Although the Soviet army had limited artillery and shells, they could only use two artillery guns to shoot at the Germans. However, these two 105mm howitzers that kept firing caused a lot of losses to the Germans.
When they were first bombarded, Lieutenant Colonel Siknius, who was not the 2nd Armored Regiment, or the commander of the 79th Infantry Regiment, they did not realize that the shells that were bombarding them were artillery positions from the 16th Artillery Regiment. They thought they were shells fired by the only remaining artillery pieces of the Soviet breakout forces, so they did not attract enough attention.
The artillery observers hiding on the hills, seeing the shells falling on the German army and exploding, causing heavy losses to the soldiers near the bombing site, they couldn't help but cheer. One of them turned his head and said to the radio operator squatting behind him: "Switch to the call form and report the shooting parameters to the artillery positions."
The radio operator did not complain about the observer's practice of exposing his target and causing him to kill himself. He immediately picked up the sender and reported the data reported by the observer to Yegor word by word so that the landing point of the shell could be corrected in time.
As soon as the cannon sounded, Sokov couldn't sit still. Now there were more than 700 commanders and soldiers around him, so he did not make them sit as a lively thing. Therefore, he decisively issued an order to attack.
With Sokov's order issued, the troops immediately launched their offensive formations in the order of the 7th, 8th and 9th companies. The soldiers held guns and followed Sokov and Andrei, and walked towards the enemy's position with big strides.
After crossing the hill where artillery observers were hiding, the commanders and soldiers began to accelerate, from strode to trotting, and quickly rushed to the place where the German army gathered. From the downhill, soldiers continued to cross Sokov, squeezed in front of him, and formed a new formation of scattered soldiers again.
The German army discovered the Soviet army rushing towards them. Despite the fact that they were still under bombardment from artillery fire, they immediately fired machine guns and mortars, trying to prevent the Soviet army's offensive team from moving closer to them.
Bullets flew over his head, and shells exploded from time to time, which made Sokov feel shudder in his heart. In this situation in front of him, let alone turning around and running back, even if his pace was a little slower, it might make the soldiers timid, so Sokov could only rush forward with his teeth.
A mortar shell fell seven or eight meters away and exploded. The explosion of air waves lifted a soldier near the explosion point and fell heavily in front of Sokov. But Sokov did not lower his head to check the soldier's injuries, but stepped over his body and continued to walk forward, leaving the soldier to the sanitary officer responsible for the rescue. As for whether he could survive, it depends on his personal luck.
After walking more than ten steps forward, another shell exploded not far away. Sokov instinctively squatted, and only heard a "smash" sound, as if someone had hit his head with a hammer. Sokov knew that this was shrapnel hitting the steel helmet, so he was shocked and sweated. He thought that if he hadn't squatted down in time, he might have been lying on the ground and wailing at this moment.
Although the German machine guns and mortars caused certain casualties to the attacking troops, their locations were reported to the artillery observers who were staying on the hills to the artillery behind. Not long after, these machine gun fire points and mortar teams were blown up by artillery fire one after another.
The soldiers of the Third Battalion had rich combat experience. When they were still fifty or sixty meters away from the enemy, they first fired a round of guns to knock down the enemy that was coming. Then they charged and dropped bombs, blowing the enemy to howl.
Just as the German army was in chaos, Sokov and his subordinates rushed to the front of the German army. The soldiers holding submachine guns shot at the chaotic enemy and knocked them down in pieces. As soon as a magazine was finished, the soldiers holding bayonets rushed up and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
Sokov was not the one who fought for bayonets. He could only see a blind German rushing towards him, so he raised his hand and shot the other party; if one can't be killed, he would add another shot. At such a close distance, there was no possibility of surviving the enemy who was hit by the assault rifle. When Sokov finished shooting a magazine, fifteen or sixteen German corpses were lying around him.
When Sokov was about to change the magazine, a German soldier rushed up with a bayonet. In order to avoid the bayonet that was stabbing towards the opponent, Sokov accidentally dropped the magazine on the ground while dodging. Facing the German soldier who was pressing step by step, he had no chance to pick up the magazine, and could only block it with the assault rifle in his hand. The assault rifle was originally a long shorter than an ordinary rifle. If there were no bullets, it would be no different from a fire stick.
Just as Sokov was in danger, a short soldier with bare hands rushed over from the side and threw the German soldiers to the ground. The two hugged each other and kept rolling on the ground, wrestling. The tall and big German soldiers soon gained the upper hand, rode on the warrior, and strangled the warrior's throat with both hands.
Sokov held the barrel of the gun in both hands and raised the assault rifle high above his head. Just as he was about to hit the German soldier hard, he suddenly remembered what Pavlov said, and immediately adjusted the attack position from the back to the cervical spine. After swinging the gun, he heard a crisp "click" sound, and then the German soldier's body remained motionless, and his hands, which were pinching the soldier's neck, lost their strength.
The soldier, who was pressed by the German soldiers, pushed away the German soldiers' body with his hands, half sat up, and said gratefully to Sokov: "Thank you, comrade comrade commander."
Sokov didn't say anything, but nodded at the warrior, then bent down to pick up the magazine on the ground, and quickly changed the magazine. Then he raised his hand and shot and killed another German soldier who was rushing over.
Andrei rushed to Sokov, knocked down two German soldiers with two shots, and said loudly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, there are much more Germans than us. If we continue to fight like this, we will suffer."
While shooting at the German soldiers rushing towards him, Sokov replied loudly: "Comrade Captain, stick to it, stick to it, as long as Colonel Bolvinov's troops rushed out, we can turn the situation around."
Sokov's judgment was accurate. When he led his troops to engage in close combat and hand-to-hand combat with the German army, Borvinov on the other side also saw it, and he decisively issued an order to attack the battalion commanders of each battalion.
Regarding his order, the Chief of Staff said hesitantly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the number of troops coming from the opposite side seems to be only a few hundred, while the Germans are at least more than two thousand. I am worried that they may not support us and the entire army will be destroyed if they go out. In my opinion, we should continue to hold our position."
Borvinov glared at his chief of staff, and then said righteously: "Comrade Chief of Staff, that is the friendly army that comes to support us. No matter how many people they have, they are all using their blood and lives to relieve our pressure. We cannot watch their entire army be destroyed. Now I order: the whole brigade attack immediately and attack this enemy with the friendly army."
After the order to attack was issued, Borvinov found a steel helmet and walked out of the command post with a submachine gun. The chief of staff stood there and was stunned for a while, and followed with a pistol. In just a few minutes, more than a thousand commanders of the 149th Brigade, led by the brigade commander, charged at the location where the German army gathered.
As the two sides fought together, although the German army set up several machine guns not far away, they did not dare to fire easily because they didn't know whether the bullets flew out and killed whether they were the Soviet army or their own people.
Just as the German machine gunner was in a daze, he suddenly heard the sound of "Ula" coming from behind. The shouts alarmed the soldiers who had not yet entered the battle, and also alarmed the German command center in the tent. Siknius came out of the tent and saw the Soviet army rushing over from the other side. Realizing that the situation was not good for him, he returned to the tent and said to the commander of the 79th Infantry Regiment: "Mr. Colonel, the Russians rushed over from another direction. I think we should retreat immediately, otherwise we might fall into their siege."
The hand-to-hand battle between the Soviet and German sides had already made the infantry commander frightened. When he heard that the Soviet army was coming from another direction, he couldn't help but say in panic: "Since that's the case, I will leave a battalion to block the Russians and cover the large army to evacuate this damn place."
When the remnants of the 149th Brigade rushed over, the main German army had already left the troops that were still fighting with the third battalion and retreated in a hurry. Seeing that he had fallen into the Soviet encirclement, the abandoned troops knew that they would not be sure of winning, they would decisively choose to put down their weapons and surrender.
Borvinov came to Sokov and said excitedly: "Comrade Commander, the enemy has fled, we have won."
Sokov waved his hand and said gasping: "Comrade Colonel, the battle is not over yet. You leave a company to watch over the prisoners, and the remaining soldiers follow me to pursue the escaped enemies. They want to run away, it is not so easy."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Andrey heard Sokov's order and quickly reminded him: "The soldiers are exhausted. If I continue to pursue the enemy, I will worry..."
"I know that after the battle just now, our soldiers suffered heavy casualties and were very tired." Sokov said to Andrei and Bolvinov: "If we don't completely defeat this enemy, we will attack us again when they recover. Then we will want to destroy them again, and it will not be as easy as it is now."
Chapter completed!