Red Moscow

  Chapter 153 The Battle for the Village (Part 2)

  The village of Igolaya Ulica, which Sokov compiled as the No. 1 target, is shrouded in morning fog, as beautiful as a Russian rural landscape painting. The second company led by Andre left the forest and cautiously moved towards the location of the village. Sokov stood in the bunker at the edge of the forest, nervously watching the looming troops in the fog with binoculars, secretly praying that they could approach the village smoothly.

  When the troops were three or four hundred meters away from the village, there was an explosion, and then a puff of black smoke rose into the sky, and several figures near the explosion point fell down. "What's going on here?" Seeing this situation, Sokov couldn't help shouting: "Did the Germans fire?"

   But no one in the observation station answered him, because no one knew the answer.

   Soon there was another explosion, and several figures fell down in response.

   Seeing this scene clearly, Sokov's heart sank suddenly, and he secretly said that he took someone to inspect the terrain yesterday. How could he forget that the German army would set up a minefield outside the village? It must be that the commanders and fighters of the second company stepped on the landmines planted by the enemy.

  The explosion of a landmine outside the village alarmed the Germans in the village. Soon, the firepower points in the civil bunkers fired machine guns at the soldiers outside the village, forcing them to lie down on the spot.

  Sokov grabbed the phone used to communicate with the artillery company, and said into the microphone angrily: "Hey, Lieutenant Sergeyev, the artillery company fires immediately! Destroy the German firepower, hurry up, and fire immediately!"

When Sergeyev accompanied Sokov to inspect the terrain yesterday, he recorded the location parameters of the German firepower points in detail. At this moment, after receiving Sokov's order, he immediately ordered the six 76.2mm cannons in the company to aim at the positions that had been marked. Good target for shooting.

  The six guns fired only two rounds and destroyed four German firepower points outside the village. The soldiers who had been suppressed by the firepower on the ground got up again and rushed towards the village through the snow.

   "Our artillery is really great." The heat generated by the explosion dispelled the morning fog that filled the air and broadened the field of vision in the observation post. Through the binoculars, Belkin clearly saw that the German firepower point was burning after being destroyed by artillery fire. He couldn't help saying excitedly: "It took only a dozen shells to destroy the German army's firepower point."

Sokov put down his binoculars, turned to Belkin and said, "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, I lent all the commanders and fighters of the artillery platoon to Sergeyev. It may not be possible to destroy these firepower points."

  Although the firepower of the German army was destroyed, the German soldiers living in the village heard the gunshots outside and rushed out of the houses where they lived, jumped into the trenches outside the village, and opened fire on the rushing Soviet troops.

  Under the hail of bullets from the German army, the soldiers of the Second Company sometimes crawled forward, and sometimes took advantage of the interval of enemy shooting to jump up from the ground, trot forward a few steps, and then lay down on the spot.

  The German tanks at the entrance of the village also slowly turned their turrets, aiming at the soldiers approaching the village and firing. Although its rate of fire is not fast, every shot can cause a lot of casualties to the Second Company.

  Ajik, the company commander of the anti-tank gun company, saw the German tanks firing, and hurriedly urged the artillery to pull the guns and move towards the village. Regardless of the anti-tank guns they are equipped with, the effective range is 4100 meters, but in order to effectively penetrate the armor of the No. 3 or No. 4 tanks, it must be close to the distance of 300 meters.

  The commanders and fighters of the Second Company performed very bravely. Although their comrades kept falling beside them, they still rushed forward bravely. Griza rushed to a place more than ten meters away from the enemy's trench, lay down behind a tree stump, and threw four grenades into the trench. As soon as the explosion stopped, he jumped up from his hiding place and rushed into the trench quickly, using his submachine gun to sweep down two German soldiers who were dazed by the explosion.

  A row of soldiers followed Griza and jumped into the trench one after another. They used submachine guns and grenades to destroy the German soldiers who hadn't recovered, and quickly controlled this section of the trench.

   Several impatient fighters climbed out of the trenches after eliminating the enemies in their field of vision, ready to charge towards the village with their guns in hand. Before they could even gain a foothold, they were strafed by heading machine guns from German tanks. The soldiers who were shot covered their wounds and fell into the trenches one after another like dumplings.

Seeing his subordinates being knocked down by the enemy's machine guns, Grisa couldn't help the blood rushing to his head. He squatted down, picked up a few German grenades with wooden handles from the trench, tied them together with a belt, and prepared to shoot them with a cluster gun. Grenades to blow up tanks. He strapped on the grenade, and had just poked his head out of the trench when he heard an explosion ahead and a column of mud rising into the sky from the side of the tank.

   "What's going on here?" Griza thought with some surprise, "Could it be our artillery firing?"

  At this time, there was another explosion. A ball of flames exploded on the tank body, and then the flames enveloped the tank, making it start to burn. Griza put the cluster grenade aside, raised his submachine gun, aimed at the burning tank, and prepared to kill the tank soldiers who escaped from it.

Ajik stood behind an anti-tank gun 300 meters away from the entrance of the village. He saw that the artillery squad that Sokov sent to him destroyed the snow-covered German tank with only two rounds. There was a surprised expression on his face. When Sokov introduced the situation of the troops to him and Sergeyev yesterday, he was still sneering secretly in his heart. He had never heard of a mixed battalion of various arms, but since the other party was his superior, he knew that the other party If you are bragging, you have to pretend to be convinced. But the performance of the artillery squad made him realize that he had wrongly blamed Sokov. The strength of the Istria Battalion was completely beyond his imagination.

  Grisa knocked down a tank soldier who climbed out of the tank with a gun, then jumped out of the trench, raised the submachine gun in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Comrades, come with me!"

Sokov in the observation post saw a platoon of soldiers rushing into the village from the entrance of the village under the leadership of Grisa, so he put down his binoculars and said to Belkin with a sigh of relief: "The village has finally been taken down. "

   "But, Comrade Battalion Commander." Belkin pointed to the trench where the battle had not yet ended, and said, "The enemy in the trench is still resisting, and our battle is not over yet."

   "Don't worry, there are not many enemies left." Sokov said with a relaxed expression: "Our fighters will soon wipe them all out."

  (end of this chapter)