As the battle just ended, the destroyed tanks on the battlefield were still burning, and the thick smoke from rising covered the sky, allowing Seriosha and his anti-tank team to sneak into the frontier of the 210th Guards Regiment without being noticed by the enemy and hide in the craters of all sizes.
Seryosha had hidden and fought in the craters many times, and he felt bad about the craters. Every time he stayed inside, he always wanted to run out and see if his comrades around him were still in the craters, and confirmed that he was not the only one who stayed here. Even if he was a veteran, he would not be the one who participated in the battle for the first time.
It was precisely for this reason that before the groups entered the crater, he specifically reminded each soldier: "Brothers, we do not have enough communication tools. After entering the front location later, everything depends on you. Don't wait for my order. As long as you feel the time is right, you can open fire immediately."
An hour later, the German army launched another attack. The Germans, who had suffered a great loss, first bombarded the positions of the 151st Artillery Regiment of the Guards with artillery fire to prevent their attacking troops from being intercepted by artillery fire after approaching the Soviet position.
While shelling the Soviet artillery positions, the Soviet defensive positions were also violently bombarded. The dense shells quickly blew the position of the 210th Regiment into a sea of ​​fire.
Selyosha covered his ears with his hands, curled up in the crater, praying in his heart that the German shells must not hit the crater where he was hiding. Although he had heard a long time ago, "The same crater will not fall into the shells twice." But only those who have been on the battlefield understand that this sentence is nonsense. In the era in which the person who said this is in, how large the shell density is, and how large the shell density is now? Not to mention that two shells fall in the same crater, even if three are dropped, four shells are completely possible.
Sivakov, who was staying in the observation center, held up his telescope and looked at the frontier positions that were blown into a sea of ​​fire. He said to his chief of staff with some concern: "Can the anti-tank soldiers lurking in front of the positions survive such fierce artillery fire?"
"I think we can survive," said the Chief of Staff in an uncertain tone: "The targets of the German shelling are all our positions, and the anti-tank soldiers are hiding in the craters in front of the positions, so the chances of being hit by enemy shells should not be high."
The German artillery fire began to extend, and German tanks lined up in a row appeared again in Shivakov's telescope. Behind the tank were infantry in straits.
The machine guns on the Soviet position sounded two or three hundred meters away from the German tanks. Although the bullets kept hitting the tanks and making a jingle, they did not slow down the tank's advance at all. Only a few unlucky soldiers were hit by the jump and fell to the ground screaming.
Selyosau, hiding in the crater, vaguely heard the roar of the tank engine from outside, so he carefully leaned out to check it out and saw a short-tube No. 4 tank, which was only two hundred meters away from him. He quickly retracted and said to the anti-tank hand in the crater: "The German tank is here, load it up immediately and prepare to shoot."
After the loading, the anti-tank hand also probed his head to check, trying to figure out where the enemy's tank was. At this moment, a rocket carrying white smoke flew out from a distance, heading straight to the German tank that was sailing. However, it was a pity that the rocket did not hit the galloping tank, but fell on the open space and exploded. Before the anti-tank hand in the crater was retracted, it was fired by the German machine gun. After several rounds, it fell directly into the crater.
The sacrifice of his subordinates made Selyossa feel like a knife, but in order to destroy the enemy's tank, he could only endure the anger in his heart and said to the anti-tank hand who had already prepared for a long time: "Don't worry, wait until the enemy's tank gets closer before fighting."
After saying that, he ordered the gunmen responsible for cover: "Leave the infantry near the tank to you to deal with. I don't want them to hurt our anti-tank hands."
"Don't worry, comrade Commander." An older soldier grinned at Selyosha. He patted the assault rifle that had just been changed to the dress: "With this gun, there is basically no problem killing the enemy a hundred meters away."
The older soldiers poked their heads cautiously and saw that several enemies were only fifty or sixty meters away from their craters, but their attention was attracted by the craters that had just fired rockets. The older soldiers quickly set up their guns, aimed at several enemies in the distance, and decisively pulled the trigger.
After three shots, he retracted his body decisively and proudly said to Selyosha: "Comrade Commander, I've killed two."
"Good job." After praising the other party, Selyosha urged him: "Kill the remaining enemies as well and cover the anti-tank hand to shoot."
The older soldier took a deep breath, then poked his head out again, aimed at the places where the German soldiers were hiding and pulled the trigger again. His movement was done in one go, and he didn't have much effort, so he fired all the bullets in the magazine and retracted the crater: "Comrade Commander, kill them all."
Hearing that all the German soldiers nearby were killed, the anti-tank hand dared not neglect, he stood up suddenly, aimed at the German tank coming towards him, and pulled the trigger. The rocket flew towards the enemy tank with white smoke. The anti-tank hand didn't bother to check the results, so he squatted down.
Soon, a violent explosion came from outside, and then some soil fell from the sky and spread on everyone's heads and bodies. The older soldier hurriedly leaned out and saw that the tank had stopped moving forward and was burning not far away. Several tank soldiers covered in fire escaped from the tank screaming and stumbled to escape backwards.
Seeing that the anti-tank team commanded by Seriosha had achieved results, the other anti-tank teams did not dare to show weakness. The anti-tank hands stood up from the crater at the risk of being hit by bullets, straightened their bodies and aimed at the enemy tank to fire.
The German infantry who followed the tanks to attack thought that the Soviet anti-tank soldiers would still use the method of dropping bombs in close proximity, so there were many soldiers behind each tank so that they could use dense firepower to destroy the opponent before the Soviet soldiers approached the tank.
Unexpectedly, the Soviet army changed its routine and actually had a rocket launcher attack from a long distance, which made the infantry following the tank attack at a loss. The ammunition in the tanks hit by rockets exploded, and the flying shrapnel cut down the surrounding soldiers in pieces.
Chapter completed!