Red Moscow

There is a busy scene outside the division headquarters in Keda. Communications soldiers are setting up antennas and pulling telephone wires. Troops in companies and platoons pass by from time to time. Two soldiers with assault rifles are watching vigilantly at the door. with the surrounding environment.

Seeing Sokov's arrival, the two sentries quickly stood at attention and saluted. After Sokov nodded at them, he asked, "Is your teacher inside?"

"Yes, Comrade Commander." A sentry replied respectfully, "The division commander is setting up tasks inside."

Walking into the headquarters, Sokov saw Koyda and his chief of staff standing at the table, assigning tasks to several regimental commanders with their backs to the door. Seeing Sokov enter the door, Koyda quickly interrupted the chief of staff, trotted to Sokov, straightened his body and reported: "Comrade Commander, our division is assigning combat missions, please give instructions!"

In the eyes of everyone, Sokov came to the table, looked down at the map spread on the table, and then asked Koida: "Comrade Colonel, how do you plan to deploy your defense?"

"Comrade Commander, the frontal width of the defensive position we have taken over is seven kilometers." Koyda reported to Sokov: "I plan to put the 562nd and 564th regiments on the front line, and the 568th regiment and the artillery regiment will be deployed. On the second line."

"No, we can't deploy our troops like this." Unexpectedly, Sukov shook his head after hearing this and said, "Although our defensive front is seven kilometers wide, it is impossible for the enemy to launch an attack on such a wide front at the same time. You only need to Put a regiment on the main traffic road as long as it is necessary to block the enemy's way."

Regarding Sokov's deployment, Koyda said with some hesitation: "Is the strength of a regiment too weak?"

"Don't worry, Comrade Colonel." Sokov said to Koida: "According to the information we have, the German army attacking your division's defense area is at best a tank battalion and a multi-infantry battalion. We will use a regiment of troops to deal with it." They are more than enough."

"Since this is the case, then I will put the 562 regiment in the first-line position, and immediately withdraw the 564 regiment to the second-line position."

"Wait a minute, Comrade Colonel." Sokov pointed to the right flank of the defensive position and said to Koida: "Your right flank is the 305th Infantry Division. There are less than 2,000 people. I am worried that their positions will be breached by the enemy, so I order you to place the 564th regiment that has withdrawn from the frontline positions behind them. Once the enemy has achieved a breakthrough in the friendly defense zone, our troops can also Stop them in time."

Sokov's arrangement made Koida a little dissatisfied. He muttered to himself: I had placed two regiments in the front, and I was worried that I would not be able to stop the enemy's attack. Unexpectedly, Sokov not only asked him to withdraw from the front line Send out a regiment, and transfer this regiment to strengthen the defense zone of friendly forces.

Although he had thoughts in his heart, he could only carry out the orders given by Sokov unconditionally. Koyda called the head of the 564th Regiment and told him: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, have you heard everything? Comrade Commander ordered your regiment to enter the friendly defense zone on the right wing and make all combat preparations. , you must stop them at all costs."

At ten o'clock in the morning, the German shelling began.

Sokov stood at the lookout of the observation post, raised his binoculars and looked into the distance, and found that the position that was bombarded by the enemy was the defensive zone of the 562 regiment. He put down the binoculars, turned his head and said to Koida beside him: "Comrade Colonel, have you seen it? Those positions that are being shelled are the positions that the Germans are going to break through next."

At the beginning of the shelling, Koyda carefully inspected all the positions on the front of the defense through binoculars, and found that the areas under shelling were indeed positions near the road, as Sokov said. And those areas without roads were not attacked by artillery fire. It seems that the enemy disdains to waste shells on these unimportant targets.

After the shelling ended, before the smoke cleared, the German ground troops launched an offensive. The fifteen tanks in front lined up in a wedge formation and rushed towards the first battalion of the 562 regiment. The German infantry trotted behind the tanks.

The commander of the first battalion was Captain Guchakov, and his two company commanders, Captain Narva and Captain Yegor, were both old subordinates of Sokov and had rich experience in defensive warfare. Seeing the German tanks and infantry rushing past, Guchakov was not at all flustered. He gave Narva and Yegor an order over the phone: "Don't worry about the enemy's tanks, use machine gun fire to destroy the infantry behind the tanks." , isolate them from the tanks. Just kill the enemy infantry, and when the tanks approach our position, use the bazooka to kill them."

When the enemy's tanks and infantry were more than two hundred meters away from the position, the machine guns on the position opened fire. The dense bullets avoided the tanks that opened the way in front, and all shot at the infantry following behind, knocking down a large area in an instant.

The officers and soldiers of the 6th Armored Division of the German Army never dreamed that the Soviet troops they encountered today were different from the ones they encountered in the past. infantry. The Germans were stunned at once, and as a large number of soldiers fell, the remaining soldiers hurriedly searched for a safe position on the spot, hid and shot towards the distant Soviet positions.

The German tanks, which had lost the cover of the infantry, were still moving forward aggressively. The tank soldiers still thought about rushing to the Soviet positions as before, and flattened the opponent's positions with their tracks. But when these tanks approached the Soviet trenches, one after another Russian soldiers suddenly emerged from the bomb craters in front of the positions. They did not rush forward with anti-tank grenades or bunches of cluster grenades as the tank soldiers were familiar with. Come up, instead, shoulder a chimney and aim at yourself in a half-squat position. Soon, the tank soldier saw an object with long white smoke flying out of the chimney, flying towards his tank.

At such a short distance, the enemy tanks are driving so slowly. Those anti-tank fighters carrying rocket launchers have no reason to miss them. Just like that, in less than two minutes, fifteen German tanks that were showing off their might not long ago were killed by Soviet rocket launchers, and they stopped where they were and burned blazingly.

Some tank soldiers who escaped from the tank by chance stumbled and fled backward. The infantrymen who were covering the anti-tank fighters called them one by one with assault rifles and fell to the ground one after another, unable to get up again.

Seeing that the enemy's tanks were destroyed and the infantry began to retreat, Guchakov quickly notified Narva and Yegor by phone: "Comrades company commanders, the enemy has begun to retreat. I order you to attack immediately and fight hard. beat them up."

After a while, the soldiers in the trench shouted "Hurrah", scrambled out of the trench, and rushed towards the defeated German army with their weapons.

"Good job, brothers are really good job." Kuida, who was staying in the observation post, saw his troops resolutely launched a counterattack when the German army was defeated. He couldn't help but brows happily and said repeatedly: "I Give them credit!"