Red Moscow

  Chapter 636 Meeting on a Narrow Road, the Brave Wins (Part 2)

  The reserve team was transferred to Beigang, and the first battalion was also deployed at the entrance and exit of the tunnel connecting the two hills, but Sokov was still not at ease. He walked to the door and shouted outside: "Come here!"

   Following the shout, Seryosha appeared in front of him: "Comrade Brigadier, do you have any instructions?"

  Sokov pointed at him with his hand and said, "Take someone immediately and follow me!"

   "Where are you going?" Seryozha asked instinctively.

   "Where else can we go?" Sokov glared at him and said, "Of course to the observation post on the top of the hill."

   Knowing that Sokov wanted to observe the observation post above his head, Seryozha quickly asked tentatively: "Then how many people should I bring?"

   "Take your guard company with you." Sokov ordered: "As for the security work in the tunnel, I will leave it to Major Tenev's guard battalion."

   "Yes!" Sergey quickly agreed, "I'll go to assemble the troops immediately."

   "Comrade Brigadier," Seryozha just ran away, and Sidolin, who heard the conversation between the two, walked to the door and asked tentatively, "Are you going to the observation post on the top of the mountain again?"

"Yes, I stay in the observation post, and I can keep abreast of the situation on the battlefield. Everything here is left to you and..." Sokov said here, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have nothing to do since he woke up. Seeing Belkin, he pointed to the camp bed where Belkin slept: "Where did the political commissar go, why didn't I see him?"

"It's like this," Sidolin heard Sokov ask Belkin, and quickly explained to him: "After you fell asleep, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, Briski, called. Something happened, the political commissar said that you are too tired, don’t bother you, let you continue to rest, and he rushed over to deal with it.”

"I see." Knowing that Belkin went to the Red October factory, Sokov felt relieved. As long as all the brigade commanders are not at Mamayev Post, even if the entire army is wiped out today, at least they will not Erjin and the commanders and fighters of the Fourth Battalion can be regarded as saving the seeds for the 73rd Infantry Brigade. He told Sidolin again: "I'll go to the observation post at the top of the hill to take a look, and I'll leave it to you. If there's anything, I'll call you."

   Arriving at the top of the hill, Sokov saw at a glance the brutal hand-to-hand combat that was going on on the **** of the northern hill. Soldiers from both sides bumped into each other, bayonet to bayonet, chest to chest, face to face in a life-for-life stabbing. On the battlefield of thousands of people, a medieval duel between cold weapons was going on.

   When it comes to the will to fight, the defenders dominated by sailors are much higher than the Romanian army. However, their numbers are at an absolute disadvantage. The Romanian army can use their superiority in numbers to fill the gap in fighting will and combat effectiveness between the two armies.

   Seeing that people on both sides were constantly falling in the stabbing, Sokov couldn't help feeling anxious. Even with the reserve team brought by Shamrih, the total strength of Beigang is no more than 1,000, while the enemy's first offensive force exceeds 2,000, and their follow-up troops are rushing over at this moment. If there are enough new rockets, just a few launches will wipe out the incoming Romanian army. However, due to the lack of ammunition, our troops can only fight hand-to-hand with the enemy and fight for consumption, even if they barely win in the end. , It will also be a tragic victory.

Seryozha, who was standing next to Sokov, was the first time he saw such a cruel hand-to-hand combat. He widened his eyes and asked Sokov in surprise: "Misha, we obviously have far fewer people than the enemy. What if If we continue to fight like this, we will suffer a lot.”

  Sokov naturally understood in his heart that if he continued to fight, his troops in Beigang were in danger. He looked around for the mortar troops sent to the top of the hill. After searching for a long time, he saw them hiding behind a pile of sandbag fortifications. Sokov hurriedly bent over and ran towards them.

  Seeing Sokov running towards him, Porochenko, the commander in charge of the artillery, rushed up to meet him and asked in surprise, "Comrade Brigadier, why are you here?"

"Didn't I order you to support the opponent's high ground with artillery fire?" Seeing that all the artillerymen and their mortars were staying in a trench behind the sandbag fortifications, Sokov couldn't help saying angrily, "Why are you staying in the trenches?" here?"

"Comrade Brigadier," Porochenko blushed and explained after hearing Sokov's criticism, "We fired two rounds of artillery shells towards the opposite side, but were suppressed by enemy tank fire, causing us some casualties. ..."

"Lieutenant Porochenko," Sokov waited for Porochenko to finish speaking, and taught him with a straight face: "You are an artilleryman, you should know that mortars are curved fire, and you can completely hide where the enemy cannot see." place, bombard the enemy on the opposite hill, and let the enemy's tanks have nothing to do with you."

   Porochenko quickly agreed, and took the remaining mortarmen to set up artillery positions. And Sokov walked to the other side, leaning over to look at the defensive position below. After seeing the situation below clearly, he became even more angry. He hurriedly turned around and walked to the observation post not far away, picked up the phone and connected to the command post of the second battalion commander Vasily, and said angrily: "Comrade Captain, The soldiers in Beigang are fighting desperately with the enemy, but what are your people doing?"

  Vassily didn't know why Sokov was so angry, so he could only answer honestly: "My troops are on guard on the ground to prevent possible attacks from the enemy."

"Comrade Captain," Sokov said sharply, "I just saw that the muzzles of several machine guns on your position are facing the hillside of Beigang. Let me ask you why you didn't order to open fire. You need to know the distance from the machine gun positions. The front **** of Beigang is less than 200 meters away, if you shoot, you can kill and injure a large number of enemies..."

After listening to Sokov in silence, Vasily defended himself and said: "Comrade Brigadier, have you seen the enemy's tanks under the northern hill? If we opened fire, we would be hit by enemy tank fire. "

"As long as the enemy can be eliminated, even if your machine gun position is destroyed by the enemy's tank guns, it is worth it." Sokov decided to go all out at this moment. As long as he can repel the enemy's attack, no matter how big the loss is, he can only fight hard. He continued to work on his scalp: "If you allow the defenders of Beigang to be wiped out by the enemy, then the enemy will turn their guns on you next, and what will happen to you at that time, even if I don't tell you, you will never know in your heart." Should understand."

"I see…"

"You don't understand!" Before Vasily could finish his sentence, Sokov interrupted him, "If you really understood, you wouldn't keep talking nonsense with me here, but directly ordered the machine guns on the ground It's firing."

  Sokov put down the phone and said to Sergesha: "Sergesha, go to Porochenko to see if their artillery positions have been set up. When can they fire?"

Although it was the first time for Sokov to speak to Sergei in such an impatient tone, Sergey could understand his feelings. He even thought to himself: If he encountered the same situation, he might bring it himself. Gun, led the soldiers rushed towards the enemy.

   Before Sergey came back to report, the machine guns on the second battalion opened fire. The intensive firepower composed of four or five machine guns hit the crowded queue of the Romanian army, splashing blood in patches, and the soldiers who were waiting to fight for bayonets fell in groups in a pool of blood amidst screams. middle.

  The tanks parked at the foot of the mountain saw the infantry queue crowded on the hillside, and after being hit by the machine gun fire from the high ground on the other side, made huge gaps one after another, they immediately turned their muzzles and fired at the machine gun fire point at Nangang. Due to the hasty firing, the first rounds fired by the tanks missed. However, the tank soldiers corrected the shooting parameters in time and conducted the second round of shooting again. This time they achieved the result quickly, blowing a firing machine gun to pieces, and the blast lifted the machine gunner from the trench, threw him high into the air, and fell hard to the ground.

  Although the comrades around were blown away by the enemy's shells, the machine gunners of several other machine guns were still shooting non-stop, using dense bullets to plow flesh and blood alleys in the enemy's queue.

  While the machine guns were killing the enemy in large numbers, the mortars were also firing. In order to make up for his mistakes, Porochenko ordered his gunners to shoot out all the shells in the shortest time. Hearing Porochenko's order, the gunners did not dare to neglect, and fired at the fastest speed to shoot out the coefficients of the shells around them.

  The Romanian infantry on the hill finally couldn't hold on under the double blow of artillery fire and machine gun fire, and some people began to turn around and run back one after another. A few escapes sparked a mass rout, and even the officers started running back. Since the hillside had already been soaked in blood and the ground became muddy, as long as the fleeing officers and soldiers fell down, there was no possibility of getting up, and they would be trampled to death by the retreating soldiers.

Seeing the enemy retreating, the sailors and soldiers shouted and chased after them. They broke into the enemy's formation and stabbed to death all enemy troops who dared to intercept and resist with blood-stained bayonets; for the tanks parked at the foot of the mountain, they directly Climb aboard the tank and throw a grenade into the open roof, killing the tank crew inside.

"Misha, did you see that?" Seeing the enemy's massive rout, Seryozha couldn't help but smile. He patted Sokov on the back vigorously with his hand a few times, and said excitedly: "The enemy Escape, we have won!"

  Seeing the enemy's defeat, Sokov was certainly relieved, but he didn't dare to take it lightly. After all, the ammunition of our own troops has been almost exhausted. As long as the enemy makes another attack of this scale, it will be difficult to stop it. He quickly picked up the phone and said to Vitkov in Beigang: "Comrade deputy brigade commander, the enemy has been repulsed by us. Immediately order the troops to stop the pursuit and hurry up to collect ammunition to prevent the enemy from launching a new attack."

  (end of this chapter)