BXBX NOVEL Chapter 259: 251st Division
It is not surprising that this situation will occur. Before the war, no one would think that the enemy will threaten this place... This is Moscow!
As for intelligence, everyone thinks about defense, and no one wants to attack. Therefore, regarding the deployment of the Lutheran army between Klin and Tver, it is as blind as a blind man.
Usually at this time, the troops should conduct some capture operations and obtain some useful information from the prisoners, such as how many troops the German army has along the way, where they are stationed, and so on.
But the capture of prisoners is usually carried out at night, and the Fourth Tank Brigade obviously doesn't have so much time.
So the plan is also very simple:
"We are divided into two parts!" Major Zaha Kavic said: "The first battalion of tanks will attack along the railway, and the second battalion will attack along the road!"
Shure is the first battalion of infantry, and they are responsible for coordinating the first battalion of tanks, so they went to the railway.
The battle started in the evening when the sky was still dark.
I will choose to attack at this time, in order to buy as much time as possible... The sky will get dark soon, and I don’t have to worry about the enemy’s air force when the tanks attack.
The soldiers of the 30th Army are leading the battle... the 251st Division, the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs, is stationed in Klin.
Needless to say what they were originally doing, Shulka, Major Gavrilov and others have seen the power of these people in Kyiv.
The troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are also one of the reserves, with a total size of 330,000 people. Normally, they don't need to go to the battlefield, but they can't manage so many when Moscow is about to be captured and there is a serious shortage of troops.
However, they may have a lot of power in the rear to investigate, even arrest, interrogate, etc., but they have no privileges when facing the enemy on the battlefield.
Not only were they not even privileged, they were used in this battle as a foreshadowing for the 4th Tank Brigade... Rokossovsky contacted Zhukov, a plan like this would of course require the approval of the Western Front Command.
Zhukov was very satisfied after seeing this plan, and then ordered from top to bottom that the 251st Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stationed in Klin cooperated with the Fourth Tank Brigade to fight.
Then as soon as the artillery rang, the officers and soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs rushed to the enemy's position with a shout.
For some reason, Shuerka couldn't help but feel a sense of joy when seeing this style of painting, especially when the officers and soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs passed by the tank, they looked enviously at Shuer who was hiding behind the tank and was about to attack. Ka and others... don't mention how relieved they are.
The veteran even yelled at those people: "Don't dawdle, the Germans are waiting for you ahead!"
The soldiers around laughed together, only the officers and soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs turned pale with anger, but there was nothing they could do. They can't stop and punish someone they don't like when they are charging. If this is the case, they will be treated as avoiding the battle first.
From this, Shulka knew that he was not the only one who felt that kind of pleasure.
Even Zakhakovic deliberately waited a little longer before ordering to move forward. This can also be said to be a kind of retribution for the officers and soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do their best.
Then, when the gunshots and cannons in the front were fighting fiercely, the 4th Tank Brigade set off in two parts.
Zakharvich personally commanded a battalion to break through the railway, and the railway was obviously the main direction of attack.
What stood in front of us was a field trench of the German army. The officers and soldiers of the 251st Division rushed forward wave after wave, but were beaten down again and again.
It can be seen that they fought bravely, but their combat effectiveness and tactics are not flattering...Shuerka and others followed the tank and observed while advancing. , basically belonged to unorganized random firing, which directly caused the German machine gun fire to knock down the charging soldiers in pieces.
But it seems that these people can't be blamed. If the 333rd regiment didn't come to know this after fighting one after another, I'm afraid it would be similar to them.
Then, when the tank continued to move forward and saw piles of corpses, seeing the wounded lying on the ground screaming, and the terrified soldiers crawling around on the ground, Shulka's gloating attitude suddenly disappeared. Without a trace, replaced by a common enemy.
"Get down!" Shulka yelled: "Get out of the way, let the tank go up!"
I don't know whether they heard Shulka's cry or were beaten up by the Germans and spontaneously stepped aside. The Fourth Tank Brigade quickly reached the front line.
"Follow the tank and wait for orders!" Shulka waved his hand to signal those officers and soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were almost terrified.
This time Shulka was sure that they heard his cry, because they conveyed the words one after another, and then a group of people gathered behind the tank soon.
The tank "rumbling" drove forward, and a few flares hit the air to illuminate the enemy's defense line, and then the tank found a good position and stopped to aim at the enemy...
This is fighting. The infantry knows when the tank needs vision, and the tank knows when the infantry needs firepower. They don't even need orders, but a kind of tacit understanding.
The infantry following the tank shouted into the microphone to find the target for the tank: "10 o'clock direction, two hundred meters, the enemy's machine gun fire point!"
Then the muzzle of the tank slowly moved towards the designated position, and with a "boom", the German machine gun fire was blasted into the sky.
The role of following infantry and tank phones in night battles is obvious... Tanks have poor external perception. If the outside world is pitch black, then advancing and fighting is basically blind.
But with the tank phone, this is obviously avoided to a certain extent, and it can even be said that the tank phone has an advantage in this respect compared to the fact that every tank in the German army is equipped with a radio station for communication.
The reason is very simple. The radio communication in the tank only solves the coordination between tanks, but it is difficult to coordinate between infantry and tanks.
The "tank phone" is just the opposite. It is more difficult to use it to coordinate between tanks. The tank communicates to the infantry in the middle, the infantry communicates to the infantry of another tank, and then the infantry communicates to the tank. The complicated process is not only slow There may also be errors due to unclear expressions.
But the coordination between infantry and tanks is in place in one step: in the dark night, the tank driver only needs to follow the infantry's "forward", "turn left" and other commands to drive, and even if he can't see anything, he can still drive the tank. vantage point.
Even when shooting, the infantry can quickly find the target by following the infantry.
(end of this chapter)