Andre said in embarrassment: "There are German firepower points on both sides of the dam. With our current strength, it is simply impossible to seize the dam."
"Comrade Company Commander, I have an idea." Vanya stared at the several long-dried water marks on the table and said thoughtfully: "With our current strength, we want to seize the dam to prevent The German explosion conspiracy is completely impossible. Therefore, I suggest that we go straight to the explosion point where the German engineers are. As long as the engineers are eliminated and the detonators are seized, the enemy will no longer be able to blow up the dam."
Lin Hua immediately agreed with Vanya's plan to draw out wages from the bottom of the cauldron. According to his idea, how many engineers could be hiding in the abandoned bunker? This group of people under his command is enough to deal with them.
Lin Hua left Pavel, Seryosha, and Christopher to guard the prisoners. He took the remaining soldiers, led by the scout Kovnin, around to the upper reaches of the dam, and walked out of the frozen river. Arriving at the west bank, we began to search for the hiding place of the German engineers.
After arriving at the west bank, Lin Hua realized that he had made a fatal mistake. Although Ernst had said that the bunker where the engineers were hiding was just 500 meters northwest of the dam, what he saw in front of him at this moment was a vast expanse of land. The big forest, to be precise, is a forest covered with snow, and there is a vast expanse of white everywhere. To find the enemy's bunker in such a large area with only moonlight illumination is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The team tossed back and forth in the snow for more than an hour, but still found nothing. Andre said to Lin Hua in a complaining tone: "Comrade Lieutenant, if we had brought the prisoner here, we might have found the engineer's hiding place long ago."
Lin Hua also regretted in his heart. When he set out, he didn't think of taking Ernst with him, otherwise he wouldn't be looking around aimlessly like now. But even if you wanted to send someone back to bring Ernst, it was too late. It would take at least more than two hours to come back. Maybe the Germans would carry out the blast before he could arrive.
Just when Lin Hua was in a dilemma, he suddenly heard a soldier shouting in surprise: "Comrade company commander, look, there is a light over there!"
Hearing the soldier's voice, Lin Hua quickly asked, "Where is it?" He looked in the direction of the soldier's finger and saw a huge snowdrift in the forest, with a faint red light coming out. When Lin Hua saw this situation, he immediately confirmed that this snowdrift was the bunker he was looking for.
After discovering the target, the team immediately adopted a three-by-three assault formation and cautiously approached the bunker in the distance. When they were less than a hundred meters away from the bunker, the sound of machine gun shooting suddenly broke the silence in the forest. In the front fighting group, two soldiers immediately fell to the snow. The soldiers who had been on high alert for a long time fell down in the snow one after another when they heard the sound of German machine guns.
Lin Hua, who fell down in the snow, looked at the snow in front of him being hit by the enemy's machine gun and set off snow pillars. He couldn't help but secretly moan in his heart: "Oops, the enemy has discovered it!"
After the company's machine gunner fell down on the spot, he immediately set up his machine gun and aimed suppressive fire at the German bunker without waiting for Lin Hua to give an order. Wanya, who was lying near Lin Hua, took the opportunity to roll a few times on the spot, came to Lin Hua's side, and asked him for instructions: "Comrade Lieutenant, what should we do now?"
Lin Hua quickly took a look at the surrounding environment and found that although the path forward for the troops was blocked by German machine guns, there was only one machine gun firing in the bunker. As long as people were sent to detour to the side, it could be eliminated. Thinking of this, he immediately ordered Vanya: "Second Lieutenant, take two people and go back to the right side of the bunker to kill the enemy's machine gun."
Vanya agreed, then crawled with the two soldiers out of the blockade area blocked by German machine gun fire, and detoured towards the right side of the bunker. But not far after they climbed out, another soldier suddenly shouted: "Comrade company commander, it's bad, the enemy has come out of the dam."
Lin Hua turned around and saw a group of enemies pouring out from the dam, running towards his location. Seeing this situation, Lin Hua couldn't help but feel his heart in his throat. He knew very well that once the enemies coming out of the dam came over, his small army would be in danger of being annihilated. He quickly shouted: " The first platoon stays, the second platoon follows me!”
Lin Hua and several soldiers in the second platoon left the German machine gun blockade area on their hands and knees to find a position to block the enemies coming from the dam. They hid behind ice piles on the water and watched the approaching enemy quietly.
When the enemy was only 70 to 80 meters away from them, Lin Hua shouted: "Hit!" Then the Mosin Nagant rifle in his hand opened fire first, knocking down an enemy at the front. The sound of gunshots was an order, and the soldiers in the second row immediately opened fire violently at the swarming enemies, knocking down seven or eight of them immediately.
The German troops who were blocked hurriedly hid behind the ice pile and fired back at the soldiers in the second row. They set up general-purpose machine guns and fired fiercely at the ice pile where the soldiers were hiding. Since the weapons in the hands of the second row of soldiers were mostly Mosin-Nagant rifles, they were quickly suppressed by the enemy's firepower, and even Several soldiers also had their faces scratched by ice fragments caused by bullets.
Using the cover of machine guns, the German soldiers came out from behind the ice pile one after another, bent down, put their gun butts against their abdomens, and rushed towards the second row's position quickly.
Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, but his own firepower could not stop the enemy, Lin Hua couldn't help but feel anxious. When he reached for the bullets from his backpack, he suddenly touched the grenade inside, and he immediately had a way to deal with it. He leaned against the ice pile and shouted to the soldiers on the left and right: "Comrades, use grenades to blow the enemy back." After saying that, he pulled the fuse of a grenade and threw the white-smoking grenade behind him. go.
After a loud "boom", there were several screams, which should have come from the wounded German soldiers. Hearing the explosion of the grenade, the soldiers also took out the grenade from their backpacks, pulled the fuse and threw it at the enemy. In a series of explosions, more than a dozen enemies fell down, and the remaining people retreated hurriedly.
"Comrade Lieutenant," Scout Kovnin crawled to Lin Hua's side and said loudly to him: "I found the wire that detonated the explosive."
"What, the wire that detonated the explosive?" Lin Hua couldn't help but feel ecstatic when he heard what Kovnin said. If the German detonating wire could be destroyed, then whether or not the bunker where the German engineers were hiding would no longer be that important. He quickly asked: "Where?"
Kovnin pointed toward the enemy on the opposite side and behind, and said: "Comrade Lieutenant, look carefully, you can see several wires about fifty meters away to the left and rear of the enemy. As long as we cut the wires, The enemy's engineers will not be able to blast the dam."
Seeing clearly where the wires were, Lin Hua's heart suddenly went cold. If he wanted to go over and cut the wires, he would have to brave the enemy's bullets. If he was not careful, he would be beaten into pieces by random gunshots. Therefore, he said cautiously: "That place is within the enemy's fire blockade and is too dangerous."
"Comrade Lieutenant, we must take this risk." Kovnin said with a serious expression: "The main force of our army will arrive at the Istria River soon. If the Germans bomb them before they arrive, If the dam is destroyed, the flood will block the way of our army. If you trust me, let me carry out this arduous task."
Lin Hua knew very well that if he wanted to cut the wire short, he would have to send people to take risks. But before agreeing to Kovnin's request, he said with some embarrassment: "Comrade Scout, you don't have tools, how can you cut off the enemy's wires?"
Kovnin grinned, then raised an ax and said to Lin Hua: "Comrade Lieutenant, before leaving the cabin, I picked up an ax, but I didn't expect it to be put to use."
Lin Hua remembered that the wooden house was originally the hut where the forest keeper lived. It was not surprising that tools such as axes could be found in it. He nodded at the other party and said, "Go ahead, I'm waiting for your good news here." Kovnin nodded, turned around and crawled away.
The two sides continued to shoot at each other, and Lin Hua ignored the bullets whizzing past his head, but stared nervously at Kovnin, who was crawling away. Kovnin seemed to have good luck. After leaving the second platoon position, he crawled nearly a hundred meters to the location of the detonating wire. Just as he raised his ax and prepared to cut the wire, he was unfortunately struck by a nearby The Germans found out. Immediately, five or six submachine guns were pointed at him and fired. The dense bullets beat the surrounding snow like a boiling pot, and countless balls of blood mist were splashed on his body.
Seeing Kovnin's body pounced forward, he lay motionless in the snow, and the ax in his hand was thrown far away. Lin Hua couldn't help shouting in frustration: "Oops!" He originally wanted to shout again. A soldier went to perform this task, but looked left and right. The soldiers were shooting at the German army and had no time to care about anything else. He gritted his teeth, leaned his rifle against the ice, took out a grenade from his backpack, inserted it into his lower back, and crawled away from his position.
When he was close to Kovnin, he couldn't help but be spotted by the Germans, who immediately attracted intensive firepower. Andre, who was hiding behind the ice pile, noticed that part of the German firepower suddenly turned in another direction. He was a little puzzled at first, and then discovered that it was Lieutenant Sokov who was hit by the German firepower. He didn't care about why the company commander ran there, so he ordered two submachine gunners to shoot suppressively at the enemy to provide Lin Hua with fire cover.
