Boxes of artillery shells were opened and placed in front of six mortars that were ready to fire. In order to ensure nothing went wrong, Second Lieutenant Chernushenko also measured the scale himself. After confirming that it was correct, he decisively gave the order to fire.
The outgoing artillery shells screamed across the sky and hit the German marching column. The soldiers near the explosion point were directly lifted away by the air waves, and the shrapnel flew everywhere with a sharp roar, not just destroying the soldiers next to them.
When the soldiers cut them down, they hit the tank's armor plate with a clanking sound.
The marching German soldiers were suddenly bombarded. A few soldiers who reacted quickly fell down on the spot to avoid the bombardment. Most of the soldiers either stood in a daze, looking around for the direction of the shells; they were like headless flies.
Running around everywhere.
Seeing the chaos of the enemy in the distance, the two machine gun shooters turned their attention to Afanasyev, wondering why their platoon leader had not given the order to shoot. "Comrade Lieutenant," Vasily said when he saw Afanasyev.
Nasiyev delayed giving the firing order, fearing that Sokov would be dissatisfied, so he quickly asked the other party in a low voice: "Why don't you fire yet?"
"Wait a minute, Sergeant Vasily, wait a minute." Afanasyev stared at the German soldiers in the distance who were being stunned by artillery fire, and said without looking back: "The enemy is not chaotic enough, wait for them
If they are a little more chaotic, we can use machine guns to inflict maximum casualties on them."
When did the artillery and machine gunners fire? Sokov, who was standing aside, did not express any opinion. He just stared at the enemy in the distance, secretly wondering if the five minutes he had set was a bit short. You know, the tank crews
The field of vision inside the tank is limited, and it takes a long time to discover where the shells are flying from. Your men can take advantage of this precious time difference to eliminate more enemies.
Seeing that Sokov didn't speak, Vasily set up the sniper rifle in his hand, preparing to take advantage of the enemy's confusion to kill several valuable targets. As soon as he set up the gun, he saw a car parked in the middle of the road.
The top cover of the tank was opened, and a tank crew member wearing a black one-piece tank soldier's uniform carefully leaned out half of the body from the turret. He put his hands on the hatch and looked around with both eyes, as if he wanted to figure out where the shells came from.
direction.
Vasily quickly locked onto the target, lightly pulled the trigger, and heard a "pop" sound. The bullet quickly penetrated the tank soldier's forehead, and flew out from the back of the head with a trace of blood foam. The tank soldier's head
He leaned back, paused, and then slid into the turret.
"Good shot, Sergeant Vasily." Seeing Vasily kill the advancing tank crew with one shot, Sokov shouted "Good job" and then said to him: "The enemy tank crew probably wanted to find out where the artillery fire came from.
direction, so I came out to observe. You kept a close eye on them and killed each one as soon as they came out."
Vasily moved his eyes away from the scope and shouted to a soldier next to him: "Hurry up and call some snipers." After the instructions, he put his eyes close to the scope again and continued.
Search the tanks parked on the street to see if there are any more tank soldiers who are not afraid of death and come out as targets.
Sokov felt that if snipers were used to suppress the German tank crews and prevent them from making effective observations, then the artillery bombardment against the enemy could last longer. Thinking of this, he shouted to Chernushenko: "Second Lieutenant
Comrade, have someone bring a few more boxes of shells up, and while the Germans are in chaos, we will teach them a lesson."
"Understood." Chernushenko agreed, quickly came to the soldier who made the call, knelt down and said to him: "When you let those snipers come up, call a few more people, and each of them will carry a box of shells."
, we want to use artillery shells to teach the Germans an unforgettable lesson."
In less than three minutes, a dozen soldiers came up from downstairs, carrying a box of artillery shells. Several soldiers put the box of shells next to the mortar and quickly ran to the side of the roof.
, took off the sniper rifle on his back and began to aim at the chaotic group of German soldiers in the distance.
With the new snipers in place, the Germans' nightmare has arrived. Not only the tank soldiers emerging from the tanks have become priority targets, but also those standing in the middle of the road waving pistols, trying to stop the soldiers from running around.
The officers also became the victims of snipers one after another.
Seeing that the German soldiers were in chaos, Lieutenant Afanasyev finally gave the order to fire. The machine gunners, who had been holding back their energy for a long time, immediately aimed at the running German soldiers and pulled the trigger hard.
The trigger seemed to want to shoot out all the resentment he had filled with the bullet.
The German soldiers crowded in the middle of the road were unable to dodge. They were riddled with holes from the hot bullets. After a while, they all lay down. But with the firing of machine guns, the surviving German soldiers finally discovered where the attack came from.
, they quickly hid in the blind spot of the shooting and fired back in the direction of the Vasily Building.
Second Lieutenant Chernushenko's mortar team immediately adjusted the shooting angle and bombarded the place where the enemy's gunshots were the densest. The shells that exploded one after another knocked many of the enemies who fired away, and landed heavily on others.
place. The masonry of the ruins became a sharp weapon in the explosion, smashing the German soldiers hiding nearby until they howled like ghosts.
Throughout the battle, the German tank crews were the most frustrated. Although they could see artillery shells falling and exploding around them through the lookout holes, and heard the clanking of shrapnel hitting the armor plates, they could not see the enemy clearly.
Where did the attack come from? Someone finally took the risk to poke his head out, but before he could see the target clearly, he was killed by the opponent's sniper. After more than a dozen tank crews were killed in a row, all the tank crews were hiding in their tanks.
Don't dare to take the lead easily again.
But just when they were desperate, a German officer covered in blood got into the tank from the bottom and shouted at the surviving tank crew: "Russians, the Russians are in the building to the south.
You kill them immediately with artillery fire."
The tank crew in this tank immediately used the radio to report the news to other tanks. Those tank crews who were worried about not having a target to attack immediately took action, slowly turning the turret, preparing to use artillery fire to suppress the Soviet firepower in the building.
Sokov, who had been observing the battlefield situation, saw that the enemy's tank muzzle had slowly turned to his position, and guessed that the enemy must have figured out which direction they were being attacked. He quickly put down his telescope and rushed
The officers and soldiers who were fighting fiercely shouted loudly: "Everyone listen to my order and retreat downstairs immediately. The enemy tanks are about to start shelling."
However, because the gunfire was too loud, the soldiers did not hear Sokov's order clearly. Seryosha, who always stood behind Sokov as a human background, saw that there was no reaction from everyone, so he guessed that they must not have heard it.
Sokov's order was repeated loudly to everyone.
As soon as Seryosha spoke with a loud voice, all the soldiers heard it. Although everyone still wanted to stay on the roof and teach the Germans a lesson, there were military orders. Since Sokov had already issued the order to retreat, there was no need to do anything.
There was room for negotiation. The artillerymen and machine gunners packed up their weapons and retreated down the stairs in an orderly manner.
Seeing Vasily and several snipers still holding their guns and shooting at enemies in the distance, Sokov bent down and ran behind him and shouted at him: "Sergeant Vasily, I have ordered
The troops have withdrawn, why don’t you withdraw?”
"Comrade division commander," Vasily continued to shoot, tilting his head and said to Sokov: "You can withdraw first, I want to eliminate a few more German devils."
"That's enough, Sergeant Vasily, I order you to retreat immediately." Sokov was worried that Vasily would get angry and not want to retreat. If the building collapsed by German artillery fire, the people on the roof would be in danger.
Young Master. He didn't want to lose this sniper god, so he said in a stern tone: "This is my order, execute it immediately."
Hearing the displeasure in Sokov's tone, Vasily could only regretfully put away his sniper rifle, and reluctantly agreed: "Yes, I will retreat now!" After that, he called the snipers to retreat together.
Seeing that all the commanders and fighters upstairs had evacuated, Sokov took Seryosha towards the stairs. Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the stairs, he heard a loud "boom", and then the entire floor shook violently.
He got up and knocked Sokov and Seryosha to the ground.
"No, Misha, it was a German tank that fired at the building." Although Seryosha rarely participated in battles since he became the commander of the guard company, it did not mean that he had no combat experience. He saw from the explosion and
From the shaking of the floor, he judged that the enemy tanks were firing. He got up on his hands and knees, lifted Sokov up from the ground, and ran down the stairs with him.
The mortars, machine gunners, and even snipers all ran downstairs, but Vasily remained on the stairs because he was worried about Sokov's safety. Seeing Seryosha helping Sokov down the stairs, he hurriedly
He came over and asked with concern: "Comrade Commander, are you injured?"
"No!" Sokov shook his head and found that Vasily was the only one on the stairs. He thought that those snipers came in only ten or twenty seconds earlier than him. How could there be no one there so quickly? Could they fly?
With this question, he asked Vasily: "Where are the others? Why are none of them missing?"
Hearing Sokov's question, Vasily pointed to the steel pipe next to the stairs and said: "Comrade division commander, the snipers have all slid downstairs along this steel pipe. What we are most afraid of when sniping at the enemy on the roof is
It was under shelling or bombing, so the snipers thought of a way to erect a steel pipe here to evacuate the roof of the building as quickly as possible."
Sokov was willing to slide along the steel pipe to the bottom of the building, but Seryosha disagreed: "Misha, I don't know if this steel pipe is strong or not. What if you slide halfway and the steel pipe breaks? I think we can still
Just run down the stairs."
Vasily also agreed very much with Seryosha's proposal: "Comrade division commander, you have not slipped through the steel pipe. If you use it rashly, I am worried that you will be injured. Let's go downstairs quickly before the enemy starts a large-scale shelling."
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As soon as Sokov and others returned to the basement, they heard continuous gunfire outside. A crumbling wall in the north collapsed under the shelling of German tanks. Fortunately, there were no soldiers hiding behind it, otherwise it would have been fierce.
A lot of good luck.
Vasily pulled the telephone on the table in front of him, grabbed the crank of the base and shook it a few times, then picked up the phone and asked: "Hey, hey, are you an observation post? How about reporting the situation outside quickly?"
"Comrade Sergeant," Sokov heard Vasily calling the observation post and said to him quickly: "The enemy will not attack us until the enemy's shelling stops. Let the observation post come back first, don't let him stay
Adventure outside.”
Vasily quickly covered the microphone with his hand and explained to Sokov: "Comrade Division Commander, the observation post I contacted is not located in this building. He is hiding on top of a nearby building and can clearly see around us.
environment of."
"You are so considerate. In that case, let him stay outside to monitor the enemy's movements."
"Hey!" Vasily released his hand covering the microphone and said to the observation post: "Closely monitor the enemy's movements. If you find any signs of them attacking the building, report to me immediately."
After putting down the phone, Vasily reported to Sokov with a relaxed look: "Comrade Division Commander, the observation post reported that the enemy tanks that were attacked by us have gathered together and are shelling our building..."
"Sergeant Vasily," Sokov thought, thinking that the observation post was not in the Vasily Building and might be able to see the German casualties more clearly, so he asked tentatively: "Can the enemy's casualties be seen clearly from the observation post?"
Vasily shook his head and replied: "The building where the observation post is located is basically at the same level as us. We can't see clearly, and he can't see clearly either."
"That's such a pity." Thinking of not being able to understand the losses just caused to the enemy in time, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little disappointed: "I really want to know how many enemies we just killed."
"Comrade Division Commander, our sniper team has probably killed more than a dozen enemies. Coupled with the results of mortar and machine gun fire, at least nearly two hundred enemies have been killed." After Vasily said this data, he remembered again.
One incident, he specifically added, "A shell happened to hit the open hatch of an enemy tank and caused an explosion. I think that tank can be considered destroyed by us."
"Comrade Sergeant, the results you have achieved today are very good." Sokov did not expect that a small ambush could actually achieve such results. According to his original idea, he could kill fifty or sixty Germans.
The soldier was already very good. He raised his hand and patted Vasily on the shoulder, "I will ask the political commissar to take credit for you."