Chapter 63 Active Defense
Major Muller couldn't figure out why the Soviet army suddenly appeared behind him even if he was thinking about it. They seemed to have drilled out of the ground, while so many tanks and infantry from the German army just passed by that area but found nothing.
Actually, Major Muller is right, these Soviet troops came out of the ground.
The taboo of bunker operations is to only defend the inner one-acre three-point land. If you do this, it is easy for the enemy to find loopholes and break them one by one... As we all know, there is no defense line that cannot be broken, and even the tightest defense has loopholes.
Loopholes will cause the situation that the strength of the enemy and the enemy cannot be used symmetrically: the bunkers will not move, so when a bunker is besieged, other bunkers can only stare blankly except to provide fire support. If the firepower of these bunkers is suppressed, they will even Not even fire support.
As a result, the bunker will be divided into small pieces, and the small pieces will be slowly eaten by the enemy.
If it is a tighter defense line, it is okay, such as the Maginot Line in France, where the various bunkers are connected internally and can support each other in firepower. Such fortifications are difficult to break through.
The problem is that the line of defense that Shulka defended was the "Stalin Line of Defense" that the Soviet Army originally planned to abandon. The communication equipment was backward, the firepower of the bunkers was improperly configured, and there were few connections with each other, etc...
In this case, if you are still defending in the bunker, you will undoubtedly be very passive and can only wait for the German engineers to find a place to blast or insert explosives through the perforation.
Therefore, Shulka believes that the combat should be mobile, that is, there are offensive and defensive grounds and bunkers that cooperate with each other.
In addition to building a fortification outside the bunker on the ground, Shulka believes that the wooden houses scattered around are a place that can be used.
"I found that most of these wooden houses have basements." Shulka said to Major Gavrilov.
"Yes!" Major Gavrilov nodded: "They are used to storing food and crops in the basement!"
"We can deploy some troops there!" Shulka said.
"No, it won't do much, Shulka!" said Major Gavrilov. "The German guns would blow the cabin to pieces, the tanks would turn it into a pile of rotten logs, and they couldn't even get out of the basement." come out!"
"They will be trapped to death in the basement!" Commissar Fuming also agreed.
"Then let them open another exit first!" Shulka said: "It's not difficult, is it?"
Major Gavrilov raised his head in a daze, glanced at Commissar Fumin, and then both of them laughed.
"Shulka, you always think of ways that others can't think of!" Major Gavrilov said.
"This is a good way!" Commissar Fuming said: "The Germans always thought they had blown up the wooden house, and they never thought that there were people hiding under the wooden house!"
This is not an innovation for Shulka, because there is too much information about tunnel warfare and tunnel warfare in his mind. In addition, Yue Guizi also often use this method to form side firepower and reverse firepower against our army.
At the same time, it is not difficult, because the basement itself is a good hiding place, and it only takes more than an hour of civil work to open another exit, and then build a cover for this exit and lay a layer of soil on it to camouflage , so a tunnel is completed.
There are more than a dozen wooden houses outside the bunker, and there are more than a hundred soldiers hiding ten soldiers in each basement. Several telephone lines in different directions lead to Major Gavrilov's headquarters for command.
Then, when the smoke bomb hit the position, Major Gavrilov ordered on the phone: "Attack!"
The commander of this unit was Captain Ulyan, the commander of the third battalion. He picked up another phone to give orders... This phone is used to contact various tunnels.
The Soviet soldiers in each tunnel came out of the tunnel immediately.
It is not difficult for them to find the position of the Germans, because even in the smoke, the tall tanks are still very obvious, and the German infantry must be hiding behind the tanks, so the machine guns and rifles hit the back of the tanks without thinking. The Soviet army's shovel-type mortar... Although this mortar was not as good as the German mortar on the frontal battlefield, it played a big role at this time. When a 37MM shell was fired, the German army was screamed.
"Retreat!" Major Muller hurriedly ordered: "Get out of this ghost place!"
But it seemed too late to retreat at this time, the frontal Soviet soldiers shouted and launched a countercharge towards the German army...
Shulka disagrees with this point.
Because Shulka believed that the counter charge at this time would cause accidental injury... The Soviet army launched a two-sided attack on the German army in the smoke, so no one knew whether the opponent was the enemy or his own.
But Gavrilov thinks this is not a problem.
"Think about those tanks, Shulka!" Major Gavrilov said. "If we let them drive back like this, next time they will attack again with them, the same tanks...and we are now Chance to blow them up!"
"So how to solve the accidental injury?" Shulka asked.
"Necessary casualties are acceptable!" Political Commissar Fuming said: "This is war!"
This may be correct, and this is also the style of the Soviet army... If casualties can be exchanged for enemy losses, they will not hesitate to make such a choice, but Shulka is not used to it.
However, the situation on the battlefield was much better than expected. The Soviet army finally repelled the German attack at the cost of thirty-five casualties.
This proves that the accidental injury among the Soviet troops was not large.
Afterwards, Shulka believes that this is very likely because the Soviet army has long been accustomed to fighting in chaos, so their performance in melee is much better than that of the German army... The German army is strictly based on formation, position, and even machine gun positions. How the riflemen disperse is particular, but the more so, once they fall into chaos, they will be completely at a loss.
Shulka did not rush out in this battle, and he and the actor were responsible for staying in the bunker.
Each bunker must be guarded, otherwise it may be occupied by the roving German army and cause big trouble.
Shulka observed the battlefield through the periscope, and the German army was in a mess in the smoke, especially the tanks, which collided with each other, crushed their own soldiers, and shot randomly with machine guns... It was like a serious traffic accident, except It was not a car that had an accident but a tank.
Then, the situation continued to deteriorate. Soviet soldiers threw anti-tank grenades and explosive packs close to the tanks, and only heard a burst of "booming" explosions, and those tanks lay in a mess on the ground and remained motionless.
Occasionally, a few Molotov cocktails were thrown out, so several raging fires ignited again, and miserable screams were heard endlessly.
(end of this chapter)
