"Comrade Sergeant," the anti-tank man muttered to Hollor as he saw German troops one after another heading east along the road: "There are so many enemies, how can we fight them?"
"Don't be anxious." After a brief panic, Hollor has returned to normal: "Be patient. After the large German army passes, there may be small lone units, and we can deal with them then."
I thought I would be able to wait for the fighter planes soon, but I waited until two o'clock in the afternoon. Finally, I could no longer see the large German troops on the road. Instead, there were only sporadic small troops and one or two messenger motorcycles, which had no attack value at all.
Seeing this, the anti-tank soldier said disappointedly: "Comrade Sergeant, I think our visit today was in vain. Look, the large German army has passed by, and the remaining small and sporadic units have no attack at all."
The value. I think we should withdraw to a place close to the defense area and set up defenses, and maybe we can achieve some results."
After waiting here for most of the day, but still unable to find a suitable fighter plane, Hollor couldn't help but feel a little anxious. He raised his hand and looked at his watch, thought for a moment, and then said: "Let's wait another half an hour.
, if you still can’t find an ideal attack target, then retreat.”
Half an hour passed by in a flash. Seeing that there was not even a trace of a German on the road at this moment, Hollor couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Just when he was about to order the transfer, the ammunition sat in the ditch and took a nap.
Shou opened his eyes suddenly and said solemnly: "Convoy, a German convoy is coming?"
"Convoy, where is the convoy?" Hearing what the ammunition man said, the anti-tank man said angrily: "Have you not woken up yet and taken what you saw in your dream seriously?"
"That's right, Comrade Sergeant." Seeing Holor looking at him with suspicion, the ammunition man quickly defended: "I really heard the sound of German trucks, at least five of them, heading here.
.”
The anti-tank soldier casually looked at the road outside, pursed his lips, and said disapprovingly: "Where is the convoy? I'll just say you heard it wrong."
But the ammunition hand did not defend himself. Instead, he listened for a moment and suddenly exclaimed: "The enemy's convoy appeared, and it is now no more than 500 meters away from us."
Everyone was dubious about the ammunition man's statement. Hollor also raised his binoculars and carefully observed the direction in which the enemy convoy might appear. At this time, he actually saw a convoy of six covered trucks.
The convoy is driving along the road towards its location.
Although he couldn't see clearly what was in the car, Holler felt that it was impossible for the Germans to send an empty truck to the place where the fighting was fiercest under such circumstances, so the car must contain materials with attack value. He thought
Here, Hollor raised his hand and slapped the ammunition hand hard on the shoulder, and then said: "Your ears are really good, you can hear the sound of trucks from such a distance."
Hollor rolled up his sleeves and said to the anti-tank man: "Give me your rocket launcher, and I will destroy the truck in front."
"Comrade Sergeant, you can't fight like this." The anti-tank man waved his hands and said, "If you attack the leading truck directly, the trucks following behind will turn around and escape at any time."
Even though Holor has the highest rank in the squad, he did not act arbitrarily on how to attack the enemy convoy. Instead, he humbly asked for advice: "Tell me, which target should we attack first?"
"According to my experience, it takes at least a minute or two for a German truck to turn around on the road. In such a long time, we have enough time to severely damage this German convoy." The anti-tank expert said with confidence.
: "Hit the truck in the middle first. When the hit truck is burning on the road, the trucks in front and behind will not be able to escape in a short time. In this way, we can destroy the enemy's convoy in an orderly manner."
When the German convoy passed the location where the team set up an ambush, the anti-tank gunner aimed at the truck in the middle and decisively pulled the trigger. Unexpectedly, the truck was loaded with ammunition. As soon as the rocket hit the target, the truck violently exploded.
of explosion.
When Holor saw this, he couldn't help but screamed, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Hide, hide quickly." After shouting, he had squatted down, his body curled up like a cooked prawn, and he held it tightly with his hands.
Cover your ears, open your mouth wide, and prepare to withstand the huge shock wave attack.
The black smoke raised by the explosion tightly wrapped the German convoy. The explosions in the black smoke were one after another, the sound was one after another, there were explosions and fire everywhere.
The members of the team were all huddled in the ditch, following Holor's example, shrinking down and covering their ears with their hands to avoid being injured by the shock wave of the explosion. But even so, they still felt like they were sitting on the sea.
The small boat was bumping up and down. The flying shrapnel and car spare parts whizzed past the ravine and flew into the woods not far away.
I don't know how long it took, but after the violent explosions gradually subsided, Hollor carefully poked his head out and saw that the road was full of craters, and the bombed-out truck was lying on the road burning.
As for the corpses of the German soldiers, not a single one was seen. In such a violent explosion, let alone anyone who survived, it would be good to have a whole corpse.
"Prepare to transfer." Holor shouted loudly to everyone, but no sound was heard. He realized that his ears were temporarily deafened by the explosion not long ago. He could only walk next to each other.
He went over and patted the soldiers on the shoulders, then pointed in the direction of the woods, indicating that everyone could move.
Fortunately, the soldiers in the small team had understood the mission in advance and saw that the enemy's convoy had been destroyed. Even if Holor didn't say anything, they knew they should move. The soldiers packed up their weapons and followed Holor's instructions.
, heading towards the place set in advance.
A long time after Hollor's team evacuated, a German force of more than 40 people arrived. Seeing the convoy still burning on the road, the German commander immediately ordered the troops to search nearby. Since Hollow and the others had already been
Retreating, the enemy's search was in vain.
After moving to a new nearby location, Hollor felt that his hearing had recovered somewhat, but when listening to others speaking, he always felt as if there was a ball of cotton stuffed in his ears, making it vaguely unclear. In desperation,
Holor had no choice but to gesture to the soldiers, telling them to take cover and prepare to ambush passing enemies again.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, a convoy consisting of one tank, two armored vehicles, and two trucks approached the ambush site of Holor and his companions again.
Seeing this situation, Hollor, whose hearing had basically returned to normal, whispered to the soldiers around him: "Pass it down, calm down, and move the enemy closer before hitting."
When the enemy tank was only more than thirty meters away, Hollor waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Shoot!" As the order was given, the anti-tank man pulled the trigger decisively. Hollor and his team were equipped with
The rockets have an armor-breaking effect within 150 meters. Now firing at such a close distance, let alone ordinary German tanks, even Tiger tanks cannot escape the end of destruction.
After the tank was destroyed, the German officers and soldiers on the armored vehicle behind immediately shouted at the top of their lungs: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, get off the vehicle quickly!" However, before the German soldiers on the armored vehicle could come out, the second rocket arrived.
, easily tore through the weak armor of the armored vehicle and exploded it into a ball of fire.
The soldiers of the fire team saw the truck behind them stop, and then many German soldiers jumped out of the truck, hunched over, and cautiously approached here with guns in hand. The soldiers did not wait for them to get closer, and immediately
Shots were fired, and amid the intensive gunfire, the German soldiers at the front fell to the ground, and the rest quickly fell down on the spot.
Holor roughly counted and found that the enemy had more than 30 soldiers, plus an armored vehicle. His own strength was at a disadvantage. If he fought hard with them, he would definitely not get a good deal, so he ordered the soldiers: "Stay with the fire team."
Three people take cover, and the rest follow me and retreat."
What happened next proved that Holor's worries were unfounded. Although the German army had a numerical advantage, the tanks and armored vehicles they relied on were destroyed, and their combat effectiveness was suddenly greatly reduced. They were going to attack an unknown force.
The enemy had no clue at all. Amidst the heavy gunfire, the German attack seemed weak. As soon as they heard the sound of gunfire from the position, they immediately lay down in the crater and shot, never daring to rush forward easily again.
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The three soldiers who served as cover saw that Holor and other members of the team had successfully retreated to a location 500 meters away from the ambush site. They fired machine guns again at the enemy who was trying to charge. Waiting for the frightened enemy
While they lay down to avoid the bullets, the three soldiers quickly evacuated the position with their weapons.
The squad under the command of Hollor achieved successive victories, but other squads had very few results. In fact, the reason was very simple, as Hollor analyzed to his subordinates, the enemy did not want to waste time in Sokov's defense zone.
own troops, so they only sent some troops for surveillance, while the main force bypassed the defense zone far away and advanced towards the city of Prokhorovka.
The large troops have bypassed the defense area of Sokov's troops, and the scattered small troops will not appear in this area to avoid being attacked by Sokov's troops. In this case, the troops ambushed close to the position
It's amazing that a few small teams can achieve results.
By evening, Sokov asked Koida: "Comrade Colonel, is there any news from the squad?"
Koida replied: "Comrade Commander, I have received reports from six teams so far. There is no trace of the enemy at all in the areas where they are operating."
"What area are they operating in?" Sokov asked.
"Here, Comrade Commander." Koida pointed to the map and introduced the situation to Sokov. "These six teams are basically deployed behind the original position of the 658th Regiment. Unless the enemy takes the initiative to enter their area of activity.
, otherwise there is no possibility of war between the two sides."
"So that's it." After listening to Koida's words, Sokov immediately understood why these troops had not achieved any results. You must know that the main target of the German army today is the city of Prokhorovka.
He would advance eastward as quickly as possible if he wanted to defend the positions that were being defended. He had no interest in fighting the Soviet army in these inconsequential areas. Thinking of this, he shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I really don't understand these small teams.
What did the commander think? The area where they were operating was not on the German advance route at all, so it was surprising that they could achieve results."
After thinking about what Koidasokov said carefully, he felt that it was quite reasonable. Since the German army had broken through the position abandoned by the 658th Regiment, they must have been advancing towards the city of Prokhorovka at the fastest speed. How could it be possible?
Directly breaking into the activity area of the anti-tank team?
"Comrade Colonel, you said that six teams reported that they had not achieved any results." Since it was impossible for these six teams to achieve any results, Sokov no longer paid attention to them, but continued to ask: "Then
What about the other four teams? They can’t and haven’t achieved any results, right?”
When he said this, Sokov felt particularly heavy. He thought about how much he had praised Zhukov, saying that the ten teams sent would definitely achieve huge results. However, after one day, there were six teams.
There is no achievement. If the remaining four teams also have mediocre results, then what awaits them will be Zhukov's storm.
"I'm sorry, Comrade Commander." Unexpectedly, after hearing Sokov's question, Koida shook his head and said, "I haven't received any reports about them." After saying this, he
He also specifically added, "The six teams I mentioned are all drawn from our division. The other four teams are from the 182nd Division and three brigades respectively. I'm afraid you can only get them from them."
, in order to get the most accurate report.”
Sokov felt that what Koida said made sense. The small teams that carried out the mission this time were drawn from existing divisions and brigades. If the commanders of those small teams wanted to report their work, their first choice would definitely be their immediate superiors.
, instead of himself as the commander. In order to find out the results of the other four squads, Sokov personally called the brigade commanders and asked them if they had any news about the squads.
After questioning Lieutenant Colonel Uzakov and Lieutenant Colonel Dobrushin, they found out that the small teams sent by the two men only eliminated some scattered soldiers who had fallen behind, and killed less than thirty people in total. For such a result, it is simply
Naturally, Cove would not be satisfied. The purpose of sending his small squad was to deal with the German tanks, not to eliminate some insignificant infantry. If he wanted to eliminate the enemy's infantry, he would launch two new rockets at the enemy's densely populated areas.
, the results achieved will also be more brilliant.
It wasn't until he called Colonel Chuvashov that Sokov finally heard something he was interested in: "Comrade Commander, I am preparing to report to you. The small team commanded by Sergeant Hollor eliminated the German army.
A convoy transporting ammunition destroyed a tank and an armored vehicle and killed more than thirty German soldiers."