Burning Moscow

Chapter 15

All of a sudden, I felt the machine gun stopped. I stepped on the button again, but I still didn't respond. Jenna yelled in my ear in a hoarse voice: "all the bullets are gone, comrade Lieutenant!" I followed the direction of her fingers and saw a pile of hollowed out ammunition boxes and a mountain of cartridge cases on the ground.

On the south slope, fierce fighting continued. The German army is worthy of being an elite and well-trained division. The soldiers who broke into the trenches fought hand to hand with the militia soldiers. With their skilful fighting skills, they gradually mastered the initiative of the battlefield. As more and more German soldiers entered the trench, the militia was a little overwhelmed. In addition to retreating to the left and right of the trench step by step, some soldiers simply jumped out of the trench with guns, bent down and ran quickly to the second line of defense. But most of these soldiers were knocked down by the German fire in the open field.

Most of the German tanks were destroyed after the continuous bombardment of our company's anti-aircraft guns. The remaining three tanks increased their horsepower, crossed the first trench and rushed to the second trench quickly.

"Boom boom!" The anti-aircraft guns continued to shoot down. With a series of explosions, the three tanks twisted for a certain distance, emitting black smoke, and stopped five or six meters away from the second trench. Several soldiers with submachine guns immediately jumped out of the trench and fired mercilessly at the tankers who escaped from the tank. The tankers who got away from the tanks all fell at the gunpoint of the soldiers.

After a while, the antiaircraft guns stopped firing, and the second lieutenant came to report to me that he had run out of ammunition. In my heart, I secretly complain that if I run out of ammunition, I can no longer provide firepower support to the infantry defending below. What can I do?

"Comrade lieutenant," seeing that I had not spoken for a long time, the second lieutenant came up and said, "we should go into the position and help the infantry defend."

"That's right," Jenna, who was standing next to me, echoed, "all the bullets are gone. It's no use for us to stay here. We should go to the position to help the infantry soldiers fight against the German devils."

I pondered a little, and then decisively ordered: "the women soldiers stay to guard the antiaircraft guns, and the men soldiers follow me to the position."

As soon as I entered the position, I saw the captain running around in the trench. Others wear steel helmets, but he still wears a big cornice hat. I don't know whether he feels invulnerable or just for showing off. Anyway, I always put safety first and prevention first, so as soon as the gun rang, I immediately put on my helmet. Seeing that he stopped not far in front of me, he ran to me in a hurry: "Comrade captain, Lieutenant o'shanina, bring the anti-aircraft artillery company to support, please give us instructions."

"Great, here comes the new force!" The captain narrowed his eyes happily and asked, "how many people and what kind of weapons are there?"

"Two platoons and three platoons are here. There are sixty soldiers, all equipped with rifles."

"Here," the captain pointed to the side, "your troops are here. Or the old saying: "if you want to drive here like a nail, you can't step back." Seeing that I was about to leave, he immediately added, "don't run around, just stay by my side and listen to my direct command." With these words, he looked left and right, and whispered to me, "all the officers in the position have died except me and you."

Although all the German tanks were destroyed, the soldiers who occupied the first trench, even without the cover of armored forces and artillery, still fiercely armed with submachine guns and rifles, formed a scattered formation and rushed towards us.

"Don't shoot!" The captain yelled, "get the German devils closer and fight them again."

When the German straggler formation was only 50 meters away from our trench, the captain suddenly yelled, "open fire!"

All of a sudden, the heavy and heavy weapons on the position opened fire together, and the advancing German army was caught off guard. Many soldiers in the first two rows were knocked down, and the rest of them fell to the ground in a hurry and started shooting with us.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. The incoming German troops were completely separated from those behind them. The German soldiers who were shooting us hastily retreated into the trenches they were still in control of.

"This is the artillery support of the group army to our position." The captain came close to my ear and cried out.

Although all the German troops retreated into the trenches, they suffered heavy casualties under the heavy artillery attack of our army. If it had not been for our artillery shells blowing up a wall of fire between them and their successors, they would have retreated.

The artillery fire of our army began to extend. I saw the bloody bodies of the German army lying outside the first trench. It seemed that the German army who occupied the trench had become a lonely army.

"Comrade captain," I said to him in his ear, "the German devils can't stand it any more. We should fight back and take back the lost positions."

The captain looked at the situation on the other side, nodded and did not speak. He jumped out of the trench, stood on a high place, raised his submachine gun over his head and cried out: "comrades! For the motherland For Leningrad For Stalin Go ahead! Before... His cry suddenly stopped, and the whole man fell face up into the trench.