Chapter 1292: Shelling in the Early Morning
Natasha doesn't feel the slightest pleasure in shooting an enemy and watching their corpses fly. After all, she is also experienced in a hundred battles, killing enemies on the battlefield, and has entered a state similar to numbness, and the shaking enemies are like moving targets.
She doesn't say how badly the enemy was killed, but on her battle report, it just says what kind of enemy was shot in a certain place and at a certain time, and at most it says whether the enemy was shot in the chest or shot in the head.
"You know a lot about today's battle, basically our tailwind. I killed fifteen enemies in this battle, and many enemies were shot from a distance of a kilometer, and my shoulders are very sore now!
Some of you here have been on the battlefield, and some of you are still recruits. If you want to surpass me, the most important thing is an attitude! An attitude of reverence for corpses. ”
Next, Natasha's words were somewhat uncomfortable, even disgusting.
The summer solstice has passed, and the next 60 days can be described as the warmest season in Belarus, especially in July, when the maximum temperature can exceed 30 degrees. They are surrounded by a fire, but in fact, there are ten degrees of environmental problems.
The temperature was already very warm, and if the corpses on the battlefield were not cleanly disposed of, they would soon turn gray and white, and then begin to decompose. No matter how much a warrior is not afraid of corpses, he will never ignore the stench of corpses, after all, the strong stench stimulates human vomiting instincts, and people will collapse after waiting in a foul smell environment for a long time.
The Soviets are now faced with such a terrible situation, their machine guns and artillery are driving the enemy into the city, so what about the hundreds of corpses left on the battlefield?
Is it like the World War I, when the two opposing armies sent people to raise white flags to collect the bodies of their own dead?
It's impossible! Because as long as those enemies get out of the city, a bunch of bullets will be smashed through.
And it is impossible for the Soviet army to break away from the current front and risk running to the battlefield to collect the corpses of the German army. The most fundamental reason was that the Soviet army received a death order, and without the order of the commander of the army group, soldiers who broke away from the encirclement at the edge of the forest without permission would be executed.
Natasha duly asked, "Drochenko, have you ever smelled the smell of decay after death?" ”
"This ...... I smell it. That was when it was in the guerrilla brigade. ”
"How do you feel when you smell it?"
The girl who was optimistic just now immediately made a sad face, and even made a vomiting look, which made everyone laugh.
"Don't laugh! Isn't it funny? Natasha scolded loudly.
Drochenko also straightened up and said solemnly: "The smell is terrible, and I vomit the first time I smell it." I wasn't afraid of the dead, but when I smelled that, I felt like I was going to die. ”
Natasha nodded, "So you should be honest with me." Since at least the smell of rot is disgusting, you should be glad that it is not you who rot! You are alive now, and you must cherish life! Therefore, if the battle enters a difficult phase, all of you must not be in a hot head and do things that are needless to die. I want you to calm down, kill the enemy calmly, and if you really die in battle, kill at least ten enemies for me before you die! ”
"Yes!" Everyone spoke in unison.
"Okay, hurry up and finish the food, go to the toilet quickly, and then everyone go to bed."
At this moment, Natasha is really handsome. Igor, the observer who had been ordered to take care of her, had realized that the girl was almost like a male officer. Her words are true, and as a precision shooter, this kind of awareness should be true.
However, for ordinary soldiers, many times it is indeed necessary to be simply brave, many times, knowing that the charge will be swept away by the enemy's bullets, they must also go forward to the charge, and the political commissar is often the first to charge!
The Russian soldiers were not afraid of death and did not hesitate to die, but so did the elite German army.
The children went into their own dug foxholes and even into the trenches that they had dug themselves. They were so tired that even the girl soldiers snored. It was also because of exhaustion that no one would complain that the place where they were lying was full of mud, and they, like ordinary soldiers, wrapped their blankets around their bodies and fell asleep.
Now there is a huge encirclement and a large number of Soviet sentries who are not resting. No one dared to guarantee whether the enemy would take advantage of the darkness of night to break through, and besides, at twelve o'clock in the night, they would have to fire artillery to harass them.
The Soviets fell asleep heartlessly, and the enemy defenders in Loyev also came out of the shadows of the panic and despair of the afternoon.
The German battalion commander was frightened by the corpses of the soldiers who had been cut off by some kind of weapon, but fortunately he received a telegram from the division headquarters after the sun went down.
What he longed for most was the promise of reinforcements, but he never expected that the division headquarters would react faster than he expected!
A large number of German troops and puppet troops, looking destitute. Many of their clothes were torn open during the battle, and everyone's faces were stained with gunsmoke, and sweat ran down their cheeks.
The soldiers believed they would receive reinforcements, but the city had to be defended until reinforcements arrived. Because they were not panicked, and they did not plan to break through at night.
They were all very tired, and they were just as afraid that the Russians would attack at night.
The Soviet and German armies entered such a wonderful state that each was worried about the other's attack, and therefore each strengthened its own defenses.
If anything, the most frightened people are the civilians in the cities. They are the families of the puppet army, and there are quite a few women among them. These women already consider themselves traitors, so if they are caught by the Soviet army, they must have been abused to death.
Some of these civilians were killed and wounded in the shelling, and those who survived began to care for the wounded.
It is very bad that there is a lot of ammunition and food in the city of Loyev, but there is a shortage of medicine and gauze.
While sturdy soldiers carried bricks and rubble to fortify the city's defenses, the wails of wounded soldiers could be heard in some of the buildings that had been used as hospitals. Some of the wounded died that night because of their injuries.
The battalion commander was well aware of his predicament, so he was ecstatic after receiving instructions from his superiors.
He sent people to the companies to convey the good news from the division headquarters, and the signal corps shouted a simple fact in the defense areas of the companies: "Reinforcements will arrive in less than forty-eight hours!" ”
The German soldiers who were sticking to their posts in various countries, they really hoped that reinforcements would arrive in a second. The reinforcements actually had to wait for another forty-eight hours, and the city was lost before the reinforcements arrived.
The promise of reinforcements will inevitably be fulfilled, and with reinforcements there is hope, and the vast number of soldiers and those desperate civilians finally have hope.
However, they did not rejoice too soon, and at 0:00 a.m. on June 23, the Soviet artillery of all types surrounding the city from four directions simultaneously let out an astonishing roar.
Recoilless guns, 45mm field guns, two shots per gun.
Even so, the artillery fire caused casualties among the Germans and the puppet army that night, even though most of them were hiding under the ruins.
Some were entrailed by the shock wave, some were buried by collapsed walls, and some were simply pierced by shrapnel.
Most of the casualties occurred on the outskirts of the city's built-up areas, and as a result of the shelling, many of the wooden houses that had been extinguished were re-ignited.
At first glance, the city appears to be surrounded by a wall of fire, and the clouds in the sky are red by the firelight.
The Germans were shouting loudly, rushing to the wounded. Even if the fire is everywhere, it has to be put into combat positions. The machine gunners fired aimlessly into the forest in all directions, brilliant tracer bullets in the shape of lasers, bullets all hit the trees, and the fallen branches fell to the Soviet soldiers lying on the ground.
In fact, the vast majority of Soviet soldiers were awakened before the fire was fired, and they were not nervous at all, but looked at the burning city and secretly laughed......