Even if Major Muller tried hard, he couldn't figure out how the Soviet troops suddenly appeared behind him. They seemed to have emerged from the ground, while so many German tanks and infantry had just passed through that area and found nothing.
In fact, Major Muller was right, these Soviet troops came out of the ground.
In bunker operations, it is taboo to only defend the inner third of an acre. If you do this, the enemy will easily find loopholes and break through them one by one... As we all know, there is no unbreakable line of defense in the world, and no matter how tight the defense, there are loopholes.
If there are loopholes, the strength of the enemy and ourselves cannot be used symmetrically: the bunker will not move, so when a certain bunker is besieged, other bunkers can only stare at it except providing fire support. If the firepower of these bunkers is suppressed, they may even
Not even fire support can be done.
As a result, the bunker will be divided into small pieces, and the small pieces will be slowly eaten by the enemy.
It would be better if it was a tighter defense line, such as the Maginot Line in France. The bunkers were interconnected and could support each other with firepower. Such fortifications would be difficult to break.
The problem is that the line of defense Shulka is guarding is the "Stalin Line of Defense" that the Soviet army originally planned to abandon. The communication equipment is backward, the firepower of the bunker is improperly configured, there are few connections between each other, etc...
Under such circumstances, if you still defend the bunker, you will undoubtedly be very passive and can only wait for the German engineers to find a place to blast or insert explosives through the perforations.
Therefore, Shulka believes that the battle should be mobile, that is, attacking and defending on the ground and bunkers in coordination with each other.
In addition to building a fortification on the ground outside the bunker, Shulka believed that the wooden houses scattered around were a place that could be used.
"I found that most of these wooden houses have basements." Shulka said to Major Gavrilov.
"Yes!" Major Gavrilov nodded: "They are used to storing food and crops in the basement!"
"We can deploy some troops there!" Shulka said.
"No, it won't do anything, Shulka!" Major Gavrilov said: "The German artillery will blow up the wooden house, the tanks will crush it into a pile of rotten wood, and they won't even be able to get out of the basement.
come out!"
"They will be trapped and die in the basement!" Political Commissar Fuming also agreed.
"Then let them open another exit in advance!" Shulka said: "It's not difficult, is it?"
Major Gavrilov raised his head blankly, looked at each other with Political Commissar Fomin, and then both of them laughed.
"Shulka, you always think of ways that others can't think of!" Major Gavrilov said.
"This is a good idea!" Political Commissar Fuming said: "The Germans always think that they have blown up the wooden house, but they never thought that there are people hiding under the wooden house!"
This is not an innovation for Shulka, because he has too much information about tunnel warfare and tunnel warfare in his mind. In addition, the Vietnamese also often use this method to form side fire and firepower against our army.
Counter firepower.
At the same time, this is not difficult, because the basement itself is a good hiding hole for soldiers. It only takes more than an hour of civil engineering work to open an exit. Then build a cover for the exit and cover it with soil to camouflage it.
, and a tunnel is completed.
There were more than a dozen wooden houses outside the bunker, and there were more than a hundred soldiers hiding in each basement. Several telephone lines in different directions led to Major Gavrilov's headquarters for easy command.
Then, when the smoke grenades were deployed on the position, Major Gavrilov ordered on the phone: "Attack!"
The person commanding this unit was Captain Ulyan, commander of the third battalion. He picked up another phone and gave orders... This phone was used to contact various tunnels.
Soviet soldiers in various tunnels immediately came out of the tunnels.
It was not difficult for them to find the location of the Germans, because even in the smoke the tall tanks were still very obvious, and the German infantry must be hiding behind the tanks, so machine guns and rifles shot at the back of the tanks at once, and
The Soviet shovel mortar... Although this mortar was not as good as the German mortar on the frontal battlefield, it played a big role at this time. It fired 37mm shells one after another, only to make the Germans scream.
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"Retreat!" Major Muller quickly ordered: "Get out of this damn place!"
But it seemed that it was too late to retreat at this time. The Soviet soldiers on the front shouted and launched a countercharge towards the German army...
Shulka disagrees with this point.
Because Shulka believed that a counterattack at this time would cause accidental damage... The Soviet army launched a flanking attack on the German army from two sides in the smoke, so no one knew whether it was the enemy or one of their own on the opposite side.
But Gavrilov thinks this is not a problem.
"Think of those tanks, Shulka!" Major Gavrilov said: "If we let them drive back like this, they will use them to attack again next time, the same tanks... And now we
But there is a chance to blow them up!"
"So how to solve accidental injuries?" Shulka asked.
"Necessary casualties are acceptable!" Political Commissar Fuming said, "This is war!"
This may be correct, and this is also the style of the Soviet army... If they can exchange casualties for the enemy's losses, they will not hesitate to make such a choice, but Shulka is not used to it yet.
However, the situation on the battlefield was much better than expected, and the Soviet army finally repelled the German attack at the cost of thirty-five casualties.
This proves that the accidental damage between the Soviet troops was not serious.
Afterwards, Shulka believed that this was probably because the Soviet army had long been accustomed to fighting in chaos, so their performance in melee was much better than that of the German army... The German army strictly followed formations, positions, and even machine gun positions.
There is a point in how the riflemen disperse, but the more you do it, you will be completely at a loss once you fall into chaos.
Shulka did not rush out during this battle. He and the actor were responsible for staying in the bunker.
Each bunker must be guarded by someone, otherwise it may be occupied by roving German troops and cause big trouble.
Shulka observed the battlefield through the periscope. The German troops in the smoke were in a mess, especially the tanks. They were bumping into each other, rolling over their own soldiers, and firing randomly with machine guns... It was like a serious traffic accident.
But the accident was not a car but a tank.
Then, the situation continued to deteriorate. Soviet soldiers threw anti-tank grenades and explosive packets at close range onto the tanks. Only hearing bursts of "boom" explosions, the tanks collapsed on the ground and became motionless.
Occasionally, a few Molotov cocktails were thrown out, and several more raging fires were ignited, and miserable screams could be heard endlessly.