The battle in the village continued for almost half an hour, and Sokov finally saw a red signal bomb rising into the sky to the west of the village. This is the signal sent by the third company, indicating that they have reached the designated attack position.
Sokov put down the telescope, turned around and walked to the table, grabbed the submachine gun placed on it, and said to Belkin, who was still standing in front of the lookout: "Deputy battalion commander, I will go to the machine gun company for reinforcements. I will leave this place to you." You." Before Belkin could say anything, he had already walked out of the observation post with his gun in hand.
In the traffic trench at the entrance, soldiers from the guard platoon were squatting or sitting, looking expressionlessly at the smoke-filled villages and towns. At this moment, seeing the battalion commander walking out of the observation post, everyone stood up in unison. Seryosha quickly stepped forward and asked Sokov: "Comrade Battalion Commander, are you ready to attack?"
"That's right." Sokov nodded to Seryosha, and then ordered loudly: "Oleg's third squad will follow me, and the comrades from the other guard platoons will stay here to serve as security guards."
"Misha," seeing that Sokov did not arrange a combat mission for himself, the disappointed Seryosha called the other party's nickname and asked, "Why don't you let us participate in the battle again?"
"Lieutenant Seryosha," Sokov raised his hand and patted Seryosha twice on the shoulder and said to him: "Your mission is to protect the safety of the battalion command post. If you want to fight, there will be many opportunities in the future."
Vasily and his machine gun battery were on standby in the nearby forest. Seeing Sokov hurriedly walking over with a platoon of guards, he quickly shouted: "Everyone stand up!" Taking advantage of the soldiers standing up one after another, he trotted up to Sokov, raised his hand and saluted , said loudly, "Comrade battalion commander, all officers and men of the machine gun company are under orders to rest, please give instructions!"
"Are you all ready?" Sokov asked bluntly.
"The whole company is ready for all battles." Vasily replied loudly: "We can go into battle at any time!"
Sokov came to the front of the neatly arranged team and said to the soldiers: "Comrades, the soldiers of the second and third companies are fighting a desperate battle with the enemy in the villages and towns ahead. Now, it is our turn. ." He half-turned around, pointed in the direction of the village with the submachine gun in his hand, and ordered loudly, "Disperse into formation and move forward!"
The soldiers of the machine gun company, arranged in a row of twenty people, followed Sokov and Vasily and strode towards the village. Sporadic artillery shells fired by the German army from villages and towns would fall and explode in the queue from time to time, blowing gaps in the queue. But the warrior in front fell, and the warrior behind immediately filled the gap.
No one stopped to take care of the fallen comrades around them, because everyone knew in their hearts that if their comrades had sacrificed, even if they stopped to take care of him, he would not come back to life; and the wounded who fell on the ground would naturally recover later. There are health workers from the health team treating you, so you don’t have to worry about it yourself. My mission is to rush into villages and towns as quickly as possible and cooperate with my comrades from the second and third companies to eliminate the enemies entrenched inside.
The German troops in the village of Popkovo, especially the anti-tank fighters, felt like crying without tears when facing several Soviet heavy tanks rumbling towards them. The anti-tank gun hit the tank body and could not penetrate the tank's armor except leaving a few white marks. As long as the opponent fires a shot, whether it is an anti-tank gun or a firepower point, it will be blown to pieces by the 152mm heavy artillery shell in an instant.
Seeing that anti-tank guns had no effect on such heavy tanks, the brave German soldiers rushed out of the ruins where they were hiding with explosive bags in their hands, trying to die with the tanks. As a result, they ended up being attacked by the infantrymen who followed the tanks. The submachine guns were sieved.
It is not easy to see that the troops rushing over from the west of the town are a light infantry. Apart from a few machine guns, there are no heavy weapons at all. The German infantry thought that it would be easy to block the opponent's attack with the firepower in the town. Unexpectedly, the opponent did not follow the routine. In addition to machine guns suppressing their own fire points on the street, the rest of the infantry actually approached them quickly from the dilapidated buildings on both sides of the street.
If you can't stop the opponent's tanks, that's fine. Even if the tanks break through their own defense line, without the cooperation of the infantry, they will not escape the fate of being blown up sooner or later. Who would have thought that the infantry from Zhenxi could easily break through several defenses in the west without the cooperation of heavy weapons. Just when the German commander jumped up in anger, his subordinates suddenly reported again: "Mr. Major, another Russian infantry has rushed up. What should we do?"
what to do? Salad! The German major used his binoculars to look at the machine gun battery rushing into the village, and decisively issued an order: "Withdraw, immediately evacuate the town from the northeast."
As soon as his order was given, a German soldier rushed in and shouted to him: "Major, Mr. Major, it's bad, Russians were found in the cemetery to the northeast."
"What?" Hearing that Soviet troops were discovered on his retreat route, the German major was so frightened that he grabbed the soldier by the collar and shouted viciously: "Immediately set up a machine gun on the bell tower of the church and suppress it. The Russians in the northeast must not let them cut off our retreat." This order from the German major saved his own life and allowed hundreds of German soldiers to successfully escape from the encirclement.
Chernyshev, who was in the division headquarters, saw that the soldiers of the Istrian battalion had rushed into the town. He couldn't help but said to his chief of staff with emotion: "Comrade Chief of Staff, our soldiers have rushed into the town." . It seems that Sokov is really good at fighting."
"That's right, Comrade Division Commander." The Chief of Staff agreed: "If we had transferred them here earlier, maybe the attack we launched yesterday would not have failed."
Vanya's company finally arrived at the cemetery in the northeast after a long journey. Just as they were preparing to attack the enemies in the village and town from here, two German machine guns mounted on the church bell tower opened fire. The seven or eight soldiers who rushed at the front fell under the enemy's ammunition. Those behind them quickly fell down and raised their guns to fight back at the bell tower of the church.
At this moment, Vanya saw a group of enemies escaping from a path a hundred meters away. In order to stop this enemy, he ordered two machine guns to suppress the firepower point on the church bell tower, while ordering the soldiers to use firepower to block the German army's retreat.
After the German troops escaping from the trail were attacked by a company of fire, some of them fell down on the spot and started shooting with the soldiers of the company; while others continued to flee along the trail toward the outside of the town regardless of casualties.
