Every soldier in the machine gun company heard the gunshots. They knew that the Germans had begun the massacre of the villagers. As soon as they heard the order issued by Sokov, the soldiers held the weapons in their hands and were ready to attack the village at any time. However, the company commander Vasily's hesitant expression made their hearts sank. They marched for two hours in a row. Isn't it just to get here to stop the German massacre?
Fortunately, Vasily's hesitation did not last long, so he made the final decision. He straightened his back and said to Sokov: "Comrade Battalion Commander, I firmly obey your orders and immediately lead the troops to attack the village."
"You lead three rows to the east of the village," Sokov pointed his finger to the east of the village and said to Vasily: "Prevent the enemy from running to Popkovo when they can't stand it."
"But, Comrade Battalion Commander." Vasily was confused by Sokov's order: "If I lead the third row to the east of the village, who will command the frontal attack?"
"I will be in charge of the frontal attack myself." Sokov said lightly: "You only need to lead three rows to block the Germans' escape eastward path, and you don't have to worry about the rest."
"What?" Sokov's words shocked Vasily, and he said hurriedly: "Battalion Commander, you are the commander of the first battalion, how can you take risks casually? Otherwise, you will take three rows to the east of the village, and I will take people to attack from the front."
"Abide by the order!" Before Vasily finished speaking, Sokov interrupted the words behind him and urged him, "Captain Vasily, what are you still rushing? If the enemy slips away from the east of the village later, I will only ask."
Seeing Sokov so stubborn, Vasily knew that nothing else would be useful, so he nodded and took the three-row warriors to the east of the village.
After Vasily left, Sokov stepped forward with a slightly crooked steel helmet, took off the submachine gun that was slapped on his shoulder, opened the security, and waved his hand forward: "Start the attack!"
Sokov and Oleg's guard squad walked in front of the attacking team, following them were soldiers from two cannon companies. The troops were scattered, holding their weapons, and strode towards the enemy-occupied village.
In addition to the two German platoons of the defense forces, the defenders in the village also had a squad of SS. Sokov and others heard gunshots that they were shooting the villagers. The villagers were divided into ten people by the SS and were taken to the village side to shoot, and the bodies were thrown into the trenches that had been dug long ago.
After they shot and killed the second group of villagers, they were about to bring the third group of villagers to the death, suddenly a soldier on duty shouted loudly: "The Russians, the Russians are approaching the village."
Hearing that a Russian army was moving towards the village, the SS assault squad leader hurriedly ordered the villagers to be taken back to the church; the National Defense Forces officers and soldiers ran out of the village and jumped into the trench outside the village to prepare for battle. As for the corpses of the villagers, they placed them outside the trench as sandbags.
The troops led by Sokov were still two hundred meters away from the village, and were violently fired by the German army. As soon as the gunshot sounded, Sokov quickly fell into the snow, crawling forward with his hands and feet. The guard squad had two unlucky soldiers, who were hit by bullets, fell on the snow with a thud. The blood from the wound dyed the snow under him red.
Although the machine gun company has not had artillery since its establishment, the number of machine guns has increased with the increase in the number of seizures. The total number of machine guns in the three platoons of the company is 200, each with eight machine guns. Except for the main and deputy machine gunners and an ammunition hand, the rest of the soldiers are equipped with submachine guns. Their firepower intensity is far greater than that of a German battalion. It is not difficult to capture a village guarded by only two platoons.
The enemies in the village tried to stop Sokov's troops from approaching the village by relying on the trenches and firepower points, but their resistance seemed so insignificant under the attack of more than a dozen MG34 machine guns. There was a German machine gun in the civil and wooden firepower point. Before a single link was finished, it became the target of public criticism. Four or five machine guns aimed at it and fired. The bullets drilled into the shooting holes made the machine gunners fiery flying.
After killing the German machine guns, the MG34s turned the guns and suppressed the German army in the trenches. Although there were 70 or 80 German soldiers hiding in the trenches, the dozen or more machine guns in the machine gun company still suppressed them. The German lieutenant who hid in the trenches with the soldiers felt a sense of crying without tears: When did the Russians' firepower become so strong, and a company had more than ten machine guns.
Under the cover of machine gun fire, Sokov led the remaining soldiers to crawl forward, sometimes jumped up from the ground, bent down and ran a few steps forward, and then lay down and shot. In this way, in a short while, they arrived only twenty meters away from the trench. With Sokov's order, dozens of stringed grenades drew a beautiful arc in the air, landed in front and behind the trench and exploded, splashing out large balls of fire and smoke, and blew the German soldiers who were protruding to continue shooting, blew up the flesh and blood.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the German lieutenant knew that it would be the end of his death if he continued to fight. He hurriedly squatted in the trenches and shouted loudly: "Stop fighting, stop fighting, let's surrender, we surrender!" After shouting, he tied a white handkerchief to a rifle, stretched out the trenches and waved them desperately.
Sokov vaguely heard the lieutenant's shouting amid the gunshots and explosions. Although he could not hear what the other party was shouting, the white flag stretched out from the trench immediately made him understand: the Germans surrendered!
He quickly raised his right hand high and shouted loudly: "Stop shooting!" On the battlefield with dense gunshots, his voice could not be heard far, but the machine gunners shooting behind him saw his gestures and stopped shooting one after another.
After Sokov issued the order to stop shooting, he lay on the ground for a while. He heard that the machine gun shooting behind him stopped, so he stood up and walked towards the trench with his gun. He came to the trench and saw the German soldiers squatting in the trench and shouted with great majesty: "Hendhoch!"
The German soldiers in the trench breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Sokov's somewhat crappy German. They saw the lieutenant holding a rifle tied with a white handkerchief in both hands and stood up first. They threw away the weapons in their hands and then stood up.
Chapter completed!