Although the old man has always had the habit of procrastinating when doing things, the emergency meeting that Belgin convened with political workers took less than an hour from the notification to the end of the meeting. It seems that this scene made Sokov secretly
I sighed, it seems that fighting is better, it can actually improve their efficiency.
In the evening, the Germans once again shelled the Third Battalion's position. After receiving this news, Sokov said to Belkin: "Comrade Political Commissar, I will go to the Third Battalion's position to take a look. You will be responsible for this."
"Okay," Belkin knew that Sokov liked to run forward, so he did not dissuade him, but reminded him with concern: "You have to pay more attention to safety."
"I will." When Sokov left the command post, he suddenly stopped and said to Belkin: "Alitai's tank company has been deployed on the left wing of the third battalion. We are just waiting for the enemy tanks to attack again.
They can be ordered to attack from the enemy's flank and strive to destroy the enemy's tank troops in one fell swoop."
"Understood," Belkin nodded and said, "As soon as I receive your call from the Third Battalion, I will immediately order the tank company to attack from the enemy's flank."
When Sokov left the command post, a thought suddenly occurred to him: "Now that the army has become a brigade, it seems necessary to add a chief of staff."
Sokov led a guard platoon and took three jeeps and three trucks to the Third Battalion's station. Unexpectedly, just as he entered the eastern area of the city, the speed of the vehicles in front slowed down. Sokov thought that the vehicles were passing through the intersection.
Due to the barricades, I had to slow down my speed, so I didn’t take it seriously.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the car in front actually stopped. Seeing that the car stopped, Sokov said to the guard platoon leader sitting in the passenger seat: "Comrade platoon leader, go out and take a look, what happened outside?"
Thing, why did the convoy stop?"
The platoon leader got off the car and went to the front to check, and then came back and reported to Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, there are comrades from the Third Battalion in front who are organizing the transfer of residents and blocking the road. I think we need to wait for a while.
"
"Organize the transfer of residents?" After listening to the platoon leader's report, Sokov also opened the door and got out of the car. He stood next to the car and looked forward. He saw groups of panic-stricken residents, carrying various
When the luggage, guided by the soldiers, came along the street towards the location of his convoy, Sokov couldn't help but frowned: "Comrade platoon leader, do you know what is going on?"
"I don't know, Comrade Brigade Commander." Hearing Sokov's stern tone, the platoon leader said in a panic: "I'm going to find out." After saying that, he quickly ran forward.
Not long after, the platoon leader came over with a second lieutenant: "Comrade Brigadier, this is the guard platoon leader of the third battalion. He can give you a satisfactory answer to what you want to know."
"Comrade Second Lieutenant," Sokov asked with a straight face, looking at the guard platoon leader of the third battalion, "Where are you planning to move the residents?"
"That's right, Comrade Brigadier." The second lieutenant obviously knew Sokov's identity, so he answered truthfully: "According to the order of the battalion headquarters, all the residents living here will be moved to a safe place. Maybe it won't take long.
, this place will become a battlefield.”
"Where do you plan to place them?" Sokov asked briefly after waiting for the second lieutenant to finish.
"Place them in a movie theater, a station or a hotel in the city center." After the second lieutenant answered this question, before Sokov could ask again, he said first, "This is a task assigned by political commissar Belkin." Listen.
Saying that it was arranged by Belkin, Sokov said nothing more and just waved to the second lieutenant, indicating that he could leave.
When the residents were almost gone, the convoy continued to move forward. Sokov, who was sitting in the car, thought to himself: It seems that Belgin also felt that the third battalion might not be able to hold the position in the east of the city, so he took precautions and rushed to the east of the city.
Residents in this area have moved to safer areas. But this is good, because if street fighting does break out, they don't have to worry about using a rat weapon.
The convoy left the city and drove forward for a few minutes before arriving at the position where the Third Battalion was stationed. This defense fortification was five kilometers wide in front and two kilometers deep. It was currently being shelled by the Germans. In order to prevent the convoy from breaking into the enemy
The artillery fire covered the area and cost him his life. Sokov ordered the convoy to stop. After some observation, Sokov ordered the soldiers to abandon the vehicle and walk to the battalion command post of the third battalion.
Fortunately, the enemy's artillery fire was concentrated on the first line of defense of the third battalion, and not many shells landed near the battalion headquarters. Therefore, Sokov and his guard platoon were able to successfully reach Andre's headquarters.
When Andrei saw Sokov appearing at his headquarters, he couldn't help being shocked: "Comrade Brigade Commander, why are you here?"
"Let me take a look at the situation here." Sokov asked directly: "How are you doing? Can you block the enemy's attack?"
"It should be able to block the enemy's attack," Andre said with a bitter look on his face: "But the casualties are a bit high. So far, the number of casualties in the entire battalion has exceeded 500."
"What, the number of casualties exceeds five hundred?" When he learned this number, Sokov was shocked. After only a few hours of fighting with the Germans, the number of casualties in the third battalion actually reached one-third. He
He used binoculars to look at the place that had been hit the hardest and asked: "Which company is the unit currently holding on to the first line of convenience?"
"It's the second company, comrade brigade commander." Upon hearing Sokov's question, Andrei hurriedly replied: "The first company suffered heavy casualties in the previous battle, so I replaced the second company."
"Who is the commander of the second company?" Since it had just been expanded into a brigade, Sokov was not familiar with the commanders at all levels below. "Is he capable of holding the position?"
"It's Second Lieutenant Yegor. He is a soldier with rich combat experience. He has been following you in the north and south since Khimki." Andrei said confidently: "I believe he will be able to hold his position.
."
Sokov knew very well that the special platoon that followed him from the town of Khimki suffered heavy casualties in a series of battles, but the remaining members are now serving as commanders at all levels in the army. Although
I am not familiar with Yegor, but I believe that he will not disappoint me in the next battle.
In the first line of defense that was bombarded, although the soldiers were hiding in strong reinforced concrete fortifications, under the intense German artillery fire, some fortifications were still blown down, burying all the soldiers hiding inside alive.
Seeing the first line of defense shrouded in gunpowder smoke, Sokov gritted his teeth and said: "The damn Germans are actually bombarding our positions with heavy artillery. Sooner or later, I will let you taste the power of our artillery."
After the German artillery bombardment ended, the infantry that had regrouped again launched a charge towards the third battalion's position under the cover of tanks. Sokov picked up the phone on the table and shouted into the phone: "Comrade Political Commissar
, immediately gave orders to Alitai’s tank company to attack from the German flank and destroy the enemy’s tanks.”
When Alitai's tank company was detouring from the north to the east of Kursk, two tanks broke down on the road due to malfunctions. Now there are only eighteen tanks left that can be put into battle. After receiving the order to attack from Belkin
After that, he immediately rushed towards the German troops who were attacking the third battalion's position like lightning.
The German tanks prepared to repeat their same tactics, stopping five hundred meters away from the position and using tank fire to suppress the third battalion, which did not have long-range anti-tank weapons. But this time they miscalculated. Just as they were adjusting their formation, the Soviet troops
The tank company had already rushed over from the side and attacked them from a distance of three to four hundred meters.
The tank crews stayed in the tanks and had a very narrow field of vision. They did not notice the Soviet tanks rushing from the flanks at all. After half of the tanks were destroyed by high-explosive armor-piercing shells fired by Soviet tanks, the remaining tanks were still slowly moving forward.
Adjust formation and prepare to bombard Soviet positions.
The German infantry following behind saw a Soviet tank unit suddenly rushing out from the flank, and they couldn't help but get confused. Some continued to rush forward, some turned around and ran back, while some soldiers directly charged towards the Soviet tank unit.
The tank launched a charge. However, before they could get close to the tank, they were eliminated by the Soviet tank's on-board machine gun.
Sokov saw what was happening in the distance through the telescope, quickly picked up the phone again, connected to the brigade headquarters, and said to Belkin who answered the phone: "Comrade political commissar, immediately give the order to the artillery company and let them shell."
The enemy's artillery positions cover our army's upcoming assault."
As soon as Sokov put down the phone, he immediately said to Andre: "Third Battalion Commander, our artillery is about to bombard the enemy's artillery position. Now is the best time for you to counterattack. Order the troops to attack immediately."
If he hadn't seen Alitai's tank company, which was on the battlefield like target practice, destroying enemy tanks one after another, Andrei might have hesitated to carry out Sokov's order.
It took a long time. But now he saw that the German tanks were being destroyed continuously, the infantry was in chaos, and the artillery positions that might pose a threat to him were about to be suppressed by his own artillery fire. Andre quickly walked to the phone
, picked up the microphone and gave orders to his subordinates: "Second Company, Third Company, listen to my order, immediately attack across the board, follow our tanks to eliminate the enemies who are in chaos."
Although the tank company continued to destroy German tanks, without the cooperation of the infantry, just relying on a dozen tanks of the tank company to launch a counterattack against the enemy, Lieutenant Alitai felt that this was a suicide move. Until he saw
When the Soviet infantry jumped out of the trenches and charged towards the chaotic German army, he ordered his communications troops to use signal flags to notify other tanks to cover the infantry and continue to attack the enemy.
Sokov frowned when he saw that the connection between the Alita tank companies was actually done through signal flags. For a small-scale battle like this, using signal flags to communicate was barely justified. If there were hundreds of people in the future,
It is obviously unrealistic to use signal flags to communicate with two tanks in a melee. Not only will the smoke on the battlefield block the sight of the tank crews, but also when the battle is fierce, who will bother to look at the signals sent by the command tanks. It seems that waiting for this
After the first battle, consider installing communication equipment on each tank.
Nearly a thousand soldiers attacked from the position, following a dozen tanks, chasing the hurriedly fleeing German troops. Weber saw the Soviet tanks rushing out from the flanks, destroyed his own tanks, and covered the infantry towards where he was.
A charge was launched at the position, and orders were quickly given to the artillerymen to use artillery fire to intercept the Soviet offensive troops.
However, he did not expect that as soon as the artillery fired two rounds, it was suppressed by the heavy artillery in Kursk city, and it was soon silenced. Seeing that its own artillery fire was suppressed by the Soviet army, the German army seemed more and more confused. Seeing this situation,
The German Chief of Staff quickly proposed to Weber: "Mr. Colonel, the Russian tanks are coming. I think it is better to bring up the 14th Company and let them deal with the Russian tanks. As long as the Russian tanks are killed, all the Russian tanks will be destroyed."
This attack launched will end in failure."
Weber never dreamed that the Soviet army would counterattack him, and was caught off guard. After hearing the proposal from the Chief of Staff, he immediately gave an order to the 14th Company to use anti-tank guns to destroy the Soviet tanks.
After receiving the order, the officers and soldiers of the 14th Company immediately unloaded the anti-tank gun from the back of the truck, turned the muzzle, and fired at the rushing Soviet tanks. Because the shelling was carried out in a hurry, what happened in the first round
All the shells were empty. When the anti-tank gunners saw that the first shell was empty, they immediately reloaded and fired the second round.
In this shooting, although most of the shells missed, two shells still hit the target. However, they did not penetrate the front armor of the T-34, but bounced away, leaving only traces on the armor.
A few white marks.
Seeing that the anti-tank guns were unable to penetrate the armor of the Soviet tanks, the muscles on Weber's face couldn't help but twitch violently. Just when he was about to order the anti-tank gun battery to continue firing, the chief of staff approached him and said anxiously: "
Mr. Colonel, I think we should retreat immediately. If we stay any longer, we will become prisoners of the Russians."
Seeing the hurriedly fleeing subordinates and the anti-tank artillery battery that was unable to penetrate the Soviet tank armor and was still firing in vain, Weber hesitated for a moment, and then gave the order in a panic: "Retreat, retreat immediately!" After finishing speaking,
, ordered his driver to turn around and flee first.
The anti-tank artillerymen who were firing saw their infantry running back in a panic. They were already panicking. Now that they saw Weber actually abandoning his troops and running away, they had no intention of continuing to fight and threw away the anti-tank guns.
, also followed the armored vehicle that Weber was riding in, and fled eastward in a hurry.