Not only did the German attacking forces come under attack, but the front-line infantry artillery positions they hastily set up were also targeted. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 As soon as the soldiers unloaded the shells, the Soviet shells fell.

As long as there is a cannon, there is no need to worry about ammunition, and a group of former military workers in the blacksmith village are very good at making cannonballs.

In this wave of shells, large-caliber mortars fired a large number of fragments.

Rigushkov understood that Yang Mingzhi was the guide, and the battle section was divided into two parts, and the fragments and picric acid were loaded separately, so after the explosion of such shells, fragments flew sideways, and this shell, which specialized in anti-personnel infantry, directly reimbursed the Germans in an entire area.

To make matters worse, there were also high-explosive shells here, and the German shells were tragically detonated. All shells exploded at the same time, and the armored car that transported the ammunition was completely shattered.

A huge mushroom cloud rose into the air, and the explosive yield was nearly hundreds of kilograms***, and the impact broke into a wave of air, which actually blew down a large number of German soldiers at once.

The thermals also swept across the positions of the Soviet troops, and the people fighting on the entire battlefield were all shocked by the sight in front of them.

"Damn, the Soviets in this city are not a rabble at all, there must be people who are good at fighting war!" Hoffman realized that he had made the huge mistake of underestimating the enemy and regretted it.

He looked nervous, and Freud was even more anxious.

"Now that the enemy's fortifications have suddenly appeared, we can still take advantage of them by giving them another artillery fire." Floyd was about to give the order to the artillery battalion when he was stopped by Hoffman.

"No, you can't!"

"Why? Our men are in need of fire support! ”

"No! We don't have many shells in the first place, not to mention that artillery fire will kill our people by mistake! ”

"But it also kills enemies, doesn't it?" Floyd said coldly.

"It's not glorious at all! This is the first time that our unit has participated in regular combat, and our enemy is naturally still a guerrilla force, but their way of fighting is completely regular warfare! Are you going to deprive the Teutonic warriors of their glory?! Hoffman didn't control his emotions and grabbed Floyd by the collar.

The two looked at each other, but Freud compromised, and couldn't help but say viciously: "If you refuse to use our strongest firepower, the enemy will no longer be bombarded by heavy artillery, and we will kill many people." ”

"Enough! We're left with twenty heavy guns. For those enemies, this shell has very little effect on the current situation. It was too easy to hit our guys, and the lads were almost close to the Soviets. ”

The two had some disagreements, but the quarrel did not solve the problem. At this time, the front line was in a state of scorching, and such a commander who ordered an easy retreat at just one contact, or thought that his own men could not win a big victory, was a disgrace to the Germans and was court-martialed.

As for the Germans at the front, after the setbacks, they no longer dared to expose themselves excessively. The soldiers, most of whom were recruits, were almost all crawling forward, and this was the first time they had experienced a real battle, facing enemy machine-gun positions, and many had even forgotten about life and death.

The two battalion commanders of the German army realized that they could not lie in the snow all the time and shoot at the Soviets, and the bullets whizzed overhead, wasting bullets in pure fragments.

The Soviets were equipped with a large number of machine gunners on the front line, and the intensity of the war was slightly weaker, and they also found that their ammunition was very depleted.

Soviet soldiers began to deliver ammunition to the front line through communication trenches, while several hundred German troops suddenly stood up, and two German battalions suddenly began to storm.

"What a crazy bunch of people. Courage is good, isn't their commander armor for his own people? Roshakov stared at himself with a telescope.

"I think they are crazy, the Germans are counting on the seriously ill group to overcome our defenses, but they don't know that our defenses are more than one." Kravsky said

On the entire offensive front, the German armored vehicles were the first to be wiped out, and they were even attacked by anti-tank guns.

Two battalions of German troops advanced under the cover of five half-track armored vehicles, each armored car actually set up three machine gun groups, the powerful machine gun fire gave the Soviet positions a huge resistance, many Soviet troops were hit, and died in foxholes and trenches.

Even so, the Soviets continued to resist stubbornly in the face of the German bullets, because of their orders, the machine-gun positions on the front line held out until the infantry retreated to the second line of defense, and at this moment, the infantry was retreating along the communication trenches.

However, the anti-tank guns of the Soviet army made a decisive contribution at this moment.

This 37mm tank gun is covered with debris and some snow, which at first glance looks like a big snowdrift, but in fact it is the most terrible anti-vehicle weapon.

"Aim at the armored vehicles at the head of the enemy and open fire!" The artillery squad leader gave an order, and the soldier pulled the running bolt.

The shell hit the cab of the armored car directly, and the violent explosion blew all the people in the car down, but they did not all suffer casualties, and many people were stunned by the explosion.

This meritorious anti-tank gun, which had made great contributions to the attack on the German armored train, was now like a roll call, with accurate fire after cannon, and the armored vehicles that assisted the infantry in the attack were scrapped one after another.

The Germans also counterattacked, but a large number of bullets were blocked by debris, and the artillery was unharmed.

Even so, the German onslaught continued, and the soldiers with mortars immediately set up positions, and these small-caliber mortars, which were more powerful than grenadiers, were fired specifically to bombard the points of fire, and the Soviets suffered a rather serious blow.

The machine-gun fortresses, which covered the retreat of the infantry, were attacked by the Germans by name, and several positions were reimbursed. The soldiers who were lucky enough to survive were still fighting, the lightly wounded picked up all the weapons they could use and continued to shoot, while the seriously wounded carried grenades and waited to die with the invaders.

The German march of these two battalions was very valiant, they suffered great losses but did not dare to retreat, no matter how stupid people know, the victory and defeat were in one fell swoop, and the offensive of these eight hundred men continued, and they finally broke into the first line of defense of the Soviet army.

"Oops! A gap has been breached in our defense, is it time to let the reserves go up?! Kravsky asked.

"Wait, we haven't exposed our full strength sooner than we can. The Germans were valiant, but they had already entered the concave encirclement. Comrade, think of the Battle of Canny! ”

As soon as Roshakov said it, Kravsky was happy.

The Soviet army has a record of this, and as long as the main force retreats to the second line of defense, the best show will be staged again.

Grenade rain tactics, which is almost already the usual trick of the 284th Division, is also the reason for the mass production of grenades in the blacksmith village. In the second line of defense, the soldiers threw grenades on a large scale, and the 800 warriors of the marching German army, even though they were not afraid of death like the Teutonic warriors, fell helplessly under the attack of a large number of grenades falling from the sky. For no other reason, on the offensive road, the flying fragments were denser than raindrops, and everyone was blown up with thousands of holes.

In this way, the offensive of the 800 men came to an end, and the Germans were forced to retreat due to the shelling of Soviet mortars.

Seeing this, the momentum of the German army was almost suppressed.

Roshakov nodded with satisfaction: "Now we don't need to send reserves, these people will not force us to send tanks." ”

"That's right, these German troops are indeed secondary troops, and combat effectiveness is not good." Kravsky breathed a sigh of relief, this battle, if it had been like this, the city could be completely defended. "Let's go, comrade. I guess the Germans will soon retreat, and then they will bombard us with artillery! The two of them quickly went into the basement.

As Kravsky had guessed, the two German regiment commanders had received information that the offensive at the front had been blocked.

The two had difficulty accepting this reality, but it was, as their warriors had begun to retreat on their own.

If we continue to fight like this, the task of destroying the enemy will not be achieved, and the soldiers will be consumed, so will the baggage soldiers be changed into the front-line combat units of the 715th Division?

Hoffman immediately ordered his front-line troops to retreat immediately, as did Kraftsky.

Regretful? Wrath? Not reconciled? The German soldiers retreated with mixed feelings in the face of a large number of vehicle wreckage and a large number of corpses of their comrades in the wilderness.

The Soviet soldiers defending the city looked at the backs of the retreating Germans, and most of them did not shoot again. The first day of fighting seemed to be over, and when victory came, not many people were happy, but waited quietly. Until the Germans came again with shelling. (To be continued.) )