Since the battle had just ended, the destroyed tanks were still burning on the battlefield, and the rising smoke obscured the sky, allowing Seryosha and his anti-tank team to quietly attack without being noticed by the enemy.
Entering the front line of the 210th Guards Regiment, it is hidden in those large and small bomb craters.
Seryosha had hidden and fought in bomb craters many times. He felt very bad about the craters. Every time he stayed in them, he always had the urge to run out and see if his comrades around him were still in the craters to confirm.
He is not the only one staying here. He is a veteran, let alone a recruit who is participating in the battle for the first time.
It is for this reason that before each group entered the bomb crater, he specifically told each soldier: "Brothers, we do not have enough communication tools. After entering the forward location later, you will have to rely on yourself for everything."
No need to wait for my order, as long as you feel the time is right, you can open fire immediately."
An hour later, the German army launched another attack. The Germans, who had suffered heavy losses, first bombarded the position of the 151st Guards Artillery Regiment with artillery fire to prevent their offensive troops from being intercepted again by artillery fire after approaching the Soviet position.
While shelling the Soviet artillery positions, the Soviet defensive positions also came under fierce shelling. The dense artillery shells soon exploded the 210th Regiment's position into a sea of flames.
Seryosha covered his ears with his hands, curled up and hid in the crater, praying secretly in his heart that the German artillery shells would never hit the crater where he was hiding. Although he had heard a saying a long time ago, "In the same crater
You will never fall into a shell twice." But only those who have been on the battlefield will understand that this sentence is nonsense. How high was the density of shelling in the era of the person who said this, and how high is the density of shelling today? Don't
Say two cannonballs fell from the same crater, even if three or four cannonballs fell, it is entirely possible.
Sivakov, who was staying in the observation post, held up his binoculars and looked at the forward position that had been blown into a sea of flames. He said to his chief of staff with some worry: "With such fierce artillery fire, those anti-tank tanks lurking in front of the position will be destroyed."
Hands, can you survive?"
"I think we should be able to survive." The chief of staff said in an uncertain tone: "The targets of the German shelling were all our positions, and the anti-tank crews were hiding in the craters in front of the positions and were hit by enemy shells.
The chances of winning shouldn’t be high.”
The German artillery fire began to extend, and the German tanks lined up in a straight line appeared in Sivakov's telescope again. Behind the tanks were infantry in skirmish formation.
The machine guns on the Soviet position started clicking when the German tanks were still two to three hundred meters away. Although bullets kept hitting the tanks and making a clanging sound, they did not slow down the forward speed of the tanks at all.
Only a few unlucky soldiers were hit by ricochet and fell to the ground screaming.
Seryosha, who was hiding in the crater, vaguely heard the roar of a tank engine from outside, so he cautiously put his head out to check. He saw a short-barreled No. 4 tank only two hundred meters away from him. He quickly shrank away.
Turning around, he said to the anti-tank man in the crater: "The German tanks are coming. Load them immediately and prepare to shoot."
After loading, the anti-tank man also looked out to see where the enemy tank was. At this moment, not far from the side, a rocket trailing white smoke flew out and headed straight towards the vehicle.
The German tank came. Unfortunately, the rocket did not hit the speeding tank, but fell on the open ground and exploded. Before the anti-tank man in the crater could retract, he was attacked by the Germans.
After being hit by several machine gun fire, he fell directly into the crater on his back.
The sacrifice of his subordinates made Seryozha feel heartbroken, but in order to destroy the enemy's tanks, he could only suppress the anger in his heart and said to the anti-tank men who were already prepared: "Don't be anxious, wait for the enemy's tanks."
Get closer and fight again."
After that, he ordered the gunner responsible for covering: "I'll leave it to you to deal with the infantry following the tanks. I don't want them to hurt our anti-tank crews."
"Don't worry, comrade commander." An older soldier grinned at Seryosha. He patted the assault rifle that had just been replaced with his hand: "With this gun, we can kill anyone a hundred meters away."
There are basically no problems with the enemy."
The older soldier cautiously poked his head out and saw that several enemies were only fifty or sixty meters away from the crater where he was, but their attention was attracted by the crater where rockets had just been fired. The older soldier quickly
The gun was set up, aimed at several enemies in the distance, and the trigger was decisively pulled.
After three bursts of fire, he retracted decisively and proudly said to Seryosha: "Comrade company commander, I killed two."
"Well done." After Seryozha praised the other party, he urged: "Kill the remaining enemies as well and cover the anti-tank men's shooting."
The older soldier took a deep breath, then poked his head out again, aimed at the place where the German soldiers were hiding, and pulled the trigger again. His movements were done in one go, and in a short time, he fired all the bullets in the magazine, and again
He retracted into the crater and said, "Comrade Company Commander, we've killed them all."
Hearing that all the nearby German soldiers had been killed, the anti-tank soldiers did not dare to neglect. They stood up suddenly, aimed at the oncoming German tanks, and suddenly pulled the trigger. The rockets filled with white smoke and headed towards the enemy.
The tanks flew away, and the anti-tank man didn't bother to check the results of the battle, so he just squatted down.
Soon, there was a violent explosion outside, and then some soil fell from the sky and sprinkled on everyone's heads and bodies. The older soldier hurriedly leaned out and saw that the tank had stopped moving and was raging not far away.
Burning. Several tank soldiers, covered in fire, screamed and escaped from the tank, stumbling towards the back.
Seeing that the anti-tank team commanded by Seryosha had achieved results, the other anti-tank teams did not dare to show weakness. The anti-tank crew risked being hit by bullets, stood up from the crater, straightened their bodies, aimed at the enemy tanks and fired.
The German infantry following the tank attack thought that the Soviet anti-tank fighters would still use the method of approaching and dropping bombs, so there were many soldiers behind each tank, so that they could use their weapons before the Soviet soldiers got close to the tanks.
Destroy the opponent with intensive firepower.
Unexpectedly, the Soviet army changed their tactics and actually used rocket launchers to attack from a distance, which overwhelmed the infantry following the tanks. And those tanks that were hit by rockets had their ammunition exploded, and the flying shrapnel scattered all around them.
The soldiers were cut down in pieces.
After the German army lost more than a dozen tanks, the German commander realized that this attack would be difficult to achieve, so he issued an order to retreat. Soon, dead bodies were left in front of the Soviet position.
