Perhaps in this war, only the Japanese army would ignore the enemy's machine guns and charge with a loud shout. The Soviet army would sometimes charge desperately. After encountering the enemy's superior firepower, most of the time they would choose to retreat.
The Soviet soldiers lay down in the grass and continued to shoot. The closest to the German position was Peronisky's regiment.
Peronisky himself was even lying in the grass. He held a submachine gun tightly and listened to the terrifying whizzing of bullets in his ears. He did not dare to act rashly. His regiment was not equipped with elite weapons. The troops had recoilless rifles.
There are not many groups and RPG groups. This regiment belongs to the second-line force in the planning of the 63rd Army.
It was really difficult for such a weak brigade to try to break through the front guarded by three integrated infantry battalions of the German army.
Even in an absolute predicament, Peronisky continued to resist. He did not give an order to retreat. The entire regiment stood on the spot and continued to fight.
The fierce fighting continued, and the German blocking fire also switched from machine guns to mortars.
Lawrence is quite satisfied with the current battle. "Russians, are you finally afraid? Don't think that you will be safe if you lie down. Try the power of mortars!"
The order had been sent to the artillery battalion, and Lawrence held up his telescope to closely watch the development of the battle.
The officers and soldiers of the Soviet Union and Germany suddenly heard a sharp whistling sound, and it was self-evident what it was.
"It's a cannonball! Everyone take cover!" Peronisky yelled, covering his helmet and pressing his face to the dirt.
The shell exploded as scheduled, and the hail-like shells fell on the Soviet offensive camp. Peronisky's troops suffered a large number of casualties on the spot. After all, it was a German high-explosive shell, which had more fragments after the explosion. The 80 mm projectile
The amount of ammunition is not small, and its power is slightly higher than that of a 75mm howitzer.
A large amount of smoke and dust rose up from the Soviet formation, and a large number of fragments hit the hidden Soviet soldiers, and the casualties of the soldiers skyrocketed!
Because this operation carried a lot of ammunition, according to the plan, so much ammunition, especially mortar shells, was partly used to support friendly forces. The battle situation completely changed. In order to protect the entire army, Lawrence ordered the artillery to be more luxurious.
How should the artillery battalion understand the regimental commander's vague order? Since it is allowed to be luxurious, it is allowed to squander artillery shells. Originally, transporting a large number of artillery shells was a source of complaint. This consumes ammunition and can attack the enemy, so why not?
The result was that Peronisky suffered a disaster, and his independent regiment was in a dilemma. At this moment, it was not appropriate for him to order a retreat. At least he could avoid a lot of flying fragments by lying down. If he continued to be beaten passively, the pain in his heart was nowhere to be found.
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Upon seeing this, other Soviet troops also provided support. Each recoilless gun group opened fire decisively two kilometers away from the enemy's position, and the shells began to hit the German position with a roar.
The performance of the Soviet recoilless rifle is pretty good, but it also suffers from a common problem with this type of weapon - the accuracy decreases as the distance increases.
Since the German army's formation was relatively large, the loss in accuracy of artillery shells could be fully compensated by the quantity.
Lavrenti ordered all the regiments under his command: "Regimental commanders, please organize all your artillery groups to fire at the German positions in a unified manner. Don't be stingy with artillery shells and hit them hard!"
The Soviet army launched strong fire support, and German casualties began to increase.
The German soldiers were no longer hit by stray bullets, but by Soviet artillery shells that fell into the position. It was a coincidence that the Soviet artillery groups were actually worried that their guns would not be able to hit two kilometers, so they made adjustments one after another.
Adjust the shooting angle, stuff the shells and ammunition bags in sequence, cover the tail nozzle, pull the bolt and fire.
The shells fell into the enemy at a large angle, and many shells actually hit the German baggage supplies.
The explosion of the shell causes built-in fragments to hit all obstacles encountered in the form of shotgun shells. They are so small, the smallest fragments composed of ground spent bullet casings, even only two or three millimeters. They appear to be very small, but in fact
The fighting was very vicious.
When hit by such small metal, it is often embedded in the muscle and difficult to remove. Even if the injured soldier is brought back to the hospital, the doctor is often at a loss. Because it is so difficult to remove the shrapnel, in order to keep the soldier alive, he has to desperately use precious antibiotics or resort to amputation.
Solve the problem.
Those defeated troops who were pulled to the rear by Lawrence's logistics battalion were still in extreme fatigue. They could not hide from the first day of the first day but not the fifteenth day. Soviet artillery shells caused a large number of casualties.
Hundreds of German soldiers were injured. Attention! They are injured!
The artillery shells fired by the Soviet army were too vicious. That was because arsenals and weapons design bureaus continued to make minor improvements to existing weapons. According to the principle of "killing the enemy and forcing him to death", artillery shells that could create a large number of small fragments came into being.
, most of the newly manufactured recoilless gun shells are of this style.
At least 300 German soldiers were injured to varying degrees in the ten-minute Soviet shelling, but only over 50 died on the spot.
It was during these ten minutes that Peronisky, who was suffering from the pain of shelling, realized that he had an opportunity to retreat. He seized this opportunity and decisively started shooting while retreating.
With the retreat of Peronisky, all the attacking troops began to retreat. Most of the troops were unwilling to retreat. No one cowarded the Germans, but Lavrenti and Tepunov gave the same order: preserve their strength.
, do not charge rashly before the armored truck arrives.
Facts have proved that charging with flesh and blood, not to mention huge casualties, does not necessarily guarantee victory. If you want to capture him, I am afraid you can only rely on those armored trucks that have just experienced the war!
The attacking Soviet troops continued to retreat until they were three kilometers away from the enemy position.
Even this distance is very dangerous. The Soviet army is not sure whether the German army has field artillery. If so, it will be a truly safe place to retreat eight kilometers away from the enemy's position. Fortunately, there are many small woods nearby, and relying on these
Barrier, more than ten thousand troops can hide.
The fighting finally subsided, and there were still sporadic gunshots on the battlefield. The Soviet and German armies each stabilized their positions and began to work nervously.
Lawrence did not expect that he would be violently bombarded by the Soviet army, nor did he expect that the Soviet artillery shells were so disgusting.
In this battle, he carried a large amount of ammunition, and these materials were concentrated in one place for combat needs. If the "ammunition depot" was hit, not only the casualties would be huge, but the troops' combat potential would also be lost.
Lawrence prayed that the situation at the rear would not be too bad, but when he arrived at the camp of the supply camp, he saw hundreds of people lying on the ground, and hundreds of military horses lying on their sides.
The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke, and if you smelled it carefully, you could see that the smell of blood was also very strong. Lawrence fell into a trance for a moment, and was soon awakened by the wails of wounded soldiers.
The commander of the baggage battalion, covered in blood, came to Lawrence trembling and reported. Because he was so frightened, his right arm in salute was shaking.
"Karl, are you injured? Are you covered in blood?"
"No...it's not mine, it's theirs. Many people! Many people are injured, their bodies are spurting blood! Oh my God, I have never seen such a sight, can you imagine? My wounded
Literally shotgun!”
"What? Is it such an exaggeration?"
Shotguns, this kind of smoothbore gun has a very narrow use, but the wound treatment after being hit by it is very disgusting, Lawrence has heard of this.
He followed the battalion commander's guidance and came to a wounded man who had passed out. He saw that the wounded man's pants had been taken off, and his entire right leg was almost covered in blood with a layer of red long johns. The battalion commander trembled and turned on the kettle.
After re-washing the wound, Lawrence was stunned to find that dense bleeding points were spurting out blood on the wounded man's large wound!
"My God! The Russians didn't use shotgun shells, they just used those damn artillery shells!" Lawrence gritted his teeth with hatred, "Damn Russians, I will tear you into pieces."
Such a wound is simply a disaster for doctors. The few medical soldiers accompanying the army cannot save such a wounded person. In this matter, perhaps giving the wounded a quick shot can end their pain as soon as possible. Lawrence did not do this, he was not stupid yet
To the point of personally destroying the morale of the troops.