The Germans did not know that the defenders in the building had changed their defenses, and at nine o'clock in the morning, they launched a new attack on the Archives Building.
The company holding the outer position was commanded by Captain Paulkoski. Seeing the groups of enemies coming towards the defensive position, he wanted to immediately order the fire to teach the enemies a lesson, but in order not to expose the target
, he still calmly said to the soldiers around him: "Pass this down, no one is allowed to shoot without my order!"
Paulkoski's order was soon faithfully transmitted to the ears of every soldier. The soldiers hiding in the trenches pointed their guns at the German soldiers who were getting closer and closer, with their fingers on the triggers.
As long as the company commander gave the order, they would shoot without hesitation.
The enemy was getting closer and closer. Paulkoski could see clearly that there were more than a hundred enemies attacking. Among them were four armored vehicles driving forward slowly. The German machine gunners in the carriages were hiding behind shields.
He was vigilantly observing the motionless Soviet position, ready to pull the trigger at any time.
Standing at the window on the fourth floor of the building, Sokov saw that there were only four armored vehicles following the infantry attack. He put down his binoculars and said to Belkin: "Comrade political commissar, let the mortars on the roof kill the enemy's armored vehicles and make the attack easier."
The enemy will not be able to receive fire cover."
Belkin nodded, picked up the phone, and began to issue orders: "Lieutenant Grisa, this is Belkin, fire at the enemy's armored vehicles immediately, and be sure to kill them in the shortest possible time."
As the order was given, the six mortars on the roof opened fire. The roaring shells flew in the air for a while and then crashed into the enemy's attack queue. Several armored vehicles suddenly rose up around them.
The thick black smoke, although the first round of shooting failed to destroy the enemy's armored vehicles, the flying shrapnel still cut down a lot of surrounding soldiers.
Paulkoski was just worried about how he could kill these German armored vehicles without anti-tank weapons. Now the mortars deployed on the roof of the building have fired. Since the artillery can take down the enemy's armored vehicles, he only needs to concentrate
Just deal with the enemy's troops.
At this moment, the enemy was only a hundred meters away from the trench. Paulkoski looked left and right and saw that the soldiers' fingers were on the triggers, but he still shouted with great dignity: "Ready to fight!" Then he raised his pistol.
, and pulled the trigger at the approaching German infantry.
The sound of gunfire was an order, and the soldiers who had been holding back their energy for a long time pulled the triggers one after another and opened fire at the enemies who entered the range. There was a dense sound of gunfire immediately on the position, and even the machine guns in the firepower point clicked.
There was a loud roar. In an instant, all the commanders and soldiers of the company opened fire.
The German soldiers who were holding their guns and trying to avoid the Soviet artillery fire did not expect that a trench 100 meters away that seemed to be motionless would actually have so many fire points. They were caught off guard for a while, and groups of soldiers fell immediately.
The machine gunner hiding behind the shield was startled when he saw so many firepower points coming out of the silent trench. He didn't care about avoiding the Soviet artillery fire. He picked up the machine gun and pointed at the Soviet Union.
They opened fire on the military positions, trying to suppress their firepower in the shortest possible time.
The machine gun fire from the armored vehicle still caused certain casualties to the Soviet troops in the trenches, but the artillery shells flying from the roof seemed to have eyes, hitting the armored vehicle accurately, killing the machine gunner hiding behind the shield.
The explosion was so bloody that the infantry, without the cover of armored vehicles, became lambs to be slaughtered in front of the Soviet army's intensive firepower. The German soldiers fought back for a while, then quickly used bomb craters or the wreckage of various armored vehicles to quickly
The ground withdrew.
The entire battle lasted only a quarter of an hour. The German army abandoned more than 80 corpses and two armored vehicles and retreated hastily, while the Soviet casualties were only a dozen.
Seeing that the battle ended so easily, Belkin who was standing upstairs was very excited. He repeatedly said to Sokov: "Misha, did you see? The enemy's attack is simply unbearable in front of our defense."
One blow. Even if they come back ten or eight times, we are still confident of crushing their attack."
"Comrade Political Commissar, you must not take it lightly." Although the battle that just ended went very easily, Sokov still said worriedly: "The reason why we were able to repel the enemy's attack so easily is because they did not understand us.
situation, I thought that the troops holding on to the archives building were still the 39th Guards Division, which was seriously under-strength. They suffered this loss, and they would definitely launch a violent bombardment of our place before the next attack. I am very worried about the troops outside.
Can those positions withstand the enemy's fierce bombardment?"
"Misha, if that doesn't work, we will withdraw all the troops into the building." Belkin suggested to Sokov: "This building is a stone building. Although it was bombed during the enemy's shelling and bombing,
It was riddled with holes, but it never collapsed, which shows how strong it is. I thought it was very appropriate for the soldiers to come in to avoid the shelling."
"Okay." After hearing what Belkin said, Sokov said smoothly: "Let the first company leave a few observation posts, and the rest of the soldiers will evacuate to the building through the communication trenches."
After receiving Belkin's order to retreat, Paulkoski did not immediately order everyone to retreat. Instead, he sent dozens of soldiers to first send the wounded into the building and let the accompanying health workers bandage their wounds. etc.
After doing all this, Paulkoski left a few observation posts to monitor the enemy and withdrew the main force from the building.
As soon as he entered the building, he saw Sokov and Belkin standing in the hall. He quickly walked over and raised his hand to salute the two: "Hello, division commander, regiment commander!"
"Hello, comrade captain." Since Paulkoski was an officer who was promoted later, Sokov had never seen him, so naturally he could not call out his orders. He could only address the opponent by his military rank: "The battle you just fought was
It was so wonderful, it only took less than a quarter of an hour to completely repulse the enemy's attack."
Facing Sokov's compliment, Paulkoski said with some embarrassment: "Comrade division commander, without the support of rooftop artillery, even if we can repel the enemy's attack, we will probably suffer a lot of casualties."
"Is there any difficulty?" Sokov asked.
"No, there is no difficulty." Paulkovsky shook his head and said, "We will definitely be able to hold our position."
Regarding Paulkosky's answer, Sokov nodded with satisfaction, then turned to Belkin and said: "Comrade political commissar, such a commander can make people feel at ease no matter where he is placed. If there were more people like him at the grassroots level,
Commander, it will be much easier for us to fight."
