The village of Igolayawurica, which was designated as the No. 1 target by Sokov, was as beautiful as a Russian rural landscape painting under the morning mist. The second company led by Andre left the forest and carefully advanced towards the location of the village. Sokov stood in a bunker on the edge of the forest, and looked nervously at the troops looming in the fog with a telescope, and secretly prayed in his heart that they could approach the village smoothly.
Seeing that the troops were still three or four hundred meters away from the village, an explosion suddenly came, and then a stream of black smoke rose into the sky and several figures near the explosion site fell down. "What's going on?" Sokov couldn't help but shouted loudly when he saw this situation: "Did the German fire?"
But no one in the observation center answered him because no one knew the answer.
Soon another explosion came, and several figures fell down.
Sokov, who saw this scene clearly, his heart sank suddenly, and he said that he had brought people to observe the terrain yesterday, so how could he forget that the German army would set up minefields outside the village? This must be the commanders and fighters of the Second Company stepped on the landmines buried by the enemy.
The explosion of landmines outside the village alarmed the Germans in the village. Soon, machine guns fired at the soldiers outside the village at the firepower points in the civilian bunkers, forcing them to lie down on the spot.
Sokov grabbed the phone number used to contact the artillery company and said furiously to the microphone: "Hey, Lieutenant Sergeyev, the artillery company will open fire immediately! Destroy the German firepower point, hurry up, open fire immediately!"
When Sergeyev accompanied Sokov to inspect the terrain yesterday, he recorded the position parameters of the German firepower points in detail. At this moment, when he received Sokov's order, he immediately ordered the six 76.2mm cannons in the company to aim at the already marked targets for firing.
The six guns only carried out two rounds of fire, destroying the four German firepower points outside the village. The soldiers who were originally suppressed by the firepower got up from the ground again and rushed towards the village in the snow.
"Our artillery is amazing." The heat generated by the explosion dispelled the morning mist in the air, making the view in the observation center widen. Through the telescope, Belkin clearly saw that the German fire point was burning after being destroyed by artillery fire. He couldn't help but say excitedly: "It actually destroyed the German fire point in just a dozen shells."
Sokov put down his telescope and turned his head to Berkin and said, "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, I lent all the commanders and fighters of the artillery platoon to Sergeyev. Otherwise, his recruits would not necessarily destroy these firepower points even if the shells were completely destroyed."
Although the German firepower point was destroyed, the German soldiers living in the village heard the sound of gunfire outside and rushed out of the house where they lived, jumped into the trenches outside the village, and opened fire at the Soviet army rushing towards them.
Under the rain of bullets in the German army, the soldiers of the Second Company sometimes crawled forward, sometimes jumped up from the ground during the interval of enemy shooting, trotted forward for a few steps, and then fell down on the ground.
The German tanks at the entrance of the village also slowly turned the turret and opened fire at the soldiers approaching the village. Although its firing rate was not fast, each shot could cause considerable casualties to the Second Company.
The company commander of the anti-tank artillery company, Ajik, saw that the German tanks had fired, hurriedly urged the artillery to pull the artillery to advance towards the village. Although the anti-tank artillery they equipped had an effective range of 4,100 meters, if they wanted to effectively penetrate the armor of tank No. 3 or No. 4, they had to get close to three hundred meters.
The commanders and soldiers of the second company were very brave. Although comrades fell down around them, they still rushed forward bravely. Grissa rushed to a place more than ten meters away from the enemy's trenches, lay behind a tree stump, and threw four grenades into the trenches. As soon as the explosion stopped, he jumped up from his hiding place, rushed into the trenches quickly, and used a submachine gun to sweep down two German soldiers who were dizzy by the explosion.
A row of soldiers followed Grissa and jumped into the trench. They shot with submachine guns and blasted with grenades to eliminate the German soldiers who had not yet come back to their senses, and quickly controlled the trench.
After destroying the enemies in their sight, several impatient soldiers climbed out of the trenches and prepared to rush into the village with guns. Before they even stood firm, they were fired by German tanks on the heading machine guns. The soldiers who were shot covered their wounds and fell into the trenches like dumplings.
When Grissa saw his subordinates being knocked down by the enemy's machine gun, he couldn't help but blood surged up to his head. He squatted down and picked up several German wooden grenades from the trenches, tied them together with straps, preparing to use cluster grenades to blow up the tank. He tied the grenades and just poked his head out of the trenches when he heard an explosion in front of him. A mud pillar rose into the sky on the side of the tank.
"What's going on?" Grissa thought unexpectedly, "Is it our artillery firing?"
At this time, another explosion sounded. A ball of flame bloomed on the tank body, and then the fire wrapped around the tank, causing it to start burning. Grissa put the cluster grenade next to it, picked up the submachine gun, aimed at the burning tank, ready to destroy the tank soldiers who escaped from it.
Ajik stood behind an anti-tank gun three hundred meters away from the entrance of the village. When he saw the artillery squad sent by Sokov to him, he destroyed the snow-covered German tanks with just two shells. He couldn't help but look surprised. When Sokov introduced the situation of the troops to him and Sergeyev yesterday, he was still sneering in his heart. He had never heard of any kind of military battalion, but because the other party was his superior, he knew that the other party was bragging, he had to pretend to be convinced. However, the performance of the artillery squad made him realize that he was wrongly blamed Sokov. The strength of the Istrian Battalion was completely beyond his imagination.
After Grissa knocked down a tank soldier who had crawled out of the tank with his gun, he jumped out of the trench, raised the submachine gun in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Comrades, come with me!"
Sokov in the observation center saw a row of soldiers rushing into the village from the entrance of the village under Grissa, and put down his telescope and said to Belkin with relief: "I finally took down the village."
"But, Comrade Battalion Commander." Belkin pointed to the trenches that had not yet ended, and said, "The enemies in the trenches are still fighting stubbornly, and our battle is not yet over."
Chapter completed!