Chapter 1837 Breaking in by Force
After successfully breaking through the outer wall of the train station, and relying on the heavy machine gun fire cover from our own tanks, we successfully crossed the distance of more than 100 meters from the station gate to the waiting hall, and was responsible for leading the combat engineers. Alsim, who launched the first wave of assault battles, soon ushered in a real fierce battle: a deadly fight with the SS troops stationed in the waiting hall.
Relying on the help of the National Defense Forces who helped with the work, the infantry of the Skeleton Division, after experiencing the most difficult and casualties of the peripheral attack battle, finally used a relatively reliable weapon in the waiting hall of the train station, which was better than nothing. Strong cover.
Strictly speaking, these bunkers have little to do with serious military bunkers. Most of them are things that were randomly piled up with temporarily found garbage and debris by the National Defense Forces who were urgently mobilized to help with defense arrangements.
There were piles of broken furniture, and bulletproof shooting shelters made of some iron sheets dismantled from the platform and train leather side doors.
If you want to say that these bunkers are really reliable, it's obviously much more than that.
However, as the saying goes, some use is better than none. These few and not very reliable and disorganized bunkers are the only advantages that the SS soldiers who are waiting for work and in a defensive posture can rely on.
"The Russians are coming in! Fire!"
Da da da da——
Bang bang bang——
The Skeleton Division is not an ordinary SS unit, and these bastards cannot be measured by the weapon standards of the second- and third-tier SS security forces.
In addition to basic conventional light weapons for German infantry such as MP40 and Mauser 98K, the biggest feature of the Skeleton Division infantry is its unusually powerful automatic and semi-automatic weapon configuration.
The STG44 assault rifle and G43 semi-automatic rifle opened fire at once, hitting the bunkers and debris near the entrance of the waiting hall with crackling sounds and debris flying everywhere.
This ferocious firepower like a downpour far exceeds that of conventional German infantry units. Although it is not as ferocious as the infantry firepower of Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division, if measured by German standards, such firepower is undoubtedly quite outstanding. Yes, it would be a huge problem for an ordinary Red Army infantry unit to even rush into such a firepower network and complete a breakthrough.
Alsim, who was responsible for leading the charge, had already expected that this would be the case. The resistance of the Germans on the outer wall of the train station was not tenacious, and their troop deployment was not much, not to mention that even the firepower points were sparse. After being swept away by heavy machine gun fire and shot through the wall, it withered like an eggplant beaten by frost and completely stopped moving, showing no sign of stubborn resistance.
If it were normal, Alsim felt that the Germans would definitely send reinforcements to the station's outer wall.
After all, if the outer wall is lost, it will be the same as a loss of life. In the hands of the Germans who have lost all the remaining defense depth, they will only have the construction area inside the station to rely on for defense.
Even considering the point of "delaying time to wait for reinforcements to arrive", the Germans should not give up the station's outer wall defense so easily. It is really abnormal for the battalion to collapse with less than one casualty.
When things go wrong, there must be monsters. This is a classic philosophy that applies wherever it is used. Alsim firmly believes in this and believes that this is the true portrayal of the situation he is encountering.
Since the Germans don't plan to attack the outside, what about internal defense? The defense of this internal building area shouldn't be abandoned so easily, right? If this is the case, what are the Germans going to do next? With no defensive space at all, is it possible to surrender to the Red Army?
Don't talk nonsense. Alsim doesn't think that these lunatics in the front-line SS field troops would be so weak. If you were replaced by those Italians or Romanians, it would be possible.
Therefore, at the beginning of the attack on the waiting hall, which is the main building of the station, Alsim was sure that the Germans might be up to something underhanded and had an ambush, so he did not rush to attack the entire company immediately.
The truth of the situation was as expected. The intensity of the firepower deployed by the Germans in the waiting hall was many times greater than that on the outer wall of the station. The intensity of the firepower soared almost geometrically.
The squad that Alsim ordered to test and attack was suppressed by the wildly roaring firepower almost instantly, and was beaten so hard that they could not even lift their heads.
Those insidious and cunning Germans also disposed of all the bunkers that could be moved or destroyed near the entrance of the waiting hall. Except for the fallen soldiers in a squad, those who were still alive could only rely on a few poles in the waiting hall. The load-bearing pillars were used as bunkers. They were the only things that the Germans could not dismantle and destroy and could still be used as bunkers to block bullets.
"Comrade Company Commander, Telenov and the others were crushed to death by the Germans! We have to rescue them, what should we do!?"
The most capable platoon leader was crouching behind the wall at the entrance of the waiting hall, impatiently seeking orders and methods from the company commander next to him. It was his squad who was responsible for the fire test task.
Alsim, who was also watching and worried, remained calm on the surface. He held his AK with one hand and motioned to the platoon leader next to him to wait with the other hand.
He secretly glanced at the situation in the waiting hall from the estimated blind spot of the Germans' vision and firepower. Alsim held his breath and turned around while leaning against the wall and not daring to make any big movements for fear that the Germans would notice. My racing mind quickly came up with a solution.
"Take the rest of your men and go around the gap in the low wall on the side of the waiting hall. It is directly connected to the old storage room of the train station. There is a small side door further in the storage room. If the Germans don't block this door, you can get into their stomach directly. Try to catch them off guard. I'm preparing to support your attack from the front. Action!"
The train station design that was obtained in advance became crucial. Alsim, who had read the entire design and remembered it in his heart, planned to try this method that he was originally unwilling to try.
Separating an assault team will not only disperse the limited troops in his hands, but also once this team encounters an accident, it will not be reinforced and covered by the main force for a while because of the long distance and complex terrain. This will lead to the German army discovering and quickly encircling and annihilating, and the whole team will be sacrificed. It has become a high probability event.
Alsim has disliked this kind of gambling since he was a child. The situation where he has no confidence in winning is more of a gamble, whether it is a children's game or killing the enemy in battle, has been like this until today.
But there was no other way, and Alsim had to take this gamble even if he didn't want to.
A frontal assault would inevitably result in greater losses than the annihilation of the assault team. This was a very simple and straightforward choice of casualties. As an outstanding and experienced grassroots commander, Alsim naturally knew what to choose.
This had nothing to do with his personal preferences, it was simply that he had to make the best choice under the worst circumstances.