"Use a mobilizer!" Seeing that the enemy tank armor was so strong that more than a dozen anti-tank guns could not penetrate its armor at the same time, the company commander suddenly remembered the anti-tank matters that the regiment commander had told him, and hurriedly shouted to his subordinates: "Use the mobilizer to blow up the enemy tank!"
Although there are a lot of moor bottles piled up in the trenches, if the company commander didn't shout, everyone would have almost forgotten that there was such anti-tank weapon. After all, they were using anti-tank rifles to deal with enemy tanks.
As soon as the company commander's shout fell, a corporal beside him grabbed a mobilizer with his hands and feet, climbed out of the trench with his hands and feet, and crawled towards the coming Tiger tank. The Tiger tank was obviously not aware of the threat it was about to face. It stopped from time to time while driving slowly, firing at suspicious targets or firing machine guns.
The corporal crawled forward to a place more than 40 meters away from the German tank, suddenly jumped up from the ground, and rushed towards the enemy tank at a speed of 100 meters. However, before he could drop the incendiary bottle in his hand, the German soldiers following the tank opened fire at him, and the dense bullets made the corporal fall to the ground.
Although the corporal was hit by more than a dozen bullets, he was seriously injured. He endured the severe pain all over his body, tried his best to straighten his upper body, preparing to throw the incendiary bottle at the enemy's tank. But as soon as he raised the incendiary bottle tremblingly, his chest was hit by dense bullets. His body raised it back under huge inertia, and then fell heavily to the ground and could no longer move.
Seeing that the corporal who exploded the tank died, several more soldiers who couldn't help but climbed out of the trench with the moor bottles, trying to complete the task that the corporal did not complete. Unfortunately, their luck was still bad. Before they could get close to the enemy tank, they were shot into sieves by infantry following around the tank.
"Stop!" Seeing that comrades died one after another, even the soldiers of the anti-tanks who were staying in the trenches could not hold back. Anyway, the anti-tank guns they used were of no use to the enemy's heavy tanks, so they might as well use a mobilizer to clean it up, so they bent down to pick up the mobilizers in the trenches and prepared to climb out to blow up the enemy's tanks. Who knew that they were about to run out, but the company commander called out: "Stop it all, are you going to go out and die for nothing?"
"Company Commander!" The soldiers who were stopped by the company commander said dissatisfied: "Our anti-tank guns are of no use to the enemy's heavy tanks. Let's go out and blow it up with a moor bottle."
The company commander glanced at the Tiger tank less than 100 meters away from the trench, and then said decisively: "You all stay in the trench honestly, I'll blow it up."
"Company Commander, you can't go!" Hearing that the company commander was going to blow up the tank himself, a soldier closest to him quickly made a loud statement: "Let me blow him up."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the company commander glanced at him and sneered, "Do you have more experience in dealing with enemy tanks than me?" Then he raised his voice and said to his nearby subordinates, "I'll go to bomb the enemy tanks, you all stay in the trenches. If I sacrifice, you will follow me again, do you understand?"
After saying that, the company commander didn't care about the reaction of his subordinates. He grabbed two molten bottles, climbed out of the trench with his hands and feet. After careful observation, he found that in order to get close to the enemy's tank smoothly, he had to crawl forward. After the corporal's death, the soldiers who rushed out were too impulsive and rushed forward straight, not to be hit by the German infantry as a target. The corporal's stand was too far away from the tank. If he jumped up twenty meters away from the tank, before the enemy could react, the molten bottle might have hit the body of the Tiger tank.
It was precisely because the company commander summed up these lessons that he personally brought two molten bottles to blow up the enemy's tanks, and he was confident that he could escape unstoppable. In this way, he successfully arrived at a position twenty meters away from the Tiger tank. He took a deep breath, jumped up from the ground, raised the molten bottle high with his right hand, ready to smash the enemy's tank.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a German soldier standing not far away discovered him and instinctively picked up the submachine gun and fired at him. The bullet shattered the glass bottle, and the liquid in the bottle poured him all over. The white phosphorus mixed with it began to burn violently when it encountered the air, and the company commander instantly turned into a fire man.
The soldiers who were staying in the trench, seeing their company commander covered in fire, couldn't help but exclaim: "Company Commander~!!!"
Just when they thought the company commander's tank bombing would end in failure this time, they unexpectedly saw that the company commander, covered in fire, continued to rush towards the enemy's tank and smashed the remaining moor bottle hard on the position of the enemy's tank engine. In an instant, the fire and smoke engulfed the hero's company commander and the enemy's tank.
The German infantry around the tank were stunned by the company commander's heroic behavior. Perhaps they were worried that the ammunition in the tank would hurt themselves. After a brief loss of consciousness, they turned around and ran backwards.
The tiger tank wrapped in a raging fire was pushed away from the hatch. First, a stream of black smoke with flames emerged, and then three tank soldiers caught fire all over. They jumped out of the tank, howled and danced, and fell to the ground from time to time, trying to extinguish the flames on their clothes.
"Avenge the company commander!" The soldiers in the trench roared, fired at the fleeing German infantry and tank soldiers, and killed them one by one like shooting a target.
Two other Tiger tanks and three No. 3 tanks a few hundred meters saw the Tiger tanks in front of them burning and thought that the Soviet army had some powerful anti-tank weapons. In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, they also stopped moving forward one after another, turned their heads on the spot and drove back.
The German offensive was blocked again. The heroic performance of the anti-tank company commander on the battlefield was reported to the regiment commander Lieutenant Colonel Yershakov. After receiving the call, Yershakov remained silent for a long time before speaking: "First Battalion Commander, he is an amazing hero in our Red Army. You should immediately report his name to me. I want to apply to my superiors and award him the title of "Soviet Hero".
Unexpectedly, after Yershakov finished speaking, the first battalion commander grunted for a long time, but did not say the name of the company commander who died. Seeing that the first battalion commander had not answered for a long time, Yershakov knew roughly what was going on. The anti-tank company was only temporarily replenished by the superiors before the troops crossed the river. They only spent a day together and didn't know what the other party's name was. That was really normal.
However, in order not to let the hero's deeds be buried, Yershakov reminded the first battalion commander: "The First Battalion Commander, although you don't know the name of the anti-tank company, his soldiers should know. Go to the anti-tank company to inquire with the soldiers and ask their company commander what their company commander is named, and there will definitely be an answer."
While the first battalion commander went to inquire about the news, Yershakov ordered the radio operator: "Send a report to the division headquarters and report the heroic company commander's deeds to them."
Sokov received the telegram, and after reading the content above, he handed it to Anisimov who was sitting aside, and said to him: "Comrade Political Commissar, in the battle that the Yershakov regiment just ended, a heroic company commander emerged with his deeds on it. Think about how we can promote his heroic deeds across the entire division!"
Chapter completed!