Sokov hurried back to his command post and contacted Chernyshev by radio. Chernyshev did not ask about the progress of the battle here, but said to Sokov bluntly: "
Major Sokov, your battalion will hand over its position to the defending friendly forces before tomorrow evening, and then rush to Susinich."
"Transfer the position to friendly forces?" When Sokov heard what Chernyshev said, he was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Comrade division commander, can I ask which unit will take over our defense?"
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"It is the 411th Infantry Division of the Tenth Army." Chernyshev replied: "The task of holding on to the unknown heights will be completed by them."
Sokov originally thought that the troops that would take over the defense of the unknown highlands would be drawn from Sushinich. He was worried that the other party would draw troops from himself to supplement them due to insufficient troops. Now that he learned that friendly forces on the left would take over the defense, he
My heart suddenly felt much more at ease.
More than an hour later, the unknown high ground held by the third company was once again shelled by the Germans. The cunning Germans took advantage of the shelling and sent a small detachment of eight tanks along the simple road in another attempt to make a detour.
To the rear of the high ground. Behind the tank detachment are four armored personnel carriers loaded with soldiers.
The leading tank opened the top cover of the turret while driving, and a German tank soldier leaned out half of his body to carefully observe the surrounding environment.
Artillery platoon leader Porochenko was hiding in the observation post on the west slope, staring at the tank squad with binoculars, mentally calculating how far away they were from the anti-tank mines laid by engineers. He saw the first tank was far away from the mines.
As it got closer and closer, he couldn't help but hold his breath, preparing to hear the violent explosion.
But unfortunately, the tracks of the first German tank drove past the anti-tank mine smoothly. Seeing this, he was so angry that he punched the wall hard. He could only
He placed his hope on the second tank. He hoped that the tank that followed him could run over the buried mines. But he was soon disappointed. The second tank also passed through the buried mines unscathed.
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"What the hell, what's going on?" Porochenko thought to himself: "Have all the anti-tank mines laid by the engineers become ineffective, so that a tank running over them will not cause an explosion?"
Just when he was thinking wildly, there was a dull explosion, and the third tank was enveloped in black smoke. When the smoke dissipated, Porochenko saw that one of the tracks on one side of the tank had been blown off, and the body of the tank was being
Burning. As the tank hit a mine, not only the tank following it stopped, but also the two tanks in front. An armored vehicle behind accelerated and drove up and stopped next to the burning tank.
Porochenko saw German soldiers jumping off the armored vehicle. Based on the mine detectors in their hands, he could tell that they were engineers. Since the engineer platoon only planted two anti-tank mines here, one of them
Having already exploded and destroyed a German tank, whether the remaining mine was discovered by enemy engineers was not what he cared about. He picked up the phone and said loudly to the gunner who commanded the anti-tank gun: "China
Comrade soldier, have you seen the enemy tanks?"
"I saw it, Comrade Second Lieutenant," the gunner replied.
"Aim at the two tanks in front and fire," Porochenko ordered the gunner. "After destroying them, immediately move positions."
After the gunner put down the phone, he immediately gave the order to the first gunner: "Aim at the second German tank and fire!"
With a loud "boom", a dazzling fire burst out from the body of the second German tank, followed by a puff of black smoke. Seeing the first hit of the anti-tank gun, Boroqin in the observation post
Ke couldn't help but cheer continuously.
The gunner ordered a gunner to aim at the first German tank and fire a second time. The armor-piercing projectile fired this time penetrated into the tank and exploded, causing the ammunition to explode. The flames rushed from the open hatch cover to the tank.
High in the sky, it's like an oil well on fire.
After completing two rounds of shooting, the gunner immediately ordered the transfer of the firing position. The soldiers did not dare to neglect and moved the anti-tank gun to the new firing position in a hurry.
The German tanks at the back saw that the two tanks at the front were destroyed by anti-tank fire from the hillside. They immediately turned their guns and fired at the false positions on the hillside. Several false positions that were deliberately exposed became
The target of the German tank gun's attack was blown to pieces in a series of explosions. The cannons made of wood were blown to pieces.
At this time, the anti-tank gun had been moved to a new location. This time, without waiting for Porochenko's order, the gunner commanded the first gunner in a self-taught way: "Aim at the last tank on the road and shoot!
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Although the German tanks were all parked on the road, because they were a little far away, the shells fired by the anti-tank guns missed and exploded on the side of the last tank, causing a column of mud to rise into the sky.
When the gunner saw that the shell did not hit the target, he couldn't help but glared at the first gunner. When the first gunner saw that the shell missed due to an error in his aim, his face turned red to the root of his neck. In order to atone for his sins, he put his eyes close to each other.
Use the scope and aim carefully at the farthest tank.
The fourth shell flew out and successfully hit the German tank again. Seeing the German tanks in the distance starting to burn, the gunner calmly gave the order to move to a new firing position.
Not long after the anti-tank gun was moved, the exposed firing position was bombarded by German tanks. Seeing all this, the gunner thought with lingering fear: "Fortunately, the position was moved in time, otherwise this anti-tank gun would have been destroyed."
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Four shells destroyed three German tanks, which greatly increased the confidence of the artillery soldiers. After they arrived at the new firing position, they immediately deployed the anti-tank guns, aimed at the tanks parked on the road and continued shooting. They fired seven rounds in one go
Fired artillery shells and destroyed three tanks and three armored vehicles respectively.
Although the enemy only had one tank and one armored vehicle left, the third gunner responsible for loading the shells said to the gunner with a sad face: "Comrade gunner, there is only the last shell left. Which target should we hit?"
"Needless to say, of course it's the enemy's tank." The gunner shouted to the first gunner: "Aim at the enemy's tank and fire!"
The last shell hit the tank that was trying to escape. It dragged the fire for a while, then stopped on the road and started to burn. The armored vehicle sent in front to carry the engineers was destroyed when it saw the tanks and armored vehicles that were traveling with it.
, who dared to stay any longer, he quickly loaded up the engineers and prepared to flee.
Unexpectedly, before driving far, it unfortunately ran into another landmine that had not been cleared. With a loud "boom", the two front wheels of the half-track armored vehicle were raised high, and the entire body of the armored vehicle turned over in the air.
A 180-degree somersault shook out all the engineers inside, and then hit the road heavily.
This chapter has been completed!