As the order was given, the tanks, lined up, opened fire on the German convoy that was blocked on the road. It was already dawn, the distance between the two sides was only 100 meters, and for the tank crews of the 45th Guards Tank Brigade, the enemy was simply a target. Dealing with them is a rare opportunity to shoot targets, and if you don't shoot in vain, you won't shoot in vain.

The shells fell on the German convoy and exploded, shrapnel flew in all directions, and the armored vehicles and trucks that were directly hit suddenly turned into a ball of fire and began to burn. A few trucks that were not directly hit by the shells were also overturned by the blast of the explosion, throwing the German soldiers sitting in the cars everywhere.

The armored vehicles and trucks, which had not yet been shelled at the back, saw that they had encountered the Soviet tank units, and they knew that if they hit it hard, they would hit the stone with an egg. Therefore, all the officers and soldiers invariably chose to abandon the car and flee to the ravine on the side of the road to avoid the shelling.

"Well fought, brethren well fought!" Seeing the shells exploding in the ranks of the German troops, tearing armored vehicles and trucks to pieces, and the severed limbs and arms of the German troops and the parts of their weapons being lifted high by the air wave, Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly could not help but exclaim: "Keep firing and destroy every enemy you see." ”

According to Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly's idea, as long as he stuck this place with artillery fire, the enemy would not be able to retreat to Gdynia smoothly, and when the main force from the west arrived, he would be able to encircle and annihilate this enemy. As soon as the shelling had been carried out for four or five rounds, several shells landed on both sides of the road and exploded, setting off columns of mud that soared into the sky.

Based on where the shells landed, Anatoly immediately judged that this was not a stray bullet, but a test shot before the shelling. He hurriedly retracted into the tank, closed the hatch with his hand, and gave a loud command through the throat transmitter: "All attention, all attention, the Germans began to shell our position. I now order, continue to advance westward, out of the area of German shelling. Advance! ”

Hearing Anatoly's order, the tankmen immediately stopped the shelling, restarted the tanks and drove forward along the muddy road in order to quickly get out of the area of German shelling.

As soon as the tank started, German shells flew over, landed on the left and right sides of the road and exploded, and the mud kicked up fell overwhelmingly on the tank body, coating the tank with a layer of mud. Some of the mud even landed on the observation window, making it impossible for the driver to see the road ahead. Although they could not see the road in front of them clearly, in order not to stay on the road and block the road, so that their comrades' tanks would become targets for the German artillery, they still relied on their own feelings and drove forward at full speed.

The German officers and soldiers on the other road suddenly had a feeling of escaping in their hearts when they saw the Soviet tanks continuing to drive westward. Some soldiers even thought that once upon a time, their invincible and invincible army also rampaged across the Russian border, defeating the millions of Russian troops, but today the feng shui is turning, and a few dozen tanks without infantry cover have made the officers and men of a division hide on the side of the road and dare not move.

It has to be said that Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly was a commander who was good at capturing fighters, and when the tank platoon had driven forward for two or three kilometers, he found that the distance between the two roads was getting farther and farther away, so he ordered the tanks to stop again and shell the German convoy that was blocked on the road and could not move forward.

However, at the same time, he also found that there were a large number of refugees behind the German convoy, so when he issued the order, he particularly emphasized: "All attention, all attention: in the rear of the German convoy, there are an unknown number of refugees, and it is not allowed to fire at them." Repeat, no cannon is allowed at them! ”

The German soldiers who had just returned from their hiding places in armored vehicles or trucks did not expect that the Soviet tanks would stop at this time and fire at them again, so they had to choose to abandon the vehicles again and again, and desperately fled to the side of the road to hide in order to avoid the Soviet tank fire.

The shells exploded in the German convoy, and the soldiers knew how to find a safe place to hide, and the accompanying refugees immediately exploded, screaming and running to the sides of the road, and some of them even lost their heads and ran towards the place where the Soviet tanks were parked.

Looking at the refugees pouring in, Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly's face suddenly turned pale, and he gave another order: "All attention, all attention, there are German refugees coming towards us, immediately shoot them with machine guns to disperse them." Remember, never hurt innocent people. ”

The distance between the two roads was only two hundred meters at the moment, and the dazed refugees rushed towards the Soviet tanks one foot at a time. When there was still seventy or eighty meters away, he suddenly heard a dense burst of gunfire from ahead. When the bullets whizzed over the heads of the refugees, some people screamed and turned to flee, while many stood in a daze, and some were even so frightened that they peed their pants on the spot, and the air was filled with the smell of gunsmoke, mixed with an unpleasant smell of urine.

The machine guns on the Soviet tanks fired several shots at the heads of the refugees from time to time, so that many people immediately came to their senses and turned around and ran towards the place they came from without looking back. Seeing that the number of refugees rushing over was getting smaller and smaller, Anatoly couldn't help but think to himself: "It seems that this method of Comrade Marshal is quite effective, as soon as the guns rang out, the refugees were frightened and avoided unnecessary casualties." ”

Anatoly was having fun when he suddenly heard a faint cry, and he listened with his ears sideways for a moment, and then asked vigilantly, "Did you hear that?" It seems like there was crying somewhere. ”

The tank soldiers beside him also listened attentively, and after a while, they heard a faint cry. The loader said loudly: "Comrade brigade commander, it seems that a child is crying." ”

"The child is crying? Probably separated from his parents," Anatoly said, pushing the hatch over his head open, "I'll go out and have a look." ”

Anatoly leaned half-leaned over and looked in the direction from which the voice came from, and soon found his target. A four- or five-year-old child, covered in mud and crying, seemed to be frightened by the gunfire and left him here as they fled.

Hearing the child's cry, Anatoly's softest part of his heart was touched, and he couldn't help but think of his son who died on the way to escape shortly after the outbreak of the war, and he wondered if he had been crying like this child before he died. He got out of the turret, jumped out of the tank, bent over and ran towards the German kid.

The loader, who had just leaned out of the turret, couldn't help but be shocked when he saw his brigade commander running towards the child, and hurriedly shouted at Anatoly's back: "Comrade brigade commander, danger, come back, come back!" His fears were not unreasonable, don't look at the Germans on the other side were suppressed by tank fire, but they must be watching this place at all times, and if they find someone running out of the tank, they will definitely shoot.

As soon as the loader's words fell, Anatoly, who was running, suddenly shook his body, paused in place for a moment, then leaned forward slightly, first kneeling on his knees, and then falling face down in the mud.

"There are snipers, the brigade commander was shot." The loader shouted loudly, quickly jumped out of the tank, and rushed towards where Anatoly was lying without hesitation.

The commander, who remained in the tank, immediately assisted the gunner in reloading a shell and fired a shot at the place where the German sniper was hiding. After the shell landed and exploded, the air wave lifted several German soldiers lying on the ground from the ground, threw them high into the air, and fell down heavily.

The loader ran to Anatoly's side and squatted down, turned him over, saw that there was a wound on his chest, and there was constantly dark red blood coming out, so he quickly covered it with his hand, and at the same time put his other hand to his nose to check whether he was breathing, but found that the other party had already stopped breathing.

Holding back his grief, the loader carried Anatoly's body on his shoulders, grabbed the child again, and led him towards the tank.

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