Yang Mingzhi encountered an unexpected obstacle, and the enemy unexpectedly placed heavy artillery in the city.

"Did they have known we were coming to attack this town?" He questioned Yerentina beside him, feeling a little conflicted in his heart.

Of course, Yerentina didn't know anything, she was just a political commissar, leading the soldiers to fight bravely.

"Stick to your post! Comrade Berekov! You have to find a way to get people out of the quagmire. ”

Out of the quagmire? Say it lightly. Yang Mingzhi and she were both lying under the collapsed ruins, and now that the sky was clear, it was impossible to quickly annihilate and occupy Kuta Town as expected.

To make matters worse, the enemy had placed heavy artillery inside the city for unknown reasons, and the caliber of these guns must have exceeded a hundred millimeters in terms of the damage done. A single shell can blow up a two-meter-deep crater in the ground, and the shock wave is absorbed by the surrounding buildings, many of which have collapsed.

Yang Mingzhi looked left and right, the soldiers were all ambushed in the ruins, and the current gunfire was not as fierce as when the group charged just now.

"It's really bad, we have made some progress, destroyed countless enemies, occupied a lot of areas, but I didn't expect to enter the core of the city and be nailed here!"

"What's the use of you complaining?" Yerentina said disdainfully, "It's better to use your brain to think about what we're going to do!" The whole team seems to be blocked from attacking! ”

Yang Mingzhi knew that his side was weak in advance, so he immediately ordered the radioman to contact the two battalions on the flank, and the news was the same, so far, the entire army has completed the encirclement of Kuta Town from three directions. Relying on their powerful firepower, the enemy packaged themselves as iron hedgehogs, and just stormed the entire town, either paying huge casualties or being blossomed in the center of them.

That's right! Casualty! Yang Mingzhi was shocked, if there were huge casualties in this battle, wouldn't the 284th Division's already small number of troops be another huge attrition? Suddenly, a feeling of gain and loss came to my heart, and there was a huge explosion, and the bricks, rubble, and smoke and dust rained down on the soldiers.

No way! There must be a breakthrough in this battle.

In front of the main attacking force under the command of Yang Mingzhi, which was a rather wide street, the scouts found that the enemy had three heavy artillery pieces there. Judging from their huge appearance, these cannon howitzers, which were originally used in field battles, actually had a firing angle of almost zero this time, guarding the streets with machine guns.

Information from the other two battalions was urgently sent that the roads into the city on both flanks of Kuta Town were guarded by enemy artillery, and the blind attack was too woollen.

However, the fighters are fleeting, and the original intention of this battle is to encircle the point and send reinforcements, and usually such a battle is likely to evolve into a storm. If the troops do not complete the attack, and the enemy is increasing their strength from all directions, then the enemy is in the center.

The enemy can't be Zhang Lingfu! Yang Mingzhi gritted his teeth, and the time given to him was running out.

The present situation of the battle is very obvious, it is clear that the troops are surrounded by three and one, and the enemy has a road to the north, and if they cannot hold it, they can flee from there, but in the present situation, the enemy seems to have received a death order -- they must defend to the death.

"Deputy Division Commander! Just let me rush again with my comrades! The commander of the regiment and the battalion Roshakov shouted.

"No! You have just rushed for a while, the heavy artillery came down the soldiers, and the fighters of a platoon were gone on the spot! ”

"But what if we can't take this street?"

The question was to the point, the war was very anxious, and if enemy reinforcements came in, the team would have to be forced to retreat. If the troops do not retreat calmly, the enemy is completely able to counterattack, and those heavy artillery can adjust the angle of fire, and they can even carry out a round of carpet bombing in the direction of the retreat of the troops.

"Hell! You can only use secret weapons! Heralds! Call me all the mortar units to the front! ”

Yang Mingzhi decided to use picric-loaded mortar shells, which had only twenty such projectiles. Although the projectile is small, it is very powerful, after all, picric acid is much more powerful than TNT!

In this way, the mortar units, who were watching on the outskirts of the town, were ordered to enter the city, and they immediately took up their "treasures" and entered the ruins under the escort of a handful of fighters. At the same time, Carambola and Natasha also acted with them, and the two girls knew that the sniper must be powerful at this time.

Two girls followed behind the mortar butt with their guns in their arms, and star fruit urged Igor, who was carrying ammunition and anti-tank guns, to run faster.

"My two young ladies, you travel lightly, and I carry almost all the baggage! You'd better slow down a bit! ”

Star fruit listened to his complaints, and when he looked back, this person's weight was indeed excessive.

"Well, we still have to follow the artillery, and when we enter the city, we will carry out the commander's order and start acting on our own!"

Now Yang Mingzhi can't take care of his wife, and the order he gave to the trio is guerrilla warfare, and the sniper team is looking for valuable targets, but it must avoid being exposed and becoming the target of public criticism. He thought so, thinking that the order was seamless, and he was all focused on how to break through the damn street.

On the other hand, the Germans guarding the streets did receive a death order, an order from the division commander. The order was very simple and straightforward, that is, to hold the town of Kuta at all costs.

The division commander Schneider came to his senses immediately after the first round of shelling, and he staggered into the two-story building of the command post and called the staff officers one after another. The change in the situation of the battle was very alarming, only a few officers who had been called in came, and when asked about the situation of the others, the staff said that they were either killed in battle or missing.

In the midst of these circumstances, Schneider ordered: "Immediately send a report to the surrounding troops, and order the 708th, 772nd, and 774th regiments to immediately send reinforcements to the town of Kuta, even at night." All the warriors who are still alive are ordered to go into battle at once and hold the town at all costs until reinforcements arrive. ”

Schneider speculated that there was a force of Soviet troops that was clearly at odds with his own troops. Could it be that the previous series of actions eliminated too many Soviets, causing the Soviet military top brass to send elite troops to attack them?

But he can't take care of too much, and this time he has to go into battle in person. He held a submachine gun in his hand, and even brought a soldier's M35 steel helmet, and decided to fight the enemy to the death.

Ordinary German soldiers received such a death order, relying on heavy artillery and machine guns, and established a ring defensive offensive with the division headquarters as the core. They were still very confident, because the Germans also had some special weapons that had not yet been put into battle.

Now, Yang Mingzhi was ecstatic to see the mortar unit arrive. These people carried black, thick pipes, and many carried wooden boxes.

"Report to the deputy division commander, all the mortar units have arrived, please give a combat order!"

In addition to being excited, Yang Mingzhi's hands trembled a little, and he clutched the company commander's arm. "Okay! I give you orders! ”

In this way, Yang Mingzhi called Roshakov and Kravsky to his side and gave them an honorable task.

"Comrades, now we must fight one last time! If we succeed, we will be able to make an important breakthrough, so the next action must be successful! You two immediately select elite fighters in the troops, and you must act lightly, all armed with submachine guns and grenades! ”

"Is it for us to buy time for the new artillerymen?" The quick-witted Roshakov asked.

Yang Mingzhi was happy. "Yes, you must attract enemy fire, pay attention to the fact that the commandos must disperse." Speaking of this, Yang Mingzhi particularly emphasized, "Although it is very cruel, the first person to charge will inevitably be blown to pieces by the enemy's artillery fire." But without their sacrifices, our mortars would not have been erected. ”

At this point, everyone was silent for a while. For soldiers, sometimes it is simply involuntary, so the infantry in the war is called cannon fodder, and the reason is this, even if the enemy's artillery fire is very fierce, the soldiers still have to charge.

"Alright! We just do it! Roshakov glared at the artillerymen fiercely. May you seize the opportunity and not waste our sacrifices. ”

In this regard, the commander of the artillery company gave a military salute violently, and everything was silent.

The soldiers have begun to prepare to go to the soup, and it is gratifying that the soldiers who participated in the new round of charge seem to have no complaints at all, and are not afraid of death. Yes, dying on the battlefield is also a good destination for soldiers, but where is it to give one's life for victory? But every army needs a fighting hero, to become a martyr, at the very least, the obscure name can be remembered.

The soldiers of the two battalions led by Yang Mingzhi were basically from multiple units and scattered and fled to the swamp to recuperate. Originally, many fighters were guilty, but now the time has come.

In just ten minutes, a commando of up to two hundred people was formed. At the same time, the mortars also took out picric shells.

"Comrades, you must rush and buy time for the erection of mortars on the front of the road! We must be flexible at all costs! When the shell explodes, you should dodge the yellow smoke in time, that thing is poisonous! Yang Mingzhi finally emphasized that the commando team was about to launch a mortal charge of Ulla.