The German tanks leading the infantry charge stopped one after another when they realized that the infantry behind them had been shelled by Soviet artillery. Because of their rough skin and rough flesh, the 76.2mm used by the Soviet army posed no threat to them, so they stopped at a distance of tens to a hundred meters from the Soviet position and bombarded the Soviet position with tank artillery or machine guns.
Although the German infantry attack was suppressed by artillery fire from the rear, the German tanks, which could not be destroyed by artillery fire, stopped in front of the position and fired arrogantly, causing considerable casualties to the defenders on the position.
In the observation post, Collim saw the enemy tanks parked motionless in front of the position, only firing with tank guns and machine guns. Some German infantry gradually gathered behind the tanks after escaping from the Soviet artillery fire coverage area.
"The enemy tanks are parked at a distance of tens to a hundred meters in front of our position." Collim thought painfully in his heart: "If our regiment has a few anti-tank rocket launchers like those used by friendly forces, The German tanks parked in front of the position will be destroyed one by one by the soldiers like targets."
"Comrade Colonel," the chief of staff of the regiment on the side also saw the German infantry gathering, and said to Collim: "The German tanks pose too great a threat to us. I will send people to blow them up."
"Go, Comrade Chief of Staff." Seeing that his soldiers were suppressed by German tank guns and machine guns and unable to raise their heads, Collim agreed to the Chief of Staff's proposal very readily and urged the other party: "Tell the soldiers, You have to be fast, the enemy infantry is regrouping, you have to blow up the enemy tanks before they finish regrouping."
"Yes, comrade commander, I will convey your order immediately." The chief of staff picked up the phone, but found that there was no sound in the receiver. It was obvious that the line was broken by German artillery fire. He quickly turned to Collim and said: " The phone lines were blown, so I went elsewhere to make calls.”
After saying that, the chief of staff jumped out of the observation post and ran along the communication trench towards the nearby backup regiment command post, where he was going to call the battalion commanders and ask them to send soldiers to blow up the German tanks.
Just after running a few steps, he heard a roar and a tank shell exploded near the traffic trench. The chief of staff quickly squatted on the spot, waited for the thrown up soil to fall on him, then stood up again, bent over, and quickly He quickly rushed to the backup command post.
When he approached the command post and was able to rush into the command post in just a few steps, another artillery shell fell nearby and exploded. A cloud of soil rose into the sky, and the shock wave generated by the explosion knocked him heavily to the ground. But this time after he fell, he failed to stand up again. Several pieces of shrapnel hit him, and blood quickly soaked his uniform at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The communications staff officer on duty in the backup command post saw the chief of staff lying in a pool of blood. He quickly bent down and ran out, taking the risk of dragging him in.
As soon as he placed the chief of staff in the corner, he yelled at the stunned communications soldier next to him: "What are you still standing here for? Military doctor, hurry up and call the military doctor!" A communications soldier agreed, bent down and rushed Exited the backup command post.
The communications staff officer pointed his hand at another communications soldier and told him: "Hurry up and go to the observation post and tell the regiment commander that the chief of staff is injured."
The communications soldier glanced at the chief of staff lying on the ground, nodded, and bent down and rushed out of the command post.
Not long after, the communications soldier ran into the observation post where Colin was located and said loudly: "Report to the comrade commander of the regiment that the chief of staff was injured at the door of the backup command post."
"Hell!" Colin muttered under his breath, then raised his voice and asked the signal soldier, "Can he continue to perform his duties?"
The communications soldier recalled the scene where the Chief of Staff was covered in blood, shook his head quickly, and replied: "Comrade Chief of Staff is seriously injured and I'm afraid he will not be able to continue to perform his duties."
"I understand." Colin picked up the phone on the side and wanted to give an order to the troops below, but found that there was no sound in the receiver, so he ordered the signal soldier who came to report: "Signal soldier, the line of this phone may be If something goes wrong, you immediately check the line and try to recover as soon as possible.”
Five minutes after the signal soldier left, the phone in the observation post rang. When Colin heard the phone ringing, he couldn't help but feel secretly happy. He quickly picked up the phone and said, "I'm Colonel Colin. Where are you from?"
Division Commander Malankin's voice came from the receiver: "Colonel Collim, why can't you get through to your phone?"
"The telephone line was cut by an enemy shell." After answering the reason awkwardly, Collim asked: "Comrade division commander, what are your instructions?"
"I saw the enemy's infantry gathering behind the tanks, preparing to attack your position." Malanjin said angrily: "Why don't you think of ways to destroy the enemy's tanks? Are you obediently waiting for them to drive into your position? "
"Comrade division commander, my chief of staff had to go to the backup command post to issue the order to destroy the enemy tanks because the phone in the observation post was cut off. Unexpectedly, he was unfortunately injured and withdrew from the battle." Collim could tell that Malankin was angry. , and quickly explained to him: "Now that the phone has just been repaired, I am about to issue such an order."
"Colonel Collim, I don't want to hear any of your reasons." It may be that there were too many casualties among the commanders and soldiers of the unit, so that when Malanjin heard that the chief of staff of the 238th Regiment was injured, his mood did not fluctuate, but he ordered the troops in a stern tone. Lin Mu: "We must find a way to blow up the enemy's tanks as soon as possible. We must not let them rush into your position."
"Comrade Commander," Collim said. The tanks deployed not far behind his position had no intention of being used as fixed forts. Seeing the German tanks bombarding their position unscrupulously, they did not pay attention. What was in their hearts? Feeling uncomfortable, he took the opportunity to give Malankin some advice: "Those dozens of tanks deployed not far behind our position have basically not fired a single shot so far. If they are willing to provide artillery cover, I think my Soldiers can minimize casualties when destroying enemy tanks."
The dozens of tanks parked behind the front-line positions basically did not fire, and Malanjin also noticed it. At first, I thought that General Trufanov had some special considerations to prevent the tanks that served as fixed forts from firing, but judging from the current situation, that is obviously not the case.
Now that Kolim had made a request to himself, Malankin could no longer ignore it. After pondering for a moment, he replied: "Comrade Colonel, I immediately communicated with General Trufanov to try to get the tanks that serve as fixed forts to fire. Cover your soldiers with artillery fire and destroy the enemy tanks."
