Chapter 1105: The opponent has changed

  Chapter 1105 The opponent has changed

   Seeing the tenacious resistance of the Soviet army, the German army fought for a while, then withdrew.

  Seeing that the German army was retreating, the first battalion commander quickly ordered his company commander: "Immediately count the casualties of the troops, and at the same time, make preparations to switch defenses with the second battalion."

The battle just now was fought so hard that some recruits who were on the battlefield for the first time were so scared that they peed their pants, so that in the trenches, apart from the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke, they could also smell a puff of urine. Smell.

Andrei at the foot of the mountain, seeing that the battle on the top of the mountain was over, immediately called Yegor, the commander of the sixth company, and said to him: "Your company will take over the position of the first battalion first. Remember, when the enemy's shelling starts, you You must hide on the reverse slope, so as to minimize your casualties."

"Don't worry, Comrade Battalion Commander." Yegor smiled and said to Andrei: "I have been fighting with the division commander for not a day or two, and I know where the safest place to hide when the enemy's shelling starts. "

  Egor took the sixth company to the top of the mountain to take over the position of the first battalion. When he saw the remains of more than 300 first battalion soldiers placed on the reverse slope, his nose became sore. He called several platoon leaders under him, pointed to the remains of the soldiers and said to them: "Comrades platoon leaders, you have all seen that these soldiers basically died in the enemy's shelling. There are many recruits among them. He didn't even see the enemy, so he died in vain under the enemy's artillery fire."

   "Comrade Captain," said a platoon leader, "There are only crude fortifications on the top of the hillside. Once you are bombarded by the German army, whether you can survive depends on your own luck."

Yegor stared at the platoon leader for a long time, and finally said: "Comrade platoon leader, if you have such thoughts in your heart, then I can tell you that when the enemy's shelling starts again, you and your subordinates will be on the same side." Blown to pieces in the shelling."

"What should I do?"

"You immediately return to your respective platoons and order the soldiers to dig a communication trench leading to the reverse slope. As soon as the enemy shelling starts, you run along the communication trench to the reverse slope, so that the enemy's shells pose no danger to you. , will be greatly reduced."

  Egor's order was carried out by several platoon leaders who tried hard to save their lives. Several platoons of soldiers, as soon as they entered the position, began to repair the fortifications in full swing, preparing for a new round of enemy attacks.

   Several traffic trenches leading to the reverse **** had just been repaired, and the German shelling began again.

  Egor immediately ordered the signal soldiers to signal the platoons with signal flags, ordering them all to withdraw to the reverse slope.

  The platoon leader who had just argued with Yegor, after seeing the order, thought he had seen it, and called a signalman to confirm. Only when he learned that he had indeed ordered his entire team to enter the reverse **** did he give the soldiers the order to retreat.

   When they came to the reverse slope, the platoon leader immediately found Yegor and asked curiously: "Comrade company commander, why did you withdraw all of them, not even leaving an observation post?"

"There is no need to keep an observation post. We only need to use the periscope on the reverse **** to see the enemy's movements clearly." Yegor explained to the platoon leader: "Besides, we don't have any solid positions at all. There is no possibility of sacrifice, so it is better to retreat to the reverse slope.”

  As soon as the shelling stopped, Yegor blew his whistle vigorously, allowing the soldiers to quickly enter the position under the cover of gunpowder smoke. When the soldiers began to enter the position, Yegor lay down behind a mound on the hill, raised his binoculars and looked into the distance. I saw four German tanks appearing in the distance, and they were making "zigzag" maneuvers non-stop, and they were coming to the top of the mountain in a detour. Behind each tank, there are only four or five soldiers. Such a sparse distribution of troops is to prevent the Soviet army from attacking them with new rockets.

   "Communications," Yegor put down his binoculars, turned his head and said to the communications soldiers on the side, "Immediately notify the first and second platoon leaders to send anti-tank fighters to hide in the front bomb crater."

  The German army's small attacking force was three hundred meters away from the trench, and the Soviet sharpshooter in the trench opened fire on the infantry following the tank. Although they are all sharpshooters, they are not professional snipers after all, and the distance is a bit far, so only one-third of the ten bullets fired can hit the target at most.

  Seeing the soldiers following the tanks, who fell down in the snow from time to time, Yegor, who was hiding behind the mound and observing, still kept applauding secretly. He thought to himself: If all the snipers in the division are here, I am afraid that before the enemy tanks approach the trenches, all the infantry behind the tanks should be reimbursed.

   But even if there are no real snipers in the company, the results of these sharpshooters are quite good. As German soldiers got closer to the trenches, their shots became more accurate. Originally, it took three or four bullets to hit a target, but now it basically takes two bullets to destroy an enemy.

  When the German tanks were only more than 150 meters away from the position, all the soldiers following them were killed by the Soviet sharpshooters. The tank soldiers did not realize at all that the infantry providing cover for the tanks had all been reimbursed, and they continued to approach the Soviet trenches according to the original driving route.

  Since the infantry following the tank attack has been killed by the sharpshooters on the ground. The anti-tank fighters hiding in the crater suddenly became more confident. When the German tanks approached, they immediately got up and fired rockets at each other.

  In less than two minutes, the anti-tank fighters who fired nine rockets in a row successfully destroyed four German tanks. After the tank was shot and caught fire, the surviving tankers inside all crawled out one after another. They didn't even have the courage to fight, so they turned around and went in the direction they came from.

  At this moment, they are only more than a hundred meters away from the position. For the sharpshooters in the trenches, they are the best targets. After a series of crisp sounds, these tank soldiers who escaped from the tank by chance fell to the ground in disorder, becoming a gradually cooling corpse.

  The battalion commander of the German Imperial Division, who was commanding the battle behind, saw that the tanks and soldiers he had sent were easily killed by the Russians on the opposing position. After careful consideration, a shocked expression appeared on his face: "My God, the other party is no longer the group of rabble just now, but an elite teacher of the Russians."

  He quickly ordered the communications soldier beside him: "Get in touch with the commander in the city immediately, and ask him, do you know the number of this Russian?"

   A moment later, the signal soldier reported to him: "Mr. Major, I have figured it out. The one standing on the opposite side is the 41st Guards Division of the Russians."

   "What, the 41st Guards Division?" The major said in surprise: "It seems that we have met a real opponent."

  (end of this chapter)