Chapter 177 The Chariot Trap
October 25, 1941, 110 kilometers outside Moscow city, Mozhaisk defense line.
Colonel von Honaker, the commander of the Grossdeutschland Division, stepped on the broken eaves of the Soviet Corps headquarters. The gunshots in the distance were no longer very dense.
"Colonel, we have compressed all the remnants of the Soviet army in the eastern part of the town. It is only a matter of time before we eliminate them." The adjutant stood aside and reported.
"A matter of time? Haven't they been completely eliminated yet?" The colonel frowned and lifted the lambskin gloves on his hands.
"Sir, the soldiers on the opposite side are very stubborn. They are fighting with us house by house. According to our estimation, there are at least 500-700 people on the opposite side. It will take about a day to eliminate them all." The adjutant said in the colonel's ear with some anxiety.
"Why is the number of people estimated? And the fluctuation is so large, can't you be sure with such simple information now?"
"Sorry, sir, the number is indeed an estimate, because so far We haven't captured a single prisoner so far..." the adjutant said softly, wiping the sweat from his head.
Boom! ! ! !
As if to confirm his words, a house in the distance was blown down by a bomb. The huge explosion swept in the surrounding German troops, and thick black smoke rose into the sky.
On the east side of the town, several soldiers pulled their regiment commander out of the bricks with their hands. It looked like digging a big potato out of the hard soil in Siberia.
To be honest, Vlalyushenko, who was covered in dust at the moment, actually looked a little funny, but no one around him could laugh.
Patting the dust off his body with his hands, the regiment leader looked at the soldiers around him. Two of his three original battalion commanders had died in the battle, and one of them was even the platoon commander acting on his behalf.
Looking at his watch, Vlalyushenko looked at everyone again, and picked up a bobosa in one hand. "It is now 4:55 in the afternoon. In five minutes, the whole regiment will break out to the south. Let's rush out together."
Several battalion commanders nodded, with serious expressions on their faces.
Without any troops to support them, they had to cross the unobstructed plain area outside the town and reach the jungle hundreds of meters away. It was unknown how many of them would be alive in the end.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, a red signal flare rose into the sky, and the tragic breakout of the remaining Soviet troops began.
All remaining mortars were concentrated and bombarded the southern part of the town together, opening a narrow passage for the infantry behind them.
Hundreds of Soviet soldiers shouted "Ula" with weapons in hand and charged in one direction.
Puff puff puff puff! ! ! ! !
The German machine gun positions began to fire, and the Soviet troops rushing at the front fell piece by piece like wheat.
Bang!
There was a clear gunshot. Tanya in the team knelt down on one knee and raised her gun to fire. The shooter on the heavy machine gun position was shot in the middle of his eyebrow and fell to the side.
While the machine gun briefly went out, a soldier stood up and fired a grenade, covering his comrades behind him and rushing out of the town.
Boom, boom, boom! ! ! !
German mortars and grenade launchers began a blockade of fire.
Only about 300 Soviet troops rushed out of the town. Then the road behind them was cut off by German artillery fire, and the remaining people were drowned in the artillery fire.
The scene that followed almost made all the Soviet soldiers despair.
On the plain a thousand meters away, at least 60 German tanks and armored vehicles of various types were rumbling and roaring. Their cold muzzles were already pointing here, while the woods were still a few hundred meters away.
No one can outrun the tracks.
Rumble, rumble~~~ Armored vehicles and tanks started to move, and the steel behemoths approached the Soviet soldiers who only had light weapons.
Dang~dang~dang~
Ordinary bullets hit the armor of the tank and flew out without exception, leaving no traces at all, and the front of the team The tank has begun to rotate its turret.
Is it really the end?
Boom! ! ! ! !
A violent explosion sounded, but it did not happen on the Soviet side. In the German tank camp, a Panzer IV tank opened fire without knowing why, and it was aimed at the command vehicle in the cluster!
The tank in front didn't understand what was going on. An armor-piercing round was shot directly into its weak rear armor, causing it to explode directly on the spot!
“What’s going on?! What’s going on?!”
“Is it an accidental hit?”
"Car No. 6! Car No. 6! Answer! What's wrong with you?!"
The tank's communication channel was in a mess, and there was a very harsh German in it
"Idiots , I’m leaving, goodbye!”
The No. 4 tank that had just finished firing suddenly broke away from the team and flew in the other direction, knocking over two armored vehicles on the road.
He Chi was sitting in the driver's seat in the car, slamming on the accelerator and muttering, "Fuck, if there wasn't a loader, I would have called on all of you!"
"It's a spy!" "Catch him!"
Being so humiliated, at least a quarter of the tanks couldn't stand it anymore and turned to chase him, while the other part of the tank didn't know what to do because they didn't get the order. Measures blocked the route, and the entire phalanx was in chaos.
"Bastard! Leave that guy alone, destroy the Soviet infantry first!" Seeing the possibility of letting the enemy go, Colonel von Honaker picked up the walkie-talkie and yelled.
After receiving instructions from their commander, the German tank troops began to reorganize their formation and restore order, but at this moment, the Panzer IV tank that had run out unexpectedly stopped.
With a bang, the top cover of the tank was opened, and a wooden pole stretched out with something on it, shaking continuously in the air.
It seems familiar.
"This is, this is, this is..." the adjutant put down the telescope and pointed at the thing opposite and said stutteringly.
That is the flag of their division!
The flag of the Grossdeutschland Division was flung around in the air like tattered linen, with dirty mud marks on it.
All the German soldiers were stunned, and then they became angry.
Being so humiliated, division commander von Honaker's eyes turned red. He picked up the walkie-talkie again and shouted, "Catch that bastard! Take back the flag! I'm going to tie him to the front armor plate and use him as a target!"< br>
The German tanks began to turn around and rushed towards the No. 4 tank.
The shameless thief got into the tank again and ran wildly in one direction!
"The head of the regiment is Comrade Commissioner. That direction is an anti-tank minefield! He wants to lure the Germans there!" Among the Soviet troops who had reached the woods, the adjutant pointed at the No. 4 tank running in front and shouted.
All the Soviet soldiers were moved. They did not expect that the special commissioner, who had always been difficult to approach and even seemed a little indifferent, would do such a decisive thing.
Many people had sad looks on their faces, and some soldiers stood up and took off their hats to salute.
Tanya, on the other hand, looked confident, with no trace of sadness on her face.
100 meters, 50 meters, 10 meters!
Panzer IV took the lead and rushed into the minefield! Some soldiers closed their eyes.
But what was surprising was that the Panzer IV remained unscathed and continued to accelerate forward.
The more than fifty German tanks behind him were like hounds seeing a rabbit, and they followed them in a swarm.
Boom, boom, boom! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
A huge explosion sounded, and the rising fireworks dyed the sky red.
(End of this chapter)