Chapter 1053 Lviv Meat Grinder 2
Chapter 1053 Lviv Meat Grinder 2
"Simonov's battalion has already gone up, but no news has been sent back so far. It's probably all over." A bearded officer with unkempt hair and scabbed blood on his face came towards a crater that was more than one person deep. Report to your superior.
"We have destroyed all the bunkers we can find, but whenever we want to break through here, there is always someone who can launch an attack from a position you would not expect. There is a secret passage underneath us! And there is more than one level! Otherwise, This place should have been isolated a long time ago!" said a thin officer next to him.
Once inside the garrison area, both sides agreed tacitly not to use heavy artillery bombardment. The Russians were beyond the reach of most of the heavy artillery, but the Austro-Hungarian Army was unnecessary. In this complicated and complicated home field, machine guns, mortars and flamethrowers can do a good job.
Even now, the Russians still look weak. The current situation gives them the feeling that the enemy is invisible. According to their original understanding, should they attack the fortress? Wouldn't it be enough to just clear the supporting points with artillery and engineers, and then use infantry to clear the trenches one by one? The idea is simple! But the reason why the fortress area is a fortress area means that it must not be fought as an ordinary battle line! Otherwise, why would all countries put so much effort into building fortress areas? !
Even a reckless army will never charge in this place that has been destroyed beyond recognition by artillery fire. They are like snails, clinging to the ground, moving forward little by little, and searching for this opponent like cheetahs. However, it is destined that in such a place where the enemy is overt and we are hidden, the attacker will always suffer, especially the attacker without any experience!
A Russian soldier secretly raised his head and tried to record the terrain in front. The open area was about fifteen meters, and behind it was a broken barbed wire fence. There should be no minefields behind the barbed wire fence. Half of the bunkers on the side had been collapsed. , there is a bunker on the right that needs attention. "We can arrange two machine guns to suppress it, and then use smoke screens to cover the engineers to come up and blast them at close range..." The soldier thought in his mind. When he had seen almost everything and was about to evacuate, just as he The moment he turned his head, an 8MM bullet easily penetrated his head.
"It seems our scouts are finished again?" Simonov glanced at the pocket watch in his hand and sighed. It had been 20 minutes and the person in charge of the reconnaissance still hadn't come back, which meant he would never come back.
"Let's go, summarize the information we have now, and let the brothers prepare. We will advance at least 150 meters today!" Battalion Commander Simonov said. As the order was issued, the Russians began to prepare. The grenadiers threw out grenades one after another. The smoke screen generated by the explosion obscured the Austrians' vision. Then the machine gun team took action and moved towards the predetermined position under the cover of the infantry. , there were several people behind who set up a mortar brought from the front and then debugged it. A battle is about to begin!
After a few minutes,
When the machine gun fired, Russian soldiers in gray military uniforms began to pass between the ruined walls under cover of fire. The engineers at the front rushed to the front with explosive bags. The Austrian machine guns began to fire, but the suppression was not good due to angle and line of sight problems. The Russians are progressing very smoothly. If nothing else happens, in a few minutes, they will be able to place the explosive package next to the bunker and blow it up!
Puff puff, a series of dense and dull sounds sounded from one side of the battle line. "It's the Austrian stormtroopers!" Simonov's heart tightened. These guys equipped with submachine guns are the opponents they least want to encounter in close combat. The first to suffer was a machine gun group. There were 11 people in this machine gun group, 7 of whom were responsible for carrying machine guns and ammunition, and the remaining 4 were responsible for covering. After a burst of gunfire, the machine gun group misfired, and when friendly forces arrived , they only saw bullet casings everywhere and teammates who were killed unprepared.
"Damn, it's those ground rats again." Following the traces left by the other party, the Russian came to the entrance of an underground passage. Nothing could be seen in the dark passage. Looking at the passage in front of him like a monster's mouth, the Russian He shook his head helplessly. It's not that they don't dare to go down, it's that they can't go down. The underground is equivalent to a huge maze. After entering, you can't tell the difference between east, west and north. There are more than one level. Not to mention that they have less than a battalion of troops now and can't get out. With enough manpower, even if the whole battalion were to go down, it would probably take a long time to clear them out.
It’s not that no one has tried to take shortcuts through these tunnels. After entering, a very fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and the Austrians seemed to have designed some traps. When the troops entered certain areas, the opponent would use flamethrowers or other weapons in the tunnels. Ambush with extremely lethal weapons. The Russians did not expect to encounter such a situation at all. Not to mention the essential equipment for tunnel warfare such as flamethrowers, they did not even have many basic submachine guns!
The ubiquitous snipers in this fortress-like city also caused huge damage to the Russians. This damage was not only physical, but also psychological. No one can bear the feeling that their life will be taken away at any time by someone who knows nothing about it!
But this time, what Simonov encountered was obviously not a sneak attack or a sniper attack. He was in big trouble! Behind them, in an area that had been designated as a safe zone by the Russians, a floor was slowly pushed open by a jack. After confirming that the surroundings were safe, several Austro-Hungarian soldiers rushed out of the secret passage. Then, a whole company of The troops rushed out from the secret passage, and almost at the same time, several other troops also came out of the ruins, from some bushes, and from some manhole covers through the passages left in advance, without the Russians being aware of it. , a sharp sword was pressed against the Russian’s lower back!
Ten minutes later, when the Russian offensive reached a critical moment, a torrential rain of bullets behind them instantly flooded the last mortar position and command post. The Russian battalion commander and his staff, who had just entered the battlefield for just two days, They were beaten into sieves by the dense bullets in less than ten minutes of fighting! And when the unified command system was eliminated, the outcome of this battalion of Russian soldiers was also doomed. In an unfamiliar environment, under the elusive attack of the superior enemy forces, the battalion was eventually wiped out bit by bit.
The same drama was played out throughout the fortress area. The Russian troops brought in by the Allies rushed towards death one after another under a bait called victory!
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