After finishing the call, Sokov said to Yakov with a relaxed look on his face: "Col. Borei has sent someone to reconnaissance. In which direction we can break through, we should wait for his reconnaissance results."
"Misha," Yakov frowned and said thoughtfully: "I think we should find a way to open up the road to the east. After all, breaking through from the west or the north is too risky. If you are not careful, it will be the end of the destruction of the entire army."
"Yakov, I have asked Colonel Gurdiev's troops to counterattack the positions in the east." Sokov saw that Yakov was still stubborn and did not argue with him, but said calmly: "If we can regain the position, we will break through there; on the contrary, we must consider the issue of breaking through from other directions."
"I want to go to the 308th Division," Yakov immediately took the initiative to dismiss Sokov's words: "I want to see how Colonel Gurdiev and others took back the position."
"No, Yakov, this is definitely not." Sokov has rejected Yakov's request: "It's too dangerous, I can't let you take risks."
"Misha, don't forget, I am a soldier or a commander." Seeing Sokov rejecting his request, Yakov couldn't help but be anxious: "How can I hide far away when the soldiers are fighting bloody?"
"Yakov, I think it is necessary to remind you that you are just an officer of the Weapons and Equipment Department, not the commander of the front line." Sokov dared not let Yakov take risks. If there is really something wrong with it, he would not be able to escape the relationship. Therefore, he said firmly: "Your mission is to provide us with weapons to attack the enemy, rather than charging into battle."
After saying this, he saw Yakov open his mouth, as if he wanted to defend something, and then continued: "Of course, if it comes time to get you up and fight with you, I also hope you will stay by my side and fight side by side with me..."
"Tank, enemy tank." Guchakov, who was standing next to him as a warning, suddenly exclaimed: "The enemy tank is coming towards us."
When Sokov heard Guchakov's discovery of the enemy's tanks, he quickly raised his telescope and looked into the distance. In the telescope's lens, he saw twelve German tanks lined up in a wedge-shaped formation and were heading towards him. Behind them, there were also ten armored transport vehicles full of soldiers.
Seeing this, Sokov quickly put down his telescope, grabbed the telephone on the side, and connected the command post of the first battalion: "Captain Vanya, the German tanks are coming, and order the soldiers to prepare for battle."
After Yakov waited for Sokov to give Vanya and Tnev called one after another, he asked: "Misha, there are no long-range anti-tank weapons on our position. Do you see if some soldiers are sent to carry anti-tank grenades and go out to the crater in front of the position to hide, and wait for the enemy tanks to approach and blow them up by surprise?"
"There is no need for this." Sokov shook his head and said, "Col. Bere will soon attack from the flank and defeat the German armored forces."
As soon as he finished speaking, the radio operator reported to him: "Comrade Brigade Commander, Colonel Bereak wants to talk to you."
Sokov grabbed the headphones and the sender and said bluntly: "Comrade Colonel, have you seen the enemy's tank?" After receiving the affirmative answer from Bere, he continued, "You will choose the right time to attack later. You must destroy as many enemy tanks as possible. Do you understand?"
"Don't worry, comrade brigade commander." Bie Lei said confidently: "Although the enemy has more tanks and armored vehicles than us, there should be no problem in destroying this enemy."
German tanks stopped seven or eight hundred meters away from the position and began to bombard the Soviet positions with artillery fire. The soldiers in the armored transport vehicles jumped out of the car, bent down and rushed towards the Soviet positions quickly with a short leap forward. Seeing the enemy infantry rushing over, the machine gun fire point on the position immediately began to shoot.
Sokov on the hill saw that the enemy was still seven or eight hundred meters away, and the machine guns on the guard camp's position began to fire, and he was so angry that he almost cursed. He picked up the phone, took over Tnev's command post, and asked angrily: "Comrade Major, what's wrong with you? The enemy was still a few hundred meters away, you started to shoot, worried that the enemy's tanks would take you as targets."
Perhaps in order to confirm what Sokov said, the enemy tanks quickly ended and opened fire blindly without targets. Instead, they targeted the machine gun fire points exposed on the guard camp's positions and fired in turn. Although many shells were missed, three of the four machine gun fire points exposed were destroyed by the German artillery fire. The remaining machine gun was so scared that they stopped shooting and moved the shooting position to another position.
In just ten minutes, the German infantry advanced more than 200 meters. Sokov looked at the ambushed village of the Tank Battalion and thought to himself: Don't Lei, when will you attack? If this continues, the enemy will rush to the front of our position.
"Why haven't the tank battalion attacked yet?" Seeing the enemy approaching the position, the anxious person was not only Sokov, but Yakov also felt like an ant on a hot pan. He held the telescope and kept looking towards the direction of the village, muttering constantly: "If you drag it down, the enemy should rush into our position."
Fortunately, Bere did not ask Sokov and the others to wait too long. Not long after, the tanks of the tank battalion appeared in Sokov and Yakov's vision. The one who rushed in the front was actually the strange-shaped spherical tank. Other tanks had to stop temporarily before firing, but it could shoot while moving.
The German tanks parked in the distance and fired suddenly rose up, and the Soviet tanks were firing. Unfortunately, because the distance was too far, the shells fired by the Soviet tanks fell on the open space and exploded, and they could not hit the target.
"Damn, what's going on with these tanks!" Seeing the Soviet tank shooting, no tanks could hit the enemy, Yakov couldn't help but be anxious: "Why didn't a single target hit? How do these tank soldiers train normally?"
Sokov turned his head and looked at the excited Yakov. He did not express his opinion, but thought to himself: "Shooting at a distance of 1,500 meters is the original hit rate, and there are many tank soldiers who are novices, so it is normal that they cannot hit the enemy's tanks."
The galloping Soviet tanks soon rushed to a range of 1,000 meters. They stopped and fired again, and finally achieved results. A German tank No. 3 was hit and immediately began to catch fire. Only two tank soldiers covered in fire escaped.
"Great, great!" Guchakov shouted excitedly when he saw a German tank burning in place: "Comrade Brigade Commander, have you seen it? The tank battalion destroyed a German tank."
"What are you calling me blindly?" Yakov said to Guchakov: "Only one tank was destroyed, and the Germans also had eleven tanks and ten armored vehicles." Although Yakov was scolding Guchakov, Sokov found that the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he was very happy.
The German tanks that were shelling towards the Soviet positions did not notice the Soviet tanks rushing from the flanks, but continued to shell. However, the armored vehicles parked behind them discovered the Soviet tanks. The machine gunners in the car quickly turned the guns and aimed at the Soviet tanks for fire. Since these machine guns were not equipped with armor-piercing bullets, they should not see the sound of the mountain, but did not cause any damage to the Soviet tanks.
At 800 meters, the Soviet tanks carried out their third shooting, and this time two tanks and an armored vehicle were destroyed. Seeing this, Yakov was a little impatient. He turned his head and looked at Sokov and asked tentatively: "Misha, can you order the troops to attack?"
"Wait a minute," Sokov saw the remaining nine tanks and continued to shell the positions. If they attacked like this, it would be like letting the soldiers die in vain. Therefore, he said cautiously: "When our tanks rushed to the enemy, as long as all the enemy tanks were destroyed, their attack would end in failure."
However, when Soviet tanks entered 700 meters, 600 meters, and 500 meters, they each carried out a round of volleys. The closer the distance, the higher the hit rate. After the five-wheeled shooting, eight tanks and seven armored vehicles were destroyed, and they were parked on the battlefield and burned wildly. The rising black smoke could be seen even a few kilometers away.
The German infantry noticed that the tank troops that covered their attack were hit by a catastrophe and did not have the courage to continue attacking, so they turned around and ran back. Seeing that the German infantry had lost the courage to continue fighting, Sokov picked up the phone again and said to Tnev: "Comrade Major, the enemy is going to run away. You should attack immediately and chase this enemy. Remember, we do not have the conditions to contain prisoners now, do you understand?"
Tnev heard Sokov's voice outside the painting and did not leave the prisoners. He quickly replied: "Don't worry, comrade brigade commander, I will lead the troops to attack immediately. According to my observation, these enemies are very stubborn and do not look like they will surrender to our army at all. We will definitely eliminate the enemies that are stubborn and completely."
Seeing that Tenev had realized his intention, Sokov smiled on his face: "Good luck, Comrade Major! Take action now and don't let the Germans run away."
When Sokov assigned a mission to Tnev, Yakov also heard what he said and asked carefully: "Misha, do you mean to destroy all the enemies and not keep a single prisoner?"
"Yakov, have you not heard what Major Tenev said just now?" Sokov deliberately pretended to be confused about what Yakov said: "These enemies all seem stubborn, and it is probably not easy to make them surrender. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties from us, it is necessary to eliminate them all."
The ball tank was parked behind the German armored vehicles, and used several machine guns on the ball to shoot at the retreating German infantry. The soldiers who rushed in the front immediately fell down. Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldiers immediately lay on the ground and fought back with the weapons in their hands. There were even soldiers who took out their grenades and threw them at the ball tank.
The grenade hit the arc-shaped armor plate and immediately bounced back, landed in the German army's queue and exploded, causing the German soldiers to scream and howl. Seeing that the grenade he threw had no effect, it killed and injured many of his own people. The soldiers who dropped the bomb stopped dropping bombs, instead aimed at the ball tanks with the weapons in their hands and fired in vain.
The German soldiers who lost the cover of the tank were just a group of lambs to be slaughtered. Facing the Soviet tanks coming to block the road, the Soviet infantry catching up from behind, they knew that it would be meaningless to continue to resist. Most of them put down their weapons and tried to surrender to the Soviet commanders and fighters who rushed up.
However, the Soviet commanders and soldiers received the order, leaving no prisoners in this battle, so after rushing up, they still shot at the soldiers with both hands. Seeing that the Soviet army had no intention of a ceasefire, the surviving German soldiers hurriedly bent down to pick up the weapons on the ground, intending to fight to the death with the other party. However, the Soviet tanks that were parked not far away would not give them such a chance. A few shells flew over and exploded the German soldiers to the point of flesh and blood.
The one-sided battle ended in just over a dozen minutes. All the German tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed, and all the infantry fell into a pool of blood.
Major Tenev, who followed the troops, saw that the enemy had been wiped out, quickly shouted at his subordinates: "Save time to clean the battlefield, collect weapons that can still be used, and then return to the position immediately. The Germans might start shelling towards us soon."
Seeing that the battle was over, Sokov contacted Bere through the phone. He said bluntly: "Col. Bere, you will return to the small village immediately and wait for my further orders."
"I understand." Bi Lei agreed and informed all the tanks to return to the small village through the on-board radio station, leaving only the soldiers from the guard battalion to clean the battlefield here.
"Misha, the enemy's combat effectiveness is not very good." Seeing that the troops easily eliminated a German unit, Yakov suddenly became confident and said to Sokov: "I guess Colonel Gurdiev and others should be able to take back the position in the east from the enemy. In this way, we shattered the German army's attempt to cut off our retreat."
Chapter completed!