Chapter 1307 Defense (Part 2)

   The German tanks leading the infantry to charge stopped when they realized that the infantry behind them had been bombarded by the Soviet army. Relying on their rough skin and rough flesh, the 76.2 mm used by the Soviet army did not pose a threat to them, so they stopped at a position tens of meters to a hundred meters away from the Soviet army's position, and bombarded the Soviet army's position with tank guns or machine guns.

  Although the attack of the German infantry was suppressed by the artillery fire from the rear, the German tanks, which could not be destroyed by the artillery fire, stopped in front of the position and fired arrogantly, causing considerable casualties to the defenders on the position.

  Kelim was in the observation post and saw the enemy tanks standing motionless in front of the position, just firing with tank guns and machine guns. Some German infantry gradually gathered behind the tanks after leaving the area covered by Soviet artillery fire.

"The enemy's tanks stop at a distance of tens to a hundred meters from our position." Colim thought painfully in his heart: "If our regiment has a few anti-tank rocket launchers like those used by friendly troops, The German tanks parked in front of the positions will be destroyed one by one by the soldiers like targets.”

   "Comrade Colonel," the chief of staff of the regiment on the side also saw the German infantry gathering, so he said to Colim: "The German tanks are too much of a threat to us. I will send someone to blow them up."

"Go, Comrade Chief of Staff." Seeing that his soldiers were suppressed by the German tank guns and machine guns and unable to raise their heads, Colim agreed to the chief of staff's proposal very readily, and urged the other party: "Tell the soldiers, Be quick, the enemy infantry is regrouping, blow up the enemy's tanks before they finish regrouping."

"Yes, Comrade Commander, I will convey your order immediately." The chief of staff picked up the phone, but found that there was no sound from the receiver. It was obvious that the line was broken by the German artillery fire. He turned his head and said to Colim: " The phone line was blown, and I went elsewhere to make calls."

   After finishing speaking, the chief of staff jumped out of the observation post and ran along the traffic trench towards the nearby standby regiment command post, where he was going to call the battalion commanders and ask them to send soldiers to blow up the German tanks.

After running for a few steps, there was a bang, and a tank shell exploded near the traffic trench. The chief of staff quickly squatted down on the spot, and when the kicked-up soil fell on his body, he stood up again, bent over, and quickly He rushed to the backup command post step by step.

  When he approached the command post and only needed a few steps to rush into the command post, another shell landed nearby and exploded. A stream of mud rose into the sky, and the shock wave generated by the explosion knocked him heavily to the ground. But this time after he fell down, he couldn't stand up again. A few pieces of shrapnel hit him, and the blood quickly soaked his military uniform at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  The communications staff officer on duty in the backup command post saw the chief of staff lying in a pool of blood, so he bent down and ran out, risking dragging him in.

As soon as he put the chief of staff in the corner, he yelled at the stunned communication soldier next to him: "What are you still standing here for? Military doctor, hurry up and call the military doctor!" A communication soldier agreed, bent over and rushed Out of the backup command post.

  The communications staff officer pointed at another communications soldier and told him, "Go to the observation post quickly and tell the regimental commander that the chief of staff is injured."

  The communications soldier glanced at the chief of staff lying on the ground, nodded, and also bent down and rushed out of the command post.

   Not long after, the communications soldier ran into the observation post where Colim was, and said loudly: "Report to Comrade Commander, the chief of staff was injured at the entrance of the backup command post."

   "Damn!" Colim muttered in a low voice, then raised his voice and asked the messenger, "Can he continue to perform his duties?"

   The communications soldier recalled the scene where the chief of staff was covered in blood, quickly shook his head, and replied: "Comrade chief of staff is seriously injured, and I'm afraid he won't be able to continue to perform his duties."

"I see." Colim picked up the phone on the side and wanted to give an order to the troops below, but found that there was no sound from the receiver, so he ordered the communication soldier who came to report: "Communication soldier, the line of this phone may If something goes wrong, you immediately check the line and try to recover as soon as possible."

  Five minutes after the communications soldier left, the phone in the observation station rang. When Colim heard the phone ringing, he couldn't help feeling secretly happy. He quickly picked up the phone and said, "I'm Colonel Colim. Where are you?"

  The voice of the division commander Marankin came from the receiver: "Colonel Collim, why can't you get through your phone all the time?"

   "The telephone line was cut off by enemy shells." After answering the reason in embarrassment, Colim asked, "Comrade commander, what instructions do you have?"

"I saw the enemy's infantry gathering behind the tanks, ready to attack your position." Marankin said angrily, "Why don't you find a way to destroy the enemy's tanks, don't you just wait for them to enter your position? "

"Comrade commander, my chief of staff was cut off because the phone in the observation post was blown up, so he had to go to the backup command post to give the order to destroy the enemy's tanks, but unfortunately he was injured and quit the battle." Colim could hear Marankin's anger , quickly explained to him: "Now that the phone has just been repaired, I'm about to issue such an order."

"Colonel Collim, I don't want to hear any of your reasons." It may be that there were so many casualties in the troops that Marankin did not fluctuate when he heard that the chief of staff of the 238th regiment was wounded. Lim: "We must find a way to blow up the enemy's tanks as soon as possible, and we must not let them rush into your position."

"Comrade Commander," Colim said. The tanks deployed not far behind their own positions had no sense of being a fixed fort. When they saw German tanks bombarding their positions without restraint, they didn't care. How much did they feel? Feeling uncomfortable, he took the opportunity to give Marankin his opinion: "The dozens of tanks deployed not far behind our position have basically not fired a single shot so far. If they are willing to provide artillery cover, I think my Soldiers can minimize casualties when destroying enemy tanks."

   The dozens of tanks parked behind the front line basically did not fire, and Marankin also noticed it. At first, I thought that General Trufanov had some special considerations, so that the tanks serving as fixed turrets would not fire, but judging from the current situation, it is obviously not the case.

Now that Colim made a request to himself, Marankin could no longer ignore it. After pondering for a moment, he replied: "Comrade Colonel, I will immediately communicate with General Trufanov to try to let the tanks that serve as fixed turrets fire. Cover your fighters with artillery fire and go destroy the enemy tanks."

  (end of this chapter)