Soviet tanks were all stationed to fire. The shells fired by German anti-tank guns hit a tank again, but what made the artillery soldiers feel disappointed was that the shell turned into a jumper again, leaving only an inconspicuous dent on the front armor.
The Soviet tanks that were hit slowly turned the turret and aimed at the German anti-tank gun and fired. The whistling shells fell next to the anti-tank gun and exploded. The flames engulfed the artillerymen loading shells. When the smoke of gunpowders dissipated, several German artillery soldiers had already fallen near the explosion site in a row.
Brisky, with the commanders and soldiers of the Fourth Battalion, was originally falling behind from a distance. At this moment, seeing the tanks parked in front and fired fire at the enemy's position, he half turned around and shouted loudly at his subordinates: "Comrades, our tanks have suppressed the enemy's firepower, come with me!"
"Ula!" With Brisky's shouting, all the soldiers shouted loudly, and they walked quickly and turned into trots, and then entered a sprint state!
Brisky rushed to the front of the opposite side. After he rushed to the No. 101 tank driven by Bere, he picked up the microphone and shouted loudly: "Comrade Colonel, we are here!"
"I understand!" Bere, who was sitting in the tank, heard Brisky's voice and replied loudly, "We will continue to move forward. Pay attention to the German anti-tank hands and don't let them get close to our tanks."
"Don't worry, comrade Colonel." Brisky assured Bere, "We will never let the enemy's tanks approach you."
Bere's tank and the other two company commanders were equipped with on-board radio stations. After finishing the call with Brisky, he issued an order to attack the two company commanders: "Everyone has it, go forward, keep moving forward!"
With the order issued, the tanks driven by the two company commanders were first activated. Although there were no signal soldiers leaning out to send signals, the nearby tanks saw that the company commanders' tanks moved and pushed forward one after another. The Soviet tanks were not moving forward at a fast speed or slow speed. If they were faster, they were afraid that the infantry would not be able to keep up; if they were slower, they were afraid that the infantry would slow down the infantry's attack speed.
When the attacking troops were only more than 200 meters away from the German trenches, the two remaining MG34 machine guns in the trenches opened fire. Although the bullets jingled on the armor of the T-34 tank and splashed countless sparks, they did not slow down the tank's advancement speed at all.
Because the anti-tank artillery detachment had been destroyed under the attack of Soviet tank artillery fire, in order to prevent Soviet tanks from approaching, several German anti-tank soldiers holding explosives rolled over and came out of the trenches and crawled forward to approach the Soviet tanks, attempting to blow up the tanks.
The enemy wanted to blow up the tank, but the Soviet soldiers following behind the tank would naturally not agree. As soon as they saw an enemy getting up from the ground, they would use submachine guns to sieve those anti-tank hands.
Yakov, who was watching the battle in the factory, saw the troops progressing, couldn't help but ask Sokov curiously: "Misha, as far as I know, the German regiment-level command is usually seven or eight kilometers away from the front, and the division headquarters is even thirty kilometers away. But why is this German regiment-level unit only two or three kilometers away from your defense zone?"
Regarding Yakov's question, Sokov smiled faintly and replied: "Yakov, I think there are two possibilities. The first possibility is the enemy's rear squad I sent. Some time ago, I destroyed a regiment-level command of the German army with a new rocket. The enemy felt that it was not safe in the rear, so he set the command so close to the front.
The second possibility is that the enemy has too great advantage in the factory area and has been suppressing our army, so that we can only carry out forced defenses and cannot take any counterattack. Therefore, the German commander arrogantly believed that there would be no danger in any position they placed the command headquarters in."
"Didn't you say that you let the tanks circle around the assembly workshop two days ago, so that the enemy mistakenly thought that the area you were defending was transferred to a tank brigade?" Yakov continued to ask, "Did the enemy find that you have so many tanks, and still did not attract the necessary attention?"
"Yes, I let a group of tanks circle the factory a few times the previous two days ago, which really scared the enemy and prevented them from attacking us." Sokov explained with a smile: "But they sent a large number of planes to bomb the next day, thinking that our tank brigade had almost lost in the bombing, so there was no position for the mobile regiment command."
"Misa, do you think we can capture or kill German regiment-level officers in today's battle?"
"This is hard to say." Sokov shook his head and said, "German officers are all greedy and afraid of death. Don't look at their command center so close. Once they find that the situation is not good, he will definitely leave his subordinates and flee."
"Damn coward." Yakov couldn't help but curse in a low voice when he heard Sokov say this: "Since you are so afraid of death, why should you set up your command center so close to the frontline?"
"Yakov, the enemy officers are all greedy and afraid of death." Sokov looked into the distance, and his face showed a contemptuous expression: "Our division-level command is usually a few hundred meters away from the front, while the German regiment-level command is at least a few kilometers away. This shows how afraid of death their commanders are. Tell me, can such an army fight us and achieve the final victory?"
"This is definitely not possible." After saying this, Yakov turned his head and looked left and right. Seeing that there were only himself and Sokov on the driving track. The guards were all staying in the factory below, and then asked in a low voice: "Misha, I'll ask you a question, I hope you can answer me truthfully."
Sokov nodded and said, "Yakov, if you have any questions, just ask. As long as I know the answer, I will definitely answer you truthfully."
"You think," Yakov asked hesitantly, "can our troops defend Stalingrad?"
After asking this question, he saw a surprised expression on Sokov's face and quickly explained: "The question I asked was just a private question as a friend, and there was no other meaning. If you think it's hard to answer, you can not answer me."
"Yakov, I can tell you very seriously." Sokov looked at Yakov and said with a firm expression: "We can definitely defend Stalingrad. We can not only defend Stalingrad, but also completely eliminate all enemies attacking the city."
Yakov smiled bitterly and said, "Misha, don't comfort me. I have come to the city two or three times and know the situation here very well. To put it bluntly, if the counterattack fails soon, the city will not be able to be kept."
Sokov raised his eyebrows and asked Yakov in surprise: "Yakov, who told you that he would launch a counterattack soon?"
Yakov smiled bitterly again and said, "The plan to counterattack in the north of Stalingrad may be limited to the defenders in the city, but it is not a secret to me. I even know it earlier than you."
Seeing that Yakov had known the counterattack plan two days later, Sokov asked curiously: "Yakov, do you think our counterattack will be successful?"
"It won't be successful." Yakov shook his head and said, "Although there are three armies in the north of the city and one front of Rokosovsky in the northwest, I don't think it's possible to succeed." He was very afraid that Sokov would refute his point of view, and also made a special explanation: "Although the troops in the city will be supplemented with two or three brigades or an infantry division, the troops involved in the counterattack in the city will not only not receive air support, but also very limited support for artillery fire. Tell me, can such troops and technical equipment break through the German defense line?"
Sokov clearly remembers that the Soviet army not only ended in failure in September, but also in early October, the counterattack did not make any progress. Instead, it consumed valuable reserves, making the battle in the factory more difficult. Therefore, after hearing this problem of Yakov, he shook his head and said, "Yakov does not have the conditions for a counterattack at all. Even if he barely launches a counterattack, it will be difficult to last. In the end, it will definitely end in failure."
"Yes, Misha, you're right." Yakov handed a cigarette to Sokov and continued: "My thoughts are the same as you, such a counterattack is meaningless. And the reason why the superiors formulated such a counterattack plan was nothing more than to rescue Stalingrad from the danger of falling. But the consequences of their actions would make the situation in Stalingrad even more unfavorable."
Sokov knew that as Yakov, he must have known a lot of things he didn't know, but he didn't ask again, but raised his telescope to look into the distance to see how the troops were progressing.
At this moment, Soviet tanks had rushed into the German minefield. With the crushing of tank tracks, landmines continued to explode. Fortunately, the German army buried infantry mines, without anti-tank crees, and the damage caused to the tanks was minimal. When the tanks passed through the minefield, Brisky and his subordinates stayed at the edge of the minefield, waiting for the tanks to open up several passable roads for them in the middle of the minefield.
The tank drove out of the minefield and continued to move forward, crashing the barbed wire fence pulled by the German army. Seeing this, Brisky issued a charge again and led his subordinates to follow the road opened by the tank and rushed towards the enemy's trenches.
There were only a few German soldiers in the trenches. The rest were either killed by shells or by bombing tanks when they left the trenches and were killed by submachine guns of Soviet soldiers. Some of them saw that the situation was not good and had already fled along the traffic trenches.
When Brisky and the others rushed to more than twenty meters away from the trenches, they stopped, took out grenades and threw them out. When they were exposed to the smoke of the explosion, they continued to rush forward with the tanks.
When the tank's tracks crossed the trenches, some fast-running infantry rushed to the trenches. They first carried submachine guns and fired into the trenches, then jumped into the trenches, rushed left and right to clear the remaining German officers and soldiers in the trenches.
Brisky followed Colonel Bere's tank and rushed towards an isolated house more than 200 meters behind the trench. According to the information he had in advance, it was the German regiment command.
There was a sandbag fortification outside the building, and the MG34 machine guns in the fortification were firing wildly. Some soldiers rushed too fast and escaped from the cover of the tank body. Unfortunately, they were hit by dense bullets. They seemed to hit a transparent wall, and they paused, either covering their chests and falling down on the back, or after turning around in place, they fell softly to the ground.
As soon as Brisky leaned out to take a look, he felt that something had hit his helmet, and then there was a jingle sound. He was so scared that he quickly retracted his head, grabbed the phone and called Bo Lei loudly: "Comrade Colonel, Comrade Colonel, have you seen the machine gun outside the building? Kill it quickly, kill it quickly!"
"Don't yell, I have eyes." The earpiece was filled with annoyed voice: "I immediately ordered the gunner to kill it."
Tank No. 101 stopped and aimed at the German firepower point not far away. With a loud "boom", the German firepower point was hit by the tank gun. The sandbag was blown to pieces. The two German machine gunners behind the sandbag were blown up high by the explosion, and then threw them aside.
A tank rushed up quickly. As it was moving, it turned its turret and turned the barrel to the rear. As soon as it completed this action, the tank body collided with the building. An ordinary brick-concrete building could withstand such impact from the tank body and collapsed immediately. The tank continued to rush forward with its huge inertia.
When Brisky saw that the building had collapsed, he knew that even if there were people inside, they would probably have been crushed into meat sauce. He rushed up with two soldiers. He came to the pile of rubble and looked down carefully to find out if there were any survivors. But after watching for a long time, no one of the living people except for a few German corpses that were crushed and deformed.
Bere's tank came outside the building and stopped. He lifted the hatch and exposed half of his body, lowered his head and asked Brisky, who was looking for something, "Comrade Captain, what are you looking for?"
"Let me see if there is a German commander among the dead." Brisky replied simply.
"Comrade Captain, you are wasting your time." Bere reminded Brisky: "You should hurry up and find the maps and documents of the German army. That thing is the most useful to us."
Berley's words reminded Brisky, and he quickly ordered the soldiers near the ruins: "Don't be idle, come and look for them to see if you can find the German map or files." As the order was issued, the soldiers standing around rushed over and began to look for useful documents and maps in the ruins.
When Yakov saw this scene, he asked Sokov in confusion: "Misha, what are your subordinates looking for in the ruins?"
Chapter completed!