USSR 1941

At exactly eleven o'clock, the frontal offensive of the First Tank Battalion began.

However, this attack was different from the previous one. Its purpose was not to take Rzhev, but only to attract the attention of the German army or to cover the voice of the first infantry.

Then, amidst gunfire and explosions, the 1st Battalion began climbing the cliff.

Again Sergeant Yevdokim took the lead, as he could find his way through the darkness and snow cover.

Ivanovic, who followed closely behind, dug a hole in the snow with a sapper shovel... This made it easier for those who followed him to follow.

The weather is very cold, around eleven at night is the lowest temperature of the day, and it may drop to minus 50 degrees, especially when there is a mountain wind blowing on the cliff, Shulka feels that his eyelids that are only exposed outside To be frozen.

But what worries Shulka even more is not this, but wearing a thick cotton coat and fully armed with rifles, grenades, etc. In this case, walking along the cracks of the cliff is almost the same as walking a tightrope.

Ivanovic's idea was indeed good. With a few more nails, the boots were much more stable for walking on the snow. As for the pain...the feet were so cold that they didn't feel much, so they didn't feel it at all.

Things went better than expected, except that two soldiers fell down the mountain during the process.

Fortunately, they didn't seem to be in any serious trouble, mainly because there was snow everywhere to act as a buffer, and maybe they hadn't climbed too high, so Shulka saw them falling down the mountain and stood still in the snow. Get up and join the climbing team again.

If anything, there was a burst of shouting in German just before reaching the top of the cliff.

Germans on the cliff top? !

Frightened by this discovery, Yevdokim immediately stopped the team and knelt down and remained motionless.

Ivanovic let people pass the information to Shulka one by one: "The enemy has been found!"

This information also surprised Shulka. In this case, as long as the Germans throw a few grenades here, the first battalion may suffer heavy casualties and lead to the failure of the entire combat plan.

But after thinking about it, Shulka responded: "That may be the enemy's artillery observers, go ahead and kill them!"

"Yes!" The soldiers passed on the orders one after another.

It makes sense that Shulka would make such a judgment.

If the Germans had discovered the movement of the 1st Battalion, then they should not have made a sound to be detected by Yevdokim and others.

This was the basis on which Shulka ordered the troops to move on.

Secondly, the Germans will keep making noises, probably using radios to direct artillery fire...the top of the cliff is a good artillery observation point.

If this is the case, then there will not be many German troops on the top of the cliff, and artillery observers can often only need a few people.

It turns out Shulka was right.

This matter was led by the veterans who walked ahead... They sneaked up to the top of the cliff under the guidance of Yevdokim.

It was not easy to find people in the dark and snow, but the German artillery observers kept shouting, and they even shouted loudly in order to let the other party hear their words clearly in the sound of artillery fire.

What they don't know is that veterans and others have sneaked up behind them, and then suddenly pressed their heads into the snow and stabbed their lungs from the back with a knife... The target of the lungs is even bigger. If the general spine needs to be flat, it can be stabbed into the lungs from the side ribs obliquely.

The lungs are the respiratory organs through which the blood is quickly sucked back up and fills the mouth and nose making it silent.

If there was any sound, it was the swallowing sound of being drowned in one's own blood.

At this time, the veterans are already veterans. Unlike in the Brest Fortress before, several people need to help to assassinate several sentries and stab them several times to ensure that the other party does not make a sound.

Then the veteran used a flashlight to send a safety signal to the bottom, and the Soviet soldiers climbed up from the cliff one by one.

The people who climbed up first didn't attack right away, so they spread out and found a place to get down... They were all white and it was difficult to blend in with the surrounding snow once they got down, and it was hard to see anything unless they looked carefully.

On the other side, the German artillery was confused by losing contact with the artillery observers.

As Shulka guessed, the German army was guided by a team of artillery observers every group of five guns, which made it easy for them to implement various forms of fire suppression.

Captain Shalotte, who commanded the howitzer team, yelled into the walkie-talkie for a while but got no answer, so he shouted to the two signalmen beside him: "Soldier, there seems to be something wrong with our artillery observer, maybe Their radio is broken, take your radio and rush to their location immediately!"

"Yes!" Bauer responded, and took his subordinates back to the radio and ran towards the cliff.

Communication soldiers often need to repair lines in the snow, so they are equipped with bamboo slippers that can walk in the snow.

This kind of slippers is made very large, and is put on the boots like a stretched duck's foot and then tied.

Although it is also inconvenient to move like this, but because the force-bearing area is increased, it will not be unable to run at all with one deep foot and one shallow foot as usual, and you will trip if you are not careful.

Signal soldiers, on the other hand, are usually physically demanding.

This is a principle that is followed by all units... The most common thing signal soldiers do is to pull telephone lines on the battlefield or connect telephone lines that have been cut or blown by the enemy.

Therefore, the signal soldier does not require good marksmanship or cleverness, but needs to be able to run, and run far and fast, otherwise the fighter will be missed.

Sometimes it is even required that the communications soldier can climb up the utility pole with only his feet and one hand and complete the wiring with one hand.

This is why needless to say, even if the communication soldiers are injured or even have a hand blown off, they can still complete their wiring tasks.

Bauer and his men were experts at this, so they ran like rabbits to their destination with a radio on their backs and snow slippers.

They arrived at their destination ten minutes later, but before they found the artillery observers, they found several figures on the cliff.

"What is that?" the subordinate asked in panic.

Ball was stunned for a moment, and then ordered: "Pick up your weapon, Fred, the enemy is climbing up from the cliff! I will cover you, you should go back and report..."

But before the words fell, Ball realized that he was too careless.

White "snowmen" stood up all around, and they actually walked into the enemy group without noticing.