Chapter 316： German offensive (middle)

? As the soldiers on both sides approached, the company commander immediately shouted. "Fire."

The soldiers who had been waiting on the position immediately followed the three-point line required for shooting and aimed at the enemy rushing towards him. Then there was intensive gunfire, and the Germans attacking the position collapsed nearly ten.

The company commander who was observing the position immediately yelled happily when he saw the results. "Good fight, continue shooting like this to suppress the enemy."

However, the next battle allowed the defenders to see the enemy's combat effectiveness. After being attacked by the defenders, the attacking Germans immediately began to approach them with craters, soil packs, trees and other obstacles. It is basically a cat waist and curve in the process of traveling, and it will also fight back when it can use obstacles as a cover.

The German counterattack firepower is not as dense as they are, but the accuracy is much higher than them, and it is often a shot that hits the defensive army. This made the Romanian soldiers who were defending their positions jealous. They felt that in order to ensure their safety, they should shrink in the trenches as much as possible to reduce the risk of being caught and hit by the enemy. Therefore, many soldiers evasively fired at the enemy.

It's just this kind of shooting that led to a drop in interception firepower, allowing more enemies to attack it calmly.

The young company commander on the defensive position saw that the situation was not right, and ignored the result of the hidden firepower being exposed, and immediately commanded. "The machine gun fired to suppress the momentum of the enemy's attack."

As the voice fell, the only machine gun on this position roared. Sure enough, the suppression of the machine gun was different. In the face of the continuous firepower output of the machine gun, the German offensive was stagnant. This actually made the soldiers' spirits improved, and even the shooting efficiency was improved a lot.

However, only the company commander himself knew that this was only a temporary advantage, and the firepower he exposed would immediately attract the German counterattack. Sure enough, the machine gun did not suppress the enemy for too long. With the German bombardment of accompanying artillery, several 57 and 75 shells fell on the machine gun position, and the machine gun that had given the defenders a huge advantage was destroyed in this way.

Faced with a good opportunity for the defensive firepower to weaken, the offensive team with many years of experience will certainly not let go. The German soldiers, who used a large number of natural bunkers on the battlefield to advance interactively, speeded up their movements, which immediately accelerated their advancement speed a lot, and also made the defending side feel a lot of pressure. Many defensive soldiers speed up their shooting movements involuntarily, and there are even soldiers who close their eyes and shoot without aiming.

This made Major General Antić, who was staying behind to watch the battle, felt a little bit uncomfortable, and he immediately ordered the division commander who was defending the outer position. "Arrange your people for reinforcements immediately, and the front lines will no longer be able to stop them."

The division commander defending this position replied nervously and ashamed. "I'll take the reserve team up here."

Facing the first German attack, his position was shaky. This situation made the colonel feel shameless, so this time he planned to go to the front line himself to see.

Major General Antiche gave the commander casually. "Then you go"

After speaking, he immediately took the field call. "Get me the 33rd Division and the 45th Division Headquarters immediately."

The reason why Major General Antichi called the two divisions was that according to observations, the German offensive forces and artillery were far higher than his previous estimates, and the performance of his first-line soldiers did not meet expectations, so the reserve forces were deployed in advance. It is a last resort.

Some people may ask, can't we abandon the outer positions and retreat to the strong fortifications in the city? Major General Antichi's answer is of course no good. The reason is simple, because most of the defenders are recruits who lack training. If they abandon the outer positions at the first time, then the impact of the photo will make the soldiers doubt about the next battle, which is absolutely impossible without the morale of the army. Hold your ground. So this is also what Major General Antichi would rather suffer some losses in the early stage, but also to send more troops to block the German attack first.

Soon the phone from the two divisions was picked up on the other end of the phone, and Major General Antich immediately gave the order for the two divisions to reinforce the outlying positions.

With the arrival of Romanian reinforcements, the defense on the outer positions gradually stabilized. There were many positions that were invaded by the Germans, and the enemy was driven back by virtue of the strength of reinforcements. There was even a position that had already been taken by the enemy, and was abandoned because of the siege of the superior force of the defending army.

Seeing the German soldiers who reluctantly gave up their hard work to seize the position and retreat, the Romanian soldiers who endured huge casualties cheered. Even if this is only one defense against a German attack, this is also a happy thing for the Romanian soldiers defending their homeland. After all, after experiencing a life-and-death battle, everyone who survived has a reason for themselves. cheer.

Soldiers can temporarily forget their sorrow and pain and cheer for themselves, and commanders need to prepare for the next battle, because they know that there are more difficult battles waiting for them.

As for Antich, who commanded the defense, he only realized that he didn't know enough about the German army until now.

"This is the number of casualties, isn't it a mistake?"

Looking at the statistical casualty report in his hand, Antiche questioned the chief of staff who sent the report.

"It's not wrong, this is the result of my personal responsibility for the statistics, and I have repeatedly compared it with the frontline commander. It can't be wrong."

Hearing the explanation from the Chief of Staff, Antić felt like a fight. Of course he knew that this would not be a miscalculation by his chief of staff, but the casualty report showed a total of 14,764 casualties, which made him feel too dazzling. He lost a division (the mobilization division) in just one battle. How could he accept this result? However, the statistical report showed that the three divisions defending the outer positions had casualties of 3961, 3684, and 3781, and there were more than 3,000 casualties of the two reinforcements ~ www.novelhall.com~ This also fully demonstrated the enemy's tenacity.

Looking at Major General Antiche's unbelievable eyes, the Chief of Staff couldn't help suggesting. "Such casualties are too great, shall we first withdraw to the city defense?"

The chief of staff's suggestion made Antiche not care about the number of casualties, he immediately stopped. "We can't do it now. Now we can't fail to withdraw from the outer positions."

"why?"

Antiche's words made the Chief of Staff very puzzled.

Faced with the chief of staff's question, Antiche explained. "Chief of Staff, I know you are distressed by the number of casualties, but we cannot withdraw right now. Because if we retreat to the city now, the enemy will immediately know that we cannot bear the casualties and retreat, then the next attack is estimated to be even larger. This is a result that we cannot bear at the moment, so we need to make the illusion that the casualties are still within the acceptable range, then we cannot do it when we withdraw from the outer positions."

Major General Antichi patted the casualty statistics report and then continued. "I'm talking about, according to your statistics, the German casualties have reached 4,000. I believe that this number will be uncomfortable for the folio.