"But the enemy is coming!" the adjutant said anxiously, "What can we do?!"
"Organize defense, Ross!" Major General Ellen said: "Don't you understand yet? Organizing defense is the only way out now!"
Major General Allen is correct.
Because escaping can never outrun an amphibious landing ship, especially if it is a swim, a swim that requires abandoning all equipment... Rifles are better, and soldiers with good water resistance may still be able to swim with them, but machine guns, mortars, and ammunition boxes
Wait, it's impossible to swim out with these on your back.
What's more, even if you can take these with you, what will happen if you encounter an enemy in the river?
Spread out your formation, shoot your rifles or set up your mortars?
None of this can be done in water.
Therefore, the result of escaping is that everyone will be killed and others will be killed, which means giving up resistance and surrendering.
Major General Ellen was unwilling to accept this outcome.
He immediately ordered the troops to occupy the buildings in Surovino.
"The building will be your best place to stay!" Major General Ellen ordered all the 9th Panzer Grenadier when the phone was still working: "Move your supplies and equipment to the top floor, or even the roof, and then
Hold it, every building! Then you will survive!"
Major General Ellen was not completely deceiving his subordinates by saying this, although he was not sure whether this would work... because if the rising water level would submerge most buildings, his arrangement would be basically useless.
But Ellen judged that the situation would not come to this.
"What they want is Surovino!" Major General Ellen said: "There are many Russians (people) in Surovino. In addition... the Russian army hopes to break through our defense lines in a short time, so the water level will not rise in the end.
Too high!"
Major General Ellen can be considered right or wrong.
It is wrong for the people. If the battle requires it, the Supreme Command will not care about the life or death of the people of Surovino.
The judgment about the Russian army was correct. The Russian army needed to pass through the German defense line quickly, so of course they did not want the water level to rise very high and then wait for it to slowly fall back.
In fact, the water level only needed to be able to flood the German trenches and underground fortifications.
Of course, reservoir staff cannot control it so precisely.
The most ideal situation is to submerge almost one floor high, which is enough to neutralize the German tanks, artillery, supplies, barbed wire, mines, etc. At the same time, the damage to the people is not too serious, and then the water level begins to fall... What's the benefit of killing two birds with one stone?
Happy but not doing anything.
Therefore, Major General Allen's order was correct. The quality of the 9th Panzer Grenadier was reflected at this time. After receiving the order, they tried their best to rescue the supplies and dispersed to occupy the buildings.
Although these supplies were not large, defenses were still built in the city of Surovino.
This was actually a street battle. The remaining German troops occupied various buildings and defended through windows and rooftops, while the Soviet troops drove amphibious landing craft to defend.
The Soviet army was well prepared for this.
In fact, it is easy to guess that as people go to higher places and water flows to lower places, the German troops will definitely concentrate on the higher parts of the buildings when they are flooded, so the buildings will become the focus of investigation.
Once an enemy building is found in a building, the Soviet machine guns will first hit the building with a bang.
At this time, the enemy's firepower can usually be easily suppressed... The firepower of the German troops who escaped to the upper floors of the building has already been greatly reduced. They basically only have light weapons and not many bullets. They usually cannot even guarantee the ammunition capacity of their machine guns.
If there were several buildings that were too powerful to be approached by firepower, the Soviet army would use walkie-talkies to communicate with the artillery or indicate targets for attack aircraft in the air to destroy them all at once.
Then there will be several amphibious landing ships approaching from several directions at the same time.
The German army was usually unable to prevent the amphibious landing craft from approaching. This was determined by the fact that its firepower was suppressed and the building's defense window was small. Moreover, the Soviet army would also consciously choose to approach the blind spot of the building window.
During this period, the naval infantry acted as fire cover throughout the entire process... Most of the naval infantry were equipped with SVT-40 semi-automatic rifles. This rifle was disliked by ordinary infantry, but the naval infantry had a "soft spot" for it.
The reason is that the structure of the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle is relatively complex and difficult to maintain, and ordinary infantrymen have low educational levels and insufficient military training, making it difficult to use the SVT-40 freely and exert its performance.
However, the naval infantry are a group of people with a high level of education, good learning ability and sufficient military training, so this kind of rifle with high rate of fire and high accuracy is naturally favored by them.
At this time, it was perfect for the naval infantry to use this rifle to serve as fire cover. Several rifles were aimed at a window at the same time, and they fired continuously like a machine gun, suppressing the window or perforating holes.
Then when it was time to change the magazine, he squatted down, and the other naval infantry stood up and continued shooting.
In fact, in this situation, a few naval infantrymen holding semi-automatic rifles are definitely better than a machine gun... The machine gun is heavier, and if it wants to shoot at high places, it must be placed on the shoulders of the soldiers in front.
More importantly, the amphibious landing craft is on board, which will make the chassis of the machine gun unstable and shaky. Therefore, the accuracy of bullets fired during bursts is very low, making it difficult to effectively suppress enemy perforations.
On the other hand, semi-automatic rifles are different.
When several semi-automatic rifles are fired at the same time, the rate of fire is no lower than that of a machine gun. When divided into several soldiers, the accuracy is obviously higher than that of a machine gun, so it can effectively suppress the enemy's firepower.
At this moment, the amphibious landing ship approached the building, and then it was time for the infantry to take action.
The first thing that comes into play is the grenadier... Each amphibious landing ship is equipped with several bombardiers.
The so-called "bomb thrower" is someone who is good at throwing grenades.
As the saying goes, there are specialties in the profession, and everyone has their own strengths and advantages, so when there are more people, all kinds of talents will be available.
The Soviet army still attaches great importance to grenade throwing. They hold grenade throwing competitions every year and select "bomb-throwing experts."
It's just that these "bomb-throwing experts" tend to throw farther... This is a hard indicator on the battlefield, because throwing grenades on the battlefield often does not require how accurate the throw is. As long as the grenade can be thrown far enough, the grenade will always be thrown.
It can explode in enemy positions and injure enemies with flying shrapnel.
But these "grenadiers" selected by Shulka this time are capable of throwing far and accurately. They are usually veterans who have been on the battlefield for several years.
Then, when they saw that the distance was about the same, they lit the grenade and threw it toward the window, door, or roof of the building.
Then there were several "bang bangs", and the enemies in the building were blown to pieces for the first time. (To be continued)