Chapter 63: Active Defense

Major Müller couldn't figure out how the Soviets could suddenly appear behind him, as if they had come out of the ground, while so many German tanks and infantry had just passed through the area and had not noticed anything.

In fact, Major Muller was right, these Soviet troops were drilled out of the ground.

Bunker warfare taboo only in the interior of the acre and three points of land, if you do this, it is easy for the enemy to find the flaws and break them one by one...... As we all know, there is no impenetrable line of defense in the world, and no matter how tight the defense is, there are loopholes.

Loopholes can lead to a situation where the strength of both the enemy and the enemy cannot be applied symmetrically: the bunkers will not move, so when one bunker is besieged, the other bunkers can only stare dryly except to provide fire support, and if the fire of these bunkers is suppressed, they will not even be able to provide fire support.

As a result, the bunker will be divided into small pieces, and the small pieces will be slowly eaten by the enemy.

If it is a tighter defensive line, such as the Maginot Line in France, its pillboxes are interconnected and the firepower can support each other, such fortifications are difficult to break.

The problem is that the line of defense defended by Shulka is the "Stalin Line" that the Soviets originally intended to abandon, and the communication equipment is outdated, the firepower of the pillboxes is not properly allocated, and there is little communication with each other......

In such a situation, if you are still holding on to the bunker, you will undoubtedly be very passive and can only wait for the German sappers to find a place to blast or stuff explosives through the holes.

Therefore, Shulka believed that it should be a moving operation, that is, attacking and defending the ground and fighting in conjunction with the pillbox.

In addition to building a fortification on the ground, Shulka thought that the wooden houses scattered around it were a place to use.

"I found that most of these wooden houses have basements." Shulka said to Major Gavrilov.

"Yes!" Major Gavrilov nodded: "They are used to storing grain, crops and other things in the basement!" ”

"We can put some troops there!" Shulka said.

"No, it won't help, Shulka!" Major Gavrilov said: "The Germans' artillery will blow up the wooden house, the tanks will roll it into a pile of rotten wood, and they will not even be able to get out of the basement!" ”

"They're going to be trapped in the basement!" Political Commissar Fuming also agreed.

"Then let them open another exit beforehand!" Shulka said: "It's not difficult, is it? ”

Major Gavrilov looked up stunned, glanced at Commissar Fomin, and then both of them laughed.

"Shulka, you always think of ways that others can't think of!" Major Gavrilov said.

"That's a good idea!" Commissar Fumin said: "The Germans always think that they have blown up the wooden house, and they do not think that there are people hidden under the wooden house!" ”

This is not an innovation for Shulka, because there is too much information about tunnel warfare and tunnel warfare in his mind. In addition, the Vietnamese devils also often use this method to form side-firing firepower and back-hitting firepower against our troops.

At the same time, this is not difficult, because the basement itself is a good hiding cave, and it only takes more than an hour of civil engineering work to open an exit, and then build a cover for this exit and cover it with a layer of soil to camouflage, so a tunnel is completed.

There were more than a dozen wooden huts outside the pillboxes, and there were more than 100 soldiers hiding in each basement, and several telephone lines in different directions were drawn to Major Gavrilov's headquarters for easy command.

Then, just as the smoke bombs hit the position, Major Gavrilov gave the order on the phone: "Attack!" ”

Commanding this force was the commander of the 3rd Battalion, Senior Lieutenant Ulyan, who picked up another phone and gave the order...... This phone number is used to contact the various tunnels.

The Soviet soldiers in each tunnel immediately felt out of the tunnel.

It was not difficult for them to find the position of the Germans, because even in the smoke the tall tanks were very visible, and the German infantry must have been hiding behind the tanks, so machine guns, rifles, and Soviet shovel mortars were fired behind the tanks...... ALTHOUGH THIS MORTAR WAS INFERIOR TO THE GERMAN MORTAR ON THE FRONTAL BATTLEFIELD, IT PLAYED A GREAT ROLE AT THIS TIME, FIRING 37MM SHELLS OUT, ONLY TO MAKE THE GERMAN SCREAM.

"Retreat!" Major Müller hurriedly ordered: "Withdraw from this hellish place!" ”

But it seemed that it was too late to retreat, and the Soviet soldiers on the front shouted and launched a counter-charge towards the Germans......

On this point, Shulka is not in favor.

Because Shulka thinks that at this point the counter-charge will cause accidental injury...... The Soviets launched a two-sided attack on the Germans in the smoke, so no one knew whether it was the enemy or their own people on the other side.

But Gavrilov doesn't think that's a problem.

"Think of those tanks, Shulka!" Major Gavrilov said: "If we let them go back like this, they will attack again with them next time, the same tanks...... And we now have a chance to blow them up! ”

"So how to solve the accidental injury?" Shulka asked.

"The necessary casualties are acceptable!" Commissar Fuming said: "This is war!" ”

This is probably true, and this is also the style of the Soviet army...... If they could trade casualties for enemy losses, they would not hesitate to make such a choice, but Shulka was not used to it.

However, the situation on the battlefield was much better than expected, and the Soviets eventually repelled the German attack at the cost of 35 casualties.

This proves that the accidental wounds between the Soviet troops were not large.

Afterwards, Shulka believed that this was most likely because the Soviet army had long been accustomed to fighting in chaos, so they performed much better than the German army in the melee...... The Germans were strict about formation, position, and even how the machine gun positions and riflemen dispersed, but the more this happened, the more they fell into confusion, they were completely at a loss.

Shulka did not rush out in this fight, and he and the actor were responsible for staying behind in the bunker.

Each pillbox had to be guarded, or it could be overrun by the wandering Germans and cause serious trouble.

Shulka observed the battlefield through the periscope, and the German troops in the smoke were in disarray, especially the tanks, colliding with each other, crushing their own soldiers, and strafing indiscriminately with machine guns...... It's like a serious traffic accident, except that it's not the car that gets into the accident, it's the tank.

Then, the situation continued to deteriorate, and the Soviet soldiers threw anti-tank grenades and explosive packs onto the tanks at close range, only to hear a burst of "boom" explosions, and the tanks collapsed on their positions.

Occasionally, a few Molotov cocktails were thrown out, and a few more blazes were ignited, and the screams were endless.