Hearing that the troops were moving to the front without any obstacles, trafkin could not help but feel anxious. If they were transported to Zhitomir, the search for the amber room would be a complete failure. Moreover, when the three men arrive at the battlefield, they will no longer have the chance to escape. They will certainly be incorporated into the offensive forces, and they will face the fate of being killed by their own bullets or shells.
Just as he racked his brains to think about how to get out of danger, there was a huge explosion in front of him. The truck came to a sudden stop. As soon as the car stopped, the second lieutenant in charge asked aloud, "what's the matter? Why did you stop?"
A German soldier in the front row knocked heavily on the board of the bridge with his hand. The driver turned to open the glass separating the bridge from the carriage. Unable to convey the second lieutenant's words to the soldiers, he said in a loud voice, "Mr. second lieutenant, it seems that the car in the front of the motorcade is loaded with mines. We may have to stop here for a while and wait for the engineers to clear the mines on the road before moving forward."
After the second lieutenant heard this, he said to gretka, who was trying to fish in troubled waters and took the opportunity to get out of the car: "corporal, what are you doing standing up? Why don't you sit down?"
"Mr. second lieutenant," gretka said, pretending to be alarmed, "I'm afraid we'll be attacked by the Russians when we stay in the car. We'd better get out of the car safely."
"Don't worry, corporal. Just stay in the car. " The second lieutenant said with disapproval: "it must be the mines planted by the cowards of the guerrillas. Every time they bury the mines, they don't know where to hide."
At this time, a cry came from the outside: "Mr. major, you have orders to stay in the car. No one is allowed to get off! Stay in the car, no one is allowed to get off! "
The second lieutenant leaned over the canvas at the back of the car and looked out. Then he turned to the soldiers in the car and said, "you all heard that. The car in front of him must have accidentally hit the mines laid by the Russian guerrillas. The major should be preparing to send engineers to clear the mines. In order to prevent chaos, he asked everyone to stay in the car."
As soon as his voice dropped, the shouts of the soldiers under the car suddenly stopped. In the second lieutenant's astonished eyes, the soldier's helmet wearing head jerked back, and then fell straight on the snow. Startled, the second lieutenant quickly released his canvas and pulled himself back into the car because he knew he had met a Soviet sniper. Gretka could see the soldier lying in the snow clearly through the crack of the canvas, his feet twitching constantly.
"It's a Russian sniper," gretka said in a loud voice close to the second lieutenant's ear. "Mr. second lieutenant, we should get out of the car and get out of the car to find a place to hide, or we'll be killed one by one by the Russian snipers."
"No, absolutely not. No one is allowed to get out of the car. Stay in the car. " The second lieutenant was terrified and said, "this may be the Russian guerrillas. It seems that they won't have too many people, and they don't have any heavy weapons. Otherwise, they would have rushed up or blown up our car with mortars. "
Almost as the second lieutenant said this, a huge explosion came from outside, shaking the whole carriage. The air wave of the explosion raised the canvas at the rear of the car high. Everyone in the carriage saw the truck more than 20 meters away. They didn't know what hit it. The whole body was burning. Soldiers on fire jumped out of the car one after another, waving their hands and running around.
Seeing this, trafkin and gretka immediately understood that the truck behind was hit by 40 rockets. The soldiers in the car, seeing that the truck behind was hit by a mysterious weapon, were afraid that they would make the same mistake. Regardless of the second lieutenant's obstruction, they rushed to jump down the car like dumplings.
The soldier who jumped first fell on the ground and fell in the snow.
"There are Russian snipers!" When he saw his companion fall to the ground, the snow under his body immediately turned red. A German soldier who jumped out of the car took up his submachine gun and headed for the direction where the bullet might have come. He pulled the trigger desperately and yelled at him angrily.
Before he finished playing a clip, the curse and shooting stopped. Then, the sound of heavy objects falling in the snow came from under the car. The other soldiers jumped out of the car and fell down in the snow, shooting aimlessly at the forest where the bullets came.
"Here's the chance," said travkin in a low voice to his two comrades, seeing that there were only three of them and the timid second lieutenant left in the carriage. "We can run into the forest while we are in trouble."
"But where shall we run?" Cultural relic experts said in a panic: "we are wearing German uniforms. If we are killed by our own people, we will be wronged."
Maybe he was so loud that the second lieutenant, who was hiding behind the baffle and shooting aimlessly in the forest with a pistol, heard him. He turned his head and said in horror, "you are Russian." With that, he raised his gun, aimed at them, and instinctively pulled the trigger.
The gun clattered twice, but no bullets came out. With rich experience, trafkin recognized that the second lieutenant's gun was jammed. He threw a tiger to the ground, covered his mouth with his left hand, drew a dagger with his right hand, and stabbed the second lieutenant twice in the chest.
After the second lieutenant stopped struggling and lay still in the carriage, trafkin sat up straight for a few breaths, pointed to the South tarpaulin with his hand, and said to gretka, "Comrade second lieutenant, in order to prevent being injured by our troops when we get off, you cut a hole in the tarpaulin over there, and we get off from there." Bullets and rockets are flying from the north side of the road, getting off from the south side is undoubtedly the safest. Gretka nodded, pulled out the dagger, got up, made a big cut in the tarpaulin, and climbed out first. When the three of them got out of the car, they looked at the German soldiers lying next to a dozen trucks lined up on the road and in the snow below. They were shooting desperately in the forest to the north. Seeing that no one noticed him, trafkin whispered, "run!" He took the lead and ran to the south side of the forest. The three of them ran for a while in the knee less snow in the forest. They heard the gunfire and explosion going away, and then they found a leeward place to stop. Gretka gasped for breath and said to trafkin, "major, I think it's our regular troops who ambush the convoy."“ If it's regular troops, why don't they rush out? " "With their weapons, there should be no problem rushing out to destroy the enemy on the truck," the expert asked“ "Comrade expert," said travkin with an air of politeness, "the 40 rocket launchers used by the ambush forces are currently only equipped with close guard divisions, not even ordinary infantry divisions, let alone guerrillas that are not included in the establishment. Moreover, from the sound of shooting, I can hear the sound of new assault rifles. Only the most elite guards, such as the 51st and 52nd, have such guns. Therefore, I am sure that our regular troops attacked the motorcade. The reason why they didn't rush onto the road may be that the number of people is too small, which can only harass and delay the advance of the German army, but can't eliminate them. " Gretka, when he had finished, asked aloud, "Comrade major, what shall we do now?"“ Is that true? It's going back to Lutsk, of course. We haven't finished our task yet. " "If any of us should be in an accident or get separated, the rest of us should try to get back to Lutsk, get in touch with the guerrillas outside the city, and report the information here to the headquarters of the group army through their radio station," he said aloud“ But, comrade major, "gretka said in embarrassment," we can't do anything without documents and passes. Once we meet the military police in the field, we will be shot as deserters. " The cultural relic expert looked in the direction where the gunshot was still heard in the distance, and then proposed, "maybe we can go to the highway to search the bodies of those killed soldiers after the battle is over, and maybe we can still find the certificates and passes."“ Comrade experts, this is impossible. " As soon as his proposal was exported, gretka objected: "all the soldiers' documents have been taken away. We will risk our lives to go back to the road in vain." The cultural relic expert continued reluctantly: "then we can tell the gendarmerie that the certificate has been lost?"“ No, comrade expert. " Gretka said with a wry smile: "your German is not up to standard. When the gendarmes listen to it, they will be suspicious. If they ask more questions, they may be able to help."“ Second lieutenant gretka, "the expert thought for a moment, and then said again," as far as I know, Hitler's military composition is very complex, people from all countries have it. Even if German is not standard, with your help, maybe we can muddle through. "“ The loss of documents is punishable. " Gretka said with a wry smile, "as long as the gendarmes confine us, we will know our identity." Seeing that he had put forward one proposal after another, gretka had rudely rejected them. Experts can not help but some worry, finally choked out a sentence: "otherwise, we say that the certificate was stolen."“ The papers have been stolen? " Hearing the expert's suggestion, gretka couldn't help thinking. As soon as the expert saw gretka's reaction, he thought that there might be some drama in his mind. He quickly asked, "Comrade lieutenant, what do you think of my proposal?"“ I think it's good. " Worried that gretka would deny the proposal again, trafkin cut in and said, "I think it's worth considering."“ Major, "seeing that travkin echoed his opinion, the expert was overjoyed and immediately asked," when we met the gendarmerie, did we say that the certificate was stolen? "