Since the German army did not see through Ernst's disguise, they naturally fell into the trap set by Sokov for them. The battalion and other companies that stayed outside the minefield received the telegram from the vanguard, immediately followed the road opened by the engineers and boarded the Nangang position in Mamayevgang.
Seeing that the German troops had successively occupied the surface positions in Nangang, Belkin asked Sokov with some concern: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the enemy will not find the entrance to our tunnel, right?"
"No, Comrade Sokov replied as usual: "I have ordered people to block the hole that I usually enter and pretend that unless the Germans searched carefully during the day, they would not be able to find it at all."
Although Belkin knew Sokov's entire combat plan, he saw that the enemy to besieged had entered the position and urged: "Comrade Brigade Commander, since the enemy has entered our trap, why not take action now?"
"Let's do it now?" Sokov raised his hand and looked at the watch, and said, "No, my political commissar. The enemy has just entered the position and is very vigilant. Maybe our soldiers will be noticed by them as soon as they come out of the tunnel. I think it's better to wait until three in the morning. That's the most tired moment for people. When the enemy is sleeping heavily, we can reduce casualties to the lowest level."
After Sokov said this, he turned to Brisky and said, "Comrade Captain, if I remember correctly, there is a platoon of engineers in your battalion, right?"
"Yes, comrade comrade commander." Brisky didn't know why Sokov asked this, and nodded quickly and replied: "There is indeed a platoon of engineers in my battalion, and the backbone of them were the soldiers who broke through with me at the time."
"Did you see the passage opened by the German army in the minefield?" Sokov asked with his finger at the minefield in the distance.
"Yes, I saw it." Although it was dark and lacquered outside, and I couldn't see anything clearly if I was a little farther away, Brisky nodded and expressed his affirmation: "I wonder if you have any instructions?"
"After the midnight," Sokov continued: "You immediately send a platoon of engineers to re-block the roads opened by German engineers so that they can't escape. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Hearing that he was asking his engineers to bury the minefield, Brisky immediately replied loudly: "I promise to blow up the enemy entering the minefield to howl."
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At three o'clock in the morning, the Germans were sleeping soundly in the shelter or in the trenches, leaving only a few sentinels on duty outside. Although it is September now, the night in Russia is still very cold. In order to keep the cold, two fires were lit in the trenches on the west slope, and they surrounded the fire to keep warm.
While igniting the fire, a sentry once asked worriedly: "We are making fire here, and we won't attract Russian artillery fire, right?"
Another sentry sneered and said, "Don't forget, we are on the west side of Nangang, and the Russians are on the east side. Can their shells hit us? But the brothers on duty in the fortifications in the east are not as good as us, and they can only tremble in the cold wind."
His words immediately caused a burst of laughter. The sentry who spoke first, heard what his companions said, felt much more at ease, and he also felt at ease around the fire and began to keep warm.
The two sentries stationed in the fortifications on the Dongpo side were wrapped in military coats and hugged in the newly dug trenches, living like a year to wait for the change of duty. One sentry turned his head and looked at the red light on the other side of the hill, and said enviously: "Hans, the sentries on the Xipo position are so good that they can actually make fires to keep warm when on duty."
"Come on, man." said the sentry known as Hans: "You didn't see that two or three hundred meters below the hill is the Russian position. If we have a fire here, the shells should fly over in less than five minutes. I would rather be colder than be bombed into the sky by the shells."
At this time, in the bushes on the top of the hillside, a piece of turf, a square hole was suddenly lifted, and a square hole was exposed below. A Soviet soldier wearing a steel helmet carefully placed the wooden board with the turf aside, and quietly crawled out of it. Then, he crawled out the second one, the third one...
Soon, several of the same cave entrances appeared not far away, and countless Soviet commanders and soldiers crawled out of them. After they came out, they first gathered near the cave entrance, and then rushed to the defensive positions on the east and west slopes in squads.
Hans was chatting with his companion. When he heard footsteps behind him, he thought it was a companion who had changed his guard. As soon as he turned around, he wanted to see what happened, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest. The severe pain made him want to shout out loud. Unexpectedly, a mouth, a stream of blood with a fishy smell filled his mouth, making him unable to make any sound.
Another sentry saw Hans staggeringly and then fell into the trench. Just as he was about to rush over to see what happened, a man emerged from beside him and stabbed directly into his chest with a dagger and pierced his lungs. The blood that gushed out immediately poured into his lungs, flooding the alveoli, causing him to fall to the ground like Hans, without sending anything out.
The soldiers who killed the sentinels all came from the reconnaissance company. After they learned how to kill the enemy sentinels from the military doctors, they kept practicing, so that they could kill two sentinels so cleanly today. After clearing the sentinels, they waved to the darkness, and countless figures appeared in the darkness. After they jumped into the trenches, they divided into two groups and rushed towards the place where the enemy was sleeping.
Soon, gunfire sounds shook the sky on the quiet Nangang, with fires raging, gunfires, grenade explosions and the screams of the wounded one after another. In the sleeping German army, how could they have thought that the Soviet army would launch a sneak attack at this time, and how could it stop a decent resistance and the battle became a one-sided trend.
In just one quarter of an hour, the Soviet soldiers reoccupied the surface positions of Nangang, including the simple fortifications built by the German army on the Dongpo. Most of the German soldiers fell into pools of blood before they could come back to their senses and became cold corpses. Only more than 200 enemies stationed at the foot of Xipo Mountain heard the sound of gunfire on the hills, and realized something was wrong. In order to prevent being annihilated by the Soviet army, they voluntarily gave up their positions and prepared to return to their starting positions along the road opened by the engineers in the minefield.
Since he was here, where was it easy to go, Sokov ordered people to fire flares into the air, exposing the enemy who was trying to escape under the dazzling light. The enemy did not know that Sokov had sent people to re-launch the mine, and they were walking out along the road they thought they were safe.
When the vanguards in the front were blown into the sky by landmines one after another, the Germans behind immediately realized that something was wrong and tried to find a new passage from other locations. However, the passage in the minefield could not be found just by looking for it. Soon someone touched the mine and was blown into the sky by the explosion. After a beautiful rolling action in the air came in the air, it hit the ground heavily. Unlucky, it would detonate other landmines when it landed. When it exploded, it would blow down a few companions near the explosion site.
Sokov and Belkin stood in the observation center, watching the Germans running around in the minefield like headless flies. When every rumor fire rose, several unlucky soldiers would be blown away. Seeing this, Belkin couldn't help laughing. He said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, you did a great job of asking engineers to block the passage. Unless the Germans fill in the life in it, it would be impossible for the Germans to pass through this minefield."
After the commanders and soldiers of the first battalion cleared the enemies on the hills, they immediately stepped forward to the position at the foot of the mountain. Seeing the enemy dancing in the minefield, the battalion commander Captain Vanya had a sudden inspiration and immediately organized more than 20 sharpshooters to aim at the enemy in the minefield. From the fortifications to the minefield, it was only a distance of more than 100 meters. Most of the enemies were afraid of stepping on the minefield and could only stand still. Under the light of the flares, they became the best targets.
"O my God, we have become targets for the Russians." The German battalion commander who escaped into the minefield by chance saw the soldiers around him being knocked down one after another, hurriedly threw themselves to the ground, and shouted loudly at his subordinates: "Lying down, there is a sniper, lying down!"
But the explosion of mines and gunfire covered his shouts, and only a few soldiers nearby could hear his voice. The soldiers who did not hear the battalion commander's shouts saw their companions lying on the ground, and knew that they might have encountered Soviet snipers, so they hurriedly lay on the ground.
A German lieutenant climbed to the battalion commander and approached his ear and asked loudly: "Mr. Major, we are now trapped in a minefield and attacked by Russian snipers. What should we do now?"
"What should I do, what else can I do?" said the battalion commander angrily: "If I know what to do, would I still have to lie here?"
Seeing that the battalion commander was helpless in his current situation, the lieutenant suggested to him: "Mr. Major, why don't we ask the regiment headquarters for help and ask them to bombard the minefield and open up a retreat for us?"
"Don't you, you're simply confused." The German battalion commander said in a angrily manner: "We are now in the minefield. If the division's artillery regiment bombarded here, wouldn't we become targets?"
"But, Mr. Major." The lieutenant was a little anxious. "We can't wait here to die, right? If we continue to drag on it, we will either be killed by all the Russian snipers in the minefield or be the life of prisoners. You should make a decision earlier."
If Sokov was by the German battalion commander, he would definitely suggest that he send a few soldiers who are not afraid of death to roll into the thunder. After all, their location is only seventy or eighty meters away from the edge of the minefield. Even if a soldier can only roll ten meters, a squad of soldiers can use their lives to blaze a path of life.
However, Sokov was not by the German battalion commander at this moment, and the German battalion commander could not think of such a stupid way. The only thing he could do was lying on the ground, listening to the bullets flying over his head and the occasional explosion, and praying in his heart, hoping that all this would end soon.
Seeing that more and more soldiers were killed and everyone was in danger, the lieutenant suggested to the battalion commander again: "Mr. Major, use the radio to report our situation to the regiment headquarters and ask them to send someone to rescue us."
"Lieutenant, this is a good idea." The German battalion commander quickly ordered the radio operator who was lying beside him, "Call the regiment headquarters and report the situation here to the regiment commander."
The radio operator nodded, climbed up from the ground, squatted beside the radio station, and called the regiment headquarters loudly at the sending microphone. Unexpectedly, before the regiment headquarters could call, a 7.62mm bullet penetrated his helmet and flew out from behind his head with a blood foam. The poor radio operator tilted his head back and fell to the ground without saying a word.
"Hey, it's the Russian sniper." The battalion commander was frightened to death when he saw his radio operator being shot dead. He trembled and said, "It seems that it is impossible for us to escape unstoppable. I think it's better to surrender."
"Mr. Major, we have about a hundred people left. How can we surrender easily?" After the lieutenant said that, he climbed to the dead radio operator, took off his headphones from his head and put them on his head, shouting loudly at the sending machine: "Hey, hey, regiment headquarters, regiment headquarters! I am the first battalion, please answer when I hear it."
After calling more than a dozen times, a voice finally came from the headphones: "I am the regiment headquarters, I am the regiment headquarters, what's wrong with the first battalion?"
"I want to speak to the leader, I want to speak to the leader."
The headphones suddenly became silent. After a moment, a low voice came from it: "I am the leader of the group, hurry up and report on the situation there."
Seeing that the regiment commander had been connected, the lieutenant quickly handed the headphones and the sender to the battalion commander. The battalion commander tried hard to stick his body to the ground so as not to be concentrated by the Soviet snipers. At the same time, he shouted at the sender: "Sir, we have fallen into the trap. The Russians set up an ambush in Mamayev Hill, and the first battalion was almost completely finished."
"Where are you?" the commander asked alertly.
"When I took the battalion headquarters to retreat, I was trapped in a minefield." The battalion commander quickly reported: "And the Russians used a large number of snipers to snipe us. Now I have only more than one hundred people left. I ask for support, request support."
After listening to the battalion commander's report, the regiment commander was silent for a long time, and then asked: "Why are you ambushed by the Chinese and Russians? Didn't you search carefully when you occupied the position?"
"Searched, Mr. Commander." The battalion commander said aggrievedly: "Who knew that in the middle of the night, the entire Nangang was filled with Russians, and I don't know where they came out, and my troops were defeated. Mr. Commander, I beg you to send someone to rescue us immediately, otherwise our battalion will be destroyed."