Chapter 1173

Shamrih didn't expect that I would draw such a big cake for him. Suddenly, his mouth almost reached his ears. After a long time, the expression on his face returned to normal. He stood up straight in front of me and said solemnly, "Comrade commander, the 22nd tank brigade rebuilt this time, I will turn it into a strong steel force and beat the Germans away on the battlefield."

Before I could speak, a telephone next to Kravchenko rang. He grabbed it and listened for a while, and the expression on his face became serious. When I saw the change in his face, I knew that something must have happened. I immediately asked, "Comrade General, what's the matter?"

He put his hand over the microphone, turned to me and said, "general oshanina, the observation post at the top of the mountain reported that a German army was coming towards us."

"What kind of German army?" Although I heard that some German troops were coming here, I was not alarmed at all, because there were three tank brigades and one battalion here, and there were anti tank guns on the high ground. If the enemy does not exceed one division, there is nothing to worry about.

Kravchenko released his hand covering the microphone and asked the observatory, "what kind of German is it?"

After he put down the phone, he told me, "general oshanina, the German army has about 20 tanks and the same number of armored vehicles. They are in formation five kilometers away from us. They are coming fiercely. It is estimated that they will rush to our position in ten minutes. What shall we do? "

"Only 20 tanks, that's easy." I said to shamrih, "Comrade captain, I'll give you the task of meeting the German tanks. Are you confident of completing the task? "

"Don't worry, comrade commander." "Although we don't have as many people as he does, we've also got the Germans looking for teeth," he said confidently

After shamrih left, Kravchenko asked me with a smile: "general oshanina, the captain's words just now are very interesting. They want to make the Germans look for their teeth. I think this should be your initiative? "

"Even so." Instead of grappling with the details, I asked, "how many tanks can you fight immediately?"

Kravchenko was stunned by what I said. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Comrade General, do you think that the captain's 15 tanks can't compete with Fu's tanks?"

"Eagles fight rabbits with all their strength, not to mention the experienced Germans." After I finished this sentence, I urged, "tell me, how many tanks do you have in your hand that can be put into battle?"

Kravchenko thought about it and answered me, "there are 30 T-34 tanks in combat readiness and ready to fight. Do you need to send them out now?"

"No hurry." I didn't want to put my troops into battle without knowing the situation of the enemy. So I refused Kravchenko's proposal and said, "let's go to the observation station first."

When we came to the observation post, we saw that the tank battalion in shamrih had already launched a battle formation, with five vehicles in a row, a total of three rows, driving full horsepower towards the enemy. The German tanks in the distance, from the initial black spot, became clear. The enemy's tanks formed a wedge-shaped formation, and later were armored vehicles loaded with infantry.

Kravchenko saw the enemy's formation and said strangely, "general oshanina, what is the enemy doing? They sent such a team to rush into us."

"Very simple, Comrade General." After I saw the enemy's formation clearly, I guessed their intention and explained to Kravchenko, "maybe it's your building a defensive position here that was discovered by the enemy's scouts. But because they didn't know how big you were, they sent this medium-sized armored force to attack you. "

Kravchenko looked at the dust raised by the German tanks in the distance, which was higher than the dust raised by the tank battalion in shamrih. He could not help worrying again: "general oshanina, I think we should send troops to reinforce them. Although they are equipped with a large number of new tanks, the number is less than that of the German army. Once they fight, I'm afraid our people will suffer! "

"Don't worry, Comrade General." I said to him with a smile, "this is a rare exercise program for them. If you are not at ease, you can make the anti tank artillery on the position ready for battle. At the same time, the T-34 is ready to attack. "

Kravchenko, according to what I said, gave orders to his subordinates by telephone. He stood at my side again, raised his telescope and looked at the tank battalion that Yiwu rushed towards the enemy. He muttered: "the number is much less than the enemy, so he has to rush up against others. Isn't he looking for his own death?"

"Comrade General, isn't that good? Although the number is not as large as the enemy's and the combat experience is not as rich as the enemy's, their courage to rush towards the enemy without hesitation is the most precious. " When I said this, I couldn't help blurting out the famous saying: "if you meet in a narrow road, the brave will win. Only a soldier with this kind of courage will never give up in the face of any difficulties."

"If we meet in a narrow road, the brave will win!" Kravchenko repeated my words, nodded his head and said: "yes, when we meet the enemy head-on, the most courageous army is the invincible army."

"Comrade General," seeing that the tanks on both sides were close to the shooting distance, I reminded Kravchenko: "after captain shamrih's tank battalion has disordered the enemy's formation, you can send your tank troops out to fight for it, and then the enemy will be completely destroyed, understand?"

"Don't worry, general oshanina." Kravchenko replied excitedly: "my soldiers have long been ready to go. Just wait for an order, they will rush out like arrows and beat the enemy to pieces."

At this time, the tank battalion of shamrih took the lead in firing, and the muzzle of 15 tanks emitted white smoke at the same time. A moment later, in the German tank line, the mud raised by the waves was sprayed into the air like a fountain, but it did not hit any target. The German tanks kept their original speed and continued to rush forward.

But at the same time as the tank battalion fired the second time, the German tanks stopped to fire. The shells from the tanks of both sides roared and landed in the queue of the other side. The German shells were all lost, while our army hit a Tiger tank. The Tiger tank was still charging forward doggedly, though the smoke was billowing from the back of the tank.

In the third round of firing, the tank battalion was only 500 meters away from the enemy's tank line. In such a short distance, the percentage of hits is improved. Not only two tanks were hit, stopped in the plain and began to burn, but also an armored personnel carrier was destroyed. The soldiers on the vehicle jumped down like dumplings.

"That's great, that's great!" Seeing that the tank battalion had reimbursed three German tanks and an armored personnel carrier, Kravchenko couldn't help cheering. He said triumphantly, "if there are a few more rounds of such shooting, the German tanks will all be reimbursed."

When the tank battalion completed the fifth round of firing and the German army completed the third round of firing, the tanks of both sides were interwoven. Because the distance between each other is too close, there is no need for special aiming. As long as the gun is fired in the general direction, it can almost hit the target.

Although the performance of our tanks is better than that of the German troops, when we are hit at a distance of tens of meters, especially when the side armor is hit, we can not escape the fate of fire. Of course, the German casualties were even more serious. After they penetrated the tank battalion, there were less than seven tanks left and 11 armored vehicles left.

Kravchenko saw that the German armored forces were within the range of the anti tank gun. He immediately picked up the phone, called the anti tank gun position, and gave a short order: "fire!"

Shortly after his order was given, I heard a short tail in the air. Not only were the anti tank guns firing, but even the T-34 tanks were coming out of their hiding places to occupy an ideal shooting position and fire at the enemy. In a very short period of time, the sound of interior ballistics would be heard. In the deafening roar, I saw the position of the German tanks, black smoke wrapped in the fire.

When the smoke cleared, I saw the new soil being turned up and the tanks and armored vehicles being destroyed and constantly burning. Around the crater, many soldiers who had not died immediately were rolling and groaning. A tank with a big fire on its body is trying to escape from the place of death. Before long, seven or eight shells hit it directly. It struggled to move forward for a certain distance, then stopped. Then there was an earth shaking explosion, and even the turret was overturned.

Kravchenko saw this scene, immediately laughed, patted me on the shoulder, and said loudly: "look, general oshanina, the German tanks are really vulnerable. In just a few minutes, we killed them all."

"Well done, comrade general," I thought he was very happy, so I gave him a casual compliment. Seeing that there were three new tanks of our army burning in the distant battlefield, my heart couldn't help but raise my voice and said, "can't it be captain shamrih's tank that was destroyed by the German army?"

Kravchenko looked at me, staring at the distance in a daze, and quickly asked with concern: "Comrade General, what are you looking at?"

I pointed to the burning tanks in the distance and said, "look, there are several tanks of our army burning over there. I don't know if there are any tanks of captain shamrih in them?"

"No, No." Kravchenko confidently said: "I had a close look at the tank battalion just passing by the foot of the mountain. The captain's tanks are in the first row, while the concentrated tanks are in the second and third rows. They will not be his tanks. "

Although Kravchenko was sure of what he said, my heart was still not stable. "No, I didn't worry until I saw that Sharm RIH was safe. Comrade general, go ahead and have a look. "

Kravchenko saw that I would not be reconciled if I didn't see sharmlich with my own eyes, so he didn't stop me and accompanied me to the front by car to check.

When the car approached the burning tank, I saw a lot of bodies near the wreckage of the tank, and my heart was raised again. I quickly told the driver to stop, pushed the door open, jumped out, and ran quickly towards the bodies.

On the ground not far from the tank, there were two soldiers, one squatting and the other sitting. I went to find that the original squatting soldiers are dressing wounds for the sitting soldiers. I stopped next to them and nervously asked, "what's going on? Why are there so many bodies near the tanks?" The soldiers who were being bandaged looked up at me and said feebly, "these dead men are almost all German men. After they escaped from the burning tank, they not only did not surrender, but used the pistols they carried with them to fight us." Then he turned to the other side and said, "look, comrade commander, eleven enemies died, and six of us died." I saw the burning tank and asked nervously, "is there anyone else in the tank?"“ Yes, comrade commander. " The squatting soldier replied, "but they have all died. I can't even lift their bodies out of it." then he couldn't help looking up and sighing“ Where is captain shamrih? " Although I knew that there was no shamrih in the hands of the injured tank, I was as if I had suddenly suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder and wanted to find out his whereabouts. The soldier took a look at me and said strangely, "the captain's tank is OK. He's coming towards us." I followed the direction of the soldier's fingers and saw Kravchenko and shamrih coming towards me, talking and laughing. No wonder I haven't seen Kravchenko come over all the time. It turns out that he went to find shamrih specially. Shamrih came to me and raised his hand to salute me. After that, he reported with some pride: "Comrade commander, tank battalion commander shamrih has reported to you that we have completely annihilated the German tank troops and lost three tanks. The report is over. Please give instructions!" I went forward to hold shamrih's hand and said to him excitedly, "Comrade captain, you are very kind. You wiped out all the German tanks at the cost of only three tanks. That's very kind of you!" After I let go of his hand, I said to Kravchenko, "Comrade General, I will immediately order someone to clean the battlefield and prepare for all battles. If our army wins the tank battle in Prokhorovka, there may be more German tanks passing by. Your task is to eliminate them as much as possible. "