Chapter 101: Night Raid
The time for the start of the battle was getting closer and closer, and the four battalions involved in the offensive received exact tasks.
In the dark forest, more than 2,000 "furry" guys, they are the soldiers who participated in the attack. Even if the cover of the night was not enough, the warriors added a lot of thatch to themselves, and a straw hat was not enough.
Yang Mingzhi looked at the watch with a small flashlight and made sure that it was already three o'clock.
"Warriors, let's go!"
The guard company was the first to set off, and it was a signal that in the dim moonlight, the north wind howled, and the fighters of four battalions came out of the forest. Everyone hunched over and tried to blend in with the thatch on the ground.
Everyone is confident in the suddenness of the next battle. After all, at a distance of 1,500 meters, plus the cover of darkness, the enemy could not see clearly at all, not to mention that the wind also blocked a lot of noise.
Yang Mingzhi led the guards to take the lead, and the soldiers admired the commander's leading spirit, but they were also worried that he would die early. But he was the commander, and his orders had to be carried out, so many fighters moved faster.
The artillery also followed the main attacking force, and when the troops advanced high enough, the artillery began to set up positions.
Yang Mingzhi ordered the troops to stop, and he knew that the two battalions in charge of the two flanks had also basically stopped. Because everyone needs to wait for a signal - shelling.
"When you opened fire, ten mortars fired one after another, and each cannon fired five shells, and for the time being, there was no picric shell." Yang Mingzhi gave them the final order, and waited for him and them to do it.
Artillery positions were immediately erected, and these 50 mm mortars were mediocre but extremely mobile. It is a bit far-fetched to prepare for such artillery, and there are some heavy mortars in the base camp, but they cannot be carried for practical reasons of the battle.
It's useless to complain so much now, if you have a few Katyusha vehicles at the moment, and you can go to pick peaches easily.
After thinking for a while, Yang Mingzhi saw that the artillery was ready.
"It's now! Fire! ”
The order was given, and the shooter let go of his hands. Ten shells from the first round were fired, and soon a violent explosion rang out in the town of Kuta.
The battle is on!
Yang Mingzhi immediately stood up and waved Bobosha: "Davarishi!" Ulla! ”
Flares, symbolizing the color green, took to the air, and the offensive was in full swing from three directions. The soldiers had already stabbed their rifles, the submachine gunners had prepared spare ammunition, and everyone was ready to storm the enemy-occupied towns in the light of the moon that appeared and disappeared from time to time.
There was an explosion in the town, shattering a lot of glass. The huge tremor also woke up the sleeping commander of the 707th Division, and Schneider never expected that the attack on the town of Kuta would take place.
He himself didn't want this to come true, but the glass of the division headquarters had been shattered, and the map on the command table was covered with a layer of mess. He was the first to think that this was an enemy attack, and his warriors, and even many did not expect that the enemy was already in the city.
The first to engage the Soviets were the outermost machine-gun bunkers, their machine guns gushing tongues of fire, and the first Soviet casualties began to appear.
Yang Mingzhi lay on the ground with a cleverness, dodging a bunch of whistling bullets, and he saw that several soldiers had been shot and fell.
"Bazooka, blow up the enemy's bunker for me!"
There are quite a few light rockets left, they are not very powerful, and the fortified fortified ones have some effect. The soldier skillfully stuffed the rocket into the steel pipe and lit the fuse. After a two-second delay, the rocket flew towards the enemy bunker with smoke. All three "obstacles" blocking the frontal attacking troops were blown up, and the fighters swarmed up and cleared the enemy's pillboxes.
The Soviet army's offensive line was only 800 meters, and it only took three or four minutes to rush by. Carambola and Natasha followed behind most of the butts, and Igor, who was carrying the folded anti-tank gun, saw that his guys were rushing very fiercely, and couldn't help but complain about taking care of the two girls.
"Igor, don't worry, our battlefield is not here. The battle is theirs, and we have to search for worthy targets. "Star fruit is the right way.
Igor didn't say much about this, after all, this Besica was directly ordered by the commander. He looked at the sky, and the moon was looming in the clouds. "With such bad light, it's too difficult for you as snipers to find your prey. Who knows how long the battle will be, maybe by the time the sun rises, we will already win. ”
"Let's move on. It would also be nice if the battle could end quickly. Carambola was holding a sniper version of the SVT semi-automatic rifle in her arms, and she also had a bunch of complaints in her stomach, saying that she was a sniper, but this was night, her pupils had been dilated to the limit to capture the light, and the soldiers in front of her were not submachine guns sweeping around, where is the role of a sniper?
Suddenly, both star fruit and Natasha saw an amazing scene, where several enemy searchlights were all blown up, the latest achievement of artillery.
Yang Mingzhi led the main attacking force and after paying some price into the last obstacle of Kuta town - barbed wire.
"Sappers! Use a vise to cut these barbed wires short! ”
As soon as the words fell, Yang Mingzhi suddenly saw several soldiers lying on the barbed wire like crazy, and shouted: "Comrades, just step on my back and jump over!" For victory! Ulla! ”
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi understood the great sacrifice, these people would rather be blown up by steel thorns and be covered in holes, but also buy time for their comrades.
Suddenly, there was a burst of machine-gun fire, and several fighters who were crossing the barbed wire fence were shot and fell to the ground.
"What a hell! The enemy still has a bunker?! "Yang Mingzhi's hammer ground, the soldiers encountered unexpected resistance." Heavy, give me fire cover! Grenadier! Blow them up for me! ”
A few soldiers who were not afraid of death were holding cluster grenades in their arms, and this scene seemed to be Huang Jiguang's bombing bunker. There is no shortage of heroes in such a tough battle, and Yang Mingzhi has no good way but to send warriors to brave the rain of bullets to blow up.
The pillbox was very tricky, and a few German soldiers guarded the machine-gun emplacement, and they dug a deep trench, and the sandbags fell in two layers, which was very inconspicuous from a distance. The machine guns suppressed the offensive of several hundred people, and the fighters were not stupid, and they rushed to stand up and charge, only to be senselessly shot.
In response, Yang Mingzhi ordered the machine gunners to cover the fire, and several bazooka fighters also tried to blow it up with rockets, but the rockets flew over their heads.
The battle entered a critical moment, and the mortars were still bombarding the town, but the density of artillery fire was much smaller.
Yang Mingzhi's forehead was covered with sweat, and he watched as the five grenadiers were shot and fell, did he have to send another wave of soldiers? Suddenly, he saw a wounded soldier still advancing with a cluster grenade. "What a hero he is!" While talking to himself, the man suddenly stood up, and at this moment, he had been hit by a machine gun. The fuse had been sounded, the man had died, and the corpse had fallen into the bunker by inertia, followed by a series of violent explosions.
"The barriers have been cleared! Comrades, rush! ”
The grief and indignation of the soldiers were ignited, and the heroes opened the way for more than a thousand people with broken bones. The sappers cut more barbed wire, and there was not much left to thwart the large army.
But because he was pressed to the ground by the enemy machine gunner for more than ten minutes, this gave the enemy a lot of respite. The German soldiers in the town rushed out of the barracks, and many were wounded by mortar guns. They realized that it was not acting at all and immediately picked up their guns.
The Germans reacted quickly, and Yang Mingzhi received serious resistance in the direction of the main attack, and the troops engaged in melee and even street fighting in the enemy's barracks area.
In the other three directions, the Soviet advances were also resisted, and gun battles continued. Now, only the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment is progressing quite smoothly, they are the troops of Yevgeny of the 2nd Company of the former Special Anti-Tank Battalion, and after clearing the enemy's machine-gun positions, they have opened fire on a part of the enemy's barracks, after which they see something very bad - prisoners of war.