German infantry, under the cover of a tank, rushed from the city along the streets towards the station. The fighters of the 2nd Company, under the command of Sapochuk, opened fire on the enemy troops from the buildings on both sides of the street, which had not yet completely collapsed.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the second company to block the enemy, I asked Fellstorf to lead the first company into the waiting building to assist the defenders in the defense, and then myself, with the fighters of the guard platoon and the artillery company, pushed the wreckage of several buses to the middle of the road as a barricade, and re-stacked the sandbags of the blown up barricades in front of the barricade to build new fortifications.

The tank stopped about fifty meters from our position, slowly turned its turret to the left, and fired at one of the positions where the second company was most heavily fired. With a loud bang, the shell hit the target with unmistakable accuracy, knocking down the entire wall, and the shattered wall collapsed, kicking up a cloud of dust and covering all the soldiers who had just shot inside. Several soldiers covered in dirt struggled out of the rubble, stumbling into the street when they were knocked down by indiscriminate German gunfire hiding behind tanks.

The turret of the tank turned to the right again, and another shot was fired, and the outer wall of the five-story residential building on the left side of the road was suddenly blown down in half, and the fire point in the building was suddenly dumb again. Seeing that the threat on both sides of the street was eliminated, the German soldiers, hiding behind the tanks, bent over with their guns in hand, carefully groped up along the sides of the street.

I lay on my stomach behind the sandbag bunker, looked at the black hole of the tank's gun, turned my head and shouted anxiously at the artillery company commander who was hiding behind: "Ishaev, hurry up and knock out the German tank with the artillery." ”

The artillery company had already set up the mortars, and as soon as my order was issued, a few shells whistled out of the air, and then exploded at the position where the enemy infantry was concentrated, and several soldiers near the explosion point were blown to pieces, and their internal organs were scattered on the street like rain, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to not die hurriedly retreated back to the back of the tank.

The German tanks, perhaps finding our mortars to be the greatest threat, drove a cut forward, then stopped and fired at the artillery positions. The shells accurately hit the artillery positions, several mortars were directly blown up, the surrounding artillery was either killed or wounded, and the wounded lay on the ground and groaned loudly. Thankfully, however, the shells were not detonated, otherwise there would have been more casualties.

Sapochuk, also wounded, fell to his knees with a bloody face, calmly directing the remaining few cannons to fire at the enemy.

"Sapochuk, how are you?" I asked aloud as I leaned behind the cover.

"I can't die." He answered me, then waved his hand at his men and yelled, "Fire." ”

Several shells exploded around the tank, and the smoke completely covered the tank. Just when I thought the tank had been blown up, the wind blew the smoke away, and the tank continued to move forward intact, followed by hordes of infantry.

"Sapochuk, where are your anti-tank guns?" I suddenly remembered that there were 45 mm anti-tank guns in the artillery battery, but it seemed that I had never seen them, and that thing was the most effective when it came to fighting tanks.

"On the sled, it's not assembled yet." His answer made my heart half cold, will the Germans give us time to assemble? We don't even have Molotov cocktails, except for a few mortars, and if the tanks rush in front of us, we'll be all screwed.

At this time, the firing points of the second company on both sides of the street were resurrected, and they were shooting condescendingly at the Germans, and from time to time they threw down several grenades. I saw that the infantry following the tank fell one piece, and the soldiers who could not shoot the tank because of the angle, and were afraid of being attacked by our anti-tank weapons, had to rush back and run over the bodies of the corpses and the wounded, and the screams of those people made people sound creepy.

The tank opened fire as it retreated, and a shell hit a pile of rubble not far from me, lifting a lot of masonry into the air and smashing it down again. The falling rubble smashed like a hammer on my back, and I could clearly hear the bones rattling, but luckily it hurt and not hurt. However, the machine gun shooter who was firing next to me was not so lucky, he was hit in the head by the falling rock, and without snorting, he lay on the sandbag and did not move.

Holding back the pain, I crawled over and grabbed the machine gun. Holding the gun on the sandbag, he half-crouched and pressed the butt against his shoulder socket, and pulled the trigger sharply at the enemy in the distance. But the machine gun was not the same as the submachine gun, the huge recoil made me sit on the ground with my ass, and a string of bullets shot into the sky without aim. I stood up and took a lunge, put the butt of my rifle back against my shoulder socket, and pulled the trigger again, this time not hitting the bullet into the air, but hitting the ground more than ten meters away, causing snow to splash on the ground. I adjusted the angle again, and this time I was able to shoot the bullet at the Germans with unerring accuracy.

The mortars fired two more rounds, but they did not pose much threat to the German tanks, only knocked out a lot of infantry. When the German tanks shelled the fire point of the second company, our mortars did not move. I handed the machine gun to Aji, who had just climbed into the bunker, and then bent down and ran to Ishaev's side, asking him in an irritated manner: "Why don't you fire the gun?" ”

He sat on the ground, pointed to the empty ammunition box and shell casing next to him and said, "The shells are all gone." ”

I looked at the empty box on the floor in disappointment, and then moved my gaze to Isayev's face, and his dignity suddenly startled me, and I couldn't help but gasp. On the right side of his face, a wound extended from the temple to near the chin, the flesh on both sides turned into the mouth, the bones inside were clearly visible, and there seemed to be a lot of dirt in the wound, which looked black and slimy.

"Hygienist, is there a hygienist?" I shouted to the side, if such a wound was not treated in time, he would be completely destroyed once it was infected.

With my shout, a soldier with a medical kit on his back got up from the rubble next to me, bent to run to my side, squatted down and saluted me: "Comrade commander, Gaidar, the health officer of the 1077th regiment, reports to you and listens to your instructions. ”

I pointed to Ishaev, who was sitting next to me, and said, "Help Comrade Company Commander to treat his wounds, his injuries are not light." ”

"Yes!" The hygienist said yes and went to Ishaev's side to help him take care of his wounds. He disinfected the wound with alcohol first, and Isayev was so painful that he even inhaled cold air, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted on not screaming. The hygienist picks out the dirt from the wound with tweezers and begins to close the wound with a special needle and thread. When I saw the hygienist doing all this, I got goosebumps all over my body, but it was not good to leave at this time, so I could only continue watching. When the hygienist pulled out a roll of bandages and began to bandage them, I breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ran back to my original position.

The three anti-tank guns of the artillery company were finally assembled and pushed into the street by the fighters to fire directly at the German tanks. By this time, the firing points on both sides of the street had been almost wiped out by the Germans, and the few remaining fighters of the second company could not stop the German attack at all.

The first round of fire from the anti-tank gun interrupted the tank's tracks. The forward tank immediately began to spin in circles, slid forward in circles, and then slammed into a wall before stopping, revealing only the back half of the body. The stopped tanks were much easier to hit than the moving targets, and the new round of artillery fire all hit the target, and the tanks suddenly emitted billowing smoke, and it seemed that this time it was completely reimbursed.

Losing the cover of the tanks, the German infantry seemed to have come out of it, bending over and shouting and rushing towards our position, firing as they went. Several artillerymen, who were holding shells and were about to reload, were hit by the enemy's dense bullets, shook their bodies a few times, and fell to the ground.

In the face of the fierce enemy, the fighters of the guard platoon and the artillerymen who took up their weapons, hid in the ruins and bunkers and opened fire together, and I also desperately pulled the trigger of the submachine gun. During the shooting, I clearly saw that countless blood sprays were constantly bursting out in the charging crowd, and the enemy rushed to a distance of about twenty meters from us, and they fell one after another. In the face of our dense firepower, the Germans still rushed forward desperately, regardless of casualties.

Seeing this situation, I couldn't help but think to myself, when there was a tank cover just now, the German army did not attack so frantically, the tank was knocked out by us, but rushed forward without life, it was a hell of a life.

"Comrade Commander, we're here to help you." Hearing this familiar voice, I didn't look back and knew that it was Lukin.

When he was lying down next to me to shoot, I asked him loudly, "Why are you here?" ”

"Comrade Ensign is afraid that you will not be able to withstand the German attack, so let me bring two platoons of soldiers to support you."

With such a dense formation, you hardly need to aim when shooting, as long as you aim at that place and pull the trigger, you can hit the target. Three or four hundred light and heavy weapons opened fire together, forming a dense network of fire, and from time to time grenades and shells exploded in the crowd, a complete one-sided slaughter.

After the remaining German troops retreated, we also stopped firing. At this time, the streets were littered with dead bodies, and the whole street was soaked in blood. I visually inspected and saw that there were at least four hundred German soldiers killed in front. I have never seen the Germans fight such a stupid battle, and I wonder what their commanders think, in the face of such dense firepower, they actually resort to the stupid method of filling with people.

"What happened to the Germans today? This kind of play is simply sending to death. My voice trembled a little as I said to Lukin beside me.

"yes!" Lukin also didn't understand the performance of the German army, he frowned and thought about it, then shook his head and said: "I can't think of it, it is estimated that this German commander is crazy to have such a crazy move." ”

"I know it! I know the truth! Just when we were puzzled, Ishaev, whose face was bandaged, crawled up and said excitedly: "I know why the Germans would attack so desperately." ”

"For what?" Lukin and I asked in unison.

"Listen!"

I listened intently, and there was a dense sound of gunfire in the distance, and it was getting closer and closer to us. I sat up straight and said, "I hear it, there's gunfire in the distance." ”

"Ha Luha, I know what's going on." Lukin was also excited.

"What the hell is going on? You two don't play dumb riddles, just tell me! "I was confused, and I was very dissatisfied with the two of them, so I was a little unkind when I spoke.

"Alright, Isayev, stop going around in circles with Comrade Commander, tell her the real reason why the enemy is crazy." Lukin said to Ishayev with a smile.

"Say!" I turned my face back to Ishaev.

He coughed, and then asked me, "Comrade commander, did you hear no other sounds while you heard the gunfire?" ”

"Nope! All I heard was the sound of gunfire in the distance, nothing else. ”

"In addition to the sound of gunfire," Isayev was afraid that I would be angry, and this time he did not go around in circles, but said directly: "There is also the sound of shouting 'Ula', which means that our army is conducting a counteroffensive in the city." The sound was getting closer and closer, which meant that the Germans could no longer resist and were ready to withdraw from the city. ”

"Oh, I see." Only then did I understand why the Germans had just behaved like that, adding: "The retreat of the Germans was intercepted by us, and in order to avoid the fate of being surrounded and annihilated, they attacked regardless of casualties, trying to open a passage from here to withdraw the troops from Volocramsk." ”

"Yes, I guess that's the reason for that." Ishaev nodded and replied, "Maybe they'll be attacking again in a moment." ”

"The Germans are coming." Aggie shouted from the side. I looked out into the street, and in the distance, German troops were slowly moving along the street towards us.

"Crow's beak." I cursed Ishaev in my heart, and then shouted at the warriors who were hiding around me: "Attention! The German devils are coming up and ready to fight! ”