Chapter 317: Breaking the Siege
"Divisional Commander!" Seeing Panfilov lying motionless on the snow, the snow around him was stained red with blood, one of the staff officers next to him shouted, and then rushed forward at the risk of being hit by a bullet, grabbed Panfilov by the collar, bent down and ran backwards. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
When the Germans saw a Soviet officer running back with a corpse, they immediately turned their guns and fired at him fiercely, knocking the snow under the staff officer's feet as if it were boiling. If the staff officer had escaped alone, he might have been able to get away with it, but he was dragging Panfilov's body at the moment, and his movement speed was greatly affected. In less than a minute, he was also shot several times, and his body twitched for a moment like an electric shock, and then fell headlong into the snow.
Leviagin and Egorov, who led the guard platoon to support the front, had just commanded the troops to block the breakthrough opened by the Germans when they heard someone shouting: "Deputy division commander, political commissar, something is wrong!" ”
When Yegorov saw a fighter running from behind him in a panic, he counted the other with an unhappy face: "Comrade warrior, calm down, the enemy has already been repulsed by us, what is there to panic about?" ”
"Political commissar, political commissar," the soldier rushed to him, pointed to the rear and said breathlessly, "there is an enemy attacking the division headquarters, and I vaguely hear gunfire and explosions coming from that direction......"
Without waiting for the soldier to finish speaking, Egorov pushed him aside and put his hand on the pergola and looked in the direction of the division headquarters, where he could vaguely see that the battle was raging. Seeing this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly shouted at the soldiers in the trenches: "If the division is in danger, come with me!" With that, he took the lead and rushed out.
Seeing that the commissar took the lead in running in the direction of the division headquarters, Leviakin and a dozen surviving guards platoon fighters also followed. Seeing the soldiers of the guard platoon who came to reinforce him, he suddenly ran backwards with a hula, and someone in the trench immediately couldn't hold his breath, and he asked the people around him in a low voice: "Man, what's going on?" Why did the commissar run back with a group of people? ”
The soldier next to him sighed, and then said in an uncertain tone: "I just heard the political commissar say that the division is in danger, and they rushed back to rescue." ”
When the soldier who spoke first heard this, he quickly stood up, glanced in the direction of the division headquarters, and then said in amazement: "My God, there is really a war going on over there, as if our people have suffered. ”
There was a lieutenant standing in the trench, and when he heard the soldier say this, he hurriedly raised the telescope hanging around his neck and looked into the distance. After seeing the situation there, he was also shocked, and hurriedly shouted to the back: "The first and second rows will stay, and the third row will follow me." After shouting, he took the lead in rushing in the direction of the division headquarters, and seven or eight soldiers also ran out.
The enemy, who was attacking the division headquarters, was far outwhelmed in firepower by the Soviet staff officers, who had only pistols and a few rifles, due to their armament of submachine guns and machine guns. After seven or eight minutes of firing, the Germans lost less than five men, three of whom were killed in an ambush. The casualties on the Soviet side were several times higher, with more than 30 people killed and wounded, including the division commander Panfilov.
The two-kilometer journey, led by Yegorov and Leviagin, took only six minutes to complete. When they were still fifty meters away from the Germans, they ***** the butts of their rifles and fired at the Germans hiding behind their motorcycles. In a matter of moments, four or five German soldiers were defeated.
The Germans sensed that the Soviets were coming for reinforcements, and immediately divided a part of their men to intercept and shoot, and suppressed Yegorov and them with firepower. And the lieutenant who arrived later, seeing that the commissar was suppressed by enemy fire, and in the distance at the position of the division headquarters, there was a corpse of his own comrades, his blood rushed to his brain, and he lost his mind at once, he turned around and grabbed a turntable machine gun in the hands of his subordinates, and frantically strafed the German soldiers hiding behind motorcycles. He wanted to kill these damned German soldiers with his own hands and avenge the sacrifices of his comrades.
He roared wildly, striding forward without dodging, and the bullets fired from the machine gun smashed the German motorcycle body into sparks, and two unlucky German soldiers also fell in his strafing fire. But his luck ended there, a few bullets hit his body, and the huge impact carried his body backwards, but his fingers still pulled the trigger, and the last bullets in the turntable hit the air. Then fall on your back on the snow.
The German commander saw that his soldiers were getting fewer and fewer, and the Soviets were coming from different directions, and he knew in his heart that if he stayed here, he would either be killed or taken prisoner in the end, so he decisively gave the order to retreat.
This German detachment of 20 people was killed 12 people in this sneak attack, but they killed more than 50 people, including the commander of the Soviet division, and then fled on motorcycles.
Seeing that the enemy had fled, Leviagin was about to lead people to chase, but was stopped by Yegorov: "Deputy division commander, stop chasing, let's go and see how the division commander is doing." ”
Hearing what Egorov said, Leviagin had no choice but to reluctantly stop, led people to follow Yegorov, and walked towards the place where the corpses were strewn everywhere, wanting to see if there were any of the victims in it, including Panfilov. (To be continued.) )