Chapter 522: German Heroes and Hebrew Heroes
The flamethrower and the tank killer worked closely together to take out an aggressive KV-2 heavy tank, and before the paratroopers could clap their hands in celebration, a 7.62mm rifle round spun and flew right in the abdomen of the paratrooper carrying the flamethrower. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
The paratrooper's body shook like an electric shock, and then softened to the ground.
The originally elated expressions of the two paratroopers of the anti-tank group instantly froze.
After staring at the shot paratrooper for a while, the two paratroopers rushed out of their original ambush positions and bent down to run towards their comrades.
The two rushed to the side of the paratrooper who was shot, and with concerted efforts to remove the flamethrower that the paratrooper was carrying behind him, and were about to drag the paratrooper away, a 152mm grenade fell near the three people, and the flames and smoke of the explosion instantly engulfed the three paratroopers.
The smoke cleared, and the three paratroopers evaporated and disappeared without a trace.
In the city of Slutsk, which is covered in gunfire, similar killings are happening all the time.
In the underground headquarters, Colonel Beckenbauer was unaware of the tragedy taking place in the neighborhood, and only listened quietly to the movement outside.
"Send a telegram to General Student informing him that the 1st Panzer Army is about to reach the city of Slutsk and that we are counterattacking."
After signing his name on the telegram, Colonel Beckenbauer fastened an M35 steel helmet to his head, grabbed the assault rifle pressed against the map, and said to the heavily armed adjutant and orderlies beside him: "Gentlemen, let's set off and attack north, driving the Russians out. ”
More than a dozen people rushed out of the basement, got out of the building that had been blown into ruins by artillery fire, and after a little direction, ran north.
The basement neighborhood was still under the control of the paratroopers, and Beckenbauer and his party safely navigated the streets, running north until they heard what seemed to be a shot in their ears.
"Go upstairs, in groups of two, to the fifth floor." Colonel Beckenbauer shouted pointing to a five-story building.
The group rushed into the building, and a dozen pairs of leather boots trampled on the stairs, making the sturdy staircase tremble.
While passing the stairs of the second and third floors, Colonel Beckenbauer heard the sound of fire and shouts of paratroopers coming from the corridor.
Until the fifth floor, Colonel Beckenbauer ran with his adjutant deeper into the corridor, and after crossing two rooms already occupied by paratroopers, Colonel Beckenbauer rushed into an empty room.
As he had predicted, the building had become the front line of resistance to the Soviet offensive forces in the north, and the centerpiece of the defensive line.
Standing on the fifth floor, condescendingly, Colonel Beckenbauer had an unobstructed view of the nearby battles. \
To the north and west of the building is a residential area with two- and three-storey residences dotted with green shrubs and trees that serve as courtyard walls.
German paratroopers and infantry clusters of Soviet troops were fighting in these complexes and bushes.
"I'm here to find the target, and you prepare, as we usually do when we practice."
Seeing Beckenbauer carrying the assault rifle to his back, the adjutant took out the binoculars, and tacitly took out a metal fitting from the military satchel and attached it to the back of the G42 semi-automatic rifle ruler in his hand, and then took out a Zeiss scope and installed it on it.
By the time the adjutant completed the modification of the G42 semi-automatic rifle, Beckenbauer had already found the first target.
A Soviet soldier hiding behind a bush, and after the Soviet soldier pointed out to the surrounding soldiers, the Soviet soldiers rushed to a house.
When the adjutant's G42 semi-automatic rifle was pointed at the Soviet soldier, who appeared to be an officer, the Soviet soldier happened to take out a telescope and look into the distance, not realizing that he had been targeted by death.
Seven or eight seconds later, Colonel Beckenbauer heard a crisp gunshot from beside him, and then clearly saw the Soviet officer fall to the ground.
"It's good, just do it, it's about the same as when you trained." Colonel Beckenbauer said to the adjutant.
Beckenbauer's new target was a machine-gun crew, whose two shooters were hiding in the corner of a building and firing light machine guns at a house occupied by the Germans.
With the sound of a gunshot, Beckenbauer saw the machine gunner, most of his body exposed to the outside of the corner, lying on the ground, and the light machine gun in his hand also fell to the ground.
Working closely with the adjutant and taking out another machine-gun crew, Beckenbauer and the two changed rooms and began to snipe the Soviet infantry again.
After killing another Soviet officer whose identity was revealed, Beckenbauer suddenly waved his hand and stopped the adjutant beside him.
"Seeing that the two tanks KV-1 tanks were not, concentrate their firepower and give priority to the Russian infantry behind the tank on the right."
After Beckenbauer finished speaking, he picked up the assault rifle behind his back, set the distance of the ruler, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the KV-1 heavy tank to the right.
The Soviets were clearly aware of the role played by the building where Beckenbauer was hiding in the battle, and the tank guns of the two tanks were not pointed at nearby German-controlled houses, but at the tall buildings behind them.
The turrets of the two tanks kept turning, firing at the windows where the German paratroopers were hiding.
Each shell can cause a violent explosion in a room.
Some paratroopers were killed on the battlefield by sudden shells, and some paratroopers were more alert, and when they saw the tank turret pointing at them, they withdrew from the room in time and changed positions to continue the battle.
Under the suppression of two tank guns, the German firepower in the high-rise building weakened little by little.
The two muzzles of Colonel Beckenbauer and his adjutant kept firing at the KV-1 tank on the right, and the dense bullets hit the surrounding Soviet infantry all over the ground, and the surviving infantry were either evicted from the tank or hid behind the tank body with their heads in their hands.
Finally, the paratroopers in the complex discovered the opportunity created for them by Colonel Beckenbauer.
Five or six paratroopers rushed out of the hiding building, and with the help of the cover of the surrounding bushes, quickly rushed to the vicinity of the KV-1, several paratroopers raised their hands and threw grenades, and the Soviet infantrymen hiding behind the tank were killed on the spot.
The other two paratroopers took the opportunity to raise their iron-fist anti-tank rockets and aimed them at the left side of the KV-1 tank, which had lost the protection of the infantry.
A moment later, two more holes the size of pencil holes appeared in the body of the KV-1 tank, which had been firing wildly at the building, and the turret hatch suddenly opened wide, and a figure rushed out.
The tanker howled out of the turret and was about to jump off the tank when a string of bullets flew in, and the tanker clutched his chest and fell straight down the tank.
After taking out a KV-1 tank, the paratrooper anti-tank team quickly fled the scene.
Beckenbauer saw the outstanding performance of those paratroopers, but did not have time to praise them, even in his heart.
On the other surviving KV-1 tank, the turret turned to the right and was then raised.
From Beckenbauer's point of view, the muzzle of the other party's gun seemed to be pointing at the window where he was.
"Let's go." Beckenbauer dragged the adjutant, who was immersed in the thrill of killing, and turned around and ran to the door behind him.
No sooner had the two of them passed through the door than they heard a loud noise beside them.
The two of them rushed into the corridor unharmed, and saw black smoke and dust spraying out of the next room on the right, along with screams.
Beckenbauer rushed into the next room and saw an extra crater on the right wall of the room.
On the ground, there are peeling wall skins and debris of masonry.
One paratrooper lay motionless on the ground, while the other rolled and howled on the ground with his bloody head in his hands.
Beckenbauer and his lieutenant rushed to the paratrooper's side and held the badly wounded paratrooper down, only to find that the right temple of the paratrooper's forehead and eye had been severed by shrapnel, and the dusty head was exposed with veins and skulls, and some white liquid dripping from the cracks in the skull.
Beckenbauer gritted his teeth and let go of the violently twitching paratrooper and, under the frightened eyes of the adjutant, pressed the assault rifle in his hand to the paratrooper with one hand, then turned his head and pulled the trigger.
A gunshot rang out, and Beckenbauer ended the suffering of the seriously wounded paratrooper.
Facing the adjutant's puzzled eyes, Beckenbauer said: "If I encounter a similar situation, remember to use the same method to alleviate my pain." ”
Beckenbauer and his lieutenant, like other paratroopers, constantly roamed the building, firing at Soviet troops in the residential area outside, providing fire support to the paratroopers fighting in the residential area.
During the battle, Beckenbauer did not know how many heavy weapons he had seen bombarding his building, KV-1, KV-2, T-34, and 76.2mm cannons.
In the frenzied battle, Colonel Beckenbauer did not know how many enemies he had killed, only that his right index finger was a little paralyzed after the battle, and he could barely straighten it.
Looking up at the two FI-282 helicopters hovering in the sky, and then at the Soviet soldiers and tanks retreating like outlaws in the city, Beckenbauer said: "Let's go back to the regimental headquarters." ”
The two of them left the room one after the other and walked to the staircase, only to see several paratroopers standing there, pointing to the ground and pointing, not knowing what to say.
Walking to the paratroopers, Beckenbauer saw that at the junction of the fourth and fifth floors of the staircase, a huge gap appeared, and the stairs in the gap were broken, and a section of the ground that was three or four meters long in the corridor on the fifth floor also disappeared, and all the soldiers on the fifth floor, including Beckenbauer, were trapped on the fifth floor and had no stairs to go down.
"We can't go down for the time being・・・・・・ it must have been done by KV-2." The adjutant said.
When Colonel Beckenbauer's troops joined forces with the 10th Panzer Division, a breakthrough was also made in the German crossing of the river south of Pinsk.
However, to Admiral Student's surprise, the first force to break into the Soviet trenches was not the Polish Governor's Guard, but Admiral Student's always prejudiced honorary Jewish troops.
Lieutenant Yitzhak Rabin, a platoon commander of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 1st Regiment of the Honorable Jewish 1st Division, led the platoon of soldiers to follow the regiment across the Pripyat River and engage in a fierce battle with the Soviet troops stationed on the riverbank.
Lieutenant Rabin was only twenty years old, his original surname was Rubizov, and his father was a Jew living in Ukraine.
After the outbreak of the October Revolution, the elder Rubizov immigrated to the United States with his family, and later to the Middle East, where he became a subordinate of the leader of the Zionist organization, Ben Gurion, while changing his surname to Rabin.
In 1922, Lieutenant Rabin was born, and because of his father's relationship with Ben Gurion, Lieutenant Rabin, as one of the key youth trained by the Zionist organization, was sent to Poland in 1941 to receive German-style training, and after the successful completion of the training, he became a lieutenant officer of the Honorary Jewish Army.
The battle in the Pinsk region was not the first real combat of Lieutenant Rabin.
During his training in Poland, Rabin and his classmates were not rookies on the battlefield when they participated in the fight against the partisans with German troops.
However, during the initial defensive battles in the Pinsk region, the young Lieutenant Rabin was still shocked by the fighting between the regular Soviet and German armies.
The collision between planes, tanks, and heavy artillery was completely different from the one-sided battle in which Poland exterminated the partisans.
After several defensive battles, the belligerent factor in Lieutenant Rabin's blood was successfully stimulated.
With full enthusiasm, Lieutenant Rabin led his men into the battle to cross the river.
Lieutenant Rabin did not consider the fighting between the Soviet Union and Germany to be irrelevant to him, and had already left Ben-Gurion before leaving for Poland
He learned of the importance of this honorable Jewish force, and he knew that it would play a pivotal role in the future battle for the founding of Israel.
I am reminded that Ben-Gurion once said with anxiety that Israel's founding declaration was a war letter to the Arab countries.
When the war begins, Israel will be attacked by three, five, or even ten times as many Arabs.
In Lieutenant Rabin's mind, the current situation was nothing compared to the future battle for the founding of Israel.
At least now their own troops are the attackers, and the opponent is not superior in numbers.
If you can't win even this kind of superior battle, how will you face the siege of the superior number of Arabs in the future battle?
Eager to win, Lieutenant Rabin lay down behind a pile of weeds, and after carefully observing the battlefield situation he was facing, he jumped out of the weeds and jumped towards a crater in front of him.
Quickly flip into that crater, then jump into another adjacent crater.
Using the cover of craters and low-lying terrain, Lieutenant Rabin quickly approached the Soviet trenches.
The power of his example is endless, and behind him, in addition to the machine gun team that provides fire cover, the rest of the infantry also followed Rabin's example, approaching the Soviet trenches step by step.
Until he approached about 20 meters away from the Soviet position, Rabin pulled out an M24 grenade pinned to his waist, pulled the fuse and threw it at the Soviet trench.
Throwing the grenade, Lieutenant Rabin stared at the landing point of the grenade, but instead of the air and smoke of the explosion, he saw a white arc, and the thrown grenade was thrown back by the Russians on the opposite side.
As if a spring had been placed underneath his body, Lieutenant Rabin rolled into a crater on the right to see how the grenade exploded.
Drawing a grenade again, he pulled the fuse, and after two seconds of silent counting, Lieutenant Rabin dropped the bomb again, and then saw a black smoke explode from the trench opposite.
At this time, Rabin's comrades-in-arms also approached the Soviet trenches one after another, and dozens of grenades flew in the air, causing a series of explosions in the hideouts of the warring sides, and the screams of soldiers on both sides came and went.
After throwing the last grenade on his body, Lieutenant Rabin mustered up his courage and rushed out of his hiding place with a brisk stride, ran a few steps, and jumped into the Soviet trenches. (To be continued.) )