Red Moscow

  Chapter 480

   When the rocket flew towards the village, Minishki’s heart was in his throat. Even though he had learned the operation of this new type of rocket, it was his first time to shoot live ammunition. According to the parameters we have, this kind of rocket will have a deviation of 50 to 100 meters when it is launched at the farthest range of 8.5 kilometers. Now that the distance from the target is less than two kilometers, the deviation should be controlled within 15 meters.

   A few seconds later, two rockets with long flame tails plunged into the village, and at the same time as two **** of dazzling flames rose, they made an earth-shattering explosion sound. "Great, hit!" Numerous fragments of wooden houses and broken limbs near the bombing point were thrown into the air, and motorcycles parked in the open space were also blown up or overturned by the air waves. Seeing this scene, Golia couldn't help cheering, and he shouted to the soldiers standing aside: "What are you still doing, hurry up and continue loading."

   Hearing the battalion commander's roar, the soldiers woke up from the surprise, hurriedly lifted the remaining two rockets and stuffed them into the launch tube. Minishki readjusted the position of the launch tube, and pressed the launch button straight away, and two more rockets flew towards the burning village.

   The first launch did not directly hit the wooden house where the German headquarters was located, but it destroyed the nearby wooden house, causing a raging fire. In this kind of village in Russia, there are all wooden buildings. As long as there is a fire in one place, there will be a situation of continuous fire. The German soldiers who were resting in a nearby wooden house noticed that a wooden house was burning outside. They were afraid that they would be trapped in the wooden house and burn to death, so they rushed out of the house one after another, including a group of officers from the German Army Command.

As soon as they ran out of the house, the two rockets that happened in the second round arrived. The explosion of the rockets formed a huge deep pit. The people in the pit were not left with scum, and the soldiers who were a little further away were also Heads were chopped off by shrapnel, or the chest was pierced. Soon the whole village began to burn, and some surviving soldiers had no idea where the shells that attacked them came from, so they could only run around like headless chickens.

Goliath raised his binoculars to observe the situation in the village carefully, and found that the surviving soldiers lived in houses on the edge of the village, while the wooden houses in the middle of the village were all wrapped in flames, and there was no trace of human activities at all. The enemies in this area should all have died in the rocket explosion.

"Comrade battalion commander," Tavlin urged anxiously seeing Golia holding up the binoculars, "Look, the whole village is on fire. If the enemy's headquarters is really in the middle of the village, Then their officers should be dead at this moment. Before the enemy comes, let's retreat quickly."

Golia put down the binoculars, nodded, and said to the soldiers: "Get in the car, before the enemy finds us, let's return to Mamayev Post as soon as possible." Helping Minishki to remove the launch tube from the tripod and move it to the car.

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  According to Sokov's vision, despite the fact that the German regiment command post is only 30 kilometers away from Mamayev Post, Goria and the others still set off in an armored vehicle, but it will take at least five hours to complete this mission.

   Unexpectedly, in less than three hours, Sidolin received a call from the commander of the Fourth Battalion from Beigang. After he heard the content of the report on the other side, he covered the microphone with his hand and said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, Captain Goria and the others are back."

"What, are you back now?" Sokov looked at his watch and said in surprise, "It's not even three hours." He raised his head and told Sidolin, "Let him come to me immediately to report the situation. "

   "Fourth Battalion Commander," Sidolin said into the microphone, "When you see Captain Goria, ask him to report to the brigade headquarters immediately."

   About twenty minutes later, a "German soldier" wearing a steel helmet, a German uniform, and a submachine gun on his chest walked into the headquarters swaggeringly. Seeing a German soldier enter the house, Sokov instinctively stretched his hands to his waist, but he soon realized that it was a false alarm, and it was Goria who came.

Sokov stood up while supporting the table, and said to Goria: "So it was you, Captain Goria. Why didn't you change your clothes when you came? Aren't you afraid that our soldiers will treat you as a German? "

Golia grinned and replied: "Comrade Brigadier, as soon as I returned to the tunnel in Beigang, I received a call from Captain Briski, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, saying that you asked me to come and report to you immediately, so I didn’t even have time to change my clothes, so I hurried over.”

"Captain Goria," Sidolin came over with a cup of hot tea, greeted Goria to sit down, put the tea mug in front of him, and said, "Tell me about your mission to the enemy's rear this time. Bar."

  Golia quickly reported to Sidolin in detail how the troops passed through the enemy's line of defense and how they used rockets to destroy the village where the German command headquarters was located.

  After Goria finished speaking, Sidolin asked with a serious expression: "Comrade Captain, tell me truthfully, did the rockets you fired really completely destroy the enemy's headquarters?"

"Yes, Comrade Chief of Staff." Seeing that Sidolin had doubts about his results, Golia quickly stood up and replied, "I have observed carefully that after being hit by rockets, the entire village was on fire. Especially in the area we shelled, there was not a single moving figure. In such a fierce fire, even steel would burn, let alone people."

"Comrade Chief of Staff, there is no need to ask." Seeing that Sidolin seemed to want to continue asking, Sokov quickly raised his hand to stop him: "I know the power of the rockets very well. Unless Captain Goria When they attacked, the German commander was not there, otherwise, under the blow of four rockets, unless he was Iron Man, he would have been burned to ashes."

   "Iron Man?!" Sidolin stared at Sokov with wide eyes, and asked in surprise, "Comrade Brigadier, what is Iron Man?"

  Seeing the surprised gazes of the people around him, Sokov realized that he had spoken quickly and said the wrong thing again. In order to quickly get rid of the embarrassment, he looked at Golia and asked: "Comrade Captain, you seemed to say that you passed the enemy's defense line very smoothly. Are the enemy's defenses very lax?"

"I don't know about other places." Golia replied: "Anyway, in the area we pass through, the sentries on the road are not very vigilant. When we heard that they belonged to the 100th Jager Division, they didn't even have the documents. Without inspection, we were allowed to pass.”

  Witkov, who was sitting opposite Sokov, saw Sokov nodding his head thoughtfully, and couldn't help asking: "Comrade Brigadier, do you have any new ideas?"

Sokov nodded, and said in an affirmative tone: "That's right, since the German army's defenses are so lax, then we can send a few more teams to penetrate deep into the enemy's defenses and attack their warehouses, camps, and supply lines." , to prevent the enemy from concentrating on the attack on Mamayev Kurgan."

   "Comrade Brigadier," Sidolin waited for Sokov to finish speaking, and immediately asked: "Which battalion do you plan to transfer troops from to complete this task?"

  If it was half a month ago, Sokov would definitely say without hesitation that the 3rd Battalion or the 192nd Battalion would be dispatched to carry out sabotage missions behind enemy lines. But now the five battalions of the entire brigade have suffered heavy losses. If too many troops are deployed to the enemy's rear, the frontal defense will be weakened. Therefore, he hesitated for a long time before he said: "How about this, let each battalion transfer fifteen soldiers to form small teams and go deep into the enemy's rear for activities."

After talking about his thoughts, Sokov said to Golia: "Comrade Captain, you don't need to lead the enemy's rear squad formed by your battalion yourself, and find another trustworthy commander to take charge. "

"Understood, Comrade Brigadier." Goria knew that Sokov said this for the purpose of protecting himself, so he did not insist on leading the team himself, "I will find a suitable commander and lead the new team The squad went deep into the enemy's rear."

After Golia left, Vitkov took advantage of Sidolin's phone call and asked Sokov in a low voice: "Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, you sent a small unit to the enemy's rear to fight guerrillas, didn't you weaken the front?" defense force?"

"Comrade Colonel," Sokov explained to Vitkov: "The reason why I want to send a small unit to the enemy's rear to carry out a raid is to cooperate with the frontal troops to hold on to Mamayev Post. Think about it, we have Five small units operating behind the enemy will cause the enemy's weapons, ammunition and military supplies to be unable to be transported, and the wounded will not be able to be transported, so how much impact will it have on the enemy's morale and morale."

However, Vitkov was obviously not interested in Sokov's guerrilla tactics. He still kindly reminded Sokov: "I am worried that the enemy will send a large number of troops to encircle and suppress when they find that we have a small unit deep into their rear. Our squad behind enemy lines is in danger."

"Comrade Colonel," Sokov said with a smile on his face when he heard Vitkov say, "if the enemy really mobilizes a large number of troops to wipe out the small units operating in their rear, it will greatly relieve Mamayer's attack. Fugang’s defensive pressure. And we can also use this precious time to let the troops standing on the high ground rest and replenish, and stockpile ammunition and supplies to prepare for the new German attack.”

"Lieutenant Colonel Sokov," Witkov couldn't help but retort when he saw that Sokov was again mentioning dealing with the enemy's new attack, "I think the enemy's vital strength has been almost exhausted. It can be judged from the strength of the attack, and they may turn to defense on the spot and engage in a stalemate with us."

  (end of this chapter)