USSR 1941

  Chapter 11 Collaboration

The German tanks "rumble" forward, and each tank is followed by a large number of soldiers... This is the largest German attack. It is estimated that there are three companies, and each company has a tank covering the front. They obviously hope to move forward. Take the fort to end the battle.

   "Demolition team!" Major Gavrilov gave an order, and several organized demolition teams jumped out of the trenches and headed towards the German tanks under the cover of firepower.

  The blasting team is generally composed of 5 people.

  The three are blasters. In addition to carrying rifles, they mainly carry a large amount of explosives, such as explosive kits, blasting tubes, cluster grenades, etc... Some even don’t even carry rifles for the convenience of movement.

  The other two are cover personnel, carrying PPD submachine guns to provide fire cover for the blasters, and take over the explosives from the blasters to continue the mission if necessary.

  Of course, these members need extraordinary courage and military quality, otherwise they will feel weak when they see a tank, so how can they have the courage to rush up.

  Shuerka is recognized as a "coward"...Later Shurka knew that at this time he had the nickname "coward".

   But this doesn't seem to be a bad thing, because it will definitely not be his turn to bomb the tank.

Shulka observed the action of the blasting team through the front sight. They were obviously veterans of the army. They used the bullet craters to lie down and hide, and sometimes jumped forward quickly. The rows of bullets fired from the direction of the German army unexpectedly failed How effective is it... only three soldiers were hit during the leap forward, and the remaining thirty soldiers all went out of the trench smoothly and scattered and hid two hundred meters away.

   This put a lot of pressure on the German army, and the speed of the tanks immediately slowed down.

The reaction of the German army was correct. This is not to say that tanks are afraid of infantry, but that the ability of tanks to perceive the outside is very limited. In the blind corner of sight, some are even mixed with dead bodies, it is difficult to tell the truth from the false, and it is difficult for tanks to find these targets.

  It is not difficult to imagine that if the tank continues to move forward, there will soon be an explosive package stuffed into the track or a cluster grenade stuffed into the chassis and explode with a bang...

  The Germans didn't do that, they chose to play it safe, and they were very good at it.

  A "No. 3" tank adjusted the angle of the gun barrel, and then blasted a Maxim machine gun position of the Soviet army into the sky with a "boom".

  Several Soviet machine gunners were lying on the side covered in blood, their life and death uncertain, and the machine guns were blown up into parts and scattered around.

The Soviet-made Maxim M1910 heavy machine gun has a barrel-like water-cooled sleeve on the barrel, and a steel baffle is installed at the rear of the gun body, which makes it very conspicuous on the battlefield, so it is naturally It would be the preferred target for German tanks.

  The other two "No. 3" tanks also stopped to aim, and their targets were all machine gun positions in the Soviet positions without exception.

   This seems a bit unreasonable... When the tank faced the Soviet demolition team, it actually turned its target to the machine gun position in the Soviet trench.

  In fact, this is the genius of the German army: tank guns are more suitable for dealing with relatively distant and gathered targets, rather than individual infantry scattered in front of them.

   "Da da da!" A burst of gunfire passed, and several Soviet soldiers who risked rushing towards the tank with explosive packs were quickly knocked down in a pool of blood.

The German tanks advanced unhurriedly. Every time they advanced a certain distance, infantrymen would use bullets and grenades to test and clear obstacles forward. The key defensive area of ​​the group".

  At this time, there was another scream in the sky, and two German fighter jets swooped in from the air. Machine gun bullets poured into the Soviet trenches like raindrops, and there was a bloodbath and screams in the trenches in an instant.

Shulka quickly put away his rifle and rolled towards the corner of the "Z"-shaped trench. Several machine gun bullets flew past Shulka with a "swish" sound, and the stones stirred up by the bullets even hit Shulka. Erka's face was painful.

  Looking back, there were already a few more corpses where Shulka was just now...or they couldn't be called corpses yet, because their hands and feet were still twitching.

   Although Okunev was in it, he was very lucky not to be injured. He was pale and breathing heavily, and Shulka noticed that his lips were even trembling.

   "Are you all right!" Shulka asked.

   "It's okay...!" Okunev replied with difficulty, and then looked at Shulka suspiciously, as if wondering how Shulka had such a quick reaction and knew where to hide.

   This is actually not a difficult thing to understand:

  For enemy pilots, they usually keep the fuselage parallel to the target trench and fly in a straight line, so that when they dive and shoot, the bullets will be shot into the enemy trench in a series. The same is true for bombing, which can multiply the chances of dropping bombs into trenches.

  So to avoid their attacks, you have to choose a place that faces away from the plane and has cover... The bullets travel in a straight line, and it is easy to judge the direction of the bullets in advance with a little imagination.

   Of course, this is not a good time for Shulka to explain this to Okunev.

  Shuerka dragged Okunev out from the pile of dead people, and then poked his head out to look out.

Under the almost perfect coordinated attack of the German infantry, tanks, and air forces, the situation of the Soviet army was very grim: the firepower in the trenches was completely suppressed by the German tanks and aircraft, which gave the German infantry an absolute advantage in firepower, so they explored with confidence. Birth provides cover for the tank, which then pushes forward...

The offensive routine remains the same, but what has changed is the increasing number of corpses of Soviet soldiers on the battlefield and the shorter and shorter distances... The Soviet "demolition team" simply cannot stop the advance of the German army. At this time, almost all of them Overwhelmed.

  The reason for saying "almost" is because there may be some members of the "demolition team" holding cluster grenades or explosives and hiding in bomb craters or dead bodies. This is one of the reasons why German tanks dare not let go of their speed.

  However, it is conceivable that this will not last long. The tracks of German tanks will soon be ruthlessly rolled over the Soviet trenches, followed by a large number of muzzles and cold bayonets.

what to do?

   Shulka asked himself, if this continues, the Soviet defense line will soon collapse across the board.

Shulka thought about running away. In fact, some Soviet soldiers had already done so, including Valery who had laughed at Shulka before... Shulka saw him drop his rifle and stumbled. Run to the rear.

  However, thinking of the indifferent eyes of the instructor, Shulka gave up this idea.

   Escaping is obviously not a good option, it will even cut off your own way of life, then the German army, the Soviet army and even the whole world will become your enemies, and you will have nowhere to go.

  (end of this chapter)