Since the Germans did not see through Ernst's disguise, they naturally fell into the trap Sokov set for them. After receiving the telegram from the leading company, the battalion headquarters and other companies staying outside the minefield immediately followed the road opened by the engineers and boarded the Nangang position of Mamayev Hill.
Seeing that the large German troops were gradually occupying the surface positions of Nangang, Belkin asked Sokov with some worry: "Comrade Brigadier, will the enemy discover the entrance to our tunnel?"
"No, Comrade Comrade Political Commissar." Sokov replied with a normal expression: "I have ordered people to block the entrance to the hole where they usually enter and put up a disguise. Unless the Germans search carefully during the day, they will not find it at all. No."
Although Belkin knew Sokov's entire battle plan, when he saw that the enemies to be besieged had already entered the position, he urged: "Comrade Brigade Commander, since the enemies have already entered our trap, why not take action now? "
"Do it now?" Sokov raised his hand and looked at his watch and said: "No, my comrade political commissar. The enemy has just entered the position and is still very vigilant. Maybe our soldiers will be attacked as soon as they come out of the tunnel. As for what they noticed, I think we should wait until three in the morning. That is the time when people are most tired. We can minimize casualties by attacking while the enemy is sleeping."
After Sokov said this, he turned to Briski and said, "Comrade Captain, if I remember correctly, there is an engineer platoon in your battalion, right?"
"Yes, Comrade Brigadier." Brisky didn't know why Sokov asked this, so he nodded quickly and replied: "I do have an engineer platoon in my battalion, and the backbone of it are all the soldiers who broke through with me."
"Have you seen the passage opened by the Germans in the minefield?" Sokov asked, pointing to the minefield in the distance.
"Yes, I saw it." Although it was pitch dark outside and nothing could be seen clearly from a little distance, Briski nodded in affirmation: "I wonder what instructions you have?"
"After zero o'clock," Sokov continued: "Immediately send out the engineer platoon to re-block all the roads opened by the German engineers so that no one can escape. Do you understand?"
"Understood." When he heard that his engineers were asked to lay mines, Briskey immediately replied loudly: "I guarantee that the enemies who enter the minefield will be blown up until they howl like ghosts."
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At three o'clock in the morning, all the German troops were fast asleep in their shelters or trenches, with only a few sentries on duty left outside. Even though it was September, the nights in Russia were still very cold. In order to keep out the cold, two fires were lit in the trenches on the western slope, and they gathered around the fires to keep warm.
When the fire was being lit, a sentry once asked worriedly: "If we light a fire here, it won't attract Russian artillery fire, right?"
Another sentry sneered and said: "Don't forget, we are to the west of Nangang, and the Russians are to the east. Can their artillery shells hit us? But the brothers on duty in the east fortifications can Without us having such a good life, they could only shiver in the cold wind."
His words immediately caused a burst of laughter. The sentry who spoke first felt much more at ease when his companion said this, and he started to warm himself around the fire with peace of mind.
But the two sentries stationed in the fortifications on the east slope were wrapped in military coats and huddled in the newly dug trenches, waiting for their companions to change the guard. A sentry turned his head and glanced at the red light on the other side of the hill, and said enviously: "Hans, those sentries on the west slope position are really lucky. They can actually light a fire to keep warm while on duty."
"Come on, brother." The sentry known as Hans said: "You haven't seen that there is a Russian position two or three hundred meters away under the hill. If there is a fire here, the shells will be fired in less than five minutes. It's flying over. I'd rather be cold than get blasted into the sky by a cannonball."
At this time, among the bushes on the top of the hillside, a one-meter-square piece of turf was suddenly lifted, revealing a square hole underneath. A Soviet soldier wearing a helmet carefully placed the wooden board with the turf on it. After standing aside, he climbed out of it quietly, and then the second and third ones climbed out...
Soon, several similar cave entrances appeared not far away, and countless Soviet commanders and fighters crawled out of them. After they came out, they first gathered near the entrance of the cave, and then rushed to the defensive positions on the east and west slopes in squad units.
Hans was chatting with his companions. When he heard footsteps behind him, he thought it was his companions who were changing the guard. As soon as he turned around to take a closer look, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest. The severe pain made him want to shout loudly. He shouted out, but when he opened his mouth, a stream of fishy-smelling blood filled his mouth, making him unable to make any sound.
Another sentry saw Hans staggering a few steps and fell down in the trench. Just as he was about to rush over to see what was going on, a man appeared next to him and stabbed him directly with a dagger. chest, piercing his lungs. The gushing blood immediately poured into the lungs and flooded the alveoli. Like Hans, he fell to the ground without emitting anything.
The soldiers who killed the sentries were all from the reconnaissance company. After they learned the techniques of how to kill enemy sentries from military doctors, they had been practicing non-stop, and they were able to kill two sentries so cleanly today. After clearing the sentries, they waved to the darkness, and countless figures emerged from the darkness. After they jumped into the trenches lightly, they divided into two groups and rushed towards the place where the enemy slept.
Soon, the quiet Nangang was filled with gunshots, blazing fire, gunshots, grenade explosions and the screams of the wounded. The sleeping German army would have never imagined that the Soviet army would actually launch a sneak attack at this time, and how could they prevent any decent resistance, and the battle would become one-sided.
It only took a quarter of an hour for the Soviet soldiers to reoccupy the surface positions of Nangang, including the simple fortifications built by the German army on the east slope. Before most of the German soldiers recovered, they fell into a pool of blood and became cold corpses. There were only more than 200 enemies stationed at the foot of the western slope. When they heard the sound of gunfire on the hill, they realized that something was wrong. In order to prevent being annihilated by the Soviet army, they voluntarily abandoned their positions and prepared to follow the engineers along the route. The road opened up in the minefield returned to his starting position.
Now that he's here, it's so easy to go anywhere. Sokov ordered people to fire flares into the air, exposing the enemies trying to escape to the dazzling light. The enemy didn't know that Sokov had sent people to lay mines again, and they still walked out along the road they thought was safe.
When the leading soldiers at the front were blown up by landmines one after another, the Germans behind immediately realized that something was wrong and tried to find a new passage from other locations. However, the passage in the minefield was not easy to find. Soon someone hit another mine and was lifted up into the sky by the air wave of the explosion. After a beautiful tumbling movement in the air, he hit the ground heavily. If you are unlucky, other mines will be detonated when you land. When you are blown to pieces, you will also blow down several companions near the explosion point.
Sokov and Belkin stood in the observation post, watching the Germans scurrying around like headless flies in the minefield. Every time a ball of rumors rose up, a few unlucky soldiers would be bombed. fly. Seeing this, Belkin couldn't help laughing. He said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, you did a great job in letting the engineers block the passage. Unless the Germans fill it with human lives, otherwise It is simply impossible to get through this minefield.”
After the commanders and fighters of the first battalion cleared the enemy on the hill, they immediately moved forward to the position at the foot of the mountain. Seeing the enemy dancing in the minefield, the battalion commander, Captain Vanya, had an idea and immediately organized more than 20 sharpshooters to target and shoot at the enemies in the minefield. The distance from the fortification to the minefield was only more than a hundred meters away. Most of the enemies were afraid of stepping on the mines, so they could only stand still. Under the light of the flares, they became the best targets.
"Oh my god, we have become a target for the Russians." The German battalion commander who luckily escaped into the minefield saw that the soldiers around him were being knocked down one after another. He hurriedly threw himself to the ground and shouted loudly to his men. Shout: "Get down, there's a sniper, get down quickly!"
But the explosions of mines and gunshots drowned out his shouts, and only a few nearby soldiers could hear him. Those soldiers who did not hear the battalion commander's shout saw their companions falling to the ground continuously. They also knew that they might have encountered a Soviet sniper, so they hurriedly fell to the ground.
A German lieutenant crawled up to the battalion commander, leaned into his ear and asked loudly: "Mr. Major, we are now trapped in a minefield and are being attacked by Russian snipers. What should we do now?"
"What should I do? What else can I do?" the battalion commander said angrily: "If I knew what to do, would I still be lying here?"
Seeing that the battalion commander was helpless about the current situation, the lieutenant suggested to him: "Mr. Major, how about we ask for help from the regiment headquarters and ask them to bombard the minefield and open a retreat channel for us?"
"Confused, you are simply confused." The German battalion commander said angrily: "We are in the minefield now. If the divisional artillery regiment fires here, wouldn't we become a target?"
"But, Mr. Major." The lieutenant said a little anxiously, "We can't just sit back and wait for death, right? If we continue to delay, until dawn, we will either be killed by Russian snipers in the minefield, or we will be killed only when the sun rises. You should make up your mind as soon as possible about the life of the prisoner."
If Sokov was by the side of the German battalion commander, he would definitely advise him to send a few soldiers who are not afraid of death to roll thunder. After all, their location was only seventy or eighty meters away from the edge of the minefield. Even if a soldier could only roll ten meters, a squad of soldiers could use their own lives to carve out a path of life.
However, Sokov was not with the German battalion commander at the moment, and the German battalion commander could not think of such a stupid way. The only thing he could do was to lie on the ground and listen to the bullets whizzing past his head and the occasional sound. There was an explosion, and I prayed secretly in my heart, hoping that this would all end soon.
Seeing that the number of casualties was increasing and that the remaining soldiers were in danger, the lieutenant once again suggested to the battalion commander: "Mr. Major, use the radio to report our situation to the regiment headquarters and ask them to send someone to rescue us. "
"Lieutenant, this is a good idea." The German battalion commander quickly ordered the radio operator lying aside, "Call the regiment headquarters and report the situation here to the regiment commander."
The operator nodded, got up from the ground, squatted next to the radio, and loudly called the regiment headquarters into the microphone. Unexpectedly, before the regiment headquarters called him, a 762mm bullet penetrated his helmet and flew out from the back of his head with a line of blood foam. The poor operator threw back his head and fell silently on his back.
"Damn it, it's a Russian sniper." When the battalion commander saw that his radio operator was shot dead, he was frightened to death. He trembled all over and said, "It seems that it is impossible for us to escape unscathed. I think it’s better to surrender.”
"Mr. Major, we still have about a hundred people left, how can we surrender easily?" After the lieutenant finished speaking, he crawled to the dead operator, took off the earphones from his head, put it on his own head, and spoke to the radio operator. The microphone shouted loudly: "Hey, hello, regiment headquarters, regiment headquarters! I am the first battalion. Please answer if you hear me."
After calling more than a dozen times, a voice finally came from the earphone: "I am the regiment headquarters, I am the regiment headquarters, what can I do with the first battalion?"
"I want to speak to the group leader, I want to speak to the group leader."
There was sudden silence in the earphones. After a while, a deep voice came from inside: "I am the leader, please report to you quickly on the situation there."
Seeing that the regiment commander was connected, the lieutenant quickly handed the earphone and microphone to the battalion commander. The battalion commander tried his best to keep his body close to the ground to avoid being concentrated by Soviet snipers. At the same time, he said loudly into the microphone: "Mr. Commander, we have fallen into a trap. The Russians have set up a trap on Mamaev Hill." Ambush, almost the entire battalion was destroyed.”
"Where are you?" the leader asked alertly.
"When I led the battalion to retreat, I was trapped in a minefield." The battalion commander quickly reported: "And the Russians also used a large number of snipers to kill us. Now I only have one man left. There are more than a hundred people. I’m asking for support, asking for support.”
After listening to the battalion commander's report, the regimental commander was silent for a long time, and then asked: "Why did you fall into the Russian ambush? Didn't you conduct a careful search when you occupied the position?"
"We have searched, Mr. Commander." The battalion commander said aggrievedly: "Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, the entire Nangang was full of Russians. I don't know where they came from, and they defeated my troops in one fell swoop. .Mr. Commander, I beg you, please send someone to rescue us immediately, otherwise our battalion will be completely destroyed."
