Since the battle had just ended, the destroyed tanks were still burning on the battlefield, and the rising smoke obscured the sky, allowing Seryosha and his anti-tank team to quietly attack without being noticed by the enemy. Entering the front line of the 210th Guards Regiment, it is hidden in those large and small bomb craters.
Seryosha had hidden and fought in bomb craters many times, and he felt very bad about the craters. Every time he stayed in it, he always wanted to run out and see if his comrades around him were still in the pit, to make sure he wasn't the only one staying here. He was like this for a veteran, let alone a recruit who was participating in the battle for the first time.
It is for this reason that before each group entered the bomb crater, he specifically told each soldier: "Brothers, we do not have enough communication tools. After entering the forward location later, you will have to rely on yourself for everything." No need to wait for my order, as long as you feel the time is right, you can open fire immediately."
An hour later, the Germans launched another attack. The Germans, who had suffered heavy losses, first bombarded the position of the 151st Guards Artillery Regiment with artillery fire to prevent their offensive troops from being intercepted again by artillery fire after approaching the Soviet position.
While shelling the Soviet artillery positions, the Soviet defensive positions also came under heavy shelling. The dense artillery shells soon exploded the 210th Regiment's position into a sea of flames.
Seryozha covered his ears with his hands, curled up and hid in the crater, praying secretly in his heart that the German artillery shells would never hit the crater where he was hiding. Although he had heard a saying a long time ago, "cannonballs will not fall into the same crater twice." But only those who have been on the battlefield understand that this statement is nonsense. How high was the density of shelling in the era of the person who said this, and how high is the density of shelling today? Let alone two cannonballs falling from the same crater, it is entirely possible for three or four cannonballs to fall.
Sivakov, who was staying in the observation post, held up his binoculars and looked at the forward position that was blown into a sea of flames. He said to his chief of staff with some worry: "With such fierce artillery fire, those anti-tank tanks lurking in front of the position will be destroyed." Hands, can you survive?"
"I think we should be able to survive." The chief of staff said in an uncertain tone: "The targets of the German shelling were all our positions, and the anti-tank crews were hiding in the craters in front of the positions and were hit by enemy shells. The chances of winning shouldn’t be high.”
The German artillery fire began to extend, and the German tanks lined up in a straight line appeared in Sivakov's telescope again. Behind the tanks were infantry in skirmish formation.
The machine guns on the Soviet position started clicking when the German tanks were still two to three hundred meters away. Although the bullets kept hitting the tank and making a clanging sound, it did not slow down the tank's advance at all. Only a few unlucky soldiers were hit by ricochet and fell to the ground screaming.
Seryosha, who was hiding in the crater, vaguely heard the roar of a tank engine outside, so he cautiously put his head out to check, and saw a short-barreled Panzer IV tank only two hundred meters away from him. He quickly retracted his body and said to the anti-tank man in the crater: "The German tanks are coming. Load them immediately and prepare to shoot."
After loading, the anti-tank man also poked his head out to check, trying to figure out where the enemy tank was. At this moment, not far from the side, a rocket trailing white smoke flew out and headed straight for the approaching German tank. Unfortunately, the rocket did not hit the speeding tank, but fell on the open ground and exploded. Before the anti-tank man in the crater could retract, he was fired upon by a German machine gun. After being hit by several bullets, he fell directly onto his back into the crater.
The sacrifice of his subordinates made Seryosha feel heartbroken, but in order to destroy the enemy's tanks, he could only suppress the anger in his heart and said to the anti-tank men who were already prepared: "Don't be anxious, wait for the enemy's tanks." Get closer and hit again.”
After that, he ordered the gunner responsible for covering: "I'll leave it to you to deal with the infantry following the tanks. I don't want them to hurt our anti-tank crews."
"Don't worry, comrade commander." An older soldier grinned at Seryosha. He patted the assault rifle he had just changed with his hand: "With this gun, we can kill the enemy a hundred meters away." There is basically no problem with the enemy.”
The older soldier cautiously poked his head out and saw that several enemies were only fifty or sixty meters away from the crater where he was, but their attention was attracted by the crater where rockets had just been fired. The older soldier quickly set up his gun, aimed at several enemies in the distance, and decisively pulled the trigger.
After firing three bursts, he retracted decisively and proudly said to Seryosha: "Comrade company commander, I killed two."
"Well done." After Seryozha praised the other party, he urged: "Kill the remaining enemies as well, and cover the anti-tank men's shooting."
The older soldier took a deep breath, then poked his head out again, aimed at the place where the German soldiers were hiding, and pulled the trigger again. His movements were done in one go, and in a short time, he fired all the bullets in the magazine and retracted them into the crater: "Comrade Company Commander, kill them all."
Hearing that all the nearby German soldiers had been killed, the anti-tank soldier did not dare to neglect. He stood up suddenly, aimed at the oncoming German tank, and suddenly pulled the trigger. The rockets flew towards the enemy tanks with white smoke. The anti-tank soldiers squatted down without checking the results.
Soon, there was a violent explosion outside, and then some soil fell from the sky and sprinkled on everyone's heads and bodies. The older soldier hurriedly leaned out and saw that the tank had stopped moving and was burning not far away. Several tank soldiers covered in fire screamed and escaped from the tank, stumbling towards the back.
Seeing that the anti-tank team commanded by Seryosha had achieved results, the other anti-tank teams did not dare to show weakness. The anti-tank crew risked being hit by bullets, stood up from the crater, straightened their bodies, aimed at the enemy tanks and fired.
The German infantry following the tank attack thought that the Soviet anti-tank fighters would still use the method of approaching and dropping bombs, so there were many soldiers behind each tank so that they could use their weapons before the Soviet soldiers got close to the tanks. Intense firepower destroys the opponent.
Unexpectedly, the Soviet army changed their tactics and actually used rocket launchers to attack from a long distance, which overwhelmed the infantry following the tank attack. As for the tanks that were hit by rockets, the ammunition inside the vehicle exploded, and the flying shrapnel cut down the surrounding soldiers in pieces.
After the German army lost more than a dozen tanks, the German commander realized that this attack would be difficult to achieve, so he issued an order to retreat. Soon, dead bodies and burning tanks were left in front of the Soviet position.
