The situation was urgent, and many soldiers suddenly realized that they had nowhere to hide. Many people thought of escaping. At this time, the grassroots officers could no longer control the fleeing soldiers, and they themselves joined the escaping team.
The soldiers were almost all running towards the west. The legs they had trained for running through the woods for long-distance raids actually contributed to their incredible speed in escaping.
Roshakov had no time to be disappointed with his frightened comrades. He realized that he could not escape, so he might as well huddle up against a big tree root with his head in his hands, praying that the shock waves and shrapnel would not kill him.
life.
The air raid began.
The first attack wave was started by thirty dive bombers. The pilots aimed at the forest area and began a death-roaring dive, and then dropped the bombs.
Three 1800kg heavy-duty aerial bombs crashed into the forest, so the soil was relatively soft. The huge force caused the bombs to hit the ground half a meter before exploding. Such an explosion had a remarkable effect, and the powerful shock wave instantly cut off a radius of 80 meters.
All the trees in the area were shaken violently, killing all living things in the area.
These three bombs alone killed nearly 200 Soviet soldiers on the spot, and almost none of them had their bodies intact.
More aerial bombs fell and exploded violently, causing the soil to be blown up to an altitude of 200 meters.
The German officers and soldiers were squatting in the trenches. Only a few were brave enough to show their nervous eyes and look at the magnificent scene a few kilometers away.
Only Griffin straightened his chest, raised his head and looked at everything, muttering: "Russians! That Yevgeny! You have experienced the horror you created in Loyev today! You go
Die!"
The scope of the German bombing was actually an area five kilometers wide and three kilometers deep. After the first round of attacks, the First Air Squadron launched the second round of bombing.
But in the view of the first captain, most of the trees in that area had been destroyed in the attack, and there were certainly no enemies left in the area. He did not think that the Soviet army would place such a large number of troops in such a relatively dense area.
Within the area, the Soviet army would most likely not suffer a devastating blow.
Since the task is like this, he must complete the task pragmatically and rigorously.
The amount of bombs dropped in the second round of attacks was not large. After the bombs were dropped, Paul personally raised the fighter.
At this moment, the area under attack was in a mess, and the rising smoke made it look like an active volcano about to erupt violently.
The first captain proudly said to the radio: "Gentlemen! Well done! Second and Third Squadron, this is your first stop in Russia. You have completed the mission neatly. You two teams can return home."
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The second squadron leader replied: "What about you?"
"I decided to conduct a low-altitude reconnaissance to determine whether our army has really wiped out a large number of enemies."
At this moment, after two rounds of attacks, more than 500 Soviet soldiers had been directly killed, and more than 1,000 people had been injured to varying degrees.
The first captain's guess was correct. The Soviet army would not be stupid enough to put a large number of troops in one place. The Soviet army located to the west of the German position, with a total of four infantry regiments, were stationed in relatively scattered areas.
The German bombardment still caused a large number of Soviet casualties, among which the artillery regiment and Roshakov's own troops suffered the greatest casualties.
Both Doronin and Rosakov were very lucky to survive the bombing. Their ears were shocked and even bled. Their minds were dizzy and tinnitus troubled their spirits.
After all, the artillery's howitzer position is more obvious from a high altitude, and it has become the target of public criticism. Two 500kg bombs attacked here, and caused the explosion of nearly 200 meters of artillery shells that had not yet been fired. A terrifying explosion occurred here. Everything
The 75mm guns captured from Germany and Romania were turned into tiny pieces of scrap metal in the explosion. The total number of artillery troops of 1,500 people (including logistics troops) was really not even ten.
The second most serious incident was the First Regiment of the 284th Division of Rosakov. The troops of this regiment were considered elite. Many of the soldiers were prisoners of war who were liberated last year. Many of them joined the army in April 1941. When the war broke out, many of them
They were frightened by the shrill roar of the German dive bombers. This time, they could not overcome the fear of being dominated by them in the past and chose to escape again.
They were running away to survive. They never thought that under the attack of an aerial bomb with a shock wave radius of fifty meters, what chance would they have of surviving? Instead, they might as well lie on the ground, at least they could avoid the shrapnel attack.
Rosakov finally sat up. He glanced around and saw that the dense woods that had just been there were no longer there. The woods did not really disappear, but became fragments and scattered on the land.
"Hey! Is anyone alive? Is anyone alive?"
No one answered, and the world was not quiet.
Rosakov suddenly raised his head and saw several German planes hovering above his head.
The keen-eyed first captain immediately noticed the sitting figures, and he immediately ordered: "The wingman descends, follow me and shoot at the injured enemy."
Countless bullets were hitting Rosakov, and his instinct to escape drove his mutilated body to run towards a bomb crater. Behind him was a string of "death lines" splashed by enemy planes.
He was lucky enough to escape the gunfire, but he fell into a coma in the crater.
This discovery led the first captain to conclude that many Soviet soldiers had survived the bombing.
"You lucky people, I will continue to attack you!" The first captain switched channels and immediately issued an order to the two squadrons that were drifting away.
"Team 2, Team 3, how is your fuel?"
"No problem at all?" The two squadron leaders gave the same response.
"That's great. Come back to the war zone, fight at low altitude, and shoot at the ground targets you find!"
At this moment, many of Roshakov and Ronin's surviving troops were hit by the third round of concentrated fire. With the commander in a coma, the entire troops fell into a leaderless dilemma.
The surviving soldiers did not care about the wounded, and began to run towards the nearby forest one by one. They knew that this was the only area where they could survive.
The huge German fleet came back, and those Stukas equipped with aerial cannons fired shells at the targets they found. They fired high-explosive shells, and they loaded this type to take into account the possibility of the current battle situation.
The battle turned into a one-sided massacre by the German army, and the nearby Soviet troops watched all this sadly.
Vasilyev, Peronisky, Balzen, and Lavrenty. Without exception, they chose to remain silent, because in their view, Comrade Roshakov had gone to see Marx honorably, and faced the fascists.
Fangs, in his own eyes, lacks anti-aircraft weapons, so it is obviously the wisest choice not to take the initiative to expose them.
Natasha was lying in an absolutely safe place, Lavrenti's camp. She looked at the messy battlefield with tears in her eyes, and her sobs were heartbreaking.
"Honey, stop crying. This is the battlefield! It's war!"
Igor's comfort had no effect, and instead made her cry louder.
"Natasha, stop crying!"
"It's Periya! That child is over there, could she be dead?!"
"Periya?" Igor didn't know much about this name. "Who is Periya?"
"It's a Chinese! She's also my sister! That's the radar platoon's camp, and the enemy planes are flying there! No!"