Burning Moscow

Section 10 Highland Defense Battle (5)

The anti-cannon hole is a large basement, with dim lights and damp, it looks like a boiler room. When I entered, it was empty and there was no one inside. I couldn’t help being a little angry. The female soldiers in the platoon were so outrageous that no one obeyed my orders to come here to escape the German gunfire.

I wanted to go out and teach them, but listening to the rumbling cannons from outside, I couldn’t help but retreat. Sitting on the bench against the wall, recalling the few shells that exploded next to the observation post just now, I still have lingering heart palpitations, so that my heart beats faster and faster, so I can’t breathe, and my legs are gone. Stop shivering.

“Lida,” Jeanna suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave and said breathlessly, “Why are you hiding here? We are looking for you everywhere.”

“Ah,” Jeanna suddenly appeared and rescued me from panic. I took a deep breath and asked calmly, “What’s the matter?”

“A German devil was found behind the position, and the deputy platoon commander asked me to come to you. If you can’t be found here, I am still going to the observation station to find you.”

“Oh, there are Germans appearing behind the high ground!” When she said that, I was relieved. When I was in the observation post just now, I heard Klopov say that German troops tried to bypass us and then crossed the highway. Attack the defensive positions behind and cut off the connection between the high ground and the rear. Although I don’t know what kind of battle is about to take place, I know clearly that the German offensive will definitely fail. This is an unchangeable fact. Otherwise, Leningrad would have fallen a long time ago, so I still sit on the stool. He asked unhurriedly: “What kind of German?”

“I…I don’t know.” She replied a little panicked: “The sentry on duty said that the German was found. I think I should report to you first, and then you report to the superior… ·”

The sound of cannons outside stopped, although I was still flustered not long ago, at this moment this feeling of fear is gone. Everything has returned to its true colors. I interrupted her and asked, “How many Germans are there?”

“Comrade platoon leader!” Jeanna calmed down because of my emotions, and said. “It was the mobile sentry in the platoon who came to report, she said for sure, the Germans…”

“What kind of force?·······”

“I can’t know,” Jeanna replied, already aware that her own answer was very unreasonable, “I think I must report it without losing the opportunity! ······When I came to you, the deputy platoon leader also went to the cliff. Went to observe the enemy’s situation.”

I stood up and said to Jeanne: “Come on, take me to see what kind of German it is.”

Karenina and the two squad leaders of Class 2 and Class 3 were standing on the edge of the cliff, using binoculars to observe the enemy situation below. I walked to Karenina’s side and asked in a low voice: “How is the situation below?”

“The situation is very good,” she said with a grimace as she passed the binoculars in her hand: “There is probably a battalion of German devils underneath, under the cover of three tanks and ten armored vehicles, they are launching an offensive to the north of the highway. , The line of defense may be breached.”

“That’s not necessarily.” I smiled contemptuously, and raised my hand and raised the binoculars to look high underground. On the road a few hundred meters away, the German infantry formed a skirmish formation, slowly advancing to the position on the north side of the road. Three heavy tanks opened the way in front of them. They fired their guns for a while, and then turned on their guns. They drove forward slowly, rolling bushes, tree stumps, and circles of barbed wire under the car along the way.

The defensive troops may lack anti-tank weapons. From time to time, soldiers jumped out of the trenches and rushed toward the tank with explosive packs, but they were quickly overwhelmed by the machine gun fire on the armored vehicle behind the tank. The tank stopped about fifty meters away from the trench and opened fire with cannon and machine guns to cover the infantry who had jumped from the armored vehicle and occupy a favorable battle position.

“Karenina, assemble the entire platoon right away.” Seeing the defensive line below becomes more and more critical, I decisively gave the order. Karenina agreed and ran to gather the team.

In a short while, the heavily armed female soldiers ran over, and then stopped in front of me, neatly lined up in three rows. Jeanna, second class leader Nalisha, and third class leader Natasha also returned to the queue. Karenina stepped forward to salute me: “Comrade platoon leader, the whole platoon is assembled, please indicate.”

I stepped forward and faced the 30 or so female soldiers in front of me, and said solemnly: “Comrades, the situation is very serious now. The German devils have already circled behind us and are attacking the militia division on the north side of the highway. The militia has no combat experience. It is very difficult for them to block the enemy’s attack. We should support them…”

“Comrade platoon leader,” second squad leader Nalisha interrupted me, “how can we support them? There is a cliff behind this, we can’t get down.”

“Who said we are going down?!” Because I was dissatisfied with her interrupting my speech, my tone was also very rude. “We will use firepower to support them on the high ground.”

“But we are equipped with rifles, so I am afraid it will not be of much use.” Although I heard my dissatisfaction with her in my tone, she still mustered the courage to say what she wanted to say.

“Who said we want to shoot with a rifle?” I paused on purpose, and then announced in shock, “I decided to use an anti-aircraft machine gun to shoot the German devils in a flat shot.”

“Flat shot?!” She heard what I said, her eyes lit up, and she said in surprise: “You make sense. Anti-aircraft machine guns can indeed provide powerful fire support for militia divisions. But…” She paused After a while, he hesitated and said: “However, according to the regulations, if you want to change the use of weapons, you must get permission from the superior…”

“Okay,” I couldn’t wait to interrupt her. These old guys are just doing things dull. When the request is completed and the permission is obtained, it is estimated that the position on the north side of the highway has long been broken by the Germans. “All the responsibilities are borne by me. The combat tasks are arranged below: Deputy Platoon Commander Karenina and Second Squad Commander stay in the original gun position to maintain air defense. Squad leader Jeanna and Third Squad Commander Natasha immediately led the soldiers to push the anti-aircraft gun Here, we must go into battle right away, and we must eliminate these German devils. Understand?”

“Understand.” The female soldiers roared vigorously.

“The No. 1 anti-aircraft machine gun is in place.”

“The No. 3 anti-aircraft machine gun is in place.”

Standing on the edge of the cliff, I raised my right hand high, and while observing the enemy’s situation with a binoculars, I shouted: “Machine gun No. 1, target: German tank.”

“Understand, target: German tank.” Jeanna who was sitting in the shooting position repeated my order loudly

“Machine gun #3, target: the armored vehicle on the right side of the tank.”

“Target: German armored vehicles.” Natasha also repeated my orders loudly.

“Shoot!” As I shouted, my hand slammed down, and two anti-aircraft machine guns immediately fired violently, and a series of revenge bullets were shot at the enemy.

Looking through the binoculars, an armored vehicle was hit by a dense bullet, and immediately billowed thick smoke, like a burning torch. The bullet clinked the armor of the tank, but only a series of sparks splashed out. It seems that at such a distance, the machine gun bullet will not do much damage to it.

“Janna, UU reading www.uukanshu.com” Seeing that the attack on the tank was ineffective, I immediately told Jeanna loudly: “Don’t fight tanks anymore, instead fight the armored vehicles and infantry next to me.”

The German tanks under attack stopped the bombardment of the militia positions and turned around and fired at us on the hill. However, because of the angle of fire, the shells fired by the tanks fell on the mountainside without exception; the infantry guarding the tanks also hurriedly turned their muzzles towards our position and organized firepower strikes, because their weapons did not have a sufficient range, so they did not fight We cause no harm. In my eyes, this is a one-sided massacre.

The armored vehicles under the mountain were exploded one after another. The sound of the explosion of ammunition was endless. The nearby infantry were knocked down by shrapnel from four shots. The remaining screams dragged their guns and ran around.

Many people on the militia position jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the German tanks. At this time, the German army was overwhelmed and unable to organize an effective defense, and the militia soon rushed to the vicinity of the tank. A dazzling fire burst out of the body of a tank, which surrounded the entire huge body, and then ignited a raging fire. The hatch opened with a creak, and the first thing that protruded was a thick flame of smoke, and then a few soldiers jumped out. They yelled, waved their arms, and rolled on the ground, trying to put out the flames on the tank suit.

Our anti-aircraft machine gun continued to roar, pouring ammunition into the German army’s queue, and reaping the lives of the German devils mercilessly. Where the bullets have been plowed, there is no longer a standing person.

The remaining two German tanks were also blown up by the militia, and the militia division began a full-scale counterattack. Under our two-sided attack, this German devils could not escape the annihilation of the entire army.