Chapter 1249 Ambush

   "Comrade Sergeant," the anti-tank man muttered to Hollor, seeing one after another German troops moving eastward along the highway, "There are so many enemies, how do we fight?"

   "Don't worry." After a brief panic, Hollor has returned to normal: "Be patient, after the large German troops pass, there may be small troops left alone, and we can deal with them at that time."

I thought I would be able to wait for the fighter plane soon, but I didn’t expect to wait until two o’clock in the afternoon. Finally, there were no large German troops on the road, but there were only sporadic small teams and one or two motorcycles delivering letters, which had no attack value at all. . Seeing this situation, the anti-tank man said disappointedly: "Comrade sergeant, I think we came in vain today. You see, the large German army has passed, and the remaining scattered small troops have no attack at all." Value. In my opinion, we'd better retreat to a place close to the defense zone to fortify, and maybe we can get some results."

   After waiting here for most of the day, but still failed to find a suitable fighter, Holol was unavoidably anxious. He raised his hand and looked at his watch, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Let's wait for another half an hour. If we still can't find the ideal target, then retreat."

   Half an hour passed by, seeing that there was not even a single German on the road at this moment, Holol was a little disappointed. Just when he was about to order the transfer, the ammunition man sitting dozing in the ditch opened his eyes suddenly, and said solemnly: "Convoy, a German convoy is here?"

   "Convoy, where is the convoy?" Hearing what the ammunition man said, the anti-tank man said angrily, "Have you not woken up yet, and you take what you saw in your dream as real?"

"That's right, Comrade Sergeant." Seeing that Hollor looked at him suspiciously, the ammunition man quickly argued, "I really heard the sound of German trucks, at least five of them, coming here .”

  The anti-tank man casually glanced at the road outside, pursed his mouth, and said disapprovingly: "Where is there a convoy, I said you heard it wrong."

  But the ammunition man did not defend himself, but listened for a moment with his ears sideways, and suddenly exclaimed: "The enemy convoy has appeared, and it is now no more than 500 meters away from us."

   Everyone was dubious about the ammunition man's statement. Hollor also raised his binoculars to carefully observe the possible direction of the enemy convoy. Looking at it, he really saw a convoy of six covered trucks driving towards his location along the road.

  Although he couldn’t see what was in the car, Hollor felt that it was impossible for the Germans to send an empty car to the place where the battle was fiercest under such circumstances, so the car must contain valuable supplies. Thinking of this, Holol raised his hand and patted the ammoman's shoulder heavily, and then said, "Your ears are really good, you can hear the sound of the truck from so far away."

  Holl rolled up his sleeves and said to the anti-tank fighter: "Give me your bazooka, and I will destroy the front truck."

   "Comrade Sergeant, you can't fight like this." The anti-tank man waved his hands and said, "If you directly attack the leading truck, the trucks following behind will turn around and run away at any time."

  Although Holol has the highest military rank in the squad, he did not act arbitrarily when it comes to how to attack the enemy convoy. Instead, he asked humbly: "Where can I tell you, which target should we attack first?"

"According to my experience, it takes at least a minute or two for a German truck to turn around on the road. In such a long period of time, we have enough time to severely damage this convoy of the German army." The anti-tank fighter said confidently : "First hit the truck in the middle. When the hit truck is burning on the road, the front and rear trucks can't get out in a short time, so that we can destroy the enemy's convoy in an orderly manner."

  When the German convoy passed the location where the squad set up an ambush, the anti-tank fighter aimed at the truck in the middle and decisively pulled the trigger. Unexpectedly, the truck was loaded with ammunition. As soon as the rocket hit the target, the truck exploded violently.

Seeing this, Holol couldn't help but screamed, and quickly shouted at the top of his voice: "Hidden, hide quickly." After shouting, he had already squatted down, his body curled up like a boiled prawn, and he clasped his hands tightly. Cover your ears, open your mouth wide, and prepare for a huge blast attack.

  The black smoke from the explosion wrapped the German convoy tightly. The explosions in the black smoke were one after another, and the sound was one after another. There were explosions and flames everywhere.

  Squad members all curled up in the ditch, following Holol's example, huddling their bodies and covering their ears with their hands, so as not to be injured by the shock wave of the explosion. But even so, they still felt like a small boat sitting on the sea, bouncing up and down. The flying shrapnel and auto parts swished across the ravine and flew into the woods not far away.

   I don’t know how long it took, until the violent explosions gradually subsided, Holol poked his head out cautiously, and saw bomb craters everywhere on the road, and the truck that was bombed to pieces was lying on the road and burning. As for the corpses of the German army, none of them were seen. In such a violent explosion, let alone someone survived, it would be nice to leave a whole body.

   "Prepare to transfer." Holol yelled loudly at the crowd, but he didn't hear the sound. He realized that he was temporarily deaf in his ears due to the shock in the explosion not long ago. He could only walk over next to each other, patted the soldiers on the shoulder, and then pointed in the direction of the woods, indicating that everyone can move.

   Fortunately, the soldiers in the squad understood the mission in advance, and at this moment they saw that the enemy's convoy had been destroyed. Even if Holol didn't say anything, they knew they should move. The soldiers packed up their weapons, followed Holol's guidance, and headed towards the pre-set place.

   A long time after Holol's team withdrew, a German army of more than forty people arrived. Seeing the convoy still burning on the road, the German commander immediately ordered the troops to search nearby. Since Holol they had already retreated, the enemy's search was in vain.

  After moving to a new nearby location, Hollor felt that his hearing had recovered, but when listening to others, he always felt that his ears seemed to be stuffed with a ball of cotton, and he could not hear clearly. In desperation, Holol had no choice but to gesture to the soldiers, signaling them to take cover and prepare to ambush the passing enemies again.

  At three o'clock in the afternoon, a convoy consisting of a tank, two armored vehicles, and two trucks approached Holol's ambush site again.

  Seeing this situation, Holol, whose hearing had almost returned to normal, whispered to the soldiers beside him, "Pass down, hold your breath, and bring the enemy closer before you fight."

  When the enemy tank was only more than 30 meters away, Holol waved his hand suddenly and shouted: "Shoot!" Following the order, the anti-tank fighter decisively pulled the trigger. The rockets equipped by Holol and the others have an armor-piercing effect within 150 meters. Now that they fire at such a short distance, not to mention ordinary German tanks, even the Tiger tanks will inevitably die.

After the tank was destroyed, the German officers and soldiers on the armored vehicle behind immediately shouted: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, get out of the car!" But before the German soldiers on the armored vehicle came out, the second rocket arrived again. , easily tore through the weak armor of the armored vehicle and blasted it into a ball of fire.

  The soldiers of the fire team saw the following truck stop, and then many German soldiers jumped out of the truck, bowed their waists, and approached cautiously with their guns in hand. The soldiers fired immediately without waiting for them to get close. Amid the dense gunfire, the German soldiers who rushed to the front fell to the ground, and the rest quickly lay down on the spot.

Holol roughly counted. The enemy has more than 30 soldiers, plus an armored vehicle. His own strength is at a disadvantage. If he fights head-on with them, he will definitely not win. Three people cover, and the rest follow me back."

  What happened next proved that Holol was a little too worried. Although the German army had an advantage in numbers, the tanks and armored vehicles they relied on were destroyed, and their combat effectiveness was suddenly greatly reduced. To attack an unknown enemy, they have no idea at all. Amid the dense gunfire, the German attack seemed powerless. As long as they heard gunfire coming from the position, they immediately lay down in the crater and fired, and never dared to rush forward easily.

The three soldiers who served as cover saw that Holol and the other members of the squad had successfully withdrawn to a point 500 meters away from the ambush site, so they fired machine guns at the enemy who was trying to charge. When they lay down to avoid bullets, the three soldiers quickly withdrew from the position with their weapons on their shoulders.

  The squad under the command of Holol has achieved success one after another, but the other squads have only a few records. In fact, the reason is very simple, as Holol analyzed to his subordinates, the enemy did not want to waste their troops in Sokov's defense zone, so they only sent some troops to monitor, while the main force bypassed far away Passed the defense zone and advanced towards the city of Prokhorovka.

  The large troops have bypassed the defense zone of Sokov's troops, and the sporadic small troops will not appear in this area, so as not to be attacked by Sokov's troops. Under such circumstances, it is a strange thing that a few small teams ambushing close to the position can achieve results.

  In the evening, Sokov asked Koida: "Comrade Colonel, is there any news from the squad?"

  Koida replied: "Comrade Commander, at present I have received reports from six detachments that no trace of the enemy has been found in the area where they are operating."

   "Which area are they operating in?" Sokov asked.

"Here, Comrade Commander." Koyda pointed to the map and introduced the situation to Sokov and said: "These six teams are basically deployed behind the original position of the 658th Regiment. Unless the enemy actively enters their activity area , otherwise there is no possibility of war between the two sides.”

   "So that's how it is." After listening to Koida, Sokov immediately understood why these troops hadn't achieved any results. You must know that the main attack target of the German army today is the city of Prokhorovka. Once it breaks through the undefended position, it will advance eastward at the fastest speed. fight. Thinking of this, he shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I really don't understand what the commanders of these squads think about. The area they are operating in is not on the route of the German army at all. It is strange that they can achieve results."

   After careful consideration of what Koyda Sokov said, he thinks it makes sense. Now that the German army has broken through the abandoned position of the 658th regiment, they must be advancing towards the city of Prokhorovka at the fastest speed. How could it be possible to directly break into the activity area of ​​​​the anti-tank squad?

"Comrade Colonel, you said that there were six teams reporting, and that none of them had achieved results." Since these six teams were unlikely to achieve any results, Sokov stopped paying attention to them, and continued to ask: "Then What about the other four teams? They couldn't and didn't achieve any results, right?"

  When he said this, Sokov's heart was extremely heavy. He thought that he had boasted to Zhukov, saying that the ten teams he sent would definitely achieve great results. However, one day passed, and there were six small teams that did not make any achievements. If the remaining four squads also have mediocre results, then what awaits them will be Zhukov's storm.

"I'm sorry, Comrade Commander." Unexpectedly, after hearing Sokov's question, Keida shook his head and said, "I haven't received any report about them." After saying this, he He also deliberately added, "The six teams I mentioned are all drawn from our division. The other four teams are from the 182nd Division and the three brigades. , to get the most accurate reports."

  Sokov felt that what Koyda said made sense. The squad for this mission was drawn from existing divisions and brigades. If the commanders of those small teams want to report to work, their first choice must be their immediate superiors, not their own commander. In order to find out the records of the other four squads, Sokov personally called the brigade commanders and asked them if there was any news about the squads.

   Inquired Lieutenant Colonel Uzakov and Lieutenant Colonel Dobrushin successively. The squad sent by the two only wiped out some sporadic soldiers who fell behind, and killed less than 30 people in total. Naturally, Sokov would not be satisfied with such a result. The purpose of his detachment was to deal with the German tanks, not to eliminate some meaningless infantry. If you want to destroy the enemy's infantry, launch two new rockets towards the densely populated areas of the enemy, and the results will be even more brilliant.

Until he called Colonel Chuvashov, Sokov finally heard something he was interested in: "Comrade Commander, I am about to report to you. The squad commanded by Sergeant Holol wiped out the German army A convoy of ammunition destroyed a tank and an armored vehicle and killed more than thirty German soldiers."

  (end of this chapter)