Chapter 4: The Bloody Battle in Smolensk (2)
On the position, the soldiers began to strengthen the fortifications, and at the same time began to clean up the battlefield, and when it was getting late after all this, everyone began to take out dry food and began to eat, and some soldiers took out their own cigarettes and began to smoke, after all, such a big battle may be glorious when, so now everyone is very open, and Andrei and the soldiers he brought also took out the black leba that he carried with him, in fact, Andrei was not used to the taste of this black bread, So he pulled out a piece of condensed milk and a canned beef, which was not André's squeamishness, as the Black Leba should have called it bran bread, or whole wheat bread. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info is more nutritious than refined flour bread because it is made from a mixture of bran such as the cortex, germ, aleurone layer and a small amount of endosperm that are milled off during the grinding process. There are two types of brown bread, one fermented by yeast and one fermented by germ (bread baking powder). So one is hard to eat and is suitable for bread sauce, and the other is fluffy. The bread is usually coated with buckwheat bark, wheat kernels, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, plant seeds, etc., to increase the flavor and taste. Give it a chance! Freshly baked is delicious, and most Asians don't like to eat it, because the brown bread is not sweet and has a somewhat sour taste.
However, Andrei still understood that he had to adapt to it, because black bread is a staple food on the Russian table, at first glance the color looks like a Chinese sorghum noodle nest, cut into slices, the taste is a little sour, and a little salty, Chinese generally start to eat it, and people who do not know the situation even think that this is poor food. In fact, brown bread is not only filling and nutritious, but also easy to digest, which is very beneficial to the stomach and intestines, especially suitable for meats such as fish and meat. This is because the fermented mother of brown bread contains a variety of vitamins and biological enzymes. According to the Russians, baking brown bread is quite laborious, and it takes nearly two days just to mix the dough and ferment it. The finished bread crust is put into a Russian oven with a uniform temperature and simmered, and the bottom of the bread can be knocked out of the oven, and the appearance is black and shiny, and the cut is soft and delicious without dropping the slag, which is the top quality of black bread. Due to the complexity of the process, Russian and Ukrainian housewives do not make their own food at home, but regularly go to the bakery every day to buy fresh brown bread for the whole family to eat.
And Andrei found that several soldiers next to him deliberately did not intend to look at his side, Andrei glanced over because the dry food on the other soldiers was rusks or biscuits, and the dry black bread tasted worse, and there was no meat, and his side was meat and condensed milk, it was a big meal, and there was indeed no equality of officers and soldiers in the Soviet Army, and if he was an officer of the Red Army, maybe someone would let him share a little, but he was an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, The commanders and fighters in the Red Army all had to deal with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but Andrei understood that this was because of the evil consequences of the Great Purge, and indeed many officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs relied on their special status to do whatever they wanted everywhere, Andrei remembered that in various works in his previous life, the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were generally negative characters, with their eyes above the top, and they were stubborn and self-serving, and it was precisely because of the special status of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that many commanders and fighters were unjustly killed. And after all, the status of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is a special status as a sword in Stalin's hands and a shield for the maintenance of Soviet power, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the personal guard of the General Secretary, and even the Imperial Guards of the Kremlin are troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs also has its own contribution in the Great Patriotic War, the supervision of military production, intelligence gathering, and the supervision of the war are all contributions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there has never been anything absolute in this world!
And Andrei finished eating in such a tangled situation, and looking at the dark night, Andrei suddenly felt that this was an opportunity, the image of the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not be changed by himself, but he could change himself, and even if he had to teach the German devils a hard lesson, so Andrei found the current commander on the position,
He proposed the idea of a night attack, but the lieutenant was very embarrassed, after all, his men were very tired, and the Soviet army would not fight at night now, and Andrei saw the lieutenant's attitude, and couldn't help but say: "I don't need you to go, I'll go, I want you to cover us and help our raid!" The lieutenant didn't dare to offend the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Andrei had shot several officers, so he nodded and agreed, so Andrei sent a reconnaissance team composed of several clever soldiers to reconnoiter the situation on the German side, and finally Andrei found a target that could be attacked:
The reconnaissance target was an incomplete infantry company of the German army, which numbered 107 men in 19 tents. The camp is built on a river beach with a river 3 or 4 meters wide behind it, and directly in front of it is a hillside, with only a path below the hill passing in front of the beach. The Germans set up two posts at each end of the road, as well as a concealed post.
And Andrei chose thirty-five fighters to carry submachine guns and sniper rifles, and each of them brought a sharp bayonet.
Andrei began to lay out the task: the snipers hid on the hillside directly in front of the river beach as support fire, and 16 fighters lay in ambush on the side of the road not far from the river beach, and Andrei and other team members attacked the enemy camp at night. After the task was assigned, when Andrei asked what other questions were asked, as is customary, one of the fighters raised his hand and said: "Report to the second lieutenant, why didn't you let us go into battle?" ”
Andrei explained that it was a sneak attack, and it was easy to be exposed when there were many people, adding that in the future it was necessary to unconditionally obey orders.
At the beginning of the operation, the snipers had been lurking on the hillside and watching every move on the river beach below, and at 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, the night raiders attacked the German camp as planned. Andrei led Sergeant Menov to enter from the right, and Second Lieutenant Ivanov led the attack from the left. The German bonfire in the camp was almost extinguished, but the four German sentries on the left and right were still patrolling back and forth dutifully.
Andre whistled lightly a few times and signaled an attack to Zhong Dingcheng. I saw several figures jumping out of the grass and rushing towards the German sentry, who had no time to react, either his neck was broken or he was stabbed into the kidney with a bayonet, and he didn't make a sound at all. As for the dark whistle, it was already stabbed in the heart by the soldiers.
After taking out the sentry, Andrei gestured and continued to attack. I saw 20 people rushing to the tent.
Everyone quietly approached the entrance to the tent, and then gently lifted the curtain to dodge in. The sleeping Germans were the opponents of these wolf-like veterans, and one by one they were like animals to be slaughtered.
The attack went unusually well, with an average of either 7 or 8 people in a tent, but it was a piece of cake for these blood-drinking veterans, and in less than two minutes, all six of the nearest tents were resolved.
The whole battle lasted 6 minutes, not a single shot was fired, and all 107 German troops were annihilated, and a German infantry company was all reimbursed. After carefully inspecting the battlefield, the night raiders signaled the 16 fighters who were lying in ambush on both sides of the road to serve as cover.
The soldiers who received them were completely stunned by what they saw, and in a matter of minutes, only 36 men turned 109 German soldiers into corpses. Thinking about the death of a platoon or even a company of those brothers in a frontal battle, I can't help but admire Andrei.
The snipers were still on guard on the hill, while the rest of the men quickly cleaned up the battlefield. A total of 97 rifles, 27oo0 rounds of ammunition, 7 machine guns, 4,000 rounds of ammunition, 12 submachine guns, 500 rounds of ammunition, 3 pistols, 120 rounds of ammunition, 3 mortars, 43 artillery shells, and 147 German grenades were captured. There are also a number of canned candies. The most important thing was the capture of a German military map. Andrei immediately arranged for one of the fighters to send the map back first.
And when Andrei commanded everyone to retreat, he didn't forget to let everyone take everything, and at the same time called a few soldiers from the position to make a big move, and Andrei took a German-made MP-40 in his hand, which is also a good gun, the body of the MP40 is folded, and it is only 62 cm long. It is more than 20 centimeters shorter than the fixed butt weapons of all countries. The MP40 submachine gun has a high accuracy. Due to its low recoil, the MP40 is very accurate in shooting in the effective range, and its accuracy in sustained fire is unmatched. The Soviet Bobosha and the British Stern in the general continuous fire are difficult to control, while any German recruit can control the MP40 in the heavy fire. Provides dense firepower in closer combat. Of course, the MP40 also had its drawbacks, and the rate of fire was too low. Its theoretical rate of fire is only 500 rounds per minute, and the actual rate of fire is much lower, and its main opponents, the Soviet Bobosha submachine gun, have a rate of fire of up to 900 rounds per minute, and the American Thompson submachine gun has a rate of fire of 700 rounds and the MP40 has a load of 32 rounds, which is roughly the same as other submachine guns of the Allies. However, it was at an absolute disadvantage in the battle against the Soviet Bobosha submachine gun, which had a large 71-round drum. In close combat, submachine guns are used to suppress the most ammunition to the enemy's head in the shortest possible time. The MP40's 32-round straight magazine is less than half of Bobosha's. In the heat of close combat, German soldiers changed magazines much more often than Soviet soldiers, and when changing ammunition, the fire was bound to be interrupted or stopped. The interruption of firepower in battle is the prelude to death. The German soldiers on the front line had the fastest understanding of this.
The MP40 is undoubtedly an easy-to-control weapon, and it has relatively little recoil. In a non-extremely cold climate, its bomb supply reliability is very strong, and there is basically no danger of jamming, but in the winter of the Soviet Union, MP40 may not be easy to use, and there is another point, there is a misunderstanding, MP40 is more accurate than the Soviet Bobosha submachine gun, in fact, Bobosha's dispersion is much better than MP40, MP40 will only be slightly better than Bobosha when it is single-shot.
And looking at the sky, sighing, looking at the sky, Andrei also retreated with the broken warriors.