Chapter 1289 The political commissars desperate situation
As the people waiting patiently in ambush, the time passed by minute by second. On the road more than a hundred meters away, various military vehicles or mules and horses drove past from time to time.
Various types of artillery.
In the distance beyond everyone's sight, the faint rumble of artillery fire and the freezing rain that started to fall before noon undoubtedly made the wait even more unbearable.
In the cold and damp machine gun position, Wei Ran took out the Soviet cloak under the cover of his backpack and asked Yeremei, who was shivering from the cold, to hide in with him.
"A few... sneeze!"
Yeremei covered his mouth tightly and sneezed, sniffed and asked again, "What time is it?"
"Four-thirty" Wei Ran took out his flyback watch from his pocket, glanced at it, and whispered the answer.
Standing up on his knees and looking out from the gap in the bushes, Yeremey sat down again and hid under his stretched cloak and said angrily, "Those Germans are still warming themselves by the fire. They really know how to enjoy it."
"Keep it patient, they will enjoy it later."
Wei Ran, who was also frozen and had goosebumps all over his body, murmured something in a low voice, but at the same time, he did not delay using his bayonet to cut open the canned meat allocated to him and Yeremey.
"Are you hungry?" Yeremei couldn't help but swallowed as he looked at the condensation of fat in the can. This thing was so delicious when it was hot, but it looked so unappetizing after it cooled down and solidified.
“Warm and warm”
As Wei Ran spoke, he had used a bayonet to cut off a strip of cloth from the hem of his coat, soaked it in a can and filled it with grease, then lit it and placed it on the "fireplace" dug out of the wall, which was only the size of a steel helmet.
inside.
"You really have a way!"
Yeremei sighed in admiration, turned around with Wei Ran in tacit agreement, and wrapped his cloak and body around the small fireplace from three sides, sucking in the weak warmth released by the small flame with difficulty.
At the same time, Vinia in the trench next door also skillfully folded a written letter into a triangle, then sandwiched it in his notepad, and then put it all into the lunch box along with the notepad and pen.
, and finally stuffed it into the backpack.
Less than a hundred meters away, in a small safe area on the side of the wreckage of the BT7 tank where no explosives had been buried by the guards, David and Fras also dug out a safe place in the freezing rain.
For the position of the heavy machine gun, several sandbags were made from the clothes taken from the stinking corpses and piled in front of the machine gun shield.
In the position of Sasha and Alyosha, the two young men were relatively more comfortable due to the cover of the tank wreckage above their heads and the surrounding soil. They even spent most of the day conducting deep inspections of the bunker.
They dug and expanded, and lit a white candle as thick as a wrist. While keeping warm, they also heated the cans and cold water in the kettle that were distributed to them in the morning.
At five o'clock in the evening, Wei Ran and Yeremei filled their bellies with the boiled potatoes distributed in the morning and the meat cans that were barely opened by simple candles. The latter also crawled to the trench where political commissar Viniya was in charge, and got out of his arms.
He took out the 11 anti-tank bullets, wiped them one last time with a greasy rag, and filled one of them into the chamber of the anti-tank gun that Vinia was in charge of.
Similarly, after Wei Ran turned around and peed, he loaded the bullet chain on the machine gun he was in charge of and got ready to fire.
At 5:15, Vinia slowly poked the muzzle of the anti-tank gun out of the bushes and aimed at a No. 2 tank at the fork in the road with its side armor pointed at him.
However, he did not rush to shoot. Instead, he waited patiently, waiting for a truck full of soldiers to pass through the intersection and drive towards the front line. He watched the vehicle finally completely disappear in the slightly dim field of vision.
Disappeared without a trace.
"boom!"
When Political Commissar Vinia pulled the trigger, Wei Ran also subconsciously glanced at the flyback watch at hand - 5:21 pm.
"Da da da da!"
Just as Yeremei skillfully helped Commissar Vinya stuff the second bullet into the gun chamber, Fras, who was in the middle position, also immediately controlled the heavy machine gun and opened fire, covering those who were still surrounding the bonfire.
Chatting tank crew members!
Amidst the roar of the heavy machine gun, Sasha, who was also prepared, pulled the trigger on another No. 2 tank.
After he fired this bullet, Alyosha next to him helped him load the second bullet, and even did not forget to put a lit cigarette to his mouth.
At the same time, Yeremey also lit two cigarettes, even loading the third bullet, and gave one to Vinya.
The two anti-tank guns were the first to go quiet after each fired a bullet. Then, the heavy machine gun in the middle position also stopped after firing the remaining half of the ammunition chain into the machine gun tower of the No. 1 tank.
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In this sudden attack, no matter whether the bullets fired by the two anti-tank guns damaged the tanks or not, there was no need to worry about the other side's counterattack.
Because that astonishingly powerful heavy machine gun had torn the tank crew members who were no more than a hundred meters away, as well as the bonfire that had been burning for almost a whole day and was particularly envied by everyone, into messy pieces all over the ground.
Even the weak machine gun tower of the No. 1 tank and the layer of sandbags attached outside were smoked by the heavy machine gun at such a close distance.
"Victor, keep an eye on the tank."
After finishing speaking, political commissar Vinia from the next position had already aimed his gun in the other direction of this fork in the road - just like what his companions in the other two positions were doing.
"good"
Wei Ran, who also lit a cigarette, responded, letting the muzzle of the machine gun cover the three tanks in the puff of smoke.
Less than ten minutes later, two trucks drove over from the direction of Bryansk. Although they were a little far away, Weiyan could still tell them apart at a glance. Both trucks were dragging a PAK38 anti-tank at the rear.
artillery.
Behind the two trucks, there was also a three-wheel motorcycle with a sidecar, and there seemed to be a soldier sitting on the sidecar who was smoking.
Without any command at all, the heavy machine guns in charge of David and Fras opened fire again, covering the two trucks that had just passed the row of anti-tank cones with a dense and powerful machine gun barrage.
After at most ten rounds of heavy machine gun bullets were ejected, Weiran also fired a long burst of fire at the sidecar motorcycle at the end, watching the motorcycle drive down the road in a beautiful arc and drive into the anti-tank cone.
in the wreckage and eventually rolled over.
After a stingy shot at the three-wheeled motorcycle, Wei Ran aimed his gun at the rear of the two trucks he had just stopped, and the heavy machine guns controlled by Flas and David stopped.
"Da da da!"
When two figures jumped out from the back of the first truck, Wei Ran fired a series of bursts of fire again, watching as the two men fell onto the road without moving.
After looking at the half-stretched bullet chain, Wei Ran took a puff of the cigarette held in the corner of his mouth, and waited patiently with his companions in the swirling smoke for new prey to arrive.
At 5:37, five trucks drove over from the direction of the front line.
Except for the first carriage of these five trucks, which contained a squad of soldiers, the following trucks were all covered with tarpaulins, so there was no way of knowing what was inside.
Apparently, the corpses lying on the road alerted the first truck, causing it to stop far away.
However, almost at the moment when the soldiers in the cargo compartment were huddled together uncontrollably due to the inertia caused by the emergency braking, the machine guns controlled by Fras and David also began to roar.
Even though the sky was dark, and even though he was a hundred meters away, Wei Ran, who had also aimed his machine gun at the convoy, could still roughly see the German soldiers standing on the leading truck in a steaming mass of blood mist.
It suddenly shrunk like wheat, and all the windows of the cab of the car were blown open by the heavy machine gun fire.
Almost as soon as the shell of the first heavy machine gun bullet hit the soil, two anti-tank rifles opened fire in sequence, hitting the cab and front of the last car one after another.
While they were reloading bullets, the heavy machine gun also began to move laterally backwards, sending a series of fatal short bursts to the other three vehicles sandwiched in the middle from the front to the rear.
But even with such close cooperation, Wei Ran still vaguely saw several figures jumping out of the car and hiding in the blind spot on the other side of the road.
After a moment of noise, the dead crossroads became calm again.
However, less than five minutes later, another half-track armored vehicle with dim lights on came from the direction of the battlefield. Behind this armored vehicle, there was a tank, a Panzer III tank!
"Da da da da!"
Without even waiting for the approach, the machine gun on the half-track armored vehicle began to fire suppressively in the direction of the edge of the forest. The Panzer III tank also turned its body on the road and aimed its hard frontal armor at the edge of the forest.
direction.
"boom!"
Sasha, who was relatively close, was the first to fire an anti-tank bullet at the tank. Immediately afterwards, Commissar Vinia also pulled the trigger at the Panzer III tank.
However, not only did these two bullets have no impact on the Panzer III tank, they actually caused the machine gun suppression of the half-track armored vehicle!
At this critical moment, the Deshka heavy machine gun opened fire, and the 12.7 mm caliber bullets hit the half-track armored vehicle directly, easily disabling its machine gun.
But this ferocious firepower immediately attracted the attention of the No. 3 tank, and its turret began to rotate without hesitation, aiming the artillery in the direction of the heavy machine gun.
At this critical moment, Wei Ran no longer cared about how to explain the secrets on his body. He pushed the machine gun aside and took out the anti-tank gun from the metal book and aimed it at the tank.
Different from the high-explosive bombs used in the last ambush, this time the magazine and chamber of this anti-tank gun are filled with amazingly powerful PzGr.40 high-speed armor-piercing bullets!
"boom!"
The first bullet fired hit a group of particularly conspicuous sparks on the still-rotating turret of the Panzer III tank!
Seeing that the tank's turret was still rotating, Wei Yan put one foot on the wall of the position, resisted the powerful recoil, and pulled the trigger again and again!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
After three consecutive high-speed armor-piercing rounds were fired, the turret of the Panzer III tank finally stopped rotating, and the tank began to retreat.
This was a rare opportunity, so Weiran lowered the muzzle of his gun slightly, continued to pull the trigger, and finally succeeded in keeping the tank behind when it was about to retreat to the other side of the road.
Before he could put away the inexplicable anti-tank gun, Yeremey from another position ventured to look over and shouted in surprise, "Victor! Where did you get..."
"boom!"
In the chaotic exchange of fire, before Yeremei could finish his words, a cloud of blood mist burst out from his left shoulder, and he fell into the trench shared with Vinia while screaming.
"Yeremei! How is your situation?!" Wei Ran shouted and asked.
"it's okay no problem!"
Yeremei responded painfully, and Wei Ran also picked up the machine gun again at the same time, looking for the person who had just fired a cold shot.
Almost at the same time, Sasha in the distant position also aimed at a survivor hiding under the truck chassis and pulled the trigger!
"boom!"
Amidst the dull gunfire and the dim and cold sky, the German soldier who had just reloaded the Mauser rifle in his hand and was about to pull the trigger on the sanitary ignition did not even react. His waist was hit by the bullet.
The 14.5mm bullet hit, blowing away half of the ribs and most of the water. The rifle in his hand also fell to the side.
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"boom!"
This time, the tank stopped six or seven hundred meters away and fired a shell, which hit the wreckage of the BT7 tank that was blocking the side of the heavy machine gun!
Immediately afterwards, the tank's two machine guns also started shooting, suppressing the heavy machine guns in charge of David and Fras so that there was no way to fight back!
"Victor!" shouted Vinia from another position, "cover me!"
"Okay!" Wei Ran responded subconsciously, and then he saw Political Commissar Weniya jumping out of the trench!
"Where are you going!" Wei Ran shouted and asked. He originally thought that the other party was going to attack the tank in the distance, but he didn't expect him to act like this!
"cover me!"
However, Vinia just shouted indistinctly again, and at the same time, she also used the momentum of running down the slope to speed up!
"Are all Soviet political commissars so desperate?"
Wei Ran cursed and pointed the muzzle of his machine gun at the trucks he had just stopped. He didn't care about saving bullets, so he pulled the trigger and started shooting under the cars, suppressing the remaining small fish from the ambush of the trucks.
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Perhaps they also noticed the political commissar Vinya who ran out. David and Fras quickly controlled the heavy machine guns and once again enveloped the half-track armored vehicle. They hid behind the tank wreckage, although they were unable to fire on the vehicle heading towards them.
The tanks fired back, but there was still enough fire coverage to cover Commissar Vinya!
Under the cover of these two machine guns, Commissar Vinia used the remaining reeds in the depression and the dim sky to escape and ran to the three tanks that were guarding the intersection. Then he actually got into a two-wheeler tank.
In the turret of the tank!
Before he jumped out of the trench, Sasha, who was relatively closer, had already turned his gun and pulled the trigger towards the tank that was firing!
However, what made him despair was that after three consecutive bullets were fired, the tank seemed not to be affected at all, and even fired a shell towards the wreckage of the tank where he and Alyosha were hiding!
Amidst the huge impact and explosion, a large hole was cut out of the side of the wreckage of the No. 2 tank. Sasha and Alyosha hidden under the car were also shocked, with blood flowing from their nostrils and ears.
"boom!"
Another artillery shell hit the wreckage of the No. 2 tank. Sasha also let out a scream, and a fragment of the tank chassis collapsed and hit his lower back!
Reaching out to touch the wound, Sasha's young face showed a trace of panic, but soon he hugged the anti-tank gun that Weiran had repaired again, aimed at the tank again, and fired a round.
In this short interval, Commissar Vigna had already gotten into the tank, and Wei Ran had also used up the only ammunition for the machine gun in his hand.
In the trench next door, Yeremei grabbed a handful of cold, wet mud and put it on the wound on his shoulder to stop the bleeding. Then he gritted his teeth and picked up the anti-tank gun, pressing it against his uninjured right side.
He tried it on his shoulder, then simply pulled off his leggings, tangled his injured left hand with the anti-tank grip, and loaded a bullet with his right hand.
"boom!"
Yeremei fired a bullet with difficulty at the tank that was firing at Sasha, and at the same time shouted, "Victor! Victor!"
"I'm here!" Wei Ran, who had just dropped the machine gun, shouted in response, "I'll take you right now..."
"I'll cover you!"
Yeremei shouted while loading bullets alone, "Hurry up and use the anti-tank gun you just had to fire from a closer place! Hurry!"
"Let's go together!"
Wei Ran was about to crawl over as he spoke, but one step ahead of him, the tank's machine gun had already swept over, not only easily cutting through the grass and shrubs, but even the birch tree was trembling from the impact of the bullet!
"Go!" Yeremey shouted, "hurry up and destroy that tank!"
Hearing this, Wei Ran gritted his teeth and rushed out during the interval of strafing. Along the previously dug traffic trench, he crawled like a gecko and quickly left the position. He passed through the safe passage in the middle of the minefield and played.
Those who were killed ran towards Sasha's position.
That is to say, with the effort of the front and rear feet, with a "boom", the high ground was hit by a cannonball, and the birch tree also collapsed amid the flying earth and rocks!
"boom!"
There was another artillery sound, and this shell hit the wreckage of the BT7 tank that was blocking the heavy machine gun, and also exploded the explosives previously deployed by the Weifang.
At the same time, the parallel machine gun on the front of the tank was suppressing the wreckage of the tank where the two Sashas were hiding directly opposite the front of the tank.
This was just a tank, but it easily suppressed their two positions!
He only had to glance at David and Flas who were huddled in the trench when he was lying down. Wei Ran got up again and continued running forward desperately. He wanted to get close as soon as possible and use his anti-tank gun.
Fight back, only in this way can the others survive!
Perhaps it was overconfidence, or perhaps the dim sky affected the combat effectiveness, or perhaps it was the headlights of the convoy coming vaguely from the direction of Bryansk that gave the tank courage.
Just when Wei Ran ran to the protruding part of the forest, the tank rumbled down the roadbed and continued to use its front-mounted machine gun to suppress the hiding spot of the two Sashas as it drove over.
"Sasha! Alyosha! How are you doing?" Wei Ran climbed over the barbed wire and shouted.
"Sasha can't survive!"
Alyosha shouted in panic, "One of his arms was broken by a machine gun, and the anti-tank gun was also damaged! His feet were also pinned down!"
Taking advantage of the pause in firing of the machine gun, Wei Ran immediately climbed into the bunker, and then saw that the anti-tank gun had been disconnected from the buffer slide connecting the handle and the barrel. Not far away, there was another
An almost broken arm.
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Liao Sha was frantically digging the soil under Sasha's foot with an engineering shovel with bullet holes, but he completely failed to notice that Sasha was weakly slapping his lower back.
"Alyosha"
Sasha took advantage of the quiet moment when the tank's machine gun stopped firing and said, "Leave me alone and get out of here."
"Shut up!" Alyosha responded with a cry as he dug.
"Victor, you...can you still repair that anti-tank gun?" Sasha asked, looking at Wei Ran who was using a belt to stop the bleeding of his broken arm.
"Yes, I can fix it even if it turns into a piece of scrap metal!" Wei Ran responded while tightening the belt.
This was the only help he provided based on common sense. After being deprived of his medical skills by the metal book, he now had no idea what to do next. But the broken spine could already be seen on Sasha's lower back.
The hideous wounds let him know that even if he still had medical ability, he might not be able to save the other party.
"Take it away"
Sasha glanced at the gun barrel next to him and said, "Take Alyosha away too and ask him to mark four more stars for me."
After saying this, Sasha tremblingly took out a bloody cigarette from the cigarette case at hand and held it in his mouth. Then, after lighting the cigarette with a lighter, he lit a Molotov cocktail.
"Go!" Sasha shouted with all his strength, holding the Molotov cocktail, "or I will burn myself to death! Hurry!"
Gritting his teeth, Wei Ran picked up the barrel of the gun, grabbed the sluggish Alyosha, and forced him out of the bunker.
"Sasha! Sasha!" Alyosha roared with tears streaming down his face.
"Don't let his wish come true! Climb over quickly!"
While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already pushed the barrel of the gun through the hole in the barbed wire fence, pushing Alyosha through the barbed wire fence amidst the renewed sound of machine gun fire and the flames spreading under the wreckage of the tank.
Almost as he dragged Alyosha through the minefield and ran into the forest, the tank rushed over and slammed into the wreckage of the No. 2 tank.
It was only at this time that Wei Ran finally saw clearly that it was an E-type No. 4 tank with thickened frontal armor!
"Quickly retreat!"
Wei Ran roared and shouted towards Father Dofero in the distance, "Retreat quickly! Let David and the others retreat quickly!"
Seeing that the other party couldn't hear him, Wei Ran hurriedly hid the gun barrel and Alyosha behind a thick pine tree. Then he ran and pulled off the square box flashlight hanging on the side of the Soviet cloak.
, turned on the power and waved towards Father Dofero.
This light signal immediately let the other party understand his intention, but at the same time it also exposed the position of the guard, attracting the No. 4 tank to turn its turret!
Upon seeing this, Wei Ran, realizing that something was wrong, immediately turned off the flashlight and ran away, using the thick pine trees that could be seen everywhere to avoid being fired by the parallel machine guns on the turret!
Precisely because he temporarily attracted firepower, Father Dofero finally shouted at the two mules, and with the assistance of David and Fras, dragged the precious heavy machine gun back.
After a while, the No. 4 tank also gave up on the unnecessary target of ignition, and crashed into the wreckage of the BT7 tank like a wild boar amidst the roar of the engine, and then retreated.
At the same time, he turned the turret again, trying to find the heavy machine gun.
With its thick armor, this tank galloped across the depression as if it were bullying a child.
"boom!"
Just at this moment, a deafening gunshot was heard from the high ground, and the tank's lights also went out!
Yeremei is still alive!
When Wei Ran heard the gunshot, he had already run back to the minefield outside the positions of Sasha and Alyosha.
Quickly walking through the safe passage opened by himself, Wei Ran hurriedly glanced at the body under the wreckage of the tank, took out the anti-tank gun as quickly as possible and mounted it on it.
But even so, he was still a step too late, and still watched the tank drive onto the high ground!
"Boom boom boom!"
Almost when he pulled the trigger towards the rear of the No. 4 tank, a No. 2 tank at the fork in the road also fired a round with the same caliber and power as his anti-tank gun at a faster rate of fire.
of high-velocity armor-piercing projectiles.
Under the attack from these two directions, the No. 4 tank was first hit by the rear armor, damaging the engine, and then stalled on the high ground. Immediately afterwards, its sides were torn apart by high-speed armor-piercing bullets hitting it one after another.
Turn on the armor!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The No. 2 tank at the intersection, controlled by Commissar Vigna alone, was still bombarding the No. 4 tank, which also belonged to the German army, but the Weifang had already pointed its gun at the convoy coming from the direction of Bryansk.
"boom!"
When he fired a high-velocity armor-piercing round that hit the cab of the first truck, David and Fras also pushed the heavy machine gun through the barbed wire fence again.
"Da da da da!"
In the increasingly dark sky, the Deshka heavy machine gun began to roar, hoping in vain that Commissar Vinya, who was still controlling the German tanks to fire, would come back alive.
