After successfully breaking through the outer wall of the train station, and relying on the heavy machine gun fire cover from our own tanks, we successfully crossed the distance of more than 100 meters from the station gate to the waiting hall, and was responsible for leading the combat engineers.
Alsim, who launched the first wave of assault battles, soon faced a real fierce battle: a deadly fight with the SS troops stationed in the waiting hall.
With the help of the National Defense Forces who helped with the work, the infantry of the Skeleton Division, after experiencing the most difficult and most casualties of the peripheral attack battle, finally used a relatively reliable one in the waiting hall of the train station, which was better than nothing.
Need strong cover.
Strictly speaking, these bunkers have little to do with serious military bunkers. Most of them are things that were randomly piled up with temporarily found garbage and debris by the National Defense Forces who were urgently mobilized to help with defense arrangements.
There were piles of broken furniture, some iron sheets dismantled from the platform, and bullet-proof shooting shelters made from train leather side doors.
If you want to say that these bunkers are really reliable, it's obviously much more than that.
However, as the saying goes, something useful is better than nothing. These few and not very reliable and disorganized bunkers are the only advantage that the SS in a defensive posture can rely on, waiting for work.
"The Russians are coming in! Fire!"
Da da da da——
Bang bang bang——
The Skeleton Division is not an ordinary SS unit, and these bastards cannot be measured by the weapon standards of the second- and third-tier SS security forces.
In addition to basic conventional light weapons for German infantry such as MP40 and Mauser 98k, the biggest feature of the Skeleton Division infantry is its unusually powerful automatic and semi-automatic weapon configuration.
The stg44 assault rifle and the g43 semi-automatic rifle were all fired at once, hitting the bunkers and debris near the entrance of the waiting hall with crackling sounds and debris flying everywhere.
This ferocious firepower like a downpour far exceeds that of conventional German infantry units. Although it is not as ferocious as the infantry firepower of Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division, if measured by the standards of the German army, such firepower is undoubtedly quite outstanding.
Yes, it would be a huge problem for an ordinary Red Army infantry unit to even rush into such a firepower network and complete a breakthrough.
Alsim, who was responsible for leading the charge, had already expected that this would be the case. The resistance of the Germans on the outer wall of the train station was not tenacious, and their troop deployment was not much. Even the firepower points were sparse. They were concentrated by heavy machine guns.
The fire swept through the wall randomly, and after shooting through the wall, it withered like an eggplant beaten by frost and completely stopped moving, showing no intention of stubborn resistance.
If it were normal, Alsim felt that the Germans would definitely send reinforcements to the station's outer wall.
After all, if the outer wall is lost, it will be the same as a loss of life. In the hands of the Germans who have lost all the remaining defense depth, they will only have the construction area inside the station to rely on for defense.
Even considering the point of "delaying time to wait for reinforcements to arrive", the Germans should not give up the station's outer wall defense so easily. It is extremely abnormal to collapse with less than one battalion casualties.
When things go wrong, there must be monsters. This is a classic philosophy that applies wherever it is used. Alsim firmly believes in this and believes that this is the true portrayal of the situation he is currently encountering.
Since the Germans don’t plan to attack the outside, what about the internal defense? The defense of the internal construction area shouldn’t be given up so easily, right? If that’s the case, what are the Germans going to do next? There’s no defense space left at all.
, is it possible to surrender to the Red Army?
Don't talk nonsense. Alsim doesn't think that these lunatics in the front-line SS field troops would be so weak. If you were replaced by those Italians or Romanians, it would be possible.
Therefore, at the beginning of the attack on the waiting hall, which was the main building of the station, Alsim was sure that the Germans might be up to no good and have an ambush, so he did not rush to attack the next company immediately.
As expected, the intensity of the firepower deployed by the Germans in the waiting hall was many times greater than that on the outer wall of the station. The intensity of the firepower soared almost geometrically.
A squad that Alsim ordered to conduct a trial attack was almost instantly suppressed by the wildly roaring firepower, and was beaten so hard that they could not even lift their heads.
Those insidious and cunning Germans also disposed of all the bunkers that could be moved or destroyed near the entrance of the waiting hall. Except for the fallen soldiers in a squad, the remaining ones could only rely on a few poles in the waiting hall.
The load-bearing pillars were used as bunkers. They were the only things that the Germans could not dismantle and destroy and could still be used as bunkers to block bullets.
"Comrade Company Commander, Telenov and the others were crushed to death by the Germans! We have to rescue them, what should we do!?"
The most capable platoon leader was crouching behind the wall at the entrance of the waiting hall, impatiently seeking orders and methods from the company commander comrade beside him. It was his squad who was responsible for the fire test task.
Alsim, who was also watching and worried, remained calm on the surface. He held his AK with one hand and motioned to the platoon leader next to him to wait with the other hand.
I secretly took a few glances at the situation in the waiting hall from the estimated blind spot of the Germans' field of vision and firepower. I stayed close to the wall and did not dare to make any major movements. I was afraid that the Germans would notice Alsim holding his breath and turning around.
My quick mind quickly came up with a solution.
"Take the rest of your men and go around the gap in the low wall on the side of the waiting hall. It is directly connected to the old storage room of the train station. There is a small side door after entering the storage room. If the Germans didn't open this door,
If they are blocked, you can get directly into their stomachs and see if you can catch them off guard. I am preparing to coordinate your attack from the front, take action!"
The train station design drawing that he obtained in advance became crucial. Alsim, who had seen the entire design drawing and kept it in mind, planned to try this method that he was originally unwilling to try.
Separating an assault team will not only distract the few troops in hand, but also once this team encounters an unexpected event, it will not be able to receive reinforcements and cover from the main force for a while because of the distance and complex terrain. This will
As a result, they were discovered by the German army and quickly surrounded and annihilated. It became a high probability that everyone would be sacrificed.
Alsim didn't like this kind of gambling since he was a child, where he had no confidence in the odds of winning. Whether it was children's games or killing enemies in battles, this has always been the case to this day.
But now there is no other way, Alsim has to take this gamble no matter he doesn't want to gamble.
A frontal assault will inevitably suffer greater losses than the annihilation of the entire assault team. This is a very simple and straightforward multiple-choice question about the number of casualties. As an outstanding and experienced grassroots commander, Alsim naturally knows what choice to make.
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This has nothing to do with his personal preferences, it is simply that he still has to make the best choice in the worst possible situation.