Chapter 68

In the face of such a huge German team, I dare not act rashly. I can only lie down on the snow and dare not even let out the atmosphere. After all, our hiding place is too close to the road. If someone stands on the side of the road and pays attention to the forest, it's not difficult to find our footprints on the snow.

A command car stopped by the road without warning, and the door opened with a crash. My heart suddenly raised to my throat, thinking, have we been found? I couldn't help but put my finger on the trigger, and if I found something wrong, I immediately fired without hesitation.

Out of the car came a German officer in a cornice hat and a red collar. He looked around carelessly, then jumped directly into the snow, lit a cigarette, put his hands on his waist, with his back to our hidden position, and stood on the side of the road, watching the endless stream of vehicles passing in front of him.

Although I was not familiar with the rank of the German army, I recognized it as a general at once. From his position, it's a perfect target, not to mention a sniper, even an ordinary soldier can knock him down with one shot. I tried my best to restrain my impulse to shoot. At the same time, I prayed in my heart that no team member would be itching to shoot at the general. There is a great disparity between the enemy and us. Once a fight starts, it is a typical case of hitting the stone with the egg, not to mention the German tanks. Even if the machine guns on the armored vehicles fire at us, we can be easily and happily wiped out. The destruction of Stalin's bodyguard is a good example. Moreover, if we can't complete the reconnaissance task assigned by the superior, even if we can get away with a German general, it will not help the future war.

Suddenly, a soldier in a boat hat appeared in the door. He said something to the general. The general threw his unfinished cigarette into the snow, stepped on the car and slammed the door. In a short time, the command car will merge into the forward traffic. Watching the command car disappear from my sight, I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, secretly raised my hand to erase the cold sweat from my forehead.

It took an hour for this huge German convoy to pass. It is estimated that the German army intends to launch a large-scale attack in some parts of our defense line when the mechanized troops of such a scale are mobilized. This important information must be reported to the headquarters of the group army in time when they camp at night.

I stood up and just wanted to tell the team members to move on. Suddenly, I felt cold at the tip of my nose. I couldn't help reaching for it. I didn't know when it began to snow. It was a snowflake falling on my nose.

"It's snowing. It's wonderful!" Aji standing beside said excitedly“ It's snowing well. Although it makes our operation more difficult, it brings concealment to our operation. Now we are marching in the forest, and we don't have to worry about being discovered by the German army. " Although what he said is very reasonable, in my opinion, snow is not a good thing at this time. In that case, it will be colder and the road we are going to take will be more difficult.

The snow is falling more and more heavily, the northwest wind is blowing fiercely, and the goose feather like snowflakes flutter on our faces, which makes it more difficult for us to walk in the forest. The village, which could have been reached in half an hour, walked for more than an hour without even seeing a shadow.

"Comrade commander," Aji yelled in my ear, "if we go on like this, we will easily get lost. We'd better stop and have a rest."

"Good." I promised, then raised my voice and yelled to everyone, "stop moving forward, rest where you are."

At my command, the team stopped. Everyone was staring at me, waiting for my next order.

"Saskat, Leon Geoff," Aji said next to me, "you hurry up and build a snow wall, so that we can temporarily avoid the snowstorm."

"Yes." The two soldiers agreed to take off the shovel on their back and began to dig the snow in place.

After a short time, a semicircle half man high snow wall was built. Everyone squatted behind the wall. Although the snow still kept falling on the body, the northwest wind had been blocked by the wall. We could wait here until the snow stopped.

More than half an hour later, the snow gradually reduced, and the visibility was much better than just now. Aji came up to my ear and said, "Comrade commander, I'll take some soldiers to the front for reconnaissance. You can stop the snow completely before you bring the rest of the people. Is that all right? "

I looked at a group of "snowmen" squatting around me. Then I stood up, dusted off the snow on my body, and looked around with my telescope. I saw that there was a vast expanse of white all around, and the scenery was almost the same. If I walked blindly, I would easily get lost in the forest. But it's no way to stay like this. We can't spend the night in the snow, so we nodded and agreed to his proposal, saying, "OK, take some soldiers to the front to explore the way and see if we can find a place to camp tonight."

"I understand." Aji agreed to take saskat, Leon Geoff and aguminte to march on the snow with the help of the compass.

After Aji left with the group exploring the way, the snow stopped slowly. I asked Orlov, the operator squatting beside me, "can I send a message to the group army command?"

Orlov debugged the machine for a while, and then replied with great embarrassment, "it seems that it can't. the temperature is too low for the radio station to work properly."“ Comrade commander, "Sergeant Lu Jin, who was silent all the way, suddenly said," the snow has stopped. We can move on. " After listening to his words, I said with some embarrassment, "but Sergeant Aji has not come back from the reconnaissance. If we leave now, I'm afraid they will come back later and won't find us."“ It doesn't matter, comrade commander. " Sapochuk said for Lukin: "Aji, they didn't walk long. The snow should not have buried their footprints. We should follow their footprints and find them." After listening to him, I turned to look at Lukin in front of me and asked, "do you think so, too?"“ Yes, exactly Lukin answered me very positively. We all want to move on, so there's no need to stay here, so I threw the submachine gun on my chest behind my back. "Let's go," he said with a wave of his hand Then a few of me stepped on the footprints left by Aji's Pathfinder team. After walking for about ten minutes, there was a sudden shot in front of me. My heart a tight, is Aji they and German encounter? So he urged everyone to speed up the March and hurry to the place where the gun rang. After a short run, we came to the edge of the forest. There is a small village outside the forest. Because it's a little dark and far away, I can only see a few figures shaking at the edge of the village, but I can't see who they are. I took off the submachine gun, lifted it in my hand, bent over and continued to rush forward“ It's comrade commander. " From ahead came the voice of aguminte“ It's me Although I heard my own voice, I still didn't dare to relax my vigilance and walked forward with a submachine gun. As he approached, he saw the figure he had just seen. Besides aguminte, there were saskat and Leon Geoff. There were five or six dead German soldiers lying on the ground. It seems that they were fighting with these German soldiers just now. I looked around, but I didn't see Aji. I couldn't help asking anxiously, "Why are you three alone? Where is Sergeant Aji?"