USSR 1941

As soon as Shulka put down the phone, the German army launched an attack on the hospital.

The Germans were throwing infantry regiments...the attack on hospitals and schools should have been better with armored regiments, because places like schools and hospitals always have more open space for tanks to maneuver.

The problem is that the German army is fighting on several fronts at this time, especially in the north to block the Stalingrad Front Army, and almost all of its armored main force, the Fourth Panzer Army, is used there.

In the direction of Stalingrad, all the Germans could do was throw in infantry regiments.

However, this does not mean that the German army has no tanks. The German infantry also has tanks, but the number is relatively small.

Not many Germans came up, only one company, covered by two tanks to attack the No. 5 building in the northwest corner... In order to facilitate the identification and operations within the army, Shulka numbered the buildings before that.

In fact, the buildings of the hospital and the school were originally numbered, but the numbers of the two buildings would be repeated, which was not conducive to command, so they were renumbered according to the location.

Shulka raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of the German attack, only seeing the shadows of tanks and a few infantry.

The German offensive doesn't look like much, but it's actually quite clever.

Building No. 5 is relatively close to the hospital. It can only be covered by Building No. 17 on the other side. Moreover, the German army launched an attack from the flank of Building No. 5, so that there is no need to face the building and rely on the aisle And the firepower built by the doors and windows.

All the Germans had to do was to punch a hole in the side wall with a tank, and then the Germans could file in and compete with the Soviets for control of the building.

As long as building No. 5 is captured, the German army can continue to attack by using its condescending height to cover other parts, that is, to break down one by one.

This is also a weakness that relies on building defenses.

Buildings are not like a line of defense, which can use trenches, traffic trenches for reinforcements, or provide fire support from a distance.

But in the defense of the building, on the one hand, the open space between the two is often blocked by the enemy's machine guns and artillery fire and cannot be reinforced; on the other hand, there are many blind spots for each other.

As long as the enemy finds the right angle of attack, the Soviet troops in other buildings can only watch and cannot participate.

This was more or less the case at this point, with most of the attacking Germans either in blind spots or out of range.

However, if the German army thought that the defense of the Soviet army would be so simple, it would be wrong.

"Number 13, secret bit 1672, distance 281, three rapid-fire shots!"

"Number fifteen, secret bit 1928, distance 309, three rapid-fire shots!"

...

Following a series of orders, the mortars on the roof of each building roared, and a shell accurately hit the German offensive position and exploded.

The advantage of building defense warfare is that the distance between buildings is certain, and they have no feet and cannot move, so artillery observers can conduct field surveys and map them early in the morning and record the data on drawings.

Once the German army launches an attack somewhere, artillery observers can easily mark the enemy's position on the blueprint and calculate the mortar positions that can hit the enemy and even provide them with accurate parameters.

In this regard, Shulka did not dare to hope that every soldier of the 82nd Infantry Regiment could learn to count elements.

In fact, this is not too necessary. At the same time, the Soviet infantry generally has a low level of education and cannot learn it in a short time.

So Shulka selected more than 30 people from the army to be trained as artillery observers... It is not difficult to select more than 30 people from more than 1,000 soldiers. They either have a certain level of education or are originally Artillery background.

What they have to do is to practice ballistic calculations and measurements all day long, and then combine them with mortar crews for training.

With these people, the next thing is simple.

The first thing to do after taking over the hospital was to run some telephone lines in the various buildings... This was supposed to be done by radio, but of course the 82nd Infantry Regiment didn't have any radios, so they had to use telephone lines instead.

The reason for pulling several telephone lines is because I am worried that the telephone lines will be blown up and lose contact.

Of course, in addition to this, the communications soldier must be prepared to connect at any time.

As a result, the entire building complex was integrated into a whole through these telephone lines to support each other... After the observer calculated the data, he told the artillerymen that the artillerymen only needed to fire the shells according to the order.

The Germans did not give up because of this. They continued to charge despite artillery fire, and even blasted a big hole in the side wall with tank guns.

It looked as though victory was at hand, as they only had to crawl into a hole in the wall to avoid the mortar shells whizzing overhead.

However, they are too naive to have such an idea.

Going forward, suddenly a row of grenades fell from the sky, followed by another row... The grenades "boomed" like firecrackers near the hole in the wall.

But the German tanks could do nothing about it... Tank guns have a certain elevation angle, if the distance is too close and the target is at a high level, it will exceed the elevation angle and cannot shoot.

This was not the worst, and immediately after that, a cloud of bullets poured down condescendingly, causing the German soldiers to scream.

It turned out that the Soviet army had already drilled perforations on the side of the wall, and they blocked the perforations in order to confuse the enemy... If the perforations were too obvious, the German army would knock them out one by one with tanks or assault guns in advance.

Then, when the Germans approached, the perforations were suddenly opened to shoot at the enemy.

Under such circumstances, the German army was almost powerless to fight back, and could only leave a body of corpses and flee amidst the sound of gunfire and explosions.

In the end, there was even a tank that was hit by a rocket while turning around and caught fire.

The next time you attack the German army, you will learn how to behave.

They first bombarded the side of the wall with tanks and artillery fire, and the side wall became ruins and even some parts collapsed. In this way, there was nothing that could become a Soviet bunker.

At the same time, the German army also organized more violent mortars to suppress the roofs of the buildings. In this case, they launched a fierce attack under the cover of tanks again.

This time, they successfully broke into the first floor of the building.

The German soldiers were about to breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly found that they had fallen into another trap.

To be precise, it is not a trap, but a minefield.

The entire first floor is already full of landmines, on the ground, on the table, by the windows...

"They actually planted mines in the house!" Major General Andreas, the commander of the 29th Motorized Infantry Division, shouted angrily, "How could they plant landmines in the house? Who would plant mines in the house?"

If Shulka heard this sentence, he would ask back: "Why can't you plant a mine in the house? As long as it works!"