Red Moscow

  Chapter 661 The Company Commander of Heroes

"Use Molotov cocktails!" Seeing that the armor of the enemy tank was so strong that a dozen anti-tank guns fired at the same time, none of them could penetrate its armor. The subordinate shouted: "Blow up the enemy's tank with a Molotov cocktail!"

  Although there are a lot of Molotov cocktails piled up in the trenches, if the company commander doesn’t call out this voice, everyone will almost forget that there are such anti-tank weapons. After all, they are all using anti-tank rifles to deal with enemy tanks.

   As soon as the company commander yelled, a corporal next to him grabbed a Molotov cocktail in each hand and crawled out of the trench on hands and feet, crawling towards the approaching Tiger tank. As for the Tiger tank, it was obviously not aware of the threat it was about to face. It stopped from time to time as it was driving slowly, and fired at those suspicious targets or strafed them with machine guns.

  The corporal crawled forward to a place more than 40 meters away from the German tank, jumped up from the ground, and rushed towards the enemy tank at a speed of 100 meters. But before he threw the Molotov cocktail in his hand, the German soldiers following the tank opened fire on him, and the dense bullets knocked the corporal down to the ground.

  Although the corporal was hit by more than a dozen bullets, he was only seriously injured. He endured the severe pain all over his body, tried his best to straighten his upper body, and prepared to throw the Molotov cocktail at the enemy tank. But as soon as he lifted the Molotov cocktail tremblingly, his chest was hit by dense bullets. Under the huge inertia, his body swung back a bit, and fell heavily to the ground, unable to move anymore.

  Seeing the death of the corporal who bombed the tank, several restless fighters also climbed out of the trench with Molotov cocktails, trying to complete the task that the corporal had not completed. It's a pity that their luck was still bad. Before they got close to the enemy's tank, they were smashed into a sieve by the infantry following the tank.

   "Stop!" Seeing comrades sacrificed one by one, the anti-tank soldiers staying in the trenches couldn't hold their breath. Anyway, the anti-tank guns I use are useless against the enemy's heavy tanks, so I might as well use Molotov cocktails to clean them up, so they bent down to pick up the Molotov cocktails in the trenches, ready to climb out to blow up the enemy's tanks. Unexpectedly, they were about to run out, but they were stopped by the company commander: "Stop all of them, are you going out to die in vain?"

   "Company commander!" The soldiers who were stopped by the company commander said unconvinced: "Our anti-tank guns are useless against the enemy's heavy tanks. Let us go out and blow them up with Molotov cocktails."

  The company commander glanced at the Tiger tank less than 100 meters away from the trench, and then said decisively: "You all stay in the trench honestly, and I will blow it up."

   "Company commander, you can't go!" Hearing that the company commander was going to blow up the tank in person, a soldier closest to him hurriedly stated loudly: "Let me blow him up."

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the company commander glanced at him, and said with a sneer, "Do you have as much experience in dealing with enemy tanks as I do?" Then he raised his voice and said to the nearby subordinates, "I'm going to blow up the enemy's tanks. In the trenches. If I die, you follow, understand?"

   After finishing speaking, the company commander didn't bother to watch the reaction of his subordinates, grabbed two Molotov cocktails, and crawled out of the trench with hands and feet. After careful observation, he found that in order to successfully approach the enemy's tanks, he had to use a creeping approach. After the corporal sacrificed, the few soldiers who rushed out were too impulsive, and they rushed forward straight up. It is no wonder that they were not targeted by the German infantry. The position where the corporal got up was too far away from the tank. If he jumped up 20 meters away from the tank, before the enemy could react, the Molotov cocktail might have hit the Tiger tank's body.

  The company commander summed up these experiences and lessons, so he came out with two Molotov cocktails to blow up the enemy's tanks, and he was still confident that he could retreat unscathed. In this way, he successfully came to a position 20 meters away from the Tiger tank. He took a deep breath, jumped up from the ground, raised the Molotov cocktail with his right hand, and was about to hit the enemy tank.

  Unexpectedly, at this moment, a German soldier standing not far away discovered him, and instinctively raised his submachine gun and fired at him. The bullet shattered the glass bottle, and the liquid in the bottle poured all over him. The white phosphorus mixed in it began to burn violently as soon as it met the air, and the company commander instantly became a burning man.

  The soldiers staying in the trenches saw that their company commander was covered in fire, and couldn't help exclaiming: "Company commander~!!"

Just when they thought that the company commander's behavior of bombing the tank would end in failure again, they were surprised to see that the company commander, who was covered in fire, continued to rush towards the enemy tank, and put the remaining Molotov cocktail into the tank. It slammed into the position of the enemy's tank engine. In an instant, fire and smoke engulfed the hero's company commander and the enemy's tank.

  The German infantry around the tank were stunned by the heroic actions of the company commander. Probably because they were worried that the ammunition in the tank would explode and hurt themselves, they all turned around and ran back after a brief loss of consciousness.

  The Tiger tank was surrounded by raging fire, the top hatch was pushed away from the inside, first a puff of black smoke with flames came out, and then three tank soldiers who were covered in flames jumped out. They jumped out of the tank and ran back, howling and dancing, throwing themselves on the ground from time to time, trying to extinguish the flames on their clothes.

   "Revenge for the company commander!" The soldiers in the trench roared, and opened fire on the fleeing German infantry and tank soldiers, killing them one by one like a target.

The other two Tiger tanks and three Panzer 3 tanks a few hundred meters away, seeing the Tiger tank in front of them on fire, thought that the Soviet army had some powerful anti-tank weapons. In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, they also stopped advancing one after another. He turned his head and drove back.

  The German attack was blocked again, and the heroic performance of the anti-tank company commander on the battlefield was reported by the battalion commander to Lieutenant Colonel Ershakov. Yershakov was silent for a long time after receiving the call, and then he said: "First Battalion Commander, he is a great hero in our Red Army, please report his name to me immediately, I want to apply to my superiors , awarded him the title of 'Hero of the Soviet Union'."

  Unexpectedly, after Ershakov finished speaking, the first battalion commander groaned for a long time, and did not say the name of the company commander who died. Ershakov saw that the battalion commander did not reply for a long time, and he understood what was going on in his heart. The anti-tank company was temporarily supplemented by the superior before the troops crossed the river. They only got along for a day, and they didn't know the name of the other party. That's perfectly normal.

However, in order not to let the deeds of the hero be buried, Yershakov reminded the first battalion commander: "First battalion commander, although you don't know the name of the company commander of the anti-tank company, his fighters should know. You go to the anti-tank company. Go to the soldiers and ask them what their company commander's name is, and there will be an answer."

   Taking advantage of the time when the first battalion commander went to inquire about the news, Ershakov ordered the radio operator: "Send a report to the division headquarters and report to them the deeds of this heroic company commander."

Sokov received the telegram, and after reading the content, he handed it to Anisimov who was sitting aside, and said to him: "Comrade Comrade, in the just-concluded battle of the Yershakov Regiment, emerge There is a company commander of a hero, and his deeds are listed on it. Think about how we can publicize his heroic deeds within the entire division!"

   Anisimov took the telegram in Sokov's hand with doubts, and when he finished reading the above content, the muscles on his face twitched violently. He slapped the table with his hand, then stood up, and said to Sokov with a firm expression: "Comrade commander, please rest assured, I will immediately go to the comrades of the Political Department and discuss with them how to promote this The heroic deeds of the commander of the anti-tank company."

  (end of this chapter)