In fact, Briskey was quite frustrated and ordered all the commanders and fighters on the position to open fire. Because it was too dark and there were many bomb craters for cover, it was impossible to hit the enemy and it was a waste of ammunition; however, the number of people shooting
Without it, the enemy can quickly approach the position under the cover of night.
At this time, the German sneak attack troops were still forty or fifty meters away from the trenches. If the firepower on the position was not fully opened, the enemy's grenades would soon be thrown into the trenches. Once the grenades landed in the trenches and exploded, the enemy would not wait until the smoke cleared.
He was afraid that they would rush into the trenches. Therefore, Briskey gritted his teeth and issued the order to open fire in full force.
As the order was issued, all the guns on the position started shooting at the same time. At the same time, in order to prevent the German army from quickly approaching the position, many soldiers threw grenades. In the case of limited visibility, the power of grenades was
Far larger than bullets, as soon as the German troops jumped out of the crater and bent down to rush towards the Soviet position, countless grenades fell at their feet and exploded loudly. The violent explosions splashed shrapnel and flying bullets interacted with each other.
They intertwined to form a network of deathly firepower, blowing up and knocking down the charging German troops.
The German officers and soldiers who came for the sneak attack were all veterans with rich combat experience. When they saw that the Soviet army used machine guns, submachine guns, rifles and grenades to form an insurmountable fire net, they did not bite the bullet and continue to charge forward. Instead, they rushed forward one after another.
Retracted into the crater. They squatted in the crater, quickly checked the guns and ammunition, observed the surrounding environment with their eyes, and determined their location. Based on the feeling of the bullets flying overhead, they judged the location of the Soviet army and its approximate location.
Number of people. Officers with rich combat experience are even thinking about new combat plans in their minds, preparing to lead the soldiers for another assault.
Sokov, who was hiding behind and observing, used the firelight generated by the explosion to vaguely see a lot of black shadows shaking in the distance, but he couldn't see clearly what kind of strength the enemy had. He was worried that if these enemies were in position
If they lurk before dawn, then when the enemy's artillery bombardment begins after dawn, they can take advantage of the favorable opportunity for the defenders to avoid the artillery bombardment and suddenly charge towards the position, and then they will be unable to defend themselves.
Just when Sokov was anxious, he accidentally saw the dozen sharpshooters sitting in the factory. His eyes lit up and he quickly shouted to the captain of the sharpshooter team he appointed: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, here we are.
I’ll come here for a moment.”
Hearing Sokov's shout, the captain bent down and ran to Sokov with his gun in hand. He squatted down and asked softly: "Comrade Brigadier, what are your instructions?"
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, take your men to the roof immediately." Sokov thought of the sharpshooters hiding on the roof and on the tracks during the daytime battle, who had caused great casualties to the enemy. Now the enemy is hiding in the crater.
Here, the commanders and fighters who stood on the ground were desperately shooting and dropping bombs, but the losses they could cause to the enemy were very limited. Therefore, they could only let the sharpshooters take action to eliminate the enemies hiding in the craters: "Fire first
Use flares to see clearly where the enemies are hiding, and then use the guns in your hands to eliminate them all."
"Understood, comrade commander, let's go to the roof now." After the captain finished speaking, he stood up, bent down and ran back to where the sharpshooters were gathered, and shouted to them in a low voice: "Comrades, get on the roof, use
With the guns in our hands, we can destroy the enemies hiding in the craters."
As the sharpshooters climbed onto the roof, the situation on the battlefield quickly developed in a direction favorable to the defenders. The enemies hiding in the craters were forty or fifty meters away from the Soviet trenches. From such a long distance, grenades could not be thrown.
, the bullets will not turn, and naturally they cannot hit anyone. But the situation of the sharpshooters on the roof is different. Under the light of the flares, they can clearly see the enemies hiding in the trenches, and then like
Like a fixed target, they were killed one by one in the crater.
There were only over a hundred German troops in the sneak attack. During the charge, more than forty people were killed or blown up by Soviet troops. The rest were hiding in bomb craters. Although they could dodge the bullets fired from the Soviet positions
, the grenades were thrown, but they could not dodge the bullets flying overhead. In less than ten minutes, these German officers and soldiers who were ready to launch another attack at any time turned into corpses.
The phone lines on the roof and downstairs were still working. After confirming that almost all of the enemies hiding in the craters had been killed, the captain of the sharpshooter team immediately called Sokov and reported emotionally: "The brigade
Comrade Chang, almost all the enemies hiding in the craters were killed by us."
"Really?" Sokov didn't expect that the sharpshooter didn't go to the roof for long and actually eliminated all the German officers and soldiers who attacked him. However, he still asked cautiously: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, are they really eliminated?"
The captain hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "Comrade Brigadier, all the targets we have discovered have been eliminated. So far, we have not found any active targets that have survived."
"I understand, Comrade Second Lieutenant." After listening to the other party's report, Sokov said with satisfaction: "You have done a good job. When you return to Mamayev Heights, I will ask the political commissar to apply for medals for you."
After learning that the enemy had been eliminated, Sokov's heart was bleeding when he heard the gunshots outside. Seeing that there was not much ammunition in stock, Briski was still like a prodigal, and he still had no money.
He controlled his subordinates to keep shooting. After Sokov dialed the phone, he said angrily: "Okay, Comrade Captain, order your subordinates to stop shooting and stop wasting bullets. The enemies will be wiped out by the sharpshooters on the roof."
Already."
When Briski heard what Sokov said, he didn't even have time to cover the microphone and shouted to the people in the command post: "Hurry up and order to stop shooting. The enemies have been eliminated by the sharpshooters on the roof." Following the order.
After the order was issued, the intensive gunfire became sparse at first, and soon stopped completely.
After Sokov waited for the gunshots outside to stop, he ordered Briski: "Comrade Captain, when daybreak comes, you immediately send out men to clean the battlefield and try to collect more usable weapons and ammunition to come back. Just mess up like you just did.
When you fire the gun, at least one base of ammunition will be used up, so you have to find a way to replenish it, do you understand?"
"Comrade Brigadier," Briski asked hesitantly, "I would like to ask, why do you have to wait until dawn to clean the battlefield instead of now?"
"No, we can't go out now." Sokov explained to Briski: "It's too dark outside. If you take the soldiers to clean the battlefield now, even if there are cold shots on the Germans who were not killed, you will find out
If not, it will cause unnecessary casualties."
After listening to Sokov's explanation, Briski thought in his mind that what the brigade commander said seemed to make sense. He went out to clean the battlefield in the dark, not to mention that he might encounter enemies who were cold-blooded. Even if he didn't, some weapons and ammunition were not available.
It's easy to find. If that's the case, then wait a few more hours until dawn before sending people to clean the battlefield.
As soon as the fighting here ended, Guryev called. After hearing Sokov's voice, he asked straight to the point: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, what happened to you? Why did I hear gunshots like that?"
What about intensive?”
"Comrade General, it's nothing serious. There is just a sneak attack by a small group of enemies." Sokov quickly replied: "But they have been eliminated by us."
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Guryev knew very well that his troops could hold their positions during the day entirely because of the small troops sent by Sokov to attack the German 24th Armored Division, preventing them from entering the battlefield on time.
This reduced the pressure on his own defense. Because of this, Guryev said very politely: "If you need our help, please just ask and we will do our best to support you."
Although Sokov believed that he had no need for help from the Guards Division, in the face of Guryev's kindness, he politely replied: "I will, Comrade General. Thank you!"
When the battle was going on, Sokov asked Bolshak's fighter battalion to stay south of the factory and did not let them participate in the battle. The reason why he did this was because the commanders and fighters of the fighter battalion had no experience in night fighting and let them also participate in the battle.
Otherwise, not only will no results be achieved, but a large number of unnecessary sacrifices will be caused.
At this moment, when he heard that the battle on the other side of the factory building had ended, Bolshak, who could no longer sit still, ran over and asked Sokov about the fighting: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, there are gunshots outside.
Stopped, has the enemy's attack been repelled by us?"
"It wasn't that we were repulsed, but that we were completely annihilated." Seeing the appearance of Bolshak, Sokov felt that they could help when cleaning the battlefield to reduce the work intensity of the fourth battalion commanders and fighters.
He asked in a tentative tone: "Major Bolshak, I plan to have the troops clean the battlefield after dawn and collect weapons and ammunition that can still be used to supplement us. I wonder if you can send some people to assist our army to disturb the battlefield."
Bolshak replied carelessly: "No problem, just ask for as many people as you want. Even if you want everyone, I can agree to your request."
"Don't worry, Major Bolshak, I won't take all of your people." Sokov stretched out a finger and said to Bolshak: "Give me a hundred people, that's enough."
"Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I will arrange it as soon as possible." After Bolshak said this, he suddenly remembered something and asked with some confusion: "But now that the battle is over, you can send it now."
Why do people have to wait until dawn when they go to clean the battlefield? You know, once it gets dawn, the enemy can clearly see everything here through the telescope."
"Not now, it's too dark outside." Sokov shook his head and said: "If I order the soldiers to clean the battlefield now, they may not be able to see where the German weapons and ammunition are, and they may even be attacked by those who have not yet seen them.
The dead German soldiers attacked. For the safety of the commanders and soldiers, I decided to wait until dawn before letting them clean the battlefield."
"You are very thoughtful." After Bolshak figured out why Sokov did not send people to clean the battlefield now, he nodded in approval and said: "This can prevent our soldiers from needless sacrifices.
"
After Bolshak left, Sokov sat down on a pile of rubble and began to think: when he heard the first mine explosion, he thought it was a German scout sneaking in; until the second explosion sounded,
Only then did he realize that the enemy had sent a small force to attack. Fortunately, mines were laid in the factory area. Otherwise, he would not have discovered it until the enemy got in front of him. Maybe the two sides were engaged in repeated tug-of-war in the trench outside the factory at this moment.
Sokov felt that if he wanted to defend this place, he should not defend for the sake of defense, but must find ways to disrupt the deployment of the German army to reduce the pressure on his own side. Thinking of this, he picked up the phone and called Cousteau who was hiding in the basement.
, said straight to the point: "Comrade workshop director, could you find me some comrades who are familiar with the surrounding terrain?"
"What do you want a comrade who is familiar with the terrain to do?" As soon as Cousteau asked this question, he immediately guessed an idea and quickly asked tentatively: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the German army launched a sneak attack on us tonight. Do you want to
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, why don't we also send people to sneak attack them?"
Seeing that Cousteau had guessed his intention, Sokov laughed twice, and then said jokingly: "Comrade workshop director, you know too many military secrets, which is not good. Be careful that comrades from the Ministry of Internal Affairs will ask
Are you going to be investigated?"
"Stop it, stop it." Although Cousteau knew that Sokov was joking, he still stopped him: "It's better not to make such a joke, otherwise people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs will know about it, and you and I will be in trouble."
"Okay, comrade workshop director, I'm not joking." Sokov suppressed the smile on his face and said seriously: "Since the enemy can sneak attack on us, we can also sneak attack on them. I'm looking for you to ask for a few people who are familiar with the terrain.
Comrades, they just plan to sneak attack on the enemy at the right time."
"There are several old comrades in the workshop who participated in the battle to defend Tsaritsyn. They have worked in the factory for decades and they know the surrounding terrain well," Cousteau said seriously.
: "I will contact them immediately and ask them to act as guides for you to carry out the sneak attack mission."
After settling the issue of guides, Sokov began to consider which team should carry out the sneak attack mission: the members of the annihilation battalion were almost all workers in the assembly workshop. They should be very familiar with the surrounding terrain, but their combat effectiveness
But it was unsatisfactory. It was okay to fight defensive battles during the day, but if they fought at night, their combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced. Therefore, the best troops to participate in the sneak attack were Briski's fourth battalion. Sokov picked up the phone and called
He picked up the microphone and said: "Comrade Captain, put aside what you are doing and come to me immediately. I have something to discuss with you."