On the way forward, although enemies emerged from both sides from time to time, they were shot and knocked down by soldiers who had prepared. In a short while, the troops led by Sokov rushed to the square in front of the church. There were two sandbags in front of the church door, and two machine guns were shooting wildly. The dense firepower blocked the road for the soldiers to charge. The oncoming rain of bullets made many soldiers soften their bodies and fall directly into the square.
Seeing that the German army's firepower was too strong, Sokov continued to rush forward, and he could only die, so he shouted loudly at the top of his throat: "Secret, hide quickly!" After shouting, Sokov and seven or eight soldiers, including Oleg, hurriedly hid behind a huge onion roof. According to Sokov's judgment, the roof should have been blown up by artillery fire and landed on the square, and by chance became his own hiding place.
Oleg quickly poked his head out from behind the roof, then immediately shrank back, and said with some annoyance: "Comrade Battalion Commander, the Germans have too strong firepower. If we don't kill their machine guns, we can't rush over at all."
When Oleg spoke, Sokov stared at the onion roof in front of him with his hands. He touched the golden decoration on the surface with his hands, and said in his heart: "Oh my God, the one posted on it is indeed gold foil." He remembered that when the Moscow Cathedral was rebuilt in 1995, the roof of the onion roof weighing 400 kilograms was pasted. Although the gold foil on the roof of the onion roof in front of him could not be compared with the cathedral, there would be more than a dozen kilograms.
Sokov was thinking about how to remove the gold foil sticking to the roof, so that Oleg didn't hear him talking to him. After Oleg finished speaking, he didn't hear Sokov talking. He quickly turned his head and found that his battalion commander was staring at the gold foil sticking to the roof in a daze. He quickly raised his hand and pushed it gently on Sokov's shoulder, and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Battalion Commander, have you heard me speak?"
"What did you say?" Sokov reluctantly moved his eyes away from the gold foil in front of him, and looked at Oleg and asked, "Sergeant Oleg, I was thinking about things just now, but I didn't hear what you said. Can you repeat it again?"
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Oleg pretended not to see Sokov's greedy look as he stared at the gold foil on the roof, and repeated his words: "The enemy's firepower is too strong, and we can't rush over at all."
After Oleg finished speaking, he quickly poked his head out, looked at the church, then shrank his head back, and said to Oleg: "The German machine guns have too strong firepower. If we rush hard, we will suffer a great loss. You immediately send someone to the back to transfer two machine guns, cooperate with the sharpshooters in the guard squad to eliminate the enemies at the entrance of the church."
When Oleg left his hiding place and bent over and returned along the street to find the machine gun, Sokov looked around and saw that no soldiers rushed forward in the rain of bullets from the enemy. Instead, they squatted or lay on the ground and hid behind the ruins, stretched out their guns from time to time, and fired two shots at the position where the German machine guns were shooting.
However, a soldier squatting beside Sokov was obviously unable to hold back. He listened to the sound of gunfires in the town and shouted at Sokov: "Comrade Major, the Germans only have two machine guns, why don't we continue to rush forward?"
"From the place where we were hiding to the church door, there was a distance of fifty or sixty meters, and it was open and unblocked. At this time, wouldn't it be a death?" Although Sokov saw that the soldiers who were talking were not from the Istrian camp, he still said to him in a stern tone: "It's better to hide. When it's time to attack, I will naturally let you attack."
But the warrior obviously did not listen to Sokov's words. He said stubbornly: "I came here to eliminate the *** bandits, not to hide behind the ruins as cowards. If you don't charge, then let me rush over and destroy the enemy." After that, he stood up straight and prepared to rush out from behind the roof.
As soon as the soldier stood up, Sokov heard a series of machine gun bullets hitting the roof. He couldn't help but feel a little bit of it, and said to himself: "It's over, my gold foil, these few shots that the Germans fired, have been smashed." While he was thinking this, he suddenly saw the soldier spread his arms and fell to the ground with his back on his back, throwing the submachine gun far away.
Sokov quickly squatted in front of the warrior and found that at least seven or eight bullets were hit on his shoulder and head, and he could not save him. He reached out to take the submachine gun that fell next to him, and unexpectedly found that it was a Popov submachine gun with a bullet capacity of up to 71 rounds.
"This is a good thing." Sokov has always wanted to have a Popov submachine gun since he came to this time and space. However, due to the low production at that time, he only equipped a few troops. The guard division, which had great military achievements, was not qualified to be equipped, not to mention his newly formed army. He took the backpack from the body of the soldier and opened it. He found that there were two grenades and three round drums inside. He quickly returned to the roof with his backpack, and squatted there and patiently waited for the reinforcements brought by Oleg.
Just as Sokov was waiting a little anxiously, he suddenly heard a bombing sound, and the sound of German machine guns shooting wildly suddenly weakened. Sokov leaned out curiously and looked out, but he saw that the sandbag fortifications on the left side of the gate had been overturned, and the machine guns and machine gunners inside had been blown to pieces.
"What the hell is going on?" Sokov squatted down again and wondered: "Where did the cannon fire?"
At this moment, another explosion sounded, and the German machine gun was completely mute. Before Sokov could look at the movement in the direction of the church, he vaguely heard someone calling him behind him. He turned his head and saw that Oleg was dancing at him on the street more than a hundred meters away, and a cannon was parked in the ruins beside him.
"Battle of cannons?!" Sokov looked at the cannon with blue smoke at the gun, and this thought flashed through his mind. Especially among the people standing next to the cannon, there was the cannon company commander Sergeyev.
The most threatening machine gun in the German army had been killed by artillery. Sokov suddenly stood up, raised the submachine gun in his hand, and shouted: "Comrades, for the motherland! For Stalin! Go with me~!"
Chapter completed!