USSR 1941

Pursuing the Soviet deserters was the 2nd Battalion of the 179th Regiment of the German 60th Motorized Rifle Division.

In fact, it does not have a battalion, because the task of the 2nd Battalion is to occupy coastal buildings to cover the main force's attack.

This task may seem simple but in fact it is difficult and dangerous.

First of all, it is because the target of its attack is the building. As we all know, it is the most difficult to capture the building, and it will always have various unpredictable emergencies.

The second is to defend these buildings.

In this regard, the battalion commander, Major Paul, relied mainly on artillery and air forces. Otherwise, a battalion of soldiers would not be able to defend dozens of buildings along the coast, some of which were large buildings.

Therefore, when the granary was hit, the 2nd Battalion had only two companies... The strength of one company had been dispersed into the previous building and competed with the Soviet army.

The geographical location of the granary is very special, because it occupies the bend of the Tsaritsa River, like a nail nailed to the German offensive line, which must be removed first and then quickly.

However, Major Paul was relieved after discovering that several side tricycle gunners had been shot dead by the enemy.

The Soviets were not prepared to garrison the granary, as can be seen from the resistance just encountered.

The lack of gunfire indicates that the enemy's strength is small. After a few shots, five machine gunners were killed. Only snipers can do such accurate shooting.

So Paul made a judgment immediately, the enemy stationed in the granary was only a small number of snipers.

Then, Major Paul ordered: "Suppress firepower, occupy quickly!"

The adjutant understood and immediately conveyed the order step by step.

Fire suppression is composed of machine guns and mortars, most of which are machine guns. Because mortars are curved guns, it is difficult to shoot shells into buildings. At the same time, mortar shells hit the roof of the granary like tickling. It didn't work, so the adjutant stopped the mortar after a few rounds.

For the rapid occupation, the seventh company is responsible for the main attack, and the eighth company is the reserve team.

The Seventh Company immediately divided the troops into three parts: the first row attacked from the front, and the second and third rows were divided into two wings to outflank.

This was standard procedure when the Germans attacked a building.

The reason is that there are too few entrances to the building, and concentrating all the troops on one side is obviously not conducive to attacking.

The German army will try to attack from other directions at the same time or even increase the entrance by blasting to launch a surprise attack.

But this time, they found it very difficult to blast a gap in the wall, because the wall on the first floor of the granary is reinforced concrete with a thickness of more than half a meter, which is almost as thick as a bunker, and the explosive package can only be placed on it Make a small hole.

Therefore, they can only look for barn doors and windows.

The problem is that the granary has only ventilation holes and no windows... Windows are only needed in places where people live, and the granary only needs ventilation.

That leaves only four entrances, all warehouse doors for two cars abreast.

According to common sense, this width is enough for the German attack, but the German army soon discovered that this is not the case.

"Bang bang"...

With a gunshot, several German soldiers fell at the door of the warehouse, and they didn't even know where the enemy was.

But this did not stop the Germans from charging. Those with rich combat experience knew one thing: When dealing with enemy snipers, you must never wait and shoot at the enemy from a distance, that is just courting death.

The correct way is to use the advantage of a large number of people to fight the opponent at close range. At that time, one's own firepower will soon suppress the opponent and win the final victory.

Therefore, the company commander, Second Lieutenant Bauch, ordered loudly: "Move quickly, rush in!"

Regardless of whether the submachine gunners found the enemy or not, they fired with their MP40s in one shot, and the riflemen took advantage of this opportunity to file in.

However, it was not until the German soldiers broke into the warehouse that something was wrong.

Because there is almost nothing to hide near the gate, except for a few load-bearing beams.

On the other hand, in the depths of the warehouse, there are piles of sandbags, abandoned tanks, cars and other sundries...

"Take cover!" Second Lieutenant Bauch yelled, and then dodged and hid behind the load-bearing beam.

But before he could give another order, there was a "bang", and a bullet whizzed through his head.

Lieutenant Bauch fell to the ground without even making a sound.

The adjutant immediately took over the command of Lieutenant Bauch.

Then the adjutant suddenly found himself in a dilemma: he had already realized that this was probably a trap set by the enemy.

Under normal circumstances, if you fall into the enemy's trap, you should withdraw immediately.

The problem is that the German army is attacking in several directions.

A coordinated attack can indeed give the enemy a great impact, but if one of the troops retreats early and the other troops continue to attack, the consequence is to put the friendly army in danger and lose all previous efforts.

Therefore, the adjutant's decision is to persevere, maybe the friendly army's attack from other directions can suppress the enemy.

Watching the soldiers around him fall down one after another, the adjutant realized that if this continued, his unit would soon collapse.

"Ask for reinforcements!" the adjutant shouted to the signal soldier: "Let them send the reserve team up!"

"Yes, Lieutenant!"

Major Paul felt a little puzzled after receiving the information. Hearing the gunshots, the battle in the warehouse was not intense, but he received requests for help from two detachments.

However, the major did not hesitate, because he knew that to deal with snipers, he had to seize the opportunity to suppress them with force, otherwise the next wave of attacks would cause such casualties all over again.

So the reinforcements of the two platoons were quickly sent up.

But at this moment, a round of mortar shells roared in. These shells exploded accurately at the warehouse door, and the reinforcements lay on the ground afraid to move.

After a while, the sound of the artillery stopped, but when the reinforcements came together, another artillery shell roared.

Major Paul soon understood that the enemy was blocking the entrance to the warehouse with mortar fire.

Major Paul guessed right, this was Shulka's defensive strategy against Warehouse No. 5.

There is only one platoon of snipers in the warehouse. Even if they are prepared and unprepared and occupy a geographical advantage, a platoon is still stretched to deal with the continuous influx of enemies into the building.

The solution to this problem is to artificially control the number of enemies entering the building.

The mortars deployed on the second line are temporarily used for blockade.

In this way, the German attack will be separated, that is, batches of buildings will enter the building in turn and then be digested batch by batch.

Of course, the role of mortars is not limited to this.

When Major Paul was going to contact artillery and air power to suppress the Russian mortars, he found that the surrounding buildings and ruins were full of mobile mortarers, and they fired a few shells towards the German army from time to time.

Because the targets are too scattered, the air force and artillery even have a feeling that they have nowhere to fight.