Chapter 448: The Last Bombardment
Yevlov was dissatisfied with the order for the troops to suddenly stop the offensive and shouted at Yang Mingzhi over the walkie-talkie: "I think we should continue the offensive, what about them building a defensive line?" We have 6,000 troops, and each of us can drown them with a soak of urine! ”
Yang Mingzhi can understand what this guy means, after all, it is very in line with Lao Maozi's thinking when he has the opportunity to chase and fight. He still said calmly www.biquge.info "Comrade division commander must take a long-term view, and our losses in this battle are not small. Let's gather our troops first, and when the artillery arrives, we will try to destroy the enemy's last line of defense with artillery. ”
"Okay! Then wait. ”
As the division commander, Yevlov thought about it carefully, and the impact of the enemy's machine gun with the flesh of a soldier ended like a massacre. He ordered the soldiers who had rushed too violently to retreat, and the Soviet soldiers pulled the wounded and fought and retreated.
To Wolff, these actions seemed to be the success of his own defenses. He encouraged the warriors: "Well done everyone, the enemy's attack wave has been repelled by us!" The enemy is not so terrifying either! ”
Many people breathed a sigh of relief, nervous to the point that their hearts were about to explode, and their heart rate slowly dropped.
The dense gunfire on the battlefield disappeared, only sporadic gunfire, and the two sides basically entered a stalemate. The Soviets hid in the woods, and the Germans lined up in fan-shaped defensive positions with their backs to the river.
Wolf immediately seized the opportunity and ordered a company to attempt to move northeast along the riverside flats, only to be met with a ferocious blow from forest fire.
Especially some of the Soviet army's accurate marksmen, the bullets easily hit the target, and the Germans knew that they were blocked by snipers, and after more than a dozen casualties, the company rushed all the way back to the position.
Now Wolf also understood that the enemy was not a strong crossbow at all. They hid in the forest but didn't choose to attack, what was this for? Or are they planning something?
Mortar squads rushed to the front line, and recoilless gun squads were slower to carry their heavy weapons, still struggling to catch up with their comrades.
As for Chekov's tanks, the two surviving ones drove to the trenches of the enemy positions in one go, and machine guns and tank guns opened fire on the retreating enemy and did not continue to advance. Chekov himself had to adjust himself, checking that the sack hanging from the front of the car was solid, and also firing at the enemy's corpse, in case a grenade suddenly popped out and killed them.
The troops ran very far, which exceeded the range of the field artillery, and Doronin was finally able to rest. Just when the German army was retreating, he also accepted the order to adjust Zhu Yuan and fired a few shots, but unfortunately they were all overshot.
"Now that the barrels are overheating, they can finally rest for a while." Doronin and the artillerymen sat on the ground with their loads unloaded, the battle of annihilation was over for them.
The Soviets were actively preparing for battle, and with the arrival of artillery, the ordinary soldiers, who had rested for a while, were re-prepared for the attack.
Balzen had been following the troops, and when he saw the enemy with his back to the river, he immediately stopped and continued his duties as a scout. However, in the next battle, the reconnaissance company will also charge, because this is the final decisive battle!
After the adjustment, Chekov continued to lead two tanks, each of which was followed by a platoon of fighters.
Yang Mingzhi heard the chatter of the tracks and the noise of the engine, and he was shocked to see the tank moving along the glade. He even followed a few jeeps, and through his binoculars, he could see that they were carrying a lot of wooden boxes.
"Great, our ammunition can be replenished, and this firepower is only strong, not weak."
Yang Mingzhi was relieved that he could see that the captured jeep had been turned into an ammunition supply vehicle. He ordered his mortar team to send people to move the ammunition.
The ammunition of recoilless guns and mortars was replenished, especially the former, which had a maximum range of two kilometers and could hit the enemy's current positions even if they were placed on the edge of the forest.
Yang Mingzhi looked at his watch, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was about to set in three hours.
The other two units were immediately notified by radio waves, and Yevlov and Roshakov immediately ordered their recoilless gun groups to set up artillery positions.
Their movements were very fast, and at 3:05 the gun positions were assumed, and the groups reported that they were ready for battle.
Seeing this, Yevlov immediately sent a report to Yang Mingzhi: "My chief of staff, the artillery has been prepared, can the artillery preparation begin?" ”
Yang Mingzhi held the binoculars again to look at the enemy's position, they had temporarily set up fortifications, they had not encountered a blow for dozens of minutes, and now they were starting to dig with sappers shoveling. Can't let them keep digging!
Yang Mingzhi replied: "I agree to open fire, now just bombard freely!" ”
The shelling came very suddenly, and in an instant a large amount of white smoke billowed out of the forest, and then the projectiles smashed into the German positions. During this battle, Gushkov put all the recoilless guns he had built into the war, and he had already produced more than twenty of them! This simple, cost-effective weapon is turning into terrifying firepower, with soldiers reloading shells as fast as they can and pouring fire on enemy positions.
Its angle of fire was very low, and the projectiles flew straight past, and some of them flew a little higher into mud ponds and large rivers.
This forced the German soldiers to grit their teeth and stick to the ground and silently pray for good luck. But their luck came to an end! There was little cover in the open area, and the strong air currents brought by the blast wave could blow people on their stomachs away, and once the body was exposed, they would be hit by shrapnel, which is how many German soldiers died.
The shelling was accompanied by some yellow smoke, after all, some shells were in a picric acid.
Wolf covered his mouth and nose and cried bitterly, "The enemy simply used chemical weapons!" What a bunch of savages, this yellow smoke is suffocating! In fact, it's just that he didn't experience the war of decades ago, and the picric acid explosives of World War II have been completely eliminated.
The artillery fire was prepared for ten minutes, and in this short six hundred seconds, each recoilless gun fired at least twenty shells. The frequency of firing was within a reasonable range, but the barrel was already overheated.
Yang Mingzhi ordered the shelling to stop, and there was no point in bombarding it any further, because the huge smoke from the burning of black powder had already formed the fog of war!
The smoke was like a smoke bomb, he didn't know how many enemies were left, but the smoke could also be used by the enemy to escape.
He stood up and ordered his troops: "Comrades! This is the final battle! Ulla! ”
The shouts of a charge were heard in a forest, and when Yevlov and Roshakov saw this, knowing that the general offensive had begun, they did not show weakness and sent all their troops out. In the final battle, this infantry regiment of the enemy will be completely annihilated. (To be continued.) )
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