Seeing his companion lying wailing not far away, a soldier immediately came out of his hiding place, bent down and rushed to his companion, reached out and grabbed his back collar, and dragged him back hard.
However, the Soviet soldiers on the position were not willing to let the German soldiers drag their wounded to a safe place easily. They aimed at the soldier dragging the wounded and fired two bursts in a row, killing him directly in front of the position.
Originally there were some German soldiers who wanted to drag their injured comrades back, but when they saw that the soldiers who went out to rescue them were killed on the spot before they could drag their injured comrades back, they all gave up their original ideas. , continue to hide in bomb craters or other hiding places, and start shooting with the Soviet troops on the position.
The German commander saw through his telescope that his men were suppressed by Soviet fire and unable to move on the hillside, and quickly ordered the tanks to fire on the high ground. As the order was issued, tanks eight hundred meters away from the distant position opened fire one after another, bombarding the exposed fire points on the high ground.
After a round of shelling, two civil fire points that had been spitting out flames and suppressed the German officers and soldiers were destroyed by artillery fire. However, the German infantry did not launch an immediate charge. They wanted to wait until their tanks destroyed all the firepower points before launching an attack.
Seeing that the two firepower points on the position were destroyed by artillery fire, Captain Narva immediately sensed the German army's intentions. He quickly ordered the remaining machine guns to stop firing and moved the firing positions in time, leaving only the soldiers to use submachine guns, assault rifles and The enemy started shooting.
After several rounds of German tank fire, the machine gun fire points on the hillside completely disappeared. The German commander thought that all the Soviet firepower points had been successfully destroyed by the tanks, so he sent another signal for the infantry to restart the charge.
The German officers and soldiers who received the attack signal did not rush out of their hiding places rashly, but first threw grenades in the direction of the Soviet position. When the smoke from the explosion of the grenade obscured the sight of the defenders, they came out of their hiding places one after another, rushing forward while constantly pulling the triggers and shooting.
On the top of the other side of the mountain a few hundred meters away from the high ground, Captain Mikhailev, the commander of the first battalion, was holding a telescope to observe the battle situation. Next to him stood the other two company commanders in the battalion.
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Yegor, the second company commander, saw that the enemy had rushed to the high ground and started a hand-to-hand combat with the first company that was holding the position. He couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, so he took the initiative to ask for a fight: "The situation of the first company is not good. Why not send our second company up?"
Mikhailev put down the telescope in his hand, turned to look at Yegor and said: "Comrade Yegor, don't you have confidence in Captain Narva and his men?"
"Of course I have confidence." Yegor looked at the fierce battlefield in the distance and said with some difficulty: "But they have too few people. If they want to block the enemy with superior numbers and equipment, they will probably have to pay a heavy price. "
"Don't worry, Comrade Yegor." Mikhailev said confidently: "I believe Captain Narva is capable of crushing the enemy's attack and firmly holding their position."
Seeing that Yegor seemed to want to talk more, Mikhailev waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "I believe that Captain Narva and his men can hold on no matter how fierce the enemy's offensive is. own position."
As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier next to him suddenly exclaimed: "Look, our troops have retreated."
Everyone quickly looked towards the high ground, and sure enough they saw a company of commanders and fighters withdrawing from the top of the hillside and retreating towards the reverse slope.
"Oops!" Upon seeing this, the third company commander said to Mikhailev: "Comrade battalion commander, let our company go up for reinforcements, otherwise the position of the first company will be lost."
Seeing a company of commanders and fighters retreating from the top of the hillside, Mikhailev couldn't help being surprised and hurriedly raised his binoculars to observe carefully. After watching for a while, the worry on Mikhailev's face disappeared, and his mouth was still slightly raised, as if he had seen something happy. He turned to the commander of the third company who asked for battle and said: "Comrade commander, do you really think that the commanders and fighters of the first company will hand over their positions to the Germans like this?"
"Isn't it?" the third company commander asked in confusion: "The commanders and fighters of the first company have withdrawn from the top of the hillside. Doesn't this mean that the position has been handed over to the Germans?"
"Third Company Commander," Yegor, who had just finished observing the battle situation in the distance, said: "Withdrawing from the top of the mountain does not mean handing over the position to the enemy. Sometimes it is to better eliminate the enemy."
"The first company has given up its position on the top of the mountain," the third company commander said unconvinced: "How can we better eliminate the enemy..." Before he could finish his words, there were several soldiers in the trench more than 40 meters away from the top of the hillside. The machine gun started firing. The German officers and soldiers who rushed down from the top of the mountain were caught off guard and fell to the ground one after another. The corpses and wounded rolled down the hillside.
"You see, Third Company Commander." Mikhailov said with a smile: "This is the tactic used by Captain Narva. The mountain on the reverse slope is a bit steep. When the enemy rushes down from the top of the mountain, They have to slow down to avoid falling. In this case, they will be regarded as targets by the commanders and fighters of the company."
Having said this, Mikhailev once again turned his attention to Yegor: "Second Company Commander, if I guess correctly, this is the tactic that the First Company Commander learned from the commander, right?"
"That's right." Yegor nodded and said proudly: "The commander often said that fighting a war is not just about bravery and fierce fighting. You need to use your brain more, so that you can achieve the greatest victory with the least casualties. .”
The German officers and soldiers who were caught off guard hurriedly retreated to the top of the slope, preparing to shoot from a high position with a company of commanders and soldiers halfway up the mountain. However, due to the problem of the slope top, the German officers and soldiers in the trench could not see the soldiers of the company below at all, so they could only lean out and shoot.
As a result, as soon as they emerged, they became the target of sharpshooters on the position. After more than twenty people were killed, the remaining officers and soldiers could only retreat obediently to avoid becoming the targets of the sharpshooters below.
Seeing this scene, Mikhailev said with emotion: "Captain Narva did a great job. Although the company did not have snipers, he selected a group of sharpshooters in advance to replace the snipers. The enemy emerges."
When the enemy was beaten and did not dare to take the lead, the commanders and fighters of the first company took the opportunity to launch a counterattack. The soldiers came out of the trenches with their weapons in hand. Instead of shouting "Ula" while charging as before, they quietly climbed to the top of the hillside. When they were still ten or twenty meters away from the trench, they threw the stringed grenade at the top of the hillside and continued to charge forward before the smoke cleared.
The German officers and soldiers on the top of the hillside were howling like ghosts after being bombed by grenades falling from the sky. Before the smoke cleared, he saw the Soviet commanders and soldiers who had been driven off appeared in front of him again. When a few German officers and soldiers who had just recovered their senses were about to shoot to resist, the Soviet commanders and soldiers had already taken action. After the clear gunshots were heard, the German officers and soldiers were killed in pieces in the trenches.
