The fight between the enemy and ourselves was fierce.
Andrianka was right about one thing. The German army learned the tactics of the Soviet army and deployed almost no firepower on the first floor.
There is no such thing as "copyright" in war. Use the enemy's useful tactics immediately, otherwise you will be in trouble with yourself. After all, these are life-threatening things.
The weakness of the first floor is that there is almost no height advantage, and transfer is inconvenient... Most hospital buildings are rectangular, with the stairwells either in the middle or on both sides. The attacking side only needs to block the stairwells with machine guns and station on the first floor.
The soldiers had almost no way out and had to fight until the last moment.
In order to avoid this situation, when defending such buildings, it is more likely to place troops near the stairwell to facilitate evacuation, or to lay no troops at all to lay mines.
On the second floor and above, there is basically no need to worry about such problems.
Of course, other buildings such as ordinary residential buildings whose corridors are enclosed within the room are a different matter.
This also illustrates the complexity of building street fighting: the offense and defense of different buildings often have different characteristics and key points.
The German army thought that such preparations were foolproof, but they soon came under pressure from the Soviet offensive.
With screams one after another, rockets flew from the darkness towards the building where the German troops were located and burst into a ball of flame.
At this time, the German army was secretly complaining:
When they attacked from the lower floor to the upper floor, they were bombed by rope bombs. Now that they occupied the upper floor, they thought they could finally take revenge and bombed the Russians. Unexpectedly, they were bombed again...
War is so unfair. Who told them not to have rocket launchers like the Soviet army?!
(Note: The German Panzerfaust did not enter mass production until July 1943, which was more than a year away)
However, because the German army was condescending and did have the advantage of "rope bombs", the Soviet army seemed to be unable to do anything to them... As long as they attacked the building, even if it was just the first floor, they would soon be attacked by various incendiary bombs, grenades and explosive cannons.
, and it’s still hanging in the air.
But of course the Soviet offensive would not just be like this.
The German army had no idea that the Soviet attack was just a feint...
Just as the ground attack was in full swing, the Soviet troops on the roof also began to take action.
The target is Building 7, Building 12.
Next to them, Buildings No. 3 and No. 9 suddenly shot out several steel cables and "grabbed" the roof of the target building.
At this time, the roofs of buildings No. 7 and No. 12 had been bombarded by the Soviet army...it was bombed by Soviet mortar shells, the Soviet 37MM shovel mortar.
Although the factory of this weapon was discontinued in 1941 due to short range and poor accuracy, the Soviet army still equipped it in large quantities.
The main reason is that it does not occupy the establishment. It is said that the mortar is actually carried by ordinary infantrymen. Anyway, everyone has to use an engineering shovel. The artillery shells are not heavy. One shell only weighs one kilogram. You can easily insert a few in your waist.
...The shells of this mortar have a special cylindrical container, which can be inserted into the waist like a grenade.
When fighting, just take off the "shovel" and cannonballs, and you can easily suppress the target.
After a burst of artillery fire, sniper strikes, and a few smoke grenades, the German troops on the roof of the target building quickly disappeared.
After all, the Germans knew that the roof of the building they were on was under attack from several nearby rooftops, and it was impossible to gain any advantage against the enemy on the roof.
At this moment, the steel cables flew past one after another...
Needless to say, the Soviet soldiers quickly slid along the steel cables to the roof of the target building. Because they jumped from several steel cables at the same time, they were very fast. There were buildings in Buildings 7 and 12.
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"Alert, enemy attack!" the German soldier hiding in the darkness on the roof shouted after discovering this. He hoped that friendly forces would hear his cry and send reinforcements.
But this shouting could not attract the attention of other German soldiers at all.
On the one hand, this was because the sound of gunfire was too noisy, and the shouts could not be heard by the German soldiers downstairs. Even if they heard them, they would not understand what the sudden "enemy attack" on the roof meant.
On the other hand, most of the German army's firepower and attention were attracted by the Soviet troops attacking on the ground, and they had no time to pay attention to movements in other directions.
More importantly, the shouting suddenly stopped... The Soviet soldiers who skied to the top of the building immediately formed an offensive formation to clear out the remaining enemies on the top of the building.
This is important because only in this way can the follow-up troops reach the target more safely and quickly.
Therefore, the first squad to ski jump are often the best and fastest-reacting soldiers in the army. They will establish a foothold on the roof of the building immediately and open up a safe area for the following troops.
then……
The battle once again repeated the previous situation. The Soviet army occupied the highest level and used rope bombs to attack downwards layer by layer.
If there is any difference, it is that this time the German troops did not even have a chance to retreat, because their retreat had been blocked by the Soviet troops attacking on the ground.
To put it simply, the German army was actually attacked from above and below by the Soviet army.
However, some German soldiers managed to escape in the end.
These German soldiers were obviously the smarter ones. As soon as they discovered that the roof of the building was lost, they realized that the battle was over. They would eventually lose and lose the building.
They did not choose to escape through the stairs because they knew that the entrance to the stairs would be blocked by enemy fire.
They connected the ropes they carried with them that were originally used to tie the explosive packages, and then slipped from the upstairs to the ground under the cover of smoke bombs to escape.
This includes Commander Major Sean and his headquarters.
Therefore, although the victory was not small, the Soviet army killed and wounded more than 200 German soldiers and captured more than 100 people, but there were no high-ranking officers worth mentioning.
"Let some of them escape!" Andrian reported to Shulka with regret on his face.
Shulka shook his head indifferently.
I don't know when the Soviet army formed a tradition, taking pride in being able to capture or kill enemy officers... but all armies seem to have this characteristic.
But in Shulka's view, it is only necessary to capture the enemy commander when he needs to obtain information from him.
Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense whether the commander is captured or killed.
There is no need to obtain any information in the battle at this time.
"Order the troops!" Shulka said, "Be ready to evacuate the building!"
"Evacuate the building?" Andrianka asked doubtfully: "Why? We just took them back!"
"Because the enemy is likely to choose to blow them up!" Shulka said: "If they know that they cannot take back these buildings intact, this is the best choice!"