"Battle alert!" the platoon leader shouted at the top of his lungs. His voice was particularly loud in the silent night, but he was worried that his shout would not wake up the sleeping soldiers, so he blew the whistle hanging around his neck hard.
Whistle. The sharp whistle sounded throughout the entire position.
As the whistle sounded, the soldiers who were awakened from their sleep rushed out of the shelter one after another with their weapons in hand and ran towards their respective shooting positions amid the shouts of their squad leaders.
Seeing that all his soldiers had entered the shooting position, the platoon commander lay beside Grisa and reported: "Comrade company commander, all the platoons are in position."
"Everyone listen to my command!" The light on the position was too dark. Except for a few soldiers around him, Grisa could not see where the other soldiers were, so he raised his voice and shouted to the left and right: "Get ready to fight!
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Immediately after his shout, there was the sound of pulling the bolt of a gun. Grisa turned to the signal soldier squatting behind him and said: "You find a safe place to hide, and fire a flare every two minutes. Understood."
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"Understood, comrade company commander." The signal soldier agreed, bent down and ran away.
When the new flares rose into the air, the soldiers lying in the trenches were shocked when they saw the water in front of the position was full of German soldiers moving towards the position. They originally thought that the so-called battle alarm was just a warning.
A dozen or twenty German soldiers made a sneak attack, but at this moment, there were more than 200 enemies in sight, which made some new soldiers who had never fought in a war feel frightened and their bodies began to tremble uncontrollably.
The German commander who was staying by the river saw that his actions were discovered by the Soviet army. While ordering the troops advancing through the water to speed up, he also ordered people to set up a machine gun position on the river bank and started shooting at the Soviet position.
Listening to the bullets whizzing past their heads, some new soldiers were so frightened that they squatted in the trenches, while others turned around and prepared to flee the place. Fortunately, they were caught by the veterans beside them, and they were beaten and scolded to make them go back to the trenches.
Returning to one's position prevented the appearance of deserters.
With the help of the light from the flares, Grisa silently calculated in his mind how far away the German army was from the position. When the enemy was still 150 meters away from the position, Grisa yelled: "Hit~~!" After shouting,
, he took the lead and fired a shot at the enemy with his pistol.
A pistol fired at such a long distance has no lethality at all, but the sound of the gun is the signal to fire. Suddenly, the sound of gunfire like exploding beans rang out from the position. Whether it was a machine gun, a rifle or a submachine gun, they all fired at the enemy at the same time.
Hearing the sudden sound of gunshots, the German soldiers who were marching hard in the water immediately sped up and ran. They all knew that in such deep water, they could not lie down on the ground to hide. In that case, even if
If you are not killed by Soviet bullets, you will be drowned. If you want to survive, you must rush forward quickly and rush into the Soviet position as quickly as possible.
Since the army had replenished a large number of soldiers after occupying Kursk, Grisa's company had as many as 400 soldiers. At this moment, the platoon blocking the enemy on the position had more than 100 soldiers, one more than the friendly army.
The company has a large number of people. However, except for dozens of veterans, the rest are all new recruits. Even though these recruits have served as militiamen or received military training, they looked panicked when facing the enemy.
He fired desperately at the enemy, but few bullets hit the target. He only opened the water around the German soldiers as if they were boiling.
The soldiers who were still operating the machine guns were all veterans of the army. They used the captured MG34 machine guns to shoot wildly at the rushing enemies, knocking them down in pieces in the water. Without them, the German soldiers might have
He had already rushed to the front of the position and started close combat and hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers in the trenches.
Seeing that the firepower on the Soviet position was too fierce, the German troops continued to charge forward, and they would only end up dead, so they turned around and ran back. Seeing that the enemy dropped nearly a hundred corpses in the water area and retreated, a long platoon
He said loudly to Grisa: "Comrade company commander, we are here, you should go back to the company headquarters first. Don't worry, we will definitely block the enemy's attack."
Grisa saw that although the enemy had been repelled, there were still enemies crossing the river from the other side. He was worried that it would be difficult to hold the position with just one platoon of soldiers, so he returned to the company headquarters and summoned the other two platoon leaders.
, assigned combat missions to them. Later, he made a call to the brigade headquarters and reported the battle that occurred here to the personnel on duty there.
The sound of gunfire in the south of the city woke Sokov from his sleep. He sat up from the cot, rubbed his eyes and asked Belkin, who was also surprised: "Comrade Political Commissar, have you heard the gunfire from outside?"
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"The gunshots were very intensive." Even though Belkin was now a political worker, he had also been a military cadre before. He listened for a while and then said to Sokov: "It seems to be coming from the south of the city. Could it be that it is coming from the south of the city?"
Is the enemy attacking the position of the 2nd Battalion and 1st Company?"
Sokov bent over and put on his boots and strode outside: "Let's go, Comrade Political Commissar, let's go to the headquarters and find out whether there is a battle going on in the defensive positions of Grisa Company."
Coming to the war room next door, Sokov asked the busy staff: "What's going on with the gunfire outside? Where is the fighting taking place?"
A staff officer quickly straightened up and reported to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I have verified that the position south of the city was attacked by the German army and a battle is ongoing."
When he learned that it was indeed the area defended by Grysa, and that a battle had begun with the enemy, Sokov couldn't help but feel nervous. He quickly asked: "What's the situation now?"
"The enemy's first attack has been repelled by our army." The staff officer replied: "The casualties of the troops were not large. Only a dozen soldiers died and 20 were injured."
"Get me connected to the forward position immediately," Sokov told his staff, knowing that if he wanted to get a comprehensive report, he could only ask Grisa in person, "I want to speak to Lieutenant Grisa in person."
After the call was connected, Sokov heard Grisa's voice coming from the receiver and immediately asked impatiently: "Lieutenant Grisa, give me a detailed report on the battle that took place there."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, the situation is like this. More than half an hour ago, a sentry reported to me that he heard something coming from the river, so I rushed to check..." Grisa said on the phone,
After introducing what happened to Sokov in detail, he said: "Currently, I have mobilized the second and third platoons to prepare them to support the first platoon at any time."
"Well done, Lieutenant Grisa." After listening to Grisa's report, Sokov expressed his approval, and then said: "Don't worry, you are not fighting alone, I will provide you with the necessary help.
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After ending the call with Grisa, Sokov used another phone to call the artillery company. He said to Porochenko who answered the phone: "Comrade Lieutenant, the position in the south of the city is being attacked by the enemy. I
You are ordered to immediately send artillery observers to establish observation posts so that they can provide them with necessary artillery support."
Just after assigning tasks to his men, Rotmistrov called from his army headquarters. He asked on the phone: "Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, my men reported to me that
Fierce gunfire came from the south of the city, what happened?"
"The German army sent a unit to quietly cross the Tenebra River and tried to sneak attack the position of the 2nd Battalion and 1st Company. But when they were crossing the river, they were discovered by our vigilant sentries, so their sneak attack turned into a strong attack
." Sokov said into the microphone: "Thanks to the timely response of the commanders and fighters of the first company, the enemy's attack has been repelled, but our army's casualties were not large."
"Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, we are friendly forces." Rotmistrov said with a smile on the phone: "If you need it, just call me and I will provide you with the necessary help."
Hearing what Rotmistrov said, Sokov immediately made a mental calculation: the terrain there was not conducive to the use of tanks, but after the tank army received supplies from the warehouse, it had two artillery battalions. If
With their cooperation, there would be enough artillery fire to destroy the German attacking troops. Thinking of this, he quickly said into the microphone: "Comrade General, the terrain in the south of the city is not conducive to the use of tank troops, so I hope you can provide our troops with
Artillery support wiped out all the German troops crossing the river."
Regarding Sokov's request, Rotmistrov was silent for only a moment before agreeing: "No problem. I will let the artillery director contact your artillery company commander to discuss ways to coordinate operations and jointly eliminate the special forces."
Enemies by the Niebra."
After the first wave of German attacks were repelled, the German commander did not hastily launch a second attack. Instead, he contacted the other side by radio and asked the other side to send several mortars in preparation for suppressing the Soviet positions with artillery fire.
machine gun firepower, covering the infantry to launch another attack.
After waiting for about half an hour, five mortar groups were sent from the other side. The German commander said to these artillerymen: "Your mission is to destroy the Russian machine gun fire points and cover our infantry charging towards the Russian positions."
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A gunner waited for the commander to finish and then asked cautiously: "What about the Russians in the trenches? Do you care about them?"
"Judging from the battle just now, they are all new recruits, and their shooting is not accurate at all. The only troublesome thing is their machine guns. Those machine gunners are obviously veterans, and their guns are very accurate. Our first
When an attack failed, two-thirds of the soldiers fell under the muzzle of the machine gun." The German commander said to the mortar crews with a serious expression: "Therefore, you must do everything possible to destroy the Russians'
Machine guns, reduce the casualties of our soldiers. Do you understand?"
"Understood, Your Excellency, Commander." Several gunners replied loudly and quickly: "We will definitely destroy all the Russian machine guns."
After arranging the task, the machine guns that had been silent for a long time on the river bank started clicking again, and dense bullets flew towards the Soviet positions in the distance. And the soldiers sitting by the river also started firing.
He stood up, held his gun and waded into the water towards the Soviet position.
The Soviet position remained silent until the German skirmisher line was no more than a hundred meters away from the position. Then a platoon leader blew his whistle hard and gave the order to fire. The entire position suddenly crackled again.
, whether it is a rifle, submachine gun or machine gun, all fire at the same time.
After repelling the first wave of German attacks, the new recruits in the trenches gained some confidence. Facing the rushing German soldiers, they were no longer so panic-stricken. Their shooting gradually began to be accurate, and from time to time there were three shots.
Five groups of German soldiers fell under their volleys of guns.
But what caused great casualties to the German army was the five or six MG34 machine guns on the position, with their long dark red flames, like fire whips desperately beating the German skirmishers, knocking down one German soldier after another.
On the ground.
The German mortarmen saw that the Soviet machine guns had indeed caused a lot of casualties to the attacking troops, so they each selected a target and shelled them.
In the first round of salvo firing, none of the artillery shells hit the target, and several mud pillars shot up into the sky in front and behind the trench. Seeing that the first round of firing did not hit the target, the gunners adjusted their firing points and fired again. This time the salvo fired
After the explosion, a machine gun was blown into piles of hot parts, and the sacrificed machine gunner was lying in a mess near the crater.
"Great." The German commander couldn't help but cheered when he saw that the mortars had destroyed a machine gun fire point, and then ordered: "The Russians have four machine guns left, shoot them all out immediately."
The soldiers who acted as machine gunners on the position were all veterans. After seeing two or three machine guns destroyed by German artillery fire, they immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. They did not dare to stay in a fixed position like before
, but adopted guerrilla tactics. After firing a bullet chain, they immediately moved their position so that the German mortars could not destroy the target in time.
Although a row of soldiers were fighting tenaciously, the German troops were getting closer and closer to the position. After approaching the position, the German soldiers immediately started shooting with their weapons, causing certain casualties to the soldiers in the trenches.
Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer to his position, the platoon leader felt that the situation was not good, and quickly picked up the microphone and reported to Grisa: "Comrade company commander, the enemy has rushed to a place only fifty meters away from our position. I
I'm worried that I won't be able to hold on, so I'm asking for support, asking for support."
"I understand." Grisa heard that the German army was approaching the platoon position. He cursed the platoon commander secretly in his heart, and then said into the microphone: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, don't panic, hold on, I'll send someone right away."