"It's Kaze! Kaze is still alive!" Wei Ran exclaimed happily while holding up the microphone.
The Aleutian company commander grabbed the microphone and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Hound! Dog! Do you need support?"
A dense forest located behind the German position Inside, Kaze looked up at the barking dogs getting closer and closer and the flashlight beam that swept across his face from time to time. Then he looked down at the wound on his thigh that was penetrated by a bullet, and then he leaned tiredly against a bullet. Hongsongshu sat down slowly, endured the pain and replied into the microphone, "No... no need, send out a new artillery observer! The hunting dog... applied to withdraw from the call sign sequence."
"Goodbye...my comrades."
The Aleutian company commander was reluctant to put down the transmitter, but Kaze, who was on the other side of the radio signal, had already fired up the radio hidden in the radio and his waist. between grenades.
"We have lost the artillery observer forever"
Aleutian threw the microphone on the table and made a soft clang sound, but his mumblings were already densely packed. The sound of gunfire was completely covered up.
Within less than a minute difference, artillery shells fired from the Don River bank crossed Position 19 and accurately hit the artillery position behind the German army.
The Germans on the opposite side of the position lost artillery support and immediately fell into decline in the ensuing battle. Under the crossfire of the only four anti-tank artillery pieces and a large amount of machine gun fire, although the German army on the battlefield suffered a devastating blow, they also added a large amount of troops to the trench 400 meters away, and the opponent followed closely The incoming mortars also brought Position 19, which had just gained a slight advantage, back to a crisis point again!
"Counterattack! Counterattack!" Vanya held up the tin trumpet and roared at the four mortar positions of different calibers.
The Aleutian company commander shook the phone handle and contacted an artillery observer from behind.
Before the arrival of the new artillery observers, the veterans who had just joined not long ago were not willing to hide in the bunker. Instead, they led their recruits to launch mortar shells and a large number of The bullets were poured out onto the battlefield outside the trenches at the fastest speed, repelling the German charges again and again, and suppressed them outside the center line of the battlefield with all their strength.
Amidst the rumbling explosions, this battle that had only just begun suddenly entered the most difficult stage! And the casualties and losses at Position 19 have also increased exponentially!
Full half an hour later, an artillery observer wearing glasses arrived at position 19. After observing with a telescope, he directly called for artillery to clean the trenches that the Germans had worked hard to dig on the opposite side. Clean and tidy.
After this round of artillery fire, the battle in the rainy night finally came to an end, and at the same time, the sound of gunfire was replaced by the sound of gunfire.
Wei Ran and Zoya each held flashlights and shuttled through the muddy trenches, busy counting casualties. And in the command post, AliuCompany Commander Shen, Vanya, whose temples were scratched by shrapnel, and the artillery observer who had just been sent over, were frowning at the terrain map of the position.
"What are the casualties?" Captain Aleutian asked when he saw Zoya and Wei Ran coming back. He immediately put down the pen in his hand.
Zoya sighed and handed the rain-soaked notebook to Wei Ran.
"Two anti-tank guns were lost, all heavy mortars were blown up, and there was still one usable 82mm mortar. Personnel losses..."
Weiran After a quick calculation, he said under the concerned gazes of the two people across the table, "Only less than a hundred people are still fighting, and there are probably less than 20 wounded."
Aleutians He walked half a circle around the table, raised his head and asked, "Is the anti-tank gun that came out of the trench still capable of combat?"
Weiran heard this and quickly replied, "The artillery is intact, and the gun crew members are injured." Two more, and new gunners have just been added."
"Assemble another anti-tank gun!" Aleutian said decisively, "and place two more machine gun positions in that trench! "
"Comrade Aleutian!"
The new artillery observer had to remind, "I have just said, whether it is the east bank or the west bank of the Don River, we There are not many artillery shells in reserve. Maybe in the next battle, our artillery will not be able to provide any effective support."
"I know"
The Aleutian company commander nodded absentmindedly. The leader said, "Vanya, make arrangements now. We must set up the artillery positions before dawn, and arrange a group of people to bury all the unused mortar shells outside the barbed wire fence."
Wanya stood up after hearing this and walked out of the command post silently.
"Victor"
The Aleutian waved to Wei Ran, "Organize the remaining people and use your free time to widen our trenches!"
"How wide should the digging be?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.
"Enough to trap the opposing tank," Aleutian said without raising his head.
Wei Ran’s brows twitched, he quickly picked up the metal speaker on the table and ran out of the command post.
Soon, Position 19, which had just ceased fire, turned into a construction site again. The surviving soldiers were either biting and dragging anti-tank artillery, or wielding pickaxes and engineer shovels, using existing trenches to build Anti-tank trenches.
But in fact, everyone knows that this futile effort can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket for the current battle situation. But even so, no one was lazy. Even the taciturn blue hat and the artillery observer whose name was not yet known joined the task of digging anti-tank trenches.
In the increasingly heavy rain, the time came to the early morning of the 27th, and the situation on the entire Don River battlefield became increasingly dangerous. The German soldiers opposite Position 19 also took advantage of the cover of the rain. Excavating trenches.
But now, AliuShen no longer dared to organize a counterattack. Although they had many artillery shells, they only had the last mortar left.
Fortunately, the Germans on the opposite side did not know their true situation, so throughout the whole day, the two warring parties had a rare tacit understanding and amidst the increasingly heavy rain, Digging their own trenches desperately.
When the torrential rain that lasted for two days finally stopped on the morning of the 28th, the German trenches on the opposite side had begun to take shape, and the mortars hitting position 19 became increasingly dense, so much so that Wei Ran and others who had been digging anti-tank trenches had to stop their work.
At noon, under the cover of mortars, heavy machine guns and even a few small-caliber artillery, more than 20 tanks drove onto the battlefield with groups of German infantry, aiming their muzzles at The trenches of Position 19!
"As expected, this should be the last battle."
As Aleushin spoke, he took out a simple folded letter from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, " Comrade Postman, I allow you to be a deserter now, but you must send this report to the headquarters of the 64th Army." Before he finished speaking, Aleutian picked up the submachine gun on the table and bent it. He got out of the command post.
Wei Ran, who was specially called, trembled and opened the damp letter paper. The pen writing on it was slightly blurred, but he could still see it clearly. This was a letter with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The application report, but the unit applying for the awarded title only has a vague sentence "all soldiers of Don River Position 19".