Chapter 526 Retreat
I'm a bit late today, I'll make up a chapter tomorrow!
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Lieutenant Colonel Bauer and Lieutenant Colonel Edmond did not launch an attack immediately, they had some communication and planning first.
This approach is very smart, although the battle situation is very urgent at this time, Mamayev Gang will fall into the hands of the Soviet army at any time, and it will be too late for the German army to occupy the cemetery at that time.
But both Edmund and Bauer knew that it was impossible to act too hastily in the current situation. Even if the German army had the upper hand, those who were frizzy would undoubtedly be blown back by a grenade.
"Their main defense is grenades!" Edmund said. "Plus submachine guns for close combat. That's smart, because that's what the cemetery is for!"
Lieutenant Colonel Bauer nodded: "So, do you think we should fight like this?"
"Yes!" Lieutenant Colonel Edmond replied: "If we can't find a good tactic, we will use the same tactic as the enemy!"
It is obvious that using the same tactics as the enemy will at least not suffer a loss, to be precise, it will not suffer a big loss, because there is still a difference between the attacking side and the defending side, some details cannot be exactly the same, for example, the Soviet army can arrange The submachine gunners lurk and the Germans cannot.
After thinking for a while, Lieutenant Colonel Bauer said: "Or, we can change this tactic a little bit!"
Lieutenant Colonel Bauer did exactly that. Instead of copying Shulka's tactics, he divided each platoon into three groups:
The first group is at the forefront, mainly composed of submachine gunners. Of course, this group is charging forward.
The second group is the grenadiers, and they even all carry rifles on their backs and carry tons of grenades.
The third group is snipers and mortarers, who are responsible for firing flares forward, observing, and coordinating commands.
After tens of minutes of intense preparation, the first round of the German offensive began.
Such an offensive is very effective.
Their main body is the third group of snipers and mortarmen…
The snipers took a favorable position and prepared, the mortarers fired flares forward, and then the first group launched a tentative attack forward.
Once the first group is attacked by the enemy, snipers can usually find or roughly determine the enemy's position...Snipers usually have this ability, they are used to estimating the distance of the target, so they can quickly get more accurate data.
Needless to say, the grenades thrown by the Soviet army, under the light of the flares, snipers can even see where they were thrown from.
As for the submachine gunners hiding in low places and dark places, snipers can judge the distance and direction of a large distance through the sparks and gunshots of the guns.
So, the snipers immediately informed the second group of grenadiers about the general information of the enemy.
The notification method is simple and clear: "One o'clock direction, 30 meters!"
Then the grenadier pulled the ignited grenade and threw it in a large direction. After a burst of "boom boom", an obstacle was almost lifted.
This put a lot of pressure on Shulka and others.
"Captain!" Andrianka reported to Shulka: "The enemy has changed their tactics, and we have lost dozens of people!"
Shulka nodded, he had seen these questions.
But this is also what he expected... The quality of the German infantry is quite good, especially in the early days of the Soviet-German War. (Due to the heavy casualties of veterans in the middle and late stages, a large number of new recruits were added to make their quality worse and worse)
In this regard, the quality of the Soviet army is somewhat lacking. Although the 82nd Infantry Regiment has undergone special urban street combat training, they still lack actual combat experience after all, and there is still a gap compared with the German army.
In this case, once the Germans use the correct tactics and have far more troops than the Soviets, there is no reason for the Soviets to have the upper hand.
Shulka cast his eyes on Mikhailevich.
Mikhailvich took out his pocket watch and looked at it, then nodded and said, "There are still thirty minutes, almost!"
"Arrange landmines!" Shulka ordered: "First battalion cover, other units retreat!"
"Yes!" Andrianka responded and conveyed the order.
In fact, from the very beginning, Shulka had no intention of staying in the cemetery.
The cemetery was never the goal of the Soviet army. Their goal was always Mamayev Gang.
At this time, Mamayev Gang is the weak point. The German army has only about 300 troops there, and there may not be many left after the fight, and the Soviet infantry regiment is still in wave after wave. Launch a fierce attack on it.
So, only a fool would stay in the cemetery and kill the German army.
In fact, a battalion in the cemetery is at a loss with the German army, and a regiment is also at a loss, and the German army using new tactics can almost be said to use hand grenades to blow them forward wave after wave, so a battalion here is at a loss Not much less time.
This is what Shulka wanted.
So, without the knowledge of the German army, the Soviet troops of the two battalions secretly withdrew their positions from the other side of the cemetery... It was very difficult for the German army to discover this, as the tombstones everywhere blocked their sight.
This cannot actually be said to be "retreat", but to attack in the other direction, a veritable attack.
Mamayev Hill is two miles away from the cemetery, and it took only ten minutes for the soldiers to retreat to the vicinity of its reverse slope.
At this time, the sound of gunfire on Mamayev Hill was rumbling and killing, and the flames hit the top of the mountain like lightning, and there were bursts of flames, and the figures of German soldiers could be seen faintly transporting ammunition in the traffic trenches, Reinforcements and others are busy.
Shuerka ordered the soldiers to lie in wait, looked at the time, and ordered: "Use the bayonet!"
"On the bayonet!"
"On the bayonet!"
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The order was passed down in a voice.
Then, suddenly there was a whistling sound of shells in the air, and the shells crossed Mamayev Hill one by one and smashed **** its anti-slope position.
This is an agreement between the 82nd Regiment and the Group Army Command.
At this time, the 82nd Infantry Regiment was in a state of insufficient ammunition, and its strength was not enough to prepare for artillery fire against the German army.
This will be done by the 62nd Army... Most of these shells are fired by mortars, mortars of various calibers.
The characteristic of the mortar is its curved trajectory, which can bypass the top of Mamayev Hill and hit its reverse slope.
If there is a downside, it is that the mortar shooter cannot see the target to fire blind.
However, because the Mamayev Hill belonged to the Soviet army, their familiarity with the terrain and terrain made up for this deficiency to a certain extent, so those shells were still fired at close quarters, and rows of barbed wire hillocks in front of the German positions, The landmines exploded in a muddle.
Ten minutes later, the artillery fire began to extend to the top of the mountain.
Major Mikhailvich stood up and shouted: "Comrades, for Stalingrad, for the great motherland, go!"
(end of this chapter)
