Chapter 1006

  The German commander commanding the battle in the back, never dreamed that the Soviet position in front was about to be taken down, but there were dense gunshots and grenade explosions around him.

   "What's going on here?" The German commander who was squatting in the trading trench stood up to see what happened. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stood up straight, he saw a thing with a long flame tail flying towards him. After a loud bang, the German commander and his temporary command post were flooded by flames and thick smoke.

  The Soviet army attacking from the rear of the German army was the reinforcements led by Captain Vasily. Originally, according to the usual practice, the reinforcement troops should directly enter the defensive position to strengthen the defense, and then wait for an opportunity to repel the enemy's attack. But Vasily, as Sokov's old subordinate, is naturally not as rigid as other commanders in the use of tactics.

  He felt that even if the troops were placed in the frontal defensive position, they would only be in a stalemate with the enemy. It would be better to use the high mobility of the troops to detour to the enemy's back and catch the enemy by surprise.

  The next battle proved that Vasily's decision was completely correct. The enemy focused all their attention on the positions that were about to be conquered, and did not find the Soviet troops turning around from the flanks at all. After successfully destroying the temporary command post of the German army, the troops divided into two groups and launched attacks on the high ground on the left and right flanks.

  Deployed on the high ground, the German army found the Soviet army rushing up from behind, and quickly turned their guns to stop them. But on the high ground without any fortifications, they couldn't withstand the troops flooding up like a tide. The mortars and machine guns had just turned around, and before they had time to fire, they were blown up into the sky by the new rockets carried by the Soviet army.

  The battle lasted only ten minutes, and the German army was completely wiped out. Except for those who were killed, the remaining 70 or 80 officers and soldiers obediently put down their weapons and surrendered.

   As soon as the battle ended, Vasily took Paul Koski and Guchakov to the company command post of the guard company in a hurry.

With the help of the dim light in the room, Vasily saw that Sokov was sitting by the wall talking to Sergesha, and hurriedly stepped forward and raised his hand to salute: "Comrade commander, Captain Vasily, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 122nd Guards Regiment, reports to you. : Our battalion is ordered to come to the rescue, please give instructions!"

"Captain Vasily, you came in time." Seeing that it was his old subordinate who came, Sokov smiled on his face. He got up and shook hands with Vasily and others, and said at the same time: "If you come five minutes later , I'm afraid our entire army has been wiped out."

   "Comrade Commander," Vasili thought that when he entered the position, he found that he didn't see many people in the trench, so he asked tentatively, "I want to ask, how many people are left in the guard company?"

"There are still 21 people on the battlefield." Seryozha said angrily: "Including the third platoon and one unit left in the city, we have 55 people left in our company. In this battle, We lost 160 people."

   "The number of victims includes the soldiers of Samoilov's guard platoon." Sukov added casually, and continued to ask: "Captain Vasily, where is the main force of the 122nd Regiment now?"

  Vassily looked at his watch and replied: "Comrade commander, according to the marching speed of the follow-up troops, they should arrive in Lugansk in half an hour."

"Comrade Captain," Sokov asked Vasily with a smile on his face, "I want to ask, why didn't your troops appear directly on our position after they arrived, but instead went back behind the enemy?" Woolen cloth?"

"That's right, Comrade Commander." Afraid of Sokov's misunderstanding, Vasily quickly explained: "When we were about to arrive here, the vanguard reported to me that the fighting here was fierce. I considered that if you let the troops directly enter The position, the soldiers are not familiar with the terrain, and I am afraid it will cause confusion. At that time, your crisis may not be resolved, but the situation will become more chaotic, so I took the initiative to lead the troops to the enemy's rear."

"Captain Vasily, what you are doing can be right or wrong." After Sokov said this, seeing Vasily's bewildered expression, he explained to him: "On the battlefield How to use tactics depends on the actual situation. For example, in today's battle, you are taking a risk and betting that you can defeat the enemy from the rear before they occupy our position. But you are completely leading the troops to detour behind the enemy's rear. Send out part of our troops to strengthen the defense of our army's position, so that even if the attack from the enemy's rear is frustrated, we can sustain it for a longer period of time."

   "Comrade commander, I was wrong." Vasily immediately realized his negligence after hearing Sokov's words, and quickly confessed to Sokov with a blushing face: "I will not make similar mistakes again in the future."

"Your next task, in addition to consolidating the existing positions, is to search the vicinity to see if there are any remaining enemies." Sokov said: "Although the enemy's sneak attack failed this time, no one can Guaranteed that they will not send troops to risk again."

   "Understood, Comrade Commander." Vasily straightened his body and replied: "I immediately ordered people to mine and pull barbed wire in front of the position, so that the sneak attacking enemy cannot easily approach our position."

  Sokov let out a "hmm" and suddenly remembered the garrison company that had run away, so he specifically asked, "Captain Vasily, did you encounter any troops from our army on the way here?"

"A unit of our army?" Vasily was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, and said in a firm tone: "No, I haven't encountered it." After saying this, he asked a little puzzled, "Comrade commander, if there are Our troops, why don't they come for reinforcements?"

  Sergesha sneered and said: "The Germans have not rushed into the city, they are slippery on the soles of their feet, how could they come to reinforce us."

   "What?" Vasily was stunned by Seryozha's words: "At this time, there are still people who dare to run away."

"I guess this army has never fought against the Germans, so when they heard that the Germans were attacking, they were immediately frightened and panicked." Sokov pursed his lips and said, "I will report this matter to the front army. Report to the headquarters and let the superiors deal with these people who are greedy for life and afraid of death."

   "Comrade Commander," Vasily waited for Sokov to finish speaking, and offered to propose: "It's not very safe here, I think you should go back to the city first. Maybe you can catch up with the commander and the others to enter the city."

  Sokov knew very well that as long as he stayed here, I am afraid that Vasily would not feel at ease, so he decided to return to the city immediately, and after Lieutenant Colonel Papchenko led the troops, he could still arrange defenses. Thinking of this, he stood up and shouted towards the door: "Lieutenant Samoilov!"

  Following his shout, Samoilov, covered in dust and with a bandage on his head, ran in from outside, straightened his body and asked, "Comrade commander, what instructions do you have?"

   "Take the rest of your subordinates and go back to the city with me."

"Comrade Commander," Samoilov said hesitantly after hearing Sokov's order, "I have only three people left under my command, and I'm worried that there are only so few people around you, and the road will be unsafe. "

  (end of this chapter)