Red Moscow

  Chapter 120 Impassable Heights (Part 1)

  Sokov and Belkin stood in the observation post under the mountain, raising their binoculars and looking towards the high ground that was being shelled. I saw that the top of the mountain was like an erupting crater, with explosions and flames everywhere. The position was tightly wrapped by the rising gunpowder smoke, and the sound of explosions came out of the gunpowder smoke one after another, wave after wave.

Seeing this situation, Belkin's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. He raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and said to Sokov with lingering fear: "Comrade Battalion Commander, you should be considerate and let the third company withdraw during the shelling." Go to the new fortifications on the north **** and avoid the enemy's shelling. Otherwise, under such fierce shelling, not to mention the entire army was destroyed, at least more than half of them were killed or injured."

  Thinking of the last successful night attack, Belkin couldn't help asking again: "Comrade Battalion Commander, look, can we launch another sneak attack on the German artillery positions like last time?"

Sokov put down his binoculars, looked at Belkin and said, "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, the Germans are not fools. They will learn their lesson after a loss. Before the enemy's shelling began, Savyev once told We reported that the enemy's artillery positions were set up five or six kilometers away this time. The positions are surrounded by minefields that are difficult to pass through, and all roads that can pass are covered with barbed wire. The enemy did this to prevent our Sneak attack."

  Belkin heard Sokov say this, and said with a little regret: "That is really a pity. If the German artillery positions cannot be eliminated, it means that our soldiers will continue to be bombarded by the enemy."

"The nameless highlands are surrounded by forests. Although German tanks, armored vehicles and trucks are impassable, small troops can pass through the forests and reach the rear of our defense zone." On the high ground, but Sokov did not dare to take it lightly. He asked Belkin: "Have all our security forces been dispatched?"

"They have all been dispatched." Although Sokov personally assigned the task of deploying security forces near the highlands, Belkin still explained in detail when he replied: "Except for the south, the other three directions have sent Two squads. If the enemy is spotted, they can immediately go into battle and hold out until reinforcements arrive."

After confirming that the security forces were in place, Sokov nodded slightly, and said: "Although the main attack target of the German army is the high ground defended by the third company, it does not rule out that they will send a small group of troops if they cannot attack for a long time. Turn back to the rear of the high ground. At this time, the security forces we deployed can be put to great use.”

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As soon as the shelling ended, Savyev rushed out of the bunker on the north slope. He stood in the traffic trench, took out his whistle and blew desperately, urging the soldiers who were still in the bunker to return to their positions as soon as possible and do a good job. Ready for battle.

  When he returned to the top of the mountain, Savyev found that his position had become disfigured under the German artillery fire. There is empty soil more than a foot deep everywhere. Once you step on it, you can feel the heat in the soil through your boots.

  In the distance, four German tanks lined up in a row are driving towards the high ground, and behind them are German infantry in loose formation. "Hurry up and repair the fortifications!" Seeing this situation, Savyev repeatedly shouted loudly: "Get ready to fight!"

Stepan, who finally entered the position, couldn't help taking a breath when he saw everything in front of him. He thought to himself: If the battalion commander hadn't ordered a new bunker to be built on the north **** of the high ground and let the soldiers stay in the Inside to avoid shelling, after the round of shelling just now, there were not a few living people left in the whole company.

  Due to the **** of the south slope, it exceeded the climbing limit of the tanks, so the German tanks stopped at the foot of the mountain. The infantry overtook the tanks and rushed towards the top of the hill under the cover of tank fire.

  Seeing that the enemy had entered the range, Savyev yelled: "Hit me!" Then, the submachine gun in his hand fired at the enemy on the hillside. The sound of gunfire was an order, and the machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles on the position fired at the same time, blocking the way forward for the German army with intensive firepower.

   As soon as the gunshot rang, the German machine gunner quickly jumped into a bomb crater, set up the machine gun and fired towards the top of the hill to suppress. The rest of the soldiers approached the top of the mountain step by step using short-distance leap forward tactics.

  The German tanks parked at the foot of the mountain saw that the Soviet troops on the hillside started to shoot, and immediately fired to cover the infantry who were charging towards the top of the mountain. The German guns were very accurate. In the first round of shooting, they destroyed a machine gun fire point on the top of the mountain. The machine gunner who was shooting was pulled up from the ground by the blast wave. He fell on the slope, and Gululu rolled down the **** along the slope.

Savyev stared at the tanks at the foot of the mountain that kept causing casualties to his troops, his eyes were about to burst into flames, and he thought painfully in his heart: "If the five cannons seized last time are not handed in, as long as Two rounds of bombardment will blow all these German tanks to pieces."

  The German infantry is getting closer and closer to the position. The few soldiers rushing to the front can rush into the trench in a few seconds as long as they accelerate. In order to prevent the enemy from rushing into the position, the bullets fired from the trenches became more dense. The flames spouted by machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles were like an impenetrable fire net, causing the German soldiers who rushed up to fall in pieces.

  Although the German army is only one step away from the trenches, it is not necessarily a bad thing for the third company standing in the position. The tanks at the foot of the mountain, in order to prevent accidental injury to their own people, had stopped firing, so that the soldiers of the third company could lean out and shoot at the enemy in front of the trench with the weapons in their hands.

  The German soldiers who lost the cover of artillery fire seemed to be unable to fight at once. They were unable to break through the firepower net of the Soviet army, so they could only hide in the crater and engage in fierce confrontation with each other.

  The offensive and defensive battle on the high ground lasted for almost an hour. The German army, which suffered heavy casualties, finally chose to retreat after several attempts and found that they could not break through the Soviet positions.

  As soon as the German army withdrew, the correspondent in the company bent over and ran to Savyev's side, and said loudly: "Comrade company commander, there is your phone number in the company command post, and it is the battalion commander."

"Comrades, hurry up to repair the fortifications, treat the wounded, and go to the hillside to collect usable weapons from the dead Germans." After explaining all this, Saviev turned to the correspondent and said: "Go Come on, take me to the company command post."

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