Red Moscow

  Chapter 376 Night Attack

  Because the Germans did not see through Ernst's disguise, they naturally fell into the trap set by Sokov for them. The battalion headquarters and other companies staying outside the minefield, after receiving the telegram from the first company, immediately followed the road opened by the engineers and boarded the southern position of Mamayev Gang.

   Seeing that the large German troops had successively occupied the surface positions of Nangang, Belgin asked Sokov with some concern: "Comrade Brigadier, the enemy will not find our tunnel entrance?"

"No, Comrade Political Commissar." Sokov replied with a normal expression: "I have ordered people to block the entrance to the usual entrance and disguised it. Unless the Germans searched carefully during the day, they would not have found it at all." No."

Although Belkin knew Sokov's entire battle plan, seeing that the enemy to be besieged had already entered the position, he urged: "Comrade Brigadier, since the enemy has already entered our trap, why don't we act now? "

"Do it now?" Sokov raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said, "No, my Comrade Political Commissar. The enemy has just entered the position and is still very vigilant. Maybe our soldiers will be killed as soon as they come out of the tunnel." What they noticed, I think we should wait until three o'clock in the morning. At that time, people are the most tired, and we can reduce casualties to a minimum when we attack while the enemy is sleeping soundly."

  After saying this, Sokov turned to Briski and said, "Comrade Captain, if I remember correctly, there is an engineer platoon in your battalion, right?"

   "Yes, Comrade Brigadier." Briski didn't know why Sokov asked such a question, and quickly nodded and replied, "There is indeed an engineering platoon in my battalion, and the backbone of it is the soldiers who accompanied me to break through."

   "Did you see the passage opened by the Germans in the minefield?" Sokov asked, pointing to the minefield in the distance.

   "Yes, I saw it." Although it was pitch black outside, and it was impossible to see anything at a distance, Briski nodded in affirmation: "I wonder if you have any instructions?"

   "After midnight," Sokov continued, "Immediately send an engineering platoon to block the roads opened by the German engineers so that none of them can escape. Do you understand?"

   "Understood." Hearing that he was asking his engineers to lay mines, Briski immediately replied loudly: "I promise to blow up the enemies who enter the minefield to howl."

  ...

  At three o'clock in the morning, the German army was sleeping soundly in the bunkers or trenches, leaving only a few sentries on duty outside. Although it is September now, the nights in Russia are still very cold. In order to keep out the cold, two fires were lit in the trenches on the west slope, and they surrounded them to keep warm.

  When the fire was being lit, a sentry asked worriedly: "We are lighting the fire here, won't we attract Russian artillery fire?"

Another sentry sneered and said, "Don't forget, we are on the west side of Nangang, and the Russians are on the east side. Can their shells hit us? But the brothers who are on duty in the east fortification, just Without our good fate, they can only shiver in the cold wind."

  His words immediately caused a burst of laughter. The sentinel who spoke first felt a lot more at ease when he heard what his companion said, and he also started to gather around the fire to keep warm with peace of mind.

  The two sentinels stationed in the fortification on the side of Dongpo were wrapped in military coats and huddled in the newly dug trench, waiting for their companions to change the guard. A sentry turned his head to look at the red light on the other side of the hill, and said enviously, "Hans, those sentries on the western **** are really lucky. They can actually light a fire to keep warm when they are on duty."

"Come on, buddy." The sentinel called Hans said: "Didn't you see that the Russians' position is two or three hundred meters away from the hill. If there is a fire here, within five minutes, the shells will be destroyed." Flying over. I'd rather be cold than be blown up by a shell."

At this time, in the bushes at the top of the hillside, a piece of turf one meter square was suddenly lifted, revealing a square hole underneath. A Soviet soldier wearing a helmet carefully placed the plank with turf on it. After standing aside, it quietly crawled out from inside, and then, the second and third ones crawled out...

   Soon, several similar holes appeared not far away, and countless Soviet commanders and fighters crawled out of them. After they came out, they first gathered near the entrance of the cave, and then they rushed to the defensive positions on the east and west slopes in squads.

Hans was chatting with his companion, when he heard footsteps behind him, he thought it was his companion who was changing the guard, but when he turned around to see what happened, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest, the severe pain made him want to shout out He yelled out loudly, but when he opened his mouth, a stream of blood with a fishy smell filled his mouth, making him unable to make any sound.

Another sentry saw Hans staggering a few steps, then fell headlong into the trench, and was about to rush over to see what happened, when a man appeared next to him and stabbed him directly with a dagger. Thoracic cavity, piercing his lung lobe. The gushing blood immediately poured into the lungs, flooding the alveoli, making him, like Hans, fall to the ground without sending out anything.

  The soldiers who killed the sentries were all from the reconnaissance company. After they learned **** the enemy sentries from the military doctor, they have been practicing non-stop. Today, they can kill two sentries so cleanly. After clearing the sentinels, they waved towards the darkness, and countless figures emerged from the darkness. After they jumped into the trench lightly, they split into two groups and rushed towards the place where the enemy was sleeping.

   Soon, gunshots shook the sky on the silent Nangang, and the flames were raging. Gunshots, grenade explosions, and the screams of the wounded came one after another. The German army in its sleep would never have thought that the Soviet army would launch a sneak attack at such a time, how could it prevent a decent resistance, and the battle would become one-sided.

  It took only a quarter of an hour for the Soviet soldiers to reoccupy the surface positions of Nangang, including the simple fortifications built by the Germans on the eastern slope. Most of the German soldiers fell into a pool of blood and became cold corpses before they recovered their senses. Only more than 200 enemies stationed at the foot of the west **** heard the sound of gunfire on the hill and realized that something was wrong. The road opened in the minefield returned to his starting position.

  Since it was here, it was so easy to go. Sokov ordered someone to fire flares into the air, exposing the enemies trying to escape to the dazzling light. The enemy didn't know that Sokov had sent someone to mine again, and they were still walking out along the road they thought was safe.

  When the pioneers walking in the front were bombed into the sky one after another by landmines, the Germans behind immediately realized that there was a problem and tried to find new passages from other positions. However, the passage in the minefield is not easy to find, and soon someone hit the mine, was lifted into the sky by the blast wave, and after a beautiful tumbling movement in the air, it hit the ground heavily. If you are unlucky, you will detonate other landmines when you land, and when you blow yourself apart, you will also blow up a few companions near the explosion point.

Sokov and Belkin stood in the observation post, watching the Germans scurrying about like headless flies in the minefield. Every time a rumor flared up, a few unlucky soldiers were blown up. fly. Seeing this, Belgin couldn't help laughing, and he said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, you did a great job of letting the engineers block the passage. It is simply impossible to get through this minefield."

  After the commanders and fighters of the first battalion cleared the enemies on the hill, they immediately went out to the position at the foot of the hill. Seeing the enemy dancing in the minefield, the battalion commander Captain Vanya had an idea, and immediately organized more than 20 sharpshooters to shoot at the enemy in the minefield. From the fortifications to the minefield, the distance is only more than 100 meters. Most of the enemies are afraid of stepping on the mines, so they can only stand still. Under the light of the flares, they become the best targets.

"My God, we have become the targets of the Russians." The German battalion commander, who managed to escape into the minefield, saw the soldiers around him being knocked down one after another, and hurriedly fell to the ground, while shouting loudly at his subordinates Shout: "Lie down, there are snipers, get down!"

   But the explosion of landmines and gunfire covered his shouts, and only a few soldiers nearby could hear his voice. Those soldiers who didn't hear the battalion commander's shout saw their companions falling to the ground continuously, and knew that they might have encountered a Soviet sniper, so they hurriedly lay down on the ground.

  A German lieutenant crawled up to the battalion commander, leaned close to his ear and asked loudly: "Mr. Major, we are now trapped in a minefield and attacked by Russian snipers. What should we do now?"

   "What can I do, what else can I do?" The battalion commander said angrily, "If I knew what to do, would I still need to lie here?"

  The lieutenant saw that the battalion commander was helpless in the current situation, so he suggested to him: "Mr. Major, why don't we ask the regiment headquarters for help and ask them to bomb the minefield and open up a retreat for us?"

   "Confused, you are simply confused." The German battalion commander said a little angrily: "We are now in a minefield. If the division artillery regiment shells here, won't we become targets?"

"But, Mr. Major." The lieutenant was a little anxious, "We can't just sit here and wait for death, can we? If we continue to procrastinate, we will be killed by Russian snipers in the minefield by daybreak, or we will be killed only when the day breaks." The life of the captive, you should make up your mind early."

  If Sokov was by the side of the German battalion commander, he would definitely advise him to send a few soldiers who are not afraid of death to Roll Thunder. After all, their position was only seventy or eighty meters away from the edge of the minefield. Even if a soldier could only roll ten meters, a squad of soldiers could use their lives to blaze a trail of life.

However, Sokov is not by the side of the German battalion commander at the moment, and the German battalion commander can't think of such a stupid way. With the sound of the explosion, I prayed secretly in my heart, hoping that all this would end soon.

The lieutenant saw that there were more and more casualties, and everyone else was in danger, so he suggested to the battalion commander again: "Mr. Major, use the radio to report our situation to the regiment headquarters, and ask them to send someone to rescue us. "

   "Lieutenant, this is a good way." The German battalion commander quickly ordered the radio operator lying on the side, "Call the regiment headquarters and report our situation to the regiment commander."

   The radio operator nodded, got up from the ground, squatted next to the radio station, and called the regiment headquarters loudly into the microphone. Unexpectedly, before the regiment headquarters called Tongtong, a 7.62mm bullet pierced his helmet, and a blood foam flew out from the back of his head. The poor operator threw his head back and fell on his back without a word.

"Damn it, it's a Russian sniper." When the battalion commander saw his radio operator was shot dead, he was frightened out of his wits and said tremblingly, "It looks like it's impossible for us to get out of the way. I think it's better to surrender."

"Mr. Major, we still have about a hundred people left, how can we surrender easily?" After the lieutenant finished speaking, he climbed up to the side of the dead radio operator, took off the earphone from his head and put it on his own, and turned to the radio operator. The speaker shouted loudly: "Hey, hello, regiment headquarters, regiment headquarters! I am the first battalion, please answer."

   After calling more than a dozen times in a row, a voice finally came from the headset: "I am the regiment headquarters, I am the regiment headquarters, what's the matter with the first battalion?"

   "I want to talk to the head of the group, I want to talk to the head of the group."

  The earphones suddenly fell silent, and after a while, a deep voice came from inside: "I am the head of the regiment, please quickly report the situation there."

   Seeing that the regimental commander was connected, the lieutenant quickly handed the headset and microphone to the battalion commander. The battalion commander tried his best to keep his body on the ground so as not to be concentrated by the Soviet snipers. At the same time, he said loudly into the microphone: "Mr. Commander, we have been tricked, the Russians have set up a trap on Mamayev Hill. Ambush, the first battalion is almost finished."

   "Where are you?" the leader asked alertly.

"When I retreated with the battalion headquarters, I was trapped in a minefield." The battalion commander quickly reported: "Moreover, the Russians also used a large number of snipers to kill us. Now there is only one of my men left." There are more than a hundred people. I ask for help, ask for help."

  After listening to the battalion commander's report, the head of the regiment was silent for a long time, and then asked: "Why did you fall into the ambush of the Russians? Didn't you conduct a careful search when you occupied the position?"

"I've searched, Mr. Commander." The battalion commander said aggrievedly: "Who knew that in the middle of the night, the entire South Ridge was full of Russians, and I don't know where they came from, and they knocked down my troops all at once. Mr. Commander, I beg you, send someone to rescue us immediately, otherwise our battalion will be wiped out."

  (end of this chapter)