At a distance of almost 500 meters, the artillerymen could see the church through the forest gap. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Shells were constantly falling around, blowing up high balls of mud, and machine gun bullets fired from a distance "whizzed" overhead! The soldiers did not care about all this, desperately digging the cantonment pit with pickaxes, and preparing for the shelling as quickly as possible.

It can't get any closer, and once the Germans find out where this cannon is, the shell will fall down as accurately as rain!

"Ragnov, roll call from top to bottom!" Shuklin shouted to his best gunner, who was adjusting the angle of fire.

High-explosive shells lined up in the back, and three gunners stood by with shells in their hands, trying to smash all the shells as quickly as possible.

"Don't worry, Lieutenant, you won't miss a shot!"

Granov was so confident that at this distance he could shoot the shells into the window with a direct grenade, ensuring that the shells were accurately hit.

The artillery mirrors were also erected, but the lieutenant was observing with his glasses: the church had two towers, so to speak, on the third floor, and there were apparently German machine-gun fire points above them. There are still German mortars on the side of the ridge shoulder ditch, and you can see the faint green smoke rising after firing (smokeless gunpowder is also smoking, but it is rare). ）。

As the first gunner closed the bolt, he patted Granov on the shoulder, "Reloaded, high-explosive shells!" ”

The scope was already aimed at the tower on the left, and the tongue of machine gun fire from behind the window there could be clearly seen, and the bullets pressed the Red Army infantry in front of them to no longer move forward!

Granov moved the starting rod! With a loud bang, in less than a second, the church tower exploded violently, and the smoke of rubble and lime could be seen hundreds of meters away!

The loader immediately reloaded, and at the same time Granov fine-tuned the aiming point downward, and when the command "reload complete" sounded, the gunner fired again.

There was also a violent explosion on the second floor of the church, and the empty window bars made of wood were blown to pieces, and the debris exploded like a goddess scattering flowers!

Originally, it was supposed to use the artillery mirror to observe the impact point of the projectile to provide a calibration shot, but it was not needed at all, and the shells were fired hard and accurately - the calibrator vaguely saw that a human body was thrown out of the house with the explosion!

At this time, a dozen fighters came up with boxes and cats, and those crates were full of shells, three rounds each.

As soon as all five shells were fired, the No. 3 gunner, as the fuse operator, had already loaded two more shells with fuses.

Gunner No. 6 also went to help, otherwise the speed of this fuse would not be able to keep up with the speed of the shelling.

Within a minute or so, 12 shells had been poured on the Germans, and at the same time, the infantry assault battalion had made contact with the heavy artillery on the other side of the river, calling for long-range artillery fire to cover the forest area on the flank of the church.

The sound of large-caliber shells whistling in the air was sounded, and the poignant sound was moving! Suddenly, there were violent explosions everywhere in the forest in the distance, and even the earth seemed to tremble slightly!

Lieutenant Shuklin had been observing the effects of the shelling, and at the same time as his cannon fired, the infantry rushed forward for another hundred or so meters. "Stop the shelling, go forward, push the cannon another 150 meters! Push forward, quick! As he spoke, he was the first to push the baffle on.

Six artillerymen lifted two gun mounts, and eight men shouted and pushed the cannons forward -- the men behind hurriedly carried the shells and ammunition boxes to follow, and the two in charge of loading the fuses ran faster than anyone else, and when they got to the front, they had to put the fuses on as fast as they could.

Shuklin, who had a very bright ear, had just pushed the cannon and ran for more than 20 meters, when the whistling shells landed on the concealed shelling position just now, and the soil and broken branches smashed into his head.

The ears rumbled, but no one dared to stop, and there seemed to be someone wounded behind them, but they got up and ran forward - it was the German mortars pouring shells on their original positions, and they hit them very accurately! However, these more than 20 meters have already decided that the gunners have escaped from the doom, if you don't take advantage of this moment before the shells fall on your head, run dozens of meters more, and now come to prevent the shells from falling down, then when the Germans' shells fall scattered, it will be too late to cry!

Mortar shelling is not cannon precision shelling, the first round of fire from several mortars is very accurate at close range, but as a cover shelling, from the second round the gunners generally do not fine-tune, just stuff shells into the barrel, and the spread will naturally become larger.

So in a word, if you want to live, run quickly!

Of course, if the first round of shells falls directly on the head, then the only correct choice is of course not to run, but to find a recessed place to lie down, and then hold your head and ask for good luck.

Along the barely visible path in the forest, everyone used their strength to feed, and Hula pushed the cannon out more than a hundred meters in one go!

"Stop! That's it! ”

With Lieutenant Shuklin's order, everyone was running at high speed again, desperately busy according to their duties. In just 3 minutes, the temporary position was completed again!

From this vantage point, the upper floor of the church was riddled with holes, and you could see the man-high ring wall - the Germans had built machine-gun emplacements on the walls!

"Damn, why are these walls so thick?!"

The second gunner shouted, "Nonsense, how can you go up if you are not thick!" Shuklin disagreed, and tilted his hat: "Quick, faster!" ”

These words were all roared, and several machine guns more than 30 meters away from the side rang out non-stop, and they were not loud and could not be heard at all.

The shrill whistling of shells was heard, this was not his own man's shell flying from across the river, Shuklin knew as soon as he heard it was flying from the southwest, and at least a 150-mm grenade from the Germans!

Without the lieutenant's order, everyone immediately lay down, and a violent explosion was on the side!

Shuklin, who was lying on the ground, felt that he couldn't hear anything for a moment, and the bombed dirt seemed to be able to bury himself! The surface vibrated violently, tilting his head to look to the side, a shell landed on the machine gun position more than 30 meters away, and then a wave of air came over, and everyone was bored!

It seems that something has fallen on his side, and there are two of them!

The one on the left made Shuklin's hairs grow - just two meters away, a pit bigger than a washbasin! It's not terrifying, it's something out of the pit that makes his hair stand upside down: a metal ring!

That's a cannonball!

At that moment, Shuklin felt as if his heart had stopped beating for a few seconds, and he recognized at a glance that the ring was the bottom part of the large-caliber shell!

"Fucking lucky!"

If this wasn't a dud, it would be a pile of minced meat.

Granov was on the side, and Shuklin slowly turned his head to look at him, but found that he was not looking at himself, nor staring at the dud, but at his right without blinking!

The lieutenant turned around along the gunner's line of sight, and he saw a pair of eyes, those were the eyes of a Red Army soldier, and the owner of those eyes was gone! (To be continued.) )