As they continued to advance, although enemies appeared from both sides from time to time, they were all shot down by the well-prepared soldiers. After a while, the troops led by Sokov rushed to the square in front of the church. There were two sandbag fortifications in front of the church, and two machine guns inside were firing wildly. The intensive firepower blocked the way for the soldiers to charge. The oncoming bullet rain made many soldiers weak and fell directly to the square.
Seeing that the German firepower was too fierce, Sokov continued to rush forward, and would only end up with death. He quickly shouted at the top of his voice: "Hide, hide quickly!" After shouting, Sokov and Oleg were among them. The seven or eight soldiers inside hurriedly hid behind a huge onion roof. According to Sokov's judgment, the roof should have been blown down by artillery fire and fell on the square, which coincidentally became his hiding place.
Oleg quickly poked his head out from behind the roof, then immediately retracted, and said with some annoyance: "Comrade Battalion Commander, the Germans' firepower is too strong. If we don't kill their machine guns, we won't be able to rush through."
While Oleg was speaking, Sokov's eyes were staring straight at the onion roof in front of him. He touched the golden decorations on the surface with his hands, and secretly shouted in his heart: "Oh my god, it is indeed posted on it. Gold foil." He remembered that when the Moscow Cathedral was rebuilt in 1995, the onion roofs on top were covered with gold foil weighing 400 kilograms. Although the gold foil on the onion roof in front of him was not comparable to that of the cathedral, it weighed more than ten kilograms. There must be.
Sokov was so focused on how to get rid of the gold foil stuck on the roof that he didn't even hear what Oleg said to him. After Oleg finished speaking, he didn't hear Sokov's words. He quickly turned around and found that his battalion commander was staring at the gold foil on the roof in a daze. He quickly raised his hand and gently pushed Sokov's shoulder, and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Battalion Commander, do you hear me?"
"What did you say?" Sokov reluctantly moved his eyes away from the gold foil in front of him, looked at Oleg and asked: "Senior Sergeant Oleg, I was just thinking about something and didn't hear what you said. Can I do it again?" Repeat that?"
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Oleg pretended not to see Sokov's greedy eyes as he stared at the gold foil on the roof, and repeated what he just said: "The enemy's firepower is too strong, we simply can't rush through."
Sokov waited for Oleg to finish speaking, and quickly stuck his head out, glanced in the direction of the church, then retracted his head, and said to Oleg: "The German machine gun firepower is too strong. If we charge hard, You will suffer a big loss. You immediately send people to the back to bring in two machine guns, and cooperate with the sharpshooters in the security squad to eliminate the enemies at the door of the church."
When Oleg left his hiding place and bent back along the street to find a machine gun, Sokov looked around and saw that no one among the soldiers rushed forward in the face of the enemy's bullets. Instead, they squatted or lay down and hid behind the ruins. From time to time, they stretched out the gun in their hands and fired two shots at the position where the German machine guns were firing.
However, a soldier squatting next to Sokov clearly lost his composure. Listening to the gunfire in the town, he shouted at Sokov: "Comrade Major, the Germans only have two machine guns." , why don’t we keep moving forward.”
"From our hiding place to the door of the church, there is a distance of fifty or sixty meters. It is an open space without any obstruction. If we charge at this time, wouldn't we risk death?" Although Sokov could tell that the warrior who spoke was not Is. The man from Tra camp still said to him in a stern tone: "Hide well. When it's time to attack, I will naturally let you attack."
But the soldier obviously didn't listen to Sokov's words. He said stubbornly: "I came here to destroy the fascist gangsters, not to hide behind the ruins as a coward. If you don't charge, then let me rush over alone. Destroy the enemy." After saying that, he stood up straight and prepared to rush out from behind the roof.
As soon as the soldier stood up, Sokov heard the sound of a series of machine gun bullets hitting the roof. He couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart. He said in his heart: "It's over, my gold foil. I don't know how many gold foils were shot by the Germans." It's rotten." While he was thinking this, he suddenly saw the soldier spread his arms and fell to the ground on his back, throwing the submachine gun far away in his hand.
Sokov quickly crouched down in front of the soldier and found that he had been hit by at least seven or eight bullets in his shoulder and head, and he could not be saved. He reached for the submachine gun that fell next to him, and was surprised to find that it was a Popov submachine gun with a capacity of 71 rounds.
"This is a good thing." Sokov has always wanted to own a Popov submachine gun since he came to this time and space. However, because the production at that time was too low, only a few troops were equipped with it, and even the famous Guards Division was not equipped with it. Qualifications, not to mention his newly formed army. He took off the backpack from the soldier's body and opened it. In addition to two grenades, there were also three round drums. He quickly returned to the roof with his backpack and squatted there patiently waiting for Oleg's reinforcements to move in.
Just as Sokov was waiting a little anxiously, he suddenly heard a boom of artillery, and the sound of German machine guns shooting wildly suddenly weakened. Sokov curiously poked his head out to look around, and saw that the sandbag fortification on the left side of the gate had been overturned, and the machine guns and machine gunners inside had been blown to pieces.
"What on earth is going on?" Sokov knelt down again and wondered: "Where was the cannon fired?"
At this moment, there was another explosion, and the German machine guns were completely silenced. Before Sokov could look at the movement in the direction of the church, he vaguely heard someone calling him from behind. He turned around and saw Oleg dancing towards him on the street more than a hundred meters away. There is an artillery piece parked in the ruins nearby.
"A bayonet on the cannon?!" Sokov looked at the cannon with smoke still coming from the muzzle, and this thought flashed through his mind. In particular, he saw clearly that among the people standing next to the artillery was Sergeyev, the commander of the cannon company.
The machine gun that posed the greatest threat to the German army had been killed by artillery. Sokov stood up suddenly, raised the submachine gun in his hand high, and shouted: "Comrades, for the motherland! For Stalin! Follow me~!"
Seeing Sokov leading the charge gave the soldiers hidden behind the ruins great courage. They stood up one after another, stepped over the masonry and rubble in front of them, and followed Sokov forward without hesitation.
