When the rocket flew towards the village, Minishki's heart was in his throat. Although he had learned to operate this new type of rocket, it was the first time to shoot live-fire. According to the parameters he had mastered, the farthest range of this rocket would have a deviation of 50 to 100 meters when it was launched at its farthest range of 8.5 kilometers away. Now it is less than two kilometers away from the target, so the deviation should be controlled within a range of 15 meters.
A few seconds later, two rockets dragging long flame tails plunged into the village, and while two dazzling flames rose, it made a shocking explosion. "Great, hit!" Countless wooden house fragments and broken limbs near the explosion site were lifted into the air, and the motorcycle parked in the open space was also blown up, or overturned by air waves. Seeing this scene, Goria couldn't help but cheer, and he shouted to the warrior standing aside: "What are you still standing there? Hurry up, continue to load."
Hearing the battalion commander's roar, the soldiers woke up from their surprise, and quickly carried the remaining two rockets over and stuffed them into the launcher. Minishki re-adjusted the position of the launcher and pressed the launcher directly. Two rockets flew towards the village where they began to burn.
The first launch did not directly hit the wooden house where the German command was located, but it destroyed the wooden house next to it, causing a raging fire. In the villages of Russia, there were all wooden buildings. As long as there was a fire, the camps would be burned. German soldiers who were resting in nearby wooden houses noticed that there was a wooden house burning outside, and were afraid that they would be trapped in the wooden house and burned to death, so they rushed out of the house, including a group of officers from the German command.
As soon as they ran out of the house, two rockets that occurred in the second round arrived. The rocket exploded and formed a huge deep pit. The people in the pit did not even have slag left. The soldiers who were slightly farther away also had their heads cut off or pierced their chests. Soon the entire village began to burn, and some surviving soldiers had no idea where the shells that attacked them came from, so they could only run around like headless flies.
Goria raised his telescope and carefully observed the situation in the village. He found that the surviving soldiers lived in houses on the edge of the village, and the wooden houses in the middle of the village were wrapped in flames, and there was no trace of human movement at all. It turned out that the enemies in this area should have all died in the explosion of rockets.
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Tavlin urged anxiously when he saw Goria holding a telescope and watching, "Look, the whole village is burning. If the enemy's command is really in the middle of the village, then their officers should be dead at this moment. Let's retreat quickly while the enemy has not come."
Goria put down the telescope, nodded, and said to the soldiers: "Everyone get in the car. Before the enemy has discovered us, we will return to Mamayev's hill as soon as possible." The soldiers agreed and helped Minishki remove the launcher from the tripod and put it on the car.
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According to Sokov's vision, although the German regiment command post was only thirty kilometers away from Mamayev Hill, Goria and others still set off in armored vehicles, but it would take at least five hours to complete this mission.
Unexpectedly, less than three hours later, Cidolin received a call from the Fourth Battalion Commander from Beigang. After hearing the content of the report on the other side, he covered the microphone with his hands and said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, Captain Goria and the others are back."
"What, come back now?" Sokov looked at his watch and said in surprise: "It's less than three hours." He raised his head and ordered Cidolin, "Let him come to me immediately to report the situation."
"Fourth Battalion Commander," Sidolin said to the microphone: "When you meet Captain Goria, ask him to report the situation immediately at the brigade command."
About twenty minutes later, a "German soldier" wearing a steel helmet, a German uniform, and a submachine gun on his chest walked into the command center in a swagger. Seeing a German soldier entering the house, Sokov instinctively reached his hand to his waist, but he soon discovered that it was a false alarm, and that it was Goria.
Sokov stood up holding the table and said to Goria, "It turns out it's you, Captain Goria. Why don't you change your clothes when you come? Are you not afraid that our soldiers will regard you as a German?"
Goria grinned and replied, "Comrade Brigade Commander, I just returned to the tunnel in Beigang when I received a call from Captain Brisky, the Fourth Battalion Commander, saying that you asked me to come and report to you immediately, so I rushed over without even changing my clothes."
"Captain Goria," Sidorin came over with a cup of hot tea, greeted Goria and sat down, put the teapot in front of him, and said, "Report your mission behind enemy lines this time."
Goria quickly reported to Cidolin in detail how the troops passed through the enemy's defense line and how they used rockets to destroy the village where the German command was located.
After Sidorin waited for Goria to finish speaking, he asked with a serious expression: "Comrade Captain, tell me truthfully, have the rockets you fired really completely destroyed the enemy's command?"
"Yes, Comrade Chief of Staff." Seeing that Cidolin had doubts about his achievements, Goria quickly stood up and replied: "I have observed carefully that after being hit by rockets, the entire village was burning, especially in the area where we were shelling, there was no moving figure. In such a fierce fire, even steel would burn, let alone people."
"Comrade Chief of Staff, no need to ask." Sokov saw that Sidolin seemed to want to continue asking, and quickly raised his hand to stop him: "I know very well how powerful the rockets are. Unless Captain Goria and his men were not present when the German commander was in the attack, under the attack of four rockets, unless he was Iron Man, he should be burned to charcoal."
"Iron Man?" Sidolin stared at Sokov with wide eyes and asked in surprise: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what is Iron Man?"
Seeing the surprised gazes from everyone around him, Sokov realized that he was quick-talking and said the wrong thing again. In order to quickly get rid of the embarrassment, he looked at Goria and asked, "Comrade Captain, you just said that you were very smooth when you passed through the enemy's defense line. Is the enemy's defense very relaxed?"
"I don't know anything else." Goria replied: "Anyway, the sentry running on the road was not very vigilant. When we heard that we were from the 100th Hunter Division, we didn't even check the documents, we were allowed to pass."
Sitting opposite Sokov, Vetkov, saw Sokov nodding thoughtfully, and couldn't help asking: "Comrade Brigade Commander, do you have any new ideas?"
Sokov nodded and said in a affirmative tone: "That's right, since the German defense is so relaxed, we can send a few more teams to go deep into the enemy's defense depth to attack their warehouses, camps and supply lines, so that the enemy cannot concentrate their efforts to attack Mamayev."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Sidolin and Sokov finished speaking, immediately asked, "Which battalion do you plan to draw troops from to complete this task?"
If it was half a month ago, Sokov would definitely say without hesitation that the Third Battalion or the 192nd Battalion would draw personnel to the enemy's backbone to carry out the raid mission. But now all five battalions of the brigade have suffered heavy losses. If too many troops are drawn to the enemy's backbone, the frontal defense will be weakened. Therefore, he hesitated for a long time before speaking: "Let's do this, let each battalion draw fifteen soldiers, form a team, and go deep into the enemy's backbone to move."
After saying his thoughts, Sokov said to Goria: "Comrade Captain, you don't need to lead the enemy's team formed by your battalion. You can also find a trusted commander to take charge."
"I understand, comrade comrade commander." Goriya knew that Sokov said this for the purpose of protecting himself, so he did not insist on leading the team himself. "I will find a suitable commander and lead the newly formed team deep into the enemy's backbone."
After Goria left, Vetkov took advantage of the call of Sidolin and asked Sokov in a low voice: "Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, did you send a small team to the rear of the enemy to fight guerrillas, hasn't it weakened the frontal defense power?"
"Comrade Colonel," Sokov explained to Vetkov: "The reason why I sent small teams to the enemy's back to engage in a raid was to cooperate with the frontal troops to hold onto the Mamayev post. Think about it, if we have five teams operating behind enemy lines, it will cause the enemy's weapons, ammunition and military supplies to be unable to transport them, and the wounded cannot transport them. What impact will it have on the enemy's morale and morale."
But Vitkov was obviously not interested in Sokov's guerrilla tactics, so he reminded Sokov with kindness: "I am worried that the enemy will find that we have a small team deep into their rear and will send a large number of troops to encircle and suppress it. At that time, our small team behind the enemy will be in danger."
"Comrade Colonel," Sokov smiled when he heard Vitkov say: "If the enemy really draws a large amount of troops to clear out the small teams behind them, it will greatly reduce the defensive pressure on Mamayev's gang. And we can also use this precious time to allow the troops standing in the highlands to rest and replenish, and hoard ammunition and supplies to prepare to fight against the new German offensive."
Chapter completed!