To capture the town of Bire, there must be a guide familiar with the terrain. Therefore, when setting out, Sokov deliberately brought Lieutenant Vanusha, hoping that he could point himself to the weakest defense in the town.
Sokov set up his temporary command center one kilometer away from Bile Town. In the observation center, Sokov could clearly see the outline of the entire town without a telescope.
When Bere, who participated in the battle, and the other three infantry battalions commanders and two tank battalions commanders appeared, Sokov had learned the location of the fortifications in the town through Vanusha, and said to everyone: "Comrades, the main function of Bile Town is to protect Lugansk. The direction of its defensive positions is aimed at the south and west sides. There are basically no decent defensive positions in the north and east sides. Therefore, in the upcoming attack, we will launch an attack from the northeast defense line. Which battalion is willing to fight the front line?"
"Comrade Commander," As soon as Sokov finished speaking, the Navy Captain Shamrik, the commander of the Third Battalion of the 125th Regiment, took a step forward and asked Sokov for battle: "Our Third Battalion is willing to take on the main attack mission!"
Captain Goria, the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 124th Regiment, did not dare to show weakness, and continued: "Comrade Commander, our battalion also requests to attack the main attacker, please approve it."
"Comrade Captain," saw Captain Goria compete with him for the main attack mission, the Navy Captain was anxious, "I think our battalion is more suitable for the main attack mission. You must know that we once saw the bayonet with the enemy in Mamayevgang and killed the sky and the earth in the dark."
Unexpectedly, Goria said disdainfully: "Comrade Navy Captain, I admit that the commanders and soldiers of your battalion were particularly tenacious in the battle. But do you know that the battle in your battalion had the lowest battle loss ratio, which was only 1:1.45; while the battle loss ratio between our battalion and the enemy was generally 1:8, and even at the highest level it reached 1:10."
When Goriya and Shamrih had a dispute over who was playing the main attack, another battalion commander from the Second Battalion of the 122nd Regiment stood beside him and said nothing. Sokov glanced at the other party and felt that his troops were not suitable for the main attack, so he asked him to conquer the enemy to the north of the city to disperse the defenders in the town.
"Misha," Berey heard Sokov's order for the Second Battalion to go to the north of the town to pretend, and asked curiously: "Why did you ask the Second Battalion to go to the north of the town to pretend? I think you can put them in the south."
"Not to the south," Sokov waved his hand and said, "The 21st Army troops will attack from the south later. If we set up a force there too early, it will arouse the enemy's alertness and will make the attacking troops pay a greater price."
"Okay, stop fighting." After Sokov explained to Bere, he stopped the two battalion commanders who were arguing: "The Goria Battalion attacked from the northeast of the town; and the Navy Captain Shamrich attacked from the east."
When the two saw that Sokov had arranged the main attack mission for themselves, they couldn't help but feel happy. Sokov continued: "Although you are both the same battalion, they are more than a regiment of friendly troops in terms of number and equipment. In addition, there are two tank battalions commanded by Colonel Bere, I believe there should be no big problem in seizing the city. Do you have confidence?"
"Yes!" the two battalion commanders answered in unison: "We are confident of taking down the town of Bile, which was occupied by the enemy."
"Comrade Colonel," just as several participating commanders were about to leave, Vanusha suddenly spoke, "I vaguely heard gunshots and explosions in the direction of the town. It should be that our soldiers are still fighting. I hope that you should not hurt them by chance when preparing for artillery fire before the attack."
When Berley heard Vanusha say this, his eyebrows raised and asked in surprise: "Comrade Lieutenant, who told you that we should prepare for artillery fire before the attack?"
"But," Vanusha had never seen the battle of the 41st Guards Division, so naturally he didn't know that the division rarely carried out the artillery preparations before the attack. Hearing Bo Lei's doubts, he couldn't help but answered blankly: "Comrade Colonel, don't we all need to prepare for artillery before our army attacks the enemy?"
"Lt. Vanusha," Sokov explained to him with a smile: "Preparation of artillery fire before the attack is to destroy as many enemy fortifications as possible so that our army can break through the German defense line faster after launching an attack. You have just said that the fortifications in the town are mainly aimed at the south and west, and there are no fortifications on the north and east. Since there are no fortifications, why should we waste our precious shells?"
"It's getting late, everyone goes back to their respective troops to prepare." Sokov raised his hand and looked at the watch: "The attack will start in eight minutes."
When Bele left the observation center, Sokov held his hand and reminded: "Comrade Deputy Commander, be sure to pay attention to safety on the battlefield and never rush to the front of the entire team easily. Do you understand?"
"Don't worry, Misha, I won't take my life on my own risk." Beret knew that Sokov said this out of concern for himself, so he smiled and replied, "I will stay at the end to command, now you can rest assured."
"Comrade Deputy Division Commander, once the battle starts, all the tanks rushed to the town occupied by the enemy. As for self-propelled artillery, don't let them enter the town. All of them are left five or six hundred meters away from the town to conceal. If you find the enemy's fire point, you will directly destroy it with artillery fire."
The 15th Infantry Division of the German General Bushenhagen. In order to cut off the retreat of the Soviet army, the division's combat staff Lieutenant Colonel Vilemo, led several companies of the 88th Grenadier Regiment, and entered the town of Bile. He never dreamed that the defense of the station was so relaxed that he occupied the entire station without any injuries to almost any soldiers.
However, in the subsequent operation to occupy the entire town, the defenders were discovered and fire broke out. However, facing the German army that had the advantage in quantity and equipment, the resistance of the defenders in the town seemed insignificant. In less than half an hour, most of the town fell into the hands of the German army. But the remaining Soviet army occupied the school's teaching building and continued to resist stubbornly. Lieutenant Colonel Vilemo organized three attacks, but was all repelled by the defenders inside.
In order to clear the remnants of the Soviet army in the town as soon as possible, Lieutenant Colonel Vilemo called Captain Becker, and told him: "Captain, now except for this damn school, the entire town has fallen into our hands. You should immediately increase the attack and be sure to eliminate the Russians in the school before the main force of the division arrives."
"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel." After Becker and Vilemmer finished speaking, he quickly made his own request: "I hope you can allocate those tanks to my troops, so that I can completely eliminate the Russians who are stubborn in the shortest time."
"No, Captain Becker, I cannot agree to your request." Unexpectedly, Vilemmer rejected Becker's request and said to him: "After learning that the town is lost, the Russians will definitely dispatch large troops to counterattack here. I must leave these tanks for defense."
"But, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, our infantry would not be able to destroy the strong teaching buildings without the support of tanks." Becker reminded Viemer: "You must know that the failure of the several consecutive attacks of our battalion was entirely because the enemy resisted the strong teaching buildings with the stubbornness of our soldiers. If there was a cover of tanks, we could easily destroy the Russian firepower point in the teaching buildings."
Fortunately, Lieutenant Colonel Vilemmer is not a stubborn person. After listening to Becker's analysis, he thought for a while and nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll send you two tanks over there. I hope you don't disappoint me this time."
"Don't worry, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel." Seeing that Vilemo was willing to provide him with a tank, Becker was overjoyed. He quickly expressed his opinion: "If you can't take down the teaching building and don't wait for you to deal with me, I will break it on my own."