After the German army occupied the town, they found that there were no fortifications in the north and east. If the Soviet army launched a counterattack from these two directions, it would be impossible to resist. Therefore, Captain Becker issued an order to the company commander of the fifth company, asking him to command people to build fortifications in these two directions.
According to the fifth company commander's idea, it is best to dig trenches fortifications. His soldiers can hide in the trenches and shoot at the attacking Soviet army. But since it is the season when the ice and snow melt, the trenches have just dug less than a foot deep and are filled with melted snow. Seeing that they can't dig trenches, the fifth company commander had to change his mind and let the soldiers build sandbags fortifications.
Pushing sandbag fortifications is naturally much faster than digging trenches. In less than an hour, German soldiers piled up a sandbag defense line that was 200 meters long and more than one meter high. Seeing the formed fortifications, the fifth company commander was relieved. According to his idea, as long as his soldiers hid behind these sandbag fortifications, the attacking Russians would not have the intention to rush over.
But not long after, the fifth company commander found out that he was wrong, and he was also outrageously wrong. After the attack of the Russians thousands of meters away began, they did not line up from infantry in formation as before, and took guns and stride to their positions to die. Instead, a group of tanks lined up and rumbled towards their positions.
Seeing that the tank was getting closer and closer to him, the fifth company commander couldn't help but panic, and quickly waved his pistol and told him: "Machine gun, machine gun shooting, you must block the Russian tank."
Hearing the order of the company commander, two latest MG42 machine guns on the position began to shoot wildly at the rushing tanks. The bullets hit the front armor plate of the tank like hail, making the armor jingle. But it did not affect the tank's advance speed at all.
A German machine gunner who was shooting thought with great fear: As soon as the Russian tank stopped, I would immediately throw the machine gun and run away. Otherwise, I would definitely be blown to pieces.
Then before the advancing tank stopped, the sound of shells shaking through the air came from the air. The machine gunner stopped shooting and looked at the sky in shock, thinking where the strange sound came from. He only saw a black dot flying towards his place, but it became louder and louder. When he saw clearly that a shell was flying over, the shell had already landed five or six meters away in front of him and exploded.
Accompanied by a loud bang that was enough to shake the eardrums, the smoke of guns dissipated, and a huge crater in front of the fortification, and a sandbag fortification that was connected into pieces was blown up with a gap. The machine gunner, the deputy shooter and ammunition hand were all gone without a trace, and there were only some machine gun parts that were still smoking in the distance.
The Germans didn't understand that the Russian tanks did not stop, but where did the shells come from? Could it be that the Russian tanks could fire while they were marching? When they thought of this, the German officers and soldiers were all scared to death. Seeing the Russian tanks getting closer and closer, the soldiers knew that they could not stop them with a layer of sandbag fortifications, they left their combat posts and bent down to run towards the middle of the town.
A soldier came to the fifth company commander and shouted at him: "Mr. Lieutenant, everyone is running towards the town. Are you retreating too?"
"Bastard!" The German lieutenant stepped forward and slapped the soldier, shouting loudly: "The command given to us by the battalion commander is to hold our position. You guys, before the enemy came in front of us, they began to turn around and run away. Let everyone return to their combat posts, otherwise I will shoot them."
The soldier stood there and was stunned for a while. He didn't know whether he should follow his companions to escape to the town or to carry out the company commander's orders and return to his combat post to continue fighting.
Fortunately, the Soviet tanks quickly made a decision for him. A T-34 tank that rushed in the front easily collapsed the German sandbag fortifications, crushing the German soldiers hiding behind the fortifications into meat sauce. The hesitant soldier saw that his companion died under the Soviet tank tracks, and he dared not return to his combat post. He hurriedly turned around and ran towards the town.
The fifth company commander saw his soldiers abandoning their positions and fleeing towards the town. He was so angry that he waved his pistol and shouted loudly. He even grabbed the collars of the soldiers passing by and ordered them to go back and continue fighting in a stern tone. But the other party ignored him at all, pushed him away and ran towards the town without looking back.
Just as the fifth company commander raised his pistol and aimed at a fleeing soldier to shoot, the machine gun on the Soviet tank opened fire. A series of bullets hit the fifth company commander's chest and abdomen. He threw away the pistol in his hand, covered the wound, turned around twice in place, staggered forward, and then fell softly to the ground.
The shells that destroyed the German machine gun fire point were caused by a 122mm self-propelled artillery parked a few hundred meters away. The gunner saw the German machine guns in the distance shooting at the advancing tanks. He was angry and aimed at them. But he never dreamed that it was just such a shot that would dissolve the German army. Before the tank could break through the sandbag fortifications, the enemy had already begun to escape one after another.
The Soviet infantry was more than 300 meters behind the tank. Seeing that the tank in front had broken through the German sandbag fortifications and was rushing towards the town, the morale was suddenly boosted, and it first changed from rushing to trot, and soon changed from trot to sprint. Within twenty meters, hundreds of soldiers rushed through the sandbag fortifications that were hit by the tank with weapons, and bravely rushed towards the town.
Sokov thought there would be a fierce battle outside the town, but at this moment, he was shocked to see breaking through the enemy's position, like acting. After a long time, he picked up the phone and said to the second battalion commander Goria: "Comrade Captain, your vanguard has rushed into the town. I now order you to lead the remaining troops to charge immediately and must retake the town as soon as possible."
"Don't worry, comrade Commander." When Goria saw his troops rushing through the sandbag fortifications and rushing towards the town, he could no longer hold back. When he was about to lead the troops to charge in person, he received Sokov's order. As if he wanted to sleep, someone gave him a pillow. He repeatedly said, "I will take the troops to rush forward immediately."
Sokov answered the phone number from Shamrikh again, and said to Shamrikh who was answering the phone: "Comrade Navy Captain, the vanguard of the Goria Battalion has rushed into the town. Can't your battalion fall behind?"
Shamrich saw the performance of the Goria Battalion, but because their battalion's attack was farther from the Goria Battalion. As a result, when friendly forces started attacking, one-third of the soldiers in their battalion could not enter the position. At this moment, when Sokov said this, he suddenly turned red and raised his voice to Sokov and said, "Comrade Commander, please rest assured that our battalion will never lose to the Goria Battalion. Please see our next performance."
Chapter completed!