Chapter 1263: The True Direction of Attack (Plus 1)
Hearing Lukin's words, the adjutant was stunned for a moment, reserves? Where to gather the reserves? All the troops, after they were armed, were moved to the front, there were so many enemies outside, it was not enough to do without the defensive line!
"Commander, we don't have any reserves." The adjutant said, "We're waiting for more of the rout to come and put them together." ”
"Guards, where's my guard? Quick, let's go! With that, Lukin picked up his belt.
"Commander, where are you going?"
"Quick, pull all the people who can move out for me, and go up to the east side of the city." Lukin shouted.
In the Soviet-German war, Germany attacked, the USSR defended, and if you look at the map, you can see the defense line that the USSR deployed along the long length of the country.
These lines of defense do exist, but it is simply impossible to hold this long line of defense, which is why the Soviet Union has been losing constantly, and now the Soviet defense line laid out along Smolensk to Moscow is equally vulnerable.
The concentrated application of tank troops has broken the pattern of fixed positional warfare in World War I, and if the defense line is long, it is not thick enough, and it is easy for the tank troops to break through, and then turn around and calmly defeat the defense line.
This is still for the main targets, and those small targets, there is no comprehensive line of defense at all.
For example, the current Shepetovka, which is an important material transfer site, according to the deployment of the Soviet military, should be heavily defended, but the fact is that it is vulnerable, if it were not for Lukin's resistance, it would have fallen into the hands of the Germans.
Although Lukin organized the defeated troops, he could only build a defensive line to the west and north of the city, and he simply did not have more strength to protect the entire city around, let alone lay out an absolute defensive line to connect with other nearby cities, so this place was actually an isolated island.
Especially in the eastern part of the city, only one infantry company was responsible, and their task was not to defend, but to prevent the rout from retreating to the east.
This company is Lukin's old subordinate, and the company commander Sergei leans on an abandoned truck, with a cigarette in his mouth, and looks ruthless, and only in this way can he scare people.
Although the city has begun to be reorganized, there are still some of the routs who want to retreat, and when they meet Sergei, then they can only go back in disgrace, and they are frightened by Sergei's eyes.
"Go back, join the troops, or die!" As Sergei spoke, the soldiers behind him pulled the bolt of their guns, which instantly frightened the routs.
The day has passed, and at night, there will be even more routs who want to sneak away, so Sergei must continue to pretend to be ruthless: "Keep your eyes open, don't let anyone go, and those who dare to escape from us will be punished on the spot!" ”
Sergei's voice was so loud that it could barely pass through half of the city, and he was warning those people to join the army quickly, and not to try to slip away, according to military law, deserters should be shot.
With that, Sergei threw his cigarette butt under his feet, stomped on it twice, and spat into the darkness in the distance.
Suddenly, he pricked up his ears, and there was a sound?
To the northwest of the city, the battle is now lively, the enemy has launched a second attack, this night, I don't know how many times to toss? It is said that under such a big movement, he can't distinguish any subtle sounds, but he can hear them, there are different sounds!
He turned his head and looked out of the city, and there seemed to be unusual movement in the black field.
Suddenly, he understood, and shouted loudly: "Prepare for battle, the enemy is coming from our side!" ”
The opponent's attack in the northwest direction is all from the back, and your own side is the real direction of attack!
After saying that, Sergei grabbed a Monasingan rifle and hid behind the truck, and gradually, when he saw the rumbling tank, Sergei's face changed greatly.
Almost all the anti-tank guns in the city have been moved to the northwest, and he only has light weapons here, how can he intercept the tank troops?
"Quick, pile all these obstacles in the middle of the road!" Sergei shouted loudly to his men that the only thing they could do was to create more roadblocks to block the passage of the opposing tanks until reinforcements arrived.
There are some abandoned cars on the side of the road, which should have been left by the former garrison, and the vehicles either had mechanical failures or simply ran out of gas, in short, left on the side of the road.
Now, they hurriedly pushed these cars to the middle of the road, even if the wheels did not turn, and dozens of people pushed them to the middle of the road.
"Grenades, bundle up, bundle up!" Sergei was anxious, and by this time he could clearly see that the terrible tank was rumbling over.
When anti-tank weapons are not available, grenades are the only way to go.
Sergei tied the grenades together and was about to take them and lean against the obstacles, but before he could get over, he was snatched by one of his subordinates.
"Company commander, let me come!" The tiny Kovpak said: "I have an advantage. ”
He does have an advantage, he's relatively low, hiding behind him, quite easily.
"Stand back, we deploy interception positions in the rear and strike their tanks from both sides." Sergei continued to command his own troops.
They can't stop the opponent's attack, if they keep standing there, they can only be killed, on the contrary, they are now retreating, they can just use the buildings on both sides, condescending, and can better delay the opponent's siege action.
As long as the exchange of fire starts here, the headquarters will definitely send people over for reinforcements immediately, what they need is to resist!
Just as they were retreating backwards, at the end of the road over there, the opposing tanks were already rumbling over!
There are obstacles here, but for tankmen this is nothing at all,
Tanks, which have always been able to go on a rampage, the tanker stepped on the accelerator, and in the rumbling sound, puffs of black smoke came out of the engine at the tail, and the body of the tank slammed into the car barricade over there.
With a few strokes, the car barricade was pushed aside, and the tanker stepped on the accelerator and continued to move on.
At this moment, a violent explosion came from under the tank.
"Boom!" With the explosion, a large hole was blown open in the bottom of the tank, and then the inside of the tank was detonated, and the huge fire illuminated everything around it.
"Fire!"