Chapter 1309 Anti-Tank Operations

  The two regiments fought together and successfully repelled the German attack.

   But in this way, the hidden position of the 233rd regiment was also exposed, and they could no longer lurk there, so they could only withdraw to their original positions.

After the acting head of the 233rd regiment saw Colim, he didn't have the slightest joy of victory on his face, but asked with a sad face: "Comrade colonel, our regiment suffered nearly a hundred casualties in the battle just now, if we continue to fight like this , I think our regiment will become an empty number.”

"Comrade Major," Colin raised his hand and patted the opponent's shoulder, and said to him, "You have completed your mission, and I don't think you will be needed for the next battle. I will report to the commander immediately. Call and ask him to allow you to withdraw to the rear for repairs."

Before Colim could call the division commander, Marankin called him first: "Colonel Colim, let me tell you some good news. The 188th Division that will take over your defense is now only two or three kilometers away from us. As soon as they arrive, you immediately hand over your position to them, and then all withdraw to the rear to rest."

  After putting down the phone, Colim said to the acting regiment leader: "Comrade Major, the friendly troops will soon come over to take over the defense of our two regiments, and then we can retreat to the rear to rest together."

The vanguard of the 188th Division arrived very quickly. After a short chat between Colin and the acting regiment commander, a soldier walked in from outside and reported to him: "Comrade Colonel, there are two commanders of friendly troops outside." The officer wants to see you."

   "The commander of the friendly army?" Colim was taken aback after hearing this, and asked instinctively, "Which army is it from?"

Before the soldiers could answer, two commanders walked in from the outside, a commander with the rank of captain, and reported to Colim: "Comrade Colonel, Guchakov, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 562nd Regiment, would like to inform you Report, our battalion was ordered to take over your defense."

   "Hello, Comrade Captain!" After raising his hand to return the salute, Colim stepped forward to hold Guchakov's hand, and said excitedly, "I finally expected you to come. By the way, how many of you are here?"

   "Report to Comrade Colonel." Guchakov replied respectfully in accordance with the regulations: "After this period of fighting in our battalion, there are still 198 people left."

"198 people!" After repeating the number, Colim said with emotion: "The number is a little small, and it may be difficult to defend such a wide position." The reason why he has such emotion is entirely because I have more than a thousand people guarding this position, and there are dangers all over the place from time to time. Now it seems too childish to have an army of less than two hundred people take over the defense.

"Don't worry, Comrade Colonel." Guchakov replied with a smile: "Although our number is a little less, our commanders and fighters are well-trained, well-equipped, and have rich combat experience. A full battalion's attack can completely stop them."

   "Bragging, it's just bragging." Hearing Guchakov say this, Colim immediately gave him such a definition in his heart, and at the same time he couldn't help but worry about the future of this position.

   "Comrade Colonel," Guchakov saw that Colim did not speak, and urged him to say: "Please hand over the defense to us as soon as possible. I will also arrange the next defense work."

"Okay, okay, I will immediately arrange for people to hand over the defense to you. Chief of staff! Chief of staff!" After Colim shouted twice, he remembered that his chief of staff had already been sent to the second road because of injuries. The line of defense can only be changed and said: "Let me hand over the defense to you personally."

   Ten minutes later, Colim handed over the defense to Guchakov, and then led the troops to withdraw from the first line of defense and retreated to the second line of defense.

The acting head looked at the friendly commanders who were busy not far away, and asked Colin worriedly: "Comrade Colonel, we have more than a thousand people guarding this position, and it seems very difficult to block the enemy. Now they only have less than 200 people. Can it really stop the enemy?"

Colim took a look at the acting commander, and said with a wry smile: "I also think they can't stop them, but the superior ordered us to hand over our defense to them, and we can only obey the order. I think, maybe soon after the German army's next attack begins. , Our two regiments still need to rush over to reinforce them."

"Since we will come over to reinforce them later, why are we retreating now?" The acting head said puzzledly: "You know, there is no communication trench between the two lines of defense, that is to say, we have to risk the enemy's retreat." The bombardment and machine-gun fire that passed through this open area did not know how many casualties would be paid."

   "Comrade Major, these things are beyond your consideration." After Colim said this, he suddenly asked, "Have all your regiments withdrawn?"

"Yes, they have all been withdrawn." The acting regiment commander reported to Colim: "When you are still handing over the defense to the friendly commander, I ordered people to evacuate the wounded of the two regiments. When the defense is handed over , My regiment has withdrawn to the second line of defense except me."

Guchakov, who accepted the defense, immediately summoned the three company commanders under his command to the original regiment command post in Klimt, and began to assign tasks to them: "Comrades, the commander once said that our attack against the Germans Defensive warfare is anti-tank warfare. In the early days of the war, why our army retreated steadily was because the troops standing on the ground could not stop the German tanks from attacking. Once the gap was torn by the enemy's tanks, there would soon be The infantry swarmed up, widening their breach. Under these circumstances, it's no wonder our allies can hold their ground."

  The first company commander, Captain Narva, and the second company commander, Captain Egor, were both from the 27th Army that came with Sokov. They are veterans of the infantry brigade and have rich combat experience. As soon as Guchakov finished speaking, the two rushed to ask: "Comrade battalion commander, which company do you plan to entrust with the task of anti-tank warfare?"

   Guchakov glanced back and forth between Narva and Yegor, wondering who should be sent to carry out this difficult task? In the end, his eyes stayed on Yegor: "Captain Yegor, I think it's up to you to carry out this arduous and glorious task."

Hearing that Guchakov assigned the task to his company, Yegor couldn't help but smile, thanked Guchakov repeatedly, and assured him: "Comrade Captain, don't worry. As long as we are in the company, the enemy's Tanks don't even think about approaching our positions, we discipline them to come and go."

   "Comrade Captain," Narva, who didn't get the task, said aggrievedly, "Why did you give this task to the second company? You know, our first company has the strongest combat effectiveness in the whole battalion."

"That's right, your company has the strongest combat effectiveness." Guchakov did not refute Narva's statement, but affirmed it instead: "It is precisely because of this that I left your company to stand firm. "

   Seeing Narva throwing a rock at his own foot, Yegor couldn't help laughing. But seeing Narva glaring at him, he quickly restrained the smile on his face, pretended to be serious, and waited for Guchakov to continue assigning tasks.

"Captain Yegor," Guchakov said to Yegor, pointing to the map, "I think you all saw this battle in the binoculars that ended not long ago. The enemy relied on the 81st Guards Division's lack of effective Anti-tank weapons are actually parked at a distance of tens to a hundred meters away from the position without any scruples, shelling and machine-gunning the position. In order to effectively destroy the enemy's tanks, Captain Egor, the deployment position of your company must be Get as far forward as possible."

   "Stay as far forward as possible!" Hearing what Guchakov said, Yegor raised his eyebrows, and then asked tentatively, "I don't know where our company should be placed?"

"Here! The position is 500 meters away from the position." Guchakov nodded with his finger on a certain position on the map, and said: "The deployment of your company here is completely beyond the Germans' expectations. When When the enemy attacks again, you can let go of some of the tanks, and then use the bazooka to attack the tanks behind. After destroying some of the tanks, turn around and deal with the tanks that are facing away from you."

  Guchakov's deployment brought joy to Yegor's face. He thought this arrangement was very interesting. When some German tanks pass through their defense area and then attack, it will definitely cause confusion among the enemy tanks. If the gunpowder smoke on the battlefield was too thick at that time, it could even cause the enemies to kill each other.

Just when Yegor was ecstatic, Guchakov poured cold water on him: "Captain Yegor, don't be too happy. Although such a tactic can destroy as many enemy tanks as possible , but because your position is too far ahead and out of touch with the troops in the trenches, once you are attacked by German infantry, we will not be able to provide you with any support at all."

  Egor thought about it, isn't it? If his company is really placed 500 meters in front of the position, then it will be a lone army going deep. Once the German infantry surrounded them, they would not be able to withdraw even if they wanted to.

"How is it, Captain Yegor?" Seeing Yegor's serious expression, Guchakov specifically asked, "If you find it difficult, I can assign this task to another company." When he said this, his eyes swept over the three company commanders in front of him, and finally settled on the third company commander who had not spoken. "I think the third company can handle this glorious and arduous task."

Hearing that Guchakov intended to hand over such an important task to his third company, the commander of the third company blushed immediately. He quickly organized words in his mind, preparing to wait for Guchakov to announce The task was handed over to his company, and he immediately expressed his determination to the other party.

  Unexpectedly, Guchakov just casually said that since he had already handed over the task to Erlian, he would not change course easily, which would affect his prestige. "Since there is no disagreement, let's start preparing for battle immediately. I believe that it won't be long before the enemy will launch a new attack on us."

   "First company commander, third company commander." Guchakov said: "You immediately hand over half of the rocket launchers in the company to the second company, so that they have enough rocket launchers to deal with German tanks."

  Although the two company commanders were reluctant to hand over the bazooka in their hands, since the order was given by the battalion commander, Captain Guchakov, they could only choose to obey: "Yes!"

"Captain Yegor!" Guchakov held Yegor's hand and said earnestly: "Whether we can hold the position depends on whether your company can destroy as many German tanks as possible. Understand? ?”

After Yegor took the order to leave, Guchakov said to the two company commanders: "We have not been at war with the Germans for a day or two. You should know that before they attack, they will definitely attack our army's positions violently." Shelling. When I just took over the defense, I went around the position and found that the number of anti-explosion holes was seriously insufficient, and even if the anti-explosion holes were dug, they did not meet the standards. Let our commanders and fighters stay in such anti-explosion holes , was either hit by flying shrapnel, or buried by the collapsed soil."

Before Guchakov finished speaking, Narva understood what he meant, and quickly replied: "Comrade battalion commander, you are unfairly worried about this. The commander's old subordinates are best at this kind of soil work. I will urge the soldiers to dig enough anti-bomb holes as soon as possible."

  Egor's company included him, and there were 35 people in total. He divided the company into seven combat groups in groups of five. Each team consisted of an anti-tank man, an ammunition man, and three infantrymen as cover. The infantry is not only responsible for covering the safety of the anti-tank fighters, but also needs to help the ammunition back with the ammunition.

   They stooped and trotted to a position more than 500 meters in front of the position, preparing to set up an ambush position against German tanks here. Fortunately, there are bomb craters everywhere here. If a few anti-tank teams squat in the bomb craters, they don't have to worry about being discovered by the enemy.

After Yegor jumped into the bomb crater, he quickly discovered a problem: the bomb crater was very deep, and it was blown out by heavy artillery shells and aerial bombs. Staying inside, he could neither see his comrades on the left or right, nor hear any sounds. It's easy to have the illusion that you're fighting alone.

After sitting in the crater and thinking for a while, Yegor told the soldiers around him: "You dig a gap on the left and right sides of the crater, so that even if you stay in the crater, you can see your comrades on the left and right; , piled up on the front and back of the crater, so that when enemy tanks drive over, they cannot find us in time."

  After the order was issued, the soldiers immediately moved into action. Using the engineering shovel they carried with them, they began to dig on the left and right sides of the crater, and patted the dug soil on the front and back sides.

  After just half an hour, the front and rear sides of the crater were piled up with a thick layer of soil, making it impossible for the enemy tanks to find the anti-tank team hidden in the crater while driving.

  Just after finishing the reconstruction of the bomb crater, there was the scream of shells piercing the air. Countless shells flew over their heads and landed on the position hundreds of meters away, making an earth-shattering explosion. Although the position a few hundred meters away was heavily bombarded by the German army, the commanders and fighters staying in the crater still felt the ground under their feet trembling slightly.

Looking at the position shrouded in gunpowder smoke in the distance, Yegor couldn't help worrying about his comrades there. He didn't know how much casualties this round of shelling by the German army would cause to the troops. He only hoped that when he led the company back to the position, he could See as many familiar faces as possible.

   "Comrade Company Commander," just as Yegor was mourning in the crater, a soldier in a crater on the left shouted at him: "The enemy tank is coming up."

  (end of this chapter)