Chapter 421: The Battle for the Town (1)
Because the view was blocked by the houses in the town, Chen Dao and the artillery observation post could not see the scene in the eastern part of the town, and could only see the German troops in the town in chaos.
The cries of the wounded came and went, and the figures of the medic ran through the town, providing relief to the screaming wounded.
Soon, several captured Soviet medics were requisitioned by the Germans to take care of the wounded Soviet soldiers who the German medics had no time to care for.
The Soviet artillery fire did not distinguish between each other, and the German and Soviet prisoners in the town were treated equally, and both sides suffered heavy losses under heavy shelling.
The Waffen-SS soon violently obtained a batch of covers, blankets and tarpaulins in the town, and the bodies of the dead were immediately covered so that the morale of the soldiers running around the town would not be affected.
The bodies and wounded lying in the middle of the road were transferred to the side of the road, and the No. 3 assault gun galloped across the blood-stained pavement and rushed to the east and south of the town.
In the eastern part of the town, a faint cloud of black smoke rose from the vast wheat fields, which became denser and denser, turning into a black cloud.
Three small tanks were revealed, and after a few seconds, the number more than doubled, and Captain Piper immediately recognized these tanks as T-26 light tanks, which he had not seen for the first time, and in the words of a certain big man, compared to the No. 3 assault gun, this kind of light tank was the existence of the "five scum", especially when the No. 3 assault gun was waiting for the rabbit, and the T-26 was charging in a daze.
To the east of the town, six No. 3 assault guns crouched next to the house or behind the bushes, and the commanders moved very tacitly, and the firing range of the six No. 3 assault guns could cover the entire battlefield in the east of the town.
When the T-26 tank rushing to the front was already less than 200 meters away from the town. Captain Piper heard the first cannon shots.
The first T-26 tank broke the right track. The body is flung under the action of inertia. Sideways to the town stopped.
The first cannon opened the gates of hell, and one after another 75-mm armor-piercing shells flew towards the enemy, the second T-26 tank was hit and caught fire, and the third fell in a panic and fell into a trench unable to move, becoming a live target.
The other T-26 tanks stopped and stopped and fired at the No. 3 assault gun in the exposed position, but one after the other was destroyed, and the battle ended. Captain Piper saw the wreckage of seven tanks parked on the battlefield, and only one T-26 tank reversed hastily and fled the battlefield along the S-shaped route.
The battle below was naturally easy, without tank support, the Soviet infantry attack was defeated under the dense German fire network, and in the dense gunfire fire, the Soviet infantry threw down fifty or sixty corpses and wounded and turned and fled.
The first Soviet attack was easily thwarted, and Captain Piper was reassured.
Since the combat effectiveness of the Soviet infantry was not very good, it was possible to win the battle as long as the enemy withstood the enemy's artillery attack.
Repelling the first wave of the hastily organized Soviet offensive, Captain Piper raced against time to organize his men to build fortifications. Prepare for the next Soviet offensive.
The wounded were carried to the relative safety of basements, and the infantry began digging foxholes in the fields outside the town. Observation posts were also set up on the roofs of houses on the edge of town.
Captain Piper was busy when the correspondent suddenly ran up to him.
"Report, I just got in touch with General Rosen, and he said that the main force of the divisional artillery regiment has arrived and is ready for fire support, as long as we can provide coordinates."
Captain Piper was overjoyed, with the support of artillery fire, his troops were already invincible, and could even launch a counterattack, and it was not the style of the Waffen-SS to be beaten passively.
Captain Piper was looking at the map thinking about how to organize an attack when a SDKFZ250 light armored vehicle rushed to his side and stopped.
Captain Nietzsche pressed his hand on the baffle of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage.
The rear hatch of the carriage opened, and two scouts dragged a Soviet prisoner out of the compartment.
The Soviet prisoner was a lieutenant who was shot in the right thigh and walked with a limp.
Captain Nietzsche shoved him, and he staggered over to Captain Piper.
"He's the highest-ranking man I've found among the Soviet wounded outside town, and he might be able to tell us some information." Captain Nietzsche said.
Captain Piper asked, "Where are your artillery positions?" How far is it from here? ”
"I don't know." said the Soviet lieutenant.
"How many troops do you have in and around Vislova?" Captain Piper asked.
"A motorized infantry division, and troops that have escaped from the encirclement, at least one corps." The lieutenant said.
Captain Piper snorted, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.
Thinking on his heels, he knew that the town of Vislova and several nearby villages and towns could not squeeze the troops of an army in any case, and it was clear that this Soviet captain was talking nonsense.
Captain Nietzsche walked up to the Soviet lieutenant and felt for a bayonet against the base of the lieutenant's thigh.
"If you talk nonsense again, believe it or not, I'll cut the artery in your thigh."
The Soviet lieutenant looked at Captain Nietzsche's bloodstained military uniform, and felt the hard bayonet between his thigh and his life, and subconsciously wanted to retreat, but Captain Nietzsche grabbed his collar.
"Say everything you know, otherwise I can't guarantee that my bayonet won't be crooked somewhere else, like here."
The Soviet lieutenant's legs involuntarily wanted to clamp, but they immediately let go, because Captain Nietzsche's bayonet really hit his lifeline.
Seeing Captain Nietzsche's fierce eyes, the Soviet lieutenant's intuition told him that if he refused to cooperate, the other party would definitely do what he said.
Without any more hesitation, the mouth of the Soviet captain was like a flood that opened the floodgates, telling everything he knew.
The defense of the Borisov area was the 47th Infantry Corps, which, when the Germans arrived in the Minsk area, broke through and took advantage of the loopholes in the encirclement to escape, but lost a large amount of heavy equipment.
After fleeing to the Berezina River, under Zhukov's orders, this corps began to build fortifications to resist the advance of the German army.
The troops that fought with them were instructors and cadets of the Borisov Tank Academy, as well as other scattered units that escaped from the Minsk encirclement.
In several villages and towns in the Vislova region, a regiment of the 55th Infantry Division of the 47th Army was responsible for the defense.
Driving out the captive, Captain Piper immediately made the decision to take the initiative and break through each of them, killing the crippled infantry regiment in one fell swoop.
However, he had just made up his mind when he suddenly heard someone shouting.
"Shelling, concealment."
Captain Piper rushed into the adjacent building, which he had temporarily requisitioned.
Storming into the basement of the headquarters, Captain Piper listened to the incessant explosions outside, feeling the shaking of the ground.
"It's too passive to be bombed here, we should be proactive, don't you think?" Captain Nietzsche asked.
"Resist this attack by the Soviets, and we will launch a counterattack." Captain Piper said.
The Soviet army's fire preparation lasted nearly 20 minutes, and compared with the first attack, the Soviet attack was more well organized.
By the time the shelling was over, the Soviet infantry had rushed to a distance of less than 200 meters from the town, and at the forefront of the troops were the huge, formidable KV-2 tanks, and less than a hundred meters away, there were two T-34 tanks.
Not far behind, groups of Soviet infantry bent over and followed the three tanks in small steps.
What kind of play is this? Why didn't they combine these three tanks with the previous T-26 tanks and organize a more powerful assault, but instead use the tactic of refueling and dismantle them to give them their own results?
Captain Piper, while mentally criticizing the enemy, methodically organizes a counterattack.
On the front line of the battle were still six No. 3 assault guns, and under their strong firepower, two T-34s were hit and caught on fire, and the huge and bulky KV-2 was also hit by shells from the side and hit the engine compartment and was paralyzed in place.
Compared to the total loss of the enemy's three tanks, Captain Piper's troops paid the price of only one No. 3 assault gun being wounded,
The fate of the Soviet infantry was even more miserable, Captain Piper connected with the artillery regiment in the rear, and the Soviet infantry was drowned in the fire and smoke under the heavy artillery bombardment.
Throwing down the wreckage of three tanks and corpses everywhere, the surviving Soviet infantry turned around and fled, and Captain Piper decisively ordered the pursuit.
The reconnaissance company's armoured vehicles were fully dispatched, and the three battalions under the command of Captain Piper also left their positions, except for a company and two assault guns that remained in the town of Visloa, and Captain Piper sent all his forces to chase the routed Soviet troops to the east, aiming at the town of Zapoles, three kilometers away.
Captain Nietzsche trotted to catch up with a No. 3 assault gun, quickly climbed onto the roof of the car, and rushed east with the large force. (To be continued.) )