The German army is equipped with many 50mm small mortars, which are positioned to assist infantry platoons in attacking difficult positions.
Small slap shells exploded in the Soviet camp, and some soldiers lost their ability to fight. It can be said that due to the impact of collapsed trees and craters, it was difficult for the German machine guns to hit the Soviet soldiers protected by bunkers. Only this
This top-down mortar attack could cause a large number of Soviet casualties.
Unfortunately, the weapons and equipment of the German infantry were ultimately no match for the Soviet troops they faced.
Recoilless rifles and RPGs are much more powerful than the small German mortars. A large number of shells hit them and exploded violently. The high-charge 70mm shells were extremely powerful.
"Oops! Oops! If this continues this afternoon, this line of defense will collapse!"
The German commander Nollenberg watched all this with trepidation. He saw only a few temporary machine gun positions, which were hit by precise firepower. He could see the position of the enemy artillery with the naked eye, that is, the smoke and dust after the recoilless gun was fired.
Exposed one's position.
The Soviets did not kill them. They fired at most two rounds. The four soldiers raised the barrel and bracket, quickly changed positions and continued to fire.
As for the Soviet RPG, there is no solution. It is too flexible. Suddenly a shooter stands up, and a black warhead suddenly flies over. The shooter fires immediately after firing, so that dozens of bullets from the German machine gunner hit it at all.
It came up empty.
Nollenberg's face was injured and the gauze was wrapped several times during the attack. At first glance, the whole person's condition was very bad.
The order he received was to defend this dirt road, but in the face of the fierce Soviet offensive, he couldn't help but retreat.
After getting in touch with the division headquarters, he put on his earphones and held up the walkie-talkie angrily, reporting pessimistically: "Division Commander! The new line of defense is about to collapse. The enemy used some kind of small field artillery and rocket-propelled grenades. These two weapons and equipment
The volume is too shocking. We cannot stop it with only machine guns, so I request to retreat."
"What?! Retreat!" Hendryson was so angry that he almost fainted. He yelled: "You coward, if I were here now, I would kill you! Nollenberg, you have been dismissed, where is your deputy? I
I want your deputy to be the leader."
"He? He is dead! There is no deputy commander anymore. My troops suffered nearly 30% casualties, and the enemies we encountered exceeded your imagination. If we continue to hold on, the entire army will be annihilated."
"Even so, you must continue to hold on for me. Loev has been bombed. If you also lose your fighting spirit and retreat, you might as well surrender now and work as a horse for the Russians! Do you want to
To be a slave, or to be a hero like a Teutonic Knight?"
"Of course to be a warrior!"
"So you must hold on. I will order your troops to hold on for another twenty minutes and retreat in an assault. After that, our artillery will bomb your current position. When the bombardment is over, your troops will immediately take back the dirt road!"
"yes!"
The infantry suddenly retreated, artillery bombed, and the infantry counterattacked. Hendrickson and Schmidt, in this extreme dilemma, had this only method.
The order was passed to the Nollenberg Regiment and the Friedrich Regiment. The two regiments have suffered 1,700 casualties so far. In other words, there are only 3,000 soldiers left who can continue to fight. At first glance, there are three
One thousand people is a large number, but compared to the 5,300 troops of the Soviet army's frontal attack, this number is small.
The worst thing is that after the German soldiers were shot, it was almost impossible to get bandaged. They were fighting and retreating, and many of the wounded were actually stabbed to death by Soviet guns. The wounded who were shot during the exchange of fire on the dirt road also suffered from a serious lack of medical treatment.
When soldiers are rescued, most of the time their comrades are dragged to the rear, and even no measures can be taken to stop the bleeding. Healthy soldiers abandon their comrades and return to the front line to fight.
The situation in the Soviet Army is much better. Aren't there two female corps at the end of the army? Some female soldiers can serve as field nurses, know some medical skills, and can even violently pull out bullets from the wounds of the wounded. The Soviet Army's
After the wounded were pulled back by their comrades, they were taken over by the female corps.
In this way, the Soviet soldiers were really not afraid of being injured. They all knew that even if they were shot, they would probably not die quickly. On the contrary, for the German soldiers, being injured simply meant lingering and ultimately death.
After receiving the order, Nollenberg informed the battalions: "The battalion commanders immediately retreated while fighting, allowing the Soviet troops to occupy this dirt road, and then our artillery will raze this place to the ground!"
The German soldiers almost saw a glimmer of hope, and they began to retreat one after another. In the process, they also pulled away some lightly wounded soldiers. As for those wounded comrades who had their internal organs punched out and were barely breathing, and who looked at their comrades in supplication, they only
Able to give up helplessly.
The German troops in the two regiments totaled 3,000 men and they began to retreat.
The Soviet army didn't think much about it. The three main officers called on their men to attack in an all-out manner. Thousands of soldiers, shouting "Ula" and shooting at the same time, rushed across the dirt road and pursued the German army into a new area.
In a forest, fierce fighting still occurs.
On the other hand, the German artillery position three kilometers away has been set up, and the artillery is waiting for orders from the division headquarters. The angle of the muzzle of a howitzer is relatively low and flat. When firing shells at this angle, the explosion effect is not ideal. The German army has already stopped
No choice.
The artillery regiment commander kept his earphones hanging on his ears, waiting for orders from the division headquarters.
What must come will come, and the bombardment order from Hendrickson was issued.
"Three quick shots, then ten more shots from each gun!"
The bombardment has begun!
After all, the German artillery has been tortured for a while. So far, only 25 guns have been fully adjusted. Among them, there are five 105mm guns and 20 75mm guns.
At first glance, it seems that there are a lot of German artillery. Compared with the 1,500-meter-long offensive front of the Soviet army, the number of artillery is not very large.
The artillery shells hit the Soviet position with a very low trajectory. The artillery shells did not fall at a large angle. They were blocked by the pine trees and exploded out of thin air.
When it comes to how the artillery shell explodes and kills the most, it is of course the volley explosion.
The hugely powerful 105mm artillery shells exploded twenty meters away from the ground because they hit the tree and touched the collision fuse. The shock wave pressed people on the ground to the ground, and small shrapnel fell like raindrops, killing all those hit.
"It's a shelling! Everyone lie down!" Miroshniko roared at the top of his lungs, but the sound of explosions covered up his weak cry.
Artillery is truly the god of war. The Soviet army was caught off guard. The bombardment from overhead suddenly caused massive casualties to the frontline troops.
In the first round of three rapid fires, the German bombing area was about one square kilometer. The powerful shock wave was like a huge axe, cutting down the pine, birch and beech trees in the entire area. Because of the high explosion point of these shells,
The shock wave caused very few casualties to the Soviet soldiers. The soldiers only died from shrapnel injuries and were directly killed by the collapse of the huge red pine.
Because most of the troops of Medvedev's independent regiment were within the bombardment range, their losses were the most serious. The bombardment actually lasted ten minutes. After three rapid-fire rounds, the fire density of the German artillery became much sparser.
The best way to avoid shelling was to dig deep pits and hide in them. However, there were no pits at all for the Soviet army. Seeing the intensity of the shelling, they all ran backwards until the men in blue clothes were packed with the female soldiers.