Chapter 748 interspersed
Ruins, blood, corpses...
Everything in front of me is like a big dye vat, and the enemies who are trying their best to escape in the water are like paint bags. Whenever a bullet hits them, a ball of paint bursts out with a bang, dyeing the surrounding river water. red.
Shulka was surprised that there were so many enemies in Surovikino. He originally thought that there were at most two divisions in this area, a 29th Panzergrenadier Division and another German Infantry Division.
So, if these two divisions were flooded and bombarded to pieces, there would not be much left now.
However, this is not the case.
The reason was that Manstein believed that Surovikino was a barrier to his right wing, so he urgently mobilized a Romanian division and an Italian division to come for reinforcements.
The "reinforcement" is actually just to save face for the Romanian and Italian armies. These two divisions were transferred to provide logistics and build fortifications for the German army... This is Manstein's allocation according to "capability". The German army has high combat effectiveness and good quality. Let them All went to the front line to fight, while the Romanian army and the Italian army were responsible for logistics on the second line and the rear.
It should be said that the two Luo and Italian divisions were very unlucky. They had only entered Surovikino two days before encountering a full-line attack by the Soviet army. As Shulka estimated, half of them were submerged and submerged. …Actually, the Romanian and Italian armies almost never hid in the fortifications like the German army and had no time to escape. The reason why they were flooded was because many of them could not swim.
Then about half of the troops were torn apart by relentless artillery fire... This was inevitable, as said before, because they were forced out of the bunker by the water and suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of artillery fire.
The last surviving half were hunted down in front of Shulka and his subordinates, but the number of them was still unimaginable.
As the amphibious landing ship continued to advance in depth, there were more and more corpses, stumps and broken arms, and almost all of them were floating on the water surface, densely packed, like a piece of poisoned fish with its white belly turned upside down.
The corpses are so dense that sometimes even the amphibious landing ships are blocked from passing through... Being blocked is not a big deal. The navy infantry is worried that the clothes and belts of the corpses will be caught in the propeller, so the soldiers have to use wooden oars and bayonets Push the body to the sides.
And those fleeing enemies were swimming among these corpses. Some of them seemed to be frightened by the tragic scene in front of them, holding a piece of rotten wood and floating in the water motionless, watching all this in a daze. He was breathing and gasping without knowing that he was a living person... Due to the previous artillery bombardment, there was water vapor and gunpowder smoke on the water surface, and the air flow could be seen while panting.
These scared enemy Soviet soldiers didn't bother to talk to them.
This is not because the Soviet army is soft, but because there are too many targets at this time and the speed of the amphibious landing ship is not slow... The purpose of interspersing troops is not to kill these fleeing enemies but to cut off their retreat, so it will not be because there are still on the way. Slow down when enemies are running away.
Soldiers can only shoot at the "most active" targets.
The so-called "most active" refers to those who can swim, have the strength to escape, or have guns in their hands.
In other words, there are not many targets with guns in this situation, even the German army, although they are all warned that guns are their second life.
However, a second life is a second life after all.
There are not many infantry soldiers who can swim. Even if some can swim, it is difficult to swim with guns, bullets, grenades, etc. If this is the case, they are almost doomed to escape Surovikino.
Therefore, most of the soldiers who survived were the ones who abandoned their equipment in the first place.
There are basically only a few situations where there are still guns in hand: floating objects are found, and a fishing boat is lucky to be found, or they are gathered in a higher position.
But no matter what the situation is, they have no power to fight back against the Soviet army driving the amphibious landing ship.
The amphibious landing ship is a bit like a tank driving in the water. It has sufficient firepower and good defense. More importantly, it can quickly switch angles and suitable positions.
Then Shulka discovered that the enemies he encountered just now were just drizzle... When the amphibious landing ship pierced through the back of the city, the dark patch on the water surface was full of enemies, and all those who could swim or found floating objects gathered here.
The Soviet army was not polite to them either. As soon as the muzzle was raised, it was a rain of bullets at them, causing the enemies in the water to howl.
Then, without knowing who started it, the enemy troops in the water scrambled to be the first to shout in half-baked Russian:
"Don't shoot, we surrender!"
"We Surrender!"
…
Kharichev stood beside the side of the ship with a gun in high spirits and shouted at them: "Put your hands up, you bastards!"
The enemy has no other choice as they don't even have a few guns.
So, the people in the water raised their hands one by one with difficulty...the reason for saying "difficult" is because raising hands in the water is really not an easy task.
But the next thing made it difficult for everyone: what to do with these prisoners? We can't pull all of them into the boat. There are at least a thousand captives in front of us. If we pull them all into the boat, all the boats will sink to the bottom of the river.
After thinking for a while, Shulka raised his head towards a shoal more than a hundred meters away, and said, "Let them swim there and gather in a circle, and throw away the gun!"
"Drop the gun! Swim over..."
…
After a while, the friendly forces on the right also arrived, so Surovikino's retreat was completely cut off.
However, the battle did not end there.
The three battalions on the front plunged into the city of Surovikino to start street fighting with the enemy.
Most of the troops located in Surovikino are German troops. They can still organize defenses under such circumstances, and they deserve to be called the 29th Division of the "Panzergrenadier".
This defense was organized by Major General Ellen. The moment he received the warning call from the front line, he realized that the loss was inevitable.
Major General Ellen may even know that it is impossible for him to escape from here, as the adjutant suggested.
"It's time to retreat, General!" The adjutant said: "The water level is still rising, if we don't retreat, it will be too late!"
"Do you think it will be too late to withdraw now?" Major General Ellen asked.
Without waiting for the adjutant to answer, Ellen said: "No, it's too late! Our car can't start, and the water level will submerge us before we walk a few steps, but the enemy has an amphibious landing ship..."
(end of this chapter)
