Burning Moscow

Thinking about the tank army, my mind flashed, and I hurriedly asked Nekrasov: "By the way, Comrade Colonel, I forgot to ask you about one thing. The 96th Tank Brigade, which is deployed behind your division, is Was it formerly part of the 15th Tank Army?"

Nekrasov did not answer my question, but turned his inquiring eyes to his chief of staff. The chief of staff of the division immediately understood, and stepped forward and replied: "Report to Comrade Commander. I asked the brigade commander of the tank brigade. He said that their brigade was newly formed in the Kursk region last month."

After listening to the chief of staff of the division, I knew in my heart that the tank brigade that belonged to Rebarko was probably wiped out in the defense of Kiev. However, their banner should have been brought out by Rebarko, so they could be reorganized.

Just as I was feeling the cruelty of the war in my heart, when an outstanding tank brigade said it was gone, suddenly there was a intensive gunfire outside.

"Except for what?" Nekrasov didn't wait for any response from me, so he asked the chief of staff of the division first: "Why are there gunshots outside?"

After the division chief and Ershov looked at each other, they shook their heads and said, "I'm sorry, comrade commander, I am not quite sure. But listening to the gunshots, it should be not far from our place. I immediately called to ask what happened. What's the matter." As he said, he picked up the phone on the desk.

"Comrade commander, comrade commander." Before the chief of staff of the division could make a call, he suddenly broke into a soldier with a helmet and a rifle in his hand. As soon as he entered the door, he hurriedly yelled: "A German appeared nearby. When he touched our side, he was spotted by our sentry on duty, and there was a fierce exchange of fire."

"What kind of force is the enemy?" I participated in the Battle of Stalingrad. Naturally, I knew that the small German troops had touched the headquarters of our army and exchanged fire incidents. It was a trivial matter, so I asked disapprovingly. .

"The one who was fighting our soldiers outside, probably had a platoon of troops, and the motorcycle they were riding on was hidden under the hillside." The visitor said very quickly: "In addition to the infantry, a German army was also found in the distance. tank."

Nekrasov looked at the visitor suspiciously. Asked suspiciously: "Did you make a mistake and regard our own tank as a German tank?"

"Yes, comrade commander." Seeing that Nekrasov didn't believe his words, the visitor started crying in a hurry. He cried and said: "I looked carefully. It is definitely a German tank, especially the white cross on the turret. It can be seen clearly in the telescope."

I saw Nekrasov's eyes staring, and he was about to get angry. He quickly stopped him, and cautiously reminded: "Comrade Colonel, what this soldier said is true or false, we will know if we go to see with our own eyes."

As soon as my words were spoken, Nekrasov, the division chief, and Yersov stopped my way. Nekrasov also said nervously: "No, Comrade Commander, it's too dangerous outside and you have no right to take risks."

"Yes, Comrade Commander, the commander is right." The chief of staff of the division immediately echoed: "You can stabilize the army and boost morale here. If there is any accident, it will have a counterproductive effect."

Although they are all kind of me tomorrow, I really can't feel at ease if I don't see the outside situation with my own eyes. Therefore, I waved at them and said firmly, "Comrade Colonel, don’t worry, I’m not on the battlefield for the first time. I will pay attention to safety. Besides, the Germans only have one platoon. With the guards of your division, If you want to eliminate them completely. There should be no problem, right?"

"Comrade Commander, due to the need for troops in the front, the guard battalion of the division has allocated a lot of manpower to the grassroots units." The division chief explained to me: "Currently, there is only one company responsible for the security of the division. If the German army As far as infantry is concerned, there is no problem, but the German army also has a tank, which is a bit troublesome."

"Isn't it just a German tank? What can I worry about." In order not to make them nervous, I deliberately put on a relaxed expression and said to them: "Look for two soldiers to carry a rocket launcher. The tank is about to pass by. Place in ambush. You can easily kill it."

My words made an awkward expression on the face of the division chief of staff. He laughed and laughed and said to me: "Comrade Commander, you don't know anything. In order to strengthen the forward anti-tank capability, we have equipped all the bazookas with forward troops. Except for a few anti-tank grenades, the guard company has no anti-tank weapons."

As soon as Yersov and other division chiefs finished speaking, they immediately stated: "Comrade commander, the situation is dangerous. I suggest that the commander be transferred to our regiment's station immediately, which is safer than here."

"Yes, this is a good way." Nekrasov heard his subordinates say so and immediately agreed. And persuaded me: "The defensive force of the division is too weak. For safety's sake, you should transfer to the Yersov regiment first."

"Comrade Colonel, I won't go anywhere unless I saw the German troops in the sneak attack headquarters have been wiped out." Thinking that 80% of the German troops who attacked here were members of the Skeleton Division, I was in a bad mood, so I stubbornly told Nekrasso. The husband said, "Comrade Colonel, take me to see."

Seeing my stubborn opinion, Nekrasov couldn’t say anything. He had to order Yersov to return to his regiment command post and prepare for all the German sneak attacks. Finally, he reluctantly said to me: "Commander Comrade, since you want to see how we deal with the Germans, please follow me."

When I followed Nekrasov and left the headquarters, Bukov, who was standing outside the door, greeted him immediately and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Commander, the situation seems to be terrible. The small German army is not far away. The guards at the place are exchanging fire."

"The infantry will be ignored for the time being. Colonel Nekrasov’s guard company will wipe them out." After I said these two words to Bukov, I suddenly remembered that I could inform the 96th Brigade of the tanks to send them out. Relief for us. As long as they dispatched two new tanks, no matter how strong the German tanks were, it would be nothing more than a moving target. Thinking of this, I stopped, and returned half of my body back to the room. The division chief of staff standing inside ordered: "Comrade chief of staff, please call the commander of the tank brigade and ask them to dispatch the tank immediately. Support us."

Nekrasov took me to an observation post not far away. The soldier who had come to report stood in front of the lookout, pointed outside and said, "Commander, comrade commander. Please see. You can see it here. To the German tank, it is about 500 meters away from us at the moment."

I picked up the binoculars and first looked at the ongoing battle on the hillside not far away, and saw the small German troops attacking. Suppressed by the firepower of the guard company, it was difficult to climb to the sky on the hillside, so he turned his attention to the tank in the distance.

I saw a tiger tank with a square head and a square brain, slowly driving on a soil **** a few hundred meters away. It also stopped from time to time, shelling suspicious targets nearby or strafing with machine guns. A lonely hut on the hillside became its target. I saw it stopped. Slowly turned the turret, and then the body shook suddenly, and a shell came out of it. In an instant, the small wooden house that was hit was torn apart in the flames and gunpowder smoke, and the blasted wooden boards flew everywhere. After destroying the cabin, the tiger tank spewed out a puff of black smoke from the tail, and then galloped toward the most intense position of the battle.

When the tank was less than two hundred meters away from us, there was a mud collision on the right side of the tank body. Seeing this scene, I knew that our artillery should be firing, and quickly turned around. Look for the artillery that fired. After searching for a while, I found an anti-tank gun position on the hillside in the front left of the observation post. Four or five artillerymen were squatting beside the artillery, preparing for firing nervously.

"Comrade Colonel, look!" I pointed to the anti-tank gun on the gun position in the distance, and said excitedly to Nekrasov: "There is our anti-tank gun. The tank was killed." As soon as I said what I said, I realized something was wrong. Driving towards us is a German Tiger tank. On the hillside, there is only a very ordinary 45mm anti-tank gun. Can they deal with the German Tiger tanks?

The answer was soon revealed. The anti-tank gun quickly fired a second time, this time with good luck. The shell hit the body of the Tiger tank in one shot. But after the gunpowder dissipated, I found that the German tanks were unaffected and were still driving towards us quickly.

Seeing this situation, Nekrasov couldn't help but cursed: "Damn, this German tank is too strong, shooting at such a close range. I haven't waited to kill it."

The German tank that was hit obviously found the gun position on the hillside. It stopped advancing, turned its muzzle to the position of the anti-tank gun, and fired a shot directly. The tank shell unbiasedly hit the anti-tank gun that had fired twice in a row. After the earth-shattering explosion, I saw a large crater there. Several artillery soldiers lay all around the pit, and the anti-tank gun was overturned to the ground, and the barrel was bent at a strange angle.

"We...our anti-tank gun, just... it's finished?" Although Nekrasov, like me, witnessed the destruction of the anti-tank gun positions by German tanks, he still couldn't believe it. "We hit the enemy's tank, and the tank was okay; but their tank hit our artillery, but the position was destroyed?"

Looking at the German tanks coming closer and closer, my heart touched my throat, and my heart said that if it rushed forward, I would have to turn around and run away. Human flesh and blood can't stop the German steel. Monster.

One hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters, eighty meters. I have been silently calculating in my heart how far this imposing tank is from me. I even made a plan. As long as the tank enters within 50 meters, I don't care about the three or seventy-one, turn around and flee. On the battlefield, bravery is necessary. But standing there motionless in the face of the German tank rushing up is not brave but stupid.

Just as I started the countdown, two puddles of mud rose to the left and right of the Tiger tank. Seeing this, I was very surprised and asked what was going on. Is Nekrasov still hiding the anti-tank gun in other places? But when I turned my head to look at him, I was surprised to find that his face was also blank.

Before I could figure out what was going on, a bright flame suddenly appeared on the body of that incredible Tiger tank, and then the whole car sound was shrouded in black smoke. After a while, I heard a roar of tank motors, and looked in the direction of the sound. I saw four or five new tanks of our army, lined up, rushing from the right side of the high ground. . As they marched, they continued to shoot at the German infantry concealed on the hillside. The German soldiers who were in a stalemate with our army immediately became confused.

Seeing the appearance of these tanks, Nekrasov let out a sigh of relief, then put down his binoculars, and said with relief: "Comrade Commander, thank goodness, it is a tank of the 96th Brigade of Tanks."

Due to the timely appearance of our tanks, the German sneak attack plan was completely over. After discovering that the tank they were relying on had been destroyed, the German infantrymen, seeing that our army was powerful, dropped their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.

Nekrasov saw that the German prisoners with their hands held high were escorted into the trenches by our officers and fighters. He couldn't help but snorted and said in a disdainful tone: "I thought the German soldiers of the Skeleton Division were so tenacious. I didn’t expect it to be a pustule. Seeing that I couldn’t beat us, I immediately raised my hand and surrendered ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Comrade Colonel." I heard him say that, a little bit dumbfounded and said: "If it wasn't for the commanders of the tank brigade to rush in time Come here, and the destroyed Tiger tank will be enough to razor your division headquarters to the ground."

I raised my hand and looked at my watch. Seeing that the time was already at nine o'clock, I said to Nekrasov: "Well, comrade colonel, it's not early. Before it's dark, I want to rush back to the commander of the army. unit."

"Do you need me to send someone to escort, Comrade Commander?" Nekrasov showed a relieved expression on his face when he heard that I was about to return to the headquarters of the group army. He asked me kindly: "You know, this is away from the headquarters after all. For dozens of kilometers, it is entirely possible to encounter small German troops on the road. It is too unsafe."

"No need, comrade colonel." I considered that if I was unlucky and encountered an enemy on the road, the people sent by Nekrasov would not only be of no help, but might expose the target, so I directly rejected him. Kindness: "We only have one car, and the goal is not big. Even if the enemy finds it, we can get away quickly." (To be continued.)

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