Yevgeny is no longer a company commander. He now has more than 600 men under his command, and they are well-equipped. His soldiers have more machine guns and submachine guns than ordinary infantry battalions of other troops, and have strong firepower. The only drawback is that the troops are very scarce and heavy.
Firepower.
The army has some large-caliber mortars, but the number is very small. In this battle, the deputy division commander, who was his former immediate boss, ordered the troops to carry only small-caliber mortars. The actual heavy firepower of the army was very scarce. These
There is no way around sacrifice. On the contrary, the troop's maneuvering speed in the forest and wilderness is truly unique.
The battle had begun. Yevgeny led his men to attack from the right wing, aiming directly at the enemy's camp.
On the way to attack, they encountered some obstructions. The enemy's machine gunners seemed to have made some preparations, but the suddenness of this operation was not well achieved. After paying some costs, the enemy's machine gun positions were concentrated.
The grenade exploded.
"Comrades, follow me and charge, don't be merciful to the enemy!" Yevgeny also took the lead like his commander, and even ran faster than the battalion political commissar.
The soldiers were greatly encouraged. The veterans among them were mainly former soldiers of the special anti-tank battalion, and they knew the orders of the deputy division commander very well. The commander liked night raids very much, and the previous night raids had achieved amazing exchange ratios.
Its tactical characteristic is suddenness.
The fighter plane disappeared in a fleeting moment, and the soldiers shouted "Ula" with great momentum. The soldiers with bayonets on each charged bravely, but still caught a large number of enemy soldiers by surprise.
Now, for Schneider, the commander of the German 707th Division, the situation is indeed very difficult. The enemy has already reached the city. On the edge of the town, the German defenders who have woken up are fighting fiercely with Yang Mingzhi's attacking troops. The scene is extremely bloody.
On Yevgeny's side, what stood in front of him was a German battalion, and this battalion was also very special.
As the battalion commander, Yevgeny has always maintained his composure. The troops are charging fiercely, the sound of gunfire is ringing in his ears, the surroundings are filled with flames, and there are new explosions every second. He doesn't know what is going on with the main attacking troops.
, now I can't control that much, my order is to destroy as much as possible and eliminate the enemy's vitality.
On the broad right-wing attack cover, the troops advanced in skirmish lines of three. Many soldiers had already invaded the enemy's campsite and fired wildly at the tents. Many German soldiers who were still wearing their clothes were unfortunately shot.
But for this attack, the German army still had some preparations. After all, the German division commanders had strengthened some defenses.
Yevgeny set up a temporary battalion headquarters in a captured German machine gun fort, where he controlled the entire battalion's offensive.
The messenger, with a gray face, hurriedly rushed to Yevgeny.
"Report to the battalion commander! Our people have exchanged fire with the enemy in the streets and alleys, and our vanguard troops have discovered something special."
"What is it?! Speak!" Because the noise was too loud, the conversation between the two was filled with yelling.
"It's a human! It's ours! To be precise, it's a prisoner!"
Yevgeny slapped his thigh and stood up, feeling very happy. "Good job. Which company found them?"
"It's the second company, battalion commander."
"Okay, we have completed another task assigned to us by the deputy division commander! We must quickly release all the prisoners. These unlucky guys will rejoin the army in the future, and now we have to save their lives."
The battalion headquarters moved forward, but Yevgeny rejected the advice of the battalion political commissar. The so-called front line was too dangerous. He said nothing, and resolutely moved forward with the sand in his arms. When he encountered the enemy, he fired at
achieved some results.
The first company was attacking the enemy's camp, the third company was already fighting in the streets with the enemy in the town, and the second company found a bunch of prisoners of war.
When Yevgeny led a group of people to the location of the second company, these people had already established a temporary position. The company formed a circular offensive and was exchanging fire with the enemy. Colleagues, some new faces were also added to the team.
, they were all in rags and were fighting the enemy tenaciously.
At this time, he could no longer control so much. He hunched his back and came to the second company commander alertly. At the same time, he also saw this so-called prisoner of war camp.
Without saying a word, Yevgeny yelled at the second company commander: "This is a prisoner of war camp. How many prisoners did you find? I see that there seem to be guys already helping us fight."
The second company commander immediately saluted the military salute, and then pointed with his right hand at the opened wire fence.
"Report to the battalion commander, there are at least 400 prisoners. The enemy executed some prisoners, and in the end there were more than 400 people left. As you can see, we are already releasing them, and some people have taken up enemy weapons and participated
fighting."
"Okay! Let's do it!" Yevgeny patted the man on the shoulder, "I will give you a new mission. Your company will try its best to arm the prisoners and order them to shoot at the enemy."
The battalion political commissar, who had been silent for a long time, also took the opportunity to speak: "All the prisoners did not obey the leader's orders. They committed a crime by surrendering to the enemy. Now they can continue to fight to atone for their sins. My company commander, you have the right to order them to go into battle immediately."
, Anyone who refuses to fight will directly follow the battlefield discipline of the traitor!"
The second company commander made a clear guarantee on this, and Yevgeny also temporarily moved the battalion headquarters to the prisoner of war camp. He personally supervised the release of prisoners of war. In this battlefield with heavy artillery fire, many prisoners of war were frightened by the sudden attack.
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They have realized that the ones who invaded here are serious Soviet troops. Since the German army executed more than a hundred people without any reason a few days ago, the prisoners of war have no last illusions about the Germans. There is no chance of survival by surrendering.
The chance is just to live in humiliation for a while, and eventually die.
The battalion political commissar simply shouted loudly at the gap in the wire fence: "All of you must pick up weapons and fight again. Those without weapons must lie down on the spot. No one is allowed to escape, otherwise they will be shot immediately."
Most of the prisoners of war who regained their freedom were very conflicted in their hearts. Being a prisoner was a huge insult to the soldiers, and the German army treated the prisoners in a terrible way. They had very little food every day, their accommodation was like a "sheep pen", and the enemy had no reason.
Stupid prisoner. Now they have a chance to fight back. They can finally take righteous revenge on these enemies who usually humiliate them.
Yevgeny was gratified to see that these freed prisoners decisively picked up rifles from the corpses of German soldiers, and then went into battle with the attacking troops in high spirits. Therefore, the force's right-wing offensive had actually increased in strength.
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"Now send a report to the deputy division commander that the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment has entered the right wing of Kuta Town and is fighting the enemy. We have liberated 400 prisoners of war. The prisoners of war have become soldiers again and are fighting. That's it, please contact us quickly!"
The radio operator quickly informed the frontal attack troops, and Yang Mingzhi accurately obtained this result.
"You have done a good job, now try to attack the city center!" Yang Mingzhi shouted loudly into the walkie-talkie, "You must act immediately, I order you to support me, my side is under strong resistance!"
Yevgeny wasn't quite sure what the so-called powerful blockade from the deputy division commander was. He thought for a while, could it be that tanks and armored vehicles could stop the boss?
The order had been passed down, and the second company commander loudly asked: "Batalion Commander, what should we do now? We have more people than guns here!"
"There are more people than guns?" Yevgeny stood up needlessly and roared: "The order has been issued, comrades, all follow me to support the deputy division commander's offensive! All those without weapons, you follow the charge. Your comrades have fallen, you
Just pick up the weapons of your comrades and continue to charge. Or if you find the enemy's body, pick up the enemy's weapons and continue fighting!"
Yevgeny brandished the submachine gun and ordered everyone to continue the attack. The released prisoners of war had no choice. Anyone who refused to fight would be shot. If they continued to fight, when everything was over, all guilt and guilt would be successfully offset by credit.
Yevgeny devoted himself to supporting the offensive of his third company. At this moment, the third company was fighting in the streets with the enemy, but could not break through the enemy's machine gun firepower for a while. As the battle continued, Yevgeny saw the enemy's special weapons, which turned out to be several artillery pieces.
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To make matters worse, he watched helplessly as the muzzle of an artillery piece was leveled little by little.
"Damn it! The enemy's cannon fired flatly!"
Yevgeny shouted to the attacking troops to retreat quickly, but the shelling had already begun.
He would never have imagined that what he was attacking was the enemy's artillery battalion. This was because the 707th Division was a security division with mostly infantry soldiers and only a few artillery pieces. This was the newest unit because it was responsible for the security and safety of the occupied areas.
To protect communication lines, heavy firepower is naturally very small. The only artillery is arranged in the town as part of the city defense.
This was originally an approach taken by Commander Schneider of the 707th Division. Unexpectedly, it really worked. The Soviet army did not succeed as easily as they did in Luwanka Town.
In this way, the violent explosion gave the Soviet army a great tremor. Several soldiers who invested firepower in the ruins disappeared in an instant.
However, the damage done to the concrete by the enemy's 105mm artillery was still very limited, and most of the soldiers survived. However, the fact that the enemy had heavy artillery gave ordinary soldiers a great shock. In the final analysis, the soldiers no longer mattered about life or death at this point in the battle, but
They will consider whether it is worth it. For example, now, if they attack rashly, it is very easy to be blown into pieces by the enemy's heavy artillery, and the shock wave can even tear the internal organs to pieces.
Instead of dying needlessly, it is better to calm down and think about countermeasures. This colleague was also in the same situation as Yang Mingzhi, and their situation was even worse.
Yang Mingzhi looked at the sky. The sky had begun to turn blue and the fighting had been going on. He never thought that it had been more than an hour since the fighting began. It would be five o'clock and the troops were still fighting in the town. What's worse, once the fighting started, he thought
It is difficult no matter how you think about withdrawing from the battle alone.
"Damn it! The enemy's artillery fire is too fierce. I'm afraid the enemy's reinforcements are rushing towards this!" Yang Mingzhi lay under the bunker and called the radio operator over. "Send a report to the reconnaissance company over there and ask for enemy reinforcements."