konaiyi City, they dispatched a tank battalion, two artillery battalions and a regiment of infantry from the area where they were fighting with the Don front army to turn around and go south in an attempt to seize the city from us. What we defeated tonight was only a German vanguard battalion. The armored vehicle of the battalion commander was destroyed in the first round of our tank fire

I wanted to ask him if he had captured the German battalion commander or something in the battle. I didn't expect that he had given the answer first. I was disappointed to hear that the German battalion commander had been charred in the burning wreckage of the armored vehicle, because I could get more information from him.

"By the way, comrade commander." Bantaileiev seemed to think of something. After putting the document back on the desk, he turned and asked shijerikov, "how are the casualties of the company of the third regiment? In your report just now, I don't think you mentioned it."

On hearing this question, shijerikov bowed his head and answered with some sadness: "Comrade deputy division commander, the situation of the third regiment is very serious. There are only 17 people left in the company who can fight, and the rest are almost sacrificed."

"What?" Hearing that, I jumped out of my seat. Unexpectedly, in just a few minutes of fighting, the company of the third regiment suffered heavy casualties. It seems that it is not too much to shoot the company commander. I pressed my sore temple and took a deep breath. Biting my back teeth, I asked fiercely, "what about the company commander?"

"Sacrificed." Shocked by my fierce expression, shijerikov nervously and incoherently replied, "the company commander died in a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy. According to the surviving soldiers, he was very brave, with at least five or six bayonet wounds and a dozen gunshot wounds. "

"Comrade division commander," Bantai leiev came to help me sit down, comforted me and said, "since this company commander died in the battle, then there is no need to investigate his responsibility."

I nodded at Bantai leiev's proposal, and then asked sergeant sharnikov, "Comrade commander, are there any other commanders in that company?"

Shejerikov shook his head again and said, "no, all the commanders died in the battle, and the rest were soldiers."

If such a company with heavy casualties belongs to one regiment, I will certainly merge the remaining soldiers into other companies without hesitation. Anyway, there are many companies that need to be supplemented. But they belong to cosga's three regiments. If I merge them into one regiment rashly, commander cosga will have some ideas. So I thought about it again and again, and finally announced to sergeant shijerikov, "Comrade commander, since there is no commander in that company, let corporal joowitzki take over the command of the army."

"Comrade commander, have you finished cleaning the battlefield?" Bantaileiev asked xiejerikov with concern: "if the cleaning is finished, immediately gather all the troops and prepare to move to the rear of the highland immediately to hide, so as not to be blown up by the enemy's aircraft after dawn. We only have such a little armor, but we can't sacrifice it for nothing. " When I heard bantailiev's transfer to shejerikov, I suddenly had an idea in my mind. I remember that it seemed that there was an excellent commander who once commanded the troops to ambush twice at the same place, both of which severely damaged the enemy. Although we have just finished an ambush, we don't need to move. We can do it again. As far as I know of the Germans, they will never think that we would dare to ambush them again after we have finished their ambush. Thinking of this, I stood up and said to bandeleev, "Comrade deputy division commander, let lieutenant colonel chejerikov cancel their transfer plan, let them continue to stay in place and lurk, ready to ambush the Germans in the Highlands again."“ what? What did you say, sir? " After a long time, Bantai leiev asked cautiously, "Comrade division, what you said is to let the troops stay in place and prepare to ambush the German army again. Am I right?"“ No mistake, comrade deputy division commander. " Seeing their exaggerated performance, I feel very proud. Even my colleagues who have been with me for such a long time can't guess my bold plan, and even the old-fashioned Germans can't think of it. So I definitely said, "yes, you heard me right. I just let lieutenant colonel chejerikov and his troops continue to lurk in the same place, Prepare for another German ambush. "“ But our troops have just ambushed the Germans in that area Bantaileiev was frightened by my crazy plan and tried to persuade me to change my mind. "Maybe the troops lurking there will be destroyed by German artillery and bombing. At present, we only have a few newly captured tanks and armored vehicles. We can't lose them here for nothing. " Seeing that Bantai leiev wanted to go on, I quickly raised his hand to stop him and asked, "Comrade deputy division commander, if this is your ambush, will you let the troops leave after cleaning the battlefield after the battle is over?"“ Exactly, comrade division. " Bantaileiev shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I will definitely give such an order. Even other commanders, I believe, will give the same order. You say, "is that so?" His last word was to ask about chejerikov and shereblenny. When they heard his question, they both nodded and answered with one voice: "yes, comrade Deputy teacher. We'll order the troops to retreat after we finish our mission. " Hearing the same answer from all three, I said to them with a smile: "comrades commander, since you all have the same idea, I think that the German commanders who have been attacked by us will make a similar judgment and think that all our troops have withdrawn after the ambush. I just want to make use of the German commander's habitual thinking to fight the same ambush again at the same place. " After I finished the analysis, bantailief asked dubiously: "Sir, do the Germans really think so?" Without waiting for me to speak, shijerikov had preempted me and expressed his support: "Sir, I agree with your plan." After that, he turned to Bantai leiev and explained, "Deputy teacher, since I met her, she has made the right decisions, so her plan sounds risky, but I still think we can try it."“ The chief is right As soon as sjerykov finished speaking, shereblenny also said, "I also firmly support the plan of the teacher. I believe it will be successful." Seeing that both xiejerikov and xielebrienne expressed their support for me, bantaileiev finally nodded and said, "well, sir, since you have made up your mind, we can only implement it unconditionally. Lt. Col. chejerikov. " Shejerikov, who was named by him, quickly came to attention and stood upright, waiting for his order“ Go back and organize the troops immediately, and get ready to camouflage and lurk again. " Bantaileiev decisively gave him an order: "tanks and armored vehicles are still hidden in the grass. As for infantry, my opinion is that they can be placed on that slope to kill the German troops who fled along the road."“ Comrade commander, "I saw that after listening to the arrangement made by Bantai leiev, xiejerikov turned his eyes to me. He quickly stood up and said," since Comrade deputy division commander has given the order, you can carry it out. "