Chapter 1009: Grenades
"Charge, immediately order our troops, charge above, and take a piece of high ground!" The division commander, Colonel Baranov, shouted loudly.
When gunshots and explosions rang out all around, Colonel Baranov immediately knew that something was wrong, and it was simply too surprising to believe that the Iranians were able to set up an encirclement here despite their successive defeats.
However, Colonel Baranov was not alarmed by the surrounding. He immediately made the right judgment and rushed up the hill!
In the Soviet troops, the cavalry is almost all troops with a meritorious history, and those who can become cavalry are also elite, after all, the most vegetable soldiers are infantry, even cooking soldiers, cavalry often run hundreds of kilometers a day, and ordinary people simply can't hold on.
Now, before Colonel Baranov's order was delivered, part of the cavalry was already moving!
They slapped their horses, pulled the reins, and motioned for their horses to run up the hill!
Run, run!
The war horses, all of the best, immediately ran upwards after receiving instructions from the riders, but they were greeted with more fierce shots!
The bullets rained down on them, and the rows of cavalrymen fell, the horses neighed, and the riders were bruised and swollen, and even their ribs were broken.
But, as soon as they have a breath, they will keep running upwards!
They were on the hillside, the cats hunched forward until the bullet hit them, and their bodies rolled down and they fell with the horses.
The battle, which went on very quickly, was also quite brutal, and the enemy above, the firepower was too dense!
The cavalry was a terrible type of troops, which for centuries could easily break through the enemy's positions by means of a powerful shock, but now they could not rush at all, and it was impossible for the horses to charge up the hill and run.
In this case, they all become slow live targets! At the same time, there are too many machine guns on it, dense bullets, like the Grim Reaper!
"Charge to our southwest hillside!" Baranov pulled out his pistol: "You can only move forward, not backward!" ”
Baranov, who has participated in many battles and has a lot of experience, in these few minutes, he has already judged that the enemy is not the same on the slopes on both sides!
On the northeastern slopes, the enemy's firepower is extremely fierce and the machine guns are dense, in contrast, on the southwestern slopes, the enemy's firepower is very sparse, and there are even sporadic rifle sounds, and the number of machine guns is scarce.
Therefore, charging to the southwest slope is their best choice, and they will occupy the commanding heights first!
Baranov guessed correctly, on the southwestern slope of the hill, there is an area defended by several Iranian infantry battalions near Qazvin, which is inferior to the equipment of the Iranian army compared to the German infantry divisions.
In fact, since 36 years, the equipment in the Iranian army has been almost all German-made weapons, but almost all the advanced weapons imported by Germany have been armed to the two infantry divisions stationed in Tehran, and when it comes to other units, it is very poor.
For example, the current 36 infantry battalion, their main weapon is still the Mauser rifle, each squad is assigned a ZB-26 light machine gun, this light machine gun has a small magazine capacity, although it is called a machine gun, most of the time, it is a burst fire, not at all like the German light machine gun has excellent sustained firepower.
Therefore, when the slopes on both sides are under fire, their fire density is obviously much smaller.
The battalion commander, Mohammed, armed with a ZB-26 light machine gun, fired intermittently.
He aimed, shot, and one Soviet cavalryman fell off his horse, however, more Soviet cavalry, continued to rush up!
"Attention, the Soviets are coming up, prepare grenades!" Muhammad shouted.
They had already thought of this when arranging their positions, and once the battle began, they were an area that could easily be taken care of by the enemy.
So, how can they defend this place? That is to take advantage of a large number of grenades!
The density of fire was far behind the German troops, but on their side, there were whole boxes of grenades!
Last night, when arranging the positions here, everyone's shoulders were bruised, and they carried heavy grenades to the top of this hill, and each of them carried them three or four times!
Now, greet the Soviets with grenades!
Relying on the spirit of not being afraid of death, the Soviet cavalry rushed up towards the line of defense of the 36 Infantry Battalion, and when they rushed halfway up the mountain, the horses finally could not climb, they jumped off their horses and continued to run upward!
As long as you occupy the high ground on this side, you will be invincible, and when the time comes, it will be easy to say whether you will fight or retreat!
Colonel Baranov looked at the Soviet troops on the hillside, although one person was tumbling and falling, but there were many more people, who were not afraid to die and climbed up, they would definitely be able to rush up!
Closer, closer, the cavalry at the front had even climbed to the hillside less than fifty meters from their position, and behind him, the cavalry of the black press, at least a few hundred, were rushing up, and with one blow, they would be able to break the formation immediately.
At this moment, suddenly, there was a sound of Persian wah-wh-wah from the opposite side.
With this voice, they suddenly felt that the sky in front of them seemed to become dark, and when they looked up, they saw what seemed to be a large flock of crows flying over, black smoking things, blocking the sky.
Hand grenade!
It was very pleasant to throw grenades from a high position, and now, the machine gunners on the top of the hill were still firing, but the soldiers with Mauser rifles put down their rifles, took out grenades from the grenade boxes around them, and kept throwing them out.
Unscrew the tail safety cover to reveal the lead inside, and then, holding a grenade in one hand and pulling the lead in the other, this German M24 wooden-handled grenade is an offensive grenade with a full charge, and at the same time, in general, it is good to be able to throw fifty meters away.
Now, though, they have an advantage because they're condescending!
The tail of the grenade snorted and smoked, and one of the recruits, a little nervous, just pulled the lead and, without a delay of two seconds, threw it!
This throw, only forty meters away, landed right at the feet of the Soviet soldier at the front.
The veteran was so experienced that he was constantly jumping left and right to avoid the ZB-26 light machine gun fire when he was just climbing up, and now, when he found a grenade under his feet, he was equally unequivocal, and as soon as he bent down, he picked up the grenade.
His hands are thrown back and he stands in the most standard posture.
At this time, the recruit had just held the second grenade in his hand when he saw the Soviet soldier below and threw back the grenade he had just thrown!