After the two discussed the battle plan, Major Bunch began to issue combat orders through the vehicle radio: "Attention, all crews, pay attention, all crews, immediately drive off the road and enter the nearby forest to ambush."
The forest is more than 120 meters away from the road. At such a short distance, even if the Soviet tanks are at a disadvantage in terms of number, they can easily eliminate the tanks on the road. In order to better eliminate the German tanks, Gucha
Kove also placed five anti-tank groups in the grass between the road and the forest.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the German troops reinforcing October Town appeared in Guchakov's field of vision. Although it was less than a hundred meters away from the road, he could see the enemy clearly even without a telescope, but he still stood in command
On the tank, he held a telescope to observe the enemy's situation.
After watching for a while, he stuck his head into the open turret mouth and said to Major Bunch inside: "Comrade Major, the enemy has about twenty tanks, basically No. 3 or No. 4 tanks. No Leopards have been found.
And Tiger tanks. About two battalions of infantry, moving with the tanks."
After Major Bunch waited for Guchakov to finish speaking, he said with a smile: "Major Guchakov, if we want to destroy the enemy's tanks, we can only use armor-piercing bullets, and the infantry will be destroyed by you."
"No problem." Guchakov said carelessly: "In front of you, in addition to deploying five anti-tank groups, I also deployed eight machine guns, which can completely suppress the enemy's charge." He did not tell the other party.
, his trump card is the new rocket launcher positioned at the edge of the forest, which is a powerful weapon against German troops.
Marching at the front of the German column was a Panzer IV tank. The commander was a tank crew second lieutenant named August. He leaned half out of the tank turret and kept looking at the surrounding environment. But the reinforcements
When he began to enter the ambush circle set by Guchakov, August felt something was not right. Except for the sound of their own march, the surroundings were silent. Looking up at the sky, there was not even a bird except the wind.
It was too quiet, so quiet that it became more and more terrifying. He felt his scalp numb for no reason, his heartbeat accelerated, and his vest felt cold. He always felt like he was being watched by something.
August looked at the forest on the side of the road. Although he didn't know what was wrong, he felt uneasy no matter what. He asked the driver to stop the tank and prepared to observe the surrounding situation clearly before continuing forward. He
He turned to the infantryman walking next to the tank and shouted: "Hey, Corporal!"
Following his shout, a corporal squeezed out of the crowd, ran to the side of the tank, looked up at August and asked: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, what are your instructions?"
August pointed to the forest on the roadside with his hand and told the corporal: "Corporal, I think there seems to be something in the forest. Please take a few people over to have a look."
Although the corporal was extremely reluctant to do this kind of task of exploring the road, after all, the other party's military rank was much higher than his own, so he had no choice but to call a few subordinates, leave the road with guns in hand, and prepare to search in the forest.
Seeing several German soldiers preparing to come over to search, Guchakov couldn't help but secretly lament that it was a pity that this plan could never keep up with changes. No matter how carefully he thought about its implementation, unexpected situations would always happen.
He lowered his head and said to Major Bunch in the tank: "Comrade Major, seeing that the enemy has noticed our presence, it is obviously impossible to wait for them all to enter our ambush circle, so we can only take action in advance."
"Understood." Major Bunch agreed, and then used the on-board radio to notify his subordinates: "Attention, each crew, pay attention, each crew. Lock the corresponding target according to the location."
Guchakov, who was standing on the tank, suddenly noticed that the semicircular tank turret was slowly rotating. When the muzzle pointed at the German tank in the distance, it stopped. He knew that the tank was about to fire.
He quickly shouted to the soldiers behind him: "The artillery is about to fire, cover your ears quickly!"
As soon as he covered his ears, he heard a roar of a cannon, a meter-long flame spitting out from the long and thick barrel, and the whole car shook violently. If everyone hadn't been prepared for it, it would definitely have happened.
Someone was knocked out of the car.
Guchakov saw the shells coming out of the barrel and flying towards the tanks in the distance. A moment later, there was a huge collision sound, and the body of the German Panzer IV tank shook violently.
Seeing that the tank shook for a moment and then stopped moving, Guchakov thought in confusion: "Is it a dumb bomb? Otherwise, why didn't it sound?" Just as he was thinking this, a huge explosion sounded, and a column of fire was like a pillar.
Like a volcanic eruption, it erupted from the open hatch, only rushing out to a height of twenty or thirty meters. Then, the ammunition in the vehicle exploded, directly blowing the turret into the sky. The turret fell from the sky, and the two people had no time to dodge.
The German soldiers were smashed into pulp.
Now that Major Bunch's tank had opened fire, his men were not to be outdone and fired at the German tanks parked on the road. The armor-piercing shells fired by seven of the tanks accurately hit the target, turning the German tanks into swarms on the road.
Burning torches. The other four vehicles that missed their target also knocked down the crowded German soldiers.
The German troops who were suddenly attacked were immediately in chaos. Some were scurrying around like headless flies, and some were curled up on the ground holding their heads and howling desperately. And the German corporal who led his men off the road to conduct reconnaissance,
Seeing that the troops on the road were attacked by unknown sources, they dared to go to the forest for reconnaissance. They were so frightened that they threw themselves on the ground to avoid the shrapnel flying in all directions.
Seeing the tank firing, the infantry ambushed in the grass did not dare to show weakness. The soldiers of the anti-tank team stood up from the grass with a rocket launcher, aimed at the enemy tank and pulled the trigger. As soon as they completed the shooting action, they immediately crouched
Next, wait for your comrades to help you load ammunition.
After all, the German army was well-trained. After a brief panic, the officer who was the first to recover, brandished his pistol, drove his men off the road, and launched a charge towards the location of the Soviet tanks and anti-tank teams.
At this time, eight machine guns hidden in the grass opened fire. Under the fierce machine gun fire, the front row of infantry quickly fell into the grass, but the soldiers behind continued to charge without fear.
The corpses of their companions rushed forward. In the dense Soviet fire net, more German soldiers fell. Their corpses overlapped the corpses of those who died in the previous attack, and were beaten by the impact of the bullets.
Seeing the enemy's desperate charge, Guchakov quickly shouted to Major Bunch: "Comrade Major, hurry up and bombard the enemy with high-explosive bombs to cover our charge."
"Understood." Major Bunch simply replied, and then conveyed the order to his subordinates through the vehicle radio: "Attention, all crews, pay attention, all crews, immediately switch to high-explosive bombs to cover the infantry charge."
Standing on the body of the tank, Guchakov saw the high-explosive bombs fired by the tank battalion falling into the enemy's ranks and exploding. The air waves of the explosion threw the enemies into the air one after another. After disintegrating in the air, they fell apart again.
When the ground fell, he pulled out his pistol, half-turned around and shouted at the commanders and soldiers hidden in the forest: "Comrades, for the motherland! For Stalin! Forward! Charge~!"
After shouting the slogan, Guchakov waved his pistol, jumped out of the tank, and led several of his men to charge towards the enemy. The commanders and soldiers hidden in the forest, seeing Guchakov leading the charge, also jumped from the ground.
He stood up, holding his weapon, shouting "Ula", and rushed towards the enemy in front.
The German officers and soldiers who were suppressed by Soviet machine gun fire saw hundreds of Soviet commanders and fighters suddenly rushing out of the deep forest. They dared not fight, so they quickly turned around and ran back. At first it was a retreat, but later it simply turned into a retreat.
It became a rout.
Now that the enemy has fled, Guchakov's infantry and Major Bunch's tanks follow the enemy at a short distance. Once they find that the enemy begins to flee to both sides, they use tank cannon or machine gun fire to kill the two.
The enemy on the flank rushed back to the road, forcing them to clear the way for themselves in front.
In this way, the German troops fled in front and the Soviet troops chased behind.
When the defeated troops approached the town of Kazachia Compass, the German officers and soldiers stationed on the position outside the town saw that their troops were retreating towards the town, being chased by the Soviet army. For fear of accidentally injuring their own people, the German officers and soldiers on the position
The German commander did not dare to give the order to fire, and could only watch helplessly as the Soviet tanks and infantry rushed in front of them.
The tanks took the lead in breaking through the German outer positions, but they did not pause at all and continued to rush towards the town. In addition to leaving one company to clear out the remaining enemies, Guchakov also rushed into Kazach with two other companies.
Yaluopan Town.
After entering the town, Guchakov unexpectedly discovered that there seemed to be more defenders in the town than he had imagined. They hid in buildings on both sides of the street, throwing anti-tank grenades and explosive packets at the tanks driving on the street.
.Two tanks were unable to dodge and were immediately blown up by the enemy.
Seeing this, Guchakov quickly handed over to Captain Yegor, the commander of the second company, and ordered the other party: "Comrade Captain, immediately send a platoon to follow the tanks. We must not let the enemy blow up our tanks again."
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Yegor waited for Guchakov to finish and quickly reminded him: "There are more German troops in the town than we thought. Should we stop first and wait for the main force to arrive before continuing?
It’s not too late to attack.”
"Can't stop." Guchakov didn't know that he was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, but if he stopped at this time, it would give the German army time to adjust its deployment. By then, when the main force arrived, they would probably have to pay huge casualties.
Only in this way can the enemy in the town be eliminated or driven away, so he decisively rejected Yegor's proposal: "If we stop now, the enemy will have a chance to breathe, and they can use this time to readjust their defense deployment.
We don’t know when the main force will arrive. If the enemy has already perfected its defenses when they arrive, we will have to pay huge casualties if we want to capture the town."
"Operator," Guchakov called the telegraph operator who was following him after sending Yegor away, and ordered him: "Send a telegram to the regiment headquarters immediately, saying that our battalion has successfully rushed into Kazachya.
Luopan Town, there are more defenders in the town than we thought. With our current strength, we simply cannot capture the town. We request the main force to come over as soon as possible for reinforcements."
Unexpectedly, after Guchakov finished speaking, he saw the operator in a daze and couldn't help raising his voice and asked: "Comrade operator, why haven't you sent the report yet?"
"Comrade Battalion Commander," the radio operator said with a sad face: "The walkie-talkie was broken at some point, and we can't get in touch with the regiment headquarters."
When he learned that the walkie-talkie had been damaged and had lost contact with the regiment headquarters, Guchakov couldn't help but became anxious: "Why don't you fix it quickly?"
"It can't be repaired, comrade battalion commander." The operator showed Guchakov the part of the phone where the bullet was shot: "The parts are smashed and the battery is also punctured. It cannot be repaired at all."
The walkie-talkie cannot be repaired, which makes Guchakov a little crazy. You must know that the combined strength of himself and the tank battalion can only disrupt the defenders in the town at best. Not only cannot they eliminate them, but they may even be surrounded by them.
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Just when he was extremely anxious, he accidentally saw a two-wheeled motorcycle lying on the side of the road. The owner of the motorcycle was lying on all fours next to the motorcycle, lifeless.
Guchakov walked over and helped up the motorcycle, turned to the operator and asked: "Can you ride a motorcycle?"
"Yes, Comrade Battalion Commander, I can ride a motorcycle." The operator explained to Guchakov: "As a communications soldier, being able to ride a motorcycle is a basic skill..."
"Okay, stop talking." Guchakov handed the motorcycle to the radio operator and ordered without explanation: "Immediately ride this motorcycle back on the same road and ask for help from the first unit you encounter.
Our situation is critical, so they must rush over to reinforce us as soon as possible."
After hearing this, the radio operator stupidly asked: "Comrade Battalion Commander, our current situation is not critical at all."
Guchakov glared and said dissatisfiedly: "Just because it's not critical now doesn't mean there won't be a critical situation later. You have to know that the enemy has much more troops than we do."
The trained radio operator did not dare to refute, so he quickly got on his motorcycle and headed towards the north of the town. What the radio operator had in mind was that if he did not meet any friendly troops on the road, then I would rush to October Town and march towards the occupied town.
The friendly forces there asked for help and asked them to rush over to reinforce the battalion commander and them.
Shortly after the radio operator left, the situation in the town began to turn bad just as Guchakov had ordered. The Germans, who had regained their composure, took advantage of their numerical advantage and pressed forward from several directions at the same time, forcing Guchakov to
Husband and Major Bunch had to withdraw the remaining troops into a nearby hospital and use the buildings here to resist the German attack.
When Major Bunch saw Guchakov peeking in from the open hatch again, he sighed and said to him: "Major Guchakov, our artillery shells are almost gone, and there are not many machine gun bullets left.
For the battle down here, we can only rely on you infantry."
"Don't worry." Guchakov said with a smile: "As long as one of our infantrymen is alive, we will definitely ensure your safety."