Chapter 147: The Assassin in Action
After 10 days of fighting, the Siberian Volunteer Division was sharply reduced from 20,000 to more than 13,000 people, and almost two regiments were reduced in ten days, especially the first regiment defending the main peak of Mamayev Gang and the fifth regiment defending the central railway station were all suffering heavy casualties, one regiment was killed and wounded because of the strong fortifications and the fifth regiment had more than half of the casualties, Andrei had withdrawn the fifth regiment to the back and tried to replenish the troops. If the higher authorities do not replenish it, they can only collect the commanders and fighters scattered by other units and recruit civilians, otherwise at this rate, the Siberian Volunteer Division should be exhausted in another month. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At this time in the division headquarters, Andrei and the staff officers are still worried, in these ten days, the German army on the Mamayev Gang and the Central Railway Station are continuous attacks, but were repelled by the tenacious soldiers, now the two main points are still in their own hands, but the intensity of the battle makes their own side is now unbearable, at this time Andrei knows the tragedy of the Battle of Stalingrad, the original information said that the Soviet troops guarding Stalingrad circulated a sentence: We occupied the kitchen, but the living room is still in the hands of the enemy!
At the beginning, during the day, the Soviet army held room by room, the Germans fought one by one, and at night the Soviet army organized death squads to snatch it back. After the rework, the two sides turned around, the Germans defended and the Soviets attacked. This was in an ordinary building in Stalingrad. It was also what was happening in all the buildings of Stalingrad.
All the factory workers were making weapons with guns on their backs, and the factory garrison was exchanging fire with the enemy a dozen meters away. The tank got off the assembly line and started fighting.
There is no front, no rear. As long as it is alive, it has to fight with a gun.
A soldier lives for one day to be a squad leader, two to be a platoon leader, and so on, because your comrades and commanders are all dead, and you are surrounded by additional recruits, but you won't be a regiment commander because no one lives for five days.
In the whole battle, the average Soviet soldier survived on the battlefield for less than 24 hours, and the average Soviet officer survived on the battlefield for no more than three days.
This is the case with the current central railway station, all the buildings on the defense line are now in ruins, and the German tanks can no longer play much role, and the soldiers on both sides can almost be said to be fighting face-to-face in the ruins, grenades, submachine guns, rifles, bayonets, sapper shovels, and even teeth, bricks, all the weapons that can be used have been used in repeated battles, every building, every high point, even every wall, every basement, every pile of rubble!
However, just a few days ago, in order to implement the Führer's intentions, Paulus continued to attack the city with the tactics of flat pushing, which was not the strength of the German army, which was accustomed to attacking on both flanks. So now the German pressure on the docks was less, and Andrei laughed, for the Germans, the battle was no less difficult, because the Stalingrad industrial zone was built in the hills, and the buildings were made of reinforced concrete or stone. The advance of the German army was "measured not in kilometers, but in meters."
A German officer who lived through the Battle of Stalingrad wrote in his diary: "Stalingrad is no longer a city, but a murderous stove...... The streets here are no longer counted in meters, but in corpses. ”
Although the German army is now majestic in this way, it will not be able to do it in a few months, but can I see that day, by the way, I don't know if the special operation and his snipers have started to act, Andrei is also sighing and thinking.
Andrei at the division headquarters is like this, and for the commanders and fighters on the position, every day is now a pleasure, yes, because they have lived one more day.
At this time, on the position of the central railway station, the snipers and observers of the sniper group began to hunt, and now the positions are staggered, so the snipers began to hunt, and now the snipers began to exert their might, and now although it is daytime, they began to rely on the ruins to advance to the German-controlled area, and now the traditional positions no longer exist, both sides rely on the ruins to build positions, between the ruins, the two people rely on their skillful skills to start advancing, it is lunch time, and the Germans begin to cook on the position, The standard of food for the German army was actually higher than that of the Soviet army, and the German army was the food for the march - Marschverpflegung
This is food for troops on the march, and cannot be cooked. This kind of food is a very common one for the front line. Usually, the cooks of each unit make a set meal a day. The soldiers on the march received 3-4 copies each time.
700 grams of rye
200 grams of frozen meat or cheese
60 grams of butter
9 grams of coffee or 6 grams of black tea
10 grams of granulated sugar
Tobacco 6 rolls
The food is wrapped in canned food and paper and placed in cardboard boxes
Bring food (whole) - EisernePortion
Its biscuits are usually packaged in paper and cans
Biscuits 250 grams
200 grams of frozen meat
150 g of dried vegetables
25 grams of coffee
25 grams of salt
This type of biscuit is also called Zwieback, which is similar to a hard biscuit that has been baked.
Carry food (half portion) - HalbeisernePortion
Biscuits 250 grams
200 g of processed fresh meat (mainly canned food)
However, the good food is irreplaceable for everyone, so the German army will also cook hot meals according to the battlefield conditions, this is not on the edge of a ruin, the German men began to cook soup with meat and potatoes, and a steel helmet was also used to make coffee next to it, now the Soviet army is very difficult, but the German army is also not happy.
Smelling the aroma of broth, the observer patted his partner, it seemed that he had arrived at the fascist kitchen, next to the simple room, these German soldiers were ready to eat, and came to a ruin more than a hundred meters away, the observer first observed the surrounding situation, there were no traps or mines, this ruin was safe enough, he immediately made a safe gesture.
At the same time, the German soldiers began to line up to eat by laughing and scolding each other at this rare warm moment, while a second lieutenant shouted next to him: "Give me a quiet meal, or I don't mind teaching him how to eat!" ”
After seeing the observer finish gesticulating, the sniper slowly poked his head out. Once again, he focused his gaze on the sniper scope, looking for his target. Luckily, the officer who spoke had not left. He was sitting on a shell box with a cup of coffee still steaming, looking thoughtfully at the Soviet-controlled area opposite. The distance between me and him was only a little more than 100 meters, and the sniper could even clearly see in the scope that his blue eyes revealed a little sentimentality, perhaps remembering someone at home".
Having chosen the target, the sniper did not hesitate to pull the trigger. With a vibration from his shoulder, a bullet flew out, and coincidentally, the bullet first flew the coffee in his hand and then into his heart. ”
Black coffee stained his military uniform. The next thing that came out of the black was a dazzling bright red. He looked at his chest in disbelief, then looked up in the direction the bullet was flying. Then he collapsed to the ground as soon as his whole body went limp.
There was no pain or despair in his eyes. Only surprise. Perhaps, this sudden bullet made him not rush to have any other feelings at all.
Before the Germans could react to what was going on, gunshots soon rang out one after another. The distance is just over a hundred meters. The snipers exchanged firing points and fired continuously, and at the same time, because Andrei got a flame suppressor for his sniper, the Germans were caught off guard and were killed one by one, the disgusting thing was that the cook was shot in the head, and the brains flew directly into the broth, and five people died in a row, the Germans finally reacted, and the other soldiers quickly threw away their lunch boxes and hid everywhere, at the same time the Germans in the distance began to bombard the suspicious ruins with mortars, but the sniper team had been transferred, so the Germans had worked in vain, and now the Germans were so "warmly greeted." "The sniper team has moved and is looking for the next target. (To be continued.) )