After a new round of shelling, huge smoke and dust rose from the city of Homnitch. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The explosion effect of the info heavy artillery was very terrifying, and there were deep craters in the place where it was blown up, and the land was blown up, emitting a strong smell of gunsmoke.

Many of the buildings in the city were destroyed by the blast wave, but the preparation for such artillery fire was too weak.

"These Germans, if it were just this bit of artillery fire, would not have been able to crush us. Because that's why we're born. Roshakov confidently said to himself, he and Kravsky, as experienced positional commanders, had a good understanding of artillery fire.

In his opinion, if it was the Soviet army, it would take an hour or two to prepare for the artillery fire, and the firepower would be much stronger than that of the Germans.

Although the Germans had many heavy guns, they only fired a few dozen rounds of shelling of the city, and the results were very limited. Because the reinforced concrete of the city is very resistant to explosions, not to mention that most of the Soviet troops were deployed outside the city, one by two hiding in the tunnels covered in white cloths.

The artillery preparations ended hastily, and Hoffman raised his binoculars again to observe, but the city opposite was still like a dead city.

"Either way, an order is an order. Maybe the enemy really ran out? He looked at his colleague Floyd, "Now, let's start marching, shall we?" ”

"Good! Let's march! ”

The two of them each ordered their regiment to go out, and the two of them were bound to win this battle. The soldiers were ordered to march in a skirmish, accompanied by some half-track armored vehicles.

The significance of these armored vehicles of the German army is similar to that of BMP infantry fighting vehicles in later generations, except that in this era, the German army used a large amount of mechanical territory to make tanks, and there were not many materials for making armored vehicles.

In addition to transporting small troops, their role is more to act as tractors, towing artillery and other baggage.

Especially as a second-line unit, most of the German half-track armored vehicles were unroofed, so there were no machine gun towers, and only soldiers carried MG34s on the vehicles and moved forward like this.

The offensive system of the German infantry revolved around the machine gun, and in time the armament was curtailed, and the number of machine guns was still the same.

They advanced in a squad battle combination, and even if it was a skirmisher line, the formation still seemed too dense.

Roshakov held a telescope and watched closely into the distance, where the enemy was approaching the city little by little.

"Order snipers and machine gunners to keep an eye on them, and when the enemy reaches a distance of a hundred meters, open fire!"

The order was given to the heralds to go straight to the defensive positions of the various companies through the communication trenches.

These fighters have not only been trained in positional warfare, but have also become veterans of guerrilla and flexible warfare. The companies on the front line were even more frantic than Roshakov, and the commanders of several companies even ordered: "Everyone take out the grenades, immediately untie the gaiters and tie the cluster grenades." All bazooka hands, get matches and ammunition ready and focus on hitting enemy armored vehicles! ”

On the side of the Soviet army, a large amount of ammunition was laid out, and the fighters remained calm and waited for the engagement.

Roshakov paid close attention, and seeing that the enemy was already approaching only a kilometer from the city, he immediately ordered: "Order Doronin, immediately adjust the mortar position, and correct the target to the direction of eleven o'clock, five hundred meters." ”

The heavy weapons relied on by the Soviets were the mortars of the troops, and two of them were large-caliber mortars. For the sake of coordination, Roshakov set the mortar position as the starting point, and then drew the firing range on the map with a ruler.

Compared with the urgent preparations of the Soviet army, the German offensive appeared to be slightly relaxed.

The German soldiers saw the artillery attack and were elated, as if the Soviets had been blown into the sky. But junior officers argued that the Soviet defense of the city did not seem to exist. Many people still tend to believe that the Soviets who attacked Homnich were nothing more than a rabble, and that it would be right to withdraw after the fight. Even if they do not withdraw, they can only leave small forces for defense.

A German company commander stood on a tracked armored vehicle and called out to his people loudly. "Keep your eyes open, beware of the enemy's cold guns. The Soviets were tenacious, and even one of them would attack us. ”

The officer said so, but he was actually very bold. He had become the target of public criticism with his brimmed hat, and he did so out of great confidence that the Soviets were gone, and that Homnich was probably an empty city.

In this way, the German army marched for more than four kilometers, and the Soviet army did not counterattack at all, and there was no resistance to this advance, so that as the advance deepened, the hanging hearts of the German soldiers slowly let go.

The Soviets, on the other hand, were lying in ambush in the snow all the time, because the enemy was soon about to enter the minefield.

The Germans advanced in the snow, and they did not notice that some of the snow had already been tampered with.

The Soviet army had very few anti-infantry mines, and more of them were ordinary mines. It's just that for the sake of the success rate, each mine has a number of stumbling blocks, and the mines explode when people and animals touch the stumbling blocks.

While the German infantry was advancing, some of them were hit. In an instant, an explosion occurred, and some of the craziest explosives were blown into the air and exploded twice, and the fragments rained down across the straggler line.

Fragments flew and smashed directly into the soldier's body, so much so that an anti-infantry mine easily knocked over at least one German infantry squad, and it looked like a small shrapnel. The enemy was not necessarily killed by the explosion of the beenet's nest, most of them were injured by the explosion, and the scene was miserable as they wailed in the snow with blood flowing down.

And more of them are ordinary mines, the explosion effect is much worse, but they still achieve good damage.

The officer, who was standing in the half-track armored car, was accidentally hit in the cheek by a fragment and turned into a long path of blood. He subconsciously covered his face, but after only a few seconds of pause, a bullet killed him.

The sniper, who couldn't resist it, fired first, which was not what Roshakov wanted.

It's just that at this moment, Roshakov has been watching the enemy's attack outdoors, and they suddenly began to charge at this moment.

"They now know how good we are, and the all-out battle has begun." Roshakov subconsciously pulled out his pistol.

German regiment commanders Hoffmann and Freud were stunned by the sight of the front, the enemy actually laid mines! The troops had gone on a full-scale offensive and there was no turning back, and the two could only continue to insist on the order.

The two regiments of the Germans, after a few non-combat attrition, were still fully superior, and the infantry guns drawn by their armored vehicles were immediately unloaded, because the battlefield was too far forward, and they had to set up artillery positions less than a kilometer from the front line.

"Damn! Radioman! Order Doronin, mortar Zhu Yuan adjustment, target, twelve o'clock direction, distance 850, three rapid fire, blow up the enemy's artillery! Roshakov ordered.

As Doronin adjusted the angles of the guns, the German soldiers shouted, they were running faster than the armored vehicles, and they were already very close to the various defensive positions of the Soviet army.

Yes, the junior officers of the Soviet army ordered the soldiers to squat, "All of you prepare grenades, pull the ring collectively, and wait for two seconds to throw!" ”

Just as the Germans were roaring forward, suddenly in the snow not far away, a large number of objects like stones flew out, and before they could even react, they encountered a large number of volleys.

This was a tactic that the Germans had never come into contact with, and they never expected that the Soviet army's position was just 50 meters in front of them. Compared to the strafing of firearms, the first round of attacks turned out to be a large number of grenades.

As soon as the aftermath of the explosion fell, a large number of Soviet soldiers appeared, rifles, machine guns, and submachine guns were fired one after another, and bullets rained down.

The Germans who rushed to the front line had no chance to react at all, many of them were on the real battlefield for the first time, and some of the soldiers were shot by the Soviets before they could even fire a single shot.

Suddenly, a large number of people fell to the ground on the front line, and the German soldiers in the rear were clever and fell to the ground one after another. And they also saw with their eyes that a large number of objects were flying out of the snow, and they rushed towards the armored car with white smoke, and then the explosion occurred, and the fragments flew sideways.

This was a precise strike by the bazooka fighters and anti-tank gun snatchers of the Soviet army against enemy armored targets.

All this happened in a matter of minutes, and in just a few minutes, the Germans on the front line suffered heavy losses, all more than thirty tracked armored vehicles, and ten in one go. The Germans were stunned by this sudden attack! (To be continued.) )