As the division commander of the Derrensky factory defender, whether it is Rudev or Sokolov, they all know that Colonel Bere's tank brigade will send personnel tonight to attack the tanks and assault guns in the factory that have long been lacking fuel and ammunition. When they first heard this news, the two were quite happy, thinking that as long as they killed the German tanks and assault guns, in the daytime battle tomorrow, the enemy's infantry would not take any advantage. Maybe their troops could restore the lost positions by just one counterattack.
But not long after, the two of them were no longer happy. If they wanted to fight back against the enemy, the best time was naturally at night. If the comrades of the Tank Brigade had just blown up the enemy's tanks and their troops launched a counterattack, the enemy outside the factory would have to stare at them, because no matter whether they used artillery or air force, they would inevitably hurt their own people by accident.
If Lujeff took the initiative to call Sokolov and expressed his thoughts to the other party, he asked tentatively: "Comrade Colonel, should we call the headquarters and ask the commander to allow us to attack in the dark and clear out all the enemies in the factory?"
"Comrade General," Sokolov said with surprise after he waited for Jolujev, "I have the idea that if we take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the tank brigade destroying the enemy tanks and launch a night attack on the enemy in the factory, maybe we can solve the battle before dawn. When I was considering whether to call you, your phone call came first."
Seeing that his proposal was supported by Sokolov, Jolujeff felt very pleased. "Comrade Colonel, let me call me when I see the phone. I think the commander will consider our suggestions solemnly when he knows that we have the same ideas."
Unexpectedly, when Lujeff had just put down the phone and had not had time to call the headquarters, Chief of Staff Brushko took the lead in greeting him: "Comrade Commander, you have your phone number, General Krelov, Chief of Staff of the Army."
When he learned that it was Krelov's call, Ruojeff quickly reached out to take the phone and said to the microphone: "Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff, do you have anything to do?"
"Good evening, General Jorjev." Krelov said straight to the point: "I call you, and there is an important thing to notify you. After my discussion with the commander, I decided to destroy the German technical equipment of the Beret tank brigade, you and Sokolov's troops took the opportunity to launch a counterattack against the enemies in the factory. Be sure to clear the enemy who broke into the factory before dawn."
"This is really great, Comrade Chief of Staff. I am planning to call you and the commander to ask us to take advantage of the night to counterattack the enemy. I didn't expect your phone to come first." If Lujeff had just finished this, he suddenly realized that his troops were limited, and even if he really participated in the counterattack, he might not be able to play a big role. He hesitated for a moment and said in a little embarrassed manner: "Comrade Chief of Staff, there is still a problem now. After a long battle, our division has greatly reduced its troops. Now there are only a thousand people left in the entire division. It is probably very difficult to use this force to eliminate the enemy in the factory."
"Don't worry, General Jorugev." After hearing Jorugev's complaint, Krelov chuckled and said to him: "Comrade Commander has long considered your current situation, so he borrowed a regiment of troops from Colonel Sokov to assist you in the counterattack tonight. Comrade Commander sent his adjutant Captain Krimov as a liaison officer and acted with this army. I won't be long before this army will enter the factory. You might as well send someone to pick you up as soon as possible, so as not to have unnecessary misunderstandings."
"This is really great." If Lujeff was overjoyed to learn that Cui Kev sent him reinforcements, he quickly replied: "I will send someone to pick up friendly troops immediately, and I will never let my own people fight with my own people."
If Lujeff put down his microphone and was considering who should be sent to pick up friendly troops, the division political commissar Shelbina stood up and volunteered to him: "Comrade Commander, let me go to pick up friendly troops."
"Okay," Although the commander led by the friendly army was just a regiment commander, if Lujeff put the other party on an equal position with him, he readily agreed to the political commissar of the division and political commissar who took the initiative to pick up the friendly army: "Comrade Political Commissar, please come and go for it yourself."
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When Rujeff sent his political commissar to pick up Belkin's troops, the combat team led by Alitai had approached a tank parking spot of the German army.
The soldier in charge of reconnaissance came back and reported to Alitai: "Comrade Lieutenant, I have carefully checked it. There were two German tanks in front of them, and five soldiers were guarding them. The remaining soldiers, in the ruins fifty or sixty meters away, raised two bonfires and were eating while roasting the fire."
After Alitai and other soldiers finished speaking, they asked: "How many German soldiers are there in the fire?"
"I'm afraid of exposing the target, so I didn't dare to get too close to the target." The soldier in charge of the reconnaissance replied in a panic: "Probably, maybe there may be more than twenty people."
Alitai glared at the other party and criticized the other party in a serious tone: "As a scout, your responsibility is to report accurate information to the commander, rather than using some rough, maybe, perhaps such ambiguous word to report your reconnaissance results. This may very likely affect the judgment of the military commander. Do you understand?"
"I understand, Comrade Lieutenant." After being criticized, the scout, counted with his fingers for a while, looked up at Alitai and said, "Comrade Lieutenant, I roughly calculated that there should be twenty-five to twenty-eight Germans who are roasting the fire."
Although the scouts did not give accurate numbers, Alitai had already calculated the total enemy's total strength in his mind: "There are five sentries guarding the tanks, and there are twenty-five to twenty-eight people cooking fires, which means that the total strength of the enemy is about thirty. And we only have seven of them, and once we are entangled by the enemy, it is not that easy to retreat."
Seeing that Alitai was silent for a long time, the scout asked in a low voice: "Comrade Lieutenant, the number of enemies is several times higher than that of us. I am worried that even if we blow up the tank, it will not be easy for us to retreat."
"Comrades, I'll divide the work now." After careful consideration, Alitai felt that although the number of Germans was more than him, he was still confident of winning when he was calculating or unintentional. He summoned the soldiers to him and said to them: "I will bring three submachine gunmen later and sneak to the vicinity of the enemy who was burning fire. The remaining comrades, led by scouts, will blow up the German tanks."
Alitai emphasized to the scouts: "After you see me bringing people close to the German fire position, you will decisively use a submachine gun to destroy the soldiers standing guard beside the tank, and then burn the enemy's tank with a molten bottle. When the fire-burning enemy hears the gunshots over you, they will definitely not be able to recover for a moment. They will stand in place and make a daze. At that time, we will pitch the enemy in the enemy's hands and use a submachine gun to strafuse them..."
After assigning the combat mission, Alitai asked again: "Do you understand everything?"
"I understand!" the soldiers answered neatly.
"Since you understand, let's go." Alitai waved his hand, then disappeared into the night with three soldiers, and quietly touched the ruins of the German army's fire.
The scouts brought the remaining two soldiers quietly to the ruins more than 30 meters away from the German tanks. He asked the two soldiers to guard with guns, but he looked in the direction where Alitai disappeared. He just waited for the lieutenant to approach the enemy who was roasting fire, so he decisively ordered the soldiers to shoot.
I don't know how long he had waited, but he finally saw a few black shadows approaching the ruins of the fire. It was Alitai and the others who entered the designated position. He turned around and said to the two soldiers: "The lieutenant is in place, let's prepare to shoot. How about it, can you kill all the enemies as soon as possible?"
"There are difficulties." One of the soldiers shook their heads and whispered: "The five German soldiers were scattered very well. Even if we fired at the same time, it would be difficult to kill them all."
The scout heard that it was impossible to destroy all sentries at the first time, which meant that he was responsible for bombing the tank. He stared at the sentry walking back and forth for a long time, gritted his teeth and said to the warrior: "You fire and kill the enemy closest to the tank first, and I can rush out and throw the moor bottle. If you see any German soldier ready to shoot me, you will give priority to killing him. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Both soldiers nodded and replied in unison: "We will ensure you are safe."
Seeing that the time was ripe, the scout nodded at the two soldiers and decisively issued a shooting order: "Fire!"
As the order was issued, two submachine guns rang out. In the quiet night, the gunshots seemed particularly deafening. Two unlucky German soldiers fell down. The remaining three soldiers quickly chose to lie down in a hidden place and fought back in the direction where the bullets flew.
The scout jumped up from his hiding place and rushed towards the tank parked in front at a speed of 100 meters. Before the German sentry came to his senses, he had already rushed to a place ten meters away from the tank. With a raised hand, a molten bottle came out of his hand. After rolling in the air for several rounds, it fell on the tank body and smashed it. As soon as the bottle was broken, the liquid contained inside immediately flowed around. When the white phosphorus inside saw the air, it immediately burned violently. In less than five seconds, the entire tank was wrapped in flames.
Seeing that a tank had been ignited, the scout was immediately inspired. He raised the second molten bottle and threw it out. Unfortunately, this time he used too much force. The molten bottle flew directly above the tank and fell to the ground and smashed it. A German soldier hiding beside him was splashed with countless gasoline and immediately turned into a burning fireman. He jumped up from the ground, threw the weapon in his hand, and ran to the distance, tempting to find a place to extinguish the fire on his body.
How could the two soldiers who were shooting easily give up such an obvious target? They aimed at the fire man at the same time and pulled the trigger hard. After a moment, the fire man who was caught several bullets fell to the ground and lay there motionlessly, allowing the fire on his body to continue burning. The scout took the opportunity to throw a third mobilizer, which hit the tank's turret this time, which soon made the body burn.
The German soldiers who were roasting fire in the ruins were already drowsy. When they heard the gunshots coming from the parking tanks, everyone had not yet reacted. When they saw one of the tanks ignited a fire, the German commander even a fool understood that he had been attacked by the Soviet army. He stood up suddenly and shouted loudly: "Russians, it was the Russians who came to attack!"
The soldiers who were dozing by the fire heard the shouts of the officers, stood up from the fire, picked up their weapons and prepared to rush to the tank parking area to reinforce the sentries there. However, as soon as they stood up, the sound of several submachine guns sounded beside them. The dense bullets immediately knocked down more than a dozen soldiers, and the rest quickly lay down and fought back in the direction where the bullets flew.
But after they fired a few shots, they were so shocked by the thrown grenades. In order to avoid the grenades, some soldiers took the risk of getting up from the ground and trying to find a safe place, but they often got knocked down by bullets flying from the darkness together.
The battle here lasted less than ten minutes and ended with the German army being completely wiped out.
After Alitai summoned everyone, he began to count the results of the battle. He found that his combat team had killed 31 German soldiers and destroyed two tanks, no casualties. Seeing such results, Alitai was naturally ecstatic. He quickly ordered one of his soldiers: "Send a signal flare immediately and tell other combat teams that our mission has been completed smoothly."
Before departure, Alitai told the team leaders of each combat team that once the task is completed, they will fire a green signal flare into the air; if the mission fails, a white signal flare will be fired, and the nearby combat team will come to support. The soldiers who heard the order quickly fired a green signal flare into the air, telling the nearby combat team and the Tank Brigade that their combat mission has been completed.
The sneak attack carried out by Alitai's combat team was extremely smooth, and the rest of the teams were no exception. They all successfully eliminated the German tanks and assault guns, as well as the German infantry guarding these technical equipment. However, not every team had zero casualties. One of the teams, except for one of the wounded escaped, was killed.
After seeing the six green signal flares appearing one after another in the air, Alitai felt relieved. He said to the soldiers of the combat team: "Comrades, our mission has been completed and we can go back."
Chapter completed!