Seven Hundred and Thirteen Flags

As a shell was pushed out of the muzzle, the barrel of the cannon shrank suddenly due to the recoil, and the gun carriage sank deeply into the snow. The vibration made the floating snow around the cannon jump. With the retreat of the bomb bay, the breech block was opened, and a steaming shell casing rolled to the ground like this, hitting the middle of a pile of cooled shell casings, rolling to the side and stopping.

Several Soviet Red Army soldiers with leather caps hurriedly cleaned the barrel, and then reloaded a shell. Their movements were not skillful, but fortunately there were a lot of them, so even if they were in a hurry for a while, they were still very fast. Quickly fired the second shell.

The warhead of the second shell was pushed out of the barrel by the gas from the explosion of the gunpowder, and then began to accelerate and rotate along with the rifling in the barrel. The stable shell flew out of the muzzle with high-speed rotation, and then flew with the blue smoke behind it A beautiful straight line came out.

It flew over a distance of more than ten kilometers, and then roared down over the German positions. The gravity made it gradually approach the ground, and finally crashed into a reinforced machine gun fire base. It hit the target accurately, and then Makes a very violent explosion.

The flames and shrapnel were spread by the shock wave formed by the explosion, and then tore the roof and spread to the surrounding trenches. The air wave carried the broken and incomplete bodies of five or six German soldiers inside into the air. The cannonball attack is thus completed.

In a hidden bunker not far from the front line, a young Soviet general moved his eyes away from the eyepiece of the artillery scope. He squinted his eyes and looked at the black smoke column formed by the explosion in the distance, obviously very satisfied to be able to Witness the destruction of a German bunker.

He turned around, stretched out a finger to the general behind him, and touched the general's chest. Then the general opened his mouth slowly, and ordered in a dignified tone: "I gave you 2 hours, but you failed to complete your task. I don't need idiots who can't complete the task in my army, so you can hand in Show off your epaulettes and weapons, and get out of here."

"General Rokossovsky, please give me another chance! I will go to the front line myself! I will go to the front line to command the battle in person! Please don't send me to the Military Law Office! Please!" Sovsky's face turned pale with fright, and he begged quickly.

"I will give you the last decency, so you don't have to go to the Military Law Office and wait to be executed." Rokossovsky didn't seem to forgive the idea of ​​this subordinate, because he paid too much to organize this attack Too much effort. He was ordered to take Kyiv as a spearhead, so he must complete the task and stand on the head of Kyiv within the specified time: "I will shoot you here directly, and let you be sent back to Moscow as a hero who died in the battle. worship of the people."

As soon as his words fell, two soldiers in charge of law enforcement stepped forward and held down the general who had not completed the attack mission. He wanted to say something, but he stopped struggling after all, and was dragged out dejectedly.

Rokossovsky turned his head, stopped looking at the once close comrade-in-arms, and ordered another division commander: "I will give you 1 hour to capture the expected position. If you can't complete the task, you will fight with the He will end alone!"

"Comrade General! If I can't complete the task, please save that bullet!" The division commander with a beard on his face is one of the most capable generals under Rokossovsky's command. Sturdy, one of the most powerful generals in the entire Guards Army: "I will personally lead the charge! Either I will come back and tell you the news of victory in person, or someone will come back for me and report to you the process of my death in battle."

He gave Rokossovsky a military salute, then turned around and walked out. When he reached the door, he waved his hand lightly, and an assistant followed him and handed him a Top helmet.

For an hour, he had no chance to test the attack or order his subordinates to try it first, so the bearded general put on his steel helmet, and then prepared to lead people to launch a larger-scale attack himself.

On the German position, two Soviet soldiers held bayonets and rushed towards the opposite German soldiers. The German soldiers who had no bullets held shovels and wrestled with their opponents. Farther away, a German soldier opened fire violently with his assault rifle. Three or four Soviet Red Army soldiers were hit by bullets and fell to a place not far in front of him.

A Soviet Stalin tank was destroyed by an Iron Fist rocket launcher and was burning on the ground. The flames on the front armor plate seemed to be praying for the lost lives inside the tank, swaying and shaking non-stop. It seemed to be a fierce tank annihilation battle. There were destroyed Soviet tanks every ten meters away, and not far from the wreckage of these tanks, there were also many destroyed German anti-tank artillery positions.

"These damned Soviet Red Army, don't they take a break? Don't they retreat to rest their troops?" A German soldier fired all the bullets in his hand, looking at the Soviet soldiers who were still rushing up from the opposite side, annoyed cursed. Beside him, two machine gunners were struggling to replace the barrel of the mg42 machine gun. Because of the continuous shooting, the temperature of the barrel was too high and it could no longer be used.

Since entering the territory of Soviet Ukraine in the summer, the German army has never encountered such a terrible counterattack by the Soviet Red Army. They easily won the victory in the summer and wiped out a large number of Soviet forces. Now these prisoners are still in the prisoner-of-war camp. Contributed to the four modernizations of Germany.

However, now, these newly added German soldiers, as well as those veterans who have experienced the Battle of France and the Battle of Sud-Poland, have experienced the true strength of the Soviet Red Army for the first time. The soldiers of the Soviet Red Army who were properly used by the commander were even more crazy on the battlefield because of the same fanatical beliefs as the SS.

crazy! Unbelievably crazy. Political workers led hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers, shouting the name of Comrade Stalin, rushing towards their target, landmines, enemy bullets, flames...nothing can stop their footsteps until they rush into the target and occupy it, Or all of them died on the way to the charge.

For the first time, the well-trained German soldiers knew the horror of Ulla's slogan. When thousands of enemies shouted this word together, the magnificent momentum really made the German soldiers in a hostile state Feeling uncomfortable all over. They are not used to this kind of war at any cost, they are not used to this kind of desperate struggle.

Although Liszt has split the only armored army in his hands into several independent "field fire brigades" to fill holes in the defense line and extinguish dangers on the position everywhere, but because the Soviet troops The attack was too violent, and he still lost a lot of defensive positions that he didn't expect to lose in one day.

According to the report, part of the Soviet armored forces had cut into his grid line of defense on the first day, but his armored forces were too scattered to be able to annihilate these Soviet tanks that entered the pocket positions. What is even more frustrating is the forecast from the meteorological department. In the past three days, the probability that the Air Force can take off the plane to fight is very low, so low that Liszt dare not pray.

It seems that God is already on the side of the Soviets, and Liszt's defense line has been riddled with holes to the point of despair. Although the attack speed on Guderian's side was faster than that of the Soviets breaking through the German defense line here, and tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners were captured, but obviously if Kyiv changes hands, then everything will become a mirror image, and the main force of the German army will be encircled. Between Kharkov and Donetsk.

While Liszt was anxiously waiting for some good news from his line of defense, a German soldier raised his hands high to the Soviet Red Army, his eyes were full of horror, and there were a few others who put down their weapons with him. Two equally young German youths, who had just come to the Eastern Front as supplementary soldiers, did not expect to experience such a terrible nightmare.

Not far away, a Soviet Red Army soldier climbed onto the cover of a concrete bunker, shouting Ulla while waving the red flag in his hand, more Soviet soldiers rushed towards the German trenches, and they jumped into the trenches Wrestling with German soldiers, and then being drowned in the crowd by more Soviet soldiers rushing from behind.

"Boom!" The German soldiers aimed at the Soviet flag bearer who was holding the red flag high, and smashed the opponent's head accurately, but the red flag did not fall down, because more Soviet soldiers climbed up the bunker and supported the shaking side. With a falling flag. Amidst their cheers, more German soldiers raised their hands and accepted the fact that they were defeated.

Inside a hidden bunker, a German division commander defending here heard the gunshots getting closer and closer, as well as the wailing of German soldiers who kept screaming. He looked at the burned division flag on the ground, and Some confidential documents, then shook his head and picked up the small and exquisite pistol on the table.

"Tudu! Tut!" The gunshots from the guards outside the door proved that the Soviets had rushed to a fairly close position, and a bullet had pierced through the door, leaving a transparent hole on it. hole.

The German division commander gave a wry smile, then stuffed the muzzle of the pistol into his mouth, hesitated for a while, and finally pulled the trigger. The bullets splashed with blood onto the defense zone map hanging on the wall, staining the defense zone marked there, the German division.