Red Moscow

  Chapter 56 Positional Warfare (Part 1)

  Before launching a new round of charge, Lin Hua asked Savyev to gather the soldiers in the third row, and he wanted to mobilize them before the battle. After the soldiers lined up neatly in the trench, Lin Hua stood on a mound outside the trench, faced the soldiers, pointed behind him with his hand, and said, "Look, comrades!"

  The eyes of the soldiers involuntarily turned to the direction Lin Hua was pointing at. There, you can see the rising flames, the diffuse smoke, and hear the dense gunfire. All this shows that one's comrades-in-arms are fighting fiercely with the enemy.

After Lin Hua and other soldiers watched for a while, they continued: "Comrades, you have all seen that our comrades-in-arms are being suppressed by the enemy's firepower and cannot move in front of the position. I will lead you to help them. You are all ready Yet?"

   There were only a few scattered voices in the queue: "Get ready!" while more soldiers remained silent. Lin Hua's gaze swept over the faces of the soldiers in the front row, and most of the expressions he saw were panicked expressions. Seeing this situation, he knew in his heart that the guerrilla fighters had no experience in regular warfare, and they were full of worries and fears for such an intense battle. In fact, this is also understandable. When I first came to this world, when I heard bullets whizzing past my head, I almost peed my pants in fright.

Savyev, who was standing in the queue, was very dissatisfied with the reaction of his subordinates. He crawled out of the trench, stood beside Lin Hua, and said angrily to his subordinates: "I say, comrades, you all What's the matter, are you scared? Are you frightened by the German machine guns and mortars?" Many soldiers bowed their heads in shame when they heard what Savyev said.

  Lin Hua's purpose at this moment is to boost morale and dispel the fear in the soldiers' hearts, not to blame them. So as soon as Savyev finished speaking, he quickly raised his voice and said: "Comrades in the third platoon, before being reorganized into the regular army, most of you came from the Savyev guerrillas. This is a The guerrillas with fine traditions made great achievements when they cooperated with the Eighth Guards Division to defend Volokramsk. Today, you, as the liberators of Volokramsk, have returned here again." He said Pointing backward with the hand holding the submachine gun, he said impassionedly, "Now, take up the weapons in your hands and destroy those invaders who have committed all kinds of evils on our land and make great achievements!"

  As soon as Lin Hua finished speaking, whoever took the lead yelled "Ula", and then the whole queue resounded with passionate shouts, which made people's blood boil. Seeing that the soldiers' emotions were aroused by him, Lin Hua turned to the direction of the enemy's position in front of him, and shouted loudly: "Comrades, for the sake of the motherland! Go forward~!" He raised the submachine gun above his head and slammed it With a wave, he took the lead and rushed out.

  The company commander took the lead and rushed out, the platoon commander Savyev rushed out, and the deputy platoon commander Stepan also rushed out. Seeing that the commanders were all leading the way and rushing to the front, the rest of the soldiers in the platoon dared to be negligent. They also shouted loudly, holding the weapons in their hands, and rushed forward behind them.

The scene of Lin Hua leading the charge was seen by Andryushenko from the rear observation station. He nodded with a smile and said approvingly: "Well done, Lieutenant Sokov is really good. If he can I will definitely give credit to him and his soldiers for taking down the enemy's position!"

  Asiya, who was nursing the wounded in the dressing room, heard the shouts from outside, not knowing what happened, so she walked out of the dressing room to see what happened. Just in time, Lin Hua led three rows of soldiers and trotted towards the German position in the distance. She couldn't help exclaiming, and rushed out of the trench along the **** not far away, stood in front of the trench, and shouted hoarsely at the soldiers' backs: "Misha~!"

It's a pity that Lin Hua couldn't hear Asiya's shout, and didn't know that Andryushenko was watching his every move with a telescope. He just wanted to lead the soldiers to rush up early to assist the first and second platoons. The fighters seize the enemy's position.

  The German commander in the position found another Soviet army with dozens of soldiers rushing towards him from a distance, and immediately ordered the mortars to shift the shooting target, trying to use artillery fire to destroy this small army that rushed over.

   A moment later, the German artillery shells fell in the three-row queue and exploded. The projectile shrapnel hit the soldiers near the blast point, pierced through their bodies, and splashed blood on the soldiers nearby. Although some comrades kept falling beside him, the living soldiers still rushed forward with shouts.

  The mortars shifted their shooting targets. The soldiers in the second row who were suppressed by machine guns and artillery fire suddenly felt the pressure drop. The two platoon leaders began to organize the surrounding soldiers and continued to approach the enemy's position. The most outstanding performance was Vanya and several soldiers under him. Under the intensive machine gun firepower of the German army, they aimed at the gaps between machine gun fire and fired quickly; Into another crater, approaching the enemy's position step by step.

  Just when the German machine gun fire blocked the first row and the second row, and the mortars intercepted the third row, the soldiers of the machine gun row established a machine gun position 300 meters away from the position. With an order, eighteen machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the fire net formed by the dense firepower, like an invisible big hand, pushed all the German soldiers shooting on the position into the trenches.

  Seeing that the gunfire on the enemy's position became sparse, Vanya jumped up from the crater where he was hiding, stood still and fired a short burst. Before the German soldier raised his head again, he had plunged into the trench and knocked down the German soldier with one shot. …

   Andryushchenko in the observation post couldn't help applauding when he saw the soldiers rushing into the trench one after another. Holding up the binoculars, he said to the chief of staff without looking back: "Chief of staff, call the commander immediately and tell him that the soldiers of Istria Company have rushed into the enemy's position."

   The chief of staff agreed, and immediately picked up the phone to call Remizov and report the good news to him. Unexpectedly, after hearing the news, Remizov frowned, "What, just rushed into the first trench? Comrade Chief of Staff, please tell Lieutenant Colonel Andryushenko, it's too slow, Your attack speed is too slow!"

   After putting down the phone, Remizov ordered the communications soldier sitting not far away: "Get me to the Army Command. I want to report the battle situation here to Comrade Commander."

  (end of this chapter)