"I don't understand" Zoya looked at Captain Aleutian and Wei Ran in confusion, "Shouldn't we fight back?"
"Tell me what you want" Captain Aleutian looked encouragingly Looking at Wei Ran, he seemed to be quite curious whether his answer was the same as what he had considered.
"Trenches can protect against direct artillery shells, but they cannot protect against mortar shells."
Wei Ran shrank his neck and looked at the smoke that exploded around Position 19 , "And the most important thing is that the damage caused by our counterattack with mortars is not high now. It is better to let them continue to dig for a while and wait for their reinforcements to come and solve it together."
"Also What?" Captain Aleutian asked with a smile.
"What else?" Wei Ran thought for a long time, and finally shook his head honestly, "There are only so many things I can think of."
"As long as they dig trenches and follow from behind, The route of the troops added by the tanks is fixed, the positions of the trenches are also fixed, and even their hiding positions are fixed. This will make it much easier for our new recruits who have just learned to control mortars to aim at the target. , It can also save some ammunition in disguise."
"But we let them dig a trench to confront us so smoothly?"
Wei Ran asked worriedly, Whether the opponent has trenches or does not have trenches are two different things. It would not be a wise decision to let the Germans dig trenches right in front of their homes just to save some ammunition.
"Of course it's impossible." Vanya, with a fierce look on his face, joined the conversation, "Aleutian, we are ready."
The latter nodded after hearing this, "Arrange the marksmanship "Carry out non-stop sniping and supervise them to dig faster."
Although they didn't know what the Aleutian captain was thinking, everyone still accepted his arrangement honestly. .
As time passed little by little, the sky gradually darkened. Compared to the almost constant fighting sounds in other surrounding positions, except for the occasional gunshots and mortar explosions near position 19, Otherwise, it fell into an eerie silence.
In the command post with air leakage from all sides, Captain Aleutian finished his simple dinner in three or two bites. After rudely wiping the remaining mashed potatoes at the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, he looked out through the observation hole. He said casually, "It's already half past eight, it's almost time for us to start." Upon hearing this, Vanya immediately stuck her head out of the command post and blew the whistle that was originally hung around her neck. . After receiving the signal, the mortar soldiers, who had been silent all afternoon, immediately picked up the shells and stuffed them into the launch tube without hesitation.
"Bang bang!"
After two consecutive low-pitched buzzes, the heavy mortar positions were pushed away by a slowly spreading circle driven by the shock wave. Shaped water vapor ripples.
Within a few seconds apart, the two 120mm high-explosive mortar shells accurately hit the half-dug trench line on the opposite side. Although it was impossible to hear the screams from the opposite side, But that pieceThe fire that exploded in the trench was particularly conspicuous in the night.
Behind the observation window of the command post, Aleutian put down the telescope and said with satisfaction, "Not bad, let's continue with the explosive point now!"
After hearing this, Vanya immediately took out his telescope. He took out his flashlight and pointed it at the two heavy mortars, and immediately blew the whistle again after the other party stopped shelling.
Less than a second apart, the 82mm mortars, which had also been aimed before the sun set, began to fire one after another. Under the operation of those soldiers, the only two mortars were fired. The one that fired my shot hit the trench line on the opposite side.
As Wei Ran watched with confusion, Vanya changed direction and waved the flashlight towards the slope of the trench. Then he personally led a small group of soldiers with submachine guns over the trench and through the trench. The barbed wire fence was damaged, and under the cover of mortars, the cat bent down and silently rushed towards the trench that was about to be dug on the opposite side!
At the same time, the two heavy mortars that fired first had been dragged by more than a dozen soldiers and quickly moved to 20 along the trenches that had been widening in the past few days. Backup gun position several meters away.
"This lunatic!"
Wei Ran muttered to himself. It was only then that he barely understood what Captain Aleutian was thinking. This bastard from the correction camp seemed to understand Entering the trenches that the German soldiers dug out for most of the afternoon on the opposite side!
Soon, the opponent's mortars began to fight back. Most of the shells that exploded one after another hit near the trench of Position 19. Occasionally, a few shells hit the inside of the trench, because most of them had already Hiding in the bunker in advance did not cause any effective damage at all.
The mortar exchange between the two sides did not last long. The team that rushed out with Vanya had already touched the shell crater outside the opponent's trench, rounded its arms and fired one after another. The grenades captured during the day were thrown into the opponent's trenches. At the same time, several people turned on their flashlights and sent signals in the direction of Position 19.
The trenches dug in only half an afternoon did not have as complete a bunker as the long-established No. 19 position. Even due to the initial bombing of a few heavy high-explosive mortar shells and other The German soldiers hiding inside did not expect that the Soviet Red Army, which had no strength advantage at all, would dare to send people to attack!
Before the grenades that exploded one after another had time to disperse the smoke, the two mortars at Position 19 were immediately replaced with illumination bombs, and were sent directly over the German trenches thirty seconds apart. !
The Soviet soldiers, who were like death squads, had shouted "Ula" and jumped into the trenches, pulling the triggers on any suspicious targets and shooting wildly!
However, the next operation was once again beyond Weiran's expectations. The death squad led by Vanya came and went in a hurry, barely waiting for the flare above their heads to land completely. They jumped out of the trenches without any hesitation and covered each other towards the 19th formation.Retreat in the direction of the ground!
The surprising operation was yet to come. Almost at the same time that the second flare was completely extinguished, the two 82mm mortars in the trench began to dump mortar shells towards the opponent's trench again!
When Vanya jumped into the trench with the surviving kamikaze members and the machine gun he brought back, the two mortars immediately stopped shelling.
"Okay, now it's time for the Germans on the opposite side to have a headache."
The Aleutian captain put down the telescope he had been holding with satisfaction, "Before dawn, the trenches I'm afraid I have to keep my eyes open."
"I thought you wanted to occupy their trenches," Wei Ran muttered with both regret and luck.
"That trench is the rope that holds the Germans"
Aleutian explained slowly in the dark command post, "If they are not allowed to dig the trench until they can't bear it, At the point of giving up, I’m afraid they will run away once we fire mortars.”
“But it’s different now”
Wanni smelled of gunpowder smoke. Ya walked into the command post carrying a submachine gun, "Before they get fire support from howitzers or a large number of tanks, the target between us has changed from position 19 to the trench that can be dug with just one shovel. , This can buy us a lot of time."
In the dark command post, Wei Ran frowned secretly, but he did not forget that Aleutian and Vanya seemed to be from the same country. Correctional camp. But during World War II, did the "Sukkas" in the Soviet correctional camps have such high combat literacy and command capabilities?