But Lawrence had no time to answer Rafe Lianji, and he had no time to pay attention to his questions.
If all of this is fate, then meeting this woman who was taken away by his compassion and risking exile, isn't it the so-called fate to meet her again? His heart suddenly softened, and he even lost his face.
The courage to face death and the entire psychological defense line collapsed in an instant because of Kaya's miraculous appearance.
The appearance of Kya may also mean another possibility, perhaps it is her own compassion that allowed Kya to lead the main force of the Soviet army in the south and kill her along the same route as her escape.
Lawrence asked with tears and anger: "Kaya, tell me honestly, are you the guide for them?"
"I didn't! I really didn't!"
"Then they..."
Lavrenti shook his head and tidied up, and several soldiers immediately pulled the two away.
"So you are Lawrence, the Lawrence that Kya said. I didn't expect that the enemy we have been fighting these days is you, and you look like this. Haha, you are really a kind and righteous man?"
"Haha, it seems that you didn't execute that woman. Instead, you used her as a guide to break through our defense line in an instant."
"You think too highly of her!" Lavrenti shook his head, "Every move you make is under the control of our invincible commander Berekov. Kaya has already reported her experience exactly. For you
We therefore know a lot of information about you and your troops. However, the overall strength of your 707th Division is very weak. Even if we know nothing about your division, your failure is inevitable. What else do you want to say now?"
"Me? I have nothing to say. Now that you know my details, do you still need to ask me anything? Am I still valuable? You can do whatever you want."
"How you end up is up to our commander. I'm still waiting to take you, an officer, back to claim credit."
"Haha, am I valuable?" Lawrence smiled bitterly. He really didn't like this officer who ordered the killing of prisoners. "Okay, I will go back with you and tell your commander that you ordered the killing of hundreds of prisoners.
Prisoners of war.”
"It doesn't matter. To tell you the truth, it was our commander who ordered the execution. You are not prisoners of war, you are all murderers. We are avenging our compatriots who died."
"Well, you have your own reasons. I can't help myself now. Of course, if you want me to be taken to your lair in the swamp alive, you must treat me first. My legs and arms are seriously injured. Don't
Tell me you don't even have medicine."
Lavrenti snapped his fingers: "Medical soldier, treat this fascist and tell him that we have all the sulfamethoxazole and iodine."
Lavrenti was not given much time. After Lawrence, the prisoner of war, was closely guarded, he held on to his helmet and climbed out of the trench.
I saw that a large number of soldiers were already cleaning the battlefield, and a large number of wounded people began to be gathered for treatment.
There were not many medical personnel accompanying the army. They could only bandage the wounds of the wounded as much as possible. As for work such as removing shrapnel, they could not perform it at all.
After the hundreds of wounded were gathered together, they were arranged to be transported in army carriages to the starting camp.
"You are lucky. The rest of us, including me, once we hit Loyev, if we get injured, I'm afraid we won't be able to be easily transported back." Lavrenti glanced in other directions. The troops seemed to have found the German army.
A front-line warehouse? Where is the warehouse?
He didn't waste any time and saw a large group of soldiers gathered not far away, where the warehouse must be.
He led a group of people from the frontline headquarters in a hurry and saw to his surprise that the soldiers were actually distributing ammunition.
Lavrenti was shocked to see his old comrade here, supervising the soldiers to move ammunition boxes from the cellar.
"Ah! Yevgeny, you turned out to be busy here."
"Yes, we have seized a batch of German ammunition, so I will gather as many brothers as possible. Of course, as long as they are still part of our regiment."
"This... we are living alone. No, the ammunition has to be distributed to other troops."
"Forget it." Yevgeny, who was still standing in the trench, shook his head helplessly: "We didn't capture much ammunition. After all, this is a frontline ammunition depot. Based on the current seizures, we can still equip an integrated battalion with two basic ammunition.
Ammunition. Of course, this is the German ammunition depot, and there are quite a lot of machine gun ammunition."
"In this case, there should be many warehouses like this on the front line."
"Yes. You should send a telegram to Tepunov. Their paratroopers must have also discovered the front-line ammunition depot, and their seizures are definitely no less than ours."
The facts were exactly as Yevgeny expected. The Soviet army found four ammunition depots on the battlefield, the largest of which was three kilometers due north of the gap that the Soviet army had breached. It was currently occupied by the 1st Regiment of the 284th Division and the Artillery Regiment.
Occupied by the remnants of.
There was only a small amount of ammunition in each inventory, and the Soviet army found four. When each unit reported the preliminary statistics of the seizures and summarized the documents accompanying the army, a quite gratifying result was obtained.
So far, the Soviet army has seized a total of 40 80mm mortars and 210 boxes of supporting shells (1,050 rounds).
There are 32 50mm small mortars and one hundred boxes of supporting shells (800 rounds).
There are 2,105 bolt-action Mauser rifles, 56 MP38 submachine guns, 45 ZB26 light machine guns, and 5 MG34 general-purpose machine guns.
There are 6 45mm Czech-made war defense guns and 15 37mm war defense guns. The supporting explosive shells total more than 2,000 rounds.
There are more than 800 boxes of 7.92mm rifle ammunition in total. The inscription on it shows that one box contains 1,200 rounds (bulk bullets), which is as huge as 960,000 rounds. Of course, there are also a large number of heavy machine gun bullets in these ammunition, which can also be used
Forcibly firing a Mauser rifle will seriously wear out the rifling and cause even more terrible recoil.
These are only preliminary statistics. If the troops continue to dig deeper, they will seize more materials. The Soviet army does not have that much time.
Among these captures, the most important thing was the mortar shells. Doronin, who had lost all his field guns, led his remaining men to become ordinary combat infantry.
It was really helpless to let the excellent artillery charge into the battle. So after the troops defeated the German army three days ago, he used the captured 80mm mortars to form an artillery group in a surprise attack. In the battle to break the defense, the mortar unit
The artillery regiment did not show off. When the artillery regiment was searching the battlefield, it followed closely the commander of the first regiment, Roshakov. After discovering a large cellar, he very domineeringly claimed the mortars displayed in it as his own.
Roshakov didn't say anything to this. In terms of artillery, these people were absolute masters.
In this way, Lavrenti confirmed that he had captured all the logistical resources controlled by Lawrence's troops, except for those that were damaged in the war. It only contained almost a million rounds of bullets, and the troops in place provided huge combat potential.
Persistent.
While the troops were chasing the enemies on both wings, they cleared some artillery forts. The German army placed a large number of small-caliber combat artillery on the front line. Think about it, if there was no rocket launcher bombardment and the armored trucks were allowed to attack directly, wouldn't they be attacked by these?
The armor-piercing projectiles of anti-tank guns were easily destroyed.
Thinking of this, Lavrenti was sweating for himself. He had to express his admiration for the commander's tactics.
As of two o'clock in the afternoon, a total of more than 14,000 Soviet soldiers were entrenched in a huge area four kilometers wide and five kilometers deep. The Soviet troops formed a circular defense line and plowed every inch of soil in the occupied area.
Every corpse's armed belt was searched. Exactly how much ammunition the troops had replenished in a surprise attack could only be estimated. Lavrenti estimated that in terms of bullets alone, the total number of bullets of various types was around 1.2 million rounds.
Therefore, the ammunition consumed by the Soviet army was much smaller than that captured. Besides, the number of Soviet-made weapons in the army was not very large, and the expanded troops were basically dominated by German weapons. The ones that truly maintained the main focus on Soviet weapons were
The Second Regiment of the 284th Division and the Parachute Brigade. Even so, the majority of the machine gunners in these two elite units are basically equipped with MG34. Can they be considered complete Soviet weapons? Obviously not.
The large amount of ammunition captured by the troops gave many regiment commanders an illusion. Logically speaking, an infantry regiment should not have such a large ammunition inventory, but after thinking about it, everyone believed that the German army relied on defense lines for defense after all, so it was natural to reserve more ammunition.
In any case, the Soviet army finally paid a small price of more than 800 casualties, defeated the enemy and consolidated the fruits of victory, causing the German 707th Division's defense line to collapse.