"Comrade Sergeant," a loud voice came from the hole in the floor. "The German tank is coming!"
Vasily rushed to a gap that was blown up by the shells, looked outside for a moment, and then put it back to report to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the enemy's infantry rushed over from the side of the square under the cover of the tank. This is too dangerous, so you should find a safe place to avoid it."
"No, I'll stay here." Sokov just said that he wanted to stay here to watch the battle. How could he hide in a safe place before the enemy came up? This would make him lose his wits in front of his subordinates. He said firmly: "Sergeant Vasily, just pretend that I am not here, and you will still command the battle as usual."
Yakov took advantage of Sokov's time to talk to Vasily and ran to the gap for a while. After returning, he said to Sokov: "Misha, the situation is not very good. The German army dispatched assault guns, with three of them, which may be specially used to deal with this building."
After hearing Yakov's words, Sokov asked with a confused look on his face: "Aren't the assault gun used to attack tanks?"
"Yes, assault guns are indeed used to fight tanks. As far as I know, a week ago, a No. 3 assault gun commanded by German Sergeant Chief Kuttep Fredner destroyed nine of our troops' tanks within 20 minutes. Moreover, the main purpose of the German army's assault guns was to eliminate solid fortifications such as bunkers and cooperate with infantry attacks."
After hearing Yakov's explanation, Sokov vaguely remembered that in a document he had read in later generations, he mentioned that a German tanker named Weitmann had destroyed six Soviet tanks on Rostov's bicycle and received the first-class Iron Cross. In addition, the second assault gun battalion of the Imperial Armored Division led by Waltzerknab, the captain of the second-class commando team of the Imperial Armored Division, destroyed 129 Soviet tanks between July 5, 1943 and January 17, 1944, and he lost only two assault guns.
When Sokov thought of the achievements made by German assault guns, he couldn't help but frown. He was worried that if the enemy really used assault guns to attack the building, the building would likely turn into ruins. Moreover, with Vasily and the others now only had a few anti-tank rifles, they could not penetrate the armor of the assault guns at all.
Yakov also thought of the problem that Sokov was worried about. He looked at Sokov and asked, "Misha, what should we do? You must know that the anti-tank rifles equipped by your soldiers cannot penetrate the armor of the assault gun even within a distance of dozens of meters."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, don't worry." Seeing Sokov's worried look, Vasily hurriedly said: "We have some anti-tank mines, and I can send someone to deploy them on the street immediately. As long as the German tanks are crushed, they will be blown up immediately."
"Well, Sergeant Vasily." Sokov felt that Vasily's proposal was undoubtedly the most appropriate, so he quickly ordered him: "You send someone to Breeze now."
After receiving Vasily's order, the two soldiers immediately rushed out of the building with an anti-tank mine. With the help of the building's cover, they rushed to the street entrance quickly and prepared to lay the mine there.
Sokov stood at the gap and looked at the square in the distance. He saw German infantry carefully passing through the square full of craters and rubble under the cover of three assault guns, approaching the building where he was. Sokov took the opportunity to observe the surrounding environment and found that the building was in a very good location. In front of the building is a two-story triangular building, which divides the road leading to the square into two. The enemy rushing from the square, no matter which way they come, must pass through the building. The most important point is that due to the obstruction of the building in front, the enemy's artillery fire cannot destroy the building even if it aims directly.
After seeing the terrain clearly, Sokov nodded secretly and thought: In real history, the reason why Pavlov led his men here for nearly two months was probably because the building in front helped them block most of the artillery fire, which made the building stand firmly even when it was riddled with holes. Thinking of this, Sokov asked Vasily: "Comrade Sergeant, do you know what the building in front is for?"
Vasily turned his head and looked at Sokov and replied, "Comrade Brigade Commander is a bookstore, and it is the largest bookstore in Stalingrad. Unfortunately, after being bombed and bombarded by the German army, most of the books inside were burned."
"Bookstore?" Sokov carefully looked at the half-collapse building, but found that there was no mark on it, indicating that it was once a bookstore: "Sergeant Vasily, how did you know that it was a bookstore there?"
"It was told by the residents in the building." Vasily grinned and said, "You know, staying here is boring when not fighting. We always have to find something to do. So the residents in the building took us to the building opposite to find books and then moved them back to see them."
"What books do you have?" Sokov asked with interest: "Can you tell me?"
Vasily shrugged and said, "Many, such as Tolstoy's "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", Ostrovsky's "How Steel Is Tempered", and Lermontov's collection of poems..."
Before Vasily finished speaking, a violent explosion suddenly came outside the building, mixed with the sound of machine guns and submachine guns. Sokov quickly looked out of the gap and found that the two soldiers who were preparing to mine at the entrance of the street were discovered by the enemy. The assault guns were firing at them, and the submachine gunmen were also hiding behind the assault guns and firing guns at them.
The two soldiers were beaten to the point of being beaten. Although they avoided the shrapnel flying from shells, they failed to avoid the strafing of machine guns and submachine guns, and fell one after another in the rubble on the side of the road.
"Damn!" Seeing the two soldiers who were trampled by the enemy's bullets, Sokov's face twitched a few times. If they could not trampled, the German assault guns could rush to the street entrance and fire at the fire exposed on the building. After seeing this, Vasily couldn't help but scream, and then arranged two more soldiers to let them go out and continue to trampling: "You two put the mines on the street and organize the enemy's assault guns to get closer..."
"Wait a minute, Sergeant Vasily, don't let them go out first." Sokov called Vasily at this time and said to him: "There are two roads from the square. We don't know which road the enemy's assault guns will go, or wait, and after it approaches, use anti-tank grenades to blow them up. Now, you order the soldiers to open fire and knock out the infantry hiding behind the assault guns."
The infantry hid behind the assault guns to prevent light fire from being killed in front of them. However, if the defenders were shooting from a high position, the space they could escape was very small. With Vasily's order, the machine guns, submachine guns and rifles arranged on the third and fourth floors opened fire together, and the infantry hiding behind the assault guns were knocked down in groups. Seeing that the German soldiers were not in good condition, they hurriedly lay down on the ground. They lay on the ground. It was indeed a bit difficult to hit them again, but there were two mortars on the fourth floor. Under the command of Second Lieutenant Chernushenko, the shells landed accurately in the place where the Germans were concentrated. The explosion of the air waves pulled up one soldiers who were lying on the ground from the ground, threw them high into the air, and then fell heavily.
Seeing this, Yakov shouted at Sokov: "Misha, if we could have a volley of rocket artillery battalion at this time, the Germans in the square should have been wiped out."
Sokov estimated the distance, looked at the strength of the German troops dispatched, shook his head and said, "No, the enemy only dispatched three assault guns and one company of infantry. It was a bit wasteful to use the rocket artillery battalion for this amount of force. Moreover, they were only about 300 meters away from us, and the rockets were always not accurate and had too large errors. It would be bad if they hit our own people."
After hearing Sokov said this, Yakov couldn't say anything else. He could only sigh and said regretfully: "In this way, we can only rely on the troops in the building to eliminate these enemies."
The firepower of machine guns, submachine guns, rifles and mortars on the upstairs could only prevent the German infantry from advancing, but it posed no threat to the assault guns. The three assault guns lined up and continued to head towards the location of the building. The fastest assault gun soon drove into the street on the left, and because the road was full of bricks and rubble, or the wreckage of destroyed tanks, armored vehicles, and cars, it had to slow down.
When the assault gun drove into the street and drove forward for fifty or sixty meters, a blood-lost soldier suddenly stood up from the pile of rubble next to the street. After straightening his body, he roared suddenly, turned around in place, and threw the round anti-tank mine in his hand out like a discus. The discus that flew out was wrong, the anti-tank mine hit the body of the assault gun. With a loud "boom", the assault gun was wrapped in flames and smoke.
Seeing an anti-tank mine, a assault gun was reimbursed. Sokov couldn't help but scream: "Good!" But the soldier who saw the mine again disappeared instantly, and the soldier lay on his back on the ground motionless. Seeing this situation, Sokov immediately remembered the scene when he took several soldiers in armored vehicles to bomb German tanks some time ago. Didn't the sacrificed soldiers maintain this position when they fell down?
Sokov turned his head and looked at Vasily, who was shooting out with a submachine gun, and shouted loudly at him: "Sergeant Vasily!"
Vasily, who was shooting, did not hear Sokov's shout immediately. It was not until Yakov, who was standing beside him, that he realized that Sokov was calling him. At this moment, the bullets in his drum had been completely shot. He quickly squatted down and asked Sokov loudly while changing the magazines, "Comrade Brigade Commander, is there anything wrong?"
"Did you see the soldier who died?" Sokov pointed with his hand at the soldier who died after blowing up the assault guns and said loudly: "When the enemy is defeated, you must rob the soldier's body back. Do you understand?"
Vasily stayed in the city for a long time, and he knew very well that if the body was not cleaned up and left on the street, it would not take long to be smashed by shells and bombs. Even if he could avoid shelling and bombing, he might be crushed into meat sauce by German tanks. Therefore, every time he ended the battle, he would send someone to clean up the bodies of his comrades and place them in a hidden position. At this moment, he heard Sokov's order, he immediately replied loudly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, don't worry, when the enemy's attack is repelled, I will bring his body back in person." After that, he stood up suddenly, held a submachine gun and continued to shoot at the enemy in the distance.
Due to the vision, the other two assault guns only saw the assault guns in front of them suddenly caught fire and exploded, but did not see how they were blown up. However, they relied on their thick armor and rushed forward without hesitation. They did not have much effort, so they drove into the street on the left one after another.
"Sergeant Vasily," although Sokov was unwilling to interfere with Vasily's command, he couldn't help but shout at him after seeing two assault guns breaking into the street: "Hurry up and send someone to blow them up."
"Hunt, Hant!" Vasily shot out a few more times, shrank his body back and shouted loudly inside: "Come to me now!"
As Vasily shouted, a thin soldier bent over and ran over, squatted in front of Vasily, and asked, "Comrade Sergeant, is there anything wrong?"
"Did you see the two tanks outside?" Vasily may have not remembered the word "assault gun" for a moment. When speaking to Hante, he still used the term "tank": "You go and blow them up immediately."
Hanter quickly leaned over to look at the street below and immediately replied loudly: "Yes, I'll blow them all up now." After saying that, he rushed to the wall with quick hands and feet, picked up an anti-tank mine on the ground, and was about to rush out, but Vasily called out: "Wait, don't use anti-tank mines, you can blow them all up with grenades."
Hant agreed, put down the mine in his hand, picked up two grenades again, and rushed out of the room. Not long after, Sokov saw Hant rushing out of the building with two grenades in his hand, and rushed towards the two assault guns along the street.
Chapter completed!