Eight Hundred and One Is Close at Hand
A group of German soldiers cautiously approached a quiet small village. When climbing over a fence, two soldiers put their mg machine guns on the low wall of the courtyard wall next to the fence. There are jars and broken bricks scattered around some low walls, watching vigilantly for any small movement ahead. .d t.
The soldiers on the other side bent their waists, sticking to the edge of the road very carefully, and approached the buildings in the village bit by bit. They carried their weapons, lowered their bodies as much as possible, and alternated with each other, using the last attack of the pursuit. Fast speed through the open area.
Farther away, a German captain was leaning against his car, holding up a telescope to observe the quiet village, and beside him, several battalion artillerymen were assembling the guns in their hands as fast as they could. 60 mm caliber mortar.
"Let the detoured 2nd company go around to the left side of the village. Clean up possible Soviet soldiers from there." Putting down the binoculars in his hand, the battalion commander ordered the radio operator beside him: "Urge the 1st company that is attacking from the front, let They get close as fast as they can, and if there are Soviets in the village, they will lose a lot because they are advancing too slowly."
"Tutu! Chutu!" Just as the German army was encircling and approaching the small village, dazzling tongues of fire suddenly sprayed out from the window of a building in the village, and the bullets shot into the German attacking team like raindrops. Two soldiers were knocked to the ground, and the rest of the soldiers rolled and crawled, turning over the roadbed to avoid the flying bullets.
Sure enough, Soviet soldiers were ambushed in the village, and they were very elite. These soldiers calmly let the German army get close enough, and then began to fight back crazily. Bullets flew everywhere. In just a few tens of seconds, seven or eight soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, screaming or screaming. Even the cry is released.
"Medical soldier! Someone was shot! Someone was shot!" In the ditch on the side of the road, German soldiers shouted frantically, as the bullets flew over their heads, hitting the cold and hard soil with a crackling sound. A soldier was shot in the neck, blood staining his dirty white camouflage uniform, luckily missing an artery, so he was worth saving.
"Machine gun! Cover! Fire quickly! Bastard!" A German veteran stretched out his G43 semi-automatic rifle out of the trench, emptied the ammunition in his gun in the direction of the bullets, then retracted and shouted swearing, while reloading his weapon with new clips.
The village, which was still quiet just now, had a trace of tranquility, but at this moment it has completely turned into a bloody hell. The German machine guns erected at the head of the village were also firing violently at this moment, and the tracer bullets were conspicuous enough during the daytime, rushing towards the windows of the Soviet machine guns in a straight line.
The bullet hit the window, and immediately sent a cloud of white smoke from the masonry structure. The bullet shattered the stone, leaving clearly visible bullet holes on it, and the glass was shattered into pieces, which fell to the ground crackling. There was a crackling sound. Then the whole window frame was smashed into sawdust and scattered wooden strips,
It falls with the glass.
"My God! The 1st Company has been suppressed! There is a machine gun in front, and the attacking troops of the 1st Company have been suppressed!" A battalion officer who was watching the battlefield with his neck in the distance frowned at the battalion beside him. The Commander-in-Chief said loudly.
The battalion commander of the German infantry is also frowning at this moment. Of course he understands that this situation is not a good thing. Facing the situation in the village alone, it must be no better than the 1st company.
Sure enough, the news came over the radio that the 2nd company was asking for reinforcements. They were compressed by the opponent around a few houses, and could only shrink in a small corner and persist in fighting. However, it is not realistic to expand the results of the battle for the time being.
Battalion Commander Youneng's frontal battlefield. On the ground there, a wounded German soldier who was still struggling just now was lying in the middle of the road, and he was no longer moving. Not far from this corpse, next to the corpse of another German soldier , The German army is desperately setting up a second machine gun.
Some German veterans have already started lying on the side of the roadbed, firing crazily with the MP-44 assault rifle and G43 in their hands, trying to suppress the second Soviet heavy machine gun that just appeared. This machine gun was deployed in a more concealed position, and it opened fire suddenly after the machine gun hidden in the window was suppressed by the Germans.
This machine gun caused a lot of trouble for the German army. Because of the angle problem, many German soldiers hiding behind the roadbed were exposed to the shooting of this machine gun. More than a dozen soldiers were shot. It was almost defeated because the opponent's crossfire was arranged too well.
However, the German army has now stabilized their position. They set up a temporary machine gun position next to the corpse and fired their second machine gun. The mg42 is indeed the solid firepower foundation of the German army. As soon as it opened fire, it was evenly matched with the opponent's heavy machine gun, suppressing the opponent's ferocious firepower.
"We can't wait to die here. In a group of two, rush to the road, approach the courtyard wall over there, organize a new forward position there, and cover other soldiers to move forward! Stay here and wait for the opponent to kill you Move fast! You, follow me!" A German veteran poked his head out, surveyed the terrain roughly, and then loudly encouraged his companions to continue the attack.
He pulled up a recruit, and the two ventured onto the road, holding on to their helmets and running to the pre-selected location. At their feet, the white smoke from the bullets was only a few centimeters away from their shoes. The Soviet army also discovered the German army's attempt and opened fire on the two of them frantically.
The German veteran ran firmly to the position he had chosen, while the German soldier who barely followed was frightened by the bullets whizzing by and screamed loudly. Finally, he gave up following and suddenly turned to return to the place where he started. It's a pity that his luck was not very good. The bullet following their footsteps finally hit his calf, and the German recruit immediately fell to the ground.
Before he could yell out, because of hesitation in his movements, several bullets from all directions pierced his body at the same time, and the German soldier lay twisted on the ground, his body trembling from the bullets.
In the other direction, when the German veteran was a few steps away from the low wall, he used a sliding shovel and hid behind the low wall he had chosen. The bullets of the Soviet Army followed him and hit the low wall. The floating snow that had condensed into ice was smashed into pieces and splashed everywhere.
Lying on the ground panting heavily, the cold air made his breath tinged with white mist. He carefully looked at the recruit lying on the road, and it only took a few tenths of a second to look away. A soldier who can't survive the battlefield is not worth sentimental at all.
The veteran picked up his mp-44 assault rifle, leaned out of the low wall and fired a dozen bullets in the direction of the enemy. Then he moved to another place, quickly poked his head out, and aimed at a man holding a rifle. The Soviet army opened fire violently.
His attack smashed the Soviet soldier into a sieve, and a Soviet soldier who wanted to come out from the door to throw a grenade was also knocked to the ground by him. His cover made the German army breathe a sigh of relief. Several German soldiers took advantage of his suppression to rush across the road and jumped behind the low wall.
At this time, the crossfire point of the Soviet army finally showed a flaw, and the German army was no longer a lamb huddled together to be slaughtered, but became a target for simultaneous attack from several different directions. This forced the firepower of the Soviet army to start to disperse, and their firepower density largely relied on the shortcoming of machine guns, which also began to be exposed.
Several German infantrymen began to fire violently in the direction of the low wall. They killed some Soviet soldiers rushing out of the building on the road in the village, and helped suppress the firing Soviet machine gun positions with attacks from the side. .
"Boom!" A mortar shell finally landed in the village. The artillerymen of the German battalion finally assembled their weapons and started the first round of bombardment. However, this round of shelling was obviously not very accurate. The shells fell on the clearing and inside the village.
Although this round of mortar shelling did not have any substantial effect, it made the Soviet Red Army feel the pressure. Some soldiers on the other side began to be forced to move, which immediately reduced the fire pressure faced by the German army. After all, the Mosin Nagant rifles of the Soviet army were bolt-action rifles, which required a large number of people to maintain intensive shooting.
The relieved German troops began to fight back frantically, and their superiority in firepower was immediately manifested. Some German troops gradually approached the village under the cover of friendly troops and seized some peripheral buildings. As a result, the Soviet defense line was completely disrupted, and the melee in the entire village began.
The sideways 2nd company also began to expand its defensive position because of the reduced pressure, and the area controlled by the Soviet army in the village was rapidly decreasing. The accuracy of the second round of German mortar shells was greatly improved. Several shells blew up the house where the Soviet army's heavy machine gun position was located, and the Soviet army immediately lost the heavy fire support they relied on.
With an order, the German army began its final attack. The Soviet army was squeezed out of the village and fled to the distance. However, the open space between the village and the distant woods was almost a kilometer long, and these Soviet troops did not run far. Halfway through, he was pierced through his body by the bullet flying from behind.
The battle for a village came to an end, and an infantry battalion of the German army suffered 41 casualties before occupying it—they were already very close to Orsha.