Burning Moscow

Kolpakic threw the microphone in his hand on the table, dashed to the window, raised his binoculars and looked out.

I also went to the window and looked into the distance, and saw that the first line of defense of our army was under heavy shelling by the Germans. Looking at the battlefield filled with gunpowder, I raised my hand and looked at my watch. The hour hand was already pointing to five o'clock. I said that the German commander was really unscrupulous. He would not attack early and would not attack late. I chose to eat at the time when the commanders and fighters were eating. Offense.

I just thought to myself that the most active staff officer had already spoken out what he had in mind: "Comrade Commander, this German is too much. He actually chose to attack when our officers and soldiers had dinner. He With such a shelling, the casualties of the commanders and fighters who gathered together for dinner on the ground must be insignificant."

Kolpakchi held the binoculars in both hands, looked at the front of the fire in the distance, and said solemnly: "This German commander is not easy! After his tentative offensive failed in the morning, no matter how fierce the rest of the field is. He stayed still, making us mistakenly believe that this was not their main attack direction. When the evening came, our commanders and soldiers who were nervous for a day thought that the enemy would not attack anymore, so they relaxed their vigilance, and the other party caught our army’s lax defense. At the right time, we launched a sudden attack in an attempt to take our army's position in one fell swoop."

After that, Kolpakic walked to the table and spoke with Tarantsev, the commander of the 192nd Division, on the phone: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the Germans are bombarding your position. The next step may be the tank covering the infantry charge. I am. I ask you, can your troops hold their positions?"

Tarantsev replied loudly: "Please rest assured, Comrade Commander, that I deployed on the first and second lines of defense are all combat-powered sailors. They will definitely be able to stop the Germans from attacking."

"Commander, come and see, the German ground troops have appeared!" When Kolpakic was on the phone, the combat staff suddenly cried out in a fuss, "There are tanks and infantry."

I raised the binoculars and looked at the dusty place in the distance. The German tanks are no longer only sparsely scattered like in the morning, but at least hundreds of them, divided into five-way columns, are aggressively rushing toward our army's position. Farther away, there was a dense infantry formation, following the tank unit and pushing towards us.

Kolpakic did not take care of the fussed combat staff, but continued to tell Tarantsev on the phone: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, tell the sailors, you must be calm when the enemy approaches. Don't be busy hitting tanks. Let's They drove into the minefield. Let the anti-tank mines clean them up. If a tank that slipped through the net rushed over, order the anti-tank guns of the second line of defense to fire and aim directly. And don’t be polite to the enemy’s infantry. The machine guns fired together, hitting them fiercely, and let them taste our power. Do you understand?"

I can’t help but feel funny to hear that Kolpakchi teaches Tarantsev like a teacher teaches elementary school students. Since someone else can be a lieutenant colonel, he must have a wealth of combat experience. I know how to fight naturally, and I need you like this. Teach meticulously?

When the German tank unit approached our first line of defense, the shelling stopped. Because the troops had already received Tarantsev's order not to fire. Let the anti-tank mines and the anti-tank guns of the second line of defense come to clean up the German tanks, so the position covered by gunpowder seemed very quiet.

The German tanks entered the minefield one after another, and then at the front of our army, suddenly piles of smoke rose up into the sky in different attitudes. This is the smoke of gunpowder from the explosion of an anti-tank mine after a German tank was crushed. The artillery of the anti-tank artillery regiment immediately following the second line of defense also fired one after another, and the artillery shells fell in the tank formation and exploded, instead of putting one or several tanks on fire.

Although there were minefields and anti-tank artillery groups, many tanks leaped over the trenches of the first line of defense and quickly rushed toward the second line of defense.

At this time, dozens of sailors jumped out of the first line of defense, holding Molotov cocktails in their hands, and chasing them behind the tank's butt. After running for a while, they threw the Molotov cocktails in their hands one after another. Due to the speed of the tank, only a few of these Molotov cocktails hit the tank, and most of them fell to the open ground. After throwing the Molotov cocktail in their hands, the sailors turned around and ran into the trenches.

Although the German tanks did not have infantry cover, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. Saw someone bombing tanks with Molotov cocktails. These tanks that had not yet crossed the first line of defense, used tank guns and machine guns to shoot frantically at these sailors leaving the trenches. As soon as many sailors turned around, they were hit by machine gun bullets, or were knocked down by explosive shrapnel, and fell on the hot soil of the motherland. In the end, less than one squad of fighters from the platoon returned safely to the trenches.

As the German infantry approached the front, the silent firepower on the position opened fire violently at this moment. The dense bullets immediately knocked down groups of German soldiers to the ground.

If the fight continues in this way, our army will hold the first line of defense and there will be no problem at all. But at this moment, the German plane arrived. Perhaps the German tanks retreated to the back of the first line of defense in order to prevent accidental bombing, just bombarding our positions with artillery fire.

As long as the planes hovering in the sky find that their infantry is suppressed by our army's machine gun fire or artillery, they will dive down from a high altitude and bomb the firepower points and artillery positions on our army positions in turn.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the German army, after paying the price of 20 tanks and more than 400 soldiers killed, attacked our army's first line of defense.

Seeing this scene, Kolpakqi was so angry that he slammed his fist on the window sill, and cursed the new commander of the 192nd Division loudly: "Damn, this **** Tarantsev, he has repeatedly assured me, The most elite and most combative sailors were deployed in the front, and there was no problem holding the position. But now? The Germans only took more than an hour to conquer our army's strong fortifications."

At this moment, the staff officer yelled again: "Comrade Commander, you see, on the right front, our commanders have withdrawn from the position."

I raised the telescope and looked in the direction of the staff's finger. At the northwest corner of the first line of defense, a group of soldiers roared out of the trenches and ran towards the second line of defense.

As soon as they ran fifty or sixty meters, the machine guns of the German infantrymen who occupied the position fired frantically, and the mortar shells roared and landed in their queue. The dense bullets and shrapnel flying horizontally caused the sailors who were retreating to fall down a lot. The remaining people also stopped and, under the command of a commander, quickly lay down on the spot, or hid behind the destroyed tank, and began to organize resistance.

More than two dozen German soldiers ran out of the trenches and rushed towards the sailors under the cover of machine guns and mortars. The combat effectiveness of these sailors did not seem to be weak, and their marksmanship was good. After a burst of crackling shots, all the soldiers who left the trench fell under their guns.

At this time ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ a German tank drove to the side of the trench and fired a shot at the most violent fire position. I clearly saw that several soldiers were lifted into the air by the blast, and then fell heavily.

The commander saw that the enemy's tanks were powerful and did not dare to fall in love with the battle, and he greeted his soldiers to continue to withdraw to the second line of defense. But this is more and more tanks firing at them, one after another, tank shells exploded among them, shrapnel like a flying death sickle, knocking them down mercilessly.

Seeing that it was impossible to safely retreat to the second line of defense, the commander ordered the soldiers to lie on the ground and shoot tenaciously at the enemy in the trenches. But because of the firepower disparity between the enemy and ourselves, the sailors continued to die, and in the end only the commander was left. He collected the grenades from several sacrificed soldiers, tied them together with bandages, then stood up abruptly, holding the bundles of grenades, and rushed towards the enemy's position.

It's a pity that he was hit by the enemy's dense bullets before he rushed out a few steps. He was rushing forward and he shook a few times before falling to the ground.

Seeing the fall of the first line of defense and the heroic sacrifices of the sailors, Kolpakchi was furious. After connecting to Tarantsev's phone, he commanded in an unquestionable tone: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I order you, organize immediately. The troops counterattacked and took back the first line of defense for me, take it back!"