"I don't understand." Zoya looked at Captain Aleutian and Wei Ran in confusion, "Shouldn't we fight back?"
"Tell me what you want." Captain Aleutian looked at Wei Ran encouragingly, as if he was quite curious whether his answer was the same as what he had considered.
"Trenches can protect against direct artillery shells, but they cannot protect against mortar shells."
Wei Ran shrank his neck and glanced at the smoke clouds that exploded around Position 19, "And the most important thing is that the damage caused by our counterattack with mortars is not high now. It is better to let them continue to dig for a while and wait.
Their reinforcements will come over and solve it together."
"What else?" Captain Aleutian asked with a smile.
"What else?" Wei Ran thought for a long time, and finally shook his head honestly, "There are only so many things I can think of."
"As long as they dig the trenches, the route of the troops who follow the tanks from the rear will be fixed, the location of the trenches will be fixed, and even their hiding places will be fixed. This is very useful for our new recruits who have just learned how to operate mortars.
Said, the difficulty of aiming at the target will be reduced a lot, and it can also save some ammunition in disguise."
"But we let them dig a trench to confront us so smoothly?"
Wei Ran asked worriedly, it was different whether the other side had trenches or not. It would not be a wise decision to let the Germans dig trenches right in front of their house just to save some ammunition.
"Of course it's impossible." Vanya, with a fierce look on his face, joined the conversation, "Aleutians, we're ready."
The latter nodded upon hearing this, "Arrange for those with good marksmanship to carry out non-stop sniping, and supervise them to dig faster."
Although they didn't know what the Aleutian captain was thinking, everyone still accepted his arrangement honestly.
As time went by, the sky gradually darkened. Compared with the almost constant fighting sounds in other positions around, except for the occasional gunshots and mortar explosions, the area around Position 19 was filled with strange sounds.
of quietness.
In the command post with air leakage from all sides, Captain Aleutian finished his simple dinner in two or three bites. After rudely wiping the remaining mashed potatoes at the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, he glanced out through the observation hole and said casually, "It's already eight."
It’s half past one, it’s almost time for us to start.”
After hearing the words, Vanya immediately stuck his head out of the command post and blew the whistle that was originally hung around his neck. After receiving the signal, the mortar soldiers who had been silent all afternoon immediately picked up the shells and stuffed them into the launcher without hesitation.
cylinder.
"Bang bang!"
After two consecutive low buzzing sounds, the heavy mortar positions each pushed away a circle of slowly spreading circular water vapor ripples driven by the shock wave.
Within seconds of each other, the two 120mm caliber high-explosive mortar shells accurately hit the half-dug trench line on the opposite side. Although it was impossible to hear the screams coming from the opposite side, the trench exploded.
The firelight was particularly conspicuous in the night.
Behind the observation window of the command post, Aleutian put down the telescope and said with satisfaction, "Not bad, let's continue with the explosive point now!"
After hearing this, Vanya immediately took out his flashlight and shook it at the two heavy mortars. After the other party stopped shelling, he immediately blew the whistle again.
Less than a second apart, the 82mm mortars, which had also been aimed before the sun set, began to fire one after another. Under the operation of the soldiers, the only two mortars fired one after another.
Hit the opposite trench line.
As Wei Ran looked on with confusion, Vanya changed direction and waved the flashlight towards the slope of the trench. Then he personally led a small group of soldiers carrying submachine guns over the trench, through the damage in the barbed wire fence, and in the forced
Under the cover of the artillery fire, the cat crouched and silently rushed towards the trench that was about to be dug on the opposite side!
At the same time, the two heavy mortars that fired first had been dragged by more than a dozen soldiers and quickly moved to the backup gun position more than 20 meters away along the trenches that had been widening in the past few days.
.
"This madman!"
Wei Ran muttered to himself. It was only then that he barely understood what Captain Aleutian was thinking. This bastard from the correction camp seemed to be interested in the trenches dug by the German soldiers who spent most of the afternoon on the opposite side!
Soon, the opponent's mortars began to fight back. Most of the shells that exploded one after another hit the trench near position 19. Occasionally, a few shells hit the inside of the trench, because most of them had already hid in the bunker in advance.
It didn't cause any effective damage.
The mortar exchange between the two sides did not last long. The team that rushed out with Vanya had already touched the shell crater outside the opponent's trench, rounded its arms and threw away the grenades captured during the day.
After entering the opponent's trench, several people turned on their flashlights and sent signals in the direction of Position 19.
The trenches dug in only half an afternoon did not have as complete a bunker as the long-established No. 19 position. Even because of the initial bombardment of a few heavy high-explosive mortar shells and the subsequent almost uninterrupted 82
The threat posed by the millimeter artillery shells, the German soldiers hiding inside never expected that the Soviet Red Army, which had no strength advantage at all, would dare to send people to attack!
Before the smoke of the grenades that exploded one after another had time to disperse, the two mortars at Position 19 were immediately replaced with flares, and were sent directly over the German trenches thirty seconds apart!
The Soviet soldiers, who were like death squads, had already shouted "Ula" and jumped into the trenches, pulling the triggers on any suspicious targets and shooting wildly!
However, the next operation was once again beyond Wei Ran's expectations. The death squad led by Vanya could be said to have come and gone in a hurry. They almost jumped out of the trench without any hesitation before the flares above their heads had completely landed.
Cover each other and retreat toward position 19!
The surprising operation was yet to come. Almost at the same time that the second flare was completely extinguished, the two 82mm mortars in the trench began to dump mortar shells towards the other side's trench again!
When Vanya jumped into the trench with the surviving kamikaze members and the machine gun he had brought back, the two mortars immediately stopped shelling.
"Okay, now it's time for the Germans on the opposite side to have a headache."
The Aleut Captain put down the telescope he had been holding with satisfaction, "Before dawn, the people in that trench will probably have to keep their eyes open."
"I thought you wanted to occupy their trenches." Wei Ran muttered with both regret and joy.
"That trench was the rope that tied the Germans"
Aleutian explained slowly in the dark command post, "If we don't let them dig the trenches to the point where they can't bear to give up, I'm afraid they will run away once we fire mortars."
"But it's different now"
Vanya, who smelled of gunpowder smoke, walked into the command post carrying a submachine gun. "Before they received fire support from howitzers or a large number of tanks, the target between us had changed from Position 19 to the area with only
We can dig trenches with just one shovel, which can buy us a lot of time."
In the dark command post, Wei Ran frowned secretly. He had not forgotten that Aleutian and Vanya both seemed to come from correctional camps. But during World War II, these "Sukkas" in the Soviet correctional camps fought
Are your qualities and commanding abilities so high?
