1206 City Hall fought hard
Behind a broken window on the first floor of the town hall, Soviet soldiers were shooting desperately with their rifle weapons.
The German anti-aircraft artillery strafing just now cost them a heavy price, but the Soviets still used reserve troops to quickly fill the positions of the lost soldiers.
The recruit had just been filled, and he took his Mosin Nagant and fired a bullet at the attacking Germans in the distance.
Then he had to pull the bolt to load his weapon. And at this time, the German soldier passing by this window threw a grenade in his hand into the black hole.
The grenade flew into his room from outside the house, and the Soviet soldier was so frightened that he quickly bent down to pick up the grenade.
Beside him, there were several Soviet soldiers, who also saw the grenades flying in, and at this time they were all bending over, desperately looking for the danger of rolling into the rubble.
It is a pity that these Soviet troops still failed in the end. Less than a second later, a loud explosion rang out from inside the room, leaving only the buzzing sound in the ears of the surrounding German soldiers.
Accustomed to this deafening sound, the German soldiers did not stop their steps, they turned directly into the room where smoke and dust were still billowing everywhere, and stepped over the corpses under their feet without paying attention.
The doors of the town hall were not closed, they were just left open at random. Outside, on the stone steps, the corpses of several Soviet soldiers were still lying.
Inside the gate was a bunker made of sandbags, where Soviet soldiers were firing desperately to stop the Germans from breaking through.
Unbeknownst to them, however, there were already German soldiers entering the interior of the town hall through side windows.
These German soldiers, who climbed in through the windows on the first floor, took control of a house and from here began their own infiltrations and attacks.
In Zhoulangli, Soviet soldiers were in a panic organizing defense. Some ran in the direction of the gate, while others chose to go inside to help.
Just when the Soviet troops in the corridor heard the sound of explosions and wanted to see what was happening, the German soldiers suddenly rushed out of the dusty room.
The German soldier with the STG-44 assault rifle in his hand was suffocating with ferocity. The few Soviet soldiers in the corridor who had not yet come to their senses were immediately knocked to the ground.
Because the gunfire outside and inside the town hall was very chaotic, no one realized that the Germans had stormed the inside of the town hall.
The German soldiers, who had taken control of a house, of course, wanted to extend their victory, so they rushed down the corridor and then quickly fought their way into the next room.
The Soviet soldiers, who were still looking out the window, did not realize that the Germans had rushed in behind them.
Before they could look back to see what had happened, the German soldiers took up their weapons and opened fire, killing the hapless Soviet soldiers by the window.
The continuous automatic weapon fire finally made the Soviet troops in the other rooms realize that the situation was not good, and the sound of the STG-44 assault rifle firing was not the same as the Bobosha submachine gun.
So, they came out of their rooms and tried to inspect every room to make sure that the Germans did not storm the town hall.
Then, they were greeted by G-43 semi-automatic rifles in German hands, as well as a dense stream of bullets fired from STG-44 assault rifles.
More than a dozen Soviet soldiers fell to the ground, and the nearby Soviet troops had no more strength and launched a counterattack against the Germans who stormed the house.
The Germans were getting more and more soldiers, and they began to occupy all the rooms on either side through the corridors.
The remaining German soldiers began to charge the Soviet soldiers defending the main entrance, firing in the direction of the gate.
The Soviet soldiers, who were caught between two sides, suddenly turned on their backs, and no one cared whether the outside of the gate was lost or not - they were killed by bullets in the back, and soon the gate was occupied by the Germans.
"Are there still Soviets on the first floor?" The German soldiers who rushed in from outside the main gate asked loudly when they saw their comrades in the room answering them.
Before he could answer his question, a bullet hit him in the chest, blood splattered everywhere, and all the German soldiers began to look for cover to hide.
The Soviet soldiers on the other side were shooting desperately with their weapons, and the Soviets were also firing constantly at the staircase.
"Go upstairs! There are Soviets upstairs! Someone saw the other soldier's soldier and loudly reminded his companion.
"Quick! Find cover! Another German soldier leaned against the bullet-riddled column, shouting with a submachine gun.
"The room on the other side of the hallway! Soviets in the house over there! There were quite a few German soldiers outside the door, and they saw that on the other side of the corridor, there were many Soviet defenders who were stubbornly resisting.
Then, leaning against the wall, in the midst of the chaos, one of the platoon commanders shouted orders to his men: "Grenade! Throw the grenade over! Bastard! ”
At the entrance to the town hall, the German soldiers shouted one after another, some German soldiers were trying to find their own cover, while others were a little more courageous, and rushed directly into several small rooms on both sides with their weapons.
The heavy leather boots of the Germans crackled against the marble floor of the town hall.
Immediately after, the crisp sound of a grenade rolling on the marble floor abruptly broke the momentary silence that followed a burst of gunfire.
"Boom!" The grenade exploded in the hallway, and the German soldiers rushed into the dust that filled the hallway.
"Suddenly! Dodo! Without persuasion or warning, these German soldiers calmly pulled the trigger in their hands and beat the enemy in front of them into a sieve.
Soon, the Soviet troops on the first floor were completely cleared, and several Soviet soldiers who rushed down from the upper floors had also fallen on the stairs.
For the battle for this commanding height, the two sides have entered a white-hot stage, just when the German soldiers were attacking the town hall, the periphery of the town hall, the Soviet army actually began to counterattack.
The German troops had to arrange troops for the defense of the perimeter while attacking the fortified positions. The two sides fought fiercely in the vicinity, and the losses were once unbearable.
In this small area, the Germans have lost thousands of men, while the Soviets have lost more than 2,000.
And about the battle for Rostov-on-Don, this is only the third day. The German offensive against the Soviet Caucasus was really just beginning.