The god of war could not stop the night god from descending, and the night covered the sky, and the fighting on the west bank of the Dnieper gradually subsided. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The sporadic sound of gunfire, the occasional glimmering gunfire tearing through the night, dotted the dark earth.

Under the cover of night, on both sides of the road, units of the 60 Motorized Rifle Division quietly withdrew from their positions and steadily withdrew to the city of Kirovgrad in the west.

Withdrawing to the town of Adzakha, east of Kirovgrad, the 60th Motorized Infantry Division relied on the town to rebuild its defensive positions in the buildings inside the town and outside the town.

With the retreat of the 60 Motorized Infantry Division, the division was connected with the positions of the 21 Panzer Division on the left flank.

In the night, the troops of both sides were recuperating and preparing for the second round of fighting after dawn.

That night, the headquarters of the 39th Tank Division under the 16th Mechanized Corps was stationed in the town of Kaduha overnight.

Twelve kilometres northwest of the town of Kaduha, outside the town of Brov on the banks of the Ingulets River, another unit also rushed to the town of Kaduha under the cover of night.

Unlike the unimpeded 39 Tank Division, this unit had to break through the Soviet defenses in the town of Burov first.

Lieutenant Steiner, platoon commander of the second platoon of the reconnaissance battalion of the reconnaissance battalion of the Reich Marshal Panzer Division of the Luftwaffe.

Followed by two heralds, Lieutenant Steiner crept into a wooded area north of town and joined the platoon that had arrived first.

At the edge of the woods, by the light of the stars, Lieutenant Steiner's telescope could clearly see two dark figures wandering along the road at the entrance of Brov Town.

Seeing those two dark shadows, Lieutenant Steiner knew that the touristy march of himself and his men was over, and the life of fighting under fire began again.

After looking at the terrain for a while, Lieutenant Steiner retreated into the woods.

Soon, Lieutenant Steiner received an order from the battalion headquarters to attack the town of Brov at night.

Noisy armored vehicles and tanks were left behind, and the scouts all approached the town of Burov on foot.

75-mm infantry guns, PAK40 anti-tank guns, were also pushed to the front line, and the muzzles of the black holes were pointed at the town of Brov.

When everything was ready, hundreds of figures crossed out of their hideouts and crept towards the town of Brov.

The second platoon commanded by Lieutenant Steiner, the front of the attack was exactly north of the town of Brov.

In the field on the west side of the road, Lieutenant Steiner first bent over, using the cover of night and bushes, and approached the town entrance step by step, and then changed to crawling.

It wasn't until they were about a hundred meters away from the two sentries at the entrance of the town that Lieutenant Steiner and his men stopped.

Only four scouts continued to reach the entrance of the town.

Crouching in the darkness, Lieutenant Steiner stared through the telescope at two dark shadows in the distance.

After waiting patiently for an unknown amount of time, Lieutenant Steiner clearly saw that behind the two Soviet sentries, two figures suddenly rushed out.

The figure on the left rushes up behind a Soviet sentry, wraps his arms around the sentry's head and neck.

Even if he couldn't see clearly, Lieutenant Steiner knew that the Soviet sentry's throat had been cut by a bayonet at this time.

The Soviet sentry, as Lieutenant Steiner had expected, collapsed into the scout's arms, his flapping legs lying limply on the ground, and stopped struggling.

Behind another Soviet sentry, a dark shadow lunged forward, wrapping his hands around both of the sentry's knees, and the sentry fell to the ground in a standard-eating motion.

Before the sentry could scream, the shadow rode up to the sentry's waist, reached forward with both hands, grabbed the sentry's head and chin, and snapped the sentry's neck with a click.

The sentry's shouts instantly turned into unconscious moans of death・・・・・・

The two sentinels were killed, and two more black shadows quickly rushed out from both sides of the road, and the four black shadows worked in pairs, dragging the two bodies into the darkness.

Lieutenant Steiner saw that the sneak attack was successful, and he pursed his lips and let out a few crisp bird calls.

In the night, the soldiers of the Steiner platoon jumped to their feet, bent over, and trotted towards the town of Brov.

Lieutenant Steiner crouched down, scanned the battlefield left and right, and saw that all his men had already charged, and was about to get up and charge.

A "bang" of gunfire broke the silence of the battlefield.

Lieutenant Steiner's piercing gaze turned to eleven o'clock, where a muzzle firework flashed in the night.

The most annoying thing happened, it must have been a secret whistle arranged by the Russians, otherwise the reaction would not have been so fast.

The opening of the outpost meant the failure of the night attack, and the Soviet troops in the town of Burov could only change to a strong attack.

Lieutenant Steiner thought for a moment, and at eleven o'clock, a flash of fire flashed again, and a crisp gunfire rang out.

Without further hesitation, Lieutenant Steiner raised his STG42 assault rifle and fired two triple bursts into the flaring position, and then trotted towards the town of Buroff.

By the time Lieutenant Steiner rushed through the wilderness and reached a farmhouse on the edge of town, the entire town of Brov had already woken up from its slumber.

Bobosha submachine guns, Mosinagan rifles, Dzhegalev light machine guns・・・・・・ well, and grenades.

As a veteran, Lieutenant Steiner easily recognized the different shots.

With two heralds in his hand, Lieutenant Steiner followed the squad and weaved through the town's buildings.

By this time the darkest hour of the night had passed, but visibility was still poor, and the warring sides could only distinguish friend from foe by their general silhouettes and the flickering of their guns.

After advancing about a hundred meters into the town, Lieutenant Steiner saw that the battle was at a stalemate.

The Germans had the advantage of a surprise attack, but the Soviets had the inherent advantage of having houses as defensive positions.

After the initial panic, the Soviet troops in the town gradually stabilized the situation.

"Let's go up, there." Lieutenant Steiner pointed to a spire house surrounded on two sides by poplar trees in front of the right.

The north-facing windows of the spire room shone brightly with firelight.

The Soviet troops hiding in the spire opened fire wildly at the Germans outside, but they did not know that the buildings around him had been occupied by the Germans, and the house they were in had become an isolated island surrounded by the Germans.

Seeing an MG42 machine gun pointed at the window and successfully suppressing the Soviet fire in the house, Lieutenant Steiner easily walked around to the front door of the spire.

After a probing, the door was locked from the inside, and Lieutenant Steiner pulled out a grenade pinned to his waist, unscrewed the safety cover, pulled the lead, and then shook his head at one of the heralds.

The herald trotted, then leaped to his feet, kicking the door in the lower middle.

The door was slammed open, and the herald's body fell to the ground.

The moment he landed, a series of gunshots rang out from inside the door, and a dense stream of bullets flew out above the herald lying on the ground.

The herald rolled on his side, behind the wall next to the door, and broke out in a cold sweat.

Carrying a grenade that was on fire, Lieutenant Steiner silently counted "one, two, three・・・・・・."

After counting three, the grenade flew into the house with a puff of white smoke and hit the roof.

"Ah・・・・・・h

After the grenade exploded in the air, a terrible scream was heard from inside the house.

Lieutenant Steiner led the charge into the house, and after a barrage of gunfire and shouting, the spire changed owners.

As time passed, the battle line gradually moved towards the south of the town, and the visibility also increased by one point.

When the front advanced to the Ingurets River, Lieutenant Steiner and his men had to halt their advance.

The reason for the halt was not because of the Ingurets River, which in his opinion was as wide as a belt, was completely unthreatening, and it was the Soviet troops on the other side of the river who really stood in their way.

In the buildings and bushes on the other side of the river, in addition to the Soviet infantry, there are more shadows of BA-10 armored vehicles.

The open space on both sides of the Ingurets River adds up to more than 200 meters, and Lieutenant Steiner did not want himself and his subordinates to rush through this distance of more than 200 meters under Soviet fire.

Without making the scouts wait, the gunners pushed infantry guns and anti-tank guns to the front line, pointing their muzzles at the opposite bank.

While waiting for the attack whistle, Lieutenant Steiner seized the time to smoke a cigarette to relieve the pressure in his heart.

While hiding in a dilapidated house, Steiner suddenly walked to the window and looked up.

In the northern sky, there are two more FI-282 helicopters.

Taking two puffs of the cigarette in his mouth and spitting it to the ground, Lieutenant Steiner shouted to the herald beside him, "Ready." ”

Almost at the same time, the whistling of cannonballs was heard in the sky, and the south bank of the Ingurets River was suddenly in flames.

With a beeping whistle and a creaking sound of metal, the Bobcat Reconnaissance Tank, which had already entered the town, was the first to leave its hiding place and rush to the river.

Armed with an assault rifle, Lieutenant Steiner and two heralds rushed behind a Bobcat reconnaissance tank that drove down the street next to him.

Behind them, infantry guns and anti-tank guns also roared, destroying the exposed firing points of the Soviet troops on the opposite side one by one with accurate direct fire.

The steel body of the Bobcat tank blocked the bullets fired by the Soviets on the opposite side.

Listening to the clanging of bullets hitting tanks all the way, Lieutenant Steiner rushed straight to the river, and was about to cross the river when a mortar shell fell from the sky.

At the sound of the explosion, Lieutenant Steiner shuddered as he saw the herald on his right, stiffened for a second, and then fell limply to the ground.

"Sanitary soldiers・・・・・・" shouted Lieutenant Steiner.

After handing over the wounded to the medics, Lieutenant Steiner continued on the path of the charge.

With the support of artillery tanks, the scouts successfully rushed through the last hundred meters, and then fell into another round of street fighting.

Visibility improved, and the Lynx tanks, accompanied by scouts, roamed the town, destroying the exposed fire points of the Soviet troops one by one, and the efficiency of the progress of the battle was far greater than the previous battle in the darkness north of the town.

Lieutenant Steiner, with the only remaining herald, roamed the battlefield, urging the platoon soldiers not to stop.

He was about to cross a street with the heralds when a string of bullets flew in, and the two scouts who were walking in front of them fell in a pool of blood.

Steiner was agitated and retreated behind the wall of the house around the corner.

Taking the rearview mirror of a truck from the herald, Lieutenant Steiner reached out, and through the rearview mirror, he saw the direction in which the bullets were flying, and on the second floor of a building with a quarter destroyed by shells, there were Soviet troops shooting outward.

Steiner glanced at the two corpses on the street and cursed, "Damn, there was no one there." ”

"Listen to me, prepare."

He said to the herald standing against the wall behind him.

When he saw in the rearview mirror that the Soviet fire on the second floor of the building was turning in other directions, he shouted: "Let's go." ”

The two men rushed out of the corner and crossed the street in a matter of seconds.

Ten seconds later, the two of them had already stuck to the wall on the first floor of the two-story building.

Holding on to the windowsill, the two jumped into a house on the first floor.

Cautiously poking his head out, Lieutenant Steiner saw that the hall on the first floor was empty, and then turned his gaze to the stairs.

Lieutenant Steiner raised his gun and pointed to the door of a room on the second floor, where gunshots rang out like beans.

With the muzzle of the gun pointed at the door, Lieutenant Steiner walked slowly to the staircase, and as soon as his right foot stepped on the first step, a figure suddenly flashed in the room on the second floor.

Heightened with tension, Lieutenant Steiner subconsciously pulled the trigger, and the figure burst into a ball of blood on his chest and face, and fell to the doorway with a muffled grunt.

In the blink of an eye, a grenade flew down from the second floor dragging white smoke.

Steiner turned away from the staircase, trying to dodge the grenade, but ran into the arms of a man who was the herald following him.

The two men collided together, and the grenade rolled to the ground, and the tail snorted with blinding white smoke.

At the last moment, the herald grabbed Lieutenant Steiner and pushed him hard against a half-hidden door.

The two men slammed open the door and fell to the floor of the room, and the explosion of a grenade rang out.

"Whew・・・・・・" the herald let out a low cry.

Struggling to sit up, the herald looked at his left calf, where the outside of his left calf was close to his knee, and there was an extra crack about a centimeter long on his trousers, and blood came out of the crack, staining a piece of military pants half the size of a palm.

Steiner hurriedly asked the herald to take care of his wounds, and he stuck it to the wall next to the door to prevent the Soviets from taking advantage of the attack.

While Steiner was plotting how to kill the Soviets on the second floor, on the street outside the two-story building, a Bobcat light tank turned its gun and pointed to a window on the second floor, and the 50mm tank gun on the turret fired two shots in succession.

The sound of the explosion instantly filled the second floor, and Lieutenant Steiner's ears were buzzing with the sudden explosion, followed by a heart-rending howl.

The howl came from the second floor, and Steiner rushed out of the room with the audacity, and a charge rushed smoothly into the room on the second floor.

In the dust and smoke that had not yet cleared from the second floor, he saw a Soviet soldier lying on the ground with his bloody left shoulder, rolling on the ground.

The soldier's left arm had vanished from the shoulder down, leaving only a bloody wound.

Another dusty Soviet officer, staggering to pick up a large blue brimmed hat on the ground and buckle it to his head, looked up, just in time to see the muzzle of Steiner's gun.

The Soviet officer in the blue brimmed hat hesitated for a moment, then slowly raised his hands, and then turned his head to look at the wounded who were rolling and howling on the ground.

Seeing that the other party had given up resistance, Steiner also looked at the wounded on the side, and was about to order the officer to take care of the wounded, when suddenly a dark shadow pounced on him out of the corner of his eye.

Taking advantage of Steiner's distraction, the Soviet officer suddenly rushed towards Steiner, grabbed Steiner's muzzle and raised it violently.

"Da ・・・・・" Steiner subconsciously fired, and the bullet sparked the roof.

"Ah・・・・・・h

Steiner's body slammed into the wall, and there was a churn of blood in his body.

The Soviet officer squeezed Steiner's throat with his left hand, and Steiner's right hand did the same, and the two men's strong bodies rolled to the ground and scuffled together.

The two didn't know how long they fought, but when the Soviet officer pressed Steiner under him again, stuck his left hand on Steiner's neck, grabbed the assault rifle with his right hand, and was about to smash Steiner with the butt, his hideous face suddenly slammed, and then fell limply on top of Steiner.

Looking at the herald in front of him, Steiner gasped and said, "Walter, I owe you twice. ”

The town of Brov was occupied, and the road to the battlefield was opened.

Twenty minutes later, Lieutenant Steiner stood on the side of the street and jumped onto a Type SDKFZ251 armored car.

The armored vehicles then joined the marching column and drove south, rushing to the exposed right flank of the Soviet 16th Mechanized Corps. (To be continued.) )