The counterattack organized by Zhukov north of Stalingrad did not achieve the desired results, but consumed the Soviet army's precious reserves. After successfully preventing the Soviet counterattack, the German army mobilized the 14th Tank Army and the 51st Infantry Army.
, launched a fierce attack on the Soviet defensive positions. The defensive positions of the 35th Guards Division became the first target of the German attack.
Artillery shells rained down on the position of the 100th Guards Regiment. Countless explosive points suddenly exploded. Shrapnel flying in all directions and flying rubble intertwined with each other like a violent storm, sweeping and shrouded in black smoke.
position. All the commanders and soldiers of the regiment covered their ears with their hands and huddled in the trenches to avoid the German artillery fire. From time to time, artillery shells fell directly into the trenches, and the air waves of the explosion lifted the soldiers near the blast point from the ground.
, was thrown high into the air, torn into pieces by flying shrapnel, and then scattered down like heavenly flowers.
Even if some of the soldiers who were blown up by the shells were missing arms and legs and fell to the ground howling, no one would come to treat them until the shelling was over. After all, health workers are also flesh and blood, and they must be rescued under such intensive artillery fire.
People, it is entirely possible that the final outcome is that people were not saved, but their own lives were involved. Whether these wounded people can persist in the rescue until the end of the shelling, the shrapnel can only be left to fate.
A red flag placed on the battlefield was first shaken by the air wave of the explosion, and then the flagpole was cut off by shrapnel. The half of the flagpole, which was connected to the flag full of holes, was blown away by the hurricane formed by the air wave in an instant.
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A soldier squatting not far away saw the flag being blown away. He was about to get up and look for the flag, but was held down by a veteran beside him. At the same time, he leaned into his ear and shouted loudly: "You don't want to."
You're going to die, please squat down quietly."
As soon as the shelling stopped and before the smoke cleared, the German infantry, under the cover of tanks, rushed toward the 100th Regiment's position menacingly.
Seeing that the German shelling had stopped, the Soviet commanders immediately stood up and shouted at the top of their lungs: "The Germans are coming up. Everyone immediately repairs the fortifications and gets ready to shoot..."
The German shelling caused a lot of casualties to the Soviet army, which had no solid defenses. At the same time, it also destroyed several civil bunkers, and the heavy machine guns placed inside were blown into parts without even a chance to fire.
Fortunately, the machine gunners hid in other places during the shelling, otherwise they would have been blown to pieces like these machine guns.
The Soviet battalion command was three hundred meters away from the first trench. After counting the casualties of the troops, the battalion commander's heart was bleeding. In the shelling that had just ended, the number of casualties among the battalion commanders and soldiers was
More than one-third. However, when he learned that the German infantry was rushing towards his defensive position, he immediately issued a combat order to his three company commanders: "Tell the soldiers to keep the enemy close.
Hit again."
The company commanders naturally understand the reason why the battalion commander issued this order. As long as the distance between the enemy and ourselves is close, the German tanks parked in the distance to provide artillery support will stop shooting in order to prevent accidental injuries to their own people. As long as the Germans are gone
With artillery support, it is not that easy to break through your own position.
The advancing German infantry saw that there was no movement on the Soviet position, and quickly passed the tanks that had stopped to fire, and rushed forward at a trot. Three hundred meters... two hundred meters... one hundred and fifty meters...
...One hundred meters away, the German infantry was getting closer and closer to the trench, but there was no movement at all, as if all the defenders had been killed by the shells in the shelling that had just ended.
When they were still fifty meters away from the trench, the German soldiers at the front showed a proud smile on their faces. They thought to themselves: as long as they ran for ten more seconds, they would be able to rush into the Russian trench.
The honor of being the first to storm Stalingrad will belong to our own unit.
However, when they felt that they could rush into the trench with one more sprint, the machine gun suddenly opened fire without warning in the trench that had been silent for a long time. The dense bullets shocked the two dozen German soldiers who were rushing at the front.
, spinning and falling down only about twenty meters away from the trench.
Seeing the sudden opening of fire by the Soviet army, the German troops behind quickly sought cover and fired back. The machine gunners also quickly established a machine gun position in the crater and fired wildly at the Soviet soldiers on the position. Many of them were shooting.
The soldier, after being hit by a bullet, fell on his back in the trench.
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Compared with the situation here of the 100th Regiment, the battle fought by the 101st Regiment on their right was even more brutal. The German troops attacking from this direction adopted tank assault tactics, and the tanks left the infantry far behind.
He rushed to the Soviet position alone, trying to use this breakthrough method to undermine the morale of the defenders.
The anti-tank company of the regiment was deployed one hundred meters in front of the regiment's defensive position. When enemy tanks appeared in the distance, company commander Gerasimov quickly counted the number of tanks: "Brothers, the Germans
There are 25 tanks, and we only have 18 anti-tank rifles, which means that we have seven soldiers to destroy more than two."
"Comrade Company Commander." As soon as Gerasimov finished speaking, a second lieutenant lying not far away asked: "Our anti-tank guns have to be within a range of two hundred meters to penetrate their frontal armor. How about you?"
Let’s see if we can move the enemy tank closer before attacking?”
"Okay." Gerasimov immediately agreed to the second lieutenant's suggestion: "Anyway, there are no infantry behind the German tanks, so we can put them as close as possible. Even if they rush in front of us, we don't have to worry, because there are still
Anti-tank grenades can deal with them."
After saying these words, Gerasimov shouted to the soldiers: "Everyone, be ready, the German tanks are coming." As the order was issued, all anti-tank rifles were aimed at the distant vehicles.
Coming German tanks.
When the German tanks got closer and closer, and the roar of the engines got louder and louder, Gerasimov raised his telescope. He saw the hatch of the first tank open, and a man wearing a black tank soldier's uniform.
He was wearing a pair of headphones on his head, holding a microphone in his hand, staring ahead, and seemed to be giving directions to other tanks.
Seeing this situation, Gerasimov put down his telescope, called a sharpshooter, and ordered: "Comrade soldier, have you seen the tank soldier leaning out half of his body?" When the other party nodded to indicate that he had seen it, he continued
Then he said, "According to my judgment, he is giving directions to other tanks. You shoot him immediately."
"Comrade Company Commander," the sharpshooter said with some embarrassment to Gerasimov's order: "The enemy's tank is still four hundred meters away. I can't hit the target at such a long distance."
"Then let's get closer and then fight." Gerasimov waved his fist and said, "As long as we kill him, it will not be so easy for the enemy in the tank to discover our position."
The sharpshooter agreed, and immediately ran to pick a suitable place to lie down, set up the Mosin-Nagant rifle with a scope, and aimed at the German tank soldier with half of his body in the distance.
However, the first person to shoot was not the sharpshooter who wanted to snipe the German tank soldiers, but another little nervous soldier. After the little soldier used the cross shape in the scope to lock the tank where the tank soldiers were, he ignored it.
The opponent was still more than 300 meters away, so he couldn't wait to pull the trigger.
The bullet fired from the anti-tank rifle did not hit the front armor of the tank, but hit the high-speed rotating track on one side, thus becoming a ricochet. The loud sound of the bullet hitting the track made Zheng observe the situation ahead.
The tank crewman was startled. He looked around, quickly retracted into the tank, and closed the hatch cover.
Seeing the German tank crew retreating, the sharpshooter who was about to shoot was so angry that he punched himself in front of his face with his fist, turned around and cursed: "Damn it, who fired randomly and scared the German tank crew into hiding"
Woke up."
The little soldier who discovered that he had gotten into trouble did not dare to say anything. He just silently reloaded a bullet, re-aimed at the tank, and prepared to shoot again to make up for the mistake he had just made.
After the German tanks discovered that there was a Soviet blocking position ahead, they immediately changed their tactics and used two tanks in groups to alternately cover the advance and rush forward. One tank stopped and fired while the other tank continued to rush forward to seize the advantage.
Terrain. After the tank that is charging forward reaches a favorable position, it will stop and shoot, covering the tank that has just fired as it rushes forward.
This tactic used by the German army immediately confused the soldiers of the anti-tank company. Because the bullets fired by the anti-tank rifles may not be able to penetrate the front armor of the German tanks, but the shells fired by the enemy tanks are enough to kill them.
Even people and guns were blown up into the sky.
When the German tanks rushed to a place 70 to 80 meters away from the anti-tank position, eight anti-tank guns had been destroyed, and the Germans only lost one tank. Seeing the German tanks approaching in an instant, Gerasimov hurriedly
Shout: "Use anti-tank grenades to blow up enemy tanks."
Upon hearing Gerasimov's order, a soldier immediately climbed out of the fortification with two anti-tank grenades and crawled towards the speeding tank. Seeing that the tank was about to rush in front of him, the soldier raised his head half way
He turned around and threw the anti-tank grenade in his hand violently. There was a loud "boom" and the tank began to burn. After traveling forward for some distance, it stopped completely.
Because the Soviet anti-tank grenades were too heavy, even strong soldiers could only throw them about 20 meters at best. Just after this soldier threw the anti-tank grenade, he was hit in the forehead by rebounding shrapnel and died on the spot.
Next to the destroyed tank.
Seeing that the soldier who bombed the tank had died, Gerasimov quickly shouted: "Comrades, continue on, we must blow up all the German tanks, and we must not let them rush to the infantry positions behind."
Under Gerasimov's call, seven or eight more soldiers holding anti-tank grenades climbed out of the trenches and crawled toward the approaching tanks on their hands and knees. After a series of explosions, the anti-tank grenades were executed.
All the soldiers on the mission died, but they succeeded in blowing up two more tanks. The tank soldiers, who were covered in fire, escaped from the vehicle. They did not escape far before they were shot down by the soldiers on the position.
Finding that their tanks were being blown up one by one by the Soviets, the Germans realized that it was impossible to continue to break forward without destroying this anti-tank force. So the German tank soldiers asked the infantry behind to speed up.
Come up and use tank guns and machine guns to deal with the Soviet anti-tank fighters hiding in the trenches.
After half an hour of fierce fighting, the German infantry caught up, and Captain Gerasimov was the only one left on the anti-tank position. Even so, he calmly fired at the German tanks with his anti-tank gun, and fired continuously.
After destroying four tanks and running out of bullets, he put down his anti-tank gun and searched for bullets on the fallen soldiers nearby.
As soon as he found the bullet, but before he had time to load it, a German tank rushed over aggressively. Seeing that the situation was not good, Gerasimov hurriedly squatted in the trench with his head in his hands. The German tank first hit Gerasimov's missile.
The tank gun smashed into pieces, and then circled on Gerasimov's head, trying to crush him to death while hiding in the trench. As the tank tracks rotated rapidly, Gerasimov felt that the trench walls began to collapse in pieces.
, the warm soil quickly buried itself.
After an unknown amount of time, the tank spinning above his head finally left. Gerasimov felt as if an elephant was sitting on him. He used all his strength to push upward little by little. After several efforts,
He finally emerged from the mud, and just as he was breathing in fresh air, he discovered that groups of German infantry were following the tanks and rushing towards the infantry positions in the rear.
Seeing a tank parked ten meters in front of him and firing, Gerasimov wanted to destroy it with an anti-tank gun, but after searching for a long time, he only found half of the deformed barrel. He squatted down and looked at the virtual earth
While groping around, he remembered that he had seen several anti-tank grenades on the ground in the trench before avoiding being crushed by German tanks. Under the current circumstances, this weapon could only be used against enemy tanks.
The hard work paid off. After groping for a while, Gerasimov finally touched the anti-tank grenade covered in the mud. After digging out the grenade, he stood up straight and raised the grenade high above his head.
, preparing to throw himself at the tank not far away. However, when he was doing all this, he forgot that there were German infantry everywhere. As soon as he stood up, he was discovered by the nearby German soldiers, and suddenly there were seven or eight guns.
The mouth was pointed at him.
Before he could throw the grenade, the surrounding German soldiers opened fire, and the bullets hit him, splashing countless blood foam. Gerasimov's body shook violently as if he was electrocuted. First, the anti-tank grenade fired from
It fell from his hand, and then his body fell softly into the collapsed trench.
This chapter has been completed!