Red Moscow

  Chapter 673 Reinforcement of Liumian Street

At about ten o'clock in the morning, when the Soviet Union and Germany were fighting inextricably in several areas, Captain Sida, the commander of the 3rd company of the German 389th Infantry Division's Motorized Infantry Battalion, led 187 soldiers under his command and bypassed the Soviet Union. The army's defense line at the silicate factory quietly entered the gully, preparing to go out to the bank of the Volga River through here and disrupt the rear of the Soviet army.

  In order to deal with the ambush or blockade of the Soviet army, Captain Xida divided the troops into three parts, and two platoons marched on the edge of the gully on both sides; while he led the rest of the troops to walk in the middle of the gully. If the Soviet army has an ambush on the edge of the ditch, the troops on both sides can find it in time and start fighting with it; if the Soviet army blocks in the ditch, then the troops on both sides can also take advantage of the terrain , Attacking the Soviet army in the ditch condescendingly, covering the troops in the ditch to break through the Soviet army's defense.

   It has to be said that Captain Xida's arrangement is very reasonable. Once he encounters the Soviet army, even if he cannot win, he can retreat unscathed. However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. After the troops walked along the gully for one or two kilometers, Captain Xida found that the gully was getting deeper and deeper, from the original two or three meters to seven or eight meters, and there was a tendency to get deeper.

Seeing this situation, Captain Xida, who was worried about the inconvenience of communication due to the change of terrain, made the most wrong decision. He ordered the troops that were marching on both sides of the gully to enter the bottom of the gully. Continue east along the gully filled with furnace ash.

  The company walked forward for more than half an hour, when suddenly there were intensive gunshots. Xida, who was walking in the middle of the team, couldn't help but thumped in his heart, thinking to himself: No, I met a Russian. He hurriedly called a communication soldier and ordered: "Go ahead and see what happened?"

   Before the communicators left, the platoon leader of the front row sent a soldier back to report to Xida: "Mr. Captain, there are Russian positions ahead, and we have already started a firefight with them."

  Xilda listened for a while, and found that there were only gunshots and grenade explosions in front of him, which proved that the Russians did not have any heavy weapons, which made him feel more at ease: "What kind of fortifications do the Russians have?"

"The Russians blocked the intersection with mine carts and sandbags, and set up machine guns in a two-story building behind, pinning us down on the road." The soldier quickly replied: "Mr. Captain, the platoon leader Let me tell you that with a few mortars, the Russian defenses can be quickly destroyed."

Regarding the request of his subordinates, Captain Xida thinks it is very reasonable. The company is equipped with five 50 mm caliber mortars, and each gun is equipped with 50 rounds. If you go up, then your troops can easily break through the line of defense.

  Thinking of this, Xida called the mortar platoon leader and asked him to lead his men to support the front platoon. He must use artillery fire to destroy the Soviet defense line, and the company opened up a passage leading to the Volga River.

  The mortars were quickly deployed. With the order of the mortar platoon leader, five mortars fired at the Soviet army's crude position at the same time. The German artillery is well-trained, and at such a close range, their hit rate is very high. Two consecutive rounds of shelling blasted several gaps in the sandbag fortifications blocked by the Soviet army at the intersection.

   Originally suppressed by Soviet firepower, the German soldiers lying on the ground or lying in the ash pile jumped up, jumped over the wounded or corpses on the ground with their guns in hand, and rushed towards the area being shelled.

   Seeing that his troops were still 20 to 30 meters away from the opponent's position, in order to prevent accidental injury, the mortar fire began to extend to bombard the buildings behind. The charging soldiers, taking advantage of the opportunity that the defenders at the intersection were overwhelmed by the artillery fire, quickly rushed in through the blasted gap.

  If the troops standing at the intersection are direct descendants of Sokov, they will use their sophisticated equipment to quickly destroy or drive out the enemies who rushed into the gap. However, it was the sailors of the Marine Battalion who were guarding here at the moment. They were all holding rifles with one shot and one bolt in their hands, so they couldn't gain an advantage in firepower. Therefore, sailor soldiers usually rushed up with bayonets to start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy after firing a shot.

The deputy battalion commander Yakuda, who was staying on the second floor, saw the fierce battle at the intersection from the window, and quickly called Shamrih for help: "Comrade battalion commander, the enemy has launched an attack on our defensive position. Our soldiers Suppressed by artillery fire, ask for support, ask for support."

Shamrih didn't expect that the first company staying at the bottom of the ditch would be unable to support it after only a few minutes of fighting, so he quickly gave an order to attack the troops hiding on both sides of the gully: "Attack immediately from both sides of the gully!" , we must wipe out this enemy.”

  As the order was issued, the commanders and fighters who were ambushing in the gullies on both sides of the gully rushed to the edge of the gully one after another. Since the distance from the bottom of the ditch was about ten meters, and the ashes of the furnace were also unable to stand on people, the soldiers did not jump down, but stood on the edge of the ditch and threw grenades at the bottom of the ditch.

  Black grenades fell from the sky, fell on the ground or exploded in the air, blowing up the German soldiers crowded at the bottom of the ditch. Before the gunpowder smoke dissipated, another wave was thrown down from the edge of the ditch, with almost no dead ends and almost no interruptions. The grenades seemed to be endless, and they were thrown down one after another.

  The German soldiers at the bottom of the ditch faced the grenades falling from the sky, either lying down on the spot, or scurrying around like headless flies. However, no matter whether they lie down on the spot or run around, at the bottom of the ditch without dead ends, they are lambs waiting to be slaughtered. After only two or three minutes, there were no active people in the place crowded with more than one hundred German soldiers.

   And those soldiers who broke through the Soviet defense line and were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, when they heard the earth-shattering explosion behind them and smelled the strong smell of blood mixed in the choking gunpowder smoke, they knew that the troops behind were finished. Under such circumstances, where they had the courage to continue fighting, they stopped fighting one after another, dropped their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.

  Seeing that his troops had dealt with a company of the German army within 20 minutes, Shamrich couldn't help being a little complacent, and hurriedly called Sokov to announce the good news. Unexpectedly, after listening to Sokov, he could only hum a lightly, without even saying a word of praise, and then directly ordered: "Comrade Captain, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, pay attention to collecting more usable guns Ammunition. In addition, your fortifications need to be strengthened to prevent the enemy from entering the gully."

"Understood, Comrade Commander." Although Sokov's attitude was a bit cold, Shamrikh was not angry at all. He knew very well in his heart that the record he had achieved was nothing in Sokov's eyes. What, so put your mind right, and assign tasks as soon as you put down the phone.

  After finishing the call, Sokov said to the radio operator: "Radio operator, send a report to the Chief of Staff, saying that we have just wiped out a German company in a ditch."

  The radio operator immediately followed his order and reported the results of the Marine Battalion to Sidolin on Mamayev Gang by telegram. Not long after the message was sent, he received a call back from the division headquarters. After translating the content of the message, he couldn't help being stunned. He quickly walked up to Sokov with the message and said nervously: "Comrade commander, this It's an urgent telegram from Mamayev Post."

   "Urgent telegram?" Hearing what the radio operator said, Sokov couldn't help showing a surprised expression on his face. He quickly took the telegram in the other party's hand and browsed it carefully. Unexpectedly, just halfway through, his face turned livid.

   Seryosha, who was sitting on the mound beside him, saw Sokov's reaction, and couldn't help asking curiously, "Misha, what happened? I see how your face has changed?"

Sokov held the telegram in his hand, looked at Sergesha and said: "The Army Command has informed us that the enemy has broken through the defense line of the 37th Guards Division and occupied the stadium of the Dzerzhinsky Tractor Factory. The distance is less than one kilometer. The guard here is a battalion of the 109th Guards Regiment, and now they have been compressed by the enemy into a group of stone buildings to the south. The headquarters ordered me to lead the troops to support immediately.”

"What, let us rush to the Dzerzhinsky Tractor Factory to support?" After hearing what Sokov said, Seryozha immediately jumped up, and said excitedly: "Misha, why did you send us from the horses? Mayev Gang was transferred here, and just wiped out a German army, and before we had time to catch our breath, we were asked to rush a few kilometers away to support friendly troops. The superiors really regarded us as a battlefield firefighting team..."

"Enough!" Sukov knew that if he didn't stop Sergei, he would chatter for a long time, so he stopped him sharply, and said in a stern tone: "I just wiped out the enemy's troops. Lieutenant Shamrih's marine battalion, not your Sergei's guard company. Don't talk nonsense, immediately assemble the troops, we have to rush to a place called Liumen Street there, which is a stronghold of friendly forces, they There is a repeated tug-of-war with the enemy."

"Misha, aren't our people too small?" Although he was scolded by Sokov, Seryosha relied on his friendship with Sokov and said with a playful smile: "Why don't you find someone else?" Captain Shamrih wants someone?"

"Captain Shamrikh," in fact, even if Sergei didn't mention it, Sokov would draw troops from the Marine Battalion to go with him. He wouldn't foolishly rush to the end of the battle with only a hundred people. Intense place to help. Therefore, he took over the command post of Shamrih decisively, and said straight to the point: "I will take the guard company and the second company north of the gully to perform the mission, and you will take the rest of the troops to stay where you are."

Hearing that Sokov wanted to transfer one of his companies, Shamrikh assured Sokov without asking anything, "Don't worry, Comrade Commander, we will never let an enemy pass through the ditch and reach On the banks of the Volga."

  The reason why Sokov wanted to take the second company of the Marine Battalion was because the opponent was stationed closest to him; Including the guard company, the two companies have about 500 people. When they go to Liumian Street to support the friendly army, there will be no shortage of troops.

   Ten minutes later, Captain Agranov, the commander of the second company, appeared in front of Sokov. Instead of saluting, he straightened his back and reported briefly: "Mr. Comrade, Erlian is here on orders, please give instructions!"

"Captain Agranov," Sukov knew the company commander, and he called out his name without any difficulty, and began to assign tasks to him: "Our friendly forces are trapped in a place two kilometers away from here. It's a stone building complex, and they are engaged in repeated tug-of-war with the Germans in order to hold on there. Your company's task is to rush over to support them and drive the enemy out of the block. How is it, is there any difficulty?"

   "No difficulty!" Agranov replied curtly.

"Very good!" Sokov was very satisfied with Agranov's answer. He nodded, then waved his hand and said, "Since there is no problem, let's go. Before the enemy takes our Get there as quickly as possible before friendly forces are wiped out, or drive them off the block."

  When Sokov led the troops to Liumian Street, the battle here had already entered a fierce state. From the name on the telegram, Sokov thought this must be a street, but it was actually an old-fashioned residential area, and here were some solid stone buildings with a long history.

  In order to destroy the resistance of the Soviet army here, the German army used eight 75mm anti-tank guns and bombarded the Soviet soldiers who were hiding behind the window and shooting with high-explosive grenades. Although these shells were not enough to destroy solid stone buildings, the shrapnel flying around caused heavy casualties to the soldiers on defense missions.

  The German infantry who rushed into the residential area, as soon as they saw the resistance of a building being suppressed by artillery fire, immediately rushed into the building while taking advantage of the gunpowder smoke, and started close combat and hand-to-hand combat with the Soviet commanders and fighters who stood firm inside.

  The battle was fierce. Although the soldiers of the Guards were at a disadvantage in numbers and firepower, they were extremely tenacious. As soon as a building is occupied by the German army, the commander will organize soldiers to fight back and take the building back from the enemy's hands.

   Several buildings on the edge of the residential area were not only riddled with holes by artillery fire, but the surroundings of the buildings were filled with the dead bodies of soldiers from both sides. In these piles of corpses, although there are still some seriously wounded who have not yet died, in such a fierce fighting situation, neither the Soviet army nor the Germans can care about treating their wounded, and can only let them fly in the air. , Explosions one after another fend for themselves in the ruins.

  The German army had just occupied a four-story building. Before they could rush out of the building, countless Soviet commanders rushed out of a building not far away. The German soldiers who were panting in the building were surprised to find that there were many officers with pistols in the charging team.

  Seeing this situation, the German commander guessed that the Russian soldiers were almost dead, so the officers of the headquarters had to participate in the attack. So he shouted at the soldiers around him: "Beat all the Russian soldiers to death first. After all the soldiers are dead, their officers will be nothing to worry about."

When the soldiers heard the commander's shout, they quickly targeted ordinary Russian soldiers as priority targets. They knew in their hearts that those officers were holding pistols, and at such a long distance, they could not pose any threat to themselves. . As long as you kill the Russian soldiers with long weapons, you can kill all the officers calmly like shooting a target.

  (end of this chapter)