Everything in front of you is like a big dye vat. The enemies who are trying their best to escape in the water are like bags of paint. Whenever a bullet hits them, a ball of paint explodes with a "pop" sound, dyeing the surrounding river water.
red.
Shulka was surprised that there were so many enemies in Surovino. He originally thought that there were at most two divisions in this area, one was the 9th Panzergrenadier Division and the other was the German Infantry Division.
Therefore, if these two divisions were flooded and blown to pieces by artillery fire, there would not be much left now.
However, this is not the case.
The reason was that Manstein believed that Surovino was a barrier to his right wing, so he urgently mobilized a Romanian division and an Italian division to come for reinforcements.
Called "reinforcements", they are actually just to save face for the Romanian and Italian armies. These two divisions were only transferred to provide logistics and construction fortifications for the German army... This is Manstein's allocation based on "ability". The German army has high combat effectiveness and good quality.
They all went to the front line to fight, while the Romanian army and the Italian army were responsible for logistics on the second line and rear.
It should be said that these two troops were very unlucky. They had just replenished Surovino two days before they encountered a full-scale Soviet attack. So just as Shulka estimated, less than half of them were flooded and submerged.
...In fact, there was almost no situation where the Italian army hid in the fortifications and had no time to escape like the German army did. The reason why they were flooded was because many people could not swim.
Then about half of the troops were torn into pieces by ruthless artillery fire... This was inevitable. As mentioned before, they suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of artillery fire because they were forced out of the bunker by the water.
In the end, the small half who survived were hunted down in front of Shulka and his men, but the number of them was still somewhat unimaginable.
As the amphibious landing craft continued to advance in depth, there were more and more corpses and broken limbs. Almost all of them were floating on the water, densely packed, like a piece of poisoned fish with its white belly turned upwards.
The corpses were so dense that sometimes even amphibious landing ships were blocked from passing... Being blocked was not a big deal. The naval infantry was worried that the clothes and belts of the corpses would get caught in the propeller, so they had to let the soldiers use wooden paddles and paddles.
The bayonet pushed the body to both sides.
The fleeing enemies were swimming among the corpses. Some of them seemed to be frightened by the tragic scene in front of them. They were holding a piece of rotten wood floating in the water motionless, staring at all this. If he hadn't opened his eyes,
Even though he was breathing and breathing, he didn't even know he was alive...Due to the previous artillery bombardment, there was a cloud of water vapor and gunpowder smoke on the water, and you could see the flow of air when you gasped.
These frightened enemy Soviet soldiers were too lazy to pay attention to them.
This is not because the Soviet army is soft-handed, but because there are too many targets at this time and the amphibious landing ship is not advancing slowly... The purpose of interweaving troops is not to kill these fleeing enemies but to cut off their retreat, so there will be no obstacles on the way.
If there are enemies running away, slow down.
Therefore, soldiers can only shoot at the "most active" targets.
The so-called "most active" refers to those who can swim, have the strength to escape, or have guns in their hands.
In other words, there are not many targets who still have guns in their hands in this situation, even the German soldiers, although they are all warned that guns are their second life.
However, second life is still second life after all.
There are not many soldiers in the infantry who can swim. Even if some can swim, it will be difficult for them to swim with guns, bullets, grenades, etc. If they do this, they are almost destined to be unable to escape from Surovino.
Therefore, most of the soldiers who survived were those who abandoned their equipment as soon as possible.
There are basically only a few situations where you still have a gun in your hand: you find floating objects, you are lucky enough to find a fishing boat, or you gather at a higher location.
But no matter what the situation was, they had no power to fight back against the Soviet troops driving amphibious landing ships.
Amphibious landing ships are like tanks driving in the water. They have sufficient firepower and good defense. More importantly, they can quickly switch angles and appropriate directions. Then several amphibious landing ships cooperate with the attack and cripple the enemy in a few hits.
Then Shulka discovered that the enemies he had just encountered were just drizzle... When the amphibious landing ship penetrated behind the city, the dark patch of water was full of enemies, and those who could swim or found floating objects were all gathered here.
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The Soviet army was not polite to them either. When they raised their guns, they fired a hail of bullets at them, making the enemies in the water wail.
Then I don’t know who started it, and the enemy soldiers in the water rushed to shout in half-baked Russian:
"Don't shoot, we surrender!"
"We surrender!"
…
Kharichev stood beside the ship's side with his gun in high spirits and shouted at them: "Hands up, you bastards!"
The enemy has no other choice because they don't even have a few guns.
So, the people in the water raised their hands one by one with difficulty... The reason why I say "difficult" is because it is not easy to raise your hands in the water.
But what happened next caused a dilemma for everyone: What should we do with these prisoners? We can't just pull them all on board. There are at least a thousand of these prisoners in front of us. If we pull them all on the ship, we will be afraid of all the ships.
They will all sink to the bottom of the river.
After thinking about it, Shulka raised his head toward a shoal more than a hundred meters away and said: "Let them swim there, gather in a circle, and throw away the guns!"
"Throw away the gun! Swim over..."
…
Soon friendly troops from the right wing also arrived, and Sulovkino's retreat was completely cut off.
However, the battle did not end there.
The three battalions on the front rushed into the city of Surovino and started street fighting with the enemy.
Most of the troops located in Surovino were German troops. They were able to organize a defense under such circumstances, and they were worthy of being called the 9th Division of "Panzergrenadiers".
This defense was organized by Major General Ellen, who realized that the loss could not be avoided the moment he received the warning call from the front.
Even Major General Ellen knew that it was impossible for him to escape from here, so the adjutant had suggested so.
"It's time to retreat, general!" the adjutant said: "The water level is still rising. If we don't retreat, it will be too late!"
"Do you think it will be too late to withdraw now?" Major General Ellen asked.
Before the adjutant could answer, Ellen said: "No, it's too late! Our car can no longer start, and the water will submerge us before we can take a few steps, and the enemy has an amphibious landing ship..." (Unfinished)