Chapter 10 Tanks
"Would you like a bite?" Okunev secretly handed Shulka a bottle of Wortega, which Okunev had snatched from the officers' cafeteria...... Before it was blown up.
"No!" Shulka shook his head, he needed to keep a clear head.
"Don't care what they say!" "They are showing their courage in this way, and the real brave do not need to do it and will not do it!" Okunev said. β
"I know!" Shulka replied, looking at Okunev in surprise, he couldn't believe that Okunev would say such philosophical things.
However, after only three seconds, Okunev revealed his stuff in the next sentence: "I said it well, the lines of "Liberation"! β
"Well, yes, it's very good!" Shulka replied.
Okunev was nicknamed "Actor", which was also his dream.
By this time the Germans had lost their patience.
"This is your last chance!" A shout came from the loudspeaker: "Ten seconds left, give up resistance, or we will launch a final attack on you!" β
There was silence for a while, and then there was a countdown to the second: "Ten, nineγ...... Three, two, one! β
As soon as the "one" was counted, the whistling of shells sounded in the air.
Shulka instinctively bent down to protect his lunch box...... It didn't take long for him to learn that this was wrong, that he should not protect the lunch box, but should stuff all the food into his mouth as quickly as possible. Later, he learned that a more mature approach would be to throw away the lunch box, grab the rifle and hide.
"Boom" With the explosion of a burst of shells, mud and dust swept from the sky like a sandstorm, and then German bombers also joined the bombing...... The Germans installed an air-driven sounding device in front of the nose of the "Stukka" bomber, nicknamed the "Jericho Horn", which allowed it to emit a poignant screech similar to an air raid siren when diving.
Despite the fact that this generator actually affected the flight qualities and speed of the "Stuka", the Germans insisted on doing so.
Their purpose had clearly been achieved, as the Soviet soldiers below, including Shulka, could not help but weaken their feet when they heard the whistle.
There were also dropped bombs, which the Germans also equipped with a whistle so that it emitted another elongated whistling sound when it fell from the sky.
The sound is always from far to near, and then there is a loud "boom......
This was a nightmare for the Soviet soldiers on the ground who were bearing all this, because they always had the illusion that a bomb was falling on their heads.
This made many Soviet soldiers can't help but jump up from their hideouts and run ...... They don't all run away, in fact, most of them are untargeted to shift positions so that they don't get hit by bombs.
Shulka had the same urge, but he did everything in his power to keep himself in place.
Because Shulka knows one thing very well: the probability of a cannonball or bomb hitting a person directly is very small, and what is more lethal is the scattered shrapnel and the oblique upward shock wave.
So, no matter the storm and the rough seas outside, Shulka only knew to keep his body down and stay where he was.
Of course, this was the right thing to do, because in the smoke and flying dust, Shulka could often see the running Soviet soldiers being thrown into the air.
I don't know how long it took for the sound of the cannon to stop, and Shulka took out the lunch box under him and looked at it...... Mashed potatoes are still mashed potatoes, but there is more soil and puree, and there are no beans in sight.
When I looked up again, I couldn't help but be scared half to death, and less than a meter away from me, there was a big gasoline drum lying in the trench...... This was apparently dropped by a German bomber, but fortunately it was not blown up, otherwise, there would have been nothing wrong with Shulka.
Okunev also crawled out of the dirt at this time, and after seeing the gasoline barrels, the two of them invariably carried their guns and ran along the side of the trench for dozens of meters in one breath...... Gasoline barrels on the battlefield can be detonated at any moment, and they don't want to be burned to the ground.
"The enemy is coming!" Someone shouted.
This is not surprising, the Germans have already attacked several times. Strangely, there was a "rumbling" of the engine in the smoke.
At first, Shulka thought it was the ringing in the ears after the bombing, or the sound of German cars and armored vehicles.
Until someone shouted in horror: "Tanks, tanks of the Germans!" β
Shulka took his eyes off the crosshair and looked up slightly, and sure enough, he saw several behemoths slowly driving out of the smoke, the barrels were slightly upturned, the pitch-black muzzles were facing ahead, and the black "10,000" characters on the side of the turret added a bit of power to it.
6 load-bearing wheels, tank "No. 3", a total of three.
Shulka is convinced that the reason why the Germans have not used tanks against the Brest Fortress until now, and only three of them, is because their main armored forces have bypassed the Brest Fortress and headed straight for their first target city: Minsk.
The leader of this armored force is Guderian, who is known as the "father of armored troops" in modern times.
Shulka feels lucky for this...... Guderian's armored forces did not crush Brest but bypassed it, otherwise Shulka would most likely have been just a piece of minced meat on the tracks of its tank.
But now it seems that it makes little difference, because the Soviet troops in the Brest fortress are seriously lacking in anti-tank equipment.
As mentioned before, the ammunition depot of the fortress was blown up by the Germans in the first time, and the few artillery soldiers were also killed and wounded in the subsequent artillery battles and bombardments, so the Soviets only had some light weapons in their hands...... They didn't even have anti-tank guns and anti-tank grenades.
THESE SMALL ARMS MAY STILL BE USEFUL AGAINST THE GERMAN INFANTRY CHARGE, BUT AGAINST THE 37MM THICK ARMOR "NO. THREE" TANK, IT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT ENOUGH, WHICH CAN ALSO BE SEEN FROM THE DEAD SILENCE IN THE SOVIET TRENCHES.
At some point, Major Gavrilov was already in the trenches, he looked at the tanks with a telescope, and immediately ordered: "Organize a demolition team!" β
Everyone knows what a demolition team means, which is to bomb a tank at close range with an explosives pack or a cluster grenade.
This may have worked, but it is conceivable that the Germans, who were well trained, especially in infantry coordination, would not allow Soviet soldiers to easily approach their tanks.
As a result, the situation on the battlefield suddenly became very serious...... The Germans did not lie, it seems that this was indeed the "last offensive".