Seeing the Soviet army's tenacious resistance, the German army fought for a while and retreated.
Seeing the German army retreating, the first battalion commander quickly ordered his company commander: "Immediately count the casualties of the troops, and at the same time, be prepared to replace defense with the second battalion."
The battle just now was so hard that some recruits who had been on the battlefield for the first time were so scared that they pee their pants, so that in the trenches, in addition to the smell of blood and smoke, they could also smell a smell of urine.
Andrey at the foot of the mountain saw that the battle at the top of the mountain had ended, immediately called the sixth company commander Yegor and said to him: "Your company will first take over the position of the first battalion. Remember, when the enemy's shelling begins, you must hide in the back slope so that your casualties can be minimized."
"Don't worry, Comrade Battalion Commander." Yegor smiled and said to Andre: "I have been fighting with the division commander for a day or two. I know where to hide at the beginning of the enemy's shelling."
Yegor took the Sixth Company to the top of the mountain to replace the position of the first battalion. He saw the bodies of more than 300 battalion soldiers on the backscene surface, and his nose was sore. He called several platoon leaders under his command and pointed to the bodies of the soldiers and said to them: "Comrades in the platoon leader, you have seen them. These soldiers were basically sacrificed in the enemy's artillery attack. There were many new recruits among them, and they had not even seen the enemy before, and they died in the enemy's artillery fire in vain."
"Comrade Captain," said a platoon leader: "There are only simple fortifications on the top of the hillside. If they are bombarded by German troops, whether they can survive depends on their own luck."
Yegor stared at the platoon leader for a long time, and finally said, "Comrade Platoon Leader, if you think so in your heart, then I can tell you that when the enemy's shelling starts again, you and your subordinates will be blown to pieces in the shelling."
"What should I do?"
"You immediately return to your respective platoons and order the soldiers to dig a traffic trench leading to the reverse slope. When the enemy's shelling begins, you will run along the traffic trench to the reverse slope. In this way, the danger posed by the enemy's shells to you will be greatly reduced."
Yegor's order was implemented by several platoon leaders who tried hard to save his life. As soon as several platoon soldiers entered the position, they began to repair the fortifications and prepare to welcome a new round of attack from the enemy.
Several traffic trenches leading to the reverse slope had just been repaired, and the German bombardment began again.
Yegor immediately ordered the signal soldiers to send signals to each row with the signal flag, and ordered them to retreat to the back slope.
The platoon leader who had just argued with Yegor, after seeing the order, he thought he had seen it and called a signal soldier to confirm it. When he learned that he was indeed ordering all his members to enter the backscene, he issued an order to retreat to the soldiers.
When he arrived at the back slope, the platoon leader immediately found Yegor and asked curiously: "Comrade Commander, why should he remove all of them and not even leave an observation post?"
"There is no need to leave an observation post. We can see the movements of the enemy with a periscope on the backscene surface." Yegor explained to the platoon leader: "Besides, we don't have any solid positions at all. If we leave an observation post, there is a possibility of sacrifice at any time, so it is better to retreat to the backscene surface."
As soon as the shelling stopped, Yegor blew a whistle hard, allowing the soldiers to quickly enter the position under the cover of gunpowder. When the soldiers began to enter the position, Yegor lay behind a pile of soil on the hills and raised his telescope to look into the distance. Four German tanks appeared in the distance, and they were constantly maneuvering in "zigzag" and heading towards the top of the mountain. There were only four or five soldiers behind each tank. Such a sparse distribution of troops was to prevent the Soviet army from attacking them with new rockets.
"Communication Soldier," Yegor put down his telescope, turned his head to the communications soldier beside him, "Immediately inform the first and second platoon leaders, and ask them to send anti-tank soldiers immediately to hide in the crater in front."
When the German small attacking troops were still three hundred meters away from the trenches, the Soviet sharpshooters in the trenches fired at the infantry following the tank. Although they were all sharpshooters, they were not professional snipers after all. In addition, the distance was a bit far, so only one-third of the ten bullets fired could hit the target at most.
Seeing the soldiers following the tanks lying in the snow from time to time, Yegor, who was hiding behind the pile of soil, kept applauding secretly. He thought to himself: If several snipers in the division were here, I would probably have been reimbursed without waiting for the enemy tanks to approach the trenches, the infantry following behind the tanks would have been reimbursed.
But even if there are no real snipers in the company, these sharpshooters have achieved quite good results. As the German soldiers get closer to the trenches, they are shooting more and more accurately. Originally, three or four bullets were needed to hit a target, but now they basically eliminate one enemy with two bullets.
When the German tanks arrived only more than 150 meters away from the position, all the soldiers following them were killed by the Soviet sharpshooters. The tank soldiers did not realize that all the infantry that provided cover for the tanks had been reimbursed and continued to approach the Soviet trenches according to the original route of travel.
Since the infantry following the tank attack had been killed by the sharpshooters on the position, the anti-tank soldiers hiding in the craters suddenly became more confident. As soon as the German tanks approached, they immediately stood up and fired rockets at the other side.
In less than two minutes, the anti-tank players who had nine rockets successively successfully destroyed four German tanks. After the tank was shot and caught fire, the surviving tank players inside crawled out one after another, without even the courage to fight, so they turned around and headed towards the coming direction.
At this moment, they were only more than one hundred meters away from the position, and for the sharpshooters in the trenches, they were the best targets. After a series of crisp sounds, these tank soldiers who escaped from the tank fell to the ground in a row and became a corpse that was gradually cooling down.
The battalion commander of the German Imperial Division, who was commanding the battle behind, saw that the tanks and soldiers he sent were easily killed by the Russians on the other side's position. After careful consideration, a shocked expression appeared on his face: "My God, the other side is no longer the group of mobs just now, but the elite Russians."
He quickly ordered the correspondents beside him: "Immediately contact the commander in the city and ask him if he knows the number of this Russian?"
A moment later, the correspondent soldier reported to him: "Mr. Major, I have figured it out. The Russian Guards' 41st Division is standing on the other side."
"What, the 41st Guards Division?" said the major in surprise: "It seems that we have met a real opponent."