Chapter 494: Barbed Wire
"I see, Captain!" "It takes preparation time for a bazooka shooter to hit the target, and they are easily exposed to enemy fire, attracting the enemy's attention can create conditions for them to attack," Akimovich said! ”
Shulka did not answer, he did not have time to answer, because the battle had already entered the white heat with the blowing up of several German tanks.
The Germans reacted quickly, and they immediately launched an offensive against the Soviets under the cover of mortars and follow-up tanks.
The Germans had a reason to do so, they had more troops, and at the same time they thought they were superior...... After all, the Soviet positions had been bombed into ruins, which would give them the illusion that the main Soviet forces had been buried in the rubble, and the remaining resistance forces were only remnants.
The small number of Soviet troops also confirmed this idea of the German army from the other side.
Therefore, of course, the iron should be struck while it is hot, and when the Soviet troops suffered heavy losses and reinforcements still had time to arrive, they launched a fierce attack and occupied the hospital and school in one fell swoop.
Of course, the Germans could not have imagined that although their bombing blew the building beyond recognition, the Soviet casualties were minimal.
Miscalculation of the enemy was bound to pay a price, and the Germans were no exception......
The enemy's attack was professional, they covered each other and leaped forward using the ruins as cover.
Although some of them were constantly killed by enemy snipers, they never gave up the attack.
"Keep going!" Major Weber shouted at his men, "Don't care about the snipers, our tanks and machine guns will deal with them!" ”
Major Webb is the commander who escaped from Building 12 last night.
In principle, after a night of fighting, he should have rested, the problem was that not many commanders in the German army were familiar with the terrain of hospitals and schools.
And this was important for the German offensive.
"I won't fail again this time, General!" When Major Weber received the order, he assured the division, Major General Andreas: "I will avenge my comrades who died there last night, they will not die in vain!" ”
Major General Andreas nodded, then confessed, "You have to be careful, Major. We've just gotten word from our captives that it's the 'Breakout Hero' who commands this force, and I'm sure you've heard of him! ”
Major Webber was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
"No, General, I don't think so!" Major Weber said.
Major Andreas gave Major Webber a puzzled look.
"I think it's a psychological tactic!" "They want to make us feel that 'breakout heroes' are everywhere, and then we're scared and we're going to lose the war!" ”
Major General Andreas nodded slightly.
Major Weber had some truth in what he said, because something like this had happened before, and the Soviet troops on the front line all claimed that the "Breakout Heroes" were in their units, and they all shouted on the radio: "Greetings to the 'Breakout Heroes'!" ”。
The funny thing is that those troops are separated by 108,000 miles from each other, unless the "breakout heroes" have a doppelganger technique.
Not to mention...... This unit of the Soviet Army, the 82nd Infantry Regiment, is a temporary patchwork unit, and it is indeed unlikely that the "Breakout Heroes" will be in this unit.
"Anyway!" Major Andreas said: "Don't underestimate the enemy, at least from the enemy to the present performance is quite good. In fact, their performance was quite surprising! ”
"Yes, General!" Major Webb replied, and then said confidently, "I think their good fortune ends here!" ”
So Major Weber appeared on the battlefield for the assault on the hospital, with an infantry battalion and a tank company.
He was tactically correct in urging his soldiers forward.
Don't fight from afar when dealing with enemy snipers...... The result of the battle is to be killed by the enemy one after another.
Unless the Germans also have enough snipers to keep the enemy snipers at bay.
However, Major Webb did not prepare for this, because he thought that there was no need to think so much about air supremacy: having air supremacy meant that the enemy's artillery and tank units could be completely suppressed, so that the artillery and tank units of the enemy could be completely crushed.
Sniper? That's obviously redundant.
It was only at this moment that Major Weber discovered that this was not the case.
Air supremacy is useless against enemy infantry, because they hide in the rubble and wreckage, and it is difficult for even the infantry to detect their presence, let alone the pilots of the fighters.
Artillery is also unable to exert its combat effectiveness for similar reasons, and even in many places it is a dead end for long-range howitzers...... For example, when the Germans advance over a certain building, they want to bombard the forward position, but the shells will be blocked by the rear building and become bombing the German army itself.
Needless to say, tanks are as clumsy as a sow as they struggle to find a gap to move forward amid piles of rubble.
"The only ones left are the soldiers!" Major Webb said to himself.
He still believed that he could win the battle, for the simple reason that the enemy also only had infantry, and it was an indisputable fact that the quality of the Imperial soldiers was superior to that of the enemy, not to mention that the German army still had the advantage of strength.
As for the snipers...... Just get close to them and melee them, and they're done.
However, he had barely made a dozen meters of progress when Major Weber felt a new resistance: barbed wire.
At other times, barbed wire might not be a big deal, it's all too common on the battlefield.
But now, when the Germans were eager to leap forward and crush the enemy, there was a dense barbed wire fence in front of them......
Major Weber gritted his teeth and ordered:
"Engineer Company!"
"Fire cover from other units!"
……
There is no good way to deal with barbed wire, unless it is to blow them up several times with large-caliber howitzers.
Otherwise, the tough, intertwined wires will be very difficult to break.
The most practical and quick way for the Germans was to cut the ends of the barbed wire with pliers and drag it away with a tank to create a gap.
However, one by one, the sappers fell under the guns of enemy snipers.
A few managed to rush near the barbed wire, only to be knocked to the ground by grenades thrown from the opposite side.
Major Webber was a little red-eyed at this point.
He looked behind him, and then gave a loud order: "Blow up the buildings blocking the artillery firing range, and let the artillery support us!" ”
"Yes, Major!"
This work well, as howitzer shells whistling through the Germans in rows and blasting into the barbed wire, blasting them into several pieces and throwing them into the air.
Then the Germans took advantage of this momentum and rushed forward.
However, it soon became clear that in front of them was another barbed wire fence and, not only that, mines.