"Yes, I am Kirillov." After Kirillov gave the other party a positive answer, he asked: "Where is Lieutenant Colonel Victor?"
The commander of the second company pointed in the direction of the church and said: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel and the remnants of the third company are trapped in the church."
"Since our troops are trapped, why don't you go to support us?"
"Lieutenant Colonel Kirillov," the second company commander replied with some embarrassment, "I have limited troops, and the road leading to the church is also blocked by German firepower. We can't get through at all."
"The German army blocked your way to the church with fire?" Kirillov repeated the other party's words and asked rudely: "Comrade Captain, who told you this?"
"That's what I said, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." A strange voice suddenly sounded next to him.
Kirillov looked at the speaker and found that he was a middle-aged soldier. He frowned and asked the second company commander: "Comrade Captain, who is he?"
"He just took the risk and came from the direction of the church. He came here specifically to convey my order to Lieutenant Colonel Victor."
"Yes, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel. I was ordered to risk my life and come here to deliver the order."
Kirillov felt that since the other party could come here to convey the order, the belief that the Germans used firepower to blockade the connection between the two armies was not that high.
Thinking of this, he asked: "Did you encounter enemy fire when you came from the church?"
"No." Lokima shook his head and answered the question. Realizing that it might cause misunderstanding, he quickly added: "Including me, the company commander has sent six people to prepare to convey the order. But apart from me,
Except for that, all the other warriors were sacrificed?"
"Ah, they all died?!" Kirillov was very surprised by Lokima's answer, "Then why are you okay?"
"Those comrades who sacrificed their lives were trying to convey orders from their superiors as quickly as possible. They all ran and tried to seal off the area through this firepower. As a result, they all died without exception." Lokima explained: "After I received the order,
, I thought that no matter how fast I ran, I might not be able to run faster than the German bullets, so I crawled over slowly. It took me half an hour to reach a distance of less than 200 meters.
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After listening to Lokima's explanation, Kirillov realized that he had wrongly blamed the other party and quickly apologized to him: "I'm sorry, comrade soldier, I misunderstood you. Please forgive me for my rashness."
Lokima did not expect that Kirillov would take the initiative to apologize to her, and she seemed flustered for a moment, not knowing what to say.
Fortunately, in order to resolve the awkward atmosphere, Kirillov changed the subject and asked Rokima: "Comrade soldier, when you came over, did you see clearly where the enemy's firepower points were arranged?"
Lokima, who was still a little nervous at first, was diverted after hearing this question. He squatted down in the room, picked up a broken brick, put it in front of him and said, "For example, this is a church."
He picked up another brick, placed it a little further away, and continued: "This is where the Second Company is."
When everyone saw Lokima squatting down, they didn't know what he was going to do. When he put the two bricks in the air, everyone understood what he was going to do. Someone immediately turned on the flashlight to illuminate him so that everyone could understand.
See more clearly.
After Lokima thanked the person with the flashlight, he placed a small piece of brick next to the two bricks: "This is the location of the German firepower point, more than sixty meters away from this road, and it is between two
It is very difficult to kill him in the blind spot of the defense zone."
"Lieutenant Colonel Kirillov," as soon as Lokima finished speaking, the second company commander said impatiently: "How about we order the troops to rush over directly. The Germans only have one machine gun. Even if he fires to block it,
We also get a lot of people rushing to the church."
"Comrade Captain, how could you have such a ridiculous idea?" Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Kirillov's face changed drastically. He said in a stern tone: "This comrade soldier also said just now that people can run away.
No matter how fast it is, can it outrun bullets? If we really order the soldiers to forcefully pass through the blockade, it will inevitably cause huge casualties."
"Then what should we do?" The second company commander asked at a loss: "Lieutenant Colonel Kirillov, do you have any good ideas?"
"Comrade soldier," Kirillov did not immediately answer the second company commander's words, but looked at Lokima and asked: "How far is the building we are located from the German firepower point?"
"It's not that far." Lokima replied, "According to my judgment, it's no more than a hundred meters at most."
Kirillov nodded, then turned to the second company commander and said: "Although the German firepower is in the blind spot of the two troops, we can think of other ways to destroy it."
"How to destroy it?" the second company commander asked curiously; "The enemy's firepower point is in our blind spot, how should we destroy it?"
"This is easy to do." Kirillov pointed to the bricks on the ground and said to the second company commander: "Comrade Captain, you immediately send people to the roof, use rocket launchers to destroy the enemy's fire points, and use machine gun fire on the remaining enemies.
Implement repression.”
"Understood." The second company commander nodded, then called a squad leader and told him: "Take people to the roof of the building, use rocket launchers to destroy the enemy's fire points, and use machine gun fire to suppress or eliminate the remaining enemies. Do you understand?"
"
"I understand, comrade company commander." The squad leader agreed, turned around and left the room.
After Kirillov waited for the squad leader to leave the room, he asked Lokima: "Comrade soldier, what is your name?"
"My name is Lokima."
"Comrade Lokima, can you tell me what the situation is like at Lieutenant Colonel Victor's place?"
"It's not good, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." Lokima replied: "We only have more than seventy people left, half of them are wounded, and the ammunition is almost exhausted."
"You captured the German command post, but what about the German commanders? Where are they now?" Kirillov asked: "Were they eliminated by you or captured?"
"None of them, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." Lokima said: "The Germans are very cunning. Before we stormed into the church, their commander hid in the basement. We don't have the weapons to attack the fortress, so we can't seize the basement and eliminate it for the time being.
German officers and soldiers entrenched inside."
When Kirillov was learning about the situation from Lokima, there was suddenly a huge explosion outside, and then there was the sound of machine gun shooting. Kirillov just listened and heard that the shooting was going on.
From the rotary machine guns commonly used by the Soviet army, only sporadic firing of 98K rifles was heard. It seemed that the German officers and soldiers performing the blockade mission had been almost wiped out.
At this time, the troops brought by Kirillov also entered the house where he was. The second company commander belatedly asked: "Lieutenant Colonel Kirillov, how many troops did you bring?"
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"This is the vanguard group." In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Kirillov deliberately exaggerated the facts: "The remaining troops will arrive one after another. Even if the friendly forces cannot break through the German defenses from the south, we still have enough power to eliminate the enemies in the town.
."
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the second company commander who was still in a nervous mood suddenly felt confident. There were more than 2,000 German troops in the town. If Lieutenant Colonel Kirillov's 252nd Division entered the town and annihilated all the enemies,
That's not a big problem.
Kirillov shook his head at Lokima and said: "Comrade Lokima, the German firepower points blocking the passage have been cleared, and we can go to the church."
In a short time, Kirillov led a battalion of troops towards the location of the church.
The third company commander on the position saw so many people suddenly pouring out of the street and thought it was the German army coming to attack. Just when he was ordering the soldiers to prepare for battle, he suddenly heard someone from the opposite side shouting loudly: "Company
Comrade Chang, I am Lokima."
"Lokima?!" The third company commander couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this, and then asked: "Who is next to you?"
"They are comrades from the 252nd Division. They came here specially to support us."
Hearing that it was the 252nd Division that came to support, the commanders and soldiers on the position immediately cheered. The third company commander even stood up and limped forward to greet them.
After Kirillov greeted the third company commander and asked his men to take over the defense, he asked bluntly: "Where is Victor?"
"In the church."
"Take me there quickly."
Victor, who was sitting in the church hall, was thinking about how to deal with the German officers and soldiers hiding in the basement. Suddenly he heard a rush of footsteps. He turned around and saw a familiar figure appearing in front of him. He quickly got up.
He went up to him and raised his hand to salute: "Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Kirillov! I never expected that I would see you here."
"Comrade Commander knows that your battalion is in a very dangerous situation, and the 233rd Division can't count on it, so I have been temporarily transferred from the east side of the town to come to support you." Kirillov briefly introduced the situation.
Finally, he asked: "How is the situation here?"
"The Germans are hiding in the basement below," Kirillov pointed to the basement entrance next to the shrine not far away. "I organized two attacks, but they were unsuccessful. Instead, many people were killed or injured."
"When attacking underground fortifications, you must master the techniques, otherwise even if you suffer heavy casualties, it may be difficult to achieve results."
"Then what should be done?"
After looking around, Kirillov pointed to a corner not far away and said to Victor: "Find an anti-tank man to stand on the rubble over there and bombard the entrance to the basement with rockets.
When the enemy is in confusion, throw grenades downwards. Be careful to let the anti-tank pilots protect themselves to avoid being injured by the flames bouncing back from the wall when launching rockets."
Victor did not dare to neglect, and quickly called an anti-tank soldier and asked him to carry a rocket launcher to the rubble in the corner and fire a rocket towards the entrance of the basement. In order to ensure that he would not be burned by the fireworks, Victor
Duo specially asked someone to find a blanket, soak it in water, and put it on him.
While the anti-tank men were preparing, Victor glanced outside the church and saw many commanders and fighters busy, so he asked curiously: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, how many people have you brought here?"
Even though Kirillov just lied to Lokima, in front of Victor, he told the truth: "There are only two battalions, about 800 people."
Victor originally thought that Kirillov showed up and brought at least one regiment of troops, but now that he heard that there were only two battalions, the smile suddenly froze on his face: "What, there are only two battalions with more than 800 people? How can there be only two battalions?
How about such a small amount of troops?"
Seeing the confusion on Victor's face, Kirillov could only explain to him: "Victor, my division was divided into two parts some time ago. One part is near the army headquarters, and the other part is in the maintenance area.
The Lishankar area is responsible for defense. Since we have been fighting with the enemy and have not received timely reinforcements, the current strength of the entire division does not exceed 3,000.
I heard that you were in danger, so I selected more than 800 experienced veterans and marched here quickly. The Germans in the town were attracted by you to the center of the town and to the south of the town. We entered from the east of the town.
At that time, we only encountered a patrol with a few people, and we easily dealt with them without alerting the enemies in the town at all."
Seeing that the anti-tank men were in place, Victor began to evacuate everyone, trying to stay as far away from the entrance to the basement as possible to avoid being injured by flying shrapnel or gravel.
After a loud "boom", the entrance to the basement was shrouded in thick smoke, and screams and wailings came from inside. Before the smoke cleared, the soldiers who were ordered to drop bombs rushed forward and pulled the ignited grenades.
Throwing it into the entrance. Another series of explosions sounded, and the screams and wails just now stopped abruptly.
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Victor turned to look at Kirillov and said with a face of surprise: "I really didn't expect that the effect was so good. At least the Germans guarding the door were almost killed by rockets and grenades."
He stood up and was about to order the soldiers to rush into the basement, but Kirillov stopped him: "Victor, don't be anxious, wait a moment."
"Wait a minute?" Victor asked puzzledly: "Wait for what?"
Kirillov looked toward the corner of the wall and saw an anti-tank soldier coming down from the rubble. The blanket he was wearing was still steaming. It seemed that if he hadn't been covered by the soaked blanket, his back would have been burned.
Ripe.
The anti-tank man came to Victor, straightened his body and reported to him: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I have completed the mission, please give instructions!"
Just when Victor was about to let this meritorious anti-tank fighter go to rest, Kirillov suddenly said: "Comrade soldier, I have to work hard for you to add another rocket."
Naturally, the anti-tank soldier had to carry out the orders issued by his superiors unconditionally. Just when he turned around and was about to go to the rubble pile again, Kirillov stopped him: "Comrade soldier, you don't have to go to the rubble pile this time, just squat down."
At the door of the basement, just shoot a rocket down."
The anti-tank man agreed, took off the blanket that was still steaming from his body, handed it to a soldier who came over, and then went to find his ammunition man to help him load the rockets.
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Victor asked puzzledly about Kirillov's arrangements: "I think the Germans near the cave entrance are almost dead, why don't they rush in immediately?"
"The enemies near the entrance of the cave are indeed almost dead. But what about the other enemies in the cave?" Before Victor could answer, he asked himself: "Seeing that the defenders at the door were killed by us, the Germans must have
People will be sent to guard as soon as possible to prevent us from rushing in.
At this moment, the smoke at the entrance of the cave has not dissipated. Even if our soldiers rush in, they can't see anything clearly. As for the Germans hiding in the dark, this can be like target shooting and kill them one by one. I let the anti-tank
The hand fired the rocket again to destroy the enemies coming from nearby.
After completing this bombardment, when the smoke dissipates, our soldiers can rush into the basement. I estimate that by then the garrison strength inside will be almost exhausted by us. It will be difficult to capture the German commander.