Chapter 1043 Night Attack

  The German attack to the north of the city was repelled again.

  After hearing the news, Sokov felt relieved, and at the same time began to think about how to quickly defeat this group of enemies, lest they always stick to the north of the city like a dog's skin plaster.

"Comrade Commander," Vitkov suggested to Sokov, "I think that Colonel Bely's tank brigade should attack from the enemy's flank and beat them hard, so that the enemy can be driven from the north of the city. drive away."

"Comrade Chief of Staff, why don't I want to drive away these enemies quickly." Sokov replied with a wry smile: "But if we really send tank brigades to attack from the flanks, I'm afraid we will expose our strength. When we face Yes, it will no longer be an attack by one division of the enemy, but maybe a siege by two or even three divisions."

   "Even if they have two or three divisions, what's the big deal." Witkov said carelessly: "You know, I have four infantry divisions now."

Seeing Vitkov's optimism, Sokov couldn't help sighing softly and said: "Comrade Chief of Staff, if the tank brigade and artillery division assigned to us by the superior arrive, maybe we can use your method to attack the German army from the flank. Attack, beat them hard, and drive them north of the city.

  But have you ever thought about it, even if our troops want to wait. But the German army is all experienced veterans with rich combat experience, while most of our soldiers are untrained recruits. Do you think we can stop them once they fight? "

"However, we cannot let the enemy stay in the north of the city like this." Vitkov reminded Sokov: "If an attack is launched from the west or south at this moment, I am afraid that the Sivakov Division will become isolated and helpless. You can’t escape the end of annihilation of the entire army.”

"Don't worry, Comrade Chief of Staff." Sokov comforted Vitkov and said: "Because we don't have air superiority, we will be very passive in both offense and defense. After fighting during the day, these enemies who came from afar must be very tired , we can wait until the dead of night before attacking them, so that we can win at a very small cost."

"Sneak attack at night?" Witkov seemed not optimistic about Sokov's plan at all: "Comrade Commander, even if the German army becomes exhausted after fierce fighting during the day, if we want to launch a sneak attack on them, I think it will be successful." The chances are not too high. It is possible that our sneak attack will turn into a strong attack. As you said, most of our troops are recruits who have just been recruited into the army. Regardless of their technical and tactical level, Or combat experience, they are all very scarce. If they are rashly sent to participate in night raids, they may suffer a big loss."

"Don't worry, I won't let those recruits take risks." Sokov turned to Sidolin and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Sidolin, you should immediately draw suitable candidates from the 41st Guards Division to carry new rockets. Quietly approach the area where the enemy camps and attack them with rockets."

   "Comrade Commander," Sidolin asked respectfully, "I want to ask, how many rockets do you think is more appropriate to carry?"

Sidolin asked this question very skillfully. He didn't ask how many people Sokov planned to send to carry out this night attack mission, but cleverly asked how many new rockets he needed to carry, so that he could calculate Sokov How many people do you plan to send.

"After the Battle of Stalingrad ended, the superiors brought us a lot of new rockets." Sukov naturally understood the purpose of Sidolin's question, and replied, "I think I only brought sixty rockets." , these rockets are enough for a German to drink a jug."

"Don't worry, Comrade Commander." After confirming the number of rockets, Sidolin silently calculated the number of people who should be dispatched, and assured Sokov: "Even if our attack can't hit the German army hard, it can still make the Germans attack the enemy." Their officers and soldiers will not be able to raise their spirits when they attack tomorrow."

   "That's right, tonight's night attack is just a kind of harassment to the German army. Its purpose is to disrupt their original attack plan, so that our army can seize the time to consolidate and improve the fortifications."

  After dark, a team of one hundred people, carrying a large number of new rockets, headed for the German camp in the distance. They have already figured out the specific location of the German camp through scouts. When the Germans are asleep, they can use rockets to cover them with intensive firepower and destroy as many enemies as possible.

  For safety reasons, the German army arranged the camp at a distance of 20 kilometers from the front of the Soviet army. According to their thinking, the two armies are so far apart, the Soviet army will definitely feel that the long-distance raid is not worthwhile, and choose to give up, so that they can sleep soundly in the camp.

  The commander of the German army is a cautious person. Not only has he set up tight guard posts in important areas, but he also has more than a dozen patrol teams, leading military dogs to patrol around the campsite. Not to mention the scouts of the Soviet army, even if a rabbit ran in, it would be discovered within a short time.

  But what the German commander didn't expect was that in the middle of the night, suddenly dozens of objects with long flame tails flew over from a distance and landed in the camp full of tents. The sky above the camp lit up like daytime, and the huge flames and explosions turned the entire camp into a sea of ​​flames.

  After the German division commander was awakened by the explosion, he looked at the officer rushing in in panic and asked, "What's going on? What's going on? Did the Russian guerrillas blow up our munitions?"

"Your Excellency, Commander." The officer who rushed in reported in a panic: "It was rockets, Russian rockets attacked our camp. We don't know if they will continue to attack. For your safety, please Follow us immediately." After speaking, the officer called in two soldiers, picked up the division commander who was still in his pajamas, and dragged him out of the tent. They wanted to leave this place of death before the second attack of the Soviet army.

"Damn Russian." The German division commander was called by two soldiers, and when he staggered and ran out, he kept cursing: "Don't dare to compete with me face to face, only dare to engage in these little tricks of sneak attack. When I catch you, I'll hang you all."

  A loyal German driver drove over in a barrel truck. He opened the door and shouted at the distraught division commander: "Mr. Commander, hurry up and get in the car. I will take you out of here."

  The two soldiers who supported the division commander quickly came to the front of the car, hurriedly stuffed the division commander in, and then closed the door. The two hung on the doors on both sides of the car, and then slapped the top of the bucket cart vigorously, shouting: "Hurry up, drive quickly, or you won't be able to leave when the Russian shells hit you."

  (end of this chapter)