Since the Germans did not see through Ernst's disguise, they naturally fell into the trap set by Sokov. The battalion headquarters and other companies staying outside the minefield received the telegram from the leading company.
, immediately followed the road opened by the engineers and boarded the Nangang position of Mamayev Hill.
Seeing that the large German troops were gradually occupying the surface positions of Nangang, Belkin asked Sokov with some worry: "Comrade Brigade Commander, will the enemy discover the entrance to our tunnel?"
"No, Comrade Political Commissar." Sokov replied with a normal expression: "I have ordered people to block the entrance to the hole where they usually enter and make a disguise. Unless the Germans search carefully during the day, they will not find it at all.
No."
Although Belkin knew Sokov's entire battle plan, when he saw that the enemies to be besieged had already entered the position, he urged: "Comrade Brigade Commander, since the enemies have already entered our trap, why not take action now?
"
"Do it now?" Sokov raised his hand and looked at his watch and said: "No, my comrade political commissar. The enemy has just entered the position and is still very vigilant. Maybe our soldiers will be attacked as soon as they come out of the tunnel.
I think we should wait until three o'clock in the morning to find out what they noticed. That's when people are most tired, so we can minimize casualties by attacking while the enemy is sleeping."
After Sokov said this, he turned to Briski and said: "Comrade Captain, if I remember correctly, there is an engineer platoon in your battalion, right?"
"Yes, Comrade Brigadier." Briski didn't know why Sokov asked this, so he nodded quickly and replied: "I do have an engineer platoon in my battalion, and the backbone of it are all the soldiers who broke through with me."
"Have you seen the passage opened by the Germans in the minefield?" Sokov asked, pointing to the minefield in the distance.
"Yes, I saw it." Although it was pitch dark outside and nothing could be seen clearly from a little distance, Briski nodded in affirmation: "I wonder what instructions you have?"
"After zero o'clock," Sokov continued: "Immediately send out the engineer platoon to re-block all the roads opened by the German engineers so that no one can escape. Do you understand?"
"Understood." When he heard that his engineers were asked to lay mines, Briski immediately replied loudly: "I guarantee that the enemies who enter the minefield will be blown up until they howl like ghosts."
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At three o'clock in the morning, the German troops were all fast asleep in their shelters or trenches, leaving only a few sentries on duty outside. Even though it was September, the nights in Russia were still very cold. In order to keep out the cold, the western slopes
Two fires were lit in the trench, and they gathered around the fires to keep warm.
When the fire was being lit, a sentry once asked worriedly: "If we light a fire here, it won't attract Russian artillery fire, right?"
Another sentry sneered and said: "Don't forget, we are to the west of Nangang, and the Russians are to the east. Can their artillery shells hit us? But the brothers on duty in the east fortifications can't.
Without us having such a good life, they could only shiver in the cold wind."
His words immediately caused a burst of laughter. The sentry who spoke first felt much more at ease when his companion said this, and he started to warm himself around the fire with peace of mind.
However, the two sentries stationed in the fortifications on the east slope were wrapped in military coats and huddled in the newly dug trenches, waiting for their companions to change the guard. One sentry turned his head and glanced at the other side of the hill.
Hong Guang said enviously: "Hans, those sentries on the west slope position are really lucky. They can actually light a fire to keep warm while on duty."
"Come on, brother." The sentry known as Hans said: "You haven't seen that there is a Russian position two or three hundred meters away under the hill. If there is a fire here, the shells will be fired in less than five minutes.
It's flying over. I'd rather be colder than be blown up by a cannonball."
At this time, among the bushes at the top of the hillside, a one-meter-square piece of turf was suddenly lifted, revealing a square hole underneath. A Soviet soldier wearing a helmet carefully placed the wooden board with the turf on it.
After standing aside, he climbed out of it quietly, and then the second one climbed out, and the third one...
Soon, several similar cave entrances appeared not far away, and countless Soviet commanders and fighters crawled out of them. After they came out, they first gathered near the cave entrance, and then rushed to the east and west slopes in squad units.
defensive position.
Hans was chatting with his companions. When he heard footsteps behind him, he thought it was his companions who were changing the guard. As soon as he turned around to take a closer look, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest. The severe pain made him want to shout.
He shouted out, but when he opened his mouth, a stream of blood with a fishy smell filled his mouth, making him unable to make any sound.
Another sentry saw Hans staggering a few steps and fell down in the trench. Just as he was about to rush over to see what was going on, a man appeared next to him and stabbed him directly with a dagger.
The chest pierced his lungs. The spurting blood immediately poured into the lungs and flooded the alveoli. Like Hans, he fell to the ground without releasing anything.
The soldiers who killed the sentries were all from the reconnaissance company. After learning the techniques of how to kill enemy sentries from military doctors, they had been practicing non-stop. Today they were able to kill two sentries so cleanly. After clearing the sentries, they headed into the darkness.
After waving, countless figures emerged from the darkness. After they jumped into the trench lightly, they divided into two groups and rushed towards the place where the enemy slept.
Soon, the silent Nangang was filled with gunfire, blazing fire, gunshots, grenade explosions and the screams of the wounded. How could the sleeping German army have imagined that the Soviet army would actually launch a sneak attack at such a time?
Wherever possible to prevent decent resistance, the battle becomes one-sided.
It only took a quarter of an hour for the Soviet soldiers to reoccupy the surface positions of Nangang, including the simple fortifications built by the Germans on the east slope. Most of the German soldiers fell into a pool of blood before they could recover, and became a group of soldiers.
There were cold corpses. There were only more than 200 enemies stationed at the foot of the western slope. When they heard the sound of gunfire on the hill, they realized that something was wrong. In order to prevent being annihilated by the Soviet army, they voluntarily abandoned their positions.
, preparing to return to their starting position along the road opened by the engineers in the minefield.
Now that he's here, it's so easy to go anywhere. Sokov ordered people to fire flares into the air, exposing the enemies trying to escape to the dazzling light. The enemies didn't know that Sokov had sent people to lay mines again, and they continued along.
Walk out on a road that you think is safe.
When the leading soldiers at the front were blasted into the sky by landmines one after another, the Germans behind immediately realized that something was wrong and tried to find new passages from other locations. However, passages in the minefield were not easy to find.
Someone soon hit a mine again, and was lifted up into the sky by the air wave of the explosion. After a beautiful tumbling movement in the air, he hit the ground heavily. If you were unlucky, other mines would be detonated when you landed.
When it blows itself to pieces, it will also blow down several companions near the explosion point.
Sokov and Belkin stood in the observation post, watching the Germans scurrying around like headless flies in the minefield. Every time a ball of rumors rose up, a few unlucky soldiers would be bombed.
Flying. Seeing this situation, Belkin couldn't help but laugh. He said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, you did a great job in letting the engineers block the passage. Unless the Germans had to fill it with human lives,
, otherwise it will be impossible to pass through this minefield."
After the commanders and fighters of the first battalion cleared the enemy on the hill, they immediately moved forward to the position at the foot of the mountain. Seeing the enemy dancing in the minefield, the battalion commander, Captain Vanya, had an idea and immediately organized more than 20 sharpshooters.
Aim and shoot at the enemies in the minefield. The distance from the fortification to the minefield is only more than a hundred meters away. Most of the enemies are afraid of stepping on the mines, so they can only stand still. Under the light of the flares, they become
The best target.
"Oh my God, we have actually become a target for the Russians." The German battalion commander who luckily escaped into the minefield saw that the soldiers around him were being knocked down one after another. He hurriedly threw himself to the ground and shouted loudly to his men.
Shout: "Get down, there's a sniper, get down quickly!"
However, the explosion of landmines and gunshots blocked his shouts. Only a few nearby soldiers could hear his voice. Those soldiers who did not hear the battalion commander's shouts saw their companions falling continuously around them.
On the ground, he also knew that he might have encountered a Soviet sniper, so he hurriedly lay down on the ground.
A German lieutenant crawled up to the battalion commander, leaned into his ear and asked loudly: "Mr. Major, we are now trapped in a minefield and are being attacked by Russian snipers. What should we do now?"
"What should I do? What else can I do?" the battalion commander said angrily: "If I knew what to do, would I still be lying here?"
Seeing that the battalion commander was helpless about the current situation, the lieutenant suggested to him: "Mr. Major, how about we ask for help from the regiment headquarters and ask them to bombard the minefield and open a retreat channel for us?"
"Confused, you are simply confused." The German battalion commander said angrily: "We are in the minefield now. If the divisional artillery regiment shells here, wouldn't we become a target?"
"But, Mr. Major," the lieutenant said a little anxiously, "We can't just sit back and wait for death, right? If we continue to delay, until dawn, we will either be killed by Russian snipers in the minefield, or we will only be killed when the sun rises.
You should make up your mind as soon as possible about the life of the prisoner."
If Sokov was by the side of the German battalion commander, he would definitely advise him to send a few soldiers who are not afraid of death to roll the mines. After all, their location is only seventy or eighty meters away from the edge of the minefield. Even if a soldier only
Able to roll ten meters, a squad of soldiers can also carve out a path of life with their own lives.
However, Sokov was not with the German battalion commander at the moment, and the German battalion commander could not think of such a stupid way. The only thing he could do was to lie on the ground and listen to the bullets whizzing past his head and the occasional sound.
There was an explosion, and I prayed secretly in my heart, hoping that this would all end soon.
Seeing that the number of casualties was increasing and that the remaining soldiers were in danger, the lieutenant once again suggested to the battalion commander: "Mr. Major, use the radio to report our situation to the regiment headquarters and ask them to send someone to rescue us.
"
"Lieutenant, this is a good idea." The German battalion commander quickly ordered the radio operator lying aside, "Call the regiment headquarters and report the situation here to the regiment commander."
The operator nodded, got up from the ground, squatted next to the radio station, and loudly called the regiment headquarters into the transmitter. Unexpectedly, before the regiment headquarters called him, a 7.62 mm bullet penetrated his helmet.
A line of blood foam flew out from the back of his head. The poor operator threw his head back and fell to the ground without saying a word.
"Damn it, it's a Russian sniper." When the battalion commander saw that his radio operator was shot dead, he was frightened to death. He trembled and said, "It seems that it is impossible for us to escape unscathed.
I think it’s better to surrender.”
"Mr. Major, we still have about a hundred people left, how can we surrender easily?" After the lieutenant finished speaking, he crawled to the dead operator, took off the earphones from his head, put it on his own head, and spoke to the operator.
The microphone shouted loudly: "Hey, hello, regiment headquarters, regiment headquarters! I am the first battalion. Please answer if you hear me."
After calling more than a dozen times, a voice finally came from the earphone: "I am the regiment headquarters, I am the regiment headquarters, what can I do with the first battalion?"
"I want to speak to the group leader, I want to speak to the group leader."
There was sudden silence in the earphones. After a while, a deep voice came from inside: "I am the leader, please report to you quickly on the situation there."
Seeing that the regiment commander was connected, the lieutenant quickly handed the earphone and microphone to the battalion commander. The battalion commander tried hard to keep his body close to the ground to avoid being concentrated by Soviet snipers, and at the same time said loudly into the microphone:
"Mr. Commander, we fell into a trap. The Russians set up an ambush at Mamayev Heights, and almost the whole battalion was destroyed."
"Where are you?" the leader asked alertly.
"When I retreated with the battalion headquarters, I was trapped in a minefield." The battalion commander quickly reported: "And the Russians also used a large number of snipers to kill us. Now I only have one man left.
There are more than a hundred people. I ask for support, I ask for support."
After listening to the battalion commander's report, the regimental commander was silent for a long time, and then asked: "Why did you fall into the Russian ambush? Didn't you conduct a careful search when you occupied the position?"
"We have searched, Mr. Commander." The battalion commander said aggrievedly: "Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, the entire Nangang was full of Russians. I don't know where they came from, and they defeated my troops in one fell swoop.
.Mr. Commander, I beg you, please send someone to rescue us immediately, otherwise our battalion will be completely destroyed."