In fact, Brisky was also quite frustrated and ordered all the commanders and soldiers on the position to fire. Because the sky was too dark and there were many craters as cover, not only could they not attack the enemy, but they also wasted ammunition in vain. However, the number of people shooting was small, and the enemy could quickly approach the position under the cover of the night.
At this time, the German sneak attack troops were still forty or fifty meters away from the trench. If the firepower was not fully opened on the position, the enemy's grenades could be quickly dropped into the trench. Once the grenades fell into the trench and exploded, the enemy might have rushed into the trench before the smoke was dissipated. Therefore, Brisky gritted his teeth and issued an order to open fire in full.
With the order issued, all the guns on the position began to fire together. At the same time, in order to prevent the German army from approaching the position quickly, many soldiers dropped grenades. With limited visibility, the power of grenades was far greater than that of bullets. As soon as the German army jumped out of the crater and rushed towards the Soviet position, countless grenades fell at their feet and exploded. The shrapnel that exploded violently and the bullets flew across each other, forming a death firepower net, blowing and knocking down the German army that was charging.
The German officers and soldiers who came to attack were all veterans with rich combat experience. They saw that the Soviet army formed an insurmountable fire net with machine guns, submachine guns, rifles and grenades. Instead of gritting their teeth and continuing to rush forward, they retracted their craters. They squatted in the craters, quickly checked the guns and ammunition, observed the surrounding environment with their eyes, and determined their location. Based on the feeling of bullets flying overhead, they judged the location of the Soviet army and the approximate number of people. The officers with rich combat experience even thought about new combat plans in their minds and prepared to take the soldiers to assault again.
Sokov, who was hiding behind to observe, vaguely saw many black shadows shaking in the distance with the help of the firelight generated by the explosion, but he could not see clearly what kind of troops the enemy had. He was worried that once these enemies lurked in front of the position, then after tomorrow, the enemy's shelling began, they would be able to take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the defenders avoiding the shelling and suddenly charged towards the position, and then they would be unpredictable.
Just when Sokov was anxious, he accidentally saw the dozen sharpshooters sitting in the factory. His eyes lit up and he quickly shouted at the captain of the sharpshooter team he appointed: "Comrade Lieutenant, come to me."
Hearing Sokov's shout, the captain bent over and ran to Sokov with his gun. After squatting down, he asked in a low voice: "Comrade Brigade Commander, do you have any instructions?"
"Comrade Lieutenant, take your people to the roof." Sokov thought that the sharpshooters hiding on the roof and driving tracks in the daytime battle had caused great casualties to the enemy. Now the enemy is hiding in the bullet craters and the commanders and soldiers who are holding on the positions are desperately shooting and dropping bombs, but the losses they can cause to the enemy are very limited. Therefore, they can only let the sharpshooters take action to eliminate the enemies hiding in the bullet craters: "First fire the flares, see where the enemy is hiding, and then use the guns in your hands to eliminate them all."
"I understand, comrade brigade commander, let's go to the roof now." After saying that, the captain stood up and bent over and ran back to the place where the sharpshooters were gathering, and shouted at them in a low voice: "Comrades, put the roof on me and use the guns in our hands to eliminate the enemies hiding in the craters."
As the sharpshooters got on the roof, the situation on the battlefield quickly developed in a direction that was conducive to the defenders. The enemies hiding in the craters were forty or fifty meters away from the Soviet trenches. At such a long distance, grenades could not be thrown, and bullets would not turn, and naturally they could not hit people. However, the sharpshooters who got on the roof were different. Under the light of the flares, they could clearly see the enemies hiding in the trenches, and then they killed them one by one in the craters like shooting fixed targets.
There were only more than 100 German troops who were sneak attacking. During the charge, more than 40 people were killed and bombed by the Soviet army. The rest were hiding in the bullet craters. Although they could avoid the bullets fired on the Soviet positions and the grenades dropped, they could not avoid the bullets flying over their heads. In less than ten minutes, these German officers and soldiers who were ready to attack again at any time turned into corpses.
The roof and downstairs telephone lines are still available. After confirming that the enemy hiding in the crater were almost all shot dead, the captain of the sharpshooter immediately called Sokov and reported with some excitement: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the enemies hiding in the crater were almost all shot dead by us."
"Really?" Sokov didn't expect that the sharpshooter had not been on the roof for a long time, and he actually solved all the German officers and soldiers who had attacked the attack. However, he still asked cautiously: "Comrade lieutenant, have they really been eliminated?"
The captain hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "Comrade Brigade Commander, as long as the target we discovered, it will be eliminated. So far, we have not found that there are targets that have survived."
"I understand, Comrade Lieutenant." After hearing the other party's report, Sokov said with satisfaction: "You are doing a good job. When you return to Mamayev, I will ask the political commissar to apply for a medal for you."
When Sokov learned that the enemy had been eliminated, he heard the sound of bean-like gunshots outside, and when he saw that there was not much ammunition in stock, Brisky was still like a prodigal son, and he still let his subordinates shoot uncontrollably. After Sokov called the phone, he said angrily: "Okay, Comrade Captain, order your subordinates to stop shooting and stop wasting bullets. The enemy was wiped out by the sharpshooter on the roof."
When Brisky heard Sokov say this, he didn't even have time to cover the microphone, so he shouted at the people in the command post: "Hurry up and order to stop shooting, the enemy will be wiped out by the sharpshooters on the roof." With the order issued, the dense gunfire became sparse first and it stopped completely.
After Sokov waited for the gunfire outside to stop, he ordered Brisky: "Comrade Captain, when it's dawn, you will immediately send people to clean the battlefield and try to collect more weapons and ammunition that can be used. Just like you just now, at least one base of ammunition has been exhausted. Do you understand?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Brisky asked hesitantly, "I want to ask, why should I wait until dawn to clean the battlefield, not now?"
"No, you can't go out now." Sokov explained to Brisky: "It's too dark outside. If you take the soldiers to clean the battlefield now, even if there are those Germans who have not been killed, you will not be able to find out, and instead cause unnecessary casualties."
After listening to Sokov's explanation, Brisky thought to himself that the brigade commander seemed to make sense and went out to clean the battlefield in darkness. Not to mention that he might encounter enemies who fired cold guns, even if there weren't, some weapons and ammunition were not easy to find. Since that's the case, wait a few more hours and send someone to clean the battlefield after dawn.
As soon as the battle ended here, Guriyev called. After hearing Sokov's voice, he asked straight to the point: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, what happened there? Why did I hear the gunshots so densely?"
"Comrade General, nothing big is going on, just a small group of enemies attacked." Sokov quickly replied, "But they have been wiped out by us."
"Ltd Colonel," Guriev knew very well that his troops could defend their positions during the day, and it was entirely up to the small troops sent by Sokov to attack the German 24th Armored Division, preventing them from entering the battlefield on time, thereby reducing his defensive pressure. It is precisely because of this that Guriev said very politely: "If there is a place that needs our help, please speak as long as you want, and we will do our best to support you."
Although Sokov thought he had no place to help the Guriyev, he still politely replied: "I know, Comrade General. Thank you!"
When the battle was going on, Sokov asked Ballshak's fighter battalion to stay south of the factory and did not allow them to participate in the battle. The reason he wanted to do this was because the commanders and fighters of the fighter battalion had no experience in night battles. If they were allowed to participate in the battle, they would not only fail to achieve any results, but would also cause a large number of unnecessary sacrifices.
At this moment, he heard that the battle on the other side of the factory had ended. Ballshaq, who had been unable to sit still, ran over happily and asked Sokov about the situation of the battle: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the gunfire outside has stopped. Has the enemy's attack been repelled by us?"
"It was not that he was repelled, but that he was completely wiped out by us." Seeing Ballshak's appearance, Sokov felt that when cleaning the battlefield, he could ask them to help him to reduce the work intensity of the commanders and fighters of the Fourth Battalion, so he asked in a tentative tone: "Major Ballshak, I plan to let the troops clean the battlefield after dawn and collect the weapons and ammunition that can still be used to supplement us. I wonder if you can send some people to assist our army in disturbing the battlefield."
Ballshaq replied carelessly: "No problem, how many people are needed, just talk. Even if you want everyone, I can agree to your request."
"Don't worry, Major Ballshak, I won't want all of you." Sokov stretched out a finger and said to Ballshak: "Give me a hundred people, it's enough."
"Don't worry, comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I will arrange it as soon as possible." After Ballshark said this, he suddenly remembered something and asked with some confusion: "But now the battle is over, you can send someone to clean the battlefield now. Why wait until dawn? You must know that once dawn is dawn, the enemy can see everything here clearly through the telescope."
"Not now, it's too dark outside." Sokov shook his head and said, "If I order the soldiers to clean the battlefield now, they may not see where the German weapons and ammunition are, and they may even be attacked by those not dead German soldiers. For the sake of the safety of the commanders and soldiers, I decided to wait until dawn before letting them clean the battlefield."
"You are very thoughtful." After finding out why Sokov didn't send people to clean the battlefield now, he nodded and said in praise: "This can prevent our soldiers from being sacrificed in unnecessary sacrifice."
After Ballshak left, Sokov sat down on a pile of rubble and began to think in his mind: When he heard the first mine explosion, he thought it was the German scout invading; it was not until the second explosion that he realized that the enemy sent a small force to attack. Fortunately, there was a mine in the factory, otherwise he would not find that the two sides were in the trench outside the factory at this moment. Maybe they were engaged in repeated tug-of-war in the trench outside the factory.
Sokov felt that if he wanted to defend this place, he could not defend for the sake of defense, and he had to find a way to disrupt the deployment of the German army to relieve his pressure. Thinking of this, he picked up the phone, called Cousto, who was hiding in the basement, and said straight to the point: "Comrade in the workshop, I wonder if you can find me a few comrades who are familiar with the surrounding terrain?"
"What do comrades who are familiar with the terrain do?" As soon as Cousto asked this question, he immediately guessed an idea and asked tentatively: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the German army launched a sneak attack on us tonight. Do you want to send someone to sneak attack them?"
Seeing that Cousto guessed his intention, Sokov laughed twice, and then said jokingly: "Comrade Workshop Director, you know too many military secrets, this is not good. Be careful that the comrades from the Ministry of Internal Affairs will ask you to be investigated."
"Stop, stop," Cousto stopped him although he knew Sokov was joking: "Don't make such jokes, otherwise the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs will find out, and you and I will have trouble."
"Okay, comrade in the workshop director, I'm not kidding." Sokov retracted the smile on his face and said seriously: "Since the enemy can come to attack us, we can also attack them. I'll ask you for a few comrades who are familiar with the terrain, and I plan to attack the enemy at the right time."
"There are several old comrades in the workshop, who were veterans who participated in the battle to defend Chalijin. They worked in the factory for decades and knew the surrounding terrain." Cousto said seriously: "I will contact them immediately and let them act as guides for you to carry out sneak attack missions."
Chapter completed!