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After a heavy strike of long-range fire, the Germans went on the offensive

"Report to the division commander, a regiment reports that the Germans have attacked." Hearing the report of the staff officer next to him, Andrei couldn't sit still and immediately said: "The command is here to the chief of staff, and I will go to the observation post with you." ”

The observation post was located in a trench on the northwestern side of the hillside where the division headquarters was located, and from here it was clear not only that most of the positions were in the group, but that even the steppe to the north of the high ground could be seen in full view.

Not long after Andrey and the others entered the observation post, the roar of German tanks and the sound of cars could be heard from far and near. Andrei and his staff officer hurriedly raised their binoculars and looked into the distance, only to see that on the grassland in the distance, more than 20 tanks lined up in a long snake formation, were heading towards the position of a regiment. Behind it was a convoy of countless trucks, and there were always one or two hundred trucks as far as the eye could see. The carriages of the cars were full of infantry in steel helmets, and some of the trucks were dragging cannons in the back, and they rushed towards us in a fierce manner.

"God, the Germans are so ruthless!" The staff officer next to him said to himself: "Actually, a tank battalion, two artillery battalions, and nearly a regiment of infantry were dispatched in the first attack, and how many are there next, a division or an army." ”

Andrei did not pick up the words of the staff officer next to him, but simply moved the telescope to a group of positions set up halfway up the mountain. I saw that the commanders and fighters who had just come out of the tunnel were bending over and running back and forth. The trenches and fortifications that had just been destroyed under the powerful German artillery fire were also being repaired at the moment. At the same time, Shaikin also entered the sniper point with a team of snipers.

The Germans are getting closer. When the Germans marched to a distance of about a kilometer from the positions at Mamayev Heights. The tanks in front of them slowed down, the trucks stopped and formed a phalanx, and the infantry on the trucks were jumping out of the wagons and lining up next to the trucks, ready to follow behind the tanks and charge at the Soviet positions.

The cannons that were towed behind the truck were also unloaded by the artillerymen and lined up directly in the open field in front of the truck. Aimed the muzzle of the black hole at the position on the hillside.

The snipers played the role of artillery observers, and Shaikin immediately reported to a signal soldier next to him, "The azimuth is 15 degrees from point C, it is a can (tank), and there is a house (truck) behind it・・・・・・・"

In the tunnel behind the heights, using the principle of pulleys, the artillery battalion pushed out the muzzles of the howitzers arranged here out of the concealed holes and began to adjust the elements, while at the same time, within 150 meters behind the heights, the embrasures were uncovered, and the fighters next to them prepared explosives packs and equipment to surprise the Germans when they reached the foot of the mountain!

At the same time, the mortar company also arrived, and positions were spread out on the positions behind the hill, adjusting the Zhuyuan according to the reports of the snipers.

At this time, Andrei looked his binoculars into the distance and looked at the location where the Germans had parked their trucks. Although the Germans dispatched a regiment of infantry to capture the Mamayev Heights, they did not throw all their troops into the battlefield at once, but only sent one or two companies at a time to carry out repeated attacks on the Mamayev Heights.

From the binoculars, Andrei quickly saw the commander of the German army. He was standing in the bed of a truck at the moment, raising his binoculars and looking at the high ground in front of him, and behind him stood four or five officers, and a communications soldier with communication equipment on his back.

"Team leader, German commander?!" The observer next to him asked, "Isn't he worried about us snipers when he stays on the battlefield?" ”

When Shaikin first met the German commander, he also had the idea of killing the other party with a sniper rifle, but measured the distance. It was found that it was a full two kilometers, and now there is no sniper rifle with such a long range, and the inventors of the M82A1 and Soviet-style large-caliber sniper rifles are still children. Hearing the new soldier say this, Shaikin smiled bitterly and said: "You don't look at how far we are from where the Germans parked their trucks, at least two kilometers, we don't have a sniper rifle that far, unless it's almost the same with artillery bombardment." ”

"Eh, cannons, howitzers are no problem!" Suddenly, Shaikin reacted and immediately reported the situation of the German commander to the artillerymen.

At the same time, the first attacking unit of the German army began to pounce on the Mamayev post, under the leadership of the tank, the Germans began to climb the hill and charge, the tank stopped below to cover, the sniper found the German officer, and the artillery observer also came to the sniper point through the tunnel, although the sniper was trained to guide the artillery, but after all, he was an amateur and the artillery observer was a professional!

The first wave of Germans encountered fire that they had never seen before, they had not yet reached the position on the mountainside, the 50 mm mortars and 81 mm mortars captured by the mortar company, as well as the explosive packs fired from the pit came to the German ranks, boom, the limbs of the German soldiers were instantly torn apart and flew into the sky, and the guns in their hands were also reduced to parts, only one minute, the snipers did not shoot, and the soldiers who entered the mountainside position did not shoot, and a German infantry company was basically killed and wounded.

The mortar and thunder artillery batteries of the artillery battalion achieved success, and the howitzer company was not to be outdone, and under the guidance of the observers, they opened fire decisively.

More than a dozen 105-caliber shells swept over the high ground and whizzed down in tanks, infantry and truck phalanxes.

Powerful firepower directly overturned two tanks and blew dozens of infantry directly into the air, and the truck phalanx was also hit, but the German commander who did not blow up in the first attack.

However, the German commander found out that the Soviet army actually had howitzers and began to shell his truck phalanx, and did not dare to continue to stay in the car to command, but with the support of several subordinates, he slipped out of the car.

With this the phalanx of German trucks began to scatter and flee,

But the phalanx of 200 trucks is not something that can be transferred. All the trucks scrambled to reverse backwards, and as a result, some of the trucks crashed into each other in a panic, blocking the back of the other trucks, resulting in chaos according to the chaos. And the artillery of the howitzer position, leaving behind the artillery, ran back after the infantry.

But then, the doom of the German army was not over, the second round of shelling came after correcting the trajectory, and the artillery battalion deliberately used 6 150 howitzers pulled out of the residential area to join the shelling, directly covering the area where the German commander was located, and then Andrei found that it was really spectacular, the German trucks, tanks, one after another burned, and the Germans fled in all directions!

The artillery battalion, even no, should be the artillery regiment only for 41 howitzers, as well as mortars, flying thunder guns, next, try to find enough gunners, that is, the ammunition is not enough, and it is enough for the Germans to drink a pot, Andrei is very satisfied with this result, and he found that the artillery shooting just now did not directly bomb the German artillery positions, but he knew that the German army would have German planes to end up later, Andrei immediately called the first regiment and the third regiment to be helped, don't send too many people, so the first regiment only sent a company of fighters, Because of the damage to the vehicle, the fighters only pulled 5 guns back with manpower pushing, and at the same time, the artillery battalion also sent 10 trucks to pull out 10 trucks full of ammunition.

And Andrei's prudence turned out to be correct, and after a while, the air guard shouted "air strikes by enemy aircraft, concealment"

"These damn Germans, in order to keep us from getting their artillery, even went out to send planes to blow them up." The staff officer who was standing next to Andrei to report scolded indignantly when he saw this scene.

On the open ground filled with gunsmoke, the shrapnel and clods of dirt flying indiscriminately and crackling in all directions, coupled with the enemy planes that were constantly swooping down from the sky to drop bombs and strafe, all showed that the staff officer's judgment was correct. The Germans knew that their heavy artillery would inflict heavy casualties on them when they attacked, so they decisively sent planes to bomb them.

Although there were only two enemy planes, it was enough, but because the evacuated fighters retreated in time, the casualties of the Siberian Volunteer Division this time were not large.

Andre immediately felt that this battle was really cost-effective, but when he learned about the situation at the Central Railway Station the next day, Andre couldn't laugh directly.