Poor Papchenko didn't know that this attack was without any firepower cover, and asked excitedly: "Comrade Commander, when will Colonel Bere's tank troops reach their departure position?"
"Ltd. Col. Papuchinko," Sokov replied awkwardly: "A little accident happened. The tank troops used up all the high-explosive grenades, leaving only the armor-piercing bombs. You also know that the armor-piercing bombs have little effect on the enemy's firepower points, and it takes at least two hours to wait for the new high-explosive grenade to be delivered. But the superiors ordered us to launch an attack immediately. Do you understand?"
"I understand, comrade Commander." Although Papuqinko was so angry that he could not attack Sokov, he could only reply with his teeth, "We will start an attack immediately."
After putting down the phone, Papuqinko called a communications soldier and told him, "Go and get the battalion commanders, I will assign them offensive tasks." When the communications soldier turned around and left the command post, he added later, "There are three battalion commanders in our regiment, so the battalion commanders of the 124th regiment do not need to call over."
The three battalion commanders soon appeared in front of Papchinko. They knew that the regiment commander called him, and must have arranged combat missions, and each of them had expectations on their faces.
"Comrades in the battalion commanders, I just received the order from the division headquarters." Papuqinko said with a stern face: "Order us to launch an attack on the enemy's positions immediately."
"Start an attack immediately?" The first battalion commander asked curiously: "But the regiment commander, the tanks that the superiors agreed to send to cover our attack have not yet entered the attack position!"
"Let the tanks go to hell." Hearing the first battalion commander say this, Papchinko immediately became angry and shouted in anger: "Even if there is no tank support, we will definitely be able to take the enemy's position."
The second battalion commander heard something wrong from Papuqinko's tone and asked carefully: "Comrade Commander, didn't the division headquarters say that we can get the cover of tank fire when we attack? Did something happen?"
Papchinko said weakly as if the ball was deflated: "The division commander just called me and said that the tank used high-explosive grenades and had used up all of them during the attack, leaving only armor-piercing bullets that did not have much effect on the enemy's fortifications. It will take two hours before the tank can be sent up in the rear."
"Comrade Commander!" The second battalion commander asked in surprise: "Since it only takes two hours to send the high-explosive grenades in the rear, why don't we continue to wait? You must know that when we attacked the enemy's second line of defense, we could not get the support of the left bank artillery. Since we could not even get the support of tanks, then the troops would suffer huge casualties."
"There is no way," after Papuqinko got angry, he realized that Sokov had no choice but to give such an order. He walked to the table and sat down, took out a cigarette box from his pocket, took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth, but did not ignite it immediately, and continued: "The superior ordered the division commander to launch an attack immediately, but the division commander had no choice, so he ordered us to attack the second line of defense without any cover."
"What a pity!" The third battalion commander stepped forward, lit a match, and lit a cigarette for Papuqinko: "If the battle can be carried out according to the deployment of the division commander, we will reduce the number of unnecessary casualties."
"That's right." The second battalion commander agreed in a timely manner: "If we follow our previous fighting style, just by seizing the enemy's first line of defense, we will at least suffer one battalion's troops. Under the command of the division commander, we will only suffer less than one company and successfully occupy the enemy's position."
"Okay, don't say these useless." Papuqinko took two puffs of cigarettes, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it with his toes, then stood up and said to the battalion commanders: "You all go back to their respective camps. Ten minutes later, the first battalion will charge towards the enemy's position first; after they lose their attack ability, the second battalion will be replaced..."
The next development was indeed what Papchinko expected. When the commanders and soldiers of the first battalion rushed to more than 200 meters away from the enemy's position, they were shot by dense machine gun fire on the position. The soldiers rushing in front were shot and fell to the ground, and the other soldiers hurriedly lay down on the ground and fought back.
Seeing that the first battalion was suppressed by the enemy's fire and could not advance forward at all, Papchenko picked up the phone and answered Sokov and begged him hard: "Comrade Commander, the enemy's firepower is too strong, and our offensive troops are suffering a lot of casualties. I ask you to provide us with artillery fire support."
"I don't have artillery support here." Sokov was also anxious. He wanted to provide artillery support to the regiment, but unfortunately, his good wife couldn't cook without rice. Now he doesn't have tanks or cannons in his hands, so how can he provide artillery support to the troops? He could only say helplessly: "Didn't I tell you that in front of the German position, establish more machine gun fire points to suppress the enemy's firepower. Have you forgotten?"
After Sokov's reminder, Papuqinko immediately remembered that Sokov had indeed reminded himself in this way. He had just been patronizing the troops to attack, but he forgot this important thing. Thinking of this, he quickly said to the microphone: "I understand, comrade of the division commander, I immediately sent someone to choose a suitable location to establish machine gun fire point to suppress the enemy's attack..."
Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he rushed into a soldier with a gun from outside. As soon as the soldier entered the command post, he shouted in a panic: "Comrade Commander, he was beaten to death, he was beaten to death..."
When he heard the warrior talking nonsense, Papuqinko couldn't help but be angry and wanted to step forward and give him a big mouth. However, considering that he was talking to Sokov, he chose to endure in order not to leave a bad impression on the division commander. He held the microphone and urged the warrior to say viciously: "Your regiment commander is still standing in front of you, not being beaten to death by the enemy!"
Seeing that Papchinko got angry, the soldier immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing and explained in a panic: "Comrade Commander, I am not talking about you, I am talking..."
"Who was killed?" Before the soldiers finished speaking, the second battalion commander had already rushed in from outside, grabbed the soldier's clothes, and asked nervously: "Did the first battalion commander be killed by the enemy's bullet?"
"No, not the first battalion commander." The soldier, who was already very nervous, grabbed his clothes by the second battalion commander and became even more panicked: "It was Wu Liya, the enemy killed Wu Liya."
"Who is Wu Liya?" Papuqinko frowned and said disapprovingly when he heard the name of the warrior, "I thought the first battalion commander was beaten to death by the enemy. It turned out that Wu Liya was beaten to death..."
Before Papuqinko finished speaking, he suddenly shook all over. He rushed to the warrior and pulled up the second battalion commander's clothes that had just been loosened again, and asked viciously: "Wu Liya you are talking about, is it Wu Liya, a female health care worker?"
"Yes, comrade commander, it's her." The soldier carefully broke his clothes out of Papchinko's hand and said carefully: "When she was rescued by the enemy's sniper while she was rescued on the battlefield, she was hitting the head, and even her brain was shot out."
Although there are only soldiers and civilians on the battlefield, no gender, both sides of the war silently followed a principle and did not shoot at the other side's medical staff during the battle. Now the enemy actually fired at the health workers, or even a female health workers. Upon hearing this news, Papuchinko couldn't help but rush his blood to his head. He grabbed the submachine gun on the table and shouted at the chief of staff of the regiment sitting at the table: "Chief of Staff, I'll leave it to you. I'll take people to destroy these beasts, and they actually fired at the women."
When he passed by the second battalion commander, he pushed him hard: "Take the second battalion and follow me up, and you must destroy all the beasts that are worse than beasts."
Seeing Papchinko leaving with the second battalion commander and the soldier, the regiment chief hesitated for a while before he grabbed the microphone Papchinko threw on the table, and reported to Sokov with a crying voice: "Comrade Commander, something is wrong, something happened. The regiment commander personally led the people to rush up."
"It's really a hell. Papchinko actually took charge in person, it was simply a mess." Sokov also heard part of what had just happened. At this moment, he learned that Lieutenant Colonel Papchinko was actually angry and charged in person with someone. He hurriedly ordered to the microphone: "Comrade Chief of Staff, I order you to go to Lieutenant Colonel Papchinko immediately and bring me back."
"Comrade Commander," Sokov said, suddenly he felt a hand resting on his shoulder. He turned his head and saw that it was Ivanov. Ivanov sighed and said, "Wu Liya is the best female health worker in the division. He once carried more than 30 seriously injured people from the battlefield. Everyone liked her very much. I didn't expect that she would die under the gun of the enemy sniper. It would be normal for Papchinko to have such a reaction. Just let him go. If he didn't let him kill a few enemies with his own hands and avenge Wu Liya, I don't think he will feel at ease in his life."
"Okay, Deputy Commander. Since you said that, then my original order was cancelled." Sokov said this with a heavy heart and said to the microphone: "Comrade Chief of Staff, I cancel the order just now. Since the commander personally led the people to charge, the work in the regiment will be left to you. If there is any latest situation, report it to me immediately!"
Chapter completed!