The German army did not know that the defenders in the building had changed their defenses, so at 9 a.m., they launched a new attack on the Archives Building.
The company that was standing on the outer positions was commanded by Captain Paulkosky. Seeing that groups of enemies were coming towards the defensive positions, he wanted to order the fire immediately and teach the enemies a lesson. However, in order not to expose the target, he calmly said to the soldiers beside him: "Pause it down. Without my order, no one is allowed to shoot!"
Paulkosky's order was soon truthfully transmitted to every soldier's ears. The soldiers hiding in the trenches pointed their guns at the German soldiers getting closer and closer, putting their fingers on the trigger, and they could only shoot without hesitation at the command of the company commander.
The enemy was getting closer and closer. Paulkosky had seen clearly that there were more than a hundred enemies carrying out the attack. Among them, four armored vehicles were slowly driving forward. The German machine gunners hiding behind the shield in the car were vigilantly observing the Soviet positions without movement, ready to pull the trigger at any time.
Standing at the window of the fourth floor of the building, Sokov saw that there were only four armored vehicles as the infantry attacked, so he put down his telescope and said to Belkin: "Comrade Political Commissar, let the mortar on the roof kill the enemy's armored vehicles, so that the attacking enemy will not be able to cover fire."
Belkin nodded, picked up the phone and started giving orders: "Lt. Grissa, I am Belkin, immediately fire the enemy's armored vehicles, and be sure to kill them in the shortest time."
With the order issued, six mortars on the roof opened fire. The roaring shells were flying in the air for a while and then smashed into the enemy's attacking queue. Black smoke suddenly rose around several armored vehicles. Although the first round of shooting did not destroy the enemy's armored vehicles, the flying shrapnel still cut down a lot of soldiers around them.
Paulkosky was just worried that he had no anti-tank weapons, so how could he kill these German armored vehicles? Now the mortars deployed on the roof of the building have fired. Since the artillery can clean up the enemy's armored vehicles, he just needs to concentrate on dealing with the enemy's troops.
At this moment, the enemy was only one hundred meters away from the trench. Paulkosky looked left and right, and saw that the soldiers' fingers were on the trigger, but he still shouted in great majesty: "Prepare for battle!" Then he raised his pistol and pulled the trigger at the approaching German infantry.
The gunshots were orders. The soldiers who had been holding on to the force pulled the trigger and opened fire at the enemy who entered the range. A dense gunshot sounded immediately on the position, and even the machine guns in the fire point roared. For a moment, all the commanders and soldiers of the company opened fire.
The German soldiers who were holding guns to avoid Soviet artillery attacks, but they didn't expect that the trench that looked a little dynamic would have emerged with so many fire points. They were caught off guard for a while, and groups of soldiers immediately fell under the gun. Seeing so many fire points emerging from the silent trench, the machine gunners hiding behind the shield were startled. He didn't care about avoiding Soviet artillery attacks, he picked up the machine gun and opened fire at the Soviet position, trying to suppress their firepower in the shortest time.
The machine gun shooting on the armored vehicles still brought certain casualties to the Soviet army in the trenches, but the shells flying from the rooftops hit the armored vehicles accurately, and the machine gunners hiding behind the shield flew everywhere. The infantry without the cover of the armored vehicles became lambs to be slaughtered before the Soviet army's dense firepower. The German soldiers fought back for a while, and then quickly retreated with the help of craters or the wreckage of various armored vehicles.
The entire battle lasted only a quarter of an hour. The German army threw down more than 80 bodies and two armored vehicles and retreated in a hurry, while the Soviet army suffered only a dozen casualties.
Seeing the battle ended so easily, Belkin, who was standing upstairs, was very excited. He said to Sokov repeatedly: "Misha, have you seen it? The enemy's attack is simply vulnerable in front of our defense. Even if they come ten or eight times, we are still confident that we will smash their attack."
"Comrade Political Commissar, don't take it lightly." Although the battle just ended was easy, Sokov said worriedly: "The reason why we can repel the enemy's attack so easily is that they don't understand our situation and think that the troops who are stuck in the archives building are the 39th Guard Division, which is seriously insufficient. They suffered this loss and will definitely launch a fierce shelling on us before the next attack. I am very worried that the positions outside can withstand the fierce shelling of the enemy."
"Misha, if it doesn't work, we will withdraw all our troops into the building." Berkin suggested to Sokov: "This building is a stone building. Although it was blown up in the enemy's shelling and bombing, it never collapsed. This shows how strong it is. It is very appropriate for me to let the soldiers come in to avoid shelling."
"Okay." Sokov said with the slightest remarks: "Let a few observation posts be left in a row, and the rest of the soldiers retreated into the building through the traffic trench."
After receiving Belkin's order to retreat, Paulkosky did not immediately order everyone to go back, but sent dozens of soldiers to send the wounded into the building first and let the accompanying health workers bandage their wounds. After all this, Paulkosky left several observation posts to monitor the enemy and withdrew the building with his main force.
As soon as he walked into the building, he saw Sokov and Belkin standing in the hall. He hurried over and raised his hand to salute the two of them: "Teacher Commander, Commander, Hello!"
"Hello, comrade Captain." Since Paulkosky was an officer promoted later, Sokov had never seen him, so he could not call out his orders, so he could only call the other party by his military rank: "The battle you just now was so wonderful. In less than a quarter of an hour, he completely repelled the enemy's attack."
Facing Sokov's praise, Paulkosky said a little embarrassedly: "Comrade Commander, if we do not have the support of the roof artillery, even if we can repel the enemy's attack, we may have suffered considerable casualties."
"Is there any difficulty?" Sokov asked.
"No, no difficulty." Paulkosky shook his head and said, "We will definitely be able to hold our position."
Chapter completed!