The tanks parked in the middle of the square fired at the buildings on the east side of the square. Some of the already fragile buildings were hit by tank shells and collapsed, turning into ruins. The soldiers who stayed inside reacted quickly and when the enemy tanks started
During the shelling, they moved to new positions; more soldiers were buried directly in the ruins.
When Sokov saw the tanks firing recklessly in the square, he couldn't help but get angry. He picked up the phone and asked into the receiver: "Lieutenant Colonel Papuchenko, why haven't your men launched an attack from the enemy's rear yet? Don't let it go anymore."
If the enemy tanks continue to bombard us like this, all the buildings your regiment is holding will be destroyed."
"Comrade Commander," Papuchenko reported with a sad face: "The sewer is like a maze. Our soldiers quickly got lost after entering. They wandered around in it for a long time, and finally returned to the starting point."
Papuchenko's words made Sokov dumbfounded. He only reminded the other party to use the sewers to mobilize troops and transport supplies, but forgot that his soldiers had just arrived and probably didn't understand the terrain on the ground, let alone the criss-crossing sewers.
Yes, it would be strange to enter rashly and not get lost.
"Lieutenant Colonel Papuchenko," Sokov could not blame Papuchenko, so he could only say euphemistically: "You try to contact the remaining defenders on the west side of the square and ask them to attack from the enemy's rear, so that the enemy
They cannot concentrate their efforts against us."
"Understood!" Papuchenko waited for Sokov to finish speaking and immediately agreed: "I immediately ordered the soldiers on the west side of the square to attack from behind the enemy to contain their effective strength."
After Samoylov waited for Sokov to hang up the phone, he carefully reminded him: "Comrade division commander, it's too dangerous here. Let's move to another place."
"If you move to another place, it will be safer than here?" Sokov glanced at Samoilov and said with a wry smile: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, as long as this place is not hit by enemy artillery fire, I believe in you and your men.
It will definitely ensure my safety."
Samoilov carefully thought about what Sokov said and felt that it still made sense. Although he only had more than thirty people left, they were well-equipped and everyone had rich combat experience. Even if he encountered
Even with the same number of German troops, they could not fall behind.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said: "Don't worry, Comrade Commander. As long as one of us is alive, we can definitely guarantee your safety."
After a period of shelling by German tanks on the square, they saw that the buildings on the east side were shrouded in gunpowder smoke, so they stopped shelling, restarted the engine, and prepared to cover the infantry to continue attacking eastward. Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was a sound from behind them.
Amidst the intensive gunfire, firepower suddenly appeared in some buildings on the west side of the square. Shooting from above knocked down the soldiers gathered in the middle of the square.
The tank that was driving forward discovered that there was an enemy behind it, so it stopped quickly and turned its gun muzzle to find a new attack target. "Boom" two shots, and a machine gun that was shooting at the Germans was destroyed by tank fire.
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Seeing this scene through the telescope, Sokov couldn't help but sigh in his heart: If the weapons are inferior to humans, he will suffer a big loss. If he has one or two 75mm anti-tank guns in his hand, it is estimated that the enemy's tanks are advancing towards the square.
, will be completely destroyed by anti-tank guns. Even if there is no 75mm anti-tank gun, there is a 37mm anti-tank gun placed on top of the building, shooting at the enemy tanks from a high position. The armor-piercing high-explosive shells it fires,
It was enough to penetrate the weak armor on the top of the German tank.
Just as Sokov was sighing in his heart, he suddenly saw a German tank explode and the turret was blown off. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but be shocked and thought to himself: What on earth is going on?
How could a German tank explode? Could it be that a German tank soldier was smoking inside and accidentally detonated a shell? But it didn't look like it. The tank was shelling the building on the west side of the square. How could the tank soldier have time to smoke?
"Comrade division commander," just when Sokov was puzzled, he suddenly heard Samoylov's voice of surprise: "Tank, our tank!"
"Where?" Sokov heard Samoilov's cry and immediately remembered that Peter had said that he would send a prototype tank to support him. Maybe it was that prototype that Samoilov saw.
, he asked anxiously: "Where is that tank?"
"There!" Following the direction of Samoilov's finger, Sokov saw a T-34 tank through the cracks of the ruined building, crushing the bricks and rubble piled on the street, slowly
It drove towards the square. Judging from the smoke still coming from the muzzle, the explosion of the German tank just now was its masterpiece.
After Sokov saw the tanks, he immediately calculated silently in his mind. After excluding the tanks that had just been destroyed, the German army now had five tanks left, while his own side only had one tank. Five to one, this ratio was too disparate.
The commander of the leading German tank discovered the Soviet tank that had just appeared, and quickly ordered the other tanks through the radio to stop shooting at the building, and instead all turned around, preparing to kill the Soviet tank that had come to die.
When the Soviet tank was still 150 meters away from him, he decisively gave the order to fire. For the tank commander, it was a sure thing for his gunner to fire at such a close distance. As long as the gunfire sounded
Once it rings, your tank can gain another victory.
After the shell was ejected from the chamber, it accurately hit the moving Soviet tank. But what the tank commander never expected was that the armor-piercing bullet that hit the target actually turned into a ricochet.
The commander's eyes widened in surprise. This was the first time he had seen a ricochet caused by hitting a target at such a close range. After a brief panic, he ordered the gunner to reload and prepare to fire again.
But before they could fire, the approaching Soviet tank had stopped, slowly turned its muzzle, and then fired without hesitation. The shell hit the tank where the commander was. In the huge explosion, the turret was
It flew up, flew more than ten meters in the air, and then hit the queue of German soldiers heavily, smashing the two unlucky soldiers into a pulp.
The four German tanks divided into two groups and circled towards the two wings of the T-34, trying to penetrate the weak side armor of the T-34 from the side. However, their attempt did not succeed. They were hit by the T-34 while they were still traveling.
The bodies of the two tanks that had been shot shook violently, then stopped on the spot and burst into flames.
The remaining two tanks came to the side of the T-34. They had just stopped and before they had time to fire, the Soviet tanks fired first again. This time they easily destroyed the German tank on the right. The tank on the left,
Seeing that his companion's tank was destroyed, he hurriedly fired a shot at the T-34.
Although this shot also hit the target, to the dismay of the German tank crew, the armor-piercing round became a ricochet again. The Soviet tank crew would not give the Germans a chance to reload, so they fired without hesitation to destroy it.
The Soviet commanders and fighters hiding in the building saw that the tanks parked in the middle of the square were destroyed by the T-34 tanks that had just appeared. Without waiting for orders from their superiors, they rushed out of their hiding places with weapons in hand.
He rushed towards the chaotic group of German soldiers in the middle of the square.
The battle ended after a quarter of an hour. Except for a dozen German soldiers who turned around and ran away early because they saw the situation was not good, and narrowly escaped, the remaining soldiers were either captured or killed. The Germans launched a campaign against the Workers' New Village.
The first attack ended in a disastrous defeat.
"Comrade Division Commander," Samoylov said to Sokov in a low voice when he saw the battle outside ended, "I think this T-34 tank is different from the ones we have seen before."
"Is there any difference?" Sokov glanced at the T-34 parked not far away and said casually: "Why didn't I see it?"
"Someone has come out of the tank!" Samoilov pointed to the tank and said to Sokov: "Comrade division commander, look, they are coming towards us."
"What the hell, what's going on?" After Samoilov saw the approaching tank soldier clearly, he shouted in surprise: "How could it be him?"
Sokov glanced at the approaching tank soldier and felt that he was kind-hearted. Unfortunately, he couldn't remember where he had seen him before, so he turned to ask Samoylov: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, who do you think is the person walking towards us?"
ah?"
"It's Lieutenant Agavon!" Samoilov was afraid that Sokov would not be able to remember this order, so he deliberately added: "This is the man who you asked me and the political commissar to escort to the army headquarters."
"So it's him!" Although Sokov thought that he refused to save him, causing Guchakov and others to be captured, and he was still resentful of him, but others were here to rescue him this time, even if
No matter how dissatisfied he was with him in his heart, he had to be polite on the surface. He greeted Agafond, nodded to him, and said politely: "Hello, Lieutenant Agafond, thank you for helping us to rescue us."
Agafon did not expect that Sokov recognized him at a glance, and said with a blushing face: "Comrade Colonel, on the order of Director Peter, I drove this prototype car to support you."
"Prototype vehicle, what kind of vehicle is it?" Sokov pointed at the tank not far away and asked with some surprise: "Is this T-34 tank the prototype vehicle you are driving?"
"Yes, Comrade Colonel." Lieutenant Agafond replied respectfully: "This is a new type of tank that was just developed not long ago. It has not been tested yet. According to regulations, it cannot be driven out casually. Director Peter said that you
The situation here is critical, so we decided to make an exception and send us to support you."
"This is a new type of tank?!" Sokov walked to the window and carefully looked at the T-34 tank that had just rescued him. After looking at it for a while, he shook his head and said, "I think this is a T-34 tank.
-34 tanks, nothing special."
Seeing that Sokov did not see any difference in the tank, Agafoon quickly explained to him: "Comrade Colonel, this new type of tank uses a new hexagonal turret, and the sloped armor can make the armor-piercing projectiles fired by the enemy become
Ricochet. In addition, the turret was changed to a three-person large turret, adding a gunner's position, freeing the original commander from the burden of seeing the gunner, thus greatly improving the tank's combat capabilities.
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Also, the previous T-34 tank used a 76mm gun, but the one we use now is an 85mm gun. Whether it is the German Panzer III or Panzer IV tank, we can easily fire it at a distance of 500 meters.
Penetrate their frontal armor."
After listening to Agavon's explanation, Sokov couldn't help but be secretly surprised. You must know that the T-34/85 tank came out in 1943, but now due to his own fault, it actually debuted a year earlier. If it can be mass-produced
, if the troops are deployed in parallel, I am afraid that the next third battle of Kharkov will have a different ending.
Seeing that Sokov was silent, Agavon took the opportunity to look around, but did not find Guchakov's shadow. He couldn't help interrupting Sokov's meditation: "Comrade Colonel, I want to ask
You, where did that lieutenant from last time go?"
"Lieutenant?!" Sokov was stunned for a moment when he heard this question. Then he understood that he was talking about Guchakov, and quickly replied: "I asked him to join the company and become the company commander. If you have a chance in the future, you still can
I can see him."
When Agafoon heard what Sokov said, he couldn't help but blush, and then murmured: "Comrade Colonel, if you see that lieutenant, please convey my apology to him for me. If it weren't for me,
If you panic and leave so many comrades to escape alone, they will not become prisoners of the Germans."
"Comrade Lieutenant," Sokov raised his hand and patted Agavon gently on the shoulder twice, comforting him and saying, "You have been punished by Guchakov, and there is no need to mention the past things again.
I hope you can achieve more meritorious deeds in the following battles. Even if you and Guchakov meet again, I guess he will not hate you anymore."
Agafon came to see Sokov just to get his forgiveness. When he heard Sokov's words, he was immediately elated. He straightened his body and said to Sokov: "Comrade Colonel, please don't worry.
As long as I am still alive, I will definitely achieve more meritorious deeds."
"Lieutenant Agavon," Sokov pointed to the tank parked not far away and said to him: "This is the only prototype in the factory. You must keep it well and never use it in battle."
Lost."
"Don't worry, Comrade Colonel." Agafond quickly replied: "I will immediately move it to another place to hide it to avoid being shelled or bombed by the German army."
"Go quickly." Sokov was worried that the German army, which had just suffered a defeat, would not be reconciled and would immediately shell or bomb the workers' new village, so he urged Agafoon: "Find a place to hide this prototype tank as soon as possible. You must
You should take care of this prototype car just like you take care of your own eyes."
After Agafoon left, Sokov picked up the phone again and called the factory director's office. He said to Peter who answered the phone: "Director Peter, thank you. It was only because of the tanks you sent that we could successfully repel the enemy."