Chapter 610 Cavalry

When the Soviet command realized this, they had no choice but to break out, otherwise they would be crushed under the tank tracks.

But breaking out was almost the same as committing suicide... The villa chosen by the Soviets for the command had an open area within dozens of meters, which was good for defense but not good for breaking out. The German machine guns and MP43 would seal all the exits tightly.

These Soviet soldiers were not ambiguous. They first fired a few smoke bombs with mortars and then rushed out while firing.

But this was also in vain...

With the sharp whistling sound of rockets, several rockets exploded at the exit with a "boom".

The warheads of these rockets were not armor-piercing shells, but grenades and anti-infantry shells... Especially the anti-infantry shells, which were designed to imitate the "S" type jumping mines. After landing, there would be a kind of anti-throw device to throw it to a height of two meters and then explode. Then the 800 steel balls in the warheads would be scattered everywhere like flowers scattered by fairies.

So there was only screaming in the smoke, and occasionally a few wounded people rushed out of it and were knocked to the ground by the German soldiers ambushed at the edge.

"It seems that we don't need to wait for the tanks to come!" Qin Chuan waved his hand, and the troops counterattacked and entered the villa.

Qin Chuan walked into the smoke with a gun and several soldiers. Several officers on the ground were struggling in a pool of blood.

"Bang bang!" The gunshots rang out, but the bullets were not fired at the German army, but an officer with the rank of major general killed his subordinates one after another.

The German soldier raised his gun and aimed at him, but was stopped by Qin Chuan.

Because he knew what the Soviet major general was going to do next, as a soldier, Qin Chuan thought he should give him this opportunity.

Sure enough, the next second, the Soviet major general put the muzzle of the gun against his temple, hesitated for a moment, and pulled the trigger... A blood arrow shot out from the other side of his head, and his half-up head fell to the ground. The muscles of his whole body suddenly relaxed from extreme tension and shook on the ground, and then everything was over.

"Maybe we should capture someone alive!" Eberhard said.

"It's useless!" Qin Chuan replied: "He won't say anything!"

If a person shoots his subordinates before dying to ensure that they don't leak any information, then his determination has reached another level... The reason is simple. Most people will only think about themselves before they die, whether they want to live or whether there is still hope to live.

But he obviously didn't think about these.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't make much sense for him to do this, because the German army can still get the information they need... The four Soviet divisions have been surrounded by the German army. It can be imagined that the German army will get quite a lot of prisoners, and of course there will be senior officers who know important information.

"Major!" Eberhard reported: "The tank troops have landed!"

Qin Chuan nodded and ordered: "Build a defense line based on the city of Novorossiysk!"

"Yes!"

The defense line is mainly facing the west, because there are four Soviet divisions surrounded there.

The east also needs defense.

On the one hand, the Soviet army marched out of sync, or it can be said that it was a sequela of backward communication equipment. Many troops were still rushing to Novorossiysk because they received intelligence late or had missions outside.

On the other hand, the Transcaucasian Front Command also received intelligence that the German army had penetrated and occupied Novorossiysk, so it would send troops to reinforce from the east.

In this regard, the strength of the First Infantry Regiment seemed a little insufficient... There were four encircled divisions in the west, and scattered Soviet troops and reinforcements of unknown strength in the east, which seemed to be easily crushed by the Soviet army.

The problem was that the German army occupied the city of Novorossiysk, where there were not only civilian houses that could be used as shelters, but also almost inexhaustible equipment and ammunition in the port warehouses.

Needless to say, the cannons were pushed out of the warehouses one by one and scattered in the relatively open space... This is also the reason why artillery is difficult to be discovered in the city. They are usually blocked by buildings, trees, etc., and it is difficult for both the air and the enemy artillery observers to find the target.

Light and heavy machine guns and PPSh submachine guns were also used by the German army... Although the German army had the more useful MP43, supply would become a problem when conducting infiltration operations, so Soviet equipment was always used first on the premise of capturing Soviet equipment.

The tanks were the tank battalion of the First Infantry Regiment. This time, they were all "Panzer IV" tanks, but one of them sank in the sea due to a malfunction and water ingress when infiltrating from the sea... This is the weakness of amphibious tanks, and their safety is poor, but fortunately the tank crew was successfully rescued.

These tanks were arranged one by one on the streets, and they were used to block the street entrances.

Before the German army was ready, the first batch of Soviet troops arrived in Novorossiysk and launched an attack.

The reason why this batch of Soviet troops was so fast was that they were the 63rd Cavalry Division... They were originally close to Novorossiysk and the cavalry had the advantage of speed, so it was common sense that they could launch the first batch of attacks.

What surprised Qin Chuan was that after a little preparation, the 63rd Cavalry Division of the Soviet Army formed a formation and launched a charge against Novorossiysk where the German troops were stationed... charging in a cavalry formation.

Of course, this charge by the Soviet Army was launched after a round of artillery fire, although this artillery fire cover did not cause much casualties and pressure to the German troops hiding in the buildings.

It must be admitted that the scene of the cavalry charge was indeed spectacular: the hooves of thousands of war horses hitting the ground like thunder, coupled with the Soviet cavalry waving sabers and lances on horseback and shouting loudly, the scene was like a flood rushing towards Novorossiysk.

At this moment, Qin Chuan seemed to have come to the battlefield of the cold weapon war period, as if he saw the golden swords and iron horses, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger; bloody wind and rain, men galloping on the battlefield, for a moment Qin Chuan was a little yearning...

Stop!

Although he thought about it, Qin Chuan would not really want to ride a war horse and raise a saber to charge at the German position like those Soviet soldiers.

The reason is very simple. It is one thing to look majestic, and it is another thing what the result will be in the battle.

The German position corresponding to the Soviet cavalry is a machine gun, a cannon, and even a tank.

The black muzzles of guns and cannons were mercilessly pointed at the cavalrymen who were rapidly approaching the German army.

To them, these cavalrymen were perfect targets, whether they were men or horses.