Five Hundred and Fourteen Fighting Nations

The enemy has at least one battalion of troops, which is undoubtedly bad news for the German defenders who have only two companies that are not full. [Starting] Another bad news is that the enemy troops of this battalion are not second-rate opponents with only quantity but no quality like other Soviet troops.

Judging from the fact that they know how to deploy their troops ahead of time and are ready to attack, at least they are better than the Soviet opponents they encountered earlier. This is undoubtedly not a good sign. It is their main force, the main force of the Soviet Union, which fights a bit like the SS, which is a model of recklessness.

"I'm dead. Will the Führer award me an Iron Cross like Lieutenant Rennes?" A soldier pressed the aiming gap of a G43 semi-automatic rifle on a Soviet Red Army soldier in the distance, and said vaguely Clearly asked the comrades around him.

The comrade-in-arms beside him was squatting in the trench to check the bullets in the MP-44 assault rifle magazine, and replied without raising his head: "Don't think too much, even if you kill all the Soviets on the opposite side, you won't be able to get them." Oak Leaf Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross!"

Deliberately biting the accent on the words oak leaf and knight, the soldier holding an MP-44 assault rifle stood up, lay down on the wall of the trench, poked out half of his head to see Glancing at the approaching opponent on the opposite side, he sneered and retracted: "It's been a long time since I have encountered such a Soviet army charging up. The last time was in Poland..."

"Boom!" A shell hit the open space not far from the German position, followed by the second and third. The German commanders of the company immediately frowned. These large-caliber shells were not the 60mm mortars they brought. Obviously, the Soviets had at least three cannons to support them. 122 mm.

With the support of these cannons, the German grenadiers who are good at fighting against the wind have not been taken seriously, but the things behind these cannons make people have to take it seriously. There must be more Soviet troops with heavy artillery. If there is at least one regiment or even one division, it is obviously not an opponent that a hundred or ten German grenadiers can stop.

"Hurry up! Hurry up and call reinforcements to the battalion headquarters! Tell them that if the reinforcements don't arrive here within half an hour, the town of Y107 may not be able to defend!" The company commander put down the binoculars in his hand and operated the radio around The clerk said: "Air support should be as fast as possible! Find any reinforcements you can find!"

As soon as he finished speaking, more Soviet artillery shells landed on the open space in front of the German positions, setting off thick columns of smoke filled with black soil one after another. The Soviets had at least 5 cannons firing, and it looked like they were reasonably well stocked. The grenadier company commander immediately judged the size of the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side, at least one regiment of troops, and also strengthened artillery firepower.

Pray they are an infantry regiment, so the Germans still have at least 3 tanks of armor advantage,

Investing these tanks at a critical moment can repel at least one attack of the opponent and buy precious time for retreating or waiting for reinforcements. He prayed like this in his heart, hoping that his wish would come true.

But it seems that Goddess of Destiny is here to play with the German army today. The more things they don't want to see, the more they will appear in front of their eyes. While the German company commander was praying, a Soviet T-26 tank appeared behind the Soviets. At this moment, the heavy machine guns on the Soviet flanks fired, and the bullets hit the German positions. Going up is as dense as raindrops hitting the eaves.

"!" The German sniper was not polite at this time, and shot directly. A Soviet soldier who was charging at the front fell down, making the first scream on the battlefield.

The Soviet heavy machine gun has a shield on it. This layer of steel plate prevents German snipers from using it. However, although this shield protects the safety of the Soviet shooter, it also limits the angle of horizontal adjustment of the heavy machine gun's firepower. Of course, the added weight also makes these heavy machine guns less transferable.

"Boom!" Sure enough, the German mortar team, which had already kept in mind the shooting elements in every corner of the frontal battlefield, did not let their comrades wait too long. A clean shell made the roaring Soviet Union The heavy machine gun position immediately fell silent, and the light smoke rising there seemed to have explained everything.

"Thuk! Thuk!" At this time, the G42 machine gun hidden in Germany opened fire, sweeping away a group of Soviet Red Army soldiers who had approached a distance of 300 meters. The inexplicable early firing of the heavy machine guns of the Soviet Red Army was mainly due to inexperience, while the firing of German machine guns was due to the time when the Soviet Union's suppressive firepower was out of gear. It is undoubtedly safer for them to fire at this time.

These Soviet soldiers seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, shouted the slogan of Ulla, and rushed to the German defensive position without retreating. Perhaps a machine gun was obviously not enough to play a deterrent role, and they still charged forward densely. , until the distance between the two sides is shortened to 200 meters.

At this time, the front machine gun positions of the German army had to be moved. If they continued to stay there, the tanks behind the Soviets would fire and suppress them, so the two machine gunners carried their machine guns and retreated through the traffic trench. The front machine gun position, which was hit by the bullets of the Soviet infantry, was left to the Soviets who wanted revenge but had nowhere to vent.

But only a few seconds later, the German army's position became lively. G43 semi-automatic rifles and MP-44 assault rifles fired at the same time, and bullets flew towards the Soviet Red Army. In just a moment, at least 50 Soviet soldiers were shot and fell down. Next, almost 20 people screamed and were killed by bullets.

Counting those who were killed by the German machine guns before, the Soviet Union was killed by the Germans in just a few seconds, and almost 100 people were killed. However, these Soviet soldiers didn't seem to be afraid of death at all, and they still rushed to the German positions without hesitation. It is a pity that as the battle continued, the casualties of these Soviet soldiers became more and more heavy.

The retreat of any army needs a critical point. For example, for troops that have not been trained and fought, the critical point of collapse is about 5% to 10%. That is to say, a 100-man army only needs to lose ten people will crash. After training, this ratio can be increased to 20% or even 25%. Of course, if this army has a firm faith and has been battle-tested, this ratio may be extended to 30% to 50%. There have been many cases where more than half of the troops have been lost and they have not retreated, but this situation is generally rare.

Under normal circumstances, casualties occur after the defeat, which means that the casualties are not the heaviest during the actual battle. Therefore, improving the level of troop training and making the opponent unable to bear the loss and defeat in a real fight is actually an important way to reduce casualties. Because often an army may only lose ten people in a battle, but it is chased and killed by the enemy during the escape process, and thirty or even three hundred people escape.

After the battle lasted for more than ten minutes, the Soviet army in front of the German army finally couldn't bear its loss. A battalion of 500 infantry has lost almost 200 people in just ten minutes, which is already the limit of normal endurance.

These Soviet soldiers began to retreat, and the distance they exchanged for countless blood and lives gradually gave way to the German army. Compared with when they came, these retreating soldiers hesitated now, and seemed very unwilling. After all, it is impossible to rewrite the ending of a war just because some people are not willing to reconcile. They finally retreated, and they retreated in a bit of embarrassment.

The German army didn't have any extra troops to countercharge, and they really didn't have the mood to catch up to take advantage of it. At this time, they needed to arrange ammunition, strengthen their positions, and prevent the Soviets from continuing to bombard them. There were many things waiting for them to prepare, and everything was more important than that. Pursuing and defeating the retreating Soviet army made more sense.

"You are all the most heroic fighters of the great Soviet leader Comrade Stalin! Don't retreat! If you don't continue to charge! You will be tried for treason! If you retreat again, we will shoot!" When they breathed a sigh of relief at the end of the battle, behind the Soviet team, they yelled such a sentence in Russian through a loudspeaker.

Of course the Germans didn't understand what they meant, but then they understood the meaning of this sentence from the opponent's actions. Because the Soviet soldiers in the rear were shooting their own soldiers with machine guns, driving these soldiers to continue their desperate attacks.

"My God! They are shooting at their own people!" A German soldier looked at the farce on the opposite side in surprise, and couldn't believe what he saw with his own eyes.

"Get ready for battle! Check and sort out the ammunition! Use this time to reload the magazine! Hurry up! Move fast! They're coming again!" A veteran reacted and hurriedly picked up the scattered bullets one by one. Shouting loudly while pressing into the magazine of the MP-44 assault rifle.

Everyone started to get busy, and the Soviet artillery fire started again. With this round of artillery fire, hundreds of Soviet soldiers joined the attacking team. The Soviet T-26 tank that had been falling at the end of the line also began to accelerate, and rushed towards the German position quickly.

"Anti-tank team! Get ready to fight! Soviet tanks are coming! Be careful!" A platoon leader lying on the ground saw the tanks approaching from the opposite side and shouted loudly: "Attention everyone! Listen to my order and wait again!" Fire!"

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