When the rockets flew towards the village, Minishki's heart was in his throat. Although he had learned how to operate this new type of rockets, this was the first time for him to fire live ammunition. According to the parameters we have, when this kind of rocket is launched at the farthest range of 8.5 kilometers, there will be a deviation of 50 to 100 meters. Now it is less than two kilometers away from the target, so the deviation should be controlled within 15 meters.
A few seconds later, two rockets with long flame tails plunged into the village. While two dazzling flames were rising, they made an earth-shattering explosion. "Great, hit!" Countless wooden house fragments and broken limbs near the explosion point were lifted into the air. Motorcycles parked in the open space were also blown up or overturned by the air waves. Seeing this scene, Golia couldn't help cheering. He shouted to the soldiers standing aside: "What are you still doing? Hurry up and continue loading."
Hearing the roar of the battalion commander, the soldiers woke up from their surprise and hurriedly carried the remaining two rockets over and stuffed them into the launch tubes. Minishki readjusted the position of the launch tube, pressed the launch button, and two more rockets flew towards the burning village.
The first launch did not directly hit the wooden house where the German headquarters was located, but it destroyed the wooden house next to it and caused a raging fire. Villages like this in Russia are all made of wooden buildings. As long as there is a fire in one place, the whole camp will be burned down. The German soldiers who were resting in a nearby wooden house noticed that there was a burning wooden house outside. They were afraid that they would be trapped in the wooden house and burned to death, so they rushed out of the house one after another, including a group of officers from the German command headquarters.
As soon as they ran out of the house, the two rockets from the second round arrived. The rockets exploded and formed a huge pit. Not even the dregs of the people in the pit were left, and the soldiers a little further away also Their heads were cut off by shrapnel, or their chests were shot through. Soon the entire village began to burn, and some of the surviving soldiers had no idea where the shells that hit them came from, and could only run around like headless flies.
Golia raised his telescope to observe the situation in the village carefully and found that the surviving soldiers lived in houses on the edge of the village. The wooden houses in the middle of the village were all wrapped in flames, and there was no trace of human activity at all. It turned out that in All the enemies in this area should have been killed by the rocket explosion.
"Comrade Battalion Commander," seeing Golia holding up the telescope and looking non-stop, Tavlin urged anxiously: "Look, the whole village is on fire. If the enemy's headquarters is really in the middle of the village, Then all their officers should be dead at this moment. We'd better retreat quickly before the enemy comes."
Golya put down the telescope, nodded, and said to the soldiers: "Get in the car, let's return to Mamayev Heights as soon as possible before the enemy finds us." The soldiers agreed, and they were all in a hurry. The ground helped Minishki remove the launch tube from the tripod and move it into the car.
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According to Sokov's idea, even though the German regiment command post was only thirty kilometers away from Mamayev Heights, Golya and the others still set off in armored vehicles, but it would take at least five hours to complete the mission.
Unexpectedly, in less than three hours, Xi Duolin received a call from the fourth battalion commander from Beigang. After he heard clearly the content of the report from the other side, he covered the microphone with his hand and said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, Captain Golia and the others are back."
"What, you're back now?" Sokov looked at his watch and said in surprise: "Not even three hours." He raised his head and told Sidorin, "Let him come to me immediately to report the situation. "
"Fourth Battalion Commander," Sidorin said into the microphone: "When you see Captain Golia, ask him to report the situation to the brigade headquarters immediately."
About twenty minutes later, a "German soldier" wearing a helmet, a German uniform, and a submachine gun on his chest walked into the headquarters in a swaggering manner. Seeing a German soldier entering the room, Sokov instinctively stretched his hands to his waist, but he soon discovered that it was a false alarm and it was Goliath who came.
Sokov stood up holding on to the table and said to Golya: "So it's you, Captain Golya. Why didn't you change your clothes when you came? Aren't you afraid that our soldiers would mistake you for a German?" "
Golia grinned and replied: "Comrade Brigadier, as soon as I returned to the tunnel in Beigang, I received a call from Captain Briski, commander of the fourth battalion, saying that you asked me to come over and report to you immediately, so I didn't even have time to change my clothes, so I rushed over in a hurry."
"Captain Goliath," Sidorin came over with a cup of hot tea, asked Goliath to sit down, put the teapot in front of him, and said, "Let me report on your mission behind enemy lines this time. Bar."
Golia quickly reported to Sidorin in detail how the troops passed through the enemy's defense line and how they used rockets to destroy the village where the German headquarters was located.
After Sidorin waited for Golia to finish speaking, he asked with a serious expression: "Comrade Captain, tell me truthfully, did the rockets you launched really completely destroy the enemy's headquarters?"
"Yes, Comrade Chief of Staff." Seeing that Sidorin had doubts about his victory, Golia quickly stood up and replied: "I have carefully observed that after being hit by rockets, the entire village burned. Especially in the area where we shelled, there was not a single moving figure. In such a fierce fire, even steel will burn, let alone people."
"Comrade Chief of Staff, there is no need to ask." Seeing that Sidorin seemed to want to continue asking, Sokov quickly raised his hand to stop him: "I know very well how powerful the rockets are. Unless Captain Golia The German commander was not around when they carried out the attack, otherwise he would have been burned to a crisp by four rockets unless he was Iron Man."
"Iron Man?!" Sidorin looked at Sokov with wide eyes and asked in surprise: "Comrade Brigadier, what is Iron Man?"
Seeing the surprised looks cast by the people around him, Sokov realized that he had spoken quickly and said the wrong thing again. In order to quickly get rid of the embarrassment, he looked at Goliath and asked: "Comrade Captain, you just seemed to say that you passed the enemy's defense line very smoothly. Is the enemy's defense very lax?"
"I don't know about other places." Golia replied: "Anyway, in the area where we passed, the sentries on the road were not very vigilant. When they heard us saying that they were from the 100th Jäger Division, they didn't even have their certificates. We were allowed to pass without inspection."
Vitkov, who was sitting opposite Sokov, saw Sokov nodding thoughtfully and couldn't help but ask: "Comrade Brigade Commander, do you have any new ideas?"
Sokov nodded and said in a positive tone: "Yes, since the German army's defense is so lax, then we can send out a few more small teams to penetrate deep into the enemy's defense to attack their warehouses, camps and supply lines. , preventing the enemy from concentrating its efforts to attack Mamayev Kurgan."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Sidorin waited for Sokov to finish and immediately asked: "Which battalion do you plan to transfer troops from to complete this task?"
If it had been half a month ago, Sokov would have definitely said without hesitation that the Third Battalion or the 192nd Battalion would allocate manpower to carry out raids behind enemy lines. But now the five battalions of the entire brigade have suffered heavy losses. If too many troops are sent to the enemy's rear, the frontal defense force will be weakened. Therefore, he hesitated for a long time before he said: "Let's do this. Let each battalion allocate fifteen soldiers to form a small team and go deep behind enemy lines."
After finishing his thoughts, Sokov said to Golya: "Comrade Captain, you don't need to personally lead the enemy rear detachment formed by your battalion. Find another commander you can trust to take charge. "
"Understood, Comrade Brigadier." Golia knew that Sokov said this out of the purpose of protecting himself, so he did not insist on leading the team himself. "I will find a suitable commander and lead the new formation." The small team went deep behind enemy lines."
After Golya left, Vitkov took advantage of Sidorin's call and asked Sokov in a low voice: "Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, if you send a small team to fight guerrillas behind the enemy, aren't you weakening the front?" Defense power?"
"Comrade Colonel," Sokov explained to Vitkov: "The reason why I want to send a small team to the enemy's rear to carry out sabotage operations is to cooperate with the troops on the front to hold Mamayev Heights. Think about it, we have The activities of five small teams behind enemy lines will cause the enemy's weapons, ammunition and military supplies to be unable to be transported, and the wounded will not be transported, which will have a huge impact on the enemy's military morale and morale."
But Vitkov was obviously not interested in Sokov's guerrilla tactics. He still kindly reminded Sokov: "I'm worried that the enemy will find out that we have a small detachment deep in their rear and will send a large number of troops to encircle and suppress them. Our small unit behind enemy lines is in danger."
"Comrade Colonel," Sokov said with a smile on his face when he heard what Vitkov said: "If the enemy really deploys a large number of troops to clear out the small detachments operating behind them, Mamaye can be greatly relieved. We can also use this precious time to rest and replenish the troops standing on the highlands, and to stock up on ammunition and supplies to prepare for the new German attack."
"Lieutenant Colonel Sokov," Witkov couldn't help but retorted when he saw that Sokov was mentioning the new enemy attack again: "I think the enemy's effective strength has been almost exhausted. This can be seen from their recent actions. It can be judged by the intensity of the attack that they may switch to defense on the spot and engage in a stalemate with us."
