Chapter 1686

According to Tkachenko's report, the explosive barrels made by the engineers each weighed 80 kg. Once the explosion, people within 50 meters in diameter will be blown up so that they can't even find the slag. Even if they hide in a solid fortification, they will be shocked to death.

With more than a dozen barrels of dynamite thrown into the trench, many of the German firepower points at the main entrance to the South were dumb. Captain proscolin led the soldiers of the engineering company to the bottom of the entrance. Through a wooden ladder set up at the edge of the trench, they succeeded in sending up an explosive barrel and placing it near the entrance blocked by bricks and stones.

It's said that the engineers are going to blow up the main entrance of the fortress. Trekov and I went to the top floor to observe the movement in the direction of the fortress. With an earth shaking explosion, a huge rolling black mushroom was formed in the air, and countless pieces of gravel were thrown into the air.

Trekov, holding a telescope, said to himself, "I don't know if an explosion of this scale can blow up the entrance of the fortress? If not, it may take two more times. "

What I'm thinking about is that the shock engineers who carry out the blasting mission don't know whether there will be unnecessary casualties in the explosion of this scale? After all, it was the first time for them to experience such a violent explosion.

When the smoke around the explosion point gradually dispersed, I saw that there was only a gap more than one person wide. I couldn't help feeling that the walls of the German fortress were too strong.

Seeing that the explosion had just taken place, trakov did not blow out enough passageways for tanks to pass through. He immediately told Tkachenko, "chief engineer, go and tell the soldiers of the engineering brigade that they must blow up the passageways of the entrance wider."

Shortly after Tkachenko left, I saw the engineers near the entrance busy again. They kept piling up all kinds of bridge materials on the side of the trench close to our army. It seems that they intend to set up bridges for tanks on the trench immediately after the entrance is blasted open.

Half an hour later, the engineers jammed two explosive barrels into the gap, and then carried out a second blasting. The explosion, let me feel there has become a sudden eruption of the volcano, roaring, the broken bricks and stones were blown away from afar. After the smoke dispersed, a big gap appeared on the wall of the fortress.

Some of the hidden engineers took action with the help of ladders and went into the gap, clearing the rubble on the still smoldering rubble pile; Some began to build bridges for tanks in the trenches. After discovering our army's action, the fire points at the top of the fortress on both sides of the entrance immediately started shooting with machine guns in an attempt to block the breakthrough our army had just opened.

Seeing this situation, trikov immediately picked up the phone and called the chief of staff, Vladimirov, and said, "chief of staff, order the artillery to bombard both sides of the entrance of the fort, suppress the fire at the top of the fort, and cover our engineers to build bridges."

The engineer's act of building a bridge on the trench was soon discovered by the German. They deployed several mortar teams nearby and bombarded the entrance continuously, causing great casualties to our engineer.

Seeing this, trakov stamped his feet in a hurry. If it is the firepower at the top of the fortress, we can also use the way of artillery suppression. We can only stare at the artillery fire coming from behind the fortress wall.

When Tkachenko saw that the engineers fell in batches under the German artillery fire, even the half built bridge was destroyed by the German army, and his eyes were red with anxiety. He said anxiously to trakov, "Comrade commander, we need to do something to support our engineers. We can't watch them die like this."

"What can I do?" Trekov was also red eyed. He yelled at Tkachenko: "the enemy is hiding behind the walls of the fortress. We can't do anything about them with our artillery fire."

"Comrade deputy commander," tekachenko, seeing that trikov had nothing to do and was in a hurry to go to the doctor, found me again and asked me for help: "you are an expert in street fighting. You must have a way to solve this problem, right?"

I didn't say anything. I just raised my telescope and looked at the entrance of the black plume from time to time, thinking about how to solve the current dilemma. After a long time, I put down my telescope and asked Tkachenko, "Comrade General, are the ordinary engineers or shock engineers now carrying out the task of building bridges?"

When Tkachenko heard my question, he was stunned and then replied, "of course, it's the shock engineer. Is there anything wrong?"

"Of course not," I think Tkachenko explained. "Shock engineers are the main force for us to capture the fortress. How can we let them take charge of the work of ordinary engineers? You now immediately order our engineers to take over the work of the shock engineers and build bridges in the trenches. "

"What about the shock Engineer?" Asked Tkachenko curiously.

"Regroup them and continue to develop inside the fortress. If possible, destroy the German mortar teams and cover our clearing and bridging work at the entrance."

"I see." Tkachenko gave a loud answer. Then he picked up the phone and called his subordinate engineer troops, asking them to take over the work of the shock engineer as soon as possible, clear the gravel at the entrance as soon as possible, and set up the bridge, so that our army's tanks can rush into the fortress as soon as possible.

Although the trench is only ten meters wide, it is not so easy for engineers to build a bridge for tanks. It took me two hours to see a bridge take shape. The first one to drive onto the bridge was an isu-152 heavy assault gun. When I saw it slowly driving over the bridge, my heart went up to my throat. I was afraid that this huge thing would collapse the bridge and plunge into the ditch. Fortunately, the worry didn't happen. The assault gun passed through the trench and entered the fort area along the cleared entrance. Engineers standing on both sides of the trench cheered, and then let a second t-5455 tank pass the bridge. A assault gun and a t-5455 tank drove through a relatively narrow passage and entered a relatively open area. Then the two vehicles moved forward slowly in parallel with each other in the way of alternate cover. Behind them, more and more tanks or assault guns drove over the bridge on the trench. Trikov looked with great interest at the chariot firing in front of him for a while, put down his telescope, turned to me and said, "Rita, I think the people who set up these two chariots should have listened to your lecture."“ Have you ever heard me talk? " Trekov's words left me stunned. I don't remember where and to whom I taught the theory of street fighting, except at the military academy in vorongze. In addition, trakov said the answer in time: "look at the assault gun driving on the left side of the road, bombarding the target on the right side of the road with the gun; The new tank on the right shelled the building on the left. Two cars such a cover way, can reduce the dead angle of shooting What happened next was an eye opener. As more and more tanks and assault guns enter the fortress area, the vehicles driving on both sides of the road form a corridor where our infantry can move. At the same time, they can cover the infantry with their armor and powerful firepower, so that they can pass through the enemy's firepower network with the least casualties. For such a marching formation, not only I feel strange, but also trekov sighs: "our soldiers are really amazing. They can invent such a way of fighting. This is the wisdom of our officers and soldiers." I nodded in agreement with trakov, and then suggested to him, "general trakov, our troops are still too slow to enter the fortress just by this entrance. It is necessary for engineers to open up new channels in other areas so as to speed up our army's entry into the fortress area. "“ Yes, comrade commander. " As soon as I finished, Tkachenko added: "I think we should blow more holes in the wall of the fortress, then use explosives and mines to collapse the trench wall, fill the trench, so that our tanks and self-propelled artillery can pass through the trench more quickly and enter the core area of the German fortress." Seeing that I agreed with Tkachenko, trekov nodded his head and said, "you have the same idea as me. If you want to speed up our army's entry into the fortress, it is absolutely necessary to open up more channels." Taking advantage of Tkachenko's opportunity to convey his orders, trakov called his chief of staff again, told the other side the new tactics he had just seen, and finally said: "Comrade chief of staff, such a combat method is not available in any regulations. It is directly produced by our officers and soldiers relying on their wisdom in combat. You should immediately prepare an order for all commanders, political workers and staff officers to rapidly popularize the wisdom achievements of the soldiers and turn the new methods of struggle into the common wealth of all the troops. "“ I see, comrade commander. " The chief of staff's loud voice came out of the receiver: "I will immediately convey your order to the subordinate troops, so as to ensure that this new tactic can be popularized in the whole regiment as soon as possible." When I heard the order given by trakov to the chief of staff, I felt that it was not enough to promote the new tactics only within the scope of the 8th group army of the close guard, because the troops attacking Berlin in a few months' time were not only them, so it was necessary to report to Zhukov to see if they could promote the new tactics within the scope of the whole front army. Thinking of this, I said hello to trakov and went downstairs to return to the headquarters. I was ready to call Zhukov to report the matter and see what his opinion was.