Chapter 1674

We crossed the pilicha River from the pontoon and drove along the road that had been trodden out of the ground. After driving about five kilometers, I saw a village in front of me. From a distance, there are many of our soldiers walking back and forth in the village.

In order to be on the safe side and avoid another dangerous situation, trakov ordered a staff officer to take a three wheeled motorcycle to the village in front to learn about the situation.

After more than ten minutes, the staff officer returned by motorcycle, followed by a jeep. After getting out of the car in front of us, the staff officer raised his hand to salute and reported to trikov, "Comrade commander, I've invited the commander of the guard division."

A middle-aged officer with a moustache and a short leather army coat came out of the jeep behind. He came to the armored vehicle. Without waiting for us to ask, he raised his hand and respectfully reported: "Comrade General, the commander of the 220th regiment of the 79th division of the guards, Colonel sheikin, reports to you. I'm waiting for your order, please give me instructions!"

Trikov raised his hand and asked, "Colonel, where is your division commander, general wakin?"

"Report to the commander," sheykin replied immediately after hearing the question from trakov, "the division commander has moved forward to moglinica new miyasto highway. Our regiment is the full division's guard regiment. We will catch up with the division's main force as soon as the friendly forces take over the defense here."

"I see." After hearing this, trikov waved his hand to scherking and said, "go back to the village. Let's go on and see if we can catch up with your teacher."

Hearing what trikov said, sheykin warmly asked us to stay: "Comrade commander, it's still early anyway. It's better to go to the village for a cup of tea. Drink a cup of black tea with honey, the whole body will become warm. "

For scheekin's enthusiasm, trekov politely refused: "no, we still have important things, so we won't go to the village. Comrade Colonel, after the transfer of defense, you should catch up as soon as possible. " Then he turned to the driver and said, "drive!"

Our motorcade passed through the village and continued to drive along the road. Unexpectedly, we found that not all the officers and men of the 220th regiment of Jinwei were staying in the village. Some of them were already marching along the road to the place with fierce fighting ahead.

After driving for a long distance, I suddenly smelled a faint smell of wine in the car and asked, "who is drinking? Why is there a smell of wine?"

Listen to me, several people sitting next to me are all raising their noses to smell if there is really alcohol in the car. After a while, trakov nodded and said, "yes, I smell a bit of wine, too."

The armored car driver and machine gunner quickly explained: "Comrade General, we don't drink."

"Yes, yes, it does smell like wine." At this time, Pronin stood up for the two soldiers and said, "but the smell of wine didn't come from someone in the car. It came from the outside." Then he leaned over and looked out from the lookout for a while. Then he said with confidence, "it seems that my judgment is correct. The taste of wine really comes in from the outside. There is a winery in the right front of the road."

"Winery?" As soon as trikov frowned at Pronin's words, the staff officer sitting next to him handed him a map, pointed to a place and said to him, "Comrade commander, yes, there is a winery near the village of streikov. According to the route of the car, we should be near the village now. "

"Stop the car," trekov said, and immediately told the driver, "let's go down and have a look."

We got out of the car and saw that not far from the roadside, there were several big wooden houses surrounded by wooden bars, and people in worker's clothes were carrying buckets and other things. We just walked towards them a few steps, and suddenly someone in the crowd yelled something at the top of his voice. Hearing his voice, those working people immediately threw away their things and ran around.

Seeing this scene, we were all shocked. I looked at trakov, then at the guard company behind us, and asked cautiously, "general trakov, are we too many people to scare these workers?"

"No," he said. Seeing the workers running around like ghosts, trekov was confused. "If I'm not wrong, general wakin has more troops than we have when he passes here. The poles didn't run away at that time. Now they see us more than 100 people running around. What are you doing

The staff officer grabbed a worker who ran past us and asked aloud, "do you know Russian here?"

The worker shook his head desperately, then pointed to the distance and cried in panic. I followed the direction of his fingers, only to see the forest edge in the distance, there are dense crowds, in the snow capped background, it is particularly eye-catching.

I raised my hand, grabbed the telescope around the staff officer's neck, and looked into the distance. When I could see the people at the edge of the forest, I was also startled. I quickly called out: "German, there are German at the edge of the forest in the distance!"

"What, this is the rear of our army, where the Germans come out?" With a puzzled face, trakov picked up his telescope and looked into the distance. A moment later, he couldn't help but scold: "hell, hell. Where the hell are these Krauts coming from? There are two thousand of them

When I look at it, I feel that there are a lot of German troops, but the specific number has not been estimated yet. At the moment, I was shocked when I heard the figures given by trakov. My heart said that we only have a guard company of more than 100 people here, plus a small number of troops of the 220th regiment of the guards who are marching on the road, only two or three hundred people, which is absolutely inferior in number.

Just as I was thinking about whether I should grease my feet and run away, I heard trakov yelling, "comrades, don't panic. The Germans are at least one kilometer away from us. Before they come, we can build a defense."

The officers and men, who had been in a panic, immediately calmed down after hearing what trakov said. They scattered and hid by the side of the wooden house, behind the fence and in the snow. They aimed their weapons at the enemy who was coming towards us.

Although we have started to prepare for the war, for the sake of safety, trakov drove me and Pronin back to the armored car. According to him, if we can't fight, this armored car can take us out of the world. In addition, he sent his staff to return to the village he had just passed by on a motorcycle and informed Colonel sheikin that he would lead the troops to reinforce us.

Standing at the door of the armored car, I raised my telescope and looked at the approaching German army. I found that they were not in attack formation or marching formation, but were crowded together without formation, walking towards us with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The scene in front of me reminds me of the battle of Stalingrad in those years. When our troops retreated from the front line in batches, they were the same as they are now.

Seeing this, I put down my telescope and said to trekov standing on a snowdrift outside the car, "general trekov, I think the enemy may have retreated from somewhere. We must find a way to stop them and never let them join the main force."

After hearing this, trakov nodded, put down his telescope, walked down from the snow, came to the door of the car, and said to the radio operator sitting in it, "contact the nearby troops, and they will say that we have encountered the enemy with the dominant force, and let them come to support us immediately."

When the German army was five or six hundred meters away from us, it might have found that the village had been occupied by our army, so it stopped at the same place. After a little adjustment, he rushed to our sparse defensive position.

The officers and men of our army were very calm. They didn't show the slightest panic in the face of the swarthy German army. Instead, they stayed in their hiding position and aimed their weapons at the enemy.

When the enemy was 200 meters away from us, trakov raised his hand high above his head, then waved down and yelled, "fire

With his order, the machine guns on the armored vehicles behind us opened fire. A series of bullets flew over our heads towards the German army line in the distance. The shells that jumped out of the magazine jingled on the armored body.

The sound of gunfire is an order. When you hear that the machine guns on the armored car have begun to fire at the enemy, the commanders and fighters who have been waiting for a long time also pull the trigger one after another, and the sound of gunfire like peas suddenly rang out. In the torrential barrage of bullets poured by our army's commanders and fighters, the dense German attack formation burst out blood mist all over the sky. The bullets penetrated their bodies, tore their flesh and blood, and splashed fresh blood on the bodies and faces of the people nearby. Countless flesh and blood bodies trembled in the rain of bullets. The corpses were like broken pockets thrown out and overturned under the huge impact of bullets. But the living continued to howl forward, regardless of the fact that their own feet were already covered with the bodies of their companions.

Trikov turned to look at me, and then said, "Rita, I didn't expect that your guard company is really powerful. The momentum shown by more than 100 people can stand up to a battalion of ordinary troops."

After listening to what trakov said, I remembered that Zhukov, for my safety, sent troops to escort me this time. They were all equipped with assault rifles. This kind of weapon had no better effect on the German group charge. In such a dense situation, maybe one could penetrate several people.

After my guard company beat back the German army's first charge, just as the German army retreated to the edge of the forest for rest, sheikin, who got the news, took their troops back to the side of the German army and unexpectedly launched a rapid impact, successfully cutting off the enemy's retreat.

Seeing that their retreat had been cut off, the German officers and soldiers fled from the forest in a panic, trying to break out from the direction of the winery again. When they ran not far away, suddenly several plumes of smoke rose in the snow. The soldiers who were close to the plume were overturned to the ground. It seemed that they had been shelled.

"Strange, where is this firing?" With doubt, I raised my telescope and looked around. I saw a dozen tanks coming along the road in the West. They crossed the direction of the guard company and rushed to the German soldiers trapped in the middle of the snow.

Seeing that their retreat was cut off and a group of tanks rushed in front of them, the German army's will to resist suddenly disappeared. Immediately, many soldiers threw away their weapons, raised their hands high and surrendered to the tank troops and the commanders and fighters of the 220th guard regiment.

As a result of this unexpected encounter, we did not move forward immediately, but stayed to interrogate the captured German soldiers. The total number of these captives is 1500. They are from different forces. They are retreating westward because they have lost contact with the higher headquarters. Because they didn't know the retreat route, lost their way in the snow and forest, and lacked unified command, they used such a dense formation to launch an attack on us, which was similar to that of death.

More than a dozen tanks came to support us, belonging to the 1st group army of close guard tanks of katukov. At that time, they were replenishing fuel nearby. When they heard the sound of intensive gunfire coming from the direction of the distillery, they guessed that it might be the encounter between our troops and German stragglers, so they rushed to support us immediately. But what they didn't expect was that what they encountered with us was not a small group of scattered soldiers, but a large army of two or three thousand people. But if they didn't arrive in time and want to annihilate or capture the enemy, our army would have to pay a great price. After finishing the prisoner's trial, Pronin said to trikov with a lingering fear: "I said, comrade commander, we'd better go back. It's too dangerous here. You see, before crossing the river, we first met with German tanks. Fortunately, with the help of the 117th and 87th guard artillery regiments, we eliminated German tanks; Here, we have encountered a large number of German troops. Without the support of the 220th guard regiment and the tank soldiers, we will be captured by the enemy because we have exhausted all our ammunition. " In fact, I have the same idea as Pronin now. As the saying goes, there are only three things to do. Although we have successfully escaped from the encounter with the German army in the first two times, whether we can be so lucky if we encounter the German army for the third time is unknown. However, in order to grasp his ideas, I didn't immediately express my views. Instead, I looked at him quietly and wanted to hear what he thought. As for Pronin's proposal, trekov frowned for a long time and finally shook his head and said, "Comrade military commissar, I think it is precisely because we have encountered the German army twice in a row that we should continue to move forward. Otherwise, the commanders and fighters will feel that we are frightened by the enemy and become panicked, so we leave the front line in dismay, This will have a great impact on morale. Don't you think so, Rita? "