The tank parked in the middle of the square fired at the buildings on the east side of the square. Some buildings that were already fragile were hit by tank shells and collapsed, turning into ruins. The soldiers who stayed inside reacted quickly and moved to new positions when the enemy tanks started shelling; while more soldiers were buried directly in the ruins.
When Sokov saw the tanks firing recklessly in the square, he couldn't help but get angry. He picked up the phone and asked into the receiver, "Lieutenant Colonel Papuchenko, why haven't your men launched an attack from the enemy's rear yet? Let the enemy do it again." If the tanks continue to blast like this, all the buildings your regiment is holding will be destroyed."
"Comrade Commander," Papuchenko reported with a sad face, "the sewer is like a maze. Our soldiers got lost quickly after entering. They wandered around in it for a long time, and finally returned."
Papuchenko's words made Sokov dumbfounded. He only reminded the other party to use the sewers to mobilize troops and transport supplies, but forgot that his soldiers had just arrived and probably didn't understand the terrain on the ground, let alone the criss-crossing sewers. Well, it would be strange to enter rashly and not get lost.
"Lieutenant Colonel Papuchenko," Sokov could not blame Papuchenko and could only say euphemistically, "try to contact the remaining defenders on the west side of the square and ask them to attack from the enemy's rear so that the enemy cannot Concentrate your efforts against us."
"Understood!" Papuchenko waited for Sokov to finish and immediately agreed. "I immediately ordered the soldiers on the west side of the square to attack from behind the enemy to contain their effective strength."
After Samoylov waited for Sokov to hang up the phone, he carefully reminded him, "Comrade division commander, it's too dangerous here. Let's move to another place."
"If you move to another place, it will be safer than here?" Sokov glanced at Samoilov and said with a wry smile, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, as long as this place is not hit by enemy artillery fire, I believe you and your men will be safe." It ensures my safety."
Samoilov carefully thought about what Sokov said and felt that it still made sense. Although he only had more than thirty people left, they were well-equipped and everyone had rich combat experience. Even if he encountered Even with the same number of German troops, they could not fall behind.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "Don't worry, Comrade Commander. As long as one of us is alive, we can absolutely guarantee your safety."
After a period of shelling by German tanks on the square, they saw that the buildings on the east side were shrouded in smoke, so they stopped shelling and restarted their engines, preparing to cover the infantry to continue attacking eastward. Unexpectedly, at this moment, intensive gunfire rang out from behind them, and firepower suddenly appeared in some buildings on the west side of the square. Shooting from above knocked down the soldiers gathered in the middle of the square.
The tank that was driving forward found an enemy appearing behind it, so it stopped quickly and turned its gun muzzle to find a new attack target. "Boom" two guns, a machine gun that was shooting at the Germans was destroyed by tank fire.
Sokov saw this scene through the telescope, and couldn't help but secretly lamented in his heart that if the weapons were inferior to humans, he would suffer a big loss. If you have one or two 75mm anti-tank guns in your hand, it is estimated that all the enemy tanks will be destroyed by the anti-tank guns as they advance towards the square. Even if there is no 75mm anti-tank gun, there is a 37mm anti-tank gun placed on top of the building, shooting at the enemy tanks from a high position. The armor-piercing high-explosive shells it fires are enough to penetrate the weak armor on the top of the German tanks. .
Just as Sokov was sighing in his heart, he suddenly saw a German tank explode and the turret was blown off. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but be shocked, thinking to himself what was going on, how could the German tank explode? Could it be that the German tank crew was smoking inside and accidentally detonated the shell? But it didn't look like it. This tank was shelling the buildings on the west side of the square. How could the tank crew have time to smoke?
"Comrade division commander," just when Sokov was puzzled, he suddenly heard Samoylov's surprised voice, "Tank, our tank!"
"Where?" Sokov heard Samoilov's cry and immediately remembered that Peter had said that he would send a prototype tank to support him. Maybe it was that prototype that Samoilov saw. , he asked anxiously, "Where is that tank?"
"There!" Following the direction of Samoilov's finger, Sokov saw a T34 tank through the cracks of the broken building, crushing the bricks and rubble piled on the street, slowly heading towards Drive towards the square. Judging from the muzzle still smoking, the explosion of the German tank just now was its masterpiece.
After Sokov saw the tanks, he immediately silently calculated in his mind that, excluding the tanks that had just been destroyed, the German army now had five tanks left, and there was only one tank on his side. Five to one, this ratio is too disparate.
The commander of the German tank leader discovered the Soviet tank that had just appeared, and quickly ordered other tanks through the radio to stop shooting at the building, and instead all turned around, preparing to kill the Soviet tank that came to die.
When the Soviet tank was still 150 meters away from him, he decisively gave the order to fire. For the commander, it is a sure thing for his gunner to fire at such a close distance. As long as the gun fires, his tank can gain another victory.
After the cannon ejected from the chamber, it accurately hit the moving Soviet tank. But what the commander never expected was that the armor-piercing bullet that hit the target actually turned into a ricochet.
The commander's eyes widened in surprise. This was the first time he had seen a ricochet caused by hitting a target at such a close range. After a brief panic, he ordered the gunner to reload and prepare to fire again.
But before they could fire, the approaching Soviet tank had stopped, slowly turned its muzzle, and then fired without hesitation. The shell hit the tank where the commander was. In the huge explosion, the turret was lifted off. After flying more than ten meters in the air, it hit the queue of German soldiers heavily, smashing the two unlucky soldiers into a pulp.
The four German tanks divided into two groups and circled towards the two wings of the T34, trying to penetrate the weak side armor of the T34 from the side. However, their attempt did not succeed. Two of them were hit by T34 while they were still driving. The body of the tank that was hit shuddered suddenly, then stopped in place and burst into flames.
The remaining two tanks came to the side of T34. They had just stopped and before they had time to fire, the Soviet tanks fired first again. This time they easily destroyed the German tank on the right. The tank on the left saw that his companion's tank was destroyed and hurriedly fired a shot at T34.
Although this shot also hit the target, to the dismay of the German tank crews, the armor-piercing round became a ricochet again. The Soviet tank crew would not give the Germans a chance to reload and fired without hesitation to destroy it.
The Soviet commanders and fighters hiding in the building saw the tanks parked in the middle of the square, and they were all destroyed by the T34 tanks that had just appeared. Without waiting for orders from their superiors, they rushed out of their hiding places with weapons in hand and headed towards A chaotic mass of German soldiers rushed forward in the middle of the square.
The battle ended after a quarter of an hour. Except for a dozen German soldiers who turned around and escaped early because they saw that the situation was not good, and narrowly escaped, the remaining soldiers were either captured or killed. The first German attack on the New Workers' Village ended in disastrous defeat.
"Comrade Division Commander," Samoylov said to Sokov in a low voice when he saw the battle outside ended, "I think this T34 tank is different from what we have seen before."
"Is there any difference?" Sokov glanced at the T34 parked not far away and said casually, "Why didn't I see it?"
"Someone has come out of the tank!" Samoilov pointed to the tank and said to Sokov, "Comrade division commander, look, they are coming towards us."
"What the hell, what's going on?" After Samoilov saw the approaching tank soldier clearly, he shouted in surprise, "How could it be him?"
Sokov glanced at the approaching tank soldier and felt that he was somewhat friendly. Unfortunately, he couldn't remember where he had seen him before, so he turned and asked Samoylov, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, who do you think is the person walking towards us?" ?”
"It's Lieutenant Agavon!" Samoilov was afraid that Sokov would not be able to remember this order, so he deliberately added, "This is the man you asked me and the political commissar to escort to the army headquarters."
"So it's him!" Although Sokov thought that he refused to save him, causing Guchakov and others to be captured, and he was still resentful of him, but others were here to rescue him this time, even if No matter how dissatisfied you are with him in your heart, you still have to be polite on the surface. He met Agafond, nodded to him, and said politely, "Hello, Lieutenant Agafond, thank you for helping us relieve the siege."
Agavon did not expect that Sokov recognized him at a glance, and said with a blushing face, "Comrade Colonel, I am driving this prototype car to support you on the order of Director Peter."
"Prototype vehicle, what kind of vehicle is it?" Sokov pointed at the tank not far away and asked with some surprise, "Is this T34 tank the prototype vehicle you are driving?"
"Yes, Comrade Colonel." Lieutenant Agafond replied respectfully, "This is a new tank that was just developed not long ago. It has not been tested yet. According to regulations, it cannot be driven out casually. Director Peter said that you are here The situation is critical, so we decided to make an exception and send us to support you."
"Is this a new type of tank?!" Sokov walked to the window and carefully looked at the T34 tank that had just rescued him. After looking at it for a while, he shook his head and said, "I think this is just a T34 tank. It's nothing." special."
Seeing that Sokov did not see any difference in the tank, Agafoon quickly explained to him, "Comrade Colonel, this new type of tank uses a new hexagonal turret, and the sloping armor can make the enemy's armor-piercing projectiles launch into a ricochet." ammunition. In addition, the turret was changed to a three-person large turret, adding a gunner's position, freeing the original commander from the burden of seeing the gunner, thus greatly improving the tank's combat capabilities.
Also, the previous T34 tank used a 76mm gun, but the one we use now is an 85mm gun. Whether it is the German Panzer III or Panzer IV tanks, we can easily penetrate their frontal armor at a distance of 500 meters. "
After listening to Agafoon's explanation, Sokov couldn't help but be secretly surprised. You must know that the T3485 tank came out in 1943, but now it actually debuted a year earlier due to his own fault. If they can be mass-produced and deployed into the army, I am afraid that the next third Battle of Kharkov will have a different outcome.
Seeing that Sokov was silent, Agavon took the opportunity to look around, but did not find Guchakov's shadow. He couldn't help but interrupt Sokov's meditation: "Comrade Colonel, I want to ask you something." , where did the lieutenant from last time go?"
"Lieutenant?!" Sokov was stunned for a moment when he heard this question. Then he realized that he was talking about Guchakov and quickly replied, "I asked him to become the company commander. If you have the opportunity in the future, you can still Meet him."
Agafoon couldn't help but blush when he heard what Sokov said, and then murmured, "Comrade Colonel, if you see that lieutenant, please convey my apology to him for me. If I hadn't been panicked at the beginning If we lose control and leave so many of our comrades to escape alone, they will not become prisoners of the Germans."
"Comrade Lieutenant," Sokov raised his hand and patted Agavon gently on the shoulder twice, comforting him and saying, "You have been punished by Guchakov, and there is no need to mention the past things. I I hope you can achieve more meritorious deeds in the following battles, and even if you and Guchakov meet again, he probably won’t hate you anymore.”
Agavon came to see Sokov just to get his forgiveness. Hearing Sokov's words at this moment, he suddenly felt happy. He straightened his body and said to Sokov, "Comrade Colonel, please rest assured that as long as I am still alive, I will definitely achieve more meritorious deeds."
"Lieutenant Agavon," Sokov pointed to the tank parked not far away and said to him, "This is the only prototype in the factory. You must keep it well and never use it during the battle." A loss.”
"Don't worry, Comrade Colonel." Agafond quickly replied, "I will immediately move it to another place to hide it to avoid being shelled or bombed by the Germans."
"Go quickly." Sokov was worried that the German army, which had just suffered a defeat, would not be reconciled and would immediately shell or bomb the workers' new village, so he urged Agafon to "find a place to hide this prototype tank as soon as possible. You must Take care of this prototype as you would your own eyes."
After Agafoon left, Sokov picked up the phone again and called the factory director's office. He said to Peter who answered the phone, "Director Peter, thank you. It is only because of the tanks you sent that we can successfully repel the attack." Enemies of Workers’ New Village.”
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