Chapter 104: Acid Shell Bombardment
Two hundred commandos are ready for battle, and when the battle is here, they have nothing to fear.
The sun had not yet risen, the sky was deep blue, the battlefield was littered with bricks and rubble, and there were burning flames, and the ground was littered with the corpses of the war dead.
All the fighters who carried out the operation were hidden on both sides of an intersection. Yang Mingzhi looked at the time, it was already past five o'clock.
"Now, get started! Heavy guys, cover fire! ”
As the order was given, the assault troops bravely left the bunkers, armed with submachine guns, and fired wildly at the enemy's positions.
Prior to this, the Soviets had already made a charge, but this time was more tentative, and after encountering strong enemy fire, the troops were defeated. And this time, the Soviets must succeed, otherwise the sacrifice will be meaningless.
Yang Mingzhi watched from the corner of the street, he leaned against the wall, held a small mirror in his left hand, and observed the offensive of the troops through the reflection of light, but the situation was very bad!
"Damn it, artillerymen, why are you so slow!"
Yang Mingzhi was roaring, urging the mortar to be erected quickly.
The artillery company commander did not refute anything, and he led his men to set up artillery positions in the rubble streets, and ten mortars were being set up nervously. Around the artillery were machine gunners, who were providing fire cover for the assault team.
Yang Mingzhi was closely observing the enemy's situation, but the three heavy guns were not fired at the moment. Wrong! Yang Mingzhi suddenly thought that the enemy's heavy artillery had been fired frequently many times before, and the barrel of the cannon must be very hot, and if he wanted to fire again, he would either cool down quickly or wait, so the enemy's blocking was mainly with machine guns.
This is a huge opportunity, and two battalion commanders are on his side.
"The enemy's artillery is definitely too hot, and we have a good chance of taking out the enemy in one go. You order everyone to take on their bayonets and be ready to charge at any time. At that time, I will charge with you. ”
Roshakov was very worried, "Deputy division commander, you are the deputy division commander, why do you have to charge with ordinary soldiers?!" You're going to die! ”
Yang Mingzhi shook his head: "That's it!" I'm not going to be a turtle. ”
The two battalion commanders immediately went down to prepare separately, and after they sent out 200 men to participate in the attack, the strength of the troops was still close to 1,000.
Although it has become a tradition for the commander to take the lead in the charge of the 284th Division, it is really too easy to die in battle. Yang Mingzhi kept a close eye on his mortars, and they had basically completed all the preparations.
"Brethren of the guard company, after a moment of shelling, we will launch a general attack. You and I will charge the hardest, the well-armed commandos will surely suffer heavy losses, and then we will continue the attack in their place! ”
"Yes sir!" The soldiers shouted in unison, and the hundred people of the guard company were already hungry and thirsty.
It was at this time that the artillery fired! The rulers were all adjusted to 200 meters, and the shells fired rapidly.
The first round of shelling was all ordinary shells, and these ordinary shells exploded in a small area intensively, and suddenly iron pieces flew wildly. These cannonballs produced by Catfish Village are very powerful because they are loaded with black powder. In order to increase the lethality, a large number of fragments were added to the projectile warhead, which was designed to bomb infantry.
They were not worried that these bombs would hurt their own people, because it was a great pity that the commandos suffered heavy losses, and already half of the fighters were killed. The rest of the men were slow to advance, and they had to lie on their stomachs in the rubble and piles of dead men to continue the fight, while the enemy paid some price and resisted to the death.
After the hit of twenty shells, the enemy hiding in bunkers and foxholes suffered heavy casualties, and even then they fought back.
"Well done! I didn't expect the intensive use of ordinary shells to be so effective. Yang Mingzhi hammered the wall excitedly.
Yerentina also hibernated with him, but the woman was more daring, daring to get out of cover and stick out of the binoculars to take a closer look.
"That's it! Berekov, comrades are going to use shells painted with yellow paint. ”
"Well, I saw it, Acid Bomb." After that, Yang Mingzhi instructed the soldiers around him, "Comrades, a moment is the time for us to charge, don't give the enemy a trace of mercy." Don't, don't breathe those yellow smokes! ”
There were only twenty picric acid shells, and after the rapid fire just now, the artillerymen corrected Zhu Yuan one after another. A limited number of special shells cannot be wasted, and the targets are those heavy guns.
At the same time, the German artillery was very anxious. If the artillery fire is maintained with one round a minute, it can be fired continuously for a long time, and as a result, it has just been fired rapidly in a short time, and the barrel of the gun can be roasted as hot.
"Damn, can't you fire now?" The officer complained helplessly that after the Soviet shelling, the shock and fragments also hit the German artillery position.
Although most of the fragments hit the sandbags, some unlucky eggs were shot and fell to the ground.
The nervous officer could not wait, and he gave the soldier a death order. "Reload now! Blow up the enemy's artillery! ”
Several soldiers were stunned on the spot.
"What? You refuse to carry out orders? ”
"No, it's not! If we shell now, I'm afraid the shells will detonate early! Because overheating can cause the barrel to deform! A soldier pleaded.
"Do it! Otherwise, you and I will be blown up by the enemy! The angry officer kicked down the soldier who had just argued, and the others saw that the situation was very bad indeed. The guys who were in ambush began to move forward again, and even worse they began to intensively use grenades.
Almost together with the assault team, the artillery again used artillery bombardment. The feast of grenades was followed by a more powerful round of shells.
Picric shells were limited, and they could only name the enemy's artillery positions one by one. Ten mortars were fired again, and there were five acid bombs in them. The heavy artillery position at the forefront was hit, and the dust flew all over the sky, and the heat wave swept across the streets.
The German officers and soldiers, who were still hesitating just now, no longer had to think about what barrels were overheating. Because the barrel had been blown out of the hole, as for the personnel, they were torn apart by the violent explosion on the spot.
A huge hot wind hit, and the air was filled with some foul smells, which were sulfur dioxide, as well as the smell of gunsmoke, and the smell of burnt meat, Yang Mingzhi even felt this strange scene himself.
"The acid bomb is small, but it's very powerful! Comrades, the time is ripe, follow me, charge! ”
Yang Mingzhi gave an order, and the handsome guards even attacked. These people were even equipped with a little light rocket, and in the charge, the bazooka hand carried the steel pipe on his knees, and the rocket flew out bravely. There is no need to aim at such a distance, and the final rocket must be used without reservation.
The first artillery position has been blown up, followed by the second. Yellow toxic smoke was filling the air, and the surviving German soldiers were coughing violently. Soon, a new series of explosions occurred, and doom befell another artillery position of the German army.
Seeing that the large army was beginning to attack, the fighters of the assault team resolutely stood up. They were at the forefront, and in order to complete the task, everyone could no longer care about the toxicity of the yellow smoke. One by one, they held their breath and continued to charge, taking the lead in striking at the Germans as the vanguard.
The German defenders could not withstand this powerful barrage offensive, and there were bullets, grenades, and some strange rockets and huge shells everywhere.
By the time of the German 3rd Artillery position, there was no point in continuing to bomb with acid. More than a dozen members of the assault team took out grenades one after another, counted two and threw them together. A wooden-handled grenade, it is very normal for an adult to throw it thirty or forty meters, and in the special case of street fighting, the power is huge. Several grenades exploded in the air, and those German artillery soldiers were directly blown up and bled and fell blindly, and when the soldiers occupied their positions, they found that these defenders were already covered in charcoal.
The obstacles to the attack seemed to be cleared, and Yang Mingzhi led the men forward through the streets strewn with rubble corpses, and at his feet, the corpses of the commandos were everywhere. "The sacrifice of your people was not wasted, and the entire combat operation was saved."
Now is not the time to pay tribute, Yang Mingzhi continues to attack with Bobosha in his arms, and the target is the center of the town.
And at the command of the German army, Schneider, the commander of the 707th Division, had already learned of the bad situation on the front, and the Soviet troops had broken through the line of defense consisting of artillery and machine guns. He and his staff officers were nervous and sweating profusely.
"Can we, the officers, only engage the enemy head-on?" Schneider was very unwilling, because the soldiers around him, and all those who could afford to carry weapons, had a total strength equivalent to only two companies.
At this moment, three tanks suddenly came out. Schneider was overjoyed: "It's amazing! I don't remember that we still have such troops. These tanks! Aren't they being repaired?! ”
"Yes, apparently they went to war temporarily!" The staff officer said excitedly.
The tank was followed by four half-track armored vehicles, all of which were actually wounded, and some of them broke down and temporarily belonged to the German 707th Division. Their appearance was like divine help, and soon, Yang Mingzhi was going to encounter these guys.