After some careful consideration, Ivan finally made the final decision to adopt the tactics Lin Hua said. If it doesn't work, it's not too late to switch back to the tactics Bukov mentioned.
In the past, a company of troops would have been enough to attack such a small high ground. However, after several months of fighting, the troops were severely depleted, so it was necessary to attack with two companies at the same time. If the first company and the second company are allowed to go into battle at the same time, then he will not have enough reserves in his hands, so Ivan said to Bukov and Lin Hua: "Bukov, Misha, the first round of attack will be between you two. The company will complete it together." Then he looked at Leskov and said, "Your company and battalion directly affiliated units form the second echelon."
After the three company commanders waited for Ivan to complete the task, they replied in unison: "Yes!"
Lin Hua returned to the company, called the three platoon leaders over, and briefly explained the combat mission to them. Andre asked nervously: "Comrade company commander, when we move towards the enemy's position during shelling, will we be accidentally injured by artillery fire?"
Lin Hua looked at Andre and said to him sincerely: "Second Platoon Commander, the purpose of our adopting this tactic is to reduce the fire damage our army suffered when it attacked the high ground. Even if it is accidentally injured by artillery fire, The casualties are also within our tolerance." Seeing what Andre seemed to want to say, he raised his hand to stop him and added: "When the whole company attacks, they will use the 'three-three' system assault like yesterday. "Tactics', Seryosha, Christopher and I will form a team, and I will personally lead the charge."
Before waiting for the bombardment to begin, Seryosha, who was in the same group as Lin Hua, handed him a bulging and heavy backpack, and at the same time said: "Misha, take this backpack with you later." It will come in handy when you go to war."
Lin Hua took the backpack containing ammunition and food from Seryosha's hand, and said to himself that this backpack was useless during an attack, and it would take a lot of time to take out the ammunition. But it’s not okay if you don’t bring it, otherwise after the few bullets you carry with you are used up, you will have to fight with the Germans on the bayonet.
After the shelling started, Lin Hua saw several plumes of smoke rising from the high ground. The helmets swaying faintly in the trenches immediately disappeared without a trace. They must have found a place to avoid the shelling. Seeing that the time was right, Lin Hua nodded to the platoon leader not far away, indicating that he could attack.
When the platoon leader saw the signal sent by Lin Hua, he immediately blew the whistle hanging around his neck. Following the whistle, the soldiers of the third company hidden in the trenches climbed out of the trenches one after another. In groups of three, they carried their guns and bent over, trotting towards the high ground. Bukov, who was in another part of the trench, saw that the third company had already taken the lead, and quickly issued an attack order, followed the third company, and rushed towards the high ground occupied by the Germans.
The shelling on the high ground had just begun, and Malinin and Batrakov, who were staying in the regiment command post, also heard it. They quickly came to the lookout, raised their binoculars and looked at the high ground in the distance. When he saw the soldiers of the second battalion actually starting to approach the German position while the artillery bombardment was in progress, Batrakov couldn't help but frowned and said loudly: "What's going on? What's going on?" What did Major Fan do? How could he let the soldiers charge to the high ground during the shelling? Isn't he afraid that the shells will accidentally injure his own people? "
Regarding the uncharacteristic fighting style of the Second Battalion, Ma Lining did not express any opinions. He just held up his binoculars and quietly observed the commanders and fighters approaching the high ground, wanting to see the high ground where hundreds of commanders and fighters shed their last drop of blood. , whether it will be captured by Major Ivan's troops.
After the German troops were shelled, except for one machine gun that was left behind as a guard, the rest of the troops returned to the hiding place to avoid the Soviet shelling. Based on their own experience, the two machine gunners believed that the Soviet army would launch an attack on the high ground after the shelling ended. So the two of them squatted in the trench and smoked, not observing what was going on down the hillside at all.
After the deputy machine gunner finished smoking, he felt a little urgent to urinate. He stood up and prepared to find a suitable place to solve the urgent problem. After standing up, he accidentally glanced in the direction of the hillside. Suddenly, he was startled, and the urine he had been holding for a long time flowed down his pants. After a moment, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Russians, the Russians are coming!"
The machine gunner who was still squatting in the trench stood up quickly when he heard his deputy shouting. When he saw the groups of Soviet troops on the hillside, he broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly put the whistle hanging around his neck in his mouth, blew it as hard as he could, and rushed towards the machine gun.
Lin Hua's three-person team rushed to the front of the entire team, and everything went smoothly at first. When they were still 1,780 meters away from the trench, the German machine guns fired violently.
"Hidden!" Lin Hua shouted, and then jumped directly into a crater nearby. Fortunately, Seryosha and Christopher's reaction was not slow. They jumped into the pit almost at the same time that Lin Hua fell to the bottom of the pit. However, the two groups of soldiers following behind were not so lucky. They fell one after another under the fire of German machine guns.
The German officers and soldiers who were hiding from the shelling in the concealment first heard the machine gunner blowing the whistle wildly outside, and then heard the sound of machine gun fire. They knew that something was going on outside. They rushed out of the hiding place and scrambled to get into shooting positions. Use intensive firepower to resist the Soviet attack.
Ivan, who was staying in the command post at the foot of the hillside, saw through the telescope that his troops were suppressed by German firepower. He quickly called a soldier and ordered him: "Go tell the comrades in the mortar platoon and let them Knock out the enemy's machine guns."
After hearing Ivan's order, the mortar platoon fired faster. However, due to the small number of mortars and the small caliber of the artillery, the damage effect on the German army was limited. The machine guns on the high ground were still firing. It went on and on, suppressing the commanders and fighters of the second battalion on the hillside, unable to raise their heads.
Seryosha, who was hiding in the crater, listened to the sound of bullets whizzing past his head, and asked Lin Hua loudly: "Misha, what should we do now?"
Lin Hua had already taken a rough look at the surrounding environment during his charge just now. When Seryosha asked, he quickly took off his backpack, took out a few grenades from it, and said to Seryosha and Christopher: "I will throw the grenades out later, and we will use the energy generated by the explosion to Use the smoke as cover and quickly rush into the crater ahead. Do you understand?"
"Understood." Seryosha and Christopher nodded, and took out grenades from their backpacks.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The grenades thrown by the three people raised a thick smoke in the open space in front. The three of them took advantage of the fact that the German army's sight was blocked, quickly jumped out of the crater, ran forward a few steps, and then jumped into a new crater. Although the German army discovered their group and fired at their hiding place with more than a dozen guns, they did not cause any harm to them.
The three of them used this tactic to gradually approach the German position. But when they rushed into the bomb crater for the fifteenth time, Lin Hua asked Seryosa breathlessly: "Seryosa, how far are we from the German position?"
Seryosha thought for a while and replied: "Misha, I calculated, it's about twenty meters away."
Lin Hua took out the only two grenades left in his backpack, handed them to Seryosha, and at the same time ordered him: "Seryosa, I now order you to throw the grenades into the German positions."
Seryosha took the grenade from Lin Hua's hand, took out another grenade from his backpack, plus the two grenades given by Christopher, and tied the five grenades together with ropes. After doing all this, he sat in the crater and pulled the string sharply. Then he roared and threw the cluster grenade with white smoke in his hand backwards.
There was an earth-shattering "boom", and Lin Hua, who was lying in the crater, felt that his internal organs were shaken out of place, and then the bloody limbs and internal organs fell from the sky and landed on the three of them with a clatter.
Lin Hua stood up suddenly and saw that the German position was filled with thick smoke, and the enemies who had been shooting wildly were nowhere to be seen. He didn't care whether all the Germans had been killed by cluster grenades, but jumped out of the crater, raised his rifle high above his head, and shouted: "Come on, comrades, come on with me!"
Although he was shouting at the top of his lungs, he felt like he couldn't hear anything. His ears had been deafened by the explosion just now. Lin Hua took the lead and jumped into the trench with his rifle. He happened to see an unkempt German soldier with a blackened face covering his head with one hand and holding on to the trench wall with the other, trying to stand up. Lin Hua stepped forward with his gun and stabbed the opponent to death.
