Chapter 79

Yesterday, when I learned that there were 400 soldiers under my command, I once thought of taking them to attack the German headquarters and capturing goodrian alive. But I soon found that the soldiers had too few weapons, and most of them were unarmed. Besides, I didn't know what kind of weapons the German forces in the defensive command were equipped with, and how their forces were deployed. In this case, to attack rashly was undoubtedly to die, so I finally had to give up this tempting idea.

Today, the newly formed reinforced battalion has a total of 700 people, equipped with a large number of submachine guns, machine guns, and even a mortar company. From any point of view, it is a force with strong combat effectiveness. When the troops had assembled, I took them back to wolokramsk instead of to goodrian's Tolstoy estate. Because I clearly know that even if we launch a surprise attack, it will not have much effect. The commanders and soldiers of this newly assembled army are not familiar with each other and do not cooperate well with each other, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. Besides, there are blockhouses, trenches and tanks around the manor. With our equipment, it is difficult to end the battle in a short time. Once we are entangled by the garrison and surrounded by the German reinforcements, we will be completely destroyed. Instead of taking such a risk, I might as well go back and tell Zhukov the truth, so that he can send planes to bomb more easily.

With such a huge army, I am not reconciled to go back quietly without making trouble in the enemy's rear, so I especially want to find a chance to beat the Germans, so as to stimulate the morale of our army.

When the troops moved near the simple road where we saw the German mechanized troops two days ago, I finally made up my mind to organize the troops to fight an ambush here. According to my guess, since the German army opened up such a simple road in the forest, its purpose was to mobilize troops and transport materials. It's impossible for large troops to pass here every day. Most of the time, it's just small troops or transport teams. With our current strength, it is no problem to eat the small German troops.

The independent battalion now has four companies, including three infantry companies and one mortar company. The commander of the battalion is lieutenant felstov, the instructor Pavlov is the political commissar of the battalion, the first company commander Lukin, the second company commander sapochuk, the third company commander risdayev, and the mortar company commander issayev. In addition, there were still 40 people left, forming a guard platoon, and the platoon leader was a sniper, agumento. One of the reasons why I have assigned all the people I know to be commanders is that I am familiar with them, and I can only command when I fight; Second, I'm somewhat selfish and want to cultivate my own power in the army. It's not a bad thing that I can have several troops under my direct command when I become an official.

The simple highway is north-south. I divided the troops into two parts. Lu Jin's company went to the east of the road to ambush. I led the second company, the third company, the mortar company and the guards to ambush in the west of the road.

In order to ambush, it is necessary to lay mines. Felstov used to be an engineer platoon leader, but he was a veteran of mine laying, so he naturally gave him this skill. In the end, it's no good to be an expert without admiration. In less than ten minutes, all 40 mines were buried.

Before the ambush, I called several company commanders to arrange the task. According to my knowledge, I issued a series of orders to them: "felstov, you and the second company are lurking 50 meters away from the road. Once the German vehicles enter the ambush circle, you immediately detonate the mines." Among the mines laid just now, the only anti tank mine needs to be detonated by remote control. That's why I told him so.

"Yes, comrade commander." He answered very simply.

"Sapochuk, the German army will fall into temporary chaos after the mine explosion. At this time, the light and heavy firepower of the second company opened fire together, launched a round of salvo fire on the enemy, and then began to charge. In such a short distance, because of the shelter of trees, mortars have no place to use, so they can only rely on hand grenades to exert their power. They have to charge and drop bombs at the same time, so as to give the enemy maximum fire damage. Do you understand? "

"Fully understood, comrade commander."

"Lukin," I turned my head to Lukin, who impressed me a lot in the past two days, "when the German army can't resist the attack of the second company and retreats in your direction, you will lead the troops to attack the whole line and make sure to wipe out the rest of the German Army. Do you understand? "

"I see! Comrade commander, "he replied excitedly. Looking at his face, he seemed to have been looking forward to such an opportunity to teach the German devils a lesson.

"Pavlov," I gave my last order to Pavlov, "stay in the middle of the forest with the third company, pay attention to concealment and take care of the wounded, and come back to join us after the battle."

"Comrade commander," he said wrongly, "when other comrades are fighting the enemy, how can I stay in the rear as a political worker?"

"I put the wounded in the back and need someone to calm them. This job is only for you." When fighting, I don't like to have a political worker next to me telling me what to do, so I can send him as far as I can.

Two companies with a guard platoon, more than 400 people lie motionless in the snow, all wearing white cloaks. This is a good thing to find from the warehouse. It can not only keep out the cold, but also achieve the effect of concealment.

As time went by, it had been two hours since the troops entered the latent position. There was still no movement on the road, and I began to shiver with cold. Just as I was about to announce the cancellation of the lurking order, there was a faint roar of the car's motor from the north.

"Coming, coming, aguminte, listen to the motor of the car, the German motorcade is coming soon!" As I spoke, I raised my telescope and looked in the direction of the sound.

There is a German car team in my telescope. There is a machine gun on the roof of the cab of the first car. The car is full of German soldiers with live ammunition, helmets and gray green army coats. There are six trucks full of soldiers.

"Comrade commander," aguminte, who has been observing the enemy situation with his sight glass, said to me in a soft voice, "there are 30 soldiers in each car, plus three in the cab. There are 33 people in one car, and there are 198 people in six cars." After a pause, he said with some worry: "although we have twice as many people as them, it is still difficult to wipe them out quickly."

I watched the approaching car team and found that the German army was not very vigilant. The machine gunner in the head car held the machine gun with one hand and turned his head to talk and laugh with the people nearby. Maybe they would never dream that they would be ambushed in their own rear. So he said to aguminte with disapproval, "don't worry. You see, the German army has no defense at all. As long as our attack speed is fast, we can finish the battle before their reinforcements arrive."

The German motorcade entered our ambush without notice. There was a loud bang, which made the earth tremble. I didn't have to see it clearly. It was firestov who detonated the remote-controlled mine. The poor military vehicle was blown up more than three meters high by the powerful anti tank mine. The fragments of the vehicle and the broken limbs of the German soldiers fell from the sky and scattered irregularly on the snow near the explosion point.

The five trucks immediately behind stopped, and the machine guns on the roof of the cab roared. Because they didn't know the direction of the attack, the German machine gunners were aimlessly shooting around.

I heard agumento pull the trigger next to me, and then I saw the machine gun shooter on the second car with his head tilted back, and then the whole person disappeared from my view. The assistant shooter next to him quickly grabbed the machine gun. Before he pulled the trigger, he was shot in the head by agumento. At the same time, all the light and heavy weapons of the second company opened fire together, and dense bullets were fired at the motorcade.

Although they were suddenly attacked, the German army did not panic. The well-trained soldiers jumped out of the car one after another and shot around under the cover of the car. But as soon as more soldiers got up, before they could jump out of the car, they were hit by our bullets. They either fell directly into the car or hung head down on the wing of the car. The driver's cab door of the third car opened, and a German officer in a big cornice hat stumbled out. After looking around in a panic, he held a pistol high in his right hand and yelled at the chaotic procession. At this time, aguminte lost no time to shoot again. The German officer covered his right shoulder with his hand and sat down on the pedal of the door. He did not know where he had lost his pistol. He struggled to stand up and wanted to shout a few more words, but he was hit by a bullet flying from nowhere. He covered his chest and fell on the snow.

"Wula! Wula The soldiers jumped up from the snow, carrying weapons and shouting slogans, and rushed forward, shooting as they ran. Many soldiers slowed down in the process of charging, throwing string grenades into the German convoy. A soldier just pulled the string and was hit by one of the enemy's bullets before he could throw the grenade out. His body shook and then fell down quietly. When a soldier was about to rush past his body with a gun, the grenade that landed on the ground exploded. The charging soldier screamed, covered with blood, and fell on the snow.

In the face of our army's charge, some German outlaws also came up with submachine guns. However, as soon as they reached the edge of the road, they set foot on the land mine that had been buried by felstov. After being blown up, people were turned upside down. After 20 or 30 people were killed and injured, they had to retreat back and continue to resist under the cover of cars.

At a distance of 50 meters, the soldiers quickly rushed up and launched a close combat with the enemy. There was a scuffle on the road. The sound of gunfire, the short explosion of grenades and the scream of those who were shot were all interwoven

Although the German army suffered heavy losses, it still resisted stubbornly and did not retreat into the eastern forest as I imagined. Fortunately, Lukin was not a conformist. Seeing that the German army had not retreated according to the route we had set in advance, he took the initiative to lead the troops to attack. A company of soldiers on the road, unfortunately also stepped on our own planted mines. This kind of land mine can't tell the enemy from us, and it has also blown down more than a dozen soldiers in an instant. However, a series of attacks became the last straw to crush the enemy's defense. The German tenacious resistance was soon completely destroyed, and the gunfire died down. The rest of the soldiers obediently put down their weapons and raised their hands to surrender to us.

After the battle, I took the guards to the road. After all, now that I am a lieutenant commander, there is no need to charge with the troops like a lieutenant. I took him to inspect the battlefield that was being cleaned. Several German soldiers with blood all over them were lying on the ground moaning and watching me walk by. They stretched out their hands, opened their eyes and said something I didn't understand. They probably wanted me to save them. Although they are our enemies, but that kind of eyes make people look very worried. I turned around and said to aguminte behind me, "aguminte, go and arrange some stretchers to carry these German soldiers together."

"Comrade commander, we still have so many wounded people to carry. If we have so many more German devils, I'm afraid we don't have so many people!"“ Who said our comrades had to carry it? " I said impatiently, "didn't you catch a German prisoner? Let them carry the wounded Lu Jin quickly counted the casualties for me. In this ambush, 145 German soldiers were killed, 18 wounded and 35 captured. There were 47 casualties and 21 wounded in our army, half of which were caused by mines planted by ourselves. I gathered up felstov, Pavlov, Lukin and some platoon leaders. I walked excitedly in front of the line for two times. Then I raised the note with the number of casualties in my hand and said to them in a loud voice: "comrades, today's ambush is really brilliant. This battle wiped out nearly 200 German devils, but we only lost less than 70 people. What does that mean? " At this point, I stopped for a moment to see that everyone was whispering excitedly. No one answered my question, so I had to go on: "it shows that the combat effectiveness of our team is no worse than that of the German devils. As long as the troops are well deployed and properly commanded, it is not necessary to pay a huge price to win a beautiful battle, but also to destroy a large number of effective forces of the enemy. "