After dawn, the first to attack the Soviet army was the 50th Armored Engineer Battalion stationed in Factory No. 4. They were assisted by two assault guns. The Soviet commanders and fighters who stood firm saw the enemy's attack begin and entered one after another.
The fortifications were built and prepared for battle.
However, they soon discovered that the attacking German troops were different from the troops they had seen before. The infantry did not follow the assault guns and rush toward their own positions. Instead, as soon as they left the trenches, the attacking soldiers
They disappeared into bomb craters or behind ruined walls. Even assault guns hid in the ruins, preventing the Soviet artillery regiment from finding its target.
"What on earth is going on?" Captain Vasily, the commander of the first battalion who was staying at the position of the 650th Infantry Regiment, saw this abnormal behavior of the enemy and couldn't help but said to himself: "Are they attacking, or are they attacking?"
Hide and seek with us?"
Standing aside, Lieutenant Colonel Guzman, the leader of the 650th Regiment, turned to look at Vasily and said coldly: "Comrade Captain, whether the enemy wants to attack or hide and seek with us, if they want to rush into our position, just
We must pass through the open space in front, and we will intercept it with fire."
Vasily strongly agreed with Lieutenant Colonel Guzman's statement. To rush into the position against the ruins, he had to pass through an open space of more than 80 meters. As long as the enemy entered this area, the infantry firepower on the position would be destroyed.
, as well as the blocking fire from the rear artillery regiment, would cause them huge casualties. But for some reason, Vasily always had an ominous premonition in his heart, and he didn't know what went wrong.
Just before Vasily could figure out where this ominous premonition came from, he saw a group of German soldiers rushing out from behind the ruins. Seeing the enemy rushing out, a machine gun fire point in front of the position immediately opened fire, and two
The flames sprayed by the machine guns formed a cross-fire network, blocking the German army's path forward.
As soon as the group of German soldiers saw the Soviet firepower firing, they immediately jumped into the nearby bomb crater. Only one or two unlucky soldiers were hit by bullets and fell on their backs on the dark ground.
Seeing the German soldiers reacting so quickly, Vasily immediately realized that the enemy was probably doing this as a conspiracy, just to find out the firepower points on the position. He quickly shouted to Guzman: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, this is
The German conspiracy, hurry up and order the firepower point to stop shooting." Then he shouted too late, only to hear a loud "boom", and the firepower point that was still shooting just now exploded into the sky with artillery shells.
"What the hell, where are the German assault guns hidden?" Seeing that the machine gun fire points in his regiment were blown away by the enemy's assault guns, Guzman's face turned blue. He roared angrily: "Why are we fighting like this?
allow?"
Vasily observed more carefully than Guzman. He found that before the firepower point was destroyed by enemy artillery fire, it seemed that a ball of fire had erupted on the bunker, and then was destroyed by a hidden assault gun. He held up the telescope and looked for a while, and found that the enemy was all
Hiding behind bomb craters or ruined walls, it was impossible to see their specific locations.
Vasily put down the telescope and said to Guzman: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, please let the firepower point next to you shoot at the enemy."
"What, you still want to shoot at the Germans?" Guzman couldn't help but become anxious when he heard what Vasily said: "The firepower point just now was probably destroyed by the enemy before even firing a bullet in the tray. Now you
By letting other firepower points fire, doesn’t it mean that the Germans will treat them as targets?”
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Vasily said to Guzman: "I think there may be enemy artillery observers who are guiding the attack targets for the assault guns hidden behind the ruins. They are so well hidden that I can't detect them at all. Now.
Only by allowing the firepower to take risks can these damn artillery observers be exposed."
Seeing Guzman still looking hesitant, Vasily became anxious: "Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I won't let your soldiers die in vain. Let the machine gunner at the firepower point move towards the crater where the enemy is hiding.
Fire half a shuttle, and then quickly move the location, so that even if the enemy's artillery observer discovers the location of the firepower point and directs the assault gun to attack, our soldiers will not be in any danger."
Even though Guzman was a lieutenant colonel and Vasily was only a captain, Lyudnikov had specifically told him to fully cooperate with Vasily, so he could not simply deny Vasily's proposal.
After weighing the situation over and over in his mind, he nodded and said, "Okay, Comrade Captain, just follow the method you said and let No. 3 firepower point shoot at the enemy."
After finishing speaking, Lieutenant Colonel Guzman picked up the phone on the table and said into the receiver: "I am Lieutenant Colonel Guzman, ordering the No. 3 firepower point to shoot at the enemy... I know, I saw the enemy's artillery fire destroy five
Firepower Point No. 3, in order to avoid a similar situation from happening again, I will help you ask the machine gunners in Firepower Point No. 3 to fire half a shell at the enemy and then immediately move their position. In this way, even if the enemy's artillery fire destroys Firepower Point No. 3, our soldiers
You won’t be harmed either.”
A few minutes later, the machine gun in No. 3 firepower point fired at the place where the German troops were hiding. Vasily, holding a telescope, soon saw a steel helmet rising from a crater, and a German soldier lying on the edge of the crater.
, looked towards the direction of the machine gun shooting, then raised the pistol in his hand and aimed towards the fire point.
"Using a pistol to increase firepower is a joke." Vasily just laughed at the other party in his heart, and immediately realized that something was wrong. The German soldier seemed to be holding not a pistol, but a flare gun. Could it be that the enemy was using
Does the flare gun indicate the direction of the assault gun?
Just as he was thinking about this, the German soldier had already pulled the trigger. A signal popped out of the chamber and accurately hit the location of the fire point. After the German soldier fired the signal, he immediately retracted into the crater. Soon, a shell roared.
Then, it directly destroyed the exposed No. 3 firepower point.
"I understand. It turns out that the enemy used signal flares to guide the hidden assault guns to attack targets." Vasily put down the telescope and said to Gusman: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we have figured it out. The enemy's artillery observers are hiding in
Once we find our firepower point in the crater ahead, we will immediately use the flare gun to guide the assault gun to attack the target."
Two fire points were lost by the enemy's artillery fire. Guzman was suffocating in his heart, but the enemy's artillery observer was hiding in the crater. Even if he was angry again, there was nothing he could do to defeat the opponent. He looked at the tiles
Xili asked angrily: "Comrade Captain, do you have any good way to eliminate the enemy's artillery observers?"
Vasily considered that the German artillery observers were elusive and it was obviously unrealistic to use machine gun fire to eliminate them. Maybe as soon as the fire was fired, the other party would directly use the flare gun to guide the attack target for the assault gun. Then it would be
Stealing a chicken leads to losing the rice. Vasily thought for a long time and said to Guzman: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, don't be anxious. I will report this matter to my regimental commander immediately and ask him what he can do."
After the call was connected, Vasily briefly reported the situation to Belkin and then said: "Comrade commander, if we don't eliminate the artillery observers hiding in the craters, it won't take long for the artillery observers on our position to be killed."
The firepower points will be eliminated one by one by the Germans."
Belkin knew Vasily well and knew that when he said this, he must have thought of some effective way, so he asked: "Comrade Captain, do you have any good way to eliminate the enemy's artillery observers?"
"Comrade commander, I need two snipers and a mortar team." Vasily said urgently on the phone: "With their help, I can eliminate the enemy's artillery observers."
"Using snipers and mortars to deal with enemy artillery observers is a good way." After hearing this, Belkin nodded slightly and said, "I will send you snipers and mortars immediately."
As soon as Belkin put down the phone, the regiment chief of staff, Captain Vanya, asked tentatively: "Comrade regiment leader, do you think we need to report this matter to the division commander?"
Belkin remembered that during the night attack last night, he had concealed the fact that the sewers had been blown up by the enemy from Sokov, which had already made Sokov very dissatisfied. Now that the enemy's offensive tactics had been adjusted, the soldiers were a little overwhelmed.
If he didn't report it to Sokov in time and waited for him to learn about the matter through other news channels, he might be passive.
Sokov didn't sleep a wink all night. Based on his memory, he restored the appearance drawings of the SU76 self-propelled artillery, and also wrote down some precautions for modifying the self-propelled artillery. After doing all this, he stretched out and was about to find a
While he was taking a nap, the phone that belonged to him on the table rang.
Sokov grabbed the microphone, put it to his ear and said: "I am Sokov, where are you?"
"It's me, Misha." Belkin said in a deep voice: "There is something wrong with the situation today."
"Something's wrong?!" Belkin's words made Sokov's sleepiness disappear without a trace: "Comrade Political Commissar, what did you find wrong?"
"The enemy is attacking the joint position of the 650th Regiment and the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company," Berjin said carefully: "They have adopted new offensive tactics..." He told Sokov the situation that Vasily had just reported.
After going over it, he finally added, "I sent snipers and mortars to Captain Vasily, hoping to eliminate those artillery observers hiding in the craters."
"Comrade Political Commissar, you just said that the tactics used by the enemy in today's attack are very different from those before." Sokov waited for Belkin to finish and then asked tentatively: "Am I right?"
"Absolutely correct!" Belkin nodded and said: "In the past, enemies attacked our positions under the cover of tanks or assault guns. But today, we can't see an enemy at all, not even the enemy.
The assault guns are also hidden behind the ruins. Even if you want to fight, you can’t find the target.”
After Belkin said this, Sokov immediately thought of another German unit and said thoughtfully: "Are the Germans sending an engineer battalion to attack the barricade factory?"
"Engineers, what engineers?" When Sokov mentioned engineers, Belkin said with a confused expression: "Misha, you won't say goodbye, right? Engineers can build pontoon bridges, build roads, and line up mines.
, if there is a war, I am afraid that one of our companies can take down their entire battalion."
"Comrade Political Commissar, you must not underestimate the enemy." Seeing Belkin's disapproval, Sokov quickly reminded him: "The enemy is not sending ordinary engineers, but assault engineers, and their combat effectiveness is far not as bad as we imagined.
, even much stronger than the combat effectiveness of the National Defense Forces.
Now the enemy is launching an attack on the positions of the 650th Regiment. Soon, the positions of the other 544th and 768th Regiments will also be attacked by engineers. You must greet the commanders and soldiers of our division on these positions and ask them to
Use new tactics to deal with the enemy."
Putting down the phone, Sokov said to Lyudnikov sitting opposite: "Comrade Colonel, according to the report of Commander Belkin, the enemy has dispatched at least one engineer battalion and adopted new tactics to deal with us. You
Let your subordinates prepare countermeasures so as not to be caught off guard by the enemy."
"Understood, I'll call the group leaders right now."
While Lyudnikov was on the phone, Sokov walked to the door and shouted outside: "Lieutenant Samoilov, come to my place."
Hearing Sokov's Han Zhan, Samoylov, who was not far away, immediately ran over, straightened his body and asked Sokov respectfully: "Comrade Commander, what are your instructions?"
Sokov stuffed the drawings and notes into Samoilov's hands and ordered him: "Comrade Lieutenant, immediately send someone to send the drawings and notes to Director Peter of the Red October Factory.
Li. Remember, once you encounter the enemy on the road, destroy the drawings and notes immediately, and never let these things fall into the hands of the Germans. Do you understand?"
"I completely understand, Comrade Division Commander." Samoilov said in a positive tone: "I will send two smart soldiers to deliver this thing to Factory Director Peter."
"Very good!" Sokov was very satisfied with Samoylov's attitude. He nodded and urged the other party: "Comrade Lieutenant, time is urgent. Don't waste time. Take action immediately."
When Sokov returned to the house, he found that Lyudnikov had finished making the phone call, and asked casually: "Comrade Colonel, have you notified all the troops?"
"Yes, I have called all three regiment commanders and ordered them to fully cooperate with your men to deal with the Germans who are preparing to attack the position." After saying this, Lyudnikov asked instinctively
One sentence: "Colonel Sokov, do you think we can stop the enemy's engineer attack?"
Sokov's greatest regret was that he knew the time when the major counterattack would begin, but was unable to mention it to others. But when he heard Lyudnikov's question, he immediately replied without hesitation: "I will hold on."
Yes, comrade colonel. As long as one of us is alive, the enemy will have no chance of occupying the barricade factory."
This chapter has been completed!