As night fell, the rear of the Don River position rarely sent people to send a large amount of ammunition to Position 19. By the way, they also added a group of veterans with less than 50 people, but generally over forty years old.
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These soldiers were obviously very familiar with Aleutian and Vanya, and the undisguised disgust and well-hidden fear in the eyes of other soldiers around them had already allowed Wei Ran to easily guess their identities.
The key point that further confirms this guess is that after meeting these veterans, Aleutian not only took the initiative to salute, but even directly assigned almost all the soldiers in Position 19 to these veterans, allowing them to choose and form battle groups one by one.
team, and gave these veterans the right to directly deal with deserters.
Wei Ran was even certain that if it weren't for the presence of the blue hat who sent these veterans here, the Aleutian Company Commander would probably have handed over the command of Position 19 to him.
On the other hand, although this order caused dissatisfaction among some soldiers, it is undeniable that with the participation of these veterans, the operating efficiency of Position 19 has been greatly accelerated.
In particular, the 82mm mortar, which had been expanded to five guns, quickly fired several rounds of intensive volleys with the cooperation of these veterans, and actually hit the barely completed German trench on the opposite side, which was silent for five or six minutes.
There was no time for a decent counterattack.
This hand not only calmed down the German soldiers on the opposite side, but also the originally unconvinced soldiers in Position 19 immediately calmed down. Regardless of whether these veterans were really from the correction camp, anyone with a brain knew that following these
Veterans have a much better chance of survival than inexperienced recruits.
However, less than a minute after the five mortars, whose launch tubes were still hot, were sent into the bunker, a shrill and deadly whistle sounded in the night sky, and the Germans on the opposite side once again received artillery support!
"Hidden! Hidden!"
While Captain Aleut and Vanya were shouting, they each took Zoya and Wei Ran and hid in the command post. The newly arrived veterans were not slow to respond either, even pushing and shouting with their assigned soldiers.
Got into the nearest bunker.
Dense artillery shells exploded one after another around Position 19. However, one of the anti-tank gun artillery squads and four machine gunners, led by two veterans, ran towards the entire Position 19 along the trenches that had just been dug before dark.
The forefront!
"Hound Dog! Hunting Dog! I am Don No. 19!" In the command post, which was constantly shaking off dirt, Aleutian skillfully operated the radio station and called artillery observer Kaze, who had not responded for two days.
"Don't waste your efforts, they must have died long ago." Vanya lit a crumpled cigarette against the damp wall and puffed away the smoke.
The Aleut Captain seemed not to have heard it. After repeating the call two or three times, he directly dragged Wei Ran to the edge of the table and said, "Keep calling!"
"Hound! Hound! I am Don No. 19!"
Before Wei Ran could sit down, he immediately started calling. In the past few days, he had learned from Vanya how to operate this old-fashioned radio station. At the same time, he was also secretly looking forward to the artillery observer Kaze and the communication
Soldier Beshev and veterinarian Cyril are still alive.
However, until a call came from the forefront anti-tank gun position to remind the Germans that they had dispatched tanks, and until all the anti-tank guns in position 19 began to counterattack, there was still no sound other than the piercing noise on the radio channel.
to the artillery observer Kaze's response.
"boom!"
An artillery shell hit a location not far from the command post, and a broken shrapnel was firmly embedded in the thigh-thick log wall outside the command post with a dull loud noise.
"Don't be stunned! Keep calling!" Aleutian glanced at the smoking shrapnel, then raised the telescope again with an expressionless face, observing the situation on the battlefield.
Wei Ran swallowed, and while calling into the microphone beside his mouth, he picked up the table temporarily nailed with wooden boards and carefully moved it to the corner of the command post against the wall.
"Courageous than a bullet!" Zoya muttered disdainfully, and then also focused on the battlefield outside the observation window.
In the repeated calls of the guards, the tanks on the opposite side drove closer and closer under the cover of artillery. The forward artillery position was hurriedly built just before dark, and under the order of the Aleutian company commander, the No. 19 position
Under the cover of the other four anti-tank artillery, they opened fire decisively. Within ten seconds, the two shells slammed into the side armor of the two tanks!
Amidst the loud noise, the two tanks that were acting as infantry mobile bunkers exploded one after another, throwing their respective turrets into the air in the sky's fire, and then smashed hard on the muddy ground amid the exclamations of the German soldiers.
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At the same time, the Deshka heavy machine guns on both sides of the anti-tank gun also opened fire one after another, eating the bullet belts that had been deliberately replaced with tracer bullets as quickly as possible and then spitting them out of the gun barrel, harvesting a large number of German soldiers.
life!
"Captain Aleutian, we lost an anti-tank artillery!" A soldier braved the intensive artillery fire from the opponent and ran to the door of the command post to deliver bad news.
"Organize manpower and send the artillery shells to other artillery positions!" Captain Aleutian dismissed the messenger, turned around and looked at the guards who were still calling for fire, and then raised the telescope again.
Amidst the rumbling artillery fire, the German tanks quickly approached the front of position 19. In the slow rotation of the turret, they either destroyed the machine gun fire points that were fatal to the infantry, or were penetrated by anti-tank guns and burned through the armor.
Start a raging fire!
At this moment, the trenches that were hastily dug before dark played a huge role. Under the leadership of those veterans, nearly half of the troops in Position 19 instantly filled the 150-meter-long trench, harvesting from the side with submachine guns.
The German soldiers used their anti-tank guns to focus fire on the side armor of the German tanks.
The German tanks, which were attacked at a 90-degree angle, were in a dilemma. If the Soviet soldiers in the side trenches were left alone, the infantry following the tanks would be their living targets. But once they drove towards them, the frontal anti-tanks would
Cannons and machine guns will also cause huge damage to themselves and even the infantry behind them!
What made the Germans even more uncomfortable was that they did not know the existence of this trench before the war began. Even if the support artillery they had worked hard to mobilize was to change the target, it would be too late, because this time was enough time for the soldiers commanded by the Aleutian Company Commander.
Use various light and heavy weapons to swallow up all the troops on the battlefield!
At the same time they were in a dilemma, a cheer came from the command post of Position 19, because the radio channel that originally had only noise finally sounded the concise and accurate artillery instructions of artillery observer Kaze!
