The military controls time very strictly, and even one second less and more than one second will not be enough.
A full 1,200 seconds passed. Seeing that the time was up, Yang Mingzhi issued the order to attack.
After receiving the order, Lavrenti raised his arms and shouted: "Comrades! Ula!"
For a moment, a deafening roar rang out from the hiding place of the Soviet army. Even if it was more than two kilometers away from the German position, the roar was still shocking.
The scene of the German army cannot be described in one word: miserable!
They were hit by long-range rockets with fuel-air warheads and conventional warheads that were beyond the technology of the times. The position on the moon's surface was already like one with thirty huge craters.
After this bombing, the total strength of the German and puppet troops, which totaled more than 3,000, was reduced sharply to 1,800.
Yes, even with such bombing, there were still 1,800 "marmots" crawling out of the soil. However, the trench layout of their positions was basically destroyed, and the three trenches facing the west and south were basically completely destroyed.
, the defenders in these two directions were basically wiped out.
Nearly a thousand people died in the German army immediately, and another 400 people were injured to varying degrees. The so-called injured were mostly damaged by internal organs, especially soap. The injured coughed up blood in pain, but they escaped death.
destiny.
The bombardment also completely ended the German armored forces. The Panzer IV tank that had made great contributions was eventually blown over by the terrifying waves produced by hydrazine nitrate. High-temperature gases rushed into the overturned car body, killing everything inside.
Personnel, including the commander of the armored force, were also killed in the bombardment.
Yang Mingzhi never thought that the rocket launchers he supervised would successfully annihilate the German command system. When the Soviet ground troops launched a massive attack, the remaining German troops could only fight on their own in companies and platoons.
The German army here is by no means a force that will completely collapse after one fierce bombardment!
The Soviet army began the offensive. Twenty armored trucks and the only tank began to advance at a speed of four kilometers per hour. The general offensive started from Lavrenti's camp, and the Soviet troops advanced towards the southwest defense line where the German army suffered the most severe blows.
There is a machine gun mounted on the roof of each armored truck, and the two machine gunners give the truck basic combat effectiveness. Behind the wide truck are two platoons of soldiers, who are closely aligned in three horizontal lines.
The Soviet army launched a well-trained infantry-tank coordination, and those armored trucks had already played the role of tanks in a sense.
This is the first offensive echelon. Two battalions under Lavrenti's command are walking behind the truck. The second echelon is composed of four thousand officers and soldiers forming a huge skirmish line, advancing at a speed comparable to that of a truck.
The actions of the Soviet army quickly attracted the attention of the German army. The people who survived but were still in shock had no time to care about where the headquarters was and where the officers were. Their daily military training involved how the troops should behave after the officers were killed.
Combat.
Whether out of training or survival instinct, the German army launched a counterattack.
However, after the horrific bombardment, they did not even have any decent large-scale weapons, and even the mortars were completely lost. The German army basically could only rely on the MG34 to project firepower to repel the Soviet attack. At least this kind of machine gun equipment
Not too little.
The machine gunners saw twenty iron boxes approaching them, and in the distance were the black Soviet infantry.
The German machine gunners gave priority to attacking the so-called iron boxes. The bullets hit the armor head and face mercilessly, and the fire was everywhere for a while.
Facts have proved that the properties of the panels made in the surprise attack were too bad. The bullets immediately left a large number of marks on the front armor, which frightened many drivers to bend down, fearing that a tricky bullet would directly penetrate the driver's window.
The bullets made dazzling flashes of fire on the armor, and the soldiers behind the truck had to shrink their formation. Even so, some soldiers were still knocked down by German bullets.
"Brothers! Be careful! If you hold on a little longer, we will win!"
A platoon leader greeted his men like this.
Whether they were obeying orders or succumbing to instinct, the Soviet soldiers on the front line gathered together behind the trucks. If the German army launched a heavy artillery attack at this time, it would definitely cause major results, and one shot would overwhelm two rows of Soviet soldiers.
It's totally possible.
Unfortunately, the German army no longer has any heavy weapons.
Lavrenti in the rear held up a high-powered telescope and stared intently at what was happening on the front line.
"Brothers, work harder and rush to their position and we will win."
"Damn it! Pay attention to the flanks and shrink the front."
Lavrenti muttered to himself in the rear, but nothing could have any impact on the attacking troops. The troops could only rely on pre-battle orders to persist in finishing the battle.
Braving the hail of bullets, the armored truck arrived 200 meters away from the German position without any losses. At such a close distance, the German firepower became more intense, and the Soviet offensive firepower also reached its peak.
The recoilless gun team carrying the barrel and tripod at the rear braved the enemy's stray bullets and arrived at a distance of 600 meters from the enemy's position. This is the limit of the effective range of the enemy's machine gun. Beyond this distance, the impact of bullet dispersion will almost become
Randomly.
At this most reasonable distance, twenty recoilless gun groups quickly set up positions and began fire support.
Artillery shells flew over the heads of the attacking Soviet troops, and all the groups fired at a general location, which was the Soviet army's breakthrough point.
Prefabricated artillery shells with a large number of small fragments cleared a large area of German soldiers. Even the bravest soldiers were hit by countless shrapnel the size of fingernails, were riddled with holes, and quickly bled to death.
After the artillery unleashed its power, it was followed by projectiles from Soviet RPG operators. The same warheads were prefabricated with a large number of small fragments, further causing the collapse of the German blocking force.
Under the fierce attack of two infantry support weapons, the armored truck rushed to the German position and completed its mission gloriously.
All the trucks had to stop, and only three trucks traveled far. Because the surface was full of craters, these vehicles with only weak ability to overcome obstacles were completely restricted. Stopping the trucks did not mean that their work was completely completed.
The machine gunners were trapped in a high position and continued to project firepower on the German troops to support their own infantry. What's more, some soldiers climbed onto the trucks carrying machine guns. One truck actually carried five machine guns, becoming a real armored machine gun.
fortress!
As for the only BT tank commanded by Chekov, it entered the enemy formation on its own. Even if its armor was very thin, the only weapon that the Germans could pose a threat to the tank was the infantry grenade. Take advantage of the super mobility of the BT tank.
, Chekov moved around in the enemy formation as if there was no one around. It attracted a large number of German soldiers, buying precious time for the Soviet troops in the rear to successfully press forward.
Timing is so important to war!
After paying a small price of more than fifty casualties, two Soviet reorganized battalions invaded the German positions. At this time, the strength ratio between the Soviet and German armies on the German positions reached two to three. There were still four thousand Soviet soldiers.
After the truck rushed into the enemy's position, it suddenly began to accelerate, and for a while the roar of Ula resounded throughout the ground.
The real general offensive began. When four thousand people began to charge frantically, the last remnants of the German army, trapped in a tight siege, finally realized that they had no possibility of successful defense.