Chapter 417: A Tragic Counterattack (3)
With each whistle of the captain, seven or eight sailors rushed out from different hiding places, grenades in hand, and bravely rushed towards the enemy's positions. However, due to the enemy's heavy firepower, at most one sailor could get away with jumping into the trench and die with the Germans, and the rest were knocked down by the dense bullets before they ran far.
Fight for your life, kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself. This unprecedented way of fighting the sailors stunned me hiding under the tank!
I looked back at the infantry with difficulty, and saw that they were all in the craters, holding their guns on the edge of the craters, and firing at the Germans in the trenches. I estimate that if the front firing points are not completely destroyed, they will not come out of their hiding place.
I'm afraid that with the way we are playing, it won't be long before all the sailors are dead. From the charge to the present, I have not seen the shadow of the captain, only the captain hiding in the crater next to the tank. I turned my head and wanted to warn the captain not to fight like this again, or we would have won a terrible victory.
I shouted at the captain twice, maybe it was because the gunfire was too loud on the battlefield, and he didn't even hear it. I was about to shout again, but then he jumped up and ran forward with a grenade. I was shocked to see this, and if he had died, the attacking troops would have been leaderless. Fortunately, he only ran a few steps before jumping into a crater.
The sailors' desperate style of play frightened the Germans in the trenches. In order to prevent the position from being captured by our troops, forty or fifty German soldiers, driven by the officers, jumped out of the trenches tremblingly and rushed towards the sailors with guns in hand.
They were jumping over a crater one after another. A wounded sailor fell to the ground and stood up straight. Resolutely pulled the grenade in his hand. There was a loud bang. The German soldiers around the crater let out a wail, either dead or wounded, and more than a dozen soldiers screamed and fell around the crater. The infantry soldiers, who had been hiding in the craters and shooting, also pointed their guns at the German soldiers who came out to die, and there was a burst of crackling, and more than a dozen German soldiers fell under the muzzle. The rest of the soldiers panicked, turned around and ran towards the trenches. But no matter how fast a person runs, he can't be faster than a bullet. More than forty German soldiers in the sortie. Only two of them fled back to the trenches.
Taking advantage of the chaos, the infantry jumped out of the crater and charged the Germans. Rushing to less than thirty meters from the trenches, the sparse firepower of the German positions became dense again, and the infantry took refuge in the craters. I also crawled out from under the tank, using the craters and the corpses as cover, and slowly crawled forward.
I climbed to a distance of about 30 meters from the trench and was discovered by the Germans. A machine gun that was firing frantically was turned around and focused on me. A long line of machine-gun bullets flew in, splashing the dirt around me. In order to dodge bullets. I hurriedly rolled to the right side of the crater and rolled into the crater next to me.
There was an infantry soldier in the pit, who had been lying on his stomach and had not moved, when suddenly he saw a man fall from it, and almost hit him, and he was startled, and almost instinctively aimed his rifle at me. When he saw the rank on my badge, he quickly put away his gun, squatted down and saluted me, and reported loudly: "Comrade commander, the Germans are so fierce that we can't rush through at all." ”
Listening to the bullets whizzing past the top of the pit, I knew that what the warrior said was correct, and rushing forward at this time was purely to send him to death. I looked down and saw the grenade hanging from the soldier's body, and I couldn't help but be moved, and hurriedly ordered him: "The Germans are too fierce, and it will definitely not work to rush hard." But we are only a few tens of meters from the trench here, and there should be no problem in throwing grenades over and blowing up the enemy's machine guns. ”
The warrior didn't talk nonsense either, and responded loudly "Yes!" "Pull out a grenade with a wooden handle from your waist and stand up straight to pull the string. I was just about to alert him to the German machine gun, and he had fallen straight on his back in the crater. He had been shot in the head and chest in about a dozen places, and blood was gurgling out.
I was originally squatting in the crater, and seeing that the German fire was so fierce, I hurriedly lay down next to the bloody corpses of the soldiers. As soon as I lay down, the strong smell of blood drilled into my nostrils for a while, making me a little nauseous. The blood of the warriors flowed and soaked the dirt beneath me. Lying with a dead man, I couldn't help but feel terrified that at this moment the Germans were rushing at me and shooting at me condescendingly.
The fear was short-lived, though, and it wasn't my first time on the battlefield, and I quickly regained my composure. I lay in the pit, quietly thinking, if I didn't take out the machine gun on the other side, as long as I got up, I couldn't escape the fate of a headshot, and I had to find a way to get out of here.
I pulled out my pistol and leaned out to shoot twice, thinking that at such a distance, the damage of the pistol was too small, maybe I didn't kill the other party, and the other party killed me first. I inserted the gun back into the holster and went to pick up the rifle that the fighter had thrown aside. As soon as he picked up the rifle, he unexpectedly saw a grenade on the ground, and said that in this case, the grenade could be used more than the barrel of a gun. So I changed my mind again. I put my rifle aside and collected the grenades on the warrior and at the bottom of the pit.
I lay in the crater, tried the posture of throwing the bomb, and found that as long as I was lying on my stomach, I couldn't take advantage of the throw, and if I didn't grasp the strength well, I might not even be able to throw the crater. It seems that if you don't want to be killed by the grenade you throw, the best way is to stand up and throw. But looking at the corpse of the soldier lying next to me, and listening to the bullets whizzing overhead, I dismissed the idea of standing up.
Because the dirt under me was soaked with blood, and it was really uncomfortable to lie on my stomach, I rolled over to the right side of the body and lay on my back in the pit. Looking at the wisps of gunpowder smoke drifting through the sky from time to time, I suddenly had an idea, I could try to throw the bomb lying down, just throw it backwards, and the grenade flew out.
Thinking of this, I picked up a grenade, pulled the string, and threw it backwards without thinking. The smoking, wooden-handled grenade rolled in the air in an arc and flew out of the crater.
After a while, the explosion of a grenade was heard, and I estimated that it was thrown twenty meters away. Because the German machine guns were still rattling non-stop. I know that Lu Dao just dropped the bomb blindly. It didn't work out what I wanted at all.
I picked up the second grenade. Before pulling the string, I carefully recalled the position of the German machine gun I saw before I entered the crater, took a deep breath, pulled the string sharply, and threw it backwards.
After this grenade exploded, the firing of German machine guns stopped. I thought to myself, this is really a blind cat meeting a dead mouse. I didn't expect my grenade to reimburse the enemy's fire point. Thinking of this, I was just about to stand up when the German machine guns clicked again. When I heard that the German machine guns were continuing to fire, my heart suddenly cooled, and it seemed that the grenade had not been able to destroy the enemy's fire point at all.
I glanced in front of me, and there were three grenades. I took out my first aid kit from my body, tied the three grenades tightly together with bandages, and prepared to throw them all at once. At such times, if I continue to throw them out one by one. It will inevitably attract the attention of the German army, and then they will return the favor with the other. Throw a few grenades in, and I'll wait to be blown to pieces.
After tying the grenade and connecting a few more leads together, I tried, and if I wanted to throw tens of meters with one hand, it was impossible, I could only throw it with two hands. I held my breath and jerked the string with my right hand, then held it in both hands and threw it backwards with all the strength of my milk. That gesture is like a bride throwing a flower ball, the only difference is that she throws a blessing, while I throw death.
After a loud bang, the German machine guns were dumb again. Although the machine guns stopped firing, I did not dare to act rashly, and still lay in the pit and did not move, for fear that as soon as I leaned in, the German machine guns opened fire again, and it was strange that I was not beaten into a sieve at that time.
It wasn't until the shouts of "Ula" rang out outside that I was sure that the grenade had destroyed the German fire. Looking at the commanders and fighters who kept jumping over my head, I tried to stand up, but I found that I was so weak that I couldn't stand up at all.
During the battle for the trenches, I lay motionless in the crater, and it was not until the end of the battle that the captain himself brought men to clean the battlefield that I was found in the crater.
The lieutenant jumped into the crater, crouched down, and asked with concern: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, are you injured?" ”
I shook my head and said with a wry smile, "I'm fine, but my whole body is weak and I can't stand up." Please, pull me along. With that, I held my hand over to him.
After he pulled me up from the ground, he raised his hand to wipe a handful of sweat, and said with palpitations: "Comrade commander, I just saw you lying motionless in the crater covered in blood, and I thought you had died. ”
When I heard him say this, I quickly looked down, but no, my clothes were full of the soldier's blood, no wonder the captain was blindly worried. I didn't explain, but asked rhetorically: "Have you taken the position?" ”
The lieutenant nodded vigorously and replied, "Report to Comrade Commander, the position has been taken." Since the casualties in the attack were too great, Brigade Commander Tarantsev sent me two more companies, so that we would have enough men to hold the position. ”
When he said that the troops suffered heavy casualties during the attack, I guess he mainly referred to the sailors, and when I thought of the astonishing scene just now, I couldn't help but teach him a lesson: "Comrade Captain, although we have recaptured our position, you should also see that our casualties are too great. It is important to know that if a commander is careless on the battlefield, how many lives will be sacrificed senselessly, and this is not at all sloppy. Fighting is not about risking the lives of the soldiers. Our fighters are not ordinary ordinary people. Even if you take ten Germans and exchange them for one of our soldiers, I will never change them. The Germans are something, worth the lives of our soldiers. You must accept the lessons of this blood, use your brains more in future battles, and achieve the greatest results at the lowest cost. ”
The lieutenant blushed at my criticism, and when I finished speaking, he lowered his head and said embarrassedly: "Understood, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, thank you for your teachings, I will firmly remember the lessons of this battle." ”
While he was talking, the captain ran over surrounded by several sailors. I saw that his right arm was wrapped in a bandage and hung on his chest, and it seemed that he had also hung up his color in the battle just now.
He came to us, saluted with his uninjured left hand, and reported: "Comrade commander, all the Germans on the position have been cleared, please go to the command post and rest." ”
The captain's face also returned to normal at this time, and he asked the captain: "Have you figured out the number of the German army?" ”
The captain nodded and replied, "It's all figured out, Comrade Commander." The Germans who occupied the positions belonged to the motorized 60th Division. In the battle just now, we have all been wiped out, and there are no prisoners. ”
After hearing this, the captain showed a happy expression on his face, and then he turned to me and said, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, please!" First go to the command post in the position to take a rest, and by the way, report the good news to the comrade commander. (To be continued......)