"The enemy is coming!" Okunev reminded: "Pick up your gun, Shulka, the instructor is staring at you, don't let him grab your handle again!"
Shulka looked in the direction of the instructor, and sure enough, he saw him looking at him fiercely.
Shulka felt helpless. Shulka believed that apart from the Germans, the instructor wanted him to die the most.
Shulka helplessly picked up the rifle, carefully raised his head and looked into the smoke. Several figures came into view, then a few more, and then more and more, quickly forming a large area.
"Calm down!" the instructor ordered loudly: "Follow the order and shoot again. Only cowards will be scared by them until their fingers tremble!"
This was obviously aimed at Shulka, and it seemed that the instructor really got into trouble with him.
But Shulka doesn't care about this.
In this case, no one will care about this, because it is nothing more than a trivial matter compared to the current predicament... Anyone who is a normal person should know that at this time, they should unite and deal with the outside world instead of targeting their own people.
But this seems to be the job of the instructor. The Soviet Army's position is to keep an eye on its own people.
Taking a deep breath, Shulka tried to slow down his racing heart.
Then he extensively observed and analyzed the situation on the battlefield:
The front is an open area that is very suitable for defense. This should be the battlefield chosen by Gavrilov. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for the German army to launch an attack from here to break through the defense line organized by the Soviet army.
Of course, this is just "generally".
At this time, the gap between the quality, strength and equipment of the Soviet and German armies was too big...Shurka had some knowledge of this battle, the Battle of Brest Fortress, in modern times.
When the Soviet-German War broke out, the German army was divided into three armies: the North, the Center, and the South. They launched a sudden attack on the Soviet Union from three directions in the form of "blitzkrieg". The Central Army was the main force of the German army, and its strategic goal was to directly target the Soviet capital.
Moscow.
The Brest Fortress is the starting point of Army Group Center.
In other words, Brest Fortress faced the most elite German army.
The Soviet troops stationed in the fortress... are engineers, communications troops, guards, etc. (Note: Every summer, the Soviet army will pull the troops out of the fortress for routine camping training. Only the regiment headquarters and various units on duty are left in the fortress.
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More importantly, Germany chose to launch the attack on Sunday.
On this day, all the Soviet officers had a day off. They went to the city of Brest, dozens of miles away, to spend the weekend with their families.
Therefore, we can basically say this: This is a hopeless battle, a battle destined to fail from the beginning, and history has proven this.
When he thought of this, Shulka felt angry.
But Shulka did not dare to relax even a little, because he knew that relaxing would mean death.
"Hit!" Following the order, gunfire rang out.
The sudden orders and gunshots startled Shulka, because at this time the enemy was still 600 meters away from the Soviet defense line.
But this seems to be right... If the optimal combat distance is 500 meters, then starting a battle at 600 meters will give your own side more time to react.
It was obvious that Major Gavrilov accepted Shulka's suggestion.
The only downside is...
With a "bang" sound, Shulka pulled the trigger and didn't even know where his bullet flew. He didn't even know if he hit the target. He only saw someone falling in that direction, but Shulka wasn't sure if it was.
Hit by yourself.
"Bang", another bullet flew out, and the situation was still the same. The visibility in the smoke was too low, and there was only a vague figure.
But this is not important. Shurka knows that at this time, more emphasis is placed on the pressure exerted by firepower on the enemy.
So Shulka let go and fired bullets out of the gun chamber one after another as fast as he could, sometimes without even having time to aim.
Others were not much better, but the Soviet army's tactical success had an effect...
First of all, the German army did not expect that the Soviet army would start fighting at this distance, and the formation was somewhat chaotic due to the accident.
Secondly, as Shulka said, the 50mm mortars assigned to the infantry by the Germans were completely ineffective.
This was completely different from the last exploratory attack by the German army: the German army originally thought that they could use mortars to suppress the Soviet firepower and then charge to win with grenades and submachine guns in close combat. Who knew that the Soviet army did not follow common sense this time.
As a result, the light and heavy machine guns in the hands of the Soviet army fired wildly at the German troops. The Mark Mi heavy machine gun, the Deggarev light machine gun... the bullets poured "squeaking" towards the German troops.
More importantly, perhaps prompted by Shulka, Major Gavrilov also told the machine gunners to keep an eye on the German mortar crews.
Whenever a German soldier was seen setting up a mortar, several machine guns would fire bullets at that position until they were beaten into pieces.
For a time, the German troops were pinned to a distance of about 500 meters and were unable to advance. Groups of German soldiers who rushed forward fell into a pool of blood.
"Call the air force!" Captain Rolf, who was commanding the German attack, saw this situation and quickly ordered to the signalmen: "Let them stop watching from the sky and blow up the enemy's firepower with their hands!"
After a while, the signal soldier responded: "Captain, the smoke is too heavy and the air force cannot see the target!"
Captain Rolf was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that dropping gasoline barrels and blowing up the enemy's building would have this side effect.
"Captain!" Lieutenant Jonas suggested: "Maybe we can detach a part to outflank the left wing!"
Rolf looked at the map, shook his head and said: "No, Lieutenant, we have scouted the left wing. They have laid many mines there, and we are not sure if there is anyone defending there!"
"So, what should we do?"
After thinking for a while, Captain Rolf replied: "Retreat, Lieutenant. We can wait!"
"Wait?" Lieutenant Jonas looked at Rolf in confusion.
"Yes, wait!" Captain Rolf raised his head: "We have time."
So the German troops retreated again.
Captain Rolf is right, the German army does have time, because the Brest Fortress has been surrounded by the German army and cannot pose a real threat to the German army.
Not only that, the main force of the German Army Group Center was bypassing the Brest Fortress and marching straight into the hinterland of the Soviet Union as planned, invincible along the way while the Soviet army was routed thousands of miles away.
In other words, Brest, a fortress originally located on the border, has gradually become the German army's rear area. The Soviet troops stationed here have become a lone army. No one even knows that they are still alive and fighting bloody battles in the fortress.
This also means that there will be no reinforcements, no supplies, no...
The Soviet troops stationed in the fortress didn't know this yet.