Chapter 124: Strangulating Yelnia (6)

When a total of 12 Soviet KV1 heavy tanks broke down and were destroyed on the second German position, the scale of victory shook violently, but it did not mean the end of the war. It was a battle of life and death that burned bones and flesh. The strangulation has just begun from this moment on.

"Ivans are coming up! Machine gun team, concentrate your fire, quick!"

"Fighters of the Red Army! For the motherland! Attack!"

The fierce battle for trench advancement began at a distance that was close enough to see each other's facial features and facial expressions clearly. The screams of people and the roar of various weapons that killed people together composed a song of modern human war. The most magnificent chapter in history.

Under the condition of such a close combat distance in the trench, the length of the Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle equipped with the vast majority of Soviet soldiers has exceeded 6 meters after being equipped with a bayonet for close combat.

Although such a rifle, which is comparable to a long gun and a cold weapon, is nothing at all in the hands of Soviet soldiers who are naturally tall and strong, it is not even an exaggeration to describe it as a matchstick.

However, the width of the German infantry trench was only wide enough to accommodate two people barely walking side by side. It was undoubtedly not wide enough for the Mosin-Nagant rifle equipped with a bayonet to fully unleash its punches.

If Soviet soldiers holding bayonets and Mosin Nagants encountered German troops in the trenches and engaged in close-quarters melee combat, their habitual posture of swinging their guns sideways to the left and right would not only make the Soviet soldiers extremely uncomfortable, but also make it difficult to gain the upper hand.

On the other hand, in the hands of the German army at this time, the MP38 and MP40 submachine guns, which have been put into production in large quantities and officially installed, are undoubtedly the magic weapons for this kind of close-range trench battle.

The short gun body, which is only half a meter after the butt is retracted, is hardly affected by the width of the trench and can function freely. The powerful feature of continuous shooting is even more mindless to suppress the Mosin-Nagant rifle order in the hands of the Soviet army. The Germans took advantage.

The predecessor of the Poposa submachine gun, the Popod submachine gun, was equipped by the Soviet Red Army in the summer of 1941. Its total production was so rare that it made people cry. For the massive Soviet Red Army at the moment, it could only be considered better than nothing.

The idea of ​​using these weapons, which are as scarce as giant pandas in the hands of front-line Soviet troops, to compete with the MP series submachine guns that are already available on the street in the hands of the German army is as unattainable as the Zenith star. Right now.

The Red Army soldiers armed with relatively primitive and simple light weapons marched bravely in the trenches, fighting for every inch of ground with the German forces composed of the SS Reich Division and the Grossdeutsche Infantry Regiment of the Wehrmacht.

The Soviet soldiers, who seriously lack the forward automatic firepower of the grassroots units, have a steady stream of support advantages. In terms of numbers alone, they are almost several times more than the German soldiers on the defensive in the trenches. However, every step they advance in the trenches The price to be paid was extremely painful and huge in the face of German automatic firepower.

Soviet soldiers holding bayonet-mounted Mosin-Nagant rifles often did not reach enough effective attack distance to thrust their rifles forward, and the submachine gunners at the front of the German defense team would kill them with short bursts of fire.

The vast majority of the submachine gunners among these German front-line troops are composed of German veterans who participated in the earlier Blitzkrieg against Europe. Their skilled tactical skills and combat experience of surviving mountains of corpses and seas of blood are fully sufficient to suppress these fledgling Soviet troops. Soldier.

The fishing-like tactic of taking turns to fire to suppress and reload instead of pouring out all the firepower at once caused the Soviet army to fail several times when they mistakenly thought that the German submachine gunners had begun to reload and took the opportunity to launch a charge.

Not far behind them was the field headquarters of the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment. The German troops now had no way to retreat. After losing the first defensive position, losing the second defensive position would undoubtedly mean failure.

With those SS lunatics around them who were not afraid of death, the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment became more and more desperate and ferocious under the influence of the influence. The Soviet army, not to be outdone, was also unwilling to give up at such a moment of defeat.

The Soviet infantry, which continued to attack various defense groups in the German trenches with swarming human sea tactics, finally reached the closest attack distance that could offset the German automatic firepower advantage at the cost of blood. The Soviet infantry group, holding bayonets and rifles in their hands, stepped on the corpses of their fallen comrades and roared "Ula", and collided head-on with the prepared German infantry.

The dazzling bayonet's cold light intertwined with the blood-stained engineer blade. The Ruger P08 and Tokarev TT33, whose muzzles were pointed at their respective gun holders, burst out with blazing fire almost at the same time.

Private, non-commissioned officer, lieutenant, squad leader, platoon leader, company commander, even school officer and battalion commander

All the humans fighting on this blood-soaked land are trying to kill more of the opponent's soldiers in every possible way before they die.

After using up all the ammunition for the submachine gun in his hand, the SS squad leader didn't even have the opportunity or time to change the magazine. He simply grabbed the barrel of the submachine gun, swung it and screamed at the Soviet soldier closest to him. He lunged forward.

Using all his strength, he stabbed the Wehrmacht private in front of him with a knife. The Soviet private was so heartbroken that he had no time to take into account the painful expression on the opponent's face as he vomited blood. The bayonet that was tightly grasped by the hands of the Wehrmacht private was unable to be pulled out for a while. The Soviet private, who was restless, simply bent over and picked up the German engineer shovel that had fallen to the ground. The good man's head, with a painful expression on his face, flew away far away with blood gushing out.

Commanding the soldiers of their respective guard squads to engage in this super position melee, the two Soviet and German major infantry battalion commanders who had become polished commanders quickly discovered each other.

Almost at the same time, they raised the Ruger and Tokarev pistols in their hands and fired at each other. After the gunfire, the Soviet battalion commander took the lead and slowly leaned back with an angry and unwilling look on his face. He used the last bit of strength in his body to pull the trigger, but it accurately penetrated the eyebrow under the skull cap emblem on the spot. The powerful 62mm Tokarev pistol bullet almost killed the Imperial Division's second-level assault leader who was responsible for leading the rescue team. The captain's head was half lifted.

The hail of bullets and shattering shrapnel flying everywhere do not care about anyone's military rank or family background.

Here, on this hellish battlefield of hand-to-hand combat.

A Wehrmacht officer from a Prussian noble family might not survive as long as an ordinary German private. A Soviet frontline officer under heavy protection might also be killed on the spot by a stray bullet that jumped out of nowhere.

War is so desperate and fair.