Chapter 614: The Fighter Plane Returns to the Infantry
For a time, thousands of people abandoned their long positions, and when they saw a large group of people as if they had come out of the ground, the fighters who had already planned to leave flew back one after another, and they instinctively concluded that the crowd that suddenly appeared was the enemy, and immediately launched a tragic unilateral massacre. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Machine guns and machine guns hit the ground, the earth is lifted very high, and the powerful kinetic energy of the ammunition can ensure that if it hits one person, it will knock it down as a whole. All targets on the strafing route were left with bloody minced flesh after the dust had cleared.
This stimulated people to flee for their lives, and many simply threw away their guns and ran to the forest in a 100-meter sprint, and this 500-meter-long escape road also became a bloody hell. Lothaheim's defensive line was hit by hit fire in an area of one kilometer long, and in just ten minutes, the position was in shambles.
Perhaps fearing that there would be fighting in the future, in order to save ammunition and fuel, fifty Lager-3 fighters finally turned their noses to catch up with the footsteps of the larger forces.
There were no artillery shells raging anymore, but the Soviet offensive had just begun.
"Keep going, everybody! Our brethren in the air force have already beaten the enemy for us, and this is our golden opportunity to capture the enemy's positions in one fell swoop. Lavrenty, who was on the left, ordered his subordinates, and Yevgeny on the right gave a similar order.
These two elite infantry battalions are well aware of their role in the battle that follows, and they are in a race against time.
The troops advanced in an offensive formation, with RPGs and mortars now being placed at the head of the infantry as support weapons. As soon as they reached the edge of the forest, they were to establish positions to cover the infantry charge.
The hesitation took into account that the Germans had cut down a large number of trees, and because time had not cleared them, the thick trunks were bound to become obstacles.
Join the Germans to recover from the air raids, and when faced with the large force of infantry emerging from the forest, they will definitely fight back! Lavrenti and Evgeny were convinced.
After all, the Rag-3 was not a ground attack aircraft like the Il-2, and their main attack was the exposed artillery positions and the exposed group of fleeing Vostok-Battalion soldiers.
After a swarm of pilots stinged one side of the ground, leaving a dense mass of small craters and a mass of dead bodies, they collectively turned to raise the nose of the aircraft to return to their mission.
Ivanov was completely unaware of the retaliatory actions of the escort fighters against the enemy, and unexpectedly became a powerful assist! His long plane was unharmed, but the loss of three bombers was heartbreaking. You must know that the way back has to pass through the cities occupied by the Germans, and the field airfield has become a German air base, and it is still very dangerous to fly against the rising sun.
In desperation, he could only order the entire group to pull up and fly high to the limit of the airspace to avoid all obstacles.
As soon as they left, the smoke of gunfire was still wafting over the devastated German positions, the sound of explosions seemed to echo in the forest, and the wails of the wounded were incessant. Most of the German soldiers, who had just recovered a life from the air raid, rose from the holes on both sides of the trenches.
Frightened, all the soldiers immediately instinctively began to check their weapons. Because of the soldier's education, the Soviets would prepare for artillery fire before attacking, and then the infantry attack would follow.
Although it is not known what the large number of Soviet planes flying overhead are doing, in short, the battle has broken out, and the positions have been attacked!
Lotharheim, who was desperate, got up calmly and shouted loudly in the regimental headquarters: "Gentlemen! I want to know the losses immediately, battalion commanders, go to your battalion! The wounded were immediately treated! ”
Thankfully, an emergency military meeting was held in Lothaheim, and all the battalion officers of the infantry regiment were unharmed. He knew that as long as the command system did not receive damage, the attenuation of combat effectiveness by the casualties of lower-level soldiers was generally still within a controllable range!
Lawrence got up, shook the dust off his body, and asked, "Commander! Do I also go back to the first battalion to command my men? ”
"Nope! You stay here, and the first battalion lets your deputy battalion commander take care of it! Now you are my Chief of Staff! In a hurry, Lothaim simply punched him: "You crow's mouth!" What we are most afraid of is the enemy's air attack, but I didn't expect you to be right! Listen to the roar in the sky again, that damned group of Soviet planes actually didn't move on! They're flying to the east! ”
The two of them looked at the map that had been covered in dust in amazement, and Lawrence directly smoothed the table with his sleeve, and the damaged map did not affect the research. Lawrence picked up the pencil that had fallen to the ground, and as he noticed a major change in the course of the enemy aircraft, he picked up the original course and drew a new course for the Soviet aircraft group just above his position.
"Now I don't understand what the enemy means. We saw that it was a large group of bombers, and they flew thousands of miles to make a big turn in the sky above us! Are they going to bomb Bryansk? Lotharheim tapped his position on the map, and couldn't help but continue to talk to Lawrence, who had just spoken at the meeting.
Suddenly, he shuddered: "No, the destination of the Soviet army is the swamp in our south." They finished the airdrop and went home. ”
For now, this is the most plausible explanation, but since no one has seen a large number of parachutes, this inference is still in doubt.
But the two didn't have to wonder any longer, and the explosion broke the conversation.
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The Ravlenty and Yevgeny battalions advanced the fastest in the whole unit because of the route. They made it to the edge of the forest, where large numbers of fallen trees became a big obstacle. Fortunately, the armed off-road on weekdays is the basic skill of these fighters, and they easily passed the roadblocks.
At this time, the Soviets quickly set up mortars. Small 50-millimeter canisters could shoot small shells up to 800 meters away, and these were captured by the Germans and became a good cover weapon at the moment.
Compared to this, it is still the RPG of the Soviet army that is more powerful.
Before the full-scale attack, Lavrenti paused and raised his binoculars to take a slight look at the state of the German positions. Black smoke was rising from several forts, presumably the targets of the recent air raids. On the surface, he really couldn't see the loss of the German army, and he intended to wait for other troops, but he was surprised to find that a group of soldiers were already charging!
Balzen was so confident that he concluded that the Germans had been subjected to unbearable air raids, and that the long positions they had built were indeed lined up in a linear linear, and that if the troops hit a point, it would be as simple as an embroidery needle through cowhide.
The reconnaissance company directly under him prides itself on being the elite of the elite, and it even has the honorary title of death squad. Therefore, the situation of the war has evolved into a moment when the Soviet army does not attack or misses the fighter, and they naturally can't care about any danger!
Compared to the reconnaissance company, the most fanatical is the junior battalion! The group of men who charged the most fiercely at Lavrenti's sight, their diminutive size, made him quickly understand that this was a bunch of stinky boys!
"Hell! Kharkiv, when will you and your people change their stinky habits? You kids are going to die again? ”
Blowing a mouthful of phlegm, he waved his big hand and ordered the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion who were squatting on the spot and standby: "Davarishi! Ulla! ”