Red Moscow

  Chapter 753 Defense (2)

  The German army did not know that the defenders in the building had switched defenses. At 9:00 in the morning, they launched a new attack on the archives building.

   The 1st company standing on the outskirts was commanded by Captain Paul Koski. Seeing groups of enemies approaching the defensive positions, he wished he could immediately order to fire and give them a hard lesson. However, in order not to expose the target, he calmly said to the soldiers beside him: "Pass down, there is no My order is that no one is allowed to shoot!"

  Bolkoski's order was quickly and truthfully passed on to every soldier's ears. The soldiers hiding in the trench pointed their guns at the approaching German soldiers, with their fingers on the trigger, and they fired without hesitation at the order of the company commander.

The enemy is getting closer and closer, and Bolkoski has already seen clearly that there are more than a hundred enemies attacking. Among them are four armored vehicles driving forward slowly. The German machine gunners hiding behind the shields in the vehicle He was vigilantly observing the quiet Soviet position, ready to pull the trigger at any time.

Sokov, who was standing at the window on the fourth floor of the building, saw that there were only four armored vehicles attacking with the infantry, so he put down his binoculars and said to Belgin: "Comrade political commissar, let the mortars on the roof kill the enemy's armored vehicles and make the offensive The enemy will not get cover fire."

  Belkin nodded, picked up the phone, and began to give orders: "Lieutenant Grisa, this is Belkin, immediately shoot at the enemy's armored vehicles, and be sure to kill them in the shortest possible time."

   Following the order, the six mortars on the roof opened fire. The shells whistling out of the chamber flew in the air for a while before smashing into the enemy's attacking formation. Thick black smoke suddenly rose around several armored vehicles. Although the first round of shooting failed to destroy the enemy's armored vehicles, the flying shrapnel still knocked down a lot of surrounding soldiers.

Paulkowski was worrying just now. He didn’t have any anti-tank weapons. How could he kill these German armored vehicles? Now the mortars deployed on the roof of the building have fired. Since the artillery can clean up the enemy’s armored vehicles, he only needs to focus on Dealing with enemy troops will do.

At this moment, the enemy was only a hundred meters away from the trenches. Bolkowski looked to the left and right and saw that the soldiers' fingers were on the triggers, but he still shouted in a very majestic manner: "Ready to fight!" Then he raised his pistol , Pulled the trigger on the approaching German infantry.

  The sound of gunfire was an order, and the soldiers who had been suffocating for a long time pulled the triggers one after another, firing at the enemies who entered the range. Immediately, there was a dense gunshot on the battlefield, and even the machine guns in the firepower point roared. All of a sudden, all the commanders and fighters opened fire.

The German soldiers who were holding their guns and trying to avoid the shelling of the Soviet army did not expect that there would be so many firepower points in a seemingly quiet trench a hundred meters away. They were caught off guard for a while, and groups of soldiers fell down immediately At gunpoint. Seeing so many firepower points emerging from the silent trenches, the machine gunner hiding behind the shield was taken aback. He didn't care to avoid the Soviet artillery fire, so he raised his machine gun and fired at the Soviet positions, trying to kill the enemy in the shortest possible time. Suppress their firepower within a short period of time.

The machine gun fire on the armored vehicle still caused certain casualties to the Soviet troops in the trenches, but the shells flying from the roof seemed to have eyes and hit the armored vehicle accurately, killing the machine gunner hiding behind the shield. Flesh and blood were blown up. Without the cover of armored vehicles, the infantry became lambs to be slaughtered in front of the intensive firepower of the Soviet army. The German soldiers fought back for a while, and then quickly retreated with the help of bomb craters or the wreckage of various armored vehicles.

  The entire battle lasted only a quarter of an hour, and the German army dropped more than 80 corpses and two armored vehicles, and retreated in a hurry, while the Soviet army suffered no more than a dozen casualties.

Seeing that the battle ended so easily, Belkin standing upstairs was very excited. He said to Sokov repeatedly: "Misha, have you seen it? The enemy's attack is simply unbearable in front of our defense." One blow. Even if they come back ten times or eight times, we still have the confidence to crush their offense."

"Comrade Commissar, don't take it lightly." Although the battle that just ended was very easy, Sokov still said worriedly: "The reason why we can repel the enemy's attack so easily is that they don't understand us. In the current situation, I thought that the troops guarding the archives building were still the 39th Guards Division, which was severely understrength. They suffered this loss, and before the next attack, they will definitely bombard our place fiercely. I am very worried about the people outside Can those positions withstand the enemy's fierce shelling?"

"Misha, if that doesn't work, we'll withdraw all our troops into the building." Belkin suggested to Sokov: "This building is made of stone. It is full of holes, but it has never collapsed, which shows how strong it is, and it is very appropriate for me to let the soldiers come in to escape the shelling."

   "Okay." Hearing what Belkin said, Sokov said smoothly: "Let the company leave a few observation posts, and the rest of the soldiers evacuate to the building through the communication trench."

  After receiving Belkin's retreat order, Paul Koski did not immediately order everyone to retreat, but sent dozens of soldiers to send the wounded into the building first, and let the accompanying health workers bandage their wounds. After doing all this, Bolkowski left a few observation posts to monitor the enemy, and withdrew to the building with the main force.

  As soon as he entered the building, he saw Sokov and Belkin standing in the hall. He hurried over and raised his hand to salute the two: "Master, commander, hello!"

"Hello, Comrade Captain." As Bolkowski was an officer who was promoted later, Sokov had never met him before, so naturally he couldn't call out his orders, so he could only address him by his military rank: "You fought the battle just now." It was really wonderful, and it took less than a quarter of an hour to completely repel the enemy's attack."

   Facing Sokov’s praise, Paul Koski said a little embarrassedly: “Comrade Commander, without the support of the roof artillery, even if we could repel the enemy’s attack, I’m afraid we would have suffered a lot of casualties.”

   "Is there any difficulty?" Sokov asked.

   "No, there is no difficulty." Bolkowski shook his head and said, "We will definitely be able to hold our ground."

Regarding Bolkowski's answer, Sokov nodded in satisfaction, then turned to Belgin and said, "Comrade political commissar, no matter where such a commander is placed, he can be reassuring. If there are more people like him at the grassroots level." Commander, it will be much easier for us to fight."

  (end of this chapter)